THE DAILY irvENING TELEGRAPH PH1XADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER .19, 18G8. SPIItIT OF tub press. EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF TUB LEADING JOUBHALB CroH CCKliENT TOPICS COMPILBD BVBRT DAT FOB TUB EVBNIRQ TJUBOBAPH. TIia National Hanks. From the N. Y. Tribune. To the Editoi of Ti.e Tribune Sir: PIsmo howmmn readers or your paper bow tojuttlfy ttie existing arraoiieoieut between the Uorern mentand the banks. Tbe Government takes .charge of their bonds, returns to tbem nearly all tbelr purchase -money lo do business wllli, and pays tbem Interest on their bonds, wblob seems to be equivalent to paying it on the notes i lent tbem to u-e. To lend money and pay Interest upon It to the borrower cannot bin be considered a very strange method (( doing business. It appears reaanuable t hat the interest should cease on the hinds so beld hy the Government, While tbe banks are supplied with an amount almost equal to the principal as working capi tal; and the transaction being optional with the bauks, no breach of tbe national faun would be ; Involved If such agreement were made. Aug. 25, 18US. Mtstifibd Republican. Reply by the Tribune.' 1. The business of banks, in respect to their circulating notes, consists in discounting, t. ., in exchanging them for the notes of pri vate parties, running at from thirty days to fonr months' time. They can only afford to do this by making a higher Interest on the capital they lend than they pay for it. City banks and bankers can afford it by nsing money deposited with them on which they pay no interest. Interior and country bankers have no such resource. Their deposits are too email, and hence their ability to dis count notes of private parties, by giving their own cash notes lor private notes running on time, depends on their ability either to get double interest from those for whom they discount notes or to get one rate of interest from them and one npon the secu rities they deposit. Obviously, if all banks were obliged to pay current rateB of , interest to the Government on their capital, in order . to enjoy the privilege of lending at the same rates on individual notes, the business of banking would be wound np. Our corres pondent would have it that, before a banker should have the privilege of loaning him $90 at the current rates of interest, he must first loan the Government $100 without interest. This, if it were possible, would be very profit able for the Government and the community, but neither our correspondent nor any other man would do banking on those terms. 2. Bankers always have issued their notes on the pledge of securities on which they drew interest. Their capital being worth one rate of interest, by getting that on their securities and an additional one on their disoounts they make one rate of interest net, t. ., over and above what their capital costs them, and herein lies the essential profit of banking, without which it cannot be done. Under the old State bank system the banks invested their whole capital in securities, de posited them as pledge for their circulation, drew interest thereon, and loaned their cur rency to their customers in discounting notes, on which they drew interest again. By draw ing two interests on capital which cost them one, they made a net interest or profit. They could not have made a profit without it. The question, therefore, resolves itself into the simpler one whether we shall have any banks at all. 3. The Government has no power to stop the interest from running on the bonds held by the banks, any more than on those held by private parties. The banks have bought the bonds with capital which was their own. The bonds are in no way under control of the Government. The Government may repeal the banking law, or perhaps prohibit all banking from being done; but these steps would only make it more difficult to borrow money, and hence increase the rates of in terest. 4. The underlying question is, whether the Government or the banks ought to furnish the Eeople with a currency. The objeotion to aving the Government furnish the people with a currency is that the Government is not a bank, cannot discount private notes, and hence that its currency is not flexible, and does not expand with a demand for money, and contraot with a redundance of it, as a paper currenoy ought to do. . 