TIIE DAW EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1868.
SPIRIT OT THE PRESS.
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SAT FOB THi BVKNU3 TELBGKAPU.
Poor Frank!
From the N. Y. Tribune.
General Francis P. Hlalr, Jr., is the Pemo
cratio ncmtwe for Vim-IWdeiit, and the
notoriouBl delicate health of ex Governor
fcevmour renders probable hi early auuesitiou
to the rreBKlfUoy la the most improbable
contingency of hi party triumphing in the
approaching election. Ilia opinions, delibe
lately expressed, on the gravest question
Vow demanding the attention of our couu
trymen were given to the public with ex
yress reference to his owu nomination for the
1'residenny. He virtually said to tliH Conven
tion, 'Here Is the sort ot man you will find in
1'raLk Blair; this ia the way he would deal
Villi the problem of reconstruction: if you
vould have it ao dealt with. I am your man."
She Convention nominated him, not merely
in view of this letter, but emphatically be
cause of this Intter: and the unchanged Ribel
Organs at the South are now quoting and ex
ulting over it as their strong reason for sup
rortii'g the Tammany ticket. It is the key
note of their canvass. Hence the importance
Videly attached to it.
The World is troubled by this letter. It
ladly wants to have its ticket regard I a3
Conservative; while here is its second candi
dat i's letter of the most Jaoobinio and revolu
tionary type not an old Utter, huuted up to
av: y him by its uutimely reminiscences; not
a i .ivate letter, betrayed by some friendly iu-ti.ct-ntion;
but a tresh, deliberate letter, writ-It'-)
for the public, and first printed in the
y,, 'd written for the Convention expressly
tr) i umieud the writer to its favor as it evi
il "y did. How are its clear dri.t and pur
y.u, explained away ?
Y: ) World tries to set a back-fire or rather
to i -we a suiokrt by talking of one (ire.-dey,
Wl." has been (ami is) an advocate of uuiver
fca'i i' linesty and impartial sutl'rage who chose
to t iphasize his convictions at the moment
V. hi to do so was to preclude his own election
to U United States Senate, which others said
fca l t leeu certain who detind caution, and
alie, aled Iriends by signing the bail-bund of
Jc- 'sou Davis, etc. etc. This the World
pV; is as an ollVet to 15 air's Jacobinism.
lir . who objeais to Dlair that he would be
Tue'. ..ul to thone who have beeu Kebfls I Who
hv.fl ;.tsailed him as au advocate of Universal
sty? Look ajiaiu at his programme, a 3
jnlly put forth by the Wur.'d:
'lire is but. oni' w iy to restore the Govorn
ud too Coiistti ui lou: ami tlnu is tor tlie
01 i.
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luri!-elec' to ileciaro th no c K lo.mstruo-
ti i )rcts mi I mi'l vnlil, c-impsl iliaarmyto
Hint its usurpations itt Hie iSoutU, d isperso the
cp.;'.
.((iiHK S'ate li'ivei'UiiiHuls, huow lue wuue
.i, to reoi'iu!.! tlic-lr own governments,
Uct SfiiKli.iN una itepreseut'illvcs. 1 he
3i"
j ot itt pr. st'iiia1 1 ves jiviu cuiiHin b m
j of Ileum 'rn't from IIih Komi, and they
I Ouill the leprtventsi lives eleoied by t tie
JO'
v.-
XVi.lt'
r)noiiie ol me smiih, and with the co-
l. . i-j ition of ihe I'lf si lent, it will not bo tl 1 111-
tmll lo compel tin- .s nate to mitimll once more
10 i ' e obllKHil- rs of the Const Hut lorj. It will
3 0i tie able to withstand the puhdo jtidiitnent,
11 li t li c'ly luvujie.i and clt ariy exprensed on
li'i; fnndamentul issin ; and it is the euro way
lo avoid all lutm e strife lo put lhl6 Issue plainly
Ju tue country."
General Blair, it will be seen, choflses "to
j ut this issue ainlg to the country." He
deems this "the sure way to avoid all future
Btrife." He, therefore, matures his pro
gramme; the World prints it; the Democratic
Convention adopts it. by nominating- its
author. If the American people want that
programme executed, they will of course elect
that author. There is the whole case iu a nut
shell; and we are williug to submit it on the
int-tant and without further argument.
The Wort'4, unable to vindicate Blair's mani
festo, essays the sal'-r task of misrepresenting
Greeley, whose position it thus caricatures:
"His creed, habitually condensed by himself
Into the brevity of a moMo, was Universal
Amnesty and Impartial Buflrage.' Ho reruou
feti'ated with great force ot argument and Head
Stiong fervor against, the Impolicy, and wuat he
then regarded as ibe (utility of excluding the
lending citizens of IheHouth lrom active par
ticipation in tne pontics or ttieir hhciiou. m
did l ot think It essential that all the negroes
Hbould vole, but only such part ol the m an
should be found lo possess reasonable qualldca
Uouh of intelligence."
