THE PArLi" FiVKNINCr TELEGKAPIT PHiLADETjPITIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1G 18G9.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
BDlTOBtAI. 0PIN10NJ OF THB LIUDISO JOCUNAt,
PPOK COBKCNT I0T1C8 COMPILKD STBHT
DAT FOB TBI bVENINI TKI,SOBpa.
Modern Start leal Mutesinansliip.
Front" Jlrick" 1'jmniy iv" Y. hrmoemt.
We believe that the huLJWeut sort of books
which are o gaueralljr Mid nowadays, to the
negloot of the great worki of tbe old masters,
has much to do with the dti line of the pnblio
morality. We Lave often criticized many of
the prominent character of the day as being
utterly contemptible. Men void of talent, of
courage, or even of common honesty are raided
te high plaoea. Thus we hare bad govern
went. It is now becoming a rare thing to
find a pnblio man at all lit for the position
whioh he fills. Why is it that the people
allow this f Is it not because the pnblio taste
has beoome vitiated by false reading f The
people have in their minds no great standards
by wbioh to try aspirants for high places. It
was different some years ago. 1'eople then
had read different works and had formed dif
ferent ideas of what wait needed in honorable
offio. It is now nnoommon to nod a good
book among the people. Where old books
were sufficient to give ample information ther
have been thrown aside, and ne w book?, tell
in only a part of the trath, substituted.
Whrls i'i'hat trilling and incompetent writers
must make a rehash of all anoient learning ?
It has been done to lower the standard of pub
lio intelligence, that the Government cotild be
mismanaged by bad men by men who would
have never been named for even town olHues
in any other country that succeeded in main
taining liberal institutions.
Who that holds in remembrance the prond
and Incorruptible Cato of the Koinau beuate
would ever think of Simon Cameron as lit for
such a dignity 't How would Chase compare
with Ari8tides and BiDgham with Cicero t No
person who was aware of the real character of
those great men of old times could ever wil
lingly and honestly consent to lill Congress
with such persons as are there. Why is this
deoline of public virtue and of statesmanship ?
It is not because there are no honest and able
men in the country, but only because the
people have forgot that they ought to require
honesty and integrity in those that seek
power. To remedy this evil let the people
put standard works in the hands of the young,
and read such themselves, l'nt the old books
of true doctrines and true things back where
they belong on your book-shelves in public
and priva'e libraries. Tbat will be a neces
sary commencement to a reform in our country.
The Sue Mnrphj Claim.
rromlheN. Y. World.
Mies Murphy's claim (she is an estimable
young lady, now about fonr-aud-tweuty),
whioh has been the cbief topic of debate in
the Senate since the holiday recess, is import
ant, sot on account of the amount of money
asked (only $7000) not because the facts of
the case are open to any serious dispute but
only because it involves a principle deemed of
grave consequence as paving the way for
other olalms of a similar kind. Miss Murphy
is entitled to compensation if any Southern
loyalist is under similar circumstances, as
will appear from the following letter ad
dressed to her by General Grant two or three
years ago:
"Headquartkks Army Usitkd statiw,
Wasjhinuton, I). C. AliiV i, lstiii Mind Hue
Morplij: I iiave canned to be exniuliied tUe
paptra wbicli yon tiled lor damages done to
yonr properly In Deeai.nr, Alabama, by United
Btates tionps. Loyally Is dourly proven, and
Ibe claim s,eerun to be euUrely a Juki one, if any
snob claim is allowed, li I a mutter left en
tirely with Congress, aud 1 cua only eay tuai,
If any clniru lor daiuaueg done by tlio army lu
Btates taat were In rebellion against the Uov
eminent in allowed, I would respectfully re
commend yours. U. 8. Grant,
"LlcutenBnt-Ueneral."
