THE NEW YORK PRESS. EDITORIAL OPINTOlfB OF THB IBVPWO JOURNALS tPOH CCEEBRT TOPICS COMPILED BVKBT PAT FOB TBS BVBNINO TBLBQBAFH. Drnnktn Senator. From the Independent. tfaseilur, mm Jit, is as tru of the memliera f the upper house of the British Parliament Ha It is of poets. The peers of Great Britain re born legislators. Now and then one is Jnaile, it i3 true; but not until he has first Elven evidence of his having also been born for the station. It sometimes happens, too, that there are foolish peers and worthless peers; but then, noblesse oblige, and the fools and knaves do not find it convenient to at tempt to exercise their inherited function as legislators. The House of fprds is always eminently decorous and tiigniliod, let it be what else it may. Its members well understand that, if they did not maintain their dignity, their order would not long bo maintained. Our national Senate is modelled on the House of Lords, except that its members are not hereditary, nor elected for life; but they are chosen by the highest legis lative authorities of the States, their terms of office are three times longer than those of the members of the lower House, and they are as far removed from popular influ ences as may be possible in a representative government. If dignity of character and deco rous department can be looked for anywhere, purely it ought to be in the Senate of the United States. It is the last place in the whole world where common drunkards and boisterous ruffians should be found or tolerated. The Senate is very properly made the sole judge of the fitness of its members to seats in its body. They may deny admission to whom they please and expel whom they please; and there fore the Senate is responsible for the conduct of its members. If they permit their chamber to be polluted by the presence of habitual drunkards and ruffians, who obstruct the public business and endanger the safety of the nation, they are to be held respon sible to the nation, and must be re garded as purtieeps criminis. In the high and palmy days of the Democratic party, . when Polk was President and the slaveocracy had things all their own way, the State of In diana chose to be represented in the Senate by a drunken ruffian, whose habits were a dis grace to civilization. The dominant party had no desire to expel him, and the other had no power. At the end of his term, Mr. Polk Bent him to represent us at the Court of Mer lin, where his conduct was so outrageously vile and indecent that he had to be recalled, lie returned to Indiana ; where, soon after, he murdered his brother-in law in a drunken brawl. It used to be said of this disgraceful wretch, by way of extenuation, as is usually eaid in other similar cases, that he was "a good fellow when he was sober ;" and since he killed his brother-in-law we have seen reports of his reformation. We hope the reports are true ; but; if the Senate had done its duty and expelled him when it could, that act might have not only sobered him and pre vented the mischief which he afterwards was guilty of, but have prevented other Senators from disgracing the Senate Chamber by coming into it in a state of intoxication. It might, also, have saved us from the terrible disgrace which afcerwards befell us when the President of that august body, the newly chosen Vice-President of the United States, appeared in his place to take his oath of office in a state of maudlin intoxication. During the past five years the Senate has been daily disgraced by the presence of two drunken members, whom no Senator had the moral courage to move the expulsion of. In the case of one of these Senators, whose term has just expired, it has been alleged that he was permitted to remain out of regard to his amiable wife and daughter, whoso presence 5n the galleries, watching with anxious eyes the husband and father, touched the sympa thies of Senators. "Wives and weans," as Burns says, "Wad brak the very hearts of stanes." and the weakness of Senators might be over balanced by their feelings as men. But there was another 6ad example before them a daily disgrace and a daily nuisance, a3 obtrusively drunken as a Toodles whose outrage ought not to have been tolerated for an hour: Saulsbury, of Delaware, who was re-elected at the end of his term, as if on purpose to defy and insult the Senate. At last Mr. Sumner, the most courageous man in the Senate, had the courage to move the expulsion of this drunken Senator; but his resolution has not been acted upon, in deference, it is said, to Mr. Saulsbury's wife, and a promise that he would resign. But he should not be permitted to resign. The character of the Senate is likely to undergo a great change before long, by the introduction of some rough elements. The gentlemen from Russian-America, the gentlemen from New Mexico, and the gentle men from Lower California, to say nothing of the returning memliers from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi, will be likely to unsettle the decorous habits which have