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Thi BltekDtM of DrUnei. .
From the Independent.
GreaUr to our astonlaliment, we found our
Selves quoted a few days ago as In favor of
Sensing prostitution.- No. " 'We 'have
ever discussed the ghastly subject, and have
never wPrwod ; ??InIV.WM.
another'.' ' A 'f we'oU- nn V1.ef Darra"
tive Qf a tour which we made through the
haante.'. of infamy in "New York, we inoi
dentally alluded to the huleous magnitude of
the! evlla' this city, audio the prautioa .diffl
cultta in the way of ropprtqalng t)r retrain
ing it. ' LnV.ua expreai our views uninwtaka-
Mitt?Buljieci is only half as diaa'greeaMe to
cur' readers m to ourselves; we -hereby beg
thefr pardon for asking their attention to it a
third tune within three weeks.
"Licensing-proatitution" is , one thing, ana
enforcing upon it a "Banitary regulation is a
totally different thing. When we lately spoke
of suoh "sanitary regulation," of course our
city readers knew that our allasioi was to the
r,rateeworthy efforts of the gentlemen com
posing the iWd of Health, who, together with
the 1 Police ' Comuiirfaloners, , constitute the
ExcW Commission.. As -to "hoensing prosti
tution" the clergy and , the police, instead of
holding opposite views,-as we are quoted to
have said; hold, as we happen to know, identU
cally tha ame .views that is,' both
the jelergy and the police are equally
opposed to licensing. .TJuring our invest
cations, we did not , meet, a single
policeman among .the. many with whom
we conversed, who expressed himself in
favor of ."licensing '. prostitution." On the
other hand, we met with only a solitary
policeman who was not heartily in favor of
the ''sanitary regulation" which Mr. SchulU,
Mr. Aoton, and the other gentlemen to whom
we have referred have - wiely imposed on
prostitution. As an illustration, .thanks to
these men,' n6 house of prostitution in this
city i now allowed to sell liquor. If,
therefore, the 1 police hear that in any
dan'oe-house in Water street a glass of
liquor has been sold, the ' very fact that it
was: sold in such a house is, of itself, evi
dence that it was sold without a license.
How,, until Mr. Acton . and his oolaborera
made this courageous and wholesome regu
lation, every dauce-house was not only a
hrothel, hut also a grog-shop. The objec
tion by the solitary policeman to whom we
have referred was that if, for instance, a
drunken sailor, after purchasing his liquor
at one place and his debauchery at another,
Bhould at last find himself robbed, it would
Le almost impossible for the police to track
the theft to the place of commission.
Accordingly, the officer was of opinion that
a crime could be better detected if there
were but one place, instead of two, at which
the police were to look for the criminal,
lint we do not agree with the objection of
this officer. On the contrary, we approve
the " counter-practice of the Commissioners.
Jt deems to us eminently expedient in fact,
absolutely necessary to cut off the liquor by
which the dance-houses are set on fire of hell.
Jut, if this view be correct, then it is as plain
as a pike-staff that except for the Excise law
a measure which, in our judgment, is one of
the moBt salutary ever devised in the interest
of pnblio order no such prohibition of grog
selling could be accomplished. And yet seve
ral well-known clergymen, and other radical
temperance men, severely condemn this same
beneficent Excise law, feeling themselves com
promised by it on the ground that it "licenses"
the sale of liquors. Now we think that such
clergymen, if they would take the trouble to
make such a trip as we lately made, would be
convinoed by the police that the Excise law,
and the regulations of the Comniitssioners as
to houses of prostitution, are needful and in
dispensable public measures.
The Rev. Dr. I5acon lately wrote at con
siderable length in these columns to show that
a prohibitory liquor-law could not be made,
even in Connecticut, to accomplish the pur
poses for which temperance men designed it.,
Still less, in our opinion, can such a law he
made a success in this city. But the Excise
law thanks to its inherent common sense,'
and also to its magnificent enforcement 1 is a
daily victory. Now the chief and most im
portant instrumentality of this victory is this
very regulation against houses of prostitution.