A bill making compensation to Miss Murphy
passed the Senate about two years ago, but
tailed in tne House because that Congress was
so near the expiration of its term that there
was not time to pass it. The merits of the
case and grounds of compensation cannot be
presented with more brevity or fairness than
In the language of Senator Anthony, a day or
two sinoe. lie said:
"If the Constitution la to be read according
to Its plain understanding, I am uuable to see
now this case evades tiie provision that private
property shall not be taken for publio use with
out Just compensation. When you oan prove
to me that ibis property, taken for tne con
struction of a public building by the United
States, Is not to be paid for, tuen you will
satisfy me tbat any other debt tbat the United
kiiaies owes is not to be paid. This Is not pro
perty tbat waa destroy' by an army on Its
.xnarcb; It la not proptrvy tbat was destroyed to
prevent lta falling Into the Lands of the enemy
and aflnciinKhlm aid and comfort; It is not
property tbat would have been destroyed by
one array If It was not by the other; but It Is n
certain amount of property that the United
Slates took by competent authority and by
public necessity for the construction of a publio
work; and we are Just as much bound to pay
for IIiom) materials, for the htone and the wood
that were uwed in the cont motion of tbat fort,
as we are to pay lor itxt cannon that was
mounted upou it or the ammunition witu
which the cannon was served; just us much as
we are bound to pay tor the supplies and the
clothing ihat were f uruiutcl tlhe garrison in
lUHb 1UI b.
"l'his caewas presented to the Senate two
or three j ears ago. it. was examined before the
Uomuilttee on t'lulma. Jt whs reported, i tHtutt,
nnaniicouKly. The evidence oi'u.e loyally of mis
lady was presented beloie u to 'he satisfaction
of every member of tti cuiutnUtee. t am not
able to retail the evidence, hot 1 recollect that
military olllcers appeaivit ocf.j.t- the committee
came on here voluntarily lo testily upou thut
polui; and the committee w.re I'.trfec.iy saiu.
fiel upon tbat point, nn I fn reported, but did
not report all tiie vertil evidence uom wQlcti
they relied. Toe bill wa ivpurluit fivtn tne
Coinmltue on Claim-. It pnsod t tie Senate. It
wenlto "lie Himsfl of KotrerfHnlaUvfew. In the
Houn' t Uepi'csi utat ices tney Uuda rule whlcii
pieveLtftil tl.e coi'sldeialioii of bills of this
kind. The coae was mo S'long npon its merits
thtttreinle wia suxtiemled in tin favor, and
the b'l: would ur!,u!itoilty uive nuxed but lor
WMUt of Uiue It fell for wsul of time."
The argument on the other side, though
drawn out to great length by several Sena
tors, may be very concisely stated. It rests
upon the assumed principle that all persons
reBidipg within an enemy's country are to
betreaied in war as enemies, and that their
real friendliness cauuot exempt them from any
of the consequence of war. This harsh doo
trine id supported by ihe old authoritle; but
modern usage has relieved it of mojt of its
hurfclnetp, in wars upon land, by respecting
(ill private property in an enemy's country.
When Gereral Soott was engaged in the
oouqaest of Mexico, ho was directed by our
Government to levy eub-ietence upou the in
habitants aocordlug to the old rules of war.
lie declined to do so, aud scrupulous! v pro
tected H private property, lie afterwards
said in print that it would have takeu double
the number of soldiers, double the time, and
have cost double the number of lives to con
quer the country, had it not been for this
policy of forbearance. Those military oom
jnarders who follow the old rule in operating
in an enemy'a country, penerally avcU the
infliction, of individual hardship, wherever
possible, by levying contributions upon a
whole city or a whole pruvinoe, to be equita
bly rabtd bv its publio authorities, liy this
method, individuals bear only their propor
tional thare. It will be seeu by thid state
cunt that the radioals are attempting to euforue
against Southern loyalists all the rigor of an
...i- f -hi.,K snm Am. I
menders forbear to exercise against avowdd
enemies.
It is not, however, for the purpose of pre
senting this view that we htve adverted to the
subject, but to point out the inconsistency of
punishing as criminals a community every
member of whioh was placed beyond the pale
of Federal protection. The Government
cannot, in justice, have it both ways. The
duties between governor aud the governed are
leefprocal; if these duties are releaied ou one
side they are necessarily released on the other.
The foundation of the duty or obedienoe i.s the
rik,ht to protection; and when a govprnm.nt
ceases to protect, it can no longer Hhtfully
punish for acts done while protection wm
withdrawn. If all the inhabitants of a bellt
cerent community are to be regard!
standing upon the same level, and as sus
tain the same relations to the other
belligerent, so that within that territory no
diPtiuotion can be made between friends
and enemies, the rule should be made
consistent. The law of nations, to which so
much reference has been had in this debate,
makes the rule consistent. As the whole
community is treated, for belligerent pur
poses, as a unit, and friends no more than
enemies exempted from the conseqnenoes of
war, so, on the other hand, enemies no more
than friends are subjected to any other pun
ishment or calamity than result from military
operations. As the whole community stands
on the same level in respect to the lavs of
war, bo the whole community stands likewise
on the same level in respect to all penal
consequences not military. If the solidarity
of the South during the war is to be
assumed as a principle, let it be oon
slHteutly adhered to, and let the Re
publican party repent of all the penalties
and disabilities it has been enforolng against
the South since the close of the war. If the
whole of the Southern community are to be
treated as if they were all enemies during the
war, every penal consequence should have
ceased from the moment the war ended. This
is as much a part of the law of nations as is
the principle that all the inhabitants of an
enemy's country are to be regarded as hostile.
