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The New York Citizen published recently
Trlmt purported to bp rein.irks of Presi
dent Johnson in private conversation ou public
affairs, especially on the finance of the coun
try and the possibilities of repudiation. It ia
reported from Washington that the Judiciary
Cominittw, which has the subject of Im
peachment in charge, proposes to inquire into
the authenticity of this publication, to ascer
tain whether the President did actually ex
press such sentiments as are therein attributed
to him.
Such action would seem to us to indicate
great poverty of material for impeachment on
the part of the Committee. The Constitution
provides impeachment as a mode of punish
ing the President for "high crimes and misde
meanors;" if rivato conversations caw bo
"brought within that category, the ncopo of the
process of impeachment is likely to bo con
considerably enlarged. What Congress has
to do with such conversations, or how they
Jiave any bearing upon the safety of the
nation, we are not aware. The President has
certain duties imposed upon him in connection
with his office; if those duties are properly
performed if the laws are faithfully executed,
and the Consritution upheld and maintained
to the extent of his ability what the Presi
dent may say or do as an individual what
opinions he may utter or what apprehensions
de may express, is a matter with whieh Con
gress has nothing to do. If he is to be held
responsible for private conversations, wo see
no reason why members of Congress may not
also.
But all this is of minor consequence. Con
gress may amuse the country by talk of im
peachment. It may to some extent thus
satisfy for a time ihe vague feeling of discon
tent which pervades the public mind, and
which for the moment fastens upon the Presi
dent as the "obstacle" to the reconstruction
and restored prosperity of the Union. But it
cannot by any such process long evade the
higher duties which devolve upon it, and for
which the country will hold it responsible.
Denunciations of the South, impeachment of
the President, schemes for the prolongation of
party power, prosecuted in reckless disregard
of the public welfare, will not divert public
attention permanently from the gathering
perils of the nation and the utter lack of pro
vision for meeting them which characterizes
the action of the (iovennnent. Congress may
simulate a zeal for the public credit by punish
ing the President for hinting doubts whether
it will be maintained; but it would be much
more wisely employed in adopting measures
to diminish the public burdens and to aug
ment the resources out of which those burdens
can alone be borne.
The idea of repudiating the public debt is
abhorrent to the public sense of justice and
national honor. It will be xiniversally scouted
With indignation. Any member of Congress
who should rise in his place and propose it,
would be gibbeted by the scorn and contempt
of the public. But many a member courts
applause and votes and a re-election by advo
cating measures which lead directly and in
evitably to what is practically a repudiation of
the public debt namely, failure to pay it.
Cloneral Banks very justly said some weeks
ago in Congress that there were various ways
of repudiating the debt, and that one of thorn
was by adding to its amount so largely as to
make its payment impossible and in the same
speech, within the same hour, General Banks
declared that he would vote whatever bounties
the soldiers might demand, whether that rote
Should add four hundred or eight hundred
millions to the public debt.
General Schenck would doubtless resent
with indignation the imputation that he favors
repudiation yet he is foremost among the
many advocates of a system of bounties which
can end only in failure to pay. The leading
motive of men in Congress is now, as it
always has been, and always will be, a desire
to please the men on whoso votes their tenure
of office depends. Now and then a man may
rise above this, but the general rule is the
other way. Members will vote for whatever
appropriations of money will make them popu
lar ana so long as tins money is to be received
instead of paid, the larger the appropriations j
the more popular they will be.
It is only when the question of location comes ;
up for action that we see the reverse of this 1
tendency. Taxation is unpopular always and ,
everywhere. Luring the war our people sub
mitted to it not only with cheerfulness, but !
with alacrity for they saw that it was of .
instant and inevitable necessity to the salva- j
tion of the nation. But this feeling will de- j
crease with the lapse of time. It is already i
far weaker than it was two months ago. livery I
great productive interest in the country is im
portunate at Washington for relief from taxa
tion, livery manufacturing establishment in
Pennsylvania clamors incessantly to have its
own taxes lightened or removed, and every
body else's doubled.