5. The Government would save nothing by issuing the currenoy itself instead of issuing it, as now, through the banks. This is proved by the following facts. The National Banking law limits the quantity of notes the banks can issue to $306,000,000. Of this sum the law requires them to keep 20 per cent, or $60,000, 000, as a reserve. They must also keep a re serve equal to 20 per cent, of their deposits, or $114,000,000 more. These deductions leave of the $300,000,000 only $123,000,000 of circu lating notes on whioh the banks can draw interest. The interest on this sum at seven per cent, would amount to $8,820,000, as the total interest on the available circulation of the banks. To offset this, they pay into the National Treasury in taxes one per oent. on their circu lating notes, say $3,000,000 one-half of one per oent. on their deposits, or $2,855,000. A tax on their capital stook not invested in Government bonds of $400,000, one-half of one per cent, on net dividends and sutplus, which for the year 1866-7 amounted to $3,300,000, and a lioenee tax of $2 on every $1000 of oapital. Their capital being $424,000,000, this license tax amounts to $848,000. The sums Above named, amounting to $10,403,000, are paid into the National Treasury, beside about $8,000,000 of local and State taxes. Beside what they pay in State and local taxes, there fore, the National Banks pay to the Govern ment $l,5t3,000 more ia taxes than the interest on their circulating notes amounts to. In other words, they pay one and a half mil lions per annum for the privilege of doing a business which i3 indispensable to commerce and industry. Arc the Times Bud I lom the Washington National Intelligencer. Tbe farmer is told that times are not so bad when he can command two dollars a bushel for wheat and one dollar and twenty cents for oorn, and other things in proportion. But the ques tion for the farmer is not so much what is the nominal price of his produce, but what is its purchasing power, tie cannot buy as much with his two dollars as he could formerly with ' one, and he finds himself at the close of the year with h-ss money in faot, though, per haps, more in name than he did before the era of greenbacks. The paper dollar, whioh is a legal-tender, and nominally a dollar, though worth less than seventy cents, has disturbed all the values ot the oountry, and the brickmaker, who earns five dollars a day, finds it harder work to feed and clothe his family than he did when his wages were not quite so high-sounding, but mre real. Oh, but, says one, bring us back to a Bpeole standard, and we will never be able to pay the public debt. All that we are now paying of it is the interest, and that we pay in gold. That amount will not be affected, then, by the reduc tion of the country to a specie banis. As it is, we pay in greenbacks one dollar and forty cents for every dollar appropriated to tha interest, And the working people are Ueeoed with a de preciated paper currency. With an exhaastlees soil, with unrivalled mineral resources, with a population unsurpassed in industrial energy and inventive skill, with marvellous facilities for communication, and with an annual Immi gration worth to the nation $300,000,000, we ought, under skilful management, to made tbe greenback equal to its faoe. But a party which defends a Commissioner of Internal Revenue who acknowledges his incompetehoe, and under whose guidance half the revenue cannot be collected, is unfit to aohieve so desi rable a consummation. In radical hands we will look in vain for the re-establishment of the national credit, the husbanding o' the national resources, and the restoration of that fraternal feeling without whioh the Union is a phantom and a delusion, rather than the grand memorial ereoted by our fathers for the admiration of mankind and the benefit of their posterity. General Blair's Letter and the Democratic Platform. From the N. T. Timet. The World makes a feeble and futile at tempt to repudiate the letter whioh gave Frank Blair the nomination of the Demooratio party, and whioh really embodied the politioal sen timent and expressed the real wish and pur poses of that party more thoroughly than anything else that was said or done in the National Convention. The "personal honor" of both the candidates, says th World, binds them to renounce whatever of their personal views on any subject is not in accordance with the plat term. "If there Is anything in General Blair's B rod head letter InconBlRtent with the platform, be renounced It In acceptlug the nomination, Just as Mr. Seymour made a similar renuuclation, If there whs anything inconsistent with tbe platform In his financial speeob. The oandl dates of a great political parly stand In a repre sentative capacity. Their honor, which forbids them to accept tbe nomination of the party nnlesa they have previously nitreed with It iu eet-entlala, binds tbem to sink minor differ ences." But there is nothing whatever in General Blair's letter in the slightest degree inconsist ent with the party "platform." On the con trary, it embodies in its letter and spirit the full sentiment and politioal doctrine of the platform. It only puts its principles into plainer English. It says the same things, but eays them more clearly and more directly; and it provides praotical means for carrying