THE DAILY EVKft'lKG' TELEGRAPH PHlLADELrniAj TUESDAY, " DECEMBER 10, 1807., IT I spirit of trim PRESS. ITOIUAL OTTS'MZ OP TBI LKADINO JPCRHAIA prOB CITBRWT TOPIC COWPTLKD SVBHT PAT VOft f&a MtMllia TKLBOBaFK. tha Secretary. from the JT. Y. Time. The House bas rendered decisive verdiot Against Mr. MoCnlloch and Lia policy of con Jracting the currency. Without debate or Jelay, and ly a vote or 127 to 24, It has su9 lained the measure of the Ways and Means Committee, eneing tlie . authority by which the Secretary of the . Treasury is em powered to red nee the volume of ourrenoy. Nor does there seem any reason to doubt that the same view will prevail in the Senate, with force enough to render nugatory the antici pated veto. When Mr. McCulloch wrote, the other day, that "the publio mind is too sensitive, busi ness is too unsteady, and the political future i3 too uncertain, to warrant any financial ex periments," he passed the severest censure upon the policy to which Congress ia applying i partial check. That policy has been alto gether experimental, and its results have been singularly at variance with the "conservative legislation" of which in his recent report he speaks as "now indispensable." The attempt to regulate the gold market by sales of the gold which should have been hoarded as a re serve preparatory to specie payments, has been confessedly a failure, slnoe it has neither diminished the premium nor crushed specula tion, while it has weakened the Treasury and postponed resumption. Equally mistaken has been the conversion of currency obligations the redemption of which formed the proper tise of every spare greenback into gold bonds, entailing an enormous yearly addition to the gold interest, and consequently to the load of taxation. And the immediate eileot of con traction has been to augment the uncertain lies of business, aud to multiply the causes of difficulty and depression. Every step he has taken has been in its nature a "financial ex periment," for which justification will be vainly sought in the circumstances that make neoessarv the intervention of Congress. That a reduotion of the currency must eventually precede a return to specie pay ments, is as certain as that inflation now exists. By no other process known to mone tary science may the evils incident to inflation be removed. The fundamental blunder of the Treasury has been the supposition that over issues of legal-tender paper might be sum marily ended, and specie payments as sum' marilv resumed, by the exeroise of a discre tionary authority vested in the Secretary. The condition of the country was not con sidered in the calculation. The fact that a reaction from the excitement of the war had set in strongly was overlooked. No notloe was taken of the paralysis through which trade and industry must pass before escap ing from the effects of the prolonged and ex cessive strain to which both had been sub jected. The necessity of allowing time for the recovery of health by the body politio for the restoration of vigor to industry and life to trade was utterly ignored. These errors in the diagnosis of the disease led to the disasters which have characterized its . treatment. Principles, in themselves sound, have been so injudiciously applied that instead of mending matters they have made them worse. The country has endured the pains of harsh treatment without any corresponding advantage. Nay, the precautions provided for its protection have been systematically disregarded. The provisions of the law. re lating to a sinking fund have been violated. Gold bonds, carrying interest equal in cur rency to more than eight per cent., have been issued in redemption of compound interest notes, instead of the three per cent, certifi cates which were authorized for this special purpose. The financial difficulties of the country have therefore been aggravated by 'finanoial experiments" which would be suf ficiently trying at any time, but which from their unskilful application have produoed wide-spread and unnecessary distress. Mr. MoCnlloch errs In supposing that f'le ' gitim&te business has not suflared by the cur tailment whioh has taken plaoe within the last two years." Credit enters more or less into all business, and as the tendency of contraction is to lower prices, it necessarily inflicts loss upon the debtor interest. Borne loss is inevitable if we would regain