THE DALLI EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 18C6.
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THE UTEVT YORK PRESS.
EDITORIAL OFIHIONS OF THE LEADING
JOURNALS UPON CURRENT TOPICS.
OMPltFD EVXKT VAT FOR KVRNISO TKLEOKAPH.
Tho Abdication of Maximilian.
From the Timet.
Whoihor tho advancing shadow ot Sherman's
vnzn fifrure may have affected tho imperial
. erves of Maiimilian, we cannot tell. Whether
hind t hat shadow bis imperial eye fancied it
t held the apparition of a hundred thousand
meiican soldiers, we do not know. But at all
. euts, if it be true that he has abdicated the
. .esican throne, it would seem that the act wa
ry nearly contemporaneous with his know
ledge of the departure of General Sherman from
this country for Mexico.
There were reasons enough why Maximilian
fliould abdicate independently of any action on
th part of our Government. When the French
bayonets which first rained, and lor three
vo(U8 have upheld, his thronel were with
drawn. It was pertectly sure the throne would
t; il. It was neither intrenched in the history
r the people nor in their allectlons. He saw
i .mi ueuher native arms nor the native courage
. wuld support it. He was under no obligations
j the Mexican people nor the French Gov-
rnnu'Dt.
In act, there Is every reaon to believe that
the power which forced him upon .Mexico was
ts anxious to undo the deed 83 were the people
upon whom he had been iorced. Napoleon had
been no less disappointed in the business than
Maximilian. French hopes had been blasted as
well as dynastic prospects. If one Emperor had
lulled to paclty the country Internally, the other
Emperor had failed to place its external or Inter
national relations upon u pacific basis. It one
Emperor had been disappointed in his revenues,
the other had been no less grievously disap
pointed in the same vital concern. In fact, the
Imperial Government, &1 a whole, and In all its
parts, had been such a pitiable, conspicuous,
and ruinous failure that the attempt to main
tain it would iiave been at onco a blun ter, a
crime, and a farce.
Maximilian Is not a fool. It was assuredly a
foolhth act In him to mount a Mexican throne;
and it was continued folly in him to remain
there after be had learned the basis on which it
necessarily rested. But, in taking the step
originally, we have no doubt that, along with
the ambition which actuated him, there was a
genuine desire to deliver from anarchy a people
which bad so ion been its prey, and to confer
the blesaings ot a axed Government and a legiti
mate dynasty upon a country which had so ter
ribly s u tiered through pretenders and usurpers.
In eitimatinsr Maximilian, we must remember
the political Idea? which came to him by his
position and training in Austria. We must re
member the blood in his veins, and the facts of
his life. He was no vulgar adventurer, like
many of those who have been more successful
in history. Ho was no falsifier or hypocrite to
Uis convictions, like some others who nave died
in the purple to which they were not born. He
was no needy organ-grinder seeking a chance to
enrich himself, and no schemer pursuing his
own ends at the expense of others' ruin.
In leaving Austria, even to be an Emperor, he
(surrendered much to his convictions, and In
resigning, as he did before going to Mexico, all
right and claim to the Austrian succession and
the imperial crown of the Hapsburgs, he showod
his readineos to make sacrifices such as are iu
t tie power of few men in the world to make.
Those who assail him personally as being guilty
of a criminal part in the Mexican ailair lose
sight of the tacts; but that the part was one of
unconscious follv, wejitnagine that he himself
would now be very ready to acknowledge. It
probably took him some considerable time to
reach this conclusion, though one might think
it must have begun to grow on him very soon
after he reached Mexico. But, doubtless, piide,
fthaf lltiiV- anrl rtth Ar Alemeal. ot VYo Uftpsbncii
character, then began to affect his determina
tions and plans, and he fixed his mind to adhere
to his position till Fate Itself should force him
irom It.
He has found out now that all the fates are
ngalnst him. The Emperor who sent him has
turned back upon him. The Pope who blessed
his mission frowns at his course. Tho people,
whose affections he hoped to inspire, still con
tinue to turn their arms against him. Tho
great republic looms up before bis fancy as an
enemy with menacing sword. Not a friend, of
alt his former friends, now stands by him. His
domestic afflictions and the humiliation of his
house tn Austria till the cup of his woes. What
could he do but abdicate with such honor as
was possible, and leave a country and a conti
nent where he had lost all and had nothing to
hope for Tho act comes late, but it is the
wisest act he has done since he set foot on Mexi
can soil.
What effect such an act as the abdication of
Maximilian is calculated to have on tne further
movements of the French tn Mexico, or on our
relations with that country and the Imperial or
Napoleonio aeenis wbo are still there, remains
to be seen. There is no reason whatever why it
should interfere with the French evacuation.
That was not made contingent on the move
ments ol Maximilian, but was pledged to us on
grounds entirely independent of such accidents.
We see no reason whatever to doubt that it will
be faithfully carried out in any event. We see
every reason to believe that the letter of Napo
leon's promise will be kept And as for our own
immediate dealings with Mexico, such an event
as Maximilian's departure is of little conse
quence. Were he in the way of any purpose of
ours, ho would be brushed olf without a moment's
tboueht But be could not, and would not, stand
inour.way.. The Mexican question, therefore,
stands very.much as it did. . We shall learn in a
lew weeks what Sherman has had to do with it,
and what he has done with it.
The True Bases of Reconstruction.
From the Tribune.