Mr. Greeley di4 not, and does not, believe
that men should be disfranchised to-day
merely fcecauee they were Rebels years ago.
All he requires is, that they shall now bo
liearty Unionists, loyal to their country and to
Kepublican liberty. But if the Ku-Klux
Klau, the assassins of Ashburn, the system
atic buruers'of school-bouses for blacks, and
those who, according to her Constitutional
Convention, have made Texas a Pandemonium
of murder whenever the presence of a Cop
perhead as Military Commander rendered the
homicide of Unionists a safe amusement, are
to be enfranchised at once, withtfut condition
or Qualification, it will be on some other
motion than that of Mr. Oreeley. He would
gladly blot out all remembrance of bygone
Kebellion, provided those who are to b5 am
nestied will cease to act as malignant, rancor
ous Rebels.
As to euffrsge, the World deliberately
and wilfully misrepresents Mr. Oreeley. . He
never favored universal suffrage that is,
suffrage without qualification or restriction.
He would prefer that a light poll-tax should
lie assessed upon every sane aJult male citi
zen, and make the tax-list of any ejection dis
trict its registry of legal voters. But he utterly
condemns and protests against any discrimi
nation based on color, and insists that uothiug
shall disqualify a black that does not equally
disqualify a white. If there are to be
'reasonable qualifications of intelligence" (a
Very slippery test), they should apply to
white and black alike; or, if there be any dis
crimination, it should favor those who
cannot read simply because to tauu them
was, in their youth, a crime against the
' State.
The Wo'ld seeks to deduce from its false
premises conclusions absolutely monstrous.
It asks:
'With what cnslftency can be (Greeley) de
nounce an "levolui loinirv ' au attempt to and i
what, in bis oid ion. oimht nnver to nave been
done? In ills upluiou, Hih disfranchisement of
the lendlDRKnui liern wlilus wusuo. unwise nnl
mistaken policy; how then cau ho object to Its
reversal? In his opinion, Um xecuiilv of the
xwtfro race did not require liia'. all of tham
Should vole. Out only loose who nie qualified;
why men sliould no regurd us a CHlitoiUy the
proKped of restorin.' tilings to ibe binds whto'i
lie inm-eii projjobtd as ti bclueincut ol our dldl
VUltieb?"
hqtlt). What General B'air proposes is not
to repeal, to reverse, lo restore, to eufrancliisn
Lut exTirefrsly to "treat the Reconstruction acts
as null and void," to "disperse," by military
force "the ravpet-bag State Governments,"
pxpel by violence from Congress the present
Representatives of Southern States, and "alio
the white people to reorganize their owu
Govertimeuts and elect (Senators an I Repre
sentatives." All this is based on the grossly
unconstitutional assumption that whites, as
whites, are entitled to special aud exclusive
privileges in the Union that blanks (iu short)
"have no rights that whites are bouui to
Teeet." It is the vital spirit of the late Re
bellion, reviving its watchwords and repeating
Its resort to violence aud llooddhed Iu their
fnpport. General Tlair proposes nakedly an
aiir-toc.ratlc usurpation and a reactionary revo
lution. Kven were the Reconstruction aots as
bad as their enemies charge, this would bi ut
terly nnjiiHtiflable nay.at-ocious. l?ut when we
ronfiiler that their most distinctive character
istic is not restriction but enfranchisement
that they are all that stand between four mil
lions of our countrymen and life-long vassal
age we feel that the man whe proposes thir
overthrow by revolutionary conspiracy and
military force is a blacker traitor than even
Louis Napoleon. We give the Democracy joy
of their couvert-candiiiatH ! May he cling to
them like the shirt of Nessus 1
"TJio Illi clonil College."
From tht N. Y. World.
There t no Electoral College in the wide
Sense in which this phrase is used by miny
(in other respects) intelligent people. T'le
J'imrt of Friday, for example, had an article
on "The South in the Electoral College,"
meaning the aggregate of the Presidential
Electors. But the Presidential Electors never
assemble as one body, aud are in no proper
FeufH a college either in law or in fact. The
word college does not occur in the Constitu
tion, lior (we believe) does any law of the
United states use the phrase Electoral Col
lege until 14.'. In the act passed that year
the expression is borrowed from the State
statutes, aud employed in the sense it had
long borne in them, being used to designate
the collective body of the Presidential Electors
of each separate Htate when assembled for the
discharge of their duty. When the whole
number of Electors ia meant, the propsr
designation is not (in the singular) the Elec
toral College, Wt (in the plural) the Elec
toral Colleges.
The sets of IS 15 provides "that each State
may by law jrovide lor the filling of auy va
cancy or vacancies in its College of Electors,
when such College meets to give Its electoral
votes" from which it is apparent that there
are as many Electoral Colleges as there are
States; but there is no legal authority for call
ing all the Presidential Electors of the United
States a College. As we have said, the word
college as applied to the Presidential electors
oiiginated in the statutes of the several State3.
