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Tht New Political Power.
from the Jf. Y. Iteruhi.
Mr. Johnson's boldness nd sagacity in
JlirowlDg the name of Hancock, like another
ftpple of diaoor.1, among the rival candidates,
)r like ft tub to catch the Presidential whale,
Jfl ft prune puzzle to all the politicians, who
ever gave hfm credit for the aptitude to
otgh bo well the points in the President
making game. Hancock's name has made
a great fuss and taks wonderfullj with the
Deuioort3 and the Democrat io organs in this
neighborhood, all of which is because, no
fionbt, it is ft name acceptable to the head
centre of Demooratio power in this State.
Dean Richmond, in the good days of the
Albany regency, managing the Central Rail
road, managed also the State Democracy.
Jiut now there has come forth ft greater
than the Dean in the person of Commodore
Vanderbilt, who drives ft handsome four-inland
where Richmond drove ft single pony.
Vanderbilt holds the ribbons of the Central,
the Harlem and the Hudson River railroads
Jietireea his forefingers and that of the Erie
under his thumb. For the latter there are
tome scraps of claims outuide that amount to
nothing. And with these roads the Commo
dore has ft fonr'old claim to run the Demoora
Jio party ft claim that, like Selkirk's domi
nion, ''there is none to dispute." lie runs it
liccordingly and is the power behind the
throne of Democratio glory. His coadjutors,
adjutants, aids and subordinates are the
tichells the familiar Dick and dignified Au
gustusand Belmont, and, in a promisouoas
general way, the whole Manhattan Club. Bel
mont, with the fortune as well as the tenacity,
Kit, balance and comprehensive view of the
rvhole Rothschild family, carries the purse,
fcnd in virtue of the puree makes party opinion
in the party press; for that press, not being
Independent, not having in any sense the sup
port of the people, must study the thoughts of
the party almoner and take its pap and its
t)ne trom the same source.
Thus Vanderbilt with his railroads runs the
Earty machine and the conventions. Bslmont
eeps the right sort of ideas before the people,
nd the Schells shave the party notes and dis
count any man's claims for a place in the fu
ture Cabinet; and,altogether,it's a very pretty
game, and no doubt a source of much anx
iety to those who would be on the winning
Side and are so troubled by the way Uanoook's
Kiame takes that they cannot for their lives tell
vvhioh is the winning side. Truly, Democracy
prospers under the new power when men can
not say that it may not triumph.
Tba Franco-Italian Situation.
from th4lT..T. Timet.
Oar latest European mail advices concerning
the Franco-Italian difficulty are such as to
Show the critical situation of affairs between
the two powers. The French Government
cleems the aspect of matters in Italy so serious
that "no precautions have been neglected."
It is announced that there are ships enough at
' Toulon and Marseilles to carry five divisions to
Civita Veoohla, and that the army of Lyons is
Only twelve hours from Toulon. Napoleon is
liolding these menaces over Italy at a time
tvhen the Italian people are so enraged about
the course of France as to be almost uncon
trollable. He is evidently applying the same
principle to the Italians that he declared in his
Tecent speech he intended to apply to his own
people. He said he meant in these "times of
excitement and dangerous impulses" to render
Iris enemies powerless by reminding them of
the "firmness of repression and the energy
end authority of the ruling power," and he
declared that for his part they might rest
tired that he would uphold his power firmly
and strongly, unshaken by obstacles or oppo
sition. This sort of thing has assuredly
Worked very successfully in France thus far;
Lut it is not yet certain that it will work with
equal suocess when applied to Italy.
The officer commanding the French army
Supporting the Pope, made ft speeoh to ft de
putation of Pontifical officers on quitting Rome,
in which he said: "We abandon Rome, but
only to prooeed to Civita Vecchia. Remember
that behind the brigade which remains in your
port stands the French army, ready to advanoe
to your Buccor and that of the Holy See." A
Roman, correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette
Says that the evacuation of Rome greatly
mortified the Frenoh officers, who rather hoped
to come into collision with the Italian army;
And he added that these Frenoh offioers cer
tainly speak as bitterly of the Italians as of
the Prussians, and blame their own Govern
ment for not showing fight to the Govern
ment of Florence.
