THE D AIL 7 EVENING TELEGRAFIT. PIHLADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 18GG.
TFE NEW YOBK PRESS.
f.Dl'IORIAL OP1 X IONS OE LhADISG
,U ILAA1S VFO& tllUlKM JW'f-'S
COriMI.tl) IVFhT DAY FOR IVKNO TKI.FOHAPH.
The Colandar ol Losncs.
from the Tribune.
DtiriiiR the nunrtcr ending last December, the
low in 110 consl.lerabie fires throughout the
counltv are reckoned above $20,)()0,0()0, and
ttaoM fortho whole rear double the year pre
vious, and far exccpdint? many former years.
IThisii accounted for by extraordinary losses
Jn certain fires, such as the burninar of cotton,
Biid (iovemment and city warehouses, and one
rr two extensive lactories. 75 fires occurred
Jn New York State, with a loss of nearly
f8,(XK),ntM). 25 honors were destroyed in a
nnle tire at Lima, N. V., and 100 in Bellast, Me,
3Mie severest loss ot life during a tire occurred
t C'harle.ilon, where a score of people were
Skilled by lalling wallj. Cotton burned in store
wnd on s'ulpboard, 7tH)0 bales. In nine years the
Jotal in tires of 20,000 and upwards fulls
fOiort ol $72,000,000.
We are here generally estimating only land
Jind house fires, aou perhaps not in all respects
Jrotn an insurance point of view. Let us add a
Tcview ot the recent quarter, endinar with the
lust of April. In thlrty-eirht tires of $100,000 loss
mid upward, tne total destruction amounted to
$10,670,0011. We compute this with the former
nuarter, in which thirty-eight tires of the same
legree occurred, with a general reported loss of
anoie than $18,000,000. The chief losers have
jbefii the cities of New Yoik. Cincinnati, Phila
delphia, Butlalo, the Oil Regions, the Michigan
Central and P"niiBylvuniu Railroads, and the
policial Government. Cot ion, amounting to
lift ween three and four millions of dollars, was
iurned in Mobile. Pike's splendid opera bouse
was lately destroyed in Cincinnati; and in the
Jat-t eight months, chiefly in the quarter juBt
jiast, a score of fires dried as many wells in the
nil regions. Fires on ship, steamboat, and rall
yoad have not yet been reckoned, but make up a
Jaree supplcim nt to the ether volume of losses
ly tiro. 1'he amount ol cotton thus destroyed in
She lat two quarters would easily reach 12,000
JiaiP.s a fact ol luriher warning against careless
shipment and storage.
Statistics of railroad disaster are still of pre
vailing interest, and full of grave suggestion.
J'rom September to January the number of acci
dents, involving loss of property and lite say
t least an average of two deaths to each occur
rence were 70. of which 23 were outright col-5i.-ions,
In eight cases trains were precipitated;
eight more were explosions; in three, bridges
lirokedown; in four, switches were misplaced;
and in one or two instances the cars ran off
treaties. On several railroads as many as three
or tour locomotives were destroyed in twenty
ictir bonis. Ihe railroads ot New York were
debited with twenty accidents. On all ihe rail
roads of the country, estimating from the quar
terly tieures, the accidents were not lar less
tbah 200 during the year 18G5.
Contrasted with this statement, the quaiter
ono by shows either improvement or good for
tune in the management of the rjads. We
rount only twenty-three accidents, the worst of
Ihem two collisions on railroads near New York,
aiud one case ot bridge-breakin; the whole with
it loss ot between fifty and seventy lives. A
?henomenal crime, the attempt by one person
o cause a train to be thrown oil' the track, was
lately frustrated on the Shore-line Koad. We see
8hai in eight months very nearly one hundred
railroad accidents take place, more than one
iourth ot the number collisions, and at least one
tenth explosion?.
Here it is worth while making a general count
ff explosion?. Out of 31 which occurred De
tweeu September and January, 8 were on rail
roads, 10 on steamboats, 8 in shops and tuc rones;
ti were trom gun powder.jand 1 tromglinoine oil,
r nitro-glyceriue. Between January and May
occurred 28, some of them of most terrible char
acter, and nearly all explosions of engine Doiler3.
Jiy the explosions of the steamers 2fi$souri and
JMiami, and the steamboat Carter, on the Ohio
ud Mississippi rivers, more than 400 lives were
lost. The new explosive essence kuokvn as
aiiti o glycerine has already cost three accidents,
and nearly 100 lives. By 56 explosions, In the
last eight months, it is not improbable.that 1000
3ersons have been killed. This dry statement is
the index ot most appalling catastrophies.
Steamboat accidents and losses have a similar
Jmitiiul variety. Out of 70 boats lost or cie
ntrocd. principally on the Western rivers, 13
Jiad collided, 10 exploded, 7 were burned, and
S lost through leakace. Five disasters took
place ou the Lakes, lor seveu or eight on the
Mississippi; 12 steamboats and barges were lost
by the St. Louis ice-gorge. By (the explosions
stud collisions probably 300 lives were lo9t. In
the succeeding quarter we reckon forty-two
jUcMiicrs lost, but these include such tearful
disasters as the burnincs and explosions ol the
ftttiiners Missouri, Miami, Carter, and Lock
teood, with an aggregate loss of about 500 lives.
