1 THE NEW YORK PRESS. EDITORIAL OPTIHONB OF THE LFAMNO J0CRNAL8 HFOH CCRRBNT ToriCP COMPILED ETEBT DAT FOB TBI EVFMNO TELEGRAPH Th Great question of tlie Day. From the Berald. A portion of the radical press, afraid of the Overwhelming popularity of General Grant, and afraid that he will not he a pliant instru ment in its hands, insidiously assails him and asks for a suspension of puhlic opinion on the question of the next Presidency. It says the discussion is premature, that the time has not arrived to nominate a candidate, aud that re construction and the condition of our national finances are first to be considered. This is mere pretense. These radical organs know Very Well that the Presidential quest! is up Eroininently before the country; that it cannot 9 kept down; and that, 1h fact, it is the great question of the day, on which all others hinge. The objeot is apparent; these political man agers want time to make bargains and to con trol both the election and the candidate. The chief radical organ of this city, at the same time it uses this weak argument to head oft Grant, has an elaborate pulf of General Sheridan. In truth, it pits Sheridan against Grant. Very well. We have no objection to Sheridan. There is a great deal of good stuff in him, and he has a fine military record. He would be acceptable to the people. As to General Grant, we have no doubt he would willingly give way to and cordially support his subordinate officer for tho high position. I ilia views have been well defined, lie frankly I admits that be is satisned with the position he holds, but that if the people wish it he will take that of President. He knows that the oflice of President could add little to his fame or elevation. The General-in-Chief is little lower than the President, and ha3 much less labor and care, lie wants to be wherever he can serve his country, and only there. In Sheridan, as well as in Grant, we should have an uncompromising and vigorous supporter of American nationality, honor, and inlluenoe. Had the word been given to him when he was in command on the Mexican border, with thirty thousand men, he would have whipped the French out of Mexico worse than Wellington ever whipped them, and would have thrashed the Mexicans to boot. Sheridan is a strong card to play, but Grant is stronger, though some of the radical politicians will not see it yet. But it is said we should settle the ques tions about reconstruction and the national finances before going into President-making. Reconstruction is nearly settled now. The radicals having control of the negro vote of the South, gives them all they wanted. There will be no longer any motive or reason to keep the Southern States unrepresented in Congress. Having secured the support of that section, the dominant party, of course, will admit the Southern members to seats in Congress at an early day, and thus complete the work of reoonstruotiou. This, then, we regard as a Settled matter. As to the question of the national nuances, that is another thing. It will take many years to adjust and put the finances on a proper foundation. The public mind is not educated yet up to this point; the press, and particularly the radical press, knows little about the matter, and Congress is lamentably ignorant. Some time must elapse before this most difficult and important subject can be treated in a statesmanlike manner. It cannot precede, but must follow the settlement of the next Presidency. There is neither the time nor ability to take it np before that event, though it ought to have, and probably will have, an important bearing on the issue. Looking at the utter incapacity of Congress and the want of knowledge in the press and among the people, our national finanoes cur rency, debt, revenue, and everything else per taining to them should be left as they are till after the Presidential election and the restoration of the Southern States. If the subject be taken up before we are prepared for it if the on to speoie payment cry of the radical press should be heeded before Congress and the country understand the question greater disasters will follow than those that followed the "On to Richmond" clamor of the same radical organs. The flrsHlhing in order, as they say in par liamentary proceedings, is the next Presi dency. That is the great question of the day. After the settlement of that will follow natu rally the other great issues before the country. The public mind is aroused already, and nothing can subdue it till the event is deter mined. Congress will engage in hardly any thing else next winter than President-making. The conventions will meet in the spring, and the election will take place in little over a year from this time. Let the people and Congress deoide. then, to postpone the consideration of Other important matters till General Grant be elected, or, if the radicals will and have the power, till Sheridan be elected. Then there will be leisure and the opportunity to consider