THE DAllrr EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. SPIRIT OF TEE PRESS. EDITORIAL OPINIOHS OF THI LKADWO JOURNALS PFOH CDKBBHT TOPIOB COMPILED BVIBT DAT FOB TBI BTKNIHO tBLBOBAPH. Concerning Washington rcrccntaircs. JfVotn the A. F. TVf&un'. TLe efforts of the Washington olerka to get twenty, or even ten per cent, extra par, haying been once more killed, we trust that now it maybe allowed to May dead. The clerks all took their present places with a dis tinct knowledge of what the salaries were. They entered into the contract with the Gov ernment to do certain work for certain pay; and most of them bored Congressmen and Sec retaries for months to gut the privilege of making this contract. Yet, if they Had it op pressive, they have this advantage over other people who make bad bargains, that a sheet ot paper and three minutes' writing can always secure them the means of Instant re lease. We submit, therefore, to their own good senBe whether thoy make a good figure spending weeks and months in unsuccessful lobbjicg for relief from this oppressive con tract, when a letter of resignation in three lines would furnish perfect relief. It has been a misfortune of the clerks that they Lave wasted their valuable time on an eilort which they began at the wrong end. Hither they fairly earn higher wagn3 than they are now paid, or they do not. It they do, the wages should be squarely and honestly raised to tue juJt standard; if they do not, they add lack ef deoency to their lack of wisdom in converting themselves into chronic beggars for ten per cent, or twenty per cent, presents for a tingle year or session. We do not ignore the specious and, in some respects, sound pleas in favor of liberal deal ing with the servants of the Government. But, aside from the fact that we can seleot better seasons for a display of liberality than a time when we cannot pay our just debts, we imagine that in Government servioe, as well as in all other kinds, the law of supply and demand may well be expected to ex ercise a large influence in fixing the rates of wageB. The pay of the Washington clerks may be too low, though it is certainly muoh higher than the same average grade and amount of work command in this city; but so long as ten equally good men stand behind the chair of every clerk, ready to quarrel for its occupancy the moment he vacates it, a prudent employer, himself in the gravest pecuniary distress, would hardly think of raisinK the salaries. Gentlemen, be persuaded that this is a bad time lor attempting to escape from the inexorable law which settles wages everywhere else. The supply of such work as you furnish in the Washington depart ments is enormously in excess of the demand. When we get the Civil Service bill we hope to raise the quality of your work, and reduce the number engaged npon it. Till then, at least, yon must try to get along with a re muneration largely in advance of the average rate. Mr. Wells' Report. From the N. T. Tribune. The Evening Post, in attempting to defend Mr. Wells, says: "After Mr. Wells' report was published, the Tribune insisted, Uay alter day, tnat 11 was lrn- Jiosilble to learn what amount of duty was col ected on. for example, sugar, tea, and spices. and tbat Mr. Weils was therefore useless. The vciy Information demanded concerning tbexe leading articles Is ctven in this report. In a aote to page 25, and similar stttistiosof everv arLlole imported are Riven in minute de tail in tne oinoial 'Comuitroial and Niivigullou ileporc every year." The information demanded is not given by "either of the sources referred to. The note on page 25 of Mr. Wells' report gives $30,000,000 as the average receipts" from duty per an num. But it does not state the actnal receipts for any year, nor what were the years taken to oompute this average. On its face it pos Besses no statistical force. The oilioial "Com merce and Navigation Reports" give the quan titles and values imported only, and do not give what we asked of the Treasury Depart mentthe amount of tariff aotually collected on each article. We presume the Commissioner of Customs therefore certified the truth when he Stated that such information was not in the pos session of his own or of the Statistical Bureau, and that these were the only places where it could be applied for. If the actual amount of duties collected on any article for any year is unknown, how much is Mr. Wells' estimate of the average amount for an indefinite num ber of years worth ? While the Post is correot in stating that we have declared it to be "im possible to learn" what amount of duty is oolleoted from any one article, it is in error in saying that we have asserted what sums they do amount to on sugar, tea, coffee, spices, eto. We have only computed the sums which the quantities imported, if taxed at the average rates named in the tariff act, as nearly as we could average them, would call for. Dangerous Situation or Spain. From the N. Y. Herald, The public advices from the Spanish penin sula continue to teem with indications of dis quiet on the part both