Altogether, 117 valuable steamers and their
3110 le precious irciuht of human lite and
'wealth have been sunk or destroyed in eight
3non lis. Add to the calendar seventy-live marino
disusteis, tour of tnem collisions and eight
Jbuiimigs, with a loss of 2"9 lives, iu the quarter
eliding December; and 48 wrecks between Janu
ary and May, with about 170 lives lost, most of
them in the steamers Constitution, Narcissus,
UHl other vessels an aggregate, tor eight
tniontliR. of 123 disasters, costing 42!) lives. In
ihese eight months the earthquake Fhowed
several alarming symptoms in California, and a
t-tonn on the Gulf coast swept away a number
ot villages. Recapitulating, we observe that m
the two last quarters occurred 217 accidents by
Vh it'll railway curs and steamboats were de-
Strovcd, 06 severe explosions, and 123 shipwrecks
on i he American coast, ft is not a little re
jiiiakable that disasters to inland travel have
Jjee.i more lrequent than upon the sea.
The Crops.
J-'ri ni the World.
The recent steady advance in the price of
wheat is setting inquiries on toot touching the
liroi-pecta of the summer and tall crops. Flour
Ss very high, even allowing for the gold premium
and the large wages ot farm laborers; and there
doe- not vscm to be much prospect of a reduc
tion of the price until some ot the new crop ot
T h at is marketed.
From the accounts which reach us through
our exchanges and by private advices, we Judge
lhat the maturing wheat crop promises well.
The winter wheat looked thrifty upon the open
ing of spring, and, though the season has since
"been backward, nothing has so far occurred to
injerethe grain. We do not think, however,
that s very large area of ground has been de
voted to wheat. The prices last fall were very
discouraging to farmers, while farm labor was,
anid has remained to this time, very hinh.
The deficiency, however, may be made up by
larger quantities than usual of Southern wheut.
.As lood was the first necessity ot the Southerners
upon the close of the war, they went to work to
raise such vegetables ana grain as would supply
their immediate wauts. The freeiug ol tue
jiegro will tend to Increase the supply of small
5-Taiu at all points in the feouth where cotton
cannot be grown profitably. White labor takes
jnore kin ily to grain raising thau to cotton cul
ture, and there are far more white people now
sit work in the held in the Border States than
be'oie the war.
But the surplus wheat sent to market by the
houth will be but a very small proportion of
vi hat will be needed to supply the wants oi the
country. It will be marketed early in the Be a
pou, and where one bushel will come north tn.
Juh. tiitv bushelu of Western wheat will go U
t he Cotton States later in the season; for. uot-
w ithstandiug the diversion of labor to wheat
pn whig iu the Border States, there has bean a
jnr greater diversion of labor to eottou-growing
Vheievcr that Blue cau lie raised. The enor
mous nroflts which cotton culture promises has
turned the whole available industry ot the
co-ion region to its cultivation this year. It
follows, thorefoie. that the Cotton States will
requite nearly all their grain and meat from
the Middle and Western States, and hence next
lull will probably see a xasi commerce spring
l'P between the Weat and touth.
It these considerations hae any weight, there
is a let.-oimhle pro-pect lhat the price ot wheat
will lremnin high all this yen. It is now
satisiactorily asceriained that the wheat crops
ot 1nh4 and 1806 were not large, and we there
fore begin a new wheat ear wiib scarcely any
surplus. Taking into consideration the dis
couragements ot farmers at the planting season,
and the probability ot a large demand South
next tall, there does not seem much likelihood
ot cheap tlour during 18iG. The low price of
corn which has obtained up to this time will, no
doubt, have its effect in Increasing the hog crop
of the present year. There is reason to believe,
also, that meats of all kluds will be cheaper
next fall than now.
English Statesman on Ameilcan Demo
crncy.
From the Timet .
The debate on the English Reform bill has
brought out some expressions of op'.niou In
regard to our form of government which are
somewhat amusing. A portion of the speech of
Mr. Lowe possesses this character. Ho Is of
those who, adopting the letter ot Lord Macau
lay, written in 1832, on receiving a copy of Jef
ferson's works, as their guide, assume at once
the functions ot a judge and the profundity of a
prophet. In Mr. Lowe's eyes, the method ol
representation among us is a huge mistake, and
its consequences fraught with the direst disa.
ters. We are to die of democracy. When our
towns have increased to European dimensions
they will swamp the country beneath a flood of
poverty anil ignorance, u is only the agncultu-
tai interest which has preserved us so tar; but
that will be overbalanced some day. Then, some
great question will arise upon which the people
win ue aiviuca, ana nnarcnv win touow. and a
usurper will Biiceeed it.
