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Overpopulation.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
From time to time timorous philosophers
have been Alarmed at the pronpuot of over
population, and tome person?, who perhaps
are more wicked than timorous, have expressed
conviction that no good can arise from any
efforts of theirs in this direction, at least, to
the end that their posterity- eball have the
ability to make further addition to the census.
"What we have been told by the philosophers
la this: Should society be so improved as to
give to every human bing advantages for
complete mental culture and phypioal training,
and at the same time so reorganize industry
that a few hours' labor each day will give
ample supplies of food, the grand result would
be, first, such a universal sense of justice that
war would cease, and such a knowledge of
diseases that common ailments, ana of
course peBtilenoe, would be unknown; and
eeoond, that the human race would doable
itself every twenty-five years. In twenty-five
years more it would double again, and thus
proceeding, so many people would exist in a
few oenturies that tbe tropica, the deserts, and
mountain places would be thickly inhabited.
To make further provision it will then be ne
cessary to level mountains, to fill in the oceans;
but even this will be only a temporary
remedy, for in twenty-five years more this
sew ground will be covered over, and the end
will come with terrifio struggles for life.
Therefore we are told that it id necessary to
keep the human race in check by a sufferance
of war, pestilence, Intemperance, and other
salutary miseries. To the philanthropist and
reformer this seems A discouraging prospect,
for it is manifest that the hour of triumph will
be the hour of defeat.
And yet, so far from considerations of this
kind being of an alarming character, they are
of the least possible const-quenoe. llow long
man is to live on this planet is unknown; but
so far as the generations now living are con
cerned, the race ends when they have passed
away, as much as it ends with the last man
in some far distant period, while tbe heavens
blaze with the final conflagration. To regulate
our conduot by a view of what may be the
necessities of coming generations, is to ne
gleot the duties of to-day, to suppress generous
emotions, and to make ourselves unfitted not
only for a future exidtenoe, but also for this.
A man's duty lies in planting some small seed
of goodness in his breast, and in its culture
and care tnai it may grow ana give mm
vitality and enduriDg life, and in the end
neutralize and conquer whatever within him
is wioked and perverse. In commencing this
course, which has no other difficulty than in
its seeming insignificance, a way is prepared
for a praotice of all the virtues and charities,
aot so much abroad as at home, not so much
In a oocfident as in a humble spirit. Such a
condition in the individual will precede, and
it will be the groundwork of perfeotibility in
society. When the individual shall have
reached this high standard, the question with
reference to posterity will not be multitude,
but goodness; and it may be stated to be a
natural law, that whatever is most precious
cannot be abundant.
The Tennrcof-OClce Law.
From the iV. Y. Herald.
General Butler, the man rejected by the ex
treme radicals of the Fifth Congressional dis
trict of Massachusetts, but reelected for all
that by an overwhelming majority, achieved
on Monday, backed by the potential W a in
borne, a very important ?ictory in the II juse
of Representatives in behalf of a new de
parture of tbe Republican party under Gene
ral Grant. His bill for the repeal of the
Tenure of-Offioe law, under the whip and spur
of the previous question, was brought to the
decisive vote and passed yeas 121, nays 47.
The Affirmative vote, aa it will be seen, in
cluded all the Demoorats; the negative vote is
all Republican, And embraces such radical
extremists as Sohenck, Shellabarger, and
Garfield, of Ohio;-Jenckes. of the Civil Service
bill; Maynard and Stokes, of Tennessee, and
others to the number of forty-seven. Wash
burna, the right band man of General Grant,
of course took an aotive hand for the repeal,
and his influence, no doubt, greatly strength
ened Butler, inasmuch as it is generally un
derstood that in referenoe to the President
eleot Washburne speaks and acts as one hav
ing authority. The passage of the repeal by
the heavy voten given idicates the beginning of
a deoline in the power of radicalism and the
ascendanoy of more moderate and conciliatory
counsels in Congress than those which have
ruled the two bouses in their long and despe
rate confliot with President Johnson.
It is possible that the radioals in the Senate,
where they have no previous question, will
endeavor to prevent the passage of this bill by
parliamentary evasions and delays; but the
friends of the repeal, we understand, intend to
push it throngh. The aotion of the iloase, at
all events, marks the commencement of a new
dispensation. It foreshadows not only the re
peal of the Tenure-of-Office law, but tbe fail
ure of Mr. Jenckes Civil Service bill and of
the little bill of Mr. Eimunda in the Senate,
exoluding from civil offices offioers of the army
and navy. This Edmunds bill, it is oonjeo
tured, is aimed especially against General
Sohofield and Admiral Porter as prospective
members of Grant's Cabinet, the d-sigu being
to head off Grant in reference to these appre
hended appointments, but from the develop
ments of Monday we suspeot the scheme will
fail.
