STATU OF THE NATION. GBEAT SPEECH OF HON. "WILLIAM H. SEWATtD. rrocREss or rlconstructiox. POLICY OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. IISSON OF TEE LATE ELECTIONS. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. CPilMAL DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC. JZtO.t ZSto.. X2to. -Etc., JBtOi Auburn. N. Y., May 22. Secretary Set urd delivered a lengthy speech on national a flairs at Corning Hall this eveniD?, before a crowded audience. Mr. SewarJ said: My Good Friends: Your kind Importunity will not avail nie a3 an excuse tor spunk lug If I onpht to keep cilence. Perhaps, howevor, the flolicitudo which pervades the countrV may JuBtily ua all in ron versing upon political ques tions in a c:inaid and patriotic spirit. We were together here in October last. The national condition has undertone some material changes since that time. We were then on the verge ot a series ot elections throughout the 8tatc?. The leaders, who so pertinaciously claim to be Demo cratic, organized with their customary machi nery. They had wisely ceased to denounce as a failure the war for the Union, which had at lat become a glorious success. They thought to undermine tbe distinctive party of the Union by aflectiiig a new-born admiration tor its ctiiof, Am rew Johnson. Thev seemed anxious to prove their devotion superior to ours by committing themselves to support him as a candidate lor tho Presidency in 1808. They inscribed our lecou ciliation mottoes upon their newly wrought ban ners; and, reorganizing their struggling lines as well as they bo hastUy could, they vehemently charged onward for a partisan, not a patriotic victory. What led the Democratic leaders to make this change was the striking, I may call it the marvellous, phenomenon which was Just then exhibited in the scene of tne recent Re bellion. The whole disloyal community in that blighted and desolated region, accepting the conditions of partial amncbtv and the invitations to return ing allegiance wbioh were proclaimed by the Administration, till at once renounced the prin ciples, practices, and policy of secesiion and disunion, and tendered us a new covenant of loalty, sealed with their oaths, and brought forward with alacrity the remains of their Ions cherished institution of slavery, and cheerfully threw it to be burned upon the constitutional altar which tney had so newly restored. These unexpected changes in the attitude ot political adversaries, once so obstinate, naturally enotietx excited suspicions, jealousies, and apprehen sions among loyal and tried Union men. It was the old cause 01 William ot Orange, who having, In civil war, put down the Tories, afterwards found it neceatary to cede to repenting Jaco bites and Papists the right ol citizenship. It is the case which ha ever occurred, ana which must forever mora occur, at the end ot a suc cessful resistance to rebellion. How could De mociats and Rebels be converted to the support of a triumphant Union Administration ? This was the question everywhere put by the zealous leaders of the Union party. It was at that moment I answered that question by ask ing other, viz.tT-How could Democrats and Rebels avoid being converted ? Is it not their conversion that you contended for, and that you now desire? I expressed the opinion that the condition of peace with its new responsibilities must fhencetorth be in good faith accepted. I advised prompt and complete reconciliation with the restoration at once of the constitutional symmetry of the Union. Rejecting the ungenerous suspicion that the Rebels and their Democratic abettors were only changing their political strategy with traitorous purposes, I argued that with lewaud marked exceptions they were now to be received and accepted as lellow-citizens and brethren. I urged that this would be safely done, if only the tried friends of tho Administration, remaining united and harmonious, aud thus retaining their justly;acqulred prestige, should themselves promptly and magnanimously secure to tho nation the eiijovuient of ardently desired peace and indispensably required prosperity. t or a time tho fuends of the Union acted upon that policy. The elections everywhere remlled in the defeat and overthrow of the Democratic organization, and placed the Ad miuistraiion of Andrew Johnson beyond the reach ot danger at home or abroad. The work of reconstruction has outrun ex pectation. Indeed, it hag never had a parallel in human affulrs. With internal commotions and disturbances less serious than those which sometimes attend popular elections in a free country in a time of. proiound peace, the here tolore disloyal people of the Southern States successively, nay, almost .siniultaueouMy, as , seiubled and adopted new constitutions, in cou ioniiity with the Constitution of the United States. They upturned rebellion, with all its lar-fprcaoinit roots and all its poisonous fruit, and they accepted aud ratifiod the then pending Conirre'sioiial