THE DML EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPmA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 18GG.
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
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COMPILED ITTXt BAT FOR EVEKINO TM.KOIt.aP.
Mexico and fu Evcr-Changinff Rulers.
Trom As limtl.
Mciico 1 the political riddle of the world.
Outside Governments now confess that tliey
hare tailed as completely in their dealings With
it during the laftt live years as the Mexicans
themselves had failed during the previous forty.
As formerly, faction ceaselessly fougbt faction.
President struggled with usurper, militiry chiefs
with each other, the army with the people, the
Church with the Liberals, and anarchy domi
nated all so, latterly, the disjointed Tripartite
Intervention pave place to the resistless French
usurpation, which now voluntarily Rives way to
the dubious djuatv of Maximilian, which will
bo followed in turn by no political prophet can
it'll what; but we know that anarchy i still
all but all-dominant. There is no doubt
whatever that the Emperor Napolcoa has
jariven up project which he is s:ild to have
once pronounced the "moot important of his
relirn," as much because he bas discovered the
intrinsic hopelessness of its success as because
of tbe vigorous protects of the Government of
the United States, Ho has (rained abolutely
nothing as a return for his costly Mexican
experiment. Instead of yielding surplus reve
nues, Mexico has been friukini? deeper in his
debt. Instead of the enormous returns that
were exnected trom the scieuiirtc working of the
fold and silver mines, there has been no advance
npon the old systemor in the returns of other
times. Instead of furnishing fields tor French
enterprise, It has furnished only craves for
French soldiers and adventurers. Instead of
proving the opening that was anticipated for
French commerce and trade, its liuits in
that direction have been so limited that,
to make even a respectable show, the
statistics had to be magnified by ndding
to those that were lecitimate the provisions
and material sent from France to supoly
the French army of occupation. Napoleon has
not obtained the cession of Mexican territory
which he coveted, nor, in short, ha he obtained
any of the material advantages which were the
main obifct that induced him to undertake the
intervention. In renpects other than material,
he has been no more fortunate. He has done
nothing to advance the "Latin race," and has
put no barrier in the wny of Americun destiny,
lie has not succeeded in establishing political
order, or in founding a strong and stable Gov
ernment, or even in obtaining a friendly ally on
this side of the uea; and w hen his soldiers and
his flair disappear ironi Mexico, he will receive
with them neither "glory" nor gold, and they
will leave behind them naught that contains
even a gleam o('hope for the future.
The mends of Miiximil.&n claim that he will
not leave Mexico because of it dcerion by
the French array. That army brought hin to
Mexico, and has sustained him there uutil now.
But it is claimed that his power U so well
consolidated that he can sustain it without
difficulty; or, it not without difficulty, at least
agairiM it. We see nothing like evidence of
this. Where is this sirer.etu, and in what
does it consist? Docs it not reside in his
finances, or iu h s army, or in the attachment
of the people Through either of these may
a Government be strong. Cut financially the
Mexican Empire is on the versre of bankruptcy.
There is not means in tne treasury to supply
the most pressing wants of the Govern
ment, and the monthly expenditures ex
ceed by millions the monthly return?. On
frequent occasions, recently, they have been
in the greatest straits to raise sums such as
could be raited from a hundred private for
tunes in this city, and have had to resort to
expedients partakirg of those resorted to bv
both the highwayman and the beggar. As
regards the army, Maximilian has some tea
thousand native Mexican troops in bis ser
vice, besides the loreian mercenaries who
may have been recruited. But can he
confidently rely upon either the Mexicans or
the mercenaries ? IIow can either of them
have any trustworthy devotion to a master of
his antecedents ? There are no more personal
than there are hereditary attachments in this
case, and we would net give a nickel lor all
there is of either. Let"hi3 Mexican troops
get fired by some means with the old cry of
" God and 'Liberty," and let it operate with
their fierce hate of the "foreigner" in all
shapes and positions, and they would turn on
him in a style such as only Mexico can illus
trate. As for the toreisn mercenaries in his ser
vice, from Austria and Belgium, they are beciui
ing so enervated by tho climate, and so demoral
ized by their sunoundingsand by the conditions
of their service, that they must soon be alto
gether worthless as soldiers or dotenders of
Maximilian's crown. And concerning the
attachment of the population of Mexico to
Maximilian and his Government which, alter
all, would be the surest and best support of his
crown we hear of it In official documents now
and then; but if its extent may be iudged by
their practical dealings with him in these rela
tions in which they have the best opportunities
of showing it, it is even less worth talcing into
account than either of the other frail supports
we have mentioned.
As tor the future of Mexico, we confps the
question to be an embarrassing one. AH at
tempts to maintain civil order and political
coherence dv tne native population nave lulled.
The attempts ot the ni09t powerful of for
eign nations to introduce fixed govern'
mental institutions on an Old World basis have
been utter failures. And it is not presumption
to predict like failure from the hybrid so-called
Government which henceforth finds its centre
in Muiimilian. We believe, however, there are
more elements of hope for Mexico in the ascend
ancy of the Liberal party, of which Juarez is
the able head, than can be discovered anywhere
eise.
