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More Dotheratloa.
From tht Tribune.
The readers of history will Join with ua in
declaring that there are myths and bothera
tions enough already in the chroniolea of our
race. Even before the present year of our
Lord, there was the Wandering Jew, Tope
Joan, Terkin Warbeok, The Man in the Iron
Mask, the Chevalier d'Kon, The Man in the
Claret-Colored Coat, the Man who Struck Mr.
"William Patterson, the Man who read Cooper's
Mannikins," while in 18G7 came Mr. Mo
Ginnis and Mr. MoCracken to increase the
mysterious list. It is known that in accord
ance with our duty as publio journalists, we
inquired, advertised, and in all ways sought
for speciflo information regarding the last
named umbrageous worthies; but nothing
came of it except an intensification of the mud
dle. While we were resting from our labors,
as we weep to say, the President has started in
what is called his "speech" in Baltimore on
the 18th ult. another personal and biographi
cal puzzle. He said: "Let me appeal to you
in the language of the ship-wrecked mariner,
'Cling to the Constitution as the last plank of
liberty, though the darkuess of night and the
tempest may close round you l1 " We do not
deny the elegance, and the morality, and the
wisdom of this sentiment considered as a
sentiment. We have, it is true, found our
selves upon the dark billows, with but one
plank between us and destruction; but our
honest opinion is that, tinder such damp
circumstances, the best thing a man can do
is to cling to a plank, always provided he can
find a plank to cling to; but why "a slrip
wrecked mariner" bobbing about in quest of a
board, with his mouth sure to be filled with
salt water if he opens it, should make a speech
concerning "the Constitution," is a little more
than we comprehend. If he must be loquacious
at such an awful moment, he should either
Bay his prayers or sing out for assistance.
According to Mr. Johnson, there was once a
patriotic tar, who being in a briny extremity,
said: "Cling to the Constitution as the last
plank of liberty, though the darkness of night
and the tempest may close around you 1"
Row we want to know why the name of this
brave and eloquent Sinbad was not given ? No
naval individual, so thoroughly devoted, in the
water, to the land of his birth, should continue
anonymous. It would be an act of crying in
justice to the amphibious classes. We know
the name of Harry Bluff, who "cried out
avast t And the colors of America he nailed
to the mast, And he died like a true Yankee
sailor I" Here is a greater than Mr. Bluff,
who, just before he went down to the sharks,
in the very worst possible weather, the stars
obscured, the wind blowing a gale, and the
Lively Sally gone to the bottom, sung out,
"Cling to the Constitution." Was it the cap
tain, or the mate, or the cook, or the cabin
boy I If Mr. Johnson mentioned the particu
lars privately to anybody in Baltimore, we
should be willing to pay handsomely for them
with a view to publication.
Vh Impeachment Question and the Pre
sidency. From the Herald.
There are wheels within wheels, a curious
complication, upon the impeachment question,
as it appears. For instance, it is given out
that a majority of the Republicans on the
Judiciary Committee of the House of Repre
sentatives are preparing a report with the
opinion that the evidence taken is sufficient to
call for the impeachment and removal of Presi
dent Johnson, and that to this end they will
ask for an October session of Congress. Next
it appears that a minority of the Republicans
on this committee, three out of the seven, will
content themselves with a resolution cen
suring the President. It further appears,
from one of our special correspondents, that
'Old Thad Stevens," if no one else will,
intends to bring the House to the direct test
on a square aud unqualified impeachment
resolution.
We may, therefore, expect at this July ses
sion an intensely interesting and momentous
conflict among the Republican cliques and fac
tions npon this question of impeachment or no
impeachment. "Old Ben Wade," President
of the Senate, has his supporters behind him
who desire to put him in the White House
chair now occupied by "Andy Johnson," either
to keep it warm for Chief Justice Chase, or to
use its advantages directly in behalf of the
nomination of "Old Ben" himself by the Re
publican Convention of 18G8. The conserva
tive Republicans who are in favor of General
Grant,on the other hand, desire, if possible,
to hold President Johnson where he is, and
President Wade where he is, at least
till after the Republican Presidential
Convention of next spring. Mr. John
son, as the dispenser of the BpoiU of the
Administration, it he is not working for them,
id not working against the Grant men; but
'Old Ben Wade" in the White House, it is
feared, would measure every office-holder's
and every office-seeker's corn in his own half
bushel, or in the bushel of Chief Justice Chase.