As eaily as the Legislature of Massachu
setts pasted a law authorizing its "Electoral
College" to 1111 vacancies in their own number,
the Governor signing the bill, and the next
clay going to the Secretary's office and erasing
his name. The laws of New York provide
that those of the Electors who shall be present
at four o'clock in the afternoon of the day
fixed for ihcir meeting, "shall immediately
alter that hour proceed to fill by ballot all
vacancies in tin: Luc'orul College, aud that the,
hltetoral College being thus completed, they
shall then choose a President and Secretary
from their own body." The law of Pennsyl
vania has a similar provision for filling va
cancies, adding that the names of the per
sons so chosen (to fill vacancies) "shall be
immediately transmitted by the presiding
officer of the College to the Governor;" and
further on the same law provides that "the
contingent expenses of the Electoral College
shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon
warrants drawn by the presiding officer of the
College." These quotations suffice to exem
plify the appropriate use of the word, aud to
show that the proper designation for all the
Piesidential Electors ia the "Electoral Col
leges" there being an Electoral College in
each State, but no general College including
them all.
We would not have takan up so much space
with what may seem a mere verbal criticism,
if the topio were not important iu another
view. There being no general electoral col
lege, that is to say, no assembling of all the
Piesidential Electors as an organized body,
there exists, under the Constituiion, no regu
lar means of deciding Bitch debatable ques
tions as may arise respecting the competency
of electors from particular States; a matter
which has been of no practical interest
heretofore, but which bids fair to be of the
deepest consequence in the Presidential
election now approaching. Judge Story said,
many years ago, in his "Commentaries on
the Constitution," that "in the original
plan, as well as in the amendment, no pro
vision is made for tne discussion or decision of
any questions which may arise as to the regu
larity and authenticity of the returns of the
returns of the electoral votes, or the manner
or circumstances in which they ought to be
counted. It seems to have beeu taken for
granted that no question could ever arise on
the subject; and that nothing more was neces
sary than to open the certificates which were
produced, in the presence of both Houses, and
to count the names and numbers as returned
And yet it is easily to be conoeived, that very
delicate and interesting inquiries may oocur.
lit to be debated and decided upon by some
deliberative body. Iu lact, a question did
occur iu the counting of tue votes tor the Pre
sidency in 1821, upon the re-election of Mr
Monroe, whether the votes of the State of
Missouri could be counted; but as the oount
would make no difference in the choice, and
the declaration was made of his re election,
the Senate immediately withdrew, and the
jurisdiction as wkII as the course of proceeding
in a tat e ol real controversy was lelt in a most
eml ariassing situation
It is clear from this passage that Judge
Story was ot opinion that the Constitution has
conferred no authority upon Congress to de
cide questions of this kind. Certain it is that
no such authority is anywhere iu express
terms given, and Congress has yet to produce
its wai rant for its recent intermeddling with
the subject. The Constitution confers upon
each House power to "judge of the eleotlonsk
returns, anil qualifications of its own mem
l-rs," but now here is it said that Cougress
may judge of the elections, returns, and quali
fications of the Pieeidential electors, it the
action of Congress on this sublet were in ac
cordance with jaimess aud justice, instead of
being dictated by views of party advantage, it
might pass without serious qustion; but its
authority to meddle with the subject will not
go unchallenged when a barefaced attempt is
made to defraud States of this Union ol their
light to participate iu the Presidential election.
Jt is proper that the Utuipiug demagogues
in the Federal Capitol should be warned in
time against proceeding to such extremities
that foi bearance would ceai-e to be a virtue.
The actual majority of the citizens of the
United States must have a fair opportunity to
decide who shall govern the country. If the
will of the majority is defeated by political
knavery, they will have power (being a ma
jority) to redress the wrong; and Congress
mistakes the temper of American freeuiiju it
it supposes that they will not have also the
will. If we are fairly beaten after au honest
election, we understand and shall practise the
proper virtue of a minority submission. But
we sliall not tamely submit to be cheated. If
the Republican party administer the Govern
ment for the next four years, it must be iu'
virtue of an actual majority, not a fictitious
majority obtained by prosorjptiou aul exclu
sion, the physical power of the country re
sides with the arithmetical majority; and as
the Constituiion LaB provided no other tri
bunal for deciding on the claim of electoral
votes to be rounted, it concerns the pevni of
the country that Congress do not interfere to
preent the voice of the actual majority from
deciding who shall be President.
This warning cannot be construed as a
threat without a confession that the It-publicans
intend to stifle the vote? that ought 1 1
be counted, and to declare their candidates
elected even though they should recsive but a
minority of the whole electoral votes. In the
interest of peace, we beseech them to paruuit
a fair election.
3Ir. Pendleton on 1 lie Financial Siliulion
The Trospeet for t lie ext Congress.
Fi om the AT. Y. Jleraid.
There appeared iu yesterday's Herald ex
clusively a pretty full leport of a speech by
Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, at Grafion, to tin
Democratic State Convention of West VirgluU
and some thousands of other persons iu miss
meeting together there assembled. In this
Speech Mr. Pendleton elaborated his well
known views ou the financial situation. His
positiou may be giveu in a few words, how
ever, extracted from the body of his arguuiMUi.
