THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1870. armiT or Tun runss. Editorial Opinion of tho Leading Journals upon Current Topics Complied Every Oav for the Evening Telegraph. BTANTON UI'ON STANTON. FromttoN. V. WorUU In the unseemly Rcuflle which the Hoston admirers of Mr. Stanton liavo provoked over Lis grave, innocent people as u.-mal are uiada to miller. If there were two men among tue quick or the dead to whom 8 1 fin ton was nudur I peculiar obligation, Ifjey were the late Pro isideiit ltucbanan and the living Judge Black; and those are the two lueu wUoin ritanton s posthumous flatterers moat villify. Down to 18i0, wbeu tbe AtMruey Geaeralship wai offered to hitu, Mr. Stanton, politically updat ing, was au obHcuie man. lie had Houie loual reputation as n lawyer on tlie Pennsylvania frontier of Ohio; he had defended Sickles when tried for his Sunday morning murder, and in doing ho had g miod no credit and at tracted no attention except for bis vulgar fero city; he bad argued a few railroad caws in the East, and a patent case or two in the West, in which Mr. Lincoln, whom then and always he persistently ridiculed, had been his colleague. He bad also, with great pecuniary prolit to hm.Belf, represented the Government for a time in California. On the reorganization of Mr. Buchanan 'b Cabinet, rendered necessary by General Criss' resignation, and at the instance of Mr. Black, be was male Attorney-General. This was on or about the irth of December, 1M0. It was the highest professional honor, nave perhaps one, wiiioh a President could bestow, and for it Mr. Stanton profehsed to be profoundly grateful. So far as was apparent to the world, to his collengueH, and to the President, he con tinued contentedly in offioefrom that time till Mr. Lincoln's ucoes-uon in March. He never uttered an audible whisper of com plaint. He Eever hinted n suspicion. To J urge Black bo seemed friendly and grateful. To the President he was not exactly obse quious, for he was too morose in nature and too rough in manners for that, but con spicuously respectful and anxiously devoted. et now, as we have seen, the batteries of New England are opened to prove that all this fidelity was a sham, and that whUo Mr Stanton was a member of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet be was plotting against him and holding heeretBjcoLfi.-rencos with his bitterest enemies. He was metttini Mr. Sumner at midnight; plotting by deputy with Mr. Seward; writing hitters secretly to Dawes, to be lead" stealthily by the light of street lamps; framing inculpatory resolutions against bis collengu!S for Howard; and thou going with unrulllod fca to the Cabinet councils to meet these colleagues Mr. Tou cey iucluded with a cordial smile, and to profess devotion to his patron. This infa mous behavior, too such is the deteriora tion of New England morals is imputed by New Englauderw to Stanton as a claim upon the respect of tLe nation. We have more than once had occasion to express our profound indiiierence as to whether the Boston gloss on Stanton be just or not, and we have no desire to meddle with the pending controversy bet veen Mr. Wilson and bis backers and Judge Black. The latter is abundantly able to take care of himself. Our aim now is simply to clear the innocent in all this. No one familiar with the history of the anxious mouths of the winter of 18o0 01, and with the controversies which have Bprung from it, needs to be told how strong a current of prejudice was then set ruuuiug, and still runs, against the dead President, Mr. Buchanan. "Poor, weak old man," is the mildest phrase that Boston flings at biin. "It was," said Mr. Hoar, "hi timid, trembling imbecility" which Stauton bad most desperately to contend with. It was because of the Prebident'n "semi-treason, " especially in the matter of Port Sunrtor, that Stanton was forced to plot with Sumner and Wilson and Dawes. If to them he ever upoke even respectfully of the President who trusted bim, they have been base enough to suppress the fact. The theory of their case requires that Stunton uliould have despised and distrusted him. Mr. Buchanan then, after all, is the chief victim of all these machinations. And this his family and friends, though grieved and angered for lot us Bay in passing that Mr. Buchanan was dearly beloved by bis friends and neigh bors, and that Wheatland v.as a hone of tranquil, familiar enjoyment all this bis family ai d friends have borne patiently till now. Not a word of defense has been uttered. Mr. Horatio King, a Republican, and an office-holder, if we mistake not, under Mr. Lincoln, has recently and of his own accord published some private letters from the late President, written during the war, which to a certain extent showed the wrong that had been done. But what care tha Bos ton conspirators for this or any other evideuoe except such as they cook in the Atiinlic Btewpan its hash of history and giblets of rhetoric? It was their business to deify Stanton and to use a record, genuine or forged, of bis acts, us evidence against Mr. Buchanan. They did so without remorse; and, like the weird Bisters in "Macbeth,'" one seems to see them hideously dancing around the caldronj yet. For whom