heretofore char acterized the upper house of our national legislature. It behoves the Senate, therefore, while it has the power, to establish some safe precedent by which its decorum and dignity may be hereafter insured. Let it be under Stood, when a member comes to his desk Intoxicated, that his expulsion will inimedi diately follow, and there will be no moro drunken Senators. Wtmin'i Oplmtou of Themselves. J Vorn the Independent. An unprecedented activity of the public mind has lately arisen on the subject of Woman's work, wages, and franchise. . On our editorial table, at this moment, lie forty manuscripts and many of them very able and interesting all treating of these great questions, and all written by women, Some of these are replies to our esteemed con tributor. Professor Tayler Lewis; which, out of compassion lor that gentleman, we with Lola from the public eye. Others are ex pressions of thanks to this journal for its advocacy of woman's suliratre; which, of course, our modesty forbids us to print Utuers fly, like many arrows, to various marks. Let us give specimens of the thoughts of these thinkers. Marian Martin calls special attention to the lact thai in some of the States "the law de eidea that a married woman cannot, bv will aevifie imiuB iu iir uuHuauu, because she is supposed to be under his coercion: therefor, the law takes no cognizance of deeds executed while in subjection to her husband: a most humiliating position lor a woman the law acting upon the assumption that she shall submit both to the tyranny of her husband 3 . . L.-nniT s.f 4li low ' ' Mrs. Jessie M. House, of Chicago, says : ' Tha great field of labor which I would have THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, opened to, and made honorable for women, is tho labor of the household. It ia a well known fact that, while it ia perfectly respecta ble for men to work for men, and for women to work in men's stores and offices, yet for woman to enter the homes of these same men and work for their wives is to degrade herself. Instead of being an honored assistant, hIib thereby becomes a servant nothing more." In a somewhat similar vein, " S. S." saya: "The American women have become such slaves to the Irish that we think we can hardly breathe without them ; and certainly some of ns know from experience that we can hardly breathe with them i" Mrs. Krastus Blakeslefi, of Plymouth, Conn., Bayg: '() fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, do not prate to those you love about being wives ; tench them to be true ana noble women." Mrs. K. S. Bates, of Kansas, writes: "I have always believed that women had a right to vote; but I always thought it a question for the far-off future, until the death of my hus band in the war left me to join the legion of those who (in the phrase of Professor Lewis) have taken a 'very unnatural departure from domesticity.' " Grace Ashwood says: "I know of several highly educated women who, by force of cir cumstances, are dressmakers; yet they do not feel degraded by their employment." (Which is because they are sensible women.) "Brown," of Aurora, 111. (but whether Mr., Mrs., or Miss Brown we know not), informs us that she (or he) knows of a woman who cleared fifteen thousand dollars in one year as an agent for the sale of popular books. A correspondent to us writing from Nurem burg, Bavaria, mentions that "women in Southern Uermany have access to many methods of making a livelihood to which American woman are as yet strangers." "K. A. K." says to her sisterhood : "You are not to be unmindful of personal comeli ness. Every day you are to be as 'clean as a bride.' You are not to suffer the stain of sin upon your soul, of ignorance and error upon your mind, or of filth upon your person or garments. It is your duty to be as beautiful in person as, with the form and features God has given you, it is possible to bo." A factory girl complains that manual labor is looked upon by many educated women as degrading; but adds, justly, "work and edu cation ought to go hand in hand in the Ame rican republic." "11. M.," writing from Washington, says: "To equalize the pay of the male and tho female clerks in Washington would have an effect to better the condition of working women all over tho country." A correspondent at Lima, New York, in forms us in glowing terms that (Jreuessee College, at that place an institution open, as all schools and colleges ought to be, on equal terms to both sexes has had great success in this experiment ever since the adoption of the plan in lb4!. "We owe it to the cause of uni versal education," says this writer, "to state that the presence of females in our classes has ever exercised a very marked influence on the young men, constituting an efficient agency in their culture, and counteracting the coarse ness and boorishness into which young men are prone to fall during a quadreuniuni of separation from the refining influences of home. Contrary to all the a priori reasoning of monkish philosophers, the