"1 am," taid the distinguished orator, "hos
tile to no class or interest iu this country. I
simply desire to be just just to the b ud
Loldepp, just to the people. I would live up
with scrupulous fidelity to the terms of our
contracts. I would pay the interest of the five
twenties in gold, because the Government
promised to do so; 1 would pay principal au I
interest of the teu-torties in gold, because the
Government has promised to do so; 1 would
pay the principal of the five-twenties in legal
tender notes, because the bondholders agreed
to receive them in payment; and as I would
not repudiate an honest bargain to make
money for the people, so I would not repu
diate an honest bargain to make money for the
publio creditors." Agaiu: "These bonds
operate as a mortgage upon the property aud
labor of the country. There are two thousand
millions of them. Pay off these two thousand
millions, and will not the legal-teuders be first
in the proportion more valuable f" "Sinoe
the debt was contracted in legal-tenders, since
it may be lawfully aud honestly paid in legal-
tenders, I am in tavor of continuing it until we
can secure the people, who have already suf
fered all the evils, whatever good may be ex
pected from the system."
'Iheso are the views ot ftir. renuieton, ana
they are the Democratic platform ou the boud
question. Whether thy are or are not the
Republican platform we cannot positively
uudertake to say. It is open question with
the Republicans, subject to the drift of the
popular tide. The llou. Bnn. Butler says that
accoidiug to "the letter aud spirit of the con
tract" and the Chicago platform the Five-
twenties are redeemable iu legal-tenders. The
Hon. Thad. Stevens Fays that these bond
holders have no right to expect gold when
greenbacks are the article, according to the
letter kuil spirit ot the la.v; and Meveus ought
to know. A m;iiority of the Republicans iu
the House of Representatives, we have no
doubt, are with Stevens and Butler; for a ma
jority ot them voted with the Democrats iu
favor ol the late resolution instructing the
Committee ol Ways aud Means to repoit a bill
tor the taxation ot the bonds to the figure of
ten per cent. The great body of the people
out est ot both parties are with Pendleton,
Stevens, and Butler, aud it is probable that a
larger proportion of the people of the East
than c ur political philosophers cau imagine
are of the same way or thinking.
Congress, meantime, (both parties in both
Houses) has become so thoroughly and inex
plicably mixed up ou the money question, in
all us divisions bonds, taxes, banks, funding
bills, tariff's, and what not that we can ex
pect nothing materially changing the present
state of things, at least till the next session
Besides being completely muddled on all these
financial problems, the members of the two
Houses are anxious to bring this sessiou to a
close, and go home to look alter their own in
terests with their constituents. On returning
home they will find the current of publio
opinion running in a certain direction. Ewh
member who is a candidate for re-election,
and every new candidate for the next Con
gress, will be apt to shape his course as far as
possible to the prevailing views ot nis people,
in this view we may reasonably expect that
Butler, Stevens, aud Pendleton, on money
matters, will be supported by an overwhelm
ing majority in the next House of Represent
atives, the bulk of which is to be elected in
the coming October aud November.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, of the great
Northern States, lead off in their Congressional
elections in October, aud the results, we dare
say, will go very far to show that a predomi
nant idea, East and West, among the people
is that every legal expedient calculated to re
duce and extinguish this general burden of the
national debt and its heavy taxations must be
adopted, that the people will not have this thing
continued indefinitely, but will demand such
measures of legislation as will afford a fair
proppect that the present generation will live
to be relieved of all these heavy taxes and of
ficial spoliations and corruptions resulting from
the national debt. The payment of the inter
est until the time for the payment of the prin
cipal of these different sorts of bonds is fully
due will not answer. The people want the
principal itself extinguished as fast as the
means and legal advantages possessed by the
government will permit; and upon this impor
tant question we expect, we say, iu the com
ing October Congressional elections, au over
Whelming popular vindication of the general
opinions of Stevens, Peudl ton aud Butler on
the bonds and their redemption. .
linpmleiu'e L'xlraortfiiiary.
From the JS. Y. Vununtreiul Advarlistr.
For the very sublimity of impudence and
cheek commeud us to Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina. Here is a rampant fire-eater
ot the Palmetto State who went about S iuth
Carolina firing the heart of the populace and
urging them forward into the vortex of R-bel-liou.
He seduced all the "scions of chivalry"
into his command, and spent most of his time,
while in the field, in writing buuoombe blood
hud thunder letters, delivering blood aud
thunder speeches, aud in iuditiug saucy and
vain cloiious missives to Federal commanders.
When Sherman advanced from Atlanta on his
march to the sea, he sent him a most insulting
communication, wherein he coolly stated that
he tbould hane all the Yankee soldiers cap
tnred while ou foraging expeditions. General
Sherman replied, daring him to carry out auy
such atrocious policy, and threatening, in re
taliatiou, the shooting, of five Rebels for every
Federal prisoner put to death, this respouse
bad a dtcidedly soothing effect upon the blood-
. i " - . J. - f.,......J
i inirsiv cavalry couimauuer, numo ni-iuw
exuioits existed oniv in lue imaiiinaiiou in
the Southern voople, and he didn't do mush
killini?.