About to start lor some weeks' sojourn in the
West, whence I cannot readily and constantly
confer with the general public, I wish to leave
my contribution to the general mass of sugges
tion and criticism touching the true based of
national restoration and concord so plainly set
forth that it cannot be misquoted or misappre
hended. That I have long held the main foundations
of a genuine, enduring resettlem ent of our dis
turbed and upturned national structure to be
universal amnesty and Impartial suffrage, must
be tolerably well known. It only remains to
be said that I eommend them not as ..reciprocal
concebsious, but as common benefits. I trust
our great differences are to be composed and
ended by no grudging, higgling compromise-
no peanut dicker. It Is esssential to the North
that the South should be thoroughly tranquil-
"u imoouiou, 11 is essential to tne nouin
that her orincipal bodv orae-rinnir.nrai
her peasant cultivators should live and labor
in couUutment,jbased on perfect trust that their
rights of person and property their earnings
nuu mcif uuiuro c o ro;urB ana inviolate ai
thoe of the proudest maznate In the land.
There is no Northern, no Southern lntcrnst in
the premises, but a common Interest of the
wnoie American jeopie. , ......
I am for universal amnesty so far a im
mnnitv from fear of nunisbment or confiscation
is concerned even though impartial suffrage
should for the nrosent be resisted and defeated.
I did think it desirable that Jefferson Davis
should- be arraigned and tried for treason; and
it still teems to me thut this might properly
have been done many months ago. But it was
not done then; and now 1 believe 'it would
result 'in far-more evil than good. It would
rekindle patwions thut have nearly burned out
1 l - 1 ..i i . i 1 II e . i
V wry iiuiueu ciuep; it wvuiti luariuuy rou
vulae and agitato the South ; il wo'ld arrest the
progress of reconciliation and kindly feeling
ih'-re; It would cost a largo sura directly nd a
far larger Indirectly; and unless the Jury were
scandalously packed it would result tn a non
apreemeht or no verdict. I can Imagine no
good end to be subserved by such a trial, and
holduig Davis neither belter nor worse than
thousands of others would have him treated
as they aie. '
I hope to see impartial suffrage established by
very general consent. Many will lavor it be
cause they hold It eminently wise and Just;
others because they are tired ol contention
about negroes, and wbh to put an' end to It.
And the one simple, obvious mode of faking
the negro out ol politics is just to treat him as
a man. He will cease to be an object of r-peclai
interest or championship from the hour that
Hip law disregards the immaterial circumstance
of his color, and treats him only as a human
being. , .
I trust the States will generally accord to
blacks tho common rights of manhood, irre
spective of the nation and ol each other; and I
trust they will agree to place i those rights under
the protection of the Federal Constitution.
This may not. in one sense, be necessary; yet It
is best to leave no "loopjto hang a doubt upon."
The whole country needs absolute peace ana
rest. I am very willing that each State shonid
impose a moderate poll tax on every citizen,
and allow no one to vote who shall net have
seasonably paid this tax. I bold that lunattcs
idiots, cifmlnuls, vagrants, and public paupers,
have no natural right to vote, and that they
ought not to be enfranchised. If there be
negroes, as I presume tborc are, who choose to
rrowl over the country, begeing and stealing,
think these should not be allowed to vote.
But every honest, dil'gent, industrious, useful
citizen, however lowly, ought to be a vo'er;
and that State is weakened and imperilled
which excludes any such from her electoral
body.
1 dislike the suggestion of an "intelligence"
basis of suilrage. Let us not be deluded by false
analogies and vague abstractions. . In a State
w here each child grows up w ithin sight of free
school-houses, wherein he Is more than welcome
to be a pupil, it Is perfectly reaonable to pre
scribe that those only who can read may vote.
Where half the people have not only been denied
all publio facilities for education, but hive
grown up under laws which made teaching
them a crime, the case is very different. Estab
lish common schools in the South, and you may
fairly prescribe that no one shall vote alter 1870
who does not know bow to read. But do not
put out a man's eyes and then punih him lor
blindness. . -
It would be morally impossible to enforce
fairly and uniformly an Intel icence test in the
South. Just think of Mayor Monroe, with his
chief ot police and first marshal, silting as a
board on the eve of an excitmp election to de
termine how many and which of the blacks of
dew urieans were so literary as they should be
to make them voters ! Fancy the Copperheads
of Southern Maryland passiug on the literal y
pretensions of their late slaves, from whom they
reared defeat in an exciting political contest I
The bare attempt to cn'orce f-tich a test at the
South will manifestly inflame and distract that
entire region. J trust it will be forborne.
I commend impartial suffrage as required by
the true interest ot all concerned; jet I cannot
ndmit that it is a matter in which the North has
no rightful concern. The blacks are a portion
not merely of the Southern, but of the Ameri
can people. They played an Important and
beneficent part in our great civil war. We
cannot ignore the obligations springing from
our necessity and their loyalty. - I hold that
honor and good lakh absolutely constrain those
who triumphed In that struggle to take care
that their bumble supporters and backers shall
not be made to suffer for taking the side of the
union. To say now, in view ot tne recent past,
"Let the Southern negroes have such rights
only as their white (late Rebel) fellow-citizens
shall see fit to accord them," would be ingrati
tude and perfidy such as might well invoke the
lightnings ot heaven. No matter at what cot,
we of the North must take caie that the South
ern blacks are not left at the mercy of that dia
bolic t-pirit which manifested itself through the
late massacres of Memphis and New Orleans.
"But there is the Federal Constitution in your
rv, i near vojeoiea.
Perhaps I do not comprehend the force of thla
objection. Let me illustrate my views oi it by
a familiar example. Buppose General Grant.
when he nrst approached the boundary ot Ten
nesseebut no, let us suppose that General
Lee, when In 1863 he reached tho southern
boundary of Pennsylvania, had found his way
barred by a pompous, putty personage, who ac
costed him as follows: "Sir, I give you notice
that this Is the 'sacred soil' of Pennsylvania; I
am one of her magistrates, and, in her name
and authority, ana in virtue ot that Federal
Constitution "which you have sworn to obey. I
command jou to turn back!" it is just possi
ble that the General would have ordered the
justice to get outot the wfty, but more probable
that be would have simply kept on without
voucl sating the judicial magnate a word.
