SPIRIT OF TIIE PRESS. BDITORIAIi OPIPIOSS OF THB tKADIHO OCRWAM PPOW CURBBHT TOPICB OOMPIIJtD BTBBT DAT FOB IHI BVKHIHO TBLBOHAM. The Insurrection fn Cuba. Frtm 1M jY. r. Harold. nnbllshed " Tho despatches" wLi..h we pawwnaa 1st ro br no means cuppresued; but tuat trie revolntionary contagion In spreading Into the hitherto undisturbed went eeotion f tUa lBland. From day to day the ooufliotiDg re porta from the "seat o( war" would make it yrr dlffloult to understand the situation of affairs on the Island If we did not know the eouroa from which most of the information oomes nd the motive for miarepreaentation. Nearly ail the news oomes from and through Hv, and both the Spaniards and .Spanish authorities are very careful to make it appear that the insurrection is a mere bagatelle and fast dying out. They are particularly anxious to create this impression in the United States In order to prevent sympathy and aid being ex tended to the Cubans. But it does not require muoh sagaoity to detect the falsehoods circu lated for this purpose. For example, la tne letter from Havana published In Wednesday s Herald, it is represented that an early peaoels confidently expected, that a compromise had been agreed upon by the insurgent chiefs, and that the insurrection was praotloally over. The Voz de Cuba, of Havana, an intensely Spanish paper, says tranquillity exists throughout the island, exoept in Villa Clara, where a small riot existed. We have heard jUBt the same things all through from the Spaniards and Spanish press at Havana, yet the insurrection has continued to spread and grow stronger. But let us see how these representations of peaoe, tran quillity, and the end of the inaurreotiou cor respond with the facts and with the telegram from Havana published at the same time with this rose-oolored letter in our issue of Wednes day. We learn from this telegram that the Government is organizing several new bat talions of volunteers, part for garrison duty and part for active service in the field, and that La Cabana, the strongest fortress in Havana, is garrisoned by volunteers for the purpose of letting the regular troops proceed to Cienfuegos. It is known, too, that General Duloe has called upon the provisional govern ment of Spain for four thousand more troops. Does this look like tranquillity or the end of the insurrection f Does the suppression of freedom of the press and other extreme repressive measures show that there is not vitality in the insur rection f Any little suocess on the part of the Cuban patriots electrifies the whole island. This was seen on the fall of Bayamo; for it was followed immediately by revolutionary movements in Matanzas, Cardenas, even in Havana itself, and in other cities and towns throughout the island. This shows unmis takably that the revolutionary fire is deep seated, widespread, and ready to burst forth into action with the least prospeot of success. Judging from these facts and from the various souroes of private information at our com mand, there is no doubt the revolution is stronger to-day than it ever has been. The Spanish Government, too, is strength ening itself undoubtedly, and the coniliot may be a terrible one. Bat if the Cubans should be united and resolved to acquire their inde pendence, they can suooeed. They have, in the mountain fastnesses and abundant re sources of food in the Eastern Department, the means of a prolonged existence. They would acquire military experience in time, and both men and the materials of war would come to them. Spain is in a revolutionary condition, and will have enough to do at home, probably, to prevent any powerful effort being made to hold Cuba. The Cubans can have no hope of freedom or exemption from grinding taxation from the mother country, whatever may be the form of government ultimately established there. Under Spanish rule there will always be an enormous revenue squeezed from them to support the Spanish Government and a host of hungry colonial officials. They can never have a finer opportunity to acquire their independence. The hour has struck, if they know it and will take advantage of the time. They ought not to let slavery or any other question divide or hinder them from attaining independence. Slavery is doomed, whatever may happen and whether they remain a colony or be independent. They had belter acknowledge this fact, therefore, and unite upon the one idea of independence, Irrespective ef all other issues, and follow the example of Lincoln's emancipation pro clamation. But what should be the policy of the United States with regard to Cuba and the Cuban revolution ? There ' is no question about the sentiment of the American people. They are in tavor 01 Uuban Independence and of the in dependence of the whole of North America from monarchical and EuroDean rule. Apart. however, from mere sentiment, it is the polioy of this country to aid as far as it oan every movement tending to disconnect this oonti nent and surrounding islands from European control. In this wav will our commerce and American ideas be extended. Cuba