Had the vote of the House on Monday been
taken without a call to the record, it is proba
ble that Butler's bill would have failed; but the
record, in bringing the members faoe to face
with General Grant, cut down the Tenure of
Office law party to forty-seven. These forty
seven, with their Adherents in the Senate,
headed by Sumner, may yet create some trou
ble In the party camp before the final victory
is won; but from the unexpected success of
the first move of Butler on his new track, we
may look for a removal before the 4'.h of
Maron of all the shaokles which have batn put
upon the hands of the President, so that with
the inauguration of President Grant the office
WlU be restored to its status under Lincoln.
The House of Representatives reoognizes
the President eleot as a living power in the
land, entitled to this degree of respect and
oonflJenoe; the new President will be invested
with his eonstitntional functions, and thus, in
the absenoe of a two-tuirds radical majority
in the House, he will be in a position at ouue
to proolaim his own poliuy, foreign an 1 do
mestic With the power to cause it to be re
peoted, whatever may become of the iu'raot
Abla radioals of Congress and their followers.
A The Paris Conference.
From the if. Y.BKrn1A
It appears now that the alarming difficulty
Zt .V'l.U U ot Without the ueoei
fllI ?L?.iD?,H wr- The parties who signed
X are too muah in
loresieu tu vua preservation of ran In allow
Turkey and Greece to go to warCt ve? Toe
tin Broome When the Eastern Question will
take a new shape, and when war will b less I
connected with fntnr alarming possibilities. I
In the meantime war in the East must be
n!ilJ twinanaa It wnnlri Innvitahlv oraita
complications the issue of whloh no one can
foitete. It will be well if the Conference shall
teach Greece to Strive to improve her internal
affairs, And so to strive that she shall command
the respect of the nations. This point certainly
f he has not yet reached. It will also be well
if the Italian Government shall yield herself
more completely up to the Influence of moiern
civilization. What Turkey needs is a little
more of the steam engine, of the eleotric tele
graph, of the printfng-press. Let Turkey only
do thip, and religious differences will be less a
dietnrbing element than they have been. The
Eastern question is virtually settled for the
present, and it may well be doubted whether
it will ever be revived in the same shape again.
Unless the Turkish Government is oareful.the
real danger of the future will be lew in the
interference of Greece or in the intrigues of
Russia than in the rising of the Greek pro
vinces of the empire. When Turkey begins
to fall of her own weight, it will not be pos
sible for any conference to save her.
The Kcw York Scnatorshlp.
From the N. Y. World.
In tbe Hall of the Delavan House at Albmy
an incident worth telling occurred the night
of Mr. Greeley's arrival on his mission to
persuade the Republicans of the Legislature
to pitch Morgan overboard, reject Fentoo,
and elect Marshall O. Roberts United States
Senator.
The dust of travel was frosh upon the
white coat of a newly-arrived traveller, whose
name need not be here disclosed, when a
friend, one of the ubiquitous oorresp ondents
of the press, espied him, and pressing on
throngh the throng, slapped the white-ooat
upon his shoulder, and hailed him with joyful
salutations. The foremost topio in the minds
of both was first upon their tongues.
"Well, old man, I suppose you came up
about the Senatorship?"
"Yes, that's what's the matter."
"But they say you are for Roberts, not
Greeley, this time."
"That's true."
"Is it possible ? Humph I Well, old fellow !
how much money have you got f Let's kuow
the size of your pile."
We might betray political secrets, going
further in this dialogue. But the venality of
the Legislature itself, which it takes for
granted, is a circumstance worth plain and
honest people's attention. . Nuboly dreams
that the Republican caucus nomination of
Senator will not go to him who pays the most
for it. Even the very gosliags of the Capitol
know that open secret, and take it tor granted
without mention, as they take for granted
that days and nights will alternate for the
week to come, and that next Tuesday the
Capitol will be quite unpurged by the fires
of Sodom or any sort of polilioal earthquake.
