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Adjournment of Congress.
From the Tribune.
The members of Congress are naturally anx
ious to find release from their legislative duties.
They are weary of Washington It? heat, its
mud, its duot, its odors they would gladly ex
change these for the trrectinn or the breeze of
home. And, because they would gladly bo at
home, we urste upon them t J hold on until they
shall have acted derisively on all the business
fall ly before them. For now the prosers and
the bores will not be endured; "general dehnte"
Is voted a nuhance and suppressed; ami almost
every day sees th business of Ihc session palpa
bly advanced towards consummation. W wish
Congress were reotly to adiourn to-morrow; yet
we protest against any adjournmeut till the
work of the session is clone. For do but con
sider tbat
The Tariff bill is not even reoorted. There Is
urgent need not only that the Tariff shall bo
thoroughly revised, but that we have a clean
Tariff not one that refers back to three or tour
out ol six or eight other1! to tlx Us meaniug but
one that Bays in and ot itself what shall bo tuo
rato of duty on every articl imported, and
makes those rates, so far as possible, specific.
We plead ior a ntiff tariff; but, hia;h or low, let
the rates of duty b3 nil distinctly specified in
the new net, and let thorn be specific.
Tueu wo should have decisive action on the
eurreucy. It oimlit lo be rigorously contracted,
bo a to make money comparatively scarce,
reduce the iullated prices now generally preva
lent, enable our people to construct railroads,
houses, etc., at reasonable rates, reduce our im
ports, and largely swell the volume ot our
exports. We are buying too iuucu and selling
too little, li vim; too high and getting too deeply
Into debt, speculating too much and working
too little; and toe not distant end will be a
grand crash if we do not promptly wear ship and
take in sail. And Consress ill make a great
mistake il it sujourns without acting decisively
in th? premises. It ought to empower the Sec
retary ot the Treasury to bring the country back
to specie paym-nt by the 1st ol Jauuary next.
A national bankrupt law should be enacted.
At all event, we demand ot its adversaries that
they let us have a decisive vote.
Many more subjects urgently solicit action,
an1 we trust will secure it. Thrf-e weeks will
sullice lor much important legislation, provided
members are so generally anxious to get away
that tucy will insipt on short speeches and fre
quent votes. Let Hon. Members leel as home
sick as may be, so that they hold on and in
sist ou finishing their work first aud adjourning
imtantly thereafter.
Russia Daring a European War.
Frovt Vie Times.
Tbe possible attitude of Russia in respect to
the war which appears to have been inaugu
rated in Europe has been matter of comment,
but there are considerations thereon which
have not received much prominence as yet.
For many years the efforts of Russia have been
Mirectcd eastward rarher than to the west. Her
growing influence has been towards the east,
and it has been an intlueuca not without benetit
to the advance of civilization. This advance
has been by a process of absorption rather than
that of conquest, aud the tribes of semi-savages
over whom her sway has been gradually ex
tended are certainly benetlted by that sway.
The extensive regions of Central Asia are not
the dominions ot reeulur kings or peoples; they
are indefinite in their habits and in their organi
sation". Their subsistence is gained often by.
plunder, and their progress has been but pro
gress in all that is barbarous. Towards these
.Russia hus been the great civilizing power.
And ner attention is more directed to their
development than towards schemes of aggran
dizement in Europe.
But England, it is said, views the advance of
Hussia towards the lrontier of India with jea
lousy aud even alarm. We (udge that tbir jea
lousy has been modified considerably ot late
by a calm review of the probabilities of the
case. There are geographical difficulties in the
way of an advance against India which would
euliice to put to flight tbe most earnest fears
for British supremacy in the East.1 And we
find, indeed, that a portion of the Eucrli ili press
is vigorous in its demonstrations that fo fur
lroni Russia being a dangerous rival, she is
fulfilling a destiny which comports with tbe
most friendly relations with tbe conqueror of
llindostan.
England has declared that she will be neutral
in the event of a German war. By taking sides
in such she would gain no material advantage,
and by abstaining from assisting either belli
gerent she could only loss prestige as a military
power. But Russia could lorce her into war,
perhaps, by another attempt to obtain control ot
tho highway from Europe to the East. And this
she will not do. The Germans and Italians may
and will fight to attain their several objects, but
for the present, at least, the course of Russia
does not point in their direction. Nay, if Napo
leon even sets an army in motion for the scene
of conflict, the situation as, regards Russia and
England does not change. Tney have their own
Tie w s and thpir own work, and can look on
philosophically at the mutual slaughter among
other nations.
This is, we think, the policy of Russia in
the present crisis. Tbe gathering together of
the "Nationalities" of Central Asia, under tbe
protection of a powerful and progressive empire,
presents much that it is agreeable to contem
plate. It is an enlightened policy as regards
the prowess ot civilization and the advance
ment of the Russian nation. We, here, who found
that, of all the European potentates, the most
cordial sympatby towards us was telt by tne Em
peror Alexander, when the time of our gieat
trouble unloosed the tongues of envious detrac
tors, can certainly teel pleasure in noting the
probability that in the desolation of Europe be
Is not likely to bear a part, and that while the
process of that desolation is carried out, his
course will be marked by the springing up of
new prosperities aud new enlightenment.
minority Report on Reconstruction.
from the World.