If the principle is invoked it should be con
sistently adhered to, and all its legitimate
consequences accepted. It is absurd for the
government to punish disobedience at a time
when it abandoned all pretente of protection.
There is no consistency in making the laws
of war an excuse for not compensating South
ern loyalists, and still refusing to the South
ern people the exemptions ana immunitte)
ordained by the eamo laws.
The East aud the West.
Voi the Ar. Y. Tribune.
We reproduce these sentence from au article)
recently published m the Chic ago Tribune:
"If It is true that 'ihe West bas got about
everything else,' the rcusou Is she Is possessed
ot the best qualified im-n for various lilU
offices. The West bas golinto the hot of pio
duciug flrsi-olHKs men lor civil us well us mill
taiy employments. Tim hiatus ami enterprise
of the East tire chiefly aohorbed in money,
getting, stock jobbtut;, atul i;nmulin( In Wall
street. Dm lug the war the liast was never
able to push the UiocU oui of siutit of tae
i'otomac, while the West conquered them lu
twelve Stales. Toe Intellect of the Etst was
too much eDrosst d in Uimhk Government con
tracts, iucrtL-tlng lite (trill, ;vud other galmul
fiursulls, to develop h biviti order of military
tilt tit or H'atemrslili ; and t bey should not
now com plain if t he West over- hadows I lie in in
ability for public all.ttrs as well as lu martial
renown."
We note this as the beginning of au
illiberal, dangerous, and unpatriotic po
licy, and as expressing a feeling that
we are pained to see in a newspaper that
claims, however faintly, to hive any sympa
thy with the Republican party. We remem
ber during the impeachment trial that this
same newspaper clamored against the frien is
of impeachment as an "Eastern ring," and
went on to denounce the said "ring" as oor
rupt, grasping, and devilish. That impeach
ment discussion was not pressed.
We have always believed in a Union with
out geographical limitations. We never hear
the words "ilorth" or "South" used in a
distinctive political sense without pain. In
the same manner we regard the use of the
terms "East" and "West." When certain
friends Insisted that because General Grant
was a Western man the Bast should of neces
sity furnish the Vioe- President, we protested.
We held that if General Grant could be
strengthened by a Western man, such a man
should be nominated. The Convention
did so, and took Mr. Colfax. Accord
ing to this Chicago writer, it was because the
West had attained the habit of "producing
first-class men for civil employment," and no
man oould be found in the East, although
such representatives of the "money-getting,
stock-jobbing" intellect as Sumner, Boutwell,
Seymour, Lowell, Emerson, Phillips, Bancroft,
Carey, Webster, Whittier, Seward, not to
speak of all the editors and proprietors of this
very tewspaper, happen to be Eastern men,
not altogether without a Western reputation.
Four years ago, when an Eastern man was
removed from the Vice-Presidency to nomi-
sate a Western man, in Mr. Johnson, we
submitted. We were told that reasons of
policy dictated this change. We now learn
that it was because the West was in the habit
of prcdncing men like Mr. Johnson "the
best qualified men for various high oluoes"
while the barren East was exhausted !
If we were to descend to seotional argu
ments, it would rt-quire no effort to show that
in politics, as well as in legislation, the West
has always bad the advantage ot the East.
During Mr. Lincoln's administration we saw
live Western men in the Cabinet aud two
Eastern men Stanton, Denniifon, Harlan,
Speed, and McCulloch, against Seward and
Welles. Mr. Johnson did not vary the propor- !
tion until Mr. Evarts became Attorney-Gdue-ral.