Even the Times, which, as a Republican
journal, may be thought to have a special in
terest in concealing this fact by those persons
who imagine that a journal can truly serve
its party otherwise than by truth and honesty,
even the Times says it is "quite generally
conceded on ail hands that money will decide
the contest."
This corruption, all but universal in the
office-holders and politicians of the Republi
can party, attested as it is much more than
abundantly by every sort of conclusive evi
dence, would be more than detestable, it
would be" heart-sickening, but for the demo
cratic faith we have in the honesty of the
masses of both parties, and the firm conviction
we cherish that the four years' carnival of
thieves to which the country consented last
November will make an honest government
certain thereafter, lhe Democratic party,
already purged of its venal members by a
long exclusion from power, must needs be
come still more critical and exacting in its de.
mand for high capacity in its leaders and in
tegrity in its chosen publio servants. The
pae sport to publio favor will be honesty, but
not honesty merely; it will be Also that nar
rowing down of the range of government funo
tions, And that cutting oif of extravagant ex
penditures, and that praotioe and habit of
economy, without which, Honesty in the puo-
lio service cannot be maintained. Ihis edu
eating process to which the people have
invited themselves will have some sharp
lessons. The only thing now is to learn them
well, since they are to be flogged and burned
into ns for four years to oome.
This leads ns to say that u there are, by
God's merer, so many as sixteen honest Ke
publicans in the Albany Legislature, who, for
the sake of defeating Morgan or Fenton, will
join the Democrats in voting for some other
Kenublican, let me democrats oi me legisla
ture absolutely insist that the candidate of
such a coalition be a perfeotly honest and in
corruptible man not any Marshall O.
Robertses. but some man whose integrity is
conspicuous and indisputable, like Governor
Fish or George H. Andrews, William C.
Bryant or Senator Folger no matter who, so
as thai ne cannot posuiuiy ue louonea,
tempted, or handled by me rings.
General Grant and the System of Ap
pointinvuts to Office.
from the tf. Y. Timet.
A correspondent of the Nation, who believes
in Mr. Jenckes' Civil Service bill, and re r rets
that it is not likely to become a law soon
enough to be of service to General Grant in
making his appointments to office, makes this
suggestion:
"Cannot General Grant BeUot nix or a dozen
corn relent and Uoneut men. who. acting an a
cnuimltiee, would, under certnlu simple but
lixeci mien, take up all applications for ollice lu
rotation as they come to hand, and so deal wl.li
mem mat ueiittrai urani would be nule tu ond
up to Hi, beuute no name if a ctrtainly corrupt
or glaringly lucorupeient man? It does not
seem much to ak; and if only the alx or twelve
conimliK o nien coiiid be obtained equal tu the
emergency, it would not be a very iiinoult
thinu to do."
Difficult or not, we fancy this is just about
what General Grant will attempt to do, th yugh
he will not probably put his action in just
that form. As described by the writer this
plan would be an innovation, while, in point
of faot, it is merely what is already provided
by the Constitution, and is sanctioned by the
usage of the Government in its better days.
The Constitution, which makes the Presi
dent the chitf Exeontive of the nation, gives
him power to appoint a head of each of the
departments into which tbe Executive admin
istration of the Government may be divided;
and those heads, acting together, each iu his
appropriate sphere, constitute just About such
a "committee of six or a dozen men" as the
comspondent referred to has in view. We
ate inclined to think that General Grant will
hand over to that "Committee" (more com
monly called a Cabiuet) the duty and the
reppousibility of "taking up applications for
cilice as they come to band," and of making
from tbem such selections as they may advise
the President to appoint. And we are in
clined to think, further, that General Grant
will prescribe for these committee-men "cer
tain elu.pl but fixed rules" of aotion such
as w ill most nearly meet the difficulties of the
cape such as, for example:
1. No man must be seleoted wh la not
thoroughly and reliably honest.
2. Mo man must be selected who Is not
thoroughly competent.
3. No man must be selected who ( not, In
principle and in habitual action, thoroughly
faithful te the Constitution.
Under tbe goldanoi or these "simple, but
fixed rules," if faithfully adhered to in their
rpirit as weril as letter, the committee will have
little OlWcUIiy 1U uiiniug it iMiwmui w
lain that "no name of a certaiuly corrupt or
glaringly inoompitent m in" will be jeut up
to the Senate. The head of each d-pjrttnsnt
will probably b charged with the special duty
of f electing the men to be appointed for ser
vice in his own department; and will probably
1 e made to underfUud as such things are
understood only in military circles, or by men
accustomed to a military rrgime '.hat he is to
I e held responsible lor tbe men appointed to
rffice iu his department, responsible far their
Integrity as well as their capacity for what
they do, and for what they fail to do, in the
line ot their legitimate duty.
