THE VAMsr EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 13G8. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. IDIT0R1AT. OPraiOM Of TH1 LIADIR tOVWkXA UPOK CCBBBNT TOPICS COMPILED BVgRT yXr FOB Til BTBRina TBXKORAPH. The Southern Militia. From the N. Y. Timet. The order ot tfeoretarj Sohofield explanatory of hla refusal to frulwb. arms to tbe militia of the Southern States adds greatly to the respon sibility of the President in dealing with the applications of the nir OoTernora. The com mon answer to appeals for military help, like that of Governor Warinonth, is, that the local militia should be available for the main tenance of order. The enees of reconstruc tion have contended that unleBS the loeal Gov ernments be able, with the militia at their command, to put down disturbance and enforce the law, they must be considered failures. The argument is unsound, as we bave more than once attempted to show, especially in Tlew of the neglect of Congress to provide for an adequate distribution of arms. But there has nevertheless been a conviction that any request for Federal Intervention should be preceded by the employment of all power at the com mand of the local Executives the militia Included. The case is made a good deal plainer by the extract from the law which the Secretary of War Introduces into his order. By one of those unfortunate blunders which have marred the progress of reconstruction at almost every Stage, the South is literally without a militia. Not ( nly have the local Gdvernments no arms for its use, but the supplying of arms by the War Department is forbidden by a clause Which passed under different circumstances is yet unrepealed. Congress, therefore, in its baste to adjourn, did more than neglect the distribution of J arms which a measure brought forward at a late day rightfully con templated. It left on the statute book a pro vision which restrains the War Department from arming the militia, whatever the emergenoy. To this extent the reconstructed States are powerless. Their authorities are paralyzed by an order which nothing less than the action of Congress can set aside. This fact, in the preseace of the disloyal organizations by which the rights of persons of Unionists are threatened, will undoubtedly Strengthen the movement for a reassembling Of Congress in September. That proceeding is, for many reasons, undesirable, but it may be made inevitable. lw things are more likely to make it bo than the oonfessed inability of the new Governments to employ a power which is essential to their existence. Meanwhile the President may prevent mis chief, and possibly some trouble, by making the fact announced by General Scholleld ihe basis of more decided action than might other wise be expedient, lie cannot bid the Gov ernors employ the militia before calling for Federal troops. Tending the repeal of the obstructive provision now brought to light, they have only Federal soldiers to rely upon to restrain the lawless, and overawe the Rebel plotters who are at work in every Southern State. Any hesitation on Mr. Johnson's part, or any failure to provide for the emergencies that may arise, will necessitate a September Session. Between that evil and the evil of un protected, unsupported authority in the South at the November election, there can be no doubt as to the duty to be performed by the national law-makers. Colored Conscrratism. From the If. Y. Tribune. "Governor Seward," asked a Washington acquaintance, duriDg the winter of 1859-GO, "what do you think of Mr. Douglas' chanoes for the Presidency f" "I think very little of them; his time has gone by," blandly replied the Seaator. " 'Gone by V Why, we consider him still a yonng man," remonstrated the inquirer. "Very likely," rejoined the smiling Sena tor; "I did not refer to his age; but I judge that the time has gone by for electing a Presi dent who spells 'negro' with two 's." The anoient aristocracy of the South is in a quandary; and its boggle is Colored Con servatism. Here is the ground of its per plexity. The white aristocracy has beaten the radical constitution of Mississippi by negro votes, and came near beating that of Georgia; polling 15,000 black votes against it. Encouraged by these results, the Bourbons are now organi zing Democratic negro clubs, giving Demo cratic white and black barbecues, and frater nizing with their colored brethren most cor dially and intimately. The gullible World reports half the negroes of New Orleans already members of Demooratio clubs which is as likely as that half the Irish Catholios in New York had become Enow Nothings. Bat It is true that the white