4 THE DAlLr EVENING TELKGRArH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1871. fUBLlBHED EVERY AFTERNOON (SOHD1TS BXOIPTID), IT THE EVENING TELEGRAPH BUILDING, NO. 108 8. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. The Priot U tfiree oetUs per copy (double sheet), r ti'Ueen cen( per week, payable to the carrier by xohom served. The subscription price by mail is Nine Dollars per annum, or One Dollar and Fifty Cents for Uoo months, invariably in mivanoe for the time ordered. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1871. The Evening Telegraph, from Its original establishment, has been in the receipt of telegraphic news from the New York Associated Press, which consists of the Tribune, Times, Herald, World, Sun, Journal of Commerce, Evening Post, Commercial Advertiser, and Evening Ex press. The success which has attended our .enterprise is, in itself, a sufficient evi dence of the freshness, fullness, and relia bility of the news which we have received from this source. Last March we entered Into a special contract by which The Evening Telegraph has the exclusive use of the news furnished in the afternoon by the Associated Press to its own members, the North American, Inquirer, Ledger, Press, Age, Record, and German Democrat, of this city, and the leading journals of the East, North, West and South ; and hereafter The Telegraph will be the only evening f after published in this city in which the afternoon despatches of the Associated Press will appear. W The earliest regular edition of The Evening Telegraph goea to presa at 1 o'clock, and the subsequent regular editions at 2), 3, and 4. Whenever there is im portant news of the progress of the Euro pean war, extra editions will be issued after this hour, and before the regular tim for the early edition. NEW RULES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The report of the committee appointed to devise new rules for the government of the couvtntions of th Republican party of Phi ladelphia has at last been completed, and we believe it is to be acted upon by the conven tion this afternoon. As many months of arduous labor were devoted to the preparation of this preoions dooumeni, it was natural to expect that it would embrace a promising plan for the eradication of all partisan evils ' which have hitherto been matters of general complaint, and that it would make many radical changes in a system which is well known to be inhe rently vicious and bad. Any man who reads the rules with the hope that they will pave the way for a thorough reform, however, will be sad y disappointed. They provide ma chinery that is likely to prevent unseemly tnnd-to-band struggles over the primary Chairmanship of the respective conventions, by declaring that a member of the City Ex ecutive Committee shall aot as the prelimi nary chairman of each convention; but be yond this questionable virtue we scarcely see another new provision that is worthy of an Instant's favorable consideration. The true titl of the new rules should, be "a soheme to bind more closely than .ever more than fifty thousand Republican voters of Philadelphia to the triumphant chariot wheels of a handful of wire-pullers, whose loaliDg aim is Belf -aggrandizement at the exp nee of the public" The rules were mani festly framed to enable a ring or a few rings to rale or ruin the Republican party of this city. They do not em body a single reform of real Importance. Instead of giving enlarged powers to the people and increasing the chances of good nominations, they diminish the power hitherto exercised and inerease the probabilities that nominations for plaoea . of honor and profit will be monopolized by professional politicians whose highest aim is plunder. The rules provide that no Republi can oan vote at a delegate election unless he is previously registered, and by a series of ingenious arrangements the whole machinery of the party is passed over absolutely to the oontrel of the hacks who manipulate the primary elections for officers to hold delegate elections, the appointment of the partisan registering officers, and the choice of mem bers of the CUy Executive Committee, who will virtually control, in a great measure, each of the different conventions. In all nomi nations made under this system a few adroit managers and their tools will exer cise a paramount influence, and the body of the Republican voters will have little more vjioe in the nominations than in the selection of an Emperor for China. We know it maybe eaid, in reply to this objection, that voters who do not attend to the drudgery of cau cuses, repeated partisan eleotions, and con ventions do not deserve to have a voice ia nominations, but the fallacy of this argument 1 1 well understood by all intelligent Republi cans. It should be the aim of a great party to invite rather t) repel the co-operation of all its members, aid especially of those who are not profes 6l)nl place-hunters, in the seleotion of can didates; but the tendenoy of the new rules is to throw this f election more exclusively than Tor into the bands of the parasites of the party and their personal dependants. The adoption of the proposed new system, after bopM frf aifloere reform had been awakened, cm Boaroely fail to exert a deeply disastrous influence upon the Republican organ!