the ghastly broth they are brew ing will in the end tie found to have been brewed is not so certain, perhaps, as they have faucied. They have evoked the ghost of Stanton, and by its witness they must abide. They have given us a good deal of testimony as to what other people thought and wrote about Stanton's views and feel ings. They must permit us now to call their attention and that of our readers to Stanton's own npokeu and written testimony about himself. One of thoir witnesses makes it out that S'anton was a thorough going anti-slavery man a radical abolitionist when the war broke out, and had for twenty years beau so. In the record of the Sickles trial wo read that Stanton not only denounced the putting of slaves on a par with freemen as witnesses, but boasted of his own pro-slavery connec tions. "I bave," ho said, proudly, "the blood of Blaveholding parents in my veins. My father was a North Carolinian, my mother a Virginian." This was in 185'.), only two ?e..rs before the outbreak of the civil war. n November, 1801, hardly six months after the practical commencement of our troubles, his views of the negro were still by no mi ana of a sot to pass current in Faueuil Hi ll. At that time Colonel (now General) Cochrane, of New York, happened to make an abolitionist address to his regiment, ia the course of an inspection of General Mc Clellan's army, vbich was approved by Mr. Cameron, 'the War Secretary, and Mr. Caleb Smith, the Secretary of the Interior. Stanton was so indignant at this that he urged General McCkllan to have Cochrane cashiered, and declared that, were he the oon.mander of the army, he would never per mit Cameron and Smith to enter the camps again. Immediately afterwards he wrote the ! following letter to a well known gentleman of this city: WAsItlNOTON, NOV. 23, 186'. lenr Sir: Yours of the 81st reached me this nKinmipr. I wrote you yesterday In answer to yours of tlie lsth. Nothing has tranHiitn-d in relation to t lie Trent affair. I naw the Ueueral last evening, lie was well, anil much pleaaed with his late review. Lord Lyons did not attend. All the others of the diplomatic corps wer there. I mentioned the Smith and Cameron affair In yes terday's note, and I perceive thls.ruorulng allusions to It in the papers. ' Cameron. Chase, and heward are said to ajrroe In tlie nipger-armlng qiK'H'lon; Smith, Hialr, and Lin coln amtra. 1 think the detierai's true course Is ft mind hla own department., and win a victory. After that all things will be of easy settlement. ehall keepxou advmod of am matter of Interest here that comes to my knowle 'K. Yonrs truly, Kuwin M. Stanton, S. I Harlow, Esq. This duplicity the New England sectaries of Wilson will probably condone, like Stan ton's treason to bis colleagues of the Cabi net, as tending to undermine his friend Gene ral McClellan, whom they were all united in the effort to destroy. But what are they to say of other evidence, also never before made public, which continues Stanton's thorough approval of Mr. Buchanan's policy into the administration of Mr. Linooln? When Mr. Buchanan, in January, 182, wrote to Mr. Horatio King "From my heart I wish Stanton success, not'only for his own sko, but for that of the country. I believe him. to be a truly honest man" there lay in Mr. Buchanan's desk the following letter from Mr.Stunton, written long after that "truly honest man" l ad entered, as Wilson and his friends maintain, upon the base and degrad ing work of betrajiug and maligning his as sociates, his patrons, and his friends: " Vashinotun, March 16, 1961. "Pkar Sir: Notwithstanding wnat lias been pnid In the papers, ami the universal reports hero during the last week, the order for the removal of the troops from Sumter lias not, as I a u assured, yet been fciven. Yesterday It wan still under de bate. Kvery day an'ords proof of the absence of tiuy settled policy or harmonious concert of action lu the admiiilstrutlnn. !Seward, Bates, and Came ron form onewlnsr; Chase, Welles, anl Dlalr the opposite wing, smith Is on both Bides, and Lincoln son ctliiK s on one, sometimes on the other. There hm been agreement on mailing. Lincoln, it Is com plained in the streets, has uuiertakeu to distribute the whole piiir tiage, small and great, leaving no thing to the chiefs f departments. Growls about Scott's 'biibi ctlity' are growing freiuent. "The Republicans are beginning to think that a monstrous blunder was made In the tan if bill, and that It will cut oir the trade of New York, build up New Orleans and the Southern ports, and leave the Government no revenue. They s 'e before them the prospect of soon being without mouey and without credit. But with all this it Is curtain ttiat Anderson will be withdrawn. 