THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH TRIPLE SHEET. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 18GG. THE NEW YCHK TltESS. EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEAPING JOURNALS UPON CURRENT TOPICS. VOMJ'ILKD tVKllT BAT FOH KVF.WIKO TtLKUKATH, Tlie World Olrrilt-il by TVIeirrnrth" Kant Inula 1 1 lii hI t iiiuii . From the Timet. Could our nncfotors. who rc-iotced over the 'preut improvement" to travel trom Philadol 1'hia to " Yoi k". in a rickctj mail-couch, in t!io admirably t-hm t space of lour days, arise from thdrpraves to-day, they could not well believe their eyes seel nn a train of car ppced the distance alone in lour hours. Hair news trom Europe was fretih, and liichly plcucd they were sit it, when received by a London or Havre packet Inside t f three months, a tli ttnncc which our Atlantic fteanu-rs have more than once overcome, in nine days. And what would they ay to the teicpraph? Old Benjamin Franklin, wiio trst made the lilituing of heaven bend to the M ivice of nmn, and who was one ot those quiet, composej, reasoning beings wflose ii.axui) is ' admirari," would certainly bo amazed, it' not totalis bewildered, were h now to puddmly icturu to this world, to take the 'lin.cs ol a iiioinii.f:, and lind twenty and more Cdlumni of iievs nrnti'T tvom. the lemoteH pni Is ol the (Mobi, couiiiuinica'.ed by tcleiirapli. containing iuiorm.V.ion of lmportiiiit events till over Europe and America, which happened not us many hours before ns m his good old slow coach days it took months to get reports Iroiu a like disianc". Ti e (ucci'S'lul laving of the Atliin'.io cat)le, and tie still more marvellous success of picking tip the lost one ot li;5, have put our country as lar out West as San Krancisco into almost in htantaucous communication, not only with all the principal cities and prominent marts of huiope, but also will) al those of Southern Asia as lar into the Ivi-t as Calcutta. Ou; thing, and one only t to be ucprccated in regard to the Atlantic telegraph, and that Is, that bath its termini are on loiei'ii snl, and on ilie soil ot the very power with which intcrnauoual rival ries may at any lime pi od ace dangerous com plications. Should Mich complications unfor tunately occur, then lu.s o-viiii telegraph in ttie Lands of the Bntii Covenimmit, and com pletely beyond out control, would at once become one ot the LTeatest soutce.-, not only of annoyance, but even ot danuer to this country. This v-as early foreseen, and in the reply ot one ot our former Presidents to the tirst congratu Ja'or.v despatch ot the Queen 01 K.urlaud (1MJ8), the wish was expie.-sed that the ti.rn.iiii of the cable, touetiier witu lis conm cting lines and sWinou houses, should be declared neutral for ever. No answer was ever made to this expression of a mere wirh. Hut other computing lines more to the south will shortly be built, and will re move the danger spoken ot. The mo-t important pr jeeted plan, and pro mising perhaps greater results for the weltare. and 'material prosperity of tno United States, is the Kuso-Aiuericau telegraph, rapidly pushed forward on this continent by Tdr. P. iMci). Col lins towards Bearing strait, and by the Emperor Alexander It, through Siberia towards the e ist, and the line proposed to bo bin ft and to counect with the lormer, by the Hast India Teltgrapii Company, from Pek'in, the capital city of China, a'ong the Chmcse coast to Ci'iiton, and north and eastward, to Irkutsk and Kyaeh'a, and thfl mouth of tiie Anioor river, which latte.r two connecting lines are i.ropo.-cd to be buiit by the ltu.-sian Govrnracut. The British Government, always anxious to maintain their power in the East, intcud and have, we believe, entered into preliminary arrangements to extend their lino ot telegraph Irom Calcii'ta east to Hong Kongt and ihus when all the.