amendment to ttie Constitution oT tho United States, which abolished slavery thenceforth arjd lorever. Tne people ot these States have at the same time chosen for themselves, by tree and uncon trolled sullrage, Governors, Legislatures, udi ciuries aud mun'ci pal authorities. Between rhe Federal Government and these restored and re organized Siate governments there exists no a more complete Dd practical harmony than has ever before prevailed between the Union and eo many ot its members since it was first established. Within the-same time the Execu tive Department of the United States has as sumed its (unction! anions the peop'e of these former dislo.viiHiJrate's. Tiie State Department speaks for them with their Iree consent to firincipalities and powers. The Treasury nol ects the national impotts and taxes thre. The War Department distributes its lorces whendver and wherever it seems necessary and expe dient to guarantee peace between the invete rate but luet-exp ling factions.. The navy of th United Sta'es rides freely in all their reopened ports aud hnrtvjrs. The Post Ollice circulates, through every vein and artery there, the knowledge which Is the revivifying blood of a united republic. The Interior De partment pays pensions, protects Indians, tells lands, and delravs the expenses of ludicial ad minlstratioi'. The Attorney-General proscribes traitors aud other disturbers of the peace there terore the Federal court. All this has been done with the active concurience of the people ol those Slates, absolutely tree from military con trol, while the army of the United States, in stead of being Increased has been reduced from a million and a halt oj men to some si xty or t'ikhty thousand. The expenses of the Federal Govern -nent, have been reduced frdm a million and a half per day .to a bum less than the dally receipts of the trea sury, and the great, but in every sense sacred, debt ot the Union Is already perceptibly dimin ished. Foreign nations have desisted from in tervention and have assumed an attitude of con- dilation and friendship. The people of the lately disloyal States, desiring to pass the last . htape ot restoration us speedily as possible, have choren Senators to represen.vhera in the Senate and memoers to answer lor them In the House J1L ? J-X or Hcpresertatlves. ThoFc representative!! arc diiily watting at the capital. 'iuroiightnittbo loyal States industry Is more v goioup and elective than evr r before. In the Jn'ely atslojal States capital and labor, com--b'liii.g and co-operating under a iree contract Mtuin, uhch to thrm is altogether new, are Ixeiiuiiiip with success to obliterate the track ol ruin and devastation. I do not sav that avil and criticism can find no daric entitle to darken the ilcanii.g picture. Ii regularities deiorm every human work, and tho telescope reveals to us dark spots eveu on tho surface ot the Blow ing ni. In view of this rapid progress of peace and reconciliation, we murht well expect to find the country, if not contented, yet cheerful and hope lul, as well as aratetul to Almighty God. Such, iimeed, I conceive to be tne real stare of the public mind. Many citizens are unprepared to accept tlieTinproved situation of affairs. Political zeai givts up reluctantly it contests over the dead past, and stretches forward to catch the omens of an uncertain future. This habit of apprehension is natural enough, and has iu cautionary uses. Hut, on the other hand, con science, reason, and .(u.lgment are the only practical guides ol human couduct. We are re quiied by some to discard this guidance, and to believe that the country', North and South. East and Wet, Is in a paroxysm of turbulent excite ment, menacing, near and remote, some new and icariul revolution. I think that all these fears ro born ot misapprehension and uninten tional exaggeration.! The featuie of flairs which disiurbs the public mind, is a supposed divrrgctice between the . President and the Representatives in Conerpiw nf ih NnHnr.nl I'nion party, lrom which be and they have de rived tieir respective co-ordlnato powers. I agree that It i3 altogether easier and alto gether mote desirable that the work of recon ciliation so happily begun and so successfully proncutcd heietofore, shall be continued and ended under the auspice ot the National ITnlnn p irtv and ot the President and Congress, as the n preventatives of that party. i upree, tncreiore, mat it would be a sad mis fortune If divergence between the President mirl ( oncress should work a decline unci dnwninii n the National Union party. It is dear to me, tor 1 am i dcntitied with its rapid rise, its mafestic progress, and its glorious work. Both the President and Congress miirht well expect to be equally involved in the calamity which should dismiss this beniern nnrtv from n national councils, and see, with mortification, the great responsibilities to which the party had. iu tuui uue provea liscu unequal, assumed aad discharged by some new and yet undeveloped political organization. Hut President, Con gress, statesmen, and parties are of no real ac count, in roy estimation, when weighed against the nntionul life. Ihe national life lately hunsr on the isnn nf victory won In war. It now nanus on tl.e isan of reconcilatton in peace. The nation must live it must live forever whether it rpneivo the needed care, in any emergency, at the hands ot one President, Congress, aud party, or at the iihiius oi Huotuer. i reasoned in tms about the triumph of the war. I reason in the same way tow in regard to reconciliation and pence. 