-, zation of this city. Knoh an un fortunate blunder will indioate more clearly than volumes of comment that the blood-suckers of the party will not be content until they drain the last drop of its vitality; and if the party cannot mmter up sufficient strength and resolution to detach them from its bleeding veins, it does not re quire much prophetio ken to discover what fate awaits the Republican organization of Philadelphia TI1E PRESIDENT ON GERMAN UNITY. The President has addressed a message to Congress recommending that the representa tive of this Government at Berlin be plaoed upon the same footing as those at London and Paris. One reason assigned for this is that by the union of the German States into a great empire, the duties and responsibili ties of our diplomatic representative will be greatly increased; but more important than this is the fact that Germany has not only become a first-class power, but the leading power in Europe. The message of the Pre sident is, for the most part, made up of sin cere and hearty congratulations npon the ac complishment of the unification of Germany, and the comparison between the Govern ments of the United States and the German Empire is just and forcible. The Presi dent says: "The bringing of great masses or thouprhtful and free people under a single government moat tend to mske governments what alone they should be, me rcprrsi'iuniivRH m too win aua me ornaaiKAuoa of the power of the people. The adoption In Eu rope of the American system of union under the control and direction of a free people, educated to self-restraint, cannot fall to extend popular Institu tions and to enlarge the peaceful influence of Ame rican Ideas. The relations of the United States with Germany are Intimate and cordial." The President thinks, as the most clear headed men in this country and in Europe have thought, that the predominance of an educated, home-loving, steady, free, and vir tuous people, such as the Germans certainly are, will be a benefit to themselves, to Eu rope, and to the human race. He does not look upon the establishment of the German Empire as the glorification of a particular race of princes, but as the realization of the hopes and dreams of a people who have made and are making steady advances in the direc tion of trne liberty, who respect the law, and who are in reality the only people in Europe who appear to 'understand what republican ism really is. The most substintial addi tions that are made to the population of this country by foreign immigration come from Germany, and this of itself is a bond of sympathy between the two nations that is of the . highest importance now that Germany has suddenly obtained such an ascendancy upon the conti nent of Europe The fact that Germany has become a first-class power is of itself a suf ficient reason for Congress to carry oat the recommendation of the President In regard to increasing the salaries of our Minister and the Secretary of Legation at Berlin, and we hope, therefore, that the message will receive both in the Senate and House the attention it deserves. The Publio Buildings Commission, in view of the great importance of the work they have in band, and the character of the opposition they have met with in endeavoring to carry out the wishes of a majority of the people of Philadelphia to have the publio buildings erected at Broad and Market streets, have one clear and obvious duty to perform that is, to proceed with the work of breaking the ground and laying the foundations with a much rapidity as possible. If the buildings are once faVy under way the anti-Penn Squareites will be obliged to cease their opposition, but it is evident that bo long as there is the slightest shadow of a chance that they may be able to obstruot this great publio improvement they will not yield, and every possible device will be resorted to to prevent the buildings from being ereoted. The pecuniary interests involved in retaining the publio offices and courts in their present location ore immense, and the property holders in the vicinity of Washington and Independence Squares would prefer that the city should have no new public buildings than that they should be ereoted upon Penn Square, and thus cause the office-letting busi ness in the neighborhood of Independence Hall to be broken up. The character of the opposition to the Penn Square project is so well know that it is remarkable it should be able to obtain even a hearing at this day, and the Building Commission should as rapidly as possible prooeed to render impossible any