-e hcverat lines snail have been completed and we can assure oar rea iers that they will be completed in less than half the time it took the Aliunde cable to ger into work ing order then the Unite 1 States may justly lay claim to the proud position of being the commercial cenucot the habitable globe, tor from New York to Kurope, fioin San Francisco to Aia, will radiate the entire commerce of the world. When tho late Thomas II. Benton was still a jouus lawyer and local politician at St. Louis, lie edited a small sheet culled the St. Louis Inquirer. Tais was in 8P)-2u. In aseuesof articles in that journal, neither ocean steamers, l'uilrouds, nor telegraph! being then in use, he advocated most strenuously the speedy coj structionof a national wagon-road through to the Hocky Mountains, and, wit a a proper treaty with Spam, through Caliiortna to some point on the Paeitic suitaole for a great harbor. He for t tied his proposal wr.h irrefutable arguments. IPs sagacious and discerning mind called atten tion to the tact that every country which, throughout all history, succeeded m obtaining a lar share ot the trine- with tne beehives of peoples in the Kast, grew prosperous an 1 wealthy. He referred to the Phmuiclaus and Egypti'ico in ancient tunes, the Poriucuese, the. Dutch, tlie llaik.eatio League, aud tho English more recently. And he hoped that, by opjning' ctimuninicalion tor convenient travel from the Mississippi to Hie Paeitic, the people ot the Uuited states ui'mht share in a like reBult. "Old Bullion's" lar-seemg ideas are now about to be realized, and that in a manner which not even he, ut the time of his death, could hive had courage enough to hope. The telegraph to San Francisco was completed long since, ami aire ady reaches tar up north, through Oregon into Woshiinrion Territory and the Hritish ps sessions. The National Wagon Iload pioposed by biui forty-six jeirs aiio, is being rapidly pushed lorwaro, purported by the bounty of our Government, but it is to be of iron, and ,-swilt propelling steam" the motive power. San Frau cuco, "the most suitable place on the coast lor a harbor," seems sch'cted hy nature herself for the great dertiny that awaits it. Communica tion across the Paeitic to Shanghai, connecting mere by coau steamers witu all tne most un Si oiiaut commercial cities down to Hong Kon-r, lncuo, and Canton, is provi led lor also by the bounty of our Government, which has come to the succor oi prtvae enterprise In this greit uational undertaking. Thus all the preliminary stens to secure 10 us a tair share of the lruuicu.se and highly luciative trade of the Eastern Cou Mm nt have been completed. One thins remaius yet to be done. We must have tel.craphic con nection directly from hero, and not over England and Europe, with k-I the trade centres ot Eistern Asia. Then, aud then only, will our whole 3 stem of intercontinental coannerce be truly American and wholly independent. Ibis the East India Telegranh Company, a thoroughly responsible corporation, propose to do. Enou'eh has been published reaarding the Kt)sso-Anieiiciu telegraph, now constructing and last Hearing its completion, and the read ing public is so well informed of the general nature and character of the work, thar, far the present, we need say no more about it. But the projected Enst India telegraph is less known, vet it is not only equally important with the Collins Russian line, but, we take it, immeasura bly more so. Whilo tho Collins line irives ns independent communication with Europe, through Siberia aud European Russia, th? East India teleeraph brings us daily aud hourly iLto the very heart of tho Chinese empire and to the vcrv doors ot British India. A few sta tistical rolerence will suow the nature and scone of the enterprise. In the tirst place, it 's proper to mention that hv the exertions ot our minister at Pekm. Hon, Anson Uurl'iicaine, who. we must in iustico nrid. was earnestly supported by the renresenta. tives of the other powers having treaties of commerce and irienosnip with China, this ,.innunv whs granted, by the Chinese Govern. Hie riorht to lav cables connecting the seaport otieB from Canton to shanghai, and to construct an inland line from the latter place, i,v wnv of Nankin to Pekln. The Russian Government, by treaty, lias secured the privi lege of building two Hues Irem Pokln-one to the Amoor, the other to Irkutsk. The fact that alonsr the coast the telegraph wdl be submerged is security acaiiitt 1m destruction by land pirates or rebels. Canfin, the starting noint, has a population of 1,0(1(1,000 souls, and Is the great commercial metropolis of the Chinese Empire. Macao, the next station, Is also a very Import ant trndine post. IIoi.jj Kong, tin third, has a population ot 200,000; Amoy. the fourth, ol 2.10.1)00; and Foochow, the Bl'th, of 1.20i),()()0; Mngpo, the slxtn station, has 300,000; and Shanghai, the next, nearlv 2,000.000. From thence the teletrraph connects with Nankin (400.