The Prisoner ol
State.
From Vie Tribune.
ror ine lirbt lime since nis incarceration in
Fortrecs Monroe, we have what agents of the
newspapers have sought vainly positive and
amue uuc news 01 me "Mate rrisoner .uavis.'i
We hear trom Mr. Jefferson Davis himself. Not
an idle charge has been that of his medical ad
viser, or one without Interest to the world. He
has published a book. We make no general ob
jections to this volume, which, in the hesitancy
of the Government, and the mystery of the pub
lic mind, supplies a IJnt towards a solution by
giv iug w uut purports to ue me prisoner s yen
table hh-tory jor the past year. What is Mr,
Davis' own state of beicg 1b a matter of some
importance while the question is before U3,
What to do with hiin.
VVe. cannot think, while there exists, inside
and outside his prison, a condition ol opinion
which either invites or renders permissible the
publicatior. of such a book by an oliicer of the
wnueu oittius, tne public can be Jong of opinion
that the best use we can make of "State Pri
soner Davis" is to keep him indeiTnitely in For
tress Monroe. The whole force of the plea in
Mr. Davis' behalt only emphasizes the dooiaul
made repeatedly by the diibuupp hinwpii'. that
he be at once tried, convicted or aoquittted, or
Teleasedon ball or parole, like his colUmues
ta prison. The writer is Colonel Craven, whose
meritorious service as a surgeon in the Union
army renders his loyalty and humanity above
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air v it.n a
ve nave uttie Dere to uo witn the greater
part of Mr. Davis' opinions, which range from
wax and btutc rinhu to treason and ratt
It concern us more to know the actual state of
me prisoner as atlecttng the question between
North and South, and his rlutit to a trial, hp p
release; for the nation cannot design that either
the law of the land or JeU'erson Duvls shall
wantonly sutler.
On the 10th of May last year. Jefferson Davis
and his colleagues eubsequently paroled were
consigned to Fortress Monroe. lie took his
captivity bitterly, and on the 23i resided, with
bodily energy and fierceness of spirit, th 4 men
who shackled him. old disorders, asteravatel
by confinement, made him feverish and Irrita
ble. Ills face was emaciated, and his head
troubled with a neuralgia which had destroyed
his right eye and tended to impair the remain
ing one. The light In his casemate, and tho
tread of the sentinel, made him sleepless.
Being too weak to suppoit his irons they were
taken otf five dav alter they were put on. He
was sensitive to the dnmnness and unwhole
some air ot his cell (though officers ana their
families had dwelt fn the same unnealthy case
male), iu proof ot which mould had gathered
on his shoes. He relerrjd often to the sovertty
of hts treatment, thoiurh it does not appear that
his food was bad albeit kn fe ana fork were
denied him or that ft was subjected to other
rigors than those which ordinary prisoners
undprgo.
He complained that bis letters to his wif and
family had to pass the scrutiny of the Military
Commandant and the Attornej-Genoial. In
June, he was permitted to walk on the ramparts
tor an hour each day; but he was at first so
weak that he returned to his cell at tb end of a
halt hour. On the 20th ot Aucust, he is re
ported suffering from erysipelas and a car
buncle, with attendant lever. Shortly alter
wards, he was conducted to more comfortable
qunrttip, selected bv his physician. Thoucrh he
still compl-iined of deteriorating health, we hear
gradually less of him, iu this recpecl, up to
November, since which time, we may observe,
his prison restraints have been gradually re
laxed, ho. that he has the reasonable liberty of
tho fort, and can see his friends. One of the
prisoner's most plausible complaint is that,
while numbers ot those who nrzed at th"
beginning that the black flag should be hoifted
have been practically pardoned, he, who had
oppo-ed nil desperate measures, is the victim of
indignity out of proportion.
With ilr. Davis' reported opinions on oux pre
sent poiiiics we huve nothing co do. But we
remark that he scouts the charsre of assassina
tion, and, whatever may nave been his former
fcelines, speaks with unmistakable respect of
the martyred Lincoln. His defense from the
charee ot treason is tn palladium of all other
.Rebels fho States Bights doctrine of war and
"reconstruction." Moro than once, he iiululuos
the common Southern sneer at "Yankees" "New
Englunders," and "Massachusetts," while sharing
the narrow notion that the North whoso man
nimitv since and during the war is confesselly
something remarltablo iu civilization is little
better than "a money-making people." Out of
this poor prisoner, with his caaeniated preju
dices, it will be hard Jor any biographer to con
struct n Napoleon.