1 expect thut a vear benm I Bhiiii h found right now, as I am nov admitted to have Deen right one year, two years, three years ago. I do not think, however, that there is anv necessity lor separation between the President and Congress and the party ot the Union. I admit that the lealousies and susnieiona nf the last summer were onlv teninnrnrilu nllniroH and not extinguished, by the elections of Novem ber. They have been Bedulously cherished and increased until thev have revealed thomknivo in inflammatory debates in the press and popular nsseniDiies. i admit that the National Union party in Congress has as vet been unable eitiier to accept or reject tho counsels ot the President. A wide and enduring seoaration cannot hnw. ever, be made between Conirress and the Presi dent without having lor its cioove a serious ditference upjn some cardinal nolit.ir.al one. tion. At this point it will be well to settle for vnnr. selves what it is that we are desiring to see ellected by the President and Congress. We all agree th.i we desire and seek lust what the nation needs at the present Juncture. Wo can not accept less than this, because it would leave us 8 till, if not a desolated, at least a disturbed ana uistractea country. We cannot reauire more, because even if more were desirable, yet that more is debatable, and must be the study and the work, not of ourselves at this particular jjci iuu, uui oi uurseives ami our successors. What, then, does the country actunllv nttA t Most persons say reconstruction. I think it needs no such thine. The count rppnn. structed already. It was constructed in 1787. as then constructed it was a Union of thirteen. since multiplied to thirty-six, free, equal, self acting, and, in regard to Internal atfairs, self- governing btates. We do not reconstruct that which has not been destroyed. Tharn h n.q in. deed, been an attempt at destruction, but n has failed. The political system of 1787. construed! hv our forefathers, stands now firm, compact, cooi- -ic, uuu yeneci, jusi, as u came irotn the uildrra' hands. It was constructed nnt v.r eighty years only, nor yet for a tune of peace only, nor yet ti r a period of civil war only, but for all ages and for all time. Others say what the country needs is the restoration ol the au tonomy of the nation. I think it needs no such thine. We have pasted that point. The South ern States during lour years were deranged and disorganized equally in their constitutional re lations to the Union. Thev have, however, since that t.imn. nrtrn. nized; their organic powers and lunctions have been renewed, and they have resnmen timir Constitutional relarions of allegiance to thp i Uilon. What then does the nation need? It needs just what I have dwelt upon so much and so earnestly in these remarks. It npeda reconciliation, aud, just now, needs nothiue mute, ii ueeus. moreover, a very little or thin. It needs a recoi.ciliution between the Senators of the United States who are now actinia, finri hose Senators who, being loval and oimliiind for membersnip of the Senate, have been already. or may herealter be. elected bv the. nnnnU nf rhe several Statej which were lately' involved in the Rebellion. It needs a reconciliation of the satin kind between the members of the House of Ronrn. sentatives who are now acting and the loyal members already elected or to bo elected by the people in the sshie before mentioned 8'ates. It needs. just this Congressional recouciiiatiou, and othiug more. Of course, 1 recognize the fact thut the separation which exists between tas actir.g Senators and acting Representatives and those loyal Senators and Representatives who are a'reaoy, or may hereafter be, elected in the Southern States, is understood to indicate a cor responding alienation between the constituents ot the60 parties irrespectively; but this does not effect the view I have taken of the case. It only shows that what Is wanted is reconcilia tion between the alienated constituents as well as between separated Representatives. Let the re conciliation be made first either in Congress or in any ot the constituencies, and it wiU folio in the other place immediately. The country exhibits at this moment fhU ex traoidmarv and interesting phenomenon a nation ot States, not only kindred, but allied, jefhostile to each other. For such a condition mutual reconciliation is the ouly practical remedy. We are prepared now to ak