THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRATII PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 13G3. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, tPlTOBlAL OPIHIORB 0? TBI IKADIHfl JOURttALI UPON CCBRKST tOPICS COMPILBD BV1BT BAT FOB TH1TBNIHI TBLFORATH. Is Mr. Seymour a Statesman 1 from Ote Jf. y. IViOune. Tbe adversary is engaged at this presen moment in vaunting the statesmanship of Horatio Seymour. Lit ua see what are Mr Seymour's claims to be) styled a statesman t Statesmanship must be niad up of character, 8tudy, and experience, riapoloou was a states man by nature; John Stuart Mill (before en tering the House of Commons) by study; Pal merston by experience. Mr. Seymour has never held a national oUloc, aud so far as na tional politics are concerned he oauuot be a Btatesman by experience. In the State offices lie Las held, bis only evidence of statesman ship is his veto of a prohibitory liquor law. It does not require a gifted imagination to con ceive that General Grant, in the same circum stances, must either have shown equal states manship by vetoing it, or superior statesman ship by signing it. lie might have done more, lie could not have done less. Thofe who have ever troubled themselves to learn anything about politios will not accuse Horatio Seymour of being a statesman by etudy. He never studies. If he did he could not lie to so great advantage as he does in his public speeches, lie skims the surface of his tory for iialf truths, knowing That ft lio which la half a truth Is ever the biuckcM. ot ilcs. That a lie which U nil rt lie may be met and fonpnt with oulrmht, But a lie which la imr. a trutli Is a harder mat ter to light. If be stumbles on a whole truth, he cut3 it in two, dropping the kernel and feeding on the husk. Let us see how far his statesman ship would have availed us. During the agi tation of the slave question, he recommended throwing open the national lerritorie3 to sla very, bo that the slave power could have been Strengthened in the Senate by the votes of all the present and future States west of the Mis souri river, from Texas to British America. He argued, also, that slaveholders should bs allowed to sojourn with their slaves, for all transient purposes, in the free States, to Stop With them at the springs, and to travel with them for pleasure or business. He would have given slaveholders eturnal sway over the national Territories, and temporary sway wherever they went in the Northern tate. Suppose Mr. Seymour's statesmanship had prevailed, would the slave power have been less tyrannical T Would the ultimate success of free principles at the North have been less certain If Would not Mr. Seymour's polny have strengthened the Rebellion in advance, and so insured the final and irrevocable disso lution of the Union? Then Mr. Seymour advocated the Crittenden Compromise . ., he wanted the North, after electing a President on the basis of "no further extension of slavery," to agree that if the South would haul down the Rebel Hag, and allow Mr. Lincoln to be President, and the Union to stand, then Mr. Lincoln should con sent to the indefinite extension of slavery, and the voters who elected him to the perpetual abandonment of their principles. Had this blunder been followed, it would have been established that the defeated party at a Presi dential election can always reverse the politi cal effect of the election by threatening to se cede. This is Mexican statesmanship not American. It is the statesmanship of brigands and rioters, not of Senates and Parliamentary bodies; of ruffiauisni not Democracy. If Mr. Seymour had ever studied much, he would not have placed himself so exactly on a par with men who have never studied at all. Bat if Mr. Sey mour had studied the Crittenden Compromise so far as to inquire whether the South were willing to accept it to remain in the Union provided the successful party should repudiate and back down from the principles on which the people elected Lincoln he would have found that the South nowhere voted for it, and would never have accepted it. Hence, Mr. Seymour's statesmanship is not that of study, even of the most superficial kind. Again, at the outbreak of the war, Mr. Sey mour declared that he had no faith that the Union could be maintained by force; that he had examined the Montgomery Constitution; that it wa3 better than our own; and that the Letter way was for New York and the other Northern States to come under it. Was this Statesmanship ? Is the cringing spaniel, the fawning cur, the whipped and yelping hound, our beau ideal of statesmanship ? Again, in 1SG2-3, he denied the constitu tionality of the Draft laws, argued that a Union restored by coercion would be as great a crime as the Rebellion, taught that ouly Republicans should