THE DAILY EVENING TEL EG R Aril. PIITLADELPIIIA, FRIDAY, MARCII 15, 18G7.
MONSIEUR VETO flWD RECONSTRUCTION.
To the Eihtor of The Kvcnhtfi Trlcrraph.
Camdkn, N. J., March IO, 18(i7. Androw
. Johnson had it in his power many times to
Hnatch hi name from thp. contempt to which
oMeiity couf ife'iis him. Andrew Johnson has
ninncd away his day of grace. li mistakes
jx-rvermty and obstinacy for greatnnsn. Ho
went into office an Vicfl-Preiident hy a fiplcn
did popular majority. Ho will now go out of
flue so ignomiuiously, that John Tyler and
James Huchanan shine like stars when com
pared to Andrew Johnson ami his administra
tion of public affaire.
Assassination prepared the ladder upon
which his ambition climbed, and if "lowliness"
WAB the ladder, he long ago kicked that ladder
lown. His whole discharge of his public
trust has been marked only by malevolence,
ty audacity, and by imbecility. It is currently
reported that the doubtful honor of the author
ship of the Military Reconstruction, bill veto
belongs to Stanbery, the Attorney-General.
Certainly it lias the genuine Copperhead ring!
Not content with still "harping on my
daughter." in regard to the ten unrepresented
Mates, Andrew Johnson, with much show of
indignation, calls upon Congress to remember
that there will l'? sixteen Mates out of line on
the 4th of Marc1);, Vy which he desires us to
understand that the Forii'Hli Congress will
meet In-fore Connecticut, Kentucky, and other
Mates elect their Representatives to the in-
omiilj? t o.";.r"f!' Uut h? dot's ,10t anywhere
in this veto give VIS 10 r.uderstau-1 that the
necessity which compels CV.ngress to this
extraordinary session has a foundation in the
wickedness and treachery of tho KxcoiUi'ye
in whose hands tin: jili cannot safely trusl
the ordinary machinery of Government unless
ilanked by extraordinary precautions.
Perhaps it may not he known that the Ame
r'n an people have to thank honest Thaddeus
Stevens for the present Reconstruction bill.
On Monday, the isih of February, the Great
Commoner (really the biggest and noblest
Roman of them all) sat alone in his apartments
on B street, near the Capitol, with a copy of
the Military Reconstruction bill, cut from tho
lIorniiKj ChrmiirU: Forney had blown his
loudest blast for this bill (commonly called
the Senate amendment, whic h was really Old
Thad"s bill eviscerated, and leaving all white
men, loyal and disloyal alike, to build again
the dangerous Mate governments in the ten
rebellious States). The Chronick was loudly
for the Senate amendment.
The New York J'rihi'iie said it saw ''land
ahead." Stevens saw land too; but it was as
the mariner, tossed on the deep for many
nights, with shipwreck threatening, every
hour sees the shore, rocky and precipitous,
threatening, not peace and safety, but only
new dangers and certain shipwreck. To drop
all metaphor, Mr. Stevens said to the writer
of this that he was never more perplexed in
Lis life. His judgment was against the Senate
amendment, but there remained scarcely ten
days of the session in which to pass a bill over
Monsieur Veto's head, and he was assailed on
all hands to give away. He felt the fatal clan
ger of any plan of reconstruction which did
not prevent the men who made the Rebellion
having one more chance to organize another
rebellion. This they certainly had the power
to do, if to the disloyal majority of the South
were committed the destinies ot the men wno,
for five weary years, had been true to the Hag.
Thaddeus Stevens rose, as no man in either
House did, to the magnitude of what he called
this "thrilling hour."
And in no single ac t did the moral heroism
cf that brave old man so shine) forth as in that
moment in which ho determined, no matter
who was opposed to him, to be faithful to his
duty to the oppressed, white or black, and to
win the light which, if lost in that hour,
against God and humanity, would not in a
century be won again.
I told him no man could advise him. but
that the people would sustain him in what
ever course he; chose to adopt, and would u i lit
villi htm on his tarn iitii .
