THE DAILl EVENING TELEGRAPH. PIIILADELPIIIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 186G. LITERATURE. Bummfr Rest. By Gail Hamilton. '.Boston: Tlcknor A Fields. Gail Hamilton la a prolific writer fearfully BO. When a woman takes up the pen in thorough earnestness, as she most assuredly has done, this is apt to be the caae. But, fortunately for ler own reputation, she has not drifted Into the channel of romance, as women writers are co apt to do. Had sho made this venture, sue cess would have been doubtful; at least If she Jiad pereloted in that stately, idiomatic style of dialogue in which heraoli nd Halicarnassus iave figured o conspicuously of late. Not that It to without its charms, for the truth of the matter is directly the reverse. Tet it Is far from Statural, and bears on ite very surface the marks fcf great painstaking. Tbat we should find in the six volumes which the author of "Country Xivlng and Country Thinking" has already given to the world many dull platitudes and ovcratrainod arguments, is not a matter of sur prise. ' She has chosen, perhaps, the most diffi cult department of literary labor that ol cloth Ing the wearisome monotoies of every-day life Vlth a garment that is ever new, sparkling, and attractive. In the accomplishment of this tak she has met with greater success than any Cther living writer. Her books have been ,VrHely read and admired, both at homo and fcbro.id; and we feel quite sure that in ' Summer Jlest" there has been no falling off in the old fire and enthusiasm, that it will be as widely read and as greatly admired as have been any ot its predecessors. As to whether her writings are destined to anything more than a merely eplie Jneral popularity is, indeed, a question. Her great aim has always been present effect; and true to this, she has become a disciple of that Jnodern school whose Hole dogma is the discard ing ot all the multifarious rules of rhetoric "Which find their most frequent and admirable illustration in the pages of Addison and of Dr. Earn Johnson. The spirit which thus disregards She wholesome canons of the old "Spectator" school is intensified to the highest pitch in f Gala Days" and "Summer Rest." The author. fairly revels in her new atmosphere of short, Eharp words and angular sentences. As she her self has somewhere beautifully said, she has gone "out into the highways and hedges, and gathered up the rough, wild, wilful words, iheavy with the hatreds of meu, and tilled them to the brim with honey-dew." This principle, which is the guiding one in ler style, serves likewise as a key to the subject-matter of her books. To adopt and use 3er own words, "the mystic spirit stirs even in commonplaces; a golden hue suffuses her ! atmosphere; a vague, fine ecstacy thrills to Jhc sources ot lite;" and the is thus able to lift earth up to heaven. The greater portion, and certainly the most interesting portion, of "Su tu rner Rest" deals exclusively with these enno bled commonplaces is suffused with this golden .lue. A rooster, lor example, is a very coinmon- 3lace affair when regarded through the simple sunlight; but glance at him when invented with Shis golden hue, and ''Wliere is there a more magnificent bird tban 3e7 What a loltr air I What a spirited pose ot the bead 1 Koto bis elaborately scalloped comb, 2is stately stepping, tue lithe, quiok, graoolul emotion ot his aronmg neck. Alar his brilliant , 2luniage, smooth and lustrous as satin, sort as floss1 puk. w nat necklace ot a aucne3 ever surpassed in ' Sbeauty the circle ot leather which lie wears layer Shooting over layer, op and down, hither and , ahilber, an amber watcrlaU, swtit and soundless a "tbe light, but never disturb. ng the mntcjiloss otder t ma ariayf What piume iroin Airican deserts , can rival the rh hues, tbe graceful curve, and tha Uaiiu-like erectuess of his tail 1 All bis colors are Oropical. With every quick motion tbe lints obange sis in a prism, and each tint is more splendid tban aiie last; green more beautiful than any green, ex aocpt tbat of a duck' neck; brown intlltrated with -sold, and ranging tbrougb the whole gamut of its possibilities. (1 am not sure that this last is correct dn point ot expression, bat it is correct in point of sense, at any one who ever saw a red rooster will liear witness.)" And how attractive she renders the habitation I .1,1- vnnrvnlMAn. lit.. .... .1 hla r , r, vulgarly stvled a "hen-coop:" "An immense wooden sarcophagus only nobody IiaiI nv.r liAnn riftnnntafl in it viprhAiw it. wn a . liarae-trourh in it dav was set uo 'on end.' and Kurutd into a three-story bouse. Fresh, sweet ' rmollina hay was piled on each floor, and such at tractive little nests were scooped out therein, that a ' Tinn of a dumeatia turn ol mind would an there and t iay,Ju"t lor tbe inn of it, you might suppose lheu . jies, and the hospital, and the vistas, and the pali- eauos, and tho inner and outer courts every ar " xanitenient that heart ot ben could wish, both for ecluion and lor society why, those fowls might lave dreamt they dwelt in marble ball every night f their lives, and not have been very far ont of tue wav 1 And tbe summer residences that he made for them little (jothio cottage built lorasinirle family, ' "with all tbe modern conveniences, and a eood mauv 3noie improvifed on the spot, and with this signal advantage over similar structure at Newport and Xtahant that you can take them under your arm, gnaoarry mom wnerever you pieaae. While speaking of the habitations of the icath ! cred tribe, we will subjoin one more passage de fccriptive of the habitation of the birds. It is Singularly beautiful: "lhink of