I I THE P All j i EVENING TELEGRApn-PHILADELPIIIA, J- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 18G8. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. EDITORIAL OPIBIORB OF THI LIADIHO JOURNALS DPO CCBHB1TT TOPICS COMPILED IVtRI DAT roK THI BVMH0 TBLBORAPH. - The Era or Uood Feellngr. Fi om the if. IT. ZYttmtM. The Saraanab. Jicmhlican, In an effort to how "what la neceesary to an era of good feeling," argues that the North mast Bar reader certain "irlnas" of convictions vrhioh now occupy the Nor hern mind. The consti tutional difficulty with our Southern brethren is that ther always demand the surrender of that which in its nature U Incapable of being surrendered. If they would merely ask a change in oar laws or a surrender of oar purees, we mght gratify them. Bat in de manding a ohange in our "ideas" and convic tions of right or of relative excellence, they are asking the only thing it is impossible for us to grant. The first idea we are oalled on to surrender is stated to be "the desire on the part of the North, for purposes of their own, to force the Southern people to discard the old bond of nuion, and enter into a new one with them, never contemplated in the forma tion of the Government, or proposed until the physical preponderance was proved to be against us." This assumes that the "old bond of union," was one in which the State bad the right to secede. Our Southern trienda will witness the era of good feeling loog be fore the North sanction the right of secession. !The k'eptiblican't eeooud requirement is, of course, that we shall allow none but the Kebdls of the South to vote. It says: "l'iie Norm goes even further than this. She lnitlHU tbule shall oigaulze a sooieiy la laa Bon I U aau come uuder l.ue Jurisdiction of laws that have no force or xldeuue itt ibe North. In olber worcla, IuhI li ene aliall be oue kind of government fur the 8ouiU aud auoluer kind for the Norlb, and mill bo'b cod lliiue to ex 1m t to gether as oue boiuoKtiieoim political society. Is lurhuit einand Just? . Is It even coubiatent wltli reasoijt" The falsehood of tbia statement consists in assuming that "the South" Includes ouly the Democrats of the Sautu, and that the legisla tive inaotion of the Noith relative to negro suffrage here expresses the conscience of the same Republican party which has granted im partial suffrage to the South. The assumption that the South opposes negro suffrage over looks two fifths of the people of the South who desire it. The assumption that "the North" intends to grant suffrage to the negro at the Sonth and not at the North overlooks the fact that the whole Democratic party of the North opposes negro suffrage everywhere alike, and nine-tenths of the Republican party favors it everywhere al ke. The remaining tenth of the Republican party, combining with the Democraiio party, retard bat cannot long prevent suffrage Irom being without dis tinction of color. Meanwhile, it is the Repub lican party South and North that extends the suffrage, and it is the Democratic party that delays its extension without regard to locality. The Republican party would find it difficult to surrender any 01 those fundamental ideas of political equality on which its very existence depends and by which alt its suooess has been won. Nor are political parties prone to surrender the ideas which make tLeut vic torious. We beseech our Southern friends, there fore, not to postpone the "era of good feel ing" so long. We are ready to help the South whh workipg men, intelligent, highly edu cated women, plenty of capital to reconstruct its plantations, develop its mines, and start its manufactories, rebuild its ruined railroads, and convert its wilderness into a garden. Bat the first essential to a genuine era of good feeling must be that everybody shall bo in vited. The Calvinistio theory, according to which an essential element in the enjoyment of the eleot is to be the contemplation of the distinguishing grace which has selected them for exalted bliss, while others, no more na deserviug, are consigned to unspeakable wos, may do very well in theology as a theory of the next life, but it does not answer in