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The Congress oijul euiluiH, it la wll known,
has been the frare oi many l-iilliant reputa
tions, and must lu uiLtlj hauuted by the
ghosts of thousand if j.litto1iiiis, and of tens
of tb.on-.an4B if otli !-se..-keM who vet wearllj
glide through hall and chamber and vestibule,
presenting eighties petitions, aud iuaudibly
appealing to invisible couiuiiUs. It baa
not, however, bu generally known that Jar
below the busy aud bustling scene was a
tenantleBB tomb, with a lonesome guardian,
who for forty years, by the liht of a solitary
gas burner, has vigilantly kept ward over
nothing at all, and saved from deseoratiou
the awiul emptiness of that expectant vault.
This receptable was intended for the bones
of the Illustrious Washington, but as they
were never brought to It from the family
sepulchre at Mount Vernon, we can easily
understand how immeasurable must have
been the national re.'pect for that mighty
memory, since we have paid such honors
to a plaoe in whih the Father of his
Country, to speak with potential accu
racy, might, could, would, or should have
been buried. Unfortunately, this method of
keeping np a posthumous dignity never came
to the ears of our own City Fathers, for If it
bad but dote so, we should have had in this
metropolis at least six Tombs of Washington,
with the most ponderous and expensive mar
ble jaws, and with six faithful Democrats
maintaining a Blumberless vigil over six
imaginary sets of bones. Every year the
salaries of these loyal sacristans might have
been raised. Every year there might have
been fresh appropriations for keeping in good
repair these mysterious Bhrines. Alas! It be
oomes more and more evident to us, great as
we think ourselves in that branch of human
knowledge, that we have not yet mastered the
elements ef offioe-hol iing, and have but a
leeble conception of the inoomputable re
sources of jobbery 1
If we aesume that, the keeper of the Wash
ington crypt has but done his daty, how re
markable his life ! His business could ouly
have been to keep some evil-disposed body
from getting itself surreptitiously buried in
this privileged restiDg-place. lie may, at
stated hours, have emerged, de profundi, for
the purpose of getting his dinner or drawing
his salary; but after any prolonged abandon
ment of his post, he might have come back
to find an intrusive cadavre ensconced there
by forcible entry and detainer, and not to be
ejeoted by aot of Congress. Then we should
have had the Hon. Mr. Smith rising to a privi
leged question, and asking his friend,
the honorable Chairman of the Committee on
Public Buildings, if he knew anything of
the wretch who had got hi die elf buried in
the orypt. Then a bill would have
been brought in for the immediate
exhumation of the intruder. Upon
this there would, of course, have been
a latitudinoas and a longitudinous debate.
Honorable gentlemen would have taken differ
ent views of the matter, some of them think
ing all resurreutionizing to be unconstitutional,
Borne of them calling for the opinion of the
Supreme Court, some of them proposing a
board of commissioners to superintend the
removal, and some of them embracing the op
portunity to make speeches upon the tariff
and the cnrrency. We are satisfied, if any
body had thus got into the crypt, that it would
nave taken not less than live years of legisla
tion to get it out, to say nothing of the faot
taat after such a desecration it would have
been impossible, by the liveliest stretch of
fanoy, to suppose the genuine and original
Washington to be slumbering in the place pre
pared for him. The charming fiction would
nave faded into prosaic commonplace. The
irreverent would have had their jokes; the
uraagnnaa would nave howled their eoononit
oal protests in either house; the crypt would
have been made a coal-hole, or a store-room
for publio documents; and the venerable
keeper of the crypt, his occupation eone,
might have crawled into his old quarters for
the last time, and there have expired, with his
bead pillowed upon a bundle of General But
ler's speeches.
' Whether with or without a foresight of this
lamentable consummation, the Ueneral, we
, observe, has moved to abolish the solitary in
, the cellar. After his forty years of watching,
after hla waiting all that time for the arrival
of the remains, until his heart has grown sick
with hope deferred, we are to discard this ex-
, emplary omoer, in whom
' appears
The constant service of the antique world."
This will never do. We must not thus con
firm the adage which declares that republics
are ungrateful. We propose the immediate
erection in Washington of tombs for every
' President we have ever had. with a particu
larly large and handsome one for Mr. Johnson
a tomb in which he can stand erect (under
ordinary circumstances) and make a speeoh
whenever, as Mrs. Gamp says, he is "so dis
posed. " And when all these places are ready,
let them be confided to the keeping of the old
gentleman in the basement, with the promise
of a beautiful mausoleum for himself, if he
should ever need it 1
Tlie Cohesive Power ol Public riuiiJer."
From the N. T. Heru'.a.
"The principles of the party, sir," said
Randolph of Roanoke, in days long by, "the
vrinoiplea of the party are seven the five
loaves and the two nshes." "The party of
the administration," said Calhoun, on a later
occasion. "I am warned, is a cohesive party,
So it is, Mr. President; for it is held together
by the cohesive power of the publio plunder.
. This is the bond of all political parties, and
never has the truth of Randolph's pungent
remark or Calhonu s been bo forcibly illus
trated as in the cohesive character of the
party now in power; for never has the publio
plunder been so enormous, so lavishly used
. or so strong in binding diverse factions, cliques
ana rings as in the common cause of the spoils.