tbe principles of the platform into praotioal effect. Tbe platform, for example, declares that the Reconstruction acts of Congress are "usurpa tion? unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void." This is the prinoiple of the party, de clared in the platform. Blair's letter is in full sympathy with it reaffirms it, in point of faot and then proceeds to lay down the Bpeoiflo action by which thepe acts are to be annulled and their results destroyed. The natural and proper way to do this would be by repealing tbem, or getting them declared unconstitu tional by the Supreme Court. But General Blair knows this to be impracticable. lie concedes that they cannot be repealed be cause the Senate cannot be carried by the Demoorats, whatever may happen to the other branch of Congress. He says, in so many words, that the repeal of these aots will be impossible, because the senate will oppose it. But he declares that they must not yield to the Senate in this matter. The President, in the first place, must compel the army to "disperse" the State Governments which have been organized in the Southern States nnder these acts of Congress, and then the Penate must be "compelled" to assent to the repeal of the acts themselves. There is nothing in this in the least inconsistent with the Demo oratio platform. It is the proper complement of that platform the praotioal application of its political doctrines the necessary deduc tion from its premises. liven if the World's doctrine, that all the previous history, aotion and opinions of a oandidate cease to be of any importance the moment he is nominated, because from that moment he ceases to have any individual character, and beoomes solely and simply the representative of the party believing only what it believes, and pledged only to what it says were literally and strictly true, it would have no application whatever to this case. Buohanan, in aooept ing the nomination - in 1856, took occasion to say that he was no longer James Buchanan with political opinions, prinoiples and pur poses of his own he was simply the em bodiment of the Cincinnati platform. Gene ral Blair may go quite as far as this, without changing bis position, or impairing the force of his letter, or changing his personal prin ciples in the least. The letter and the plat form are thoroughly and perfeotly in harmony with each other. Everyb dy, indeed, who watched the aotion of the Convention, knows that it was the let ter of Blair whioh shaped and guided that action. The letter not only gave him the nomination, but it gave tone and oharaoter to the whole Convention. It really deolded the oharaoter of the platform. Until that let ter appeared and had been pressed npon the attention of delegates, the drift of the Con vention was in favor of a progressive platform which should accept the results of the war and go forward, rather than back ward, in the application of the prin ciples of demooratio freedom. The Rebel element in the Convention seized npon that letter to check that tendency and to turn the current backwards. Its bold denunciation of the acts of Cengress as "unconstitutional, revolutionary and void" and its open decla ration of a purpose to resist, defeat, and over throw them, and to "disperse" the State Gov ernments organized under them by the use of ' the army, suited the temper of the Rebel and Copperhead sentiment of tbe Convention ex actly. It was used first to render tbe nomina tion of Judge Chase impossible, and next to put the Rebel stamp Ineffuceably on the party. Wade Hampton, in speeches he has made iu South Carolina since the convention, has de clared himself the author of the phrase in the platform which characterizas the acts of Con gress as "revolutionary and void," and has accepted the letter of Blair as embodying the true sentiment of the Demooratio party the only sentiment whioh makes the position and action of that party acceptable and weloome to the ex-Rebels of the Southern States. Indeed, the tone and language of the whole Demooratio press, North and South, and more especially in the Southern States, where the Domooratio party plaoes its sole hope of suc cess in the coming election, leaves no room for doubt on this point. In every Southern Ds mocratio organ the Blair letter is regarded and treated as the real exponent of Demooratio dootrine. It the key-noe of the canvass. Everywhere Blair and not Seymour is the pro minent and Important figure in the oontest. A Demooratio victory would be his victory. Sey mour, if eleoted, would be the mere agent and tool of the men and the sentiments that con trolled the Convention. lie would inevitably do their bidding as he always has done the bidding of stronger and bolder men than him self, in the publio positions he has held hitherto. He did the work of the Rebels while the Rebellion lasted and he would renew his efforts, as they are renewing theirs, if he were elected now. Tbe . World oannot repudiate their sentiments, as embodied in the platform and the letter of Blair, any more than it can dispense with their help in the pending canvass. I Turbulence In the Political Campaign. 