a specie basis. Fortunes trill be reduoed, and many who esteem them selves rich will find themselves poor. Such being the result of contraction, come when it may. its application should be gradual and Judicious. The losses should be distributed over a series of years, partly as a measure of equity between debtors and creditors, partly in order that commerce and production may acquire . strength to sustain the certain shock. It ia idle to ray, then, that 'leeWmate business has not Buttered" from the curtailment which has taken plaoa. Specu lation may have suffered moat, but "legiti mate business" has also experienced trials which have strained to the utmost its power of endurance. Contraction has undoubtedly sot been the sole cause of these embarrass ments. General depression, here and abroad, contributed somewhat to their intensity, and, perhaps, the uncertainty attaching to finance In consequence of the vast discretionary power wielded by ihe Secretary, has contri buted still more. These considerations, how ever, vindicate the action now taken by the House. For as trade suffers from causes be yond the control of legislation, it is entitled to ask that legislation shall not multiply and aggravate them. And if the interference of the i reasury is one of these avoidable oauaes, the UouBe takes a proper Btep in preventing were us action in regard to the currency should for the present terminate. It will Diunaer even more egreplouai tha tha Saore tary if it listen to M, IUger8oH'8 proposition w restore vu uwoumuon the amount of cur rency reurea einoe pru, ifcoii. To do this would be to bring back the daya wuea jnfla. tlon, beiDg in progress, unsettled values and newal now would entail mischief ln every branch of trade, and shake one's faith in tL redemption of the national obligations. There Is no safety, except in remaining as we are. nntil time and prosperity enable the country to see its wav to fpecie payments. All that is preventive in the evil of Mr. MoCulloch's policy cranes with the discretionary power under which he has acted; and the further help which Congress may render must come through, retrenchment, reduction of taxes, and the reuewed Industry whioh will follow recon struction. ' An attempt to cruate anew pros perity by the reUnne of scores of millions of erteiiW.kg would destroy confidence in the financial future, and precipitate a crash which a little geuuiiie statesmanship might easily . avert...' Tle Imp.acbinsut Question. fVotn the It. Y. Tribune. The Uouse has closed the Impeachment question. As we expected, the project has boen defeated by a decisive vote 103 to 57. We need scarcely say we are satisfied with the result. We have never felt that good would come from forcing upon the country an isaue whioh could only postpone reconstruction, embarrass the filiations, and pnrhaps impose upon us the responsibility of meeting a revo lution. We never considered impeachment as a mere policy. It ia too high and solemn. Instead of its being an improper proceeding in itself, we have contended that there ia no act more expressly provided in the Constitution, and that a failure to obey this explicit law would be in the highest degree revolutionary. Impeachment is the constitutional safeguard between the people and a dictatorship. To regard the 1 residency as an intaot, Inde pendent office, responsible only to the moral influence called "the people," and to a politi cal mob called a "convention," is to make our ruler as absolute as the bmperor of China. Some of the President's advisers have not ceased to urge upon him the irresponsibility of his office, while earnest men upon our side contended that the real question was, "Could Congress refuse to Impeaoh the President T" They argued very justly that, if we make the precedent that Presidents may do as they please, then they may legislate when it suits their fancy, and construe the laws when they are in a judicial humor; they may bring into their high office the obstinacy of Qeorge III. and the licentiousness of George IV, and public liberty will depend, not upon written law, but upon the nerve of the first demagogue who reaches the White uouse. While we admit this, we cannot resist the conviction that to adopt impeachment now would be to bring upon the country greater evils than those we seek to avoid. To the Republican party Mr. Johnson is of more use in the