Regarding his trial we quote Mr. Davis' own
words. Alter speaking ot States Iiisrhts he say?:
"i;ut it, as I supnuso, tho purpose ho to tost tho
question of tevession bv a jauio at doclsiou, why
be inn by 01 pressing the ohief ubjuct ol the experi
ment? Whv,intho tiamt ot fairness and a doocnt
respect for mankind, depiivo him ot tin.' meaus lor
tho opinions ol mtkn 1 ; deprive In in ot too means
uecolulto a preparation ol his defense, nud loud
him with iiKlianilif'M that must deprive his mind of
its due equilibrium? It ill comports with tho dig
nity 01 a trieai nation to evince fear of rivintr to a
pinplo captive in rav ad the advantages oossibio tor
a:i exposition of his side of the quo lion. A ques
tion KOttied by violence or in disregard ot law must
remain unsettled forever."
Ou the question of the udersonville crime, he
holds that to make him responsible tor this was
"worse than absurd criminally lal!c." "Kor tho
last two vears ol the war. Lee's army had never
more than halt, and wa3 often er on quarter
rations of rue ly bacon aud corn." He also be
lieves that Commiisary-General Northrop and
General Winder did the best they co ild;that
tho prisoners were ordered to receive "precisely
the same rations given to the troops guarding
them; but dishonest commissaries and provost
marshals were net contined to any people." Ot
this explanation ot a crime which caused the
death ot prisoners bv feus of thousands, the
most cljarttable thing we c-in say at present is
that it is too short to be satisfactory.
f rom the whole revelation given to us ot tne
prisoner at Fortress Monroe, we conclude that,
as resting under the welirht ot stupendous
charges, his treatment, even to the placing of
shackles upon bun, was not extraordinary.
Nor does it aoDear that his food and accommo
dations have been worse than what milder State
prisoners nave experienced in com tortanie quar
ters dining the war. His complaints have (seen
heard thiough his physician, and the rigors of
his confinement have been gradually lessened.
But there are two indubitable iacts which give
weight to the plea in leaving tirt, that Mr.
Davis is a .chronically ill ana perhaps dying
man; and, second, that he liaa a nguc to a lair
and speedy trial.
Judging these facts, we concelv it to be alto
gether just and reasonable that his counsel so
earnestly ask his release on baii. If he is to be
punished, it is evident that no puuishmont can
be severer to nun than imprisonment, lie may
destrve the miseries of Andersonvillc, and the
last penalty of treason. Let that be tried and
proved, rortneinnrni and complaining man,
who has the eare of a symputheiic doctor and
the liberty of a castle, who reads the magazines
and papers, who can nave a hook puniisned
trom the pr:on-walls to plead tor him, whose
late on the whole is not so bad as that of iLe
poor Kcbel spy or common soldier his evil
genius directed to slaughter, and wno is too
feeble to be sufficiently heroic to endure a year
In prison lor this nian we can havo no pro
found sympathy. But this man who has been
awaitine trial since last Mav is the representa
tive of six millions ot people. What shall we
do with him and what, it we keep him 111 pro
tracted punishment, shall we do with the people
he represents ?
The Itepublican Party and its Imperial
Game of Iteconstiuction.
Frcm the Herald.
That shrewd old political campaigner, Thad-
dens Stevens, said fhe other clay, in the House,
in accepting his Constitutional amendment as
razeed and reconstructed by the Senate,
that he was constrained to take it at the
best thing he could get. It was unsatisfactory;
it was too much a composition of mil If and
water for his taste; but he hoped for some
thing better in the way of enabling acts
defining the precise terms upon which the ex
cluded States will be readmitted Into Congress.
wnatne means Dy "eiiannng acts" is pretty
broadly expressed in his enabling bill, proposed
tho same morning in relerence to Tennessee. In
consideration of what the State has done in the
way ot reconstruction Mr. Stevens proposes to
admit lor the time being ner members elect to
ConeresB; "provided that unless the said State
of Tennessee shall, before tho 1st day of Janu
ary next, either oy legislation or constitutional
provision, enrranchise all clus-sea of her citizens
and extend the right of suffrage impartially to
every class, and shall give 10 every person
within her jurisdiction an equal standing in her
courts of law and enultv. both as suiiors and
witnesses, and shall ratify the amendment to
the Constitution, article fourteen, proposed by
4 lin frrnr'aaa Minn tKu t . n nA t , . . An
this Congress, theu the provisions ot this act, so
iar as they relate to tne tstute ot Tennessee ex
clusively, shall cease and become null and void,
and the said State shall no longer be represented
in Congress."
This is the ordeal of construction throunh
which tbe excluded Southern States, each lor
itself, will be required to pass before they cau
reach the reward of restoration. The Constitu
tional amendment adopted covers a few broad
aud general principles; but in these 'enablius;
acts'' the States concerned will have the precise
conditions upon which they will be readmitted
into the two Houses of Congress. They will
have to begin again at the beginning of recon
struction; they will have to ratify this aforesaid
Conotitutional amendment: they will have to
remodel their State Constitutions, revise their
local laws and put them in force accordingly
before they cau be pronounced as purged of
their sins of rebellion and washed clean enough
to sit once more at the communion table of the
ftiithtuL
The questlou then recurs, how long, upon a
reasonable estimate, will it take the States cou-
crncd to pass throuch all these processes of
penance and purification? Considering the time
and trouble required of President Johnson In hu
comparatively easv-to take prescriptions ot re
construction, we think it extremely doubtful
whether even Tennessee will bo able to touch
bottom this side our next ('residential Flection.
