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A Sew Political Iarty.
jVom the Time.
Senator Wade's speech In Kansas, of whlou
W had a brief notice by telegraph, makes It
clear that we are to have a political party
fcwed on the broadest and plainest doctrines of
ftgradanfsm. A war on property is to suoceed
tie war on slavery.
-Confiscation Is the first plank in the new
Tlatforra. General Butler declares that "some
plan most be devised by which the lands of
the South may be divided among those who
shall occupy and till them." That plants
confisoation-ostensibly In punishment for
Rebellion, but really to take the lands of the
South away from their white owners, and give
them to the negroes. General Butler declares
Jt to be a 'Belf-evidont truth" that "where
the land Is held in large tracts by the em
ployer, to be tilled by the employed, there can
Ie no Just and true field for the exercise of
republican statesmanship." This is certainly
a new view of the subject. In order to secure
a "just and true field" for the ingenuity and
ambition of men in publio life, we must have
a new distribution of property in the Southern
Thisis for the South, and its object is to
Secure the negro vote. But it does not go far
enough. It covers only part of the ground,
and leaves the political future open to too
many contingencies. So Senator Wade visits
Kansas, and proclaims there the new political
roe pel.
Besides confiscation in the South, we must
Insist upon a new distribution not only of
lands, but of all property everywhere. "Con
gress," said Mr. Wade, "which has done so
snuoh for the slave, cannot quietly regard the
terrible distinction which exists between the
laborer and the employer. Property is not
fairly divided, and a more equal distribution
jnust be wrought out." These evils are more
seriously felt, he said, at the Kant than at the
West. It is fair to infer, therefore, that the
remedy, whatever it may be, is to be applied
here first.
This looks a little as if we were getting back
to the old days when "vote yourself a farm"
Vas the war-cry of a political party. But the
most curious feature of Mr. Wade's proposi
tion is that he insists upon female suffrage as
the means to bring about the other reforms
vhich he seeks, lie evidently expects that
women are sure to be Democrats, Radicals,
agrarians in their politics. This shows how
little he knows about them. Women are na
turally and inevitably aristocrats; and when
ever they get the right to vote and to hold
office (and if they have one they must have the
other also), we shall stand a very good chanoe
of having onr democratic institutions over
thrown, and an unadulterated aristocracy
established in its place.
There is n H the slightest chance that Gene
ral Butler, Thaddeus Stevens, Wendell Phil
lips, and Mr. Wade will succeed in, what is
evidently their leading purpose, fastening
their doctrines of confiscation, spoliation, and
redistribution of property, upon the Republi
can party. But they will be very likely to
organize a new party based upon those purposes
and principles.
Japan Great Field far American En.
terprlse.
IVom the Herald.
The departure of the Japanese Commis
sioners and their suite from this city, for
Japan leads us to consider the growing inter
course between this country and that, and the
great field for Amerioan enterprise which is
opening on the other side of the Pacific. The
first Japanese who came here a few years ago,
when, as will be remembered, the smart little
fellow Tommy was quite a sensation with the
ladies, were an embassy to make or complete
the treaty between Japan and the United
States. This last party of officials was a com
mission for business purposes, though also
sent by the Tycoon. They came to look after
funds which had been sent to this country for
the purchase of vessels of war, and to make
purchases for a Japan navy. They have suc
ceeded in obtaining from our Government the
famous Rebel ram Stonewall; which formi
dable vessel is now being prepared for sea at
the Washington Navy Yard, aud when ready
will be sent to Japan. Two officers of the
Japanese navy, First Lieutenant Ogasawara
Xendon, and Second Lieutenant Jovata-llaisa-Ku,
remain here for the purpose of going in
the Stonewall, when that vessel is ready for
tne voyage.