further agitation of a subject that has been definitely settled by the Legislature, the votes of the people, and the Supreme Court. A pneumatic tube under the streets, squares, and avenues of Philadelphia for the transmission of letters, parcels, mails, mer chandise, or passengers may possibly be a very desirable improvement and an accept able addition to our present facilities for transportation and travel; but be this as it may, it is certain that the bill introduced on Monday in the . State House of Representa tives by Mr. W. F. Smith is about as impu dent a proposition as has ever been brought before the Legislature. This bill proposes to give to certain unnamed individuals the right to bore any number of tunnels, of any size, in any direction within the corporate limits of the city of Philadelphia. The streets can be vacated during the operations of the tube borers, who are allowed all the time they may choose to t.ke, and all the publio squares are placed at their disposal for the erection of passenger sta tions, or for any purposes they may choose to desire them for. This bill ia practioally unlimited in its sphere of operations, and Mr. Smith's pneumatic-tube borers, if they ever get into operation, will in point of fact become the owners of all the publio and pri vate property in the city of Philadelphia they may choose to lay their hands npon. It ia certainly astounding that any member of the Legislature should have the effrontery to introduce such measure as this, and the whole affair would be simply laughable were it not an indication of the corruption that rules the law-making branch of the State Government. Absurd as is Mr. Smith's pnenmatio project, it is a serious matter for the people of Philadelphia, who da not know how aoon they may be brought faoe to faoe w ith the actual outrage it contemplates. Ma. Cessna has at last made an explanation of his action in the Chorpenning claim case. His Btory will of course be aooepted for its full face value, but we hope that Pennsylva nia will not send many more members of Congress who are so "over-Eealous" or "con fiding" as to present resolutions whioh are officially construed to require the payment of nearly f 500,000 of the publio money on old and poorly founded claims, and which direot Postmaster-Generals to ignore evidenoe favorable to the Government. Am ngly forgery case has recently come to light in this city; but as the party accused is hedged round by wealth and respectability, it will of course be hushed up. It would never do to punish a rich man, or the relative of rich people, in Philadelphia. OBITTfARY. Henry Kiel o way. Henry Stelnway, the founder of the celebrated piano manufacturing firm of Stelnway & Sons, died yesterday morning at his residence in New York city. Mr. 8telnway was a native of the Dochy of Brunswick, Germany, and was born on the 15th of February, 1797. He early dis played a taste for music and a particular talent for the construction of musical instruments, He learned cabinet-making, worked in an organ factory, and studied the art of piano making. In 1850 he arrived In New York, and in 1853, in connection with his sons, started a piano manufactory and turned out about one instrument per week. The business rapidly in created, and at the end of a year the firm re moved to larger quarters. In 1855 the Stelnway pianos gained a gold medal at the New York Industrial Exhibition of the American Institute, held at the Crystal Palace, which brought them prominently into notice. In I860 the firm occupied its present factory, to which additions have been made at various times as the fame of the Bte.nway pianos and the business of manufacturing them increased. Mr. Henry Stelnway had not for several years been actively engaged In business. CAPTAtS EYRE. The Hero of the "Oneida Dlmmter-IIla Bro ther of Jamaica Notoriety. Readers will doubtless remember distinctly the Joes of the United States gunboat Oneida, near Yokohama, and the fate of her gallant crew. The slight sentence of six months' sus pension of Captain Eyre, of the British steam ship Bombay, caused every heart to revolt at tbe standard of British injustice. That Captain Eyre could have prevented the disaster there is little doubt; and even after it had occurred he could have saved tbe gallant crew of the Oneida if be bad made an effort to do so. It is, how ever, some satisfaction to Americans to know that when the term of suspension of Captain Eyre expired, the British Mail Steamship Company informed him that they had no fur ther use for his services. His brother, ex-Governor Eyre, of Jamaica notoriety, has settled down iu England as a country gentleman, his services not bolmr in demand by an ungrateful country. Tbe total fund raised for this gentle man was $75,000. Kntucr more than half this was absorbed by law costs and the expenses of tbe fund; and he received a check for $35,000. The Government will pay hiia $25,000 to defray ths costs of his defense, this being the rule when tbe defendant is a Government servant put on his trial on charges relating to his official duties. NOTICES. Thousands of Oakmknts, Thousands ok Oakmknts, Thousands of Oakmknts, For Winter Weah, Yoh Winter Wbak, For Winter Wear, Fok Men, Youth, Boys, and Children. Job Mkn, Youth, Roys, and Children. Foh Men, Youth, Boys, and Children. Prices all Very Low JrsT Now. Prices all Very Low Just Now. Prices all Vry Low Just Now. wakamakbk& brown's, Wanamakkr a Brown's, Oak Hall. Oak II alu Popular Clothing IIousk, S. K. Coknkr or Sixth and Market Streets. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. WEDNESDAY EVENING, Feb. 8, last night but three of 'he brilliant season of GRAND ENGLISH OPERA. FIRST BENEFIT IN PHlLAuKLPfllA of the lavorlte American Prima Donna Contralto, Mrs. ZELDA SEQUIN, upon which occasion will be presented Mozart's famous niasterwork, the MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, with the following powerful cast: CHERLBINO Mrs. ZELDA SKGUIN Susanna Mrs. O. R. Bernard Countess Miss Rose llersee Figaro Mr. 8. O. Campbell Count AJmavlva Mr. Alberto Laurence who, to oblige Mrs. Beguin, has kindly consented to Journey from New York for the purpose of appear ing. Don Basslllo..... Mr. J. B. Bowler Dr. Bartolo , Mr. A. Howell ON TO-MORROW EVENING will be presented Verdi's Grand Opera, 1LTROVATORE. First appearance of the young Prima Donna, MISS EMMA HOWSON. Mr. Joseph Hermanns, Miss Jennie Von Bask, and the Child "Americus," la a Grand entre act Far fare. FRIDAY Benefit of Mr. WILLIAM CASTLE. Only time or Beethoven's FIDELIO. GRAND MATINEE ON SATURDAY OBERON. SATURDAY NIGHT, TnE FULL GERMAN OPERA COMPANY IN It FAUST. OO PARTNERSHIPS " THE FIRM OF J. E. CALDWELL A CO expl-is this day by limitation. . Philadelphia, Jan. 81, 18TL TVTOTICE. 1 The undersigned have this day entered Into Copartnership under the name of J. K. CALDWELL & CO., and will continue the business at No. IH2 CIIE9NUT Street. JAMES E. CALDWELL, RICHARD A. LEWIS, JOSEPH II . BRAZIKR. GKORUK W. BANKS, J. ALHKKT CALDWELL, HUGH B. HOLSTON. Philadelphia, Feb. I, isn. 8i6L PROPOSALS. QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE. w Philadelphia, Feb. 8, 18T1. Sealed Proposals, In triplicate, will be received at this oillce until l'i o'clock M. on TUESDAY, Marco. 7, lb71, for building a Superintendent's Lodge, of tone, at each of the following-named National Cemeteries, viz.: City Point, Cold Harbor, and FrederlckBDurg, Va , according to plana and peelU catlona which will be furnished from this oillce on application of those desiring to bid. Separate bids for building this Lodge of brick are also Invited, plaai and opacifications for which will also be furnished from this office on application. Blank forma for bids, details, aud requirements furnished by the undersigned a oopy of the latter, with this advertisement, to be attached to each pro posal onered. HENRY" c. HODUES, 8 t tMI . Major and Quartermaster U. S. Army. Communication from Helmbold. CITIZENS, MEDICAL PROFESSION. 4MB The Press of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Feb. 2, 1871. Gentlemen: Advertising compels ma to resort to NOVELTY. I do not wish to im pose on the generosity or good nature of amy, bnt wish yon to insert the various artioles which may be presented from time to time, for which I am willing to pay the best prioe for the best position. It is very important, no w that I am about to open in the Continental Hotel a DRUG STOKE which will reflect credit on the city, improve the block, and remedy the evils much complained of by the ladies, that I agitate or keep before the people this idea. When opened, I shall resort to the columns of every paper published. There will be no thing left undone to make a live institution and success. You know how long, through adversity, I bave been kept out of the Drug Business in this city (my legitimate business). Adversity and a small office combined have done much to impair my social status and build up a prejudice among the Medical Profession it tLis city; but there is an innate feeling in every man's breast, however humble, that he owes a debt to the place of his birth. Iu my new undertakings I humbly beg your oounte rance and support. I wish the good-will of all parlies, particu larly the Medical Profession. My assistants shall be men of sterling ability. I shall have nothing but the best matebials, and disposed of so as to invite the patronage of all, having great facilities, and importing my own Toilet and Fancy Artioles, which enables me so to do. The financial department of this store will be under the supervision of my brother, AL BERT L. HELMBOLD, who has so faithfully discharged his business as to make me feel proud of him as a brother; and it is my inten tion to present him with this store as soon as completed. Any favors extended to him will be duly appreciated. Your humble