The Pennsylvania members of Congress are
the foremost advocates for protection against
competition, relief from taxation, and an infla
tion which nhall keep things quiet as long as
possible. This cannot last long. Congress
has got to provide for paying tho public debt,
principal and interest, it' it is to bo paid at all;
and il can do this only by imposing taxes
upon the property and business of the people
sufficient to meet it. It must husband the
public resources, for vast as they are, they will
be taxed to the utmost in this gigantic work.
It must bring into activity the labor, the en
terprise, and the capital of every section of the
country, lor all will be needed if this work is
to be performed.
President Johnson's warnings against repu
diation are timely and true. Congress will
much better perform its duty by heeding and
acting upon them than by impeaching him
for having uttered them.
" The Reconstruction Bill.
From the Tribune.
Two amendments, offered by Mr. Drake, to
the Supplementary Reconstruction bill were
the subject of an interesting debate in the
Senate on Tnursday. The first amendment
provided that at the first election held in each
State the registered voters should vote for or
against a State Convention, and that it should
be held or not held as the majority decided.
The bill provides that the members of the
Convention shall decide whether the people
want a State constitution; but Mr. Drake
argued that the people should by direct vote
' declare their wishes. ' He wa3 in favor of
guarding the Southern people from the posBi-
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bility Of betrayal ly uittir leauera, ua was
pustained by Mr. Howard, who thought the
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amendment would fully submit to the peoplo
of the South the terms of reconstruction pro
posed by Congress, and enable them to plainly
declare whether they were willing to comply
with them.
Mr. Morton believed that both the amend
ment and the bill were wrong in allowing the
voters to decide whether a Convention should
be held and a constitution formed, and thai it
was only necessary to consult them as to the
ratification of the latter. Mr. Fessendrn argued j
that the duty of calling a Convention should
not lie imposed upon the District Commander,
on the ground that it was a compulsory method
of forming a constitution, and that the Rebel '
States should not be obliged to act upon the
otler the Government had made. Mr. Trum
bull, speaking for the Judiciary Committee, I
thought the provision in the bill that the con
stitution must be ratified by a majority of the
registered voters, sufficient to insure a trim
expression of the wisl:
ishes of the uoonlo. and
in tins belief the Senate disagreed to the
amendment by 27 to 17, the Democrats and
Johnson men voting against it.
Mr. Drake's second amendment, to the effect
that no State constitution should be valid
unless it pro-ided for election by close ballot,
and agreed that such mode of voting should
not be changed without the assent of Con
gress, raised an important question whether
the States, alter admission to the Union,
would not have the legal right to strike such
provision from their constitutions. Mr. Drake
defended his amendment on the ground that
such a provision would be an express contract
with the Government, and that its violation
by any State would be a legal reason for the
expulsion of its representatives: from Con
gress. He was opposed by Mr. Colliding,
who quoted a decision of the Supreme Court
that any condition exacted as a condition for
the admission of a State, ceased to bind after
the State became a sovereign member of the
Union. The proposition to enforce a secret
ballot was opposed by Mr. Trumbull, Mr.
"Wilson, and Mr. Buckalew, who held that it
would encourage fraud, and be no protection
to the people.
But that which seems of most importance
is whether Congress has the authority to
impose conditions upon the Rebel States
which shall bo binding after their restoration
to the Union. This opens a discussion not
only upon the amendment of Mr. Drake, but
upon the whole bill, and shows the probable
uncertainty of the plan of reconstruction Con
gress has proposed. If the Rebel States,
after their restoration, have the right to
strike out any part of their Constitutions
which Congress required them to insert, they
have the right to strike out all that Congress
has required. This is a question of extreme
gravity, and one which seems to have im
pressed the Senate, though no direct allu
sion was made to it in the debate. Without
acting on Mr. Drake's amendment the Senate
adjourned; and we may expect careful con
sideration of Mr. Morton's suggestion that
the clause requiring that the State Consti
tutions shall provide for voting by secret
ballot, should be considered .separately from
that which asserts the right of Congress to
make such a condition binding in the future.
