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COMPILID 1VHIT DAT FOR VENIKO TKLKORAPH.
An Attack on the Frecdmen'g Dorcan.
Jfrrm the Tribune.
Maor-Gcneral J. B. Stecdman and Bripadier
Gcncral J. 8. Fnllerton were lately sent South
by tbe rresident to Inspect and report on the
Frecdmcn'f Bureau. We do not remember to
have beard of the former of these officers in
connection with the freedmen, but General Ful-
or ton is well known as the person who suc
ceeded Mr. Conway In the Commistjionersbip of
Louisiana. During bis brief administration in
that State he won the regard of the New
Orleans Rebels to such an extent that he was
offered a dinner on his departure. In his hands
the Bureau was managed on the conciliatory
theory; very much to the satistaction of the
planters, but perhaps not greatly to thehenoQt
of the freedmen.
The Generals have completed their tour of
Vijpiiiia and .North Carolina. The public may
as well understand at the outset that, according
to tneir report, the Freedraen's Bureau, whicd
bus been supposed to be conducted with lair
ability, boncbty, and zeal, is managed in at least
one Mate by a pang ot swindlers and pick
pockets. This (statement applies more particu
larly to North Carolina, but even in Virginia the
inspectors are so ill satisfied with its operations
that they recommend that the duties of the
Bureau should be turned over to the officer
command n troops in the Department. Wher
ever the Bim au has, in the opinion of the Inspcc-toi-Gcneiale,
been useful, it has been so by "act
ing in harmony with the civil officers
of tho State." Elsewhere difficulty has
arisen from tho "arbitrary, unnecessary,
and inoilcnslve interference of the agents
of tho Bureau with the relations between tie
planters and their hired freedmen," which
crenles "a growing prejudice against the Gov
ernment among the planters." It is easy to see
by comparing the turn statements that the theory
of the Bureau which General Fnllerton put in
?ractice in Louisiana still occupies his mind,
o him the Bureau is a machine to be employed
lor conciliating the Itebels and removing the
"preiudice" they have cherished against the
Government during the last four years. And
the Inspectors declare explicitly that the pre
sent Virginia code "renders the treedinen, in
our opinion, perfectly secure, if left to the care
of tho law and the protection of the troops."
Of couise, it makes no difference, in their
opinion, whether the Bureau be well or ill con
ducted. In either case, it is a nuisance or a
superfluity.
The burden of the complaint aeainst the North
Carolina officers, Is that they are working plan
tations on their own account. General Fuller
ton states and we have no doubt ot the tact
that among the North Carolinians there is a
universal desire for the removal of the Bureau:
which desire he attributes to the "misconduct''
ot the officers of the Bureau in "working plan
tations, running saw-millB, manufacturing tur
pentine, tar, etc. operations which bring them,
armed with authority of their official positions,
into competition wvth the citizens who are em
ploying treedmen." Under the indictmer,t,lGene
rals Steedman and Fullerton bring to the bar a
lomr array ot accused officials, among whom are
Colonel Whittlesey, the chief Commissioner of
the Bureau for North Carolina; Captain F. A.
Seeiey, Captain Rosekranz, the Rv. Mr. Fitz, the
Rev. Horace James, Captain Wheeler, Chap
lain Glavis, Malor J. C. Mann. Major
Wickersham and others, who are employed as
superintendents or sub-aeents of the Bureau.
Colonel Whittletey is chareed with being inte
rested in the cultivation ot a large farm, with
attempting to conceal his interest, with giving
low wages, and making the most stringent laoor
regulations, to the peat detriment of the freed
men, and incidentally with smothering an inves
tigation into the alleged murder of a neeTO by
his partner, the Rev. Horace James, or' by his
clerk, Bo den. The others are all, we believe,
accused of being connected with plantations,
and with manv subsidiary offenses, including
prevarication tibout the facts, cheating the
negroes, stealing four barrels of pork, ex
changing white sugar for brown, and (tnferen
tially) pocketing the difference, cruelly treating
the ireedmen and subjecting them to exorbitant
taxes for support of the Bureau, selling Govern
ment property for their own use, etc. etc.
It is not our business to enter on a defense of
any of these officers. If any of them have been
guilty of oflenses, we are most desirous they
ehould be tried and punished. The goodwill
-we bear to the Bureau makes us solicitous that
-whoever of its officers abutses his trust should
be exposed and removed. Bat we print here
with a letier Irom General Howard, which will
have some influence on the public judgment in
these matters. It is wri'.ten not in reply to the
official report of Generals Steedman and Fuller
ton which General Howard had not seen but
in reply to their unofficial report by the pen of
a correspondent of the New York Heraid, pub
lished lust week. In regard to the general
charge that his aerenls are wording plantations,
General Howard does not deny that they are,
hut entirely approves their action in so doing.