In the. present age the great race among
nations is for the prise of commerce. For the
trade of the East, or, in a more specific term,
of Eastern Asia, there has been an intense
rivalry. Great Britain has had, heretofore,
the advantage, because she had acquired a
large colonial empire . in that part of the
world. India itself has proved very valuable
to her commerce; but her dominion there gave
her particular advantages in other countries of
Asia. The Dutch also, up to a late period,
monopolized a good deal of the trade of the
liaat. But a great change has taken place
Within a few years, and, we might say, almost
within a few months. The United States have
Jiow entered the race for the commerce of Asia
with a vigor, prestige, and facilities that no
other nation possesses. We have approached
thoBe populous and rich empires of Asia
which a short time ago were sealed against the
rest of the world, not as Euglaud and other
Eowers have, with cannon, but with the olive
ranch of peace and good-will. They bave
appreciated this, and we stand to-day better
in the eyes of the Japanese and Chinese than
any other people. They have recently learned,
too, what a mighty power this Republio is, and
what a rich, ana vast oouuiry we possess.
This has a powerful influence over the Asiatio
mind. The Chinese, who have emigrated by
tens of thousands to the Western shores of the
Republic, learn a good deal about the country,
and send the information to their countrymen.
The Japanese, a shrewd, inquiring people,
Who oome here, spread intelligence of America
throughout their country. One of these Com
missioners, who left yesterday, Matsmoro, was
liere before with the Embassy. He was sent
again, doubtless, on acoouut of his ability
and bis knowledge of the English and several
other languages, to investigate matters
here, and to make a report of them when
he arrives home. We understand that he is
'full of ideas," and will communicate them
to his Government and countrymen. The
first Commissioner, X)ntomogoro, is a very
observing man also, we understand; but Mats
moro has had superior advantages, and is a
learned and keen observer. Should the
Tycoon Send an ambassador to Washington,
which is i very desirable, Matsmoro would
make an excellent representative. It is to be
hoped, too the Tycoon will send his brother,
who-is now in Paris, to the United States
before ha returns home. That Prince would
he able to compare the wealth, power, gran
deur, and vastuesa of this country with the
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mere glitter of the small States of Europe,
lie would see here the seat of the greatest
empire the world ever know, and the centre of
the commerce of the world at no distant day.
But for our progress and influence In East
ern Asia we have not to look to what such
impressions may efl'ect or the future may de
velop. The facts are before us. The steam
ship line Iwtween Han Francisco and Japan,
and connecting with China, has brought that
part of the world into intimate commercial
relations with us. The frequent and regular
intercourse thus established has created a most
extraordinary and favorable impression. We
have news from Japan in twenty-five to thirty
days, and they publish the news from this
country in the same time. Within a few years,
when the Pacific Railroad shall be completed.
we shall bo able to go from New York to Je.ldo
in thirty days. The Japanese rightly regard
ns as their near neighbors. American ideas
are rapidly pervading the empire. Already
the Tycoon and his officers of the army and
navy are adopting our dress and uniform.
Through their press and other means of com
munication they are fast becoming acquainted
With our institutions, habits, and the events of
the country. The Tycoon, who is a young
man of about thirty-five years of age, has
large and liberal views. In a few months the
whole empire will be opened to foreigners.
When we consider that in Japan, a rich and
productive country, with thirty millions of
people, there is hardly a vehicle of any kind
on wheels to be found, outside of those used
by foreigners, and that they have no ma
chinery or labor-saving implements, we shall
see what a vast field there is for American en
terprise. They dig or grub the earth, they
carry everything on their shoulders or in their
hands, and they have no facility of looomotion
besides their legs. They want our improve
ments; they are looking to us to supply them.
Implements of husbandry, machinery, saw
millfl, and steam engines of every description,
with a thousand different articles of use among
us in every-day life may ere long find a mar
ket there. Then they need railroads and
steamboats, which we can construct better
than any other people.