The thing of first importauoe In ttaU matter
is, of course, the selection of these committee
men or, in more familiar phrase, the selection
of a Cabinet. The whole country understand
perfectly that upon this depends the success
or the failure of General Grant's administra
tion; and the country awaits with intense but
patient anxiety, tempered only by its confi
dence in his good judgment and upright pur
pose, General Grant's announcement of the
selections he may make.
But there is another point of very great im
portance behind this, but followiug very
closely, upon it. Who shall advise the heads
ef departments, in their selection f No man
can know all the applicants, be he Seoretary
or President; aud no man can, therefore, from
Lis own knowledge and of his own motion,
select from tbem the men best fitted in all
things for office. Whoever makes the selec
tions must depend upon somebody for advio,
or at least for information, at onoe full.
reliable, and disinterested, which may guide
him in coming to a decisioa. To whom shall
he look for such information f
Of late years, members of Congress belong
ing to the dominant party have claimed the
right, not only to advise the Executive in re
gard to Appointments in their respective dis
tricts, but Absolutely to dictate those Appoint
ments to him. The word is not too strong.
In form tbey abk certain appointments at his
hands; if he makes them, all is serene and
they are his "friends.'' But if he refuses to
make them, they array themselves against
him, and denounce him as false to his friends
and a traitor to his party. Very much of the
hostility of individual members of Congress
against Mr. Johnson was due to hts refusal to
make appointments to office in obedience to
their dictation. It is LeM that the President
has no business to go behind the indorsement
and ecommendatiou of a member of Cougress
for appointments iu his district. The patron-
ace of the diserict is claimed as, of right, the
property of the member. State delegations
combine and agree to support in a body the
claim of each member to tbe selection of office
holders in bis own diatriot. 'lhe Republican
members from New York have held meetings,
and formally voted that they would insist that
the rBiuet should appoint to office in ach
Congressional district of New York the officers
whom tbe member from that district might
select. lue same tning Las been done in
other States, and is tbe general praotice with
members from tbem an.
The plea urged is that tbe member from any
district is naturally presumed to kuow more
about the political interests of his own dis
trict, and of the character, political and per
sonal, or tbe applicants lor oiiloe within it,
than the President possibly can; aud that he
is therefore the proper person to designate
the appointments for it. The members, it is
true, ask these appointments; they do not, in
form, dictate tbem, but in point of Tact, that
is precisely what they try to do. And if their
requests are not complied with, they feel at
perfect liberty to make open war, personal
and political, upon the Executive who dares
to refuse. General Butler, in his recent can
vass for reelection, openly declared that if
General urant did not give him his rightful
share of the offioes in his distriot (which
usually means all of them), he would give
him enough to do to take care of himself dur
ing the rest of his term. This was meant as
a menace, and is incapable of any other con
struction. And while all the members of
Congress are not so open and frank in their
avowals as is General Butler, they all hold, as
tenaciously as he does, that the right of select
ing the office-holders, each for his own distriot,
belongs to them, and that no President who
is true to his party and his friends will refuse
it to them. None but a "traitor" would
dream of such a thing.
Precisely the same feeling pervades the
Senate. Senators assert the same right and
enforce it in the same way. They "claim"
certain appointments as theirs by right; if the
claim is conceded, very well. If not, they are
At war with the Executive. We venture to
say that more votes were controlled for convict
ing Mr. Johnson, when impeaohed, by his re
fusal of patronage when demanded by indivi
dual Senators, than were gained for acquitting
him by the concession of such claims, or by
more open bribery.
There are at least two serious objections to
this practice and to the theory on which it
rests:
1. It is in violation of the spirit and intent
as well as the language aud letter of the Cou
etitution, which gives to the President the
selection of officers of the Government, subjeot
only to the "advice aud consent" of the
Senate. It makes members of the House the
real and actual appointing power, when iu m
Bense have they rightfully anything whatever
to do with it.
2. Even as advisers Congressmen are not
disinterested. The j consult their own political
interests or thetr own personal feelings. And
come of them actually make a pecuniary
profit from tbe cilices which they can control.