Finally, when Grant and Sherman's splen
did combinaiions broucht Joe Johnston to bay,
and be gave up his sword to the latter, this
Wi.dH Hamilton, instead of surrendering, as
the temis of the capitulation demanded,
atieak-ed ki: to South Carolina with a troop of
l.iose. m i dec lared that he would never sub
mit to the. "d d Yankees." Then, if not be
fore, all the loyal people of the country
thought that he should be embraced among
the very tit of the list of twenty or thirty
traitors who it was believed would be made to
Miner the extreme penalty of treason. Wade
Hampton, however, was afterwards permitted
to iive. his pa.ole and eat his words. Under
tho immunity granted by this psroln, he at
once tet about the woik of firing the Southern
beartimew, and, could other State? hav bpu
p-rstiaded to follow ins lead, lie would imth
piecipilated. Houth Carolina nto a fresh rebel
lion.
This unrepentant IM;;1 now his the effron
tery, after thus being "It olP for his treamu.
to come here to the metropolis of the country
and insult Its defenders and preservers with
an appeal to the Democratio Party to use the
bayonet iu tearing asunder the laws of Con
gress. He, aud Others at the South, have b-en
disfranchised for inaugurating an I carrying
forward a bnee rehelliou which iucurred the
loss of a million of lives and the expeuiliture
of billions of treasure. He now declare,
here in New Y'ork, that he and his fellow-conspirators
will vote in spite of the law
disfranchising them, and he calls upon the
Democratio party to lore an admittance into
the ballot-boxes for their ballots with the
bayonet.
If this is not the height of lusoloncp, au
dacity, aud impudence, where shall we
find it f
The" Political rrospvU
From the fi. Y. Timet.
The Democratio papers are finding it piin
fnlly hard work to get up a show of "enthu
siasm" for their candidate, aud to overcome
the all but universal disappointment which
appeared in the party ou the announcement
of the nomination of Seymour. They talk
const antly at the top of their luugs, aud pro
claim the merits of the great inchoate "states
man" in the most torrid rhetoric. They show
his war record to be gloriously patriotic, au i
his labon for the Union aud lor the Union
army to have been sleepless, energetic, aud
tiiumphant. It is of course assumed that the
people of the North have already forgotten
the history of his career a few years ago. It
presumed that all the citizens of New York
have suddenly forgotten what every citizen
knew perlectly well but yesterday as it were-
that Seymour was among the foremost repre
sentatives of that hard-skinned Copperhead
faction which began by denying ths constitu
tional power of the people to save the Cuion,
and which all through the great struggle tried
to discourage the spirit ot patriotism, to em
barrass the efforts of the Government, aud to
bring about a disgraceful aud destructive com
piouihe with the leaders of the pro-3lavery
Rebellion.
The Democratic papers not only find they
have bard work, but they cannot help show
ing that it is dispiriting, ihe country gives
no sign of responding to their unnaturally
"enthusiastic' appeals; and while they have
been talking about a want of Republican
enthusiasm for Grant, iu whom the people
have too deep couuleuce to tolerate any frothy
nonsense, they cannot fail to see the utter
desperation ol their attempt to manufacture
for Seymour anything whatever beyond the
patent party spume which cau be made to
appear at auy time on the smallest provoca
tion.
Under such circumstances as these with
the dismal feeling that the Democratic party
will meet another crushing defeat in Novem
ber, it is but natural that the Democratio press
should labor to keep up the heart ot the party
by giving it cheap and easy paper victories
every day between now aud the election. They
show the States that will vote for them, the
majorities they will get, the huge successes
they are bound to win, aud the immense pro
cession which will wind up the whole affair.
It is pel haps as well they should find comfort
in this sort of thing. We have heard ot their
frequently doing so before during the last ten
years; and though one might have supposed
thy would have learned enough in that time
to check their tendency tor discounting victo
ries in advance, they seem to enjoy the delu
sion as much as ever.
We ourselves don't often indulge in party
estimates, nor do we mean to do so at this
time though we have not the shadow of a
doubt that the Grant ticket will poll decisive
majorities in far the greater part of all the
States of the Union. But our "Veteran
Observer," who, though we do not always
agree with his philosophy (nor he with ours),
is one of the acutest political speculators and
statistical prophets in this country, has sent
us, in one of his recent letters, an estimate of
the probable result of the forthcoming elec
tion, which we will quote for the entertainment
ot Democrats. Nays he:
"8even of the (Southern States have beeu read-
milled, und five of those sevou will vote lor
Uifttit, If not all. Connecticut and California.
u bioh the Democrats boasted of, will no for
Gnuit. From ihe Delaware river to toe Puoirio
(icesn l here Is noSi ate likely to vote for Hoy monr
except Kentucky. Blair has no popularity in
Missouri, llo has tried hie bent, anuitist tne
rmlicals there, and signally fulled. Willi a
WeMein candidate and a good plaliorm Indi
ana mlicbt be doc mod doubtful: but. uh It la. In
diana will K've a larger nivjoriiy for Urant aud
Colfax than H did for Governor Morton. Ohio
will poll her old-fanhioued U-pubiloan msjorl-
w s, iinu me i i'hiouh oi too western nines will
be s opt lor Grant with a tornado. As the pro
babilities now Maud. Grant will carry twenty.
tevi n 8 atcs, Seymour sevou, aud Lureo will not
voie.