As to the other side, we are told that all
kinds of rumors are prevalent with respect to
the ulterior intentions of the Italian Govern
ment, which is now supposed to be secretly
favoring the manoeuvres of the party of action.
3'he same kind of accusation has been brought
against it ever since the beginning of the Gari
laldian troubles with the Pope. The course
of conduct of the Italian authorities gave the
charge enough of color to enable Napoleon to
use it with great force as a justification for his
own movements.
Late advices by telegraph mention a new
ftttempt at negotiation on a new basis. France
offers to cooperate with Italy for the abroga
tion of the September Convention, with the
maerst&nding that any agreement they may
.rrive at in the matter shall be submitted to
the approval of the other powers of Europe.
Jiut this statement was immediately followed
Jay another to the effect that the Frenoh Gov
ernment was seriouHly considering the neces
sity of ordering its troops back to Rome from
Civita Vecchia. This last announcement
Shows how very critical the situation of affairs
Still continues to be. If war is avoided, the
escape from it will be a narrow one. We do
not wonder that Viotor Kmmanuel's daugh
ter, the Princess Clotilde, has spout "several
Lours" in praying for her father at the shrine
of the Virgin in the chapel of Notre Dame des
jVictoaes.
The Plymouth Idea, and Mayor Hoffman,
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Nobody celebrates the anniversary of the
cliaoovery of America, though it was an event
Of some physical and commercial importanoe
JSobody commemorates the landing of Captain
John Smith at Jamestown, or the arrival o
Jlendriok Hudson, or the Dutch settlers, at
the mouth of the Hudson river, or even the
settlement of Pennsylvania by one of the
purest representatives of the purest of sects
The personal character of Penu, the adven
turous heroism of Smith, the entire respecta
bility of the "founder" of Hudson's river, so-
THE DAILY HTV E.N11SI
called, are all conceded; but the events whioh
have rendered their names most illustrious
create no antbuaiasni, and inoite to no annual
commemoration. They preceded the landing
of the 1'ilgriuiH, and led to the founding of
commonwealths of more wealth aud physical
importance than Massachusetts. Rut iu id lal
and religious, significance Plymouth Rock
overtops them all, and endures, while the
breakers, surfs, fprays, or sands, amid which
the other events occurred are nnremembered
in song or story. There are Plymouth
churches and and associations in nearly every
city ; and throughout our institutions, cus
toms, and literature, there is a certain abstrac
tion, which assumes many concrete forms,
and whioh we can only define as the Plymouth
idea. This Plymouth idea is essentially re
ligious, missionary, aggressive, philanthropic
towards all suffering, except" suffering oppres
sors, firm against tyranny, intermeddling or
public-? pirited to the extent neoessary to ena
ble it to find out whether the world is right,
and, if not, to set it right in short, it is Puri
tanism, in the pulpit, in politics, and in the
world.
Puritanism is a masculine, energetio, theo
logical ism hard-featured in its serious
moods, more given to sound doctrine than to
gentle amiabilities, and more appreciative of
orthodoxy than of art. We are outgrowing
its primal abhorrence of elegant temples,
stained windows, freBooes, statues, carved
work, organs, and instrumental and unrege
nerate music. The "Plymouth" churoh of
our leading Western city is the most elegant
ecclesiastical parlor in the country. There is
a strong tendency in this modern age, fostered
by our best and humanest writers, to place
the human sympathies on a par with human
creeds, as ft means of refining and elevating
the race. The aesthetic is taking its proper
place beside the theological.
All these softening influences are seen no
where in greater fulneBS to-day than among
the descendants and admuers of the Puritans
themselves. Nevertheless, the Plymouth idea,
softened and refined by the mellowing influ
ence of time, is still a power in the land. Its
fundamental truth, viz., that men are not
merely to seek their own comfort And let their
neighbors alone, but are to intervene in every
relation of society for the reformation of the
erring, the deliverance of the oppressed, and
the advancement of mankind, is a wholly true
and noble one; and, when duly sottened and
relieved by tender human sympathies, and a
profound regard for the delicaoies and proprie
ties of life, it forms, perhaps, the leading idea
of our age and civilization.