We have been engaged In a fierce, desperate.
protracted ttrupgle lor the very existence ot tne
Republic, whereof tho Constitution Is but an
incident. (I know there were those nominally
on our side who said they fought for the Con
stitution, but I never heard of their hurting
any noay.) in tne progress ot mat struggle it
became necessary to call the blacks to the
rescue of the imperilled nation. Had we made
them no promises whatever, our obligations
resulting ftom our peril, and their services in
averting it, would not have been essentially les
sened. Had we been worsted, they must have
shored our misfortune, and gone under the feet
of the triumphant Rebels. Had we ended the
struggle by treaty or compact, they must have
been governed oy tne terms ot that compact.
But we weie hot worsted; we did not compro
mise nor end the war by treaty; we were en
tirely and absolutely triumphaut; and I hold it
a moral obligation thence resulting that we shall
guarantee aud secure their absolute, periect
freedom. To prove unfaithful to this obligation
is to bury ourselves in perddy and en during
ehan.e. And (bis responsibility, springing
directly from the national rescue from ruin. I
hold l'ar before and above the letter of the
Constitution.
The soundness and urgency of this view would
not have been so palpable bad the Rebels, alter
the utter collapse and di-appearance of tneir
Confederacy, evinced a grain ot common sense.
Had they so ac'ed that their filends might have
plausibly argued that the blacks were sa'e in
their hands, we mignt have guessed, or trutcd
or hoped, that the most yiil rigats oi the freed
men would be respected and shielded by Stale
action; Rand thereupon gone to sleep. Bat tie
last shots of war had barely ceased to echo '
when Southern legislatures, assembled by Mr.
Johnsot's Provisional Governors, began to con
coct aud enact laws bearing exclusively on the
Frecdmen, which would have disgraced the
worst days ol Egyptian orof Algerine despotism.
For instance: no reasonable person ever ob
jected, while slavery exuted, to laws placing
the blacks In slave States under police sur
vtillnace, and lorhlddlng them to keep or
bear arms; but such acts ' become absurdly
tyrannical from the moment wherein slavery
disappeared; and the wrenching of their arms
by Rebels from honorably .discharged Union
foldiers, under color ot State authority, solely
because the Unionists were blacks, wa a very
cowaidly mode of renewing the war ot Rebellion.
Bo pi' all acts revived or re-enacted which shut
blacks out cf the wituos-box in cases where
only whites were parties, or inflicted on them
any kind of disability which was at the stnie
time an Indignity.. This kind of legislation (see
"McPherson's Manual' ) was common to all the
Rebel States, though that of Missbs. npt was
probably the worst. I rejoice that South Caro'
lina has had the good sense to repeal her share
of it, aud I bail her action In this respect as
greatly conducive to an early restoration of the
Union. But it is piovcd unsafe to trust to local
authority and opinion, which may be right to
day and wrong to-morrow; we most place the
esseutial rights of every American citizen
under the express guardianship of the Federal
Constitution. That wiH be the end of contro
versy; until then, even unsuccessful attempts
to abridge th.m will prove a grave and general
calamity, ,.. . .,. ... , . . v, , i k. , 'i
I hav? kali that I favor, both, universal
nesly and Impartial suffrage on their respective
merits, each without regard to the other. I hoi 1
that the North is hound to 1n 1st on man boo 1
suflrape not in tho South onlv, bat in every
State and territory because ot the service r
3uired of and rnered by the blacks In putting
own the Rebellion thst it would be perfidy
and baseness, in view of all the facts, to to
insist on thin. I hold the South bouni to accord
suffrage to the blacks, as an Important and
Ufclul, though humble, portion of her people,
whom it Is her interest as well as bor duty to
conciliate and satiny, even though the North
did not desire it. There, i no conflict between
the interests nd duties of the North on one
side, and the South on the other what is best
for each, or either, i best lor boih the only
collision Is between their respective resentments
and prejudices. The North want to keep at
least the leading Robels under ban indedniiely;
the South-that is, a malorlty of the dominant
cate at the South wants to keep the negroe
under loot, despised, powerless, and otten abused
by the white ruffians, whose crimes the better
cla?s disavow, but neither prevent nor punish.
The loyal Noith has demonstrated her ability to
keep the Rebels out of Congress; the Rebel
South has likewise proved her power .to ore vent
indefinitely the due ratification of the Constitu
tional amendment. This dead lock affords to
those whom 1 must consider the more generous
end far-s( e'ng minds of either sect on an oppor
tunity which, once lost, may never return.
Even though the South were able to force her
leaders into Congress, they could not hope for
full restoration to power and public favor; cveu
though the North were able to force Impartial
suffrage on the South, it would prove of little
value while resisted by a strons malontv ot the
dominant caste there. But let North and South
strike hands on the basis of universal amnesty
with impartial suffrage, and the resulting peace
will be perfect, all-embracing, and enduring.
Each section will gain everything and lose really
nothing.
As to bow the blacks will vote if enfranchised,
I have not inquired, and do not care to know.
That they will not vote for the re-eslablisnment
of slavery, nor for their own disfranchisement,
nor to exalt to power those who burn their
school-houses and mob their camp-meetings, I
take to be self-evident. Tbey may make some
mistakes at first, but experience will teud
steadily to their diminution and correction. I
do not concur with the careful mother who in
sisted that her son must be kept out of the
water till be should have learned to swim. And
I feci confident that blacks, like other men.
will vote tirst to secure their own rights, then to
promote tne weltareot the country.