Demoorats are sys tematically ingratiating themselves with the negroes, and with considerable success. They have Democratio negro orators, and some Demooratio negro wire-workers, whose elec tioneering skill and taot do credit to their political trainers. In a few years, if the entente cordiate be fally preserved, these Demo cratic neophytes will be able to put a dozen "whisky skins" inside their several waist coats without inconvenience, and to get as many hundred Democratio votes out of a dis trict containing less than a hundred Ddmo- cratio voters, as though they had trained under Captain Renders and graduated from Tammany Hall. Yet we warn their new friends to mind the crusty adage that "line words butter no parnneps." An old play hits the point thus Lnell: Captain Are you honest, Cmljo? Ctuljo Wliul you nib tue, Mhshu? Sambo has a likinsr for "Old Massa" he lives on his land, earns his wages, and has substantial reasons for preferring his good will to that of a "carpet bagger;" but it won't do to forget that he is a conservative, lie now enjoys the right of suffrage, and he means to retain, to conserve it. Blessed well does he know that the barbecues and other flattering attentions eo generously tendered him by his paler Democratio brethren are due to his being a free and independent voter that they would see him in heaven before soliciting the honor of his company at an ox roast, it the aooursed radicals had not enfranchised him. lie will of course gladly attend every Demooratio barbe cue to which he is invited, will eat and drink his fill there, and declare that the white folk have "done him proud" by their hospitality; he will join their club and wear their badge, if he clearly sees what he is to gain by so doing; but when his vote is wanted, it will come up missing if casting it Demooratio Is to result in his disfranchisement, lie won't vote to kill the goose that lays such nice eggs. Do but consider that then is some human nature in a nigger, and you will realize that this must be so, and can't possibly be otherwise. You may have a white and black Demooratio club of a thousand members; the fraternization at bar hecue and bar may be lovely, perfeot; but When the votes are counted out of the ballot- box, you will have just so many for Seymour aim l.iair as the white members will have cast; an me rest will be for Grant aud Colfax. Me antiuie let the good work go on 1 Induce the Ku Klux Man to believe, if human ore dnlity hath such extent, that all the niggers I summer" which he thought the extreme tlify don't shoot will vote for Sxymour and I limit even after his terrible losses in the Wil Blair. and there will be more of them left derness bnt all the autumn, and, at the time ' . T 1 I , 1 , tt 1 T", 1 1 1 I alive to vote for Gram next rtovemoer man i . j i j t I if no Kuch delnsion had been propagated, Make tbe Mobile Rebels fauoy that they are winning the negroes' vote, and they will no longer drive them out of the street cars not they! bnt insist on giving them the snuggest corners and the softest seatfl. The Southern Democrats might have won the negro vrte by acting with sense since Lee's surrender; and th-y may win a part of it even yet if they will really try. But they have mnch leeway to nuke np, and they should set about it speedily and heartily. Let them remember the old maxim "Seek not to seem, but to be." (J rant's Generalship. From the if. Y. World. The Republican newspapers makes practical confession of the necessity of defending and bolstering up General Grant's damaged repu tation for superior military skill. Yesterday, no less than three of the Republican journals of this eity thought it incumbent on them to enter the lists. Two of them the Times and the Evening Postiri simply silly, laying great stress on an old article in the World, written jnst after the surrender of Lee, in which Grant was praised and puffed in a strain of generous compliment which reflected the public gratitude and joy; puffed and praised without stint, because on such occasions, exact critical judgmentsareneverexpeoted and would be deemed, if not churlish, at least ungracious. When Grant was made Lieutenant-General we applauded; when he was made General we applauded again: and had he been content with this last mark of the publio gratitude, his countrymen would not have thought of making a close scrutiny into his military merits. There would have been no motive for disturbing an illusion so flatter ing to him and so pleasing to them. When a guest whom you have complimented proposes to marry your daughter, your former unre flecting courtesy does not preclude you a stricter inquiry