In the Supreme Court we find five
Western judges Chate, Miller, Field, Davis,
Swayne and ouly three from the East Clif
ford, Nelson, and Grier. In the regular army
we believe there are five general officers from
the West aud but two horn the East. We
claim the Western men as Americans, aud
glory in their exaltation. We believe that
they were honored because of their fitness, and
we are not a little surprised to learn than it
waa because all the Eastern meu competent to
seive in the Government were "too much
engrossed in filling contraots" aud "other
gainful pursuits" "to develop a high order
of military talent or statesmanship." This
is severe upou suoh "stouk-jobbing" states
men as Sumner, Andrew, Coukling, aud Fes
seuden, aud upon "niouey-gettin;j" geuerals
like Wadsworth and Howard aud Meade and
Sedgwick.
Then in the matter of lociala'.ion: We are
almost afraid to estimate the uuiuber of bills
before Congress "demaudei" by lli-j West,
and all wanting money. We shall do well if
we get ont of the Union and Central Paoiflj
with $50,000,000. Kansas has 200 miles of
subsidized roads, and there are from fifteen to
twenty ether roads in and around that State.
One company wants $-1,0011,000; another, by
El Peso, would like the same amount; aud in
all e estimate 200 bills directly and indi
rectly for Panific lUilroai iuterosts. We have
given 1 24, (f 0,0(0 acres of land; and whea we
rups tbetio new hill we shall give in addition
!)0,C0ii,(Hi0 aud 100,(K)0,(Hio acres. We have
La rd there tfolieuiHd UeUOUhCid; bat we hav
never heard thm oriticiied as merely
"UmImd" enterprises or for the benefit of
eMern'
it.. watarn nflonle.
Plainly, then, there can be no detntgo-
Kniro more degrading Of nnjnst than that
which seeks to array the "East" against the
"West." We have deigned to consider this
paragraph seriously, merely to show its injus
tice in fact. The want of patriotism which
innplres H is unworthy of American Journal
ism. We had hoped that all these seotional
phrases and epithets had perished in the war
they did so much to foster. We regret to see
any attempt to fan them into new life.
Criminal Appeals In the Federal Courts.
roni th It. Y. Timet,
We see that Senator Trumbull has intro
duced a bill Into the Senate to provide for the
due execution of Judgments of the Federal
Courts in capital criniiual caies. According
to the synopsis of the bill which has been
given, it provides that whenever a judgment
ot death shall be given in any United States
Court, and the case "shall be carried to the
Supreme Court by appeal or writ of error, in
pursuance of law," the execution shall be
postponed until the decision of the Supreme
Court in the case, and it further provides for
the execution of the decree, if the Supreme
Court shall sustain the judgment.
We have no doubt that some such provision
is needed in the criminal law of the United
States. It does not, as we understand, make
any change in the present law, but ouly pro
vides for a state of things for which, at present,
no provision is made. Hut it seems to us that
if the bill is as stated, it will fall short of the
object which it is intended to meet. It hap
pens to be the fact, as the criminal law of the
United States now stands, that no judgment
can be carried to the Supreme Court in a
criminal case by appeal or writ of error. The
only way in which a criminal case oan be taken
to the Supreme Court for review is by pro
curing two judges to sit on the trial of the
ia?e, and then procuring a division of opinion
between them as to questions of law involved.
It was in this way, as will be remembered,
that the question of the effect of the Presi
dent's amnesty proclamation (we mean the
one before the last) was taken up to the Su
preme Court in Jeff Davis case. Chief Justice
Chase and Judge Underwood, who sat on the
hearing of the motion to quash the indictment,
either actually differed in opinion on the ques
tion or perhaps only agreed to disagree, be
cause they agreed that the questious iuvolved
were of such importaneethat they ought to be
paseed npou by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Trumbull's bill, then, should be
amended so as to give A right to appeal from
snch judgments, and then the rest of his bill
will be appropriate, ludeed, we do not hesi
tate to Bay, as we have said often before, that
some provision ought to be male for appeals
in all criminal cases. We do not mean that
every criminal ctw should be appealed, but
that some law should be passed, applicable
not only to casual cases, but to all classes of
offenses, by which appeals might be taken to
the Supreme Court without the present cum
bersome machinery of two Judges and a divi
sion of opinion. Let an appeal be allowed
wherever the Judge who tried the case shall
certify tbat the questions are of snlliaient im
portance to juntuy the appeal. That is sub
stantially all that we get now, and to obtain
this, nnder the present system, counsel have
to arrance with the JuJges that two of them
shall sit in any particular oaie. Hence often
times arise delays and dilHoulties which
might be obviated under a simpler system.