of tbe provisional gov ernment and the people, while private letters, come they from what source or partisan they may, or from whatever portion of the.oountry, bear unanimous witness to the general expec tation of an early carnival of strife and blood. The Spanish nation is indeed in a situation pregnant with danger not only to Itself, but to the peace of Europe-. Those who view only the surface of things have been astonished at the speotaole recently presented, in the rapid and suooeisful attempt against the last of the Bourbon thrones and the peace which in the main has ruled in the peninsula since the flight of Isabella Second. But a deeper in spection of Spanish affairs and Spanish de velopment will show a growth of ideas which for vears have been sapping the foundations of a dynasty ruled by a policy that has been nothing more than a Bourbon graft upon the trunk planted by the crafty and false Ferdi nand and Isabella daring the closing years of the fifteenth oentury. The throne sank with the first touch, but the peace is simply that of tbe hour of preparation. The rail and the telegraph made their ad rent in the peninsula about the same time with the discovery of cold in California, and thAir construction and extension therein made little progress until the tide of wealth from the flalda of the Paoiflo had begun to fill and sti mulate the channels of European wealth and Industry. Although at that time ine govern ment was nominally a constitutional monar chy, it was, in spirit and in faot, the flowering of the Hapsburg pelicy in the Spain of the sixteenth oentury, modified only by the family axioms of the Bourbons. Sessions of the Cortes were tbe exception, not the rule; and the king Anm wan malntv ffnverned by roval decree, The military and privileged olasses thronged im nonrt. whila tli raonle ate. wore and thnnoht as did their forbears of three can turies before. With the rail, following and often preceding its advanoe. came an lnvason of French cooks, tailors and milliners. New wants were created, induntry aud com men e found a new life; and, while the court thought It was changing only the cut and color of its outward habits, the nation was ohanglng Its i ideas. When the hour of ripeness oame to I the court corruption, the people, and even the army, were ready for the change, and the thin shell of royalty was fonnd as fragile as tbat of an egg. lint, though Spain was all agreed to throw off its old forms, it was far from being agreed upon the new. In this oondition of things the provisional government was constituted of the three an tagonists elements which it comprises. The monarchical party claimed and obtained the first place in the person of General Serrano. The advocates of a radical change, which might become republican or monarchical, as circumstances fhouli warrant, received the command of the army for General Prim, and the judiciary was aligned to the advocates of a Blill more liberal class of idas. Tue Gov ernment is constituted of nine members, equally dividtd between the foregoing men tioned tueoriats. uuisiae ot government, which has not a majority for any policy, lie the advanced republicans, weak in organiza tion but strone in propagandinm, and the re actionary or Chnruh party, always well organ ized for action, but unpopular in its political tendencies and proclivities. To these conlliot ivK elenif nts in Spanish politics of to-dav must be added others, which are the personal interest of the astute ruler of France, the rem nant of the elder party of the house of lliur bon, and tbe new partisans of the younger or oioutpenner iiranuu. Lndertue new law of a free i-n-ss In the peninsula each of these has its journal, an! is at this moment actively engaged in the promulgation of its ideas. Surrounded by this state of intrigue aud efl'ei vescence, the Cortes is called to meet during the precent month to determine the new constitution of government and to nomi nate its head. From time to time it is stated, with an air of official sanction, that the pro visional government i3 a unit on the question of monarchy, aud even on that of the candi date for the throne, though the name of this personage is kept sedulously in the dark. Urn it is well known that new combinations are continually showing themselves within the several parties represented in the provisional Cabinet, and new intrigues are put in play. In this condition of affairs, and in view of the Sturdy temper of the people, harassed as they have long been by misgovernmeut, and pressed to-day by destitution and Lunger, it is scarcely probable tnat any party wliieu may obtain control of the pioposed new organization of government can be anything more than a fractional part of the nation at large. It will be surrounded by hottile elements, all inte rested in its early overthrow, and the history oi the Spanish nation shows that it has never been slow to listen to an appeal to arm3. With this prospect in the early fatnre, our Government need be in no haste to make ne gotiations in reference to Cuba, nor need the partisans of independence