THE DAILi cTENINa TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1868.
SPIRIT OF TIIH PRESS. I
BDITOniit 0P1NI0H8 OT TUB LKAPIHO JOIJRWALS
CPOH OCRBKRT 'rOPICB COMPILED EVEET
DAT FOB THI EVKNINO TKLBOBAPH.
Grant's Cabinet; r
From "Brick" J umvi uy't Ocmuoral.
Oar oonteDDi'Oiarwrt are worry fug tlieir Leads
alotit Uraut's Cabinet to no purpose. Mr.
Waebbume ia the party who has the final
dictum In the matter, aud to him all arguments
most be addressed.
Within forty-eight bonra tbat "honorable
gentleman" bus etatd that be bad no objec
tion to S'aiiton, eo it way be eouni(lered Met
tled tbat the War portiolio will be offered to
the late Kdwlo, who was at once the beat ex
ecutive officer and thu most notorious personal
coward connected with the recent diflioulty.
We have no objection to the neleotlon. I' it
Is necessary tbat the War Department shall
rule the South for four years to come, ia
mercy's nane let the goTeruing power be a
man with a policy, and not an idiot with a
cigar. In the naiue of a suffering people we
Eay, ' (iive ua Stauton, hi will lay down a
plan and follow it, rather than a toady, who
will thift aud vary according to the maudlin
mental meaiiderings of his tuaattr."
Jlorace Greeley io the l'ot Ollioe would be
Tery much like a bull in a china shop good
for the trade in geueial, but bad for that par
ticular plaoe. He would doubtless initiate
plans for the good of the people, but would
make the Department a greater drag npon the
Treapnry.
Senator Sherman is the only decent name
mentioned in connection with the Treasnry
ghip. Morgan would degrade it to the level
of a huckster thop: Wade would use it for
bis personal pieferiueut; Conk ling would
look well to the iuteiests of bia friends in the
Street; and Washbume well, neither he nor
Grant would be any the poorer at the end of
the term.
It would be pleasant If we could Lave a gen
tleman and a scholar at the bead of our
Foreign Office; but the chances favor the
tender to Sumner, whose personal vanity
leads him to prefer the office in which be can
make the best display. A lams would be bet
ter than Sumner, so would Trimmy Dix, but
unless Sumner is as impotent with Wash
bnine as he has been with some other people,
he will be the next Secretary of State.
But aside from all else, it is evident tbat
Stanton baa it in bis power to be President
dnriDg the four years next from the 4th of
March, 1809. He must be master wherever
be may be, and as Grant had to yield before,
and as Lincoln, Fieuiont, McClellan, Burnside,
Meade, and even Seward, were compelled to
defer to him, who could be frighteued by a
Shadow, so Grant will have to yield again,
and whining Washburne, with bis paper
collars and ragged Lose, will find too late that
in deferring for once to "publio sentiment,"
be put a halter at out his own neck, and gave
away bia birthright.
The great question now is: Will Stanton
accept f And in this question the people of
the South have a mighty interest.
Ihc Two Alternatives for the Sew Treti
deut From the Washinoton yationat IntelKgcnctr.
The Republican party already exhibits signs
of disintegration, and these will multiply
everyday. It ia made up of very discordant
and incongruous material the election of
Geneial Grant being the link that bound them
together when no other could have done so.
It may sound paradoxical, but it is neverthe
less true, tbat this party could not have sur
vived either defeat or victory. It is clear, we
think,. that General Graiit will have to block
out a policy of his own, and look beyond party
to the country to sustain him. If he does
this lie may well fnc th future, and the split
ting up of the Republican party need not
alarm him. Indeed, it will be a positive htlp
to bis administiaiion. -
During the last three year3 the Republican
party has been governed by a few ultra lead
ers, who have whipped and coerced the more
mode) ate men, aud thus compelled party
unity. The stimulus of a. Presidential election
helped to establish the power of this oligarchy,
and the name of General Grant won enough
of tie Democrats and floating vote barely to
carry the October elections, on which that of
November depended. But this ia now over,
and the prize is won. The rule of Jacobin
leaders cannot be kept up; they have pushed
matters too far, and their army ia rebellious.
General Grant has never promise! to be the
"oonBtable" or "tool" of Congress, as Mr.
Phillips supposes, or pretends to fcoppose; the
moderate men will think it a flue time to per
fect the victory won in Grant's nomination
over the ultras; and as for the Democrats
who voted for Graut, they certainly did nt
intend to commit themselves to Butler, Sum
ner, or Wendell Phillips, ,1'hey were for
"peace."