He does not believe there has been any specu
lation, or prostitution of official position tor pri
vate eaiu. Ho "urged the renting and running
of plantations to afford practical examples, and
to encourage joint companies." General Howard,
therefore and not his subordinates, is responsi
ble for whit Generals Steedman and Fullertm
assume to describe as "misconduct" in this
respect.'
is to the rest of the charges. General Howard
sajs emphatically : "I have not vet the facts as
to North Carolina, but you ana. your iriends
may rest assure I that every shado v of accusa
tion ot complicity tn crime on the part of those
officers there, is utterly without loundutiju."
He adds:
"I expect denunciation of this Bdrean, bnt the
same denunciation could be made aira-nst the Trea
sury Dtpartnieat, or any other department, an 1 of
the Government, with equal show of justioe. t he
Bureau does not do enough to secure the ngiU of the
nepro. I will admit; but it does not burn negro
churches and school-bouses; it does not reject negro
testimony It will oodeavor to prevent starvation
uui it the nut crop comes in. It will always keep
its leeitima'e objects o'early in view of promoting in
dustry, eoucatiou, and justice."
Generals Steedman and Fullerton spent parts
of fen days In investigaiina the operations ot the
Bureau throughout the State of North Carolina.
Whether they or General Howard are more
likely to be well informed ot the character of
Its officers and the management of its attain, the
public can judge.
Reconstruction The Proposed Amend-
ment to the Constitution.
From the Timet.
Wo stated on Saturday the manner in which
the five amendments reported by the Recon
struction Committee were force 1 through the
House in a lump, by a coalition of the extreme
Jtadicals, under Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania,
and the extreme Copperheads under Mr. Harrl,
of Maryland. Four of these amendments met no
opposition In the Union ranks. Every member
of the Union Party had declared himself in
javor of the section guaranteeing an equality of
lvil rights, ot that basing representation on
votern, ot the one repudiating the Rebel debt,
and of the. last giving Congress power to make
these amendments effective by leghilation. But
unon the third becUoa there was a serious dif
ference of opinion among Union men. That sec
tion read as follows:
Section 8. On til the 4th day of July, in the year
1870, all persons w bo voluntarily adhered to the late
insurrection, riving it aid and comtort, shall be ex
i.,.iaH frnm tha riirht to vot for representatives iu
C'oi press and for electors for President and Vioe-f ro
dent ot the United states.
Of the Union members nitty-one desired thu
TI3E PAIL EVENING TELEG R Arn.PHILAp ELPm At TTUESD AY,
to be stricken out: but the remaining nroenly,
with the aid of Jouricen Copperhead De:nocras.
ordered the previous question, which renderej
it .impossible to tako a separate vote uptn thi
section. They were all, tbcretorc, passci toge
ther. It mny be well enough to examine the
etlt-ct of adopting this clause and sending it to
the States to be ratified as an amendment of the
Constitution.
The section, it will be seen, disfranchises the
treat mass ot the pcoplo in the Southern S.ato.s
only in voting fjr Federal olflceis. They will
Hill vote for the member ct their Legislatures,
and those Legislatures will represent tho inte
rests and wishes of the great body oi the people
of their respective States those who did
adhere to the insurrection" ps well as those
who did not. Now those very Legislatures are
to decide on accepting or relecimg these amend
ments and in reearo to this section they are to
decide whether they will or will notdisir'anchiee
their own constituents the very meu who
elected theml Certainly, in th absense of
some very strong inducement they cannot be
expected to do so. What inducement is ortered t
It is proposed to admit their representatives into
Congress, ii they will ratify these amendments.
But they are not allowed to vote for representa
tives in Congress, if this section is ratified. They
are expressly disfranchised by its terms. If tLey
do not ratiiy It, therctore, they are not to have
representation; if they do ratify it they may have
representation, but they cut themselves orf from
being represented 1 Is it not absolutely certain
that such a proposition will be instantly and
contemptuously refected T
But this is not all. The other proposed amend
ments turn on tho same condition. All must be
adopted and become parts of the Constitution,
or none take effect. These Rebel Legislatures
Biust not only disfranchise themselves in Con
gress, but the) must also concede equal rights
to their colored population, surrender part of
their pol tical power by consenting to change
tl ebnsiof representation, repudtato (be debt
ol their Government and abandon all claim to
compensation tor their slaves; and in exchange
lor nil this tbey get reprepentation in which they
are not to be represented I
It is difficult, to believe that any single mem
ber of the Committee which reported these
amendments, it he knew the meaning and effect
ot this one, could have believed for a moment
thnt there was the faintest shadow of a chance
of their adoption. The passage of the "plan,"
tn this lorni, secures, beyond all peradventure,
the continued exclusion of the Southern States.