1 (In not bo'ieve there will bo mm h further effort to assail you. Mr. Sumner t -Id me yesterday tlmt Scott's proposed order was based upon purely military reasons and the limited inili tiii v resources of the Government. The embarrass ments that surrounded you they now feel; aud whntevcr may be s;ild against you must recoil us an argument, aguii.'St them, and in giving reasons for their action they must, exhibit tht facts that con trolled von In respect to B'Miitcr. "Mr. Holt has gone to New York. I have not pern him. l.eti he called ou me I happened to be from home, and wtien I called he was absent. Judge black Is here, aud, I suppose, intends to remain for some time. He Is taviiui at Harrison's. "I hope to be able to procure a copy of Mr. IIol',' . letter auo uenerai Mcntta comments next week, and I intt nd to call and see the General and have a talk wHn bim. "With sincere regard, I remain, yours truly, "Edwin M. Stanton. "His Exce lency James Buchanan." On tLe 10th of July, 1801, Stanton wrote ngnin to his friend the ex-rresident: "So far as your administration Is concerned, Its poliey in refeience to both Su niter and Pickens is luily vindicated by the course of the present ad ministration, ror forty tiays after tre inauguration or Lincoln, no ui-e was made or the means that had been prepared lor reinforcing Sumter. Whatever may be said bv Bennett's malignity now. 1 think the public will be disposed to do full justice to your elloits to avert the calamity of civil war; and every month for a long time to come will. I am afraid, furiiisU fresh evidence of the magnitude of that calamity. " General Dix is still here, He has been shamefully treated by the adminl.stra tion. With sincere, regards I remain, as ever, truly j ours, ituwiis ju.. btanton, "His Excellency James Buohanan." Photographic copies of these characteristic letters t-hould be ordered, we submit, by the Loyal Lecgues to illustrate the portraits of the "American Oruot on the clab-nouso walls. IIOMCEOPATnY JUDICIALLY DECIDED NOT TO BE QUACKERY. From, tk X. Y. Sun. A decision of the Court of Appeals of this State, made last winter, bat only recently published, settles, so far as a court can settle it, a point about which there has been much bitter dispute among both physicians and patients. It is now the law of tms State that a liomofiopatuic doctor is not a quack, and that whoever calls him a quack is liable to damages in an action for slander or libel. JjVi'ho facts on which this decision was made are thee: Oi-e Dr. Carroll, of Amsterdam, Montgomery county, was giving testimony before the Surrogate of that county as to the mental capacity of a deceased patient whose will was offered for probate. Being at-Ked wnetner any otner pnysician nad at. tended the deceased, he answered: "Not as I know of: I understand he had a ouack I would not call him a physician; I under stand that Dr. White, as he is called, had been there." This evidence was reduced to writing and Bigned by Dr. Carroll, and thereupon Dr. White began a suit against bim for libel, in which he recovered $100 damages An appeal wbs takeu, and the Daked question came tip whether Dr. White, being, as he admitted he was, a practi tioner of the houuieopathio school, could maintain an action against a person calling bim a quack. Mr. Jnstice Sutherland, in delivering the opinion of the Court, after stating that prior to 1H1-1 only the all:pathio school was recog nized by the law of the State, bat that in IS 14 an act was passed abolishing all regula tions and restrictions whatever on the prao- tiee of medicine, goes on to say: "To call a pnysician, whether homoeopathic or allopathic, a quack, is in effect charging him with a want ol the necessary knowledge and training to practice the system of medicine which he under takes to practice, and which he holds himself out as living undertaken to practise; and 1 do not see why li Is not now, and has not been since the act of 144, just as actionable fiuse.lv and maliciously t call a homceoputhlc physician a quack, as to call an allo pathic phjBtctiina quack. There cannot be any doubt, I think, that to falaelv and maliciously call e ther a quack U actionable, and has been since the act of 144." Of course, no allopathio doctor will feel compelled to submit hia private judgment to the control of the Court of Appeals, and to entertain a more favorable opinion of homoeo pathy than be has hitherto entertained; but the decision warns him to be careful how he ixprewes his opinion, if he would avoid a lawsuit and a verdict for damages. Still, it must be satisfactory to the homoeopathists to be assured that they have rights which alio- pathists are bound to respect, and that the t-Lield of justice will protect them in the exer cise of their profession. GENERAL LEE'S MEMORY. From the y. T. Tiilune. It is natural and fitting that those who fought long aud well under the late Robert E. Lee, even in a cause so indefensible as that of human slavery, should strew no ers on his new-made grave. No generous mind will object to this. Confederate Virginia 13 passionately proud of her most illustrious nbme: why cot allow her raspectfully anl modestly to say so? We see nothing in the honors paid to the memory of Lee by his late associates in a desperate, protracted struggle which should incite or would justify animadversion. And, m to the sub-ofuoial who undertook to display the United States flag at half-mast on a Federal custom-house in sympathy with the feelings of those asso ciates, he probably knew no hotter, and has been sufficiently rebuked tor his error. Unt holding meetings in Northern cities to honor the memory of the dead leader of the Confederate hosts seems to us, to speak softly, unwise