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THE DAIIA EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 18GG.
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THB LEADING
JOURNALS UPON CURRENT TOPICS. ,
COMPILED 1VKRY DAT FOB EVEKISO TKLFORAPH.
Joseph IloU-Jeflcraoii Davis Sanford
Conover.
From the Tribune.
Judge Advocate-Ueneral Holt hne published,
through the Chronicle (Washington) and tn
pamphlet, a 4,Vlndleaiion of Judgo Advocnte
General Ilolt from the Foul Slanders of Traitors,
Confessed Perjurers, and (Suborners, ftotlnir in
tbe interest of Jefferson Davis." In so far as it
confines itself to its proper work, we deem thU
Vindication complete. General Holt was duped
by tbe arch-villain who called himself Sanford
Conover, as others had been before him. De
ceived bj Conover's lies, ho pave that scoundrel
credence aud money which might have been
bettor bestowed. Conover, thus supported, sub
orned other villains to commit perjuries con
firmatory of his own all of them received and
accredited in perfect good fuiih by Judge Holt;
but, when toe House Committee proceeded to
investigate them, some of the second-hand ras
cal recanted and confessed their perjury;
whereupon Conover, though be stoutly reite
rated aud stood by his original imposture, soon
took occasion to vanish and has since remained
invisible, of course, his whole fabric 01 viliauy
falls to the ground.
Such aro tbe material facts in the case; and
they nowibe Impeach the integrity of . Judge
Iloit. He was simply tbe vicam of an atro
cious scoundrel. But tne Vindication proceeds
to mj thut
"1 tie endeavor of the conspirators to protect
Davis from the charge of complicity in the
assassination of President Lincoln must be
vain. It ia true that thai portion of the testi
mony brought forward by Conover is tit this
time discredited; and the friends of Davis, in
tbe contusion raided by their outcry against the
Judge Advocate-General, would hope to have it
unuirsiood that this is all the material testi
mony upon which the charge U ba-ied. ' But, in
point ol fact, it is but one branch of the body
of proot which has accumulated in the case.
Long before the production of the testimony in
question, a tribunal, composed ot officer of the
hist rank and Intelligence, had, alter the fullest
investigation, and upon proof which has not
been, and, it is believed, cannot be. assailed,
pronounced the head ot the Iteb?lliou guilty
ol the crime which crowned iti tnt'u
ruous history, binoe then other and
equally reliable evidence has been presented,
aud the Judiciary Committee of tne House of
Representatives, in whose report it is set forth,
have declared, upon an examination of tli is nnd
the previous proofs., and excluding trom their
consideration that now discredited, that 'there
is probable cause to believe that ho (Duvls) was
privy to the measures whih led to tue commis
sion ot the deed.' This verdict has been accepted
by the great mass of thoughtful aud loyal men
throughout the country, "and cannot but, we
are assured, become tho dehberute conclusion
of history. And the present ut tempt to do away
with the judgment which has been passed upon
Davis as an assassin, by seeking to make the
impression that that iudgmunt rests solely or
largely upon the testimony produced by Cono
ver, aud thus interpose a cloud of doubt and
uncertainty belore tue mass of proof which re
mains uniinpeached, must, we are persuaded, be
readily comprehended and everywhere exposed
anu denounced. We affirm as our concluding
remark, that this judgment, long since lormud,
is based in no degree ou this testimony, wnicu
was lieverjgivcu to the country until discredited,
but thut it lias lor its foundation a volume of
evidence, documentary and otherwise, in the
EosBession of tbe Government, which has not
een controverted, but which, standing a3 it
does intact, points to Davis as involved in the
assassination of the President, with 'the sliw
and unaioviug linger' of a condemnation which
no clamors, however loud or frantic, ol traitors
and their sympathizers, can shake or disturb."
6 Seventeen mouths have now elapsed sinco
President Johuson offered $100,000 for tho
anest of Jellerson Davis, on h charge of com
plicity in President Lincoln's murder a charge
based, said the proclamation, "on evidence now
in the possession ol the Bureau of Military Jus
tice," of which Judge Holt is tho head. Suniord
Conover and his sub-villains lurui.sb.ed no part
of that evidence. Davis has beeu over sixteen
months a prisoner awaiting trial under tbis
charge. Why ts he not tried? If Innocent, he
is loully wronged; if guilty, justice is grossly
cheated. C. C. Clay, likewise chargei and
arrested, has been liberated wkhom OhiJ. What
can be the reason why Davis is not tried or the
charge of ussassinalion retracted?
About JacUasscs.
from Vie Tribune. .
A learned correspondent lately sent us a pon
derous essay, intended to show that the uss was
once held in high esteem for his wisdom, which
was counted so great that many nations lelt
they could not express their senae of it short of
paying the beast divine honor. That they did
so, our correspondent's essay left no shadow of
doubt on the mind of the adventurous person
who waded through Its long list of citations
from ancient writers; but why they did so, the.
learned pundit left unanswered. Whether the
human race was, at an early period, when still
in a state oi childish innocence, profoundly
struck with the tremendous length of Jack's ears,
and looked upon them as funnels for the recep
tion of all tho wisdom uttered within theradlus of
tbe horizon: whether the bland expression of his
countenance struck our forefather Adwn as
indicative of an intelligence that, having weighed
creation, is irot to be astonished nor disturbed
at anything that may happen; or, whether its
resolute wsy of planting its lorn feet like a rock,
whon it has once determined to pursue a certuin
policy, aud refusing t'j budge lor any amount
of blows or blandishment, convinced the lirst
of the race that tried to make him of service,
that a beast that understood so well what he
wauted, and valued his own opinion so highly,
must be a being of superior power; whether oue
or all of these reasons combined had weieht to
ground human beings in a belief of bis extraor
dinary intelligence, and to induce them to lionor
with him their best, we canuottell. Our cor
respondent, who seems to know eery thing, is
dumb ou the subject, aud we are leit to our own
resources lor an answer.