That this was the object of the Copperheads in
lorcing the previous question, so as to prevent
amendment, is moie than probable tor they
hope to bring them in on better terms by anil
by. That it was the object of Mr. Stevens
and most of those who acted with him,
Is etill more certain from their declaration a.
They do not want the Southern States
represented. They do not intend that any of
them shall be until afler the next Presidential
election. And by securing the adoption of this
amendment with the others, ihey have taken
an important step in the process of exclusion.
It the joint resolution just passed bv the House
shall pass the Senate in the same' form, then
will come up the bill eranting representation to
the States on condition ot ratifying tnese
amendments after they shall have become valid
as parts ot the Constitution. That may pass,
inasmuch as only a malority vote is required.
But it will certainly be vetoed, and then the
issue will go to the country. Any one who
supposes that Congress will be sustained in any
such self-stultifyinii action as this, must rate at
a veiy low standard the common sense of the
people at large. -
Gen. Ben Butler's Plan ol Reconstruction
Negro Snlfiage the Main Question
from the Herald.
General Ben Butler, having failed with the
Reconstruction Committe of Congress, has de
livered himself of his views and his plan of re
construction before a public meeting in Boston.
We have already published his speech; but as
the pronunciamento of one of the great
guns of the radical camp, and as the plan
of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's nominee for
the next Presidency, it is entitled to some spe
cial attention.
General Butler holds tbat, having in the con
quest of the lately rebellious States "acquired
the title to all they potsessed, of life, liberty,
land, slaves, rieht constitutional and other
wise"' surely we mav require them "to come
and live with us under the divine law." What
Ibis learned doctor of divinity regards as the
"divine law" will presently appear. There
are, he says, two plans of Southern reconstruc
tion belore the country the President's plan
and the plan of Congress. He does not like
the President's plan, because there is too much
charity in it; and he cannot admire the Con
gressional plan, because there is too little of
charity in it He says the President's plan
"would be a good one if all the people in the
South were loyal," but that "those who have
been fighting us lor four years don't love us,
and don't love the Union, and the fact that
they have abolished slavery because thay were
icrced to do it don't make them love us any
better; and the fact that they have been ordered
to repudiate the debts ot their rebellion don't
create that ardor and affection among them
which they should feel for the Government."
Hence the conclusion of General Butler is thtt
the abounding charity of the Administration
towards those people is "love' labor lost;"' or,
to shorten the argument of the General by a
phrase of scripture, "it is like casting pearls
before swine," which is pretty noar the legal
opinion of the amiable Thaddeus Stevens.
The original lawgiver to the Rebels of Now
Orleans then reviews the plan of Congress Id all
Its details, ana says that these terms "seem, on
the tace, well enough :" but that one is torced to
exclaim, on reuding them through, "Where are '
the rest ol them?" as one would sav when his I
servant brinirs him bis bread and coffee lor
breakfast, "Where are the eggi and bacon?"
In oiher words, where are the blacks? "Where,
in this proposition, do we find the protection of
the rights of those men who have been faithful,
and have fought side by side with us." General
Butler conipleiiiB that Congress, in resorting to
a bribe to the ruling classes of the South, is giv
ing a premium to rebellion, is besglng the ques
tion, and poii.tedly asks, "Why does the govern
ment nesitate to ao lustice to its coiorei citi
zens?" Moreover, he contends that if you let
the Kebels (or southern whites) do all the
voting, they will have everything their own
way. In tacl, at almost every point, Genera!
Butler finds this plun of Congress unfair, unjust,
foolish, and impracticable. It is at best, be
thinks, nut a "cunning scheme to put otf the
whole question of reconstruction till after the
next Presidential election;" a view ot the sub
lect, which we think every dispassionate, rea
soning man win say nits tne nail upon the head,
i But wbat does General Butler propose? What
inlallible panacea has this experienced inventor
of patent medicines and Union washiug machines
lor the preeent aisornerea condition ot things in
the Southern States ? Here it is. He proposes
a constitutional amendment binding tho United
States, the States and the people to pay tho na
tional debt and to repudiate all the debts of the
Rebellion. Then he should speak out in plain
English, "No compensation for emancipated
slaves." Then he would put it into the Consti
tution that there shall be no such thing as pro
perty in man; and then that whites and blacks
in the several States shall be on the same loot
ing of equality in regard to sutfraee as lu the
matter ot their civil rights. Then, by putting
these propositions and those of the joint com
mittee of Congress ail together, be thinks we
would secure a magnificent schemed reconstruc
tion. ; Negro suffrage, however, is the essential
feature of General Butler's plan, and the barter
ing awav of the neero's rlehU upon the o-rnnnrl
ot expediency will be a severe trial to Senator
Sumner and all that class ot progressive radi
cals. General Butler's vie ws are valuable mainl y
Irom the tact that he Is an outsnoken rpnra.
