THE DAIln: EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA , THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1869. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. BDITORIaL OPINIONS OV TOB IKalHNO JOOBKAU CFOH CCRBENT TOPICS COMPILED STRUT DAT FOB TBI BTFNI.NO TKI.KORAPH. Ucncrnl Urnnt hihI i'olltlcal INulics Tiling to be IU'iikmiiIiltciI. From the K. Y. Timu. There ara pom leading Cue's which It my be well for thoiw wtw art ho anxious con cerning General Uraui'ti party relattona aol probable action to bear lu uiiud. The lid publican, for example, who insist that he ought to be, in the utriut sense of the ward, apart President taking the advloe ot the leaders of the Republio-tu party as his suf ficient guide and. rule ol notion, because he was nominated and eleuted by that party , Will do well to remember: 1. That General Grant nver was a member Of the-Republloan party until after the war. 2. That he was nominated at Chioajro not mainly because he was a Republloan, but bs oaofle he had more of the coud leooe of the people than any other man In the country. 3. That the canvass proved that he was Stronger with the country than the party, and reoelved a great mny votas and a g'f '. moral support from outside tbe party limits. 4 That his hold on tbe confluence of tlie country is quite as strong to-day as it ever was and is not likely to be forlelted or lea Bened by any rash or reckless action on his PTheae considerations combine to give General Orant a degree of indepudeuo, in his oflioial aotion, whioh few of hia predecessors have ever had. The people do not expect or desire him to be a mere party VroA lent. His assent to the leading principles and measures of the Republican party lias ben given in the olearest and most explicit manner, and no one doubts that they will form the basis of his administration. But this ftot gives no warrant for the expectation that he will, in all things, consult primarily the wishes or supposed in terests of the party as the guide of his aotion. On the other hand, ttrwe Democrats who are predicting that he will turn his back upon the Republican party and spouse, in any way, the principles or policy or the Democracy, may do well to oall to mind: 1. That throughout the war General Grant received no support from the Democratic party, and always regarded its aotion as hostile to the cause of the Union, which the war was waged to sustain. 2. That after the war he took more than one occasion to say that no pirty which, dur ing the war, failed to do its utmost in support of the Government deserved the confidence f the conntry. 3. That he has more than once deolared that he had far more toleration for bouthern men who went into the rebellion than for northern men who do did not do all in their power to put it down. 4. That he regards efforts to obstruct and embarrass the Government in its endeavors to reorganize Southern society on the basis of existing laws as hostile to the paaoe, which is essential to the prosperity, of the country. 5. That in accepting the nomination of the Republican party, he evinced and declared his reliance upon that party, rather than any other, to restore harmony to the nation, and bring the Government buck to its natural and beneficent course of operation. While General Grant has a right, therefore, to expect from the Democratic party such a degree of support as the wisdom and justice of his official action may deserve, there is no reason to suppose that he will look for, or try to get, anything more at its hands. That any part of the patronage of his office will be offered as a consideration for Democratic support, no one for a moment dreams. And that he will shape his measures with a view to securing Democratic favor, any farther than to make them such as will deserve the favor of all, there is no more reason to suppose. Mere party considerations of any kind, we think, will enter much less into General Grant's administration than many suppose. Ilia first aim will be to deserve the favor and support of all honest and patriotio men of all parties, by doing that which will best pro mote the welfare and prosperity of the whole country. That there is any better way than this of securing the support of his own party, none but its enemies will for a moment pretend. The St. Domingo Job. From the N. Y. Time. We are quite prepared to credit the rumors connecting the fct. Domingo annexation scheme with private, speculative, and even . corrupt considerations. General Banks may bave acted with good faith in advocating a protectorate, and Mr. Orth may have entered upon the annexation business with hands of virgin purity. But that the influences which are at work intriguing in behalf of annexation, and lavish in promises of good faith on the part of Baez and those of the Dominicans who share his fortunes, are pure and honest, We are scarcely able to concede. There may be good reasons why Baez should desire annexation, lie