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Asiothsr Southern Chevalier.
prom the Nation.
Ex-Governor IVrrj, of South Carolina, is
rriUiig letters in the papers of Lis State loudly
tonjuring Lis fellow-citizens to vote against
ihe Constitutional Convention called under the
Reconstruction act, and singing the superiority
f military government over any species of
government in which negroes are allowed to
Bhare, and, in fact, talking in the wild, sense
less, and usually unpractical way with which
Southern statesmen have made the world so
familiar. His last letter is an unusually good
Specimen of Lis style. After discussing the
duties of Southern men from the "honorable"
point of view, and showing that negroes must
Hot be allowed to voto in South Carolina
because the English Commonwealth of "1(!40,"
Ihe French republics of 1792 and of 1848, and
the Mexican republic of our own day, had all
proved failures, he characteristically winds up
with quoting a "spontaneous effusion of a
epirited and patriotic heart" in the shape of a
letter "from a noble lady of South Carolina."
Thin is the letter, and the whole of it:
'I believe I speak the feeling of at least every
woman in Boutu Carolina when I nay we
heartily endorse your views, and each and
everv sent lmcut you express in your recently
rM.hiii.hi.rt lmiprs. We orav you to continue
your eirorts to save us from such dishonor and
such degradation, to which, the pain of twenty
violent deaths were reterable, and may
Heaven aid you in recalling the manhood of
our State 10 a sense of what is due at least
their race."
It will be seen that there is not much in it.
In fact, there is nothing in it, except the
assertion of one woman of South Carolina that
all the other women agree with Governor
Perry In his "views," and wish he would keep
on expressing them. Nevertheless, it is quite
evident that Mr. Perry believes that his stuff
jnay be made not only to do duty as au argu
ment, but as a vindication of himself and his
later performances; for, says he, "such patri
otic and spirited sentiments from one lovely
woman fully compensate me for all the criti
cism and abuse which have been heaped upon
jne." Now, this little touch, revealing tBe
delight of a middle-aged politician at having
Bome rather extravagant talk of his on a most
momentous question approved iu a rather silly
letter by "one lovely woman," is the kind of
thing whicli makes good and moderate men at
the North and elsewhere feel discouraged
about the future of the Southern whites.
With the best wish in the world to let
Jbygones be bygones, one is puzzled to know
Low to deal with men to whom politics
Is so much an affair of sentiment, and
fo little an affair of hard common sense, as it
Beems and Las always seemed to be the bulk
f the Southern planters. We suppose it
Would be difficult to overestimate the extent
to which they were seduced into ranting and
jailing in defense of slavery by the picturesque
View of slave society, or the extent to which
they ' were seduced in going to war by the
notion that they were "cavaliers," and that it
Would be pretty to see "cavaliers" with long
hair on horseback fighting Puritans on foot.
IThere can hardly be a doubt that thousands
f simpletons, old and young, were driven to
the field by a thoroughly mediaeval sensitive
ness to feminine censure or applause. But it
caps the climax to find a grave, elderly man,
When the fighting is all over, supporting an
argument in defense of submission for an in
definite period to military government by
quoting a little outburst of admiration of him
self and his doings from "one lovely woman."
When a man discusses politics in this frame
Of mind, it is very difficult to know how to
take Lim or the community which he repre
sents. The ordinary arguments used in poli
tical discussions are of little use in dealing
With them. There i3 no use in talking of
expediency to gentlemen who are striving to
Win female smiles, and whom "lovely women"
are exhorting "to die twenty violent deaths"
Sooner thas follow the commonplace, sensible
course whioh you recommend them; and yet
expediency is, or ought to be, the weightiest
Of all considerations in politics. There is no
earthly way of making reconstruction plea
sant to the South; there is no way of arrang
ing the admission of negroes to political life
that will prevent its being a bitter pill to
nearly every Southern white. Nobody ex
pects it to be pleasant; but then it is unavoid
able. It has to be swallowed. The alterna
tive of suoh Southerners as do not like it is
expatriation or suicide. To sit down as Gov
ernor rerry is doing, and whine and bellow
against It, with the "lovely women" at his
Lack, is not only not manly, it is silly.