deliberately mose mailers tuat relate to tho national finances, aud for the reorganization of parties on the natural issues growing out of the material interests of the people. Party Affiliation at the South. From the Times. The Peunsylvanians who waited the other day on President Johnson to urge the forma tion of a new party, have their sympathizers in the Southern States. There the idea of a middle party obtains favor in quarters which, while opposed to the authors of the reconstruc tion law, refuse to renew fellowship with the Democracy. The New Orleans Creicent is one Of 4he journals which have arrived at the conviction that the old party organizations are inapplicable to existing exigencies, and there fore recommend a union of all conservatives, eo called, against the extremists of both the Republican and Democratic parties. The service immediately rendered by the dis cussion which has arisen is the emphasis with which it marks the repudiation of the Democracy as a party organization. The Creicent and its friends evidently appreciate the grounds on which Governor Orr protested against the bad faith of that party during the war, and the warnings uttered by lieneral Longstreet against reliance on its future action. , It is Been and felt that the men who Lave heretofore held office under the Demo cratic) name now desire to be reinstated, pre cisely as an old member of the Stuart or Uouibon re'yime would watch for the restora tion of the dynasty as a prelude to the revival of the ribbons and pensions of their adherents. For all the practical purposes of government, the restoration of the Democratic) party would be as futile as the resurrection Of the GhibelhwB. , That rarty is not entitled' 'to be 'considered democratio which resists the", large additions . to roitular power advocated by the Republi- ans- nor van it reconcile its pretended zeal for Mate rights with its desertion of the Southern THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, apostles of that doctrine. Being, then, neither democratio in the true sense of the term, nor faithful to State rights, according to the Southern acceptation, the Democratic party has no hold upon the gratitude or hope of the South. The second coining of Moses is not moie improbable than tho second comiug of Bu. hanan, which is what Democratio orators and journalists toil and pray for. They may indeed continue to run the party race over and over again, until their leaders die or grow wearied of defeats, or until their followers de sert the sinking ship; but the Democratic principle, under its present name and manage ment, is dead from top to tap-root. strange as it may seem, the fierceness with which the Democrats oppose all conditions of Southern restoration is one of the grounds of want of confidence in their guidance. The fact is understood that the Northern oppo nents of the Congressional policy are actuated solely by a desire to secure party advantage not by devotion to the best interests of the South. This point is well stated by the Crescent: "The truth Is that the Democratic politicians of the North are beginning touhansre places, iu respect, to the restoration of the excluded Stales, Willi the UepubJIcnn politicians. The former now show the same anxiety to ke.eD those btatesfrom re-enterluK the Uulon Kepiiullean, n tue inner iornieny allowed to Keep them out lest Ibpy should ome lu .Democratic. The Old Guurd, u Mew York i 'eniocrallo monthly, for example, declines that the only hopo of lionling ihe Republicans In the next Presiden tial election Is for the Democratic party of the North to reluse resolutely to recognize la tho Electoral College the voIcm of Mtntea reorganized under the Military hills. It cads upon us to do ourut most against reconstruction, unless fiKsnred we can, by uKslstim reconstruction, reinforce the opponent of the Republican party. Hut if tho bouth will not oppose the tdain nurnosu of Congress, and if the Democratic party of the North shall lack the backbone to dispute the title of a President elected bv means uf votes drawn from Southern 'military colonies,' then the Old Guard desires that cliaos may rulo 'for at least a season, ' and that the South may be at the.morcy of revolutionary mongrels '11 little longer.' Now this Question of the occurrence and duration of chaos and of mongrel domina tion is one that peculiarly and vitally concerns tbe Southern people. It is something worse than impertinence for men at a safe distance from tbe scene of trouble to tell us that we ought, with Joy, to assist in rendering our con dition as miserable us possible, lor the Hake of throwing odium upon one party and improving the prospects of another, such party tactics may be very profound, but they certainly lack tbe appearance of being muguatumous." The same "party tactics" which require the South to postpone reconstruction dictated some of the most harsh provisions of the law. With such a party it is not surprising that the Southern