One hour from that moment he drove over
to the House he was still feeble from the ex
citement of over-work and to the astonish
ment of friends and foes alike, defeated the
Senate-amended Reconstruction bill by t-heer
force of will, and by Parliamentary tacti.-s
which he hesitated to use.
Ry some strange hallucination the Demo
cratic party (what is left of it in Washington)
rallied to the side of the Great Commoner,
not because they loved him or his bill, but
ltecause they thought by defeating the Semite
amendments (far less dangerous to them than
Mr. Stevens' original bill) they might escape
out of the Thirty-ninth Congress and into the
Fortieth, with no "reconstruction" at all.
That party, like the Cavaliers who fought for
Charles I, and prayed for the "restoration" of
Charles II a weaker and more vicious king
than the lirstCharles sigh now for "one year of
Buchanan," just as the Cavaliers si"hed for
"one year of the Stuarts." They will most
likely get, instead of either, a regenerated re
public, built not upon the vicious doctrines of
the "Merry Monarch," but upon the truer, if
more puritanical doctrines of Miles Standish
and John Brown.
But I must move on to the veto. History
will place the last great victory of the Great
Commoner lteside the real splendors of Chat
ham, and above the ponderous but oratorical
triumphs of Burke. Nothing can better show
the difficulty of Old Thud's position than the
statement that all the younger leaders of the
House were against him, including the wh ile
Ohio delegation, led by John Sherman in the
Senate, and by Schenck and Bingham and
Garfield in the House. 1'erhaps Shellaharger
was the only member from Ohio who rendered
Mr. Stevens the slightest assistance. Rut he
won his light, and posterity, North and South,
will thank him for it, and clothe his fame with
that immortality which is the only guerdon
the brave and noble patriot asks of the Ke-
public for w hich he has suffered much, and
from which he has received, alas I little, if
anything. How mournful it is to hear J liad
deus Stevens justly complain of the fact that
a very few members of Congress must do all
the work and bear all tho censure; while the
majority, quick to cavil at the work of others,
great in verbal criticism, amount to nothing
in originating any of the great or useful mea
sures which so nearly concern the national
welfare and existence. (1 modestly suggested
that there were other legislative assemblages
not unlike the United States Congress.)
But to the veto. Andrew Johnson never
really hated slavery. Invention and memory
furnished him with certain current phrases
which belonged to the Republican party, and
which expressed its elemental principles. The
Baltimore Convention ought to have known
better than to have trusted him. I waB there,
and remember that the New Jersey delegation
were for Daniel B. Dickinson as against
Andrew Johnson, who was then, as he is this
iay, William Beward's puppet. A com
mittee 'Of thr was appointed to confer with
the New York delegation and express our pre
ference, in the hope, of accomplishing sonm
thing against the Seward-Johnson-Weed in
fluence. '
It was of no us. The facile and unscru
pulous Thurlow had packed his cards, and
there were (if my memory is accurate) thirty
two votes for Andrew Johnson for Vice-President.
That settled the fate of the day, and,
alas I also of the future. The speeches of the
New Jersy delegation Newell, Socrates Tut-
tle, Jo. Crowell, etc. all vanished into tlu'nair.
Tin fatal mistake of the Baltimore Conven
tion, was made when it permitted Hannibal
Hamlin to be displaced. Those who knew Mr.
Linc oln 1-est know that lie preferred that no
change from the ticket of lfcCOshould be made
in the ticket of 1H!4.
If Andrew Johnson ever made a real hearty
anti-slavery speech, 1 have yet to see it. And
looking around for victims, the dying but not
despairing pro-slavery spirit did not hesitate
to kill one President aud part Aa.sc another to
carry out its "policy," the result of the
treacherous and devilish councils ' of half
a century. F.xplain, if you can, Andrew John
son's treachery upon any other hypothesis
than this, that lie wold his soul to the South
for pftwer. And a most willing and supple
se rvant he has Ixm, and is, to tho most ex
acting, unkind, and remorseless master ever
instigated by the spirit of evil. The 300,M0
late slave-owners, after Lee's surrender, took
possession of thM ballot-boxes of the South, so
far as ballot-boxes were necesary for their
purposes: gove rned their country with Lee's
ex-soldiers about as comnletelv as thev did
before their chiefs surrender, an 1 they now
"iictate tonus to (heir servant in the White
House (A. J.), whose iiiirution, instead of
being 'the tin ins and spirit of the Constitu
tion,'' i an be traced to the spot where; John C.