We could understand Southern men seek
ing to avoid action under the Reconstruction
act, and especially in South Carolina, where
the negroes are in the majority, if there was
the smallest chance that delay would change
the situation. It is true that the act pre
scribes the retention of the Southern States
under military government until the qualified
majority choose to act; but, then, supposing
the other States act, as they are likely to do,
O0 sensible man can suppose that South Caro
lina would be allowed by Congress to stay out
in the cold for an indefinite period. Nothing
can be surer than that, if the majority per
sisted in refusing to bring her in, the minority
would be at last allowed to do so. The spectacle
of a State governed permanently by a military
force is one which the people of the North
Would not long endure.
But Mr. Perry acknowledges now that the
majority in South Carolina is against Lim. He
Says the negro votes in all districts except one
outnumber the whites, and his only hope of
defeating the convention lies, he confesses, in
the ignorance of the blacks. Many negroes
in the interior, he thinks, will not Lave heard
of the convention or know anything about it,
and others will vote with their employers.
iUut this is a defense which time, and a very
short time, too, is sure to remove. Let the
convention be defeated now through negro
Ignorance or subserviency, aud we may be
Bure the radicals, both black and white, would
double their efforts to enlighten them, so that
in a very few months the issue would have to
Le tried over again, and the result would pro
bably be very different. Mr. Perry and his
friends would then find themselves dragged
Into the Union by the negroes, just as they
now fear thev may be, but the delay would
Lave irritated everybody whose irritation is of
any consequence, both blacks and whites. It
Would Lave confirmed the negroes iu their
growing hostility to their old masters, and
would Lave Justified tLe doubts and denuncia
tions with which the extreme radioals of the
North are now assailing the latter, so that Mr.
Perry would be forced sorrowfully to confess
that Lis last end was worse than Lis first.
We deprecate as much as anybody can do
the course which Messrs. Stevens, Phillips,
and others are pursuing at this moment. It
would be difficult to find words strong enough
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to characterize the performances of thorn who
are trying to persuade the blacks that it is
ollice or confiscation they are to seek through
their votes, and not protection for the fruits of
their industry. A more det.istablo sight than
an educated orator preaching this lesson, and
preaching nothing else, to this unfortunate
race on their very entrance to freodom and
civilization, we cannot well conceive ef. We
do not doubt that it is exercising a most inju
rious influence on the negroes, and on their
account every good man ought to set his face
against it.
Hut it is on their account alone that it is to
l feared. Mr. Perry knows, and every
Southern man of sense knows, that the plan
of taking away white men's farms to give
them to negroes finds no favor in Congress, or
out of it amongst any sensible or influential
portion of the community. There is about as
much real danger to Southern property from
nepio voting as there is from an invasion of
cm. Dominicans. If Mr. Perry and others like
him would sit down and do a little thinking,
instead of basking in the smiles of "lovely
woman," he would Beo this as plainly as we
farther North, to whom ".noble ladies" never
say a word of approval. A wholesale or even
very extensive confiscation of property by the
majority in any State is never likely to take
place, because the publio sentiment of the
other parts of the Union would forbid it, and
would find means, we may be sure, of makinor
it&elf felt. The one thing which is least likely !
o Happen in our pontics is me introduction or
toleration anywhere of any practice shaking
the security of property. Even in the wildest
of our border communities a man may com
mit as many murders as he pleases, but if he
takes to Lorse-stealing the people rise upon
him. In fact, over-sensitiveness on this point
is one of the great weaknesses of the Anglo
Saxon race.
Moreover, the negro population of the South
will have always to rely on its natural increase
for its growth, while the white population is
swollen every year by an enormous immigra
tion. Let it appear that political tranquillity
is once restored in the South, and we may be
sure that, slavery being gone, the great and
advancing tide, which is now eating every
year farther and farther into the heart of the
Western Wilderness, will begin to steal very
rapidly into the Southern forests, and to swamp
the black vote everywhere. There is not the
ghost of a chance that in ten years there will
in any Southern State be a black majority, and
that the ballot will be of any use to the negro
except to defend the fruits of his own toil.