The opinion ot Mr. Macaulcv was written
thirty-four years ago: and since then the cities
of the United States have grown to proportions
equal to the largest in Europe, with a single ex
ception, and rivalling those of antiquity.' Dur
ing a civil conflict, which as tar exceeds iu mag
nitude the civil waisot England as this conti
nent exceeds in size the British Islands, the
young but great and growing cities of the tepub
iic showed a devotion to the principles of liberty,
an energy in the strugg'c lor national life, and a
readiness to make patriotic sacriiices, which
have never been paralleled in the history of
human government. If Mr. Lwe docs not know
this, he misht consult with advautage the record
of New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago,
t'liisDiirg, itiiuaio, ana jioston, at mat epoch in
American history when the question was being
tested whether this Government should surren
der to slavery, and whether, thus surrendering,
it should continue to He a Government at all.
The agricultural community did nobly during
the war. But the cities of the loyal portion of
the country did their lull proportion of patriotic
duty, in men and in means.
Mr. Lowe a-sks what, if democracy is adopted
in England, will become ot the House of Peers
and ot the Established Church ? nay, even of
the House of Commons itself ? What, indeed !
Why, Mr. Lowe himself micrht lose his own seat,
since the borough of Calue would most surely
be abolished as a separate constituency. His
a aim is Just, and we sympathize with it.
Mr. Lowe dreads, as following an extension
of the suffrage, the dangers ol revolution and
anarchy. He cites the condition ol the Louises
of France and others as instances where the up
setting of thrones resulted in terrible popular
suffering, to be followed by despotism. And he
alludes to the love of the English people for
their sovereign as a euirantee of peace within
the nation. What It France had been always a
republic would the great revolutions tuere
have arien il there had been to kings r Why,
even in England, is there not already a vast un
derstratum ot vice and poverty which is a con
stant terror in all times of political agitation.
Suppose that a bad monarch now ruled the Eng
lish people, to whom would they be loyal, to
him or to themselves? The question is not an
unfair one. But let us lemind such as Mr.
Lowe that we try to educate our voters,
and with some success. Our failure to educate
some of them is due to the ignorance which
tbey bring with them from Europe. The very
element which is most troublesome here is the
poor, untaught element which pours forth from
every emigrant ship that leaves the Old World.
If here, with liberty and representation, these
new-comers are lor the most part sately trusted,
how need they be feared if they were repre
sented at home", and with all the associations of
home around them, aud w here they constitute
a power unheaid, but never forgotten? The
truth, as we read it, is that no harm comes of
trusting the people, and that if the people are
exasperated by injustice and wrong-doing, they
will give a shape to their teelings which will be
equally pugnacious under all the forms of gov
ernment ever invented, but the resurt to public
violence will be longest postponed where the
fullest expression ot public opinion is freely
conceded.
Condition of Utah The Radical Party on
the Twin ltelics ot Barbarism.
From the Utrald.
We published yesterday some interesting corre
spondence concerning affairs in Utah Terri
tory. A party who says that be has re
sided there for some time denies the accounts
of frequent murders said to be committed by
the Mormons. The stories of assassination
which we published the other day attracted the
attention also of General Sherman, who sent a
cautionary despatch to Brigham Young on the
subject. The Mormon leader answer? by tele
graph that there is no foundation tor the re
ports, except thai a soldier, not a Mormon, shot
a man in the streets of Great Salt Lake City,
and that a Mormon, whose wife had been
seduced by a Geuiilu, shot the offender. Seve
ral citizens ot Utah nave also assured General
Sherman that Brighara's statement is correct.
We gave allthesedocuiiients in yesterday's issue;
but they do not prove that violence and an utter
disregard ot the rules of Christian society and
the laws of the laud do not exist in Utah.
Brigham Younsr says that the Mormon com
munity is not responsible for these iwo mur
ders; but we have not heard of a coroner's jury
fixing the responsibility upou any one, nor of
the law bavins been vindicated in auy way.
The fact that the Mormou institution is per
mitted tu exist at all within the Jurisdiction of I
the United States is a disgrace ti our form ot
government.
Tue first plank laid In the plat'orni of the Re
publican party adopted at the Pittsburg Con
vention of 1800 was ihe destruction ot what the
leuders then denominated "the twin relics ot
bai l arism" slavery and pol viramy. With this
motto inscribed upon their banuer a large por
tion ol the people rallied around them, and
formed a powerful and, finally, a dominant party.
Have the pledges been reieemed? As tar as
slavery is concerned the war settled that ques
tion. Slavery is no longer in cxUtcuac. But the
Republican party seem to have forgotten the
other relic of barbarism, polygamy, against
which tbey proposed to make war aud to
utterly exterminate. Everything still thrives
in Utah. Brigham Young and his thirty
five wives are in a flourishing condition.