If the South shall insist on her abstract right
to hold the blacks as a subject race, the North
will doubtless insist on the indefinite disfran
chisement ot all the prominent Rebels, and
realtors will thus go on as they have gone for
the lust j ear. I must still cherish my opinion
that this is unwise; but I shull stand with my
own people, while awaiting the maimer and
wiser view that I am confident must ultimately
prevail. The disinterested will say, "Let the
Rebels remain under the ban sofongasihey
insist on keeping the blacks there" and they
win say so witu ample reason, it tne enlist
ment I urge should ultimately fail, and, In the
mutations of party ascendancy the Rebels
should bo let up and the blacks be kept down, I
shall regret it as much for the sake ot the Soath
as of tho North; and 1 shall feet that the blame
does not all attach to the South. And, what
ever the immediate issue, I shall bate no Jot of
heart or hope that at last and at no very dis
tant any our people wi'.i oe tnorougniy nar
monized and united on the basis of impartial
and universal lreedom. H. U.
France, England, nnd thel'nlted States
A tw Holy Alliance.
From the Herald.
In the present relations between France,
England, and the United States, there is one dis
tinctly visible fact England and France find it
very difficult to struggle against the conse
quences : of the great error iu relation to the
United States to which they committed them
selves somo few years ago. At the very begin
ning of the war ogainit tho Union the probable
result of the war was fully discussed between
the Emperor Napoleon and Lord Palmeiston,
and the deliberations and conclusions of those
dutiuguirad poiuioiniis were reflected with
more cr less fidelity in the English papers,
which at the same epoch informed the world
In lofty periods that the great republic was no
more; that the United States was no longer to
be numbered in the catalogue of nations; that
tneie was nothing left of us but a congeries of
dit-coidant communities which would soon an
nihilate one another, and that the great expeU
mcnt ot popular sovereignty had ended iu
sudden but positive collapse. Fienca policy
and Britisn policy were immediately, shaped
upon notions of that stamp. It was assumed
that our power was gone; and in Ejrope it Is
the morality of great nations that where there
is no povsr ihere must be no respect and is no
law. Any one may seize what the owner can
not defend. France began her proposed spolia
tion upon us by taking up a position and con
centrating troops in Mexico; and England, more
practical and bluut, gave us the benefit of her
neutiality, by which 6he drove from the seas a
commerce that had already made her the second
n ar-.tin e power ot the world.
But, alter all, the great Republic did not go
dowu. So tar irom the collapse of our G vern
ment ensuing, we came out stronger than ever,
and the facts that forced us to battle aud to the
exertion ot out power first taueht to us and to
the world the nnimagined extentof our develop
ment. Peace might have hidden tor another
hall-century the important truth that under our
free system we had grown to be the first mili
tary nation of the earth, if measured by the
power that we were capable of applying to the
purposes of war. This demonstration of our
vitality of the vitality due to our republican
system reacted terribly against those wbo had
been so eager to determine oar quietus under
the "crowner's quest law" of their ambitious
views. Its Rreat lesson as to the power ot popu
lar government tended to shake down thrones.
This was so felt in Germany that the arbitrary
Minister of the Prussian King deemed it worth
while to com iii end his policy to the nation by
proposing to base it on universal suffrage. How
it was felt in France we may dimly guess when
w e see that in spite of the whole fabric of police
and the; infinite suivoillnnco exercised, the
Latin quarter is now full ot secret societies, and
that arrests are being made every day. Its effect
in Great Britain is teeu in the impulse and in
tensity it ba3 given to the movement of the
miu-ses agaiust the aristocratic system that ap
pears in the thin discruise of a movement for Par
liamentary reform, aud also in the e-pread of
ienionism, mat at tnis nour endangers English
ruio in Ireland.
Our European enemies did what they could
to escape from their false position, 'f ranee
made the iairest protestations In relation to
Mexico, and England declared, with all the
vehemence and volubility of which she was
capable, that the injuries done us were not
intentional, but only the Inevitable results of
c elects in her laws; ana sue promised to amend
the laws. But there were in the case some
scarcely surmountable points ot dignity aod
national pride. It was hard tor them to swal
low ihe draught that circumstances commended
to iheir lips. They made wry faces. France
has delayed till the present hour the fulfilment
of her promises, ana is just as much in Mexico
as ever.
England Is just about naming a commission
to revise the laws that offended us; but she is
doing it with a spirit that promises no remedy
for the evil. She is apparently determined that
if her laws are revised, it shall be done in
tne face ot all tne argument against it that un
coinpiomlslng hostility to the United States can
suggest. Such is the significance ot the ap
pointment on the commission of Mr. Harcourt.
the I'liistoricuk" whose utterances on inter
national law seemed so admirable to the Lon
don limes, in what other item could auv one
regard the appointment on the same commission
ot Mr. Gregory, the member tor Dublin, whose
advococv tn the House of that kind of neutialitv
illustrated by the 'AfatyamQ caouot have becu
It is an important quctloa Just now how far
these powers vtill go In their efforts to escape
the lefracloTi of their acts againt us. Many
clicuuistances indicate that tney are In collu
sion; that there Is a new secret undemanding
with special reference to their respective atti
tudes towards the United States. It Enjlatid
refuses that satisfaction on the Alabama claims
that has been categorically demanded, France
will see her way clear in Mcxioo. Will those
powers carry their mutual support so far as to
venture a war with the United Stalest The
Prince Napoleon, who Is once more said to be
in the Emperor's confidence, has just returned
to France Irom England, aud as apropos to his
retum there Is some whimper of the extension of
the Ideas Involved in the addition of Austria tc an
all ance between Ftance and Italy. Is England to
go In also? The Euipororof France classes Russia
and the United Mates together as the enemies
ol Europe, and fears the democratic spirit of
Germany as much as bis uncle did. Is the nent
move to be a grand league n new holy alliance
of all the conservative elements against derao
mocratic principles every w1i-f . and is this
league , to make, its fit J(Qd against what
w ill be called the outragenuT'demanda of our
Government? Pushed to the wall by our resist
ance, France and England can only escape the
consequences of their great error by some des
perate venture; and though the venture of such
a league and programme as seems to be now
sketched out in Europo appears at first glance
too incredibly desperate, there Is some good
reason to believe that wnr against' the United
States in that shape or nearly that shape Is a
topic now under serious discussion. '
Chief Justice Chase and Thad. Stevens.