inde pendent of Spain, for example, would prove far more valuable to as in a commercial point of view than it is now. Besides, it Is the lnevi table destiny of that island, as well as the rest of North America, to ultimately fall into our politloal system and to be nulled with us. It is the first duty of our statesmen, then, to watch the signs of the times and to seize every fair opportunity of carrying out the destiny of our country. We owe nothing to Spain or the other nations of Europe for our political existence. They Insidiously endeavored to dismember the republic and to plant an impe rial monarchy on our border when we were plunged in a tertlble civil war, and Spain was one of the enemies. It has bten our policy to sympathize with every people struggling for liberty. Shall we retase this to the Cubans, a people terribly oppressed and our near neighbors f The Government should at once ascertain from the Cubans themselves what prospect they have of r-uccess, and then if Justifiable in doing so, should recognize them as belligerents. We do not urge this in the war of retaliation, but in sympathy with a people struggling for freedom and upon that broad principle of American policy to which we have adverted. If the Cubans have a chance of acquiring their independence, we . ought to favor the movement. The deduction of the Army, mn ttut IV. y. Times. The propositions of the House Military Com mute for the reduction of the army are now Wni the oountrv. They consist mainly of two features one, a reduction of the infantry br fifteen regiments; the other, a reduction, i.V nflnaoUdation. in the number of stall offl cers of all grades. The War Department, twlilnli ill! Itself recommended a reduction, lu rnorid that the artillery and cavalry cannot safely be brought below their present Strength. .-: While all parties in the House re in favor of rednotion, and even agree in general upon Its amount, there is a wide difference of opinion as t the proper method of effecting it. THE DAlli-i rvENING TELEGRAPHPHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1809. The Chairman of the Military Committee takes the ground that the reduotlon should b prospective and by absorption; that the BtrtDBlh and composition of the fores to be permanently mniuUlne should be fixed; sod that the change from the present to tho future organization should be, lu the ose of officers, at least, by casuvttt-.that !, by the natural dwmdliDg through deaths, resigua tione, and disniisaulrt from the servio stop tiDg, meanwhile, Mid till the reduced orgaul zation" is reached, promotions aud app.,lin- nientp. . Oil the o her hftud, MeiMM. Butler, Logan, and other ex officers of the volunteer foroes take the ground that a tlity were mustered out at once when the war was over, tUe same summary process should be applied to th officers of the regular army, whenever the number of enlisted men reduoes them, for the time being, to the condition of supernu meraries. .. .. The radical difference between these two opinions is, evidently, that the one is baaed oh the theory that a regular military establish ment is necessary to any well-organized State, whatever be its form of government, while the other denies that such a necessity exists in our country; it holds that, on the contrary, it is always possible to gather as large, well educated, well-informed and disciplined an army of officers and men from the body of the people as any exigency may iequlre, and as rapidly as we may want them. This latter view obviously ignores, as it seems to us, the nniversal regret at the open ing of the rebellion that our regular force, and above all our body of experienced pro fessional officers, was so small. Tnat time is not so distant that we cannot vividly reoall the general determination that the nation should never again be suffered to fall into a condition so hopeless. It is hardly sufficient to reply that we now Lave officers enough for a large army. We shall have fewer to-morrow, and still fewer next yeai; and very soon, indeed, if proper military institutions are not kept up, we shall be again in that weak and unprepared condi tion which entailed on as so muoh misery, waste, death, and continuing debt. Such volunteer officers as Generals Butler, Schenck, Logan, and Banks, we must reflect, never sought military rank and position in the line of professional occupation. They suffered no wroDg by being promptly mus tered out of the service. Their arenas were different. Thrust them suddenly on a plea of economy out of their political positions and preferments, with no chance of returning, ana they might look on this matter in a different light. The regular army officer, taken by the Government as a boy, and moulded exclu sively to its own purposes, to whom the mili tary life was his career, who spent his youth and manhood in it, and whose praiseworthy professional ambition was to reach a position honorable in the eyes of his countrymen and of his descendants to him the military pro fession is all in all. The Thomases andMeades of our army have no