discipline of the college is not embarrassed, but greatly pro moted, by the intermingling of tho sexes in tho same lecture-room. Experience demon strates that three or four ladies in a recitation room are better than so many paid proctors to promote good order. We no longer wonder that the righteous souls of college president are vexed with the ungodly deeds of young men, for years secluded from female society, in manifest violation of the law of the Creator, who places sons and daughters in the same family, to secure the symmetrical moral de velopment of both." Helen Downs, of Hartford, Conn., make3 a vigorous protest against the use of the phrase "Universal Suffrage," until it shall cover the suffrage of women as well as of men. "II. U.," of Chautauqua, N. Y., mentions the following incident: "I once had a class mate, passionately fond of books, to whom a library would have been like a gift from the gods; and another whose passion was chemistry aud natural philosophy, and her highest am bition the possession of a laboratory and its apparatus. Yet both have been able to earn only a scanty livelihood, and library and labo ratory exist only in dream-land. The gentle men of the class, however, with less ability, with less purity of life and earnestness of purpose, have risen to positions of affluence, which the former can never hope to attain." Sarah R. Plummer, Washington, D. C, says that the majority of poor girls must either get married or else work at starvation prices. "A Woman in Behalf of Women" has sent us two essays, giving reasons why her sisters should have the ballot; and cogent reasons they are, and altgether unanswerable. A lady writing from Kansas murmurs at the scanty pittance eked out to female school teachers, "even in cases of first-class ability and aptitude." "E. S. T." discusses "Women's Dress," and says that whenever a woman goes on a picnic her dress is generally so ill-suited to the occasion that "she loses at least one-third of her time in disengaging herself from roots and brambles, in which she is perpetually aught as in a trap." '1 his writer puts to us tho following question: "Mr. Editor (this strictly between ourselves), will you impart to the writer in coniiuence, tciiy gentlemen are so peculiarly sensitive on the subject of ladies' costume ! To whicu we respociiuuy reply that, on the subject of ladies' costume, gen tlemen are generally less sensitive (and gene rally more sensible) than ladies themselves. An anonymous correspondent writes: "it exercising the right of suffrage, is in itself, the best school lor man s political education, so will it be for woman's." "H. M. " of the District of Columbia, holds that "Uie right of self-government belongs equally to all men and all women;" and she adds: "It is in vain to attempt to elevate the Sex by establishing female schools or colleges or gymnasiums; by inventing new styles of dress for women; or by any reforms that do not reach the root of the evil. The only effi cient remedy is the ballot." Now we have mentioned these manuscripts, and given these glimpses at their contents, to show how wide-spread is the spirit of inquiry on the subject of woman's industrial and political relations to society. It is generally said that as soon as women ask for the elective franchise they will get it. Undoubtedly this is true. Hitherto women have not generally asked for it. Nor do a majority of women ask for it now. Neverthe less, the number who, both in England and America, are opening their eyes to the impor tance of an improved political status for their sex is daily increasing. We have repeatedly said in these columns that the next great public ouestion in this country is the Question of woman's enfranchisement. All the signs of the times point to an approachinir national discussion of this subject. Already some of the States are changing their Constitutions into a recognition of the political equality of the sexes. The cause needs first a fair hearing, then a disentanglement from past prejudices, and then it will win a speedy victory. , Tha Herons ructloa Act In Georgia. Prom the 1mes. t ' Although General Pope's Intimation to the i Governor of Goorgia wears an arbitrary aspect, and reveals one of the unpleasant characteristics of military government, it can scarcely be deemed unwarranted or unjust. Governor Jenkins has publicly exerted his official influence in opposition to the law. In his official capacity he has raised the issue of its constitutionality, and has advised the citi zens of his State to disregard its requirements. Besides invoking the interference of the Supreme Court, he has counselled indiffer ence to tho law, whatever be the judicial decision in tho case, alleging his preference for any course that would practically nullify the act, and necessitate the continuance of military rule. We said the other day, commenting upon the proceedings of Governor Jenkins and other Southern officials who share his views, that they have misinterpreted the leniency