It is only the old story from Holy Writ that
-wuere tue carcass is there will the vultures
- be catuertd tocether "
Randolph's remark of the seven principles,
it we are not mutagen, was applied to the
administration of John Quincy Adams, the
total expenditures or which civil, Judicial,
diplomatic, army, and navy were about
thirteen millions a year. Calhoun's anhnriam
was applied to the Democratic party, under
Van Buren, when all the regular disburse
ments of the Government and piokiuea an.l
1 t&lintra nut tocether did not much ex.itwd
. thirtv-rlve millions a year; and yet the financial
disasters, with the official corruptions and
spoliations of Van Daren's administration.
1 Tesnlted In the overwhelming Democratic de
feat of 1840: for the "cohesive power of the
publio plunder" among the Democratic politi
' clans produoed a general revolt among the
people. But what a bagatelle was the sum of
the Government expenses of thirty-five or
forty millions a year, with no natioual debt
and no direct national taxes, UHier Van
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Bnred, compared with our present magnlfloent
figures of national expenses and stealings of I
lonr or five hundred millions a year, with our
national debt of twenty-five hundred millions
and our direct national taxes of two or three
hundred millions I A suggestive oontrast this
to the tax-payers of the United States.
What a mine ! What abounding plaoers of
greenbacks, gold and diamonds, silks, satins,
and laces, fine houses, fast women, and fast
horses are here for the Treasury rings of
manipulators and gamblers in gold, bonds,
and Blocks; for the whisky rings, railroad
rings, custom house plundering rings, Indian
Itureau ring?, and for all the holy alliance of
last men and fast women, of law-makers,
lftw-breakers, contractors, and lobby-jobbers I
llnudreds of millions of money are still in
tbete rich placers for the spoilsmen, though
hundreds of millions have been taken out aud
dividtd among the confederate Treasury rob
bers. Here we meet the beast with seven
beads and ten horns face to face. Here are the
labors of Hercules awaiting the President
elect. Here is Bunyan's picture of Christian
and Apoll.Ton. Here lies the diflioulty at the
threshold between General Grant and the
Senate on. the Tenure-ef Office law in any
shape you please. But there is no tear that
he will lly off at a tangent from the Republi
can (Chicago) platform; no fear that he will
try the game of Captain Tyler against the
financial bills of Congress, or the "policy" of
Andy Johnson against the reconstruction
laws or negro suffrage. There is no fear that
if relieved from the restrictions of the Tenure-of-Office
law he will turn honest men out of
office in order to put rogues in their places.
Nor do we suppoEe that General Blair himself,
though he sticks to it, really entertains the
absurd tomfoolery that our greatest danger
is that General Grant will establish a protec
torate or an empire ou the ruins of the repub
lic by following the example of Cromwell, or
that of Napoleon the First or INapoleon the
Third.
No tuch fears or doubts as these are enter
tained among the radical managers of the
Senate. But still they are afraid of General
Grant. They are afraid that he really means
retrenchment and reform; that he will not un
derstand that all such notions are claptrap and
humbugs, and are thrown out only as the tub
to amuse the whale. And so they intend to
hold his removals from office subject to the
consent of the Senate. Otherwise, if he were
restored to the Executive status of Lincoln he
might reduce in a few months scores of thiev
ing radical omce-holdHrs, with the hundreds
of their outside friends and col federates, to
bankruptcy, in breaking up their specula
tions. We dare say, for instance, that au in
telligent and honest Secretary of the Treasury
of Grant's own way of thinking, and free to
act, could in six months briug gold down as
low, perhaps, as fltteen per cent, premium,
and thus save millions upon millions, hun
dreds of millions, to the Treasury of the peo
ple, by Bimply breaking up the lreasury
manipulators and pet brnkeis aud gold gam
blers of Wall Etreet. But now many faena
tors, with their cousins, ana nephews, and
favorites, and sharers of the spoils, would be
among the losers r Who can tell r
Here, then, the continuance oi the lennre-
of-Ollke law has a praoU al meaning: for it
may serve to restrain even an nonest secre
tary of the Treasury in the use ot the guillo
tine, for fear of a rnnipns with the senate
But, again, iook at tne wuisxy rings me
dealers in contraband whisky. They have a
lobby fund far exceeding the capital of the old
United States Bank, which turned the country
upside down in its death struggle with Gene
ral Jackson, a uou, iaiiiiiai, ana ieariess
Internal Revenue Commissioner, in General
Grant's way of doing business, within a few
weeks In overhauling his revenue subordi
nates might astonish the country with his uu-
ii .- i i Li .i - ii'. : 1 - i :
earimsg oi lawless wuiskjt cmoiaia, wiiioay
stills, and whisky dealers, But under tne
Tenure-of-Office law the President must sub
mit bis removals to the Senate, and if Senator
John Doe or Richard Roe has a friend thus in
danger ha may say to other Senators, "Save
my man and I will assist in saving yours;"
for has not this plan of operations become a
common practice under Andy Johnson in con
tinuations and rejections? Is the Senate
honest f k Collector Smy the.
What, then, can General Grant do under
this Tenure-of-Offlce law? Let him do his
duty and turn out the rogues wherever he
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finds them, submitting nis reasons 10 me
Senate, and let the responsible majority of
that body play him laise n they aare. xne
country will sustain him; the people
expeot him to do ms auty, no matter wnere
the blow may fall. We are satisfied, too, that
he will meet the work before him without
flinching, and that herein lie the doubts, fears,
and misgivings that shake the faith of the
radical camp.