finds it difficult to hold his ground as President, and would doubtless prefer a bargain and sale himself being the seller to exile or something worse. Bis creditors, or rather tbe creditors of his Government, not unnaturally share his desire. They have no hope of payment, except from Uncle Bam. It is not improbable, moreover, that not a little of the land which we are asked to oooupy has alfeady been hypothecated to parties who would have more confidence in its value as a part of the United States domain than while under the control of the Domini cans. Borne hypotheses of this natnre are requisite to render intelligible the project of annexa tion. On its merits, such a project could not Stand a day. It involves so large an addition to the responsibilities of our Government, so serious an embarrassment to tbe work of paci fication, and so sure a source of finanolal dilfl oulty, that it oould not endure sober investi gation. It may for the moment gratify a love for spread-eagleism. It With a fresh stock of flowering periods. But at a praotioal measure, considered in relation to the present cironmatanoea and immediate requirements of this oonntrv. it ia mischievous and absurd. The sinister influenoea which support it may be strong, but we do not be lieve that they are strong enough to foroe this utuj luroogu Congress. Orant and lien. Butler. On the whole hlstorlo canvas perhaps no n ... afnA nnt in nnrih ainonlar UKurv um r m 1 solitary, and, ia some senses, sublime gran deur as at this moment does that of General Orant. In a world too wide for the ambition Of the First Napoleon in its wildest dreams to mtu v ha ilt.i RimnW nilent. Rtrnnc and tliu .nf w - - r ' r n ' " - thoughts, the aspirations, the interests, the hopes, the fears, and, in some portions, the tears of a whole nation turn towards him. In rain we soanthe page of history for a parallel. The internal oondition of the country is not jl.Qlmflav f.n that nf Knorlfmri whan William of Orange assumed its sway. England had then been torn by a series of civil wars whlo'i left her whole system rent aul broken. TU I character of tbe contending parties was not dissimilar. In the chivalry, the glUutry, the devotion, the manly seDtimcnt to the "1 . cause" of the cavaliers who adhered to house of Stuart, the South finds a partial pro totype; while in the sturdy vigr, the nufliuou ing perseverance-, the great unqa'njUel courage in the darkest hour, and tun inH-sl-ble principle whioh distlngui-ihrtd the Parlia ment we" may almost call It the KtpuMlo.vt party of "that day tbe Congress aud th North find almost au exact parallel. General Grant, too, looms up before the world as a man posting many of thosi creat qualities with which Macaulay ou hH pictured page has surrounded William iu such splendid pore. He has the same absence of ostentation, the same calm confidence, the same unbending will, the same h gh sense of duty whioh Maoanlay ascribes to William. Cromwell, even with his iron and relentless rule, was to William what Thaddeus Stevous was to Grant cut many difficulties from hia path aud created, in its natural reaction, au appetite for, if not less firm, milder and more healing counsels. Let ua hope that the parallel may be fully carried out, and that as William, where necessary, by a severe but beneficent moderation, succeeded iu completely healing thone dissensions which divided and distracted Kugland, and so laying the stable foundation of her after greatness, eo Grant may, by his wise and prudent administration, reocuoile all oppos ing elements among us. That he will do so may be with almost certainty prophesied; for the moderate temper of the man naturally inclines him towards conservatism; and should our prophecy be borne out by subsequent events, General Grant will have hastened (for no one can prevent) the coming of that greater future which awaits our country. An oppor tunity such as no other statesmen ever had lies before him. The voice of passion and of party seems euperuaturally hushed. The great masres of the North have a thorough faith in his will and hia power to establish peace on a firm basis, and that is the calm, still current of opinion w hich runs underneath all the noisy babble and brawl whioh mere politicians raise on the surface. The South, though still in sorrow, look to him with hope, if not with thorough confidence, and are pre pared to accept any policy which is laid out for them by their conqusror which ia marked withaeenseof beuignint justice. The Senate and House of Congress are re posing on their arms, curious and anxious to know what the ides of March will reveal, and we are filled with a deep trustfulness that that truculent ard irascible body will have at last found a President who will exact their respect by the silent grandeur of his character, liven the renowned i hief, General Dntler, on whom, since the death of Steven?, tbe war mantle has descended, and who, without the over awing domination