proapeet or desire, ex cept as officers of our army. To violently and arbitrarily dislocate and disorganize the body to which they belong, and which bears the records of their honor able career, is urjja3t to such officers. It is flagrantly unjust to claim that as the country has no need, for the moment, of their ser vices, their career shall end; that after in venting a large part of their lives in this vo cation, they shall be forced to seek another. The gradual system proposed by the Mili tary Committee will soon place the reduoed force in harmony with the proposed organiza tion, and yet, meanwhile, work no injustice to a body of officers who merit being treated with more consideration than the rude dis missal which has been urged by some mem bers of the House. Sun Domingo and Samaria (Jammou aud uuuuo. From the N. T. Times. Congressional jobbers, in the lobby and out of it, are determined we shall have ban Do xningo. Not that we want San Domingo, or would buy it lor a song, or take it as a gift, or be paid for taking it. Nevertheless, the jobbers are bound that we shall take it; if we don't buy it, we must borrow it; if we don't borrow it, we must beg it; if we won't "pro tect" It, we must "annex" it; ll we can't pay for it, we must accept it as a gratuity, nor look the eirt-horse in the mouth. 'the long and short 01 tne matter is tnat Dominican and Amerioan speculators have found they can make something out of San Domingo tnat mere is money in it," or, u not money, say guano, which comes to the same thing. So they appeal to our great and ga-lorious country to advance with imperial tread towards its manifest destiny in the West Indies. Bat it's all gammon and guano. two or tnree years ago the idea 01 nuying or hiring the Bay of Samaua as a naval station for the United States oame up. The moment it was broached, and before we had time to think of it, the San Dominicans went to out- tins each other's throats over the prospect A questionable honor and an unquestionably small profit before, their Presidency suddenly loomed into grandeur by reason or the enor mous rental which the bay would probably bring. Baez and Cabral took opposite sides on the question, and, though most of our peo pie were probably ignorant of the faot, those worthy islanders were at one time murdering and outraging each other by the scores, under the rival banners of lfaez and Cabral, of whose hostility, as we bave said, one cardinal point was mis Day 01 sauuana business. We real:y cannot say to what extent this slaughter, partly on our account, went on But we very well remember one of President Cabral's speeches to his people, which said: "If a bad DominK-au, aided by others, suc ceeded in taking the country by surprise, and infamously selling it, has not this been set aside by the blood of twenty thousand vic tims ?" Twenty thousaud was a very large number of victims to ollor up to appease the names of insulted Dominican demigods a more than Druidical sacriii.-e. ''Heroes of the Caicalia, of the fields of Kantome and of the Canda, heroes of Capotlilo," crid Cabral, "point to my sword, while I swear, if need be, that I will not part with, nor renounce, nor permit the cesMon of any part of the country, avid that before do'ng so I will bury myself in the ruins of the Republic." In that issue President Cabral cam to the top, and the Samam business was for the moment endtd. Bat, as a matter of coarse, the wheel of fortune -was sure, in time, to luing "that bad l'ouilnicftn," in his turn, overhead, and to carry Cabral uuderneath. That is just what has happened. Bez being Unipomrily euccessfal, is trying to be "pro tected," or even "annexed," tor the sake of keeping his precarious seat. And this is all that the "assurances of the dt sire of the Dominican Government to con summate admission to the Union" amount to. We are to act as catspaw to an enterprise which would turn to acoount the trepidation of Baez, mixing it up with commercial specu lations of Samana supplies, Alta Vela guano, and what not, that goes to make up a "job." We shall suggest one pretty sure sure for this whole business mai. The chances are that Baez will soon experience the same lot as his predecessors, ills seat is very luse- our; henoe his anxiety to oloso this bargain and get the benefit of it. His purse is drained, and wltfiont replenishing he oannot run the Government maohlne. The very last advloes from San Domingo showed that the town of Sey bo, in tbe Province of the K tst, had prononnoed against him, and was in open revolution. By a stroke of diplomacy, he is understood to have interested himself largely in the "Samana Bay Company:" and henoe the propopal for a "protectorate." Of course he runs the rick of being deposed, ou the charge of selling out his country but what can a man do, cornered in that way ? lint Wfte all this otherwise; were lla z firm in his stirrups, with full command of the bridle; were ho ever so rich in renouroas, still the absurdity, of annexing - half an island which has aires ty been the scene of such blood-letting partly on this very aooount an island whose people do not want to be an nexed, and whom we oertalnly do not want to annex is sufficiently apparent. The corres pondents are discovering a "job" In the whole transaction. It is not evidence of re markable sagacity to do that since on no general ground, such as is argued in Congress, could the scheme be entertained. Seward Haunted by I lie Devils. Frorn" Brick'' romcroy't N. Y. Democrat. Seward, it is said, keeps surrounding his house in Washington, night and day, by an armed force to proteot his person from the assassins which haunt his imagination perpetually. 