From the World. '
The passages quoted in the following Wash
ington letter are noteworthy: ,
Irom the Baltimore Oazttte.
V abhikotow, November 23. In my letter pub
lished on Monday lat I Uted tbat the mtoruow
between t'hiel Justice Chase and the President, on
the previous 1 huiMlav evening, had, in the opinion
oi tuo best informed upon current poiiiioat events,
relation to the condition ot the Fodnral Conns t
the South. 1 find that this was sinctir correct. I
have Ginoe learned that at another interview, held on
I ridsy evenintr. at wbicb several membsrn of the
Cabinet were prevent, ihe tnJect ot the condition of
the South waa ireely canvassed, and tbat "the Chief
Justice recou. mended, as an alternative lor tbe Con
stitution! amendment as It now stauds,.whioa he
lav red, tne substitution ot 'impartial' xuftrare" in
pluce ol tbe seoond and third sections, the latier of
whioh particularly constituting an lrreoonoilable
oijeciion ota tbe part of tne ten unrepresented
Staies. Ihe Prenueut, however, exireia no
opinion at tbe mee ing although he invited a lree
iiiterebango ot views br all present. It is now un
questionable that he stands precisely ts he stood
last wins cr.
Mnce the arrival of Iliad Stevens at the seat of
Government, Increased interest in political affairs
has been excited. 1 do not think any gieat im
jioriauce is properly to t e atuohed to bis personal
wishes and intentions. If, however, the aotion of
Coi. eie is to be controlled by his dictation, then,
int'eed, there will be stirring times this session 1
understand "he sneers at rnv 'barain.' as he called
: ti e conference between the President and Mr.
jChast, in which the Sou h is to be a party; de
nounces 'universal amnesty,' tnouen coupled witn
'universal' suffrage, and deems tho aotion ot tbe
Southern States a together unnecessary to make
valid tne Constitutional amendment. " I also leara
he ha prepared bl l. the purpose and d eration
of which are to render nuil al the appointments
made b the Piesident daring the reoee of Con
gioss. .
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Cotrt, being
also a candidate for the next Republican nomi
nation for the Presidency, is the most embar
rassed man In the country. There is a strong
tendency In the Republican parly to assume the
bold position that ratification by three-fourths of
the "represented'' States is nil that is requisite
to engraft amendments on the Constitution.
This has long been the position of Messrs.
btevecs and Sumner; and even so moderate a
politician as the editor ot the Tunes is on the
)oint ot endorsing tne same wini nypotnesis. in a
abored editorial, Monday, that journal said:
'In the contumacy of the South we can see
groundwork ot a strong aigumcnt for limiting
the unification of tbe amendment to the Stales
wmch earned on the war tor the Union and
now compose the government or the Union."
"Tho ntpunjont in tto tavor," tne 7imes lurtuer
sajs, "may become irresistible." The present
oi lit ot Republican Eet tlment is stronely in
favor ot that doctrine; and the Times, with its
babiiual tendency to float with the stream,
promptly bends Its canoe in that direction.
But the Chief Justice knows that neither he,
nor the august tribunal over which he presides,
can sanction cuch a pret-nsion. It any pre
tended amendment has received the ratification
of less than ihree-focribs of the whole number
of States, the Supreme Court will be compelled
to declaie it, and all legislation founded oa it,
null and void. The Chiei Justice, as a candidate
lor the Pies dency, is anxious to avoid this de
structive collision with his party. Hence his
attempts to patch up a compromise with the
Piesident, and lead off the party on a new
scent. Hence the tribune, and all other Jour
nals which favor his claims, desire to bury the
.ending amerdment in oblivion as soon as pos
sible, and substitute a new issue. The diver
gency ot views among the Republicans is one
of ti e most hopeful signs of tne times. If the
South will be patient and firm, the day of it
redemption may be nearer than the result of
the late elections gave it any reason to hope.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
rZSf DR. ROLPH LEW HAS ADMINIS
bSJ TEH1D MTKOU8 OXIDE or LAUGHING
OAS to tbousnnda. with periect success Cot Dental,
Mirnfcal, aMd ftiedical purposes, and tor amusement.
Only tn tj cents pr loolu lur exiractlari no cbaige for
extruding yvtien artificial teeih are oiclered. Office, No
'm WLbl' WAbIil&GTkJt ByUAKK, befow Looust
atreit.
f-eventn street cars paFSthe door. Don't be foolish
enough to po elsew here and pay 2 Dd 93 or Kas. a. a.
1 continue to give instructions x tbe dental p rotes
Bin. IV li fmw.itu
COURSE OF LECTURES
OF TBH
8. C. AK1 8. A.
Tbe Executive Committee of the Social, Civil, and
MutUllcal Association ot tlie oolored 1'eopleot Penn
BVi'Htiia bavina arraused lor tbelr Course of dec tares
tuU stason, take pleanure in announcing- that tbe
HON. CiEOKGK S. BOUTVXXI.,
of MawachuKetts. will deliver the opening rtdnii, fa
the .National Hall, MAltKbT direct, above Tweltib. on
i'UlliiY hVttNINO November 30. im. ftUDject-
l oilcy and Juiflce in Public a flairs."
lbe cecond Lecture will be given by
KKKUKKICK KOUULA88, Esq.,
OnTHTJKtiDAV EVi MOU jauuarv I. 1867. Sub
ject "i-ource of Dancer 10 the ttupob to."
The remaining Lecture will be continued on each
successive Thursday evening until the eerie tfl
ended.
j be Course Is to consist of Eight Lectures.