people refuse to affiliate. It does not follow that there is at present room for a new party, or that an organization aiming to steer between the Democratio and Republican organizations would be entitled to Southern support. The desire for a third party is intelligible, and, as an abstract mat ter, not unreasonable. There are thinkers who object to the centralizing tendency of re cent legislation, apart altogether from its primitive character. There are others who apprehend continued turmoil and excitement, and who do not like the idea of reverting to Hobbes' state of nature perpetual war. It is natural that these opinions should seek voice and organization. But cui bono f What good can possibly result from a movement that would be powerless as against the party now dominant throughout the country f The nice distinctions of the closet or the newspaper will have no effective power of resisting the senti ment which furnished the sinews and fought the battles of the Union. Not more certain is it that the Republican party now governs the country than that it will continue to govern until the great issues which agitate the South shall have been finally settled. Of so much the advocates of a middle party may rest assured. If their purpose be, then, to benefit the South, to hasten its restoration, and to invite a return of confidence and commercial activity, their wisest course will be to submit to the logic of events, and to seek within the Republican party the influence and activity which can nowhere else be exerted with the same imme diate advantage. Thus may they most surely counteract the ultraism and violence width they so earnestly deprecate; for the gfeat tody of the Republican party does not countenance and will not sustain ex tremists in their threats and demauds. The preponderating tone of the party is one of 1 firmness, blended with great moderatiou. It is fixed in its purpose of reconstructing the i Union on the basis laid down, but it seeks no punishment for its own sake, and will tarry proscription no farther than contuma cious disloyalty may render necessary. We submit that the "conservative" projectors of a middle party at the South may promote moderation and good feeling more effectually by a junction with the controlling element of he Republican party than by leading the for lorn hope of Democracy, or attempting to form a new party, with objects vague and leaders preordained to defeat. The Broad Platform. From the Tribune. Tennessee has just held a State election. whereat blacks were authorized to vote, while those who participated in or promoted the late slaveholders Rebellion were not; and, of course, the radicals carried everything by enormous majorities. Kentucky followed on Monday, but with the conditions reversed her Rebels being enfranchised, but not her blacks and, of course, the field was swept by the transparent cheat which misnames itself Democracy. Ac coiding to despatches received up to the hour of going to press, the majority will range from 45,000 to 00,000. The election iu either State, if not exactly a farce, was what is called "a set thing;" every one knew beforehaud just how it would result, and , the voting and counting were rather heavy formalities. Governor Brownlow if we rightly appre hend his Kuoxville speech of Saturday night will forthwith propo-e and urge the enfran chisement of every Tounesseean now disfran chised for ; Rebellion. We have not been accustomed to think highly of the Governor's statesmanship. . We have held him deficient in temper aud discretion. His forthcoming message, if its drift bo truly foreshadowed by his last Kuoxville speech, will prove that our past estimate has done him injustice. Should h frankly take aud hold the ground above indicated, he will prove himself not only a wise man but a great one. We trust there is no mistake as to his purpose.' Would that the misnamod conservatives of Kentucky M'ould evince equal sagacity 1 Ku Jranchising the blacks of their State could hardly endanger their ascendancy nay, were they but wise enough to establish impartial sullrage, .it would -probably confirm that ascendancy, if they wait till black enfran chisement be somehow carried over their heads, they will, of course, find 'all the blacks arrayed against them, aud with good reason; but let them imitate the wisdom of Brownlow, and concede gracefully while they yet may, and the result can hardly fall to be different. And so of Maryland aud Delaware on the one hand: so of Missouri on the other. The con servatives In the two former States, the radi cals in the latter, may for a time hold potfer by perpetuating the disfranchisement of a lnrpe portion Of their adversaries; but this is a slippery hold a precarious reliance. It is thplr true policy not to urge considerations which far transcend all policy to be wise while it 1h called to-day. Mr. Sumner lias now a bill before the Senate proposing the enfranchisement of the blacks throughout the States