fight for the Union, and contended that emancipation was the death knell of the Union. In 1SU4 he, in the Chioago platform denounced the war as a failure in the midst of the smoke and heat of the contest, encouraging the Rebels to persevere though they were already whipped, and predicting defeat for the Union armies who were already victorious. Was this sUtsmanahip f LUi the country assented to Seymour's doctrine in 18C0, that the Rebellion could not be sub dued, or in IS 0-1 that hostilities should cease, our Union would have been dissolved, ud the Northern States would have been plung-d into a war among themselves by the efforts of Seymour and his friends to carry out the policy he bad advised, of seoediug from the Union and joining the Confederacy. In these convulsions, the army of the independent Rebel Confederacy under Lee would have stood ready to march into the Northern States and aid the efforts of the Democrats to carry these States over to the Confederacy and slavery up to the Canadian line. In short, Seymour's policies would have given us a united and independent South, a divided- and conllictiiig North, aud a oountry at war from one end to the other, after all hope of re Storing the Union or destroying slavery had disappeared. Since Seymour's policies indi cate neither experience nor study of statei inantLip, it he be a statesman he can only be so by character, having been born such. But people who are born to the possession of great wealth of any kind, financial or intellectual, seldom live to the age of fifty-seven years without making it manifest. Mr. Seymour, however, has never proposed a policy or inau gurated a measure of auy kind. He has beeu a mere critio of the doings of active men, a carper, not to pay a tdmderer, of those whose familiarity with puhllo ailairs he baj had no opportunity to attain, aud with whose pra.iti cal statesmanship he has never been brought into rivalry. Tlic New Democratic Rebellion. From the Cincinnati Gazette, The Constitution of the United States pro vides that, on the application of any State Legislature, or of its Governor, when the Lu- isiOre cannot le convened, me general jTeiiiuient shall protect any State against ritneatln Tlia T.wirl.il.if lira ff f.mi. Isirna has made such application. The Uov eri or has enforced it by evidence of the la wless disorder now prevailing In the State, an t the iUWJ V I tils libels ti I-1 i-Sii tilt. Oistft.'b;ril of the peaoe, and has asked that three addi tional regiments be sent there. The action of the President on the oase thus V resented is not open to the charge of undue zeal In defense of the new State Government j of Louisiana. He makes no direct reply to Ihe Legislature, and never notioes the Gov ernor; but after much Cabinet consultation and cogitation, an . order to the General com manding in that department is laboriously evolved. This directs the General to make such distribution of the troops already under his command to be ready to act without delay when the President shall order it, aud to communicate to the President auy fajU that may seem to call for military inter ference. The order is bunglingly drawn, and it is not quite cU ar that the President does not meau to suggest the inference that after notillojtiou from the military commander he would stid await a formal application again from the State authorities. But its main purpose is clear. He wishes to do just as little as will save him from the charge of disobedieuce to law, and just as much as will save him from having given any practical assistance to the struggling State Government. Some very sanguine people have professed to see in the order a recognition of the Con gressional reorganization in Louisiana. We are unable to perceive it. The President makes no reply to the Governor. He takes no direct notice of the Legislature, lie does not even inform the General commanding the Department that applications for aid have been received from the State authorities, ile does not accept the testimony of the Legisla ture and Governor as to the existence of the alleged outrages, but requires the army offi cers to report to him if any such outrages should occur. In fhort, he utterly ignores the State government, and goes j ust as far as he dares in notifying the Rebels that it is illegiti mate, and has no claim upon their obddien h. Still we have no apprehension that Mr. Johnson means mischief at the South, except in a negative way. He has no disposition to provoke the reassembling of Congress. If he can possibly avoid the recognition of the re organized State governments, he will do it; but he will take no step so bold as to tempt another trial before a Senate now swelled by members from the3e very States. So far as he dares, he will simply leave them to take care of