Here, then, is the split in the Republican
camp upon the impeachment question, and
the result will most probably be the defeat of
the impeachment faction and the success of
the Grant Republicans in the retention of
Andrew Johnson in his office to the end of his
term, provided always that he tries no more
experiments against the manifest purposes of
Congress in any quibbling construction of the
If the radicals are wise they will not attempt
the removal of President Johnson, which
would be killing the goose that lays their
golden eggs, but they will let well enough
alone. If they must impeach somebody, let
them take up Attorney-General Stanbery for
the "high crimes" or "misdemeanors" of
avowing before the Supreme Court, as the
Government advocate against the Mississippi
petition of Sharkey ani Walker, that politi
cally on the questions at issue his sympathies
were with the enemies of the Union, aud for
volunteering his legal opinion aa excuses lor
president Johnson in unfaithfully executing
iiw of Coneress; or let them haul up the
Secretary of State for his warning on that
niiinaeo t)llerlmaKe. that we must
take Andrew Johnson "aa President
vi and for parading it on his
trip to Boston, aa a great virtue on the part of
Excellency, that he had magnanimously
..f.!r,o frnm t)ushine his conflict with Con
cress to Oliver Cromwell's settlement; or they
niieht arraign Postmaster-General Randall for
the demoralizing declaration that "they who
v,UHMnt'a bread and butter must
support his measures," which is making
'Andy Johnson" "ever inch a king." They
might even catch old grandfather Welles
wider the jibboom, if they would only look
THE DAILY
into the log of the old skipper's tacking and
backing during the last two years. In any
event, in this matter of impeachment, let
not Congress repent the folly of the fool in
the fable who killed the goose that laid his
golden eggs.
The Military Governors and the Kco
strucllon Uw,
From the 7me.
Whatever else it may do, or leave undone,
Congress will certainly pass some bill explain
ing and perfecting the Reconstruction law of
last session. If it is to accomplish its purpose
or any useful purpose that law must be
precise in its provisions, and be carried out
with uniformity in the several districts. This
fact was recognized by the Military Com
manders themselves, in applying to the Presi
dent for instructions aa to the meaning of the
law; and he took only the usual course in
referring that application to the Attorney
General, and in sending his opinion for the
"information" of the parties concerned.
Congress is not satisfied with the scope and
contents of that opinion. In its judgment,
the law is misconstrued, and its intent de
feated. Let it, then, pass a bill putting the
provisions of the law beyond dispute. Aa it
stands, the execution of this, as of all other
laws, devolves upon the President. Nor is it
easy to see how any bill oan be passed which
will release him from that duty. It will not
do to insist, as some do insist, that the Mili
tary Governors either are, or ought to be,
practically irresponsible to the President
in the execution of the Reconstruction
Law. Instead of that, no publio trusts
were ever created in this Government which
so absolutely required the most rigid super
vision of its Executive head. The very lact that
the Reconstruction law is the most extraordi
nary law ever passed by Congress, adds, in the
same extraordinary degree, to the Presidential
obligation to see it faithfully and rightfully
executed. The same extreme publio necessity
which constrained Congress, holds the consti
tutional executor of its will all the more closely
to his Tegular duty. It is bad enough that
Congress has been compelled to adopt despe
rate means against a deadly evil. But far
worse will it be if those means are so mis
managed aa to fail of their purpose, and im
pose the necessity of repeated renewal or of a
succession of mere makeshifts, consuming in
valuable time, and, after all, ending probably
in confusion worse confounded.
To reestablish constitutional government
over the South we have been forced to set
aside, for a time, the fundamental maxims of
republican government, and some of the most
sacred bulwarks of Anglo-Saxon liberty,
founded in the most ancient times, older than
Congress, older than Parliament itself por
tions of the citadel of freedom for which our
progenitors struggled for centuries after the
heptarchy, and to secure which kings have
been deposed, dynasties have been changed,
and the blood of innumerable martyrs has
been shed. It will hereafter be judged to be a
great crime of the Rebellion, that it compelled
us to disturb these venerable foundations.