This bill of Mr. Trumbull's furnishes a good
opportunity to make a change for the batter.
As It Was and As It Js
the bereruineut ttud
From the N. Y. Beruia.
-The Cliitnges in
tiio (Jutnes.
"The people are ahead of the polititians."
This remark has been attributed to the philo
sophical Lincoln in discussing the hearty re
ception of his emancipation proclamation by
the loyal States and the army. In his first
recnlar message to Congress he had proposed
a scheme whereby he thought the abolition of
slavery might be consummated by the year
I'.iw. A few months later, when urged by
some religious deputation to proclaim the
accursed thing abolished, he had answered
that such an edict would be "the Pope's bull
against the comet." With the evidence be
fore him, however, of the tremendous maroh
of ideas under the pressure of the bayonet,
Lincoln was not the man to lag far behind.
though still he aimed to follow rather than to
lead the people. It was the enlightened
march of the publio mind of the mighty North
tbat carried him, the army, and tne Union
through the ordeal of the most gigantic and
persistent rebellion in human history.
Here we come to the material forces opera
ting to shape the publio mind to the inevitable
driit of human events. The wise mea origi
nally appointed to frame a supreme constitu
tion for the Union and the States did their
work well under the circumstances. They
leit the institution of African slavery to die a
natural death, and from what tney had seen
they had good reasons for the opinion that the
institution could not long survive the pressure
of free labor and the general opinion of man
kind at that day. But Whitney's invention
of the cotton gin (17i3) spoiled all their
calculations. Before that the tedious process
ol separating the fibre from the seed made
cotton culture an almost profitless experiment
even in Sonth Carolina; but Whitney's gin
soon wrought its miraculous changes. It
made cotton at once a highly profitable pro
duct; it made slave labor in the cultivation
of cotton a cash article. The annual supply
of American ootton to the Euglish mills
rapidly increased. The demand increased
with the supply. Negro slaves rose in price
aud continued to rise as the Southern ootton
planters were enriched. The slaveholders of
the Northern border s ave States fouud the
raising of slaves for the Suuthern market the
most profitable staple from their worn-out to
bacco lands, until the slave trade with the
cotton States fiom KU-Ltuond alone fooled up
twenty millions of dollars a vear.
What uextf The Southern slaveholding
cotton oligarchy rlMws; to the control of the
Government and llruily holding it for many
years. Next we see this powerful oligarchy
undertaking to cut loose lrom tbe Union by
force of arms and to set up au independent
confederacy on the basis of African slavery
and cotton. In Jefferson's time the coming
wealth and power of this oligarchy were not
distinctly foreseen. His ideas and dogmas of
popular rights and Stale sovereignty were
substantially those of the iulidel philosophers
of the first French revolution. Tha Jefferso-
niau Republican party was founded; upon those
laeas, m wniuu sympathy for republican
rrauue Bgaiusi me British monarchy uai
powerful inllueuoe over the American people
still full of their War of Independence. Thus
uuuer jeuerson, the Constitution as it was
under Washington was areatly chanced. The
checks and balances were diverted from the
oeuire to me extremities. This was the be
ginning oi mat Southern State sovereignty
construction of the Constitmi nn arltl.tli miller
the Demooratio party, served the purposes of
tin. Hn nil.....!.- J . . , . . .
The first direct ooutliut of the North with
the South on slavery was that of lKU-iiO, re
sulting in the Missouri Compromise. The
m.Kt (Kit : ) was on the side ts-iue of Sjuth
Carolina tinllifiitaMon, In wbioh Ctlhotiu wag
upset by Jackson. The uext (184 1) was on
the annexation of Texas, an Issue npon whioh
Vn liuren wits thrown out by the Southern
oligarchy, aud upon which Clay was defeated
l y the abolition balance or power la New
Yoik, the first decisive movement of the abo
lition party- and the eeooud was in 1844,
when van Buren turned this party to the
defeat of Cass. In the same year, with the
acquisition of California, New Mexico eto.,
from the Mexican war came another sectional
battle on slavery in Congress, resulting (1850)
iu the Beoond great compromise adjustmeut
of Henry Clay. But in 1854 the Missouri line
retained in this adjustment under the demand
of the Southern oligarchy was wiped out, poor
t ierce in the White Uouse, and Douglas In
the Senate, becoming ao'dve instruments in
tbe Senate in this fatal experiment to slavery.