of Gene ral Pope's administration of affairs. Of this fact, probably, they are now convinced. For the terms of the General's communication to tho Governor pets forth very plainly the rela tion which the executive officers of a Southern .ytate hold to the Military law. They are, as he says, simply provisional, exercising their authority only by sufferance, and with special reference to the work to be performed. In other words, tho law has permitted them to retain their positions in order that, by bocom ing its agents, they may prevent needless dis turbance of the local machinery of government To use these positions, then, to defeat the law and postpone the business of reconstruction, is to abuse the forlearanco of Congress and chal lenge the action of the Commanding Ueueral His obligation is to apply the law which they are endeavoring to evade or annul. And he must either arrest their efforts or permit his own to be challenged in a manner prejudicial to his influence. His warning to Governor Jenkins therefore became a necessity, unless he were prepared silently to see obstacles created in the line of his duty. If ho is, as the law declares, master of the situation, with specific ends to accomplish, he must be pre pared to remove provisional officers who fail to accept the law or to respect its obvious intent. General Sheridan, in the exercise of his dis cretion, removed the Bebel functionaries of Louisiana; and it will be not less incumbeut on General Pope to remove the Executive of Georgia if that officer pervert his provisional power for purposes antagonistic to reconstruc tion. The right so to act cannot be questioned under the law, and we have the admissions of a local journal in the interest of the Governor that the notification given by the General is "wife and considerate." Its moderation should not be misconstrued, as the forbearance which preceded it evidently has been. The case is adduced by the Express as proof that military government under the Recon struction law allows "neither official freedom of speech, nor of the press, nor the right of petition, nor any manly act of opposition to a despotic law." Nothing of the sort is proved. " Official freedom of speech" is indeed circum scribed by the terms of Gen. Pope's letter to Gov. Jenkins, but not in a sense that implies harshness or despotism. Rightly or wrongly, the Governor as a "provisional'' officer is sub ordinate to the Commanding General, and the latter is certainly not guilty of tyranny when ho reminds the Governor that he must abstain from opposition to the law unless he be content to play the role of pri vate citizen, in which capacity he may ezercise "freedom of speech" without molestation. As for the rest, the assertion of the Express is wholly at variance with fact. There has been no attempt on the part of Gen. Pepe, or any other district commander, to fetter the Press, or deny the right of petition, or to meddle with any other peaceful form of opposition to the legislation of Congress. The widest latitude of discussion ha3 been afforded to both press and people, as might be easily shown by a reference to our Southern ex changes. A denial of the right of a "provi sional" official to abuse his opportunities, ought not to be confounded with the right of private citizens to the freest expression of opinion on political subjects. The latter has been scrupulously respected in Georgia and throughout the South. In truth, the only really arbitrary acts of which we have heard in connection with the administration of the Reconstruction law have occurred in South Carolina, where General Sickles has decreed certain restraints upon the privileges of creditors as against debtors. That act might seem to challenge criticism, because it affects very seriously private rights. But of this phase of tyranny we find no complaints among the people whom it most concerns. On the contrary, they applaud it as a wise and merciful interposition to stay the desolation of poverty. To them, at any rato, General Sickles' most despotic act conveys the idea of mercy. The Approaching Kuropmu War Revo lution liupouriluj;. From Vie Herald. In another column will be found our latest cable despatches relating to affairs in Europe. The situation no longer hangs on the long prominent Eastern question. That ques tion, though to all appearance as far from being settled and demanding solu tion loudly as ever, has yielded first place to that other and more stirring question now pending between Prance aud Prussia. Our latest news, it must be admit ted, does not encourage the hope that peace is to be maintained. Prussia has replied to the proposals made by the other great powers, and has reiterated her determination not to evacuate the fortress of Luxembourg. Tho excitement in consequence has increased, and war is considered all but certain. Little sparks can kindle great lires; and it appears as if the little spark of Luxembourg were des timed to Ret Europe ablaze. We had hoped, for a time, that the voice