into his character. If he or his friends should be so silly as to quote back your compliments as a proof of his virtues, you would treat them with laughter or con tempt. The pretence that a hasty, exulting newspaper article, printed the next morning after a victory, precludes all subsequent in quiry into the merits of the general, is equally ridiculous. The SW attempt to prop up the tottering reputation of General Graut is more to the purpose. The Sun tries to Bhow that the H'orldh&a exaggerated the strength of Grant's army and the greatness of his losses between the Rapidan and the James. The statesments published in the tforld rested on the authority ot an eminent Republican General, who stated that they were founded on the morning roli .calls of the army. That Republican General, as we were credibly informed and oelieve, had prepared and completed a pamphlet or book reviewing Grant's campaign, aud abounding with damaging facts and exposures a work which was withheld only because it had then become certain that General Grant would be nominated by the Republicans for President. We never saw the book, and know nothing of its contents except by vague description at second-hand; but the capacity and opportuni ties of the author were such as ought to make it sharp and effective. Bat although we never saw the book, the figures which we published came to us certified by the author in his own handwriting, and authenticated by his signa ture. We are obliged to regard them as more reliable than the statements of the editor of the Sun. The Evening l'ot foolishly says that the Sun' statements are trustworthy because Mr. Dana was formerly Assistant Secretary of War, and bad access to the records of tne Department. Lven if the returns were in the archives of the Department when Mr. Dana left it, he had no motive to examine them, and since he left it his means of infor mation are not better than ours we suppose not so good. V e do not believe tie statements in yesterday's Sun. They bear strong inter nal marks of having been cooked for a pur pose; bnt we are willing to leave them to be dealt with by the able military critio who is now reviewing the campaign of General Grant in our columns, if he should deem them of consequence enough to be worth his notioe. The. effectiveness of his criticisms, thus far, do not depend upon punotilious acouraoy in the arithmetio of the muster-rolls. They merely assume (what nobody disputes) that Grant's was much the stronger army, and his men equally brave, and demonstrates his poverty of skill in handling them, his want of any consistent plan, his total lack of military foresight. lie started on what he sup' nosed would be a campaign of a few weeks, and it took him nearly a whole ear. By a series of flank movements and battles murderous to his own men, he sue ceeded in getting as near to Richmond as Petersburg, and was there held at bay, oom pletely checkmated, for ten wearisome, inglo rious months, and he might have been held there during his natural life had it not been for the approach of Sherman from the South. What friend of Grant's is willing to make him ridiculous by saying that he crossed the Rapidan in the spring of 1h64 in the expects tion of reaching Petersburg by heavy losses and lvine there baffled till the spring of the following year, to be then relieved by a circuitous march of a Western general through the Gulf States and thence North f Grant set out in the expectation of short campaign. Ilis saying that he would "fight it turooeh on that line if it took all summer." proves that he started with the idea that his campaign against Richmond would not extend far into the summer, aud that he would be able to take it with his own army. Never did a general more egregiously miscalculate t As time wearily woro on, aud Grant still lay baffled and checkmated before Petersburg, President Lincoln got discouraged and was willing to give the ReboU almost auy terms they would accept short of disunion lie laid aside the dignity of his great station, and went himself, accompanied by his highest i abinet officer, to meet an embassy ot tbe Rebels in Hampton Roads a condeseension and bending to the RebnU which disclosed anxiety aud depression under which he la bored, and his small remaining confidence iu General Grant. There are bat few men in the oountry who know the liberality of the terms which Mr. Lincoln offered to the Rebels, as it was for the interest of both Governments to conceal them at the time, and they are now but just leaking out. The Chief Justice of North Carolina in a public address a few days ago said that the South could have had