(100) and Pckiu, 2,000,000 of inhabitants. From this last place the connection will be completed with the Russo-Americin Telearaph. The entire length of cables will be 8115 miles, that of the land line. 005; total. 11:15. From Pekin to the Collins Teleeraph the distance to be spanned by tho wire is 810 miles. We be lieve we have said enough to convince tin reader ol the pre-eminent importance of this work tor the future commercial greatness of America. That It w ill be shortly completed we do not doubt, for active, en'-rgetlc, re-ponlhle, and able men are in the management. The Com pany w ns chartered by the Legislature of New Yolk in 18G4. The capital is $",0;)0,000, in shares of $100 each, which are rapidly taken. Let us see to it that the Company has thorough support. The North German Confedcrntlou. I row the 'IVibune. Preparations for constituting the North Ger man Confederation Lave been carded on with great activity since the return of Count Lismark to Berlin. On Saturday, December 15, repre sentatives of the several Governments met in Berlin, in order to mature the propositions to be submitted on the part of the Governments to the tirst North German Parliament, which will nssenible on the 1st of Fcbrtii'.ry. If it be kept in mind that of the 29,220.802 inhabitants of the Confederation, no less than 2.1,(i'J0,.1i:i belong to Prussia, it w ill be evident that the confer dices in Berlin have more the appearance ot a meeting of vassals of Prussia, than ot peers. In cases of disagreement, it may be presumed that the remonstrances of the allied Govern ments will be very modest, for iheynll kuow that they are not only powerless with regard to Prussii, btu that the Parliament, which will soon assemble will etrongly decla-e ilsclt lnlavorof a consolidation ot vhe Confederation into one Slate, ami a consequent wcakcuinr of the powers of the minor Governments. The latest reports trom Get many iuoicate that Frussia will carry through with promptness and energy the consolidation of the army of the Con federation, ami of iis diplomatic representation. The soldiers of tho minor Governments will, in fact, at once be incorporated with the Prussian army and be placed under the command of Prussian Generals. This virtually completes the iih.-oiption of the minor States'by Prussia, and the latter Government can well afford to display in points of lesser importance nu apparent liberality towards the minor prunes. The elections for the Parliament have not vet been held, but It is already saie to siy ihat the Parliament will be nearly a unit iu sustainiucr the great trnnylormation' which has taken place in the federal telations ol the German States, and in ursring on the Government ot Prussia to complete the work of national unity. Intact, if there should be nny dilfeieijce in the German rolicy between Count Bismark and the Parlia ment, it will be in the greater cacrerucss of the latter to include as soon as possible the Ger man States and Provinces which are still ex cluded from the Confederation. As the Legis lature ot Baden has with almost entire unani mity resolved to apply lor admission into tho Confederation, and as France and Austria must he expected to make to such an admission the most dctci mined opposition, the discussions on this subject bid fair to be of great iutorc3t. The new North German Confederation is, in point of population, the liith S'.ate of Europe, being only exceeded by lluifia, which, In n European dominions, bus a population of 01,000,000; by France, with 37,472,732 inhabi tants; Ausrria, with 32,172,000; and Great. Bri iaiu. w ith 20,31,070. But of its lour superiors in poin t of population, Austria aud Great Britain have oven now lean influence in the councils of Europeau politics than Prussia; and while they remain stationary, and are disturbed by violent agitation aud even ienrs of disintegration, Prus sia is irresistibly