A standing army of respe ctable proportions
has just been lully organised in Salt Lake
City with a view to resist auy eucroach
ment 'upon their territory or any inter
ference with their peculiar moral or immoral
code by the Gentiles. This grossest vice known
in the catalogue ot sins is practised in a portion
of the American domain, under shelter of the
law. and what have the Republicans done to
prevent it, alter all their promises to uproot
Dolvcaniv? They admit a delegate from the
Territory of Utah, a representative of one of
the "twin ictii" ot Daroarisiu, xo a seut
in Congress, while they deny the fame right
to representatives froth the' Southern States
which have ratified, bv the enactments of their
Legislatures, the Constitutional abolit on of the
other twin relic of barbarism, slavery. The
Southern State have given evidence of their
conscientious adherence to the law by aban
doning, freely and cheerfully, an institution
which nas as 'much a part of their system, from
the time that thev had existence as colonies or
States, as the b;ain or tne heart is part of
the human system; but the Mormons of Utah
Territory have made no concession. They are
as audacious as ever In their adherence to poly
gamy. Whatever sins the South may have com
n itted In the recent attempt to orcak up the
Union, it is willing to make amend for. Blood
shed, desolation, ruined homes, intolerable taxa
tion, and the thousand other evils that have be
fallen the South, have wiped away the stain of
slavery and made penitential ollenng lor the
crime of Rebellion; but polygamy, the other
relic ol barbarism which the Republican party
pledged itself to wipe out, still boldly (Vtles
both the Christian code and the law of the land.
Jt certain that report? of murders and other
fearful atrocities are common in Utfih, and the
radicals in Congress have no measure to propose,
or they arc not willing to introduce any measure,
to snpprcfs the evil which they denounced at
the Pittsburg Convention. But the most curious
feature iu the conduct ot the Republican party
in connection with slavery are thelacts recently
developed by the operation ol the Freedmen's
Bureau. Slavey in a worse form than ever
existed under the! old institution has been intro
duced in the Southern States by the otlicials
of this Bureau. These parties, many ol
them New England clergymen, who no doubt
have been denouncing slavery from the
pulpit lor many years, are cultivating cotton
plantations and compelling lieedmeti to work
upon them under a system ot treatment more
inhuman than was ever knowu in the days of
Southern slavery, which we have abolished.
What is the conclusion to be drawn from all
tins? That the radical taction is a humbug.
That selfishness and avarice and fraud lie at the
bnltom ot all their action. The people are be
ginning to see this, and a few more developments
of the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau will
con vince them of the complete demoralization
of the hypocritical faction which is throwing
obstacles in the w ay of the reconstruction of the
country.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE GREAT NATIONAL FAIR.
THE LADV 1)1 BECTOHS OK THE
Jialional Soldiers' and Sailors
Orphan Home
W'll coinireiice to hold A rrrttlC FAIR, In the CITY
Ol! W ASUINtilON, on tho 15 b of MAY KEXT. the
proceeds ol which ore to bo devoted to tuo Support and
Mnlntennnce of tlie Orphans o Notional Soldiers and
Sallom. not othctwlse provided lor In their respective
Mtutes and Territories.
Ihe ladle Invite all who enn to contribute towards
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Ihe charity Is a untile and deserving one, end It Li
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SIKH. J. CARLISLE, secretary, W ashington. I. C.
hap em Irlei dly to the cause please copy. 4 26H 1.1
T HE VI II G I N
Gold Mining Company of Colorado.
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Ot wl ieh 830 are reserved for WOKKIKO CAPITAL.
The property ol the Company contdxts of twelve
l.euges. in extent nearly hall a mile in ler 'h l ua-ed
mar entral City, Colomdo. i ulif cribcm elect tiieir
ovkn oil cers and tlienifeives mnnaue the allnlrs ol the
Compai y. l och "criminal Interest," CiOO. (lives a Bull
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f CJSf" TO THE SOLDIERS OF PEXNSYL
VAN I A.
IUriuhbuho, May 1 . 18H6.
In obedience to authority eaied in me by a resolu
tion adopted by the Convention of Soldiers, held In this
city on the eliihtb day of March 18Sti I do hereby ie
uueat lie honorably discharged soldiers of 1'ennsyl
anlatomect in their respective Legislative District
and elect Iieleiratea, not exceeding live in number, to
repiesem their district in a Boldlers' Convention, to be
held in the city ot I'litsburK, on TUESDAY, the nith of
June next, at 10 o'clock A. M.
Where any Representative dts'rlct eomprlsea more
than one county, the manner ot electing the delegates
is ltanectiullv relcrreii to the soldiers of the district tor
such conference as will result in a lair representation of
even county
Citizens who have borne arms In defense of the nation
against mason have especial Interest lu the purposes ol
tills Convention, aid it is desirable lhat as lull a repre
sentation of the brave defenders oi the country as pos
sible ulxiuld be secured on this occasion
.1. V HARTRANFT,
Late Brevet Maior-tienetal USA.
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above. S4t6 5
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A hDSKsliAl , the lbth day of May, iostuut, at three
o c ocK v. ti.