There is danger j ust now, ho wever, that the negro
may be led astray, and that Lis education in
civilization may, by bad counsels, be made
bitterer and Larder than it deed bo. But there
is no danger that Southern whites will have to
pass through any heavier ordeal than they
ought to expect, and than they really deserve.
What the South needs now is common senso,
and the suppression of "cavaliers" and blus
tering orators, and we regret to say, too of
"lovely women." A more maliguant political
influence than these same "lovely women"
are now exercising all over the South is not to
be found on the continent, but it i3 to be
hoped that Southern men will get free from it.
Politics, they must learn, is not a "tourna
ment." The great problems of the science are
not solved by tilting at rings under the eyes of
Queens of Love and Beauty, but by the dili
gent study and right use of the common facts
of life. The South is not an enchanted land;
the negro is not a dusky giant in a big castle,
seizing white men, babies, and tender ladies,
and making ragouts of them. So we have no
longer any need of knights -errant, and the old
Southern armor, the lance of vituperation, the
shield of bombast, the helmet of rant, may be
put into the local museum.
Americana In Paris.
From the Tribune.
Voltaire and Beaumarchais, the one a stock
jobbing philosopher and the other a commer
cial ylay wright, may be considered as the true
revolutionary prototypes of modern avidity in
Paris. Any city which makes money out of
its hospitality, will speedily come to regard all
travellers in the true tavern-keeping spirit,
and to adapt the warmth of his reception to
the length of the lodger's purse. Imperial
Rome long ago went into business upon a
capital stock of antiquity, and, for several
ages, it Las continued to secure by mendicity
wbatever It could not extort by impudence.
"TLe people of Paris," says George in "The
Vicar of Wakefield," "are much fonder of
strangers that have money than of those that
Lave wit. As I could not boast much of either,
1 was no great favorite." Why the pilgrims
of to-day, wno nave been neeced through all
the phases of the grand European tour, should
vent their spleen upon America as the sharp
ing "Shylock" of the nations, is a problem to
lie investigated by those who think it worth
their while. Humanity, we venture to sur
mise, is much the same in all the four great
quarter; and whoever is doomed to be flayed
6hould, by all means, if he has any choice,
repair to Paris, where he will be fashionably
and artistically relieved of his cuticle, lie
may go further and be stripped more roughly.
There is one feature, however, of the news
which reaches us from the French capital,
which, we confess, fills us with patriotic grieff
We could hear, we think, with equanimity of
the peeling of Prussians and Russians, of
Englishmen and Turks; but it irks us to be
told that the thrifty shopmen, the lodging
letters, and the victuallers of Lutetia are
making a mere pigeon of our golden American
eagle. We are loth to believe that the mis
foi tunes of the country have affected its pru
denttmind. We are tenacious, not of reputa
tion for sordid cunning, but of that credit for
judicious bargains which has leen so long and
so universally allowed us. When we hear of
a Yankee who has been outwitted, we feel as
the elder Weller did when Samuel, the boy of
his careful culture, was bamboozled by the
tearful Trotter. Alas I if the universal testi
mony is to be received, our Samuel upon
his travels is no luckier than the gentle
man who went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho; while in these degenerate days, the
priests and Levites lamentably outnumber the
good Samaritans. They understand the Colum
bian proclivities iu Paris, aud they have taken
their measures according to their knowledge.
Newspaper correspondents announce that eight
special restaurants have been provided for our
occidental grinders; in six bar-rooms the
rational cock-tail foams, aud the ice tinkles in
the verdant julep of the free and the brave;
there are meeting-houses for the pious; there
are milliners by the million, and tailors by the
thousand, and diamond-dealers by the hun
dred, for those republicans who are attached to
gorgeous raiment; there are picture-dealers
who know our passion for the works of Pietro
Perugino, and who have provided several
cords of the canvas ascribed (by themselves)
to that eminent master; while the very boys
on the bridges anticipate a boot-blacking bril
liancy of business and an Influx of sous and
centimes which a contest between our patent
leathers and a Parisian mud will naturally and
inevitably occasion.
We are far from believing that our country
men will yield without a struggle to the num
berless forces which will besiege their pocket
books; and in many a family circle the pay
master in pantalooiiB will resolutely do econo
mical battle with the prodigal in petticoats.