of reason might prevail, and that war might be averted ; but if we are to yield to the evidence now before us, that hope must bo abandoned. It might have been possible to leave the Grand Duchy and Portress of Luxembourg in the hands of the King of Holland as before, only proclaiming them neutral. Such an arrange ment, while it would have satisfied France, could not materially have injured Prussia. It is now, however, no longer to be thought 1ru6Bia lias Bet herself up as the defender of Germany, and, in the name of Germany and the German people, refuses to retire from a fortress which she declares to bo German pro- pony, ihe question as between the two powers is thus reduced to the narrowest pos sible limits. Prussia will not yield. France must yield or fight. Which of the two courses ia France likely to adopt 1 Will she tamely submit, or will sue araw the sword, N0 one who under stands uie temper and Dream, t . f...i;nr f the ( French people eau have any difficulty as to the answer which ought to be given to this alternative. If Bismark remains obstinate, France will and must fight. There are, doubt less, many and weighty, reasons why Napo leon should not wish, just at present, to un dertake the responsibility and to encounter the risks of war. Another , time certainly might more convenient; and we may rest assuied that war will not be proclaimed until the arts of diplomacy have been fairly aud fully tried. But Napoleon has never been in the habit of consulting mere convenience when lus own honor and the honor of France has been at stake. Directly, therefore, it be comes manifest that dishonor is inse parable from delay, he will "let slip the dogs of war." Nor will it be possible for him to do otherwise, even if he were willing. The blood of France is up. There is nothing of which a l renchman is so proud as of tho position which his country occupies among tho nations of the earth. There is nothing which he so much dreads as that that proud position should be lost. On more than one occasion recently the French people have tasted the bitterness of humiliation. Prussia herself has already touched them on the sore and sensitive part. They have borne it, it is true, but they have borne it with impa tience, and have never ceased to long for their opportunity. If, therefore, Napoleon, yielding to an extreme desire to preserve peace, were to remain passive under this fresh insult a supposition in the last degree unlikely their pent-up feeling of indignation would prove too much even for his restraining influ ence; they would burst, and, like a fierce torrent, would cast him aside or hurry him helplessly along with them. If, on the other hand, he flings himself on the people and asks their support, they will leap in obedience to his summons; all that is loveliest aud noblest and best in the laud will bo consecrated to the cause; the stirring strains of the old Marseil laise will resound throughout all her borders, and France will be aroused as she has not been roused since those memorable days of the first republic, when she rose as one man and drove the invader from her soil. In this one thing Frenchmen of every class and of all shade3 of opinion will unite; aud, it the Emperor will put himself at their head, he will broaden the foundations of his throne, and strengthen the hopes of his dynasty. Ol this no one ia more fully aware than the Emperor himself. It is impossible, therefore, to doubt the course he will follow. Should war be proclaimed, it is impossible to predict what disastrous consequences may follow, or where or how it may end. The French iron-clads for certain will sweep the flag of Prussia from the sea. They will biocKaue ner ports bom in the J5altio bea and German Ocean, aud carry death aud de struction along her entire seaboard. The blockade will be all but certain to beget serious difficulties with England, who will strive to make capital out of this war, as she has made out of so many others; and in a naval warfare of unparalleled magnitude the value of irou-clails will be permanently set tled. Whether France or Prussia shall be ultimately victorious is a question of minor importance, in comparison with the other and more momentous questions to which it is cer tain the war will give birth. War is little likely to confine itself to Franco and Prussia. The contagion will spread. The hands of rulers being tied, democracy may awake to newness of life and sweep torrent-like over Europe, involving thrones and dynasties in general ruin. We shall not regret the chaos it a better aud nobler burope emerge troin its bosom. The Surratt Mystery. From the Tribune. A despatch from Washington to the Jerald says: "II Is the opinlou of persons hic'i In authority nnd influence here, that the trial of John li. Surratt will be uliliuHtely abandoned. The impression is that there is a general conviction prevailing in olliclul quarters trml the unfor tunate Mrs. surratt was not Kuuty of the crime for which she was executed, aud Unit the trial of her