The three last referred to being the three
uniecoustructed bouthern States.
The same writer makes an estimate of the
result of the Congressional elections, which
we will also transfer to this place' as a piece
ot cold comfort for the .Democrats: , ,
''From Pennsylvania to Colorado there are
nine n enibeis, fleeting seventy-four members,
ol wfjlcii the Deiuoo.ais are not likely to elect
more than tbtiUeu, but may pohkIuIv eicul
eighteen, Jn ludiaua it is not probable they
will e ect more than ouo. but there are two
other districts In which there In a possibility of
clecling Democrats. , in unio tne Republicans
may lose two districts, but probably not. In
NrW Yo k the llepubiicHUH cannot lobe, lor they
were reduced lo their minimum before. Tne
Semite is made more radioil by the aocetMou of
IneHoumeru members. There is, therefore, a
probability ffat the next Congress will be us
strongly Republican as this."
INSTRUCTION.
QTEVEN8DALH INSTITUTB.
KJ
BOARDING SCHOOL tOB. YOUNG LA DUD
Terms Board, Tuition, etc. per scholastic year, lift
HO EXTRAS,
Circulars t HesBra. Fairbanks b Ewlng's, do. 7li
OHKJsNUT Btreet; alBO at Messrs. T. B. PUorwm
Brothers', No. 806 OHKHNTJT Btreeh
Address, personally or by note,
N rOHTKB BROWNE, Principal,
10 t thrjoU Sooth Amboy. N. J.
CARRIAGES.
GARDNER & FLEMING
CAIUIIAQK BIJILDKU8,'
Mo. 211 SOUTH FIFTH STREET,
BELOW WALNUT,
An assortment of NEW AND 6KIXLND-HA.ND
CARRIAGES always on linud at REASONABLE
PiUl'-Ju. ' 5 f ui vnm
I L Li I A M 8. li It A N T.
I OM M Is-MUN M Run AT.
N.8H.IELWA1U'. Avenue. Philadelphia,
AHh.nr vim
Jlnpniu'a Guupowner. K.-iiutd Nitre, Charcoal, Kio.
Vv. 1 tiktrrt: t'o.' i.'liorulitie C ii.. a H Hroma.
n.cker, Hina. (& Co.'a Yellow Mbial boeutnlni.
LolU and Jkllf, in
' 213 220
S. FRONT ST.
4
OFFER TO TUB
riKE II IE AM) BO tit BOX Will SKIES, IY HOT.
Ol' lOC5, 1M,
ALSO, IEEE USE " ME
. Cf GREAT AGE, rarging
Literal contracts will bo entered Into fin iota,
FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC.
i860.
FH$ICENTIAL CONTEST.
FLAl'S, HAJiXEltS, TItANSrAUEMALS,
AM) LANTEKSS,
CniDraign Uudgis, Medal, and Fins,
OP BOTH CANDinATfiS.
Ten different styles sent on rtctlpt ol Oue Dollar
m il l'llty lent.
Ageuta wanted evory wlinre.
I'ihk8 In Muslin. Banting, mid Bilk, 11 sizes, whole
sale and rma.II.
Pelittc! Clubs fitted out with everything they may
require.
CALL ON OR ADDKEB3
W. F. GCHEJOLE, ,
Ko. 45) SOUTH THIKU STREET,
flStfip PHILADELPHIA.
FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS,&C
H. S. K. C.
Harris Seamless Kid Gloves.
EVFIIT PAIB WAHB1NTED,
aXOLUBIVJS AGENTS FOB GENTS' GLOVFH.
J. VV. SCOTT & CO.,
tr7;rp
HO. 914 CllP.SM'T HTUKKTi
PATENT . S II O U L D E R-SEAH
SniBT 9f AN C FACTORY 1
rKKF ECT FITTING BHfKrB AND DRAWEES
rni!e from meamiremeni at vry stion noilco.
All other articles oi GKXLKM..KN'S
iH)D9 In fall variety.
HLUCHESTER A CO,,
No. 7inn!HKMNt7T Htrnct
PAINTED PHOTOS.
K E W THING IN A K T.
tiJiKLIN PAINTED PHOTOS,
A. S. ROBINSON,
No 9 0 CHESNUT Street,
Jinn ust recrlved a superb collciiiio of
, BSPLIN P-AINTKn PnOTOGBAPna OF
FLOWERS.