In too many cases, however, he will be igno
miniously defeated, not for the want of natu
ral good judgment or acquired discretion, but
liecause in an evil hour some libel-monger
accused us of loving money too well, and of
(Tending it with a sparing and a trembling
hand. Since that time we have been practi
cally refuting the scandal by playing at ducks
and drakes with our gold and our green
backs, and have been buying at an enormous
cost a character for liberality, which turns out,
after all, to be only an unenviable notoriety
for reckless expenditure and tasteless
luxury. While we hold it to be disgrace
ful to be outbid, dishonorable to be
out-bought, we are very blind to the
imminent danger of being outwitted. It would
mortify us intolerbly to have Poor Richard
with us in our transatlantic meanderings,
although we owe all our power of profusion
to his homely proverbs. He was once himself
in Pans, aud in his plain coat partook of
many a little supper with the laced wits and
the furbelowed beauties of a brilliant era
With the courtiers who found a new relish
in his republican simplicity, and with philoso
phers who could never have enough of his
conversation and common sense. It will do no
harm for Americans in Paris to remember that
they are the countrymen of Benjamin Franklin.
Political Parties Time for Another
"ra of Good Feeling."
From the Time.
There was a halcyon period during the Pre
sidency of James Monroe, which has always
been known in our history as the "era of good
feeling." It succeeded the great agitations
connected with the admission of Missouri as a
slave State into the Union. The true Lome
bred feelings of all the people resumed . their
ascendancy. All sectional and party dissen
sions were hushed, and merged into a broad
and deep national spirit. Anger and denun
ciation gave place to hearty good-will and oom
plaisance; distrust and gloom to universal confi
dence. The result was a decade of unexampled
prosperity and progress.
What we now most of all need is another such
epoch. All things invite us. The old super
stition is true enough that only the rust of the
spear can cure the wound its point has made;
but already there is plenty of rust. The very
delay of reconstruction for which so many
good people have grieved, and so many bad
ones sworn, has given us a great deal of time
which has been very serviceable as an ano
dyne. Whoever is most responsible for this
delay, whether President Johnson or the
Southern people, the fact none the les3 remains
that it ha9 gradually, while we scarcely
thought of it, assuaged the old ranklings, and
prepared for the best kind of restoration. In
stead of tearfulness for our present condition,
we should have thankfulness; instead of
curses, congratulations.
Wre have escaped fearful dangers, and are
vastly better off, at this time, thau we had any
reason to expect. During the Rebellion every
thoughtful man dreaded its sequel, more than
its direct brunt. All history testifies that in
such civil conflicts there is a peculiar danger
in the wild rage of the battled storm, in the
incalculable heaving8 of the after swell, and
the tumultuous lashings of the cross seas. All
can recall how near the liberated colonies came
to going to the bottom after their revolution.
Half of the annals of England are taken up
with the fearful laborings of her ship of state
after such a revolutionary crisis. It is even
yet tossing violently, thirty years after such
an insignificant affair as the Reform agitation.
The civil war we have passed through is the
mightiest on modern record. Mightiest for its
interests involved, for its passions excited, for
its forces engaged. The bare sight of it at a
safe distance confounded the world. Every
where the wisest and the coolest exolaimed
with one voice that we must certainly go
down. And all men now agree that the wonder
is, not that we are still on an uneven keel, but
that we are afloat at all: not that there is yet
a heaving beneath us, but that there is the
dimmest prospect of a smooth sea beyond us.
Sure there ought to be enough in this won
derful good fortune to open our hearts to every
happy and benign, every trustful and magnani
mous feeling.
We should rejoiee and take heart, not only
for dangers escaped, but for new advantages
6ecured. We are forever rid of slavery, that
nereauary curse wuicn can&erea and inflamed
our whole system, and was apparently beyond
remedy. We are forever rid of that mutual
contempt between the two great sections of
the country which was a perpetual source of
unjust judgments, and perpetual stimulus to
unfair dealing. Both sections have come out
creditably from the sharpest of all earthly
ordeals, and each Las learned to respect the
other. The desperate tug of war has brought
out quslities on both sides little dreamed of
before, and such as belong only to the very
best stuff ef humanity. In the face of the
immense sacrifices of treasure and life made
by the Northern people for the flag of the
country, no Southern man can again mistake
them for crouching worshippers of Mammon
for craven underlings. In the face of the fiery
dash and iron endurance of the half-clad and
half fed Confederate regiments, no Northern
man can again look upon his Southern coun
trymen as a Gasgon breed, bereft of all
manhood by self-conceit and self-indulgence,
living only by brag, bravado, and bmster.