Bon would only result in more clearly establishing that fact. Such a development, of course, would not be relislied by tho Adminis tration and others concerned In tho trial nnd condemnation of the mother. There is another cause, however, not very creditable, assigned why the President would not wlsli the triul to occur; but, as it would cast u deep slur upon the reputation of one who lately has not beeu sleep ing on a bed of roses. I refrain irom giving It publicity. It in it: nt only be creating another si nsation, and, perhaps, without Justification, for the gratification of scandal-mongers. How evtr this may be, It is not believed that the evidence in possession of the Government will wairnnt the trial of John Jl . Surratt." We think it time to say that the many mysteries surrounding this Surratt case should cease. Since the assassination of President Lincoln we have had endless surmises, and makeshifts, and tricks, in reference to the crime and those accused. In the first place, we had the Government proclamations accus ing Davis, and Sanders, and Thompson of the assassination. Then we had the trials, in which these persons were solemnly arraigned as participants in that crime. There are few things that our children will less care to read than that self-same trial, with its wayward and rude justice. Then came the swift execu tion of Mrs. Surratt, although Payne, an assassin by his own confession, asserted her innocence. We had the escape of Surratt his wanderings under Government espionage the fact that it was known where he was, and no effort made to arrest him until Mr. Boutwell, speaking the public opinion of tho nation, compelled his arrest. Ve have also had the imprisonment of Davis as an assassin if there is any value in the judgment of the Commission that tried Payne and his companions. His continued imprisonment without trial, 01 the pretense of a trial, is in itself a mystery aud a shame. Then came General Butler's famous speech, showing that the diary of Booth had been sup pressed on the conspiracy trial, and the declaration of a great lawyer that Mrs. Surratt had been innocently hanged. . Immediately came an announcement that the War Depart ment would print the Booth diary so soon as something or other oocurred. Well time enough has passed for twenty things to happen, and nothing is heard of tho Booth diary 1 Finally, we have the most provoking delays about the trial of Surratt, with an announce ment that he is not to be tried because tho trial might establish the fact that Mrs. Surratt was not guilty at all ! It is time that this juggling should cease; and especially as the Surratt case is only a part of the juggling that has been permitted since the death of Mr. Lincoln. That tragedy is one of the most mysterious in the annals of crime. There is something hidden that we crave to know. What it is we cannot say; but the records of the trial, the continued im prisonment of Mr. Davis, and especially the shuflling of the Government, oomjiel distrust and suspicion. Why has not Booth's diary been published? Why is George N. San ders not demanded from the British Govern ment, if the Administration really believes he was a partner in the crime of Booth ? Why ia not Davis either punished or released f And why ia not John II. Surratt, against whom, at least, all the evidence we have points uner ringly, brought to justice f APRIL 27, 1867. SPECIAL NOTICES. EOT OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 1087. Notice to Dealers in Petroleum. NOTICE Is hereby . given to all DRUGGISTS, GROCERS, and all others who store or keep for sale PETROLEUM, or any of IW products, within the limits of the CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, that they roust forthwith obtain a LICENSE irom the MAYOR (If they have not already done so) in aocordance w 1th the requirements of the ACT; OK A89EMBLY of the State of Pennsylvania, approved March 2, 18G5. enti tled "An Act for the better security of the CITY OP PHILADELPHIA from dangers Incident to the re fining or Improper and negligent storage ol PETRO LEUM, BENZINE, BENZOLE. orNAPTHA," APPLICATIONS for LICENSES to be made to WILLIAM C. HAINES or J. HUTCHINSON KAY. MAYOR'S CLERKS. By order of the Mayor. ALEXAS 11EH W. DLACItllUHN, 4S3tuthsSt Fire Marshal. tttf KOTICK.-TIlfc STOCKHOLDERS OP - the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM PANY (pursuant to adjournment had at their annual meeting) will uiwl ai Concert Hull, No. 121DCHE4 NUT street, In the City ot Philadelphia, on TUES DAY, the Koth day ol April, A. D. lm7, at in o'clock A. M.