The minority of the Committee on Becoustruc.
Ftruction, consisting of Reverdy Johnson, A.J.
Rogers, aud Henry Rider, have submitted a
report dissenting from the reasoning and con.
elusions of the majority. This report, exhaus
tive and very able, is understood to have been
written by Mr. Johnson. It demolishes the
chief arguments used by Mr. Fessencien In the
majority report, and presents some points which
we do not recollect to have seen before. M its
reasoning could not, of course, be new, unless it
failed to touch on many of the strongest points
of the argument, and it was necessary that such
a replication should be lull and comprehensive.
The minority vigorously combat the skulking
assertion of the majority that the question
whether the Southern States are constitution
ally in or out of the Union is a "profitless
abstraction." This is the jnvot of the whole
controversy. Why is New York entitled to re
presentation, and Colorado not? For no other
reason in the world than because Colorado is
not a State in tbe Union, and New York is.
That each State is entitled to two Senators and
to as many Representatives as correspond to Its
population, is expressly declared in the Consti
tution Itself. When the malority call the oues-
tlon ot their statehood a "profitless abstrac
tion," tney practise a sutiterluge to evade an
tvpument tney are uuuoie to meet. luc argu
ment by which Tennessee and the rest are
proved to bo States Is unanswerable; anl this
point established, the rest is merely a qU'jtton
whether the Constitution shall be obeyeJ. Mr.
Fesscndcn shirked this point, beeause there
was no possibility ot successfully meeting it.
A ereat handle is made in tbe majority report
of the idea that the Rebels were belligerent
enemies. "Shall we admit public enemies Into
Congress to legislate tor us?" is tbe buidea of
their appeal. This clap trap keeps itself In
countenance by the judicial decision, made in
the prize cases, that the Confo lerates were bel
ligeierts. Mr. Johnson chows very clearly
that tho bearing of that decisiou has been mis
conceived. It hinged on tho rights of third
parties: its purpose wa- to showthat we pos
sessed such riuhts of war as lustifled us in cap
turing the ships and property ot the subjects of
foieign governments. A between us and
foreign States, it was war; as between our Oot
erument and its own citizens, it was an insur
rection. Mr. Lincoln's proclamations were
made, and troops called out, under the law lor
snppressinir insurrections.
But even granting that, as between us and the
Rebels, the South stood in the noFitlon of alien
enemies. blligereut rights could not outlast the
war. When one nation conquers another, it ac
quires oer It rights oi sovereignty. It thence
forward trovcrns the subjugated people, not as a
bcllieerent, but as a sovereign. But a nation
which tightsfor the recovcryof a portion ot its own
territory, merely recovers such rights of sove
reignty as it previously possessed, and no other.
It only regains, in tact, the same Jurisdiction it
alwaj's possessed in richt. But the measure of
this jurisdiction, under our Government, is the
Constitution; its extent is precisely what tho
Constitution denned it to be previom to the war;
precisely what was legally exercised over the
other Slates durinc the war.
With regard to the present disposition of th
Southern people, and tneir fitness to exercise
their constitutional rights, the minority quote
at length the affirmative and unimpeachable tes
timony of General Grant.
The minority triumphantly irove the absence
of danger from the plan ol the Committee itself
an argument which is very neatly put. The
danger against which we fought in the late war
was secession; and the majority of the Commit
tee, In their report, fail into much heated de
clamation on tho continued prevalence ot tne
secession theory at the South. Well I in view
of this danger, what have the Committee done?
The tit thing to do, the remedy which would
exactly meet the case, would bean amendment
ot the Constitution denying the riant of seces
sion. This would settle ttiat point; it would
drive the nail aud clinch it. But among the mul
titudinous amendments tq the Constitution
proposed by Republicans during the winter, an
amendment denying the right of secession t.as
not been thought neediul. This is a conclusive
proof that the Republicans, like everybody else,
see that all danger from this source has ceased.
But it there is no further danger from secession,
why dishonestly pretend tbat there is? Aud if
secession is an exploded chimera, prsy wbt is
the peril acainst which Congress thinks it neces
sary to provide?
It is pretended there is duntrer that the Fede
ral debt will not be pai 1, and that the Rebel war
debt W'U be naid; and the plan ot the Committee
embraces a Constitutional amendment to secure
the one and to prevent the other. But if this
amendment is offered in good fa th. why, in the
name of reason. Is it so lumped and mixed with
other amendments not related to it, that tbe
States cannot ratify it without, ut tlie same
time, ratifying things which they di-approve
and detest? Heretofore, amendments to the
Constitution have always ben presented in such
a manner that they could be acted upon sepa
rately, approving the ones tbev liked and refusing
to ratify such as tbey condemned. Tho amend
ment relating to the two war debts would, if
prest-ntd alone, be unanimously ratified by the
whole thirty-six States, without discussion or
delay. Why was not an opportunity eiven them
to do so, without renouncing a part of tneir rieht
to representation ? it looks as if Congress had
determined, by offering the prooosed amend
ments in the lump, that' the South should reject
tbem all, intending thereafter to raise a dishonest
cry that the Southern States relused to repudiate
the Confederate debt.