living In a great green overlapping forest, green above, around, Oeueatn you, endless ihrougb a thousand portals, and leaving soit waver- . ans sliadows everywhere, gentle gales whispering jiielodies, and murmuring sweot lullabies, or some lime a brave breeze trumpeting some martial air 3hai rouses all the nre in your blood; to be sur- Tountfed lor davs and weeks with great pink and " 'white bio'soum bigger than your head, deeps over "lead, and deeps noil er loot, drooping and swinging all through the silent night, and the Buitry noon and dawn, and twilight between; and every Crystal cup " 2riiumed and overflowing with pungent, delicious odors no wonder the birds are drunken with duilght and tour iortli uon mad bacchanal songs as stagger " their little frame and set tbe whole orchurd a-tremble I" Turning over the leaves at random, we come upon another striking passage of like character to the above. A motherless calf, that horror of t the "Country Parson," is thus tenderly and elo .. quently cared for: 1" ' "You did not witness the welcome we gave our . toor little favorite, torn all tremb'ing Irom its another's side by the stern demand of some greedy Jiuroe; how we stroked bim, and pattod him, and Wiring your pardon scratched bis head, and so soothed away hi sorrow ere he was aware; ho we , clayed hi ttaggeriug limbs, and because he was too 3oung, and knew not how to urink, but only Btared at the basin, and at us and vacancy, in an uucer- t aain, moonstruck way. did I not put my own lingers ante tbe milk and draw his mouth down to tnem, and, deceived bv the pious fiand, did not the poor 3ittle hungr innocent like Dido of old, drink large draughts ot love, ia happy ignorance that it was not jiature's own arrangemeui lor suou casts made and provided r" But there is great diversity in the book, and Snucb sober and serious thought The chapter rntitled "Glltillan's Sabbath," for instance, is a ' jnaeterly attack upon that spirit of old fogyism still lingering in bo many pulpits, which would . . throw the world back twenty centuries, for the sake of a literal interpretation of Old Testament texts, and a blind and ttupld adherence to doc trines and ceremonials which have been rem- alered entirely obsolete through the benign Vnflu- , jpnoes of Christianity. i Tn South: A Tour of it Battlfl-lds and Ruined Citii, a Journey through ths Ueso Intert States, and Talks with the People, et-. By J. T. Trowbridge. Hartford, Conn.: L. Stebbins. Philadelphia Agents: GarrottACo., Seventh and Chesnut streets. Sold only by subscription. Mr. Trowbridge is at least well, if not favor ably known to the American public as the author of several novels,' one of which, "Lucy Arlyn," was issued trom the press but a short time since. He now appeara in the new role of a chronicler of the effects of the recent civil war upon the people and prospects ol the Southern States. To prepare himself for this task he made two visits to the 8outh during the pat winter and the preceding summer. Follow. Ing in the track of the destroying armies, by river, rail, and stage, he visited most of the cele brated battle-fields of the war.'and made the acquaintance of a host oi officers and citizens who had severally cast their fortunes with both parties to the contest. The conversations which he held with these persons were Jotted down in his note-book at the time, or immediately thereafter, and these compose the bulk of the volume which he has )ust published under the above title. As it is written in a narrative torra, nitd is so richly interspersed with dialogue, it has all the attractive features of a romance. It is true there are no such daring adventures and hnir-brcadth escapes as betel the "special1 during the period of actual warfare; and in that res-pect the book differs materially from the multitude of works of a similar character which are ialllng so thickly and heavily from the press. But it is a plain narrative, by an honest man, who was intent upon the single point of seeing and hearing all that was to be heard and seen. The picture of the South with which he has presented us is by no means a flattering one; it can be summed up in the single phrase anarchy slowly developing into order. Mr. Trowbridge belongs to the Atlantic school of politicians, and we can, therefore, expect no whitewashing operation from his brush. lie has told us the plain truth, even though he may thereby have disturbed the equanimity ot some of his reconstructed friends. And his nar rative is merely a confirmation of the testimony of all the candid men who have visited and studied the Souih since the war he was enabled by lour months of diligent inquiry to see "but one plain rule by which our troubles can be finally ana satisfactorily adjusted; and that is, the enactment of simple justice to all men. Anything that falls short of this," he continues, falls short of the solution of tbe problem." This "simple justice," he contends, is the placing of the ballot in the hands of the emancipated negro. On this point he employs the following lnnsuuge: "Our allies on the ba'tlo-fleld would have become our allies at the ballot-hox, aud by domic ju-ticu to them we should bave gaiuod Becunty for ourselves. But are the lately emancipated blacks prepared lor tbe liauchl eT They are, by all moral and intellec tual qua locations, as well prepared font as the mass of poor whites in the tsouih. Although ignorant, thev possess, as baa been said, a strung instinct which stand them in;the place of actual kno vledge. That instinct inspires tbeui witb loyalty to tue b ov er iiuient, and it will never permit them to vote so unwisely ami miBchievousiv