Let us give another illustration of "sanitary
Tegulatlon." We quote from the Board of
Health's report to the Legislature: "All
keepers of houses of prostitution and assigna
tion shall be registered; so shall all prostitutes
who live in these houses." These names, ac
cordingly, are kept in alphabetical order, in a
ledger of shame not open to public inspec
tion, but for the use of the police. Now, vio
lent objections are made by certain moralists
to this registration, on the ground that it
savors of "licensing" or "legalizing." But
the police know, it a few clergymeu do not,
that to blot out this book and to destroy this
list would be to endanger tha good government
of the city. Moreover, if the Board of Health
keeps, as a "sanitary regulation," a record of
Dirius, aeauis, ana marriages, why shall it
not also keep, a "sanitary regulation," a
record of houses of prostitution f
Let ua add another , illustration not of a
'sanitary regulation," but of what we regard
as hyper-critiuism upon such regulations." In
some of the hospitals and dispensaries which
receive aid from the State, and which of course
treat their patients without charge, it is pro
posed by the hyper-moralists to charge all
patients whose diseases are incurred through
prostitution, oh the ground that there must
te some moral mark set upon such diseases
above other diseases. Now, if it be morally
wrong that a publio hospital should treat cer
tain diseases without pay, then it la morally
Wrong to treat such diseases for pay. In other
words, the simple payment of money by the
patient does not, in our opinion, alter the
moral character of the act of attempting to
restore such a person to health. In fact, it
Beems almost incredible that such objections
should be made by reasonable people; but they
have been made to suh a voluminous degree,
and by Buch eminently respectable parties,
that the Board of Health have been oonstrained
to report them to the Legislature for adjudi
cation 1 There is such a thing as "straining
at a gnat and swallowing a camell"
In regard to "licensing prostitution," the
French plan, which compels every practitioner
of the hellish trade U procure a license, has
Leen lately discussed pro and con by several
New York journals, particularly with a view
to its enforcement in the lower and infectious
wards of the city. No careful investigator,
. with the horrible facts plain before his eyes,
ran be insensible to what may be Dlausiblv
paid of immediate sanitary gain by the appli
cation of the license system. It is universally
l elleved in Paris, tor instance, that if any
ether than the French plan were to be applied
to city, the result would he a contagion;
THE DAILY
and the license system is, therefore, main
tained as a sentinel over the publio health.
Undoubtedly the license system, if suddenly
applied whew it has noi bnretofore exiftted,
may 'produce a ohcuk for the Umelming. t But
not only, in a moral point of view, ia such a
remedy worse' than the diseaso, but, lu" prac
tical point lf view, the remedy itself speedily
proves to. be no., remedy at all; for iu the long,
run it only magnifies the evil which it soeks
to diminish. To make prostitution physically
safe is not the way to destroy, but only to
promote it.
Let us add a single word more to repeat
what we have - heretofore solemnly urged.
The true remedy for "the social evil" is not
ill a license Byfttefn; aot in the Board of Health,',
not in the Excise law, not v in auy thing under
hpaven except in a multiplication of honor
able and profitable employments for dependent
w'omen. If the- thousands of .prostitutes of
this . city had originally had a. fair chanoe "of
earning a livelihood by 'a decent trade, not,
five hundred of the whole number would ihave
set their feet in the path of shame. Awful,:
norriuie, iragio is the responsibility which
justly- rests on those respectable men and
women clergymen and church members 1
who create and maintain a publio opinion that
denies to women nearly all the opportunities,
which it accords ta men for earning one's
daily bread I : . Fling ,open the doors - to a
thousand. . new . : employments 'for 'women,'
and' the prostitutes' 'of this 'city would,' by
hundreds, retrace their steps and endeavor to
re-enter a virtuous life. "Bui employments for.'
woman, likeemployinents .for men, swing on
the hinge of "elective franchise. It is folly to,
attempt to work a reform. in the industrial and
social status of dependent women through any '
less tnorougn ana euecuve agency than the
ballot in woman's own hand. " If ' we refer to
this subject bo repeatedly, it- is. only because
it is so important. ' We cry aloud . and spare
not. Christian men and women everywhere 1
if you seek to uplift the degraded and tainted
daughters of a cruel social oraer, tear off the
basdages which blind your eyes to the greatest
of all American questions the beautiful, bene
ficent, and sacred question of Impartial Suf
frage without distinction Of color or' sex. May
God advance the cause to a speedy victory 1 ,
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I What to Do With the South.
From the Tribune. ,
The election in Washington City is the first
gun of the campaign. The negro vote has
enabled ns to carry that city by a very decided
majority. If ' our friends had managed , the
canvass with a little more prudence, we might
' have increased the vote. The leading Repub
lican pai ers had a kind of incoherent way of
appealing to the prejudices of the negroes,
endeavoring to arr ay class against class, and
bring to the ballot box a spirit- of' vengeance.
This was deplorable, and was only neutralized
by the ridiculous stupidity of the Copperheads
who began the canvass by calling the negroes
gorillas, and ended it by fraternal demonstra
tions of attachment. In Washington, the
negro vote is a power, and we entreat our
friends not to excite and degrade it by insist
ing upon anger and revenge. , 1 ' '
We have carried Washington, and we can
carry the South. These military times must
end, and the speedier the better. They are
doing their work well, but it is like surgery,
or a severe course of medicine the sooner it
is . over the better. We want to have the
South fully aroused and educated, and made
to feel the sublime dignity of the suffrage.
Especially must this be done with the negro.