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NOTICE TO STO( KHOLUI.RS. - The Board of
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pnti.AMtt.rHf 4 Ami! IB, tM.
n adjourned meeting of the a ocxholdera ot ihe ROYAL
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hundred thousand dollars 'iOtl WW), and to take mea
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postage to any atldrtss. on ncelptot 5 cents In stamps
or nostnl currency, by addressing Dr. LA CROIX No.
91 K A1DEN Lane Albany. N. V.
1 he author mar he consulted npon anv ot the disease
ppon which his book treats either iiw-fm or by mail,
and medicines scut to any part ot the world. 11 8 6m
frP7 BATCH ELOR'S HAIR DYE.
v-sry TI1F BI ST IN THE WORLD.
Haimless reliable, tn-tantaneons. The only perfect
dve. No disappointment, no ridiculous tints, but tree
to nature, black or brown
OfcM 1NE 18 hIGNED WILLIAM A. BATCBELOB
ALSO,
Regenerating Fxttaetot Mlmflenrs restores, preserves
stid beatittl.es the har. prevents ba dness. 8o d by all
j-irugKisis. factory AO, si AKtLi ft., Ik. I. 38)
r5T PININ (i-ROOM. F. LA KEMEYER, )
CAM KK'iS Al ey, wonld respectinlly Inform the
Public geneially that he has leit nothing undone 10 make
this plni e couil oitable In every respect tor the accom
n otlnlon oi guests. He baa opened a large and com
n odious DlnhiK-lloom in the second s orv. His SIDK
WARI Is lurnlshed with PRAND1F.S. WINKS.
V. "lbKY, K.tC. Etc.. of SUPERIOR li HANDS. H
'if
JUST P U 1$ L I S II H D
Bv the Phvslclans of the
NEW YORK MUSEUM,
the Ninetieth Edition of their
FOUR LECTURES,
entitled
PHILOSOritT OF MARRIAGE.
To be bad tree, tor lour stamps, bv addressing Socre
tarv New York Mueum of Anatomv.
1 IU No. 618 BROADWAY. New Yotk.
FINANCIAL.
JAY COOKE & CO.,
No 114 S. THIRD STREET,
BANKERS,
AND
DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
V. S. 6s OK 3881,
6 EOs, OLD AND NEW,
10.40a: CEK11FICA1 F.S OF IJiDrlUEDNKS.S,
7'S0 1SOTES, 1st, 2d, and 3d ."series.
COMPOVXD IA TERES! NOTES WANTED
1NTKUKST ALLOWED ON DErOSriS.
Collections mode; Clocks Bought and Sold o
Commission.
frpecial business accommodations reserved fe
LADIES.
I'hilapklphia, February, 1S66.
273ra
U. S. SECURITIES
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS & BROKERS,
16 S. THIRD ST. I 3 NASSAU ST.
I'HILADEU'llIA. I NEW YOKK.
STOCKS AND GOLD
BOUGIII AND SOLD ON COMMISSION.
I ThRKST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. 31
pAVIJSH JSROTlIliTRJsJ,
No. 225 DOCK STREET,
LA NKEIIS AND BROKERS,
BEY AND SELL
CKITED STATES BONDS, lf81s, 6-20s, 10 40s.
UNITED STATEB 7 8-10s, AI.L 1SHCKS.
CERTIFICATES OF INDEKTEDKESS
Mercantile Paper and Loans on to laterals nepotiatcfl
(Stocks Jioiulit and Sold on Commission. 1 ill ,
JJAKPEE, DUltNEY & CO
J3ANKEHS,
STOCK AND EXCHANGE BROKERS
No. 55 S. T111KD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Stocks and Loans bouptit and sold oil Commission
Cccunent Bank Notes, Coin, Etc., boujrht and sold,
special attention paid to the purchase and Bole ol
Oil Stocks. Deposits received, and Interest allowed
as per agreement. 86 Sm
"yOKK, McCOUCJI & CO.,
Stoclc antl Excliange Broker,
No. 36 South THIRD Street.
GOVERNMENT SEcUIUlIES boucht aud sold.
SIOCES bought aud sold on commission.
lNTEKlST ALLOWED ON DEI'OSll'S. (4261m
llE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
IJAS REMOVED'
During the erection ol the new Bank bjildinv
to 1 17 Ip
No. :U)f CHESNUT STREET'
rVO S- --FIVE-TWENTIES.
" 7'30s -SEVEN-THIRTIES
WANTED.
DE HAVEN BROTHER
1-7 No. 40 S. THIliD STKEKT.
GROCERIES.
r KAS REDUCED TO $1, AT INGRAM'S
A 1 ea WaiehotiKr, No. 43 8. SECOND Htreet.
I
)OATED (OFFER REDUCED TO 30 CTS.
at 1GKAA1'S Jtu Wareboube, No. i'-lH. faECONi)
tnet.
41)'
C. BEST MILD COFFEE, AT INGRAM'S
Tea WarHiuune, o. 43 S. hECOND Street.