where they are still subjects only, not practically citizens. The object is emphatically good; we trust that the means will be found lit, and the power invoked relevant and adequate. But why should not the mover so widen the scope of his proposition as to provide for a general enfran chisement of our countrymen North aud South, who are now subject to a rule whereiu "the consent of the governed" is, so far as they are concerned, ignored? Why should not Mr. Sumner so long and so honorably identified with the championship of black emancipation, and whose plea for universal suffrage is the broadest and most sweeping ever yet ma le in Congress or Parliament honor himself yet more by pleading the right of all Americaus to a voice in the Government which they are all required to support and obey? That men who arc Rebels have no right to control the Government they were seeking by force to overthrow, is a self-evident truth, it is by no means so clear that it is even wise to fierpetuate tbedir-fianchisement of large elates ecause they wire Rebels years ago. The Toiies of our Revolution became, not long alter its triumphant close, fellow-members of the body politic with those who had discom fited them in deadly war; so of Shays' insur rectionists in Massachusetts and the whisky rebels in Pennsylvania. May we not reason ably hope that the whole American people, with at most few aud definite exceptions, will be enabled toakepart in the choice of our next Piesident and Congress ? Is not the en franchisement of all our countrymen who need it the dictate of national safety as well as national peace ? State of the Political Chcsi-Doard The Presidency. IVnm the World. The Tennessee election convinces the Re publicans that they will carry the elections in all the reconstructed States. They will there fore drive on their work at high-pressure speed, and have the States all back in season to take part in the Presidential election. They feel assured that the negro vote will not be divided, and that it will marshal itself, in every State, in compact array as a wing of the Republican party. The registration shows such a negro preponderance that the Republi cans are probably not too sanguine in expect ing to control the new Governments. The importance of this probability does not so much lie iu the expected accession to the Republican vote, as in its bearing on the selec tion of the Presidential candidate. The jubi lant exultation of the radical orgaus rests upon the expectation that they will now easily head off General Grant, whom the conserva tive Republicans wish to nominate. The negro portion of the party will be out-and-out radi cals. All the Southern delegates in the Re publican National Convention will be of that stamp. The Southern delegations and the New liugland delegations will form a powerful and compact nucleus, which will easily gather strength enough from other States to make a majority of the Convention. According to present appearances, therefore, General Grant has no chance for the Presidency, except as the candidate of the Democrats and conserva tive Republicans. With the Southern States excluded or doubtful, the radicals might have been persuaded to assent, to the nomination of Grant. But they feel so braced and strength ened by the Tennessee election that they will now accept no candidate but a pronounced radical who has always been identified with their party. In view of this vigorous revival of radical hopes, we trust President Johnson will forego his purpose of removing General Sheridau. His removal would tend to make him the radi cal candidate, and the personal relations of Grant and Sheridau are such that Grant might be reluctant to run against him. If the radi cals are not precipitated, by a false move of the President, into nominating Sheridan, they will probably take a civilian, most likely Chief Justice Chase. All the military prestige, and, by consequence, most of the soldiers' votes, will in that case be on the side of the conserva tives running General Grant. The success of the radicals in Tennessee, and the expectations they found on it, nre favorable to the conserva tive cause, as leading to the nomination of Chase, or some man like him, by the radicals. Considering the posture iuto which things have passed, it is' better that the radicals should, tor the present, have their way in the South, without further ineffectual attempts at ob stiuction. Petroleum. From the World. A prominent "authority on oil" furnishes the public, through the Pittsburg (Fa.) Com vurciul, with some interesting but intricate statistics, designed to show that tho price of petroleum, which declined in June to nine teen cents per gallon, is destined to increase steadily hereafter in consequence of a growing home and foreign demand, and a decreasing production. The statistics presented in sup port of this assertion may be reduced to the following table: Slock of refined petroleum on hand here and alnoud, Juuuary 