Breckinridge now lives, ami where the lying
spiiit which U'lii'iits tin,' mortal body of Jeffer
son Davis is still incarcerated.
rio wonder, then, the friends of freedom are
alive and alert when threatened from the capi
tal w'.hcre the beloved Lincoln ought still to be
ruling this Jnnd by that sweet, just spirit of
his : no wonder they stand upon their arms
when the ReUd Hank is cautiously moving
exemplified in the White House from New
OrleanH to Maine, preparing for the noxt con
flict of 1S(!S.
If the last veto did not kindle derision, it
would provoke pity. The I'resident says "it
is a concious falsehood." "The negroes have
not askeil for the privilege' of voting: the rust
majority have no e.Ve( vhtt it means. This bill
not oiiiy thrusts it into their hands, hut rom-
el-t them to use it in a particular way." 0
ti iii'ora . . U Jnsisi!
ot a grave Ulled by a patriot soldier, le lie
black or white, is there in all this land from
which would not come, if the dead could speak,
a voice ot entreaty to the American people,
vine, "If you value your safety, let peace
put the ballot info every hand into which war
thrust the musket" Not ask it !
To taunt the harassed, hunted, and per
secuted blacks with the fact that they had had
no public- proclamation that they demand pro
tection by the billot, is to put out a man's
eves, and then swear at him because he don't
see.
Such reasoning as this and the veto mes
sage abounds in it will be met with a shout
of derision by the intelligence of the world.
It is useless to waste words .about the mes
sage, for the only thing that can be favorably
said of it is, that there is a pretentious affecta
tion of line writing in this, as in the veto to
the Tenure of Otliee bill, in which President
Johnson says, "I think experience has shown
that it is the most attractive of studies to frame
constitutions for the self-government of free
States." He (And row Johnson) surely meant
it was the most attractive (if the most un
profitable) of occupations toframr Vetoes !
Polities make a man better or worse. The
trade of politics has sapped and ruined the
little virtue left in Andrew Johnson, lie
couid stand adversity, and shone in it, but he
We'iit down in prosperity. The Vice-Presidency
gave the first lesson in treason to Cal
houn, to Aaron Burr, and to John ('. Breck
inridge, and the last disc iple- of that infamy in
his Fxeellein-y, Andrew Johnson, and his
name leads all the rest." Ah! if we could
only go back to the days of one of the ee-ntlest
aii'l est of men who e ver wore urtli about
him, and
sa v
we could in the davs of
Lincoln :
"llowe'er It hp. it scents tome
"1 is only noiite to bo toud;
Kind hearts are more Mian coroners,
And simple aiVi than Xorruan bloud."
Tin- 1'rHsiele'iit ml his Secretary of State are
1 't-iit on helieviiifr, in spite of all history ami
all legislative enactments, that there never
was any Rebellion.
They forget that the? enjoyment of privi
leges, goes hand in hand with the discharge of
obligations; and to rake out the anti-subjugation
resolutions of 1801 from the aslns which
vet thinly cover the fli es of rebellion, after the
men for whose benefit those resolutions were
framed h'ftd scoriie'd and spit upon them, pro
vokes only our pitv. Sympathvwith a bad,
defeated cause, and not a lioalthy love of
popular liberty, lays at the foundation of all
such "dabbling in the fount of fictivo tears."
Shame on it in the President of the United
btate-s! lloni'st people demand now and then
at least a word fur dead patriots, aii'l not so
much sympathy for living treason.