poli tics, or aa a model for government. At least having tried it, and abolished it, we are not hankering to return to it. Another condition of the "era of good feeling" must be that every body bhallLave leave to tell whether he feels well or ill. This involves that freedom of speech, of the press, and of thought, of which southern .Democrats navenot been the most consistent champions. We are fully conscious that we need to re store in the South an era of good feeling. To this end the chief means must be to make Southern industry profitable, and the Southern working class free, not only from all human masters, bat from the most inhuman of all masters want. Adam Smith argues that slavery arises whenever two men are seeking one master. Freedom begins only when two masters are seeking to employ the labor of one man. The South has the cotton, the oheap labor, the water and coal power, the brains, the demand, and no small share of the capital necessary to set rnmiiog fifty thousand ootton manufactories and twenty million spindles This would reverse the present oondition of both blacks and whites at the South. Where now ten helpless laborers are seeking to be employed by one master, there would then be two masters competing for the labor of one man. Herein lies true freedom for the work- ins olass, rapid increase in wealth for all classes, and that general "era of good feeling" for which the South is looking. But to this end there must be peace, protection to capital and labor, anl a vigorous suppression of Ku- Klux-Klans and the entire "mob and mirder" spirit. Will the Savannah liepublican labor to bring about these conditions of the "era of good feelingf" Conrcnieut Ignorance of the Indian Hun.au. From (he N. Y. Time. Theie used to be a somewhat malicious sav ingr daring the Rebellion, that, whenever news came of a Union defeat, its details were told in the largest oapitala by certain of the Northern press; on the other haid, when the tidings were of victory, "no particulars have yet been received.", Without pushing the parallel too far, we must yet protest that, invariably, when news has come from the l'Ulns of a horrible mas sacre oommitted by the Indiana (like the Fet terman slaughter, or those on the Solomon. Saline, and Republ can forks), or, of a well- deserved "salty dose ' admiustered to them, like Forsyth's 11 Ut or Caster's battle, the Indian Bureau receives "no particulars at this omce confirming tne rumor." isui let mere be some Bhortcomiug or crime ou our part, a Hancock campaign or a Chivington massaore, and full details reach the sain) Bureau in seven-leagued boots. To apply this generalization more specially, we find tbat, tn tbe race of the two official re ports of General Sheridan, and the two of General Sherman, announoins the late vie tory on the Wacbita, the Indian bureau re- Sorts that "no particulars have been reoelve i eie." Nor is this all. It starts the old ory of "flaughteiing the innocents," and oUUm that the Indians who were punished hal never uen hostile. But what are the facts? They are, first, Ifcat the bands attacked were Cheyenuis, Ar jr.; r.Lcts r.cl KI;t?.:. TL?:;e thrvs .rU'.'U (together with the Camanob.es) were ones asainBt whom the oampaiau was directed. Next, we have the word of Qenarai Sheridan himself, twice repeated, that Blaok Kettle's baud was the one that commenced the robbery and murder, the ranche-baraing, cattle-stealing, train-plundering, mall-breaking raids on bolomon'a creek, and thereabouts, tarty in last summer. Next, we have Gene ral Sherman's repetition of this Identification. Finally, we have General Caster's assurance tbat the party he attacked had Just eome from the North; he struck their fresh trail near the Antelope hills. War is cruelty at best; war with a different raoe of men, of different principles, manners, and language, and habitually using these dif ferences for deceit with a savage raoe, that gives no quarter except for selfish ends, and has untold horrors in its records, orying for vengeance war under such clronmstanoes U apt to be fierce and terrible. But it is unwise and unjust to endeavor to strike down the uplifted arm of onr own