The very" fact that the negro pomes from
slavery, that he has been down-troddon, that
he walks as one in darkness, because the light
so long hidden hursts freshly upon him,
should make us prudent. . We should feel well
satisfied to-morrow if fifty thousand negroes
were to go up to the polls and vote with the
opposition, provided they voted " conscien
tiously. We should deplore any course that
arrayed class against class, that made
sex, color, or nationality a rallying cry. Voters
should not accept the ballot as an instrument
of vengeance, as the means of gratifying hatred.
Our friends, in dealing with the negro, should
ignore every argument of bitterness. The
policy of vengeance skirts the Rocky Moun
tains, and has a few followers, we believe, in
beleaguered sections of the country where the
mails do not run regularly; but no sincere Re
publican believes that any good can come from,
blood-dabbling or rooting among the graves of,
the gallant dead. We wish no more howling
or gnashing of teeth. It will only bring dis
comfort, unrest, endless toil, and trouble.
We want hearty peace, confidence, nationality.
This can be done with the South, and in
doing it we can carry many of the Southern
States. We want to meet the conservative
men of the South in a fair and square contest.
Let any issue be made tarili, revenues, inter
nal improvements any Issue of legislation and
politics, and we Bhall strive with them to lead
them into the true path. The use of politioal
discussion is to convince, and the negro needs
conviction as well as his white fellow-citizen.
He must be made to see that it is for the
glory of the Republic that the Republican party
should be charged with the national adminis
tration. Wise men must teach them this.
Wilson and Kelley did well, and others
follow them competent to instruct. The
sentiment of Chief - Justice Chase, tele
graphed the 5th instant to the Tribune by our
special correspondent iu Raleigh, is one
mat we enaorse. ua spoKe to the negro,
and with the wisdom and dignity befit
ting the Chief Justice oi the United States.
"I rejoice," he said, "that 1 have the oppor
tunity to meet you now, and to moot yon with
all men upon au equality and equal before the
law. We have passed through a fiery trial;
hut with the peace which has followed we
have freedom ; and let us all, without excep
tion of color, aid in restoring our whole coun
try. That, I believe, is and ever will be the
desire of my heart." This should he the mes
sage of every Republican. Wo see that Frede
rick Douglas is about to make a tour among
the negroes. Good will come from this. Mr.
Douglass knows the Bentiment of the North.
He is a generous, sagacious, good man, and
will have a marvellous influence with the ne
groes. We charge him, as one having a high
responsibility, to lose no opportunity of mak
ing the reconstruction of the South perfect by
commending peace, and charity, and good-will,
to consolidate every class, to urge upon his
brethren the highest duties of nationality.
If this is well and wisely doue, we shall save
many years of (strife. Let the South be Hooded
with missionaries of peace. Let the rural sec
tions be traversed, the cross-roads visited the
village churches, the schools, and plantations.
Mere orations in large cities are well as a be
ginning, but the cities contain only a small
portion of the Southern people. Let every
county be visited, and let the canvass be car
ried to the hearthstones. A thousand good
men could do a work in the SoutU in the
next two years that will be felt for generations.
Let them be sent, and let them do their work
in the spirit of kindness and love.
Congress ud the Currency,
Fi on the Herald.
(IrAwlair In lila mi)pnvrv with the Union
J League Club, called the members narrow
minded blockheads. . Our contemporary used
EVENING TELEG R A FIT
a very appropriate term to designate these
stupid little politicians. They are a conoeited
Bet offellows, without brains, who think they
area imighty' power, and should wohtrol the
affairs of -the country" n well as the opinions
and personal condiic of men. i But they are
not tla? only narrow-minded blockheads, by a
loiig" way. The'leriu "may "be" applied to
Greeley himself for his vagaries about specie
payments, the ourrenoy, a high tariff; social
istic theories and misplaced philanthropy.
Looking at the ' maiingement of our publio
affairs, this expression, unfortunately, is ap
plicable to most of those in official positions.
i How fitly this term--narrow-minded block
heads may be applied, for example, to the
Judiciary Committee of C6ngres8 I' This Com
mittee was appointed ostensibly to investigate
serious charges " against " the President and
grave matters affecting the .administration of
the Government. The people were led to be
lieve that there was - evidence enough before
. Congress and in the hands' of those who pro
posal the Committee to Justify investigation..
( The Committee .has, virtually concluded, its
' labors and voted upon a report. . What is the
result f Wluit, after many months of searching
inquiry and after the expenditure of a large sum
ol money, has it aisooverea r A mare'S neSt;
nothing more.' a majority or the ' mem
bers 'have agreed ' to ' censure the'' Presi
dent; '.finding' na i ground -"for knpeafih-
, ment. i yi course tney. must do something
to endeavor to save themselves,.; Congress,
and the Republican, party . from ridicule; and
they could do nothing less than make up a case
for censured And what was the nature of the
investigations of this. Committee of narrow
' minded blockheads ? Great questions of pub
lio policy f No; they were chiefly confined to
matters of a private nature of miserable
gossip and hearsay twaddle of Tom', Dick, and
. llarry. , These sapient committee-men were
abxious to know what the President drank
and how much he drank; whether he drank
Bourbon whisky or wine;, how. muohr water he
mixed with it; if, he used sugar, and how
many times a day he took his toddy They
wanted to know who went in the front door
and who in the back door of the While House.
with a great deal more of such .contemptible
ana impertinent Btuu. Much lias been the
' woik inwhioh they were engaged for 'months,
and such is the result.