All loyal men will share in that crime if they
do not see to it that this disturbance shall be
as brief as possible. This brevity will be de
termined, first of all, by the rapidity and com
pleteness with which the Reconstruction Law
is made to do its work. It is the efficiency of
the law alone that can compensate lor the re
proach and burden of its existence.
To give this great measure the speedy and
thorough efficiency required, it is supremely
important that its execution should be con
sistent and steady. There oan be no such
consistency and steadiness if, as ia claimed,
the Military Governors are to follow each his
own fancy or judgment, without being subject
to a common regulator. We have already seen
the most different uses made of their power
by different Governors in one district kicks,
in another caresses here fair, manly dealing,
there the waywardness of the weak old nurse,
who beats the child till it cries, and then beats
it beoause it cries. Our Southern correspon
dence has made it perfectly manifest that there
is a great inequality in the Southern States in
respect to the rapidity and degrees with whioh
the spirit of loyalty and Union has returned
to their people. They not only differ, but
differ very differently from what their character
and antecedents would have led na to expect.
Tennessee, instead of being very forward, is
very backward, while South Carolina and
Mississippi, instead of obstinately holding
back, are in the very first ranks of progress.
It is high time that all such anomalies
should be corrected by the enforcement of uni
form regulations and a systematic policy,
under the prescription of Congress and the
guidance of a single hand. Enough has been
developed to make it certain that the Recon
struction law needs only this to accomplish
its end completely. It has been made clear
that the South desires no more war, that her
only future object is quiet and security, and
that, accordingly, she has given up, at one
and the same time, slavery and rebellion for
ever. In their effort to get back into the
Union, the Southern people have, in the main,
displayed a constant purpose, a good faith, a
self-reliance, and a power of adaptation that
have proved that dear-bought experience has
not been lost upon them.
The general testimony of all intelligent and
impartial observers proves that the South is
disposed to accept and abide by the Recon
struction law, in the meaning and spirit which
Congress intended to give It. 1 hey accept tue
conditions it was designed to embody, and will
perform the dutiea it was intended to impose.
Nor have they evinced any disposition to be
technical in their construction of its terms, or
even to accept and insist upon the technicali
ties interposed by the Attorney-General on
their behalf. Let Congress remove all ground
for cavil put into clear and unmistakable
language what it intended to enact, and what
it still intends to insist upon ana neuuer me
President nor anybody else will have the
power, even if he has the wish, to arrest or
retard the beneficent work it was designed to
accomplish.
Difficulties
of
Congress
Session.
at the Kxtra
From the World.
We assume, until the contrary appears, that
Congress will undertake no- other business
than an amendment of the Reoonstruotion
law, which has confessedly broken down under
the attempt of the Attorney-General to give it
a consistent interpretation. This business
alone will suffice to task to the utmost the
acumen and ingenuity of the Republican
members. First, they are bound to present,
what they have never yet presented, a per
spicuous statement of the conditions on which
the Southern States will be restored to their
Federal privileges, with a pledge that when
these conditions are compiled with the States
shall be no longer excluded. The Presidential
election is bo near that barely time is left for
reorganization in season for the excluded
States to participate, and if definite and final
conditions are not now offered, the Republi
can party must rest under the imputation of
postponing and staving off the restora
tion of the Union for reasons of mere
EVENING TELEGRAPH rHILADELPHIA , FRIDAY,
party advantage. There must be Borne con
ditions on , whioh the States will be finally
readmitted, or else the restoration of the
Union is impossible. But the conditions on
whioh the Republican party mean to insist
are such as Congresa dare not avow; for it
would be an affront to publio decency for
Congresa to declare by law that the title of the
State to readmission depends upon their voting
with the Republican party. The first difficulty
of Congress is, thereiore, to find ostensible
conditions which will coincide with and serve
as a cover for the real one. If Congress
dared to say frankly that the States shall not
be restored until a majority of their citizens
vote the Republican ticket, the task of the
Session would be considerably simplified.
But the necessity of reaching their objeot
through crooked paths renders it impossible
for them to give a definite and irrevocable
pledge; for the conditions to whioh the pledge
would be attached being necessarily different
from the conditions meant to be enforced, they
fear that a compliance with the open demaud
would not secure the nnavowed object. In
trinsic justice and a growing publio impatience
require that the Southern people shall be told
what they must do to be restored, that Con
gress shall at last offer terms by which it will
stand. But Congresa aa a body of partisans
can neither safely do this nor forbear to do it.