soldiers. They are defenders, not aggressors defenders of the frontier, of the settlers, of the families of pioneers, of our railroads, and of the general march of civilization. They are the guardi of our national progress, the polioe of the Plains. To represent them as bloody butchers la line maligning our Metropolitan Police for patting down a mob or unearthing a gang of cat- throats. This device of the Indian Bureau is evi dently designed as a counter-stroke to Cus ter's victory. The waning prestige of the Bnrean needs to be supported. The army and the agents have hitherto been rivals for the care of the Indians, and the Bureau reads the doom of its policy in the reoonitnendation of General Grant to transfer it from the Inte rior to the War Department. We do not be lieve its devices for a fresh lease of power will influence Congress. Jfnrkos Civil Service Bill. From the If. I. World. But the essential work the bill proposes to do is to prevent Ibe appointment 01 Incompe tent perhona to ttuboruiuate positions la ibe executive departments. It aims to uu tbU by profiling ttiut all eucn appuiuiuieuls snail be mane iroiu among muse persons woo c.u provd tbelr competency under n lair exutnluallou. Abuolutuieuia to oluoe in tue executive departments are now geueruly made ou tue recommendation of prominent politicians, especially of members of Congress, witu uu teleitnce al ail to oiuptteucy. 'roe nest accountant in tbe United biaies would have uu cliauce whatever ot afcttluu Into tue civil ser vice of the couutry, uuder the prtsent system, Without political lLilueuoe." tivcnivg foil. There can be no doubt that the Civil Service bill ot Mr. Jenckes is based on a theory which, it not overworked, will be useful in practical operation. But if the measure is to bs per manent, it is important that the country shall not be misled as to what has already beeu done by law in the way of competitive exami nation. If appointments are now made to office in the executive departments "with no reference at all to competency," as the 1'ont asEeitp, there Is palpable violation of existing laws on the subject. Ever einoe Maroh, 1853, there has been upon the Federal statute-book a law arranging clerks into four classes, with fixed salaries, according to class, varjiog in the relation of vine, twelve, fifteen, and eighteea. The aot of 1853 also provides: , "No clerx shall be appointed In rither of the four daises nnill after bo hs been examined and found Qualified by a board, to consist ot tbiee examiners, oue of them to be tne chief of Ibe bureau or olilce into wuiob he is to be ap pointed, and tbe tsvo others to be selects-1 by tbe bead of the department, to which the said clerk will be assigned." If a law can prevent the appointment of in competent persons to subordinate positions, why is not the above adapted to the end iu view T It certainly contemplates a proving of competency "under a lair examination." No Republican will assume that General Grant will be found wantirjg as an executor of this law. Take, for example, the Treasury Depart ment. tie will appoint a competent Secretary for that branch of the government, who is mindful of the law of 1S53. and will be oareful in selecting two fit persons to be members of the examining board; and the President him- eelf wi 1 look to see that there are competent chiefs of bureaus, one of whom is to be the other man. No man, certainly, can be more interested in having suitable subordinates than the chief who Is responsible for his bureau. It may be said that the existing law fixes no standard of competency, and that thus far the examining boards have made it too low. Granted; but General Grant, with hia heads of departments, can easily remedy that diffi culty. We think, however, that when we come to require a very high standard of qualifications we shall find existing salaries altogether in adequate. We remember that when tbe late Mr. Odell was in the Naval Office of the Cus tom House of this city, he had one or two vaoancies to fill. The duties to be performed required aocaracy, expertness, and fidelity as an accountant, lie set a high standard of fitneps at first, bat in the end he was