But whatever the reason may be, we may con
sider tbe fact settled. The ass aopears to bave
risen Irom one station of trust and responsibility
to another, until at length he attained the highest
position which it was in the power of the people
to bestow. He became tho recipient of divine
honors. Enthroned in the temple he ate the
choicest provender. Hay thu had grown on
the felopes oi tha sacred mountain was cut with
golden sickles by virgin priestesses for hU pecu
liar eating; three days in the week be had cakes
of barley meal mixed with honey, and threo
Hmm' eakes ol oatmeal mixed with attar of roses:
the piettiest waiter-cirls"Hupplied him with un
iniiuiir Imrer: he was shau.pooed sixteen times
a day; bis toeth were cleaned with the so.odont
ot the period; his shoes were blacked by slaves
who were in no hurry to get at another cus
toiner; while the High Priestess herself con
tinuully sang to him
"Come sit thoe down upon this flowery bod,
While I thy amiable chee do oov,
And stick ruusk rosea in thy lair, larire head.
Aud km thy tair, large ears, mylfiontle joy,"
To which blandishing strain, whatever might
be hislsecret inclination for a very ditterent sort
of treatment, tne pruaem smuiu vuiuunj m
stint trntu makinir any renlv whatever. Thus,
living in clover within the temple, the treatment
outside of it bestowed noon all tbe creatures ot
his kind was correspondent. Nothing was too
ruii for them. They were the chosen beasts
lut kings, princes, priests, and prophets to ride,
and they appear to have had a cood time of it
on the whole. The best of food, housings of
purple and cloth of gold, nets of pure Nile flan
studded with jowols, in fir time, silver boon,
and bells of silver and sroid whatever could
make the beast happy was given 11; when he
brajed, all the people fell fiat, and ate dirt as If
it were bread and butter; whn he stuck out hn
fore feet and seemed to any, "This is my policy,"
all the tribes met in cor vention and applauded
his tlnnnos and resolution as littlo short ot
divine. Even when the brute tn him manifested
Itself and there were some people shrewd
enough to sec that, in spite of bH office, he
was a brute and a mean ono, too and when
he would kick out bis Hind feet at the very
people who had fed htm, and clothed him, and
lilted him up from the low position in which
he was born, to the high one he filled with
such ludicrous gravity when, striking out,
right and left, he killed here and maimed
there-'-even then, the unktlled and tun un
maimcd cried "Htmtina !" and ato the dirt he
scattered, as if it were more bread and butter
than evrr. ...
And thus things went on for a long, long
while, and tho ass became a tremendous power.
But At length one ass made a blunder. Hitherto
no member ol the family had ever spoken a word.
They had mad way by preserving a decorous
silence, and letting their long ears, their sage
lace?, and tbeir determination do tbe business
lor them. Whether this was in consequence of
a clear understanding on their part of what
would inevitably be the effect ot an opposite
policy, as it is believed by the negroes to be on
the part ot the monkeys, who though perfectly
able to talk, preserve a careful silence, lest men
should moke them work, ifoncoit were known
or whether the asses were dumb because they
really had nothing to say, can nvcr be deter
mined. Asses have written autobiographies and
histories, but we have searched them In vain
lor a resolution of this difficulty. For whatever
cause, however, tbis long silence was pre
served, there came a dav when it was broken.
The learned are in doubt as to what ass first
spoke: but our Holy Scriptures, which have put
so many lacts, not pet-at-able lu any other
record, down in black and white, have leit no
doubt on the subject possible. We arc there
clearly informed that the great blunderer was
Balaam's ass. He opened his mouth nnd cpokc.
And it was a sad mistake, and proved the rum
of his tribe. Since that day, as everybody
knows, the name of hs ha? been held in disre
pute. To call a man "an nss" is an insult not
llgtnly to be borne. Even in tbe base and
craven North, here, as is well known, there
are no gentlemen, a person who his been
written down an ass is not content till he
has called the offender bad names la reply;
but in the gallant and chivalrous Southron
land, the abode of festive dames ot high
degree, and cavaliers with blood of the purest
Prussian blue there, to call a man an ass is to
receive an immediate and peremptory invita
tion to permit him to spill your blood through
a bullet-hole. To such a low ebb is fallen- the
lofty honor of a name that unco commanded the
loyal homaee ot a universal human heart !
And all lor a speech ! Yes. for while this lonu;
eared brute, with his sober luce, his sturdy
hoofs, nnd his portentous brav, was ablo to
make peoplo be'ieve he was tit to preside over
them, to be their captain, and the captain of
their captains, to set up aud to pull down, to
bind and to loore a single speech aud it is
to be remarked that whenever tne ass speaks he
always says the same thing, so that all
his many speeches may go lor one a single
speech lias settled his business forever,
it is . nothing to the purpose now. that
he has risen from the lowest place to the
highest bis cousiant reiteration of that fact
only makes people more anu mote ashamed
when they hear it. It is all in vain that they
try to excuse themselves for their mlaiuation.
In vain do tbey plead that, the real King being
dead a King whose kindliness there was no
disputing this sly brute, by some hocu-pocus.
munagea to make them tbiuk lie was tbe dead
King's twin brother, and so got the place be
diseraces. In vain do they try to convince us
tnut, by an untoward accident, whisky of an
uncommon potency was mixed with his bran
insiend of honey. The disgusted reader of these
speeches insists that if there be, as the old
proverb declares, "truth in wine," there is no
lees truth in whisky, and that, however unfor
tunate these utterances may be, however
low, conceited, howevc- rullianly, they still
come out of the ass's own nature, aud
represent hitn with unerring truth. It seems a
piiy, at tirst blusb, that the original ass should
ever have betrayed his race by the titfrimce of
thut untimely speech; but, alter all, is it not
better that we should have some infallible wav
ol knowing nn nss when we meet hliu ? And,
besides, though what he Fays be disagreeable.as
God knows it is. what he does is of lar more im
portance; and when an ass speak to us; let us
remember that we have good authority for be
lieving that "out ot the abuadance ol the heart
the mouth speuketh," and take good heed that
in luime we have our speech before, rather than
alter, tho election is made.
