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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
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alive to vote for Gram next rtovemoer man
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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
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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
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REMOVED
To No. 134 DOCK Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
218 S 220
S. FRONT ST.
OFFER TO TUB
FINE RIB AM) ROURRON WHISKIES, U ROM,
Or lOfS, 1800,
ALSO, H IE TIKE ME
Of GREAT AGE, ranging
Liberal contract will be entered into for lota,
SUMMER RESORTS.
gELVIDERE AND DELAWARE RAILROAD
COMPANY.
"DELAWARE WATER UAT."
KOTICK For the ipeclal accommodation ot Faa-
aenirers dealroua ol upending Bandar at the BSLA
WAKK WATKK OaP, an addition! line will leave
the Water Gap every MONDAY MOKNINU at
O'clock, arriving In Philadelphia abonl 11 A. M.
Llnei leave Kenklagton Depot for Delaware water
Gp dally (teundaya excepted) at 7 A M and 1 MO P. It
7 ZS xd6W W. H. UAIZMKU. Af tint.
TJNITED STATES 1IOTEL,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
Is now open Tor the reception of Uucsts.
ifuiio under ttie direction of Simon Hauler
Persona wishing to engaga roomi can do to by ap
plylug to
BROWN a WOELPPER, Proprietors,
ATLANTIC CITY, or
( J 8m Ho. .7 K1CUMOHD Street.
SEWING MACHINES.
"g-HC GREAT
AMERICAN COMBINATION
BUTTONHOLE OYERSEA3ILXG
JLND
SEWING MACHINE,
Its wonderful Popularity Conclusive 1'rool
of its Great Merit.
The Increase In the demand for thla valuable
Machine has been TENFOLD during the last seven
months of Its first year belore tbe public.
1 bis graad and surprising suoceaa Is unprecedented
In the history ol Sewing Machines, and we reel fully
warranted In claiming that
IT Ull NO EQUAL.
Being absolutely the best
FAMILY MACHINE
IN THB WORLD,
And Intrinsically tbe cheapest, for It la really two
Machines combined Iu one. bold at the
S. W. Cor. or ELEVENTH and CRESSET
PHILADELPHIA IMltuthkf
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOFSAFE8
ARVIN'8 SAFES.
ANOTHER TEST.
Dova'e Depot, S, 0., July n, 118a
MtBBrs. VM. M iiJKU fc CO., AjJiiNl'o MA.it
VIN'S bAFjLg. Charleston, b. C:
Oentirni.n: On tue night of me 2a instant our stors
aud conienis were uesiruyed by nre. aud art
pie'eu io say we had one of your i'iKifi Pit Do if
eAFJih, which proved lo be all you reoumunuueu,
Tlu heal wa great as to melt the braai uaudia,
aud toe plate which coaialns the dale of tne parent,
but tae coutenu were not Injured. Tne sate o miaiued
our uooks payers and nous and bunds tu theaiuouut
oi tls.uu; also a gold watch, wnicn bad oesn repaired
BLd placed mereiu the evening Delore the rJ re. Next
da;, un oasnlug tue bfe, tne watch was tound rnn
nlng. It gives us great pleasure to te.iliy tu me ex
cellent quality or your bates, a Ihey are Juiilv enti
tled to tue highest confidence ot the pub to. We are
going iu rebuild at once, and shall be iu yur city la a
snort time, wnen we shall call upon you, and pur
chase another bare, ltespeciiu 'ly yours,
DK LOllaOfi & DOVE.
A PERFECT SAFE.
CHROME DION SPHERICAL
BURGLAR SAFE,
Hill rcfclst all burglars' Implements for
any length of time
P LB ABE BEND FOB DESCRIPTIVE OIBOULAB.
MARVIN & CO.,
PRLKCIPaL 1721 CHESTNUT ST.,
WAREHOUSES, J (Masonic Hall), PMla.,
M BBOADWAT, NEW TOUK,
lt BANK STfiKET, CLEVELAND, Oh
And for sale by oiir As&nts In the principal clliei
throughout the Unit d Btate. 1 26 tulhulm
a . t. . m a I h p. n .
"Hill
-Dil "I UlkirVKTItlllftf
HRE AND BURGLAK-PKOOF SaFEi.
LOCKiMlTH, BELI--HANOKR, AND DUALHfl
lft iiLJLDIMi UARDWAltF.
I SI
Ho. 434 MAC Street.
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.,
N. E. Corner of FOURTH and RACE Ste.,
PHILADELPHIA.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OP
W'lilte Lead and Colored Taints, Pultj,
Varnishes, Etc
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZLC PALXTSe
DKi LER8 A WD C01CUMER8 BUPPLIKD AT
LOWHtfT PIUCKb FOR CASH. U
C COTTON AND Ft,AX,
J bAlL DUCK AND CANVAS,
- - . of all numbers and lrand,
Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wbkou Cover Duitg.
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.
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