The production of tea, it is said by the Ja
panese here, could be quadrupled by introduc
ing all these improvements, for they have
plenty of cheap labor. And so, probably,
with rice and other productions. The move
ment has commenced, and, to use a common
sporting phrase, we have the inside track. If
we take advantage of our opportunities we
shall open a very extensive and lucrative com
merce with both Japan and China, and in a
short time it will not be necessary to send
specie to pay for tea and other things imported
from there. We may have a balance of trade
in our favor. We may control the commerce
of these great Asiatic empires. Such, by the
judicious management of our Government aud
enterprise of our people, is the prospect of a
mighty trade on the other side of the Pacific.
The Uw and the Sword.
From the Tribune.
The President and his Cabinet have con
sidered the opinion which the Attorney-General
has been directed to give of the right of
the District Commanders in the South to re
move civil officers. Mr. Johnson again and
again in his veto messages, and in the strong
est terms, declared that the Reconstruction
act placed "all the people of the Southern
States undor the absolute dominion of "mili
tary rulers," and that it gave to the General
in command "the power of an absolute
monarch that his will was to take the plaoe
of all law." It now appears that the Presi
dent is not infallible, and that he has two ways
of interpreting the law. Before the passage of
the bill, Mr. Johnson made it as severe as
possible in order to make it odious; now he
would make it as mild as possible, in order to
reconcile it with his policy; and the Attorney-
ueneral has been set at work to find a flaw
sufficient to justify interference with, the exe
cution of the law.
Thus far, no action of the military oom
manders has made such an opinion a practical
necessity. It is a merely theoretical and
strained interpretation of the law, which no
error or abuse demanded. The removals of
civil officers in the Rebel States have been
exceptions. Governor Patton, of Alabama
(though he sought to prevent registration),
Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, Governor
Throckmorton, of Texas, remain in office.
Every officer able to discharge his duties, and
patriotic enough to decently submit to the
law, has been unmolested, and of all the re
movals there is not one that is not fully justi
fied. Sheridan removed Abell, Monroe, and
lierron for notorious crimes; with perfect im
partiality he removed Wells, a radical, for
reasons equally good. General Pope, in re
moving Mayor Withers for neglect of duty in
the case of the Mobile riots, had certainly right
on his side.
Sheridan surely gave no cause for complaint
when he offered the Governorship of Loui
siana to Durant, and gave it to Flanders; nor
did Pope when he made Ilorton the Mayor of
Mobile. It is as clear as the day that the
intent of the Military law is reconstruction;
that it was not intended to destroy but to
build up civil government in the South, and
in this spirit it has been executed by each of
the district commanders. Congress did not
mean to sweep away the civil authority in the
South, and the law may in letter, but cannot
in spirit, be so construed. If Mr. Johnson is
prepared to take this stand, and to delay re
construction upon the plan of Congress in the
hope of forcing it upon his own plan, he will
soon find that the people are ready to meet
him.
Who, then, would be responsible for this
absolute tyranny, this prevention of speedy
reconstruction f Mr. Stanbery would answer,
Congress, which made the law; we, the Presi
dent, who sought this strained interpretation
ol Us language. Congress, the Kepuuiican
party, never intended that the military power
should utterly supersede civil power In the
Southern States; it gave the district com
manders the right of control, the right of
removal, and, in the absence of any provision
to the contrary, plainly did not intend to
deprive them of the right of appointment. One
of the great, self-evident purposes of the
Reconstruction law is the maintenance and
restoration of civil authority in the Rebel
States, and that purpose will be fulfilled.
Quibbling may defeat it for a time, but that
defeat will not obtain the suooesa of the Presi
dent's policy. Should the presumed opinion
of the Attorney-General be enforced, it will be
for a short time only, for as certainly as such
interference with the law is attempted will
Congress meet in July.
Maximilian' Proclamation,
From the Herald.