which experience and age gave to Pennsylvania's acrid statesman, pos sesses far more subtlety of thought, more Statesmanlike adaptability, more readiness of resource, more superb audacity, and more close and orushing vigor iu its application, stands calmly leaning on his spear, unmindful of the small conllicts which rage around him, and watching, with a curiosity not un touched, with corillence the action of his former rival. It will require but a slight turn of the political kaleidoscope to throw Grant and Bailer into combination. Both are strong men, powerful in themselves without the aid of party. Both are oil Demo crats. Grant was forced upon the Republican party by his enormous popularity with the masses,. and Butler in hia Congresmioiial dis trict routed the radical element which assailed him in every quarter, from the feeble yelping of Kilpatrick to the bolder barking of the 1'ribune. Both are men of the people, aud on the vital question of finance, upon which the propperlty of the nation now depends, we look to Eee them standing shoulder to shoulder at the head of the new party which must inevi tably be formed. Those who know Grant best prediot that he will not prove himself unequal to the respon sibilities of his exalted position. lie still ad heres to that quality whioh Carlyle plaoes in the gospel of greatness above all others silence. When he aocepted a weightier re sponsibility than this (the command of the Army of the Potomao), he issued no rotund Pope or McClellan small Napoleon pronuncia mientos, but simply said to Mr. Liuooln, "I hepe I shall not disappoint the confidence of the country." lie did not. We have every reason to believe it will be so now. We may describe him, in full accordance with Hum boldt's theory, "as a great man, who, hap pening to find important business in life set before him to do, did it accordingly as a mat ter of the merest praotioal detail." With all his appearance of soldierly simplicity and unaf fected manners he is very exclusive, aud of less broad but far deeper mind than Lincoln, lie has a scorching insight into human nature which makes him very friendly to those to whom he takes a fancy, but distant to those who are not congenial to him. He has a strong partiality for men of solid standing in society as well as in publio affairs, and to that extent he may disappoint his ultra radical camp followers. While he will incline to wards the best of those of the party which accepted him, he will probably map out humanity on the Biblical idea of the sheep and the goats, and cast aside with cool con tempt the selfish dogmas of party. Let us, too, rest on our arms and await the ides of March. Northern vs. Southern Economy. From the If. Y. Commercial Advertiser. In days gone by the Southerners were looked upon as the prodigal olass of our coun trymen. While the Northerners husbanded their earnings, lived as a whole considerably inside ot their means, economized ana aaaea to their substance aud the national wealth, the Southerners spent their means lavishly, gratified their whims, tastes, and desires without regard 10 cobi, uevoiea me revenues of to-day to the pleasures of the morrow, mortgaged their crops in advance, and plumed and prided themselves on their hospitality, liberality, and extravagance, while regarding and stigmatizing ua as tight-fisted and narrow minded, absorbed in the almighty dollar, etc, eto. None scattered their ducats at the hotels and watering places with such ahandon as they. None lived so freely, or devoted so much time to travel, or travelled so royally. A reversal of these habits is not at all im probable as one of the results of the revolu tion through which the oountry has passed. At the outset the Confederates hurled their battalions against our batteries with no l"ss prodigality than they expended their resources. Leaders in the field needlessly sacrificed men; aud those in State, material. With the unanticipated prolongation of the war, Southern resources were subjected to a most exhaustive drain. Waut followed. The rebel armies in the third year of the war were reduced to garments and rations which the ordinary mendicant would rejeot. The people at home were compelled to substitute home spun for purple aud fine linen, and often wanted for the oommon necessaries of life. Poverty reigned from end of the Confederacy to the other, and the Insurgents emerged from the fiery crnoible through which they had passed a bankrupt, penniless people. There ws no slave labor to fall back and lean upon. To fetarve or rut their own hand to the pludgh was tbe prerogative. From the lap of lnxary they had been transferred to a condition where they mnst earn thuir bread with the sweat of their brow. . With them there fol lowed a struggle for existence almost, an t the conjpulsory economy of the war period wai compulsory still. This forced change of oirnu Distances mint necessarily have begotten by this time a sig nal cbaugn in