If General Grant 'should commit the great
mistake of attempting to pleane the ultra
leaders who have dominated iu Congress for
Borne years, he wiU not xotam for a month even
the support of a majority of the people. Such
a policy is sot what was bargained for by the
many Democrats who, as the Springfield Re
publican asserts, voted lor him. They would
be very Eorry to find themselves mistaken in
him, and that thy had' helped to rivet the Ja'
cobin policy of Greeley aud Sumner upon the
country; but they would not be slow to detect
their Uibtftk, and to join the Conservative op
position. This Conservative .opposition Is, as
a body, prepared to judge General Grant with
great candor aud liberality; it ia ready to accord
to him the mont patrldtio intentions for the
public eooi, and it will support him with en
thnciafm in an tifort to wipe out vindictive
meabureP, ana tiiereby ao away with aeotiouai
estrangement; but the hour that General Grant
shall Dually commit himself . to the ultras.
and a maintenance of their prosoriptive
policy, meir amy win rm plain. They will bu
a unit against his administration, and. re
ceiving back into their ranks the Democrats
whose votidS they lost on the 3d of November
last, they would be a real majority of the
people, and before their united opposition the
erring administration would go down in short
order. They woul l carry all the elections to
be held hereafter in the great Central and
Western States, aud secure by a large majority
the next House c-f Representatives to be
chosen. The moderate Republicans would
also desert an ultra administration, not so
promptly, perhaps, as the others, but surelv.
and in large mast.es. The Government would
soon be left in a wiul minority, aud nothing
would remain but four years of embarrassment
and unpopularity, andau ignominious surren
der of ollice.
If, on the other hand. General Grant should
aim to become a paciacator of the country,
and thus discard the counsels of Sumner,
Greeley, and the rest, he will, of course, lose
a gocd many Republicans. By neither nor
any plau could he keep that party toetlnr.
It must divide at once. But his loss of the
ultras and violent radicals would endear him
all the more to the moderate men of the Re
publican party, aud would couolliate the
lJtmocratio party aud the country generally.
SujIi au administration would be immensely
popular, aud If the new President weie
suffered to retire at the end of his term It
would be with snoh ceneral resppot and a p.
proval as followed Washington, Monroe, and
Jackson to their retirement. There would be
once more an "era of good feeling" in the
country, and the author of it all would have
a broad and enduring fame.
Oar 'ftUoiml Finance
rtomlhcN. Y. Tribune.
The last monthly statement of the national
debt, with the operations of the Treasury De
partment throughout Ootooer, nas now oeeo
lor several davs before the public. The only
general oomment it has provoked relates to
the prospect or probability 01 air. niobdiiocu's
Stepping In to "relieve the mrmey market,"
after the fashion that the Ute Nicholas Bid lie
contrived to render so odious.
Now, we do not know nor care whether the
Secretary of the Treasury will or will not do
Anything to help those who have Sol 1 stocks
that they do not own, or those who have
V ought stocks that they do not expect nor
detire to hold, but we hope and trust he has
resolved to do nothing in the premises, which
is the right thing to do, bo tar as it gos3.
What ire would like to learn of the Seoretary
is, How long does be propose to keep one huu
dred millions of coin idle aud useless iu thi
Treasury, when he might well spare sixty
millions of it to buy up iuterest-beaiiug debt,
aiid thus save the country three or four mil
lions per annum f And to this question we
can get no answer, even by irresponsible
rumor from Washington.
W e owe a great national rtebt, which man
a high rate or interest, war uouas sell iar
below their true value, in part because they
are superabundant. Were their volume sen
sibly reduced they would command bo tier
prices. Had Mr. McCullocb, two or ttuve
jetirs ago, employed mty millions or con in
buying up such interest-bearing obligations of
the J reacury as could be bought to the best
advantage, he would thereby have improved
the national credit, while saving some ten
millions which he has since paid as interest
on the bonds be might have thus cancelled.
Nay, more, he would have saved the country
at least ten millions more in the price of the
bonds which have meantime been sent to
Europe, and sold for much less than they are
worth sold so cheap because so many were
pressing on the market. 1 he country la not
less than twenty millions of dollars poorer,
while its bonds are worth considerably less,
than if Mr. MuCullooh had persistently pur
sued the policy of paying oil interest-bearing
debt with every dollar that was not needed in
the current liacal operations of the Treasury.
W by this vast bulk of useless gold has been
and still is kept in the Treasury, when it
might have been used to reduce the publio
burdens and exalt the public credit, we have
never been permitted to understand. If Mr.
McCu.loch were a gold gambler, or the secret
partner of gold gamblers, all would be plain.
Presuming him au honbst aud faithful servaut
of the public, bia policy is a marvel in our
eyes. So much gold piled up in three or four
vaults is a perpetual and fearful temptation to
ita cuBtcdians and to burglars. Every dollar
thus hoarded is hoarded at a risk; whereas all
risk would be averted by converting it into
Government bonds at onrrent ratea and then
burning the bonds. How long must the coun
try continue to suffer a loss of $10,000 per
day through Mr. McCulloch'a refusal to do
what is so obviously and plainly the right
thing ?