It is to be expected that Mayor Hoffman,
owing his election to the anti-Puritan elements
of New York, would not be a warm admirer
of that which, wherever it comes into power,
leaves to men like him no alternative but
repentance or obscurity. Nevertheless, in
consenting to appear as a guest at a publio
dinner in honor and commemoration of the
Landing of the Pilgrims, few men would have
displayed the bad taste of sneering at New
England ideas and institutions in a company
assembled to honor them. Mr. Hoffman is
reported as saying at this New England
dinner:
"He never beard of but one eanal built by a
New Kuelander, and thai was nt Dutch Gap.
anil didn't turn out a great suocess. He hoped
when the New Euglandem went down South,
and took their pianos, which Mr. Beeener spoke
of, they wouldn't take any that they brought
away irom mere."
Great allowance should be made for all men
whom our pell-mell system of universal suf
frage lifts into positions of prominence, but
fails to endow with the good taste which such
positions call for. But he who would turn a
New England anniversary into an occasion for
flinging at an audience ot gentlemen the slan
der appropriate enough in a Five Points pri
mary meeting, viz.: lhat the New England
troops ana oincers stole pianos trom the south
era chivalry during the war, has simply shown
himself regardless of those gentlemanly in
stincts which we must presume mm to possess,
and to be capable under less trying oiroum
stances of displaying.
Tht National Banks.
From the N. Y. World.
We do not see any present necessity for the
Democratio party to present more than one
issue on the banking and currency questions,
namely, the submission of greenbacks for the
notes of the national banks. The time has not
come for the creation of a new banking ays
tern, and will not come until the resumption of
specie payments. When the banks can no
longer issue circulating notes, they will be de
prived of their chief motive for combining to
control the politics of the country, and their
interests will impel them to return under
State control.
As there is a profit in Issuing circulating
notes, they will be glad to reorganize as State
institutions for that purpose, as soon as the
condition of the country permits resumption
There is no inducement tor them to do so be
fore, because the States have no power to
authorize bank notes payable in anything but
specie. The declaration of the Constitution
is explicit that "no State shall make anything
but gold and silver coin ft tender in payment
of debts." It was held by Congress that this
is only a prohibition on the States, not on the
Federal Government; but nobody is ever
likely to contend that it does not bind the
States.
A surrender of the banks to State control
will therefore be favorable to the resumption
and to the permanence of specie payments.
The withdrawal of their circulation from the
national banks will Bet all their faces State ward,
and the desire to regain a circulation as State
institutions, will make them a spur, instead of
the clog they now are, to resumption.
The substitution of greenbacks for the
national bank notes is an excellent and Intel
ligible popular issue for the Presidential elec
tion. It is certain that this Republican Con
gress will not make the change, and take the
question out of the Presidential contest.
The national bank circulation will not be
touched by this Congress, and it will form one
of the clearest and best defined issues in the
Presidential canvass.
The merits of the question are perfeotly
level to popular apprehension. Everybody
knows that the greenbacks are a better curren
cy than irredeemable bank notes. They will
pay debts; which the bank notes will not,
unless creditors consent to take them. The
bank notes derive their credit from their pay
ability in greenbacks by the banks while
solvent; by the Government when the banks
fail.
But the chief argument for the change is
the great savings it would bring to the tax
payers. This is commonly stated at
18,000,000 a year, but it would be much
larger. For it must be borne in mind that
the eighteen millions a year saved is eighteen
millions ia gold, which at the preseut pre
mium is equivalent to about $25,000,000 in
currency. Jay Cooke, ia his defence of the
banks, and the Comptroller of the Currenoy
after him, made up a balanco-sheet
in sVinw that tllH lllllkil ni Ia .1... !.
. w .. r -J v kllQ UVVD1U'
I ment more than they receive from it.
This delusion was spiced with a few parti aent
items to give it a flavor of reality. The eigh
teen millions which the banks ojst the Gov
C TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1807.
ernment were, for example, put down in coin,
while all the items on the opposite Bide of Mix
acoount were estimated In ourrency--a fran4
on publio credulity to the amount of $7,000,
000. The whole exhibit was made up iu a
Bpiiit equally dishonest. But we wish at pre
sent to direct attention only to the amount
that would be saved by substituting green
backs for the bank notes. It Is ,00l),0L)0 a
year. Irue, that there is one offset which is
peitineut. but even this will dwindle on ex
amination. The offset to which we allu le is
the tax of one per cent, paid by the banks ou
their circulation. Those who insist on the
deduction assume that it oosts nothing to col
lect the publio taxes, while in point of fact it
cannot cost less than five per cent.