Southern habits, aud it will be no matter for surprise if tuey should, in the future, be amoiiK the most economical of .'peo ple. They manifest a dsir aud appreciation lor recuperation and prosperity eucb. as t hey never enjoyed before, and they on bat bi aware that retrenchment, economy, aul fru gality are tssenlial to tbe attainment of these ends. That thoy contemplate praotisiog these virlues in the future ia therefore manifest. Turning now to tbe North, we discover that onr habits of living have undergone a ohang for the worse. With the creation of our war expenses there came a period of Northern ex travagance. Familiarized to enormous ex penditures by the Government, the people began to increase their individual coat of maintenance, to indulge in luxuries unthonght of before, and to look upon frugality and economy in somewhat the same light that the South previously did. Instead of want and famine, the prolongation of the war seemingly brought plenty and prosperity. Mortgages upon the future made money plenty. No one wanted for employment, while bounty money passed rapidly through the pockets of those who had never known before what it was to have an extra shilling. All around us many suddenly grew rich through fat contracts or speculation, aud exercised a demoralizing influence by the reckless manner in which they scattered their ducats. Contractors aud cotton thieves daz zled the eye of the public with their jewelry, BL'd shoddy trailed her silks and satins before the admiring aud envious gaze of the less prosperous. Money came quick, and went quicker. Resorts of amusement were patro nized as they had never been before. Neither did tbe end of the war bring with it an end to these ruinous habits which had been so snd denly engrafted upon us. Tho people, a3 well as representatives, havo still gone on a9 if there were no limits to cur resources, as if the national finances could slaud any strain with out being snapped asiiuder, as if our indivi dual pockelbooks would never be less plethoric than now. Such being tbe ca:-p, it b hooves ns of the North to slop and rtll-ot whether a continu ance of thete habits may no? ouly work indi vidual ruin, but in a very few years transfer the balance of wealth ?.ud power to the South, aided a3 it is by 'he immense cotton and sugar interests. We have seen in the dire rebellion the results of prodigality, reckless expenditure, i-U'emir acy, and the living from other men's labor. We have the example of the South as a warning to deter us fi-otn the habits and modes of life upon which, as a people, we at the North have entered. Will we profit by it, or ttill continue to advance backward as our Southern oountrymen go for ward? These are questions whioh preBS home with force upon each one of us. TIip Now Kuroait of Morality. from the N. Y. Wm hl. Could anything be more inexousably dis graceful thau the attempt which has been made in Congress to cheat the widows of sol diers out of the miserable pittance to which they are entitled under the pension law, and to place the character of these women as well as their money at the mercy of the oaprice, the cupidity, or the lust of the disbursing offioers of the Pension Bureau ? "There is a genera tion that cur. eth their father and doth not bless their mother; a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness; a generation whose eyes are lofty, and their eyes lifted up on high; a generation that for teeth have swords, and grlndeth with their jaw-teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth and the poor from among men." Here you have the party of moral ideas photographed to the life, and never were their hypocrisy, their self-right-eousnesB, and their insufferable meanness made so vividly apparent as they were by this proposition to turn the Pension Ollioe into a bureau of morality, and to compel every woman who presents herself to reoelve her pension to come armed with a certificate of good character, and to disprove any allega tions against her chastity which malioe, envy, or lust may have contrived to Invent. It appears thatthe moral sense of the Com missioner of Pensions has been shocked by the disoovery, fanoled or real, that some of the widows borne upon the pension rolls of the United States "were cohabiting without mar riage, refusing that tolemn and legal rite, and living In open prostitution," and he became at once taken up with leal that "the Government should not be unwittingly placed in the strange attitudt, of offering a premium on immorality." Theg method which he, or rather the member of Congress whom he inspired, proposed for the cure of this evil, and for bringing back these erring women to the paths of virtue, was sublimely simple and severe. It was to starve them into chastity; to withdraw the annual stipend on which they were leading a life of riotous profligacy and unbounded luxury, at the rate of eight dollars a month; and to tame the fever of their blood by cutting