'here are in the United States hundreds of in nocent men who have been impnsoned in loathsome dungeons, not by any law. but by secret telegraphio despatches sent by his orders. Among these hundreds may there not be some who bave the, will and the pluok to pay the debt of just vengeance whioh they owe him f That is a terrible question which dines in the ears of his conscience night aud day. Waking, it haunts his reason, aud sleeDine it appals his dreams. The "little bell" whioh he once boasted he could touch and summon the tools of his malice to incarcerate any victim he pleased, now rings ever in the chambers of his own brain, and peoples it with swarming assassins called upon to mete out just and summary vengeance upon his guilty soul. for a man of his bad heart he had a good time it during of his horrid reign. But he sold himself to the Devil, aud now legions of infernal imp3 neoDle his thoughts. demanding their just dues, and refusing to be appeased with any thiog short of this inceS3ant torture of dismay. Ha sees, and he ought to, m every man's hand a death-grannie clutch ing at his throat. He would be compelled to utterly despise universal humanity if he did not believe that hundreds of wroneed men mean to kill him. A man who feels that he holds ou to life ocly by tho saffrance of honest men whom he has outraged is cer tainly a wretch who deserves pity, if it were not a crime to pity such a Eooundrel. That man is William ll. Seward. Historically epeeking, he has certainly made his bed in hell. His name must go into history a hun dred thousand times more dishonored than that of Robespierre. For Robespierre was s'rongly impelled, by oiroumstauces over which he was personally powerless, to commit the horrid excesses laid to his charge. Bat Seward was by every circumstance impelled in another direction. His lattres de cachet origi nated in himself. They were simply born of tbe dog-nature within him. Alean, selhsh, cruel, and cowardly, he re sorted to the dungeon to revenge himself upon those whoEe arguments he oould not answer, and whose virtuous love of constitutional liberty he abhorred. And when his viotims asked their jailors for the benefit of counsel. he brutally telegraphed baok that if they dared to invoke the aid of counsel he "should deem that as a sufficient cause for farther de tention." This is the record the scoundrel has made for himself a record that will send his name into history not only as one of the most de testable of mankind, but which must also crucify every hour left to his guilty life. A record, we say, which has peopled his imagi nation with assassins. Assassins do we eall them f How can we call those assassins who only revenge their own great wrongs and execute the mission of justice upon the com mon enemies of liberty r The very pains Seward resorts to in order to protect his per son from violence, sufficiently prove that he is fully conscious of his deserts. His per petual dread or being Killed like a dog is bat tne voice or uod's justice, wnicn win cry evermore even out or tne towels or crime itself. As he totters nearer and nearer to the crave, the abhorred old man's imagination will be more and more appauea witn the dread or approaching 3 ustioe. General Grant and the Republicans. From the XT. Y. World. Now, It Is perfectly well known among well mrormea persons mat weneral urant gave a eealous and effective support to trie Impeach ment of Andrew Johnson, urged (Senators to vote for his conviction, and profoundly regret ted hU escape from that measure of justice. If there be an intelligent human being who does uui Know ims, it is ueoause no nag cnosen to remain ignorant 01 it. As to tbe Tenure of- Office act, we challenge any one to name tbe pt iHon to wnora tne (ienoral lias expressed a preference for its absolute repeal over Its msdl ncailon as la proposed In tbe Heuate. We are unaware of bis choice In the premises, if be has Dy, and we are oonOdent tbat tubers are equally so. If he has a choice, be nag been very cuury 01 iiuparuDg it 10 otueiu. xriouiie. We have not forgotten that in May last, while the impeachment trial was still in progress, tbe Tribune paraded, in staring type, a statement that General Grant thought "the acquittal of Johnson would threaten the country, and especially the South, with revo lution and bloodshed." Most people re garded this as a piece of spurious news a desperate letch to seoure the ruin 01 rresdent Johnson. The statement was supported by