The names of "fire-eaters" and "white trash"
Lave been expunged forever from the Northern
vocabulary; and never again shall we hear
Southern lips hiss out the appellation "mud
sills." AU such contumelious terms have
perished forever in the blaze of this war. They
are as extinct as the gadfly which drove Io
mad. Wo are entitled to expect hereafter, in
the ditcusBions between the sections, a style
of speech comporting with natural respect and
patriotic pride, and befitting the gravity of the
interests committed to their care. In the old
mood this was morally impossible. The con
tempt which, according to the Indian proverb,
"pierces even the shell of the tortoise," cannot
but be fatal to anything like calm and fair de
liberation. That we may have another "era of good
feeling, " there must be a cessation, not only
of sectional controversy but of party animosity.
There is no good reason in the world why a
bitter party spirit should be continued.
"Every diflerence of opinion is not a difference
of principle. We have called by different
names brethren of the same principles. We
are all Republicans, all Federalists." So
spoke President Jefferson in his first in
augural address, at the close of one of the
fiercest party struggles in our history. It is
the true lesson of this day a piece of pristine
patriotism and wisdom never more needful
than now. The war ended long ago it is
high time that the party feuds it excited
should also have an end. Every one of the
great questions connected with the war
whether military or civil, has vanished. For
any practical bearing, not so much as the
shadow of one of them remains. The old sub
jects of dispute have been Bwept under by the
stream of events, and been set at rest forever.
We are now in a new era an era in which the
vital npcessity is not conflict, but concord.
Publio affairs have all changed, both in ele
ments and relations. To try to keep up the
old forms and modes is prcpostcrmn in the lite
ral meaning of the word, absurd in order of
time, substituting the last for the first. There
is always a tendency in party divisions to con
tinue themselves, long after the passing away
of their original cause. Even in ordinary times
we see it constantly illustrated how singularly
Lard a political party dies. This is especially
apt to be the case after some desperate strain,
like a civil war. The momentum then gathered
will of itself suffice to keep up the old party
movement and party cries, much after the
manner of the old apple-woman killed by the
ice of the Thames, as celebrated by the Eng
lish poet Gay:
"The crystal yields, she slnks.slin dies;
Her In ad, chopt off from her lost shoulders,
lim,
Pippin!' Abe cries; but death her voice con
founds rip-2il-2ip along the ice resounds."
It is pertinently remarked by Macaulay, "It
is the nature of parties to retain their original
enmities far more firmly than their original
principles. During many years a generation
of Whigs, whom Sidney would have spurned
as slaves, continued to wage deadly war with
a generation of Tories, whom Jeffries would
have hanged." Exactly so, in our case, party
strife is kept under up names which have out
lasted all their original significance. Jeffer
ton's form of expression is completely appli
cable to our present situation. We are all
conservatives all radicals. All, of every
name, agree that the Union must be preserved
in every essential element. All are for root
ing the last vestige of slavery from the land.
Even the name Copperhead, which still lin
gers, is no longer appropriate, for there is
nothing left of the old venom with which the
war was opposed. There are no genuine Cop
perheads nowadays. They were too obnoxious
to multiply. If a few of the original speoies
still live, they have undergone a wonderful
transformation, owing doubtless to the fire
with which they were girt they have cast off
their skins, dropped their fangs, and are now
seen engaged, like veritable silkworms, in
spinning, or trying to spin, new ties for the
Union. It may be that they will thus make
some amends for their former ways. At all
events, the effort is a good one, and. as such.
it binds us to hold our hands from them until
they Lave Lad a chance to do their best.
The President's Trip.
?Vom the Tribune.
In the brief journey to Raleigh, President
Johnson and Secretary Seward deserve
credit, not blame. Their temperate and timely
speeches must have had good effect, and are in
singular contrast to those made on the Presi
dential trip through the northwest. True, Mr.