and mischievous. It tends to revive recollections that are happily fading from the general mind, and to inflame diffe rences that were better wholly effaced and forgotten. No one need be told that General Leo's private life was exemplary, nor that those who knew and loved him best esteemed him living and honor him dead as a man and a Christian. The public cannot help under standing that the honors here paid to his memory wonld never have been proffered had he closed his career as he began it a loyal, faithful soldier of the Union. Is it well to incite such reflections ? With great respect for the attitude and bearing of General Lee ever since as well as prior to his Confederate career, we think not. At all events, be careful that Truth is not flouted in doing honor to the memory of one whoso renown has cost our country at least a billion of national debt and the lives of one hundred thousand of her noblest sons. A writer in the Age (Philadelphia), who seems to bo General Cadwallader, after au emphatic but not indiscriminate laudation of General Lee s military genius, says: 'It Is ni t our aim to-dav to criticise, nor to broach. politics! questions but to pay our tribute of respect and honor to a great man, who fought, fairly and iiouiv on ne sine ne iook, sincerely believing it to be. uccoiding to Ms light, the side to which patriot ism and honor summoned him. There arc too many men In the world who willfully go wrong from bust and venal and sclllsh motives. Let us be charitable to tlie brave and good, who, If they err, err because unman judgment is fallible, the circum stances of their position difficult, and the path of duty, v.Mch they wish to follow, Is not, to their eyes, clearly discernible." Now, we will not say that Gen. Le did not feel obliged to obey the call of Virginia in preference to that of the Union; but we do Bnrely know, from his own unequivocal testi mony, that he did not believe that Virginia or her Southern sisters had adequate reason for lensting and seeking to subvert the authority of that Union. He obeyed her summons, be cause be thought she had a paramount claim to his allegiance, and not because he deemed her constrained by intolerable wrongs to break away from that Union to which he owed so much. He said this (in substance') in a letter to his sister, long since published. General Lee was educated for a soldier at the expense, not of Virginia, but the Union. He could not have been so educated without taking a stringent orth of unqualified fidelity to that Union an oath of perpetual obliga tion. Had he presented himself at West Point and said, when the oath was tendered, "I take this with the distinct understanding that if Virginia shall ever call mo to fight against the Union, I shall hold myself not only at liberty but under obligation to do so," his proffer must have been reje )ted and he turned away uninstructed. But he took the oath as it was propounded, without avowed reserva tion, and afterward, as official head of the Military Academy, administered or oaused it to be administered to others. I hat he should have felt constrained thereafter, in defiance of his own conviction that she should not have seceded, to follow Virginia into the bloody abyss of secession and treason, seems to us a mournful instance of human imper fection and frailty, which no loyal soldier of tLe Union) which Gen. Cadwallader, we pre sume, claims to be) should have brought into publicMew without deeply lamenting if not pointedly reproving it. VICTOR HUGO'S WAR SONG. From the A. F. Times. It is no pleasant thing to say or see, but pince he has ceased to be a recluse, since ho has let t his island retreat and sought once 11 ore the splendid city of his youth, the head of the author of Notre Dame and Krnani seems literally turned. M. Victor Hugo's last naming manifesto, Aux I'ansiens, is an asto nishing mixture of gorgeous rhetorio and grandiloquent menace. His glowing imagi nation has run riot in words, his eloquence has surpassed itself, his patriotism has taken on an antique fury that reminds ns of Demos thenes, but also, alas, at times of "Major de Doots." His sentences are absolutely over running with terrible threats, with dazzling metaphors, with astounding prosopopeias. Paris, he tells us, is watching the Prussians with the lightnings of Zeus in her hand. lcohe misguided leutons are about to meet a great warrior whose name was Gaul when they were Borussians, and who calls himself i ranee, now that they are Vanda's The universe, let them remember, does not be long to the conquered of Napoleon the Great or the conquerors of Napoleon the Little. Let it not be forgotten by them that Mon taigne, Rabelais, Pascal, Moliere, Diderot, Rousseau, Danton, and the French Revolu tion are things that have existed. Paris is not yet Sodom and Gomorrah, or the Prus sians the fare from heaven. The city is not yet superfluous which for four centuries has irradiated the world. No more are the Prus sians to enjoy "easy ' successes such, we presume, as those of Gravelotte. "No more forests, no more thick fogs, no more tortu ous tactics, no more gliding along in the durk. The strategy of the cat will not avail when you meet the lion. In vain you will