(tentative of this class. What is to become of
the scheme ot the Committee ot f ifteen in the
Senate, which la distastotul In its leading features
to rad cals and conservatives, we shall not un
dertake to say: but we are quite sure that some,
thing more satisfactory than this to New York
and Pennsylvania will be required to keen Old
Virginia and South Carolina out of the next
Congtesh. The people meantime will perceive,
from the disagreements among all tnese radical
doctors of reconstruction, that the safest and
surest course is to fall in with the Administra
tion and its simple, praciical, consistent, and
Riicresflul policy. The further we go beyond it
the deeper we get into revolutionary expedients
ann innovations. Our greatest danger now is
not too little, but too much reconstruction.
Onr Distinguished Strangers
Prrm the World.
Alas I how changed are the p esent times
Irom thoso piping days of ocace when the first
'Intimation of the presence within our borders
of any illustrious being Irom foreign parts was
the signal for a metropolitan Jubilee ot exube
rant hospitality 1
Etephens, the Head Centre of all Head Cen
Cenlres throughout tho earth, tho eloquent
capsheaf and living keystone of the Irish Ke
public, is now among us. Santa Anna, tne
antagonist or Scott and Taylor in tbat famous
war with Mexico which gave a President to
each of our two national partle?, and California
to the people, has landed upon the classic
shores ot New Jersey. But where be now the
spectacles which ot old greeted such guests
as these; where be the enthusiastic aldermen,
monopolizing all our hacks and buying up all
our stock of yellow kid gloves; where bo the
committees organizing balls at the Academy
and banquets at thj Astor House? Where is
the abundant courtesy which drowned Japanese
Tommy in champagne ? where the cordial good
fellowship which crammed the astonished
mouth ot the Sultan's envoy with roast ham
and Topaz sherry r The war bas done Its work
upon us. We are getting, we fear, to bo a
ptoplc of curmudgeons, sordidly given to mind
ing our own business, and basely disposed to
inspect the bill belore we order the least. So.
In litilo things as in erent, the pressure ot a
n.ighty change reveals itself. The peoplo w ho
have an income tax to look after, and a nation
to reconstruct, have given hostages to fortune.
So far as concerns our present vis tors, this
new order of things probably meets their own
views more satisfactorily than the ancient and
amiable riot of our emotions might have done.
For one ot them comes to us a man oppressed
with the task of liberating a nationality, and
the other brings to us a spirit weary with tho
passions and projects of a long and tinsuccesstul
career. What Stephens seeks among us, doubt
less, is leisure to examine into the origin of the
chaos which has supervened upon the affairs of
the Fenian Brotherhood, and to eliminate new
hopes lor Ireland from the confusion worst con
founded ot tho O'Mahony-Roberts-Sweoney-Kil
Han imbroglio. What Santa Anna asks of us
can be only perfect repose. Doubtless the Mexi
can ex-President was pressed to make the voyage
be has now undertaken by the sympathetic
Sew ard, v hen that great man, turning away tor
a brief season from the turmoil of politics at
Washington, bathed bis soul in the balm of
tropic airs, and took sweet counsel together with
tne exiie oi Ananunc amid tne orange-groves ot
St. Thomas.
Party nrestice or influence in Mevien Stint I
Anna can scarcely be said to have. Throughout
his long and chequered lile in his own country
he labored to arrest the development of that
wonderful anarchy into w hich for forty years
the figment ot Mexican republicanism has been
resolvini: itself. In the pursuit of this laudable
obiect, however. It was his painful lata to be
compelled to use so many doubtful Instruments,
and to adopt in turu so many inconsistent posi
tion", that when he finally saw nis long desire
culminating in the re establishment oi an Impe
rial Mexican throne, neither the Austrian oc
cupant of that throne nor his Mexican sup
porteis could be induced to make a place for
the ex-dictator in the hierarchy ot the new mon
archy. Reduced thus to the attitude ot a critic,
Santa Anna has come to the conclusion,
it ) understood, that the work which misht
have been successfully accomplished under
his own supervision is in a tad way now, and
promises no lasting peace to his unhappy
country. Itissniely, then, but natural that,
now touching closely upon the allotted term of
human life, he should once more feel within
himself, and more strongly than ever, that im
pulse which moved him when, in February,
1H48, he informed the Commander-in-Chief. 6f
our victorious army that "he desired to leave
Mexico lorever, and seek an asylum on a foreign
soil, where he might pass his last days In that
tranquillity which he never could find In tho
land ot his blith." Let this natural yearning,
then, be respected. And if the presence of Ste
phens, absorbed and vexed in soul by the hercu
lean task of calling a nation into exisience; and
of Santa Anna, worn out by the long torment of
a country rent and torn asunder by incurable
taction, can teach us more justly to estimate the
work which our fathers achieved, and make us
pause in the evil effort to undo that work for
ever, we shall owe more to these unobtrusive
visitois of to-day, than to any of their predeces
eors whom we feted so noisily in the past.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
EST THE VIRGIN
Gold mining Company of Colorado.