White House than he would be any where else. Impeachment would make him a martyr; while, with no more evidence than this enormous volume of testimony, the Senate could never convict him. The country sees in Mr. Johnson an obstinate man who means honestly to deal with a question which he, of all men, is the least fitted to decide. To ask a representative of his class in the South to consider the negro question on a liberal basis, is to ask him to befriend a race which has been a successful rival in labor, although an infe rior in the eyes of the law, the church, and society. We have a President to whom a pre jndice is a conviction, and in whose mind, for fifty years, a negro has never been more than a skilled mule, and we ask him to oonfer upon the mule the only right which has kept him self from political degradation. This has been the great difficulty with Mr. Johnson; and when he finds casuists as ready as Mr. Black and Mr. Seward, and sophists as eager to defend his cause as Mr. Cowan and Mr. Doo little, and politicians like Mr. Raymond and Mr. Weed willing to indorse him, and to pro mise him the indorsement of the Republican party, we can understand the persistence with which he clings to his unfortunate and perni cious policy. Nor do we place on the shoul ders of the President all the blame of the pre sent trouble. He had Republicans enough to go with him to cheer him on to applaud his course as liberal and patriotic. He found Republican conventions willing to sustain him, and to sacrifice the negro, provided our onice-gtving usesar with 20,000 palpable oflices could be conciliated. These men only left Mr. Jehnson when they saw the cloud of popu lar wrath rising over his head. While he wa3 honestly wrong, they dishonestly followed his lead to serve their turn upon him. We for get that in traversing his record we traverse a record that many of our own mends would not care to face. Long since, when these men were sustaining the President, we remonstrated with them and denounced his polioy. When they swiftly changed, ana demanded impeach ment, we resisted it as a concession to popular passion, we neid that impeachment was a judicial task, and not political, and that, un less the nation's existence demanded it, there was too much to be lost by entering upon a harassing and purposeless investigation. We felt this especially as success was doubtful, and failure would only restore the Rebels to power. liy impeachment now we sannot atone lor our own errors in 1865, nor undo the mischief the President has done. Impeachment would not be a punishment, for in the tardy process of law, with Mr. Garret Davis a talking Judge and every Democratic Senator privi leged to debate for a month, the trial would continue until the end of the President's term. General Butler's theory that he might be super eeded was too dangerous to be aooepted. To have made the precedent that a majority of the Uouse could suspend the Executive for an an limited period would be to place the whole Government at the mercy of a majority, and majorities have passions and prejudices, and do heedless things. We do not know what temper the next Uouse will exhibit. It ia possible the Democrats may be in power, and under the law as General Butler construes it, they oould speedily remove President Chase or Presideut Grant. We have taken from the President all power of harm. We have placed recon Btruction beyond his reach. We have given the negro the ballot, and it will require peace and careful legislation to couflrm him in his new responsibility. We cannot afford to waste that time In impeachment ceremonies, we shall have burdens enough to carry in the next campaign, without making Mr. Johnson a martyr and carrying him also. As it ia, the Democratic leaders have lormaiiy warned mm that he cannot enter their party. They accept his aid and his offices to make war upon us. but they insolently say that when he has given them this aid they have no further use for him. Impeachment, without better reasons than any we have seen, would only throw Mr, Johnson into the hands of a powerful party, and compel that party to make him its leader W e say "impeachment without ueuer rea sons." The President has done much for which we have severely censured hiui. He has appointed Rebels to office. He has sought to usurp the legislative power by attempting to reconstruct the South