Their embarrassment consists in the difficulty
of fixing upon ostensible terms which shall
covertly include the real ones.
It being the Intention of Congresa to con
tinue the exclusion of the States until they
give Republican majorities, Congress will find,
it impossible, secondly, to devise a tolerable
scheme of government for the preservation of
order during the long period of dismember
ment. The experiment initiated by the Re
construction acts contemplates three different
sources of authority, namely, the Congress of
the United States, the existing State Govern
ments, and the Military Commanders. It ia
utterly impossible to administer the affairs of
those btates without the aid of their State
Governments, and it ia incumbent on Con
gresa to define with precision the extent of
their authority, and draw the line whioh sepa
rates it from that of the Military Com
manders. Are the Commanding Generals to
be controlled by law, or only by their own
irresponsible wills? The latter would be mon
strous. It would not only introduce as many
jarring Bystema as there are different com
mands, and substitute personal caprice for
law, but it would be a virtual abdication by
Congress of the authority it claims to exercise
over this subject. The Reconstruction law de
clares that the existing State governments are
provisional, and subject to revision or displace
ment by the United btates. But capricious f.
mieruuuus vy wie uenerais can narai. oe wnat
Congress intended, since it cannot be supposed
that Congress intended to introduoe as many
different systems as it established different
commands. If the commanders cau do what they
please with the State governments, they may
abolish them altogether, although Congress con
templated their continued existence as the chief
part of the machinery of local administration.
If the Generals can temove any State offioer
they please at their mere discretion, then they
may remove- all State officers and thereby
annihilate, in their respective commands, all
authority but their own. It is incumbent on
Congress to draw a line of demarcation be
tween the military authority and the provi
sional State authority. The States must not
be under a government of caprice, but of law.
Congress, in passing the Reconstruction act,
seemed to suppose that it had relieved itself
from the duty of precise and speciflo legisla
tion in respect to these conflicting jurisdic
tions, by turning the subject over to the mili
tary commanders. But it is found on trial
that this evasion of the difficulty ia imprac
ticable, and Congress assembles to attempt
the specific legislation it neglected and
shirked. When it enters upon the task, it
will find that it has undertaken to solve an
insoluble problem. By the very fact of as
sembling Congress repudiates Mr. Stanbery's
opinion that the provisional State Govern
ments are to stand in all their force, and
clothed with all their functions, until super
seded by the new ones contemplated by the
Reconstruction law. Positive authority for
interference with them is to be conferred on
the commanding generals. But any grant of
authority which is limited and speciflo, which
is so restrained by rule as to make
its exertion uniform in all the five
departments, will leave the States in the
possession of a vaBt body of powers re
served from military intermeddling. On
the other hand, an unlimited and un
restricted grant of authority conveyed in gene
ral terms, leaving its extent to the mere dis
cretion of the several commanders, will be a
virtual enaction of five different and inconsis
tent systems calling anew for the harmonizing
interference of the Executive, which in turn
will create a necessity similar to the present
for another revision of the law by Congress.
The status of the existing State Governments
during their provisional period is a subject on
which Congress cannot attempt precise legisla
tion without involving itself in a labyrinth of
insurmountable difficulties. But if it fails to
legislate on this subject, it might as well not
assemble.
Another difficulty, and a grave one, results
from the possibility of the States being reor
ganized and their politics controlled by the
negro element. The only chance of giving
these States to the Republicans is through the
negro vote, increasing it by whites enough to
make it a majority. But this will lead inevi
tably to negro office-holding, a result which the
Republicans dread aud deprecate. The
negroes will be a majority of the Republican
party in every Southern State, and it will
be in their power to dictate all the nomi
nations to office. That they will practise
any such self-abnegation as to give all the
offices, with their emoluments and honors to
white Jeadors, is contrary to all probability.
But not even the radicals would care to
vouch for the preservation of order in the
South under the rule of black governors and
legislators, black judges and juries. The
crudeness and insolence of such a regime wonld
be insufferable by the white inhabitants, and
the constant abuses of negro authority would
cause a reaction undoing all the radicals begun.