1 From their. T. Herald. At the opening of the camnatcn it looked as though thinga were going to be very flat and Stupid. It was hardly anticipated that the gay scenes of 1840 wo aid be repeated. The campaign songs of to-day prove to be poor and wishy-washy compared with those which the inspiration of hard oider and the names of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" had produced. But within the last week our electioneering movements have assumed a livelier tone, and a somewhat belligerent one. In various oities 01 the North processions of politicians, intent upon glorifying their favorite candidates, have been attacked by showers of brickbats aad stones, levelled at them by their opponents. Such things have ooourred ia Troy, ruiUdel phia, and New London within a few days to processions of radical patriots, whioh is all wrong; for although saoh arguments a bould ers and brickbats convey may be forcible, they are not logical, and do most harm to the party using them. Can it be that the Demoorats are getting so desperate in the anticipation of defeat that they resort to turbulence and brickbats on the occasion of Republican demonstrations f We hardly think so. They must have sagacity enough to know that such measures will avail but little in a contest where the free exercise of opinion, intelligence, and the right of franchise are the controlling influences which will deolde the election. At the same time it is not to be wondered at that disturbances of this kind should be indulged in by the unthinking crowd when the leading partisan newspapers on both sides some claiming to be highly respeotable, philosophi cal, and moral, and others claiming their title to indeoenoy in language that fully esta blishes their claim set examples of violence and bad feeling such as have never before been witnessed in a political campaign. We suspect, therefore, that bad example and bad whisky combined have had a good deal to do with the late political ebullitions on the part of turbulent folks in some of the Northern cities. "Keconslriictloii" In Georgia. From the N. T. World. The Republicans are, with good reason, confounded and chagrined at the result of their eo-called "reconstruction" in Georgia. Georgia is, in all respects, the most important of the States which have passed from nnder the military yoke, Virginia being one of the three which have not been "reconstructed." Georgia is the Empire Sta'e of the South, destined to hold the same relation to Southern commerce that New York does to that of the whole oountry. Her size, fertility, resources, rivers, railroads, harbors, position, enterprise, intelligence. and population place her iu the first rank of btates. Uer example cannot fail to exert a potential influence in all the States said to have been "reconstructed." What has been done in one may be done iu all. The perfected "reconstruction," about which there is a vaunting, grandiose declaration in the Chi cago platform, is an abortion in three of the Slates, and is not likely to live long enough to cry in the other seven. It ha3 collapsed in Georgia while the Republican party is still in power, thus demonstrating its inherent weakness, and the superlative folly of its malignant, fanatloal authors Its utter failure is lugubriously confessed by the Tribune, thus: ' The letter of our able correspondent at Atlanta gives a startling view of the progress of tbeHejmourand Blatr revoluilou whioa has bten inaugurated In the Georgia Lea-Islam. All tbe colored members of uoiU Heua.e and noune nave now been expelled, tbe defeated Itebel Demooratio candidates sealed In their places, and tbe overwhelming Democratic innjorlly In the Legislature belnu thus eiinbieil to snau their nnueta at the Governor's nrnt.HHt and vetoes, the mate Is virtually in the bauds of Toombs, Cobb, and Ben. II 111.".. . And this, we are told, marks "the rroirress of the Seymour and Blair revolution." Ac cording to the past tenor of Republican elec tioneering, the "revolution" was to take place after the eleotion of Seymour and Blair, and by a very different method. That portentous eon of terror, the redoubtable General Blair, was to disperse the carpet-bag legislatures at the point of the bayonet. We half suspect that the future Vice-President will relent and think twice before he disperses the Legisla ture of Georgia, especially as he will be an officer without power, having no other func tion than that of putting questions for the Re publican Senate to vote upon. But if he should decide to send the Georgia Legislature