( aud notice Is hereby given thai at wild meeting the Act of Assembly, approved March 22d, 1hi,7, en titled "An Act to repeal an act entitled 'A further supplement to the act incorporating Hie Pennsylvania Railroad Company, authorizing an Increase of capital stock and to borrow money, approved the twenty. II rut day of March, A, 1). one thousand eight hundred and alxly.nU; and also to authorize the Pennsylvania Rullroad Company by this act to Increase lis capital stock, to issue bonds and secure tne same oy mort gage;" approved the twenty-second day of March, A, D. 181.7: a proposed Increase thereunder ot the capital stock or this Company by Suo.mio shares, and the issue of the same from time m time by the Board ot Directors, and the proposed exercise by the said Board of Directors of the powers granted by the said act ot issuing Donus ana securing me same oy mort gages for the purposes lu the said act mentioned aud within the limits therein prescribed, will be submitted, to the Stockholders for their net ion in the premised. By order ol the Board ot Iilrectois. EDMUND SMITH. 4 6t J becretary. HON. SCIIfJYLEil COLFAX'S LEC- Tl'KK, "AtltOSN THE CONTINENT," In aid of the Monument Fund, will be delivered on TUESDAY EVEN ING, May 7, at NATIONAL MALI,. Governor Geary will preside. Tickets Fitly Lents, lor sale ui the Hall and the usual places. Tickets, which were sold lor March as, will be received. 4 '.Hthstniit fjSf MERCANTILE LIBRARY COMPANY. 2J PlIILADEI.l'UIA, April 15, 1867. A Special Meeting of the stockholders will beheld at the Library on TUESDAY, the With Inst., at 8 o'clock P. M In order that the Board of Managers may suDmlt a report of their action In the purchase ol a new building, aud for other purposes. JOHN C. GRANGEB, 4 15 lit Recording Secretary pro tern. frj?r OFFICE OP THE PHILADELPHIA I-" AND FKANKFORD PASSENGER KAJC WAY COMPAN V, No. 2463 FRAN KFOltil ROAD. Piiii.AUti.HiiiA, April 23, J 817. All persons who are subscribers to or holders of the capltul stocK of this Company, and who have not yet paid the sixth Instalment of Five Dollars per share hereon, are hereby uotilled that the said sixth in stalment lias been called in, and that they are re- auired to pay the same at the above olliuu ou the luth av ol May next, 1867. By resolution of the Board of Directors. 4 ai lt , Jacob binder, President. nrST OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL l3 AND NAVIGATION COMPANY. Philadelphia, April 20,1807. The stated Annual Meeting ol the Stockholders of this Company will be held at the BOARD OF TRADE HOOJIS, north side of CHEHN'UT Street, aoove FliTH. on TUESDAY MORNING, the 7th day of May next, at halt-past 10 o'clock, after which an Elec tion will be held at the same place tor Olllcers ol the Company lor the ensuing year. The Election to close at 1 P, M. ot the same day. 4 20 Ht JAMES 8, COX, President. irrg3' OFFICE CATAWISSA RAILROAD COMPANY, No. 424 WALNUT Street. Philadelphia, April 9, 1867. The Board of Directors have this day declared on account of the Dividends due the Preferred Stock holders, THREE AND A HALF PER CENT, ou the pur value thereof, payable ou and alter the 25th. The Truusler Books for the Preferred Stock will be cloi-ed ou the 20lh, and remain so until the 25th. 4 10 tuthstml M. P. HUTCHINSON. Treasurer. PCf" OFFICE OF THE TIOGA IMPROVE- - MENTCOMPANY.NO.1U PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE, April 2, 18U7. 'the auuual meeting ol the Stockholdere ot the TIOGA IMPROVEMENT COMPANY lor election ot President Directors, Secretary, and Treasurer, will be held at No. m PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE, OU TUKf DAY, the Seventh day ol May, 18H7, at 12 if. 4 11 thstulut GEO. H. COLKE'l'i Becretary. ISST" NATIONAL BANK OFTHEREPUBLIC. Philadelphia. March 12, 18t7. In accordance with the provisions of the National Currency act, and the Articles of Association of this Bunk , it has been determined to increase the Capital Stock of this Bank to one million dollars (l,uuo,0ev). Subscriptions from Stockholders for the shares allotted to them in the proposed increase will be puyable ou the second day ot May next, and will be received at any time prior to that date. A number of shares will remain to be sold, applications for which will be re ceived Irom persons desirous of becoming Stock holders. By order Of the Board of Directors. 816 7W JOSEPH P. MUM FORD. Cashier. rsj- CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY. AT A l-Z-X Meeting ot the Directors of the Cambria Iron Company, belu on April lu, lsii7, A DIVIDEND OF SIX PER CENT., free of State tax. on the Capital btock thereof, was declared, payable at the Otuce of the Company, No. 400 CHESNUT STREET, on and after the 1st of May proximo, to Stockholders ol' record at the close of this day, or tholr legal repre sentatives, JOHN T. KILLE, Secretary. Philadelphia, April Hi, isii7. 