Besides tho dancer that the Rebel debt will be
paid, aud the Federal dobt repudiated, Congress
find another great danger which they think it
necessary to guard against by an amendment to
the Constitution. Thnt danger is well, what is
it? why it is the dreadful danger that tbe States
will have tho same number of Representatives
to which the Constitution, a it stands, declares
them entitled. In other words, the Constitution
is too dangerous an instrument to be permitted
to be in operation till certain leading provi
sions are amended outof it.
The Excluded States The Enabling Act
ltetore Congress.
From the Herald.
On Monday last, in the House of Representa
tives, Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, submitted a
resolution, which was adopted, requesting the
President to transmit forthwith to the Governors
of the several States the Constitutional amend
ment which has passed both branches of Con"
gress respecting citizenship, suffrage as the basis
of representation, Rebel disqualifications for
office, the sacredness of the national dubt, the
repudiation of all Rebel debts and all claims for
slaves, etc. A compliance with this resolution
being onlv an act of official courtesy, of course
the President will comply. Indeed, before the
resolution was offered, he had officially an
nounced, through the State Department, the
action of Congress on this amendment as com
plete. So far, then, this business of reconstruction is
transferred trom Congress and the Administra
tion to the Status aud the people. But this
amendment is only ihe corner-stone of the Con
gressional plan, or the beginning of the work.
The regular order of the day ou Monday last m
the House wvs a bill from the Committee of Fif
teen providing lor the restoration of the States
lately in insurrection to their full political
rights. The reporter concerned does not give us
a hint of the details of the bill; but we take It to
be the enabling act, which provides that when
this amendment shall ha i become part ot the
Constitution, and when any one ot the States
implicated in the lute Rebellion shall have not
only ratified this amendment, but modified its
local laws accordingly, the members to Congress
from such States, it" duly elected and qualified,
shall le admitted; an l, furthermore, that the
Slate tulniling these conditions shall have a
credit of ten years in reference to its quota ot
the national debt on me presentation oi ratisiac
tory securities to the Secretary of the Treasury
in view ot payment when due.
Now the question recurs, about what time
may we expect Tennessee, for instance, to be
reinstated in Congress under this enabling r.ct ?
The amendment in question roiirt first be ratified
by three fourths of the State, including Tennes
see; aud the State Legislature must then revise
all its local laws in conformity with this afore
paid amendment, excluding Rebels from office,
among other things, subject to absolution, by a
two-thirds vote of Congress, and puttinj whites
and blavks upon a looting of perfect equality
under the State authority, etc. This i6 a process
of purification as by tire and weter which will
not be finished this side the coming Presidential
election. The object of the bill is evidently a
job of work which will keep out ot Congress and
our Federal elections all the now excluded
States until after the settlement of the question
of the next Presidency and the Congress to be
elected at the same time. This point secured,
the admission of the excluded States may be
delayed and put off lor two or three, or ten or
twenty years longer, according to the conve
nience of the dominant party.
There is no guarauice in this bill that the
States directly concerned will ever be restored
under Us operation to their full political rights.
It Is a device of the party in power to retain
its power by the continued exclusion from the
Government of the States which might turn the
scale. But this thing must come to an end some
day, or the Government itself will cease to
exist as that of a republic. We cannot under
take the indefinite exclusion aud alienation ot
. clcveu States ol tUc I'ulon from the uational
councils without hazarding the gravest conse
queuces. Nor is there any other wiy of super
seding this plan and the party proposing it
than through tbe elections lor the next Con
gress; but the remedy is simple enough, and
may be made effective. Let the people of the
North who desire a practical restoration of the
Union without further pretexts and expedients
of delay, and who are anxious to see law and
order, confidence KDd industry, commerce and
prosperity restored over tbe Sonth, take their
ground lor a new Congress of new men and
conservative principles, and the game Is in
their hands. Republican candidates lor Gov
ernors may be worthy patriots and popular men:
Republican coi.stitutional amendments and:
piutlorms may be all well enough in their way;
but these things should not divert the pubfic
attention from the main question the elections
of !ho coming; tail for the next Congress.
TLo real issue, we say, carried over as It may
be with disguise, will stillcontinuethesame the
indefinite exclusion or speedy restoration to a
voice in the Governmeiit of the eleven Southern
States rescued by lire and sword trom a suicidal
rebellion. They have laid down their arms, they
have met the conditions prescribed by President
Johnson substantially the policy of ibis amend
ment trom Congress they are trying td prove
their loyally to the Union by their good wonts,
aud if they cannot all at once be relieved of
thrlr preudices in regard to the black man, and
be made to embrace him as an equal and a
brother, they are still entitled to some indul
gence. The white men at the N irth, equally
responsible for all the sins of negro slavery, in
setting it up as a political idol with the creation
ot the Government, have no right to pass a
judgment on this account against tho South.