The Prospects of Reconstruction.
lYom ihe Nation.
The eyes of the country are just now turned
more to the South than to Congress. The
latter having passed a law providing for a
definite method by which the Southern States
may regain their old footing in the Union, yet
having left something to their option, the
chief questions of political interest are, whether
those States will conform to the terms of the
oiler, and if so, what will be the result of their
action.
The so-called Legislatures of two States have
already acted decisively, and in opposite direc
tions. The Legislature of Virginia (we can
not well avoid the use of the phrases that
seem to admit a legality which we wholly
deny) has passed a bill providing for the elec
tion of a convention in May, with liberty to
colored men to vote. The Legislature of
Louisiana, on the contrary, has passed reso
lutions declaring the acts of Congress void,
and has summoned a convention, to be elected
by white men only. Governor Wells has met
this action by a proclamation announcing the
law of Congress to be in force, and declaring
all elections not held conformably thereto to
be void. The Legislature of North Carolina
has adjourned without taking any action.
In several States there are decided indica
tions of a rising agitation, the sentiments of
the white population being divided as to the
expediency of reorganizing in accordance with
the law, or of remaining inactive. lix-Gov-ernor
Brown leads the movement in favor of
reorganization in Georgia, where he is op
posed by Colonel Gartrell (formerly a member
of Congress) and others. The only prominent
Mississippian who has recommended such
action is General Chalmers, but he will soon
be supported by others, although Governor
Humphreys is understood to be opposed to
doing anything tinder the law. In North
Carolina, the minority of the Legislature,
compriMiig all who neartuy welcomed the
restoration of the Union in 18oT, have taken
steps towards the summoning of a convention
in an informal manner. We have not heard
of anything definite from the other States.
Upon the whole, we judge that, if the law
is faithfully enforced by the President and his
subordinates, the whole South will speedily
conform to the terms of Congress. The
amendment enacted at the instance of Mr.
Shellabarcer deprives the Southern whites of
the option between military government and
universal suffrage, which Mr. Sherman's pro
position left to them; so that, whether they
elect conventions or not, they must admit
colored men to vote at all their current elec
tions, while their only chance of escaping from
military sum iiKinc: is uy auopung constitu
tions recognizing the political equality of all
men. The disfranchising clause affects only a
very limited class, not including a single man
under twenty-seven years of ago; and it is
improbable that the mass of people not ex
cluded by law from political action will long
continue to exclude themselves out of mere
sympathy for the old race of politicians who
are shut out. Even among the disfranchised
class there are many sensible enough to com
prehend the wisdom of submitting for a time
to a limited disability rather than to keep
their States out of all participation in the Gov
ernment. Congress has deprived the stubborn
of their favorite argument, that it was better
to control the States, without seats in Con
gress, than to gain a place in Congress by
sharing power with the colored race; for they
are no longer left in supreme control of their
States, and they can now see clearly the
necessity of being represented in Congress.
It cannot be denied, however, that the
soundest reasoning may fail to afford a basis
for predicting the action of the Southern
people. After the elections last fall it cer
tainly seemed as if none but idiots would, in
the situation of the Southern whites, refuse to
accept the Constitutional amendment as a
basis of reconstruction. Yet they did 89 with
conrparntive unanimity. And wo presume
that if they had a similar "opinion under the
Sherman statute they would reject it, even if
they knew that worse terms would bo im
lHjscd. But the new law gives them only the
option In'tween involuntary universal suffiahe
villi military rule, and voluntary universal
suflrage without military rue. This is, of course,
upon the assumption that Mr. Johnson will
execute the law in good faith. If he orders it
to lie set aside upon the first deusion of a
petty court against its validity, or if lie re-M-at
the let alone policy adopted ut the Alex
andria election, the law will effect no good.