4 20stuili5i fTCSjP BEAUTIFUL HAIR. CHEVALIER'S LIFE FOR THE HAIR positively restores grey hair to Its original color and youthml beauty imparts Hie aud strength to the weakest balr; stops its lalliiigoutatonce; keeps tbehead clean; Is unparalleled as a hair-dressing. Sold by all druggists aud fashion able hair-dressers, and at my olUce, No, 11M BROAD WAY, N. Y. JStuthstMl SARAH A. CHEVALIER, M, D. riif NEW LONDON COPPER MINING hJ COMPANY. The Annual Meeting of the Stork holders, for Election of Directors, will be held on THURSDAY, M uy 2, at No. lai B. FB.ONT Street, at 4 P. M. 4 2471 SIMON POEY, Secretary. g2gT NKW PEBFUMEFOllTuE uASDKEUCUIeI? r'HALON'S 'Night Blooming Ctreua." rHALON'S "Night Blooming Cereus' rilALOPi'S 'Night Blooming Cartus." PIIALON'S "Night Blooming Croui." PIIALON'S "Night Blooming Ceru." A most exquisite, delirate, and Fragrant Perfoms, distilled from the rare and beautllul flower irom whleh It tskei its name. Man uiactared only by 613wi PI1AL.UN BUN, New York. i BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. A8K KOK r-UALOX B TAKB ilO OTHXIt POSTER'S RESTAURANT NO. iai SOUTH THIRD STREET, ' OPPOSITE CIR1RD BAKE, PHILADELPHIA Oysters and M crls it i llhcuit aSlin MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS, ETC. cry N EW ATTRACTIONS r , iFOR THE LADIES. MAD'LLE. KEOGII INo. OO 1 WALNUT St., Begs Uavc respectfully to apprise her patrons and friends, that In consequence of her Constantly Increasing Business, Bhe'.has again been compelled to purchase additional adjoining properties with the view of rendering bee ELEGANT MILLINERY EMPORIUM STILL MORE ATTRACTIVE AND COMMODIOUS. To this end, and AT GREAT COST. She has entirely Mi.ui.iir, KKJIOliru.ri), AND RE tllTED HfcK t AMIIOXAHI.K AND NIMCIOt'M EKTAIIM.MimEXT, NO. 901 WALNUT MTREKT, In every part, A MI'Enn AND ATTRACTIVE KIIOW-HOOH OH MAMMOTH DIMENSIONS, And altogether l!KK(UALLCD IT ANT IV THE CITY. lias been tilted up In a style MEUABDLE.SM OF COST, To ensure THE COMFORT OF CCSTOMKKS, And enable her to display advantageously THE RECHERCHE STYLES OF UOODS Which she begs to state, will this season. SURPASS ALL FORMER EFFORTS, She having added such PECC LI A R FACILITIES To those already possessed, as to enable ber to per sonally select only SI CH CHARM I NO STYLES OF BONNETS, HATS, ETC., As she feels satisfied will insure the eratlflcatlon of all who have so generously heretofore coullded to her ACKNOWLEDGED JUDGMENT AND GENERALLY ACCEPTED GOOD TASTE. XI IE SPlillVG STYLES ARB RICH, RARE, AND IlECIIERCIIE, Comprising all the choicest uud most acceptable fea tures of THE BEST PARISIAN AN0 ENGLISH MODES. ANOTHER NEW AND USEFUL FEATURE oi the establishment will be the addition of a MOURNING DEPARTMENT. Especially Bet apart for the sale of SILKS. COLLARS, JKT JEWELRY', GLOVES. BANLK'FS, VEILS, Bt'AKFS. CKEPES, ETC. ETC. ETC, This Leparment will be under the especial superin tendence and direction ot MR. II. MYERS, (Late of the New Mourning Store, Ho. 920 Cuesnut street), whose long experience In this branch of busi ness, enables him to guarantee to all who visit MLLE. HEOGH'S EMPORIUM, Mourning Goods of the richest quality, at MORE MODERATE RATES than they can be bad elsewhere in the city, THE MOURNING DEPOT, heretofore a feature of great and gratifying success with Mile, Keogh, will also this season be .' GREATLY ENLARGED AND UNSUB. PASSED by any similar establishment in the Union, 'ALL THE LATEST STYLES will be received and ottered on the arrival ot EVERY STEAMER, UTILE. KEOGH, No. 0o4 WALNUT Street. 4 11 tbstu 3m 107 EIGHTH STREET 1Q7 RIBBON STORE, FOUR DOORS ADOVE ARCH STREET. JULIUS SICIIEL. Hasjust opened a fine assortment of MILLINERY GOODS lor the ensuing Season, consisting of S'lKAMT MOANE'AM AND A1ATS, the latest bhupes and styles, RIHltONS in all colors, widths, and qualities; the best assortment in the city. Bonnet bilks, Satins, Velvets, and Crapes, all quali ties and shades. Ereueu i lowers, a superb assortment in the lates novelties. Velvet Ribbons, black and colored, in all widths and qualities. The beet French and New York Bonnet Frames alwayB ou baud. Bonnet Ornaments, Bugle Fringes, the handsomest styles; In lact, every article used in making or trim ming a bonuelor hat. The above goods are all selected with the best care, and will be.boid at the lowest market rates to suit tha times, JUL1US.SIOHEL, NO. 107 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, 20 FOUR DOORS ABOVE ARCH. P. S. No trouble to Bbow goods. 4 21m MBER, PEARL. CRYSTAL AND MET TRIMMINGS. ZEPHYR WORSTED, SOLD FULL HEIGHT, AT ItAPSON'S 4 91m5p TRIMMINGS AND ZEPHYR STORE, N. W. CORNER EIGHTH AND CHERRY. CT No. 720 C1IESN UT STRSET. rV We open to-daj a full and Bplendldly as 1 sorted stock ot FRENCH AND N E IV YORK RON NET tliAllEs STRAW HATS, S1IUW 1IONNKTS, JUONET KltlHS, 'AMlM.lUAG MlllKOXS, Vti vt r MiiiuoN, S1LHS, VELVETS, LACES, ETC. ETC. PARIS FLOWERK AJS 1 OUSAMKSTS. All ol the latent una most approved styles, aud at the lowest prices. iu Pleuse give us a call. Country orders promptly and accurately attended to. 820 Ira No. 726 CllEtfN I) T Street. JfflO URNINC MILLINERY. ALWAYS ON HANK A LARGE ASSORTMENT OJT 3XOUI11NIISG BOISTJNJEXftJ, ' AT NO. 0I WALNUT STREET. 8276in MAD'LLE KEOCH. V MKS. K. DILLON, YKOS. B8S AND Ml MOUTH STREET, NERV handsome assortment of SPRInq MILLI- ladles', Misses', and Children's Straw unri Bonneu aUd Hats of tne latest styles. r&ncy Also. Silks, Velvets, Ribbons, Crapes. Wh.. Flowers, frames, etc ' ' 7 ,s' 7 1 JuT J i
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