Looking at his last exhibit, we observe with
out turjrife that his wrong-doing ia aggra
vated. Here is the proof:
o. t. l. Kv. 1. .
Gold iu Ttea"vry 8','u Sill 817 U)3,4i7 953
Five-twenty bnmla Ml MS.GnO l.Uutf 812..ri)
increase ol go cl..t. jlo, 137 Do. uorid3..87142'i,i30
Thus the Secretary has increased bia vast
lioaid of coin by iftj, 51 G, 137, at the same time
that he haa issued $7,4'.I5, C50 of new li ve-t en
ties the market value of the two amouuts
being nearly the same. Had he bought up and
paid off $110,000,000 of interest-bearing debt,
instead of issuing seven millions of new bouds,
we are confident that the Government credit
would have been essentially . strengthened,
while the burden of the publio dobt would
have been sensibly reduced.
Can it be that a policy so manifestly hostile
to the public interest will much longer be per
sisted in? '
The President and the Revenue Frasds.
From the y. T. Strata.
Several days ago a number of aflilavita
weie placed before l'refcident Johnson, pur
porting to give a history of some of the fraudu
lent transactions in the whisky business in
this city, nnd charging complicity upon seve
ral promirent United, btates olliuiula here aud
at W ashington. These statements were in a
measure tx-jmrit, and were to be regaided in
much the same l'ght as a presentment to a
Krana jury. '1 hey bore upon Uujir face evL
deuce of truthfulness, having beeu made under
oath; and while it would have been wrong to
condemn the parties implicated uulil they had
been afforded an opportunity to be heard in
their own defence, a case was made out strong
enough to demand tfceir trial upon the charges
preferred against thtm. ;, There appears to be.
a practical dtilicuKy, however, in the way of
the investigation. Many ol the persons.; em
braced In the indictment aro Government offi
cers, through whoui the Inqrliry would have
to be proi-eeuted if the proceedings were to be
conducted in the customary formal' manner.
and ote of the main features .of tbe charges we
understand to be that these very individuals
obstruct investigation and use their, oilioial
positions to embarrass, the prctoeoutiou and
defeat the ends Of justice. ..' ,
It ia very certain that enormous frauds have
been perpetaUd aK)ust the uovcruweut. by
which over a hundred million dollar have
been diverted from the national treasury into
the pocketa of ' individuals directly or indi
rectly interested in the whisky business. This
Is a well-established fact. it is equally oer
tain that none of the principal parties en
gaged in these ' nefarious transactions have
been brought to Justice, and that whenever a
prosecntiou haa been attempted It has been
obstructed by the very perso'uJ who ought to
be the foremost to protect the interests of
the Government. Biuckley commenced an in
vestigation in this city some weeks ago, and
at the outset he waa met by oppositiou from
Government officials. nis authority was
called in question, and it waa brou discovered
that be had the wholo Revenue Department to
fight as well as the suspected criminals against
whom his pioceediugs were directed. A aiuii
lar case has recently occurred in Richmond,
Virginia, where John A. Gilmer undertook te
act as a special agent of the Government to
investigate the fraudulent transactions of th)
whhky rings and their allies. From a lengthy
correspondence in our possessiou we learn that
Gilmer met all niauuer of oppogttiou from the
Government officials, high and low, and that
eveLtnwlly the Treasury Department virtually
repudiated bis aotion and Ignored all the evi
dence of fraud that he bad accumulated.
Judge Fullerton, an able lawyer, au honest
man, and a good Republican is the party
through whom the affidavits to which we have
referrt-d have been laid before the President,
and further evidence which he has collected
will, we believe, be submitted soon. We
understand that the substance of Judge Ful
leiton'a developments has been alreidy
brought to the attention of the Cabinet, but
tbat he Is there met by tbe opposition of
McCulloch, Seward, and EvarU, who unite In
E revesting any aotion from being taken npon
ia report. Thus we find at every step ob
structions to the investigation of the frauds
that so notoriously exist in the Revenue De
partment. They meet na at every turn in
the Cabinet, in the Departments, ani in the
courts. Now it ia a Cabinet olfioer, now the
head of a department, now the head of a
bureau, and now a district attorney, a judge,
or a marshal, who rises np as a barrier be
tween the criminals and the law. It is a
significant fact, too, tbat at the very moment
a disclosure of rascality Is threatened , the
Seward organs open their batteries against the
parties supposed to be instrumental in the
movement, and tbe Congressional committee,
which has been for months lying dormant,
reappears npon tbe scene and beooines sud
denly active iu tbe business of investigation.
But while everything li thus muddled and
confused, the people bear iu mind these lead
ire faets: First, that enomous frauds actu
ally exint in the Revenue Department; seo-
ondly, tbat honest officials would cheerfully
avail themselves of any lueaus, regular or
irregular, authorized cr unauthorized, to dis
cover the offenders; and, thirdly, that there i3
bu evident inconsistency in allowing the par
ties accused ot complicity iu these frauds to
have anything whatever to do with the pro
secution of an Investigation into the fact
whether such frauds really exist.