step softly. The very dead will hear you." And Paris, beautiful Paris, "which has been accustomed to amuse mankind, will note terrify it, and although M. Hugo has pre vtousty anu repeatedly declared tne con tingency to ba impossible, the symmetry of his peroration renders it quite necessary to add that "the world will be amazed when it sees how grandly Paris can die." This is fine even to sublimity, yet as the sapient "Dogberry" said to his mate, "Pala bras, neighbor Verges." And unhappily no such paper bullets of the brain are at all likely to awe lung llliam or V on Moltke from tbe career of their humor. Voltaire may indeed be preferable to Bismarck; the Nile, the Titer, and the Seine may inac curately be deemed to be affluents of the Sj ret ; tbe statue of Paris may truly deserve to be erowned with stars as that of Strasburg was with flowers. Yet it is better to demonstrate all these tilings by deeds than words. Fine words pull no trig gers any more than soft ones butter parsnips. , The stern silence of resolution better becomes Paris now than vaunts of any sort; and least of all such as have the effect of a ludicrous, civilized paraphrase of an Indian brave's death song. We have not the least doubt, meanwhile, that the Parisians will bear themselves heroically, and M. Hugo among them; only it ia better to let us of the outer world say these things, than to have the m struck off before the event at the Palais Royal. The world becomes suspicious when so 11. any barks come before tae bite, and it is givtu to few to be at once makers of boastful epigrams and winners of mighty battles, like bim who founded the overthrown dynasty, and whose ashes repose under the dome of the Invalides. MR. COX'S RESIGNATION. From the A'. V. Kation. - It is, of course, very unfortunate that s valuable an officer as Secretary Cox shonl I resign his place in the Cabinet, but it woul 1 be still more unfortunate if the pnblio were left in ignorance of, or under any mis pre hension about, the cause of his resign it ion An attempt has been made by some of the more etalous party papers to ascribe it to purely "personal" reasons, and there have been one or two insinuations that, as he wan not in entire sympathy with the prty about tbe suffrage, it is, perhaps, not altogether t. be regretted that his official onuection with it should cease. But we believe we run no risk in ssying that his motives for retiring are no more "personal" than those of an officer who finds a place which he h is filled faithfully end well made untenantable must always be; and thatjhe suggestion tliat ho does not agree with the party touohing any of its fundamental doctrines,or any great feature of its policy, is simply one of the modes in which the purty hacks raise the mob on any hoi est man whose presence is inconvenient and whom they determine "to run off. Just as Roundness on the mam question has been mndc a cover for every vice, from burglary to habitual drunkenness, so unsoundness is ut-td HS an excuse for covering the purest re putation with mud. His resignation has. in short, nothing to do with his opinions or with his private comfort or convenience. It is simply and solely the result of tLe Presideit's failure to support him in the maintenance and prosecution of the reforms which he has introduced into the Department of the In terior, and the value and extent of which the pieFB of all parties is now acknowledging v.itu grntitude. lie has introduced cuaogti bicb, three years ago, seemed well-m.'h out of soy man's power, and the extension of which in all branches of the Administration would be one of the greatest blessiugs which could befall the country. He has filled the working force of the Department with com petent, well-edncated men of good character, and has shown that such men can serve the Government better than others, and without any derangement of the political michiue. He Las, moreover, broken up the innumer able rings- which the nature of a great d?al of its business gathered around the Depirtmont during tbe late Administration, and, iu fact, has mado probably the most complete clear ance of "jobbery and corruption which tiny one department in Washington has witnesso 1 in our time. Now, that this sort of work would bo d n 1 in all the departments, and. that the Cabinet officers would Lavo the hearty support of the President in doing it, was, we believe, the penend expectation of the country when tbe present administration came into powr; an 1 it was generally believed that Grant, n t being a politician, and yet possessed of a repu tation so great as to enable him to set p li ticians at defiance, was just the man t ) elfe t this great and long-desired but hardly expected revolution. It was, we believe, ou the understanding that he was such a man that Messrs. Hoar, Fish, and Cox took offi;e. Had he issued a declaration, on taking office, that he was going to revolutionize the civil service by making appointments ou busi ness principles, we believe the country v, ould have hailed it with delight, and have supported him firmly. Declaration or no declaration, however, it would have Rtood by him in trying to do right had he trusted it. But he lost heart very early in the fight a novel