But the greater part by far of, the members
of Congress have shown, themselves to be in
other respects narrow-minded blockheads
Look, for example, at their policy in keeping
the wounds of the war open so long for mere
, partisan purposes, when the country needs
peace, restoration, and harmony, in order to
stimulate the productions of the South, to
relieve us of the immense expenses of a large
military establishment and the Freedmen's
Bureau, and to enable us to meet the enor
mous demands of the Treasury Department.
Look at the acts passed for bounties, for jobs
of every description, and to protect certain
local interests by burdening and restraining
the industry of the country generally. The
most rigid economy is needed, if the country
is to be saved from an addition to the debt, or
if either the interest or principal of the
present stupendous debt is to be paid.
The utmost freedom should have been
given to industry and trade, and production
should have been stimulated by removing as
far as possible the burdens upon it. But in
stead of that the most lavish and reckless
expenditures have been made, and industry
has been burdened and paralyzed to the ut
most limit of forbearance. Look at the stu
pidity of Congress in giving to the national
banks, a monstrous and dangerous institution,
the profits of a national circulation worth over
twenty millions a year; a currency of three
hundred millions, the profits of which rightly
belong to the Government and the people, and
which should be saved and applied to the ex
tinguishment of the debt. Look, too, at the
insane attempts to contract the currency, and
thereby to reduce the means and increase the
burdens at? a. time when money should be
abundant, in order to increase production and
to bear the weight of debt and taxation. Never
were there such blockheads composing a great
legislative body. Never was a country so
much in need of statesmen, i.
What shall we say of the Secretary of the
Treasury J Mr. McCulloch, through his recom
mendations to Congress and through his imbe
cile management of hi3 depaitmeut, has been
greatly instrumental in bringing us to a condi
tion verging upon bankrnptcy. We say verg
ing upon bankruptcy, because the Treasury is
being emptied faster than it is supplied. The
expenditures are greater than the income, and
the national debt, instead of being reduced,
hereafter is Jikely1 to. be increased, lie, of
course, is a national bank man; for he cannot
see beyond bank interests. Banking was his
vocation, and though he may be capable of
managing a small country bank, he has no con
tention of national finances. He recommended
a contraction of the currency, and proceeded
to contract it as far as Congress stupidly gave
the power, until he found danger staring him in
the face. Instead of letting the volume of cur
rency remain as it was, particularly as the
country was prospering and the debt being
paid, until a large portion of the whole of the
debt could be. liquidated in the same depre
preciated money in which it was taken, he
wanted to force Bpecie payments, and thus
compel the people to pay, with less means,
thirty to forty per cent, more than they ever
received or ought to pay. The term "narrow-minded
blockhead," which Horace Gree
ley used to the Loyal League Club, may be
very fitly applied to, him. Ha should leave
the Treasury Department to abler hands, and
go back to his small brokerage business in the
country. We want no other currency than
what we have, except that greenbacks should
be substituted for the national bank circmla
tion. We want the debt to be paid in this
currency, and the country to grow up gradu
ally and naturally to specie payments.
The consequence will be that, if the country
and the Treasury Department continue to be
governed by narrow-minded blockheads, the
people will soon get uneasy uudcr the weight
of debt and taxation. They will not be will
ing to pay for the misgovernment and extrava
gance of partisans and imbeciles. We shall
soon hear the word repudiation uttered, mmch
as bondholders dread it. This country is not
without examples. Great nations have creatod
enoimous debts in struggles for national
existence, and afterwards repudiated them.
Where is the debt of France, created before
and duiing the great Revolution ? The sponge
was used there mercilessly. England, even,
virtually repudiated her debt in part by reduc
ing the interest. Other strikiug examples
could be adduced to show the danger of repu
diation when a people are goaded by misgov
ernment, or the weight of debt becomes in
supportable. The danger ia greater when the
law-making power is iu the hands of the whole
people the tax-payers, who would have little
sympathy with the bondholders or capitalists,
ehould they find themselves deceived or op
pressed. We Bay, then, to Congress, to the
administration, and to all interested in the
payment of the debt, beware what vou do, or
you will hear that terrible woM, j epudiation,
believe. , , ; ., ,
you may
PHIL ADELPIH A , FRIDAY,
Fro It and Urals Proapecta.
Pr om the Tribune.
The prospects for fruit through the whole
country iityer were more, flatlei uig. 'Itlajtoo,
late for frosts to (do hny amag, and dnly thb '
enrcniio and some other tinseota ran dimiuish
the yield; but whatever Jthey ' may do will be
insignificant.