At this rate it must cost gl.lza.lHH) to collect
the $2.r,C00,000 of taxes which go to swell
the profits of the banks; bo that the circula
tion of those institutions actually oosts the
people in taxes including the expanse! of col
lection, $2G,12.r),000. The one per cunt, tax
on the circulation of the banks is paid in cur
rency, instead ol paying back in taxes on
their circulation one-sixth of what they re-
recive, the banks pay only seven-tenths of
one-sixth. But as we are reckoning both sides
of the account in currency, we must credit
the banks with the full one per cent, on their
circulation, which leaves a balance against the
Government of fJ, 120,000, and this is the
actual cost of the tax-payers each year of
allowing the banks to circulate their irredeem
able paper as money.
Besides this great saving to the tax-payers.
another capital advantage attending a suppres
sion of the national bank notes will be its ten
dency to hasten the return of specie payments.
We have already explained how It would en
list the bank influence on the side of resump
tion as a means oi recovering tue pro lit or
issuing circulating notes by reorganization as
btate institutions. Hut this is not all. As
things stand now, if the Government were
prepared In other respects to resume, it could
not on account of Its obligation to redeem the
bank note3. When a bank fails now the Gov
ernment pays its notes in greenbacks. After
resumption it would have to redeem them in
gold. If the banks should then suspend they
would all suspend together, "and the necessity
of winding them up and paying their notes
wouia bankrupt ine uovernment.
It is clear then, for these reasons, that the
most important financial measure which can
at present engage attention is the substitution
m r i a . m
oi greennacKS ior me circulation ot the na
tional banks. It Is better to narrow the our.
rency question down to this one intelligible
issue, and figl t it out "on this line." When
the national banks are stripped of their op
pressive privileges, the remaining financial
reforms will be comparatively easy.
Wanted A Candidate.
From Harper' Wtekly.
The Demooratio party are entering upon the
Presidential campaign with the ennobling cry
of "Down with the nigger I" and if General
Hancock will contrive to subject the Union
men of every oomplexion in Louisiana to those
who still hate the Government of the United
States, he will be the oandidate of the Demo
cratio party. Since he has shown a disposition
to undo the work of Sheridan, and to foster
the hope that somehow the political and social
power of. the btate ot Louisiana will be exclu
sively oonflded to worthy patriots like Mayor
Monroe and his police, who engineered the
New Orleans massacre of 1SU6, the Demooratio
papers have begun to perceive what a brilliant
soldier, what an able aud modest gentlemau.
and what an accomplished statesman ueueral
Hancock is.
General Hanoock's military career was dis
tinguished. He did not make a name among
the most illustrious of the war, and, while it is
associated with many gallant services, it is not
identified with any great and deoisive action.
He was one of many brave and meritorious
officers of whom perhaps more was popularly
expected than was achieved. But his military
career alone, however bright it may have been,
would never have commended him to the pur
veyors of a candidate for the Demooratio party.
But when the vast and universal popularity of
Grant, founded both upon admiration of his
resplendent service and confidence in his prac
tical wisdom, revealed to the Democratio man
agers their doom when Lieutenant-General
Sherman declared that time would but
deepen the infamy of the Rebellion, and so
ceased to be a possible Demooratio candidate
they were compelled to scan the whole army
list to disoover who could furnish a military
mask for the Democratio Copperhead, and,
luckily finding General Hancock "concilia
ting" in New Orleans, they have graspod at
him; and, as we said, if he only continues to
"conciliate," General Hancock will be the
successor of General McClellan in the favor of
the framers of the Chicago platform of '64.
Those builders are logical. They then de
clared in Chicago that the war was a failure,
and' they are now trying to make it so. They
acted then under the counsel of Vallandig
ham, and with the cooperation of Clement
Clay and the Rebel chiefs, and they are now
unit' d with the same persons in hostility to
the steady Union element of the Rebel States.