themselves. Meanwhile his attitude and that of th-j Democratic party serve to encourage all man ner of excesses on the part ot the Rebels. What we have to expect for the next three months may be gathered rom what has already occurred in several Southern States. We give elsewhere the glinstly array of (acts on which the application from Louisiana was made for Government aid. Tim Governor has summed it up in a single sentence: "There exists no protection for tbe citizens in courts, and men are shot down in tbe roads, in their homes and elsewhere, without any questions being asked or steps taken to bring the offend ers to justice." "There seems to be a settled determination," he adds, "on the part of those men who adhered to the rebelliou, to either kill or drive away Union white meu aud lead ing colored men. so as to be able to terrify the masses of the colored population into voting as they shall dictate." There lies before us a report mvle to tha Constitutional Convention of Texas by a com mittee appointed to investigate the lawless ness and violence that prevail throughout that State. In a population not four times as great as that of Cincinnati, there have been, since the surrender, one thousand aud thirty-five murders concerning which the committee have positive knowledge; but, they add, "the figures here presented come far short ot representing the actual number of murders in Texas during the time specified." Look at the frightful de tails of occurrences within the month of July, as officially reported by this committee to the Convention. "Iu the counties of Collins and Hunt, Ave men, well known as bterllag loyalists, were brutally runrUtsreil wltiiln the last two weeKs hy Home Hebel desperadoes. The Hon. A. O. C'ooley, a worthy cluzan of Gillexple county, anil a prominent Hupublicun, was shot and wound i U on the 10th instant, at home, by an fVBbi--in from a distant county. We hUo leuru that W. 11. Upton, a Union man, was hun by a mob on the 3d inelant, In Brnzona county. Here, then, are six well Known Unionists mur dered, and the life of another attempted all in the present month, Soiuu time ago the Uov. Joshua Johnson, an excellent citi.eu of Titus county, and ualUHt whom nothing oau ha and by any body, unless It be that he has al .vays been true to bis country, was driven from his home and the State by Uebel Intolerance. It is now a matter of general notoriety that loyal men In various parts of the State are receiving notices to leave, threatening them with death nud the burnlLK of their homes if they do not fly. It is equally notorious that great aUirm prevails among the Union men in many locali ties, and many of them are abandoning their homes for their lives. We also gt.tte that U is a furl that many honorable members of this body are in receipt ot letters from tho.se that love them, from wives aud children, informing thi-m of threats to take their lives, and lmplor lu them not to leturu home. And we say fuil her that the families of at least two dele V,hU h on Ibis floor have been forced away from their homes by Hebel proscription slueo tho meeting of this Convention. All the accounts grte in sta'lng that twenU -Ave or thirty freed meu were killed, while not a ulugle while man b hlnln. "We conclude by expressing It as our delibe rate ronvlctlou that, unless relief, prompt ami decided, is provided, not ouly will any consti tution presented by this Convention oe de. ft aied, liot only will flr-uiloiia lie broken up or controlled by violence, tut the loval, law iibidlng people of Texs will b. hunted to death or driven Into exile. We have It upon conservative testimony Unit in many localities an election could not now t o held without mili tary protection; (hat. the. lives of K'KHi loyal citizens aro In danger, and that a 'oval Wl could not travel through the Htule organizing Loyal Lepguts without molestation." Similar reports come to us from the remoter districts in several of the other Southern States. Everywhere the Rebels exhibit a fresh bitterness and courage, that cau only be ex plained by their cnns.taut boasts that they have the Administration on their side, and are sure of support from the great Democratic party. Everywhere they boast that the ex isting governments are to be overturned, and that all the guarantees Congress has exaoted are as worthless as waste paper. The South, which in the spring and early summer, was quiet enough to hold out inducements for capital, and to give promise of the revival of industry and the return of prosperity, is now as lawless aud turbulent as in the spriug of lStil. Now, as then, it threatens new revolu tion. Now, as then, it is more in earnest thau tho?e who judge only from its bluster are likely to buspect. In one word, the Rebels are preparing for a rebellion against the