what hinders the application of that remedy in the legislative councils? The Presi dent's position is absolutely taken, well defined, and universally understood. It is this, namely: That po far and so fast as the unrepiesented States present themselves in a loyal attitude, b Representatives unquetion ably loyal, they are entitled to representation in Congress equally with all other States, and just as well as if there had been no rebellion. The representatives of the National Union party in Consress do not agree with the Presi dent, but I think they differ only in regard to non essentials. Some are understood to insist that the people of no State ought to reserve the right of secession or disunion. The President says exactly the same thing. A State that should claim to reserve a right of secession could not be loyal. Others contend that after rebellion a State ought not to be accepted which insists upon or readmits the validity of the debts of the Kebtilliou. t G TELEGKAril.FIIlLADELPIHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 18GG. The President says exactly the same thing. A State that should insist npon the validity of fiith debts could not be loyal. Others arena 41... . . i i .... . . n it uuuaequrute oi ine BDOiiuon or sla very, a change ot the bar.ls of representation hub oecome oisiraD.e ana neeesarv. This can r.e done only by amending the Constitution of tne Lintea Mates. While ton cress are vet unarie to aerce an ong tnemselves upon the loini of such an amendment, the President says: "Let us amend the Coiislitiitioj so as to pro poit'on representation according to suffrage." These seem to nie to be the only essentials. Two of them are already secured by tho unre. presented in their constitutions. The third is a woi koi time, requiring the action of th'ee lonrtLS oi tne Males, by amendment Of the Constitution. Why, then, delay the rcconcilia- xjoii nen mey agree upon essentials? With some it may be a matter of temper. They ask why should Congress be expected to agree with the 1 jeBideut upon bis plan, rather than he be expected to agree with Congress upon a plan to be originated by them 1 answer. Rpcause the I'residfnt has a plan and Cougress has, aa yet, proposed none at least, none that, is immediately practicable. Rut, in truth, it is not a question which of tho two, the President or Congress, has devised or "ball devise a plan of reconciliation. Neither the President nor Congress could arbitrarily devise and project one in this case. We speak habitually, and even flippantly, of tho policy w hich the President supports,-as if it were a plan that has been conceived and framed in his own biain. It is no snch thine. It is a plan which grew np as Topsy grew, out of the una vo dable, predestined change lrom war to peace. hat whs icquired was a plan of reconciliation that should be reasonably acceptable to both parties, whilp it should harmonize with return ing loyalty and renewed nlleaiance in the States which were involved in the Rebellion, and ehouid atthe samp time secure all parties their exect constitutional riehts. The present plan, like our republican sys tern ot government, was devised by nobody in particular, but it presented itself at once to'the anxious thoughts ot all pariles concerned. The Constitution prescribes its chief details. Tho other portions revealed themselves as inferior mechanism to the engineer to bring the device into Miccessful movement. Consrress is to bo expected, therefore, to concur with the Prcsi dent, not iu adopting a plan which he has pro jected, but in accepting with him actually exist ing overtures of reconciliation in the form in which they have occurred. 1 think thut the proceedings of Congress hitherto Indicates not au ultimate disagreement and failure, but only procrastination, which, to the inpatient is inconvenient, and to the timid is alarming. We are to remember, however, the const tutional checks of legislation. Indeed, Congress is designedly constituted so that it shall not too hastily decid e llTion nnv mpoanra Heiice, time is always found to be a necessary condition ol sa;e legislation. The Senate con sists ot fifty persons, who come from twenty-five different States, aud individually they are the exponents ot at least two very divergent parties and ef multiplied differences of popular opinion prevailing mach ot these parties. The House ot Representatives, whilst it is more numerous is constituted upon the same principle. ' No measure can be finally adopted by Congress until it has obtained a majority of votes in each Houe, sittme aud discussing it in ditferent chambers. The sentiments, leelings, fealous preiudices, and ambitions of their constituents necessarily and justly influence, retard, and niodiiy their deliberations and their votes. To one ttho should bd a stranger to our system, tt must sepm more wonderful that Congress should everaeree upon any deeplv eviting measure, than it would seem if they would fail to agree cna plan of