The game of the Republican party In Congress
is admirably contrived to secure them In their
ascendancy in the Northern States and to ex
clude the Southern States Involved In the late
Rebellion from nny voice In the Federal elections
of 1808, either for Congress or the Presidency.
This in evidently the game ot the Republican
manage.-, and trom all the signs 01 the times
they will succeed in it.
But It tho excluded States can be kept out till
the end of the year 18G8, may they not be still
excluded for two or three, or ten or t went? years
longer, and governed according to the old Roman
provincial system ? Of course. In tact, if we
get quietly through this next Presidential elec,
tion with thf exclusion of the late Jeff. Davis
States, there la no telling whnt may bo the next
chapter ot reconstruction. If may be the edete
Roronn republic, with its consul, its cenerals,
its provincial establishments, and its wromtling
and fighting political tactions; or it may be some
thinglike tho empire of Augustus again In lull
blast, and embracing, this time, the British
posspssions to the north ot ti from Newfound
land to Vancouver's Island, all tho West Indies
and Mexico and the Central American States.
Within the last three years we have gone through
a revolution vi hich even President Lincoln five
years aso supposed could hardly be accomplished
this side ol the year of erace 1000.
Who, theu, can undertake to tlx the bounds to
tho revolutionary changes we may pass through
within the next three j ears. Alter ill, humau
nature is pretty much the same in all ages, and
the American 'republic may possibly be on the
verge ot the last reconstruction experiments of
the old Roman republic. How can we preieud
exemption from the common vicissitudes ol the
republics tmd empires that have gone botore
us? We live, moreover, in an aae of great
events and great revolutions. There seems to
be a sort of moral epidemic in the air, taking
its course over the world, like the cholera, aud
operating upon the minds of men in masses aud
In the 1110m extraordinary manifestations. Look
at Furopc and at Mexico, and look at this last
terrible llareup of the Fenians. The simple
fact is, we ore drifting along with tne tide of
events; and if, Irora present appearances, our
republican mauacrers of the ship of state are
beading for at 01 her Roman Empire, they still
huve the tide in their favor.
President Johnson's Mistakes.
From the World.
We know of nobody who regards President
Johnson's position as, at present, a very com
manding one. With great clearness aud bound"
ness of political views, and remarkable enry
aud boldnes in . their expression, he figures
before the country, thus far, rather as an able
debater than as a great executive oliicer. The
vigor and independence he has always shown in
one of these characters excited expectations, not
yet realized, of the pfliconcy with which he i
would discharge the duties of the other. Up to
hu entrance on the Presidency, Mr. Johmon '
had never been in a position either to acquire or
to display much hkill as an administrative offi
cer. As Governor of Tennessee, iu aute-war
t.nies, he bad only routine duties, which one
clear headed man is as compet'-nt to discharge
as anoihpr. As Military Governor of the same
State, dunns the war, he encountered no ud
verse wills which he could not subdue by mili
tary force. Hts duties, in that character, re
quired much courage, but little ndmiuistrative
capacity. Mr. Johnson's lust reputation lor
ability was acquired in a diilerent ttieatre. lie
was a skiltui and forcible debnter in both
Houses ot Congress; but there are many clear
nnd cogent reasoners who possess but. nlcnder
talents' lor administration. Responsibility lor
trie soundness of one's opiuions, or lor one's
individual vote, is a very simple thing in com
parison with responsibility tor the riabt working
ot a great and complicated administrative sys
tem, as an able speech is different from the
ability to make a vast governmental machine a
pliant instrument lor the accomplishment of
gtet ends.
That a etatestuau of Mr. Johnson's acknow
ledged vigor ol chrracier should possess so
little influence in the Government nt which he
is the ofUcial head; that his will, always sup
posed to be stroiier, is in abeyance, like
an imprisoned force, is a phenomenon of
which the prools are more apparent than the
explanation. The most important mistake
Mr. Johnson has made, is keeping the Cabi
net ot President Lincoln. Had he Biicceeded
Mr. Lincoln by an election, instead ot by
a visitation ol Providence, he would have
selected a new Cabinet, as a matter of course.
Every I'rpsident has a right to select his own
confidential advisers, and he must needs be
a cipher in the Government, it the beads ot
departments entertain views not. accordant
with his own. If. in the progress of bis admin
istration, he finds that Congress, which daily
addresses the people through its debates, enter
tains views hostile to his on questions deemed by
bim fundamental, it becomes doubly imoortaut
that the Executive department, which can
seldom address the people, except through its
acts, should possess all the vi?or which result'
from an energetic unity of purpose. That in
President Johnson's Cabinet there has been no
enerey, and scarcely any unanimity, in support
of his policy against a bitterly hostile Congress,
is notoiious. boon alter the difference became
pronouncd, Mr. Seward, the ablest of his Cabi
net olhcers, made his ill health a pretext, end
leit the country during tho critical period while
the Congressional opposition was getting head.
