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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
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