General Grant aud the OlUce-Seekers.
From the N, T. 2'mt.
The scramble for office has begun. Aspi
rants are bestirring themselves. Applications
for place are in brisk circulation for signa
tures. Members of Congress are importuned
for their "iniluence," but they are themselves
as yet too fearful that they won't have any,
to be very active or very profuse even in
promises. But the political liive is in com
motion, and 1b likely to be kept bo for some
little time to come. '
One of the first things General Grant will
have to eettle as President, will be whether
members of Congress are to make the appoint
ments to office lor their respective districts,
or nut for this is really what is claimed on
their behalf. In form, of course, their claim
does not take this shape; they only demand
the rieht to recommend but they also de
mand that their recommendations shall be
accepted as decisive. They hold, in faot if
not in form, that it is their right to designate
the national officeholders for their districts;
that a President or head of department has
no right to look elsewhere for advice touching
his appointees; and that it is a personal slight,
as well us a political wrong, for him to do so.
We do not iu the least exaggerate the nature
of the claims put forward by members of Con
gress in this respect. We know of individual
cases in which they have been thus pressed,
in which members have thus claimed the
right of designating appointments, as belong
ing to their positions iu Congress and in the
party, and in which they have made the
refusal to allow tbem Xo do so ground of
political and personal quarrel with the offend
ing magnate.
That this claim will be made upon General
Giant with combined and impetuous vigor we
do not doubt. Will it be conceded t It would
not be strange if it should. It is an easy way
of etcaiing infinite trouble, averting a great
deal ot harassing animosity, and satisfying
those bustling people who call and probably
think themselves the parti. Most Presidents
practically have conceded the claim, and have
thought themselves happy if allowed tochoose
here and there a man for office one in a hun
dred or even a thousand to suit themselves.
And in this way thev have aeonred for them-
selveB what little peaoe and power they have
been permitted to enjoy. Will General Grant
follow their example ? Will he be content to
walk thus in the broad path of safe precedent,
nd hand over the most Important of his
powers and the most responsible of his duties,
In order to rid himself of its perplexities, to
the hands of others? If he does he may
seoure "peace" for himself, if not for the
oountry. If he does not, he may prepare for
a fight hotter and more embittered than any
he has yet encountered.
The power or thus making Kxeoutive ap
pointments has come to be altogether the
most important of the funotions of the average
Congressman. It makes him a great creature
with his constituents. It makes him the
great local Mogul of his party, the dispenser of
pnuuo pap to its Hungry hangers-on. it
makes him at once, within his district, the
great being who can reward his friends and
punish his enemies; and this, with party poli
ticians, is the nearest approach to omnipo
tence their Imaginations can conceive. Bat
they do not always content themselves with
these shadowy glories that thus attend upou
the power they claim; it has for many a
much more direct and tangible value. It is
capable of being coined into cash. offioaa are
sought throughout the world, including the
United Mates, because they are worth some
thing, because they bring) in revenue sala
ries, perquisites, tickings, "ohanoes;" and
for all these solid and substantial things he
muat be a very base-minded office-seeker who
is not willing to pay. There are members
of Congress who put a cash value on the
places they prooure for their friends, and who
demand its payment in acknowledgment of
their pervices for thus procuring them.
If General Graut or anybody else supposes
that a power of this sort at once so pleasing
and so proli table is to be surrendered without
a struggle, he mistakes the practical, pushing,
and pertinacious character of the American
Congressman.
Next coines the claim of papers letters of
reuommendation signed by thousands of active
and inlluential members of "the party" to
be deemed conclusive in matters ot appoint
ment. All the departments at Washington,
all the custom-houseR, post-offices, and other
public buildings of the land are crammed full
of them. The enterprising applicant usually
draws his letter np himself, has it legibly
copied, and hires as many persons as he cau
afford to carry it around for signatures. It
usually asserts that "we the undersigned"
have personally known the applicant for the
last live, ten, or htty years are intimately
acquainted with his life, habits, character,
and devotion to the interests of the party,
etc. etc., and hearing that he is spoken of as
a candidate for such an office, respectfully but
urgently request that he may be appointed.
The chances are tea t one that not one in
ten of those who are avked to sign this letter
ever eaw or heard ol ihe applicant, or even
knew before that there was such a perssn in
existence; yet every one is expected to sign it
as a matter ot course, au t as a general thing
they do. 1 hey have not the independence to
refuse nor the time to explain, and the favor
is but a small one, such papers having no
weight; so their names go on au.l the thing is
ended. This is the way m which such letters
of recommendation are usually procured
They eay but little, and that little is usually
false. 11 does not need much relleotion to
show that, as proof of fitness lor office, they
are absolutely worthless. Yet appointments
are constantly made on the strength of them,
and the appointing poiver uses them to excuse
what may prove to be a vtiy bad appoiutment
on his part.
The weakness of the whole thinx is appa
rent, and it ought not to bs diiilunit to uproot
a practice that has so little to recommend it.
Yet it is veri; difficult. A great deal is said to
excuse it. It is said to be the only way In
which the merits of the application aud the
wishes of the party can be made known to the
appointing power, who naturally must feel
grateful for information which he needs so
much.