reconciliation octween constituents lately so widely divided in civil war. Delay in any entcrpriRo begets new difficulties and embarrassments. There are some partisans among us, misguided, 1 think, although honest, who deprecate an easy and speedy reconciliation. One class oi these partisans think that some conditions or lorms of reconciliation other than those upon which the public attention is fixed, are possible, essential, and desirable. They ad vise Conirress to demand a concession by the lately disloyal States of a protracted disfran chisement of all persons who have been in volved in the Rebellion. On the contrary, there can be no reconcilia tion at all w ithout amnesty in a large measure. Even ti e Divine government does not ask sin ners to repent without promising them forgive ness and restoration. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, does not authorize so sweeping a disfranchisement. The class I sneak of reply to- these arguments, that the Rebels cast oQ the Constitution and became insolent belligerents; that therefore they are not citizens, but conquered enemies. The advo cates ol reconciliation reoin, that although the Constitutioa wa9 in manv of its provisions dis placed or suspended in the disloyal States by the war, yet it necessarily gains its absolute autho rity on the return ot peace. It takes time to settle this new dispute. An other class of politicians objpet that the Presi dent ouirht not to have recoznized the plan of reconciliation; bnt, on the other hand, that he ought to have left it exclusively to the legisla tive department. It belongs, hbwevpr, to the Executive to conduct war with the means lur nished by Coneress, and with the exercise of all military powers not denied by the Constitution and the laws of nations. " , The tender of amnesty and pardon by the Piesident, and his invitation to the Rebels to return to their constitutional relations, like the proclamation against slavery, were not forbidden by any law ot Congress or by the laws of nation. Coneress, nevertheless, re tains and reserves all' necessary powers over the question of reconciliation, in their reserved and indefeasible right to determine the quali ficetionsof members elected to the respective Houses. Another class of politicians insist that Con gress shall secure thp ilsht of suffrage for the Alrican race in the Statos lately in rebellion. Six mouths have been perhaps no, unprou't abiy spent in bringing Cougress to accept the laet that the subject of Alrican suffrage has ouly begun now to be debated, with no pros pect that the assent of a constitutional number otS'atestoan amendment of the Constitution to that efJect can be, in any way, secured throueb any form ot action which Congress could adopt at the present time. Mr. Seward continued to speak on other subjects, including tho vetoes ot the President, and said that all threp of the-e measures iu Mch the President declined to cone lr with Congress are purely extraneous incidents aud have no necessary or real bearing upon the question of reconciliation. I think it may be now assumed that the Presi dent bus neither sought nor made nor accepted anv occasion for disagreeing lrom Congress; and that, bo lar as the purely incidontaljle'gisla. tion to which I have referred is concerned, he is as loyal to its principles und to the national cause as Congress or any of its members can claim to be. The sowers of discord further insist that the representatives who have come from tho unrepreeented States are actually dis loyal. It is agreed oa all bauds that disloyal Reprp sentatives ought not to be, in any case, ad mitted. Coneress, however, has tho Constitu tional right and power to exclude all such Rep resentatives, not only from the State unrepre sented, but from anv other State. When, there lore, a Senator or Eeprerentative from any of the unrepresented States present his creden tials to the body to which he has been elected, he oilers himself, as any other member doei, for a trial upon the question oi his loyalty and allegiance. It belones to Congress to prescribe the form of the trial and the evidence of loyalty it will de mand in accordance with this principle, and in view of exactly this occasion Coneress has here tofore established the test-oaths one a general oath of fidelity and allegiance, the other a special one, disavowing and repudiating all con nection with disunion and rebellion. These laws are general and require every member to subscribe to them, and they are required to be presented to every claimant, to a seat, and yet ihe members from Tennessee and Arkausashave been six weeks Hsklae to have these oaths ten dered to them for subscription, and have been denied. It would reerti that they could he' justly de nied, only on Ihe gTound that, In subscribing to the oaths, the claimants would commit a iraud and a perjury. Not only is there a legal pre sumption to the contrnrv, but every intelligent man in the community admits the proved