pressing forward. Her army is so powerful that it bus even compelled the Government of France to attempt an entire rc-orj-aiiizalion of i'.s military force, at tho risk of creating a general discontent of the people'. Unless overpowered by grand combinations of other European powers, (iermauy is now sure to uovanee, with a fair prospect of becoming soon, next to Russia, the leading power iu Con tinental Europe. Tito Diseased CoikI lllun of t lie O.itsl.le Southtru Stnlt', nuil tile itemed . From the Herald. In his memorable conversation with the British Ambassador, Sir Hamilton Seymour, the late Emperor Nicholas, looking to the recon struction of the map of Eastern Europe. Asia Minor, aud Kjypt, described the empire of Turkey as "a sick mar." no longer able to manage his own affairs, and calling for the timely interposition of the great powers in view of his removal and the establishment of the modem European orde of things over his ex tensive dominions, as demanded by tho march of Christianity and the necessities of the age. Such, we may say, in a general view, Is theeou- nitiou of the outside Southern states to-day In their relations to the general (ioveruinent. These iclations are hardly more harmonious than is the Asiatic and Mahometan system of Tin key with the reiiaious arid political institu tions of Europe, which rest upon the basis of the New Testament. The empire of the Prophet had its day of power when it extended from Duma-cu, along the south side ot the Mediterranean to the Atlantic; but when, in its long occupation of Southern Spain, it had developed tho highest civilization aud rconeineut known at that epoch anioug any people, it was gradually thrown back from Europe by falliug'into that fatal weakness of all great and prosperous political systems, of attempting too much. On a smaller scale, aud reduced wiihin a brietVr compass of time, our late Southern angrcssive political sy item, resting upon its all-absorbing institution ol Airicau slavery, irom tne same weakness of attempting too much, in its day of iroispcriiv, uas not only been driven back, but has been destroyed. So it is tnat, like Turkey. wmcn, wunits euete oriental institutions aud ideas, awaits a reconstruction auapted to tue dominant civrjizatiou of Europe, our Southern States, shorn ot their institution of slavery, unci, iiuiii ijau viuiuriuus inuiui lue reoriiiwiiistt tion which their situation demand. "Sword in hand," said the lighting Sultau Mahmoud, --iuu cuiiuren oi me rropnet e;imc into Europe, ami sword in liana they will go out." Sword in hand the lute Southern slaveholdtug oligarchy uiive ueeu suuuueu, uuu luey uiU3t abide tno tonsequences. hut tney no not seem to understand this uni versal law ol war. Claiming, in their late re bellious conspiracy, the constitutional right to go out of the Uidon and to destroy it, I hey now claim thej;constltutioual right to'be reinstated on their own terms. And the worst of it is that all these talso aud pernicious dogmas, ideas, prejudices, and distinctions between State riulits and Federal usurpations which carried them into the Rebellion, seem to be as powerful anioug the ruling classes in all the excluded States to-duy as when they were fighting lor two thousand millions of capital invested in Con federate scrip, and three thousand millions in slave property. It is sheer nousouse to talk of such communities as being restored to loyalty and the rights of loyal 8tates with tho surrender of their arms, or with their half-way accept iuee of the generous conditions ot President Johnson. The people ot the loyal North havo approved , the tei uis proposed by Congress lu the pending Consl'tr.lionnl arneni'mcnt. It is now the duty ot Congress to carry out this verdict of tue people who carried through the &r for the Union. To this end the power and the right are with Congress to compel the acceptance of these teinis by the States wrested from tne Rebellion; for It does not belong to the con qtieicd party In a war, surrendlne at discretion, to say what terms it will accept or refuse. Nor does the reconstruction of the ou'stde Slates by Congress, even ac unoreanized Terri tories, necessarily Involve anv ot tier conditions of restoration than those