within the island fear that the opportunity will slip from their grasp, t-patn will soon nave ner Hands too full of her own affairs to be able to devote much blood or treasure to the defense of the "ever faithful isle;" and, like a ripe pear, it will fall of its own weight, through the natu ral line of independence, into the system of the Union. If Europe escapes unscathed from the dangers wh'ch a general conflagration of ideas in Spain will bring to her, her monarotis and her Cabinets will be too happy in their own safety to care much which way Cuba falls or what beoomeS of it Ueiicrai Grunt and llic lhmcrticj. from the N. Y. Times. The World's endeavors to excite dissension between General Grant and the Republican malority in Congress are certainly persistent and from a purely party point of view may be deemed praiseworthy, it is to be regretted, however, that the World cannot take a some what broader view of the political future, and that the party it represents cannot find better grounds of hope for i tself thau in embarrass ing and defeating the efforts of those who have control of the. Government to restore peace, harmony, and general prosperity to the country at large. The World starts witn tne assumption that General Grant will find himself, at the very outset of his administration, opposed by Con gress; nay, it goes still further, and asserts that the relations of the two are already hos tile, and that a "restoration of lost harmony seems unlikely." It is scarcely necessary to say that all this is imaginary; It is pure in vention. Nothing whatever has occurred to give it a semblance of truth. That there is impatience, discontent on the part of extreme party men those who are accustomed to con sider themselves the rigntrul leaders of the dominant party, and therefore entitled to dic tate its policy with tne neglect of General Grant to consult their wishes or inform them of his purposes, is doubtless true. We have evidence of this feeling on every side. But it not the general feeling of the Kepublieau party, in Congress or out of it, nor is it likely to become so. it is quite true that General Grant was not the first choice of the self-styled leaders of tbe Republican party, as their candidate for rresident. it tliey could nave followed tneir personal preferences, they would have put in nomination anotner man. lueir cmections to him lay in the fact that politically he wad not one of them; tnat lie nad never been so iden tified with their purposes and plans, nor so thoronghly in sympathy with their sentiments and opinions, that they could either predict precisely wnat lie would ao, or couut with confidence on his doing nxaolly what they might advise aud direct. The feeiing that he was politically unknown, and therefore politi cally unreliable, was very widely entertained and very potent lu tbe Kepublieau party before bis nomination. It iound open expression throngh very many of its accredited orgaus, and from the lips of very many of its promi nent men. But it could not prevrnt his nomi nation. It did not po tar survive a calm survey of tbe exigencies of the case, as to permit any ditlereu'-e of opinion among the representatives of the party at Chicago as to the propriety of his nomination. In spite of all these misgivings from party loaders, he was unanimously and most heartily made the party candidate, aud thus accepted aud in stalled as the party lealer. The same result wil follow, now that he Las been elected. The distrust aud hostility on which the World relits will disappear in presence of his administration, and there will be neither room nor reason for the conflict of claims which tbat journal so eagerly predicts. The day has gone by wiien the Executive or Congress can fam-y that either ha-t anything to gain by a contest for power in an adminis tration which requires tbe best services of both. 1 he World indulges its fancy In a muster of the forces by which General Grant Is to carry on its imaginary war with the party which elected him, and the Congress which is to make the laws he will be sworn to exeoute. The at my, it says, will be on his side, lie will take care to have at its heal men on whose personal fidelity he oan rely. Aud he is much more likely, if driven to extremities, to "prove a Cromwell than a Lincoln," in the judgment of our Democratic contemporary. All this is the wild muttering of politicians troubled with bad dreams. There U probably n.ot ft man in the United StateB, in the army or elsewhere, lest rrnder the influenoe of the personal ambition which alone eould lead to Buon 1BSUWU uuui utunru urauii Jfloiuiag la hi past oareer, nothing in his known charac ter, nothing he has ever done, or said, gives the faintest color of deoenoy to suoh specula tions concerning his future course as ttioai in which the World sees fit to indulge. We do not expeot that General Grant will govern his official action by the rules er re quirements of party discipline; but we have no idea that he will so far depart from party principles or usages as to provoke the dis trust and hostility