without appealing to Congress. He has degraded amnesty into political influence, at the expense of the gra cious mercy that rests in his office. He may be even charged with attempting to make a treaty of peace with publio enemies without the consent of the Senate, whioh has a dlreot advisory and conourring power in all treaties of peaoe. But he did this two years ago, aud was sustained by Republican Conventions, against our earnest protest. Since then, how vr he has removed Republicans from offioe, and done many rash and painful thiugs. ThU only proven that a Republican candidate be came an anti-Republican indent. That would be good ground for impeachment b" fore a Republican Convention, but not before a Ivatioua Congress. Our business la to con tinue the intrepid legislation of last session to support the , President when he Is right, MBall him when wrong to force upon Ulm a clear, well defined, and resolute polioy. We have, done this in reconstruction; we have done it in our well Intended but luiiwrfectly digest I Tenure of Office bill.- We mni remember th lessons of our Baltimore Conventiou expe rience, and be sure we Lave fur our next oau- diilales representative men. Mr. Johnson was nominated by the "hurrah-boy," nielo draiiinlio. blood-and -thunder fmtling of noUy loyalty just as we are requested now to nomi nate negative aud uncertain men by the roll of the drum. We protested against the 'hurrah" business in 1864 Just as we pro test against the drum-tap business voir. We can best avoid impeachment scandala by electing men whose reoorda cannot be im peached. One point more. We trust the country will not fail to note that Congress has acted in this matter with patience with wisdom with serene dignity without passion. A few indi vidual members may have said intemperate things, but the action of Congress has not been intemperate. Impeachment has been put to rest. The national grand inquest finds no bill of indictment against Andrew Johnson. Now let us prooeed to retrenchment, finanoial reform, and the final reconstruction of the States. Signs and Woadtn la th Il.av'.ats Above and la the Kartti Beneath. From the N. Y. Herald. Since the beginning of October we have had to chronicle a succession of hurricanes and earthquakes that did immense damage in the West Indies and on the Gulf Coast. First we had to record the tornado at Galveston, Brownsville, and Matamoras on October 3; next came the destructive gales at Martinique and St. Vincent Islands on October 7, followed by the still more disastrous hurricane that tore all before it in St. Thamas on October 29, and in Porto Rico, St. Domingo, and at Cape Uaytien on the following day. All the steam ers plying in the Gulf of Mexico reported tem pestuous weather in the beginning of the first and second weeks of October and November, and the United States steamer Wilderness, with ex-Mmister liomero on board, had a rough experience of the gale at the beginning of November. bucceeding each of these hurricanes were shocks of earthquake, following the same course traversed by the tornadoes, and corres ponding in violence to the preoeding gale The most violent of these convulsions were felt at St Bartholomew, St. Martin, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Saba Islands, at Mayaguea, In Porto Rioo, and St. Domingo city, ou the afternoon and night of November 13 and 19. The observations made at Mayaguez establish the fact that the course of this tremendous earthquake was from east to west. At that place water spouted out of the earth, while the earthquake caused suoh an upheaving in the Virgin Islands that some of the smaller ones are reported now as totally destroyed. The island of bt. uroix, where it was most violent, ia sixty-five miles east southeast from Porto Rioo, and ia the largest and southern most of the Virgin gronp. With St. Thomas and St. John it forma the Danish possessions in the West Indies. It ia twenty miles long by five miles wide, and has a population of 25,000 inhabitants. Its surface is level, and earthquakes are frequent. St. Bartholomew is about one hundrei and twenty-five miles to the eastward of St. Croix. Ita area ia thirty-five square miles, and its population ie,uuu. its conformation la similar to Est, Croix, but the inhabitants have to rely upon rain lor their supply of fresh water. It has a fine harbor the Caronage on the west side, and