In 1804 the Republican party against this
pro-slavery aggression took the field on the
bold ultimatum f "no farther extension of
slavery." In 1856 it would have carried the
Presidency but for the third party Narthern
diversion made by Fillmore. In i860 Lincoln
was elected on this ultimatum of arresting the
march of slavery. Through all this loug
period of sixty years the Constitution, as in
terpreted by Jefferson aud his satellites, was
practically enforced, with a lucid interval only
here and there, and enforced, too, by suc
cessive Southern demands, down to the Dred
Scott decision of 185G, in which, under the
Constitution, it was affirmed a negro had "no
rights which a white man was bound to re
spect." f rem that revolting decision the whole poli
tical superstructure raised on slavery aud
cotton was soon undermined. Aud yet but
for the new material forces introduced in the
world after Jefferson, his fundamental idea of
State sovereignty against a central national
sovereignty would have prevailed. Powerful
as was Whitney's ootton gin in giving a new
life to slavery, whioh threatened at last an
independent slaveholding Southern Confede
racy, tbe steam engine and the telegraph have
been a hundred times more powerful in behalf
of the subordination of the States and the
sovereignty of the United States, not as a
confederacy, but as a compact natiou. Leav
ing out these modern material forces of steam
and electricity, the plans aud calculations of
the Southern oligarchy were not extravagant;
but in the face of these formidable appliances
of the North, the war for a Southern Confede
racy was the height of suicidal insanity.
Here, then, we stand on the firm founda
tion of national sovereignty, established by
our railroads, steamboats, and telegraphs, sud
fixed in the Constitution. After a sixty years'
Btruggle the Southern slaveholding oligarchy
and the theories of Jefferson have gone down
together, and the wisdom of Washington and
Hamilton is fully confirmed with the triumph
of their grand idea of national sovereignty.
The all-powerful, consolidating forces of this
day, of which those great men never dreamed,
have fixed their grand idea as the future law
of both hemispheres the absorption of quasi
State sovereignties and petty States under
great and expanding national governments.
Upon this firm foundation we can stand, and
so under President Grant the Union may be
extended te the North Pole, on the one baud,
and to Panama, on the other, with perfect
safety.
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COMMISSION MKItOHANTr
itUl THK BALK OJT
rCKE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AKD BOUB.
BON WHISKIES. w
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
xMt. Vernon Hotel,
8 i Monument street, Baltimore.
Elegantly Furnished, with unsurpassed Cuisiuo.
On the European rian,
D. P. MORGAN.
g T.rUCUOLAS HOTEL & DINING SALOON,
S. E. Corner Carter St. & Exchange l'lace,
Tbe Place to Get a Good Dinner,
OB OHIER MEAL AT KKA60NABLK PRICES
Bill ot Fare, Wines, Liquors, etc, of tbe brat
11 M 3iurp O. yaWK, Proprietor.
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC.
jgEAVEKS, CHINCHILLAS, ETC. EfC
JAMES & LEE,
HO. II KOUTM SIKCOSU KTUKKT,
Bitr.ii. of the Qolclftii Laml)
Are now receiving a large aotoruneul of
lU'BVfi'8, Chinchilla, and oilier Overcoat.
lup. Also, a full Hue of 5M and G-l
Black Doebkius, all of the best makes.
Tbe attention of Mertbaut Tsllcriand Clothiers r
ijwciany ltTiioa is is s
AT WHOLKHALB ANfl KKTATL.
AIFXANDBK 0. CATTKLL A CO
YUUltiH-h. UOMMIKMioN WKIWH4N I'M.
No. KollTH WUAitVid
So. tl NORTH WATK.R HTREET.
PHILAUUJJ-UIA. ft
(jrxla B. OATTILU UJAXOTTSUA
FINANCIAL..
TIIR
mm pacific
ItAILHOAD COMPANY
OFFKU LIMITED AMOUNT OP Tit KIR
First Mortgage Bonds
AT PAR.
iiue Hundred and Sixtj Jlile
Of tbe line West fromOmshs are now completed, and
the wrrlt Is colng on through the Winter. As the dis
tance between the Ou ishM portion of th Union and
Central l'aclfio KallroadH l-t now less than 4u0 miles.
and both Companlus are pasulug forward the work
wlih great energy, .mulojlng over 30 ixu wan, there
can be no doubt that the whole
Grand LIuc to tho Tactile
Will boOiieii f or ItiiNlfir-Ni lu the Summer
of 109.