Even the best rf them use the Executive
patronage, so far as they can control it, to pay
their political debts, or to secure their future
political advancement. They pay for what
tneir personal supporters have already done
for them, or they buy support for themselves
in tbe future. Iu this way the patronage of
the Government is used to destroy all inde
pendence of judgment and of action within
their own vartu. in its selection of candidates.
There are very many men now iu Congress
who would not be there if their constituents
had been free to follow their preferences. Thetr
judgments were overborne by inlluenoes
creaiea ny ine use oi tne isxenutive patronage
wielded by the member already in place.
lhe whole system is false iu theory, vicious
and demoralizing iu practice, aud fatal to the
independence and integrity of the Govern
ment. It ought to be broken up. Members
of Congress should be free, and should be in
vited, to give information oouceruing oanii-
Information should weigh niuoh or little, ao
cordiDg to its intrinsic value. Facts not
advice, nor wishes personal or political are
what the Executive needs at the hands of
numbers of Congress; aud are what should in
evtrycase be required Aud used by him, as
the basis and guide of his own independent
and untrammelled judgment. This is the
true theory, And has been the praotice of ad
ministration in the better days of the Govern
ment. We hope General Grant will try to
return to it. Whether ne can do so or not is
a matter of doubt, and depends on his Ability
to contend successfully against the various
nfloences and combinations that Are inte
rested in maintaining the existing state of
things, and whloh most Assuredly will not
surrender It without a bitter And a desperate
struggle.
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Ibe c till actors wl 1 be ngulied to give bo-ids nu
J.otilt Ko. 2 In .u b ainoui. is as sbail be bxed oy tbe
unueisiiutd; on H.i leis'o &. 4iuu,otl.
fcaunlactpr evlrtvuce ol Hie loyalty aud solvency
ol eacb biduer aLd peibOu o tiered as beouruy will be
rtqu'Kd.
Pro os.lsmust te Indorsed "Piopooals for Army
Trannporia'lou ou oute t," or " as the ose
n uy We, ai d unuowill be emrriaiucd uulusa tbey
fully comply wllb ine requirements of tblsadvur
llneu eut. ...
Tlie party lo wbom an award Is mads in us, be pre
l ur.dto extcute tbe contract witiioui uuuecesiary
d Jay. and .o g' ve the required bouds lor tbe faithful
pp. torinacce oi tbe o miract.
Ibenglii in reitit any aud all bids ibat may te
Oflert 1 remrrviid, . .
Tbe coLtracor ou each route must be In rea1lnes
f. r srrv'ce in tlie 1U day ol April. iStia, and inuil
have a plarp oi buulnesa or ng i.ry at wal.iii be my
be communicated wl b readily, at tbe starling polai
or pcmis el bi route.
Blank forms, showing the condition! of theevi
Iraoi to be eMered lulu for etoii .route, can oe bai
upon at phcalioii to tbls olUre, eilber personally or
by ie' er.aud must accoiupauy a id bs a part oi tbe
pr.rBtla. ...
JUanks lor proposals will be furnished ou appll.
ca Ion,
Bv order of tbe Chief Quartermaster, Mllltaiy OI
vJMon el the Missouil.
U n imj I.. O. EaHTOV,
Dep'H'.M.Oen. U. B.i.. C. U. M .Dep'i Ux
ALEXANDER 0. CATTELL A CO
PlODli . OOMMimioN MKRUHAJSra.
INO. 2ti iSOKTH WilARViUl
AMD
No. V HORTH WATER STREET,
PHILADH..LPUIA. II
aLJtXAMEEK , OATTJUJa ai.iiiwnwMX
BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC
Y, P. M.
Y. P. M.
Y. P. M.
iorjN'R rrnn malt whisky.
Tovnwn ri'BK malt wiiukt,
YOl'KU ft ri RE MAI-T WIIINKY.
Thr ra is no qnwirion relative to inn merit of tV
relebraud Y P. W. It is Urn mrtsi quality of WnUky
ii mufai'iiwed from the bst gralu attnided hv t i.;
Phllarte phla niaet and It Is sold at the low ra
f h per gallon, or 11 15 pr r qnart, at the salesrooms,
0. 70U TASSlUiXK U)A1,
11112,1 PHILADELPHIA.
QAR STAIRS & IftcCALL.