oompelled to abandon it because banks and mercantile houses would pay twice as much salary aa the uovernment allowed. It is undoubtedly true that the larger share of uovernment offices, outside of the inoutn bents who are confirmed by the Senate, do not require for the due discharge of their functions a very high order of capacity. In tegrity is always needed, of course. The ranee of work of each clerk is, however, ex tremely limited; and the danger is tbat, if men are appointed to the inferior places who are really above the work they are required to perform, we shall get a class of verr annoy ing people in office, who will pester (their superiors for promotion and Congress for more pay. It may be said that removals for political causes are wrong. Here again General Grant is all powerful to make a reform. But, some one replies, how can we expect the new Presi dent to retain In office men who have honestly qaeEtiont-d his fitness, and so have every mo tive to embarrass his measures of reform f How, we answer, will Mr. Jenckes' bill remedy or prevent thia state of things T Suppose his bill becomes a law, clerks are appointed nnder it, and at the next Presidential eleotion these clerks take the same coarse towards the successful candidate aud hia party aa the present clerks may have done towards Gene ral Grant t Do we not at last come down to this, that it is impossible to prevent the re moval of Government clerks who will not be content with voting, but must make them selvts during eleoiions noisy, brawling, ve nomous partisans f Aud, besides, we are of 0 tnion that, with proper salaries, all this difficulty about incom petent clerks will disappear if we can have tbe right men in high places. A good ohief of bureau will demand good clerks, and a good head of department will see that he has them. We do not intend to decide here dogmati cally upon the m-rlts or demerits of Mr. Jenckes' bill, but ouly wish to suggest topics of thought aud discussion in refereuce thereto. The rci'snnnel of the Xew Parliament. From the London Saturday Review. Mr. Gladstone has long prom'ssd himself ana tue country mat our aiuira would be con ducted under a "more earnest rtgime" when we had a new Parliament. W are already in a position to anoertaia whethor this antluipi ti' U hRg h'ep fulfl'.lv A, Uarjyrctn-ss. is s. g...n- the very I prehensive, and therefore a misleading, word, s chle fly . I Earnest people, are a repent -invention, I ke "brave imndi" and "forthright spirits" and "workers for man." We do not profess en tirely to understand what is called earnt nets; though w dare to say that, when Mr. Gladstone thought of earnestness, he was thinking of Mr. Gladstone. - What is certain is tbat we shall have a Parliament pledged by an overwhelming majority to Gladstonism, and Mr. Gladstone is earnest, terribly earnest as earnest In palling oa his gloves as in disestablishing a Church. Uue thing we can understand about Mr. Gladstone's earnestness it is his gravity. And oar new Parliament is likely to be grave enough. Mr. Bernal Osborne's ready wit ill te absent irom it; serjeaui uaseise ill no longer provoke aud poke fun; Mr. Darhv Griffith, the irrepressible bait who had the knack of making boredom diverting, his disappeared from the list of senators; and, worst of all, Air. uoebunx s vitnouo and ear- castio powers of offense have so f r offended Lis constituents that they have preferred dull ness to genius, and a delegate to the most la dependent politician of the dir. The Home is likely ..to be dull enough, and, as earnestness takes the fotm of dullutss, Mr. Gladstone has ro far been proved to be right. If, as seems likely, Mr. Whalley on the one hide and Mr. John Hardy oh the other will have to do all the woik of making or suggesting Jjkas, Par liament men may look out for a very dreary time of it under a Premier who is as unsus ceptible ot wit as a Scotchman. The occasion may perhaps stimulate Mr. Disraeli to recur to bis old vein, and his gracioas fooling at Guildhall seems to show that olfine has sup pressed, but not extinguished, his original powers in playing the fool, aud playing the fool admirably. The next Parliament