packing, we dare say the Tribune would be glad to have him do it, without even waiting until he is inaugurated as Vioe-fresldent. "The Seymour and Blair revolution" is a foolish phrase that cannot conceal the weak ness and unwisdom of a rickety system which tumbles into ruins of itself the moment its blundering architects take away the scaffold ing. It is repugnant to the preponderating publio sentiment of the State, and was known to be so when it was invented. It required an army to force it into existence, but none is necessary to demolish it. Negro supremacy can be reinstated in Georgia by uo other means than a fresh resort in military force. The Commercial .Advertiser, with the spas modic mental debility which makes that jour nal an object of pity iu Mr. Weed'a abswnoe, thinks it has dit-corered "an effecmal mode of heading off' these conspirators," and predicts that "before three montbi' t me" they will be "floored." We will let this sage aud sapient journal advertise its nostrum: 'This Is a very nice little programme whioh has been (uthdkkI uuder lUe guiuauod of (J ibb , Toombs, II. H Ilnl. unci tho ot ier vl.ulnut lelels Mdio felm lo bring about fresh revolu tion But It bo nappe.. h iliii. luei'e ih hu elldO liul modeol betiding oil Miese O'tiisplmlmu, and we i.rtUlcl tbat iifK.iu three muuilis' i line tine elupsed. they win llnd tiiem-Hives eiiVjo.ually flciored. TheHupiemtj OjuuoI' tid.tmia will oe aprealeu lo to pruunmnw uunu ili;a out rageous proceedings, and its l?cl'ou will be Kublalned by the. (supreme i nuri of tiie UulieJ Mimes. YV e warn lliesx nckl.-s nit-u tu pause lu i heir mad career bel.tra :Ui- ariu of the law fnl!a poweiliiliv upon tt.eui. uml'u.n a:u buried from the positions of trust to wlncli an unto ward fori une bits temporarily assigned menu." Now it po happens that every legislative body in tbe United States is the sole and final judge of the election and qualiflutttious of its members. When a memW is rejected or ex pelled, no appeal lies to the courts. Instances of the rejection of members are of perpetual occurrenca, but the Commrrcial never learned of an instance of a rejected or expelled mem ber of CoDgress, or of a State Legislature, ap- E lying to a court for redress, however flagrant is wrongs. It is a class of cases over which no court has Jurisdiction. But even if the courts had jurisdiction, the f ommercial must have a curious notion of the state of the docket and the order of business iu the Supreme Court of the United States to suppose that the ejected negroes can be restoied to their seats "before three months' time." And even supposing that difficulty surmounted, how does our wise contemporary suppose the expelled negroes are to be benefited f Before three months, the Georgia Legislature will have completed its business and adjourned. What good would it do the negroes to be declared members of a Legislature that will never again sit f They will not be members of the next Legislature unless eleoted as such; and the next Legislature will be eleoted uuder a new registration law, in the absence both of the I'reedmen'g Bureau and the array. Tbe Times, which is a paper of some intelligence, can see no other mode of redress than a rejec tion by Congress of members elected from the State of Georgia a'ntiltt remedy for the Re publicans, an it wonld merely cast out the carpet-baggers eleoted under military surveil lance; a reeult that would be well pleasing to the IVmoeraMo party, who think they never ought to have been admitted. , EDUCATIONAL. R. II. 1. L' A U P K R I) A O II 1 S ' 8KLRCT i Classical, Scientific and Commercial School for B(y and Young Men, will open on MONDAY September 14. at tbe . AHS1CMULY IJUILDINGS, i TKMTH and CHLdJUUT hlreeis. Tbla school will combine the tnorouituness and sys tem of a rirst-clmis public school, with the peculiar advantrgei oi a W FXL-AI" POINTED PRIVATE ACADEMY. Applications for admission may be made at the r,XD "J11 from A. M. to 3 P. M. 21 lui lul mV.er wn, " "H rears of succe- iui practice will be employed in uy dprnneni. TTILDON fcEMINART (LATH LISWO0D o-i oiiposii Hid Yom Koad Htuiou, frib puT, U Kailroud.eeveu mllus iroiu Pulluu"" '1 lie Fifteenth Bmslon of Miss OA Rita Relent I "J1 '" l Young f.adies will c" ueuceTl be? fc Turn. 11 ' Ud hulllil-1 Huailou, septein. Increased accommodations having benn nblalned by 'fliaLge ol e.loiice, there ure lew vacan "m rltai, bhoemkertown P. O., Montgomery (Jouuty, Oirt'lllfl m. And nv.n nr...n.nii . 7 - , . ....u. ui 1. 