No. 120 WALNUT and 21 (JKANITE Sts
IMPORTERS or
Urandles Wines, tiln, Olire Oil, Etc Etc,
AND
COMMISSION M K It O li A NT b
FOR THE BALK OF
I'UKE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND DOUB-
DOft WHISKIES. m,
gOKOMA WINE COMPANY
KmabllBbed lor tbe sale of .
Pure California Wines.
This Company ofl'er for sale pure California Wine.
WW II K.
tLAIIKf,
I'AiAtt It A.
Ml l it It Y,
-AAULL1CA
Jtl I .NA A I'KI.,
AJIIAJII'AUAK,
AND
PIRK RAPK mtMr,
Wholesale and retail, all ol tbelr own growing, and
waiianitu to contain uoibinguut tbepurejul of tbe
grape.
Depot No. 29 BANE" Street, Philadelphia.
Ha UN & UUAlft, Ageots, 12 l'f
JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, ETC,
ESTABLISHED 1823.
HOLIDAY I'BESEJITI,
WATCIIEe, JKWfcLhY,
tlAiCKB, b;LVRWABK, and
FANCY GOODS.
Q. W. RUSSELL,
Mo. 22 xNOirril SIXTH STHEET,
B2U PHILADELPHIA,
Tbe finest arsortment In the city. A fresh Invoice
Just received direct nozu Oeeva with beautiful Bell
ixcornpauloients.
Our selectloiiS compilse the Choicest Operallo and
Home Melodies.
FAlllt Si BltOTIIEll.
lilPORTERS,
Ko. 321 CIIESXUT Street,
llllwfn-Jrp BELOW FOURTH,
LUMBER.
1819.
fcpKDCii JOIr.
bPLCli. JOiUi'.
HH.Mi.UCK,
1S69.
tQp.a beasoned clear pine, 1Br
CHulUK fAtltKN l'iiJi.
(SPAN IteH CiiDAR, d'utt PATA'l!,RN3.
KS.D CEDAR.
1 C,;0 FLORIDA FLOORINU. 10m
10U f lAJKlDA FLoOKIiNU, lOOU
CAilOLlNA FLOOKitNU.
VIKOl.llA FLUORilNU.
CUAWAkK FLUuHiNti.
ABll 1-l.OORlNli
WALftUT FLOOrUNO.
FLORIDA blEf BUaaDS,
KAIL PLANK.
1 KM WAL&UT Bl'8 AND PLANK. 1 QffO
100 WALNUT ADB.AH PLaNAC. IoOU
WaliftUl' boaliua,
Walnut plank.
18G9 JJNDERTAKER8 LUMBER. 1 0RQ
AOU tNDil,RlAKAl.ll, LUMBAOt! lOOy
liKil CADAR.
WALNUT AND PINK.
ltpn BKASONKD POPLAR. loan
AidH.
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HDjAOttV.
18G9 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 18RO
AOU C1UAR BOX ilAKKKV lOOU
SPANISH CiLUAH BOX BOARDS.
j.UH BALE LOW.
IgfJO CAROLINA BOANTLINQ, 1 QPCk
lOVJ CAROLINA H. T. 81LL4, lOOy
Null WAY bCANlLlNO.
18G9 CEDAR BHINOLES. 1QP(
XOVvt CYPRKBabHINOLKd, 1009
MAULK, BHOTUER A CO..
' No. IIWMiBOUl'Hbireet.
T. P. GALVIN & CO.,
Llir.BEH CGKMIS8I0N MERCHANTS
SHACK AMAXO.N STHEET VVHAHF,
BELOW SLOArS MILLS,
(svOALUO)), ma DE LPHIA.
AUKN'l b FOR HOCTHARN AND ACAaTACRN Mao
facturers oi V ELiAlW PINE and bPUUCit Ti AiBH
BciARDb, etc., snail be bai py to lurultb orders
wnoiesale ralus, deliverable at any acvwslble port,
Oousiautiy receiving aud on baud at our wharl
BOUIHEKN FlAXxtINU, bCANTLlNU. bHlN
OLEb, fcA&TERN LATHB, PlCKKTb. Bh,D-bLATB,
bPRDCE, HEMLOCK, b&LKcT MtCHKiAN AND
CANADA PLANK AND UOARDci. AND H AC
MAI CO bHIP-KNEKS. 1 81 siutbj
ALL OF Wnil-M HILL HE DEUVKUEB
AT AMY PAHTOFTlltlTII I'AtOJIPTliT
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
Mt. Vernon Hotel,
8 1 Monument street, Baltimore.