as the white peopie of the South voted in the days ot secession. More over, there are among them men of fine intelligence and leading influence, by whom, and not by their old masters, as has Doon claimed, tney win be in structed in their duty at the polls. And this faot is most certain that they are tar better prepared to bave a band In maklug the laws by whioa they are to be governed, than the whites are to make those bwb for them. "How t bis step is now to be brought about is not easy to determine: and it may not be brought about for home time to come. In the meanwhile it is neither wise nor just to allow tbe representation of the southern state ia congress to do increased oy the emancipation of a race that has no voice in that representation; and some constitutional remodr against tbis evil is required." Mr. Trowbridge wields a scholarly and grace ful pen, but in the work before us he has in dulged in no unnecessary rhetorical flourishes, which would have been manifestly out of place. New Physiognomy; or, Signs of Character, as manifested tnrougn Temperament and Ex ternal forms. By Samuel R. Wells. New Yerk: Fowler & Wells. Philadelphia Agent: J. L. Capen, No. 25 South Tenth street. The science of physiognomy, which was founded by Lavater in the latter part of the last century, is thoroughly exhausted in this volume by Mr. Wells. It is besides a veritable portrait gallery, and contains a representation oi every imaginable creature of the human species, from the bearded Turk up to the Maid of Saragossa, and down to the slavering idiot. Every external index of character, whether imaginary or real, is likewise discoursed upon. We are told how to determine the pabslons and predilections of our lellow-men by the crooks in their noses, the lobes on their chins, the wrinkles in their foreheads, the waves in their hair. Some people believe in these things and some do not. But the author is disposed to be lenient towards the latter class, bidding his reader to "prove all things, and hold fast ouly tbat which is good." The volume is abundantly illustrated, and presents otherwise a fine speci men ot the typographical art. Books ok tdb War. The manufacture of books upon the recent war has become a lead ing enterprise in Hartford, Connecticut. There are four separate houses engaged in the business, their publications being only seven in number, ail told; and yet the following immense sales bave been realized: Heaaley's Hibtory, 2 rols 032, 600 Greeley's " 1st vol lioO.UOO Ktttei' " 8MOO0 Nurse and Spy 440 000 Field, Dungeon, and Escape 1106,500 Four Years in feeccsaia 105,000 Lite and Death in i'risons 110 000 'Total sale 82,581 000 The number of volumes thus far disposed of is 821,000. Of course, this great success has been almost entirely owing to the personal efforts made by canvassers throughout the country. With the exception of Greeley's "American Con flict" and Richardson's "Field, Dungeon, and Escape," it would have been difficult for the pub lishers to bave gotten rid of a single edition in the course tit a regular trade. But by means of thrne thousand agents scattered throughout tne country, 1GO.O0O copies of the "Nurse and Spy" alone have been sold, their dally product toi a time being fully one thou sand, and four different binderies being required to keep pace witn the demand. One hundred and ninety-five thousand volumes of Headley's History have also been sold, tho daily product at present being about five hundred copies, to dispose of whloh number requires about five hundred agents. Eighty-two thousand copies of Richardson's book were sold inside of six months. Twenty-five hundred agents have been employed in canvassing for Greeley's work, the salts of the first volume amounting to one hundred and thirty thousand, while orders for twenty thou sand more are on hauu. The sales now amount to one thousand copies per week. In the whole hitttorv ol book-making there hax been nothimr to approach, much less equal, .the success of nese lour iiaruoru uim. THE NEW YORK PRESS, EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF TilK LEADING JOURNALS UPON CURRENT TOPICS. COMP1LXD aVKRY DAT FOB IVEMKO TW.KORAP1I. The Notional Finances. From the Tribunt, The fiscal year clones with the present month; and it is already certain that the receipts trom Internal taxes alone will somewhat exceed three hundred millions of dollars, or .very nearly one million from each pecular day. From customs, the receipts of tbe first quarter were over forty seven millions, and we presume those of the en tire year wilt have exceeded one hundred and lilty millions; making an Aggregate ot at least four hundred and tlity millions of dollars raised by taxation lor tbe support of the Federal Gov ernment alcne during the year succeeding the close of our great civil war, and while a third of the country lay exhausted, ravaged, desolated, by lour years of gigantic, desperate strife. In this year, though a large proportion ol our coun try niiS contributed very litile, we have more than met our current expenses, including the interest on our great debt; for this debt, which was over twentj-eight hundred millions, has been reduced by at least fllty millions. And whereas we ail Hpprehended, oue year ago, that the settlement ol all outstanding claims would carry our debt up three billions, it i uow morally certain not to reach that amount. Ihese facts should eueouragc v. hilc thev ad mouisti us. Our people are very heavily taxed perhaps more hjavllv than any on earth. Some ot the items which go to make up the apgreeute are transitory; b tor instance, the support of the suffering poorol the South, whom