off their income. It might bave oocurred to any one who was not a very moral philosopher that, if it were true that the widow of a soldier was leading a life of shame, her downfall might be traoed, not to the fact that she had too much money, but rather that she had too little, and that the Government might be placed in tne strange attitude of offering a premium on morality if a little of the money which is yearly squandered for the good of the party were devoted to in creasing the stipends of penhioned widows, placing them above the reaoh of temptation and relieving them from the pressure of abso lute, want, and that good results might also follow a reform in the whole matter of dis bursing pensions, since, under the present system, frauds innumerable and grievous are constantly practised upon the pen sioners, and in many cases the money due them is withheld, mouth after month, on the most frivolous and vexations pretexts, swelling meanwhile the bank account of the pension agent, and bringing to him a hand some interest. All this, however, has nothing to do with the principle involved in the pro position of the Commissioner of Pensions and the Ptmion Committee, placed before the House of Representatives by the Hon. Mr. l'eiham, "of the cold and frigid region of Maine," that the payment of a pension to the widow of a soldier should be made oontingent n pon her chastity. There was no such stipu lation in the contraot which the'wives of the soldiers of our army made with the Govern ment when they gave up their husbands to Us service. It was not so nominated la the bond. The contraot simply was that, iftUe husband of a woman was slain, she should reoelve, as the prloB of hia life, a certain i.itifiil sum of money, to be paid her so long 9 she did not take v aniooil BUUlUar Iml.onrl It H ft hard bargain at the best. . 1 i : i . i .1 and none but a dream of now uiviai puuoHupuer would interpolating into it new conditions. The Government might, with equal pro priety, propose to stop the pension of every widow who did not go to churoh three times every Sunday, or who wore back hair which was not her own save by purchase. We suppose that any truly moral and trooly loyal philosopher will confess with his lips, if not with bis heart, that immo rality in a man is as worthy of condemnation as it is in a woman; but we are quite certain that no member of Congress will propose to institute an examination into the private moral character of the one-armed and one-legged male pensioners of the Gov ernment, and provide tor stopping the pay of any of them who msyobauoeto stray aside from the path of virtue. The full prioe which the Government demanded from these men ai d women for the stipend whioh they are re ceiving has been paid, and theie Is no exouse for asking anything more. The wife has given her husband, the widowed mother has resign! her son, the strong man has paid away hia limbs and bartered his health, and is content to hobble up towards his grave with a body shorn of its fair proportions, hacked into a hidtousruin, and tortured with constant pain. They have all paid heavily enough for all they are to get iu tbe future; aud iu the name of humanity, to say nothing of justice and grati tude, let no one teek to lay Ueavior burdens upon them I We do not suppose that It Is true that My considerable number of the pensioned widows in the United States are open to the aspersion which the Commissioner of Pensions aul tbe Hon. Mr. Perham have cast upon them. Any oue who knows the poor who ha3 peen them in their own homes, aud witnessed the courago, the faith, the piety, and the trustfulness iu God wherewith they combat the ills of life need not be told that there is as much virtue among them as there is among the classes whom Heaven has blessed with a happier lot. But if all these allegations against soldiers' widows were true, it requires very little re flection to see that the remedy proposed for the supposed evil would only intensify it. Take Mr. Perham's own statement of tbe case, for instance. "Here," said the gentleman from Maine, "are two wido vs living in the same community, both drawing pensions, and both foimirg matrimonial engagements; the one gets married honeMiy and forfeits her pension; the other declines tha marriage rite, but cohabits with the man aud letains her pension." Here we might paiua to inquire whether it is in accordance with truly moral ideas to speak of a woman who outers into a state of concubinage r.s one who has formed a "niatiinjonial engagement;" but that is not the point. "The operation of the present sys tem was to punish the chaste woman by de privii g her of her pension when she got mar lied honestly," continued Mr. Perham, "and to give a premium to women who lived as cotcubiues. I think the Government should not allow itself to be placed iu that anomalous position." Well, the Government can re lieve itself from all difficulty of this nature by simply adopting