Elegantly Furnished, with unsurpassed Cuisine.
VI tltf JUKI VJJGUI JL Willi
D. P. MORGAN.
QEORGE PLOWMAN,
CARPENTER AND BUILDER,
1UM0VED TO No.' 184 DOCK Street,
PHILADELPHIA;
KBUICK & SONS
BOUTHWARK FOUNDRY,
No. 430 WA8HLNUTON AVENUE. Philadelnbli,
WILLIAM WRIGHT'S PATENT VARIABLB
CUT OF.BTEAM-ENOINS.
Regulated by the Governor.
MERRICK 'B SAFETY H OUSTING MA CHINS,
Patented Jone, W-
ra DAVID JOY'B
PATENT VAXVELEab HTKAM HAMMEB,
D. M. WKSTON'B
PATENT BELF-CENTERING, bELF-BALANOINU
CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MACHINE
AMD
HYDRO EXTRACTOR,
For Cotton or Woollen Manafaoiurtu, , lomw
FINANCIAL.
Union Pacific Eailroad.
1TE ARE NOW SELLINU
Tho First Mortgage Gold In
7 terest Bonds
OF THIS COMPANY AT
PAR AND INTEREST,
At irhlch rate the holder or GOVERN.
9IENT SECURITIES can make a profit
able exchange.
COUPONS due Janiuiry 1 CASHED, or
bought at full rates for Gold.
WEI. FAKITEE & CO.,
RANKERS AND DEALERS Di WOYERN
MJLNT SECURITIES.
no. 30 South THIRD Street,
t PHILADELPHIA.
c
u
p
OF
n s
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD,
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
5-20s and 1881s
DUE JANUARY 1,
AND GOLD,
WANTED.
Dealers In Government Securities,
No. 40 SOUTH TUIIiD STREET,
ta PHILADELPHIA,
STERLING & WILDMAN,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 110 South THIRD Street,
AGENTS FOR SALE OF
First Mortgage Bonds or Rocklbrd, Roc?
Island, and St. Louis Railroad,
Interest BEVPN PER CENT., dear of a'l taic
payable In GOLD Augutt aud February, for sale
7i and accrued Interest In currency. Also
First Mortgage Bonds or the Danville
Dazleton, and Wilkesbarre Railroad.
Interest SEVEN PER CENT., CLEAR OF ALL
TAXES, payable April and October, tor sale at SO
and accrued Interest
famunieta wltu maps, reports, and fall Information
oftuete roads always on hand lor dlstrlbuilon. .
DEALERS in Government Bonds, ilold, Silver
Coupon., eio.
feTOCKa of all kinds bought and sold on comma,
slon In New York and Phllauelphia, 11 1 tutus
EJ A NKINC HOUSE
OF
Aos. 112 and 111 South TUIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Dealers In all Goyernment Seonritles.
Old 6.20s anted iu Exchange lor flew.
A Liberal inherence allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed oir-DepoKils.
oomdTlo8 STvAJKa bought and sold
ladles!'1 t"ulneu Moommodationa reserved for
We will recelvn applications fbr Policies of Lira
Ip.uranc In th Nalicnai Life Innnrauce Oompaay
Of tbe United Suae. Full lnforniailon given at oar
office. 1 1 am
IMITHpMDOLPH
Dealers in United States Bonds, and Men
bers of Stock and Gold Exchange,
Receive Accounts of Banks and Bankers on
Liberal Terms,
ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE Q
C. J. IIAMBKO & BON, LONDON,
B. MKTZLEK, 8. S011N L CO., FRANKFORT
JAMKS W. TUCKER & CO., PARIS,
And Other Principal Cities, and tatters or
Credit Available Tnroughout Europe.
GLEMMING, DAVIS & CO.,
Xo. 48 South I IIIi:i Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLEIDIMIKG DAVIS & AMORt
No. 2 NASSAU St., New York,
BAKKKHS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegruplilc conunuulcation with
the tienY York Stock Boards ftoin the
l'hlladtli,hia QlEcc.
rpHE BAFE DEPOSIT CO M PAN T
For Safe Keeping of Valuablee, Securities etc.
and limiting ot Sa'ei. ' '
DIKElTORS
John WH..U. K. W. Cla'k, ' f4 V V?i'
OFFICE, No. 421 OHESNHT BTRRKT
N, B. HhuWNK prw,,dui
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