of the amendment. The reconstruction suggest! d appears, however, to be necessary m order to bring Cie States con cerned to a Io.tal organization in each whbh will accept the atin ndaient. In this view the nice abstractions of Senator Sumner and the special pleading of Senator Wilson may be dis missed. The lull of Mr. Stevens meets the case, in preparing the ground for the adoption ot the amendment. The State Legislatures, as thev stand, from Virginia to Texas, are In tht hands ot unchanged Southern Rebels. To dr. anything now, or next year, or for the next live or ten years, with these State Legislatures, those Rebel elements mu.d be removed, and they can be re moved only by a reconstruction of tne Legisla tures themselves Irom loyal materials. To cut short the argument, we fall back upon the original doctiluc of President Johnson, that if there arc only live thousand bona pte loyal men In any one of those excluded States, they are enough for its reoreanizatton. The bill ot Mr. Stevens gives a much larger mar gin, and is therefore sufficiently liberal lor all practical purposes. The Hemorntr Vtiullont'l DccIhIou of the fen prune Court. From the World, The Democratic party has reason to congratu late itself on the recent judgment ol the Su preme Court, declaring the military tribunals, which dominated over the public liberties during the war, uncoin-tituiiotinl. This decision is both a triumphant vindication of the demo cratic party end a happy augury for the future. The Supreme Court i the Thermopylae of the present contest the pass is narrow, the de fenders are few, but their advantages of position are such that they can arrest aud turn back the advancing hosts. Their t.'rcLdon on a matter which was the main topic of controversy between the Democratic party and its oppo nents during the war, i the tinal judgment of the law, ns it will be the verdict oi history, that tne obloquy heaped upon Democrats for their opposition to the:arbitinry exertions of autho lit.v, was undeserved. SVhen the war broke out, when the reverbera tions ot Sumter startled all our cities, pa'sed up nil the winding streams that iced our rivers, and were rc-echeed from all our hills, the vigorous ahicriiy with which Democratic citizens of the military age rallied to the flag aud hurried to the scene ol war, was not outdone by any por- 5 linn ot our countrymen. Nor did their military 'i zeal ever slacken. The numerous Irish regi- , men's we sent from this city, every man in ihein a Democrat, and Isd by such Democrats as Corcotiin, are a specimen which renders the Democratic war ardor conspicuous, ami w hich is only more noticeable from the tact that, ex cept in the Irish regiments, Democrats were intermingled in the same military organizations with Republicans. The formidable veteran hosts which th3 Fenians nre able to muster, attest tue spirit and courage with which Daaio ctats perilled their lives in the war. Ner was 1 1 mere numbers that they contributed. Every (if neral who acquired treat distinction by his niilitaiy talents vvas a Democrat. Without the utd of their abilities the war could not have succccdeci. McCh llan, w ho organized our armies. Meade, his difople, who turned the tide at Gettysburg, (nam. Slici mai, are samples of these Democratic conimauders, and thczcal with which their ttiiue was cherished by the Demo entile patty slios how heavily its' sympathies were given to the cause. But when, at tho tinkling of a little bell." citizens were snapped up by provost marshals all over the ccunrry, Hung into lorts and mili tary prirous, and either denied a trial, or tried by military commissions "organized to con vict;" when the regular tiibuuals were over borne and silenced, the press gagged, free speech suppressed, and every community tilled with spies, whose malicious, lying reports there was ailorded no opportunity to confront or cer.tradict, the Democratic party sanctioned no such J leleuded "war measures." On the con trary, it opposed them with all its vigor. It would be ridiculous for anybody to say, that those high hancietl violations of the Constitu tion shortened the war by a single day. No body can point to a single lustauce in which they accomplished nny good. But the odium which