peace at the Hampton Roads Conference on condition that the negroes thereafter born should be free at the age of twenty-one. Bat this was not the only proposal suggested by Mr. Lincoln. He was so anxious that he plied the Rebel envoys on every side. He suggested, among other things, that a large sum of money might be paid as a compensation for the liber ated slaves. These strange (they seem strange now) tenders by Mr. Lincoln show how his couli denoe in General Grant had beoome prostrated by his loss of so many men, his disappoint ment of so many hopes, by the complete failure of all the calculations and expectations with which Grant had crossed the Rapidan, by his spinning out a bootless campaign not only "all 01 u iiauipion xvoaas oonierenoe, nearly an : rri. - l r . . . n - j - t t- the beet commentary on the campaign of Gene ral Grant as it appeared to Mr. Linooln at that time. Mr. Linooln's going there at all, and ei peclally his going there to make luoh offers as he made, was the sorriest kind of a compliment to the General who had crossed the Rapidan nearly ten months before, expecting to cap ture Richmond in a few week, and had, as yet, got only to Petersburg without being able to advance another step lying there foiled even in his clumsy strategy of fighting the enemy wherever he could find him. After Lee evacuated, in consequence of Sherman's ap proach, the task of capturing his flying, starving army was so easy that any General in the army could have accomplished it. That was no great feat; and apart from that there was nothing in Grant's long campaign against Richmond to glory in. The Political Sltaatloa-mo aarl 1S3S Btynour Another Poor Plaice. From the N. Y. Herald. History, they say, repeats itself, and the saying is true. We see it in the records of empires and dynasties, and in the vicissitudes of our own political parties. In truth, the political contests of the present day, in the Old World and the New, are the same as those of the past, with some changes, more or less, in the issnes and in the mixing of the elements on both sides. The terrible deluge of 17SU, which overwhelmed the ancient nobleise of Franoe and swept off her Bourbons, did not extinguish her pre-existing political parties. bo from the wrecks and ruins of the great American deluge of IS 61 our two great parties ef 1SG0 substantially reappear to day. South ern slavery and the old ruling Southern Bjur bon aristocracy have been swept off, but still there is a striking general resemblance between the Democratio campaign of 1852, under the banner of poor Pierce, and the campaign of 1&C8, nnder the banner of Seymour. In 1852 the Whig candidate was General Scott, a chieftain who in his military reputa tion stood as General Grant now stands or as King Saul stood among the mighty men of Israel in Lis day a bead and shoulders above them all. In the outset the supporters of Scott supposed that his military renown would surely give them the victory; bat there were underlying causes at work which brought about the election of poor Pierce in an over whelming majority of the electoral and popular vote, North and South. The position of Scott was satisfactory ; there was nothing alarming, though mnch that wa amusing, in his letters and speeches of the canvass; but Mr. Seward and the other ruling abolition spirits of the Whig party that stood behind Scott were dis trusted by the people. Those leading spirits, it was feared, would control his administration if reott were elected, aud in upsetting on the abolition tack the gteat compromise measures of lb.il) would endanger the peace and safety of the country in the reopening of Pandora's box on the slavery question. Hence the otherwise astonishing electoral and popular vote by which poor Pierce and his party were restored to power. Thus all the military glories of Scott, from Chippewa and Niagara to Vera Cruz and Cbepultepec, were as but dust in the balance. isow, is it not apparent to tne nased eye that there are underlying and overshadowing causes in this campaign which obscure the military glories of Grant? Admitting that he is a safe and sound man, and that the people so believe him to be, are there not reasons lor the declaration that the peeple distrust the ruling spirits and managers of the party who stand behind him r we have only to look back to the vote of New York in November. 