President Johnson ia the ouly mn who now
has it lu his power to eut the Gordiau knot
and set all these matters right. It ia useless
for him to appeal to his Cabinet while three
of its members are resolved to prevent any
recognition of Judge Fullertou'a charges.
While in eome movements he Is bound to con
sult bia Cabinet, he can in others act indepen
dently ol their ccooeratioa or advice. The
Tenure of Oilico law givea him the power to
FUFptnd, if not to remove, certiiu miners of
the Government. Enough haa been brought
to his knowledge to justify him in suspending
five or six of the leading officials implicated iu
Judge Fullertou'a charges. Iudesd, if he
sutlers them' to remain in office he dufnats the
investigation at once; for it is directed against
them, aud they are the parties offijially em
powered to conduct it. li he will remove
them out of the way a fair and thorough in
vestigation can be made, but not otherwise.
We call upon 1 resident Johnson, therefore,
to throw himself back npon his honest im
pulses, aud to rid his administration in its
last hours of the 6tigma that rests npon it
through the corruption with which it ia
surrounded. The world, which g'ves bim
credit for sufficient courage, will be disposed
to nutation his inclination to purify tbe Gov
ernment unless be forces a thorough investi
gation into the frauds now brought distinctly
to his notice. If h should falter or refuse to
suspend all tuspeoted officials, high aud low,
until the charges against them have been fully
tried and disposed o', he will seriously damage
Lis own reputation, but will afford little pro
tection to the parlies he screens from justice.
The work he hesitates to undertake his suc
cessor will thoroughly perform. General Grant
will, beyond doubt, irakM a complete cleaning
out of the Revenue Department from top to
bottom as soon as he succeeds to office. The
new administration will rise iu the light of
purity and honor, if the present one should
set in the darkness of corruption aud disgrace.
It is for Andrew Johnron to say whether such
a contrast shall live on the page of history, or
whether he will yet do an act tbat will fasten
the notorious corruptions of his administra
tion npon his radical enemies, and leave his
own reputation for honesty and integrity uu
tarnished. The Fluctuations of told.
Prom the iV. T. Times.
The price of gold ba3 been fluctuating of
late in a manner very damaging to busiue23
and the publio interests.
It Is one of the worst evils of the high pre
mium npon coin that it ia continually nusot
tlii g piices, and that it gives opportunity for
variation of valuea so wide as to disturb the
legitimate and healthy course of trade. Tin
elements cf risk and uncertainty which it has
iutioduced into all commercial transactions
affect the well-being of all classes of the com
munity aud work injury to all lines of busi
ness.
There can be no permanent remedy for
these evils but in the resumption of specie
payments that is, iu the appreciation ot the
cunency to the value of ita face, and the
value of the gold which it assumes to repre
sent.' Every point of decline in the premium
on gold every poiut of advance in the price
of bonds a step in that direction; but
while the movements are apt at any moment
to bo reversed, we must look for aooutiuuance
of the financial distraotion aud business con
fusion from which we have suffered bo long
and grievously.
From ene cause or another, the premium,
which had been gradually moving downward
of late until towards the close of last week it
reacLed 3233, has, during the past day or
two, been again forced upward. We don't
ftppofe any man oould give a satisfactory or
intelligent reason for this reverse. The rea
son f Esigned by those who take thie trouble to
think of reason at all, would probably be borne
inconsequential action oi Secretary McCul
loch. cx seme small transaction it was sup
posed he miht attempt." They would never
tronble themselves with the large and com
prwbensive grounda of faith in the national
solvency and credit. The assurauce of the
honorable dealing of the Government in re
gard ; to the debt the fact of unbounded
national prosperity and geat crops
of exportable ' staples, tbe state of
exchanges,' the vigor of the Treasury, the
strength of our foreign credit, the hopeful
future opened up by the peaceful and powerful
administration ot President Grant these ele
ments, that are of such vital importance in a
tine survey of the situation, are overlooked or
undervalued. What matters it, in reality, if
Mr. McCulloch were to reissue a few millions
of the greenbacks tbat were incontinently
withdrawn last year f Does that invalidate
the credit of the nation, or should it be counted
against tbe general sweep of thiuga f And
suppose, after all, he were not to leissue theft,
what basis would those who are now fearful of
it then bave to stand npon ?
It ia the puerile work of speculators to
bring np such points as are now made use of.
And those employed by other parties of specu
lators are equally puerile. What matters it,
in reality, whether the Treasury Belli a few
millions of gold every month ? The coin In
its posse Esion is, lu any event, a security for
the publio oredlt. We know that Mr. McCul
loch has, within tbe last few days, suspended
gold Bales; but what if the changed state of
the market and the rise in the premium were
to lead him to resume them? Tho inoldent
would be of the slightest consequence, yet we
may see it at any hour affect the premium
seriously, as well as tbe course of business.