Mr. Stanton, who ranks next to Mr.
Seward in iulluence and energy, made an osten
tatious proleesion of keeping alool trom political
questions, and contininiz himself to his strictly
executive duties, repeating tols profession when
he was called out at the serenade. Mr. McCul
logh, though zea'ous and true, is no politician.
Mr. Harlan has never disguised his opposition to
the Prfsident's policy; Messrs. Spea I and Deuni
son have been quasi neutral, with a leaning
towards Congress; and Mr. Weile, who was tbe
subordinate cf his own subordinate dunnsi the
war, is ol too feeble and sluggish a temper to be
ol much weight in either scale. In a diderence
important enough to call forth the iudiguant
denunciation in the President's 22d of February
speech, and the earnest proiests contained lu
his vetoes, why did he tolerate a cold and hostile
Cabinet, which did not espouse his cause and
quurrcl, and almost opeuly sided with hti
enemies ? He ha done nobly for his side of the
controversy as a courageous reasoner aud advo
cate; as an administrator, nothing.
A similar debility of will has marked all his
acts (or, to speuk more properly, has been dis
played in all bis inaction) in administrative
mutters on which there has been h diiierence of
opinion. His indecision kept the chief empo
rium of our commerce witnout a Collector an
otiico which should never bo ten days vacant
lor uirhv successive months. Ha has kept Jcf
lersou I)avis imm-isoued on a chafSe which
nobody believes complicity in the aassin-v
tion ior fourteen months, without eUher re
ti acting the charge officially made by himself
or bringing it to a trial. Ho still urolontrs a
slate ot things which is the scandal of public
justice, apparently shrinkinir from ihe responst
bllity of any steps tending to iu removal. In
the elections which have occurred in various
States, he seems to have been smitten with tho
same moral paralvsis. He could possibly have
clmieed the result in New Hampshire; could
certainly have changed it in Connecticut; our,
m both elections, ho stood a helpless neutral,
while his own buttle was being loutrht, mid
allowed tlip. enemies of his nohev to triumph.
As those on whom the. President has no party
claims havn o-iven hi nr.licv a zealous and 016
interested cupport, they claim, as their only
reward, aud as honest well-wishers to both him
and it, the privilege of stating why, in their
opinion, It has not, as yet, been very eminently
tuccessiul. We approve of Mr. Johnson's
policy, his Message, his vetoes, his speeches
his logic, his luvective, everythlnst, in short
that is his. excent his ba tine- infirmity ot pur
pose during a crl"L3 of the moft Important con
flict of opinion which has ever prevailed In this
country. While boldly declaring that he con
sidered the Constitution flacrrunUy violated,
why should he not, with equal boldness, have
used bis constitutional power lor its vindication
and rescue ? .
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A STECIAL MEETING OP TUB
Stockholders of the SIOAK DAL It OIL COM!
P ANT. yslll be be,d at tho Ottce of lite Company, No.
WlH Vv A L T (street, on Hatnrdty, June 2,1, 1W6 at
12 o'clock JH.
6 lb St EDWABD SntrPEN, President
NOTICE. ON AND AFTER THE
I.Mh Instant, ihe UNITED BTATKrt HOTEL,
lONO bKANCU, N
will he open lor the reception
ol v'situm.
6 8Iui
iii.r.J AJH1.S A. BUUIM Ihbli.
Proprietor.
13 A TO II ELOR'S HAIR
DYE
TI1F BEST IN THE WORLD.
IlainnleFS relnihle instantaneous. The on'y perfect
dye. No disappointment, no ridiculous tinta, but true
to nutnre, b ack or brown
GENV1NE IS MlONED WILLIAM A. BATCHELOEJ
ALsi).
Kejrrnerntlng Extract oi Ml .lficnra restores, preserve
and Ik utilities the Lnir. prevents ba dncss. So d bj nil
Iruxgiht4. Factory No. HI MAKCLAY ftt, N. Y. 3Jij
1 irT" JUST PUBLISHED
1 af-iy rjy the rhslclnns of the '
NEW l'OKK MUSEUM,
the Ninetieth Edition of their
EOUK LECTUBKS,
entitled
PHILOSOPHY OF MAKKIAC.E.
To be bad free, for lour stumps by addressing Kecra
tar New York Mucuin of Anatoniv.
7 175 No. 018 BllOADWAY. NowToik.
EST
DINl NG-R0O51. K. LAKEMUYElt
CAKlf It'S A lev. woald renectiulv lniorm the
l'nbllc urneiallv that he has icitnothna undone to mulco
this place conifortuhle In every respect lor tbe occom-
n.ooutlon oi tuesiH. ne nas opened a inrge una coin
modiouR Dlnlr.fc-lfoom In tho second s ory. His SIOK-
JiUAKli lb luriitK'ieu wnn i liAJsnii'.s, wlai.s,
l H1SKY, Etc.Etc. ol KUPEIUOH BEANDH. 11
LUMBER.