reorganized State govern ments. Whose fault is it f What party was it that resolved that the Reconstruction acts were unconstitutional, re volutionary, and void ? Whose candidate was it that declared the duty of the President elect to pronounce "the Reconstruction acts null and void, compel the army to undo its usurpations at the South, disperse the carpet bag State Governments, allow the white people to reorganize their own governments, and compel the Senate to submit ?" Who was it that demanded a President who should "trample into dust the usurpations of Con gress known as the Reconstruction acts," an 1 declared his desire to staud before the Ceuveu tion on this isBue alone, "which is the issue that embraces everything else 1" is it .Vi-onj; to hold the party aul c.vu '.i 1V.:3 I that say these things responsible for the bloody oonseqnenoes at the South, and to style tbe result of their labors the new Democratic rebellion r Radical Plunderers. From the If. T. World. Not long ago Mr. W. J. Manker, of Wash ington, published a pamphlet exposing the extravagance of the Radical Rump iu what are conveniently called "the contingent ex penses of the House of Representatives." These contingent expenses cover the compen sation of clerks, messengers and others employed in the House; the expenses of sum moning witnesses to testify before various special committees; hack hire; use of par lors in hotels in all the leading cities in the Union; travelling expenses of the Sergeaut-at-Arms; and the paper, gold pens, pen knives, pantaloons, and other perquisites which are vaguely summed up as "station ery." Mr. Manker says in the prefatory paragraphs to his pamphlet that he "has been a Rapublican from the organization of the party in 1854;" that he received an appointment in the Doorkeeper's depart ment iu the House of Representatives through the influence of a Republican member, aud con tinued in his position till July 1, ItitiS, when he resigned. These statements are to shot? that he has had opportunities to know some thing of the expenditures aud extravagances he exposes, and that his publication is not biased by party prejudice, lie saya that he attempted to secure the attention of members to the bhameful abuses aud general squander ing, but to no purpose, and that he liually "became satisfied that this scandalous waste of money would never be stopped, or honestly inquired into, while the present party was iu power." So he printed his pamphlet iu which he makes the following statement: A iSUttomcnt Showing the Kipenses of tho Hnuie of Jdjireufnlalives for lteycar tnduiy June 1SU1, Iv, l,sj(j, IMiT, unit IMiS. Yer eurilng June 30, 1MU SVii.irw 00 Year ending June 30. lSii.'i 1SI.SSI OJ car ewUriK J uue -'li). IMiU liii. HS (W Year ending June 30, 1S'7 5 ni.OSftM Year ending June 30, !S(iS 7i,.V OU Additional Cjmpuubulloil lOU.OJU'UU Tom! ri.d.'j.jss oj This shows an enormous increase, the ex penses of lMi8 more than doubling those of 18(34. The details exhibit au exlraordiuary expenditure for particular items, which should at least be explained. For iustauce: for the second session of the Fortieth Congress the whole amount of "stationery" would equal au allowance ol $520 to each uirtulw; there were i-508ti worth of pens for tho House; the pen knives amounted to !?5:JlI0, equal to fifteen knives at $25 50 for each member. No ond supposes that members used, or even re ceived, all these articles which the people pay for. The bills of the Sergeant at-Aruis amount to thousand.- upon thouauds of dollars; he charges for 2iS,J03 miles of travel for him self and witnesses; the scandalous details of the investigation of tbu New Oileaus riots show that nearly $40,000 were expended, mainly to pay the board, washing, aud travel ling expenses of the carpet-bagging beggars who pretended to be "witue3ses." These are but items in the mass of swindles which Mr. Manker has exposed. The House thought it worth while to investigate the matter of its own extravagance, and a committee was appointed, July 15, io inquire into the disbursement of the contingent fund for the years 1867 and 180'S. This committee has made a report which explains, deuies, attri butes increased expenses to extra sessions, and whitewashes generally. The report has been printed, but no further action has beeu taken; only Mr. II. McCulloch, of the com mittee, showing that funds have btsen im properly or illegally disbursed, aud declaring that the committee is not a proper committee to investigate such charges. "It is like," says Mr. McCulloch, "a member charged with corruption or fraud asking for a committee to investigate that charge, and beiDg appointed its chairman, to report on his own case." Yet the party in power, which Las plundered the people of $500,000,000 a year during the past three