1 inx irKBri.IOB Ills school, given at tbe OfhVe o JAY COOKK & CO UanketH, JSo. 114 b. TH1KD Street, Pullnduluhia. or m Allow .no QT. FKANCIS COLLEUK. IN CABK OF k) iraiitmcHn Brothers. .LOIiKfTO. tJamhr.a County, la- lour miles irom CrebijuT CharVere Mn 18o, w.ih privilege or co.Uerrlug degree iocatloS the niOBt healthy Iu the State, the AlleghenJ mJ lame h. Ing proverbial lor pure water, bracing air and plclurehqiienceuery. r-cuolaMilc year oomiLiuceVut ol September aud ends 2tl, ef June? Jud surveying apparatus lurulshed graOs. Btudenis adinlTted fom eighiyears to mauhood. Board aud tuition, payabhi lauerexf, V"M Biu-fcuyga,'l,'t0b Mualc tetou:?d,nr A MILTON IXSTITUIE DAI AND JBJaRD. lug-school lor Young Ladles. Ko. 8310 CIIE4NUT Street, Philadelphia, will reopen on MONDAY, fcep tember 7, lets. JTor teruis, eto , apply to 8 tuf PHILIP A. CRKUAR, A. M.. Principal. JANE M. IIAKPEIt WILL B EOT EN IIGK School for Bays aud Girls, No. ira CHiSJiUr bireet, September (ninth month) 21t. At pilcauon lor admhsion caa b9 made at the rooruoi, ti e 17ih aud la.b.fruw. 10 to 12 o'c oefc. or alter the school cummencea. y m CHESNLT SIIiEET FEMALE SEMINARY MissBoMSUY aud Miss D1LLAYH will reopen tl.elr Boarding aud Day Souool ( Thlr.y-seveuu Session), ttepieniber 18, at No. 1H1J Uheauut street Particulars Irom circulars. 10 to 10 1 VllbS ELIZA W. SMITU'S FRENCH AN'D kNGLlSU BOaltlHU AND DAY Ud.OOL JbOH. YoU-NU LA Oil-a, Ko. 11124 ePRUCR street, wl.l reopen on MOHU A Y.September i. 8 29 6w (SlaSSICAL IN8riIUTE7DEANSTaEEr, J aboie blMtL'Cli Th dunes ol me Classical lottltute win be resumed September 7. J. W. i AXRaiS D. D. 8" Principal. HD. GKEUOii, A. If., WILL RE-OPES his CLAIriaU; .L aud ii.MiLlall SCHOOL J.o. Hon MAHKH.T fctrett, on U'UJsDAY, Sepiem' her I. 8 t lax THE MISSES JUUiSSTON'3 BOARDING and Day School lor oung Ladles, Ho, msj sPRl.Cn; c li eel, will reopen (D. V.) September 1, lBt)8. H U4 2ul TIIE MISSES ROJliHS, NO. 19U PINE Bireet, will leopeu helr School lor Youutf Li.dles una Children, ou MONDAY, September 7. 1 lultiblin ifi. A J. RotiEil3. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MDSIC. S U o rn- flftilu. and VVALfUra reet . 'Hie regular Fll Quarter will begin on DuMUiY, OUTOBKB .2, 1 6, Pnplm mav enter durli g thle aud next week. '1 he rlrrcton are plensei to be able to announce tbe encasement ol the following-named Professors: hVLULlrll HKNKIH. the uilueut Vluloi.celllst. JOHJS F. HUMILShiiE, rltulst autt Tneoriit, Irom Lelrmlc. HKNliV O. Tli UNDER, Instructor on the Grand Organ. HlJOrORE BO ETTGKR, Pianist, from the New Ynra Q naervator ot Wualo 8 12.t6t JISS JENNIE T. BECK, TEACHER OF PIANOFORTE, No. 76 FLORIDA Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth, below Fltzwater. 9 4 SINGING CLASSES FOR LADIES AND Uenllemeu. ier ma, $10 per ouarter ot 12 weeks. A. K. TAYLOR, 17t No. 1207 FILBKRT Street. SIG. P. RONDINELLA, TEACHER OF SING ING. Private lessons aud clatae. Residence, No. 8n8 S. TiilRl ij!KN 1'H Street. 8 ID to PIANO.-MR. V. VON AMSBERG HAS BR atimtd hlj Lesson. Ko. 244 souch I5ib st. 11161m BOWERS, TEACHER OF PIANO AND SIJNOUSU, No. 608 S. TANTH street. 11 If T WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC. EVYIS LADOMUS & Cq 'DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS. WATCUES, JBWKLItY A SILVER Will. , "WATCHES aud JEWELRY REPAIRED, . JgaChegtnnt StMPhUg, Wonld Invite particular attention to their large and elegant assortment of LADIES' AND GENTS' WATCHES of Ame-l. an and Foreign Makers of theflntst quality lu (told nd Sliver Cases. A varleiy of Independent X Second, for horse timing. Ladled and Gents' CHAINS of latest styles, ia 14 aud 18 kU BTTTON AND EYELET STCDS In great variety newest patterns. SOLID SILVERWARE ror Bridal prsents; Plated-ware. eto. Repairing done In the beat manner, aud war. rauied. 1 4p WEDDING RINGS. i i We have for a long time made a specialty of Solid 18-Karat Fine Uold Weddlugr and Eiigu&ewcut Kings, Ard In on'er tomipplv Immediate wants, we keep A FP1L Ae-fcOKTMENT OF SIZES alwa)S oa hand. FA 11 It & BHOTHKR, MAKERS, 11 llsnilljrp No. 824 cn ESN UT Pt , below Fourth. FRENCH CLOCKS. a. W. RUSSELL, Ko. 22 K0T1I SIXTH STKL'LT, n&s Just received per steamer Tarlfa, a very la'ge assortment i.f FHKNcU MARBLE CLO0K4, m curing thtse goods direct from the best niana. fact urtrs, they are otlered at the LOWEST ro44(. BLK PltlCER 5201 OOl TON AND FlAX, SAIL DUrK AND CANVAS, Of all numbers and brands. Tent. Awnlner, Trnnk, aud Waiion Cover Duck Al..o l'l r Manufacturers' l'rlor Felia. from one to Hiveial H-bl wide; Fault g. Belting. Sail Twine, eto J OILS W. KVJ1.RM AN A CO., NO, lOSJOtfW Ailej ' : 218 & 220 S. FRONT ST. 213 & 220 S. FRONT ST.! 4 M v V CO- OFFER TO TUB TRACK, IN LOTS, FINE RYE AAD BOURBON WHISKIES, M R0D Of 18045, 1800, 1807, and' 1808. AIS0, FREE FINE RIE AND BOURBON WIIISKIES, ; Of GREAT AGE, ranging from 18G4 to 1845. Liberal ooutracU will t entered into for lota, in bond at Distillery, of this rears' manafsctars.) RELIEF ASSOCIATION. ft) I C. OFFICE OF TIIE HANHITTAIT CO-OPS. BAT1TE BELIEF ASSOCIATION, No. 432 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Object. The object ol this Association Is