If people were guided in these things by
some knowledge of fluaneial principles, by
some comprehension of tbe basis of credit, by
some intelligible idea of the laws that must
certainly, iu spit of petty manipulations aud
tempoiary accidents, control the oourfe of
afia''rs, there would be fuwer of the meaniup;
lets liootnationa tbat have wrought ruin to to
many individuals, aud such sodo'is dbtur
Lauctl to business.
Tllton's Last Tilt. !
From the v. r. WorUt.
It was Edmund Burke, wai it, who said th
age of chivalry Is past f Pardye I and by our
Lady he lied in hla throat t The "cheap de
fense of nations" we surrender, seeing thai the
radical War Department costs ns abeut twice
as muoh as all the rest of ,the Government
put together.- But' the ; age of chivalry f
Never I
For, look you, here is sweet Anna Dickin
son, tbe queen of Quakerdom (If a Quaker
can be a queen)., who has been assailed by
divers lose I wights of the press, Bohemian
chevaliers, bishops of misrule, and the likf,
as a most "abominable person" for publishing,
in her singular conundrum hight . "What
Answer f" a passionate plea in behalf of ml--ctgenation
I And ere the biutal Anglo Saxon
can i get out bis stones or his eggs to us
sail her withal, comes dabbing into the fore
front of thing, armed cap -it pie aul sound
ing his merry bugle-horn, the bold Kutjbt
Tiltou, Sir Tbeodorns of Abyssinia, discerning
and declaring that in pleading for nnscsna
tion Miss Dickinson baa made "a huroio
attempt to join the Anglo-Saxon and the
Aniilo-African blood is a true nnd lawful
marriage." This "heroio attempt" Sir Theo
doruf, to whom tilting comes as naturally as
to pattnt hoop-skirts, is ready to miiutai i
against all comers to be tbe very finest au l
noblest thing done or a.temptmlto be done
since Cornelia took a cradle for hr jewol
box and Arrla perforated her own bosom aa
an encouragement to her husband to
do likewise. He will hear no centroversy ou
the subject. Whoever falls on hia kuees
to worship the divine Anna must expect
no more mercy than Don Quixote, would
bave shown to tbe critics of Dulciueadel
Toboso. Sir Theodoius is as full ef iiht
for bia fair Quaker as au egg is of meat. Ilia
eiect and fiery spirit goes bwfore her au
oriflanime of battle. He is a3 intractable as
Nio. Duke of Guise and Sir John of Lancas
tore, in Swift's ballad, of whom we hear that
"8uoli lioi.orold tticm prick
11 vou hut turned your luce, a slap,
li Lot j our hicu, a aicii I"
In comparison with Anna Dickinson, ex
elaima the chivalrio Tilton, Sir Walter Scott
was an old hurdy-gurdy man, and Balzac a
lean and shrivelled moral apothecary 1
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," compared with "What
Answer ?" seems to Tilton to be simply "as
shapeless as a Etuffcd Christmas stocking."
Wendell Phillips tet bedde Miss Anna ia a
Pii.-cian all over scratches. "His speeches
abound in aa muoh bad grammtr as his edito
ritili." Nay, even Johu Bright, the giant
killing Jack of the period, is but "an Eogliah
muidering thief" in comparison with her.
All this is well enough. For our own part,
certain y, we should prefer any "Christmas
ttocking," however "shapelet-s" (unless, in
ded, it were "stuffed" with Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe), to a dozen 'eonuudrnma iu
three hundred pagei lite this of Miss Dick
inson's. Little a3 we enjoy the orationa of
Wendell Phillips, we own that we should
expect hinaley Murray to be better treated by
him than Mss Anna, or even by Miss Anna's I
f!liHTn liinn. Anil an fnr Jnhn ltriulif if ha I
were half aa respectful of the basea of consti
tutional law as he is of the rules of syntax,
we admit we should look forward with more
compiacercy, as citizens of the world, to the
near future of Urjat Britain than we are bow
able to do.
But many men have many minds. Aud we
are quite willing that Tilton should sing of
Miss Dii kiL6on aa Sir Philip Sidney sang of
bis Stella
"l'hine eyes are stars, thy breasts the mil lien
n ,
f b y f niiers Cupid's Shafts, thy voice nu angel's
l..y."
But why should he defend his elcct-laly by
uttering fcuch trash as this, that "when a
speech or sermon or book happens to be so
geed that one cares nothing for the style iu
which it Is expressed, the subject is thereby
proven to be of peculiar and extraordinary
meiit"?