the suggestion of Mr. Raum aud repealing that section of the pension law which causes tbe marriage of a pensioned widow to work a forfeiture of her persion. It is perfectly true that the present ml is contrary to publio policy, since it dis courages marriage. If that rule were abro gated, no weak and ignorant woman would be ilt to be tempted perhaps by affection, per haps by dire necessity to consent to au illicit coi ncction which could only te made a law ful one by the sacrifice of au income which she might deem iudit reusable for her support. The Government would spend no moremonoy on pensions than it now does if all the widows iu the land were married to-morrow. The Government saves nothing by keeping its pensioned widows in a state of single and nn pioduotive celibacy. There would be a few dollars saved if Mr. Perham's proposition were carried into effeot; but it would be money accursed in the sight of men and Heaven. We have heard many hearty and many affeoted dennnciations of repudiation; but, of all the schemes for "breaking the plighted faith of the nation," none is so worthy of scorn and detestation as this proposition to repudiate the debt due to soldiers' widows for the sake of their souls. It could only have originated with "a generation that are pure in their own ejes and yet are not washed from their filthi ness," and who "grind with their jaw-teeth to devour the needy from off the earth and the poor from among men." General Grant's Politics and Policy From the If. T. Tribune. If the world were not full of fools, very many journalists would have to choose some other vocation; and yet the daily maunder ings over an imaginary rupture, or alienation, or mutual distrust, or something of the sort, between the President elect and his prominent supporters in the late canvass, are absurd beyond precedent. They have absolutely no shadow of foundation, and their authors do not hesitate to defy the most notorious facts. Thus the World says of General Grant that "He has In faot already, even before he is in ofllce. revolted from one of tbe chief tenets of the Chicago platform that declaring that President Johnson was Justly Impeached and oUMht to have been convicted. It is no secret tbat General Orant thinks tbe conviction of the l'reetdtut wonidlhave been a blunder; that he disapproves of the law which Mr. Jounaon was accused of violating; that he denlra Its Immediate repeal as an absurd obstrnotlon to the naefulnesH and elllolenoy of the exeoutlve head of the Government. The endorsement of tbe lmpeaobment at Chloago was a virtual endorsement of tbe law; aud Oeneral Grant's demand for lie immediate repeal evinces the contempt In which he holds that part of the Chicago platform." Now, it is perfectly well known among well-informed persons that General Grant gave a zealous and effective support to the Impeach ment of Andrew Johnson, urged Senators to vote for his conviction, and profoundly re gretted his escape from that measure of jus tice. If there be an intelligent human being who does not know this, it is because he has choeen to remain ignorant of it. As to the Tenuie of-Offioe act, we challenge any one to name the person to whom the General has ex pressed a preference for its absolute repeal over its modification as is proposed iu the Senate. We are unaware of hia choice in the premises, if he baa any; and we are oonfldent tbat others are equally so. If he has a choice, he has been veiy chary of imparting it to others. As to the telect'ou of his Cabinet, we think, his jeisistent reticence Las been wise and fortunate, and we know uo Republican who disagrees with us ou this point. He may, even yet, tte lit to make a different cast from tbat which he would Lave made a month ago; ai'd it would be unfortunate if hia freedom of actior in the premises wereat all embarrassed. Yet all must realize that If Mr. A. or Mr. B. had 1 een indicated by him in January as his probable choice for the State or the Treasury L'epaitment, he would have been reluctant to humiliate and mortify tbat person by sending to the Senate tbe name of another instead of bis on the 4ih of next month. Nor ought the Cabinet officers in prospect to ba sub jcHd to boilng by office-i'eekers a day sooner than they must be. The inquiry of the deuons of old "Art thou come to torment us before the time " was reasonable and pertinent, provided only that Ua premise were sound. When tbe Secretaries iu embryo come into possession of their snug official quarters snd their $3000 a year, let them lake no their cross and bear it. Till then, spare them. If, then, it shall seem advisable to General Grant to indicate nochoioe for Cabinet offio rs until tbe morning of March 4, or if he shall choose to name a part of them sooner aud )eav the residue in abeyance, we trust that he will do exactly as he shall see fit. Curiosity as to his choice is lively aud legitimate; bat no friend of the incoming administration would have it