is the only Swedish possession in America. St. Martin is about one hundred miles northeast of St. Croix, and has an area of about thirty square miles, with a popula tion of 8000 inhabitants. The surface of the ipland is hilly and not fertile. About two thirds the northern of this island belongs to the French, the balartoe to the Dutch. We do not pretend to have the gift of pro phecy, nor have we any desire to alarm people of weak nerves; but, in view of the facta above stated, it is our duty to call attention to the shaky condition of our globe at the present time. Almost every day tor some time past we have published startling aoooanta of terri ble earthquakes, or volcanlo eruptions from old craters and from new clefts in the orust of the globe; of the sinking down of islands beneath the ocean; of the rising of the sea fifty feet above Its ordinary level; of tornadoes such as have hardly been known since the Flood; of showers of meteors, and of a general dis turbance in the heavens above and in the earth beneath. What all these things portend we do not pretend to say, but they are omi nous. The first question that arises is, Has the world become bo wicked that the . vials of wrath spoken of in the Apocalypse are now being poured down upon it f Aud here we think the writers on prophecy, the expounders of Daniel and of St. John the Evangelist, are at fault and behind the times. Where, too, are the Millerites and those wonderful mo lorn Spiritualists, who can see through a millstone easier than ordinary mortals can through glass ? People who have a clear view of what is passing in the seventh heaven aud all other heavens by merely closing their eyes and calling the disembodied spirits to their aid, ought to be able to throw light on the subject. The prophets and revealurs of prophecy and the penetrating mediums being unable to Batisfy us, we must ask what are men of science doing to explain the startling phenomenon f They, too, seem to be ignorant. But our sci entific men, as far as we have heard, appear not to have any knowledge of the matter. M. Dellisier, a French savant, it seems actually predicted the earthquake and hurricane at St. Thomas and other parts of the West Indies. He even gave the date, the 12th of November, and it was on the night of the 11th that the convulsions of nature commenced, or were fireceded by a "terrible display of electrical ight." From that time to the 19th, Jamaica, St. Thomas and a large portion of the West Indies were in a fearfully oonvulaed state. M. Dellisier, it ia said, made his calculations from astronomical observations and from the influenoe of planets on the surface of the earth. It is reported he is preparing a work on the subject to be read to the Aoademy of Sciences' at Paris. This work will be looked for with great interestand when we get it the religious and spiritual prophets may be helped out of their dilemma. We may then know whether the spheres of the universe are going to jostle against each other and bring the world to an end. But where ia philosopher Looruis and all our other savans just now f The earthquakes and hurricanes have bewil dered them as much as the meteors did. It is evident that if we must have information about such phenomena, so as to be able to s-leeD o' nlirhts" without fear of the earth being smashed up, we shall have to find more watchful and aoier astronomers m ura, Under this state of things it devolves upon na in allay the fears of quiet, respeotable peo pie; but at the same time we have no wish to lesson the apprehensions of the wicked and Geologists tell us that before the crust of the earth was well formed there were continual fiery Btorms of tha most terrible nature, suoh as, In fact, we cau form no idea of, and that for a long period, while the crust was cooling and forming, the most tremendous convulsions recurred fremientlv. creating the vact chains of mountains and the depths of the eea. It was no', till after the sur face w s cooled end txHianm eolid and mmn. tiling like the present atmosphere was formed. tv 'U anything could live Upou the earth.! All ti)is anterior period, or euotession of tmriad. were wkat is meant probably by the six days ot" Creation mentioned in the Scriptures. M u y animals existed before man was able to live on the earth, and, therefore, as the Moi-aio account properly says, , man was created last. Tlie