'PEAS AND COFFEES AT WHOLESALE
1 iirfi eg. at IKCKAM'8 Tea M'anhoune. Ho, 4 a.
SECO J I) Street Try tbem.
GREEN COFFEES FROM 22 TO 28 CTS. A
round atlNURAM'H Tea Warelioatie, No. 43 8
SECOKji Street. Trv tliem. Hi
gIMON COLTON & CLARKE.
TO FAMILIES REblPINO. IN OK GOING TO TUE
COUNTRY.
Thou tkbo wish to purchase aappliei ol the beat
duality ot r'lNt GBOCEKltH, will nnd a fuil and
cbolce (took of the bent that can be imported or pro
cured iruto tlie New York, Boston or Philadelphia
market, and can be aupplled with goods in package, at
ranicumr'aitention la paid to packing In 1 'neatest
anil uio.t "ate manner posaib e.
tiood delivered to any of tlie do.poU, t . 'Oces
or out in the country, tree of charne.
SIMON COLTOX A CL.M,
4 I4 5rpj 8. W. cor.BKOAD and WA
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
frIAHOXD l)EALi:K JinVELEB, 1
WATl'IIKli, JKff KLIiT A Ml.:tt WAP.R,
. WATC.ir.3 and SZ'tfll.u.'l
POCrinnnnt St..1
Owing to the decline ot Gold, has made a great
Auction In price ol hislare and we I assorted stock
Diamonds,
VatclifMa
Jewelry,
SilverwBre, Ktc.
The public are respectfully Invited to call and examine
cur stock before purchasing e.sew here.
rjX) QVTl TATRONS ANDTIIK PUBLIC
We are oflerlng ourstock f
WATCH K
JSWKLRY,
AND S1LVKRWAUK,
AT A DISCOUNT,
Fully equivalent to the heavy decline In Gold.
CEARK A: BIDDIiE,
No. 712 CUEtkNUT Street.
6!'.'krp
K I C II J E W E L li Y
JOHN B RE N N AN,
DEALER IN
DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, JEWELRi
Etc. Etc. Etc.
2( Ro. 18 8. EIGHTH SI KEET. ElUlada.
11ENHY UARPER, et
V
No. 520 ARCH STREET
Manalaoturer aud Dealer in
Wat Chen,
Fine Jewelry,
Silver-l'lHtetl Ware,
8 80 Soli'tl Silver-warn.
SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS, &c
J W. SCOT T A C O.,
SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
AKD DEALKHS IN
MEN'S I'URNISIIING (JOOI)S
No. 814 Chesnut Street,
FOUR DOORS BELOW THE "CONTINENTAL,"
826 rp Pill LA DELPHI A.
PATE N T SllOULDER-SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
l'EBFECT FITTINU BBIKTB AND DRAWEES
made from measurement t very fluirt notice.
A II other articles ol HEN TLEM EH 'ti 1KE8S OOODB
in full varietj.
WINCHESTER ft CO.,
SHS 106 CHKBMIl blJiEEX
QOLD1ERS' PHILADELPHIA
O tKNtlKK COMPANY.
CIT5T (MES
This C miidiiy baa been lormed for the purpose ot
sunpiyinv tlie rubllc with re iabie trustworthy men,
ready to execute auy orders that may be given to thorn,
viz. . to ci.rry mematcs. rn kars, baefae, to an part
ot the city; to act as guides to strangeis, in short, to be
at tlie illsposltn n of the l'uollc In any emuruencv,
whore the eervicei ot a trustworthy man may be re
quired. Kvery Messenger employed by the Company la re-
auired to give ireehold Mcurity to the amount ot titty
oiiars. and the ( ompany wl I lie responaibie ior that
amount intrusted to their Messengers.
'1 lie JU'Hhodk'ts can also be engaged for a certain
time, to c ean ofllces move turnlture, watch Merchun
dine, Stores, hhlps end hui dlngs, dav or night, aic.
1 be Company la responsible for the lalihiUi execution
ol any order given to a Messenger, also or thesuie
delivery ot Messages. Packages, or Baggage mtiusted
to them. Especial care lis been ti ken to engage mine
bat men of gooo character and with good references,
and the Company teel confident that their men may be
relied upon with aalety.
Ihe Messengers wear a rod cap with the number by
which each a. e-eeDger may be Ukntltled, and a ltadge
with tlie Inscription
"bOLDliKs' pulL0)5A5,yCITV MESSENGER
Each Messenger is turnlsbed with a printed Table ot
( bartes anil Tickets in place of written rccetpia. the
Tnlile ! howl rig tne amount the Messenger 1h allowed to
cherge and i be Ticket the payment received ior any
particular errand or for a cettaln time.
Evcrv complaint against a Messenger must be proven
by a T icket, and the Public are therefore earnestly re
iU0 cdto insist upon the delivery oi a ticket whenever
a Messenger Is employed, thereby guarding themselvea
and the I ompany against fraud. The advantages in
tended to be procured to the Public by ting new ins itu
lon are DESPATCH and SAFETY in the delivery of
Messugesor small Packages, and facility In procuring
the assistance ot any number ot men for any purpose.