Black members of Congress would be the
scorn and scandal of the country; but the
radicals dare not make color a disqualification
for office, and in the absence of all legal dis
qualifications the negroes will be aa free to
elect members of Congress of their own color
as they will be to vote for Congressmen at all.
The necessity of nreventins this result thickens
the difficulties which encompass Congress, and
will prevent their passing any Reconstruction
law through which a skilful Attorney-General
may not "sail a seventy-four gun ship," as
Mr. Stanbery has done through the law It is
now sought to patch ap.
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Gilt Concert, advertised to lake plaoea the Wabash
avenue Itiuk, Chicago, 111., and postponed, have tue
pleasure to announce tbat It will take place at Cooper
Institute, Kew York, by the earnest request ol thou
sands ol subscribers in the Middle and tHstoru States.
Vi berea large share of our tickets have been solr, and
tbat a series ot Concerts will be give", to be followed
In rapid succession.
1 he delay In Its completion has been unavoidable,
notwithstanding the sale ot tickets has been Im
mense aud without a parallel on Hi in continent. Under
any circumstances the Concert will now be given as
above staled.
WHj.OtO VALUABLE GIFTS, VALUED AT FIVE
BUNDBED THOUfAMJ IHJLLA1CS, WILL II K
l'Ki-BKM ED JO TICKET-HOLD KK8, LNCLUD
LNU SIUU.OOO IS GKKEN BACKS.
lor hueen yeara we have been engaged In business,
and we point with pride to the reputation we have
won lor honesty aud Integrity. Many of the promi
nent citizens ot Kew York, Boston, Philadelphia, and
Chicago will bear witness to the statement tbat we
have never made auy promises to the public that we
have not sacredly lultllleo, and we refer to the lead
ing bankers aud merchants of these cities lor our
character lor lair dealing.
In spile of every obstxcle. We shall prove to the pub
lic that the Norm American Gift Concert will be con
ducted honorably, aud that all the gifts advertised
will be distributed lulrly and to the satlafactlou of our
p irons.
The delay In the completion of this gtgantlo enter
prise has been solely In the Interest of the ticket
Lolders. This Is the largest uudertaklug of the kind
ever brought to a bucceuaful termination lu the United
Btates.
Tickets sold for Concert to take place at We
bush Avenue Kink, Chicago, Illinois, are good lor this
Concert at Cooper Institute, Mew York City.
present given wiin every concert tickec
1 Gilt in Greenbacks.-
,430,000
1
1
do do
10.UUU
6,f
do do
do do
1
1
1
20
.. 4,00k
3,00i
2,1101
.. 20,00)
.. 10,00
.. 18,001
5.0
do do
do do
do do tlouo each..........
do do touo each
20
1640 Gifts in Greenbacks, amounting to..
1 Gift Residence lu Cblcao...
400 Gold Watches, amounting to ..
400 Silver Watches, amounting to.
, SO.uOt
21.001
Aud the balance, comprising Pianos. Melodeons.
and other Gifts, amounting to. .....,324,00(
Making Auo.OOO Gltta.
A committee to be chosen by ticket holders at
the til l Concert will promptly distribute the presents,
one to every concert ticket holder, and fuelr report
will be published in "Kelley's Weekly," with portrait
and biographical sketch ot the persons receiving tht
thirty largest gilts, and be sent to ail ticket holders a)
once. The tickets from our numerous agents havlnf
beeu gathered lu, persons disappointed in ibelng una
ble at our principal otlice to obtain tickets, can now
be tuppiied, aa loug as tbey last, by addressing us al
ISo. t!H Broadway, Kew Yotk. Tickets will be sen!
promptly by mall, on receipt of price and stamp ioi
return postage. '
We will aeud 5 tickets for 4'(0; 10 for 1000; and 20
for 17'6n. bend the name of each subscriber, ana their
Post Office address, and tow n aud ttlate. Money by
Lrait, Foal Otlice Order, Kxpreoa, or la Registered
Letters, may be sent at our risk. Address all coat
tuunloallou to A. A. KELLEY A CO.,
8 its Ut Ko. 691 BROADWAY, New York.