loyalty, fidelity, nr.d constancy of all the mem bers who have come from Tennessee and from Aikansas. The apoloay tor tho denial Is that, although the members now chosen are loyal, vet that i he j might become disloyal after being ad mitted. n Is It necessary to say that the same subterfuee n ay be equally resorted to In the case of every other n.einber' ol Congress f The suspicion is illogical, and unwarranted by tho Constitution. And even if it were both constitutional and logical, Congress has till the reserved and ab solute power to expel the member whenever he shall become uniaithtul or falter In his alle giance. The advocates of dissolution, pressed by these facts, resort to the argument that although it Is true that Representatives who have come from Ternes6f e and Arkansas are loval, and can meet conscientiously and legally every test which Congress has prescribed or can prescribe; and although they may be expected to remain loyal tbimselves, yet that among those who have come from other unrepresented States there aro I ersons who cannot take the test oaths, and are therefore properly held to bo disloyal. The reply is obvious. Let all disloyal claim ants from other States be reiected, but in any case admit the loyal representatives of Tennes see and Arkansas. Still Congress excludes tne lojal, grouping them in one Indiscriminate mass with the disloyal. This course ol the opposition has failed to be satisfactory, and, thereiore, new arguments must be found. One of these is that, although the piesent Representatives are loal, the terms for which they were elected will some day expire and they may be followed by disloyal suc cessor. The same argument would upset every scat iu ciuiu nouses cm congress, uecause, although tho constitutional presumption in favor of loyalty In the several Siacs always remains good, yet none can absolutely guarantee that any one State or district in tho United States n:ay not at some future time send a disloyal Representative. We all see clearly that the question is not of what is past nor yet which is future, judged by ary standard oi patriotism and loyalty; that the whole Congress would accept some districts in every State, and many ot the States have at times heretofore sutlered themselves to be repre sented by dislojal men, and any one or all of them may consent to be represented by disloyal men herealter. The only sure way to guard against this imaginary danecr would be to dis pense with Congn ss altogether. The advocates of disunio.i seem to arrive at the conclusion that our entire system of repub licau government is au absurd failure. What, then, 1s my conclusion? It is one, at least, that will be admitted to harmonize with my past life I am hopelul of the President, hopeful of the OlieteSS. hop lul Of tho Nutinnnl- ITninn nif. c hopttulol the Democratic partv, bopelul ot the represented and unrepresented States; above oil, hopeful of the contiuued favor of Alraiehty God. 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St. W here any Representative dis'rlct comprises more than oue county, the manner ot eleciing the delegate) Is rcspectiuliy reterred to the soldiers of tht ulsirict lor such conference as will res M In a lair reiireaoutatlon of each county Cltliceiis who have borne arms In defense of the nation apalnst trtason have expccltti Interest in the purposes ol this Convention, and it Is desirable that as ml a repre sentation ot the brave deteuders or the country as pos tlbie should be tecured on this occasion J. F HABTRANFT, Late Brevet Major-tieneiul U & A. Popers favorable to the cause will please publish the ab"ve. ,14165 THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEV HAVE been du: v Alpnted OfHcera nf tha I'Hrr.inifi. IHIA CHAMiiLB OF COaiM i.BCL, to serve for the cusujug year PBKSIDENT JOSEPd H. PI.UOT. MANA6KU8. ALRXsNDbK U. CATTELL, CI1AULE.H U. CUM UINua, JAMi A. WUIGUT, HOWARD I1INL11MAN, CHARLES KNtCH I' 8f,N ECA R. S.ALOJIE, NA'I II A i BltOOKE, John a feiiiiKNER, TUKA81 UKR. SAMUEL L. WARD. Pnbicrlpilons will be received at the Itooms of the Com licliHone Association, lor the balance ol the cap! al stock, daily, Horn 11 A M. to Vi M. loigneui iaji i i.ii L. v AKU, rreannrer. Philadelphia, May 11. 10 6111m PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM- TBElSl'BkR'g DKP AKTMF.NT, 1 . . fiiiLAUKLi-iiiA May 1, 1H06 f NOTICK TO 'BTO( KHOl.ia.nsl.-Tho Wrd of Directors have this day decUreil a seuil annual dividend oi FIVH PtR C'EN'.'. on the capital slock ot" the Com pany, clea ot National and etate taxes, payable on ami alter May SO, ISO. liiank powers ot attorney or collecting dividends can be had at tbe olrloe ot the Compant, No. 'iiMN. I Ullto btieet '! liOMAS X. FIRTH, 6 S 30t Treasurer. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD COMPANY, fllilca No. i7 Nmith FOUBTU btreet Philadelphia April 28 I8f(, Notioe Is hereby given to the Siockho ders o- this Ct uioany, that the option of receiving their Dividend In r-toca or I ash. under the tetoiuilon ol the board oi llih December, ISta. will cease on and after the Dint ot Mar, If fcti, aud ibat such Htockboldera aa uo not dttmand their Dividend to be paid to ibetn In Stock on or befuro that da? , wlU be tbereaf ei entitled to receive It In Cash oniv. tiMMiu 8. EBADFOUDlreaaurer. fr- DIVIDEND THE DIRECTORS OF THE V-3 McKlhenvOil Company huv this day declared a dividend ot Tw'O PfcK CUNT, on tho capita stock (2iO WU), clear or Male Tax. payable on and after J 1st inxt , at the othoeot the Company. No aid Walnut street 'iruusier books will reop-u on the Mo Instant .,, . CilAKLtS U. ttf.ri VES , 11' fvciutaiv. SPECIAL NOTICES. ,ttt7 DI PARTMENT OF PUBLIC HIGH WA Y9 ofl ce of Chief CnmmlsxtonM. 8. W. corner ot FlFlIIand WALMM Strro's . l'H"-AtM.i HiA May 21, I960. OTIOF. TO CONTRAl'IORS. "ropoa a will be received at this Office until Ho'cloik M.on HOBDAY, Mar the gKih. lt, lor tlie constiucth'D oi a wer on the line of l heart ut r-et, lrom Iventy-secnnd to iwenty-tliird street, to b ot nrlcK, with an li Hide dlnmcteroi three tett. There siial. be ne manhole and two cast Iron In. eta. to be looati'd as '? tx directed ty the ( hlet Knvlneer and Hurveyor. . JtS "hderatandins; to be that ihe contracor shall Take hills prepared against ihe proprt tronilns on the Mid sewer, to the amount of one dollar and toentv tire cents il er each lineal loot of front on each side of me sireet, exoluuve or legal rledu tlons as eo niucu cash paid, the balanoe to be paid by the oltT. A II bidders are Invited to be present at the time and place ot opening the nald proposals. .v,."cn.p0.,"1.,ll ,K accompanied bra certificate that a bond has been Bled In the Law Department, as directed by ordinance oi May M. Issu. If the lowest bidder shall nor ei'ente a contract within Ave days ater tbe work Is awarded he wl I be deem, d ss declining and will bo held liable on bis bond blddef fle,euce between bis bid aud the next tilgliost Hpeeireatlonstnayhehad at the Department of Sur veys, which will be stncilr adhered t ,,,, t, . W. W. 8MFPT.EY, . Chief romnlMloner ol Highways. t3rJ!iUF T0 SECUREST" ilOMFT FOR - THE AOI II ANT) I M KIHM MKHRKR3 Olf J . r IlURi II would respectiul r solicit Donations In Money, t lowers I seful and Fanoy Articles, t r the al.ove object. Donations may be sent to Mm T. W, t'n'Er.r"j 0, 4"2 -''nrlne siree' i tin. jj. H. Bowen, -f1?AHr.cond.treet! and Mrs. Char lea ThomDSjn. jo li s n. pecond etreet. , T,,enl bt ""'d Concert IlalU commencing ; June II. IPSO. S.SMt frr OFFICE PORTAGE OIL AND MINING JmTiideipbi1' - 1003 Bath BR0AD SUMt' '1 lie proprietor o' the sharen whn hi nnl ray the sum dui.v aanresrd thereon (TWKNIi cn.M'o h the action et the Hoard c Mrectors In pursuance of the terms o the Charter of this company, are he rob r requested to take notice that a su'llclont number of ,1". . ray " i ",'nents with necessarv and inci dental charges thereon will be sold at puollo auction at lb??.nf 01 the -n!any. on , ce-DA Y June a, at M. W U M. liUNSICKKB. Treaaur r. BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. TUP HKST IN Tiiv.vonrn Daimler reliable. In-tantaneous. The only perfect ove. No disappointment no ridiculous tints, but true lo na tre-tj ack or brown GKMINE 18 SIGNED WILLIAM A. BATCHELOB Regenerating Fx tiact oi Mllilfleurs restores, preserves ;rd beautif.es the hair, prevents ba'dnesa. Ho d by all IiruggWS Factory No,81 BARCLAY ht, N. Y. S3 JUST P n n T. I s u v. n By tbe Phvslclsns of the , NKW YORK MUSEUM, tue iviue uein tuition ot their ,A , FOUR LECTURES, entitled , rmi.osopitY of marriage. To he had in c. tor tour stamps b addressing fecro tnrv ew Ytrk Mureuui of Anatomv, I " o. blH LRt'ApWAY. New Totk. DINING-ROOM F. LAKEMEYER, CAR'lIR'S Alley, would respectiuliy Inionp the I ubllc genet ally that he has lei t nothing undone to make this place ccuilertable In every respect lor the accoin n coition oi guests. He baa opened a large and com li odious Dlniiif-Roem in the second s orv. Uia SIDK BOARD Is lurtilshcd with BRANDIES. WINKS. V KIKKY.F.tc. He. ol r-t l'FR10K BRANDS. 11 ' MILLINERY, MANTUA-MAKING, 4o "WOOD & OA.RY, No. 725 CHESNUT STREET. ARE OFFEEIA'G DAILY ALL THE LATEST NOYELTIES IN HALTS AND BONNETS, i JKCLVDIXQ THK POPULAR JAPANESE AND MEDALLION HATS. 418 2mrp MRS. II. DILLON, sk Ncs. 323 and 331 SOUTH Street, Has a handsome assortment of SPRING MILLfNERY ; Mli6s' and Iniants' Ha s and Caps, Kllks, Velvets, Crapes. Ribbons. Feathers, Flowers, F rallies etc. 08 18 4m TOADIES' CLOAKS, BASQUES, ETC. MADS AKB TRIMMED IN THK MOST FaSHIONaULK STYLE. KROJM TBE BT GOODS. AT TUE LOWifaT i OSSIBUf; I' RICE. i IVEN8 CO., ' til 2m No. 23 South NINTH Street. REFRIGERATORS. ' R E F 11 1 Q B II AT O II S. SMITH & EICHARLSOU, Agents for the sale of the Justly celebrated CHARCOAL LINED REFRIGERATORS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, FROM $0'5O TO SB25'00. 5 21m5p No. 611 MARKET Street. QNE DOLLAR'S WORTH OF ICE PElt WEEK' Will keep your provisions cool and sweet in the i i .. T T . a ... 