sensation for him of all men, whose courage on more terrible fields has usually grown as his fortune seemed to wane. He apparently could neither make up his mind to work with the politicians nor to break with them, so he tried a compromise, and it has met with the usual fate of such attempts. The politicians at first assaulted the depar tments openly, and attempted to carry them with a rush, landing this unsuccessful, they sat down before them and opened a regular siege. They became "cool with the Admin istration, disregarded its suggestions, rejected its nominations, aud affected to treat it as of little account. They spread abroad through the country reports of its failure and "weak nesp, and, having produced a certain amount of demoralization at the White House in this way, they began openly to point out to the President the injury Hoar was doing him by his "brusque ness, or Cox by his inflexibility or his ne w fangled notions, or that he was doing himself by his failure to consult "practical men, who could show him how thing were managed "inside politics." This, of ooursn, gradually produced its enecc. 11 oar was sacrificed first, by a direct dismissal; Cox is now sacrificed, by a refusal to Btistain him in the execution of his refrms. Fish, we van ture to predict, will not last much beyond December, and for the same reasons; and then we shall bave the reign of the old schemers fully restored in all the departments, and this is the worst of it managing a Pre sident totally unfamiliar with their arts, aud totally unable to detect even the worst of the snares into wbiofa they are sure to try to lead him. Now, what is the diseases from which American politics is su tiering? Is it not tbe corruption and dishonesty of the great body of persons who carry on the Govern ment ? Suppose this evil removed or greatly diminished, wnat else is tnere In American polity to cause anybody to be disheartened or disturbed human nature being what it is ? What is it that makes these persons corrupt ? Is it not the fact that office-holding is the only business in the United States, producing a regular income, in wnien a man needs neither character nor capacity, and into which a man can get without possessing either character or capacity r bapposin" we barred the entrance to the publio service to this class of persons, what is therein polincs that would make the game worth the cnndle to the great army of adven tuiere, and ignorittnuses, and gamblers, end tricksters who now make it a low and justly despised profession? Would tl ev not quit it if, as Mr. Kelley, tf Penusvl vania, has pointed out, the business of Con crtnnuen were legislation simply, and not tbe keeping 01 intelligence omees to provide nlaces for the broken down, or unsuccessful. or vicions? Tbe first political quebtion iu evtrv country is, what kind of people com pose the State? the second is, what kind of ... 1 J A- 1 V n t men make tne laws ana execute metnr nat kind of laws are passed? is only the third. A people of high political capacity will make almost any government serve their purpose, but no coverninent can be made to serve any good purpose long which is worked by ras chIh. and in tbe operation of which nearly all the virtues and all the gifts and acquirements are treated as if they did not exist or were of to value. Tbe Methodist Church has been lately get ting up a political reform movement. If 'its promoters mean by this a movement for preach itg generally against corruption in the stjla of the Tiifnnif, Fy, or of a Republican ora tor at a ratification meeting, they may eve themselves all furl her trouble. They will find nobody to dinpree with them, and might thrush the empty air in this way for twenty years aud find things at the end no l etter. We may nay the same thing of all geuf rnl exhortations to individuals, from tho Prenident down, "to appoint none but g od men to office." Some Presidents will appoint good mer; others will not; and some will try to appoint them, and give it up as too trou blesome. It is the ni-tfrn which is rotten, slid it is the system which must be roformad. Dependence ou individual men elm sen Ky nominating conventions is sim ply vanity and vexation of spirit. The desire of the nation for honest servants ma4 be expressed iu lawn, and not in resolutions only. There is at this moment a conventiou Bitting in Cincinnati for the discusnion of questions of piisou leforiu. Some of the ablest and most experienced philanthropists and reformers in this country are attending it; some ot the ablest in Europe have sent ipper to it. Kery day of its sittings a vast smount of valuable information and wise suggestion os to the treatment of criminals is laid before the world. Now, does anybody suppose that its deliboratious are likely to hove the smallest effect on the prison disci pline or the police s stem of the United StiiUs? Niboi'y, certainly, who is competent to form an opinion about it. And why not? Mu ply I ecausc tbe administration of the prisons of tie country, like every other branch ot tbe administration, has heeu giadually but surely taken possession of by a tin hurt cIhns, composed of ignorant and often ui'priiu'iplt il men, who regard the manae iu lit of