1, bbls 1,200,000 Estimated prouociiouUtirintr tho year 1807. averaging boOO bbls. per day, bbls 1.800.000 Total Block for me year, bbls. 3,000,000 Krtl mated consumption lu the Uulttdhtutes fur the year. bbls.l,0i)0,000 EsliiDUled dbinaui from Europe lor the year, bbls 1,700,000 , Total estimated consumption lor tbe year ls67 2,700,000 Estimated stock, Jan. 1, 1S0, bbls 300,000 These are remarkable figures. At this rate all the petroleum in the country and in Eu rope would be quite used up at the end of April next; and as the statement is made that the demand for this oil abroad is to be par tially owing to the stoppage of the shaft oil refineries in England and the failure of this year's rapeseed crop in Prance; and as the whales are getting to be terribly shy in all teas, and as gas is expensive and tallow can dles vulgar one is called upon to presume that half a world ful of people will be obliged to go to bed at dusk after the first of Juue, 16 OS, for very lack of light to read their evening newspapers by. Star-gazing and blind-man's bull would surely be the only practicable after-supper recreations for be nighted cottagers and denizens of interior towns. t There is no danger, however, of suoh non sense becoming truth. The production of petroleum in this country at the present time is of course very much below the production two years ago. The demand in this country biiioe the opening of trade with the South, and in Europe since the article has come to be. generally introduced and known, is doubtless constantly accelerated, and will be, during the approaching autumn, a heavy and perhaps a temporarily wnequal drain upon the current supply. Prices, which have recently advanced, may go still higlier. But the instant an undue strain upon the market is elt, plenty of capitalists and others who have be. n driven from the oil regions during the past year by a decline in the value of oil that made the sinking and working of wells a .si business, will be ready to resume their connection with this great interest. Although the over-worked wells in Western Pennsylvania and Virginia cannot be expected to yield as enormously as before, there are L many pumping wellls that can be made to yield a very considerable average. Other regions nre being and to be explored. We are confidently assured by a correspondent that there are at this time near Petrolia, C. W., as large producing oil wells as were ever known in Pennsylvania; that about twenty-five wells are in operation, yielding from one hun dred to five hundred barrels daily; that there has not been a single failure; that nearly fifty more wells are going down. The California oil discoveries are not forgotteu. Half the en couragement to production that is suggested by the figures we have reproduced, would be apt to stimulate capitalists to make the de cisive tests of those discoveries which have been heretofore neglected. The simple differ ence between the old and the new petroleum excitement will be, that whereas a great many men in the United States will yet en cape in the oil business, and the market everywhere will be stocked as usual, the mar ket is not likelv to bo so overstocked as be fore, for the reason that both first purchasers and their victims have learned to "light shy." The Next Presidency. l rnni Wilkes' Spirit of the Tones. There is one solution to all our political prob lemsthe Presidency. That answers every thing. It explains the anomaly of a Congress almost unanimously convinced that Andrew Johnson deserves impeachment, yet refusing to impeach him. It explains Henry Wilson's tour through the South, and Mr. Seward's purchase of the Russian icebergs. It explains the un relenting hatred of Edwin M. Stanton by the Democrats, and their obstinate resolution to drive him from the Cabinet. The denial of Benjamin F. Butler's superb ability and his services tq the country, and the savage abuse heaped upon him, result from the knowledge of his popularity as a Presidential candidate. That the Copperhead papers, formerly Grant's worst enemies, are now his most obse quious flatterers; that a brigade of Jenkinses follow him by night and day ana puonsn nismost insigniiicant movements; mat an the linanciai misfortunes aud suo. cesses of the country are equally attributed to Chase; that the President at once profoundly uesires, ana as proioundiy tears, to remove Sheridan these are mysteries of which the next Presidency is the true and sufficient solu tion. It is very well to talk of Presidential nominations as premature; but they are, nevertheless, made. The reconstruction ques tion is settled; the principles have been per manently nxea, ana the difficulty 01 their exe cuiion is no longer a national question. Nor is there any doubt that the Republican party will sweep North aud South. Tennessee has decided that, by her glorious majority of thirty thousand lor Brownlow, and in almost every Rebel State the registration returns show that the black vote will