The most monstrous proposition in the veto
is the President's distinct declaration that
by such bills as tho Military Reconstruction
bill we will elevate IS Udell, Benjamin, anil
Jefferson Davis (for that is his plain meaning)
to the standard of such patriots as Hampden,
Sydney, and George Washington. Remember
that the jicoplc at two separate elections have
condemned I'resident Johnson as 110 Chief
Magistrate; was ever before condemned, and
then read the following words, by the light
of these popular judgments and verdicts, and
I warrant you a blush will mantle tho cheek
of every true man at such baseness as that
which could prompt the gross insult to the
American people contained in the following
libel on our dead:
"We prove that tliey were in truth ami fact
flRhllnK lor the ir liberty. (He mean the
Rebels ) And instead of branding their leudors
with the dishonorable name of traitors afjuiiiKt
iiwiiieous nnd n-aal Government, wo rievute
them in history to the raulc of self sucrlllcing
pnlrlots-contieciate them to the adniiraliou
of the world, and place them by the bide of
Washington, lluuipdeu.and Sydney."
The man w ho penned that sentiment must
be suffering from the confusion of tho brain
co""8 from corruption of the heart,
liut, Mr. Kditor, the theme is a fruitful one,
ana of deep inten st to us all; but I am warned
to desist lest my room in the Tklkoraph (on
account of nty length) may he regarded as
better than my company.
This last veto, iu lny opinion, is the Copper-
jol.nson piatiorm for lK(J8 As well luight
they strike at the hossea nr. ioi.ni,a Luckier.
or batter the stars from .'..!. ,.a with
buck-shot, as to stay the progressive ideas of
, v "" upon the unwritten laws
oj numuuuu. ciayery, and cate, and inhu
inanity fchall no longer be sustained, main
tamed, or protected by positive law.
The world iu c move, and-I pauw. y0urs
sincerely, J. 11. H.
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TSTRTn AMERICAN TRANSIT
i-N LNMUAME COMPANY,
NO. 83 N. FOURTH STKEKT,
PHILADELPHIA.
Annual Policies issued aguinst ueneral Accidents
of all descriptions at exceedingly low rates.
lusuiauce ellecled for one year, In any sum from
tloo to lo,ouo, at a premium ot only one-half percent,,
securing the lull amount insureil in case of death, anil
a compensation each week equal to the whole pro
iuium paid.
Short time Tickets for 1, 2, 8, B, 7, or 10 days, or 1,8,
or 6 mouths, at lo cents a uay, insuring iu the sum of
fioou, or giving 1U per week It disabled, to be had at
the General Ollice, No. la.'! S. FOURTH Street, Phila
delphia, or at the various Railroad Ticket ollices. Be
sine to purchase the tickets of the North American
Transit Insurance Company.
lor circulars and further Information apply at th
General Ollice, or of any of the authorized Agents ot
the Company.
LEWIS L. HOUPT, President.
JAMES M. CONRAD, Treasurer,
HENRY C. BROWN, Secretary.
JOHN U BULLITT, Solicitor.
DIRECTORS.
L. L. Uoupt, late ol Pennsylvania Railroad Cons
puny.
J. E. Klngsley, Continental Hotel,
buuiuel C, Palmer, Cashier of Com. National Bank
11. U, Leiseuriug. Nns. and i:in Dock street.
James M . Conrad, firm ot Conrad it Walton, No,
Jlarkel street.
Luoch Lewis, late Gen. Superintendent Pen lift. R.R.
Andrew MehaUey, . W. corner ol Third and Wal
nut stieeta.
G. C. I ranciscus, Gen. Agent Penna. R. R. Co.
1 honias K. Peterson. No. '4M Market street.
W.W. Kurln, firm of EurtE & Howard, No. 21S,
Third street. l a ly
PIKENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OP
PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED IseX-CHARTFR PKRPKTDAL.
No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange.
In addition to MARINE and INLAND INSUR
ANCE, this Company insures liom loss or dainaue hy
FIRE for liberal terms ou buildings, luercliaudlse,
iuruiiure, etc. for limited periods, and permanently
on buildings, by deposit ot premium.
The Conipuny hats been lu active operation for more
than SIXT Y YEARS, during which all losses have
been promptly adjusted aud paid.
uiaac-Aunn.
John L. Hodge,
Lawrence Lewis, Jr.
David Lewis,
Benjamin Kiting,
T homas H. Powers,
A. R. McIIenry.
Edmund Castlllon,
Louis C. Norris.