Johnson could not entirely escape criticism of
the autobiographical portions of Lis address at
Raleigh; but when we consider the provoca
tion he has Lad, we cannot too highly com-
mend his abstinence from censure of Congress
and the policy of reconstruction. Since Lis
previous speecLes, Le has Lad Lis vetoes
thrust aside, has seen the validity of the laws
Le so bitterly opposed recognized by the
Supreme Court, and in two of the five
Military Districts has beheld the strict
and uncompromising execution of the
Reconstruction acts by the Generals in
command. To him this triumph, in which so
many rejoice, could not have been welcome.
He cannot read the papers, receive official re
ports, or travel without meeting evidences of
his unpopularity and the utter failure of his
plans, and his visit to the South must Lave
awakened feelings as bitter as those Lee or
Johnson would feel should they be escorted by
Grant or Sherman over the battle-fields where
the Rebellion was defeated. Yet Mr. Johnson
betrayed no feelings of resentment in any of
Lis brief speecLes, but confined himself to the
expression of general wishes, which we cheer
fully accept as sincere, for the perfect union of
all the States, and the reconciliation of all
classes. Mr. Seward was equally moderate in
what little he said publicly. We rejoice in
this apparent change of feeling, and if Mr.
Johnson had continued his trip throughout
the South in this spirit, it would have been
very beneficial.
Corn and Wheat.
From the Tribune.
It would be interesting to know how much
com is planted during these pleasant June
days. Owing to the protracted wet weather
a large part of the corn-fields of the North
have remained unplanted. But now, through
a region a thousand miles long and the hun
dred broad, from daylight till dusk, the farmer
Improves the favorable Lours to plant corn.
WLatever the amount may be, it is certainly
larger than ever was planted before. With
the incentives of high prices, a real soarcity
of grain, and the growing season lefore us, we
may confidently expect a yield fully up to the
average.
While the weather was so unfavorable for
coin planting, it was highly favorable for
wheat. During those wet, cold weeks the
wheat plant grew very slowly, and, in protect
ing itself, it sent out new shoots whioh now,
through all the fields, are rising to sight and
adding to a stand which, by reason of the win
ter snows, was already good. This addition
will add much to the crop. Had the season
been warm, the plant would have grown
rapidly, and bebn deprived of this increase.
Hence, one sees that naturally a cold climate,
giving a slow growth, and having a tendency
to create a self-protecting sod, must In a series
of years yield more wealth than a warm,
rapidly maturing climate.
Thousands of sharp observers are noting
these facts, for millions of dollars depend upou
them. The prospect of bountiful harvests is
Laving a powerful effect upon the market,
aud we are noting heavy declines. Other
articles of food are also declining. These
may be considered a" sure signs of a speedy
revival of trade.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
1ST UNION LEAGUE HOUSE,
MAT 15. 186T.
At a meeting oi the Board ot Directors of the
VISION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, held
March 12, 1887, the following Preamble aud Reeolu
lions were adopted:
Whereas, In a republican form ot government It la
of the highest Importance that the del. gates of the
people, to whom the sovereign power is entrusted,
should be so selected as to truly represent the body
I olitlc, and there being no provision of law whereby
the people may be organized for the purpose of such
selection, and all parties having recogulzed the neces
sity of such organization by the formation of volun
tary associations tor this purpose, and
Whereas, There are grave detects existing under
the present system ot voluntary organization, which
it is believed may be corrected by suitable provisions
of law; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Board of Directors of the UNION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, that the Secretary
be and is hereby directed to offer eleven hundred dol
lars in prizes for essays on the legal organization of
the people to select candidates for oillce, the prizes to
be as follows, viz.:
The sum of five hundred dollars for that essay
which, In the Judgment of the Board, shall be first in
the order of merit;
Three hundred dollars lor the second;
Two hundred for the third, and
One hundred for the fourth.
The conditions upon which these prizes offered
are as follows, viz.:
First. All essays competing for these prizes must be
addressed to GEORGE II. BOKER, Secretary of the
Union League of Philadelphia, and must be received
by him before the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1868.
and uo communication having the author's name at
tached, or with any other indication of origin, will be
considered.