18u'4, to see that while Seymour was weaker than Fenton the Republican party was stronger than Lincoln. We Bee in 18GS the party in its confessed weakness, from the eleotions of 18G7, relying upon the strength of its candi date; but, on the other hand, in the local elec tions of the present year, so far, since the nomination of General Grant we have no evi dence that his great name has turned the drift of tbe popular tide of last year. In fact, as in lsJ2 on the national bank question the run of General Jackson was a surprise to both parties, so in ISO'S there is a possibility that on the national banks, bonds, aud taxes there may be an equally surprising result. We think there is no reason to fear that with General Grant's election the administra tion will fall nnder the control of the revolu tionary radicals, but every reason to believe that in his quiet way, and more decisively than Lincoln, Urant will be the master of the administration and of Congress, and that the oountry will be safe in his hands, although his general policy may bring about a complete reconstruction of principles and parties. On the other hand, from the popular distrust of the revolutionary radioal leaders, and from the universal uneasiness of the people upon these important matters of the debt and the bonds, and the burden of taxes necessary to meet even the gold interest on the bonds, assuming that there is a probability of Sey mour's election and a possibility that it may be as decisive as that of poor Pierce, what shall we gain thereby f From all the lights before us we shall gain only another Pierce administration. The same leaders, the same fire-eaters, the same heresies, and the same blundering iufiuenoes that controlled Pierce will, from all the signs of the times, control Bevineur. Pierce was elected on the compromise measure of 1850. He was thus elected be cause on this platform the people believed he would maintain tbe peaoe aud harmony of the oountry on tbe slavery question inaugurated by those great peace measures of Henry Clay. But we all know that poor Pierce became as pliable as wax in the hands of the revolu tionary Southern slaveholding oligarchy; we know that he thus became a willing tool in the repeal of the Missouri compromise, the foundation stone ot the adjustment of 1S50, and we know what followed. His administra tion prepared the way, and tht of his suo cesBor, Buchanan, plunged the South into the abj ss of the slaveholders' rebellion. We see now that, as far as they have survived, the same elements that controlled poor Pierce controlled the Tammany Convention, and con trol the Democracy in thir canvass, and will control Seymour if eleoted. We have no re cognition from him or them that the war has settled anything; no recognition that the con stitutional amendments resulting from the war are binding upon the Demooratio party. They have left the door wide open, in the event of Seymour's election, for a falling back to "the Constitution as it was" in 18ti0, and for the repudiation of everything that has since oocurred changing the order of things exioting in 18C0. From the administration of Ssymour, in short, if eleoted, we have nothing better to expect than another term of poor Pieroe or a Second edition of Andy Johnson in bis oonfliot with Congress; while in the eleotion of Grant we bave every reason to hope for a safe and sound conservative polioy against the excesses of the radicals on the one hand and the fire eaters on the other. Yet such have been the bigh-handed assumptions, the blunders and follies and prodigalities and corruptions of the radicals of Congress that the people, for the sake of a decisive change may prefer Seymour to Grant, and thus the greatest soldier oi iue aay may again oe neaien ngnt and left, North aud South, by anether poor l ie roe. The Fallen Oak. Vrem the N. Y. Independent. It is hard to pen in a few words as mnoh as our hearts prompts us to say of Thaddens Stevens now at last in bis tomb. Any other Prer-ident than Andrew Johnson would have announctd his death iu an official bulletin as Abraham Lincoln anonunced HI ward Ever ett's. But tbe grand old Roman needs no tribute from the Panic traitor of the White House. Nay, a President who coull step down to a dranken mob and ask them to haug Thaddens Stevens, had no right to intrude a chaplet npon the dead statesman's bier. White flowers were strewn upon the coffin-lid by black bauds; and this was greater huor. Henceforth, like a dew, the blessings of the lowly shall keep green his grave. "And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping her in it there." Called "The Great Commoner," like the elder Pitt, Mr. Stevens was like his prototype in imperious parliamentary sway; like him in eagle-like quickneis and ferocity of attack; like him in power of blistering saroasm; like him in the almost preternatural scorn and con tempt which he could