M. li. Mahouy
John T. Lewis,
William S. Grant,
Robert W. Leamiug,
D. Clark Wharlou
bauiuel WUcox,
JOHN
WrCHERER, Prealdent.
Sahhfl Wilcox. Secretary.
-n-lRK INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Till
Jj PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COM.
PANY Incorporated lHu Charter Perpetual No,
610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square.
This Company, favorably kuowu lo the community
for over lorly years, continues to insure against loss or
damage by tire ou Pu Jlic or Private Buildings, either
permanently or for audited time. Also, on Furniture.
Stocks of Uoods, aud Merchandise generally, on liberal
WTbeir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is
Invested lu the most careful maimer, which enable
them to oiler to the Insured au undoubted security lu
the case of loss.
illHAlTUVN
Tianlel Smith. Jr..
John Devereuz.
Alexander Benson,
lMu.ua 11 arlehurst.
Thomas Smith,
Henry Lewis,
J.GIlllughaiuFell,
Thomas Bobbins,
Daniel Tfuleltii-k. Jr.
DANIEL SMITH, J President.
William G. Ckow kll, becretary 8 30
iP.CLT.AlNCL ;OV!!JfVNlLb.
gROOKLYN
4) J' NJW VOUK.
HI TJ rX U JL, .
II
t'APITAE, fiaS.OOO-PAIU IIP.
AIMIXATIJI. !00,000.
Cash imftlcml In 17, Forty
per CViit.
CURISTIAN W. BOUCK, President.
RICHARD II. HARDING, Secretary.
Parties desiring full information will call on E
BRAINARD COLTON, General Asout for Pennsylva
nia and Southern New Jersey, No. 113 8. FIFTH
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
PHILADELPHIA lltrEBESIXS.
Morton McMichael, Mayor.
A. B. Cooley A Co., No. 214 Delaware avenue.
Wm. H. Gatzmer, President Camden fc Amboy R. R.
James Rosb Snowden, late Director MiuL 2 23 ly
A. O. B. Hlnkle, M. D., Medical Examiner.
A FEW GOOD SOLICITORS WANTED FOR THE
(. IT Y OF PHII.ADKI.I'HIA.
QT RICT EC0N0H1Y IN MANAGEMENT.
KOT I II KNT 1,1 IK AXDTKl'SI (OJI PA X V
OF PHIL.AIr.LPHIA.
No. Ill H. FOURTH STREET,
Commenced Business 7mo. 24, lStw.
Organized to extend the benefits of Lite Insurance
among members of the Society ol Friends. All good
ribks of w hatever denomination solicited.
SAMUEL R. SniPLEY, President,
ROWLAND PARRY", Actuary.
THOMAS W1STAR, M. D., Med. Examlnei
JOSEPH li. TOWNSEND, Leijal Adviser.
This Company, In addition to the security arising
lrom Hie accumulation ol premiums, gives tho insured
l lie ml Llu. e of an actual l.u.il-up C'apnui, ALL
THE PROl l lS OF INSURANCE ARE DIVIDED
AMONG "11IK INsUltED.
Llie Policies and Endowments in all the most an
proved loi ins.
Annuities granted on tnvorahle terms. r2 22fmw3n
Q-IKARD FIRE AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
(No. C30)
N. E. COR. CUESNUT AND SEVENTH STS.
l-UILAPKI I UIA.
CAPITAL AM M lil'tl S OVER 8300,000.
IMOBIF. F4Mt 1)460, 8I03.;.
Losses Paid aud Accrued iu It 60,
17.000,
Of which amount not (.iejeXl remuln unpaid at tills date?.
1 1( m.ooli WKi of property has been successfully insured
ny tnw e. cuipany in iinrieen years, ana Jigut xtun
dred Losses by Fire promptly paid.
DIRECTORS.
Thomas Craven.
Silas Y erkes. Jr.,
Alfred S. Gillett,
N. S. Lawrence,
Charles I. 1 union t.
Furman bheppard,
Tliciuus MacEellar,
John suiiplee.