gratified at the cost of embar lashing the President-elect. Numeroua as the f.flii e-eeekers may be, they are but a small fraction even of the Republicans; and the residue are in no hurry whatever. We note tbat a few of our greenest Repub lican journalists allow ' themselves to be dragged Into controversy with those who are intent on diffusing a false impression that General Grant is at varianoe with a majority of the Republicans in Congress, aad iutent on "setting up for himself," as the phrase ia. Tbe faot is well known tbat he set up for himself many years ago, and has ever since maintained the position then taken. II was nominated by the 'Republicans beoause his views accorded in the main with theirs, jast as he would have been eagerly aud unani mously taken up by the Democrats had he leaned to their side. Their prospects of suc cess from October, 1807, to the date of his nomination at Chioago, were quite as good as ours, not merely in their own view, but in that of dispassionate observers as well. They now insist that they would have suo cfededhad he been their candidate, not ours. It rested absolutely with General Grant to decide on which ticket te run; and he chose to identify himself with that party whose con victions acoorded generally with his own. But this does not preclude his asserting a large measure of independence, as he undoubtedly will and should do. This may possibly enable journals Lke the World to reawaken in the breasts of their followers fervent and raptu rous hopes destined never te be realized. The role now being played out to its pitiable'ca tastropbe by Andrew Johnson is one rarely or never undertaken unless by an Accident, aud one to which no man has less proclivity than Ulyssus S. Grant. BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC. QAR8TAIR8 & iV5cALL, SOS. 126 WALNUT and 21 (iRAKITE Sts., EMPOBTKHS OF BraadSfs, Wiiica, (JIa, Olive Oil, Etc. Etr,, WHOLESALE DEALERS 7A PUltE RYE WHISKIES, IN BOND AXD DUTY PAID. 4 11 HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. Mt. Vernon Hotel, 8 i Monument street, Baltimore. Elegantly Furnished, with unsurpassed Cuisine. On the European Plan, D. P. MORGAN. INTERNAL REVENUE. PRINCIPAL D ISPOI rOB TfiE SALK OF RBVBNUB STAMPS, Ho. 30 CHESNUT STREET. CENTRAL DEPOT, No. 103 S. FIFTH ST., (One door below Chesnut street), ESTABLISHED 1862. Tne sale of Revenue Stamps Is still continued at tne Old-Established Agency. The stock comprises every denomination printed by the Government, and having at all times a large supply we are enabled to till and forward (by Mall or Express), all orders, Imme diately upon receipt, a matter of great Impor tance. United States Notes, National Bank Notes, Dri.fta on Philadelphia, aud Post Ofllce Orders received In pHyment. Any Information regarding the decisions of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheer fully and gratuitously furnished. Revenue Stamps printed upoa Drafts, Cheeks Receipts, eto. i Tbe following rates of commission are allowed on Stamps and Slumped Paper: On $25 and upwards 2 por cent. 100 ' ... 3 " 300 " t " Address all orders, etc., to STAMP AGENCY, No. m CUESNUr STREET, PHILADELPHIA UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS ol nil kinds, and STAMPED ENVELOPES con stantly on httOd, Dh. KINKf LIN, AFTF.B A KRSIDEiJCl ud practice 01 tblrt.T yr v We Norihwesl oornei ut 'lliud i)d Union BUreuia, Uimiv re nu.v . d lobuiitb KUiVJCNiH btrwrt, between MAJl HL3a.erlorU lu tu womi.t aoa peifeoi core ol II rtOKiiL chronic, !!. ud coustltailoiiai nloo lier, ut apeclnl iiuiure, U proverbial. D ut-t of 1'ie skill, ftpp'wrlt g lu hnndred dll frrcut forum, totally eraiUeu-ds moutal aud physical kiietM, and ail nervous dbllHli clentliically aud m.ii'-wuU Ureaui OtUoe hou ttoia I A. at to tr.ut PATENTS. OFFICE FOR PROCURING PATENTS, FOURIST UUlLDiauS, r0. 119 South FOURTH SU.rhllaaelphU, AND MAHBLI BUILDINGS, No. 460 BttVKtTH KirMt, nppnilH U. 8. Palaat litlluf. WmIjIi uin 1. U, 11. IIOw UN, Mo lmior ol Plot. V. HOWKUM, Attorimr at l.. Commnnlrntlnii io b addraaud to t PrtrHa OUIcn Pullacltflpina. In In UMTEP STATKS PATENT OmtfE. WiiinaTot, l. O. 21 u, O.l th pillion 01 L VIM A. W. LI R H M K l,D -ntlnlntratr x of Wiw mta' of I amy l,Uihlitd of H'.uib Ilrirtgn. M a-iii lni.iw, pray nc lot tu oil. lou of a paieni granted hun n ma .i r ot May, lfcrS,ror an Improvement la nhiitl Kr lonmt 1 1 1. mderKl ! 