the Denioevati? parry incurred by Its opposition to th cm is bejoud description. ' Hut now, when the din and uproar is hushed, and the civil courts are restored io their functions, the highest uibunnl in the land pronounces a s dcinn, authoritative judgment that the Demo cratic party was right, and that the arbitrary pioeccdiiig" against witch it protesred were 8. law less' as they were h.gh-lmnded. Its noble sacritices of case and reputation will hcivatter shine as one of the brightest chapters in the history of cons tit ul ion al government. War is always a period of peril to civil liberty, and d none were ready to lace danger in its defense when it was most In jeopardy, it would pcrich from the earth. It is cbieily due to the Demo ciauc party that it has beeu rescued in lliis country. The liiet that the Supreme Court has e-caped the servile contamination ot the times, and pro nounces an independent opinion which vindi cates a party so traduced and maligned as the Deuiociiicy, is full ot encouragement. It a ma jority of the Court dare stand up for the Consti tution, on this question, there is rolid ground for tru.-tuig lis urendtast fidelity on all others. It Congress assun.es that ihe' Constitutional amendment is carried by the ratiiication of merely the represented Sta1es,and proceeds to legislate on that hypothesis', the Supreme Court will fie aside, all such laws. If Congress uiideitakes to degrade States inio Teiritorics, iis measures will be stranded on the same bar rier. If Congress undertakes to resist the judg ments of the Supreme Court, the Commanders in-Chief of the army will have some duties to pei form in such a conjuncture. ERIC AN LEAD PENCIL COMPANY NEW YORK. FACTOKV, HUDSON CITY, JS. J. 'II. in t ctnpany la now lull? pr ptreil to tarnish LEAD PENCILS. Kijual lu Quality to the Bent Brauila, The Company liaa taken great pains and nvostrd lari.(j cuiiiia, lu fiuinti up their lactor.v, aim now ask the Auii Jltau public to tiivo tlitir piuvlln a lull trial. All Styles and Grades are Manufactured. Gicat care bag been bestowed to the manufacturing of 81 lilt OK lli-XAl.ON DitAVMMJ 1 fcMJIL.-S. pe cml y prepared lur the use oi Kngiucera, Architect. ArtlulB, etc. . a complete assortment, constautlv on hand ig offered at fair teruni to Ike Uaile at their Wholesale tialediooui No. 34 JOHN Street, New York. The Ttnclls are to bo had ot all principal fiiatloneri and hotion healers nnw Ark lor Aiueiicun Lead Pencil. 10 1 fwwbm O K N K X O H A N O W IUAO MANIIFACTOUV. JOHN T. 11 A 1 L K V t CO., BKMOVKD TO N. K, corner ot JI AKKKT and WATEB Street,' Philadelphia. DKALKIth IN II All S AND BAOGIKU oi every duaiTlptloii. or Oialn, Flour, bait, riuper-rbonpuate of Lhne, Bone hust, 1 to . Lares and small C1UNNV 1ia(IH constantly on ban a 2-WSJ AIm, WOOL HACKS JoiinT. lUu.Kir JtMbSf adn Watches, jewelry etc VJWIS LAD0MUS& CO. w All iiks, jr:n ur a sii.vi.r waiik. . WATCHE3 and JEWELRY EEPAIEED. J08 Chestnut Bt V hlla CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AND 13 It I D A I, 1 It H S K N T S. Have on hand a largo and beautKal ansortment ol Watches, jewelry, and Mlverwaro, sultolilo lor Chrlst n an Holiday and Undal Present. Particular attention solicited to onrtanre assortment of Diamonds and Watches, (lold Chains ror ladles' and gentlemen's wear. Also, Sleeve Buttons, Studs, and beat Kings, In great variety, all ol the newest etylos. FANCY SIIVKIt-WAKK, J'SPF.CIALLY SUITED FOR BRIDAL GIFTS. We are daily recelrlng new goods, selected expressly for ibc holiday sales. Our prices mil be found as low. el"ewhereCr' 1,10 "ame ual'ty C8n ue Purehasod l u.chn.ers Invited to call. Iilamnnds and all precious stones, also, old Gold and Bl.ver, purchased or taken in exchange. ol4p KITCHEN & CO. HAVE OPENED THEIR NEW STORE, SOl'TIIEAST CORNKR TENTH and CHESNUT Streets, WITH A FULL STOCK OF WATCHES. JEWELRY. Silver, and Silver-Plated Ware. FANCY COOD8, Etc. Their 8 tock being entirely new, and selected with the ntmoet care, tliey leel confident of being able to suit the taste oi those n bo wish art'cies lu their tine, hey solicit an inspection of thetr goods. C. B. KITCBBM. J. II. OLtVEK. li. Kl'LON, t alesman. u 27 lmrp 1 Tfc E S E N rr W. PARIS GOODS. Fine Mantel Clocks, Fine Travelling Clocks, Comic BroDzes, Match Sufoa, Inkstands, Alarms, Parian btatuary, Etc. Etc Tor ether with an assortment ot Flue "Vnt hct, Jewelry, nmtl Silver Ware, RUITAOLE FOB CIlltlSTMAS (IIFTS. FAttR & BROTHER, Importers, Ko. 324 CHESNUT Street. 