1SG6;
BUILDING! BUILDING
LUMBER I LUMBER! LUilllEU!
B I : r UUA K JS.
BAIL PLANK.
WHITE PINE tLwORIVO
YElL'iW PINE FI.OOHISG.
BPBUCE PiSK rLO'iKNJ
ASd ANu WALNUT FLOOKlNli
PLASTERING LATH.
PLASTERING LATH.
1 i(U P,K! HEMLOCK, AND OAK
LOOO. iiMBfit,
PINE, HJSMI.OUK. A1 UAli Till libit,
CI T iO A BILL,
CUT TO A BILL.
AT HHOKT X.OT1CE.
1866.
-CEDAR AND PINE SHIXfJLES.
OKI) Alt AND PINE SHINdLES.
0. 1 LU.VU UllMH bHlMil.ES.
No. 1 SHOUT rEHAH SHINGLES.
WHITE PINE CUINGLKS.
CYPRESS 8HINOLE8.
FINE ASSORTMENT FOR SALE LOW.
i Qfttt LUMBER FOR UNDERTAKERS!!
lOUU. LUMBER FOK UNDERTAKERS!!
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT. AND PINE.
RED CEDAR
WALNUT, AND PINE.
1866.
ALbANYLUMKEKOPALL KINDS
ALBANY LUMBER OF ALL KINDS
SEASONED WALNUT.
SEASONED WALNUT
DRY roHI.AK CHERRY. AND ASH.
OAK PLK. AN t BDS.
MAHOGANY.
ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT VENEERS.
CP CI -CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS.
1UW. CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS.
SPANISH CEUAK BOX 1HIAKDJ.
AT REDUCED PRICES.
1866.
SPRUCE JOIST! SPRUCE JOIST!
SPU E JOIi-T! SPRUCE JOIST!
FROM 14 TO 2 FEET LUNG.
FROM 14 TO 2 FEET LONG.
SPBl'CE SILLS
HEMLOCK PLANK AND JOIST.
OAK SILLS.
MATTT.K TUtOTHVP CO..
6 29 einrp
No. S5C0 SOUTH bTREET.
XT'. II. WILLIAMS,
Seventeenth and Spring Garden Sts.
OFFERS
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF
SEASONED PATTERN
5 21 lmrp
PINE LUMBER.
TW. BMALTZ'S LUMbKIt YARD. N. JC.
. coiner ol FIFTEENTH and STILES Btreet.
OFFERS FOR SALE,
CHEAP FOR CASH
Panel 1st com ,Ud com , 3d com , 4 4, 6-4, 6 a, 8 4, White
Fine, seasoned.
Hist and second quality Yellow (4 4, S-i) and Whit
Pine (4-4) Flooring Boards
First, aud second 0ua.itv one and two sides Fence
Hoards.
hbclvtng Boards, Bass. Ash. Planks and Boards, White
Pine bills, all sues btep hoards, 4-4, 6-4.
Hemiock Joist aud Meant. log all sixes. ,
1' i line lot Spruce Sil s aud Hcantllni(
PiaMcring Lath (Knglish ana Caiuisj pickets.
hhlnules, Cheenut l osts etc.
Mahogany, Walnut Plank andBooids.
All kinds of Building Lumber cut and iurnlshed at the
shortest notice, at Jhejowest price; 6 8 lin
WASUIKG MAtalLVE
Host In tlio City.
IT SAVES TIME,
BATES LABOE.
SAVES CLOTHES.
EVERY FAMILY 8U0ULD-HAVB ONE.
For sale at the Furniture btore ot
Agents Wanted.
J. HAAS.
120
' 937 MARKET o'MJt.
SUMMER RESORTS'
gUMMElt ltKSOltTS
i
ON LINK OP
Reading Kali road ana Branches.
NAXSION VOUSF, MOUNT CARBOX,
Mra. Caroline Wander, FotUvMe P. O., Bchtuylkill c
lUSCARORA HOTEL,
lira. Hannah Miller, Tufcarora P. O., Bchoytklllce
MAJIAX 0 T CI TT JIO TEL.
. W. Frost, Mahanoy City P. O., Schuylkill Co.
WDITK HOUSE,
Mrs. Susan MarMorf, Beading P. O
AN DAL USIA,
James 8. Madeira, Beading P. O.
LIVING BPJtlNOS HOTEL.
Dr. A. P mllh, WcrdcrxvllU P. O.. Berki co
S0U1H MOUNTAIN HOUSK,
H. H. M anuerbacb, WomeUtdorf P. O., Berki co.
COLD SPRINGS HOTEL,
Lebanon co., Chanel Rocdermel, Harrison rg P. O.
2?0 TERSTO WN SEMINAR Y.