piit'01,8 as part of the "party spoils," and treat all interf 1 rence with them ou the part c f reformers as the meddling of visionary busy bodies. ' There has beeu a hard-working association for the improvement of the con dition cf the pii'ons iu this State in existence for twentj'-he years, and containing some of the ablest jurists and philauturoptiists we Lave. It has inspected, reported, nnl preached jear by ytar with unsurpassed in telligence Hint tnblitj; and jet the state of the prisons is now fur worse than when they leehD. We might multiply these illustra tions indefinitely. Ihey present themselves in every department of the Government. J he Ameucau, people is full of generous and noble ideas. It is animated by tbe most ardent desire to make real and valuable con tributions to the work of human progress. It would fain do justice, and dearly hwes mercy. It seks, above all things, to make its institutions models for all nations. B.it all this passionate love of improvement, which, lightly oirected, and with proper muchintry at its command, might move moun tains, is absolutely arrested at the door of eveiy public oflb-e. luside, it fiuds neither service nor expression. If we wish ever to see the greater features of the national char acter, its faith, its hope, its charity, its open ness to new ideas, its vigor and ingeunity in controlling circumstances, and its singu lar, we may soy unparalleled, capacity for dealing Willi social ard political problems, fairly en. bodied, as they ought to he, in th Goveinnit lit, wc must, before all things, im prove the system through which the ma chinery of government is kept goiug. Mr. Cox's it tirt ment is cettainly, as far us this is concerned, not a hopeful sign, but we must tiust that, either he or the President will yt find a way to retain his services for the nation. SPECIAL NOTICES. jrj" oi r irr; of tuk Philadelphia and 'i urai'i 'N it ilkoad company, Ni. 'in H. Vl'.l.AV AliE A v. uue. l'liiLAUKLrnu, October 8, is). A special meeting of the Stockholders of the Ii'llaiielpltla aim Tit Ltou Railroad Compauy will be telii at. tlie oitlce ot the said Company, lu tt.e city of 1 lilladelph a, at Vi o'clock noon of TUESDAY, October 2. ls70, to take luti consideration an ao ccptaiice of an act of Abeiably of the Commou wealth of Pennsylvania ei. titled "An Act to ifntitle tlie Stockholders of any Kailroad Company Incorpo rated t'.v Dils Ctiu.iunnweaiih, accepting this act, to one vi te lor each share of stock," approved May 20, 1SU5; and alfo to take 11. to consideration an accep tance of au act of the Commonwealth of Peansyl vunla, entitled "Au Act authorizing corporations to ti create their bonded obligations and capital stock," approved December 29, 1SC9. By order of tlie Hoard of Directors of the Philadel phia and Trentou Itallroad Company. P. H. WHITE, 10 8 16t Assistant Secretary. It-sT NOTICE 1st HEHEUyTcHVKN THATAN application y ill be made at the next meeting of the General A.venioty of the ConiuvMiwealtu of Pcninyivunia lor the Incorporation of a Dank, lu accordance wlrli ii-.r- u.vsof the Common wealth, to be entitled TliK CHENUT HILL S vVINOS AND LOAN HANKINW COM PAN Y, to be located at Philadelphia, ith a capital of one hundred thou sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to two hundred and lift thousand dollars. rA- llATCHELOi; S 11A1K DYE. THIS SPLEN- did llar Dve W the bent In the world, the only true and perfect Dye. Harmless iCeliable Inatau uu, ecus -no disappointment no ndlculoui tluu "Ooe not mitain Ltad nr any Vitalio i'uuon to it jurf the Hair w SiiMern " Invigorates the Hair and leaves It soft and beautiful ; Black or Drown, Sold bv an DrupulstH aud dealers. Applied at the Factory, No. IS DON D street. New York. 14 ST mwf Icit- NOTICE IS HEUEUY GIVEN THAT AN application will b; made at tlie next uieetlng of the Oen ral Assoiubly of the Coiuinouwealtrt of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, lu acc011lar.ee with th? laws of the Common oaltn, to be emitted THIS HAMILTON DANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of oua hundrdd lliou hixiul doilara, with the rlRlir. to Increase the same, to live hundred thousaad dollars. , TU FT UNION FJRK EXTINGUISHER COMPANY Oi? PHILADELPHIA Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire EittHjraisher, Always Reliable. ' D. T. QAGK, 630M No. lis ta AKK.BT St, General Ageuu NOTICE IS HEKEUY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at tha next meeting of the l. neiul As aibiy of the Commonwealth of l't uiisylvaniit for the incorporation of a B-oak, lu ac cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled 1 HE GHKSM T S l'KEET DANK, to ba located at hhiladelnhia, with a capital of cue hun dred thousand doll.ira, with the right t ) Increase the same to five liunnr.-d thousand dollars. TIlEl.O'S TftABKitUY TOOTHWASU. It 1h the most pleaaaut, cheapest and best dentifrice extant, warrautefl iree ifoiu injurious ingredients. It Prebervea and V hae us tue Teeth I lnvigorateb aud ttooinea the Gams I llinlies aud Pi rfutnes the Breath! Prevent Accumulation f Tartar 1 ClcuniM' and Purujen Artificial Tee till is u Bupt nor Article for Children J Sold by all drnggl-tu and aentlat. A. M. VVIL8ON, DrwKittst, Prourtetor. 