no evidence, and it was too dishonorable to General Grant to be easily believed by any body who wished well to his reputa tion. The Tribune now repeats the libel in a stronger form. It asserts that General Grant "urged Senators to vo'e for conviction." Considering that the Senators had taken an oath to do impartial justice, and that they were bound to decide according to their estimate of the evidence and arguments adduced on the trial, nothing could have been more nnseemly or impertinent than for Gene ral Grant to attempt to sway their votes by his personal urgency. He might, with as much propriety. Lave approached the Jastioes of the Supreme Court in a case pending before tnem. or nave attempted to tamper wun jury in , a criminal case. The kind of interference with whioh the Tribune charges General Grant would have been scandalous, even If he had had no known personal inte rest in the result. But he had a bitter grudge against the President for a public attack on his veracity; and as he wis ex peo t- lag to be the Kepablican candidate, it was for Lis interest that a Republican should be at the ueaa 01 tne uovernment durine the canvass These circumstances made it a flagrant and most scandalous breach of nronrietv for Gene ral Grant to tamper with the Impartiality of iue luguest juuioiai tribunal Known to our Jaws. If the Tribune expects its libel on General Grant to be believed, It must support it vy some eviaenoe. The Tribune challenges the mention of some person to whom General Grant has expressed a wish to hai-e th Tennre-of Offloe act re- 1 pealed. This is a disingenuous dodge to oover the fact that, in advocation the continuance of the law, the Tribune is Jopposing the known wishes of General Grant. The openness of a manly opposition would be more creditable than this enake-iu-the-grass kind of skulking. General Butler was a frequent visitor to Gen. Grant's headquarters and had consultations with confidential members of his staff, before introducing his bill for the repeal of the law. Mr. Washburne, General Grant's long-tried and most intimate friend, has denounced the law. in the House, as "putting fetters on the limbs of General Grant" which would make it Im possible for him to be an effhient President. The fair presumption is that General Butler acted with the sanction, and Mr. Washburne by the inspiration, of.General Grant. It would ill beoome the Tribune, whioh accuses Grant of tampering with Judges in a criminal pro ceeding, to pretend that he would have any scruples about trying to procure the repeal of a law whioh is a legislative expression of a want of confidence in the President. The law was passed because Congress did not trust Mr. JohnBon, and if it is not repealed it will be beoause Congress does not trust General unnt. Tbe Tribune is over-oonfident in its opinion that there can be no ill-feeling between the Urpubllcan party aud General Graut. If the Republicans trust the new President, why are they unwilling that he should exeroiafl powers mat nave always belonged to that office r As they never would have taken those posvera away from Llnooln, why are they unwilling to restore them to Grant ? No other reason can be given than this: Tbat they dare not trust Grant as thy trusted Lincoln ; that they re gard him as a man to be treated as thev have treated Johnson, rather than as they treated Lincoln. The Tenure-of-01fic9 act is like the safeguard called a "poke" a sort of yoke with a pole protruding in front put by farmers on the necks of unruly cattle to pre vent meir leaping over rences. A well-disposed animal that keeps within the limits of his own pasture is never disabled by a poke. When the poke which President Johnson has been forced to wear is put upon the neck of President Grant, it advertises him as a vicious arid unruly officer who cannot be trusted. Tbe Tenure-of-Office aotisa mark of ignominy, which was intended partly to restrain, and partly to insult, a Preaideut who was de nounced as a traitor aud a renegade. Con sidering the motives in which it originated, and the humiliation meant to be put upon Mr. Johnson by its passage, General Grant has a right to resent, and he mast be either more or less than a man if he does not resent, such an insulting restraint upon his official freedom. It is like requiring a man to give heavy bail before he is accused of any crime, from mere suspicion 01 ma character, xr there Is no ground to fear that General Grant will abuse the power t f removal, then there is no reason why he fuuiua not be truBtea witn 11. rne irwune itself said, on the 1st of May last, speakine of jonnson, "tne sooner tne r resident is re moved, the sooner the law can be dispensed witu." a clear admission that the only neces 8ity lor us continuance was to restrain a President who would abase his power. There is no resisting the conclusion that the non repeal of tbe law is an affront and an indignity to uenerai uraut, putting him on a level with President Johnson. And the Tribune thinks Lim such a model of meekness that he will patiently bear the insult ! General Duller as an Economist. From U.s N. Y, Journal of Commerce. When a man of General Butler's ereat en ergy and persistence takes up retrenchment and economy as a hobby, we feel oonfidenoe that something will come of it. In his new role as a foe to national extravagance and waste, his alliance will be warmly welcomed by all those who in vain have sounded the warnings of impending bankruptcy in the ears of the Government for some time past. About uenerai iiutler there are some things whioh it is not pleasant to remember. Bat the Ameri can people are quick at forgetting; and the errors of General Butler's past will speedily ue 10BI Bigm 01 11 ne win but turn his talents and great force of character into the right cuaunei. 