But wo think that he has too much sense of
bis own danger to make any such rash experi
ments on the foi lx'aiance of Congress.
Measures have been initiated in both Houses
of Congress for the purpose of putting the ma
chinery of reorganization in motion, under the
direct supervision of the national authorities;
ami some measure of the kind will, doubtless,
be enacted forthwith. This is clearly the pro
per method; and the only wonder is that so
able a body as the late Committee of fifteen
should have so utterly failed in its duty as
not to have reported such a bill at the last
session. We rejoice, for the sake of all sec
tions, North and South, that Congress has
finally adopted the doctrine which we have
steadily advocated, even when its success
wined hopeless, viz., that reconstruction
should be immediate and compiiwi i, and not
left to the choice of the insurrectionary popu
lation, either as to time or mode. Nothing
could be more opposed to tho theory of the
Constitution than the let-alone policy which,
while denying the validity of the de facto gov
ernments at the South, provided no means for
the creation of legitimate governments. This
false position, the result of timidity and dis
trust of the people, has been all along the
weak point of the radical policy. Its aban
donment will give general satisfaction.
Under all the circumstances, there can be
no doubt that nearly or quite all of the South
ern States will be properly organized and re
instated in the Union within twelve or eighteen
months from this time. The only question in
the future is as to the practical working of
the new governments, and especially of uni
versal suffrage.
It has been confidently asserted and we
have ourselves shared the apprehension that
the negroes, being confessedly ignorant, poor,
anil unorganized, would bo surely controlled
by their old masters when they came to vote.
Of course there is much to be said on that
side; and, had universal suffrage been con
ceded in lSfi.ri, we think that such must have
been the result in districts not fully garrisoned
ny national troops. Jnu lor nearly two years
past urgent efforts have lieen made to intro-
duce light among the colored people; and
Northern men and women have steadily gained
influence over them, while their Southern
masters have, to a very large extent, thrown
away whatever influence they may have had
by their oppressive laws and obstinate resist
ance to the elevation of the colored race. Of
this latter fact, the immense emigration of
negroes from South Carolina and Georgia, and
the loud complaints of planters in Louisiana
and Texas, afford conclusive proof. The
colored people have, moreover, organized
themselves in every large town in the South,
if not more widely, during the last two years;
and, with such assistance as their white" allies
will be prompt to give, they will be fully able
to inform their brethren on plantations of the
issues and the candidates. We therefore be
lieve that the last hope of the disloyal will
fail them, and that the colored voters will
generally sustain candidates acceptable to the
Noith.
No one can doubt that the complete restora
tion of the Southern States, freed from all
their old inequalities and oppressions, will
materially benefit the whole country. An
impartial administration of justice will give
new energy to tho laborer; for who that has
ever worked while in doubt of being paid
(whether at mechanical or mental labor) has
not felt the impossibility of putting forth all
his energy and skill t Labor in the South has
been performed for two centuries with a cer
tainty of vol being paid, and for the last two
years in a total uncertainty upon that point.
The lash, which formerly supplied a motive
for drudging effort, has leeu latterly with
drawn, or at least has not come as promptly
and surely as it was wont. What wonder is
it that, with the accustomed terror removed,
and no certain hope supplied, the labor sys
tem of the South has failed to produce the
old results ? But this defect will be thoroughly
cured by a sound reconstruction, which will
assure to all classes their rights. It will also
remove from the white people the fear of con
fiscation and punishment, which now hampers
the efforts of some of the most effective men
at the South. It will take away the last ele
ment of uncertainty from our political future,
and leave us free to enter upon plans of busi
ness without fear of political disturbances.
u every ground, moral, political, and finan
cial, we welcome the near approach of a per
fect reunion of the States.
Homeward Bound.
Editorial (brrexpondewe of the Indfjwndcnt.