HORTICULTURAL HALL, BBOAD STREET,
below Locust.
MONDAY EVENING, July 8, 1867,
GRAND CONCaBT
for the BENEFIT oi the
J.AM1LIKS OF THE FIREMEN
Who Perished at the Late Conflagration.
Tendered by tbe members of the
ATIILKTIO GLEE ASSOCIATION,
Assisted by the Members of tbe
II AND!- & HAYDN SOCIETY.
MENDELSOHN bOCIETY,
YOUisO MA.NNKKCHORBOCIETY,
KU'lEKPK GLEE ASSOCIATION,
And the
LIBERTY SILVER CORNET BAND, No. 1.
The following Artists have also kindly volunteered
theli valuable services, and will positively appear on
this occatiion;
Mrs. J. PCHIMPF.
Miss G. BLACKBURNE,
Miss U. ALEXANDER,
Mr. CARL feENTZ,
Mr. JEAN LOUIS,
Mr. J. UMBTEAD,
Prolessor McCLURQ,
Mr. R. M. BOLES,
Mr. H. PRANK PARIS.
CONDUCTOR,
MB. U. H. RObEWIQ.
PIANIST,
MR. THOMAS A'BECKET.
TICKETS OF ADMISSION, SO CENTS.
No Reserved Seat.
Tickets can be had at Trumpier, S. E. corner
Seventh aud Cbesnut streets; Smith's Musio Store,
Eighth street, above Cherry: and at the Hail on the
night of the Concert. 7 8 3t
BIERSTADl'S LAST GREAT PAINTING,
THE DOMES OH' THE GREAT YO-UEMI1E,
now on exhibition,
DAY AND EVENING,
In tbe Southeast Gallery of the
ACADEMY OF UNB ARTS. 6 5tf
HO! FOR BMITH'8 ISLAND! FRESH AIR
-BEAUTIFUL PCENEKY-HEALTHFUL
EXERCISE THE BATU-EJS'lEBTAXttMENTOF
IHE EbT KIND.
MRS. MARY LAKEMEYER
respectfully lulorms her irleuds and the public gene
rally, that she will open the beautiful Inland Pleasure
Ground known as
SMITH'S ISLAND,
on SUNDAY next, May 6. she invites all to oome
and enjoy with her the delights of this favorite sum
nier reaort. i 0U
BILLIARD ROOMS.
BIRD. BIRD. BIRD.
Alter several months' preparation, Mr. O. BIRD
has opened his new and spacious establishment for
the entertainment of his friends, aud the publio la
general, at Nos, 605 and 607 ARCH Street.
The first and second floors are tilted up as Billiard
Booms, and furnished with twelve Ural-class tables,
while the appurtenances and adornments comprise
everything winch oan conduce to the comfort and
convenience of tbe players. In the basement are
four new aud splendid Bowling Alleys, for those who
wish to develope their muscle In anticipation of the
base-ball season. A Restaurant la attached, where
everything In the edible line can be liaclof tbe best
quality, and at the thorieat notice. The following
well-known gentlemen have been secured ae Assist,
aula, and will preside over the various department;.
PRESS. O. WOODNUTT,
SAMUEL DOUGLASS,
JOHN HOOD,
WILLIAM E. GILLMORE,
HENRY W. DUNCAN,
PHILIP GKUMBRECHT. Restaurateur.
While Mr. BIRD will hold a careful supervision
over alL He ventures to say that, taken all in all,
there has nothing ever beei, started lu Philadelphia
approaching this establishment In completeness of
arrangement aud ailentlou to the ooiuiort of the
public.
llm O. BIRD. Proprietor,
PATENT MOSQUITO BAR.
JUST ISSUED.
EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE ONE.
Fortune to be made In every State. Call and see
oneot them.
Can be manufactured very low,
STATU RIGHTS FOR BALE BT
HOLLAND HI BBS,
NO. lttllllBOWN ITBI.UT
CUiim
WATCHES JEWELRY, ETC.
SPECIAL NOTICE
TO
PBOPBIKTORI OF HOTEL
JTEA9IBOAT CU3IPAX1KM.