John W. Claghorn,
Henry F". Keuuey,
Joseph Kiuno. M.I).
THOMAS t RAVEN, President
A. S. GILLETT, Vice-Presldeni.
2 22fmwjj JAM EM B. A LVORD. Secretary
fJUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPAQ,
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, NO. 5 S. FIFTH STREET.
AKSETS '. 9130,!ilO'3
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
MUTUAL SYSTEM EXCLUSIVELY.
DIRECTORS FOR HW7.
Caleb Clothier,
Benjamin Malone,
Thomas Mather,
T. Eilwood Chapman,
Simeon Matlack,
William P. Reeder,
Joseph Cnapmau,
Edward M. Needles,
Wilson M. Jenkins,
Lukens Webster,
Francis T. Atkinson.
Aaron W. OaakllJ
eAL.l-.li LLUTIIllSH. iTeslUeilt.
BENJAMIN MALUNE, Vice-President.
TnOMAS MATHER, Treasurer.
T. F.LLWOOI) CHAPMAN. Secretnry. ;2 28 lm
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
NORTH AMERICA.
OFFICE. NO. m WALXL'T ST., THILADLLPUIA
1C0KP0KATED 1784. CIIAlt'lLE PKUPETDAL.
CAPITAL, H0,0 .
Assets, Januarv 8, 1EG7, $1,763,26733.
IKSURES MAK1NE,
INLAND TBAKBFOBTATION and FLRZ KI2E3
D1P.1XTOK8.
Arthur G. Coffin, . George L. Harrison,
puiuut'i . tiunes,
Francis R. Cooe.
John A. Brown,
Idward 11. liotter,
Fdward H. Clarke,
AVIhlam Cuniuiinifs,
T. Charlton Henry,
Allri-d I). Jfsup
John P. White.
Louis C Madeira
vuuries i ayior,
A mbroe-e W tilie,
Richard D. V ooel,
William Welsh,
H Mortis Warn,
John Mason,
ARTHC B G. COFFlS, President
Cbakles Tlatt, Secretary.
WILLIAM LLLULER, Harnsburiz, Pa., Central
Agent lor the State of Pennsylvania.
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES
piRE-PROOF SAFES.
MARVIN'S PATENT
mi ?!
Inn
ARE
T HE BEST.
AL1VAYM ITRIM-KOOr,
A I. WAYS DKT
noitlLK TEST.
Fkbkcaby 13, 1S67.
"Our Marvin's Patent Safe, a No. 9. double-door,
stood the severest test In the large lire of Saturday
night. It fell from the second floor, aud was exposed
to an INTENSE HEAT, FANNED BY A STIFF
NORTH WIND. The exterior Iron frame-work
melted In Beveral places, yet the inside la not touched
We were pleased on opening It to Und every thing
ALL RIGHT. We have every couUdeuce in the
Flre-Prool Safes made by Marvin 4 Co.
"WHITFIELD fc BILLING."
EXAMINE
WHERE.
BEFORE
PURCHASING ELSE.
MARVIN & CO.
No. 721 CHESTNUT St., (Masonic Hall.)
And No. 265 BROADWAY, New York.
House Safes, for Plate and Jewelry
Bankers' Steel Chests.
Second-hand Safes of all makers.
Safes exchanged ou liberal terms. 2 23 stutb2ra
bales. Machinery, etc., moved and hoisted.
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
o
0 B N E X C H A
BAG MANUFACTOKy.
N O
" u a 1. BAILEY A
UHOTID TO
C O.,
U, E, corner oi MARKET and WATER Streets
bl.i1 ..i.vi.
DEALERS IN BAGtt AND BAGGING
C.r.ln. Vin. r. ST "PUou, lor
, niiper-i-uosphauj ot Lime, Boa
JoiimT Bailsi
Jakes Casoasi
--LlVl' WHITE l'INE HOARDS
LOU I . AMill.ANK.
4-H, 6-, -4, 't. i, , anil 4 Inch
CHOICE l'AM'.l, a:1j IsiclOM MtiN, 16 feet lone
4 4. f , 0-4, 2, .1. and 4 Inch
WHITE PIN K. IWM I, PATTKHN TLANK.