After a hundred days of absence after ten
thousand miles of travel by car, canal, steam
boat, wagon, and sleigh after the recital of a
"winter's tale" to seventy successive and
long-suffering audiences I expect to cross the
sun-gilded Alleghenies to-morrow morning,
singing, "Home, Sweet Home." Then, O
editorial sanctum of tho Indrjictnl, ut .' dim,
antique, and solemn cloister! glad will be
your wandering editor to look again at your
weather-beaten walls, to dip a pen into a cer
tain long-neglected and mouldy inkstand, to
renew familiar fellowship with your mice and
spiders, and to lie on your red lounge before
tho lire in meditation on Andrew Johnson.
Spring has brought to the nation the
brightest period since the close of the war.
The American people and the American Con
gress are at last beginning to see eye to eye,
and walk hand in hand. Ever since Lee's sur
render, the sentiment of the people has been
far in advance of the action of Congress.
But lately both the people and Congress have
taken majestic strides in advance of their for
mer selves. The Republic at last is facing
towards justice and honor.
This illustrious fact is sufficient of itself to
cover with a compensatory splendor every
ill-omen to our financial prosperity, however
shadowy.
Financial depression, accompanied by gene
ral moral progress, is a thousand times better
tor the nation than financial prosperity in the
midst of general moral decline.
In no former period of our history, not even
in the fiery glow and enthusiasm of the war,
have the loyal masses been so sacredly ani
mated by a love of Liberty, Justice, and Equality
as at this auspicious hour.
Journeying through every Northern State,
from Niagara to Minnehaha, and taking pains
to feel the pulse of every representative com
munity lying between, I ftin satisfied that
the popular good-will towards the negro, the
popular desire to do him justice, and the
popular determination to see his rights
uwured, me not measured at their full by
those well-meaning but badly informed Coti
seivatives who fancy that the nation will
submit to any reconstruction other than
political equality. With the exception of
Ohio (whose Legislature has just clothed
it.self with tho shadow of shame) every
Western State is engaged in the humane task
of legislating into its statutes the equal rights
of all classes of its citizens. The next report
that comes from the Northwest will e the
expunging of the word "white" from half-a-dozen
State Constitutions. In forwardness
of radical sentiment, the men who live We.-t
of the Mississippi rebuke the men who live
Kast. Such a Legislature as has just voted
disgrace upon Ohio, could not possibly have
been elected in Iowa or Minnesota.
The Thirty-ninth .Congress after the inevi
table soilure produced by two years' residence
in Washington, even at the distanoo of a full
mile from the White House did not dare dis
miss itself and return to the people without
first cleansing its tarnished record of delay by
I'ivint? to the nation a reconstruction bill which,
sweeiiimr with victorious majesty through
both Houses, striking down the President's
negative with a counter-veto, now holds overthe
misbehavior of the South the sword of a mili
tary government, to reconquer the Rebellion,
to re-establish loyalty, and to reordain peace.
The great act would have been morally
greater had it compelled the immediate or-
I'.-iiiization of State Governments in the South,
on the basis of their loyal citizens both white
and black, instead of leaving to the South the
option of forming just and equal civil Govern
ments, or of continuing as vassals under the
rod of military rule.
Nevertheless, the military plan is so much
better than the most sanguine had reason to
expect a month ago, that the day of its pas
sage over the President's veto was a day to
make the blood merry in a radical man s
pulse. 1 happened to be in company with
mv friend Frederick Douglass in Chicago
on the announcement of the good news;
whereunon he immediately lifted his hands
and cried, remembering his race and the pros
pect of their deliverance, "1 hank od!"
To the new Congress the nation looks with
new hone.
Its first great duty is the impeachment of
the President.
Be it spoken as the will of the loval North
that the Fortieth Congress is charged with the
solemn duty of removing a traitor from the
chief magistracy of the Republic. Nothing on
the docket ought to take precedence of this
business. The chief mischief-maker in the
nation must be cut short in his career of crime.