the war berwi of protectors and resources, and who, though their subsistence is drawn trom the Fieedmen's Bureau, nre in good part whites. This will not cost tbe nation halt so much during the next as it did during the fiscal year now closing: while it may probaDly be thenceforth saved altogether. Then our Pension list now heavy will dwindle year by year as those en titled to pensions shall be gathered to their lathers, blessing and blest by their recued country. And ii Congress would but connHutc an energetic and tearless Rctrenchmsnt Com mittee, and instruct it to abolish every useless oiliec, reduce every exorbitant salary or allow ance, Hnd curtail every expense, we are confi dent that many millions more may be saved, fy-and by, we thall have a Congress that will lay Judgment to the line, and sev: r the connec tion with tbe Treasury oi every place-holder who does not give the country her inonev's worth. Let us never doubt it. 1 he peril ol tbe hour is an undue reduction of luxes. We have vast sums of floating and short-time debt to fund; and we can do this at vastly better iatcs if we are paving off debt than while increasing it. We estimate tho clear value to the ireasury ol a srood balance on tho right sii millions, side of the account at lully oue hundred as. In other words, we can hind our debt 1 so that the annual burden of it will be at least So',000,C00 less tf we are paying off and cancelling J tour or live millions per month of it than it we are shinning and struggling agaiust a deficit. Let Congress save wherever it can without crippling the public service; but let it not tear to hold on to necessary taxes, and let the people be careful ot importuning that this or that tax be taken off'. We can bear heavy taxation we know it by experience aud it is wise economy to bear it till our solvency is' assured. Teh years hence, our national wealth will be double the present amount, reducing the weight of taxation by one-half, even though tne aggregate to be raised should remain undiminished. Let us endure and pay until we shall have returned to specie payment and funded ull our debt. The Paris Exhibition. From Vie Daily Hews. Tne discussion in the House in regard to the Industrial Exhibition proposed to be held at Paris in 1867, is carried out in a vein of petulance and passion that is neither in good taste nor appropriate to the subject under consideration. Whuiever grounds lor quarrel there mav be between France and the Uulted Slates upu international political questions, they should not be made a matter of deputation in the comse of legislation upon an enterprise ot a purely industrial character, devoted to the ad vancement of art aud science and tho develop ment oi the resources of the spheres of labor. The Government of France has exhibited a commendable zeal in encouraging researches in the labyrinth of knowledge, in fostering the elements of improvement' in the mechanical world, and in urging the skill aud invention of the thinking and working communities to pusU on in the march of progress. In this age of en lightenment it ill becomes a great nation lite ours to vent puerile had humor and spleen upon an undertaking conceived in the true spirit of friendliness to the industrial world. The invita tion to our country to participate in the contem plated Exhibition was extended cordially, re spectfully, and without reference to any existing or prospective political antagonism; and it should be received in the same spirit. If the domestic disturbances that have affected our land, the effects of which have disordered the national household, render it inconvenient lor . . meAn n An Ia rA I . . f . . 1 ., 1 tin. Ul piCSCUh lu t ll IL l bitu nolo v 1U LtTi UHLlOilUl industrial competition, let us graceiully and politely decline the proffered invitation. If, on the contrary, we are iu a condition to do Justice and honor to our nationality in the display of American art and productiveness, let useinbrace the opportunity with good temper and cheerful appreciation ot the intention ot its originators. Mr. Washburne has thrown discredit upon the National Legislature by making the dis cussion ot such a theme the occasion tor in dulging in epithets and insulting expressions apainst tbe French. Such language as "j'his Johnny Crapeau Exhibition" will not look well upon the Congressional record as an emanation trom the lips of a representative ot the people in the discharge ot his oflieial functions. The introduction of the Mexican question into a debate so completely barren of polhical signifi cance, was as inopportune as a sermon at a reeatta or a convivial chorus at a funeral. The friends of Mexican republicanism in Congress, if tLcv are sincere, can tind or make plenty of opportunities lor legitimate efforts in behalf ol that cause. In fact the attitude assumed by Congress in connection with international issues is neither dignified nor consistent with the obligation? of a great and powertul nation, it seems as u the Government were afraid to enunciate the policy that it is disposed to lavor. 11 there be any iust cause ot auarrel with France, let it be lought out manfully, whether by diplomacy or in the fields ot war. we must oe euner menus or toes, as far as oflieial intercourse is concerned If Iriends, it is neither prudent nor decorous to indulee in official and lesrislative expressions of contemnt and enmity. 