What this mode of making appointments
has done for our civil service, we know to our
cost. Whether it can be reformed aud im
proved we are yet to learn. It is quite oer-
tain that the attempt to change it, in any
essential respect, will be fiercely and strenu
ously resisted by the combined interests which
thrive and trolH by It. Aud this is nut one
of the many ways in which the country will
be brought to a decisive test oi tne question,
whether it is governed by the will and for the
welfare of the great body of the people, or for
the profit and at the pleasure of special cliques
and combinations.
The Tennessee Conservatives.
From the N. T. Tribune.
We resently printed a letter to the editor of
this journal from several representative men
of the Tennessee conservatives, including ex
Governor Neil S. Brown and ex-Senator Henry
S. Foote. The other signers, though not so
widely known, are equally respeoted and in
fluential at home. We ask for it the thought
ful regard of all who heartily unite in General
Grant's aspiration "Let us have Peace."
The novel feature in this letter is its full
concurrence in the position we proclaimed
long ago, that universal amnesty and impar
tial suffrage are each desirable and necessary
of itself, and not merely as a counterpoise to
the other. When we declared, in November,
18GG, that we favored universal amnesty at all
events, we did not mean, and did not imagine
that we could be supposed to mean, that we
would In any case abandon our advocacy of
impartial suffrage. We meant only that, if
there had never been a slave nor a negro in
the land, we should have stood for universal
amnesty as wise and beneficent; that we did
not propose a dicker, nor support universal
amnesty merely because we desired impartial
suffrage, but because we deemed it wise and
right.
The only practical question is that of time.
No man who evcu pretends to statesmanship
can doubt that enfranchisement is destined to
be universal. It is virtually Battled already
that the blacks are to vote iu spite of their
color. Who believes that a large class of
whites are to be left under the ban for ever
Those disfranchised for participation in the
Rebellion are inevitably superior in intelli
gence, in political experience, and even in
general ability, to their enfranchised neigh
bors. Can the pyramid stand on its apex tor
ever? Do we not need whatever capacity
we have r Have we not a right to its freest
use ? And how can it be eaid that A. or B. is
the choice of his district for Congress or of his
State for Governor, if a large portion of the
people can neither vote nor be voted for?
And (in short) since every one who knows
anything must know that the removal of the
existina disabilities U a question of time only,
wbv not settle it at once, and tive peace to
the country ?
Ihir Own (Jolihvlii Smith.
From the Xf. X. World.
We have never vet been able to determine
the precise measure of obligation which we
owe to the people of Kugland for their self-
aV.na'crntlnn in irnilttinfl' themselves tO be
derived of the counsel and Instruction of
that eminently earnest and philosophical po
Httf.nl 'nnii 'moral teacher. Mr. Goldwiu
Smith, and In consenting to the transfer of
that bright and shining light to the shores of
this hemisphere, flir. uoiawm omuu
is termed in England a "Democrat," and, as
w Lave no end of Democrats iu America, to
Bend another here, as a special favor, is rather
too mu h like adding sweets to the sweet, to
sav uotbine of the fact that Knslish "Demo-
ww w
orats," after landing In America, are gene
rally observed to be transformed into the
similitude and likeness of red or blaok Ite-
Enblioans a change whioh some observers
ave attributed, perhaps without suffiolent
grounds, to the effeots of the mal de mer,
whioh is known to bring many hidden things
to light, and which has been observed to
change the lily-white complexion of a prima
donna to a ghastly bottle-green. Nor have
we been greatly aided in the determination
of the question of whether England's loss
by the migration of Mr. Goldwiu Smith has
equalled our gain, by the perusal of an epistle
lately addressed by that gentleman to the
"Workinemen of Iceland." through, the
columns of the Hr.ehivc, a trades-union journal
oi London, do far are we from being enlight
ened by this letter, that it has befogged us in
an entirely new class or speculations arising
from the suspicions which it awakens that,
had the workingmen aforesaid been a little
more democratic in Mr. Goldwiu Smith's ac
ceptation of that word he 'would have re
mained in their midst to bless them; and that
It has only beeu because they were, in his
opinion, hopelecsly given over to "beer and
bribery," and were willing to be led like
voting cattle to the polling-booths by the
Plutocracy, who have taken the plaoe of
the old aristocracy, that he has forsaken
them to come to this happier clime, where
beer, when drank at all, is heroically paid
for by the consumer, where bribery is
wholly unknown, and where it is noto
riously much easier for a rich man to
pass through the eye of a needle than to be
elected to Congresi under any circumstances
whatsoever, our legislators being invariably
select. d from the laboring classes those en
gaged iu that arduous toil; known as "pipe
laying" being especially favored our Presi
dents always being rail-splitters, tailors,
or tanners. It appears that, had there
been the slightest hope of bringing about
such a state of things as this in England,
Mr. Goldwin Smith would have remained
there to aid in the work; but that, as the case
was a wholly hopeless one, he resolved
not to wear out his life in fruitless toil.