Second. Accompanying every competing essay, the
author must enclose his name and addrexs within a
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 Union League; but no publication of
rejected essays, or the names ol their authors, shall
be made without consent of the authors In writing.
By order ol the Board oi Directors.
EOHE II. BOKEB,
6 16 1m SECRETARY,
gqgP" REPUBLICAN STATE CONTENTION
Harbipburo, April 16. 1867. The "Republican
State Convention1' will meet at the "Herdlc House "
iu WilUumsport. on W EDNESDAY, tlte ittlh day of
June next, at 10 o'clock A. hi., to nominate a candl-
rial, i i i ,.g n I. . . . . A i .... . . . . , . .
.v vuuRv v. nio DUiiimuv Luurfc, HUU IU llutlatO '
proper meusures for the ensuing isiale canvass. '
Aa heretofore, the Convention will be composed of I
Representative aud Henalorial Delegates, chosen in I
the usual way, and equal In number to the whole of
the Nei i lit tin. .nil liuiuin.ni..i..... ... . i .. . . .
Assembly. ,u ,uc
By order of the State Central Committee.
,,, F. JORDAN, Chairman.
J. Roblkv DufiuusoN, ') Secretaries. 82osu
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COmPANf, E. D.
OFFICE, So. 44 WALNUT NTKEET,
Philadelphia, May 21, 1807.
The INTEREST IN GOLD, on the FIRST MORT
GAGE BONDS OF THE UNION PAOIFIO RAIL
WAY COMPANY, KAbTERN DIVLSION, DUB
JUNE 1, will be paid on presentation of the Coupons
therefor, on and alter that date, at the Banking
House ot
DABNE1 , HOHUAN A CO.,
No. 63 EXCHANGE PLACE. New York.
(Signed) WILLIAM J. PALMER.
6 21tuthslut Treasurer.
KT5r STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. THE
AfJ parmerb' ahu mechan ica- national
. . Philadelphia, May 23, 1867.
A General Meeting of the Stockholders of Tiie
farmers' and .Mechanics' National ttauk or Phlla
k1W?,),;!J,v.1'?,'""S! JBANKINU HOUSE, on
, ,i r. DAY, th 2lh day of June next, at twelve
0 olotk, uuon, lor the purpose of taking Into consluer
i. '.WfiV . J?1" uf ameuduieiiu ol the Third
ai.d lifth or the Articles of Association of the said
Iauk.
By order of the Board of Directors.
8 28 tJia W. RUKI11UN. Jr.. Cashier.
CvjT- IMPORTANT TO STEAMBOAT CAP
Vs TAINS AND OWNRs.-By au act of u.e
Legislature of the State ot New Jersey, passed on the
mil of April, 181,7, all captains, or owners of steam
boats or other vessels, are prohibited from latiuiug
excursion or plc-ulo parties on the bunks or wharves
01 Ihe Delaware river, at or uear Delauoo, or Florence
Heights, or the Raucocas river, etc, etc., under a
ixiiullyof ten dollars for each aod every person so
auUrd or disewhaiked, aud ahull be liable to arrest,
and for all dunaages that may be committed by such
excursion or plc-uic parties to the properly or per
sons of the cllueus orii esideuls of ;ibe couuly of Bur
liiigiou. 64i
rS?f" OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
s3-' GASWORKS. Junb 1.1807.
Proposals will be received at this ollice, No. )S.
SEVENTH Street, until noou of thelHtdayot July,
for the sale to the Trustees ot the Philadelphia lias
Works of the Stock In the Ueriuantown, Richmond,
Manyunk, aud bouthwaik aud Moyaineuslng Ot
Companies, to be used as Inveslmeuts fortheSluk.
li'gfcuud ot said Couipauies.
Ml in BENJAMIN B. RILEY, Cashier. H
Ka?T N 0 T I C E.-AN ELECTION OF
a3- Dliectors of the CUE8NLT HILL IRON
ORE COMPANY will be held at No. 8-7 WALNUT
Street. Philadelphia, ou the 17 lU Juus, 1807, at 11
O'clock M,
6 81 iat P. R. PYNE, Secretary
frr IIOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINI-
a-i' MENT. Abscesses Of many years standing,
have yielded uuder a short course of these anuseiitiu
and detergent lueillciues. The Uiuliueut oleatises the
sore of all Irritating purulent matter, aud liubues the
lihrea.and tissues with new Hie and vigor, while the
pills, purllylug the blood, neutralize the iioxtom
huniors ail expel llieiu from the system. Iu sktu
diseases ol whutever character, luuiora, old sores,
ulcerated lens, etc, the action of these remedies is
sale and c rittin.
hold by all Druggists. 1 stufslt
REMOVED.