be far in excess of the white. The choice of the next Presi dent is narrowed down to a few leading Repub licans, of whom Grant, Butler, Stanton, and Chase have thus far been the more prominent. Two nominations have just been made which have unusual significance. The first is that of Grant, by the Union Conservative Committee of this city, a body of politicians who seceded from the Republican party last fall, and have .since home to the Democracy the exact relation which the pilot-Jhh bears to the shark. The choice of Grant by this obscure committee is intrin sically of little importance, except as it is a recognition of his popularity by the office seekers, who are notoriously good barometars. Hunger sharpens all the souses. But the in dorsement ol the nomination of Grant by the Democratic papers has meaniug; they have ravenously taken the hint. The k'astern Anjus, of Bangor, Maine, declares that the conserva tive Republicans evidently look "to the elec tion of a man eminently prudent, of great firmness, devoted patriotism, aud broad, libe ral, statesmanlike views, as the only means of rescuing the Government from the hands of the revolutionists now in power, and restoring the Union under the Constitution. There are a great many of the same opinion, and who believe that General Grant is the man for the emergency. We are of this num ber." Grant's inveterate silence, rarely bioken, has unquestionably inspired the Democrats with the hope that he is not with out sympathy with their policy a hope which Mr. Johnon has encouraged by claiming Grant as a partisan of his administration; they are the more anxious to obtain Grant as their candidate, because they are well aware that no Democrat has the ghost of a chance. Pen dleton is vaguely mentioned, in an insincere way, but Sunset Cox confidentially informs his friends that to nominate him would be to retire from the contest. The chances of Sey mour would be little better than those of Jack Rogers, of New Jersey; and as for George B. McClellan, nobody mentions his name. No Ixnly knows where he is; he has absolutely disappeared, and his friends think of adver tising in the lUralit, "If G. B. M., who was last teen on board of a Cuuard steamer, wav ing an eternal farewell to an ungrateful country, will return to his afflicted friends, J na win be lorgotten and forgiven, and no questions asked." In this utter dearth of candidates, the Democracy have addressed themselves to the capture of Grant like the devil-fish of Victor Hugo, which lies in wait to strangle and devour. : But the second Presidential nomination lately made has far more importance. When a leading Republican paper, such as the Tribune, virtually declares that General Sheri dan is its candidate for the Presidency, that indicates a deep satisfaction with the reticence of Grant on the part of many of the radicals. It proves they are alarmed by the support he has received from the Democracy, although he has not said one word to show that he would accept such support. Yet it would be unjust both to Sheridan and his friends to interpret his nomination as merely au aggressive move ment against his old commander; it means that his bold and straightforward policy in Louisiana has won for him the confidence of the whole Republican party, and that those who urge him for the Presidency do so, in great measure, upon independent grounds, irrespective of their perfect willingness to accept Butler, or Grant, or Stanton, if either of these gentlemen should be the choice of the party. There is no question but that mauy Republicans have been looking to Sheridau as a possible candidate ever since the New Orleans massacre of July, 18GC, and the action of the .Tribune is the most significant of recent politi cal events. It would become even more ini-' portant should the President execute his threat AUGUST 7, 1867. a '0 qui; N E LARGEST AND BEST STOCK F I OLD RYE IV H 1 G K I E O IN THE LA KB IS EENHY S. II Nos. 218 and 220 SOUTH WHO Ori EltTIIE SAME TO TUB IltlDE, I! LOTS, OM .hlr Rr Whlaklea, ltf BO WD, comprliei all th fa-rorlt brands I rcDt Vat UM" bro,,Kn Tarloua month a of lbO3,'0O, aud of this year, up t Liberal comtrarta ntada for lota to arrive at Pennsylvania Railroad Pepot. rruaaon Llna V barf, or at Uondad Warabouaaa, aa partlaa may elect. frf?.T? Sherlian from the command of the 4,1 M.llltar7 Wstrict, for that would arouse the indignation of every loyal man. The cen sure of the President would be justly inter preted as the highest compliment to the in tegrity and ability of Sheridan's patriotic ourse. hat that course has been we may nelly examine. After Sheridan's brilliant ides around Richmond, a series of cavalry perations which effectually broke up all rail oad communication with the Confederate . apital, and insured the capture of Lee aud Ins whole army, he was assigned, in May, lbCj, to general command west of the Missis sippi and south of the Arkansas rivers. This appointment intrusted him with the