11 foes, it is still more unmanly and undignified to tight the battle with the weanons of Billlneseate in tne National Legislature. Tho position of the republic in the family of nations makes it ridiculous for our legislators to stand biting their thumbs at other Governments. If Mr. Washburne, or any other representative ot the people, thinks tbat some wroug is to be redressed, some pnnviMio vium- outfit ' hv our eonntrv ncainst a foreign power, let him state his ca?e in its proper Older of WIkIamva imslneHH. lint, as between Govern ments, until there is war there must bo peace; and while there is Deace. the conventionalities and courtesies of diplomatic intercourse and leeiHlative language and action should bo observed. ThA Aiiinnmmpiit of Congress What Is the Prospect f From the Herald. When is this session of Congress to come to an end What is the DroaDectf Is it to have a summer or autumnal vacation, or is it to sit in permanent session, like the Long Parliament f We cannot, trom presout indications, determine; Imt iunliae to tue opinion that the session will at least run Into August, It ia possible business or no business in the way ot leirlsla ton tbat, With a tew members on guard at Wa hlngton, enoimh to adjourn the two houses over trom day to day, "the session may be con tinued till next December. 1 i Ihe implaceble radicals are evidently resolved to tie up the President during tbe recess, if there is to be oue, or to remain on the grodnd and watch him, resting on tboir arms, with their pickets duly poted, front, flanks, and rear. That remorseless fanatic, "old Thad Ste vens," has compared Andrew Johnson to the English Cnarles tbe First; and the two Houses, upon this idea, ate following the example of th revolutionary Parliament against the king. It is highly probable, nowevcr, tbat the parallel which does not apply in the beginning will not holu good in tbe ending. iVotia vmons. On Wednesday morning last, in the Senate, Mr. HentiricKS (Democrat), ot Indiana, moved to take up the House resolution providing lor tbe adjournment tine die ot tbe present session in tbe middle of the next month. Mr. Fessen den, who is Chairman of the Committees on Finance nnd Reconstruction, was opposed to the consideration of the subject at present, as there were several important bills still to bo acted upon in addition to the l'ax bill. The C hair explained tbat the resolution in question was not beiore the Senate, but in the bands of the finance Committee. Mr. Hendricks tnen moved ihat the Committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject, in order that the Senate might proceed to some action upon it. The yeas aud nays were called, and the result was yeas 6, nay 25, the yeas ail Democrats and the nays all Republicans a very sisrniflcnnt division, aad of some import ance, too, though upon a mere incidental and niliiiiinury quetiou. The vote shows that it the Democrats have given up all hopes ot making anything out ot this Congress, and are anxious to tret it out ot the way, the Republi cans hold on to it as if there were notbin? else betwetnthem and a great political revolution in public opinion. A special Washington despatch informs us that "the radicals have aereert to delay the ad journment ot longress until Governor Bio wnlow can convene the Tennessee Legislature," and have it ralily the Constitutional amendment lust issued lrom Congress; that "they are anxious thus to admit one State, and claim that the work of reconstruction has been actually com menced on their own plan, before the opening oi the lall elections." There may be something moie than conjecture lu this theory. Governor Brownlow is a radical fanatic, and under his management tbe recon-tructed Legislature of Tennessee, with tho weeding out of the seech element, is pretty w ell adapted to the purpose contemplated. Moreover, if Tennessee, "Andy Jobiibou's own State," and as reconstructed by him when Provisional Governor under the la mented Lincoln, can be brought to lead off in behalf ot this Constitutional amendment, it will be a trump card lor the radicals. It will be a hard nut to crack by the straight out Jobnson Republicans ol the stripe of Senators Cowan I and Doohttlc, to say nothing ot those half-way aud readj-to-halt disciples of tbe school and 1 firm nl Newnrrt. Weed Knvmnnrl. It is quite hkeh, thereiore, that something of this sort may be on foot to head oil Senator Cowan, aud to give "Old Thad." and D. D. For ney a good lilt in the Pennsylvania October election. At all events, we can hardly expect a conclusion of this session of Coneress tnis Bide of August, considering the number of important Dins still lying upon tbe table ot the Senate, and considering the party tactics reauired tj hold the Republicans together, and to keep President Johnson and his policy in the back ground. Ihe radical leaders in Congress have discovered the power, which thev hold with their two-thirds majorities over the Executive, and we may be sure that they will not omit some exercise ol this power, In view of the approachiug State elections. We may thus have some very curious and Important devel opments at Washington before the close of the present session, and we guess it is possible that tne radical managers may find in the sequel that they have been reckoning without their host. The Public Finances. From the Timet. Some of our ctitical and ever-growling neigh bors can find no good in the administration of the finances. They are far from being consistent with each other. A score of funding and con tracting crotchets are indulged, as widely differ ing theoretically irom each other as their authors profess to differ from Mr. McCulloch practically. And it would be quite as difficult lor the Secretary to attempt to please any one of these authorities without offending all others as to undertake to reconcile the contradictory view3 of, or to make his peace with the whole party. We shall have to advise him, therefore, to preserve his accustomed equanimity. We have little question that he will do so. He will con tinue to pursue his steady course of payment and improvement ol the public debt. In this good work and its results he has the approval, as he merits tbe confidence, of the whole country. The clamor and gratuitous counsels with which he has been visited of late, from certain newspaper quarters, have been directed and as beiore intimated without the slightest show of consistency orunauimity ; to the conduct of tbe currency ana tne funding ot the public aeot. 1. Let us see what he has actually nccom plisbed since last summer in regard to his duty to tne currency. (.reenbacks. July 81. 