Thi'Itailiial Itlot at Indlminiiolisi-Wliat
Comes Next I
From the Herald. '
The outrageous abuse of President Johuson
from the pens aud tongues of the radiccls has at
last culminated iu something more serious. The
people of Indianapolis have disgraced them
selves and tho country by preveuting the Presi
dent from speaking, and by getting up a mur
derous riot before his very luce. In-tigateJ , by
the radical leaders, a band of rowdies ana'rui
nans made an attack upon the procession which
bad turned out to receive tho President,
smashed the torches, tore up the banners, aud
hissed and hooted Mr. Johnson when ho at
tempted to express his thanks for tbe welcome
extended to him. These rowdyish proceedings
being resisted, a general tight ensued In the
sciuare, which the Pre-ideur. overlooked, and
clubs, knives, and pistols were freely used. At
least two peisous were killed aud several duu
gtrously wounded.
lf course the radicals will endeavor to exten
uate this shameful affair on the ground thut Air.
Johnson bus provoked hostility by political
speeches. But in point of lact there is not the
slightest exoiuc to be ollered lor the authors of
this not. We are no sticklers for that divinity
which doth heduo a kuie; but certainly ihe
office ot President of the United States is en
titled to respect, and this respect, in form at
least, extends to the individual who holds tUc
otlice. It' the President desires to speak, it is
the duty ot every good citizen to either listen
respectfully, or walk away quietly. This much
Is due to the otlice. which is tho highest, hs it
oueht to bo the most honored, iu the whole
world. Bui besides this, tbe ordinary cour
tesies of hie and ihe sacred rites ot hospi.
tality ought to have pro ected the Presi
dent from personal insult during his
tour. W hen Mr. Lincoln travelled from Spring-
held to Washington he was comparatively un
known to the masses of the people, und mauy
Democrats, ttriioraut ot im virtues, hated and
despised bim rood bitterly; but nobody thought
ol hooting mm uown wueu ne endeavored to
speak. At Indianapolis, as Mr. Jouuson was
permitted to say notnme, the radicals cannot
claim tnat me uismrniu;c wu eiuiieu o? any
remarks of his. Much as they affect to deride
his utterances, they are afraid to let the people
hear him, and nil through nis tour, at every
place in w hich they had a majority of the popu
lation, they have interrupted and annoyed him.
other means of sileuclug him having tailed, they
now have, recourse to a not. and hie pistols at
thoRe who assemble to cheer him.
We confess that we should not have been sar
prised if one of the pistol shots fired during the
Indianapolis riot had killed President Johnson.
This is what the radicals have been threatening
to do, and what they will do if they can muster
up courage. Their Incendiary ranting ami
ravines will end in njutaHsiiiatibn. unless they
find some less dangerous mode of getting rid of
tne man wuo stands boldly between mem ana
the rcconipllshment of their revolutionary
schemes. We warned the President to be upon
his guard! when he first started upon this
tour, and the pistol shots at Indianapolis
now emohaslze our wiiminor. The assassi
nation ot President Lincoln was brought about
just in the same way. The Rebel papers
abused him and threatened him, as the radical
Sapers have abmed-and threatened President
ohnson, until the more rash and foolhardy
of the Rebels began o accustom thelf minds
to the po'sibilHy ol his murder. Itobel fanatics
talked about it, as radical tanatlc3 have talked
about removing Mr. Johnson, until they at iast
fired the hearts of Booth and Payne, and the
deed was done. Before Ion?, If the pres3tit
crusade against Mr. Johnson continues, we snail
see some radical Booth eaeer to distinguish him
self in the same intamous and cowardly man
ner. Tbe danger is more Imminent than most
persons imagine. We shall breathe more frefly
when the President Is once more safeatWah
ington. His loss to the nation at such a crisis
as this would bo Incalculable. We cannot
realize the situation In which his death would
leave the country. Let us, therelore, beg tbe
President to take care of hinnell and his suite
to take of him. We do not intend to excite un
necessary alarm; but there is really room tor
the gravest apprehensions. Those radicals who
threaten murder so savagely are none too good
to do it, and those rufliaus who shoot do wn tho
President's supporters will not long hesitate to
lire at the President himself.
Horace Greeley's Interviews With the
President.
from the World.
We have reprinted from the Tribvne an edi
torial to which Mr. Greeley appends his full
signature. It describes certain interviews he
had with the Pre.-ldent, and the curious advice
he gave him, last autumn and winter. The
ostensible occasion of this signed editorial Is
the complaint made by Mr. Boecher, in his
recent letter, of ihe want of tact exhibited by
the Republican Congressmen tn provoking a
rupture with the President. The ostensible pur
poise ol Mr. Greeley Is to rebut tbis censure by
6bow ng that conciliatory overtures were made
to President Johnson and relecled. Mr. Greeley
therciore concludes that, long before the meet
iug of Coneress, the President had decided to
bteak with his party and make an alliance with
its enemies.
Mr. Greeley's statements do not bear out his
conclusions. The first ot the interview took
place soon after the New York election, iu
November; toe other, alter the appointment by
Congress of the Joint Committee on Recon
struction. By Mr. Greeley's account, both of
those private conferences were sought by the
President. Instead, therefore, of invalidating
the criticism of Mr. Beecher, they strengths
it. It is tbe side that makes ovettures. uot the
side that receives them, that gives evidence of
a conciliatory splril. It is true that the Presi
dent did not fellow Mr. Greeley's advice; but
tbe fact that he once and again sought it,
showed un anxious, troubled, undecided stile
ot mind n mind gropiug alter soruo expedient
to prevent a final rupture witn tbe party that
had elected him Mr. Greeley' i advice was not
followed, because it was not good; or at any
rate, this 13 a ready way for occouuting for its
rejection.
Tho novice given in the November interview
was, that three eminent citizens of tne North
should meet, at tlie White House, three enuneut
citizens of the South, and there, under the eye,
and with the occasional advice of the President,
spend a fortnight or so in canvassing the condi
tions 01 ttlenieu'. and UDreeine on a policy.
Mr. Giceley pledged hinifelf 111 advance to cive
his utmost support 10 any policy which should
be thus agreed on.