years, is now patching up its own accounts for campaign pur poses, and by its own showing the people cannot continue that party in power, simply because they cannot allord it. Radicalism must go next November. It is "loil," "moral," and all that, but it costs the coun try too much money. Have Wc Conquered a Peace J Shall Wc Have l'eacei r From the if. P. Times. General Grant iu closing hi3 letter of accept ance, with the words, "let us have peace," incisively hit the very heart of the party con troversies. The great essential controlling issue in this Presidential canvass is nothing else than the choice between continued sec tional strife and a permanent reconciliation, that issue is so plain that our opponents themselves do not try to hide it. All their dealing with it, thus far, from the beginning, has only been to make it the more conspicuous. With a fatal facility they are drawn to it in spite of themselves. They made haste to put it in the boldest relief in their platform, by that resolution which declared void, aud of no effect, all that has been hitherto done for lecoiiet ruction, thus remitting everything to the civil chaos in which the war left us. They returned to it in the nomination of General l!!air to the second place on their ticket imme diately after his issue of the most inoeudiary and revolutionary letter ever seen in this laud a letter every syllable of which is an invocation of the old Rebel spirit, aud an instigation to renewed violence. The Rebel allies of the party in the South have been equally quick to recognize the actual alternative. Wade Hampton, still hot from the atmosphere of the Convention, assured the people of Charleston in a public speeoh that the Southern vote must be oast without regard to the Reconstruction laws; aud that if that vote shall elect the Democratic caudidates they "shall be installed in power iu spite of all the bayonets that shall be brought against them;" and he proclaims his own readiness to enter the fight again, in these words, "Should South Carolina call her son3 together to defend her altars, if life and volition are left to me, none will respond more cheerfully and promptly than myself." And in like spirit Howell Cobb, at the Democrats ratification meeting in Atlanta, "challenges combat." 'Lnemies they were in war, enemies they con tinue to be in peace. In war we drew the sword and bade them defiance. In peace, we gather np the manhood ot the South, and raising the banner ot constitutional, equality, and gathering around it the good men of the North as well as the South, we hurl into their teeth to-day the same defiance, and bid them come on to the struggle. We are ready for it if you are. Young men, in whose veins the red blood of youth runs so quickly, oome ! Come one and all, and let us suatch the old banner frc m the dust and give it again to the breeze, and, if need be, to the god of battles, and strike one more honest blow for constitutional liberty." This is just the revolutionary rhetorio that has been employed everywhere throughout the South by editors and by stump-speakers, in haillug aud helping for ward the Demooratio nominations. The same identical means are dsed now to "lire tbe Si u'.Li ni Lc;.; t'' as we.o U-ed iu 13J0 T;.a incendiary work, too, is done by the sitne old liBi.d-" at the busineHft, with lh t-xoept.mu Yancey, who has beeu takeu to bis lio.i ai i ''Vf m. Aid it. el! tends to the satn teni'd re. snlt--rt cklesa ' in-ubordintfou and bloody re sistance. Though, for want of tb sinews of war. Ibis may not, at prpsnt, tak th ohp of another regular reb-lliou, et the whoU oiitbern atmc sphere will attain become im pregnated, as It ned to be, with a fixed spirit of riifdojalty which will uead hut the favorite in meut to precipitate itself into a sweeping revolution. Whether tbe sharp decisive crisis wou'd be sujpendHd for a louder or a shorter period would !) of comparatively little conse quence. We have already learned iu our na tional expt rience that tbe very suspend of such a revolutionary element iu the air is au Immeasurable evil. It is a standing menace,, which destroys all that security which civil government is, first of all, designed to estab lish. It invests everything with uncertainty, making anything like safe calculation impos pible iu any affairs, publio or private. The great crime of the Democratic pirty before the rebellion was its long oourse of demoralizing tbe Southern mind, year iu and year out, to such a degree that at last rebellion was made possible, and it is questionable whether the rebellion itself, even in its most flagrant dayp, was a heavier curse than the lingering agony of doubt and apprehension which pre ceded it. The hope of making an end forever of all tbe old sectional troubles did more than all things else