will, therefore, be de ficient in wit. Atd iu auother aspect the con stituencies have gone in tor earnestness. Earnestness, according to the cheap newspa pers, ia an enemy to tneory and speculation. An earnest man must be a practical man; above all, he must not have a rag of philoso phy about him. Englishmen, they tell us, are an unpuuosopmcai race; maiapuysios tuey can n-ULer abide nor uuderstaud; tuey want things done, and first principles, or any ab stract grounds for policy, they resent aa au insult. This reckiiaui-ouinibua view ot a penator's qualifications has certainly prevailed. Of all the classes of candidates who have suf fered most severely, the doctrinal en have been hit the hardest. Not only is Mr. Stuart Mill rejected, and by the most decisive defeat, at the Lauds of a constituency which used to be conbidered a sort of touchstone of political feeling, but the educated and extremely earnest class whose noble lunution was to Justify radicalism by philosophy, history, and the assertion oi abstract rignts, nave only succeeded in retumiog Mr. Hughes the novellot for a seat wbioh almost preserves the memories of a pocket borough; aud Mr. Faw cett, the Cambridge economist. Not ouly Lave the doctrinaires failed themselves, but their advocacy has been signally detrimental to their pupus and c.ieuts. Dr. baud with bad the micfortune to be leotared for by Pro fessors aud Oxford savans, aud Marylebone" has preferred not to take the advice or dicta tion of its guides, philosophers, and rrieuds. Mr. Brodrick, Mr. Roundell, Sir George Young, and Mr. Lushingtou have not bseu able to bring into the House an element of thought which no deliberative assembly can afford to dispense with or despise, and which m'gtit have stood them in better stead at the hust ings had the respective constituencies been less irritated by advice and dbtatiou Irom academic and tutorial quarters. Something of Mr. Chaiwick's defeat at Kilmarnock may be attributed to Mr. tlill's cflirnsive interference with the editors; but the general failure of this class of candidates oan only be aocounted for by a rooted aversion ou the part of the electors to what they consider, with or without justice, diotavion on the part of the sophists. Tne Parliamentary j a ry has bteu struck on the principle known ia the courts 88 knocking the brains out or it. In anotuer direction the electors have shown a remarkable disability to profit by new lights. In one respect the new Parlia ment is likely to be more dogged aud pertina cious against innovations thau any of Its pre decessors. For good or for evil, the new House not. only perpetuates, bat exaggerate i, the ckaracier, be they the fault or tne excel lences, of their predecessors. The tradesman and iyicitr mind has it all its own way, and it seems to come to come to this, that the trades man who ia superseded, and the artisan who rales, are scarcely varieties of the same type of mind, or narrowness. A vast ma jority of Liberals has been returned, but they are all of the Liberal type; rich tradesmen, hereditary Whigs, and the old membsrs make up most of Mr. Gladstone's supporters. The bhirt-eleeves and the working-men candidates have not stood the slight est chance; the fate of Cremer and Odger aud Uartwell and Howell and Colonel Dixon and Ernest Jones and, above all, of Mr. Beales, the President of the Reform League, attests, either the proverbial ingratitude of the oiti zens to successful demagogues, or a more creditable disinclination on the part of the electors to entruBt the destinies of the empire to those who might have their uses in agita tion, in handling mobs aud processions, and pulling down park rails, bat in no posltiou more creditable or responsible. What is even more curious is, that though the elections have gone so completely against the Irish Church, they have aloo proved ho strong is the conviction or prejudice against fanatical dis tent. Mtrely to be a representative of strong or exceptional views iu religion has been gene rally fatal to a candidate. Unfortunately this deggtd old-fasulontd aversion to innovation in religion has kept out of Parliament such men as Sir John Actn and