12 13 6lip BELOW FOUHTH. i BOWMAN & LEONARD, rAn WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Silver aud Sllver-Platcd Goods, No 704 ARCH STREET, rnii.ADELFtII. Those in want of HILVEK or BILVKK-PL a.T E D AVA hi-, will hud ll much to their advantage to visit eurS'J OKi, heiore making their purchase,,, our loag experience In the mnnuiucture ot the above kinds of fioods enables us to delv competition. e keep uoeoods but those whicQ are of the FIRST Clash, all vi wr own make, and will be sold at reduced prices. e tuft I10L1DAI PKESEMS. JACOB HARLEY, (SUCCESS0K TO STAUFFER & HARLEY), Xo. G22 MARKET ST. A lino assortment ol Walches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Pilver and Silvcr-j lated Ware, suitable for Holiday and Bildal Presents. 12 11 tutfaslm S I LV ER-WARE iUUDAL P It E SENT 3. G. RUSSELL & CO., No. 22 North SIXTH St., Invite attention to tbclr Choice Stock of HOLIIJ 81 l.V R W AKK, suitable lor C 11 ItiS'i Al Ao aud BUI DA L HENRY II A R PER, XSo. r?0 AKCII Wtreot, Id anuiacturer and Uea'erin Watches T'ine Jewelry, Kilver-l'latetl Ware, JJ Solid Silver-Ware. KICII JEWELRY. JOHN BKENNAN, DEALER IN DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY Etc. Etc. Etc. 8 20 13 S. EIGHTH ST., FIIH.ADA. O R T II E HOLIDAYS. SMITH & DREER, S. ifl. Curuer ARCH aud TENTH Streets, Have now on band a Well selected Stock o WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER, AND SILVER PLATED WARE, Suitable for the Christmas Holidays A call la respectful! solicited. 12 lairp TUIiOUOIlE smiiu fuudikand j. dukei), iV I G11RISTMA& PttESEXTS II O I T Y 4S. I Opera Glasses, Gold Soectacies. Gold Eve Glasses, STEREOSCOPES, MICROSCOPES, DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, MAGIC LANTERNS, BOTTLE IMI8, WALTZERS, TABLEAUX FIRE, And a variety Of other useful and AMUSING: 6CIEN1IFIC TOYS WILLIAM V. MCALLISTER. OPTICIAN, No. 7US CHESNUT ST., PHIUMLPIiIA.. CUHCtrp CUKISTMAS PREHfiXTS1 OPERA GLASSES, GOLD SPECTACLES, Children's Magic Lanterns, UMMIKG 1NSTRUJIENTS, ETC. ETC. ETC. JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., 12 IB Gt No. OfSl CHESNUT Street. CilUlSTSlAS! VV. W. CASSIDY, No. Vi SOUTH SECOND STREET Ofiers an entirely new ana most carefully selected stock ot AMERICAN KVV GENEVA WATCHK9. JEWELRT, SILVEUWARK, and FANCY ARTICLES OF 1-Vi.EY DEbCRlPTION, suitable fot BRIDAL OR HOLIDAY PKKSENTS, An exanilnatlou will stiow my stock to be unsur I fti-scd In Quality and cheapness. 1'art'cu ar attention paid to ropa'rinR 1 S CIllllSTMAS, flOUDAY AND BRIDAL GIFTS K ESTABLISHED IN 1812. VILL1AM WILSON & SON, SILVERSMITH 5 &Nt iA.Ni:i-ACn;REfc3 AUD IMl'Oni'FT.S OF 81 T Kit I OK PLATED WAttE, SOUTHWEST CORN KR OF IIFTH AND CHERRY STREETS, Hare ou band a large and general assortment of Silver aud Plated Ware, Suitable for Bridal Prcseuta, Ktc. Ktc. PRESENTATION SETS ON II AND, Or furnished at short notice. 11 21 lmrp 8 La. go and small sizes, plat ing irom i to 12a'ra. and costing Irom 8to 9300. Our assortment comprises aucu cliolce melodies as "Home, Sweet Home "Tue Latt ltoce of bummer. 'Auld LangPyne." 'Star Hpangled Banner." "My Old Kentucky Home," etc. etc., Besides beautliul telcciioos irum the various Opera imported direct, and lor tale at moderate prices, by FARR & BROTHER, Importers ol Watches etc , II UimthrpJ No. 3i4 cnEcXUT8t . below Fourth. 1 0U CHUMUAS rilESEXTS. FINE 0PEBA CLASSES, ELEGANTLY BOtJND MUSIC BOOKS. AND MUSIC FOLIOS. C. W. A. TRUMPLER, u 14 mi SEVENTH AND CHESNUT STS. REMOVAL. ISAAC DIXON, WATCH MAKEli, HAVING lti. MOVED TO So. 120 S. ELEVENTH Street, below Chesnut, Has opened anew and carrfull elected stock ot fine aleucs, Jewelry fclHer and Flated Ware. N. It.