By this purblind disclosure Mr. Greeley Is
estopped Irom harpnif with his party, as lustily
as heretofore, ou their favorite topic ot Presiden
tial usurpation. "It is the province of Con
gress," they insist every day in the week, "and
not at all ot the President, to devise the policy
ol restoration." We put it to Mr. Cruelty to
say if a policy reached by the method he
advised would have been a Couereasi'jual
policy? Congress would have been consulted
in 110 6tage of its formation. It would have
been a policy concocted by the President with
the aid ot unoinciai aoviers 01 bis own selec
licn; and Mr. Greeley, by bis own account,
pledged hiintelt to advocate it tbroagh thick
nnd thin, whether Coneress approved it or not.
The President, at the timeot that interview,
was encaged iu the preparation of his annual
message; and had Mr. Greeley's advice beeu
followed, and a satisfactory result b-en reached,
the policy agreed upon would have been com
municated to Congrcs3 in the message. Mr.
Gieelcy would have nad Mr. Johnson stand by
it, even in opposition to Coneress, as re3'ilutely
as he has by his actual policy; and the Tribune
would have given him a steudy aud robust
suppoTtin doing so. Ju view of this exposure
wtu u he has n ude of himself, we call upon
Mr. Greeley never a,:ain to join in the hue-and-cry
of tne radii als agiinst the President
lor daring to have a policy before cousuliing
Coneress.
Mr. Greeley does not tell what are the points
he would have had the President unbuilt t' his
half-and-half conclave of Republicans and ex
Kefcels. The President could not hove asked
them to consider whether tho reconstructed
Stale Governments should be permitted to staud;
lor to have confessed doubt on mat point would
have beeu a sclf-prououncjd sentence of con
demnation upon all he bad, up to that time,
dove. Bv such vacillation, tie would have
broken laith with all those suntcB, undermined
all luith in his stability of character, thrown
the whole So tun buck iuio the coutusi m trom
which it had emerged, and have annulled the
Const-tiitioiial amendment abolishing slavpry.
b makiug all the Southern ratiiications Invalid.
Congress itseu durst uot deny tne validity ot
those State Gouernnients; forbydomir so they
would have erven up the anil-slavery amend
ment to the Constitution.
As the validity ot the new State Governments
coold not have been submitted to the deli'jera-
lions of Mr. Greeley's secret conclave, so nei
ther could the right of those States to represen
tation iu Congress, one 01 those questions is
included in the other. The ratification ot a
Constitutional amendment is the bight-et aot a
State can nerlorm. states wnicn are competent
to do this are qualified for every inferior State
function. To put a new article into the Consti
tution is to make a law w men uinus nox niereiy
the people, like an act of Congress, but a law
w hich binds Coupress lisell'; binds the Supreme
Court; binds every department of the Govern
ment. There could be no more flagrant ab
surdity than to say a State can thus participate
in makine tho supreme law, but not in making
the Interior luws wuich may be repealed as iast
thev are made.
llad Mr. Greeley's advice been adopted, and
had the Drnnoscd irresponsible conclave an
'bwered bis expectations, it would have presented
to the South au uUimatum. To suppose that
A. H. Stephens, General Lee, aud Southerners
of that class, wouia nave couseuieu 10 do volun
tary parties to forcing an ultimatum on their
section was absnrd. Certain it is. that thay
would never have mauo negro sunrage sucn an
ultimatum, and yet Mr. Greeley has a hundred
times asserted, with everv form of spasmodic
euipbasis. that to stop short of giving the ballot
to tho blucks is treacnery mat cannot be tole
rated. Irretrievably commuted as he was to
necro suffrage before be gave ihe President his
advice, what are his radical loliowers to think
of his pledge to support anv policy which three
Northerner and three Southerners might agree
upon?
The advice he offered to the President Iu the
Keeond interview was equally preposterous. Tne
President could not bave invited the Recon
struction Committee to the White House, and
discussed tbe difference between them from
evening to evening, as Mr. ureeley proposed,
without abjectly pocketing a studied insult.
How came that Committee into existence ? It
was resolved on in a caucus, In undisguised
hostility to the President's policy, before it was
known wuat nis poucv m. inau. stevens,
mid ihe whole Dartv with him, withheld from
the Pres'dent even the scant deference of lis
tening to his message, before organizing a
Congressional opposition to thwart him.
How could Mr. Greeley have supposed
that the : President would make overtures to
a committee whoso appointment w as a public
iiiBult to mm ana nis oince; was au open
withdrawal 01 cuuuucurc wiiaom even
the courttsy ol a neartuar How is the fact
that Mr. Greele gave tue rresuieut some foolish
advice v.hicuthc I'restjeut aecttuei to toilov
any palliation of that Insult! Tho haste of
Congress to condemn before they had heard;
the caucus which preceded the session and the
proccedinps of the (irstdat, this organUod. hos
tility to the President whom their party had
elected, demonstrates that they did not mean
to conciliate the President; demonstrates that
they had resolved to defy and override him. All
t)eir subsequent proceedings were of a piece
with this Insulting beginning. Mr. Greeley's
defense of Coneres against the charge made by
Mr. Beecher Is as silly as it is irrelevant. H is
irrelevant bpcatise It does not meet thi charge
at all, nor the facts on which It is founded; silly
because the most prudent thing a man could do
who had given such weak advice, would be to
conceal it from all the world. . '
Prussian Gains, ,
from the Timet. ,
The changes made in the political map of Eu
rope by the lute wondrous war are not less re
markable than the quick succession of Prussian
victories. For lnstauce, the oldest ruling family
In Europe, the Gnelph, are entirely pushed out
from among the sovereign princes, and reduced
to the position of private gentlemen. While
the HapBburgs were but lanned noblemcu in
Sw itzerland and thellohen'.ollernstnSwabia, in
tho tenth century, a Guelpti was sovereign Duke
ol Bavaria and atierwards Emperor of Germany.