For thi3 blunder, which was worse than the
crime, the North and the South havo paid the
penalty of tbe Moodiest civil war in the histjry
of the human family. Now, this great stumb
ling block of Southern slavery being removed,
wlih all its pernicious and ferocious influences
upon the body politic, what we have to tear
from the despoiled, disarmed, prostrate, ana
poverty-stricken people of the South? They
are powerless for any further mischief; but they
may, with a little encouragement, greatly assist
us of the North In the payment oi our national
debt. Let honett, patriotic Northern men con
sider all these things in making up their tickets
lor the next Congress.
State Governments in the Confederacy
Duiiug the War.
From the Daily Neva.
It is a lavorile assertiou of the radicals that
the Southern States had not, during the war and
at its dose, any civil goverumtut, and that the
pseudo-governments which were in existence
there were not republican in form. This idea
crops out in the rport of the Obstruction Com
mitiee in such expressions as these: "They
were in a state of complete anarchy, without
government;" they were ia an abnormal condi-
tion, without civil government," etc. This, as a R
statement, is i'u1l-: and, as an argument, is falla
cious. Secession made no chiiuee whatever in
the Constitution of the several Southern States,
and thi-ir government machinery worked as
smoothly as it ever had done. The Constitution,
government, and law of r-'outa Carolina, for ex
ample, were, in 1864, precisely what they were
in 18.-4. and what they had been for more than
three-quarters of a century. If South Carolina
had no civil government in then she never
had a civil government; it her government was
not republican at that date, then her govern
ment never was republican.
If A. G. Magrath was not the lawful Governor
of South Carolina, duly elected under ths pro
visions of the Constitution, then South Carolina
never had a lawful Governor, and the list of
worthies whom the State has honored by ele
vating to the chief magistracy is simply a list of
usurper.-. If the South wus, for a time, in a
state ot anarchy, alter tht surrender of General
Ji hiiRton, it was because the Governments were
struck down by the mailed hand ot the United
States, the. Legislatures forbidden to a-scmble,
aud the Governors and other officers of the Sta'.e
incarcerated. Upon this stale of tacts to make
the non-existence of established eovernmenti
the pretext for charging that the Stata them
selves had destroyed those governments by tbe
net of secession, is to insult the common een:-e
ol mankind. And if no better argument can be
found to Justify the refusal to acknowledge thoe
governments, their successors will mevi'ably be
characterized in history as mere usurpations.
Jefferson Davis' Sincerity.
From the Nation.
Dr. Craven, the post surgeon at Fortress Mon
roe, has fallen a victim to the prevalent mania
for book-making, and has produced a full, true,
and particular account of Jetlerson Davis' beha
vior since his committal to that stronghold.
The doctor informs the world with much earn
estness that he has always been a Union man
and an anti-slavery man, and that, if his work
displays sympathy with the prisoner, it must
not be interred that he has, or has ever had, the
smallest sympathy with secession. In other
words, like a true Christian, he bates the sin
while loving and commiserating the sinner. He
also protests strongly tbat he has in no line com
mitted the smallest violation of professional
confluence, wnattver Air. jjavis toid nun as his
medical adviser shall descend witb him to the
tomb; but everything else about the unfortunate
man, his leelings, his fancies, his chagrins, his
weakeiifses, his opinions, bis habits, all the
petty acts of his file, from bis pulling on his
stockings in the morning to the putting out of
his caudle at night, that a vigilant and minute
observer could catch and write down from day
to day, may be learned of Dr. Craven for the
small sum of one dollar and n quarter.
If Mr. Davis is satisfied with the volume no
body else has a right to coinnlaiu ; but it he is,
both he and Dr. Craven must at least have the
decency not to claim credit for rmn-h delicacy of
fueling! If the book uave any obiect beyond
the turning ot an honest penny, and we are
bound in courtesy to suppose that it has, it is
to excite the sympathy of the public ior the
pri-oner, and prepare the way for general acqui
escence either in his pardon or in his aequittal
after a sham trial. Thatait will be partially suc
cessful we have no doubt, and that any effort in
this direction meets with the highest official
approval we have just as little doubi. There
have been several Indications of late ot a neak
iug desire on the part of those who have him m
custody to turn him loose, it a reasonable pre
text could be found for doing so; and it would
he diflicull to find a better mode of reconciling
the couutrv to seeing him buck in Mississippi
tnan the publication ot such arecord o! hlssuf
feiings and thinkings as Dr. Craven's.
There is nothing in the volume more striking
or able, or more artful, than Mr. Davis' defini
tion of the -truggle in which he figured 60 promi
nently. He now dclares tbe war to have been
merely a rough and painful, but inevitable
mode of deciding a difference ot opinion, honest
on both sides, between the North and South, as
(o the structure of the Government, declares
that he always to regarded it. and therelore did
bis best to prevent the infusion of unnecessary
bitterness into it. As to the value of this as a
statement ot facts, we will only say that many
ot Mr. Davl9' speeches during the halcyon days
of the Confederacy furnish a f trance commen
tary upon it. ...