The proclamation published, if it shall
prove to have originated with the ex-Emperor
Maximilian, will afford the world some new
light as to the character of that Prince. It
should be noted that it came to as, not from
any of our special correspondents, but through
the Associated Press, ana in Buch an indefinite,
cloudy way that wo cannot trace It beyond
New Orleans. It is to be nnpposed that the
news with which it is associated loft QuertHaro
not Inter than our special despatch, also pub
lished on Tuesday. Indeed, as our special
despatch cam by Galveston, we might fairly
reason that that is the later of the two, and,
therefore, that our correspondent on the spot
should have known of the existence and pub
lication of this notable document, if it were
ever published at QueriHaro or ever oame from
Maximilian. Yet our correspondent does hot
mention it. He gives the latest authentio
news of the German Prince, mentions his ill
ness with dysentery, and the exertions on his
behalf of the Priuoess Salm Salm, but not a
word of the proclamation. As our correspon
dent at that point is a man to be relied upon,
and a line from him is worth a wilderness of
ordinary press despatches, we must regard
his silence as an evidence against the procla
mation. Its authenticity might also fairly be denied
on internal evidence. There is too much of
the vulgar "last dying speech and confession"
in it. It is Issued as a "warning to all ambi
tious and incautious princes." Would Maxi
milian so describe himself T Has he so far
adopted Mexican views as to put himself in
the category of men who plunge nations into
war through heedless ambition t And is such
a characterization quite consistent with the
words in the opening of the document, that
he came to Mexico "only animated with the
best faith of insuring the felility of all?"
In its separate sentences this proclamation
gives itself the lie. It is too full of purely
Mexican buncombe to have come from a
European pen. No doubt Maximilian's feel
ings against Napoleon would quite Justify
the extravagant expressions attributed to
him. The doubt Is whether Maximilian
would have given them uttoranoe. While
it is always possible that some original paper
from the Prince may have been the basis of
this document, and been badly translated or
even "doctored" by the Mexican authorities,
we must hesitate to believe that this docu
ment is authentic, or that Maximilian would
have issued it even at the suggestion of the
Liberal Government and as the price of hifl
life and liberation.
The Harvest Fropct Blor Cheering
Account.
From the Timet.
Nine-tenths of all the reports received at
the Agricultural Department during the past
month agree as to the favorable prospects for
the coming harvest. Never, according to the
Commissioner's summing up, has there been
so general an expression of encouragement.
Fiom the West and South the returns are
especially promising, with the exception of
an occasional district in the higher latitudes,
where the winter wheat was exposed to the
sharp and biting frosts of February and
March. Many of the correspondents of the
Department promise a wheat crop double that
of last year.
If there ia any reliance to be placed upon
these reports and they are certainly borne
out by the accounts that come to us through
our exchanges it can hardly be possible for
the grain speculators to keep prices from tum
bling fast and heavily. They have been feel
ing the downward pressure more or less for the
last ten days. But at the opening of the mar
ket this week there was a strong effort to get
the figures up to the standard of the cold
spring months the northeasterly storms of
Saturday and Sunday being favorable to com
binations against v.he consumer. Purchasers,
moreover, bave been holding back since the
recent fall in prices began, and their being
obliged again to come into market to supply
the demands for actual consumption, has tem
porarily inspired holders with the notion of an
advance. This was felt both on Monday and
yesterday; and it need not be wondered at if
the same state of things continues for a few
days or perhaps weeks longer. All depends,
or pretty nearly depends, on the sunshine we
get for the next fifteen days. Consumers may
in a measure regulate their purchases by that
weather-gauge. There is no dispute whatever
as to the large breadth of ground sown, espe
cially in the South and Southwest. There can
hardly be a reasonable doubt that, south of
the Ohio and the Potomao, the danger of a
failure either as to wheat or corn is past.
But the full assurance of abundance is yet
wanting.'
How little the prioe of gold has had to do
with the high quotations for breadstuff's during
the past year, may be readily seen by turning
back to our market reports of dates preceding
the war and comparing them with the figures
when the war was at its height, and gold had
appreciated 50 and 100 per cent. For the six
years from 1856 to 1861 inclusive, when our
paper currency was at par, the average price
of flour at this season of the year was $5-33.