1250 Original Interest, 8100 Each,
Ot wi tch 0O are Eeserved for WOKKIKQ CAPITAL.
The property ol tbe Company codhIMs or twelve
leases. In extent nearly hall a mile in lernih dimmed
mar mtral Cliy, Colorado, t aUorilien elect tueir
own ott cerB and theuiseives manaxe tbe atTnirs or the
Company, i arh "criminal interest," i00. gives a sub
scriber Ilia pio rata amount oi stock in all the corpora
tions orKunlxed on these pr per lea.
Ibe Hooka tor 8ub. cription are now open. For a
prospectus giving lull particulars, or to secure one or
more ot these ' oilglnal interests," address at once or
apply to 4 24 1m
DUNCAN M. MITCHESON,
N. E. cor. TOVBTH and WALNDT Streets, rhllada.
PCST TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OiTICE COMFTUOLLEB 09 THE ('UKBENtTT. )
Washington, Mav 8. 1HU6 f
whereas, Eaiiactory notice has been transmitted to
the Comptroller ol the Curiency that the oapita-stock
oi the eiCOND NATIONAL BANK. Of fill LAI) iL
I'll! A, l'a.. has been Increased In the sum f tlity ti.ou
sand doilais t60.(MiO. in accordance vvlili the provisions
ol its Articles oi Association and that the whole amount
ot such Increase has been paid in, an that the pulu up
capital stock ol raid Bank now amounts to ihesumol
TIIKH-. HUMJKtl THOUSAND DOLLaKj
(JSlKl.OOO'.
ow it is hcieby certified that the Capital Stock of the
fecond lational llank of l'hilitde.phla fa.. aloresnil,
ha' been Increased as aioreiuid. In the sum o' Fiity
1 hour and Dollura 50 i CO); that said Increase ot caplial
bas been paid Into said liank as a partol theCanltal
stock tbereol: and that Uie said li crease of capital is
approved by the comptroller oi tbe i urrencv
In wltnon whereol I hereunto arils my olflelnl signa
ture H. k. lll'LhUKI)
oil 6t ' Deputy Comptroller.
TO THE SOLDIERS OF PENNS1L-
IkSj VANIA.
Habrisucbo, May 1. lS-'S
In obedience td authority esied In me bv a resolu
tion adopted by tne Convention of Soldiers, he'd In this
cliy on the eiKhth day of March lHtt! 1 do uerebt ie
que.t Ihe honorably alscharved soldiers of fennsyl
vanla to mec t in their rerpective Leglg atlve Districts
and elect Pelegates, not exceeding live in numb, r to
repiesen' their dls'rlct in a boldiers' Convention, to be
held In the city ol Plurburg on TU ESDAY, the fl.tnof
J une next, at 0 e'olock A. il.
Where any Representative dls rlct comprise more
than one county, the manner ol elecilng the delegates
is tetpcctiuliy reterr to the soldiers of the dlsiriutlor
Buth conference a. will res at lu a lair representation of
ech county
Clttaeus who have borne arms In defense of the nation
asalnkt treason have especial Interest In ihe purposes ot
this Convention, aid it Is desirable that aa uh a repre
sentation or the brave deienders oi the country as pos
sible should be secured on this occasion
J. K HARTRANFT.
Late Brevet Malor-tieuetul USA.
Papers favorable to tbecause will please publish the
above. 8 4U35
ftr J O H N B. 0 O U G H.
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. V1VH-. V 1. V I VV1 nn t, - I ... i L. ,.t .1 .
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,. 6U0t Treasurer.
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fT TIIE GEE AT NATIONAL FAIR,
!
' THE LADY DIRK Ton OP THE
National Soldiers' and Sailors'
Orphan Home
Will commence to told A rCRLIC FAIR, In the CITY
Or W ASHINUION. on the 15 h of MAY NEXT, the
proceeds of which are to be devoted to the t-opport and
Maintenance of tbe Oifjhane ot National Soldiers and
fcailots. not otherwise provided lor In tholr respective
ftntei and Territories.
1 he ladles Invite all who can to contribute towards
repieicnMng their "tare by a tab.e at the Pair
The charity la a noble and deserving one, and It la
hoped that each Slate and Territory will be liberally
represented.