They are exquisite gems of art, rivalling In beauty,
iibtumlneas of tint, aud perfection of form a urea!
variety of the choicest exottc IKiw.-rlne plants. They
are mounted on board of three sizes, aud sold from
26 rent') to 13 and $4 each. -
For framing and the album they are Incomparably
beuulllul. 8 i52
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
p0BERT SHOEMAKER & CO,
N.E. Corner of FOURTH and RACE Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA,
VHOLESALC DRUGGISTS.
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
White Lead and Colored Taints, Putty,
1 ' Yarnishes, Etc.
AGFNT9 FOB THE CELKBRA.TED
FREXC1I ZISC rALXTS.
IVEA LERS 'AND CON aUMER9 SUPPLIED
LOWEST PltK'tM FOR CASH. 818tf
DYEING, SCOURING, ETC.
JT Ft E N C H STEAK
S O O U It I N G.
AS.BSDYLL, MARX & CO.;
XV, 13 HUCTU KLVf.NTH STKKJE7
. . , . .. 1HD ; 1
RO. 510 BACK ITBKEt. 810 Din
GROCERIES, ETC.
rQ FAMILIES PESIDINQ IN THE RUftAl
We are prepared;, aa heretofore, to supply famlllt
at their conniry residences with every description 01
FINE GROCERIES, TEAS, ETC.,
ALUKIII C. BOBKBTH,
Dealer lo Fine Groceries,
117ii p Corner ELKVKNTH and VIJSKbta,
TRUSSES.
12 "StELEY'S HAUD RUBBER TRV7BS,'
faT No. 1M7 cilKWNUT tareei. Tuts Truss cor
ret ily applied will our and retain Willi ease ihe most
ditJIculi rupture: always clean, llnul. eaoy. sale, ann
cuwlorl.blt, uued ii bathing, nitml lo tot m, nevei
rusia, breaks, sol's, become, limner, or moves from
place. No strapping, Ham Kutioer Aoaouiinai Hup
porter, by which the -NiolLers. Corpulent, and Ladlet
suUerlng wllb Female weakness, will rind relief stud
iierieci support: very iigni, ueai, auu euecitiai. nit
Instruments Hhoiilder Braces, Elaniln mocking for
weak llUihs. Hnspen.lous, eus. Also, large stock rtral
l.eaibei Trusses, nau nsual prioa. iay in aunnn.
anon. lsvtwna
yhL STEAM GENERATOR
MAM'FUTIUINO COMPANY
OF IKKN!YL.VAHIA,
CAPITAL, - - - 8100,000
This Company are now prepared to furnish
WIEUAND'N PATKHT IMIMIOVED STEAM
tiEN ttllATOtt,
Of any power required, upon two weeks' notloe. They
have been Introduced In thla city, and thoroughly
tested, with most satisfactory results, and are sold
TJNPE.B GUARANTEE OP ABWOLUTK (SAFETY
FROM DKUTRUOTIVE KX PLOSION. They are
cheaper In ft rat cost, and in expense of erection, more
economical In fuel, durable and convenient In ust
Ir an auy other apparatus for generating steam.
otritK Of COM PA ST,
(ROOMS Num. I aud 6), ,
No. BS8 WALNUT 8TRHKT
NFLHON J. NIOKEUaON, President,
FX WARD H. GRAHAM,
U3m beoretary and Trea nrer
213 220
s. rnciiT st.
6'
cv CO-
TRAtK, IN l.' TS,
1H07, mill IwGn.
AID EMEEGX WHISKIES, ,
from 1?cm to li.
bond At Dhv.!lk"-y,of ttili year iaDuarinrt.j
DRANDY, WINE, GIN, ETC.
HE ALL & McDRIDr,
impubtkhjb or
ERANDIEP, WINES, Qirs, ETC.,
AND ri?TLU.BR or
FIM CUD iM, CClmBO A.KQ L'O.IClrirU
II 1 M 1 Y,
PUEK AM) UNADULTERATED,
Ko. 161 Goiith FHONT Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Lienor, hy hp B iOn p1 iH-niiiniio rtirHh4
xirf5ly lor lm!l tn1 mrli-inl pur Oilr
by mull will li uri.ini'iiv u.'iiilii ux mh.iurv
c
liAMPACXK.-AN 1NVUI'L UP "l'LANI
voce uoauii Rknts miiioria nun lor ixr tty
JAM ha l.'A KsJ'A I UH, J H..
12B WALNUT cad 4' UAAM Th (Urwti.
c
lUMVAGNK. AN 1NYOK K OF "UOLD
Luc" tlhai anile, lmpor.m bih) tornaieby
J A V KM CA Hh 1 4 I K.-. J H.,
IK WA LM T and ?l OKA I l"K Hlr.
AU1SE. AN INVOKE OK "ULO.
J ria" CIihu. inline, imported il Itrsa'ehy
J Ail J-.fct I A KH1 A I J VL.