to impel the country to fight the war thoroughly through. The supreme aim of the North was to conquer a peace a peace, solid and enduring, abolishing alike all dis turbance and all fear of disturbance thereaf ter. If we have not conquered such a peaoe, the war will go into history as the worst of failures. It will turn out that all the incal culable blood and treasure which it cost were worse than wasted. In the last Presidential canvass the Democratic party declared the prosecution of the war a "failure," and boldly presented that issue to the people. In the present canvass the real issue is still the same whether or not the war shall be turned into a failure. On the other occasion the patriotism of the country roused it3elf, and irllicted upon the party the most stunuing defeat tver known in our political history. There is tho same call for just as signal an overthtow now. The course of peaceful con stitutional government will be just as effec tually promoted by sustaining General Grant now as it was by sustaining him when at the lipad of his armies then. Wade Hampton aud all bis Reliel allies will be just as much dis comfited in the one case as they were in the other. There is one hope, and only one, for tbe real pacification of the cnuu'ry; and that hope i, in such an administration as General Graut promises us au administration which shall unite fidelity to the Con.titntion and laws, w;.th a spirit of justice aud good will to all au administration which shall be inspired by a calm spirit and moderate counsels, which will follow with eautious but with constautly ad vancing steps the progress of the Southern mind which by kindness and fairness iu all its dealings with the Southern people, and promptness to redress all their actual griev ances, will entitle itself to their esteem and confidence, and enable itself to oppose with authority aud eflect the instigations of all the eld pestilent tribe of lire-eaters; an administra tion which will always prefer solid reality to untried theory, aud iustead of making void the Reconstruction laws, will most tenaciously hold on to all that has hitherto been gained for reconstruction, thankful for its existence, and intent only upon making the work com plete. This difference between the result of the election of Seymour and the result of the elec tion of Grant is clearly discerned and keenly taken to heart by the Union men of the South. Joshua Hill, the newly elected Union Senator in Georgia, who did most heroio battle against the Cobbs and Toombses of his State before the Rebellion, and held firmly to the old flag through all the varying fortunes of the strug gle this clearest-sighted and truest of South ern men, in his speech at Atlanta responsive to his election, in the most emphatio way en forced upon his loyal hearers the necessity of supporting urant and Uolfax, as the ouly means of saving the country from continued strife. From the beginuing of the canvass all tbe Union leaders throughout the South, in their publio addresses,' have constantly pre sented this alternative of repose or tranquility as the dominant issue of this Presidential election. Their solemn convictions upon this matter ought to have a peouliar weight with all fair Northern minds, for their own patriot ism has been proved by the sharpest tests, aud withal they have had the best of all pos sible opportunities of knowing the present a3 well as the past spirit and purposes of the na tional enemies around them. Nothing is wanting, nothing Northern or Southern, nothing loyal or Rebel, nothing iu the way of internal evidence or of positive testimony of deduction, conlession, interence, or palpable fact absolutely nothing is want ing to establish the real character of the pre sent election issue. That once settled in any honest mind, eo is all else. The Trade with China Tho Northwest l'assige. From the N. Y. JItrald. Our commercial relations with China are already of great importance. Engaged iu the domestic trade of that country, plying between its queer ports, np and down its strange rivers and through the fairy land of nooks on the coabt, there are now at least a hundred foreign steamers, aud two-thirds of these are from the United States. This is au indication of the enterprise and intelligence with which our oountrynien have pressed forward in the struggle for supremacy in all the channels of Chinese trade. From this spirit the recently made treaty grew, and by that treaty, drawn in honorable equality on both sides, we enter into a quasi commercial alliance that will give us the start of the world in trading on the wealth of the East. In the days when the cir cumnavigation of continents was necessary in order to reach Oriental countries by the sea some other nations had peculiar advantages over us iu the proseoution