What concerns us most to know is not whether
the secesfcioni.-t leaders were honest in thinking
they had the rii;ht to secede, but whether they
were justified in resorting to arms in assertion
ot it. This is the real question in ad cass ot
treason. We doubt if treason, in the sense ot
levying war on an established government, tas
ever been committed by men who might not
fairly claim credit for an honest belie! in the
iusticc of their cause. Treasonable attempts
on the lives of sovereigns or ministers of state
have, ot course, as olten been made by knavish
conspirators as by honest fanatics; but wo
doubt whether there has ever been a rising m
arms, on a considerable scale, lor the purpose
nf riviirthrnuiinir ft cnvemilliellt. in Which thO
great body oi the Insurgents were not thoroughly
satisflcd that they had God and the right on
their side. This hss been true ot every revo
lution or attempt at,revolutlon that bar ever
occurred in 'Europe. Men In civilized coun
tries are not so fond of disorder and turbulence,
do not reck so little of the horrors of civil war.
as to take arms in mere wantonness, and
imperil their lives aud fortunes lor the sake of
a little excitement. And wben our Constitu
tion made treason a crime it undoubtedly con
templated tho possibility of largf bodies of
men becoming dinfatisiicd with the Government,
and attempting to overthrow it ior some reason
that might seem to them pood.
Nobody doubts that Jelfiison Davis believed
honestly in the rigftol secession. There was
no law asainst his doing so. There is no law
against any man's doing so. Nobody but an
Eastern tyiant would seek to prevent a man's
holding any theory of the nature of the Govern
ment he pleases Tou may, even in St. Peters
burg, hoid the Emperor to be either a despot, a
constitutional monarch, a pope, or a usurper;
you pay our taxes and choose your own view
of tbe e'baiacter of those who receive them.
Any Huneanan In Austria may consider Francis
Joseph merits dethronement, and any legitimist
in Paris may be as satisfied as he pleases that
Louis Napoleon is a robber, and that Henry V
oi. gut to be on the turon?. Bid In noneot these
cases would anybody be allowed to enforce his
opinions with the sword. It is in this resort to
arms that treason consists. There is no moral
or legal guilt in holding the Calhoun doctrine f
oi State rights: but tnere is moral and legal
guilt in attempting to put it into practice by J
lorce.
What Mr. Davis and his fellowa ask us to do is
to treat everybody who chooses to get up a
rebeil on, and (lives some plausible reason tor it,
i.s an houept fellow, only a little mistaken.
Vi bat would he have raid to this plea it put
lorward on behalf of John Brown? Whs Ac not
honest ? Was not his difference of opinion with
the charlatan who wns then Governor of Vir
ginia, and who now Haunts his treason in our
laces with perfect impunity, as to the constitu
tion ot Southern socieiy, just as slucero as Mr.
1,'avis' on the right ot secession? Bui was that
held by Southern lawjers to be nnv justification
of his rising ? No society could hold together for
tn j ears which tolerated a doctrine so mon
strous. ( No government is worthy of t he name
which is compelled to inquire into tbe motives
ot those who seek to desiroy it before punishing
them; and to suppose that the Haulers of the
Constitution, while defining treason, left it to
each citizen to decide when his commission ot it
was justifiable, is to accuse them of having
inserted a soiry joke in the most solemn and
important stale paper in history.
If Jetlerson Davis is punished and we trust
he will be it will be not to gratiiy any personal
hatred lor him, but io prevent others like him
from ever again trying to put theories of gov
ernment into practice by force of arms, as long
as the press is free and the ballot-nox open. It
is in having done this that his crime consists.
We care nothiug nbout his theories. All we
know is that he killed two hundred thousan 1
neu. and covered the land wim desola-ion, in
have been directed to do this in a vision, or may
have "come to it hy reading his D;ble; but it is
enough torus to kno -v thai to admit sincerity
as an excuse for it. would Dlacc the lives and
lortunes of the community at the mercy of its
knaves and fool.
There is one other reason which is, in our
minds, hardly iess cogent. We mivo tilled the
holo earth tor the last lour years with denun
ciations ol toe moral guilt, of the Rebellion. We
have dinned into everybody's ears without
ceasing that tha secessionist leaders were design
ing knaves, thai their crime was the greatest
crime and our cause the holiest cause in history.
We owe it to our own character, therefore, and
to the moral eene of our own people not to let
these men go unwhipped of iustice. Either the
war as conducted by us was a great outrage on
human rights, or thone wbo began it deserve
somu worse fate than defeat deserve from us
f ome solemn, emphatic, and judicial indication
of our estimate of rheir guilt.
We know of nothing that tends more to blunt
people's sense of right and wrong, and foster
that growing Indiflerenco to the moral aspect of
onenses against the law. which we dignity with
the name oi good nature, thau to Hunt men down
for lour years with pravers, and tears, and exe
crations, (-bedding our best blood in our efforts
to catch them, for having committed the foulest
ot otlenses, and having caught them, to laugh
with tbem over the chase and send them back
to their homes. There are oeoole who see
something sublime in our horror of crime, and
in our growing disposition to let criminals go on
lree. We see in It nothing but an excessive re-
action lrom the blind seventy of a past aae, the
growth oi an etl'etninacv which makes many
, i .. ' ... . J
gooo men uouot wuetner a tjnrisiian common
wealth be possible.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PARDEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE
IN
LA FAYETTE COLLEGE.