servant, IT. T. HELMBOLD, No. 594 BROADWAY, New York, under the Metropolitan Hotel. GILSEY HOUSE, corner TWENTY-NINTH and BROADWAY, New York. CONTINENTAL HOTEL, Philadelphia, Pa. (J rani's Neutrality Expounded. What Does it Mean? Americans, study. "Daunter" mean's de fiant. The yacht ' 'Dau n ter" collects the Al -lama Claims in 1872. Tea-drinkers will not collect them before. The South and West want the money with interest, and the na tion's honor demands a thirty-day draft in the band of "o good Yankee co lector" Benjamin F. Butler, if you p'ease. But the debt must be paid. France congratulated on the esta blishment of a Republic means rigltt. The Cuban flag is lettered as follows: "Spain, your orders for munitions and vessels of war solicited," which means oppression, and is a direot contradiction of congratulation to France, and antagonistic to our republi can form of government and freedom. Our forefathers, Washington or Jackson, never intended that it should be so. The "Daun ter" is the name of a vessel, a model of whioh floats from Henry . T. Helmbold'a Chemioal Warehouse, No'. 594 Broadway, decked with the flags of all nations, and containing the above remarks. As these words were handed down by high authority, and they being em. blematlo of the American Eagle, should any patriot "ZaS" them down, the noble bird would flatter. To hand them down to pos terity is every American duty. Evening Pott. GOOPES 8q LINENS. We have our entire Spring Importation and purchases open, and can now exhibit a stock unrivalled in point of beaatifnl new goods, great variety, and extreme lowness of price. Barnsley Table Damasks. Irish and Scotch Table Damasks. Satin Damasks and Table Cloths. Satin Damask Napkins and Doylies. G.r0 dozen II nek and Damask Towels. Towelling of every description. Diapers by tbe piece and yard. ' Richardson & Owden's Linens. Shirt Fronts of this superior seal. Linen Sheetings, all tbe widths. Pillow Linens, all the widths. Floor Linens, Stair Linens. PIANO Fresh importation for Spring. Embroidered Piano Covers. Piano Covers $ 10 to $30. Melodeon, Table and Stand. New arrivals Embroidered Covers. BLACK Encore WHITE Just opened, fresh lines S. E. CORNER NINTH OLOTHINO. PUSH THINGS!" AT ROCKUILL & WILSON'S GREAT BROWN HALL, They aie "PUSHING THINGS," And f.ave rust-ED OFF Dearly all the one Winter Slock Of Gentlemen's Excellent Clothes, And Supeilor Clothes for Boys. COME AND CARRY AWAY What is left of onr Excellent Winter Stocx ! Prices so low that you can hardly see them! GREAT IWVOWN HAL.l , 603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET, ROCKHILL & WILSON. PHILADELPHIA: PA. MERCHANT TAILORS AND Dealer in Be-tdymade 01011x1117. CUSTOMER WORK Done In the very best manner, at unusually low prices, ont of a t t. ck complete In every way, and with CUTTERS Of acknowledged excellence and ability. pianos. . CEORCE STECK & CO.'S PIANOS, GRAND, t QUA RE AND UPRIGHT. UAINESiBROS.' PIAN04, BRADBURY'S PUNOS, MASON AND HAMl.N'S C'ABISKT ORGANS, An Elegant Stock at Ore HI y Red deed Prices. COULD & FISCHER, No. 923 OflESNUT Street. ISO. 1U1B AKCli SuieeU J. R. GOULD. WM. O. H6CIHH. i it trip Slelnway & Sons' Grand Square and Upright Pianoi Special attention U called to their no l'i teu Jrialil IManos, Wltn Double Iron Frame, Patent 'Resonator, Tubular Metal Frame Action, etc.. wliloi) are luatcoiess In Tone and Touch, and unrivalled in durability. WAREROOMS, Ko. 1006 CHESNUT HTHEET, J llUYp PHILADELPHIA, MZtt ALBRECIIT, tfg RIEKES It SCHMIDT, Manufacturers of Urand and oquare P. ano Fortes, recommend their stock of t)r8l-ti'a8 Instruments. Eveiy liibtrun enl Is warraut-d arid prices moderate. 4 WARHROOM, No. 10 ARCU Street. CTTONMIDDLINa FAIRAND MIDBLINQ Uulfs, Alabama and Uplands, samples, clean tain, etc., for able by WILLIAM M. O REINER, X SO 8m No. 109 CUK3N U r Street, GOOPIE, & GQWJk'BjD COVERS, SILKS. GOODS. GOODS. at new low prices. AND MARKET STREETS. DRY GOODS. EYRE AND LAIUDELL, A XI CI I STREET. GOOD BLACK SILKS UTJDER VALUE, BETWEEN SEASONS. 27 mwsaiiirp HOLIDAY GOODS. HOLIDAY GOODS. fi print? Horses, Rocking Horses, Children's Carriages. BOTE' BLED 8, WAGONP, VELOCIPEDES, Etc Etc H. J. SHILL, Factory, No. 226 DOCK Street, HJ BSLOW EXCHANGE. FINANCIAL. DREXEL & CO., No. 34 30UTH THIRD STREET, American and Foreign Hankers DRAWS EZCHANGB ON LONDON AND PRIN CIPAL CITIES OP EUROPE. DBALSRS IN Government and Railroad Securities, Drexel, Winthrop A Co.,iDrexel, Ear jet A Co.. No. 18 Wall (Street, No. g Hue Scribe, New Xurfc, J parta, WANTS. V N -A. STORE, On Chesnut or Eighth Street. ADDRESS, 6TATIN3 PRICE, LOCATION, AND FULL PARTICULARS, II F. Q, K." EVENING TELEGRAPH OFFICE. OPTICIANS. SPEC TA C L E B. MICROSCOPES, TELESCOPES, THER MOMETERS, MATHEMATICAL, SUR VEYING, PHILOSOPHICAL AND DRAWING INSTRUMENTS AT REDUCED PRICES. JAMES W. QUEBN & CO., 1 SO mwfMp No. m CIIES3UT Btrest, rhliada. OQKABD
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