18R5. June 1 1866. Free ot interest $433 160 6H9 $402 128 818 Five per cents 3.4,964,230 Nil Compounds 212,120,470 162,012,140 Total outstanding f 685 241,269 $604,140 458 Reduction oi all Greenbacks 121,100,811 Last summer nil descriptions ol this paper were In tree and lull circulation as currency. The oldest dates ot the compounds commanded no premium, ine newest weie parsed lrom hand to hand and tank to bank in larger sums than the original greenbacks. And a month or six weeks later U was found needful, in the prompt payment of our rapidly-disbanding armies, xo puruaiiy increase, in place of curtail' ing, this particular description of currency. We take the 31st ot July, however, as the maximum of all descriptions. And if to the above sum of reduction Since Ol S121.lfin.R11 wa nhnnM n.lrl the $162,012,140 of compounds not yet abso-f iiueiy witnurawn, out wnicn nave long ceased to be currency in the popular sense, and now command 101101J and the full accu mulated compound interest, as an invest merit, the practical reduction of tho cur rency of United States Treasury notes of $283, 112,051, as against an increase of the currency ot National liank notes, bearing the same com mon seal of security trom the Treasury, is only 9111,685,220. A further reduction of United States Treasury notes (common greenbacks) will soon appear on the public debt statement, to brine down the total greenback circulation to $J'J0,000,()00, below which ii cannot be re duced, under tbe late aet ol Congrecs, until nix montus alter the date ot the act (April, liOO), when the uniform scale of $4,000,000 reduction per month will be within the discretion of the Secretary. And we may here add that when the act was passed, the greenback circulation including the reserves tor tho payment of de posits stood $422,749,252. The Secretary has since withdrawn nearly or quite the entire ex cess over tbe original 40l),000,000, and will bave reduced the latter $10,000,000, has authorized In ull six, really In less than three mouths trom the nato ol she act. 2. The public lobt ouUtanding and not pro vided lor last summer, July 31, amounted to $',757,253,276. On August 31 tho total was almost identically the same, $2,757,7Hl.l00. From this date besan the good work of funding, and the better work of paying off the public obligations. Ihe war expenses were by no means at an end. The settlements continued more or less oppiesslve to the current revenues of the Treasury to the 1st June lust. Nor are they over vet. But in the intervening niue or ten months tho Secretarv has not only met on the instant the whole of these new requisitions as they ap peared from the War and. Navy Departments, but he has paid off elghty-oeven millions of the above maximum principal of the public debt. In the samp period he his Innded into tho public stocks of the United Htnte, or a permanent and gold-bearine shape, tbe further aum of eighty seven millions of the temporary obligations of the Government: so that the vcount of paying off and funding the public debt compares as fol lows with lat summer: i Jn S1,I6Y Jnnl,l6. rrinclpatcf debt 7o7,2o8'.7S ta,670,d8,867 Funded Debt 1,10 !2 642 Three years' 7 80 830 Oon.000 One Vear Certificates.. 1.i6.7MO0O ttrccti hacks, all Sort... 680,241,269 Other debt, leu Trea sury balances 2(1.048 865 l,lftft R2S 191 812,2a.TO0 43,025,000 661,140,458 (56,070,113 Total, as above.... $2,767,263,276 $2,670,283,807 Tbe funding process has already so elevated the credit and value of investments of the Com pound Leeal tenders and 7 "JO per cent. Treasury notes taking the former entirely out of the catalogue of active circulation as currency as to leave the quostion of funding them at ma turity bejond doubt. Tbe Secretary would like to convert them at once. While they were at or under par and interest he could make the exchange at a difference of 3 per cent, in favor ol his gold-bearlnir 5-20s, and did so to the ex tent of $87,000,000. They have since ad vanced, under the influence of this very procet-8, to 101Jtf102J per cent., and while the fault is not his that tbe process is temporarily arrested, it is satisfactory to know that it is owing to the high confidence of the holders that they can get their currency Interest promptly urtil the maturity of the notes, and then avail of a conversion into gold bearing bonds, which tbey believe will be even more valuable in 1807-8 tban at present. ow if our neighbors who criticize the earnest public service of the Secretary would have him reduce the greenback circulation taster than tbe foregoing statement demonstrates that he has reduced it, thev had best blame Congress for reftricticg his authority. We shall not do so, however, believinir that the act ot April last is alout right $10,000,001) in six months, ami $4.