They represented then the spirit of hatred of
equal rights, under the plea of State rights,
and they maintain now the State right to de
stroy the equal rights of citizens. They still
hold that the war was really the work of the
Northern spirit, and that the Southern States
were deeply wronged. They still adhere to
caste and exclusive privilege. They still deny
the fundamental principle of the American
Gevernment; and upon a platform of such hos
tilities and denials they will ask General Han
cock to stand, unless he should betray some
sympathy with justice, and generously insist
that a loyal man should not be wholly subor
dinated to the disaffected citizens of the late
Rebel States.
Mileage.
JVom the if. Y, Independent.
There has always been an absurd outcry
against mileage. Certainly the Government
onght to pay the travelling expenses of pub
lio servants whom it summons to Washington
in the publio service, if a member-elect of
Congress lives in Maryland or Connecticut, his
expenses will not be great, aud might.be
borne by himself without hardship.. But sup
pose he comes from California or Oregon f
Now we believe in paying the exact cost of
the direct (not circuitous) travel between ft
representative's residence and the Federal
capital. But we do not believe in paying the
cost of fictitious journeys round trips which
are never made or what Professor Lowell
would call "Fireside Travels."
We look, therefore, with something like
contempt ou the project of some members of
Congress to draw mileage for their attendance
on the present session. The preceding ses
sion closed, one day, at noon; and the present
session began the moment after, The mem
bers made no journey; they did not even leave
their seats. To charge travelling expanses
for sitting still is a little more than a strictly
honest man (exoept a member of Congress)
would ever dream of doiog.
We propose that the matter beoompromUed
by payiug the semi-rogues their mileage for
going home, on their biguing an agreement
never again to come back.
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are prepared to vouch fur tbe correctness of this
8'atemeut. In gout, rheuma Ism, lumbago, and
sciatica it la euually etHcacloua. Sold by all
Druggists. 12 24tuth3t
REDUCTION IN PRICE OF SECK 4
CO. aud H alnea Bro.'s PIANOS. MELO
DKONB .Lie. to tuit tlx Untct.. 12 12 im
QREAT REDUCTION
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
IN OIL PAINTIIMOS,
CIIB09IO, AND
ENUliAVISrOtt,
MANTEL AND PIF.B
LOOKING GLASSES,
IN OB EAT VABIKTY.
NEW ART GALLERY,
F. OOLAND & CO.,
11 1 Sm2p No. 014, -A.RCII Street
MRS. R. DILLON,
iron. and si sor-m street,
IT as all the Novelties In HOLIDAY MtLLINEHY.
Lauiea1, UlSHea', andChlidreu's Hilt, Velvet, Kelt,
Hi raw and Kancy Bonnets and Hata of the la'est
styles. 0d Velvet bonnets made over on the uew
fiauie. 4 Iso, M!k, Velvets, Rlbbiius. Crapes,
Yealbws, riuwera. JTraluiMi eta., wholesale aud re
tail. tUtt
OLD E Y E W HIS E I E S.
, THE LARGEST AND 1JKST STOCK OF
F I U E OLD RYE WHISKIES
In the Land is -now Possessed by
HENltT S. HANNIS & CO.
Nos. 218 and 220
l IIO OFFER THE SAME TO THE TRADE,
TKBHM.
TLelr Stock of Eye tYblakies, In Bond, comprises all the favorite lranda extant, aul runt
through the various months of 18C5, '66, and
Liberal contracts made for lots to arrive at
Wharf, or at Bonded Warehouse, as parties may
EKGLISH CABPETIEGS.
ftlW COOPS OF DIB OWN IMPORTATION JUNT ARRIVED.
ASO, A CHOICE SELECTION OF
AMERICAN CAnPETINCS, OIL CLOTHS, ETC.
EDftllsh Druggctlng-, from half yard to four yards vlte Mnttlaga,
Raiii Hata
Our entire stock, hichiding new goods daily opening, will be oirered at LOW
FRICKS FOR CASH, prior to Removal in Jauuary next, to Kew More, now
building, No. Cheenut street.
REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON,
lllthatu2m KO. 8(7 tHtlT NTUI KT.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
''HE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION
.NO. 119 CIIESNTJT HTBEET, P1TII.A ,
Has an unnnally Urge variety ot beautifully printed-
profusely Illustrated, and handsomely bound
NEW AND SUPERIOR BOOKS,
&UITABLK FOR
HOLIDAY GIFTS.
AUo, an extensive assortment
Bibles and Devotional Books.
Complete Catalogues of the Society's Publications
nrnlKhed gratuitously. 11 18 Jw
A R DING'S EDITIONS
or
Family, Pulpit, '. and Photograph
BIBLES,
Buperlor to any heretofore Issued from the Ameri
can Press, and will compare taovrsbly with the Eng.
llsb and Oxford Editions, and at prices at least one
half less.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
New aud Beautiful Styles, Kleh Turkejr
Alorocco, Antique Itsllef. and Gold.
WM. W, HARDIN Q,
No. 320 CIIESNTJT Street,
miLADKLPHIA,
12 1 2wri Below Fourth. South Side.
AFDKTHER REDUCTION IN THE PRICE
Of HOLIDAY BOOBS,
TUG CHEAP BOOK NTOItG.
CXOSINtt OUT KOI.IOAY BOOKS AT A
(illKAT NACKIFICE.
FAMILY BlBLtJS at all prices.
A large assortment of
POCKET mii-LEd, PRAYER, AND HYMN
BOOKS.
EVERYTHING AT LESd THAN PANIC PIUCE3.
A large part or our stork nt less than
tffAV.V sBlC1!!
CAIX FOR THE 1SKW IIOI.IUAY CATALOGUE,
i xamlne our stork before purchasing elsewhere.
The store will be kept open until in o'clock each
evening. JAB KM k. ( I,AXT1I,
Ptih'liherand Bookseller,
12 27 31 No. 1214 CUKtlMUT ttueel, Phlla.
B
EAUTIFUE HOLIDAY BOOK.
IIAKL.E9I
AN It
OTHER POEMS,
BY
n. jr. tKEOon.
HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED.
"A more beautiful volume than this is seldom
seen." N. Y. Oilmen.
They are all written, though of different nietrei, In
thai soft, InHlouullug tone which Is so soothing to the
reader, and, ss au evidence ot great merit, always
leaves Us Impress on the heart."
1'or sale by
T. ELLWOOD ZELL A CO.,
FtinllHbors,
Nos. 17 and 19 & 61X111 Street,
And byBooksellers generally 12 21 lut
AJTTENTION ! AGENTS AND CANVA8SHRS!
"THE NEW REPUBLIC,"
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER,
Devoted to the Political, Literary, Agricultural,
itullroad, and Commercial intereaui of
NEW JERSEY,
Is published at CAMDEN, every SATURDAY. It
will be a wide-awake Journal, bewlng true to the line,
"let the chips lly ss they nisy." Ixslrlng and ex
pecting to extend Its rapldl, Increasing circulation
all over tbe tuaie, a liberal commission will be given
to agents procuring subscribers or advertisements.
buDscrlptlon (2 a year In advance. Address,
HARKY I,. HONHALL, Editor. Camden, N. J.
CHARLKU I B VU1U Phllada. Agent. 12 17 lit
eiBABD BOW.
E. IYI. NEEDLES & CO.,
Elerantn and Cheenut Street,
Invite attention to their
bfLfcNDID STOCK OV
Laces and Laco Goods.
HANDKERCHIEFS, In every variety, for
Ladles and Gentlemen,
VEILS, BETS, NECKTIES, EMEROLDE
BI KH, E'l'U ETC.,
Expiessly adapted lor
HOLIDAY PRESENTS,
Which they are offering at Prices as Low as
those for an interior Class of Hoods, whlob
bsve been Imported to supply Auoilon Sales a
this season.
M.OH aHYHID
TO RENT.
T O LET,
Large Third-Storv Room,
Wail Lighted, with or without Power,
APPLY AT
Uttf
NO. 10S SOUTH TUIBD T.
Seuth FRONT Street,
IN MTH, N VKIIV AHVA.MtUrOD
of this year, up to present date.
Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Ericsson LI
elect.
INSTRUCTION.
OTEVENSDALE INSTITUTE.
BOARDING rM.lHOOLFoR VOUNO LADIES.