Strawberries have been received from Vir
ginia, and nowaro arrlviag from Delaware and
Maryland. In a very few days we shall have
them flom New Jersey.' The" amount plaited
and to be marketed is larger than in any other
year, not only,in, the vloinlty of New, York, but
of all other cities and towns in the country.
Whether they will sell at reduced price re
mains to 1e' sfcon.' To' thd grower this la an
important question. lie is expecting 'that
firlces Will keep up, because- a taste for fruit
itts been cultivated, and has" ' only ' kept
pace with increased planting.," Peaclvea will
be in. full, supply, caroely a peach ,orohftrd
will fail to bear. In localities where this
fruit' has been abandoned, the : fruit trees
tliiat here and' there remain are seen
loaded with .fruit; - and even old and ap
parently withered branches bear their, tooth
some, burdens.. As everybody ;iikeB .peaches,
! bo that a cultivation of,, a taste for them was
impossible, prioes will not exceed those of r
dinary years, though it must be. considered
that large supplies will be needed for canning,
as oniy a very Hraaii biock was put up last
reason. The first arrivals are expected from
Virginia, as the orchards further South daring
the war went to decay. Raspberries and other
pmall fruits will be abundant. ' Doolittle's
Black Cap Is growing in. favor, and this year
Will hrst appear in many markets. A few of
the new varieties of blackberries will be
, offered, and those interested will be enabled
to compare them With the Lawton. which is
, not only late, hut so sour that a substitute is
greatly needed. The prospect for wheat and
oijher Email grain still is good, and this not
. only through the Eastern. Middle, mirl VVnat.
era States, but also through the whole South.
In some of the Cotton States where wheat
seldom was sown they have many nice fields,
which form a rare and beautiful sight.
Regarding corn, tha prospect at present, par
ticularly in the West, is not very bright. In
the Eastern and Middle States ail the uplands
! intended for corn, and all the valleysif suffi
ciently dry, have been planted within the last
, ten days, and, ' as the weather is . warm, the
snoois are rapidly appearing above ground. , .
.The weather is still wet. In the West large
fields are unploughed because they lay low.
In other sections, where planting was done
early, bo much cold weather followed thai k
I great deal of seed rotted, and replanting is
I nl.ll.l TIT1 J It 1 . .
uiiaTuiuouic. tvueie jjiuuuu was piouguea in
the fall and ridged up the seed is sound, and
these few days of warm weather are bringing
it up. Still, a large breadth remains un
planted, and only dry weather will permit the
iarmer to worn, as the days now are long,
and the sun very hot. cround will dry ranidl v.
and if corn is planted any time within two
weeks, and an average season follow, we can
have a good crop yet; for in the great corn
region the variety planted will mature iu
from ninety to a hundred days.
Vndcr Which Ureeley, Republicans T
From the World.
When the Constitutional Convention retun 8
from burying Mr. Hiscock and praising him to
its task of framing a constitution for the State
of New York, its members, the majority at any
rate, will have to consider whether they will
follow, in the discharge of their duties to their
party and their State, the example of the
author of a recent letter to the Union League
Club, or that of a somewhat obstreperous and
forth-putting member from Westchester by
the name of Greeley. . The vigorous eplstola
rian who rated his duty to hia country, to the
laws, and to himself as a magnanimous patriot
so much more highly than his duty as a mem
ber of the Republican party and of the Loyal
League Club, sets up one standard of action.
The member at large from Westchester, who
admits with reluctance that half the people of
New York are Democrats, but is quite sure
that the Republicans have a majority in the
Constitutional Convention, wants them to
"assume the job,", and proposes himself to
boss it, sets up quite another standard of duty.
It is for the Republican members to make
their choice. They cannot serve these two
masters. . They must either be partisans or
they must be patriots. Under which Greeley,
Republicans? Greeley of Westchester, or
Greeley of Union Square ?
If they prefer to be patriots they will refuse
again to go into a party caucus. They will
biing to the debates of the Convention and of
the committee rooms their best attention and
intelligence, not a surrendered, transferred,
concluded judgment. . They will seek to make
the supreme law under which we must all
live the best law for all; and, since they them
selves are no more citizens than their bitterest
political opponents, they will seek to frame a
law as acceptable to those opponents as to
themselves. They will not confound the
struggles-of the stump with the debates of a
law -li aming convention, nor imagine that
party plattorms are to be the substructure of
a constitution. They will welcome rather than
repulse the suggestions of the minority, and
prefer conciliating their support of the final
draft above enduring their defeat in a contest
over' its adoption. They will conclude
nothing in a caucus, hardly those things for
which a caucus would vote unanimously.