'Ihe Messenger Corps being lonned by itETOltS r.J
SOLDIEKS, the Public wl 1 certainly assist these men
in their endeavors to earn ttieir livelihood bv honest
lul or at the same time promoting the comfort and ex
tending the means oi communication in this large city.
Similar institutions have been In success ul operation
tor years In all the larger icltles ot Europe, In New York
and Hoston and tne Company teel satisfied that their
eilons to introduoe in this city an institution beneficial
both t" the working "Zlassa and the public generally
will be appreciated and rewarded by a liberal patronage.
TABI.K OF CIIAKI.ES.
I. Single Errands with a II. Work for ft certain
package. time
A Hlotks Scents H Hour ...20 cents
lUBloca 10 ' 1 Hour to "
l.Mtlocks IS " IX Ihiur 60
0 Blocks 2 " 'i Hours 65
Each additional hour 30 cents more.
Half day from 7 A. M. to 12 uoou, or irom 1 P. M. to
tiP.M 81 2H
Onoday 1i!
N. It When more tnan two men are wanted orders
should he leu at tne cilice ot the Company on the pre
vious evening,
W. C. WHITEMAX. Agent.
4 24Jtitrp Oftlce. No. 4.'3 WALNUT Streo
rpilE OLDEST AND LARGEST
SADDLE AKD HARNESS
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE
COUNTRY.
LACTY, MEEKER tV CO.,
No. 1216 CHESNUT STREET,
OFFER OF THEIR OWN MAKUFACXCEE J
1U GGT UAKNES8, from to M
I IGHT BAROUCUE do 60 00 to 350
HEAVY do do 75 CO to 500
EXPRESS, BRASS MOUNTED HARNESS 27 W to 90
WAGON AND HE1.F-AI JUSTING 15 00 to 30
STAGE AND TEAM do 30 00 to 80
LADIES SADDLE, do 12-00 to 150
GENTS' do do 8 -00 to 75
Bridles, Wounllngs, Hits, Rosctts, Horse Covers
Blushes, Combs. Foaps. Blacking. Ladies' and Gents
Travelling and Tourist Bags and Backs, Lunch Baskets
Uret ig and Shirt Cafes. Trunks and Valises.
8 9 6mrp ,o. l'-illS C11KSNUTST.
JODEIIT SHOEMAKER k cbT,
WHOLESALE DKl'CfilSTS,
MANUFACTURERS,
IMPORTERS,
AND 1EALERS IN
Paints, Varnishes, and Oils,
No. 201 NORTH FOURTH STREET,
4lb3uO K. E. CORNER OF RAC E.
DRY GOODS.
H'M. ii. iionsTaiAira & m
l-Ul'TII and ClIKItltY St3.
PHILADELPHIA.
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
LADIES' DRESS
AND CLOAK TRIM MINGS,
PLAIN AND FANCY BOTTOM.
COTTOi TRIM MINOS,
BLACK AND COLORED GAI LOON
CLUT LACKS,
BKLTINOS,
UU1PCRE LACES.
BALMORAL TltlMMlNtisl,
01MP8 AND ORNAMENTS,
COLORED VEIVET RIItUOND
HEAD NETS, ETC.
SMALL WARES AND ZEPHYR WORSTED.
We are constantly receiving- tie latest KOTELTIK
f the Entopcan markets. hestdesourowD productions
various st les in NEW TRIMMINGS.
Our prices are rcfuced to the very lowest Got 4
Sktsmrp
J)REIFUSS A iiELSIN(jER,
No. 49 North EIGHTH Street,
Hake 'ust opened a ci mplctc stock a
SriilNO (JOODS,
CONSIhTINO O LACKS. EMBROIDERIES, Atltf
FANCY GOODS.
SfO pieces plain and str'ped Jaconets, the newest stvto
Fhlrrcd and Tacked M usllus, which ne are ofIorlp at
low prices. 8
ton dozen Pemstitched Handkerchiefs, at old prices
25, 37, 40, and 80 cents.
A full assortment of the newent desiirn LACE COL
LA 1.8 and COLLAR T'l ES, from J7 cents up to 10.
OLOVEH-C.LOVES.
A complete line of .IOI VIN KID OIXVER, to which
yie Invite attention, which we ofler at low figures
GABRIELLE EK1BTS.
OABRIELLE SKIRT8.
worn BCWC8t' m0''' dl'lraD,e ai Btyllah Hkiru UOir
T I CKED SKIRTIt G, cheap and desirable article,
for ladles wear 911
028 11 hoop-skirt OJ5a
Manufactory No. Kttl ARCH Rtreet,
Ahove Sixth Sticct, Philadelphia.
M ho esale and Retail.
Our assortment embraces all the new and desirabla
styles end sizes, ot every leuuth aud size waist toe
Ladies, Misses, and Children.