Andrew Johnson is now a greater obstacle to
the reconstruction of the Union than either
Robert 1. bee or .lellerson Davis. 1 lie-emeu
are Rebels out of office; but Andrew Johnson
is a rebel in the highest of offices. Daily is
he executing the will of these two men, in
stead of the will of the loyal people who made
him President. To govern the South by the
army, while Andrew Johnson is the head of
the aimy, is a mockery. If the military plan
of Congress is to succeed the army must have
a new master-spirit. The impeachment of the
President is the first necessity of the situation.
With a Supreme Court loval one day and dis
loyal the next, and with an Executive disloyal
all days alike, Congress will count only one
against two in the game of governing the
South. It must make success certain by grind
ing the Executive to line dust m the henate,
and blowing him away with the breath of a
judicial sentence bv the Chief Justice.
The country would cheer to the echo the
dismissal of Andrew Johnson to the harmless
ness of private life. I saw no audience all
winter that did not applaud the impeachment
of the President. Western men, familiar with
the President's speeches, are in the habit of
saving that Andrew Johnson should now
"take a back seat."
Nor let the Fortieth Congress imitate the
Thirty-ninth in the bad example of waiting
two years, and tardily doing its duty with its
. expiring breath, Two- years hence the presi
dent will fall off like a withered leaf. What
we want is that he should be shakm off now.
A t ongress to which he disdains to send a
message may, before the two years are ended,
find him denying its jurisdiction and arrest
ing its members. Addrew Johnson is to-day
the chief enemy of the republic: let him be
removed !
And with these amiable reflections, 0 Inde-
m mind : I here drop the pen of a pilgrim, in
hope of soon walking up the steps of No. !
Leeknian street, and rejoining the goodly
society of my office-mates, in the aforesaid
chamber haunted of spiders and mice.
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124 cents.
Best black Alpacas, 40, 45, 50, 56, 69 c, etc.
All-wool Flannels, 31. 35, 37, 40 cents, etc
Doiuet Flannels, 25, 30, 31, 37) i cents, etc.
White Goods from Auction.
One lot very flue Brilliants, 50 cents, worth
75 cents.
Plaid Nainsooks, 25, 31, to 62J cents.
Fine btrlped Nainsooks, 50 cts Jaconets, 25c
Hamburg Edgings very low, etc. elc.
E ARIES & WARNER,
No. 839 North NINTH. Street.
Linen Shirt Fronts, made of Richardson's and
Dunbar's Linens, expressly lor our suies, 45,
60, 60, UVj, B6, and 75 cents.
Three-ply Linen Cutis, 13 cents,
9 292
A T
RETAIL.
POPULAR PRICES IN SILKS.
DRESS GOODS,
WHITE GOODS,
LINENS,
MOURNING GOODS,
ASS191EUES, AND ROUSE-FURNISH.
IXG DRY GOODS.
JAS. R. CAMPBELL & CO.,
8 lm NO. 787 CHEWS ITT STREET.
No. 11U1 lilfcttM'T felreel.
E. M. NEEDLES & CO.
Will open at this location In a few days
'JL HANDSOME ASSORTMENT O
2 ?
7 WHITE GOODS, 5
X LACES,
E31DHOIDERIES,
HANDKERCHIEFS, .
VEILS, ETC. ETC., '
belected by one of the firm In the
EUROPEAN MARKETS.
najjs. xaKsaiiojurtjpK
STEARNS, WHiTKEY & BRIDGES,
Ko. 327 CHESKUT STREET,
Manufacturers of
CAST-IRON WATER AND STEAM PIPE
Of U sites; aUo Fittings for the same, at the lowest
uiuruel rates. Kxtvusive Machinery lias buou prtt
uaretl, and we are now ready to ruriilau thla pipe to
auy auiountal short notice. Also geueral Railroad
aud bieauihuat upi'lltv, giaaui
SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS,&C.
J V SCOTT & O O.
' SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
AND DBALRItA IM , .