They will debate everything freely and fairly,
and with a determination to make the minority
morally as responsible for the Constitution as
they themselves are to be. They will use
their intellectual power first, their numerical
power last, esteeming a victory where votes
are weighed rather than counted better suited
to the character of a Constitutional Conven
tion. They, will esteem the duty which they
ow e to their party to be only that, in such a
body, which they owe to their fellow-citizens
and the State, and not as being a more boundun
duty to the men who voted for themselves
than the men who voted for their opponents.
Because, in free Governments pslitical con
tests ought to be waged upon and above their
constitutions. "Her Majesty's Government"
and "Her Majesty's "opposition," are not
liner phrases than we can understand and
apply in a republic, and they signify nothing
unless it be that there is a constitution, a
(supreme law, behind both.
It will be easier work to be caucus partisan
according to the advice of the member at large
frx.m Westchester. That will reduce the bulk
of the Convention at once by more than a
half. To proclaim the decisions of the
majority of the majority less thau a third of
the Convention will be easier than to guide
the decisions of the whole body. To manage
a caucus will be far less difficult than to per
suade a convention. Certainly in this way
the Constitution can be more easily built into
the likeness of some Syracuse platform; aui
certainly iu this way the Bolehin choice of a
form and Btruoture of government can be
levelled to our annual fights over its admiu-
JUNE 7, 18G7.
OldMye
r'j ", illti. LARGEST '; AND DlCtsT' ' '8TOC3K "' 'OF '
LFTrJE v.O U; R Y ExLiy H I S K E 3
IN THE LAND IS NOW POSSESSED BY
HENRY S. MAIMNIS & CO.,
! . Ncs. '218 and 220 SOUTH FROUT STREET J
l1101 ! " "1Bl,iB 7--lki' " VERT All VAWIAOEOtTS
, Tlitlr BiOtk. (if BJ. WTtlMtlta, IN BOND, rompri.,, ,n th. f.-,. M .
l-lbtral rentfurta imade 1h lots fctrlre at Piniiu..i. d.h .
Carpetings," Canton Mattings, Oil C!:th$.
Great .Varietv,; Lowest Cash Prices. .
. - - '.'. : . . i , . ' .
... BEEVE L. KNIGHT & SON,
"" ' SO, 807 CHEJiNTJTT STREET, '
, (Below IbeQIr&rd House).
isiration. ' Certainly, in this , way which Mr."
Greeley of Westchester advises and inaugu
rates by bis language, his demeanor, and his
advice, the influence of one-half of Ihe people
of the State of New York, in the framing of
their fundamental law, can be reduced
to zero; easily thus the practioal sagacity, the
learning; the. experience, the wishes (perhaps
even the mere wishes of two millions of people
ought to count for something) which the
Democratio party have contributed to the
Convention, may be chucked out of the win
dow the first week of , the, Convention's sit
tings, and the Republican party have it all
their own way, with Greeley alone to "boss
the job," and make a supreme law for all the
rest of his iellow-citizens. This is certainly
the easier course. To be partisans is always
easier than to be patriots.
When the Convention returns from burying
Hiscock, and praising him, its members will
have it to consider whether it is best worth
while to study the scriptures addressed to the
faithful in Union Square, or to execute the
threatenings and slaughter breathed out by
Mr. Greeley in the Assembly chamber.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ZJ- UNION LEAGUE HOUS,
MAY 15. 1807. -
At a meeting of the Board ot Directors of the
rUION LEAGUE OF P1I1LADKLPUI A. held
March 1Z, 18G7, the following Preamble and Resolu
tions were adopted:
Whereas, In a republican form ot government it Is
of the highest Importance that the delegates of the
people, to whom the sovereign power Is entrusted,
should be so selected as to truly represent the body
politic, and there belDg no provision ot law whereby
the people may be organized tat the purpose ol such
selection, and all parties having recognized the neces
sity of such organization by the formation of volun
tary associations lor this purpose, and
W hereas, There are grave detects existing under
the present system ol voluntary organization, which
It Is believed may be corrected by suitable provisions
ol law; now, therefore, be It
Resolved, By the Board of Directors of the UNION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, that the Heoretaiy
be and is hereby directed to oll'er eleven hundred dol
lars in prizes for essays on the legal organization of
the people to select candidates for olllce, the prizes to
be as follows, viz.: . . f
The sum of Ave hundred dollars for that essay
which, in the Judgment of the Board, shall be first In
the order of merit; ...
Three hundred dollars for the Becond; ,
Two hundred for the third, and I. . .' ,
6ne hundred for the fourth. :' "'
The conditions upon which these prizes offered
are as lollows, viz,;
l int, All essays competing for these prizes nrat be
addressed to OKOKGE H. BOKEK, Secretary of the
Union League of Philadelphia, aud luunt be received
by him before the F11UJT DAY OF JANUARY, 18'W.
and no communication havlug the author's name at
tached, or with any other Indication of origin, wlU be
considered.
Second. Accompanying every competing essay, the
author must enclose his name and address wltniu
sealed envelope, addressed to the Secretary of the
Union League. After the awards have been made, the
envelopes accompanying the successful essays shall
be opened, and the authors notified of the result.