During the two first years of the war the ave
rage was scarcely greater, only $550, although
in May, 1863, gold had risen to 150. In May,
1864, the quotation for flour was about $710 ;
but gold had then run up above 20, and in
July was quoted as high as 280. Thus, with
the one dollar greenback rated at little more
than 40 cents in coin, we were actually paying
$3 60 lens per barrel for flour than we have
been paying for common kinds during this
spring, with gold at 136.
The greater part of this vast difference is,
of course, only referable to the deficiency of
last year's harvest and to the lateness of the
present spring, at onoe delaying the opening
of navigation and throwing doubt for the
time upon the harvest prospects in most of
the Middle and Northern States. So much of
the rise as is not traceable to either of these
causes is due to the combinations existing
among dealers, and to the holding back of
many of the wealthier class of farmers in ex
pectation of famine prices before midsummer.
Some of the latter have already got bit far
worse than they bargained for.
In view of all the reports now before the
country, official and unofficial, it does appear
to be safe enough for consumers to lay in no
more than they actually need for immediate
use. The weather must become suddenly and
alarmingly bad much worse than we have
had it if the growing crop does not far ex
ceed in quantity aud quality that of 1866.
I a Bummer Session of Cougreai
Demanded 1
From the World,
The Tribune has determined, it would seem,
to reunite with the most radical members of
the Republican party, temporarily alienated
by Mr. Greeley's signature on Davis1 bail-bond
and his letter to the Union League Club, and
to Join them in preventing the exeoution o
the military despotism act, in accordance with
the mild Interpretation of Attorney-General
Btanbery's official opinion.
We have repeatedly called the attention of
the radicals to that opinion, and urged upon
them their bounden duty to protest now or
not at all to the Attorney-General's views and
President Johnson's exeoution of the law in
accordance with those views. More outrageous
injustice oould not be conceived than that by
tLe Silence of ronsont the radicals should
suffer the South to go on registering and
organizing under that act thus interprotod,
and then refuse to admit the Southern States
into the Union, and their members to Con
gress, because of objections to. the Attorney
General's interpretation. For the Southern
people have really no choice. The law of
Congress is enforced among them by the
Executive, acting under the direction of his
constitutional adviser. It Teaches them in no
other shape. They cannot choose between the
military despotism act construed agreeably to
the feelings of the Executive who vetoed It,
and the same act construed agreeably to the
wishes of the body which passed it over his
veto. Therefore, whether by careless legisla
tion the act permits of the interpretation made
by Attorney-General Staubery, or whether his
interpretation has strained it out of harmony
with the intent of its framers, equally an im
perative obligation rests upon those framers
not to make the very obedience of the long
suffering South a ground for prolonging their
exclusion from tho Union. They, at any rate,
should not suffer for organizing in the only
manner in which they can organize j they
should not be permitted to go on in good faith
and expectancy till the December session,
then to be rebuffed again for complying, in the
only way they possibly could comply, with
the hard requirements of Congress. If objec
tions are to be made, the merest good faith re
quires them to be made now, so that the July
session for which Congress provided may reo
tify its own omissions, or oorrect the Attorney
General's interpretation, and Reoonstmotion
proceed without further delay in time for the
December session.
The 1'ribum, which at first was inclined to
indorse Mr. Stanbery's opinion, or at least to
let it pass unchallenged, has now revised its
judgment, and issued a pronunciamiento to
which neither Senator Wade, nor Representa
tive Stevens, nor its lately belabored Union
League Club, can take the least exoeption.
The Tribune informs the President, with the
most dictatorial air, what its party will permit
him to do and what it will not nermit him to
do. It Informs him that he must not only
swaiiow me military enactment, but must
swallow it humbly and with the most radical
sauce. It informs him Dlumnlv that Mr.