The regnlar Government Commlwlonors have pro
pounced the Union Pacific Railroad to be F 1 K3T
CLAfS In every reepeot, and the Special Coniiulsilon
ppoluted by the Prenidont says:
Tkkenasawhole.TBE UJSION PACIFTO IlIL-
KG AD HAS BEEN WELL CONSTRUCTED. AND
TBE GENERAL ROUTE FJU THE LLXK KX
CKEDIBULY WELL UELEUTKOi The euergy and
perseverance with which the work has been urged
forward and the raplolty with which It has been
executed are without parallel lu history, and In gran
dour aud magnitude ol undertaking It hat
never been equalled." The report conaludes
by saying that "tbe country has reason to oon
giaiulute ItBe'f that this treat work of national tin
portauce Is so rapldlr approaching conipie Ion under
such favt'ra'jlu auspices." The company now have In
use l;7 locomotives and marly iwo cms of all de crip
lions. A large additional equipment Is ordered to be
rmd) In the fctprlntr. The gnullug Is nearly completed,
aud lies .attributed lor 120 Uillej In advance of the
we, tern end of the track. Fully J 20 wiles of Iron lor
new Hack are now delivered west of tne Missouri
River, aud ao miles m. re ure fa route. The tout ex
penditures lor const' uc'.lou purpoies la advance of
tbe completed portiouof the ro.d U not ess than
cliiht lullllon dollars
Resides a donation lrom the Government of 1!,800
acres of landt er mile, the Couioany Is en llledto a
subsidy lu U.S. Bonds on I s line as completed and
accepted, at the averago rate of ab iut t-.uiu per mile,
according to tne dlttlculiies encounteiuri, for which
the Government takes a second liea as security. Th
Lorn r any has already received t2l.u8,(M) of this
subsidy, being In u'.I on the Hto miles liiai have been
examined by the Uulled ttlei Commissioner.
Government Aid Security of the Honda.
By Its charter, tlie Company la permitted to Issne
Its own FIRST MORTGAGE BONOS to the same
amount as the Government Bonds, ami no more.
These Bonds are a First Mortgage upon the whole
road aud all Its cqulprueuts. Such a mortgage upon
vvunl, tor a lot g time, will be tue only railroad con.
nectii g the Atlantic aud Pacific states, takes the
highest rank as a safe secnrity. The earnings from
ihe way or local business for tue year ending June 30,
I8s, oa n average of 472 miles, were over FOUB
MILLION LOLL ARS, which, after paying all ex
penses, were muh more tbau suiHcIeut to cover al
Interest liability upon that tilsianae. and the earn
lugs lor tbe last five months have been' 2 888,870.
They wonld have been greater if the road had not
been taxed to Us utmost cap.clty to transport Its own
material for construction. The Income from the
great passenger travel, the China freights, and the
supplies lor tbe new Rocky Mountain States and Ter
ritories, must be ample lor all interest and other lla
blllilts. No political action oan reduce the irate of
Interest. It must remain for thirty years fix per
coU. per annum in gold, now equal t between eight
and nine per cent. In currency. The principal it then
payable in gold. If a bond with snch guarantees were
lusued by the Government, Its market price would
not be leas than from 0 to 25 per cent, premium. Al
these bondsiare Issued under Government authority
and supervision, npon what Is very largely a Gov
ernment work, they must ultimately approach Gov
ernment prices.
The price for the present li PAR.
Subscriptions will be received In Philadelphia by
DE HAVEN & BIIO.,
No. 40 8. THIRD Street.
WM. PAINTER & CO.,
No. 38 B. THIRD Street,
And In New York
AT THE 031PANYM OFfM K,
No. 20 NASSAU Sueet,
AND BY
JOHN J. CISCO SON, BAMKEK.
No. 68 WALL street,
And by the Company's advertised Agents through
oat tbe United states.
fionds sent free, but parties subscribing through
local agents will look to them for thilr saie delivery
A NEW PAMPHLET AND MAP WAS ISiUED
OCTOBER 1, containing a rep at ol the progress of
the work to ihat date, and a more complete state
ment In relation to tbe value of the bonds than can
be given In an advertisement, whleh will be soot free
on app lcatlon at the Company's oitlces, or to auy of
the advertised agents.
JOHN J. CISCO, TKEAsJCHr.K,
NEW YORK.
Jan. 1. 18f 0 IS 17 t ostium
MEDICAL.