Third. All competing essays shall become the pro
perty of the Unlou League; but no publication of
rejected essays, or the names of their authors, shall
be made without consent of toe authors lu writing.
By order oi the Board ot Director.!.
UKOBUE1I, AOKEB,
6181m BKl'ttETARY.
OLD 'RYE WHISKIES.
: ' , TRADE CIRCULAR. '
1'uii.ADk.i.i'iiiA, June l.lRfiT.
Having, since lit January, diligently st-arcuei all
the markets where OLD WlUbKiHci aregeaorally to
be tumid, as well as the regloi s producing mem, aud
having bought up all good lots held at reasonable
priced, we are now fully prepared to meetthegrowing
ueujaud ol the TRADE for our regular standard Acme
grades.
Our stock Of REALLY VERY OLD RYE WHIS
KIES being, previous to January 1, the largest and
bmt held by hi y one bouse. Is now, by reason of these
u-osl extensive purchases, doubly so. In addition til
Ilia immense amount oi stock lu our Stores, No. 218
aud :mo H. iliOM' btreet, we have elylit Hours of
l aiiernon's extensive Warehouses tilled with choice
lots of Whiskies, both FREE and in lujrtl).
Foreseeing an eventual great scarcity of Whiskies
haviug two, three, and more - summers upou them
(and which scarcity now exists), we have, durlug the
last four years, tiulormly availed ourselves or the
momentary peiifHts of dullness and depression of the '
Trutle to ouiHly gather stock, thereby saving the ire
queut and increasing advances lu price. Ko scarce
has stock become, that even since the publication of
our Inm Circular (February -ia) an advance ol
per gallon has taken place In Fine Whiskies possesi.
1 1 m three to teu years' age. As to bonded Flue Kye
Whiskies of oue fetid two summers, an advance has
been realized In suiue time of z6(i76c, per gallon, ac
cording to quality aud brand.
Dealers desirous of laying away lots or fine Rye
Whisky, lor improvement and luvesiuieul, during
the summer, cuu be accommodated ou most .advau
Ifciteous terms, ' '
Our principal. Mr. II. S. Usnnls, has for the last
seventeen years given his devoted aud almost exclu
sive aututiou to the cultivation of this oue braucli of
the liquor trade, gaining thereby, perhaps, more prac
tical experience and good Judgment lu the selection
of the right material for lmprovemeut by age than
any one now eugaged in the bualueas. For these
retibous, together with possessing ample facilities In
every other respect, ana the at ail times requisite will
to do well, our customers and the trade may rest as
sured Unit Hie advantages ollurtd theui are manifest
and niHolfold,
6 6 3i HENRY S. HANNI3 A CO.
f3?r BT0CKI10DKK8, MKfcTINO. THE
k3 FARMERb-aNbilEOHAMUj' WATIOMAL
liiKK, -..
Philadbxvhia, May iS, 1(67.
A General Meeting of the stockholders of The
Farmers' aud ftlechanlca' Malionul Dank of Phila
delphia will beheld at the DANK1MU HOUSE, on
ISA 1 UHDA Y. the 2uth day of June next, at twelve
o'ciotk, noon, lor the purpose of taking into consider
atitiu and deuidiug tnon amendments.! the Third
and Filth ot the Arllclus of Associativa of the aald
Bank. - i i . ,
llv order of tha Board or Directors,
5I8tJ W. HUMITOM, J a., Cashier,
Wliislcies
REMOVED.
OUR BEDDING STORE
I IS BEJHOYED
rnoji tih: old stand to
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No. 11 -South NINTH 1 Street. 1
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B. L. KNIGHT A SOW.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
2gr BEFUELICAN STATE CONVENTION
IfAKBinBrRO, April- 16, 1887. The "Republican
Slate Convention'' will meet at the "Herdio House."
in Willlumsport, on EDJSESDAY, the iWlh day of
June next, at 10 o'clock A.M., to nominate a candi
date lor Judge of the Supreme Court, and to Initiate,
proper measures for the ensuing Slate canvass.
As heretofore, the Convention will be composed of
Representative and Senatorial Delegates, chosen In
the usual way, and equal lu number to the whole of
tiie Senators and Representatives la the General
Assembly,
By order of the State Central Committee.