(00,000 per month aiterwards. In th's, we think, the popular opinion is with us and with Contrress. And if they would have hira oay off tne putiuc debt taster tnau sio.ooo.uoo per mnntb. they had best not destroy bis sources of revenue by declaiming against ail toretgn com merce, and bv insisting upon early specie pay ments, and a general as well as abrupt crasn to all domestic trale and manufactures. And finally, it they would have him fund his ten porary currency obligations into gold-bear- iug United States stocks, tbey hud best not impair the credit of such stocks already in the market, or in the hands ot tbe public, by cia moring tor too much gold Interest and too long a credit on tho gold principal. There Is such a thing as making a new funded Btock so attrac tive as to defeat its own purpose, besides de stroying the value of its predecessors. And if it be a mistake of Mr. McCulloch to take thl view ot the Wall street sugeestion of a thirty or forty years' six per cent, gold-bearing stock, we bave no doubt he is ready to accept the consequences beiore tne people. Unseemly Haste. From the World. It is announced with great satisfaction, by several journals in different sections of the country, that special sessions of tho Legislatures in certain States are to be called for the express purpose of adopting the Constitutional amend ment embodied in the latest report of the radical reconsttuctionists. Almost as soon after the adop tion of the rcroit in Congress as the first mail could go from Washington to New Haven Gov ernor Hawley received a copy, and the Connec ticut Legislature, now in session, but whose remaining term of service is very short, will undoubtedly be called upon to adopt the amendment at an early day. Governor Bul lock, of Massachusetts, is ruhmg around Boston in an uneasy frnme of mind lest his State should not be tbe first in the field, and he pro poses to call the Legislature together on the eaiiiest practicable Monday morning. No less than lorty radical members ot Congress have employed Governor Brownlow to call his Legislature together, undoubtedly for the "moral effect" which would result from the adoption of the amendment by the State of Ten- nessee. But Brownlow begins to doubt his actual ownership of "his" Legislature, tor the upper orancn ot that rebellious body nas lately rejected neany an oi urowniow s appointments, causing that model divine to swear that he would send in no more nominations to "such a set." Governor Curtln has officially, and most otiieiou.-iy. issued a proclamation to tue Gov ernors of "lo.val" meaning radical, btates to do tins tblng witn tne utmost haste. Governor Fenton, ot our own State, oniy hesitates till he can consult with the party leaders, to see what effect (alter the unlortunate special session ot the Senate) an extra session of the Legislature will be likely to have upou the fall election. In no instance have the radical journals urging these extra sessions, spoken of the Legislatures coming toeether "to act upon' the new amendment. The phrase Is alwavs "to adopt;'' and in no case has an extra session been siigtrested except In States where the Legislature is thoroughly radical. The Columbus (Ohio) Journal, in calling upou Governor Cox to brine tbe Legislature together "to adopt this amendment, says: "A political campaign Is lust being inaugurated, and this amend men iresenta the proper platform for the 'Union' party, and an excellent issue for it to make with the Democracy." Of course, then, the adoption of the amendment, and thus the vir tual adoption of the radical platform, recon struction report and all, is nothing more than an eitort to discount public, or rataer party. opinion in certain States, in advance of the mil elections. The "amendment" is but the stopper to the molasses-filled bottle the report which is to catch the flies next fall; and it stands confessed that the eoIo business of the present Consress has been the construction of a radical platform strong enough lor tho party to stand upon lor at least ant tner vear. ine asurea action oi these radical Legislatures in "adopting" the amendment is no more an expression or expo nent ol public opinion lu their states, tban would be the adoption of both report an I amendment in any county caucus or convention The question is not whether the radical Lesis latuies of certain State will accept the amend ment. but whether three-fourths of the States in the Union will adopt it. And with all this unseemly haste in sending the party platlorm to the Radical Governors, it is not positively stated whether it has, or has not been laid beiore the President for his signa ture. Constitutionally, his signature Is not necessary; nor with his oft-repeated expression nt his onoosition to further Constitutional amendments, at this time, when eleven Stales tf he sneeiallv affected by these amendments are unrepresented, would it be desirable for the r-viicals to draw out in the form ot a veto an ther clearly defined statement ot the President's policy in immediate contract with the new radi cal party plattorm. But the radicals themselves Lave established a precedent, in sending for Mr. Lincoln's approval the amendment abolish ing slavery. This was done for the express pur pose of identifying air. Lincoln witn tnis act. Mr. Bancrolt's recent Historical Declamation i-pinre floneress. in one of its few and tar be taeen allusions to the late President, makes ii mi nrominent in this connectiou: the "proline pfn" which signed the Emancipation Proclama tion approved the 6lavery-abolishmg amend ment, has reproduced itself In about forty temalo musiims in Massachusetts; and tbe late Mr. Lincoln is represented in photograph, liiho grhph, painting, and plabter, stauding