control of Louisiana and Texas, and from the first Sheri dan's policy was to build up a loyal party in tho Southwest, and to trample out the unex tinguished fires of treason which, in lSb'C, Mr. Johnson had carefully fanned into aflame. It was comparatively easy work to rule Louisiana till July of that year, when he found it actually ucccBSttiy to proniuu me organization ot VJon lederate batteries and brigades. But they were organized, and played their part in tho riots oi juiy iu. we ail Know that ter rible ttory, but it was not till months after ward that the part Sheridan had taken was made fully known to the American people. Then the publication of his official correspondence with the President, the Secre tary oi w ar, and General Urant disclosed the suppression aud mutilation of his despatches to suit the policy of a corrupt Administration, and the bitter opposition he had met with from Andrew Johnson. Never was a man more systematically tempted. Immediately after the massacre the President addressed him a series of leading questions, which were in effect: "Was not this riot caused by the radi cals ? Are not Horron, Monroe, and Abell blameless f" Sheridan answered with an em phaticNo ! He told the President precisely what the President did not want to be told the truth . Three days after the affair he sent this word to Grant: "It was no riot. It was an absolute massacre by the police, which was not exceeded in murderous cruelty by that of Fort Pillow. It was a murder which the Mayor and police of the city perpetrated without the shadow of a necessity. Furthermore, I believe it was premeditated." The investigation of the causes of the massacre by a Military Com mission, and by the Congressional Committee, conclusively proved all that Sheridan declared; and in March, 18b'7, he carried out his con victions by removing Monroe, Herron, and Abell from oliice, and putting loyal men in their stead. In Texas the condition of affairs was even worse than in Louisiana. Massacre was chronic there, and so treasonable had the State become that in April General Griffin was compelled to forbid all elections by civil authority. Freed men were shot down at the very doors of the civil courts, whose judges refused to punish the murderers. Lnion men were killed with im punity. Sheridan undertook to change all this, and the President's reply wa3 the threat of his removal. But that gallant soldier never wavered in his impartial course. In June he removed Governor Wells, a corrupt radical, precisely as he had removed unrepentant Rtdjels. In the meanwhile he was pushing' on registration, and working for the reorganiza- ' tion of his department upon a permauentlv I loyal basis. But he fought his way step by step. The President was against him; the i Cabinet, Stanton excepted, was agaiust him. i All that he did was done in the verv teeth of the Administration, and his success must be estimated by the strength of the opposition. iiaa Bheridan been decently sustained, the would never have been a July massacre; loyal men would long ago have filled all the offices, and we should not have waited till the other day to see Throckmorton, of Texas, removed from the office which he had occupied solelv in the interest of the Rebels. FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETC. rpO HOUSEKEEPERS. I kave large stock ol every variety ot FUKNITUUE. v. nii'!i I will sell at reduced prlcm, consisting of PIAIJ. AND MAHBl.K TOP COliAUH, BLii; WAiAL'l I'HAJUitK BL'llH. fAlU-UU ht i'JH IN VH.LVKT PLTJSH. PA1U4IK bUITb IN HAIR CLOTH. ' t-AKLUK SUITS IN RKl-b. iSidebotirus, Kx tension Tables, Wardrobes, Book i nn, 7aitriiseis, Io'-'bh, et'j. etc, I. F. UUftTIN, 81 N. B. comer S1COND and RACK Strut w. ESTABLISHED 1795. A. S. RCDiNSON Trench Plate Locking-Glasses, EORAVJKUS, F AIM-IN 44, DRAWINGS. ETC. tlauufacturir of all kind of LOVKINU-HLAIN, 141 KTR. IT, AND PIC. Ttlij: FUAJIJ.-W TO UUULK, No. DIO OlJESNU'l1 STKKiJT. THIRD LOOR ABOVK THE CONTINENTAL, ' rniLADKLf HI A. 815 WANTS. . J-JOOK AGENTS IN LUCK AT LAST. The crisis Is pp.ied. The honr has come to lin the Veil of secresy which has hlthurto enveloped the inner hlxtory of the ureal civil war, and linn la Jouu by oiler lu to tut public Oeneral L. t). Raker's ; "HISTORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE." for thrilling Internal this book transcends all the romances ol a tbounuiii.il) ears, and conclusively prevog II. ui "ii uth lk bliuuvcr lliKU iiclluu." Akciiis are clearinK from r-"u to :i00 per mouth, which we can prove to auj doubting applicant, a few mere can obtain Bfeuciee lu territory yet unoccu pied. Address P. UAUHKTT 4k. 0., MO. 70 tllfcftNITT STKKKT, 1 ' frf " PinLADKLPHIA. WANTED FOR TIIH'U. 8. MARINE Corps, able-bodied M KM. Recruits niun be able-bodied, young, unmarried men, '1 liey will be Mi sif W arou luiehiu ataiious, ll 1.1 ill I. (.,... I u , rjj,ii eu in me not eminent iavy yards mi.l in ' iMELvwrs'. Captain and Rui riiitliiK Oilh'er. ilVfmwtt NuKilb. iRONlBueet. 