The recent election in Great Britain, he de
clares, so far from being a victory of demo
cracy, was only a triumph of money; the
House of Commons is more than ever the
rich man's club; no wise man can expect
any gcod thing to come from such a legisla
ture; the extension of the suffrage, from
which such mighty results were to How,
has placed the Government of the oountry
more firmly than ever iu the bauds of the
nobles and the rich parvenues; the new elec
tors have not only failed to send even a single
mt niber of their own class to represent them,
but they have permitted the few old members
who entertained pronounced democratic
opinions to be expelled from their seats. True,
Mr. Goldwin Smith thinks that all this was
but natural the new electors were like Adam
in the garden; the woman tempted him and
he did eat; the rich men in England dangled
tfce "almighty pound" before the eyes of the
newly-enfranchised, and straightway they
voted the wrong ticket. The most alarm
ing part of the business is that, unlike
Adam, they are not ashamed, probably be
cause they are not naked, but are newly clad
In garments bought with the "h -pun' notes"
thiust by kid-gloved fingers into their horny
palms. And although the Lord punished
alike tne tempter and the tempted, Mr.
Goldwin Smith thinks it so entirely in accord
with the instincts of English human nature
that a poor man should sell his vote to the
highest bidder, that he has no words of con
demnation for the bribed, and reserves all his
wrath for the bribers. Something may possi
bly be done, he thinks, by substituting the
t aiiot lor open voting, "tne aoontion ot those
nests of venality, the small boroughs" (one
of which nests, by the way the little bor
ough of F'rome elected Mr. Thomas Hughes,
the only man who, by any stretch of imagina
tion, may be called a workingman's member),
and the transfer of the expenses of elections
from the candidates to the rates. But, after
all this is done, there will be little hope of a
reiorm, since "no legislation can alter the
charaoter of the people;" and how miserable
and venal that character is. Mr. Goldsvin
Smith has already explained.
Having thus delivered himself on general
suljeots, Mr. Goldwin Smith descends to
personal themes. He explains why he was
not mmseii a candidate at the late election.
"Either a Tory or a professing Liberal" no
genuine Liberal, of course, would have op
posed him would have run against him:
and I could not have afforded to fight him
with my own money, and I could not have
brought myself to accept peouniary aid even
from the most generous hands. A
man is not bound to ruin himself, muoh less
to degrade himself, in Beeking it (a seat in
Parliament), and I could not have repre
sented the workingmen except on terms oon
sistent with their honor and my own." And,
moreover, had he been elected to Parliament,
be could have done his constituents no good,
for "being untrained to debate, I could not
have given even a forcible expression to
our views." There is no little meat to be
f.und in these few kernels. In the first place,
even with Mr. Goldwin Smith, it seems to be
all a mere matter of money. A seat in Par
liament is only to be bought. Could he have
"aflbided" the expenditure requisite to buy
the necessary number of voters, be does not
make it appear that any scruples of principle
wonld have stood in his way; as he could not
"afford" that expenditure out of his own
pocket, and could not bring himself to accept
"donations," as Mr. Odger and Mr. Hartwell
did, be let the seat go to the deuce, and
bonahthis ticket lor Zsew iork. To buy
seat at one's own expense, to a man of limited
wealth, is "ruin;" to buy one at the expense
of others is "degradation;" but for a very
wealthy man to buy one out his own pocket
is to represent a constituency on terms "con
eistent with the honor" of the represented and
the reprecentative. It this all be really true,
what in the name oi ccminon sense has Mr
Goldwiu Smith to complain of? From his
premises the c nclusion is inevitable that no
one but a rich man or a "degraded
man" cau be elected to Parliament
and certainly a very moral philosopher
like Mr. Goldwin Smith wonld prefer
that the legislators of Great Britain should
be millionaires rather than miscreants. Un
due modesty, reihaps, constrained Mr. Gold'
win Smith to a.Buage the agony thst must
convulse the breast of Knglaud at the thought
of losing him, by asserting that, as he is
"untrained to debate," he would have been
uselers, Ltianee silent, in Parliament. He is
a gentleman of whom a journal which does
not adore him has spoken as "one who has
received all the culture that Oxford could
bet tow, who has studied and written and even
spoken upon politics for many years, and who
would Lave addressed Parliament with the
weight of a justly earned reputation, which
would have far outweighed his necessary igno
ranee of Parliamentary routine and his inex
perience in debate." Moreover, parliamentary
orators are made and not born made, too, by
tiials, repeated in Bplte of failures, in Parlla
ment itself; and if men waited until they
ceaEed "to fall below Demosthenes and
Cicero" ere they offered themselves for elec
tion, there would be the same dearth of legis
lators as of swimmers did all boys and girls
follow the advioe of that careful parent of
whom thus the doggerel runs:
"Oh, mother, may I go to ewlm ?"
"Ob, yeM you may, rny daughter;
liana yonr clothe on a hickory limb;
lint don't go near the water."
BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC.
Y.
p. tji,
Y. P.
M.
Y. P.
M,
YOUNU'SI PCKH HALT WI11MKT.
VOVKU'S PttHK DI ALT W1IISKT,
TOUHU'N rVHE HALT WHIRKT,
Thrre lit no onontlon relative to the merlin of tli
OPlebrntfd Y. P. M. It Is themrf M UKllly or Whlnky,
uiKtiufiki-tiirml from the bent Brnln aOordsft bv tbe
Philadelphia nmrUPt and It 1 Hold t the low ra of
per
gallon, orflSS prrqnart, ac me salesrooms,
!No.