J. B.Henky, Boyeratown P. O., Berk co.
YELLOW SPRINGS HOTEL,
8. B. Snyder, Yellow Spring P. O., Chester co.
LITIZ SPRINGS,
Samuel Llchtenthaler, Lltlz P O., Lancaster eo
EPHRATA MOUNTAIN SPRINGS,
Alexanders. Feathei, Ephrata P. 0.,tancanter co
A MIL 21. 1866, 33m
EXCURSIONISTS,
TOURISTS,
AND
Pleasure Seekers
TO
N I AO A It A FALLS,
Lake Ontario. The Thousand Islands, Rapids ot the
River St Lawrence, Montreal, Qnebec, Rlvlotc du I.otip
bauuenay River, White Mountains, Portland. Boston
Lake Ueorge, Saratoga, New York, etc. etc. etc., wllj
find It to thtlr advantage to procure
THROUCH TICKETS,
WHICH ARE SOLD AT REDUCED HaTES AT TUB
TICKET OFFIwE OF THE
CATAWISSA RAILROAD LINE,
No. 425 CHE8NUT STRKUT.
I'aascngets have cnolco ot several routes to Niagara
Falls, and Through Tickets ore so a down Lake Ontario
and River M. Lawrence, to Ogdcnsburg, Montrca , and
Quecec, via the American and English Lino of Steamers
pasting tho Thousand Isiands ana tho Rapids of the
River St. Lawrence by daylight, returning to New York
or Boston by
FIFTY DIFFERENT B0UTES.
Thcso routes offer to pleasuro seekers scenery unsur
passed In this country.
No extra charge tor meals or state-rooms on steamers
betw ecn Niagara Fa: is and Montreal.
Tickets good until Novemucr 1st, 1866, and entitle tho
holders to stop over at any point on tho route.
For lurthcr information and Guide Books de
scriptive oi the Routes, apply at the Company's Office,
No. 428 CHESNUT Street. N. VAN HORN,
6 13wim2m Passenger Agent.
N
A T I O X A L KO T E L
AND
EXCURSION IIOUSK,
Atlantic City, N. J.
The underslgnod having leased the above favorito os
tablishment. and having refitted and refurnished
throughout, It whl be open tor the reception Oi guests
on SaTUKDAY June 16. 1866.
Tho table will be supplied with tho best the season
affords Including Oysters. Fish, Clarrs, etc etc.. and
none but the purest Wines, Liquors, Cigars, etc., se
ltctedfor the Bar.
Dancing Music attached to the house for the use of
visitors.
J. WILLETT,
6 14 lm PROPRIETOR.
UNITED STATES HOTEL
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.f
Will open for the reception of guests on
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1863.
DODWOUTH'S BAND engaged tor the season.
Persons desiring to engage rooms will address
BROWN & WOELPPER,
PROPRIETORS, ATLANTIC CITY,
Or No. 827 RICHMOND Street,
6 9 2mrp PhlladolDhla.
nONGKESS HALL
CAPE ISLAND, N. J.,
WILL RkSIAIN OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 1.
There has been added to to is popular House, since last
scasou. the entire Ocean House property, giving an ocean
i rout ot over 121) leoi, ud over 3uv rooms ironuug and
in lull view oi tbe sea.
A tienect avutem of sewcraee and drainage has been
complctea, a lealure possessed by lew hoteia outside of
large cities.
'J he appointment of the House throughout have ro-
celvea a uiobi careiui supvivisiuu, supgutiiuu vy mo a
Derieuce o: oast seasons, t or apai tmcuts. auc res
J. F. CAKE,
Congress llalU
Bass'.cr's Brass and String Banu.
THE PIER HOUSE
POUT I'ENN, DELAWARE.
JONATHAN DRAPES, Proprietor.
The Proprietor having purchased this well-known
bouse. Is now prepared to receive hoarders at 8 (W per
weok.
The lover of good gunning and Ashing can hero fully
enloy that luxury.
F ie client bathing, and a magnificent beach extending
for milea. iu
TIIE TAMMANY HOUSE
MOUTH CAROLINA AVENUK,
NEAR THE DEPOT, ATLANTIC CITY, ST. J,
The subscriber takes pleasure In informing his former
patrons and the pubic, thai tun above house Is now
open, w nere on in uo wVV7 w tcvcira m wuu um.
I.... hin, wlih a call.
In connection with the Hotel, he has opened a FIRST
CLASS BILLLVKD
ELIAS CLEAVER,
enim PROPRIETOR.
T IGUT HOUSE COT TAG
Atlantic City, N. J.
JONAH WOOTTON 4 SON, PROPRIETORS.
The beit location i n the Island, lelng tbe naaiest
bouse to Hie BU-t. A conUuuation ot Pi patronage ils
rtspeotluilj aollclted. ! l"'t"
ENTUCKY IIOUSE.KENTUCKY AVENUE,
Atlantio City, N. is now open lor the receD.
tlon ol bou tilers. Having one oi tlie nnest Ipcalloas ou
ti e island, and being nearest to tbe bust bathing on
the bench, it ol'ers superior taducemenis to visitors to
A614litrp"y' FRANCISQriOLgY, Proprietor
riIIE ALHAMBKA, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J
L Tbls spacious and eleiant establlsliuient will
oprr. ior the reception oi guests un or uciore ilia ilia
I day of June, laoti.