Lord El ward Howard, representing, as they do, tbe very best aspect ot Kngllsh Romanitm; but, on the other band, it has also rejected Mr. Miall and Mr. Handel tossham, with whose views, extreme as they are, it would be insulting to bracket the inso lence of Bradlaugb, whose only claims to dis tinction of any sort were the avowal of an atheism more vulgar, more mocking, and more audacious than that of such extinct monsters as Carlile and the Devil's Chaplain of five-and- thirty years ago. Aud, to complete the proof of the prevailing antipathy to sectarian re presentation, it is curious enough tbat, when the minority clause ejected one Liberal from the city, it was found tbat tne least popu lar of the old representatives was Baron Rothschild, who for so many years had retained his seat merely because his entranoe into a religious profession was by auother rite than that of baptism. It was certainly high time to eleot a City member on other qualifi cations than that of being a Jew; but ouly not to beloug to the Church has stood oaudidates in as little stead as only not to be a Christian, and we might almost say that the eleotors have exhibited equal impartiality against all Jews, Turks, infidels, aud heretics. Whoever has gained, the Liberation Society has lost. Are we wrong in attributing to the same popular, and iu some Reuse bigoted, reslBtauo to being preacned at, dictated to, lectured, ad vised, and sermonized, the distaste with which lawyers generally, aud the Tory lawyers ia particular, have been visited f The rout Is here-tlgiml and couipk-te. Sir Rjiiudrfl l'al iu, iU It. CtlU'.r, and Mr, Ct'ltfu''? turnr to represent the highest Walk of legal uistino tkn ;and Mr. Gladstone can flit htsoffiws, while it will be come relief to the outgoing Minister that his -Attorney and 8oiioltor will be relieved from the cares of office so soon after i they have been, obliged to forego the honors of Parliament.' The Reoorder atands almost alone as the solitary representative of Tory lawyers amid the universal wrejk. To belong to a learned profession, and to hold ex treme opinions on any point, have bsen gone rally considered Parliamentary disqualifica tions. Regrettable as this is, it ia only the Parish Vestry view of things, which the Re form act, we are assured, was to get rtd of. No doubt the new Parliament falthfally enough reflects the national will. The borough numbers have been elected to do a certain and distinct and precise work, which is simple enough, and does not require mdoh refinement, much reflection, much, if any, independence. What seems to be tne taste of the borough voters is little thought, no philosophy, no geiiiu, no originality, no "viewluess," no largeness of conception. Suoh is the work, and such the iurdruuients. They will do the woik in a doll, business-like, commonplace, obedient sort of way. If Mr. Gladstone ia to be earnest, tbe Parliament will bj earnest with all tbe merits and all the drawbacks of earnestness. They used to give nicknames to Parliaments; tbe new oue may perhaps get to be deemed, if it is not called, f'arhamentum losaicum. Small fear of its beinir run away wi h by ita own impetuot-ity. Sir. Disra-li, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Lowe, pretty nearly exhaust all its genius. It may turn oat as by rulddDg two bits of dry wood together you get spaiks, and at last a flame, tbere inty be latent qualities ot beat iu some of our uutried seuators wLich will give us 'some day a little Pailiamentary brilliancy, and posribly some thing like originality. One thing was needed to be a f uoceselul candidate ia a large borough constituency, aud tbat one thing was obedi ence to Mr. Gladstone. For all the rest th- more moderate, perhaps the more stupid, a candidate was, the bet ter was Lis chance. Mr. Uorsman was the kind of candidate who stood, as he has found, the least chance. The constituencies are not tbe ouly thing which has been levelled and brought to a dull Hat; tbe voters seem to have been possessed with something of the spirit of the old Oxford tutor who declared that he would have nothing to do with "those damned intellectuals." The "stupid party" of