10 nave moved a repeal of the Tenore-of-OlHce law and carried it is a feather In his cap; and, if he can now succeed ia catting down the regular army to about half us present size and saving If 40, 000, 000 or eou.uoo.ouo a year by It, he wiU be entitled to. and will receive, a high degree of praise from men 01 an parties, army oinoers, contractors. J 2.1-1-1 in- ( . ' aim joDumg politicians aione excepted. The United States army oost, for the last year the enormous sum of 1123,24(3,648. and ior tne previous year t;yj,ii4(4io. The great increase in one year is attributed to campaign ing against the Indians, a most expensive procodure, whioh has been, it may be admit ted, temporarily successful in taming down the ferocity of the red-skins, but which must not be relied en as a regular resort year after year. It wonld be cheaper for as to buy their good-will . with unlimited blankets, beads, provisions, and luxuries of various kinds, than to fight them at this rate especially when all we have to show for the outlay of pome $30,000,000 are a few dozen dead war riors, a lot of captured squaws and pappooses, droves of horses, half of which are not worth keeping, quantities of mouldy buffalo robes and other traps that have to be burnt to prevent their spreading ugly contagions among our men. Into this bloated, nnwieldy, unnecessary military establishment General Butler thrusts the knife of reform; minding not where it cuts; sparing neither high nor low. We will glance at his principal proposed amendments of the bill "for the support of the army." To begin, he slashes at the office of General, declaring that vacant from the 4th of March, ISC!). Tb-n he provides that the office of L'eu-tenant- General shall continue until a vacancy shall occur in it, and no longer. The brevet commission humbug is despatched at one swift stroke. The land now swarms with brevet major generals and brigadiers, many of whom have won those nominal honors by fawning and begging, while far more deserv ing officers, superior to the arts of flattery and self-advancement, are obliged to remain colonels, majors, captains, and lieutenants, and are thought none the less of by the publio (we may add ) because of their non-promotion. General Butler proposes to choke off miscel laneous breveting by a provision that com mission by brevet shall be conferred only for distinguished and meritorious conduot and important service in the presence of the enemy, and within one year after the same is rendered, and shall bear date from the par ticular action or service for whioh the officer was brevetted. This is excellent. The major-generals are to be cut down from live to three; the brigadiers from nine to five, and tbe officers now holding the positions of adjutant-general, quartermaster-general, commis-sary-general, chief of ordnance, chief of engi neers, paymaster-general, surgeou-general, end judge advocate-general, are to be reduoed from the rank and pay of brigadier to those of colonel; and the whole number of officers serving In the above-named stall departments or oorps reduced one-half. In auotber section of the bill the cash com mutation of quarters, fuel, foragu, servants' wsgvp, -etc., is declared abolished. Bat the manterstroke of General Butler's till is in tncceeding sections, where he provides for the Hduction of the army from forty-five refi ll ents to twenty-four, from 4i,000 men (the ioMr of September 30, 1808) to 25,000. These are tbe maiu points of a bill which is one of the most judicious and commendable treasures of reform introduced into Congress of late years. If General Butler cures for the good opinion of bis countrymen, we assure him that he c bh hit upon no better way of semiring it than by diligently following np the economical lack. BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC. OARfiTAIRB VMcGAl.IL, Nob. 12G WALNUT and 31 UlMMTESt, M POISTKRS Or Hraudics, Wines, Uln, Olive Oil, Ltc F,?., BOLKALE DEALERS IK ruiiE IlYE WHISKIES, T2V BOND AND DUTY PAID. 4 11 HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. Mt. Vernon Hotel, 1 81 Monument street, Baltimore. Elegantly Furnished, with unsurpassed Cuiuius. On the European l'lan. D. P. MORGAN. INTERNAL REVENUE. T HE PRINCIPAL DEPOT roa tux sxls or R E V E N U K STAMPS, No. 504 CHE821UT BTKEKT. CENTKAL DEPOT, No. 103 3. FIFTH ST., (One door below