-Chronometer, Implex, Paten Lever, and plain W antes rareiuIlT tc pi Ircd andarranted.tl03lera pNE OPERA GLASSES IMPORTED AND FOB SALE BY JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., WISH No. 04 CHESNt'T Street. H OKSE COVERS, BUFFALO BOBEb, BELOW MARKET nLk KNEASS S: CO , No. C31 MARKET Htreet Lllo-mao torso in door. Coueandaeo. LliCtUiutf WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC. UMBRELLAS, ETC. W.. A. DROWN & CO., No. QO MARKET St., HAVE NOW IN STOCK) AN KI.Ett ANT ASSORTMENT OP UMBRELLAS. MADS FROM SUPEUIOR ENGLISH AND FRENCH SILKS OF THEIR OWN IMPORTATION, FINISHED OFF WITH THE LATEST STYLES OF IVCEY, VALH7T, and PAETRIDuji, HANDLE3, FOB CnillSTMAS PRESENTS, rnnist UMl', RKLL AS AND CANES "I AKE. ACKPTAISLE NI VALUABLE HOLIDAY lltKhKNTi A large and complete ax'oriumnt FOU HALL Al liKl.l!(!M PKH KS BT Willi mii kick kdson, Jj?l?ft No 600 M A I!K K I' Htrent tfS. FINK SILK UMUBELLAS, IV03V: and other inner handles, ror Ho'lila. rroannta. 12 H (iflNon 2 and 4 N". FOUHTH Htreo't.'lvuia -cs. BUST OUALITY O IN fill AM U3T T"BBKLAS. nieclT not un. bpRf Irnmoa A , ilOSKPrl KOSSKLTj 12 17 Pt Now an14 N rot' rujttreet Vblla. F.N(!USH AM) FRENCH BILK UM- F.l H BRi LLa.i paragon trainei. 11 17 81 Nos. 2 and , 1'uUltt a btrcet, thila. SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS, &t HOLIDAY PRESENTS FOR GENTLEMEN. An AsfccrtmeLt of Elegaa: WEAPrj:R&, SCARFS, TT1.8, GL0VE3, CARDIGAN JACKETS, Oil Novelties ia Guntlem-'n's Furniihing Qooda, at J. W. SCOTT it CO.'S, 12 io utrpi No. 814 CHESNUT St. Q.ENTS' lUKNISIIING GOODS, 8II1PT9 MADIS OF NK W YORK MILLS MUSLIN ou y M usual price 60. dllaT OK WAMSUITA WUSLIN Dlr t l-7.0 umal price 5-ftO l.U 8 Ml ilt h ou band and made to order. A ilbc ral deduction to wbi IchuIo trade WH. KHAKI It, AMIOAStm FLANNEL UN 1)1 it!"illllTH M- HmWEUN. all sizes ana qua itlon. AifO. FANCY SCAR KM. Nht'KTirM, (tLOVBH. I1DKFH., Kli.SI'EKlJK8, etc., in urcatvarietv, and at reasonable pnets. g. CUtt2ni T. L. JACOBS, No. laatt OUI;SNUT Street. Jl I C II A K D BATHE, ( J en years ti 1th J. Burr Mooro A John C. Arrioon). I1AS OPENED AT No. 53 V. SIXTH St., below Arch, Philadelphia Wnore he intends to keep a variety ot t.KBlTS' PUUN1S1IIMU GOODS, Aud to invnulaciuro ttie Improved I.IJKU-SIOAIVI SII1KT, Invented by J. Hurr Moore, which lor ease and com KuttKunot be aurpatuied, 9 il H. F. BUTLER, MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS Ko. 142 South EIGHTH St. 112 J W. SCOTT & C O., SHOT MANUFACTUEEES, AUD I'EALEHS IM MHN'ts tUJ.lNlSiilNG GOODS No. 834 CHESNUT Street, 1-OtB D00118 LELOW Tfili 'CONTINENTAL, K -i7 Srp riilLADELPUlA. pATENT SUOULDER-SEAM KIIIliT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLfcWEN'b iUENISIIINQ STORE. rHIfrX'T 1ITTINO pniEiS AND DBAWEE audc irom nicot-urnnent at very short notiee. Alietberaillclesvl ULNTLKMKI b UKt8 OOODd m ml) variety. WINCIIKBTER & CO., 111S No. 706 CHEBNUT Bireet Q.ENTS' FUKNISUING GOODS. t. HOFFMAN, JR., (Late G..A. Hoffman, successor to W. W. Knight.) KINK felilUTS, AND WBAPriCUs, llOKIKKV AND GLOViS, 811k, Lambs' Wool, a Afurino UNDER-CLOTHINC. lOStutha No. '45 AKCH Street. J) U 11 II A M'S RESTAURANT, N. E C0HNER ELEVENTH and CALL0W3ILL, (Late of No. 05 Chesnut utreet.) I-UILAOELPUIA, The undersigned bees leavo to inform hia former patrons that he has tltccu up a Urst-closs Uusiaurani, at lhe. t. coruer of ILLViMu aud C'ALLO W'UILI. hueeta. Having had aevcral vears' eznerloiice In the business, be llauers hiniseli th it he can aceouiutodaio all who D ai lnvor him with their pa' routine. His eaiabi'shuieiit is provided with room neatly Itin lshfd, hultable lor either large or stnuli LUioer or ISuni er rarlies Hi is prepared to furnish PARTIES. WKDDINI1H, COI LAt IO h, K o. nlih the hest relrenboienta, and good competent waiters at the shortest notioe Honed i urkev, alauiode Beet, and all ornamental dishes made to order. S. DURHAM, ELEVENTH AND CALLOW'HIIX. 11 13 12trp NEW RUBBER DEPO T. WILSON, UACfeB 4 CO, No. 40!) CPK8NUT street ha-e opened a New Kutiocr Depot, for the sale ol Hubl er Hoods of every description I'aU-ut l oik Kubher Hhoe audlioota. fatentt ork Mattresses 1'atent Cora uslnoiis Patent Snriu. HottouiS. I'atent Htulted Muds. I atent ork LUe I'reserrera. Patent Cork t.uhher Holes. Also, Uuus, PUtols Ladles' and Ganta Bkates, Parlor Ci'(U" and I'ar or Ilase Hall ''urlor Bkatiug, hkaiinK uins, Hkaliug Jackets, by Villi I r WII.HO"? A Co., II 41m No.4U9 CHESN UT Street.
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