And now the defeat of the hnpsbiirgs by the
Hohcnzollcnis drives a lineal descendant of
Ilcnrj II from his throne in Hanover and an
nexes his kingdom to the dominions of the vic
tor. Thus, tbe Hohenzoilern has become the
greatest power in Germany, and bis formpr
superior as rivals are under him, or at least
subject to his influences.
As a matter of historical interest, let us take a
look at tbis gain of Prussia. Before the war,
accoioing to the last census of 1804, the total
population of Prussia w 88 19,255.149, Including
these military detachments stationed at federal
fortresses outside of Prussia, numbering 28,809
men. binco tbe census the Duchy of Lauen
burg, with a population of 49,704, was added by
treaty with Austria, so that tbe entire popula
tion ot Prussia on the day that war was de
clared reached the total of 19,304,843. Now,
there will be, as tbe result ot the victory, incor
porated with Prussia the following countries:
Population,
The Kingdom of Hanover 1 D&!,4U2
Iho Duchy ot tschloswie iOUAW
1 he Duohy ot ilolstein 654.610
Klcctoikl Uesse 745 063
1 he Duchy ol Nassau 418 811
Tho Piovince of Upper Meise 2R!,484
J lie City 01 Frankfort 91 180
The Landgiavialu ot tusu iiouiburg 27,874
All these several provinces, duchies, and
Kingdoms are now Prussian, in fact as well as
in law, and the Chambers at Berlin ate now
deliberatine upou the pioposed distribution of
representatives in this newly acquired territory.
We have then a consolidated aud aggrandized
Pruspia, with a population of 23,810,743, harmo
nious in lanpuaue aud interests, excepting thn
small district of Poscn, partially inhabited by
Poles. But this does not represent the real pro
sent power of Prussia. All the German States
north of the river Maiu, net totally absorbed
into the King's dominions, have entered into a
close alliance or union with him, giving him
lull and exclusive control of their military, aud
also of their diplomatic relations abroad, so
that, Vvhile these petty princes, verv aptly nick
named by the London Times ''Ills Transparency
of Pumpernickel," nominally remain on their
Miy thrones, they are in reality nothing but
Prussian oovoruors over their respective coun
tries. These several principalities are as lol
lows: Pojminlion.
Tho Kingdom or Saxony a,893,9i)4
The brand Dukedom tu Ckicbuiv-
pichwerin 552 612
The Urnuo Dukedom Oidenour? 801.812
'Ihe Dukedom biuiiswick 43,838
'He brand Duteuom baxo-Weimar E So
nne 11 280,201
The City 01 Hamburg 22U941
1 lie Dukeoom Anrult 103,046
Tno Dukedom nxo-Menmigun 178. 0J5
'J'l.e Dukedom Suxc-Couuie-tiothu 1C4 627
The Dukedom Saxo-Aif-nbur 141,889
I lie .rrincn nliiv J.idpo Delmom 111,33(1
1 he C'ty 01 Brenim 104,091
in uraua Jjuueuoin 01 JuecKioubiiiic
Mreli z 99.061
The I'liiicipain ltousc, youiuer branch... 8t! 472
llio rruicii a itv ecuwiirzburK-Kuuolsturit. . 73,7i2
'J ho 1'iiiicii ality Suhworzburjf Sunders.
Hansen lis inJ
llio 1'iiiicitialitv Waldcck 69143
Iho City ot Lubecic 50 014
1 he r ruicijia ity l(ous, oidor branch iti,vzl
liie I'riuc pauiy otiauniburg-l lppe 81,782
As Prussia will bo corunlete master of the
whole ol these States, forming with herself tho
K01 th German Union, or Bur.d. the whole popu
lation suujeci 10 uerruie is. taere.iore. a 1. "21(5.61.
a gain for Prussia ot nearly ten mill ions of
people by u four weeks' war! Muv we not cou-
idvr nis result as equally a wonaer of our age
as mncii as the Atlantic cable isawouderot
pnjMeal science ?
SPECIAL NOTICES.
fKV" OKI' ICR OF T11R LKH1GI1 COAL
"-T AND AAV1UA I IOJS COMPANY.
l'uir.Ani,-.i.iiiiA A 11 mint 9(1. 1R1UI.
The .Stockholders of thin Company aro hur.-by notuled
t nut tno lSoni-u oi ilanat'orn have determined to a low
to uil icrniiiB who shuh appear as Htockhoideis ou the
Hooks ot the t'ooipoiiy on the htti or Beptmnbor next,
ulir tl:e cIokIuk o, trmibicrs, at 3 P. M. 01 tba dar the
j rivieno ot HubscrUiluK lor new Buck nt par, to the
t jilt nt 01 one share ot new stock lor every Ave shares
turn ftiuiilliiu in then niinici Kach shareholder eiititinil
to u iractlorai pun ol a share Shall havo the privilege of
BuupviinuiH ui a lull Bimru,
I hi-pnli.crip.lon Looks will open on MONDAY, Sod
tenibcr ,0, uuu close ou BA'i CKJJAY, December 1, lStitt
at ii " Al.
Fanieut will be considered duo .Tunn 1. lHfl:. hut
IdhibIii ent ot iO ntr ti nt . r t' n do lrs per share, must
vv vuiu m, ma nujo ui BuupuriuiuiT' -me Duiauce may be
paid irom time to tin e. at the option ot tbe aubscribera,
beiore the lot ot KovemDor, Ii7 On ail payment.
iiclinlliiH the aforesaid Inmilioimt, made botoro the Jut
t June. JWtii. dlKoount will be aliowea at tne rate ol 6
per cent, per anuuui. ano on a 1 paymenta made between
tnat date and the Is ot fvovember. ltWi, wtureat will be
charittd at iho game rmtn.