to seen re a cash (.aymeut within forty days alter the death ol a member ol as many dol.ara as there are members In the clans to lnch he or she belongs, to toe heirs. ILLUSTRATION: dais A" kas 6tuu male members. A member dies. The Association pay over within lorly days 5(ne to the widow or heir, and the remaining members forward within thirty days one dollar aud ten cents each to the Association lo re imburse It. Fading to send this sum, they lorteli to the Association all moneys paid, and tbe Association supplies a new member to All the place of the retiring lltN CLASSES FOR MEN AND TEN FOB WOMEN, Class kb. In Class A ail persons between the ags ol 16 aud zu years; lu ulars B, all persons between the acts of 20 and 2a years: In Claaa V, all persous be tween the ages of 2j and 80 years: In Uiass D, all per sons between tbe aaesol 80 and M years; in Class Kail pereous between the agee of 86 and 4o years; lu Class V, all persons between the ages ot 40 and 46 yearn: In Class U, all persons between the ages of 4 and 60 years: In class H, all persous between ihe agej of M and 68 years; In class 1 all persons between toe ages of 6ft and 60 years; lu Ulaas K, all persons between tee ages of 60 aud 6!i years. The t lasses l..r women are the same as above. Jfach class is limited to 6.100 members. Kech person pa s six dollars npon be coming a n. ember and oue dollar and tea cents each time a member dies belonging to the same class he or she Is a member of. One dollar goes Direct to tbe heirs, ten -eente to pay for collectmg. A member of one oli cannot be aaiesssd mis Collar If a member of another class dies. iCacn class Is independent, navlug no connection wltn any other. To beoome a member it Is necessary To p.y Mix Dollars Into tue treasury at tbe time of making he application; to pay One Dollar and Ten Cents into me treasury upon tbe ceath of each aud any member ot the dais to which be or she belongs, wltbln thirty days alter date ot notice of such death; to give your Nme, Town, County, Htate, Occupation, etc.i aifio a medical certificate. Every minister Is asked to act as ageut, and will be paid regular rates FU . 1)8. Circulars win explain fully iu regard to lunds and invtsiments. Circulars giving full expla nation and blank lorms ol application will be sent, ou requestor upon a persoaal application at the otll;e of the Association. 1 KU8TKES AND OFFICERS. K KcMCKDY, Pieldeil. K. T. wiuciHT (President Star Metal Co.) Vice President. W. K CAKM.AN (President Stuy veaant Bank), Trea surer. LEWIS SANDERS, Secretary. D. K. V aInGAM (President National Trust Co,) D. B. DUNCOMB, Wo. 8 Pine street. The trust fuuds will be beld In trnst by the NATIONAL TKUST COMPANY. No. KM Broadway, New York. Agents wanted for this city. AdWlLLIAM LIPPINOOTT, Qnnral Agent, Manhattan Co-operative Belief Association. 9 8'm No 432 WALNUT Btreet. Phllada. FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC. 1868. PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. FliAUS, 11 A.N E RS, TRANSPARENCIES, AND LANTERNS, Campaign Badges, Medals, and Pius, OF BOTH CANDIDATES. Ten different styles sent on receipt of One Dollar and Fifty Cent. Agents wanted everywhere. Flags In Muslin, Banting, and Bilk, all slies, whole sale and retail. Political Clubs fitted out with everything they m require. &ALL ON OB ADD BESS W. F. SCHEIDLE, No. 4'J SOUTH TIIIRV STREET, 618 IXrp PHILADELPHIA. GOVERNMENT SALES. SALE OP CONDEMNED ORDNANCE AND OtfDN ANcK UiUitUd, and other articles, at 81. Lou's Arsenal, Bt. Louis, filo. Will be offered or nale, at publio auction, commencing at 10 o'cioclc a. M.. October 6, IHtw, a large quantity of Condeuiued ordnance Stores, and other articles, consisting of Iron cannon, artillery carriages, a-d cannon balls, artillery mpiuments and equli meuta. Carbmest muaxeU, rilles, plotola, shot guns, swords, and sabres. Jofautry and cavalry accoutrements. Horse equipments, consisting oi saddles, bridles, baiters, eic. Ariiliery harness and parts of harness. Leather, brass, copper, aud Iron soiap. Cannon, moitar, musket, and rid powder, and mis cellaneous articles. An opportunity will be offered by this sale for towns aud other associations, or Individuals, to pur chase tuns aud can iafea which may be ueedf or salute purposes. A catalogue of the articles to be sold will be fur nlxhed upon application at this Arsenal, or at the Ordnance Oflise. Washington, D. C. Terms caeL; ten per cont. on tbe day of the sale and the remainder when tbe property U delivered. Ihlrty Ihs will be allowed for tbe removal of htavy ordnance. All other stores will be re quired to be removed witblu ten days from close ol sale. Packing bexes to be paid for at the stated price, to be determined by the commanding omcer. The eilicer making thesale reserves toe rlghto bid in and suspend the sale whenever the bidding does not come up to tbe limit that may be fixed by proper authority on some of tbe articles, or wheuever the I... nests of the United States, in UU opinion, may be bubaetvedby so doing. . . . P. D. OALLENDRB. Brevet Brlgadler-Oeoeral U. 8. A . Lieut. Col. of Ordnance, commanding Arsenal. St. Louis Arsenal, Mo., Aug. tt. lm. 9 2it PUBLIC BALK OP CONDEMNED OBD neuce and Ordnance Stores. A large amount ol cou.iemned Ordnanoe and Ord Dance bioies will be oilered lor sale, at Public Auo tiou, at tbe Rock Island Arseual, Illinois, on WED NESDAY, the 14th day of October. 