earliest account we have of any treat coiivulsion of nature since the creation of man was the deluge in the time of Noah, when "the fountains of the great deep were broken Hp." This was probably only the Asiatio delugo; for though it is said in bcriplure the whole worid whs covered with water, we know that the 01 1 Testament writers speak generally of Asia as all the world. I here nave been, no doubt, other deluges in other parts of the globe, for geologists inform us so. Alter iNoah 8 deluge followed the destruction of the cities of Sodom and' Gomorrah. This, most likely, was an earthquake with great voloanio aotion; for it "rained fire and brimstone," and these cities sunk far below the level of the sea. The water of the lake which now covers the spot, and the whole region around about, indicate there was fearful voloanio action. In profane history, among the earliest ac counts of remarkable convulsions of the globe. is that which destroyel Ueroulaneum and Pompeii in the year A. D. G3. Sixteen years after these cities were buried in the ashes from Vesuvius. Some countries are frequently visited by earthquakes. Calabria, the south ern extremity of Italy, and the neighboring island of Sicily, are examples. From February, 1783, to the end of 178G, less than four years, this country was in a continual disturbed Btate, when nearly a thousand shocks were felt, and most of them of great violence. An cient Antioch, in Syria, was visited several times by earthquakes, and in A. D. 523 the most disastrous one occurred of which there is any record. Gibbon states that 250,000 people perished at that time. In more modern times that of Lisbon in 1755, of Java in 1772, and in Chili in 1822, are the moat noted. In six minutes sixty thousand persons peiished at Lisbon. Humboldt estimated that the extent of the earth's surfaoe shaken by that earthquake was equal to four times the area of Europe. At the Java earthquake one of the loftiest volcanoes, with an area fifteen miles long and six broad, sunk down and canted forty villages with it. We might enumerate many other such remarkable dis turbances of the earth's surfaoe, but these are sufficient to show that its crust is constantly subject to unknown forces, both within and without. It is now generally believed by geologists that the solid part of the earth is only about as thick to the whole mass as the rind of an orange is to the pulp, and that the interior is liquid fire. . We need not be sur prised, then, at the terrible convulsions and eruptions whioh have occurred lately, and which we have referred to as ooourring in former times. We do not know what effect the outside pressure of planets or masses of meteors may have in producing earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions, but doubtless , they have an influence. We know, however, that the gases with which petroleum and other substances are intimately associated are con nected with these phenomena. The Caribbean coast of Venezuela is known to be highly volcanlo, and Is frequently subject to earth quakes. Near this, in Trinidad, ia the famous tlake of bitumen or petroleum. At one Bpot along the Gulf of Cariaco, Mr. Hum boldt found a petroleum spring bubbling through the water of the sea. Ihe atmo sphere was tilled with the peculiar smeu lor a great distance around, and after finding the place from whioh it came, he waaea in the salt water to examine . the phenomenon Perhaps it may be some, comfort to our people that a great deal of this material and its gases have been set free lately by the vast number of petroleum wells sunk in the United States. We recommend all with sur plus cash to employ it in letting out the petro leum and other eases in the bowels of the earth, and thua save us perhaps from earth quakes and such like terrible catastrophes Above all, we call upon the people and poli ticians to cease from wickedness and seotional strife, for when "the times are out of joint" we may expect the forces of nature to war against us. Marriage Bitwttn White and Black CltlMUl, From the W. Y. World. The Civil nights bill passed by Congress April 9, 18C6, declares that all persons born in the United States, except Indiana not taxed, are citizens of the United States, unless con victed of crime, and have co-equal right, in every State of the United States, to make and enforce oontracts. The same law also ordains that