411 lMV'AfM'T a..l2 HKAMrK-inSt,
c
ABSTAIN' OLIVK 01L.-AN INVOICS
ol the above, for caie by
J to F.U CARSTATUM. JR.,
128 WAI.N UT and G RAN ITK Blreat,
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
Q P E C I A L
NOTICE.
UNTIL SFITFJIUFR 1, lS(;s,
I WILL CLOSE DAILY T V. .11.
U. W KUSKEI.L,
Importer and Upster In French docks, Watch as
Fine Jewt.'ry, and HUver Ware,
Ao. 22 North SIXTH Street,
8 262 PHIL A DELPHI A.
H
AVIKG PURCHASED JTIIE INTEREST
Or TII091AH lYBIUHUrs, RSJ.
My late partner lo the Arm or WRIGGIN3 A WAR
DEN, I am now prepared to oOer
A Kh.Vf AND VAIIIUD STOCK Ot
WATCHES AND JEWELRY,
AT THE OLD BTAND. .
S.E. COBM B riFTU AKI) HIE1SVT NTS.'
Arid reupt Cully rfqnenl a onntlnunnce ot the pa
ri nageso lonii aud iloerally beHlowol upon tne late
rin. Particular upnitton given lo the repairing ot
WATCHFJi AND JKAKLKY,
A. II. WAROEIT,
Philadelphia, March 16, 1863. 6 wfurZm
JEWELRY! JEWELRY!
S. T. Corner Tenth und Chesuut.
SEW STOKE.
NEW GOQDS.
VRICCINS & CO.,
(Formerly Wrtpgtns 4 Warden. Filth and Chesnut)
mvlie attention lo their lew Jewelry estore, b. K. cor
ner '1FNTH and uHKSNUT Blreeis.
We are now prepared, with nir Extensive Stock, to
Oor (1KKAT I Nbl'tliJl KNTsJ to huyfrs.
WATCH KB of r tie niO"t celebrated runners, JEW.
ULRY, and t-ILVKR WARE, always the lalebt de-
ii:i.s aiid best quel Hies.
U oils cpeciallv newlitned for BRIDAL PRESENTS,
hurticular aitertlnn given to the Repairing of
A AT011EH AND JEWKLRY. 18 1 axwt
WHIGQIN8 4S1 OO.,
B. v Corner Tenth and fhcftnut M recta.
'VtWlS LADOMUS & Co
'DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS)
WiTI IIKS, JEWKI.KV ASlLVKIt WAKK.
.WATCHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED. ,
102 Chestnut St., Phil
WATCH E 3 OF THE FINEST MAKERS,
. DIAMOSD AND OTHJLR JEWELRY,
Of the latest styles.
33LID SILVER AND PLATED WARS. ETC. ETC,
8M ALL STUDS FOR EYELET HOLE9,
i. large assortment Just received, with variety of
1 settings. 1 j ip
We keep always on hand an atsonmenl of
UADIES' AI .K!TI' "IINH WATtllAJt"
)t the bes. Auier!'fn and Forelrn Makers, all wai
auted to give ooxi-piole satisfaction, and at
GREATLY SEDUCED VRNJES,
FAKH A BROTHKi;.
.mporiere of WaTciies, Jewelry, Musical Boij,jo,
lUsmthfrp Bo. :iM OHJCSSUTBi,, below Foartt,
Especial aiwofrm riven 10 repairing Watches a&
tf-usloal Boxes bv FlltKT-CL Ab workmen.
MILLINERY.
MRS. R. D I L L O Pi,
KOM. HUH AND 88U HO I III HTHKKT
Baa large assortment of
MILLINEKY.
Ladles', Misses , aud Children's SIIR, Velvet, Veil,
Straw aDd Fancy Bonueta and Bats of the latest
itj'lea. Also, H'ltes, Velvets. Ribbons, Crapes,
Heathers, Jnowera, Fraiuea. etc., whoiosaie aud
reiailj J5i?L.
GAS FIXTURES.
GAS FIXTURE S.
' MISKJW, MKKRILL A THACKARA,
No. 71St'Hii.!1.Hl''i' Wreel,
niaonfiK'taror. of Oan Mxiurua. Lauitia, eu)., eto..
wi.ii Id call the atientu n of the poblictu Uielr livrx? ana
r iarae a
elegHiil aasortmeiil ol Uas Imndeliers. 1'eonauis,
brat keis, etc. Tuey alno lnlridiice gas pipes iom
I'eDdaun,
dwellings aud public biiiidiiitm, and aitebd loexUtud
tng.aiurliig and retit.lnng gwt nlpe
auwvii ..r.uiu.
RJ I R C GUARDS,
won, moki: I'RosTi, AmriuMa, fao,
VOUICN, ETC.
Patent Wlro Ruling. Iron Breads. OruameaU
Wire work., Pain r Makers' win and every TarWty
ot Wire Worn u-mulacinred by
if. WAini:u nous,
jraw'l N 11 Korth SIXTH rjtteev
j FINt WATCHES. j