11 6 2iJ
700 rASSYUKK 110 A II.
fULLAUh-LFHIA.
OAR STAIR 0 Cl McOALL,
Nos. 123 WALNUT and 21 URAiUTE Sts.,
.EM POSTERS Of
llracuies, Wines, ttiu, (Hire Oil, tic. Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IX
PUKE 11YE WHISKIES,
It? BOND AND DUTY PAID. 4 11
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
MICHAEL MEAGIIER & CO.,
So. 223 Sonlh SIXTEENTH Sircet,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
I'BOVISIOSN,
OlSIKBS, AMU ( t-Ml.
ton FAMILY USE.
TEKBAriftW ftl6 PER DOZKX. 23?
Mt. Vernon H otel,
8 1 Monument street, Baltimore.
Elegantly Furnished, with unsurpassed Cuisine.
Oil the European Flan,
" D. P. MORGAN.
MEDICAL.
RHEUMATISM,
N E U II A. Iu G I A.
Warranted Permanently Cored.
Warranted Permanently Cored.
Without Injury to the System.
Without Iodide, Fotassia, or Colchlciun
I5y Using Inwardly Only
DR. n T L E R ' 8
GREAT RHEUMATIC REMEDY.
For Rheumatism and Neuralgia in ail it forms.
The only standard, roiiable, positive, Infauibl per
tnaneol cure ever discovered. It Is warranted to con
tsln nothing hurtful or lojurloun to the system.
WARRANTED TO CUBE OR MONEY REFC NDB.D
WARRANTED TO CURE OR MONEY REFUNDED
Thousands oi Philadelphia returenuea of cures. Pre
pared at
Ko. 29 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
822ltulhti BELOW MARKET.
GENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS.
11. 8. K. C.
Harris' Seamless Kid Gloves.
UTEBT PAIS vYABBANTED.
fliOLUBIVB AGENTS VO& GENTS' GLOVES
l. W. SCOTT & CO..
27hp
HO. 814 CHEaUT BTBEKT,
jpATENT SHOULDER. SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORK.
PERFECT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
mude Horn measurement at very short notice.
All other articles ot GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
GOODS in full variety.
WINCHESTER & CO.,
11 No.7QtCHEeNOr Street.
PATENTS.
OFFICE FOR PROCURING PATENTS,
FORREST BU1LD1.NGS,
o. 110 South FOURTH St., Philadelphia,
AND MARBLE BCILDINOS,
No. 160 BtVK&TH birner, opposlts V. 8. Patent
Ollice, WasblLgtou. 1). (J.
H. HOWON. Soilollorol Patenia.
U. HuV)to;i , Attorney at L .
C'ommnnlratlous to be aduresatd to ihe Prlrclp
Ouicr Philadelphia. lm
STOVES, RANGES, ETC.
NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED
I would call the attention of (be public to bis
NEW bclLbEN EAULE El
Tbl. I. nn .imreiy ueiv healer.
It la so con
suuoied a. lo alonce couimeuu itieli tu general (avor,
beRjg a combluatton of wrought aid cant Iron, it is
very simple In it. conatructiou, aud I. perfectly air
Unlit; self-cleaning, havlDKIuo Hues or drum, to be
taken out aud cleaned. It la so urrangfd wiiu upright
Hues asMo produce a larger amo'int of lieatftcm tbe
tame weight of coal tiiau auy furuac. now In Ube,
'ibe bygiomelic condition ot the air us produced by
my new arrangement of evaporudon will at ouce de
nionitrate that It Is tts only ilot Air Furnace tbM
will produce a peret'clly healthy atmonphere.
liii'tein want of a complete Heating Apparatus
would do we.1 to call aud examine tbe Uoldeo Eagle.
t'HAHLKH WILLIAMS,
Hos. 1182 and UM MARK ET tiireet.
Philadelphia.
A large aHortment ol Cooking Ranges, fire-board
Htoveo, Low Down Urates, Ventilators, etc, always
on hand
N. K Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. 6 lo
THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER
or EUROPEAN RANGE, for fainillea. hotels,
or publio Institutions, in TWENTY DIFFER
ENT SIZES, AlbO, Philadelphia Ranges,
Hot-Air Fnrnaces, Portable Heaters, .Low-down
Urates, Flreboard Stoves, Rath Boilers, mew-hole
Plates, Rollers, Cooking Htoves, etc,, wholesale and
retail, by the manufacturers,
retail, iu uimuuim. BHAkpE 4 THoMP80N,
U 2wfm6ni No. 2a N. SECOND street
GEORGE PLOWMAN.
CARPENTER AND BUILDER,
REJIOYED Ko;
181 DOCK Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
"n B N B Z 0 H A tToTM
BAG MANUFACTORY.
JOHN T. BAILEY.
V, K. come M MARKET and WATER Btreeta.
Philadelphia.
DEALERS IN BAUS AND BAGGING
Of every description, fir
Grain, Flour, Salt, Super rhosphaU of Urns, Bona
Punt, Etc.
Large and small GDNN Y Baus oonitantly onluau.
tiVM Also, WOOL fcACJUa. "
SMIPPINQ.
LOBILLABD'B STEAMSHIP LIU 8
FOR NEW YORK.