KEN'S FU IINISH1NO GOODS,
Ko.fil C II :?. UT NTRI.KT,
FODB DOORS BF.I.OW TUB "CONTINENTAL, 'J
12"?r PKTT.AniW.POTA.
pATEHT bllOU LDER-SE AM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
ANDtiENTLEHKN'M lUnHliMIINUHTOBK
PERFECT FITTING 6UIRT3 AND DRAWERS
Biade from measurement at very abort notice.
All other articles ol GENTLEMEN'S DREHS
GOODS la full variety.
WINCHESTER CO.,
1 HI No. 70S CHEsNUT Street.
JOHN C. ARRISON,
AT THE OLD STAND,
NOW. I AND 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
rUILADEl.flllA,
Would invite the attention of bis friends and
customers to his
LARUE AND SUPERIOR ASSORTMENT
OP
HOSIKltY, GLOVES,
AND THE LATEST NOVELTIES FORUEN
TLEMEN'S WEAR.
ALSO,
TO HIS IMPROVED PATTERS SHIRT,
Alade of, the best materials by hand, and war
ranted to fit and give satisfaction, or money
rciunded.
PRICES MODERATE.
122J
Ja W M. H OF MANN,
NO. 9 NOKTH EIUHTII STREET.
HOSIERY GOODS.
A LARGE ASi-OKTMENT OF HOSIERY OF
l.N.LISU AKD HERMAN MANUFACTURES,
For Ladies', Ueuis', and Children's Wear,
LADIES' MERINO AND MERINO U1UIE
VESTS.
MISSES' MERINO AND MERINO GAUZE
V I STS.
CENTS MERINO, MERINO VAUZE, COT
TON, AND HEAVY ALL-WOOL SHIRTS
AND DRAWERS.
YOUTHS' MERINO COTTON, AND MB
it I NO UAl ZE SHIRTS 35 tutha
3V1H-LIIMEBY, TRIMMINGS, ETC
M. B E R N H E I M,
Having reopened the Store
NO. 113 A. EIOHTII STREET,
Will continue his old husincns,
MILLINERY GOODS,
With the ndrimon of
DRESS AND CLOAK TRIMMINGS.
HIh old customers and the ladies In general are M.
Halted to examine his stock, which Is constantly re
plenished wall the liitest styles, and which he will
sell ut the LOWEST FR1CES, Wholesale and Retail.
N. B. A liberal dlxuouut allowed to Milliners,
Dress and Cloakiuakers. a 8 1m
-Tv SPLENDID OPENING OF THE
LATEST STVLE8.-111W, M. A. BINDER,
No. 1031 CHiXISL'T htreet, Philadelphia,
IMPORTER UF JLADIES' UUta AND
CLOAK TKIMMUNUS, Also, an eleKaut stock of
Imported Paper Fuiterns for Ladies' aud Children's
lness. Parisian Lri'ss mid Clouk Making lit nil lu
varieties. Ladies furnishing their rich anj coBtly
materials may rely on bulng artistically lilted, and
their work hnlshi dlu the most prompt and elliulent
manner, at the lowrst possible prices, at twenty-four
hours' notice. CutluiK aud babting. Patterns Insets,
or by the single piece lor merchants aud urena
makera, now ready. 86m
MRS. R. DILLON,
NOS. 223 AND 331 SOUTH STREET
Has a handsome assortment of MILLINERY.
Also. Bilk Velvet, Crapes, Klbbous, Feathers,
Flowers, Frames, etc. Ladles who make Uhelr own
Bonnets supplied with the materials. 18
EPARTMENT Of PUBLIC HIGHWAYS,
Olhce, No. 1U4 outh FIFTH Street,
riui.AiiKi.i'iiiA, March 11, 1867.
NOTICE 'lu CONTRACTORS.