All stock not naid up In full bythelatol Woemner,
InWl. will be lorioitcd to i lie una ot the, l oinninv 'nr.
tllicatea tor the new stock wiU not be lanued until a to r
ouuo i, iihii. ana saiu stock, n paia up in lull, wl 1 be cn
Vi .TV t" tii .November dividend ot 1M17, but to no earlier
Q in OUi-UJlOJil bUt.ru KK1,
Treaurer.
rTS-y" I RKSPr.CTFULLY INFORM TITR
, trlendB and acnuuintuuues of my himband. tbe
lalo FBI". !.! CK iiAKtMK 1 i.U. that I Intend to con
tinue and cany ou, ou my own account aud eonirol, tho
.,?.urant at ,1,e corner ol hA'iJll l.Nnb I'laceuud
I Altl' 11 Street-And nluo ihn itnji.... nn uvji-iiiii
J.LAJ'D botn p aucahuvlmi oeen carried on so sucotxis-
miy uj .ne ucceiuveu i natter utyswli that i may enjoy
liberally bestowed on tho lute proprietor! proiuuiluu
that upthini! shall be w.ntingou tuv part to retain and
tteiit Jbe established tepuution oi both estabilxh.ueiiis.
nnut-r uir irauitL'emenl. a Hli.rM m t nu nUir...ra oA
Pr- TUB PENNSYLVANIA FIRE IX-
- tuuimis COMPANY.
. S EPTEHBKB 8 lMM.
ine Directors have this dav decianui .i.vik...,i ,
V. i101 ''AhsANDtKfY UKMS per Share on
T, , i cominnir iir mo last six mouth..
w b!cd wl I he paid to the dtockholdeia or their legal
StH WULIAM 11. CklAVF.l.T. Rnerotarv.
THIS ANNUAL MEETING OF THR
RinrkhnlrlnM a) iha DTrn tivrt o T . v
C. PANTO F 1-KN N8 YCVA Nl.rwitf U
Mreets, on 8A1UR1JAY. Octooer (iih. lHi, at 4 o'clock
P. M. Anelttlouwlllbe had ot Ulreotors tor iho en.
9tb3t J. G. BRINCKXR. President
K A MEETING OF THE STOCK
a3 holder ot the WILLOW OSLKN PKl'kO
I.KDM I JMPANlf WUI be held at their offleef No. 427
WfLuNl'?'ALre''.t,,PhJ1,i.ll,i?uU' oa MONDAY, October
8, 1HM). at 11K o'clock A. M ' wv"""w
Business oi Importance will then be Submitted, and
determined by a stock vote.
Mil at JAMKB W. CONRAD, President.
rT- BATCHELOR'8 AIBDYE
fcCSJ THE BLST IN THE WOULD.
Uarnilets reliable, instantaneous, ihe only perfect
dye. M) disappointment, no ridiculous tUna,but true
to nature, black or browu.
UUllKk It SIGN LD WILLIAM A. BATCUELOE.
Peuenerntlng Extract ol Mlilefleurs restores, preserves
end Lf-atiinlea the hair, prevents baliliusa, s0,a bv all
JiruyatetH. r actor? So. 81 BARCLAY bt.. n. y. "'t
tT Jk M.v.8 ?, "HI SHED
WJ Bvthe I'hislclansoi the
NfcW YOUK SIUBEI'M.
the Mnet'etU Edition oi their
FOLK LEClDttES,
eutlt'ed
PHILOSOPHY Of MARTUsOF.,
To tie hsl t ee, tor four stamp hi audre.slnu Beoro
ttiiy Kvw Vurk Museum ot Ana fcmy,
t0j o 6 I UyADWAY, Kew Yerk.
J3 I N O II A M II O U 9 E ,
Klevtnth and Market Street, Phllada.
This aew and elf pant hoone ts now open tor the ysoep-
tlon of guetts, with all tbe appointments of a flrat elai
Botel. " -
CUHL.IS DAVIS,
9112t PROPRIETOR.
SURF H O U S E,
' ' ' ' . , . 1
ATLANTIC CITY.
CHOICE IiOOSIS can now be bad at this favonto
riouse. ' .J
W. T. C ALE 13.
opes until octobeb i.
EUCUANTS' HOTEL,
CAPE ISLAND. N. J.
Thif Hotel bctpj entfielr refitted and reftirnlshed la
the beet manner, 13 HOW OPEN FOB THIS BUCF.P
HOH OF GTJE6TB. . .
The bouse Is located near tbe ocean, and ever atten
tion will be given to mtrtt the patronage of the public
McNUTT & MASON,
6 22 U PBOPRIETOB8.
FOR CAPE MAY.
' Commencing! TUESDAY. Anitust 28, 1S8 Tratnswlll
leave (Lpper Ferry) Market street, f hhadulphla, as
J P. M., due at Tape Island at 7 P. M.
Hetuinltig will leave cape Island
8 A. M., due in Philadelphia at 11-37.
Ticket Oitici s, at Ferr. loot ol Marnot street, and No
R-lHf'liA.nni .treAt I '(inf llieiml fliktnl
l emon, i.urehaslna tickets of the A Bent, st No 828
Chemui stteet. can by leaving orders, have their bait-
t-ni.e called tor and rneikeu at their resiocnoes oy
Graham's Bagnage Lxeress.
ttiM J VAN KtNS.SEI.AErt, Superintendent
PRESERVING CANS AND JARS.
Yli 1 N E ' 8
WILLO0GI1BY8,
MISON'8,
LYMAN'S,
V A T K N T
AI8-TIOnT
i1L CLAt3.
v.'f
KLINES t5
PATENT,?'
S E L F-S EALING
FRUIT JARS.
All the above Jars we
1B63 m
oner lo our customers and
the public generally, wltli
m
eutire commence, at too
LOWEST
Market Prlco.
A. J. WEIDENER.
1 lm
No. 38 8. SECOND Btieet, Philadelphia.
XT S. FISHER'S PATENT
J-J .
s&LF-SEALINC PRESERVING CAN.
This celebrated Con lias been need bv thousands for
the iast tlve year, and all who have trlid It apeak lu the
hitlitut terms of Its superior merits We veuiurn to
usiett that it Is more re lahlo, more convenient, aud pos
seffes n ore praitlcai merit, than anv other Can iu use
It is sea ed aud unsealed witn the ureaiest ease, a morit
oi winch it purlieu any ooams. am ana warranted tnut
urr put up accoiuing to uirecuons. tin saio ny ino
mui.uiacturer. at hla old Mtnm .I H. hciiukiiiik. No.