late years seems likely to be henceforth con fronted by a party strong as in everything, so especially in ita dullness. Like Pope's women, Parliaments may come to have no cbaraoter at all; aud it is, after all, not so un natural though it was not quite expeoted, and certainly the reverse of it was promised tbat tbe House of Commons should so faith fully reproduce the narrowness and stiffness, tbe obstinacy and the unarguiug, if solid perhaps stolid, convictions of the untrained English mind. Satiety has produced apathy, and the frenzy of exuitement under which the contest was begun has subsided into a general distaste, if not disgust, for promised or threat ened revolutions and innovations. 218 4 220 S. FROHT ST. 4 4 218 S 220 S. FBOEIT.ST. .. .i 5r C O ' " OFFER TO TUB TRADE, IN LOTS, FINE RYE A1VD B01IUB0N, .WHISKIES,. IM BOND ' Of lsbs, 18CO, 1867, and lJOH. J ALSO, FBEE HUE R1E AAD BOURBON WHISKIES, . 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Tbe second instalment oa tbe new stock sub scribed fur nnder resolution ef tbe Board of Directors of May, 1808, Is now due. Unless paid on or before tbe 15th instant the Instalment whY not draw its proportion of dividend due May, ISCtf, and those paying up ALL tbe remaining Instalments will receive lull dividends In May next. THOMAS T. FIRTH, 12 3 lit Treasurer. Kv!f CUY TREASURER'3 OFFICE, a"' l'HiLAiia'iiiA, Dec. 1, 18(18. NOTICE. Tbe Heiui-auuual Internet ou tbe five niid six pur cent, loana ol tbe OUy of Pullu deipblu du January 1, lbOK, will be paid ou and ttlitr mat dale. Loans maturing January, 18G9, will be paid on prt.eniauon, Interest ceualug irom dale ol maturity. The ordinance of Councils aDDroved Mav 0. .1818, directing mat, "nil cei Moate of city luaua suaii ue ri-giHiereu previoua lo tne payment of tbe lnifrta'," will be strictly adtiereu to at tbe payment of tbe lntertst due January, 1HU9, to bolb resident and non-resident loau-liolders, JUSfcU'U JM. PEIUOL. 123 2Tt City Treasurer. ' WENDELL PHILLIP3 WILL DE llvtr ula LrCiurH uuuu U A Nile u(xiV- MiLL, at (.UNCiUtl' HaLL. ou WKDNUbOAV kV hNINU uihlu.t. at I o'clock, llckeu, 6U ceuu, lor tula at Trunipier'a. The Annual Mretln or tbe PENNSYLVANIA Alt'lI-H'-AVkKY OKJIKiY will be Held la tue AMiKMBLY buiLblAda un TUUliHUAY, Decern, ber IU, la or, ln ud Ueruooa. vouiuieiic'ag at ID A. M. Atlniluloo liee, THR FRIENDS OF FKIKnOK will hold their ANNUAL KHTIVA , at COCUKKT HALL, Ou 1UCHBUAY iiVKMNO I)ecauibr 10 III. Auiing tua attractions win be Kvadiuy. by tflsa Ktiber J. Trimble. Muaio by tbe Kxcelxlnr ttrata and b, ring Baau, and Bluilag. Weudej Plillllp will be pres.ui, 117 31 M. C. A. L K C T U R E B. JOHN U. UUUU 11 Will eviiverh" new Lecture, AT THI ACADEMY Otf MTjarO, MONDAY KVKNINO, UEO. H. Tbe aale ol ilukeia will brtlnat o'clock Wednes day DiorulUK. at J. K. Gould a Piano Wareronoia, Nu. W3 tueanut atreet AfliulasO'l to all paitaul Ibe bonne auctnt.. Jieaerved aeaia In rarquet. Parquet Cro'e, and Bairocy. told ou Ibe flrat oa,2A cenia eaira. Attr Wadneaday, no extra cnarga tor re awvad (ears. ill 7 3t f35r-6 FF1CE UK THE LEHIGH COAL AND Sf navkaxiujn company, tuicasuiiy LUPAllTMKNT. PHIlADVLFBr Dec, t. 18S OcDpona dua on tbe Isib loataot ou tne gold loaa of hia coniuauy, will be Laid Iu cuta at tbair odloe on and aliar mat date. Holders of ten or more eouponi are requested to present Uieu and rcuve tliorrfur rrcetnia oyat).e onihelDlh. bOLOMOtf BUKPHEtL). lilSlwr Treasurer. BATCH ELOR'S HAIR DYE. THI3 scleudid iialr Dye ia tbe beat in tua worldj the only true aud perfect bye; harmless, reliable, lislamaneous; ne dtttappolniiueut: uo ridiculous tiutti; leiiuoina tuelll etlocis of bad dyea; luvlsoratea aud leaves tbe Hair sort aud beautiful, blank or drowi, feoiU y all Dru.alhts aud Pvrtuiuers; aud properly auplituat baicheiirs Wig Victory, No, lauosD htreet. New YorK. SOTiOwH ri" RAiLItOAD COMPANIES IN T H IS TS-j mil Oilier ol.let are rapidly atlo,,tlu Ibe JC' vt ticKpnia as a hub I iu i a fnroiirl-d hair In aiuiflm cir cu I ions All unite la rrciimmeuriiuK tu. sonn. It hi, Mi aocvuut ol Its ubdauuuaJi soo.utl,ll icr'at Uufflu'll'y. Dooia open at S o'olook. Aduilaiiou. 