Tlie speakers that have been eltbei engaged or in
vited for the course, Independent ot tb) above named
sentlemen, ate:
Slutoi'iicueral O. O. HOW ABD.
Maioi oeneral B F BTJlLEB,
. tenaior J. W Hi (,
Attn. V K. W HARPER.
Hon. WILLiAM D. KELLEr,
lion. HiGdL. BOM of Md ,
lion. JOHN A. BINOHa ,
W. W. BKOWff, Esq.
IDE CELVB1ATED BLACK 8AN
baa kindly volunteered to appear and furnish occastenal
tr at the opening and closing- of each Lecture.
Season tickets, 2. Bingle admiaslon, fc cents.
Hoots open atl o'o'ook To commence at 8.
Tickets uiar be bad al irun p er's Music More Beventh
and Cbesnut street, and at, the door on tao evening or
cacb Lecture. , WILrtAM mil. Chairman.
So. VM Washington avnue (Coul Otiioe).
J. C IVHl'lE,
Fourth street, below willow.
J. UA NKIN8DN,
Oulleluft street,
, 1 1 2 t Committee of Arrangeuioutf .
?T0 F F I C I A L,.
X A MIRATION B FOB THE NAVY,
, I NAVI OKPAaTMEKT. I
WASniKOTOW, D. C. ovember 'i ls8.J
All perron who have served as volunteer ufneers in
ihe Uullrd Slams tavy lor the term 01 two ar, nd
ho oeahe 'O be examined r ailinbtstoB to tbe reirular
JJavy as provided in the aot of ongres approved
July !5 1HW. will at once mnke application addressed
10 'oniu)odore n. P. Lae, Uartierd, couneotlout ,wno
will notltv them when to appear 1'hoao who do not
make application prior to the 1st Of January neat or
wbo do not present toemseivM when noiluea wiu re
considered s hav Ins waived their claim (or ei anima
tion 1 t'andUlatea w.ll take with thein wueD sum
moned tbelr oltlctal paper showing thelr naval record,
, v OllE0 WR1AK,
1 UMlrxwim f ; 1 Bocretar .Ol the NaVJ. ,
SPECIAL NOTICES
OFMCH v nut licriwiKr
usi okiorth iKiA
! ' . rmuDiiMu. Koreaberl ..
The roltowlnc Statement ol the arraiisotihn Com
pany la published In coulormlty iih provision ot tt
I hartor 1- ; ' . .
riennoma receirtoi irom Bovemberl.lseg 1
to October I,h6 1 . '
On Marine and Inlnd risk SMI TTf) M
i
00 t ire rut m wi it
, a742 46241
rremlnmi on f otlclcs not marked off No
vember i, 1865 ' -rw.m-iT
Jl,tit,4160
rremlam marked off a earned November
1, in, to octoonr si, itwe:
On Varinn and lnlmid risks. ISM.lO-ffl
On Fire risk lus.Mt 11
P68t
Interest during
v ages, etc
tbe same period sal-
17
.717 81
I
T70.B39 7i
LOiwa, expenses, etc, during the year as
above t ' i
Marine and Inland JIavlgatlon
losses em Slt-M
Fire osses M.tWT-81
ltetnrn p.emiunis..... - 4M-7
Be Insurances M M4-91
ARoncr cbsi.es, ; advertising,
v priuiinjr etc 1 SMM-W
Maies-l nlied Mate taa on pre- ,
nnimd. policy stamp, etc IB .V70'ia
Expenses... 14,070 11
U78.17n-28
,, ' ,l!i.69-44
TMs is exclusive of the amount reserved for taxes on
dividends aud profit. .1
ASSETS Or THE OOYPAKT
November 1, iH'.
100 000 Vnl led Mate r ive Per Cent.
Loan, ltfll 114 OvO-00
120,100 United Mates Six f er Cent.
Lcsn, 1HM M6,u0 00
200,0(0 United 81 ate 7-1-10 Per Cent. '
Loan, 1 reasur.t Motes 211,1100 00
13,000 City 01 Philadelphia, blx Per
tent. Loan (exempts) 164,562 50
64,000 It tate 01 Pennsylvania blx Per
l ent. Loan 6!.700'00
(8 000 btateot l eiiniyivanta Five Per
Cent. Loan , 44,6'M'OO
CO, 100 btate of iew Jersey bix Per
Cent Loan , 60,759 00
sv.wi x -eonsy van a itauroaa first
Mortgage nix fer ent Bonds 20,500 00
25 0C0 Pennsvivanl Uailroad Second
Mortgage bix Per i ent Bond 81,25000
25,000 Western Pennsylrsnla Baliroad
blx Per Cent bond 1 Fennsfl-
vsnla Bal toad guarantee).... 20,750-00
30,000 Bute ot -lenn-see Five Fer
ear. l oan 18,009-00
7,000 State of 1 enneseee Six Per Cent.
Loan 0.040'C0
15, COO StO bharcs Stock ermanton
Uaa company, principal aud
Interest guaranteed by the
1 1t of rblladeipbla 15,000 00
7,150 143 f bares Stock Pennsylvania
hail road Company 1 8,258-25
6,000 100 Shares Stock North Pennsyl
vania Kal.road ( ompany ' . 3,950-00
20.010 80 r-baies btock Phl.ede pb-aend :
Southern , liaii bteamsulp . .
1 ompany , 20,00000
101.000 Loans on Knnds and Mnrtoi7A.
llrst liens on City pro pert 1 .... 195,900-00
Sl.045,050 Par. Oost,l 030,552 OS. Mkb Val. 1,070 2) 75
Beal Fstate - 36,000 00
jou a neceivaoie lor insuranoe
made 217,637 43
Balances due at Agencies Pre
miums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest and other
debt due tbe Company 38,923 98
eunp ana ntocK 01 eunurf insu
rance and nthAr linmtiiinlM.