Terms Board, Tuition, eto.-per scholastic year.tK
NO EXTRAS.
Circulars at Messrs. Fairbanks A Ewlng's, No. TU
CHESNUT Btreeti also at Messrs. T. B. torson
Bro'hrrB'. No. 8o8 CHE8NUT Ptreeb
Address, personally or by note,
.N FOSTEU BROWNE, Principal,
10 8 thmtl : South Am boy, N. J.
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOFSAFE3
JTI11E
SAFE S.
MARVIN & CO.,
721 CHESTNUT St.MasonicHall.
AND NO. 86B BBOADWAT, N. T.
We offer for sale the best assortment
of SAFES in the City, and invite ex-"
animation into the merits of our Safe.
We think we can convince any person
of the superiority of cur manufacture
ovtr others in the market in the essen
tial points of thorough Fire-Proof quali
ties and perfect dryness, and the entire
security of our Burglar-Proof Chests. '
Second-hand Safes. Safes Exchanged.
Safes and Heavy Machinery moved
aid hoisted. 12 Zl mws3oi
C. L. ItfAISER.
irAtrnrAcrciiKB of
ri U JB AN1 IIUUULAB rauor
SAFlifci.
lAfKKMlin, Al I.llAtJKU, AKlk
DMUB IN HriJUDIftU ISAflDWAlUaV
6 6 MO, 41 RACE MTBK11T,
tr.ra A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF FIRS
fiidil aud Burglar-prootHAFKU on band, with Inside
doors, DweUlng-nouse Hares, free trom dampness.
Prices low, Ct JUANfcKNt'OKOKii,
1 1 Mo. VI NIC htree
FURNISHING (iOODS, SHIRTS.&CJ
M
ERINO UNDERWEAR IN GREAT VA.
rlety, tor sale at
HOFMANN'B HOSIERY SHORE.
Merino Underwear for Gents.
Alerlno Unuerwear tor Youths,
Alerluo Underwear twr Intunts.
Merino I'uuerweur lor Mioses.
Merino Underwear for Ladle.
Merino Hone lor Ladles.
Merino Hone tor Misses,
Merino lluu lor Youths.
Merino Hose lor Inlaute.
Merino llotr lor Gents.
All-wool Kiilrts, white, for Gent.
All-wool Khlrts, scrlet, tor UeutS,
All-wool Hlilrls, grey mixed.
All-wool fchlrta, blue mixed.
AU the above, of superior qualities, for sale at
UOl'SIANN'M 1IOKIEHY STOBB,
S tuthBl
No. t North EIGHTH Street,
J AV. SCOTT te CO.,
BIIIRT MAM'rACTiJBEIMt,
Ull UCALIUUi IN
mem' ruBMisums eooua
KO.SH tlHASUT sTBEtl.
JOUR DOORS BELOW THE "CONTINENTAL,
I7Jrp mUAIUtLrKIA,
PATENT SHOULDER -SEAM
KlIIUT MAJHTFAtTOHT,
ANDOENIXKM T.K' (!HN1NMI1J BTOB9
PERFECT FITTING BHIRT8 AND DltAWEBs
niadetroiu measurement at very short notice.
All other Vfilciee ot GJCNTLKM&N'b DRJBU3
QOOLti lii tall varif ty.
WINCH ENTER A CO.,
Ill
o. 7iW CH KMNUT HUMt
LEGAL NOTICES.
TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOU
J '1 11K CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADEL
PHIA. Asilgued Estate ol THE POUT RICHMOND POT
T Kit Y COMPANY.
The Auditor saponin (1 by the court to audit, set
tle, and adjust the tuveunt ol HKOhOK 14 A it
OKA NT. aw-muee i f Die i'ort Uichn ond P.iltury
I t'ouipany. atid to report dlatrloutlou of the naisnre
IU ll'r nanus oi lite rt ououiui, win uim tno
Interehted, lor ti e purpose ot Mb aiiuolntuinnl. on
TUI'KtibAY, January 2 l eleven (11) o'cIikis:
A. M.. ath s ottire. Ho. m WALNUT bireet, In tha
City of Philadelphia.
12 IV lujiu 6lJ WILLIAM D. BAKER, Auditor !