of this trade. Hol land and Portugal, by their colonial system, had the monopoly in one age, and England, by her position and maritime power, distanced ell competitors in another. But we have changed all that. Our expansion, our great political and commercial development, the acuteness, the thrift, energy, courage, and broad capacity of our people, have together nullified all odda against us, placed us before all others in the list, and promise to estab lish our trade there ou a better basis thau was found in either Dutch colonies or British bottoms, and through that establishment to chance the direction of the great lines of trade 0 - , it. - 1 1 that are drawn around our maps oi tue worm San Francisco, our commercial capital on the Pacific, oonducts our maritime Ablatio re lations with enterprising spirit; but when the Paoilio Railroad is finished, aud San Frauolsoo has direct railroad connection with this city with the whole country the Oriental trade will receive through this association a vastly increased impulse. T1mJ the railroad across the continent, and the line of magnificent btiau.ti.s across tbe l'aciilc will drivd from 218 & 220 S. FRONT ST. OFFER TO THE FINE R 1 E AND Ol lfc00, 18GO, mt n il; im me Of GRFAT AGE, ranging Liberal contractu wUl be entered Into for lot, existence all other means of communication with Eastern Asia for the tea, the silk, aud other products brought by this rapid aud constant transit will undersell in the markets of the world those brought by all other routes. Cargoes carried around the Cap9 of Good Hope In slow liritish sailers, doubling tne price in interest and iusurauce, cannot com pete, aud to steam communication by that direction there is a praotioal dilliculty of which the Great Eastern is an abortive monu ment. Ordinary Bteamers are only large enough to carry the coal necessary to steam the voyage from rmglaud, and tbus nave no room left for cargo; but if ships are made large enough to carry the necessary coal and a cargo too, they are so large as to be nautical elephants on the hands of their owners. B it our American line, with its swift run to ana fro between Hong Kong and San Francisco, touching at the Sandwich Islands, has solved the problem of steam communication with China, and places the products of that empire within easy reach of the Western World at San Francisco. It only remains for the Pacific Railroad to put them in this city for us to have accomplished the greatest revolution in commercial history a revolution which will pass through our bauds all the commo dities with which Asia supplies Europe, aud all the manufactures with which Europe sup plies Asia, and to supply our own wants by collecting a toll on the wants of others. Por ages all the Western nations have sought the trade of the East aud the way to the East, and we have found the one aud thereby secured the other. Columbus, feel ing for the East in tbe early gloom, stumbled on this continent. Hudson was but one of the many navigators who iu exploring our coast sought for a northwest passage by which Eu ropean commerce could have a more feasible route to the East than round the Cape; that was his errand when he came into the broad river that now bears his name, and it seems a strange, prophetic vagary of the winds that they should have borne him so accurately to the eastern terminus of that shorter route to the Indies that all meu sought. Columbus therefore did not fail iu any sense. He did not even blunder in his search; neither did Hud son nor the others. They came by correct lines, and in discovering America made possi ble all the rest, and our railroads to San Fran cisco and steamers thence to Asia constitute the practical form of their northwest passage. DRY GOODS. LINEH STGU3. 'Utt AROH STREET. I.I HEN DICKSAKD DBIUS, WHITE DUCKS AND B1XLS, KVVr COATING DUCKS. 1XAX I'OLOUED DBILU AID DUCKS. BUFF CO ATI AG DUCKS. FANCY DRILLS, FAST COLORS. STRIPED DRILLS, FAST COLORS. BLOUSE LINENS, SEVERAL COLORS. PLAIN COLORED LINENS, FOB LADIES TRAVELLING SUITS. PRINTED SHIRTING LINEN. LINEN CA9IRRIC DRC&SES. THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF LINEX GOODS IN THE CITX, SELLING AT Less than Jobbers' Prices. GEORGE MIL.L.IKEN. Linen Importer, Jobber, and Betail Dealer, Blftiarnw NO. 8SS ARCH STREET LADJES ABOUT TO LEAYE THE city for their country bonaes, or the eea-shore will find It greatly to their advantage, before pur chasing elsewhere, to examine The Exteuslre Stock-, at Grcatlj Reduced Prices, of E. M. NEEDLES 4 CO., No. HOI OHESNUT STIIEET QIRARD BOW, Comprising complete assortment tor personal or household use, of LACES. I'M BROIDERIES HANDKEROHIEF8 FKFFED, KEVKRED AND TUCKED MC3 UN 8, CAMBRICH, JACONETS, riQGKti, and WHITS QUODS, In every variety, VEILS AND VEIL MATERIALS of every