Chesuut street), ESTABLISHED 1432. The sale of Revenue stamps Is still oon tinned at the Old-Established Ageucy. The stock comprises every denomination printed by the Government, and having at all times a large supply we are enabled to All aud forward (by Mall or Express), all orders, Imme diately upon receipt, a matter of great Impor tance. United States Motes, National Bank Notes, Drafts on Philadelphia, and Post Office Orders received In payment. Any Information regarding the deolslons of theCommleslouer of Internal Revenue oueer fully and gratuitously turniahod. Revenue Stamps prlutod upou Drafts, Checks Receipts, etc. The following rates of oora mission are allowed on Stamps and Stamped Paper: On 823 and upwards SMMSMs2 p6f CBIltt " 300 i - Address all orders, etc., to STAMP AGENCY, No. 301 CHESNUI STREET, PHILADELPHIA UNITED 8TATES POSTAGE STAMPS of all kinds, and STAMPED ENVELOPES con stantly on band. LEGAL NOTICES. rK THE COURT OF COMMON CODMTY PLEAS FOR Oif ruiLA THK CITY AKD IlKT.PH IA i rubt Kumie of LKTITIA C BACK US, formerly LE T1TIA C. COUPfiit The Auditor npi oluted by tbe Court to audit, net lie, aod djtisc Ibe account ol HARK HON SMITH kiid JiilM UAYiHD, Trustees undi-r ludouiuraot the -U1I1 of May. lfclO. between LtVlllA C COO "UK (In routemp ailon of her marriage with tbe Rev. JUHM U. BAKtlS). and h AMUiU. F. MMU'H aud WILLIAM. W (SMITH, In whoaa stead the acr.au ut mi8 have been duly substituted, and to report dis tribution ot the balauce In toe bauds of tbe Account put, will meet tbe parties Interested, for tbe purue ol his appo'ntmen, ou TUMbDAY, February 21 A. I). 1m, at llo'clo' M A. M ,at blsoulce, N0.41W WaLNOT biret, In the City 01 Pbi.&deluhla. IU'liiwCt' WILLIAM D. BIKER, Auditor. 1 N THE DltSritlCT CliL'RT OF THE UNITED X BTA TJ H VOll i'Uli tiAHlKHS UiaTKiLi' Ob' PENNSYLVANIA. IN BANKRUPTCY. At Vblladelphla. Decinioeris A. D. 186S, ' Tbe inidtrHiKO d hereby gives notion ot his appoint rui'Iit I.-: ASBluuee or FKKDbiUCK KINO, ol i'Ullv clelpblu. and e ate ol Feuusylvaula, withlu said dis trict nbu has beta adjudged a bankrupt ou m own petition by lli UUlrk't Cuurt ot (aid District JOHN ROItKHTa. Assignee, fin. Vi8 Hnuin (SIXTH ftteet, To tbe Creditors of said Bankrupt. 1 2 lu win TN THE ORPHANS' COURT JOR TUB CITY J. AND OSiVNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. Kstatsol CHRISTIAN JALD, deceased. Notice 1 hereby given tbat JCLlZABKfH BALD, widiw or the sa d oecedent. baa llled-her peiillou, with Inventory aud appraisement ot property elected to be rstalned by her under tbe act of Apt 11 14, lasi. aud Its supplements, and tbat unlets exceptions bs tiled thereto cn or before SATURDAY, February 13, JfcW, tbe sama will be approved by the Court aHOItUE W. THO HIT, ' 1 29 ftus it Attorney forWidow. PERSONAL. "VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT TIIE Lli iniflar.lL'ned has made atlnllralion for the r uewal 01 cemtlcate Ho, 10,741 Iir four susrw or vn block of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, Issued 10 Abraham fcoiubaugb, late of Westmoreland t ouuty, Pa., deceased, dated tbe 8d day of Ieomber, ) , th. iame bavlbg beea RUMB AUOH. -Executor Of Abraham Rumbaugb deceased. Greensburg, Pa., Jau. JW, 1K 1 jtjL. T-VR. KINKELIN. AFTER A RESIDENCE XJ and practice of thirty yaan nf'ihirrf and Union sue an at the Northwest direeu, baa lately r- moved to bunth KLKVJCNTH Btreet, bMWMn SLAM. H is superiority in tb riorript and perfect oare ol II recent, olironia, loow. uu ouuautuuonai u.i n a univlal nature. Is oroverbtaL aJXoo- Diseases of the skin, appearing In a hundred dl forttut forma, totally arauloati'd; mental and physical wcaknaas, and all nervous debilities aulentmoal.'y nd suooKMtullr ureabsf, Otni hours from I A. M 10 t r, isr PATENTS. OFFICE FOR PaOCURiNG PATENTS, I Ko. 119 Sonth FOURTU Kt., rhlladclptaia. : AM MAKBLK BUI1.UIM4S. i No. 440 PKVKfTH H.re, oppimft U. B. Patent i Ulncx, v aainiguu i. v H. HdW'DN, Ho tc'tor.ol Patents, 5 C, HOWKOKi, Aitormtj a; La. S Com mn I cations 10 be ldr-sd to lie Prlrrlp i OlUcn Pullartelpnia. 1 ! I no f UNITED 8TATKS . PATSNT I)?FIC8. Wa-hiiMBTOV, I), t). Jan. 21 IH'iO J On the petition ol LYKI A V. J 1 IOH H KI.O an- rulnlhtrntr x o Hit, ,-stato tif 1 aroy Lliohlifld. of j H.,uth Bridne. MHHKai'liiisetts, pray iir tor the enten- - slou ol a puiet't itrantt'd httit 011 te t tuay of May, 1 lliff,for an ImpioveiiiPttt in Hhutlla lor Irfrnms: J It Is oidcrrd that tald petition be heard at this ' mice on ttiel2.hd-ty ot April next. Any person, j luny ocpose this ex tt sloii. O'llfCUnnf, depositions, ' 4 and other papers slinuid he tiled lu tnls Ollice , twenty d vt betoie thb day ol hearing. ; KLlHH A FO'lTK, , 210 5w Com mienloner ol Patent!). I TJ MTl'-D ST ATM PATENT OFFICIO. ,k ..... .w.,.. f , t 11 .1 ...... a ' y .Ditinu izn, w ,f.ii. jto, toil,, 7 un m ppiuion ot eui,vj.uu i' v j I L. !,, ol Ko-, j cheater, Wan.