express by his counte nance and forefinger; like him in arrowy directness of argument; like him in whiteness of unspotted honesty; like him in that self abnegation which substituted for personal interest a passionate pride of country; and like bim, above all things else, in illustrious devotion to liberty. Of course, we are far from saying that Tbaddeus Stevens was gifted with that majes tic eloquence which, if tradition be true, mile Lord Chatham the Demosthenes of uio Wn times. But it must be remembered that Mr. Stevens rose from a local into a national repu tation, not by efforts made in the prime, but in the decline of life. Not sent to Congress till he was already a veteran, he received dur ing his first term his familiar nickname of Old Thad." His best battles had been fought and won long before the nation saw him lift a spear in Washington. In his ashes lived his wonted fires, but the earlier blaze was brighter than the later embers. If, during his whole career, instead of during H mere fragment of it, he had been an actor en the national stage; if, like Palmerston, he had been a life-long gla diator in his country's chief arena; his colossal abilities would have achieved for him a colossal reputation. At the death of Cole ridge, it was said that "a great man had died, leaving behind him no adequate memorial of his greatness." Of Mr. Stevena it must be said that he leaves behind him no speeches, or measures, or achievements (great as some ef them are) which afford an adequate mea sure of his extraordinary powers. "I shall soon die," said he to us recently, "aud shill then be soon forgotten." Such a man oan never entirely be forgotten. But there are some statesmen as, for instance, Burke and Jefferson who live more vividly after death than before; whose names grow more and more authoritative, and whose influence more and more potent; but Thaddens Stevens does not belong to this immortal class. Wit is a statesman's sword of victory: he who can wield it is a conqueror even in de feat. Tbaddeus Stevens always carried this weapon at his side a Damascus blade that could cut a hair or split a helmet. His jests were coarse or fine, polite or vulgar, accord ing to the company and the occasion. His best repartees were jewels of the first water. A book of them but they have never been pre served would send him down to the next generation to be "a wit among lords, and a lord among wits." Bitter as John Randolph, and cruel as Tristam Burgess, Mr. Stevens, unlike either of these serpent-tongued men, never felt mere than a momentary malice. He harbored no nnkindness to any human being. In fact, we happen to know that he had not a partiole of ill-will even towards Andrew Johnson. To the credit of human nature what more can be said? His private life was net a good example His habits inoluded the offenses common with many English statesmen of quarter of a cen tury ago, and too common with some Ameri can statesmen of to-day. We do not believe in lying least of all in the solemn presence of death and the crave. A living man's vices cannot become a dead man's virtues. During his life, Tbaddeus btevens was no saint; nor, atttr his death, ought he to receive canoniza tion. Sister Loretta's baptismal drop3 on his brow did not wash away any soilure from his character. Writing of him here as bis faithful friend, we know that, could be now so frame these words of ours as best to suit his own wishes, he would command as to paint him truthfully as he was, and would forbid us to omit the necessary shadow of the picture. Bat we have noticed, as an occasional phenome non in morals, that publio spirit sometimes becomes all the more a passion with men who have lost something of private virtue as if human nature, having stained itself on one side, sought all the more bravely to keep itself blight on another. To all who knew Tbaddeus Stevens beneath the surface, it was plain that, having many years ago parted with a proper pride in his personal cbaraeter. he sought to make perpetual atonement to his higher nature, and by a substituted pla- touio fidelity to his country's honor; and so this old man loved the Republic as purely as blonzel loved Perdita. 