Ha M'l.ING GARDEN Htreet. Philadelphia. BJW.mo
SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS, &e
T W. SCOTT & C O.,
SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
Ai D DEALEUS IN
MEN'S FUUNISUINO GOODS,
No. 814 CHESHUT Street.
rOVE 1JOOUS UELOW THE "CONTINENTAL,
bmip PHILADELPHIA.
p A T E T SI lOULDElSE AM
MJIliT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S l'UENISIIING ST0K2.
TEEKECT KITTING BHIKiB AND DHAWEB3
n.otl e irom mcauureuicut at very short notice.
All tther ai Holes of GEKTLKMEtf b DKES3 GOODS
in lull variety.
WINCIIKSTKK & CO.,
8?4' No 706 rilKSNCT Street
TliKiLliDhK, TKOUT, VOKiT t CoT
beg moat iesrectlullv to call tbe attention ot the
public at largo to their nuwly-lnventeu Pateut,
THE UMVEBSAL AI.AKM1M.
which, by difechorpiiiK a percussion cap, made expressly
tor the purpose, will prove very elltctual In tho preven
tion ol but uluries. etc.
- 'i he l(.hoWiik aie some of Its preat advantages:
1st. Mmpllciiyoi construction, cheapness anUeaein
applieatlou, so that aurvant or child may set It.
'itl. i reedom trom danper to persons or property.
Sd. t nlversality oi applica:ion tounv part of a Poor,
V iudow. Grntiug, Shutter, Gate, Garden, Preserve,
PImi l end etc.
4th. It uives a check to burglais by alarming the In
mates, neip I. hois aud police.
6th l he mind Is teiieved Irom much painful anxiety,
hi lemnle loneliness or old axe especially when aiticlus
oi ri eat value are kept In tho bouse.
tth It Is a universal protection to traveller to fasten
on i baniler doora.
7th. lta construction It simple and nut liable to get out
oi order.
DIUECTION3 FOE TPE ACCOMPANY EVERY IS
i 8 TKI'SIENT.
Me have put our article at tbe low price .of ONE
DCiLLaK, Inclusive or 25 cups and It caunot bo got
cu oper either liotn us or irom our agcula, For lurthor
particulars Inquire ot or addri as,
BTtlGLEDI R. lltOUT, VOIGT & CO,,
, , Olllce, No. 6H4 WAL.vUi' Mreet,
ltoom No. IS.
We will send the ALARMIST to any part ol the
ci uniry on receipt oi pilce, and U cents extra lot
postage.
. Country Agents wanted. 6 29 3m
USE STARIK'S C0NDUI0 powders
FOR
HOUSES AND CATTLE.
It cures Worms Botts, and Co'lc.
- It cures Colds, Coughs, and Hide-Bound.
It is the best alterative for Horses and Cattle now
nse. having a reputation of 20 years' stanalng.
It Is a sure preventive for the much dreaded Rinder
pest. No Farmer or Dauyman should be without It.
Vorsaeln Philadelphia bv DYOTf CO. No 233
North BfctONl) street; JOHNSON'. HOLLOWAY fe
lOWDk.N. io. 3 Notih SIXTH Mreet. and by Drua
gists throughout the country. Addtess al, orders to
BTAEIN & FLOYD, Proprietors,
No. 209 DUANE Street, New York.
0 86m
"YHAT IS THE BEST CURE FOR
CORNS, BUNIONS, ETC.?
THEOBALD'S BOOTS.
No. T03 CALLOWHIU. STREET,
He makes the ta,U to ndBoot hhoe,
etW to lit the leet. TKY 1UM. ID lil ltn
l-vniVY WELLS OWNERS OK PROI'ICRTY-
I , nA U.l. . W.II.Al.ani.,1 . .. A m
I 1 lie OT11.V pi0 I" P" F " w.vmuuu au U
litectcu i 'i j"-- -
A. PEYtiON,
Marofacturet of Voudrotte
e 10 S GOLDSMITHS
His' HALL, L Irs It A 11 Y btreet
SUMMER RESORTS.
HI
Jits
LUMBER.
1866;
FLOOKINOI FLOORIKQ1
ri.OOHlNlil FLOTMrOI
Mt'AKOIJNA FLoOKlNfl.
4-4 CAKOLIISA FLOHKINU.
MVIdl'lM ri.OOtilMI.
4-4VIBC.INIA KLOOKlNU
t-i DKLAWARE FLOOHINt...
4-Ir LAWAKK FLOORINd
AfH AND WALNUT ri.O'MtltsO.
A6U ND WALNUT rLOOUlUG.
MFP BOABDi.
I RAIL PLANK.. -r
18GG
PLASTERING
, PLAHTFRINO LATHS,
AT RKHUi KD ritK'l-H.
AT REDUCED PRICKS.
LAT1LS t
1866
CKDAK AND PINK SHINGLES
, CEDAR AND PINK HHINtH.KS
VO. 1 LOMl CKAMB on IM.IUKH.
No. 1 HhORT xF.IAli MHINOLE8.
WHIT. PINK CUINGI.K8.
CrrRESX 8HIN(LK.
F1NF. ABSOBTMKNT FOR BAL LOW
186(
I. IillHUivD rnu rviiL-DTiVL tiun
SEP rMK- WAI.NPT, AND PINK.
KFD ( IDAB WALN UT, AN 1) PIN F-
1866
' ALJlAAXv??m?9E ALL) fcUNia
f-KAMONH) WALNUT.
DRY POPLAR ( MFltRY, AND A80.
OAK PI.K. Al ilDS.
,.o . MAHOGANY.
ROSEWOOD AND WALN UT VENEERS.
1866
fit: A If -lit 1 V m 1 K'TTI.. . fn. t. r.,,
J. I'lGAK-KOX JtAMIFAOTrokvi
SPANISH tl)AR UOX IIOARD.t.
AT REDUCED PRICES.
1 Rfi NPl't'UG JOIST! SPRCCR JOIST1
FLOM 14 'lO 82 FEKTLONCl.