The only "sty'e" in speech or sermon or
book to which au educated and capable person
can p 'E&il ly be indifferent when the substance
of the work in question ia excellent, ia a good
(style. It ia one of the propeities of a bad
style that it pet force compels our attention to
its baducss. The sharpest criticism that caii
be made, for example, ou such a style as that
of Sergeant Kinglake, in bis Crimean history,
13 that it continually diverts the reader'a
mind from tbe narrative. It ia a perpetual
iriitation 1 And what ia true in au eminent
degree of so able a writer as Kiuglake ia true
in a much slighter degree of Miss Anna Dick
inson. Tilton telle ua that, In trampling upon
all the parts of speech, the peerless Anna waa
only trying "to get the wine of eloquence by
cruthing the grapes of style." Suppose It to
be true that by "crushing the grapes of
si le" this fair radical Thyad got only the
vinegar of vituperation, and not iu ail the
wiLe of eloquence f
Again. Why should Tilton impute it aa "au
illufctrioug fact" to the Quaker girl of hia
heart that her "book ia tbe bravest book in
American literature ?" and tbat she haa "de
fied American opinion more nobly and
courageously thau any : New England or
Ki itkerbof ker book-maker ever did 1" '
Would Tilton the dauntless ceuceive it to
be the prettiest thing he oould cay of an actual
or a possible Mrs. Ttlton tbat she had "dellad
American opinion more nobly aud courage
ously" than any extant person of h'jr sex aud
yeaia 1 Has not Tilton for years pat de
nounced tbe "dellanoe of Americn opinion"
by "Rebels" and "Copperheads" as an ob
vious proof of tbe personal interference of
Satan In mundane affairs f Did . not
"Anonyma". "dofy the opiuion" of her own
eex and country when she first made her ap
pearance in all her silken bravery, among the
beauties of Rotten Row? Do e Miss Dickin
son "defy Ameiican opinion" one whit more
"nobly aud courageously" thau . Brighaui
Young, whoF.e "defiance," fnrtheimore, has
articulated itself not through a cheap novel,
but through a great community, rich, com
fortable, and, as their latest visitor, Madame
Andouard, tells us, very far from unhappy f
Til on, noble youth! tilt on 1 Hit a giaut
instantly wherever you see one. Give no
quarter to dragons. Chase every ogre who
ciosees your path to his hidden lair, though
the chase lead you to thoe lonely and horri
ble regions where the yonng liou roareth and
tho whangdoodle mourncth for his llr.it-b'jrn.
But recognize, we pray you, the stable bounds
of things. Do not come under the condem
nation denounced by the apostle upou them
who "had captive silly women." Get not
habitually the eart before the horse. Re
member that it is not the "wine of eloqueiics
which is to be got out of the grapes of stylo,"
but (if one may u:e thy deUstab'e metaphor
aud live 1) the wine of style which is got out
of the grapes of eloquence... When men or
womtu write stupid novels or trashy ser
mons or tawdry speeches or nonsensical cri
tiques, he ture that it is beoause they are try
ing to say something rot worth the saying.
And in all thy tilling henceforth remember,
with Wordsworth, that
"He who wruM force tli soul tilts with a straw
AfcUnU a cbHiiinlon cased lu aUainuu';''
and with Spenser, that
' Of the ho n I tbe body form doth take,
For Soul is form, and dolU the body make.'
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Firo, Marine and Iuland.
HAS PAIi OVER
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IN LCS3HS.
APPLICATIONS ASKED FOR DIRECT,
DIRECTORS.
Ilepry 1). Shfrierd,
( iii.il b Mai'ttlvmer,
Will ftm S. hrultti, .
tin me H. Stuart,
r uLu'.'i'i Mrttnt, Jr.,
Henry O. Eref ruiu,
L'hirl -4, lie Aii4,
'org) (J. Ham-in,
KJAKiil U. Kultfhi,
Ji.hu li. Kluiiii.
ChrlHllau J. iljll'-iau,
II. Dft'e Jenioo.
IIBNRY D. BHERRERD, President.
VII UA JI HARPER, Secretary. 11 6 finv6',rp
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
jOBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.,
N.E. Corner fFOUKTll and RACE Sta.,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUCGI3T3.
UIPORTER9 AKD MANUFACTURERS Of
.White Lead and Colored ralnts Tattji
Varnishes, Etc
AGENTS FOR TUB CELEBRATED
FKESCH ZLNC PALM'S.
PXALESti AKD CONSUMERS (SUPPLIED A
LOV. E-jT PRICES FOR CASH. tLLt
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" REGAL DESSERT."
A new and beautiful Chromo-Lithograph, after
litOjalliis by J. V. Pcj or, Juki recti ved by
A. fcj. IIOJI INSOX,
Wo. 910 CHENUr Street,
Who has Jest rectivtd
KEY oaROMOs.
JSMV KSfaiRAVINGS.
JNEW FKENCH PHOTOGRAPHS.
NEW URiSmuS EKAUEL8
LOOKJKQ CLASHES, Etc.
ttlbj FREE GALLERY.
STOVEb, RANGES, ETC.