of the Republican party. He may not go so fast, or so far, or accept so promptly as party leaders may require, all that they may expeot or demand at his hands. But that he will conform to all the leading principles and measures of the Republican party, and consult its sentiments aud its in terest, in all essential points of opinion and of aotion, we see no reason whatever to doubt. Nor is there the slightest reason to suspect that he will not rely upon that party rather than the Democratic, in all political matters, for support. As between the two, his past action and his frequent and emphatic declara tions leave no room for doubt. But we do believe that General Grant will look to the great body of tho people, rather than to any mere party, for that support aud approval without which a successful aluaiuis tration of the Government is impossible. The qnstions likely to arise and command most attention are not those upon which political parties have hitherto been most sharply divided. Indeed, now that the policy of re construction is substantially settled, ve;y few of the issues of the past can enlist action hereafter. The political parties of the lutni-e will be create I mainly by the policy which General (i rant may adopt in bis administra tion. And the danger which the World and its party has most to fear is, that he may draw to his support so large a portion of those who have hitherto acted with the Democrats, as to render tbe further maintenance of the orga nization of that party impossible. Our South American Relations. From the J!f. Y. World. It it be true, os wife persons in Washington aver it to be, that JUr. beward means to im prove the "shining hour" of his return to private life in a semi-triumphal tour through out South America, this intention of his may perhaps explain his extreme anxiety to defeat General Butler's attempt to reduce oar diplo matic expenses by cutting oil some and cut ting down others of oar South American mis sions. Mr. Seward is fond of "splendid governments." We dare fay he keeps his famous "little bell" in a small blue velvet box, and contemplates it in the intervals of dining and diplomacy with a sort of proud and passionate sadness. And when his voice in the Cabinet shall have be come, even as the clapper of bis "little bell, an nnwagged, silent, unconsidered thing, it will no doubt be a great conso lation to him to pass from point to point of such comparatively uneniigliteued regions as the south American republics, In a kiui of patiimbra of his past official glories. Europe lives too fast a lite and too crowded ffUu sen sations to make it worth his while to under take a pilgrimage to the eastward. Iu Loudon or l'aris he could hope for nothing but a sort of tepid courtesy resembling the vivid de lights of power no more thau cold gruel resoin bles hot turtle soup. Iu Bogota or Qaito, where nothing ever happens bat a revolution or an earthquake, And both by reason of their multiplicity have come to be monotonous, the arrival of the illustrious, the illintrisn'ino Seward would be very likely to be hailed with a general ringing of cracked church bills and a parade of particolored patriots iu the plaza. But, to the full development of Mr. Sj ward's content in such a tour, it would obviously bs indispensable that he should find at Bogota and Quito some American functionary of a sufficiently elevated rank to make him a becoming pedestal for Mr. Seward to stand npon. Now, a Consul-General or a Charge d'Affaires is, at the best, diplomatically speak ing, but a poor creature, lie may do very well for business purposes, but he is not ex alted enough to make him a fit and proper herald for a Pretnwon hla travels. Ol coarse, if the question were as to cutting off a few su perfluous south American Jen voys and Keeping Mr ., Seward at home,or keeping the superfluous South Amenoan Ministers, and getting Mr.se w- ard to visit them, truth would compel us to say that there has been a time, and a long time, in our history during which it would have bseu wise to purchase Mr. Seward's protraoted absence from our domestio councils at a much higher figure than that of the salaries of half a-dozen Ministers Resident. That time has passed, and as Mr. Seward is not likely here after to be more mischievous to us at Wash ineton or at Auburn than he would be in Bogota or in Quito, we may eliminate this consideration from the question of what our South American diplomacy is worth to us. The practical business test, which Mr. Seward himself pretends to be anxious that we should apply to the value of a minister, is decidedly favorable to Ueneral sutler's pro position. Mr. Seward thinks that we should have a minister in all the South American countries in which England and France have ministers, on the ground that our commerce with those countries is lareer than that of either Encland or France. Now, the truth is that, while we have Ministers Resident or Ku vovb in countries like Chili, Uruguay, Vene zuela. Peru, and Konador, liup.lanil aud France are repieeented in those countries by