In addition to the general Course of InHrnctlon in
il ix i epururmi. upsipoeil to lay a substantial tm-iis of
know Iciifce ai U scholarly culture, students can pursue
llmse IjrniicLis which are essentially praciicul and
EMUXEl-UIM'.Clvll. Topoirrophleal. and Media
nnul; MJMM! uuc JlETAI.lXliGY i AKi HllC-
1 1 it is, niuiijjo ci'Miianon ol Cfceiulbtry to AUKlCLii.
'it Iti-. auUtheAIlTS. '
Tl'fie is &Ho n Lorded an opportunity torspecinl study
mill 1 111L0L0GY, and of the HiSTOltY and
ls i 1 1 L"i iu oi our couiitiy.
For ( licuiara apply to l'tcAliltnt C ATT FIX, or to
lloi. K. B. YOUNUMaN.
t lirk ot die faculty
Fastos, Per.nKvlvanla, April 4. lfctti.
old
NOTICE. ON AND AFTER THE
inth nutnnt. ine r7HKi kttfs nm-i-i
WMf mi A.(.u, . J.. win be open ior tho reception.
OI viKiiura. X-t.yjAJilH A. SHUE.M AKLK.
lui ITopnotor.
H5F
BATCH EL UK'S II A IK DYE
u i-: ni-.ai i.N the woRi.n.
HHimlecs. reliable, netuntaiieous. The only perfect
dve. o ulfappolntineut. no rlUluuloug tinu, but true
to nature, b.atk or brown.
UEM1E IS hlO.NEil WILLIAM A. BATCHELORJ
. "Vf.Vi.
n etenerauoK tiaci oi m limienrs restores, preserves
and beautifies the Lajr. prevent ba dness. 8u d by all
muslins, r aciory o.ol BARCLAY tt-,N. Y. 33
2T
JUST PUBLISHED-
T me i nMcians ot tne
KW YOKK lUl'SEUM,
tbe Ninetieth Edition oi their
FOVK LECTURES,
entitled
PF.If.OSfiFHT OF MARKIAGK.
To be bad iree. lor tour stamps, by audiessini; Hecre
tar t York Museum of Anatomy,
7 17i ho. 018 BROAD WAY. Sew York.
DINING-ROOM F. LAKE3IEYER
CAK'I Fit '8 Al ev. would resnccrul v In.-onn the
I'ublie cm lis I ly that be has leitnotli'nK undone 10 niaku
this place comfortable in every respect ior the accoin
moilaiion oi vuexts. He has onened a large and eoov
modious Iliriiiig-lloom in the second siorv Ills S1DJ-:
JKMKH U lurnlclifd with l-hANJIF8. W1.NKS.
W'l-KY, Etc.. FlC 01 bCFFKlOB BRANDS. 11
K
L E I N
s
WILLOUGHBY S,
MASO-N'S,
LYMAN'S,
P A T K N T
AIR-TIGHT
ELF-SEA LINfi
FRUIT JARS.
All the above Jars w
offer to our customers and
he public Reoorai y, with
entire conudeuce, at tao
.- i n i. AW
""-lay
KLINES
PATENT t
1863
II
LOWEST
Market Price.
A. J. WEIDENER,
9 lm So. 38 8. SECOilD Street, Philadelphia.
THREE GENERAL AGENTS WANTED TO
act in Important locations for the Dew Yor Acci
dental Insurance Company. Active men ol good address,
apply to FHAJSK. O. ALLF.N, Uraitik OOke, Ho. 4ll
iliKSKVIBtrciJU Afolieoou. .ill
i
2
SUMMER RESORTS.
gUMMER 11ESOIITS
ON LINK OF
Reading Railroad and Branches.
MAyS ION VOUS F, MOUNT CARBOX,
Jlrs. Caroline Wander, rottsville P. O., Schuylkill oo
2 USC A RO It A UOTtL,
Jlrs. Bannao Miller, Tn'carora P. O-.PchuyhxUIco
MA11AH Or CITY HOTEL.
a. W. Frost, Mahanoy City P. 0.,8ohuylVltlco.
WUITK HOUSE,
Airs. Susan Marsaorf, Reading P. O
ANDALUSIA,
James 8. Madeira, Reading P. O.
LIVING KFRIAGS HOTEL.
T Dr. A. Smith, WcfdcrsvUle P. 0.. Berks CO
S0U1H MOUNTAIN HOUSE,
II. II. Manderbach, Womelsdorf P. 0., Berks co.
COLD ST RINGS HOTEL,
Lebanon co., Charles Roedcrmel, UarrlsburgP. O.
BOYEimOWN SEMINAHY.
3. B.Henky, Boyeraiown P. O., Berk co.
YELLOW SPRINGS HOTEL,
B. R. rinydcr, Yellow Springs P. 0., Chester co.
L1TIZ SPRINGS,
Bamncl Llcbtenthaler, LItlzP O., Lancaster co
EPHBATA MOUNTAIN SPRINGS,
Alexanders. Feathei, F.phrata P. O., Lancaster co
JPRiL 21,1666. 4 233m
JjQ X C II A N G E HOTEL,
ATLANTIC CITY.