AND
The undersigned beg leave to Inform Proprietors of
Hotels, Restaurants, and Steamboat Companies that
they are now better prepared than ever to supply
them with FlH.sT QUALITY HARD METAL,
SILVER SOLDERED, TRIPLE-PLATED TABLll
WARE, via.: Forks and Spoons (heavy stock), Dlu
rjer and Tea Castors, Sugars. Creams, Bread and Caka
Baskets, Pickle Jars, side Dishes (all s!ih). Syrun
Cups. Dinner, Dessert, and Tea Knives (plated or uu
plated), ard In fact everything required to turnian
tables In the most complete manner.
These goods are all of our own manufacture and
plate, bearing our stamp, and warranted lo every
reapect to be as represented.
Our facilities lor getting out goods In the shortest
possible space ol time are unsurpassed. Having fur
nished some of the largest Hotels and Steamboats In
tbe country, we refer to them with pride, and our
W are can be examined and seen In daily use at tha
La Pierre House, Phtlitdelpbla, 1 iam
Ashland House, Philadelphia,
St. Charles Hotel, Pittsburg,
Uhlted Slates Hotel, Atlantlo City, N. J.
National Hotel, Washington.
Steamer Great Republic, St. Lonla and New Orleans
trade.
Steamship Tioga, Philadelphia and Southern Mall
Bteamshlp Company, etc eto,
MEAD & CO.,
Manufacturers of fell ver-Plated Ware aud Furnisher
of Hotels and Steamers,
. 919 CHBIIIIIT STREET,
4 4 trorpl SOUTH BIDE. SECOND FLOOR.
LEWIS LADOMU3 & CO.,
Diamond Pealera and Jewellers,
HO. SOS CHESS VT Tn PHILADELPHIA
Would Invite the attention ot purchasers to the!
large and handsome assortment of
DIAMONDS, '
WATCHES,
JKWELBT,
ILTEB-WABE,
ICE PITCHERS In great variety. TC KTC'
A large assortment of small STUDS, for eyelet
boles. Just received.
WATCHES repaired In tha best manner, and
guaranteed.
Il4p
FRENCH CLOCKS.
3. BtTSSEIX A CO-
KO. til HOBTM SIXTH STREET,
Have Just received per steamship Europe, an
U voice of
UANTLE CLOCKS,
Purchased In Paris since tbe opening of the Expoal
tlon, which lor beauty of design and workmanship,
cannot be excelled, and they are offered at prices
which Invite competition. g 21
C. & A. PEQUIGNOT,
Manufacturers of
Gold and Silver Watch Cases,
USPOBTBHS AMD OKAXKBS VX
WATCHES.
Office-No. 13 Booth SIXTH Street,
Manufactory-No. fcoulh FIFTH Street,
' PKILABHIiPHIA.
JOHN BOWMAN'
No. 704. AltOH BtMt,
rHIISSLPKZA,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER Hf
BILVEB AND PLATEDWAJtB,
Oar GOODS are decidedly the cheapest in tha oily
for
TRIPLE PLATE, A MO, 1.
WATCHES, JEWE1BI.
W. W. CASSIDY.
.IS SOUTH SECOND STBEXTi
itout of """'J new most carefully seleci
AKX&ICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES.
JEWELRY,
SILVER-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES
EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable lot
BRIDAL OH HOLIDAY PRESENT.
An examination will show my stock to h
passed la quality and cheapness! BnUS
Particular attention paid to repairing. uf
HENRY HARPER.
ISo. 520 ARCH Street.
Manufacturer and Dealer la
WATCHES,
FINE JEWELRY,
. BLLYJtR r LATKD WARE, AND
111 SOLID SILVER-IT ABB
No. 1101 CHEHNCT Btree.
E. M. NEEDLES & CO..
W, W. Cor. Kleventh and Cbesnut,
OFFER AT A
GREAT SACRIFICE
WHITE FRENCH BRILLIANT ES.
Ladles who have used THESE GOODS will
not fail to appreciate them at the prices,
ttC, 0, OS Cents.
'W"" xoNBanro ion
PRIVY WELLS OWNERS OP PROPERTY
, i .Tbeou.ly p w l Frlvy Well oleanedaal
0 islnleoted at y aw low prloee,
A. PKYHON,
Manufacturer of Foudrette,
lot OOIDSM ITH'B HALL. LIBRARY Btreet