FROM 14 TO 12 FKKT LONUi
HEMLOCK FLASK AND JOIST.
.11- I-TTTrt
vn iv rj i . I . "l ,
HAI LK jiROTOFR A CO.,
No. 2W0 SOUTH bTttEKl'.
5 2 Bmrp
UNITED STATES
BUII.DElt'S MILL,
Kos. 24, 26, and 28 S. FIFTEENTH St.,
r&iLADELrniA.
& BROTHER.
WOOD MOULDING!, BRACKETS. BTaIR BAJLU8.
TER8.
w.r.ri"!.?8' 0ERAL TU&NINU
HCllOLL WOUK.KTO.
BULLYING PLANKD TO ORDER.
co'nuyrony"'"1 ' Wa Moglajn'
J. C- PERKINgf
LUMBER MERCHANT'
fiueocssor to K. Clark, Jr4
No. 324 CHRISTIAN STREET,
of buiklniK Lumber. 6 84
COAL.
JAMES O ' li II I e Nj
SEALER IN
LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL COAL,
BY TUK CAUGO OR 6INOI.lt TOM.
Yard, Broad Street, below Fitzwater.
I;os constantly on liand a competent supply of tho
atove superior Coal, sui ablo lor fanu.y two, ta
which he calls tho attention ot bis frionds and tbs
public generally.
Orders int at ICo. 205 South Fifth utroct, No. S3
South Seventeenth street, or tnrougii LtodpatoU r
I'ost Oflice, promjitly attended to.
A BLPUUOR QUALITY OF BLACKSMlrHS
COAL. 7 (j j
pjAZLETON LEHIGH COAL.
A SPECIALTY.
I?. W. PAT1UCK & CO.,
No. SC4 KOIiTH EE0AD STKEET,
Would solicit orueii for the above Coal, which they
havo always on hand, together withthvircolebratei
EE-EE0KEN SCRUYLKILL COAL.
825 emu 6m
TP YOU WANT PEltfECT SATISFACTION
J In every respect, buy the celebrated FRBSrON
COAi,, Ekb ami Stove sizes, at 17 15 per ton. Also, tho
genuine KaGI.K VEIN C0.4L, same sizes, same price,
rnd a very tine Quality of I. Kb loll. F.pir aud fitovo, at
f H Hi per ton. I seep notlilnir but the best. Orders re
ceiveoat No. 114 bouth Xillkb btfeet. 624
DANCING ACADEMIES.
L. CAKPENTEH & SON'S DANCING
XJ , ACADKAlY.
No. 62S ARCH STREET.
1). L. Cnrpontnr. the we i kuowa and experienced
iliixtkr ol I'snclnir anil Cutistlienlcs, i-esooctiullr In
forms Parents and Youns Laities and Gentlemen that
bin Acuutmy lor Private Tuition will reopen lor tbe
recontion oi ricbolsrs on
bA'i L KIiaY SKPTESIBER 1,1666,
fortlieFai Winur, and fpi inc.
l.viry attention, as l.eretoiure.ull be paid to advance
bis iclioiurs in eurv purticulnr. and he cun la snea
punctuHv at his rooms, No. 645 aRCU Hireet, dally
und nitbily.
1AY8 OF TUITION FOB LIIRS.
MONDAY, Vt LUNEsDAY AN1 PR1La.Y AFTJiB
NOOS8. TOR YOUNG SllBE-l AND MASTFBS.
lUEfcDAY 'JUIRSDAY. AND ATLRUaY AFTEE
NO -.VI.
EVENINGS FOR GKSTLEVEN.
TUESDAY. IliUKSUAY hD HA I URUAY EVEN
INGS. PRIVATE LVKMNCH KOlt LADIES AND OEN
TLElta EN
SIONDAV, WEDNESDAY. AND FRIDAY EVEN
1NGS.
DIRECT PRIVATE TUITIOM
plv'n tn clofsei orslni;le lessons every nionilnir.
Terms, eto , niude kuoivn at D L. CurpeuiurA Bon'l
Acadeuiv
I). L. Oarpentcr & Son will give their attention to all
tbe ltilo.it luabiunalilc dances ol tbe seuaou.
AH Galops w aiizes, lips. etc., aud the many flitter
eut flnu.es o: the KKMAjoOTILLl0N
together, he vlil tu h as umul al round dances and
tjUMorilles. and, lu taoi, any danco tliat mav be re
quested Hcbulars cau comrueuce at uuy time uuug
tbe tail and winter seasons.
PRIVATE t OIILLION fiOIREEH
will be plvcuto schuUra and irl"nds at his Rooms tbia
esou, as well as a course ot Evening- Huuscriptlon
Holreea at tbe Musical Fund fa all. anil a itraud Miuuue
Hiihscriiiflon Uali In Fcliruarvj aleo. bis Tn euty-second
Annual Floral JJall vll1 be (Wen at tbe Acadeiuv oi
At u'sic il'i" Intormatlon will be given on appli
cation to D L. arpixter
licaets are reaoy nt bis roomi tor Ms Opening Holree.
tUASisMinr. LiruxilOAU CAltl'l.ll-U.
D. L. CAHPENTEIt,
8 27 Siu
No, 625 APCU Street.
BOARDING.
f$0. 1121 0 IRAKI) STREET
I'.tlDH neatly fitted up, will open lor
F1IIHT-CLASH "HOARDERS
ON TUE FIRST OF -EFT C.MS KB.
T o turn Coo niuoliattng Booms on tbe second floor
well adapted lor a tamtiy. 8 it
TRUSSES, SUPPORTERS, ETC.
PUTT inn PHI A HTT R fl V I k a
O'tifl BANHAGt. lNS'ITUTE. No. 14 l.
eVlkFTT, alio, tbu-ty ymr' practical ezprlAnce!
uamutees ine skiliul suiustiueni oi a is fremlu'r
'aunt Graduating l rersuie 1 russ, aud a Vsnetv of
others. Hunportvrs, Klastio Htocktua hou'oi-r Bracd.
( run 8impusortes, etc. Ladles' apartuiauts coa
dutUd by a Ludy,
t