LAUGE AM) sliPKltlOlt HTOt K ON HAn6.'
1867
HUILDlMil BUILDING
. IU ll.lll.Mi'
LUMl'.l'.lt! Ll'MUKH! LUMBER
Ml'AWM.I.VA FLD(UtlN(J.
5-4 CA lK.ll. UNA FI.(MM4.
4-4 I'U.AW ARK KI.OOKING.
5 4 1 1 KLA W A It E 1- L( IO III NU
Willi K PINK 1- LOOKING.
ASH F1.JIR1.NG.
WALNUT FIODItlNG.
hl'Ul'CK FLoeltlNu.
KfM' l!l 18.
RAIL I'I.aNK.
PLAMElllNG LATH.
1867
-C K I) A B AND CYPRES
Sll I NGLEN.
LONG CEDAR MtlNOLFfl.
SHORT t KHAR H111NWLE1.
C((liri;i SIIINGLEH.
FINK ASSORTMENT Foil WALK LOW.
No. I CKDA R LOGS AND POSTS.
1867
LUaiBKB FOB UNDERTAKERS
, Ll MHEK FOR IINDKKTAKKHMI
HKD CEDAR. WALNUT, AND PINE.
1867
A I -BA NY I.UMBKROF ATXKI NDt
, A LHA N Y I.L .M HKlt OF ALL KIND
SKASONED WALNUT.
DRY POPLAR, CHERRY. AND ASH.
OAE PLANK AND BOARDS,
MAHOGANY.
ROSEWOOD. AND WALNUT VENKF.RS.
186'
7 CKJAH-BOX MANUKACTL'RKhS
I CIGA K-P.OX MA.NUr ACTURERS.
SPANISH CEDAR BOX HOARDS.
1 -Kt'CE JOIST l SPRUCE
J-CJJ I SVltlu-l.: .lois'i'
t now M IO Si FKI'.T LONG.
SCPE1UOR NORWAY SCANTLING.
M MAULK, BROTHER CO..
11 22nmrp No. asoo south street.
F. h. w
EUMIJER
I L L I A 171 S,
MERCHANT,
SEVENTEENTH AND Sl'lilNG GARDEN STREETS
OFFERS
A SCl.ltI4H KTOCK OF
BU1LDIKG LUMBER AXD II AUD WO 0 j
3 8 Iniwlm j Suitable for the Spring Trade.
Jt C. r E K K I N S,
LllfvlEER MERCHANT.
Successor to K Clatk.Jr.,
KO. 324 CHRISTIAN STREET.
Ccnctaiitlv on hand, a laige and vrled assortment
Buliaiiiu l.uuibcr. m
PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS.
PEKKKTLTAMA AIJIlirn.Tl RAL LAM)
St IC11 HUl N.iLll,
The Board of ('ommlHsioners now offer for
sale TWO HUNDRED AND TWN'ETY THOU
ISAND ACKE8 of A4iicullural College Land
Hcrip, teitiK llie buluuco of tue Scrip n run ted to
the Cora mon wealth of 1'ennHylvania for the
endowment of Agricultural Colleges In this
btute.
1'ropoBnls for the purchase of thla Land Scrip,
addrewsed to "The Board of Coinuilshioners of
Agricultural Ijiud .Scrip," will fee received at
the Surveyor-General's Ofllce, at HAltKI.
BUKO, until 11 o'clock M., ou V'Jil)"EsDAy.
April 10, lst.7.
This land may be located In any State or Ter
riiory, by the holders of the scrip upon any of
the unappropriated lands (except mineral lauds)
ol the United States, which may be subject to
sale at private entry. Each piece of scrip
represents a quarter section of one hundred an
sixty acres, Is issued lu blank, and will be
transferable without endorsement or formal
assignment. The blank need not be filled until
the scrip is presented for location aud entry,
when the parly holding It can All the blank,
and enter the land lu his own name. Bids must
be mude us per acre, aud no bids will be re
ceived for less than one quarter section.