Benled Proposals will be received ut the ollice
of the Chiuf Commissioner of Highways until
1 o'clock M. on Mo.NIUV, ISth. Instant, fur the
construction of the follow ing sewers ou the line of
Vine street, liom Third street to the west side of
Fourth street: on Twenty-tilth street, from Hamilton
street to the north side of liraudy wine street; on liuru
well street, from Pinestieul to the south side ol Lom
bard street; on Fifteenth street, from Tbomp'iou
street tuithe south side of Waluul street; on Walter
street, from Fifteenth street to the east side of Six
te nth street; on Thirteentii street, from CullowUlll
street to tho north side of Wood street.
To be two feet six inches lu diameter; nlso, a three
feel sewer lu Marshall streot, from Willow street to
bpriug Oardeu street, and a two-feet sower in Jefler
sou street, from Alder street to the west Hue of War
nock street, with the necessary manholes for each,
as uuty be directed by the Chief Engineer and
Surveyor. The understanding to be that theCou
tructor shall tnke bills prepared u:,ruiijst the property
fronting on saia sewer to tne amount oi oneuoiiur aud
tw enty-live ceuts lor each lineal foot of front on each
weiity-n
i de of tl:
side of the street as so much cusii pah
us limited by Ordinance, to be paid by the city.)
When the street Is occupied by a City Passenrer
P.nilroad track, the Sewer shall be constructed along
side ol said track In such manner us not to obstruct or
luterlere with the sale passage of curs thereon; and no
claim lor remuneration shall he paid tbe Contractor '
by (he compauv using Ht;d track, ua speciiied iu Act
Of As-eiiihly approved MdT ith, ISHil.
All Bidders are Itiviic d to he prwent at th time and
place of opening the said Propo.su!. ii'di proiiosal
will be accompanied by accrinlcate that fl ritC' Ml
been tiled ill the Law Department us directed by Ordi
nance of May i'Hh, JSu. if the Lowest Bidder shall
Uut execute a contract within five days utter the work
is awarded, lie will be deemed as declining, und will
be held liable on his bond lor the rliri..nnM hatween
( his bid and the next highest bid.
(Specifications may bo had at Ihe Department of
fetii veys, which will be strictly adhered to.
W. W. SSI EDr.EV.
8 16 3t Chief Commissioner of Illg h ways.
CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADEL
PHIA, bS.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
'lo John llynd and Maigaiet Hynd, his wife; Lucy
M. (iray. Lydla ray, widow of James Gray; the
Heirs of said James (irav, Philip C. (iray, James
Jnnlite and Jane liutble, his wile; oeorgeifray, James
McKay and Maiaret McKay, his wile: William
Young. William M. ( iray. Robert Mac-Andrew and
Mary Ann MacAudrew, his wife; aud June Gray,
w iiiow of Walter Hi ay deceased, or the heirs of said
Jane O ray 1 reeling.
We command you that, laying aside all business
and excuses whatsoever, you b and appear lu your
proper person before the Honorable the Judges of our
Orphans' Court, at a Cuur to be held on SATURDAY,
the 1th day of May, A, D. J8i7. at lu o'clock or tho
forenoou, to show cause, If any there be, why tho
Court should not make an order and decree for tbe
sule and conveyance of certain real estate, late of
JAMES tilt.t Y, deceased, us prayed lu ths petition
oi JAM EM UI:'1TER WORTH. Administrator, d. b. n.
c. t. a. of said James (iray, deceased, tiled In our said
Court on the nth day ol March, A. D. Istl7. aud further
abide the order ol the Court in t lie premises, etc., and
heieof full not, under a penalty of one buudred
'"1!. Witness Honorable JOSEPH ALLISON,
Jt (.Esq.. at Philadelphia, tbe thirteenth day of
i ai. t unroll. In the year of our Lord one thousand
eight huudted and slxtv-seven.
A LFRED J. FORTNER,
S 16 s4t' Pro Clerk. Orphans' Court.
QEORCE PLOWMAN.
OARPENTEIl AND BUILDER'
No. tU CARTER STREET,
And No. hi DOCK Htreet
Machine Work aud Millwrlghtlug promptly
tended to.