whoever, under color of any statute (which includes no State offloer aoting- under & Stute statute), shall subjeot any colored man to any dillerent punishment, pain, or penalty, iroin that prescribed for white men, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviotion, be punished by fine or imprison ment. The purpose of the law is to make political equality between black and white men, and its effect ia to make Indians inferior to both. A committee of the Alabama Constitutional Convention reported an ordinance making it obligatory on the Legislature of that State to prohibit, under severe penalties, and make void in that State all marriages between white and black persons. When the report came up for consideration in the Convention the radi cals strongly resisted it, and a black delegate said it was "contrary to the Civil Eights bill" to which we have just referred. The report was thereupon laid over lor a day. Marriage, according to the general princi ples of American jurisprudence, while it may be said to proceed from a civil oontract be tween one man and one woman of the needful civil and physical capacity, is yet something more than a contract, for it is a oivil status r,nrnnttrt(i bv the sovereign will of the State. and only to be abrogated by that will, when ever the publio good, or justice to both or either of the parties, will be thereby sub served. The obligation of marriage is created bv the publio law, subject to the publio will, and not to that of the parties. The State has therefore the rieht to Bay who shall marry. and what circumstances or events shall con stitute a legal marriage. Want of mental capacity; of proper age; inexpedient relations of affinity or consangunity; physioal impotence and incapacity from social causes, have always been considered among the causes jus tifying the btate in prohibiting marriage. So, too, in the olden time, as for exam pie in Massachusetts, until the year Itii, when tne statute was re pealed, certain Northern States prohibited marriage of white persons with Indians, ne groes, or mulattoes. Put this was long before the adoption by Congress of the notions of the equality of the white and black races, which underlie the Civil Eights bill of April, 1HJU. OLD R YE HIE LAKGFST f I r; p old In tho Lend HEX 11 Y S. 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The central idea, however, of the act of April, 18U6, and of the political party that plaoed it upon the statute book, is that a negro, having the same moral, intellectual, and physical qualities as a white man, is, in every respect, and certainly before the law, the equal of the latter. It ia upon such notions that universal or manhood suffrage is vindicated. It is evident, therefore, that those who reported the ordi nance in the Constitutional Convention of Alabama, to which we refer, must have had ia view an element in the relative conditions of white and black citizens whioh ought to pro hibit intermarriages between the two. It is evident, also, that the radical white Republi cans, agreeing with tire colored delegates la the convention, do not recognize any such ele ment. It becomes material, therefore, to iuquire what this element is, how far it extends, and whether it does not reach beyond the mar riage relation, and extend to politioal affairs and duties. There is another feature of this subject whioh it may be interesting to consider. It ia an admitted principle of American law that a marriage valid by the law of the State in whioh it is celebrated, though it would he invalid it entered into under the same formalities in the place of the domicile of the parties, ia good everywhere. A white man and a negro woman, citizens and residents oi Alabama, can, there fore, bo far as difference of color is concerned, oontract and solemnize a valid marriage in Massachusetts, if they conform to all the pro visions of the statutes of that Commonwealth, and when they return to Alabama their chil dren of the hybrid race will be legitimate and entitled to inherit in such capacity. This question of Intermarriage of Africans with persons of the white European races is mest interesting, and becoming every day, by reason of Republican legislation, of fearful practical importance. The fundamental idea of the Republican party, in its treatment oi the Southern States, is the co-equality of the white and black races. Ought