RIIJSUMATISM,
N E U 11 A L G I A.
Warranted Permanently Cured.
Warranted reimancnlly Cured.
Without Injury to the System.
Without Iodide, Totassla, or Colchlcnm
U Using lunardly Only
DR. FITLER'8
GREAT RUISUHATJC REjIEDY,
For RlieumatUm and Auralyia iu all it foruit.
The only standard, reliable, positive, lofalllbl per
manent cure ever discovered. Il Is warranted to oon
tain nothing hurtful or lujurtons to Ibe system.
WARRANTED TO CURS OH MONK V RKFUSDfcD
WARItANTKDTOCURHORMOXJtY RKPUNDF.D
Thousands ol Philadelphia r4tureuoe4 of uures. Pre
pared at
tio. 2S SOUTH rOUUTU STKKLT,
M stu.bti
BfclLOW MAlliChir.
FINANCIAL.
Union Pacific Railroad.
WE AHK SOW SELLIJHi
The First Korlgage Gold In
terest Bonds
Ol' HIip COMPANY Al'
PAR A1ND INTEREST.
At which rftte the holder of (iOVl KM.
3IENT SECLT.1TIKS can make a proUl
able exchanpp.
COUPONS due January 1 CASHEW, or
bought at full rates for dtold.
mi. & 00.,
HANKERS AND DEALLKS L UOmM
MEMT SECURITIES,
Uo. 36 South THIRD Street,
I PHILADKL8UIA.
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OF
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UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD,
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
5-2C3 and 1881s
DUE JANUARY 1,
AND GOLD,
WANTED.
mm
Dealers In Government Securities,
No. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
gTERLIKG & WILDMAN,
BANKERS AND BROKFRS,
No. 110 South TllIUD Slroet,
AGKNTS FOR SALE Off
First Mortgage Bouds of Rocklbrd, oc'
Island, and St. Louis Railroad,
Interest BEVI N PICR CENT., Clear ot a't tan
payablo In GOLD Angaiit and February, forsa'.a
07 and accrued Interest In currency. Also
First Mortgage Ronds of the Danville
llazlcton, aud Wilkcsbarrc Railroad.
Interest BEVKN PKR t'KNT., CLEAR OF ALL
TAXES, payable April aud October, tor sale at
and accrued Interest
Pamphlets with maps, reports, and fall Information
of these roads alwat s on hand for dlstrlbu'lon.
DEALURH in Government Bouds, Aold, Sliver
Coupons, eta
bTOCKS of all kinds bought and sold on commis
sion In New York and Phllauelpbla. 11 3 tutus
QA NKINC HOUSE
OF
Ik' .. . . (1 l ... CI t- Hllllflll k4..MA.
uvh xim buu xx aoum iiiu.u ourei,
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers hi all (ioreniment Securities.
Old 6-20s Wanted in Exchange for Aenr.
A Liberal Difference allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
COLLICUI'IONU MADE. BTttC&S bought and sold
on Commission.
Bpeclal business accommodations reserved for
ladles.
We will rf cetv applications f"r Policies of Ufa
Icsnranro In ihe National Life Inxoraice Company
or ihe Lnlted bta es. lull luiormailoa given at out
bfllcak 1 1 2m
Pi!H0lPH
Dealers ill United States Bonds, andXeut
bers of Slock and Gold Exchange,
Receive Accounts of Ranks and Rankers on
l iberal Terms
ISSCE If ILLS OF EXC1IANUE 0H
C. J. 11AWBKO & tiON, LONDON,
li MKTZLEK, 8. S0I1N St CO., FRANKFORT
JAMKS W. TUCKER & CO., PARIS,
And Other rriflual Cities, and letters or
Credit Available Tiiroughout Europe.
GUMMING, DAVIS & CO.,
Xo. 18 South 1 Hilt If Sti cot,
PHJLAlKI.l'HIA.
GLEMNKIM DAVIS 4 ABORT
So. 2 NASSAU St., New York,
BAMCERS asd rrokers.
Direct telegraphic coinmniiic;itIoii with
the Sew York Slock Ronrda from the
riilladcliihia Office. Ul
T"VB. . KINKELTN, AFTEB A KESIDENC1
sews arij KMeir
iilssui.eriuriiy lu the prcmps and ixirffift mm of
all recjut. ohroiLlo, local, au.l Ct.ualuuiloual a5
lles ol KpcoiAl i atu,e, Ih pioveroiaL 1