KOT10E. THE UNDBKSIQNED
woalu call aiitiulcin of tbe uuhliu m his
"VS UfcW HOl.DEN JfcAULlii FUKN AOS.
J This it an euiiMily Lew hnu,r. It is so con-
oiructetl aa io atonceooauundlueilu general favor.
oelLK a CnuiblnaHuu o wrought and cast Iron. It U
very aliniile In Its ooiutruvtiuu, and Is perfectly alr
UiiLijsnU ttu!' g. having no pipes or drama to b
tuken out aud cluutxl. It Is so arranged with aurlHbt
Uiu-s as to utoduco a larger amount of beat froia tut
fit.me weight of lu1 U any luruace now In ue,
Tne h) groiuelrlc innidltiori ol the air as produced by
my trnw arraugeujMUl ol evaporation will at once de
uidiiotrai that It Is tho only Hot Air Furiiaoe thai
wlJl l.rudnce a per.f ily healthy a'mohphtire.
Ihoao in Wfciitoi a complete IKulli g Apparatm
would do well to call and bjiamlne the uolrten Eagle,
CHAKLEH WILLIAMS,
Koa. 1132 aud I13i MARK If P btreet.
Philadelphia.
A largo annortmrut of rooking Kangea, i-lre-iiokrd
Htoves, Low JUown tiraUia, Veutllutoru, etc, al way
on iiMid,
N. B. Jobbing of all tlnde promptly done. Mol
DYEING, SCOURING, ETC.
"NTKW YOEK DYKING ANi) rfilXTISG
l JtfcTAHl.l-llWK.AT.
W OKKb O.i M'ATKV 1KLAND.
OlllutB, No. 40 N. KJGHT11 Hinei, woal aide, Plilla,;
No. W DUiNIi Ht.'eet
NO.TB2 HHll)WAY. Now York, and
Nw. 1M and 1HU PIKK RKFONT Htreet., Jlmulclvn.
TliM old ai.d xleiictve entubllHtimeul havliu; innn
In exlHit-M'e a llf rmtury aie pippartxl tn UY C aud
t'LuANhK LaduB' and (leiitirnien't Gaimouli aud
Piece U t ds or every decripU(iu aud taorlo lu their
uuually uusuruuHeu niKiiui r
feA W UEL MARSH, President.
J. T. Youko, Secrolary, lu U uiwiuut
BRANDY, WHISKY, YJiKE, ETC,
QAR STAIRS Sl fcCALL,
Kos. 12 WALAL'T aud 21 GR.VMTE Sts
Uf PORTERS OF , , m
Brandies, W hies, Uln, OHtc CII, Etc. Etc,
' AND
COMMISSION MI5ROIIANT3
FOR THE SALE OF . - '
ruia: old eve, wheat, asd uocb-
?MJyL,,i in
INS U KANE COM PANfEsT-
lggj...CUAKTEl. PERPEXU.1L.
FraiilLlin Fire Insurance Co.
OF JPIIlXADtiauIA
OFFICE:
Aos. 435 aud 437 ClIKSXPT STKEET.
AM&ETSt OH lAMIIAIlx 1, 180S,
CAPITAZ....
A CCH U&D B Clil'L VS .
MMUUMC
-- ilA.sia-ja
UNSETTLED CLAIMS, LNCOME FOR 1
H50.000.00.
IA.fSIS PAID KIKCIi 1839 VB
Ptipetnal f.nd Temporary f cUclea on Libeial Termt
DIBJiCTORS.
Charles N. Banckor, ueuige Faltn,
T..)ifc:i vaua, lAHrtK Filler,
brtu.ucl U-rti.i, i rrti.cla W. Lewa m n
OieorKV W. Atiohard.. i nomas bj-arim, D"
LittaoLta, Iwm.uina. Uraut.
CHARL K. BAACiKR. PivsMent.
,A . w. St
Jicept at Lfxijittji., Jseu.uuu, this Ooi-'iiianv h..
At'M'.m G. C'jflin.
tramuel ',r. Jone-j,
jni'il A. Brcwu,
Lbbritm in) lor,
Amlrosj V. Mio,
WlHlam Volnil,
: ;..iiit d. Wood,
B. Morris Wain,
John Maaon.
ARTETIli
fSAKI.KR PljTP SnitMiirv.
WILLIAM BUWaLKR, .narrlsbnr,-, p.. Centra
GeoraeL.Eayrnon. t
iram.i A. inn. " "
h.: waru u. Trotter.
KUward tt. I'lurne,
T. Charlton Knury,
Allied U JObBup,
Johu P. W lilio,
LbUls C. alftdolra.
G, COFFUf, President.
QTRICTLY
MUTUAL.
Jobn L. Hodffl,
aa. a. UUlUUJi
Joun T. Lewis, .
William B. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
Lawreuce J;
David Lewis.
Bunlamin Jiittlny,
Thoiuaa II. Power.