suoh oo-equala to be permitted to intermarry J We shall be glad to hear from the Tribune on the moral, social, ethnelogioal, politioal, legal, and prac tical relations of this subject ! Major-General Pope desires instant information from a head centre of his party ( QREAT REDUCTION, FOR THE HOLIDAYS, IN OIL rAINTIBiOS, 1 CIinOMOS, AND B EH BAVIN CIS. BIANTEL AND PIEB LOOKING GLASSES, IN GREAT VARIETY. NEW ART GALLERY, DO LAND & CO., F. 11 1 2m2pJ , No. 014 AKCH Street. BOOTS AND SHOES. "fHE LATEST STYLES IN CUSTOM-MADE BOOTS AND SHOES, ion UENTLE9IEN AND BOTH. CALL AND 8KB TUB NEW BOX TOES. PRICEH FIXED AT LOW FIGURES. DARTLETT, NO. 33 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, 11 28 tf ABOVE CHESNUT. P ATE NT ELA8T VENTILATING INKEU SOLES. I C They sre a PKRFF.CT m i"'owtl1.Irrnerltth'y ""VoOTUU Baot nil 1 TTl. Proprietor and Manufacturer. 11 lul No. 7Uj10M btreet, Busiou, Matt. W HIS K I E S. AND BEST STOCK RYE V H I is . now , Possessed OF & COe Eeuth raOKT Street, LOT, ON VERY Al VANTAOKO V this year, up to present date. Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Ericsson LI elect. HO. 807 VntMNDT NT BEET. CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC. RETAIL AND WHOLESALE CLOTH HOUSE. WE T. SKODGRASS & CO., SO. S t IfcOUTII SECOND SI BEET, Announce a fresh importation o LADIES VELVET CLOTHS, EUH BE4VI.IU, ASTBAl'HAHS, VELVETEENS, rillMCIIIbLAS, IliriEU DE.tTElM, ETC. ETC. ETC Also, a large and varied assortment of GOODS adapted lor Men's and Bov' Wear. 11 19 lmrp MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS ETC, M R S. R. DILLON. 1 KOS. 133 AND 831 SOUTH STREET j . Hm11 th noveUiei In FALL MILLINERY, for Ladle, Hlmea, and Children. Also, Crape, Slika, JMbboni, Velvets, Flowers, . . Featbera, Frames, elo. Milliners supplied. 8 18 HOOP SKIRTS. 620. WM. T. HOPKINS, C23. MANUFACTURER OF FIRST QUALITY HOOP SKIRTS, FOR THE TRADE AND AT RETAIL. NO. 028 AKCH STBEIST, BELOW SE VENTH, PHILADELPHIA. AIbo dealer In fnlt lines or low-priced New York and Kusiern mhde bklrta. All the new and rtohlrable styles and sizes ol Ladles'. Mimes', aud Children's Hoop-skirt conHtautly on - hund U n li mail. I n .i.u. fimhwinv tha lawaat. m r r . must varied asBorlmeul la UiW market, at very mode rate prices. very lady should try "O u Own Make" of Hoop Bklrw, as they liave no equal. bouthem, Western, una nei.r Trade buyers Will flud It to thetr interest to examiun our goods.. Catalogue oi styles, sizes, aud prices sent to any address. V 8m FURNITURE, ETC. fURNITURE! FURNITURE! HODEItl AND ANTIOITK1 PAR LOB, II ALL AND CIIA9IBEB SUITS AT DEDUCED ruiCEM. Our facilities are such that we are enabled to offer at very moderate prices, a large and well-assorted stock of every description ol HOUSEHOLD ITURNI TCRJC AND BKDDINU. . Oeod packed to, carry safely to all parts ol the country, BicnnoND A EOKEPAUGH, SHU HO, 40 H. SEt'ON D HTBEET. HOUSEKEEPERS. I have s Urge stock of every variety of FUKMITUltiV -Which I will sell al reduced prices, conslRtluc ot i-l A IN AND ilAKHliH TOP OUTTAUtt BliiiU WLJiUT OHAJUBali SU1TH. , FA KLOR SUITS IN VHVKT PLUSH. FA klX)K fcUITd IN HAIR CLOTH. FA ItLOK bDITb JN Bkm bldboards. Extension Tables, Wardrobes, Book casts. ALaUresst, Lounges, etc eto. I, r. WUSTIMB, Horn N. K. corner BFCONl and RAH WtrewW. E 8 T A U LI SUED 1795. A. 8. ROBINSON. 1 iench Plate Looking-aiasflos, EUfriiAVUSaS, PAISTIK4I8, DRAWINGS, JETU If isufx turtr of All kinds of LOJiIN-LA.t PORTRAIT, AND Mb TCUE 1UA1I1A TO OBOKK. No- t10 CI1KSNUT STREET. Xli 1 HI) DOOR ABOVE THE CONTINENTAL, VHII.APgI.PHIA. fMj PPCCIAL NOTICE. UALANtB OF IMPORTED FRENCH WVU. . NITIBE, SUITABLE FOB HOLIOAT PRESENTS, Closlni out at Reduced Trices, at MR I. IAIZ'B FCRNITCRU STORE, 11 to ilt No. 121 Bouth K v r-gLi jPLrrBt UJKAJbU Row. E. LI NEEDLES & CO., M.W. Eleventh and Cbeauut Streets, Have opened a large lot of very superior TA131-E DAMASKS u't.l.h tti.tv ntTuv at ftl. and il'KA na. v.ril J. jl. These goods are from forced sales by the ? Import era, and will be funnd super tor In quality Id suction. Also, a very cheap lot of LINEN SHEET" IIsG, ieduodlniu 2 to fi-25, and from U 36 to trso per yard. Also, 40 and 4Vlnch PILLOW LINEN, re duced fiom 1 lo 78 cents. od from rU to 87X cents. Alno.alot Of ALL LINEN HUCKABACK, reduced Iroui U't rents to ItH ceuts. AIM UHVHIO
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