Consuls-General and Charges d'Affaires Vet our commerce with those countries is less and not greater than the commerce with them : of F.nkland or Fiance. Our whole import and export trade with I'eru, for example, in lol4, amounted to but a little over one million dollars. Dunne the same year the trade of England with Peru amounted to nearly X'l.OCO.OOO, or $20,000,000, being twenty times as large as' our own; while the Tableau General du Commerce d la France pu 8 the commeroe of France with Peru tor the same period at 52,700,000 francs, or more than $10,000 000, behie ten times as large as our own. Urngnay in 18ii-l exported to Great isniain a value ot UU44. and to France value of 2,41)5,1)11), against a value of only tfl, 409,1)07 to this country. Chili, in which country Mr. Seward is particularly anxious that we should suffer the virtuous and disoreet Kilpatrick to remain as an envoy of the first frank, dealt with us iu 1802 to the extent of J,7lt mo. exports and imports, all told, and including the trade of California as well as of our Atlantic porta. In the Fame year a British consul-general aud charge d'affaires was found ampiy anie to look altar a BritiBh commerce with Chill amouutiue to fe21.4S8.000. while French diplomat of the same rank satiefaoto rily pioteoted a French commerce with Chill Of 4,4,000. It is clear, is it not, in the faoe of these figures, that, if ministers shonld he nronor tional to exports and Imports, nothing can be more absurd than for the United States to ineist on sending diplomats of a higher rank than England and Fiance to Chili or Urueuay or l'eru ? But Mr. Seward's test is as incorrect intrin eically a it is in the applications he makes of it. The true measures of the powers with which the United States should clothe their diplomatic representatives ought to be the political as well as the commercial lmportanoe ef our relations with the oountries to whtoh we send them, and our greater or less facility of communication with those oountries. We send ministers of the first rank to England and France, because our political as well as our commercial relations with those oountries are of the first consequence, though suoh of late years have become our facilities of com munication with both of them, that the im portance to us of maintaining in either plenipotentiary representative has been greatly diminished. With the South American republics we have no political relations grave enough to make it worth while for us to maintain there repre sentatives of equal rank with those whom we send to States which are constantly exerting a Berious influence upon the current political history of our times, while such have become cur facilities of rapid communication between those republics aud Washington since Califor nia came into the Union and the Panama Rail way was opened, that it is quite unnessary for us to do more than maintain at two or three leading centres diplomatic agents of a respect able grade, competent to keep the home gov ernment accurately aud promptly informed of what is going on about them, and to exert a ceneial supervision over the decaying but still considerable intercourse of the I'nited States with the southern continent. This intercourse we say is "decaying." This is the lamentable truth. To take but a single example: Our trade with Peru, which appears in 1 bG-1 at no more thau a million of dollars, amounted in 1S."3 to more thau ive millions. In the same year, Eugland did a business of less than $15,000,000 France did a business of less than $4,000,000 with the same conntry. Now, as we have seen, the English trade with Peru is more than twenty and the French tra le more than ten times as large as our own. What we have lost, Eugland and France have gained. If we desire to recover our ground, the way to do so is not to waste our money ou diplo matic parade. abroad, but to reform our polioy and to change our rulers at home. The rimns of the Alaskn Cake. From" Brick" Tomer oy's N. Y. Democrat. The radical press has been very adroit in hushing up all reference to the Alaska swin dle, by which some lucky brethren of the God-and-morality party must have pocketed among them over two millions of dollars. A gentleman by the name of Martin declares himself ready to show the committee of Con gress where all this sum went to. Ilis story is, that a gentleman whose evieence may be forthcoming, called on Baron Stoeckl soon after the appropriation was made by Con gress, and saw ou tbe Russian Minister's desk a dralt for 5, COO, 000, and the Baron presented it to him for inspection. The gentlemau asked what it was for, and ou being told that it wa3 to pay for Alaska, he replied: "Bat this is only for $5,000,000; I thought the United States were to pay 87,200,000." "JN'o," re plied the Russian baron, "that is all we asked for the territory vou Yankees got all the rest." It is said that a gentlemau employed in the State Depaitment to translate documents fioiu foreign languages made the discovery of a list oi wormy radical members ot l oncress. lobbyists, and pious brethren of the dead