The subfcribcr, eratotiil for past fa7rs, tenders
thanks to his patrons aud the publio lor tho goncrous
custom riven nlm, and ben leave to say that bis
house Is dow open tor tho season and ready to ro-
coivo boarders, permanent and transient, on the
most modvrato terms. 1 no bar will always be sop
plied wlib tho choicest of wines, liquors, and cifrars,
and superior old alo. The tables will be set with tbe
best the market affords.
Fishintr lines and tacklo always on hand.
Stablo room on tho promises.
All the comfcrts of a hom'i can always be found at
tho Exchange.
GEORGE HAYDAY,
614thBtu2m PROPRIETOR.
N
A T I O X A L II O T E L
AND
KXCUKSION HOUSE,
Atlantic City, N. J.
The undersigned haviiiR teased the above favorite cs
tabllshment. and having refitted and refurnished
throughout, it will bo open tor the reception ot guests
on SATURDAY June 16. 1WMJ.
Tbe table will be supplied with the best the season
affords Including Oysters, Fish, Clun.s, etc. etc., and
none but the pure.it Wines, Liquors, Cigars, etc., se
lected for tlieBar.
Committees of Excursions will And It the only pUce
la the city whete they can be accommodated, huving
the largest ball-roon., and music lree of charge
J. WILLETT,
6141m PROPRIETOR.
UNITED STATES HOTEL
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,
Will open for the reception of guests on
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27.. 1866.
BODWOUTH'M BAND engaged lor the season.
Persons deslrfng to engage rooms will address
lillOWN fc WOEI-PPKU,
1'ROPhIErOKS, ATLANTIC CITY,
Or So. Vll R1CH3I0KD Stroet,
6 9 2mrp Philadelphia.
mHE WARM SPRINGS, NEAR HUNTING
X don, Pennsylvania This dullgbtinl summer resort,
live miles north of the 1'enusylvaiua Kill, road, at Hun
tingdon i'a.. Is now open lor Win accommodation ot
vijlfnrj 1 Iim Inr-utinn lieRilfllill thA wjlfi.r lnvllrn-
ratlnu. fine grounds 101 hunting, driving, eto. ifone
croek. near the Snriuirs. altorus nood Iwutor lor fishing,
'I here is no more romuutlo pot in the country, and lor
Invalids ibe fresh air and sweet scenery are especially
deniable. 'Ihe Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
Issue excursion tickets to visitors irom June 10 to Octo
ber 1. Loinlortnble coaches run daily between tho
Springs and Hunt ngdon. For particulars address me
at Uuntinudon. fa.
WILLIAM J. OEISSISGEE. Proprietor.
References Hon. William A. Ponor, colonel Charles
T Mnitliens hTi-nm street baths: L T. Wattson. Esn,
Preiiiii-nt Hnnilrikilon and Broad Tod Railroad Com
pany t Colonel A. K. Chambers, firm of Chambers &
i.neil. No 32 N. 'third street: Charles M. Allmond.
tsq , Proprietor Washington House. 6 20 lm
QONGRESS HALL,
CAPE ISLAND, N. J.,
WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 1.
There has been lidded to tbls popular House, since last
season, tbe entire Ocean House property, giving: an ocean
iront oi ovtr 10 leot, and over u rooms iron uuk and
in lull view ol the sea. ... .
A perlect system of sewerage and dralnase has been
completed, a feature possessed by lew Uotois outside of
large cities. ... .
Hie appointments of the House throunhont nave re
ceived a most careful supeivision. suvgested by the ex
perience oj oast seasons, i or apai tmvuu. auc reg
J . F C A iv K,
Congress Hall.
jHassler's Brass and Htrine Band, 429 U 14
THE PIEIl HOUSE.
rOUT PEXX, DELAWARE.
JONATHAN DRAPER, Proprietor.
Ihe Proprietor having purchased this well-known
bouse, is now prepared to receive boardera at 98 OJ per
week.
Tbe lovers of good gunning and fishing can here tully
enjoy that luxury.
Excellent bathing, and a maynfflcent beach extending
for milts. M "
rpiLE TAMMANY HOUSE,
SOUTH CAROLINA AVENUE,
SEAR THE DEPOT, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
Tbe subscriber takes pleasure in Informing his former
natrons and tbe ouO.lo, that Uie above house is now
open where be vMU bo happy to receive all who may
Uln counccilonVlfn the ITotol, be has opened a FIRST
CLAMS UlLLlAhU KOOM.
ELIAS CLEAVER,
6141m FLOFRIKTOR.
T IUIIT HOUSE COT T A G E,
Atlantic City, N. J.
JONAH WOOTTON & 60N, PROPRIETORS,
Ji m io l" nor the uan n.
The best location k.n the Island, belny the nearest
house to the su-i. A continuation of past patronane is
respectfully solicited. " l"P
KENTUCKY HOUSE.KENTUCKY AVENUE.
Atlantic City, N. J.. Is now open lor the recep
tion of bosrders. HavlUK one oi the flnest Ipoallous on
t..e Islanu and hetng nearest to the best bathiiiK on
the bench, it oilers superior inducements to visitors to
A6U tU "y FRANCIS QViOLEY, Proprietor.