-ai liuctts, praying lift Hits extension ot i a paluut iiramed him on the, lu'.h day of April, lxt, ; for an improvement In Machine lor UaUtuz aud Iraii'porilng euones: ' H la ordered that said petliton bi heard at tbls ' ollice in the7th day ol April next. Any person may oppose tbls extension. OMeoilons. deptwiiion.t, and I other papers should be. (tied lu this ollice Vweuty 1 days befute the tfuy cl hearing. 5 KMSHA FJOIE, 10 2w C'omnumloner ot Patents. i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, AHHJNOTON, 1). V.. ,rr, ti, 1H69, I On the petition ol LaMtrnx KUs-iKCL. of Mas- J Billoo. t-tara cotimy, Oblo, graying fr the extension or a patent granted him on the 1st day of May, lsts, reissued May 16, 18(2, for au Improvement lu djuble- ' geared Horsepower:: ' j It Is ordered if at tbe sa'd petiti on be heard at this 3 Cilice on the 12iu day Of April next. Any person I may oppose tbls eiteir.'lou. OiiJ-otion-, depositions, i and other iaper-sn n)l bo Hlca in this ollice twenty u.i ucuia iuq uttv os ucaiiuK, r ELtSHA FOOTK, 2 10 2W CnmmUiionerof Patents. i UNITED SrAlES PATENT OFFICE. Wahiiihotom, D C.Jan.g. 1H09 j on the petition ol K. IIAItHY SMITH, or lleren i New Jerty, praylug for the extension of a pa'ent i (rallied him on tne llth day of April, lSij, for an lia j provtmeol in Bowing Machines: ; it ib oruerea mat sum petition oe nearct at this otllce on the 29th Cay of March next. Any person txay oppose this extenolnn Objections, depositions, nd other papers should be Hied m this omoe sweaty days beloie the day ol bearing. . . LfMrA FOOTK, 210 2w CommlMloner ot Patents. UNITED STATES PAT EST OFFICE, WamiiiKotow. I. C, Jan. I.ls. on the petition of WAt-TKti a. FORBUda, of Buffalo, N. Y.. Hdtnlulxtralor of the fcftnte of K B. Forbuxh. deceased, praying for th extension of ' patent granted the said K, Jt. Forbusn.on tbe Wth clay ot April, 160.). rI.umed the TOth day of April, 1HM", and atatn reissued n Hve divisions numbered ren eouvely liW, lttttf, 1M9, 1970, and li'71, the 2ld day ot May, 18-6, lor an Improvement in Uraln and .Grass Harvesters; It is ordered that said petition be beard at this ofllce on the 29th day of March next. Any persoa may opt ose this extnnBlon. Objections, depositions, auo other papers should be tiled In' this ollice twenty days before the day ol beat iug. F.LI9HA FOOTK, 2 10 2w Commissioner of Patents GOVERNMENT SALES. PUBLIC SALE OF CONDEMNED OHD nauce Storen. A lare quantity of Condemned Ordnanos and Ord nance Btores will be offered tr ba e iPobnoAuo. tlon.at POCK ISLAND ' AHdBNAL, llllnola oa WKDNESLAY, April 7. 1869, t 10 o loo A? M.' The following comprises some ot the principal arti cles to be at Id, vlx : . n Iron Cannon, various calibres, 1100 Field Carriagri and Limbers. 190 set ol rtlllery Harness, N ' lo.tOO pounds Bhot and Hhell. 4R.(0U8flsof Iniautry Accoutrement. 22C0 McClellnn r-addies. 7tf) A rtlllery Baddies. 2(00 Halters. 7oo saddle Blankets. 60:e Waterlog Bridles. 1400 Cavalry Curb Bridles. 220O Aillllery 1 races and HanifS. Persons wishing catalogues ot tbe Htores to be sold can obtain them by application to tbe Chief of Ori narre, at Washlnitton, D. C, or Brevet Colonel a. ' CRISPIN. United Htatea Army, Purchasing OlUcer corner of HOUSTON and OBUKN Hi rents, JSer Yotk city, or upon application at thti rJJ,(n1I4rr Lieutenant-Colonel Ordnance, Brevet Brigadier-General V. a. A., Commanding. , Bock Island Arsenal , January 26. 1869. 1 W t AT CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHS. TDICTURKS FOR PRESENT 3. A. S. ROBINSON. No. 910 CHESN'UT Street, Has Jnst received exquisite specimens of ART, SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS, FINE DRESDEN ''ENAMELS" ON PORCE LAIN, IN GREAT VARIETY. SPLENDID PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS, Including a Number of Clioloe Genu. A SUPERB LINE OF CHROM03. A large assortment of NEW ENGRAVINGS, ETC. Also, RICH STYLES FRAMES, of elegant new patterns: 9 15j BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY. JA8. H. BRYSON & SON, Ko. 8 North SIXTH Street, Stationers and Printers. Ulaiik Books, Ledgers, Day Hooks, Cash Books, Etc. Etc., Made to order at tbe shortest notice, at the lowest market rate. LETTKR PAPER, per ream.. so VXilLMVAP,j4-p,r r"lu 00 NOThi PAPER per ream..... i-gs A full assortment of Imparted and tuple 8TA TIONKRY. always on band: INKS, PENCILS, PKN BOLDKRS. Etc, In great variety. ENV-OPKB, butt, letter size IfCO per 1009 ' white. 189 A great variety of stylts aud grades always on band, at tbe lowest rates, PRINTED BJLAN&tJ, CARDS, PAMPHLETS. Etc., executed In the most approved style. lt Im JAMES 13. SMITH & CO., BLAKK O O O IC UANTJJTACTCRERSJ, ''" ' " WHOLESALE - AND ItKTAIL.. Ko. 27 South SEVEATH Street, 11 Imwsmj PHILADELPHIA, i ? 8 T yVJ? I O IN I 1 JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, ETC. ESTABLISHED 1828. HOLIDAY PRHfr'sis. WATCHES, JUV tXRY,. CLOCK B. SILVER W AUK, and . . PA NOV OOOD8. G, W. RUSSELL, So. 5J3 SOl',111 SIXTH UTHEET, ; PHILADELPHIA. ALEX A N DBH G. CAITKLL CO PKOLTJOJ. OOMMIHHION MERCHANT No. M NOBTH WHAHVEIS " KO, WORTH WATER K TREAT. , III LaA 41U1V nam cv cart au "uauu.ruia, u xjjax oarraiA 1
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