raison Lincoln's church, who were the bene ficiaries of this little swindle. This gentle man Las been sent to Mexico on some errand, but he will be back, and Congress can, if it wants to, find out all about this patriotic and characteristic radical fraud. The following is a portion of the list above referred to: To an ex public printer, JoOO'i; to a near rela tive ot the Gnat Commoner, 8 l'l.OOO; to an ex Comuiissiouer oi Pension, glo.OUl); to the Watm itigton correspondent of a New YTork radloal morning paper, 83UU0; to a Wellington corres pondent who is on the list as belonging to the Jhrold, but who is known to be attaohed to tt Cincinnati paper, 810,000; to a conservative morning paper in Jialtlmore, t20.000; to the Washington epeclul correspondent of tue same paper, 8"0 (); to a Chicago Democratic morning peper, $5000; to a representative of the Jones lamuy, siu.uil); to an liiistevn Senator wro had Influence with a prominent Journal. 820 000: and the Kantern member before alluded to as No. 1. 8200,000; to Eastern member No. 2. SlVUHiO. The diplomatic chief fell heir to 8a -00,00, ;and the great ting of the New York lobby, who bad the general management of the Job, received the modest little sum of 8 .00,000. This accounts for the business-like visita tions of Thurlow Weed to Washington, about the time of the Alaska negotiations. And it will be remembered by the reader that there was a hint at the time that a near friend of the "Great Commoner," old Thad., had re ceived a big plum out of the Alaska cake. Tbe "conservative morning paper in Balti more," whioh got a plum of $20,000 weight, we suppose was the Sun, unless the asthmatio and wheezing old American could fool the lobby into the idea tbat it had a grain of intlu ence with somebody. Which of the "New York radical morning papers" received the 5000 plnm f If it was the Tribune, we expect brother Greeley to make a clean breast of the dirty job, and tell us all he Knows about it; but if it was the Times, or the World, the public will, we fear, never be any wiser thau ft now is on that subject. We must not look for repentance in such impenitent sheets. There is but one Democratic paper whioh is down as having received a plum out of this charming cake, and that has baen sometimes accused of possessing an easy and pliable virtue in the seductive presence of gold. Tie amiability, the decidedly more than sweet-tempered committee of Congress, which pretended to be investigating this fraud, are ominously sueni nay, indeed, lootishiy so; for they ought to pretend to be doing some thing. 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Toriiu'i rvBK malt whisht, TODNU'S riJBE MALT WIIIftKT. Therein noanratlon relative to tbe anerlti of tbe celebrated Y. P. M. It la the mrm quality of Whtiky, niaunlactarea Irora Id a dps grain anoroea dv las Vhllnclmnhla market, and It Is sold at tbe low rate of i" er gallon, or f 1 SS per quart, at tbe salesroom, ISO. 300 rASSlUSK KOAU. U B 2t FILLLAIlKLfHIA. QAR STAIRS & tTScOALL, Nos. 128 WA.LMJT and 21 tiltAMTE Sts, IM POSTERS OV Urandlcs, Wlnca, tilu, Olire Oil, Etc Et&. WHOLESALE DEALERS xY rUKK It YE WHISKIES, iy BOND AND DUTY PAID. 4 11 MEDICAL. 11IIEXJMA.XI2tI, IV AS U II A LGIA. Warranted rerinanenllj Cured. Warranted Fcrwanenllj Cured. Without Injury to the System, Without Iodide, Potassla, or Colchicuni lij Using Inwardly Only DR. FITLER'S WHEAT RHEUMATIC BEJIEDY, For RheumoHiftn and Neuralgia in all its form. Tbe only standard, reliable, positive, Inralllbl per maoeut cure ever discovered. It Is warranted to ooo tain nothing hurtful or Injurious to tbe system. WARRANTED TO CUEK OB MONEY REFTJNDKD WARRANTED TO (JURK OR aiONKf REF UNDED Thousands ot Philadelphia reforenoes of cures. Pre pared at Ko. 2 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, 822stuthtl BELOW MARKET. JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, ETO. ESTABLISHED 1823. flOLIDlY PRESENTS. WATCUKS, JEWELRY, CXAJCKS, SILVERWARE, and FANCY GOOD Q. W. RUSSELL, HO. 22 A0KTU SIXTH STKEKT, 0 21 PHILADELPHIA. GROCERIES, ETC. "TIIITE CLOVER HONEY, BETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT, EX1RA. MESS MACKEREL. ALBEBT . ItOlMOKT, Sealer In Flue Groceries, 11 7Jrp Cor. ELEVENTH and VINE Streets. FOR RENT. R R W T. rKEHISES, K0. 809 CUESXUT SU, rVH 8101111 OB OEPTCB. ALSO, OFF1CKH AMD LARUE BOOSTS Suitable lor a commercial uoiiege. Apply at -tilt BANK i THE REPUBLIC. GENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS. H. 8. K. G. Harris' Seamless Kid Gloves. EVEBY PAIB WABBARTED, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS YOR GENTS' GLOVES J. W. SCOTT A CO., 27trp HO. 814 CUENMDT MTBKiKT. DAIESI B II O U LDBK-BBAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE. PERFECT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS made lloui measurement at very short notice. All other article, of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS lu full variety. WINCHESTER & CO., 11 No.70 CHESNDT Street. PATENTS. CFFICE FOR PROCURING PATENTS, FORREST BUILD1NUS, Xo. 110 South FOURTH Ht. FMladelpkla, AND MARBLE BUILDINGS, No. o BEVKNTH Bireet, opposln U. S. Patent Ofhce, Washluvtiiu. D. C H. HOWtON. So.loitorot Pateula, V. HOWHO.N, Attorney at Law. CommnnlcatlpnH 10 be addressed to ibe frltnlp Olhctt. Pnilauelphta. ) m jm STOVES, RANGES, ETC. NOT1CE.