6173-0. Estimated value.... 2,930-00
un in nanx wi.KU m
Cash In Irwr 44T 34
. 41 .540-60
1 407,321-56
Tiiis being a new enterprise, the par is assumed a
vu ujcunub value,
Pnn.AnRT.PRrl Knvflmh.f 11 ldtttt
The Board of Dlreotors have thin day declared a
CASH IflVIDEND of EIGHT PEE CENT on tbe
CAtll'AL bTllK and HI J ..K.K I'hVNV lntaraal mi
the bCKIP ot the Company, payable on and alter the
1st December proximo, tree of AaUoaav and State
Taxes.
'I hey have also declared a SCRIP DIVIDEND ol
TWJ-ATK 1-KHIJUlT. OOtltKAHNED PriKkll'M
for the year ending Ootober 31. 164) certificate ot
wb'ch win be bwued to tne parties entitled to tbe same,
on and a.ter the Lit December pioxuno.free ot National
and state 'i axes.
1 hey have ordered, also, that the 6CBIP CEBTIFf
CATj H OF PBOFliS or the company, for the year
IW2.be redeenjea In CASH, at the office of the Con-
pany, on and alter 1st Itecember proximo, all inteiest
luereuu id ceaaeov maiuav.
ho certificate of protl'S Issued nnder 25 By Act of
Incorporation, "no certificate shall issue unless claimed
within two year after the Ueclatatloa ot the dividend
wnorcot it u evidence."
DtBBCroBS. ,
Tbomaa C. Hand,
John V Davis,
fcamund A. Souder,
Tbeophllus Paulding,
John h. Penrose,
Janj-rR 1 ranuair,
Henry C. Dailttt, Jr.,
James C. Hand,
Wlillam C. Ludwig,
Joseph H. Heal,
Oeorge O. Lelper,
Hutib Craig,
.lAl,n Ti TMvlrt
Msiuutl E. Stoke,
ceniy Bioan,
William li Boo ton,
Edward Darlington,
b. Jones Brooke,
kriwaM r.atnnmiut
James B AieFarland,
i osuua v. tyre,
Npencer M cllvalne,
JohnB. 8omple, Pittsburg
. r. simmer,
D. T. Mo.gan.
I RlHIl vraiilant.
r THOMAS
JOHN C
DAVIS, Vice president
Henet LTLBt-BN, Secretary.
II 16 12trp
rSSf OFKlcK OF THE LKHIGH COAX
w AMD MAVlWA'llt'W COMPANY.
IJtm.Ani.T.t'Uf a Aiiffiiat W. 1BM
The Stockholders of this t ompany are hen by notified
that tne boara oi Managers have determined toaiow
to all persons wbo shall ai pear as Stockholders on tte
Books ol tbe tompaby on tbe 6th ot September next,
alter the closing oi transiers, at 3 P. M. of tha dav the
prlvl cue of subscribing lor new s ack at car. to tne
extent oi one shared sew stock tor every five shares
' then Standing 111 their names anh aharahnlriur at.f illari
to a iractiooai part of a share shall have the privilege of
,uwm,,uug ivi m iuii ouarc.
I he subscription books will open on MONDAY, Hep
temper 10, and close on SATURDAY, December 1, lBtitf
at 3 P M.
Pairuent wdi be coDstdere-l dne Jnne 1. lAfiT.bnt an
lnstaln ent ot 20 per cent . cr tin do lrs per share, must
di paiu av -,ue time oi auoscnoing. 'i ne Daiance may be
paio irom uun to time, at the option or the subscribers ,
beiore the 1st ot November. NKT On a,i na,mnta
tucludtng the aforesaid Instalment, made before the 1st
0 t Juue ihb'i. discount wilt be allowed at tne rate of 6
fer cint. per annum anoon a l payments made between
hat date and ihe la: ot Aovember. 1W7. interest will be
cb anted at the same rate.
All slock ni t paid up In full by the 1st ot wovemoer,
1867, will be lorleited to the are ot the company Cer
tlncates lor the new stock will not be Issued until aiter
Junel 18t)7 and said stock, it paid up In lull, wl.l be en-
tit. ed to tne .November dtvidend ot 1867, but to no earlier
dividend.
UOLOAION SHEP111KI.
Treaiurer
OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL
AND NAVIGATION C JMPANV.
PiiiLAUBLPBiA, November 15 IA66.
Ihe Stockholder ot this Company, wnose name ap
peared as such on their books on the 8lh day oi Sep
tember last, at 8 P.M., are heeb notified that the
privilege io.ubscrlbe to new stock at par. on tlie terms
oi ibe circular ot August 211 lw, will expire on the 1st
dav ot December next, at 3 P. M
Il 15 1!2 1 bOLOMON bHEPBERD, Treasurer.
frSJp OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-
l3 INl ltUSTATlON - COMPANY,' No. 147 South
FOTJBTH (street, j .
PHtt,APEi.pnrA, Kovember 23, IR6H.
Tbe Board of Dlrtctois have th's dav declared a
quarterly Dividend ot MX PEK CENT, on tlie capital
aiock of the- Company, payable on and alter Decern
berl, 1H66.
The book will be closed on and after MONDAY,
Kovember 2(1, 1866.. H. O LfclSEN Hi NO.
11 84 at . , . Treasurer.
r3Bf PENJNBYLVANIA. RAILROAD "COM
PAN Y 'TBEAbUUEU'4 Vt PABT.HENT.
fiiiLAPKi.piiiA, November 1, 1866.
KOTICE '10 SToCKHOLDEKS.
Tbe Board ol llreetors have this dav declared a semi
annual oivldcnd otFOUBPKB CENT Ou tlie Capital
Stock of the I ompany, clear , of National and eUate
taxes, payable on and altei November 30. lHoti
Blank l owers of Attorney lor collecting dividends
can be bad at the office oi th Company, No. 238 o.