1888, at 10 o'clock-, A. M. The following lint comprises some of the principal articles tube sold vis.; SH Iron guns, various calibres. Mou pounos abut, shell, eto Z0 held carriages. So6 lots ot artl lery harness. t'JH carbine, various models. 87.1 muskeu and rules, various models. ' 236 revolvers, various mouels. 4..,0iiu lots of infantry accoutrements, 2ouO McClellan saddles. WHO curb bridles. soot) watering bridles. ... . . Persons wishing complete lists of the stores lo be sold can obtain tbem by application to tbe Chief of tytlnauce. at Wasbligton, D. O, of Brevet Oolonel Crispin. United Miatee Army Purchasing OlBoer, cor u. r f Houtton aud Ureeu streets, New York city, or by direct application to this Arsenal. BQDM Lieutenant-Colonel Ordnance, and Brevet Brtgadier-Oeneral U. 8. A. Oouiw.an.llng Bock Island Arsenal. Hepl. 4. 186a bvr QEORCE PLOW tlTTlM. CARPENTER AND BCHDM, BEHOVED To No. 131 DOCK Street, PHILADELPHIA. JOHN CRUMP. CARPENTER AND BUILDER, Bill O Tail NO. MIS JLOIJOE KIBEKTi All WO. 178 CHUISIIT NTBBET, IU rHTr.aDKI.PHLt; WINES, ETC. JAMES CAR8TAIR8. JR.. Nos. 12C WALNUT and 21 GRANITE Stu., IMPOBTEBOF Brandies, Wines, Win, Olire Oil, Etc Etc, AMD COMMISSION MERCHANT JOR THE BALE OP rURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND B0DR BON WIIISKIES. llg LUMBER. 186d BPBTJCK JOIST. &PKUCK JOWX. V KM LOOK. HJtMLOOJt. 1868. 1868. Si&gcjaSttSSS 1868" CilOlCJii PATIKKN PINR At,WO DKLAWABE FLOOiUWOI AhH fIMOHltiSr Vt WALNUT PLOOKJLNQ. JXOBIDA STEP BOABD81 BAIL PLAN 1868. TiggM.i86a 1868. SjB W 186a ! WALNUT AMD PINE. 1QQ SEASONED POPLAR. 7777777 lOOO. fULAmUlltU JAJLBB1?. 1868. WHITE OAgKAWD BOARDS. 1 Rftft P.iA?. MAKERS' VPANLOEDit ooABD8A000- POM HALE LOW. NdBWAYSCANTLLNff CEDAB SHINGLES. i artr OJfPBEHSSHLNOLES. ' ' 1868. - puuu Btrees. IMliM JJuiiinA SCANTLING. 1 nrtri AOOO. CAKOLINA H. T. BILLS. 186ft NORWAY fUlAlWTfttff UUUi 1868. T. P. GALVIN & CO.. LUMBER COMMISSION MERCHANTS SHACKAMAX03J STREET WHARF, BELOW SLOAPS MILLS, eOAixzD), PHILADELPHIA, AGENTS FOB SOUTHERN AND EASTERN M. lacturtrsorTELlW PiE andSPBUCE TliT Eb BOARDS, etc., aliall be ha, py to iSrnisn ordK5 wi.ole.alo rates, deliverable at "ay acoMlbla 5nr7 Constantly receiving and oa JiiSd It l2,porSr SOUTHERN FLOOKInS. SO ANTTJ Tivr f aTrW OLEb, EASTERN LATHS, PJAJlLETtlBS'njT tS" SPRUCE, HEMLOCK. SELECT M10HIODfSLASt CANADA PLANK AND BORDm: a m MATOO BHLf KNEES. , uiS.hi All, OF WHICH WIU BE DEUTEBEn AT AMY PABTOfTllEairPBOaWL "JJNITED STATUS BUILDERS' MILL," Nos. 24, 26, and 28 S. FIFTEENTH St., PHILADELPHIA. CSLER & BROTHER. MAMUVACTUBXBa ow WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STALBBALU8. TEKB, NEWELL POSTa, GENERAL TURN- ING AND SCROLL WORK. Em The largest assortment of WOOD MOULDHTG8 la this city constantly on hand. 1 2m GROCERIES, ETC. EXTRA FINE " NEW MESS MACKEREL, IN KITTS. ALBERT C. BOBEUTS, Dealer la Fine Groceries, v H 7rp ELEVENTH and VINE Streets DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., N.E. Corner of FOURTH and RACE Sts., PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF White Lead and Colored Faints, Fultj, Varnishes, Etc. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC FAINTS. DE4LERS AND CONSUMERS BUPPLIED AT LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. 416l GAS FIXTURES. GAS FIXTURRB. MISKEV, MERRILL ft THAOKARA. No. H CHESNUT Street, manufacturers of Oaa Fixtures, Lauipe. etc.. asc.. would call the attention of the public to their larKaana eleaanl assortment ot tias ObandeUers, PondantA, Braokela, eto. They also Introduce gas. pi pea into dwelllDus and publio buildings, and attend toextiuttj lug, altrlng, and repalrlni KM Pipes. Ail work warranted. t jj piTLER, WEAVER & COT, KANUFAOTURKRS OF MANILLA AND TABBED COBDAQB, COBDS TWINES, ETC., No. IS North WATER Street, ana No. XI North DELAWARE Avenue, SraiLADMLrHIA. Kdwxk E, FiTLia, Mich aii, wutu, CoaiLtP . OMn?aiii. ti4 CORN J5XOHANG1 BAG MANUFACTORY. JOHN T. II LEY dt 0 0., HtcVID TO Ni E. corner ot MARKET and WATER Btreete. .Philadelphia. DEALERS IN .R AOS AND BAGGING Of every description, for Grain, Floor, Bait, Super-Phosphate of Lime, Bone Dust, Kto. Iree and small GUNNY Bahs constantly onlhana S"1 m AUoi WOOLSACKS. toaut T. Bailkv, itum Caaoadm,
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