-THE UNDERSIGNED would call tbe attention of tbe public to hla MvW GULDEN EAGLE KUKNAUK. This 1. an eutirulv new iirhut. it u nnn. lUuuted as to at once commend Ittelt to general favor, being a combination ol wrought aud cant iron. Ills very simple lu its coutttruuiiun, and la perfectly alr tlkht; aelt-cletinlng, bavlngtno Mpeti or drums to be u.ken out and elf aned. It is so arranged Willi upright Uuw utto produce a larger amount of heat from "lie same weight of coal than any furnace now la use. Tbe bygiometlo condition ot the air us produced by my new arrangement ol evaporation wilful once dt tiioui irate tbat It la ti e only Hot Air Eurnaoe thai w ill produce a perelctly healthy attuoHphere. Inofceln wuutoi a numplute Het!ug Apparatus would do well to call and examine the Golden Eagle. CHARLES WILLIAMS, Bos. 1182 ana im MARKET Htreel. . , Philadelphia. . A large assortment ot Cooking Rangus, fire-board Kovtu, Low Down Grates, Veutiiatora, etc, always on baud N. L. Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. S 10 THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER or EURCfEAN RANGE, for 'families, botel.. or public institutions, lu TKM) VihbEH KM' SIZES, Also. 1'ln'adnliibia Ranges, Grku. FfrXX B.ov7 B.-b Roller.. H:ew-hoJ; ... L. l..rtulllA 11,'lLlt.rH. I A3 W -11 J W II s- I t tin nillivn. INJb li'B wholesale and retail, by the uisuulnourt & THOMpsoNi 11 S6wfm6m No. 0 N. SECOND Street O B n B X C H A haO Jf AJWUJf AOTOltY. N O 1 i o H N T. S A I L E T. IB K oornei Ol MARKET and WATER Slrtvts ; DEALERS IN BAGS AND BAGGING Of every description, ftr Grain, Elour, bait, buper.rwpbale ol Lime. Ron, Dust, Kua. Large and small UUNIN Y BAGS ccBAtajitly ocCbanf Alan, WWL iAttJLd, SHIPPING. .jffjfgr; LOEILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LIN 8 FOR NEW YORK. Sad eg Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturday, at noon, Tne winter rates ai wmou iireigm u now taken Is SO oenU per 100 pounds, gross, ( cents per foot, or t cents per gallon, ship's option The Line la now prepared to contract for spring rates lower than by any other route, commencing on March 15, law. Advance charges cashed at oUlce on Pier, freight ecel?ed at HI times on covered wharf. 1 18 6m Her 19 North Wbsrves. N, li. Extra ratoi on small packages Iron, mjKaja, eto. FOR LIVEKI'OOL AND QUEENS TOWh.-iuui.u Line of Mail aiv appointed to sttll as follows: Ci 1 i vsv imtima, oMuru.r, reurusrj B. CITY OF COKK, Tuesday. February . CITY OF PARl, f-aturuay, reoruorj is, t i l Y OF AN i WEKP, Saturday, Feoruary go, ETNA, TueHday. 1-eOiuitry 4. CITY OF l.OttDON. Saturday, Jaauary 30. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tuesday, at 1 P, M., trom Flor 46, Norm River. KATES OF PASSAGE HY TH It ST UA Mil a SAll.lfU LVinr BAl'UUOAK, Payable In Gold. 1-ttyable lu Currency, FIRST CABIN $100 ! 13TKEH A UE A'J to Loudon , iio to lA)iioon....... H) to Paris Ilo to Paris ... 47 raSBAUlC BV TUB TUiLHDAK BTKaMKB VIA H U4JL, riltHT CAllIM, bTKKHAUf. ' Payable in Gold. Payable In Uurreucy. Liverpool........ o;Llveriool , liHiliiix... tialiux 1 St. John's, N. F 1 Joint's, i. F. 1 ... by Branch Stealer.... I y .Branch steamer... J Passengers also fcrwarded to Havre, Haaibuxg,'Brs men, etc., at reuueeu rate. '1 ickets cau be ljjuki.t her? by persons sending for tlielr lriends, at lauUm ate rates. i or further Information apply at tbe Company's Otlices. JIU1N G. DALE. Agent, No. 15 BROADWAY, N. Y. Or to 0'iOiNj.NjXi A FAULK, AKeuts. Ko. ill CHLSNUT Strut t, PnUaUelphla. '0ft, ONLY DIRECT LINK.Tu KRANQB, Alii!. CtvxNERAL TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY'S MAIL STEAAielLU'S BETWEEN NEW fUJiK and Havre, calling at jikkst. The splendid 1 y vessuiB om tola lavorita route for the Continent will tall fruiu Pier ISO. in North river. tin lfiiliiur.,- hb ioiIuwm: ST. LAC RENT Brocande... Y1LLE DE PARxCm .Surmoui.... ILRE1KE Duchesne., ..Saturday, Oct. 3 ...Saturday, Oct. 17 ..saturuay, Got. 11 PRICE OF PASSAGE In gold (Including wine), TO BREoi' OR HAVRE, First Cabin U0 cecoud Cabin. . 'lu 1'AltlS. (Including railway ticket, lurnlshed on board) First tabia.. U6 I Second cubin fgs Thet,e ultauieiti uu loi carry steeiage pasaeugexsa Medical attendance iiee ol charge. American travellers going to or returning from the cobtliii ut 01 juirop. by trtktng the aiejuiurs of th s line avoid unutceosary riiks irom transit oy English railways aud crooning tue cuaunei, besidea saving t.me, truubiu, aud expense. GEORGE MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 68 BKOAL WAV.New YOU. For passage lu l'nliadelphla, apply at Adams' Express Company, to 11. L. LEAF, 1 H7ii No. 820 CH ESS U f Street. PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND BfeueMsCSM AND NORFOLK STEAM SU IP LINE AXiikOCGH i HEIGHT AIR LINE TO THA bOUTH AND WEST. AttM EVERY SATURDAY, At nbon. from FIRST WHAJ&F above MARKET Street. "jha '1 ii. ROUGH KATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS to all points In North ana eouth Carolina, via b&! ouaro. Air Line Railroad, connecting at Purtamouui aud to Lynchburg, Va., Teunesatte, aud the West wi. Virginia and Teuueuutjrf Air Line and Blcumond'and Danville Railroad, mmt Irelgbt HANDLED BUT OKCK, and taken LOW ER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LISA The regularity, satety, aud cheapness of this root, commend It to tbe puolio as tue most desirable m. diniu for carrying every description of freight. No charge for uoiumuuilon, dray age, or any axnoiu. Ol trausler. Steamships Insured at lowest rates. Freight received dally. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 11 Nor:h and Somh WHAIiVEH. Poluu ABe"t ' Blohmoud and City T. P. CROWELL it CO.. Agents at Norfolk. I u SN Shw EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX. at,jiAtofla. andria. Georgetown, and Washington i. c., via Cheaaueaku and Delaware canal, with con.' nectloDs at Alexandra from the most direct rout. iorjjinvhbutt, Jirutol, KnoxvlUe, NashTUle, Dalloa and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noaa from tbe lint wbarl awia Market street. Jfrelght received dally. .. . WM. p. OLYBE A OO,, No, 14 JSorth and South W bar Tea. J. B. DAVIDSON, Agent at Georgetown. fil. ELD RIDGE it Co., Agent at Alexandria, Vlr. ginla. 1 1 NdTirtf VCllt V c tit tyjlDSLAW AiiE AND KAFTAN CAL The Steam Propellers of this line leava iiattv from first wharf below Mariet street. DAILY THROUGH IN 24 HOURS. Goods jorwarded by all the lines going oat ot York. North, Eaut, and Weal, froe of commission. Freights received at our usual low rates. WILLIAM P.. CLYDE & CO.. Agents. JAMES HAND,' en' "'ft Ko. Hi) WALL Street, corner of Saith, New York blIZj FOR NEW YORK SWIFT-SUM -tc-1J--rl Company Despatch uU bwlit-Biire Lines, via Delaware and Barltaa Canal, on and after tbe 1Mb of March, leaving dally ai 12 M. aud 6 P, M connecting with all northern auA Eastern lines, For freight, which will be taken on aooommrKlaUn terms, apply to WILLIAM M. HA1RD AGO.. 1 U No. Lii S. DELAWARE AvenM, GOVERNMENT SALES. gALB OF GOVERNMENT VESSEL. DEPUTY QUABTkRM aetkr-Gknvrais Opficb. ) ,, Biltibokk, Md.. Jn. as, 189. 1 The United Sta' steamer COLONEL RUOKER will be oiler eu at public sale at th- p. rt of iiUlu7r. at 12 o'clock, noon, on WEDNESDAY, February 10 lbtitt. This vessel Is a ' IU' PROPELLER. of S41 ee-f5 tons; length. Hi iet; breadth t2 1 10 reef feel 01 8 dr"' UhU ,ee,; 10ed, i she bas one direct-acting low-pressure engine t2x 21 Inches) of to boise power, aud one boiler. The bull is ot iior., cov. rsd with 2'i-lucu white oak and pine plunk. 'I ho bull and boiler war recently repaired at an expense of three thousand dollars. All tbe property on board tl-a rightly belomra to tier outfit will be sold with the vernal, she ili well found In every respect and ready lor Immediate The right Is resfrved 10 r. Ject any and all bids for cuse deemed sufficient by the undersigned. Tne vessel is no-v lylctf at the bead of sPKAR'a WHARF (foot ol Gav street, where tbesale will tka place, aud Is open to inspection by those desirlus to beet me bidder. Terms Cain In Government funds nn day of sal p STEWART VAN V LIE V. TK,uty Uuar'.ermaiier-GHuer!. t and Brevet MJor Ueuerl V, tJ. Army. FUBL1C SALE Dame Store. of condemned ord- A lare quantity tf C ncmnel Ordnanc and Ord nance Stores will o- fll'e-ed 1-r ra a, P, bno Auo- UVyJwSSa'S 1;Uk') AINAL. Illinois, on W-I4NE8DAi, April 7,119, at 10 o'clock A. M. Tbe followugcompribetisouie ol the principal arti cles to be si Id, vz.:- lii Iro i Cannon, various calibres. 1UA) Field Carri.t r. and 1.1 jjbers. lbn letioly rtl. ery aruets, ln.U'U poundn Shot aud btie.li. 4.v(G0briBof Imaiiiry Accoutrements. 22(0 WcClellnn t-adtlles. 7UI A rtlilerv Caddies. 2 O0 Halters. 7to Saddle Blanket". 611 Watering BNdls. 4ti Cavalry C'O' b Bndl.i "2uo Attn eryN raws and Hames. IVrsoni wlshln cauiosuea ol the Stores to be soiu ran obtain ihoin by ar.pl cation 10 the Cniet of Orl earce at Wasulnu'ioii. D. C or Brevet Oolon ! b. tiimpIN. United Slate Army, PaicnaHiug OIU !r .orner vt HOUSTON andGRKEM 8 reels, New York 1 11 r. or upon application at th s Arnenal. ttiy.urup r T. J. RODMAN, Lieutenant-colonel Ordimuce, Brevet Brlgdlt r-Generl TJ. 8. A , Cooimandi ig. Bock island Arsenal, January 25, lata. j so tA7 O0Cf"f REMOVED TO mi BELOW THE UNITED 8TATE3 MINlt M A I I JU 1 V, V lL, AAA1 A. NEW MUSIU BTOKE, KO. 1817 CHEKIUTT BT.. above THiUTHENT PHILADELPHIA. A Muslo Pnbllenerg, ana jJealerg in Musical Mer chaiidl&e of every Description. JOHN MAKHH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AGENT wlra FOR THE SALE OK THE BEST GOLD AND B1LVER WATCHE DIRECT F ROM EUROPE CHEAPEHT IN THE WOULD. No. 1817 CHE8NUT BTREKT 128 tnthg 2m IN THE WtSo bVqRE, ll.,.SZy.CKYJ.,,d MISSOURI LOTTERIES.' Si'1JBJr''u,.nd 'nloruiatlou given. JOSEPH OmcBo "iV" "WA1.WA.V. lU VorkPo?
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