descrip tion, together with an extensive assortment of HOUSEHOLD L1XEAS, AT TEMPTING PltlOlES In every width and quality, BHIRTINO. PILLOW-CASE, SHEETING, &TABLB LLNENH, NAPKINS, DOYLIES, FLANNELS, DIMITIES FOR SPREADS, AND FURNI TURE COVERS, MARSEILLES, HO NETCOM B, AND OTHER 8PBEADS, TOWELS AND TOWELLING IN DAMASK AND HUCKABACK, SUMMER BLANKETS, TA BLE uov&rs. Era ALSO, SHIRTING, PILLOW-CABE AND SHEET. INQ jyJBLLNU. S. ft!. NEEDLES & CO., No. HOI OHESNUT STREET, 1 11 QIBABD BOW MILLINERY. MRS. R. DILLON, NOS. 8U3 AND aS3 SOUTH STREET, Has a large assortment ot MILLINERY. Ladles', Mlnaos', and Children's Bilk Velvet, Felt SUkw and i'aucy Boniifts and IUU ot the lates 'Jin. AU.O, tellki, Velvets, Klttbons, Craje leathers, l'ijweis, Frames, etc. eto., wuoleuale aud r.tail. M ! 2!8 & 220 . S. FRONT ST. 4 6" &c C O TRADE, IN LOTS, WHISKIES, IS BOM), 18C7, nTicl 1H8. and ecuieon whiskies, fronvlSG4 to i8-;; in bond at Dlstjy,otthls yews' mnufe ur.l WINES, ETC. SONOMA WINE OftliUY. Katabllnbed for tbn sale ot PUKE CALIFORNIA WINES. This Con puny oiler lor anle pure California Wines WJ'ITE. CXAHtCT, ' CaTAWRA, iUUc. &U.KRKV. MtJKCATKL, ANUiLi ICA. CUAdU'aQNK, FVBK OR A tK BRANDY wl'Olei-le ana retail, ail of their oi-n Rrnwlrg, and w ai runted lo con mi u uo lilug but tbe purnjulce ol iiie grai e. 1 ot. No. 2 BANK street, Phllaaeluh'a. HaHN A UPAIN. Asenta 8 6 lmrp JAMES CARSTAIR3, JR., Aos. 12G WALXUT aud 21 UEAMTE Sis., IMPOBTEROP Uriuidicp, Wines, Win, Olivo Oil, Lie. Etc., AND COMMISSION' MERCHANT, POlt THE SALE OF l LIili OLD RiL, WHEAT, AD E0UK- KOX WHISKIES. 4 i LUMBER. 18U8. bPKUCJK JOIST, bFltLCJK Joiax. H kill LOCK. HEMLOCK. 1888. 1868. U&A&uNKD Ci..AK PINK. rw.., bKAi-OlSED CLE R 1'1K. I ODO- tHOlUK rATl:K. Pl:w BPAN1WH CEDAR, FOR PA i TERNS. IOOO. FLORIDA FLOOKIau. lOUcL CAKULliSA FLOURISH. -v-"-"" VlKUlivIA FLUOKIMU. DELAWARE FLOORING, ASM FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLOltlUA STEP iJOAKDS. KAIL PLANK. I SZilQ WALNUT BUM. AMI) PLANK. 1 Q0 IOOO. WALNUT LXJS AND PLANii lODOU WALNUT BOARD:, WALNUT PLANK. I QiiO UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, 1Q)Q IOOO. UNDERTAKERS' LUHotR, IOOO. KKD CEDAR. WAT. NUT AND PTNK. 1613& BEASON ED POPLAR. 1 Q.Q SEASONED CHEKBY. iOOO. Ann, WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. 1868. CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1 OrC CI OA R ROX M A K i,:ksi I MiU SPANISH CEDA H BOX HOARDS. FOR MALE LOW. 1868. 1868. CAROLINA SCANTLING. T 00 CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. lOUO. NORWAY 6CANTLLNG7 CEDAR SHINGLES. inrto CYPRKW3 SHINGLES. iOOO. MAULE, BROTHER A O0 , No. Vbuo SOUTH Street. 112 FB H. W I L L IA M S , SEVENTEENTH AM SPiilfiG GARDEN OFFERS FOR SALE PATTERN LUMBER OF ALL KINDS. EXTRA SEASONED PANEL PLANK. BUILDING LUMBER OF EVERY DE3CRIP. TION. CAROLINA 4-4 and 8 4 FLOORING. HEMLOCK JOISTS, ALL SIZES. CEDAR SHINGLES, CTntEfcS BUNCH SHIN GLES, PLASTERING LATH, POSTS. ALSO, A FULL LINE OF WALXUT AM) OTIIEE HARD WOODS. I UMBER NO! IVC WORKED TO ORDER AT SHORT 7 27mwt2m UNITED STATES BUILDERS' MILL, NOS. 14, 28, and Us S. FIFTEENTH Street. SLE& f BRO., PROPRIETORS. Always on hand, made of the Beat Seasoned Lambs, at low irko, WOOD MOULDLNOS, BRACKETS, BALUSTERS AND NEW EI3. Newels, Balusters, Brackets, and Wood ftooldlnis, WOt D MOULDINGS, BRACKETS. BALUSTERS AND NEWELS. W alnnt and Ash Hand Rallluc. S, IX, aud 4 Inches, BUTTERNUT, CHEftNUT, MOULDINGS to order. AND WALNUT 131 DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC. JOBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., N.E. Corner or FOITITII and RACE Sts.. PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF liite Lead and Colored Taints, Putty, Varnishes, Etc AQENT3 FOR THE CELEBRATED FREXC1I ZINC PALM'S. DEALERS AND CONSUMERS SUPPLIED AT LOWEST PRlC&b FOR CASH. Wt TAB. KINK F.LIN, AFTEa A K5SS1DENCE XJ ai d iirnciku ui thirty jbhh ul urncike ui thirty ibhh ul ihu orinwes4 cui ner of Third nud l.'ino" hi rut!, hui lately ro laovd to bnuth ELEVENTH blrufcl, beiweuu A1AR- HfcT'MlllWtftlli , V . Hln superiority Iu the prompt aid purfoct onw ol all rtcent, chronic, loual, aud coiiHiliu.loual all'xo Uomh ot a Npeulnl fcatuie, IB pruverbl.tl. DiBeasea of the tklu, appearing In a hundred dif ferent forum, tutolly eradicated: mental anil ptivslovl wcuknehu, and all unrvuua dobllitleH sutHuilucalljjr and suri-esaluUy treated. OlUce hours lroiu A. M. to B P. M. 4 COTTON AND FLiAX, SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, Ul all nuuiliers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wacon Cover Dui.-lc. AIho Paper atuiiufaoturere Drlor felts, from on. to eveial ttet widiij Panlli g. Bulling. Hall Twine, eta JOHN W. KVERMAN A OO., SGg No, IDS JONES' AUeJ.
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