TlHr bueet.
11 130t THOMAS T. FIKTH, Treasurer. .
LO
WEST JERSEY
RAILROAD COM-
PAJJY.
OFPrCB OV TBI TBBABrjBRB.
Camden, N. J., November 24. 1H66 I
The Board cf I) rectors have this day declared
aeml-anuual Dividend of FOUB PEB CENT, on the
capital stock ot the Company clear ot National tax,
pa able at the Ofnee of tbe Company, In camden, on
and attr the 30th day of November . ,
UfcOBOE 3. KOrvBINS,
11 26 5t Treasurer pro tetn. I
ff- NEW LONDON COPPER MININGS
A SneclaJ Meatlnor of Stockho'ders will be held on I
WON DAV. Decembers at ihe office of ihe Company, r
No. iV.)b riUA'l street, ate r. as., na an parties
InteretUd are reiiuested to be present, as there U busi
ness of the nnt urgent natur to transaot.
1120121 , J(, i to I it ON 10. if 8ecreury.-.
fSjap- JUST PUBLiISHED-r
By the Physicians oi the
' SEW YORK MUbEUM,
tie Ninetieth Edition oi their
entitled- pHILOSOPBr OF MABHlApE,
To be had liee, lor foiu tami by aodresslriji Becra
taiy Kew lurk Museum o : Ana eniy,
MS no oiSliitOADWAT.NawTork ,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
TST GREAT ATTRACTION.
WILL OPEN WOVEJIBEB U,
F.vr LlHUHir HALL, '
LOMBARD Hireet above Setentb, the
OBEAT UNION FAIK,
For the Benefit of tbe
Pl'BLICATIOK DCFAKiMEM OF THE A. U. E.
CBCKCH, "
where TTsefnl and Fancy Articles of a very Urge va
riety will be ottered tor sale.
mnng the attractions will be three .fiver Cnpe. t -be
(itven to the three persons who shall present the
largest amount oi casb for the above objeot. And a
st etiilid Miver-mounted Bat and Ollt Ball to be
awaiced to the t lub receiving the largest number of
vote And one of Kay' V atent Library Uevister,"
to be awarded to the rtabbatb School receiving the
largest number of votes. li if lit
frStf- ANNIVERSARY OF THE MERC AN
CAMI1LE BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION,
v ,i,yenty-flah Anulversary ot thit Association wilt
u neia ai uie
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
OnTrERDAT S VS NINII. knnmhnrlrl at TW n'ntn'lr
Addresses tll be de If erod by the
i t ti'V, ALrKKD COOK MAN,
. KEV. PMI.I IPS BKOOKH and
Ti.ir, lvON AI.XASPhB . CATIELL.
has' ui"1" wU1 nndcr th oleUol, of Profs
CaldS Ot admission ma ha .r.lnllnnilT M annli.
iti".?i"J,1h2.oountln'I-roo,n of n nnueslgned, he. M
. 1H1KD Street
" "n WILTIA1I C. tCDWIO, Prealdent
T O A U CU I t E C X.8.
PLANS AND SPECIFICATION'S FOR VEW BdILT)
iMiTtVo WAB 1tPAttlMtliI ix vviau-
A rchitoct's a're'mvtted to prepa'e plans and sneclfloa
tlons and estln ates of cost toi new fire proof bulidlnge '
lor the War Department, on the site now oooaDtadbr
the War Department and adjacent vacant ground, li
Wahlngton. D. C.
lbe hulidtnv required should bare a superflolal area ,
s large as the site selected will admit of. Photo-,
graphs of site, and all other information relating to the
subject, will be tnrnlshed to A rolilteot desiring to oore-'
pete lor the work, upon application, personally or br v
let er, to ibe unoeirlnned
A premium of :i00 tor tbe first, of 02000 fbr ttte)
second, and ot 91000 for the third most aooeptahla
plans and specifications received, will be awarded,
upon tbe appioval oi the lion. Secretary of War, by
the Board oi Officers charged with the doty of select
ing a site and preparing plans and specifications for the
bul'dlngx of tbe War Department under act ot Congress
approved Julv 28 lHtiti
'ibe plans antl specification must be sent to the efTloa
Ot Brevet 1 ieutrnr.nt t olonel T. J. Tieadwell, Keeordec
ot the Boird. Ordnance Office, Winder's Building,
Washington, D.C., on or beiore the 1st day of February,
pert.
I be Board wilt reserve the right to reject anv or all
plans i-ultTiitted, should none be deemed suitable for
the i urpose, a well as to retain any or all ot aucb
plans.
By order of th Board,
II 20 lm T S. TBRADWELIi.
Brevet Lien tenant-Colonel, U. 8. A., Kecordef.
rjeW CORN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK,
m-xJ PniLADRLPniA. Ootober 16 . 1665.
The Vice-President ol tbe bank. Alexander WbU deu,
Feu., having In Atay last. 1 1 view ot a prolonged absenoe
in Europe resigned his position, the Board of Directors
to da' elected J. W. Torre. Bsq., Vice-President, and
H. P. iscbetky, Ei, Cashier. .
1017 ALEXANDER O. CATTELL, President
rT' NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
iS' DaTABTMENT OF BECEIVE8 F T1XE1.
Pbiiadklphia, November 26, 18
A pen tv of TUB EE PEK CENTUM will be ooargej
on all ity taxe remaiulng unpaid alter the 1st day ot
December 1M6.
iHUned) CHARLES O'NETLL,
II 26 heoelver ot Tax. 1
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rty THE BEST IN THE WOULD.
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' . ALSO. ......
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Druggist. Factor No. 81 B ABC LAY St, N. Y. 115
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a fine assortment constantly finished, on hand aud
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sopeib finish, at home, without roierence to. New
York or the East.
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