Stanbery's condiments will not be permitted
Dy me country" (its favorite phrase for the
rabid radicals) to make the nauseous dose a
whit less palatable to himself, a whit less re
pulsive to the South. Every disgusting ap
pearance, every stinking odor, every vomit
provoking taste must be preserved clear and
undisguised, or else, it informs the Chief
Magistrate, a summer session will be called.
P impeachment go on, and rage and hate again
rouse tempests in our political sky.
Now President Johnson has sworn to uphold
and obey the Constitution of the United States,
and to faithfully execute their laws as he reads
them in the statute-book; but hereafter a file
of the 1 ribune will be as necessary to him aa
Little & Brown's edition of the "Statutes at
Large," for it is also ordained that in exe
cuting the laws of the land he must not merely
jook to their faithful execution, and by re
movals and appointments insure their faithful
execution, it is also ordained and proclaimed
at Spruce street that he cannot remove Gene
rals (though they should openly soout and
violate the law they are sent to execute) "who
have the confidence of the oountry, nor appoint
men in whom it has no conscience. Doubt
less hereafter the 7 ribune will publish daily to
the President its bulletin of men in whom the
country has and has not confidence, and
permit him to make his selection from its list.
Ml. xA 1 . V 1 1 O :.. 1-1 I
Sheridan. Set them be removed, it says, and
"a summer session is inevitable." If General
Grant has any order to General Sheridan let it
be "Go in 1"
That we may do no injustice to the Tribune,
we quote herewith the most important part of
its significant pronunciatitiento:
"We know the President must be sorely
tempted to use whatever power lie may possess
to oppose a measure which he assailed so vin
dictively last winter. That Is well understood.
The country appreciates the fidelity with which
lie performs his most unwelcome work. But be
must perform It. Ills administration will not
be permitted to Interfere with reconstruction
by removing the Generals who have the confi
dence of the country, and appointing men In
whom it bus no coundence. Let the President
but attempt this, let hlm oppose his executive
prerogative to the operations of the Military
bill, and in a day this era of good feeling will
become a season of rage and hate this little
cloud will cover the heavens with blackness.
The country lslntensely earnest on this subject.
Let bherldan or Hickles, for Instance, be re
moved, and a summer session of Uougress whl
be Inevitable. With a summer session the Pre
sident's functions will most assuredly be so
limited that it will not be In his power ever
afier to remove any General commaudlug. All
the bitterness thut prevailed last year will be
renewed, a hundred questious will sutler, and
the work of national pacification be stopped
merely that tbe President and Congress may
have another controversy, Hucii a controversy
con have but one result, for the people feel with
Congress, and will sustain it."
Nor is President Johnson alone threatened
after this autocratio fashion. General Grant,
too, the especial bete noir of the radicals, whom
the Times, by-the-by, yesterday declared with
undisturbed placidity that it expected to see
nominated by the National Convention of the
Republican party General Grant, too, is in
formed in the same autocratio tone that the
magnanimity of Appomatox Court House will
be entirely out of place in his future conduct
towards the South; that he, too, must kneel
and cringe to this radical despotism. Says
the 1'ribune to him:
"It Is also rnmored that General Grant has
expressed auxlety in regard to Sheridan, and
while he will not recommend his removal, he
Blill feels that he might be reprimanded. We
are happy to welcome any expression of Gene
ral Grant that seems to Indicate uu opinion on
any national question, but we believe this
rumor to be untrue. General Graut will
hardly care to Interfere with his renowned sub
ordinate. At a critical portion of the war, he
found it necessary to give Hherldan but one
order, 'Go Id." If he bus any order to give let
him repeat that."
We do not interpret these edicts aa Mr.