' , F. JORDAN, ChafcmlknJ '
J. Roblky Dunulihon, secretaries. 520 Sit '
r3p IMPORTANT TO STEAMBOAT CAP
77, TA1KS AND OWNER.-By an act of the
Legislature of the State oi New Jersey, passed on the
Jib of April, 18t.7, ail captains, or owners ot steam
boats or otter vessels, are prohibited from landing'
excursion or plo-nio pai ties ou the banks or wbarvea
ot the Delaware river, at or near Delauco, or Floreuoa
Heights, or the Rancoras river, etc. etc., under a
ixnhltyof ten dollars lor each and every person so '
landau er diaembuiked, and shall be liable to arrest,
n nd for all damages that maybe committed br such
excursiou or picnic parlies to the property or per
sons or the citizens or,resideuts of ;the county of Bur
l'llgton, " 6 5 lt'
OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
. . Philadelphia, Mav 4. Sff7.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
semi-annual Dividend ot THKEE PER CENT, on tha
Capital Stock ol the Company, clear of National aud
Slate Taxes, payable iu Cash on aud alter May so.
Jr1? "'so declared an EXTRA DIVIDEND
of F1E PER CENT., baxed upon proiita earned
prJorto January 1 low, clear ol National and tttai
Taxes, payable In Stock on and alter May So, at lia
par value of F'My Dt liars per share the shares for
buick Dividend to be dated May 1, ls7.
Scrip Cerillicaies will be issued lor fractional parts
ot Sbares; suld scilp will not be entitled to any Imp
rest or Dividend, but will be convertible into btoclc
When presented in sums of Fifty Dollars.
Powers of attorney lor collection oi DlWdends can
be, Lad on application at tbeOilice of the Company.
NO. )S.TKLKD Street. wuijwuy,
HHui THOMAS T, FIRTH, Treasurer.
1ST
OFFICE OF
THE
PHILADELPHIA
. GAH WORKS.
Proposals will be received at this olliee, n. Z0 8.
SEVENTH street, mull noon of the 1st day ot July,
lor the sale to the Trustees ol tha Phiianiiii
JUNH 1, 1887.
Works of the Stock in the Germantown, Richmond,
Manyunk, aud boulnwaik aud Moyameuslug Gaa '
ujuiitiuira, u w uncu Ma lUVwlinttUM
fur LtiA Mln If-- -
ILK 11
ud ot said Companies.
m UEiSJAAlIN B. RILEY. Cashier.
NOTICE. AS ELECTION OF
Directors of the CHESNUT him. irov
ORE COMPANY will be held at No. 827 WALNUT
Street. Philadelphia, on the lTlU Juue, 1887, at Li
o'clock M.
81 m P. R. PYNE, Secretary
HOLLOWAY'3 PILLS AND OINr
MENT. Abscesses Of many Yearn iiiniini.
have yielded under a i hurt course of these aaiiseptiu
aud detergent medicines. The Ointment cleanses the
sore of all irrltaiing purulent matter, aud Imbues the
fibres and tissues wun new Hie and vigor, while tha
Pills, purilyiug the blood, neutralize tha noxious
humors and expel them Irom the system. In skin
diseases ot whatever character, tumors, old sores,
ulcerated legs, etc., the ucllou oi these rumedios ia
sale and certain.
Sold by all Druggists, 6 1 smfstt '
BATCHELOH'd HAIR DYE. THIS
splendid Hair Dye is the best lu the world.
The only true and perfect Jtye Harmless, Reliable, In
stantaneous. No dlsappoiulmeul. No ridiculous tluw.
Natural Black or Brown. Remedies the ill effects of
Mud lrytt, invigorates the hair, leaving it soil aud
beaiullul. The geuuine is sigued WILLIAM. A.
BAlt'HELOR, All others are mere Imluttious, and
should be avoided. Sold by all Druggists and Per
fumer. Factory, No. bl BARCLAY Street, Nesf
York. 4 Wmw t
FURNISHINGCOODS,SHIRTS,&C.
Pb H OFF Itt A M N, J R..
1 : - .' no. sas Alien street,
FURNISHING GOODS,
' (Late Q. A. Botlmau. formerly W. W, Knight,)
I'lNK frlllttTS amu wiuprriw, '
llOtlKUY ANDULOVIJI
aXK, LAMBS H VOL ANUHEUIHO
lltam 1 BWDtBIXOTIIIITtl.
J, W. BOOTT, & OO.,
t SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
' ' AMD OKALJUia IM '
MEN'SFUltNIBHlNQGOODS.'
. 1 He. 814 CUr aaUT H1UEE1,
OTJB DOORS BELOW TBJC "CONTINENTAL.)
tftrp
ru I LA 1K1.1H1A.
PATENT BIIOULDE1VSEAM
I SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AMD tifcKTXKMfcN'Sf rilUNiNUlHUIiTOfil '
PERFECT JTITTINU SHIRTS AND DKAWEH3
made Irom measurement at very short notice.
All other articles ot OEN'lLEMKNa DRXBft
GOODS In fuUvaxluly.
I , , . . W IK C1I KMT KB 4k CO.r '
UU - '' Na. 7u CHafaNDT Street,
HIVY WtLLh OWNKK8 OK PKOPKKTY
1 he ouly place to get Privy Well cleaned ait
, OWLalecled at very tow prioea.
I ...... A. PKYBOB,
i fantnrer of poudrtuM, "
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