1 l.onor3lrJf uui ti Xoil-iri-nrw. Ibt y save thr e apartments, ami are thorough vcMilators. Tbe iota 1 mzcs require bnt 60 cents worth ol Ice per week. K. S. FAliHON & CO., MANUFACTURERS, 1 25 lmrp , Ko. 220 VOCE, Street Q R E E N GBKEN CORK, IfBE8U REACHES, JfRJSH 1OMAT0KS, PLVtM. AI.liKRT O. UOIilOHTS DEALER IX FINE CfBOCKEIES, 9 18 4p Cu. ntVKSl aid VINE fitjoeti. JaVlll Portcmounalcs, B M"v ff3 HI Clstuf Cases, . la ., In 1 Portirillo I S f II Dressing Cases, S " A t id 5 Banker' Cases. J tt wmraii . Ladies and Oenta" rANiiiiwork If iiuikii, KM . U rnadii Into II II von rr ii Bstchels and t bat.beii, II Travelling Bag., g 0 Wi Kjiki H in all styles. jrV I PEAS, DRY GOODS. .-DUKIFUSS & BELSINGER, Ho. 49 North EIGHTH Street, Have 'art cpened ccmpltte stock . SriilNO CJOODS, CONHI8T1NO Ot LACES, tMBBOlDEBIEa, AJfD fancy goods. S"fl pleeee ptolnand slr'ptd Jaronets, tbe newest striae low,prlces.l'd ,ucl"d aMUl tl oflerlng at S8'r. WfVndF6flc."m.Ched nMdk"ch,eft. old prlco. TLf2Ii'r,i!ro?L"1 desttm LACK C0U LA-liS and CQLLAB Tl 8, lrom 83 cents np to I0. GLOVES GLOVES. A eorrplete line or JOl VIN KID GLOVES, to whlok Invite atiention, which we ofler atiVgurea GAliBIELLE SKIRTS. ' .. . OABBIELLE 8KIBT8. ' worn D10,t le8,r,,bIe. nl tyllsh uklrta now for1.dlf:.rw.,rtIH'IIy0' Cbe" ,na d'Urbl 1W4 ' HEHNUT 8IBKET. E. M. NEEDLES, JTo. 1024 CJIESNUT STREET, OFTRKS AT LOW PBICSfl. 2000 PIECES WHITE GOODS, '"'''idlns all varieties Shlrrert. PntTed. Tn'ttei .u,..-hIei;r;hj.vodM abs.'rorSrf.ii." L'N L tJ lu?u' ,v,bt'nne and other Laces j Insert-1 Inps, tdjtlrjKS lounolnvs and Hands, UauUker chiefs, ells, Collars. HleeTcs, eto i 'I ll . lit. V. ..A . .i.nDnin . . I great VARUY U LADlLa VVOUID DO WELL TO EXAMINE. (J428 " "hJoikiV a G28 Manufactory, No.b28ARCII ftreet. Above Hxth street. PhUadelphla. V hi.lessle and Retail. Onr assortment embraces all the new and desirable styles and elies. or every length and sue waist for Ladles, misses, and Chllcren. 1 hose of -VCK OWtl MAKE" are tuprior In IfnUA and durably to any other bklxla mad, and warrantoa totrlve setlsiactlon. f kins made to order, altered, and repaired, l SUMIViER RESORTS. gUM ME II KESOIITS fN LINE OF Reading Railroad-and Branches. MANSION HOUSE, MOUNT CARBON, llrs. Caroline Wunfler, TotuvUIe P. 0., BchuylkUI eo 1 USCARORA 110 TEL, lire. Hannah Miller, Tiwcarora P. 0., Schuylkill co MAIIAZOY CITY HOTEL, O. W. Frost, Mahanoy City P. 0., Schuylkill co. WHITE HOUSE, lira. Suain 3d arsaorf, Beading P. 0 ANDALUSIA, James 8. Madeira, Beading P. 0. LIVING SPRINGS HOTEL. Dr. A. Smith, Werdcrsvllle P. 0.. Berks co S0U1H MOUNTAIN HOUSE, . 4 H. IL llandeibach, Womelsdorf P. 0., Berks co. COLD SPRINGS HOTEL, Lebanon co Charles Boedermel, Harrlsbarg P. 0. BOYERSTOWN SEMINARY. J. B.Henky, Boyerstown P. 0., Berks oo. YELLOW SPRINGS HOTEL, B. B. Snydtr, Yellow Springs P. 0 Chester co L1TIZ SPRINGS, Saruuel Llchtenthaler, LltizP 0.,Lanastero EPHRATA MOUXTAIN SPRINGS, Alexanders. Feather, Ephrata P. O., Lancaster oo April SI, I860. 41 3m CONGRESS HALL, CAPE ISLAND, N. J., WILJi RECEIVE GUESTS ON Thursday, Mav 31, 1800. 611 J- F. CAKE, Proprietor. COAL. QKO. .A. COO ICE OFFERS PRESTON COAL., Which ia the very Lest SCUUXXKILL COAL coming to tbia market, Egg and Stove sizes at $6 75 per Ton ALSO, THE GEKfLNE EAGIjE vein coal bpw sizes, tame price. A Superior Quality ot LEHIGH COATj Constantly on hand. Kag and Stove sizes at 17'SO, uellv red to any part otthe city, fnilxely free of slate and dirt. I sdvtre bit fricndH, end the publio generally, to lay In their coming winter's supply now, as the price is aa low as it will be, ana as there Is a prospect oi an advance soon. Orders recelvi d at li o. 114 outh 1 BIRD Street. EMPORIUM, 4 17rp No. 1314 WASHINGTON Avenue. JAMES O'BRIEN, DKiLER IN LEHIGH AKD SCHUYLKILL COAL. BY THli CABGO OB BIHOLB TOM. Yard, Broad Street, below Fitzwater. .. Pas constantly on band a competent supply of tbe at eve superior Coal, sui aOIe for family use, to which he calls tbe attention of tua friends and tbe Lubiie generally, . Orders left at o. 206 South Fifth ttreot, No. 82 South bevonteentb street, or through Despatch or font Office, promptly attended to. A SLPEK10B QUALITY OF BLACKSMITHS' CO A LV 1 7 i B ENDER '8 COAL AND ICE DEPOT, 8. W. CORNER OF BBOAD ADD CALLOVf BILL 6TKEET8, Offers the eelebratfd West Lehkh Coal from tha Gretowood Colliery, Move, agr auu Heater size 7'&tf( but at e(l. Also. Ihe very .uptrlor ttobuylkM Coal, frooi the Kteveidsle ( ollieiy, Hut slse, W. All other slits H (HI M , x . nil C'eal warranted and taken back ttee of etpense to (he Dortharer. h not s represented. Also, tha CoaI tor ttllttt ll nut lull weight. a 19 Bin : . v - OUR NEXT OOVERNOn-CJLYMEU OR GKABY. as mav be chosen-totsether with the AVAfUSG TELKOVAPH, NEW YOHK CLIPPKB,Eto., nisy be obtained as usual at OTKKN'8 NEWSSTAND. IS Comer Of SLVETti and CUtnMUX Street
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