Balling Tuesdays, Thurtdaya. and Batnrdan
noon. The winter rate. wuiuu m do
taken it SO oenU per too pound. troM, Soenle per
foot, or cent per gallon, .hip', option The Llna u
now prepared to contract for spring rates lower than
by any other root., commencing on Much U,lm.
Advance charge, cauea wuvn vu nw, jrreux&t
celved t aU time on covered wn.ri.
JOHN F. OHL,
t IS 6m P6r 1 North Whurvia.
N, B- Ktr rates on am.ii tuinre irgn. Plena, etc.
f tUll LlVEKl'UUIi AMU OUKKNn
It T.fc TlVL fJ I.,.,, a.. Ijn. J . 1 1 ...
kiu ai'iMjiuted to .nil as follows:
maim y , . v. oteamsn
U l of bali imhkk, Saturday, February (.
Cl 1 i Or uona, i utmaay. . eoruary v,
CITY OF PAKls, i-auirciajr, reoruary in,
Ci'lY OF AN1WEKP, featurday, Feoruary to,
t.TNA, Tuesday. February x;t.
city OF JAlJt DON. Saturday, January DO.
aud oach .ucceedlug (Saturday aud alternate Tuesday.
at 1 P, M Irom Pier iti. North River.
RATES OF PAbSAOE Br TH. Malt tru.SK
iiiiJNu icvaay sah'kdai,
Payable In Uold. Pnyable lu Currenoy.
FIRST CA SI N 1IKI I STEERAUE ........M.A(
to London of to LoikIou.,....., i
10 Farls lf. to Paris . j
Pass auk by riiic TUKSDAT stkamkh VIA Hi ujtax.
ri iter ca hi., HTKUttAef
Pa able In Uold. Payable In Currency,
Liverpool......... I Llvrptwii ,
iiullfax 'M ualifnx 1
St, John's, N. t 1 4, I it. John's, N. F i M
by Branch itloi.L.rj.... f I y Branch Summer... w
Passengers ale Icrwaideu to Jiavir., liamburg, Krs
nien, etc, al reduced noes. .
Ilcknlscanbe bought here by persons sending for
their friends, a moderate rates.
rorlurther information apply at the Company's
Otlices.
JOHN G. DALK, Agent, No. 15 BROADWAY, N. X,
Or to O'DOiNNr-LL A FAULK. Agents.
No. 411 CiiEsNUTSirett, Philadelphia.
ONLY MKKCT LINK.To FRANCR,
Aiijj. i.aanKRAL TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY'S
AND JlAVllE. CA.LL1NU A V IJUKdT.
The splendid i ew vessels ou ibis favorite route for
the Continent will tall from Pier No. ovNucth river,
as ioiIowh:
ST. LA Li RENT Brocande Saturday, Oct. J
V1LLE DE PAivJO.. .Suruiout Saturday, Oct. 17
P ERE IRE Duuhesue Saturday, Cot. It
PRICE OF PASSAGE
In gold (including wluti.
'lo BREST OR HAVRFI,
First Cabin HU second Cabin.- M
lo PARIS.
(Including railway tickets, lurnlsbed on board)
First cuUiu. Hj I blcouu ci.biu ..... S3i
Tnetse steauiC;. do tot carry eteeiagd pas.eugura,
JMediual alteuduuie fiee ol charge.
American travellers going to or returning from
the continent oi .urope. by taking the ste.mers of
lb s line avoid unutceseary rlias from trauait ay
English railwajs aud crossing tbe chaunei, besidt. .
skviug t.me, truubiu, aud expense.
UU.OKUE MACKENZIE, Agent,
Np. 5S BUOAL WAY, New Voik.
For pnsssge lu Pnlladelpbia, apply at Adams'
Exprt'as CouipDy, to II. L LEAF.
1 Hi No. II20CHE3NIJ I' Street.
:Ai?J. ANll NllKMII.K Hl h.AMHHIU time, J
jToyll FRE1UUT AlU LINE TO Till I
SOUTH AND WEST.
EVERY SATURDAY,
At noon, from FIRST WHARF above 4CARKET
'1H ROUGH RATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS
to all polo Id In North aua ooum Carolina, via ea.
board Air Dine Raliroad. connect lug at Portsmouth
aiid to Lyucubuig, Va.,Teiineaee, aud the West v'
Vlxgluia and Tennessee Air Dine and Rloamond'and
Danville RAllruaa, u ma9
Freight HaN U WED BUT ONCE, and taken mx
WWna RATES THAN AN Y OTHER UN JJ.
The regularity, salety, aud cheapueas of this rout.
Commend It to the public as the uioit denlrable u
dmm for carrying every description of freight,
No charge for uonunisslou, drayage, or any axntn
Of transfer.
Steanishirs loured at lowest rales.
Freight received dally.
WLLLIAM P. CLYDK A CO..
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
W. P. POKIER, Agent at Richmond and Oil
Point. e
T, P. CROWELL A CO.. Agent, at Norfolk. 1 1
KTl.lV CVUIH'tO I IKV T; 1. ...
aiBndrla. Uuorgutown. aud Waahint..n
u. c, vm Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with con
nections at Alexandria from the most dlrent rout,
for Li nchunrg, iio-oi, Kuoxvlile, Nashyuie. Daltoa
and i&e Southwest.
steamer leave regularly every Satnrday at noon"
bom t lie brat wharf awe Market street.