Ihoseot "Ot t'HA MAKE" aretupmor In jtafiA
ane (jutahih p to any i tLir Skiits made, aud wanaated
to give satislactton.
tklrls made to order, altered and repaired. 4
MISCELLANEOUS.
I REVENUE STAMPS, REVENUE STAMPS.
V R( VENUE ST AMPS,
Of all descriptions,
Ot all descriptions.
Always on hand,
Alwars on hand.
AT FIOREN'CE PF.WING MACHINE I O.'S OFriOrT.
AT F LURED CK t)EM ING MACHINE CO. '8 OFFICE.
No. MO CI1KNNITT Street,
No. (.30 CHESNUT Street.
One door be;ow Seventh stteet.
One door below Seventh street.
The most 11' eral a'sconnt allowed.
The hi os literal dlwonnt allowed.
QEORGE PLOWMAN,
CATkPENTF.il AND UUII.DER
No. 232 CARTER Street
And N. 141 DOCK Street.
Machine Wotk and Alillwrltihtinit promptly attends
to I8
JpITLEU, WEAVER & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Manilla and Tarred Cordage, Cords,
Twines, Etc.,
No. 23 North WATER Stteet and
No. 22 North lKLAWARK Avenue,
11.H.ADKLPU1 A.
Edwin II. Fitlkb, Michael Weaver,
COMtAD F. Clotuikh. 2 14 S
ID EVEN UE STAJ1PS, REVENUE STAMPS
XX REVENUE STAMPS,
Ot nil descriptions,
Oi all descriptions.
Always on hand,
AT FLORENCE SI WING MACHINKOOKMck.
AT FLORENCE SW1G M ACIUM E CO.'S 0 FICJ6
No.;iOCIIK8NUI Mree--No.
CIO CHESNUT Street.
One door below Seventh street.
One deor below Seventh street.
The most liberal discount allowed.
The most liberal discount allowed.
JONU M E NTS, TOMBS,
GRAVK-8TONKS, Eto.
Just completed, a bcauti'ul variety of
ITALIAN MARBLE MONUMENTS,
TOD lis, AND tf RAVE-STONES
IV ill be sold olicip 'or cash.
Work tent to an part of the United Stacea.
UKNltY S. TAItlt,
MARBLE WORKS,
1 24 win) Ho. 710 UBKB Street, Philadelphia,
J.
C. I' E R K I N 8,
LUMBLlt MEllCIIANT-
buocessor to R. Clark, Jr.,
No. 324 CUK1STIAN STREET.
Constantly on hand a 'argu and varied assortment
of Building Lumber 6 24
aO O B N E X C H A N Q
J BAG MAN UFACTORT. w
JOHN T. B A 1 iili I A C O.,
No. 113 N. FRONT and No. 114 N. WATER Street,
I'nfadalphla.
DEALERS IN HAl.S ASV BAGGINU
oi every oesctlptlon, for
Gialn, 1 lour, Salt .super P hosiihate ot Lime, Bone-
iMISt, F.to.
Lame and small l SNY BAGS cansUntly on hand.
2 J2 Also WOOL SACKS.
John T. Bailey. James Cascaden.
rm J. M c (J U I G A N,
Importe and Wholesale Dealer a
FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC,
11 REWORKS, FLAGS, Eto
MATCHES AND BLACKING,
NO. 3 STUAWUEHHY STREET,
First Street above .second between Marketand Cbesnut.
i 4 PUILAJDKLFHIA.
TJKIDESBUBO MACHINE WORKS,
J) OFFICE,
Bo. A . FRONT STREET.
PHILADKLFIUA.
We are prepared to till orders to any extent Ior oar
well known
MACHINERY FOIt I OTTON AND WOOLLEN MILLS,
nclodingall reuent improvemeuu n Caralug Spinning,
a nd W eavlna.
We invite the at ention oi manufacturers to our extec
slve works,
1 I ALE BED JKVK8 BOH,
WILLIAM S Tk ANT,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 33 S. DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia
AUKNr VOIt
Dupcnt'a Gunpowder, Retlned Nitre, Charcoal, Eto.
W. Baker & Co 's Chocolate. Cocoa, and Broina.
Crocker Bros. & Co ' Yellow Aletol Sheathing-, Bolts,
and Nulls. J4
LEXANDEU (;. C ATT ELL & CO.
PRODUCB COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 28 NORTH WBARVES,
AND
No. JT NOItTB WATFtt STREET,
PHILADELPHIA. 22
ALEX AKPBB O. CATTK1.L ELIJAH TTELL
rOTTOK ANP FLAX
I haii. thick Avn rmrii
ol all numbers and brands.
.am, iKnln. srwunW. And Wiun.l'... h...b lli
Tent
Paicralaiiuiaciurers' urier reus, troiu one to aevsu
Icet wiUe; Paullns. Peitiiik', Sail Twine, etc
JOHN V. E VERM AN Co..
36S No liKIJONF.S' AlUr.