OUR BEDDING STORE
IS BEHOVED
FROM THE OLD fJTAXD TO
No. 11 South NINTH Street.
6 27 B. Im KNIGHT A SOX.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NEW I'KKI-'UME 1011 IHE UANDKEHiJHlEJ
PIIALON'S "Night Blooming Csr.
PIIALOK'S "Night Blooming-Cersus."
FIIALON'S "Night Blooming Csrsus."
PIIALON'g "Night Blooming Careus."
PHALON'g "NlghtBloomlng Cersma.n
A most exquisite, delicate, and Fragrant Per time,
distilled from the rare and besatiinl flower trom which
it tok.es its nsme,
Manaiactaredonly by; l!w
PIIALON goif , New York.
BEWARE OF COTTNTSRFKITS.
ABK FOB I'D A LP j 8 TAaJS NO OXOE&
FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS.&C.
JB W M. H OF MANN.
NO. t NOBTII EIUIITU STUEET.
HOSIERY GOODS.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF HOSIERY OF
BNGLIBH AND GERMAN MANUFACTURES,
For Ladies', Gents', and Children's Wear,
LADIlJs'MEBlKO AND HEJMNO UAUXB
VKBiTM.
MISSES' 2IEBINO ANI JHEBINO OAUZB
Tt:STS.
UlJUIS' HERINO, 1IEUINO OAVZE, COT.
TON, AND- HEAVY ALL-WOO I, SU1BTI
ANI DMA WEBS.
YOUTHS' MEKINO COTTON. AND HE
BIAO UAllUf SJUlHTS gftulhs
J W. SOOTT & CO.,
' SHIRT MANUFACTURERS.
AND PJCAUCBS IM
MEN'S FUItNialilNQ GOODS,
No. 814 t'lltsnllT sTJIKET,
FOUR DOORS BELOW TflJB "CONTINENTAL,!
ftitrp miLADimmA.
pATEKT SHOULDER-SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
AND JENTEEMEN'S rCKNiSUIIifiSTOBI
fERFECT FITTING BH1RTS AND DRAWIUiS
made from measurement at very short nonce.
All other articles ol GENTLEMEN'b DRIBS
GOODS lit full variety.
WINCHESTER A CO.,
1 U No. 708 CHFfeNPT Btreet.
ICE COMPANIES.
CE! ICE I ICE! ICE!
INCORPORATED 1864.
COLD SPRING
ICE AND COAL COMPANY,
DEALERS IN AND
Shippers of Eastern Ice ana Coal.
THOHAS E. CAUIIJL, PRESIDENT.
JOHN CIOODTKAR, SECRETARY.
HENRY TUOAIAS, SUPERINTENDENT.
Having now completed our arrangements for a full
supply of Ice, ws are prepared to enter into contracts
with iargs or small customers lor a purs article, with
guarantee of being supplied promptly lor the season
Wagons run daily in all paved limits of the consolt.
dated city. West Philadelphia, Mantua, Tioga, Frank
lord, Rrldesburg, Richmond, aud Germanlown. A.
trial is asked. Bend your orders to the Office
No. 4.35 WALNUT Street.
DEPOTS:
Wsvrs?Ps!B ,WELIlU WILLOff
- f Id 11 BUi WiLU
NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
AND MASTER STREET,
L031UARD AMD TWENTY-FIFTH STS
PINE STREET WHARF, S 111 U T L ll LL.
IT JL.
O It
AVO
mZSEllVERo NATURAL FLOWERS
A. M. POWELL,
No. 725 ARCII STREET, BELOW EIUIITII.
BonqHets,:Wrestli, Hunkels, Pyramids ol Cut Flo
ts 1 uruibhed to order at all seasoua. Its if