7 OFi3 KOW TOSSESSKD BY: . ". A K Is IS & CO.. ( FRONT STREET, . VERY ADVANTAGEOUS INSTRUCTION. JHE GREAT . KATIONAL TELEGRAPHIC AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE, NO. 710 AKCH BTRKKT, PHILADELPHIA, PA. The mtmt thorough and complete BUSINKSH OOI I.KOK IN THK t 11 Y. Umier the manemenTof thoroughly comptteut and experienced lustructura it LOW churn the best Jm-llitlen for ohtalnlnir a PKAtTICAL ULhlNKSS KI)U(JA I'lON. Pally Instruction given In PenmnnaUlp, Mathe mallca, Book-keeping, and Telegraphing. Is conducted upon an entirely new Bystem. and one which cannot be aurpamad by thaiol auyolher college In the country. Blu.leum are taught to be elf-re I an" am carenil, yet that attention X constantly glyea which ctlectuully prevent a waste of time and tile lrequent occurrence of errore. me 11 rN ;?,hVhtt.' VpT.',!"11 feilance nearly ONR J ,X. . .D BltDEMt,, who will testify to thecoro i'2S, ,if-f.,lr " the name time repre- ?h2iieH?e;'rf,pl,M:fd "' "" tuB fifing UrliTll "lv'"fK o c2u DBo-nniftJ ready at d reliable Clerks and Book-keeperi-we make m M.Vi la under the control of Alx. Park Spring, who, m a most complete and thorough operator, is uliquau! flf dly endorsed by the entire corp of manager of the Western Union Telegraphic line at the maft olUoe i5 thin city, bee circulars now ouu Twenty-three InNttn- menu constantly In operation. The best Teaohew ( 5 ' i2n.i ,ndBVCe,.v The LAOIKH' DEPART WiAT Is the finest iu the country; over twenty-nvo Ladles are now In attendance. """"j uva ( OJNFIDENCK-We will refund the entire charge of tuition to any pupil who may be dissatisfied with our instruction after he has given two weeks' faithful labor In either Department. TERMS. Commercial Course : Telegraphic Course Ua . JACOB H. T A Y LOH, President. PARER BPJMAaOerresldent. 2 11 mwlsm MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS, ETC. . fjO URNI NC MILLINERY. ALWAYS ON HAND A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF MOUnNING BONNETS,, AT KO, 904 WALSCT ST BEET. 827 6m MAD'LLE KEOCH. FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS.&C pu HOFFMANN, JR., HO. 820 ARCH STKEET, FURNISHING GOODS, CL- lU. A. Hollman. formerly W. W. Knight,) 1TKK SllIKTS ASli WBAPPEKA. UOUBT AND OLOTE9, ' NIEK.EAJHBS' VMtl. AND MEBISTO 8 8fnw8m UNDEBCLOTHIUfG, J. W. SCOTT Sd CO., MIIBT MAPjf FACTIIBEHS, AND DKiLKRH IX MEN'S FUKNIMIIINU OOODM NO. 811 'HENtJT ft'JBEET. FOUR DOORS BELOW THE "COST1NENTA1V &Z78rp PHILADELPHIA. PATENT SHOULDER-SEAM HlIIB'l MANUFACTORY", AMDOEMILEIIEN'M FITBKlSMINti STOBH PKR FACT FITTING BEURTS AND DBA WICKS niftdeirum measun tueut at very short notice. Ail other artices ol UKNTlJOUiJN'b DRJES3 GOOLb In lull varli ly. woa WINCHESTER A COn JLUl No. 76 CiltoKUT Btreet, HOUSE AKD SIGN PAINTING. P A I NUNC. THOMAS A. FAIIT, IIOINE M NI.N PAIKTEB.' (late Faby & Bra) No. 31 No.th TIUUD Street, Above Market. OLD BRICK FROIN'JS done np, and made to look equul to tbe liuest press brlok. barnuies at the shop. City and country traue solicited. Ail orders by Post promptly attended to. 4Jmw gUMMER TRAVEL VIA i NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. ' SHORTEST AND MOST PLEASANT ItOUTK TO , W1LKESBAREE, MACCH CHUNK, ' . JiASTON, , allentown, mount carmel. hazlktoh BETHLEHEM, ' ; And all points In the ' . LEUIOH MAHAvOY, AND WYOMING VALLETf " ComtcodlonsCars, Smooth Truck, Fine Scenery and : Excellent Hote!n me tho specialties of mis route Through to W'llkeaburre sad ilauctt Cuuuit without ' change oi' cars. ' "vl" . i EXCURSION TICKETS, - ?".r0?S,???iR'3e,,l,fc t0 Principal Point, Issned fram i.Hl ONLY, at Reduced lutJi o Kuu return t II JUonuay evenlnir JXCVRKION TICb'KTS TO WIDklidRARRlE Oood for 'UN DA YH, Issued any day RB T.rJ","fh. J'IH leave the Depot, BFRK8 and AMKRIOAM bireeis, at 7'46 A. M.. lno P. M?. and P. M. 1 or particulars see Time Table In daily papers. ' Philadelphia, July fti?;.01'' U"ienU Aunt- 'l ick ets sold and Buiti anu jSHKKak-e Checked through to the points at Mann's North Pennsylvania Haa! principal wane Kx press Oliice. No. lw b. tlflU tit, , J mLi QHARLES RUM PP. POBTE MONNA IE,-POCKET-BOOK Ann j MTCMI, MANUFACTURE NO. 47 NORTH NIXTII STREET . i Below Arch, Philadelphia. ' ; To0?ttrouos,.,,lft,e9' keeTHBO0k8' ! cibas,tttbM' banker,. cas'es. Money Bells. J-; WHOLESALE and retail 7,our , JAS a?oveEIA3 JE WE ER, SOUTH bpoi lumen to th clunoe ZLiZ. .! . ll " ntloii or ami. i. A 77 i" ' lul,oe selection of HTTki.iw tuhiw lent). Flies, and all ACKLH. lu aU iut various brandies. lr,ti 1AOJ HANI) lir'mittn., RH K I - it.iT 'AWirvu OUN3 altered to lowest rates! m "B bebt Uiuuuer, tot tha in u !P. r.w. b. . TI1R PKT OF THE HOUSEHOLD. PA U TH' ya t.-r,f : T'vrvTr..Vli.; r'. 1 " 1-"S1UW WKR. terrthlw iur.T,.'er.',,'0,,!,! ''v ' their Shut- 'lu'niiii ii." 1 uevui-iusiiioueO ribbons. J iy.ent-tive cents ner i,Kir. h,,i.i i l'i'io, pair aud No. 27 6. THIRD buwt.
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