All contrlbu'lnns should be addressed "NATIONAL
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1 NO I ON, I). O ." and lor ardoa, If possible, ten dava
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Philadelphia, May 11. ls6.'
6111m
rSf BTEESTAPT'S LAST WORK "STORM
IN THE BO( KY MOCNTAIN8"-now on ex
hibition by permission of the Artist tortbe Benefitof
the 'Llnco n Inst! u Ion and --oldiers' and Sal ors'
Orphan Boys' Home." at WJ-NDER'II1. TAYLOR
BROWN'N.Nos .011 and 914 CHKi-NUT 8'reet,lor one
month only. Open Irom In A.M. to 10 P M.
Season Ticket. sun HngloTlcket. ascenu, 421 lm
jrpT" OFFICE OF THE VAN DUSEN OIL
COMPANY, No 6'25 WALNUT Street
... Philadelphia. May i, 1808.
A Special Meeting of the btockhulders of the Van
Dnsen Oil Company will be held at tlio Office of the
t onipany on FRIDAY, tho 18th day ot May lHttd, at 3H
o'clock P. M.. to act on the proposition to borrow ten
thousand dollai a lor .be prosecution of the legitimate
business ot the Company. By order of the Hoard of
Directors. E, B. McDOWELL,
ft 13 4t secretary.
TPT OFFICE PORTAGE OIL AND MINING
COMPANY, No. 1003 Sonth BROAD Street,
Philadelphia.
'I he proprietors oi the shares who have neglected to
pay the sum duiy assessed tuoreon (TV KNTY O- NTS).
m the action el the Board o Directors In pursuance of
the terms of tbe Charter of this C ompany, are hereby
requested to take noilce that a su'llcient nuraner of
shares to pay ail assessments, with necessarv and inci
dental charges thereon, will be sold at puDllo auction at
the ofltce ol the company, on I UK -DA Y.June A, at 12 M.
a 14 lBt H M. HUNSICKEB. Treasur r.
rSpF' PHILADELPHIA AND READING
RAILROAD COMPANY, Office No. 227 South
FOURTH Btrcet
. J Philadelphia April 28 1868.
Notice Is hereby given to the Ntockbo dors oi this
CtmDany. tbat the option of receiving tlielr Dividend
in Stock or 1 ash. under the resnlmlnn nt th Unnni m
11th December, 18HS. will cease on and after the 31st of
Mar, 1M6, and tbat suth Stockholders as ao not demand
their Dividend to be paid to ihem In Stock on or betiire
that day, will be thereafter entitled to receive it in Cash
oniv. C4 30 lm 8. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
A PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW OF MAR
awcy RIAGEi ontalning nearly 300 pages, and 130
fine Plates and Engravings oi the Anatomy ol the Human
Organs In a State of Health and Disease, wlifa a Treatise
on Eariv Errors, its Deplorable Consequences upon the
Mind and Body, with the Author's FUnof Treatment
the only rational and successiul mode ot care, as shown
by the letort ot cases treated. A truthful adviser to the
marrli d. and those contemplating marriage, who enter
tain doubts of their physical condition Sent free ot
postage to any address, on rcelpt of it cents In stamps
or postal currency, by addressing Dr. LA CROIX. No.
SI MAIDEN Lane Albany. N. Y.
The author may be consulted npon any ot the diseases
upon which his book treats either ptrtnai:y or by mail,
and medicines seat to anv part ot the world. 11 8 6m
fr3" BATCH ELOR'S HAIR DTE.
- THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
II aim less reliable ln-tantaneous. Tbe only perfect
rive. No disappointment no ridiculous tints, but true
to nature, b ack or brown
GENUINE IS MG NED WILLIAM A. BATCHELOB
ALSO,
Regenerating Extract oi Mlliiflenrs restores, preserves
ard beautifies the hair, prevents baldness. So d by all
Druggists. Factory No,l BARCLAY et, N. Y. 38j
DINING-ROOM F. LAKEMEYER,
CARTER'S Alley, would resnectiullv ininrm tho
Public send ally that be lias leitnothmg undone to make
this place comfortable in every respect lor the accom
modation ol guests. He has opened alarge and com
modious Dining-Room in the seeond story. His 8IDE
IIOARD is lurnlshed with BRANDIES. WINKS
WM 1KKY, Etc. . Etc.. otSUFERIOB BRANDS. 11
JUST PUBLISHE D
Bv tna Phvslrlsns nf the
NEW YORK MUSEUM,
the Ninetieth Edition or their
FOUR LECTURES,
entitled
PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE.
To be bad iree, lor lour stamps by addressing Secre
tary Kew York Jim-euro of Anatomv,
7 17S No. 618 BROADWAY. New York.
SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS, &o
J W. SCOTT & CO.,
SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
AND DEALERS IN
MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
No. 814 Chesnut Street,
row. doors below the "CONTINENTAL,"
8 26 rp PU 1LADEXPHIA.
pATENT SHOULDER-SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
1ERFECT FITTING 8H1RTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement t very f-hort notice.
All other snides 01 UEMLi.il EN 'B DRESS GOODS
in full variety.
W1NCHKHTER A CO.,
106 CHEbNLT BlKEEX
624 5
JSTABLISHEI) 1795.
A. S. ROBINSON, '
French Plate Looklng-Glasses,
ENGRAVINGS PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS ETC
Manufacturer of all kinds of
I-.ookmg-Glasp, Pox-trait, unci Pic
ture Frames to Order.
No. 010 CHESNUT STREET.
THIRD DOOR ABOVE IHE CONTINESIAL,
PHILADELPHIA. 16 J
JILLWAKD & WNEBRfiNEIl
WM. MILL WARD,
D. 8 WlltEBBEXKB.
MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURERS'
SUPPLIES,
JJo. 118 MABKET Street,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
AGINT8 VOB TUX BALB OW
Cotton and Woollen Machinery,
Dealers In Manufacturers' 6 applies of every do
soription.
Oak Tanned Leather . Belting,
AND MACHINE CAKD CLOTHING
Of lest quality and manufseture. (4 2&3airp.
MAY 15, 18G6.
DRY GOODS.
yil II. IlOItSTSlAKX & SOXS
FIFTH and CIJEttRY Ste.
PHILADELPHIA.
IMPORTERS AND MANVFACTVUEIiS OF
LADIES' DRESS
AND CLOAK TRIMMING?,
PLAIN AND FANCY BUTT0N8,
COTTON TRIM MINOS,
BLACK AND COLORED GALLOONS
CLUNT LACKS,
BF.LTINOS,
GUlrCRE LACES.
BALMORAL TRIMMINOft,
GIMPS AND ORNAMENTS,
COLORED VELVET RIBUONS
HEAD NETS, ETC.
SMALL WARES AND ZEPHYR WORSTED.
We are constantly receiving tie latcat NOVELTIES
of the Emonean snarkets healil. emrnwn urnrinntinn a
f various at. lea In N E W TRIMMINGS.
Onr prices ae reduced to the very lowest Gold
J rates. i9 2mn
D
KEIFUSS & I5ELS1NGER,
No. 49 North EIGHTH Street,
Have 'ost opened a complete stock
SPUING GOODS,
consisting o laces, embroideries, and
FANCY GOODS.
SfO pieces plain and striped Jaconets, the newest styles
birred and lucked Muslins, which n e are ollorlng at
low prices.
Cn dozen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, at old prices
25. 37. 40, and 50 cents.
A full assortment of the newest deslim LACE COO
LA l.S and COLLARET! Kg, Irom 37ceut up to 10.
GLOVES GLOVES.
A complete line of JOI V1N KID GLOVES, to whick
we Invite attention, which we oiler at low figures.
GAliRIELLE SKIRTS.
GARRLELLE SKIRTS.
The newest, moat desirable, and stylish (skirts now
worn.
, 'I'CKFD fKIHTING, a cheap and desirable article
for ladles wear r tU
No 1W4 "HK.MNUT STREET.
E. M. NEEDLES,
No. 102 CUESNVT STREET,
OFFEBS AT LOW FUICE8.
2000 PIECES WHITE GOODS,
Including all Tarletles Shirred, Puffed. Tucked,
T'lAltl Krln1 1-1. In .1 Ll 1 1 1" LI I , .
suitable for White llodles and Lresses
I 10U pieces PRINTED LINEN LAWNS, desir
able styles for Dresses.
I CIubv. Vaienclenne and other Laces i Insert-
1 Intra ttilolnua k l, ,.,.,!.,. . . ,l i , .7
chiefs, Veils, Collars. Sleeves, eto
reat VADRIKfY0flere'1 'r h'l'eCHH4-p 'n
LADIES WOULD DO WELL TO EXAMINE.
J.aiH)dS l-ONBBBO K-OI "ON
628 11 Hop0P?sK,TRrN s' 028
Manufactory, No. 6i8 ARCH Street.
Above Hxth street- Philadelphia.
M holeaale and Retail.
Onr assortment embraces all the bow and desirable
styles and siies. ot everv length and size waist lor
Ladies, Misses, and Chile ren.