1ml .aid pMllmii ba bear ai thla Cilice on I lie 12. Ii duy ul April Beit, Aor psr.ua nmy oi pme thin ex i- i l"n. l)D.rmnf , depo.nmna. and other imperii elmnid be tiled lu tali otlioa twenty iy before tbe day ol berln(. Kl. l-iila j-onn, 210Sw Cuinminlan.r ol Paieatt. TJ NITLI) ETATK1 PATENT Or'KK'K. un the petition of iiI,OH'N K ffl,l,K. ol lit cbfutor, MaNsavbii.t'tti. praylnc lor Ilia rxinn.mii ol m imuiii Kiame i nun on in mm oaf ol Ari..lw (r ao Improvement lu Jlacblue lor JtaLliif and Traui-porilni Hume.: It la ordered tliu'. fitlri petition b. heird at thla vlllcecn Ilie7tn tlav or Airu next. A n per m mar oppose tbln exteiiHion. Oi.iiloiin. dep".nlnn, and oilier lapern anou it ba fllml lu Ibl. ollice twaulr days beloie tbe day ol beariug. Kf.I.irf A F MM K, 10 2W Pom mi aloner of Pa iaut1, UNITED .STATUS PATENT OmnT. vakhinoTon, J) u. Jar. XI, lull, uu tbe pe'ltlonof 1.KJI t. r HUhkuL, of aia Rlllou. (-tarn con my, Otilo, ( raying tr tbn enei ai in ot a patent grauieu bloi on the Ut day of Alar, I I, reissued May IS isi.2, for au improvement In duubia gen red Home l o were: It Is ordered tl.at the na'd petition bn heard at thla ollice on tbe ilav of .April kext. Any prn n may oppose this xxtenMnn. oojcoiions depositions, and oilier aperi sn mld be bleu In tbla ollioe twtuty days btfure tbe (lay of bearing. KLI9TIA FOOTr", 210 2W Omnjlnioinir or rn.en'n, UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICK. Wanhimi i cim, 1 C , Jan. 8 iMiin on tbe petition ol J. HAllliY SMITH, or llernen. New Jemey, praying for tlie extension of a i.a etit grtmied taiou on tne Kin day of April, 1855, fo an lm provtineut In Bi wing Machines: It is ordered Hist, sld pe'ltlon be heard at thla (.flke ou tbe 29th ray of March next. Any u.WD n ay opnose this extension. Objections, de options. nd other put-eis should he filed m this oUioe tweuty Cayg be'ote the day or hearing. . litsiti FOOTE, 2 102W Comnil.sio ,er ot Patents, UNITED STATES PAT EXT OFFICE, .... W!'ii"iiiK)i. O. C, Ja". lis.in,;. On the pe'ltlon of WAirJC a. I'JRaUsit, of Eullolo, N. .. administrator of the eMate or K. B. JPmbuih.dfceat.ea, praying for luo extension of a patent granted the 8a:d ft. It, For luiou, on the lllh clay of April, 1855, r-lsmed the ?6ih day of April, ltw.i, and Btaln reissind la Org divisions nunjuerei renrectively 1H67 isms, ihbu ibto, ana iu71, the zid day ol May, 18-6, lor an Improvement In Urain and.araaa Harvtsierx: It la ordered that en Id petition be beard at thla olhceon ihe2!Hh day of tarch next. Any person aay opt ose this extension. Objections, depositions, end other papers should be filed lu this ollice tweuty days belure the day oi heating. KLtdHA FOOTR, 2 10 2w Commissioner of Patent. GOVERNMENT SALES. PUBLIC SALE OF CONDEMNED ORD nance Store. A lame quantity of Cnridemnei Ordnarce and Ord nance Btorea will bi. olle'ed f.,r ta a at Public Ann. Hon. at BOCK I-I-AJMD AIWUNAb, lillnolsf on WKDNE31M.V:, April 7, 18ti, at 10 o lock A? M " Tbeloliowhig comprises some ot tbe principal artl. cles io be s Id, viz ;- " 2 Iron Cannon, vurlons calibre, lliiu Field Carrieeri aud IA '-libers. 190 set i of rtlliery Harness, lu.ioo ponnds boot and ishell. 45. ICO sts of 1 1? miry Accoutrements. 22C0 WcClellun Paddies. 700 A rtlili-rv btttlu'ts. 2i 00 Hellers, 7n0 tsaddle Blankets. 60 0 Watering Bridles. 9400 Cavalry Curb Bridles. 2200 Aitillery 'J racee and 11 anus. ersons wishing cauloguts ot tbe Stores to be sold can bbtaltt ibeni by arl'l;ctlou to the Chief of Ord narce, at Wasblncion, V. C or Brevet Colon. 1 a, CBlrtl'IN. United Slates Army, Paronaslng Olllcer correrof BOUbTuN and (1RKKN Hireflts, JSew Vork city, or upon application atth'a Arsenal. 1. J. At PVf Lieutenant-Colonel Ordnance, Brevet Brigadier-General TJ. H. A., Commanuiug, Bock inland Arsenal, January 26. lssw. lUtAJ CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHS. "D ICTUSES FOR PRESENTS. A. S. ROBINSON, No. 010 CHESNOT Street, Has Jnst received exquisite speolinens of AKT, SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFT3, FINE DRESDEN '"ENAMELS" ON PORCE LAIN, IN GREAT VARIETY. SPLENDID PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS, Including a Number of Choice Gems. A SUPERB LINE OF CHROM03. A large assortment of NEW ENGRAVINGS, ETC. Also, RICH STYLES FRAMES, of elegant new patterns: 3 15$ BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY. JAS. H. BRYSON & SON, No. 8 North (SIXTH Street, Stationers and Printers. Blank Books, Ledgers, Dajr Books, Cash Books, tc. Etc, Hade to order at the shortest notice, at tbe lowest market rates. I.KTTER PAPKK, per reaa .2 M FoOl KCA1 l'Af iK nr tan,, V.tX NU1K l'AElt per learn...- 125 A lull assortmf nt ol loipirttd and BtapU ST A. TIONERY. always on hand: INHS, PaNOILS, X'JiS HOLDERS. Ktc., lu great variety. KN Vi L0PJ8, burl, letter size li-eo per 1000 sruHe, 1-80 A great variety of styKa and grades always on band, at tbe loweit rales, MINTED BUNKS, CARDS, PAMPHLETS, Etc., executed In the mobt approved style-. I lui JAMES O. SMITH A CO,, L A IV K IJ O O I a!ANUACTOREKS, WHOLESALE AND HETAIL.. Ho. 27 JSoiith SEVEMll street 12 18 ftiiwatD PHILADELPHIA, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE ETC? ESTABLISHED 1 823. J: HOLIDAY uKKvav. WATCIIBS.JKV.EI.Ry, , CLUCKS. HlIjVJf.RWA.RB, and ' . FA sov woo oa. a. w. Rusajsj, No. 22 M-IVJVII SIXTH 8 J Km . ALEXANDER (J. cittTm Z 77 Kb. 76 NORTH WHAR vii A " 87 "pETFa WB BTf- WJk BUjJJjia 04 11 BIX
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