CONTINENTAL HOTEL,
U LONG P.11ANCH, . J.
This new mammoth hotel, the latest in the country
Is now open ior the season Accommodations lor UWJ
neisona. Aiiurcs
6PKACUE & BTOKEH,
Proprietors.
618 lm
DRY GOODS.
CAPE MAY ' i
j ATLANTIC CITY, .
AND LONG BRANCH.
DBEIFUSS & 13ELSINGER.
No. 49 North EIGHTH Street,
HAVE OPENED ON IHE 14th IK8T.,
A new aud doslrable lot of
ZEPIlYIt NIT SHAWLS
Suitable for the Watering riaocj, including a
splendid assortment of
WHITE GOODS.
WCKKD MUSLIN.
8I1IKBED SIUSLIN.
SWISS MUSLIN,
PLAID NAINSOOK.
STRIPED NAINSOOK,
9U CAMBRIC NAISSOOK.
Ho. KU CnKSNUT BTREF.T.
E. M. NEEDLE S,
No. 1024 CIIi:SNUT STREET,
orntits at tow fricer,
2000 PIECES WHITE GOODS,
2 Inrludlns all varletlea P birred. Purled. Tucked
55 Plaid, htrlped, 1'laln aud Kicured MUSLINS
4):SUMBme lur t. iutiit's anu i.tessos
lot pieces PK1NTFI) LLM&N LAWNS, desfr-
able stvies for presses.
" Clunv. Vaienclnne and other Laces : Insert
v i lncs, KdRlnni siounclma and Kandt, Handker
jr, i clilels, Veils. Collars. Sleeves, eto
I ne noove are ouereu ior sa.e CtlllAP. and In
great VARIKI Y. . "
JLAD1F.U WOULD DO WELLT0EXAM1SE.
Xa-JltlJB iiUKWa Hi) KOI 'OS
G28
II O P K 1 X 8' poo
HOOP-SKIRT UO
Above Hxth strreu Philadelphia.
W bolesale and Retail.
Onr assortment embraces ail ihe new and desirable
styles nnd sizes, oi every length and size waist for
Ladles, Hisses, and Children
'1 hose of OOh OWM MAKE" aie swp-rtVrln Unit
and durab'iiip to any other bkirta made, and warranto
to uive satisfaction
hktris made to order, altered, and repaired. J (
FINANCIAL.'
JAY COOKE & CO.,
No. 114 South THIRD Street,
BANKERS
AND
DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
U. S. 6s OK 1881.
6 20s, OLD AND NEW.
10-40s; CEE1IFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS,
7 0 li OIES, 1st, 2d, and 3d Scries.
COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES WANTED. '
INTEKfcSr ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
Collections
mado. Stocks Bought and Sola on
Commission.
Special business
LADIES.
accommodations
reserved for
6 7 2m
U. S. SECURITIES
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH &
BANKERS & BROKERS,
CO.,
16 S. THIRD ST.
PHILADELPHIA.
NASSAU ST.
NEW YOKK. ;
STOCKS AND GOLD
BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION,
HEEE AND IN NEW YOEK. SI
RATIONAL
BAMt OF THE REPUBLIC,
Ncs. 809 and 811 CHESNTJT Street.
(Organized under the "National Currency Act,' Marcls
30, 18ttS.)
A regular BASKISQ BUSINESS transacted.
DEPOSITS received npon the most liberal terms.
Esoeclal attention Riven to COLLEC1 IOSS. 8 7 16t
JAV1ES BROTHERS,
No. 225 DOCK STREET,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
BUI AUD CELL
CNITKD BTATES BONDS, 1881s, B-20s, 10 40s.
UNITED STATES 7 3-10s, ALL ISSUES.
CFKT1E1CATES OF INDEBTEDNESS,
kiercsntlle Paper and Loans on Collaterals negotiated
btotks Bought and Sold on Commission. 1 11 s
JJ AllPER, DURNEY & CO.
BANKERS.
STOCK AND EXCHANGE BROKERS,
No. 55 S. TD1I1D STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Stocks and Loans boupht and sold on Commission
Uncunent Banit Notes, Com, We bought and sold.
i-K cial attention paid to tbe purchase and safe ol
Oil S'ocks. Deposit received, and Interest allowed,
as ptr agreement. 858m
pIE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HAS REMOVED1
DuririK the erection of tbe new Bank building,
in 1174p
No. i05 CliESNUT STREET
5'20 S-F 1 V E - T W E N T I ES.
7303 -SEVEN-THIRTIES
WANTED.
DE HAVEN fc BROTHER,
17 No. 40 9. Thibd Sibeet.
LOST.
OST-THK CERTIFICATE NO. 1221. IS
I sued by the City of Phlladelnnia lill t nrnvlda
lor the suDsoripiion io ino I'uLnsylvuula Kallroad Com
pany's stock, uated September sia, Ihm lor one tou-eud
dollars, payable to Joliu GartU Dodsson, ot l'reton,
Lancashire. Euirland, and Bry Hbarp. of London. Kua
land, trustees, bearing interest at U per cent, per an
uuut. Kedeeuiable July I itttf. 6 utnl!H