13 ut the lew men whose private vrrors may thus become publio benefits, and who can say, with .Luther, thank God for my sins," are none the less to be cendemned for those very failings which thus "lean to virtue's side." Nevertheless', there is one beautiful spiritual compensation to such men, for hidden within their breasts are solemn sorrows, or what Wordsworth calls "ntajestio pains," by which their charac ters beeome purified as by refining fires. Such inward processes as these long ago made Tbaddeus Stevens a better Christian than many a Copperhead clergyman who will take oocabion ol his death to sneer at his life. Not many months ago, on learning that the cemetery in Lancaster in which he expected his athes to repose would not admit the body of negroes to burial, he indignantly sold his lot, and purchased one in another ground, where, in the consecrated dust of God's acre, all men might be equal and so, even in his grave, we may still salute him as "The Great Commoner." Brave soul I champion of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity hail, and farewell I GROCERIES, ETC. rpo FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS. 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A leo r MniiulHotiirerH' Hrlur VH from one to seveial U.cl wide; Pauli' g. Bell lug Hall Twine, too, JOHN W. KVKRM1N A CO., ;c No. !US JON hW Alter 213 & 220 S. FROtiT ST. 4- co TRADE, EN LOTS, 1807, and 18C8. AM) boirboi whiskies, from to 1845. in oond at Distillery, of this years' manafaotar. WINES, ETC. SONOMA WKE. COMPANY. Established for the sale of rUBE CALIFORNIA WINE. This Company offer for sale pare California Wines, WBITE. CLARKT, U'lAWBA, PORi. MHKHHV, MUfCATEL, ANGELICA, CUAMi'AGNK, ANI TUSK OBAl'E BRANDT, wholesale ana retail, all of their on growing, and warranted to contain uoihlng but tbe purejuloe of lha Brie?ot, No, M BANK Street, Philadelphia. HaHN & QOA1N, Ageuta 81 lmrp JAMES CARSTA1RS, JR., Kos. 12C WALMT and 21 URAMTE Sis., IMPORTER OF Uraudlcf, Wines, Uin, Olire Oil, Etc. Etc., AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, IOR THE BALE OF PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AD BOUR- RON WHISKIES. 4 , FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC. 1868. PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST FLAGS, BAERS, TRANSPARENCIES, AM) LANTERNS, Campaign Radges, Medals, and Tins, OF BOTH CANDIDATES. Ten different styles sent on recelnt of One rnii.. and Fifty Cent. Ageuta wanted everywhere. Flags In Mnslm, Bunting, and Bilk, all Usea. whnla. sale and retail. Political Clubi fitted out with everything they m require. CALL OX OR ADDRESS W. F. SCHEIBLE, Ko. 49 SOUTH THIRD STREET, US tfrp PHILADELPHIA. LUMBER. 1868. SPRUCE JOI8T. BFKUOK JOIST. HKWLCKIK, HEMLOCK. 1868. 1 OQ SEASONED CLEAR PINK. -i cno lOUO. BEAHONED CLEaR PIisS lOOO. CHOICE iVATTKKN PINE. JyJ BPAMitiH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 1868. FLORIDA FLOORING. 1'LOKIDA FLOOKiNGI. CAROLINA FLOOK1NU, V1KU1JS1A FLOOK1NU. DELAWARE FLOOKJ.NU ABU FLOOKINU. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS, RAIL PLANK. 1868. lQliQ WALNUT BD8, AND PLANK. 1 DJQ lOUO. WALNUT BDB. AND PLANK. lOOO. WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANE. 1 QUO. UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, "I OOO IOOO. UNDER 1AK.EKS' LUMoe loDO. RED CEDAR. WALNUT AMD PINK. I SZLifl BEASONED POPLAR. "I QOO lOOO. BKAstoNEO CHERRY, lOOO. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. i RllQ CIOAR BOX MAKERS' 1 0?0 IOOO. CIOAR BOX MAKERS' lOOO. BP AN lij n CEDAR BOX BOARDS. FOR BALE LOW. I flUfi CAROLINA SCANTLING. 1 QUO IOOO. CAROLINA H. T. blLLB. lOOO. NORWAY BOANTLING. I fZtifi CEDAR SHINGLES. f QJQ IOOO. CmPREBHKHLNULEa IOOO. . . MA CLE, BROTHER A OO., HI No. USeobOUTH Street T. P. GALVIN & CO., LUMBER CCKMISSION MERCHANTS, SHACKAMAXON STREET WHARF. BELOW SLOArs MILLS, ( OAIXKD), PHILADELPHIA, AGENTS FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN Mann fiKiturers of YELiajW pane aud bPRUOE timber BOARDS, eto., snail be hat py to iurulah orders at wuule.ale raws, deliverable aiauy accerstblu port. Constantly reteiviug aud on hand at our wharf bOUTHKRN t'LUO&lNU, BUANiLIiSU. HU1N GL, EAbTERN LATHS, Flu EE rs. BED-SLATS. bPKUCE, HEMLOCK. SELECT MICHIGAN ANli CANADA PLANK AND BOARDS, AND HAO MATCC BHIP-KNEAS. 1 Jl Stuth AEX. OF WHICH WILL II K DELIVEllED AT ANY PABTOFTHE CITY 1'KOJiPTI.Y, UNITED STATES BUILDEKS MILL. 2J0U i, it, and 8 8. FIFTEEN TH Street. ESLER fc BRO., PROPRIETORS. Always on hand, made of the Best Seasoned Lumbal at low prloes, WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, BALUSTERS , AND NEWELS. Newels, Balusters, Bracfreta, and Wood Moulding WOOD MOULDiNfatS, BRACKETS. BALUSTERS AND NEWELS. Walnut and Ash Hand Railing, g, IX, aud Inches, BUTTERNUT. CHEbNUT, MOULDINGS to order. AND WALNUT U1 CARRIAGES. GARDNER & FLEMING CARRIAGE BUILDKR8. No. 214 SOUTH FIFTH STREET, BELOW WALNUT. An assortment ol NEW AND SKCOND-HAND CARRIAGES always on hand at REASONABLE PRICES. fuiWHW. i
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