A. K. McHenry,
Kdmnud Casililoa,
Sain n el Wlicoz,
ewis u. en orris.
JOHN R. WIUiw iru u-ii PMHidaniJ
B4irDXLWlUWX.6nUcri Mibl
Pantol Smith, Jr.,
Alexandei B-nson,
1 aao jdalfhurat,
Xhumas iioo
TRUSSES.
N S U K A N C K
NORTH AMERICA.
Ko. 232 walnut csTujiiir, vuilada.
lt CORPORA Till 17W.' CilARTEB PBRPflTUAi
Marine, lulnml, and lire Insurance.
ASSETS JaNUAUV 1, 1868, - $2,001 236-72
120,000,000 Lo3a8 Paid in Cask feLca ita
Urauuatioa. "
DIRliCTORS.
FRCVICEM LirE AND TRUST CO.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, 0. Ill S. FOlKTJi SXKilET.
Organlzadto pimote LIFis insurance aun
naembem ol tL "
BUOI.EIT OF FRIENUdt
Good risks ol tny c!as aoceutod,
Pohcke lutd npou approved plana, at the Kiweai
Tfcita,
President,
SAMUEL K. bHIPLKY.
Vico-Presldeiit, williAM c. LoisuiiTRHrrn.
Actnary, ROWLAKIJ PARRy,
The advantagea oUwrtd tld Umpau ara
XC(,1"a till
OUtfc.MX AAbUKAAC'ii COJIPASr no
IDiOOKPUltAl'IOJ 1S04 CHART JCR PBRPETITa r
I.O. Ui W A1AN LT Bireet. oppothe 5X"
TbU Companj Inaurea irom io.s or damua b
lll(),
On liberal terms on balldiua'a,merohaudlse.rarnltnM
ens., fur limited periods, aud pdriuauaatir ou build
lugs by depoelt of premiums.
The Company haa been in active operation tor dikm
thau 81VV KRt..duilugwbloto u lauihaM
been promptly aJJu&ixd uuiv ,
nliJE iaSCRANCE EXCLOr?lVLY THE
J? t i-NisbiLVAISlA Finn 1HSURANUK COM
PAV inooiporated lsZo Charier Perueiual Na
t iu WALa (JT Htreet, opj onlie Independence bauara
Tblt Comuany, favorably known to the oommuultv
tor over lorty years, ooutiuuet to lubur against lotta
or dauiaga by tire ou Pubilo or Private Buildings,
frliher permauentlyor for a limped time. Also on
Furfliura blocks of Quods, and Merchandise rena.
rally, on liberal trii.u.
Their Capital, togeiln r wl'b a large (Surplus Fnnd
Is luvetteu in the iuohi crolui manuer, which enable
tlitou to offer to the Insured au undoubted auouriLv iu
the case otlob. J
1I1.U.
j"un uovernnx,
Thumas nuiUh,
Henry i.ewW,
J. Ulin.i.,i,ur.i trail.
. .. .. I ..1 T" .,... . 1. . ."J""1. '
Ulllin X. nUU.TRi jr.
UANiH, (SMITH. Ja..preaicent.
WM. g. CROW ELL. Beoretary. t of
jMrLiiiAL i'liai LsiiiAcE cojU'an y
LONDON.
rYTAr.Msiii:i iso.i.
Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
G8,0 0 0,0 0 0 If! COLD.
ritEYUHT A IILlCitlMJ, Aeutst,
114 3m. r-'o. 107 Eouth TliIHJ) htreet, Ph'.la.
"bKLLB.V'8 II AKD liUEBtR IRUHa,
r. lHo. 1.14 C'iMtriJtLT street, 'l uia Truss our-
ret liy ai-plUl will cure aud retalu with ease tue monl
d.uicult rupture; always clf-au, lit lit, eiuy, sale, and
Ci u.fui table, tu.td in bulbing, llii. d to form, never
r.mu, breuka, sons, broou tt lluiiHr, r moves trotn
piaoe. No dirki i ln, linrd Hut ocr Abdouilual ttup.
liiifHT, by which the A; oiher.. Cm puiuut, and Ltidlea
uUtiirg v IHi I'VL. t'e KveKt'cnt wll tiid rellet aud
IierlRct supporii vciy llptt, noui. u1 eilt-ctual. Pilt)
usinicinus shtult't-r it.-aco. t' iio siocklurJ tn
vtitW lin-'a. Er.t'pMi'l'e if. AUo, larvo atoojr. bs
LeatLu TiU.'.. hli unaal Pruw. Lady lu ai'end.
nee. Ittilwtne
AI.KXANDEU !. CATTKLL CO.
PlvOLIl h; COMMISSION Mh HilHAN rtj.
MO. VU KultTU WilARVlib
No. 17 KOllTII WATF.R STREET,
PH1LAUKLPI11A it
AH X AN Ul BO. CAllkLU k.LU AB CAITKLL