8 lorn Cor. NINTH ANT FILBEKT BJ, Phliada. mM"- NOTK'iTn4 UEKEBY GiVn-N THA P AN " application w ill b" made at the mixi meetlug of the Gcncial Ashciulny of the Commouw.-alth or Peiibtiylvaula lor trie incorporation of a Bunk, ia accordance witn me ntw or ine uommouwe in, ro be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKlNci COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, itti a capital ol one million di.Hara, with the rigat to lu- CJ elite the eailie 10 ove inimoii uouurs. vxv NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AM applicDtion wld - made at tne nxi nesting of the Gei eral At-t-emhly ol the Conuuoi wealth i f l'niiisvlvai.la for the Im orporatlou or a Bank. 111 a cordaiue with the hs i ue comm :n wetiui, i l ei.titled THE JEKKLKSuN BANK, to be hi at,!.t st Phllsdflnhia. with a capital of one huudrel thousand doIUm, with the right to Increase ttio same to live hundred thousand dollars. DRY QOODS. LIMES STORE, Ho. 020 ARCH STREET,! AMD No. 1123 CHC3NUT Street. NEW LINEN OOODP FALT. STOCK At Greatly Itrrtrtotd rTlces. New ThHa I.lnet.s; New Nap dins, very chtsp. liarpaliiH in Towels; cheap lots of Llneu hhcetings. I lllow C.wlnpH, nil ldi tin. Heavy Towelling Diapers, S cases assorted pat t run just In. Th 1 est stitched Shirt Kopoms. Extraordinary Haigalns In Ladles' Henntltche't Handkerchiefs. Gentu' Handkerchiefs. N. D. We also uhlidt an extensive and cheap Sleek Of FLANNBLS, BL&NKETS AND WHITK OOOPS 981 mw, "watches, JEWELRY, ETO. trWLS LADOM.US A r,-T ,7 . fYDMMOX'fi MALE Kb A .lEWKLERS. II WtTtllKH, JKttlLHY AHU.VKH vi sTPTTES and JEWELRY REPAIRED, 1 Sfe'Pa ChfllltUQV St.. FHljV BAND BRACELETS CHAIN BRACELETS. We have Just received a large aud beautiful as irtmcnt of Gold Band and Chain Bracelet, Enamelled and engraved, of oil sl,, at very low low pric a. New styles couatautlv received. AiLUi. Anu JKwi'wi in irreat variety, LEWIS LA UO Md'S & C )., 6 U fmw No. S0!i CULSNUT Kircet. TOWSU CLOCKS. CV j. x. Ki;tii:t.i, So. 22 NOUTlt hlXTIT HTUECT, Agent for ST EVENS' PATKNT TOWER CLOCK8, both liemontolr t Orahaui Eaoapemout, Htriktng nour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour on full ejiiiue. KsiiiratcH furnlthcd ou application either person ally or by mail. b 23 r WILLIAM D. WAKNK A CO., WholcH.ile Dealers tn WATCHES A :"D JEW KI.UY, K h. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets, i 1 Second Uoor. and late of No. ST. S. THIRD St. MILLINERY, ETO. AIRS. R. DILLON, xi 1 NOS. 323 AND 831 SOUTH STREET. FANCY AND MofKNIMJ MILLINERY, CRAPE VEILS. Ladles' and Misses' Crape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin, Silk, Straw and Velvets, Hats aud Bonnets, French t lowers. Hat and Bound Frames, Capos, Laces, Sukp, Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Sashca, Ornaments end all kinds of Milliner? Clouds. 1 a QfcNT.'K KUKNMjHINQ QOODS, I )ATF,NT 8 11 O U L 1 E R - S JS A M SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORK PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS made from measurement at very short notice. All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS goods in full variety. WINCHESTER & (10., 119 No. 706 CHESNUT Stroot FURNACES. Established in 1835. InTirinbly tbe greatest sauces over all oompotitioa wlieoevfir nd whereTer exhibited cr used ia tha UN1TICD STATES. CHARLES WILLIAMS Pateni Golden Eagle Furnaces, Acknowledged by ' ie IfHdinic Architects and Hail dure b" tbe uiiiet powerful unrt durable Furnaces oSored, sod the mobt prompt, systematic, und largflst L ouee in line of bUMinms. HEAVY KKDUOTlOf IS 1IU0JE3, od only brstolaw work turned nnl. :-o., 1132 and 1131 MARKET Street, FHJLAUfaXPUlA. N. B.-8KKD tOH BOOK OF FACTS OM URA1 AND VENTILATION. 623m WHISKY, WINE. ETOi X r, 18 WalnuL and 21 Gi mite Cti lMVOP.in.Ka CK B'ftxidiee, Winer-, Giu, 01iv Oil, Jiia. WUOLKPALK DKALWRB J MHte flVK WHM IS 6. IN WiMI ABO TAX PAID. MM ART EXHIBITION. o rnrriE exhibition AT CHAS. S. KASILTraE'S GALLERY, No. 1125 OHFXSIIT STKKET, imATN's FAIUOl 8 PANOlJAWIO VIS'.VS o r.eriiii, PoUdaii,. i Imriultruburn, ( uhlerils, rieldel. t tic, Jeiitt, YVYlti'tir, Krfun, Emu, Daden-Uaden, V tisrmflen, BruxhelH, A uislerdam, Waterloo, Liege Vpri s, Kutterdaiu, I trecht, ti. etc. a ctiu'p.eu- si toi the lvrlln Muaeuma, and Interior vlewtMd ail 'he rivinis in the various royal ptlacea ol Pint a. Puriieidar Atteutluu la diawn to tne raut that in A few rtavti lio vie on the Rhine and lw fortiOea. tiona. r never he 'ore ami), will re exhibited. 11 10 SAXON GREEN NEVER FADES. 8 16m PATENT. STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATE RIGHTS of a valuable Invention Just patented, aud foi the SLICING, CUTTING, and CHIPPING of dried beef, calitmpe, etc, are hereby offered for sale. It hi au article of great value to proprietors of botelt aiid restaurant, aud It should be Introduced Into ever? fani ly. STATK RIGHTS FOR HALS. Model can be SHen at TELEGRAPH OFFIOK COOPER 8 POINT, N. J. t rrtf MUNDY Bi HOFFMAN. A LFXANDBR G. "iTTKLI, & CO t Fhi'M'OB COMMISSION MRHCUANTS, No. M NOrtTH WHARVES HP No, W NORTH WTR ST BEET, PHILADELPHIA. ALkXANDK G. CiTTCBU VLUAH CATTBU. A
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