' li IA III, W'lU
KOBEBT B. LEED8, Proprietor.
DRY GOODS.
Q Al' 13 MAY
ATLANTIC CITY,
AND LONG BRANCH.
DllEIFUSS & BELSINGER.
r
No. 49 North EIGHTH Street,
HAVE OPENED ON IBB 1th INST.,
( A new and desirable lot of
ZEPllYlt KNIT SHAWLS
Suitable lor the Watorini I'laoo. inclodlna- a.
splendid assortment of
WHITE GOODS.
PCCKRD MUSLIN.
SHIRRED MUSLIN,
SWISS MUSLIN,
PLAID NAINSOOK,
STRIPED NA1N800K.
CAMBRIC NAItfi-OOK.
No 1W4 "HFUNUT 8TBEET.
E. M. NEEDLES,
No. 1024 CHESNUT STREET,
OFFEBS AT LOW PRICES.
2000 PIECES WHITE G00D3,
Includlns all varieties ("birred, Puffed Tufked
I'lslil MtrlDed. Plain ami Klsmvil ui aiiua'
sultalilo lor V hlte Hod lis and Lresses '
I 1110 pieces PRINlKIl LlNKN LAWN8, desir
able stvirs for liresses.
t'luny. vaiencienne ana other Lsocs; Insert- i
mgs, toginca r iouncini:H ami r.anUi, liiuidkor
cliicls, Veils, Collars. Merves, etc
'I he above are ollcred tor sa e CBUAP. and In
grcut VAKIK I Y. ' u
UADlEtt WOULD DO WELL TO EXAMINE.
628 11 hopop-itrtn 628
Manufactory, No. W8 ARCH Street,
Above Ixtli street. PULouelphia.
M holesalc and Ketull.
Our assortment ruibracesnll the new and deslrabto
styles and sizes ot every lencth and size waist lor
lades, Mlspes, ana Chile ten.
'1 bore ot Hi OWN HAFE" ate iivrrln Unit
and ilurab:n y to nny other blurts made, and warranto
to Kive ratlslactlcn
Skins made lo order, altered, and repslrcd: 2 45
FINANCIAL.
JAY COOKE & CO.,
No. Ill South THIRD Street,
BANKERS
AND
DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
U. 8. 63 OF 3881.
5-20s, OLD AND HEW.
10-lOsj CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS,
7 CO NOIES, 1st, 2d, and 3d Scries.
COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES WANTED.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
Collections
made. Stocks Bought and Sold on
Commiseioii.
Special Imsincss
LADIES.
accommodations
roserved for
6 7 2m
U, S. SECURITIES
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH &
BARKERS & BROKERS,
CO.,
16 S. THIRD ST.
PHILADELPHIA.
NASSAU ST.
NEW TOKK.
STOCKS AND GOLD
BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION,
HEBE AND IN NEW YORK. 31
RATIONAL
Mm OF THE REPUBLIC,
Nos. 809 and 811 CHESNUT Street.
(Organized nnder tbe "National Currency Act,' Match
30, ISC0.)
A regular BAXKI5G BUBIXESS transacted.
DEP08 IIS received upon the most liberal terms.
Especial attention given to COLLECT IOKB. f6 7IGt
JjAVIES CROTHER9,
No. 225 DOCK STREET,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
BUT AND SELL
CMTED BTATK8 BONDS, lf81s, 8-20a, 10 40s.
UK 11 ED STATES 7 8-lOs. ALL 1HBUES.
CFhllPICATEB OF INDEBTEDNESS.
Mercantile Paper and Loans on Collateral negotiated
Stocks Bought and Sold on Commission. 1 tl i
H AliPER, DURNEY & CO.
BANKERS.
STOCK AND EXCHANGE BROKERS,
No. 55 S. TUIllD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Stocks and Loans boneht and sold on Commission
Cncuncnt Bank Notes, Coin, iUo., bought and sold,
bpecial attention jtaitl to the purobosa and sale of
Oil S'ock. DeposiU received, and Interest allowed,
as per agreement. 86 8a
rUi: FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HAS EEMOVEDi
Lurinp the erection ot tbe
new Bank bulldinir,
1174p
TO
No. D05
CliESNUT STREET
5'20
S.---F IYE.TW13NTIES.
7'30s -SEVEN-THIRTIES
W A N T E D.
BE HAVEN & BROTHER,
No. 40 H. TnrRD Stkebt.
1 7
JOUEllT SHOEMAKER & CO.,
AVIIOI.ESALE DRIGGISTS,
MAKUFACTUEKRi,
IMrORTKES,
AND 3EALEES IN
Paints, Tarnishes, and Oils,
No. 201 NORTH FOURTH STREET
4 18 3m K. r. COENEIt OF RACE