Greeley's abandonment of his own ambition
for the Presidency, and hi resignation in
behalf of General Sheridan, upon whom a
larger and larger proportion of the radical
party are laying their hopes. Mr. Greeley
will take his thirst for offioe into the grave
with him; but both in his own interest and
in the interest of his party he consents to
give a vicious lunge at General Grant, whom
he dreads in his secret soul as the possible
candidate of the opposition (for of course the
General can never be persuaded to self
slaughter as the candidate of the most in
numerous faction of the party in power); and
both in his own interest, and in the interest
of his party, Mr. Greeley means to work des
perately for such a construction and enforce
ment of the military despotism act as will
exclude from Southern ballot-boxes (if the
South must bo allowed to vote) the largest
number of votes hostile to him.
This proclamation, therefore, has not merely
a personal, but a party Bignificauoe. The
Tribune is not so senseless as to insist that the
military law shall be executed not uniformly.
Uniformity in its execution is what justice
demands, and what, forevery reason, Congress
would especially insist upon. Unless Congress
meets in July to frame fta own interpretation
of the law, and the manner of its exeoution,
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there is and can be no other uniformity than
that which President Johnson, advised by the
Attorney-General, prescribes, and no General
who obstinately or ignorantly prevents this
uniformity should for an instant be suffered to
retain his plaoe.
Therefore, when the Tribune assumes to
insist upon the retention ef this or that
major-general who executes the law differently
from the generals of other departments, it in
reality objects to Attorney-General Stanbery's
interpretation of the law, and seeks by indi
rection to force upon the President responsi
bility for a July session, which, in all frank
ness and fairness, it should the rather demand
on behalf of the framers of the law and the
party in power.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
UNION LEAGUE HOUSE,
. -i MAT 15. 1867.
At a meeting ot the Board ol Directors of the
UNION LEAUUK OF PHILADELPHIA, held
March 1Z, 1807, the following Preamble and Resolu
tions were adopted:
Whereas. Ia 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
r otitic, and there being no provision ot law whereby
the people may be organized for the purpose of such
selection, and all parties having recognised the neces
sity of such organization by the formation of volun
tary associations lor this purpose, and
Whereas, There are grave detects existing under
the present system ot voluntary organization, whloh
It Is believed may be corrected by suitable provisions
of law; now, therefore, be It
Keaolved, By the Board of Directors of the UNION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, that the Secretary
be aud is hereby directed to offer eleven hundred dol
lars in prizes for essays on the legal organization of
the people to select candidates for office, 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
tbe order of merit;
Three hundred dollars lor tbe 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 b
addressed to GEORGE II. BOKER, Secretary of the
Union League of Philadelphia, and roust oereoelved
by him before the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1368.
and no communication having tbe author's name at
tached, or with any other indication of origin, wlU be
considered.
Second. Accompanying every competing essay, the I
author must enclose his name and address within a
sealed envelope, addressed to the Secretary of the
Union League. After the awards bave been made, the
envelopes accompanying the successful essays shall
be opened , and tbe authors notified of the result.
Third. All competing essays shall become the pro
perty of tbe Union League; but no publication of
rejected essays, or lb names of their authors, shall
be made without consent of tne authors In writing.
By order ol the Board ot Directors.
UEOBUE II. BOKER,
6 16 lm SECRETARY.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
Harsiskurq. Anrll IS. 1867. The "Republican
Stale Convention" will meet at the "Herdlo House,"
lu Willlumsport, ou WEDNESDAY, the Mlh day of
June next, at 10 o'clock A. M., to nominate a candi
date lor Judge of the Hup rem e Court, and to Initiate
proper measures for the ensuing Stale canvass.
As herelolore, the Convention will be composed of
Representative aud Senatorial Delegates, cboieu In
tbe usual way, aud equal lu number to the whole of
the Senators and KepreseniaUve lu the Ueuexal
Assembly. .
By order of the State Central Committee.
F. JORDAN, Chalrmrn.
J. BiaY Dukouhum, j secretaries. g3o3lt
rSSf STOCKHOLDERS' M KILTING. THE
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o'elotk, noon, tor the purpose of taking Into consider
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g ta tJ2M W. RUBHTON. Jb., Cashier,
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4 lm
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