Those of -OVH OWy HAKE" ate euprrior In ftnith
and durabiiiiy to any other Skirts made, and warranted
to give satisfaction
Skirts made to order, altered, and repaired. Hi
! WATCHES AND JEWELRY
'iEWIS LAD Oil T7
DIAMOND DEALER & JETVELER,
WATCHES, JEWELRY A FILTER WARE,
vX7ATCHE3 and JEWELUY HZPAIEED.
Owing to the decline ot Gold, has made a great
auction In price of his larte and we'l aasorted stock o
Diamonds,
Watches,
Jewelry,
Silverware, Etc.
The public are respectfully Invited to call and examine
cur stock before purchasing enewhero.
r0 OUR PATRONS AND TIIE PUBLIC
We are offering onrsteck o.
Watches,
JEWELRY,
AND SILVERWARE,
AT A DISCOUNT,
Fully equivalent to the heavy decline lu Gold.
CLiATlK & DIDDLE,
B 82 jrp ' No. 712 CHEfiNCT Street
HICH JEWELRY
JOHN BRENNAN,
DEALER IN
DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY
Etc. Etc. Etc.
2( Wo. 18 8. EIGHTH SI KEET. rhllada.
1IENRY II All PER. Jf
Hi Am
No. CQO ARCH BTREET
Uanalaoturer and Dealer in
Watches,
ITine Jewelry,
Kilver-Plated Ware,
AD
30 1 Solid Silver-ware.
HE OLDEST AND LARGEST
SADDLE AND HARNESS
MANUYACTURING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE
COUNTRY.
LACEY, MEEKER & CO.,
No, 1216 CHESNUT STREET,
OFFEB OF THEIR OWN MANUFACTDHEl
BrCGY HABNEBB, Irom aft-M tol
LIGHT BAKOUCHE do M 00 to S90
QEAVY do do 15 00 to 600
EXl'KESS, BBABS MOUNTED HaKNESS 27'fiO to 90
WAUON AND bELF-AT JUSTING 15 00 to . SO
8TAOC ANDTEAM do 10 00 to 60
IA 1)1 Eb' SADDLE, do 13-00 to 1M
GENTS' do do 8-00 to 75
i Bridles, Countings, Bits, Bosctta. Horse Covers
Itiushes, Comba, foaps, Blacking. Ladles' and Genu
travelling and Tourist Bags and Packs, Lunch Baskets
Uifss if sud Shirt I'ases Trunks and Valises
,leuirp. Iso. liilO ClihSNUT ST.
CARPETINGS, &o
JUST RECEIVED, ,
YAEDAND-A-IIALF-WIDH
VELVET CARP TS
NEW DESIGNS.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE, .
No.904
CHESNUT STHEET.
3-4 7-8, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4,
WHITE, RED, AND FANCY
CANTON MATTINGS.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE,
No. 904
CHESNUT STREET.
ENGLISH BRUSSELS,
FOR STAIRS AND HALLS,
WITH EXTRA BORDERS:
J. F. & E. B. ORNE,
No. 904
chesnut street
500 pieces
NEW PATTERNS
ENGLISH TAFESTRY BRUSSELS.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE,
No. 904
C Mlmrp
CHESNUT STREET.
QARrETIKGS I CARPETINGS !
AT RETAIL.
McCALLlMS, CREASE & SLOAN.
No. 519 CHESNUT Street,
(OPPOSITE IMIIPEKDEBOB HALL),
SOW OFFEB TIIE1E EXTENSIVE 8TOCE
or
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
CARPETINGS,
AT REDUCED TRICES.
1426 lmrp'
MATT IINO WAREHOUSE!
McCALLlMS, CREASE & SLOAN,
No. 509 CHESNUT Street,
(OPPOSITE IN EFEKDEKCE HALL)
HAVE J 1ST RECEIVED
ONE THOUSAND ROLLS
KEKSH
CANTON MATTING,
ALSO,
TWO HUNDRED BOLLS
CALCUTTA Ci.COA MATTING.
All Widths and . Styles,
AT THE LOWEST PEICES. 4251mrp
"QLEN ECHO MILLS,"
GERMAN 70 WN, PA.
McCALLlMS, CREASE & SLOAN,
Manufacturer, Importer, and Wuole.
aule Dealers tn
CARPETINGS,
OIL CLOTHS
MATTINGS, Etc.
WAREHOUSE,
No. 009 CHESNUT STREET,
OrPOBlTB TBS BTATX HOUBO,
rtbladolpbia,
ItETAIL DEPARTMENT
86 8mrp
No. PIO CHESNUT STREET.
RESTAURANT
ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN
j-luest old snd nrw ALF8, at ( cents persists.
Ot '! ONE-DIWB EATING BAR.
Tht cholocst Liquors always on band.
SQ. M3 CBFSNTJT Sl'RKKT.
3 If fnj UKKIiY BECK.EB WsaagBt.