erect, with a red curtain in the rear, the amendment outspread on the table, the Emancipation Pro clamation roll in bis hand, while the President h mseltis supposed, like the portrait .of Lord hnlesworthv, of Snigsworthy Part, to bo en saped "m the act of somehow raving his coun 'r ." This scene and incident should suggest to 1 lie radicals iu Congres the presentation of at ' aft one Coi.stltutional amendment opportunity 10 our present President. SPECIAL NOTICES. PARDRR SCIENTIFIC! COURSR 4 I LAtATETTE OOLLEOK. ( In flddtttfln to Ilia rtiri f'nniu nf TnPtnifttlfMi tm thM LrpartHirnt. nMltiMl to ly a sutwtantlal but nf knowledge rd ctiolrly cnlture, ntndpn o can pnninw fbopp branches whir.h AMAntiaiir nracilcftl ana U'Cl.nl' al. lz. i EUIHRKKINU CItH. ToiwwTfinhleal. and Wsena- nimlt MIMNO land MKTA1.LVKUY I AHCHirf-O-1 1 Kg, snotb millcaika ot CneuiiaUT to AOKIOri- 1 eie n also nnnruen an nnanrtanlty tompeelamtaflV ot H AD, and t OHM! KCKi ot UI1KN LAN (,r;l- and I'UILOLOUY. and of tha HIMTORT and IMvTlTUT ION8 ol our countir. Wot Clieaiara apply to I'texidrnt catttlTj, or to Plot. . B. VOUNtlMAN, , ..... f 'k ot tha racaitf. Tastov, Ttnnrvlvanla. April 4. lnw. oil) , PHILADELPHIA AND READING HAiLROAD I'OMPANT nrrirr. tin. n a FOCBTU SIBf.ET. ' Ttia Trannfor Bookmot thl Conifiavnv Will hat AlAKAjf un Saturday, June mU and r-opaeO on rndfty.tJmr A Mvlilena ot FIVE PER CENT. h bMadsoUrad on tbe I'roierml and t omnion HtocK, clear of National idii mate laxpn parauie id cann, on ana alter Jaly 1'itli, to tbe Hold em thereof as tbey sbMl Hand reglMeied on the boots ol thei ompary oa lb 10th Instant. ah payable at thli omce. 8111m 8. BRADFORD, Trenurer. t3 DIVDESD. Til E DIRECTORS OP " ha VRI I.A DKl PHI A ivn Hllarnt prron. L1VJM t otlCAM have tbls dav declared a dividend otIIIRK (3) CEN'IH per ahare. c ear of state Ut. taiahie alter Julv 1, at the office of the Company, ho. uth FOURTH htreet. Phlladelahta- IMTHaN HA IN K.h, Secretary anu Treamrer. Philadelphia. June i 188B. 22t7l frCPT OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER, W-X-r PlIlLAnKI.PUIA. June !ll. IM1 NOTICE TO LOAN 1IOLDKR3 -The In ereat nn Cltr Loans, due Julv 1. will be oaid on and a tir Jul , ItWfi. HfcNRf urMVf, i 0t I'ltr Trea.nrer. rp? OFFICE OF THE CiTY TREASURER, f Philadelphia. .Inna 91 IrtAu NOTICE TO I-OAW FtOLDbtt v 1 be Cltr Loan ma. turltiR Jut 1, will be paid on and alter Jay 2. Hsi fir order or tne loninilsioner ot tne HlnkiiiR Furd. a ii iK ii r. w w t bui m , uitjr I'rranarer. IS?"; NOTICE. ON AND AFTER THE lntb Instant, the TTNlTK.n 8TiTK.it nrvrmt. 10 NO IiuANlH, . J., wl.l be open for the reception ol nultura. BENJAMIN A. SUoEMAKtK. 6 8 lni Proprietor. BATCH ELOR'8 HAIR DYE TIIF B18T IN THE WORM). TJaimlem reliable in- tantaneoua. Tbe onlyperfea dve. No disappointment, no ridiculous tint, but trae to nnmre.b act, or lirovn UfcMJlNL 18 B1UNED WILLIAM A. BATCHELOBI ALSO, ' Regenerating Extiactoi Mll.lflenni restore. pnwerrea end beautlllei the hair, preventa ba Aliens. Bo d by al DruiiglHt. Factory No.ltl BARCLAY bt, N. Y. ii t3ET3 JUST PUBLISHED-. Bv the Phvplclina of the NKW YORK MUSEUM, the NtneUeth Edition ol their OL'K LECTCBE8, entitled pniLoaoprrr of marriage. To be bad Iree, lor lour etaropg. by addressing Seers, terv N e York Museum of Anatomy. 7 17S ho. 618 BKQAllWAY. KewYetav DINING-ROOM. F. LAKEMEYER mJ CAM i.R'8 Alley, would respectiuliy intorm the Public Ben fi ally Hint ho lias leitnoth'ng undone to make this place comfortable In every reepect tor the accom modation ot guests. He has opened a large and com modious DlniUK-Room in the second Rtory. His BIDK ItOARI) i lumislied with h.KANDIKS. WiNHH. UHIKKY.EtC.Etc. olhVJPEBlOK BRANDS. 11 FURNITURE AND BEDDING. FUR Nil URNITURE. RICHMOND & FOREPAUOH, No. 40 South SECOND St., West Side, MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR CABINET FURNITURE, AND UPHOLSTERED GOODS. rarlor Pnlt In 1 tosh, Heps. Hair Cloth, etc. Mttina-lUHim. Ulnlng-Kocin, and Chamber Salts, la Walnut, Mahogany, Oak. besnut. etc., together with Jirainedimitatlons ot tbe above woods, which coax yerr ow. Mi on Id von desire anything in onr line, It will bet Jour advantage to ca.l and examine our siock, wnlob hi as lane and varied as can be louml anywhere, and PH1CK8 TUE LOWEbT. ' RICHMOND & FOREPAUOH, 52b No. 40 South SECOjxD Street. g ? it i n a. BEDDING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, HOLKSALE AND RKTAIL, ASD MATBWAL8 FOB THE 8A&IB. BEST QUALITY AND STYLE OP &TB.VH? M A TTIl E S S E S. J. S. FULLER 414fiutlj3m No. 9 S. SEVENTH Street. BRUITS, NUTS, SARDINES, ETC. ETC. Oranges and Lemons, Messina, Paper Shell and Bordeaux Almonds. Sardines, balfanu quarier boxes. Marseilles t live Oil, quarts and pints. Nonparlel Superfine Capers. Spanish and French Olives, In kegs anl glass. English Pickles. Sauces, and Mustard. American Pickles, in barrels and glass. Tomato Catsup and Pepper Hauce, quarts and pints. English Muahioom and Walnut Catsup. Worcestershire and Lucknow Sauce. Bunch, Layer, Seedless, and Valencia Raisins. Zante and Patras Currants, and Citron. French, Turkey, and Imperial Prunes. Grenoble Walnuts, Pecan Nuts, and Filberts. Italian JJ accaronl and Vermicelli. Canned Peaches, Tomatoes, Lobsters, and Corn. Also, iCO cases of the celebrated Virgin Oil of Alt, Im ported by us, quarts and pints. The richest Salad Oil iccelved irom France. JOSEPH B. BUSSIER & CO., 8 6tuthsHJ No. 108 South DELAWARE Avenue. CLOSING OUT OUB LABOR STOCK OF CARRIAGES AX SEDUCED rBlCKfl. J, S. COLLINQ8 SOSt, tio. AlJ4 btf4. V Vv AND (I 1 BEST NoTi-i xCity! II sixth StXX JJ
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