The fecrlp will be issued Immediately on the
pay inetit of the money to the Surveyor-General
Ou nil bids for a less quantity than forty thou
sand acres, oue-third of the purchase money
mutt be paid within leu days, and tho remain
ing two-thiids within thirty days after notiduft
tion of the accep'ance ot the bid or bids by the
Board of Commissioners.
JACOB M. CAMPBELL,
Surveyor-General,
For the Board of Commissioners.
Harrisburg, February 17, lfki7. 3 4 14 10
OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILK0AD COM
PANY. Prit.adki.phia, Febronry 4, 1B67.
Proposals will be received at the Ollieju ot tha
Pennsylvania Hallroael Company, Philadelphia, until
the 11 is I hay ol iUay, lbi.T, inclusive (unless anatialao
lory proposal should hu received and accepleil pres.
vlously I. Irciu rt-i'iiiisibk' panii s desiring in contract
villi said Company lor the entiibliHlnuent ot a direct
Line ot titeuuibhips between PhiluUelphia aud Liver
peol. Blank forms of proposals, with detailed informa
tion, will bw furnished upon apiillcation to
27 t5 1 KUMCND SMITH, Becretary.
CITY ORDINANCES.
CIOMMOM COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.
Ci.kkk's Office, )
Ihiladklphia, February 22, 1807.
In pursuance of the annexed Resolution, the
following bill, entitled
"AN OKDINANCK
Creating a Loan to pay certain deficiencies, for
the Purchase of the Lausdowne Estate, and for
other purposes," is hereby published iu accord
ance with the act of Assembly, lor public in
formation.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Citirk of Common Council.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN TO PAY CER
TAIN VKVICTKNCIES, FOR TUB PURCHASE Ot
THE LAlSSltOWNK KSTATK, AND i'Olt OTHER.
PURPOSES.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councllj
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
Mayor ol Philadelphia be and ho Is hereby
authorized to borrow, ut not less than par, on
the credit of the city, from time to time, one
million eipht hundred thousand dollars, to b
applied as loiiows, viz.:
First. To pay deficiencies,
one million fiv
hundred tliousunu dollars.
Second. For the purchase of the Lansdowne
Estae, aud improvement of the same, on
hundred thousand dollars.
Third. For a House of Correction, one hundred
thousand dollars.
Fourth. To pay the Increase In the
School Teachers' aud House Cleaners'
salaries, one hundred thousand dollars for
which interest, not to exceed the rate of six per
cent, per annum, shall be paid half yearly, on
the first days of Januury and July, at the olflce
of the City Treusurer.
The principal of said loan shall be pay
able and paid at the expiration of thirty
years front llie date of the same, and not
before, without t-he consent of the holders
thereof: and the certificate tberelor.ln the usual
form of the certillcates of City Loan, shall be
issued In such amounts as tne landers may re
quiro, but not lor any fractional part of one
hundred dollars, or, if required, In amounts of
live hundred or one thousuud dollars; aud it
shall be expressed in said certificates that the
loan therein men tloned, and the interest thereof,
are payable free from all taxes.
Secliou 2. W henever any loan shall be made
by virtue thereof, there sIihII be, by force of this
ordinance, annually appropriated out of the
income of the corporate estates, and from the
sum raised by luxation, a sum sufficient to
pay the interest on said certillcates; aud the
further sum of three-tenths of one per centum
ou llie par value of such certificates so issued
shull be appropriated quarterly out of said in
come aud taxes to a sinking fund; which fund
and its accumulations are hereby especially
pledged for the redemption aud payment of
said t-ertitlentes.
RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOAN BILL.
Resolved, That the clerk be authorized to
publish, in two dully newspapers of this city,
daily, lor four weeks, the Ordinance present!
to the Common Council on Thursday. February
21, lst)7,eulitled
"Au Ordinance Creating a Loan to payoertaln
deficiencies, for the purchase of the Lansdowns
Estate, aud for oilier purposes."
And the said Clerk, at the stated meetlnar of
Councils after the expiration of four woek
from the first day of said publication, shall pre
sent to tbts Council one of eaoh of said news
papers for every day In which the sain shal
Lave been made. . a iitf xt