60 cents. Y. tsr. WH. PAINTfiE & CO., BACKERS AJfD DEALERS Di G0YERX MOT SECURITIES Mo. 36 South THIRD Street. 'HILADKLTHIA, AOKNTB FOB The Union Pacific Railroad Co AND Central Pacific Railroad Co iTe hare on hand THE FIRST HOST UAGE SIX TER CEAT. GOLD ISiTEBESl DOJiDS of both Companies, for sale or Exchange for Government Securities. Pamphlets, with Ma, Reports, and full Information furnished en application. BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC. QAR STAIRS & McCALL. Bos. 126 lYALMT and 21 GRANITE Sts rapoBTKBaor t Brandies, Wines, Gin, (Hire Oil, Etc Etc AND OOMMI88ION MERCHANTS FOR THE BALE OT PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AJfD B0CB j BOA WHISKIES. u, gONOMA WINE COMPANY i . Established for the sale 01 ' 1 Pure California Wines. This Company oflur for sale pure California Wine. , Will IK, i.Aiiur, ( A l A HA, 1MIHI', MM It II I, MlM ATrl,, AJSULUCA tllAMl'AUA'E, AND rritr. fiitAi'K brandy, Wholesale and retail, all of tbelr own Browing, aid watanitu locuuiam nothing out the pure Jul je oltria giaue. iit-Lnt No. (9 BANE Street. Philadelphia. HaUN A UtAKV Ag.nts. 11 Uf CLOTHS, CASS1MEBES, ETC. 1CC8. CLOTiijiousE. 1803. STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER Wish lo kerp uo'ore tbe publto the fact tbat they mm t' keep the largest and mull varied slot of all dtcrlptloi.e ot CLOTHS TO BE FOUMJ IN PHILADELPHIA. MEN'S COATINUd AND CA9SIMERK3, OOOUS kH UUVeJ" WEAR, LADLES' CLOAKINub OF KVaitV KIND, . Always ou baud. STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER; CENTRAL CLOTH HOUSE, , ". JNI0N PACIFIC RAILROAD FIKST MORTGAGE BONDS At 102, AJil) ACCRUED INTEREST. CETJTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD FIltST MORTGAGE BONDS At 103, ACCRUED INTEREST. AND FOB a&XK BY No. 40 SOUTH 2B THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. QANKING HOUSE OF Jm Cooke Si(p. Aos. 112 and 114 Sonth THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA. Dealers In all UoTernment Securities. Old 6-208 Wanted In Exchange for Men. A Liberal Difference allowed. Compound Interest Notes Wanted. Interest Allowed on Deposit. OjLLEoTlOW8 MADS. BTwUJU bought and tola on CXtiu (ulselun. Bpeoial buslnesa aooomaodationi rwarred tot ladies. We will rf oelre applications for Poltdea of Life Irsiiraoca In the National Life Inanraoce Oompaav (f ibe United b tales. Jull luforoiatloa glrea at oar Offioa. (JLENDINNING, DAVIS & CO., No. 48 South THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA. 1!LED1XNLXU DAVIS & AM0RY, Xo, 2 XASS.1U KtM New York, 1 1UKKERS AM) BROKERS. Direct telographlo oomiuuuloailou wllU tha New.Yurk Hiook lioai'du from tbe 1'lilladelpUla Oftloe. 12 2tf COR.EieUTII AND Hit. MARKET HTBEKT9, PHILADBLPH1A. PANTALOON GTUFFOI JAMES & LCC, HO.lt MOltTU lEtUHU NTBBST) Sian of the Qolden Lamb, Have now on hand a yery large and choice assort, mint ol all the new styles of FaU and Winter Fancy Cassl meres ' IN THJK MARKJSr, To which they In rite the attention of the trade and others. (.13 it WHoumn! iHD itmiu BOOTS AND SHOES. IMPORTED DOOT8 AND SHOES. MEN'S LONG-LEG BrORTING BOOT3, $10 00. ' MEN'S CALF DOUBLE SOLE B00T3, 8 00. . f MEN'S CALF DOUBLE SOLE GAITERS, 1 6 00. BOYS' HIGH LACE BOOTS, $4 00. Also a large stoek of oar own manufacture, at REDUCED PRICES. BARTLETT, Ko. 83 IS0UTU SIXTH STREET, 10 16 fmwj ABOVB CHB8NTJT. HAVIKG ALTERED AND ENLARGED MY bibre. No. t:iu M. NINTH iMreet, 1 Invite auen. nun to ar Increased Block (of my own manuBtutuMtl ol nae hmn b.miioes. OAITiottl. JUo.,01 the latest - stTl's, and at the lowest prices. aissm KRNBST BO PP. WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC. -tWlS LADOMUS & C(T f DIAMOND BE1LERS JEWELERS.) - WSTCMaB, JBWBLKT m SILTKM WAaa. v WATCHES and JEWELBY EEPAIEEDV J02 Cheitawt 8t.,Ptn!. Watches, Diamonds, ump Jewolry, Solid Silver & Plated Ware. ESTABLISHED 1820. HOLIDAY PBESEHTI. WATCniO, JIWKtRT, CLOCK B, B1LVKBW AB, and FANCY GOODJ. a. W. RUSSELL, v No. 22 K0RTII SIXTH STREET, I m I'lIILAUifiLPiil A. CLOTHING. . CUTHMAN & CO. ; SELL Fine, V II-Made, Reliable, Clicap , c, Xa o rr ii i iv o, AT THB CONTINENTAL HALL, Ko. t30 MAHKET Street, II 13 wfiu tl2SI I'll I f. A DK ; pin 4