Freight received dally. ...
WM. P. CLYBF, ft CO.,
No. 14 North and South Wharves.
J. B. DAVIDSON, Agent at Ceorgelown.
M. ELUillDOto & Co., Agoms at Alexandria, V!r
alula. 'ti
AaA.rAUiKj DiAAADUAI XJKjM r A iX Y ,
from first wharf below Market street! DAILY
THROUGH IN W HOURS.
Goode iorwardedby all the lines going out ot
Torsi. North, East, and West, tree ol commission.
Freights received at onr nsunl low rates.
WILLIAM P..CLY1-E dt CO., Agents,
,.. o. s. WHARVES, Philadelphia;
JAMES HAND, Agent. gnt
No. ll! WALL Street, corner of South, New York
hW3!Ji EOB MEW YORK SWIFT-SUM
taMoilaTrauBportatlon Company Despatch
a:.u bwlit-sure Lines, via Delaware and Rarllaa
Canal, on and after the loth of March, leaving dally al
Vi M. and t P, M.i connecting with all Northern and
Eastern lines,
For freight, which will be taken on accommodating
senua, apply hi iiuiaa u uAj.au at w.,
III
No. IDs S. DELAWJ
AJUfi A
i AventsN
GOVERNMENT SALES.
gALE OF GOVERNMENT VESSEL.
Da PCI Y Quartjikmastkr-Qknkkai.'s Officb.
Baltimobk, Md. Jau. 2H, 189. f
The United B!ata steamer COLO X EL RUCKER
will be otlerea at publio sale at the pi.ri of Baltimore,
at 12 o'clock, noun, on WEDNESDAY, February 10
1W. This vessel is a ' '
..i. ..... . FROPELLER.
ol 4l 6-95 tons; length, )aj met; breadth. 22 1 10 feet:
feet arrt'11n,'81et; loaded,
She has on. direct-acting low-pressure engine (MX
21 Inches) of tu home power, aud one boiler.
Ihe hull toot lror, covir.d wltb aj.-ioob white
oak aud pine plank. 'Ihe hull and boiler wera
omfarsy repulrei n "l'8 of three moussnd
All ibe propmr on board tba; rightly bolonn
to her outfit win be sold with tne veisel. tmJ 7
ute! eVer' re8i)eo' ud tettdT l0' immediate
The right is re.frved lor. ect any and all bid. for
cause oeemed sutl.cleiil bj the undersigned
Tli vessel la now lyltg at Ihe head of SPRAR'3
A 11 All (lootoiuay stteei), wnere tbesale will taka j
place, and Is open to iBBpietlon by those deslrlog to
bene Die olddeis.
Tern.s Cash In Ccvornment funds on day nfsale
STEWART VAN VLIET.
. Jl'ut5,yu'"i,nuaHier-a.Jijerlt
t and Brtv.t llaJor-UeueralU. a. Army.
Jf sto8,13 F CONDEMNED OBD
.A.ri S.u.aJLV.,y..t c-P"uneJ Oiduano. and Ord-
uo-
it r.JJttN LoDA Y . Aunt? A ' ,
oo
cleTVo'b Wld';,v?!"!,Jm'!S BOUJe 01 lUe "'"IP!
2-. Iroo l'auco. Varloua calibres,
llfco Field Carrier, and A.iu,ber.
19ii tetiot rtll eiy tiamens.
10.100 pounds fcbul aud bbell.
a.i.iuu sMs of Iiiiaiiry Arcoutreuients.
McLlellnr t-addlts,
7i0 h rllllirv Saddles.
200 Halters.
7(0 Saddle Blanket.
60. 0 Watering Unol-a.
MOO Cavalry Ciirb Bridlf.i.
2H Aitillery 'J racts aud Usui en.
Persons wishing ctal!igiis ol th. Stores to be sold
can obtain i hem by application to the C hief of Oid
carce. al WabljIiiKiou, D. C. or Brevet Colon i s.
CRISPIN. Cnitfd stales Army, Purunaslug Otiicar
corner of HOUSTON aiidUKMlKlX etr.els, Now York
city, or upon application al in Atonal.
T, J. RODMAN.
Llfuleusnt-loloufl Ordnance,
Bievei Brlgadltr Oeutr.i U. s. A ,
. ..... . , Commanding.
Rock island Arsenal, January 23. lata, l w tA7
1317
REMOVED TO
mi
BELOW 1HK UNITED STATES MINT.
UL to. O
NEW MUBIU BTORE
KO. 1317 CHEbMIT BT.. above TlilKTEENT
, v,. I'HILADELPHIA.
Muslo rublisherH, and Dealer, in Musical Mef
cnandiiwofevery Description.
r,.. JOHN MAKHH,
WHOLESALE AND HErAIL AGENT
THE BEST OOLDlANDBiLVKR WATCHE3
CHKAPEHT IN THK WOULD,
ion . ,iN 1317 OHKHNUT BTKEKT,
I28tuth.2m in THK JAUBIO HTORB.
PRIZES CASHED IN ROVAL HAVANA,
X. EENTUCEY, and MISSOURI LOTl'R"c5
Circulars sent and Information given. JOKPn
ff: NOTICE. FOK NEW YOBK VIA
.PLLWARE AND RARITAN CANAjrl