THE DAIIjt. EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1809.
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Pauper ff Unwise Kelrcucliment.
Fiom the N. T. Time
It seems UDgrndoua to ciiticiza in any but
an approving spirit the zealous efforts of the
House in the duectiou of retrenchment and
eoonomy. Extravagance Las so long prevailed
in ever department of the Government that
the present disposition to cut down expenses
Of all kinds seems to merit cordial praiae. The
desire to save contrasts so strikingly with the
reckless inclination to spend, that few are dis
posed to be censorious as to the mauner in
whioh the saving is effected. If only expen
ditures are largely reduced, we should be
Satisfied.
And yet even In good works judgment is
necessary. The best of deeds may be marred
fcy a little Indiscretion. Economy, to be real,
inust be lasting; it must be a reality, not a
nigra confined to the appropriation bills, signi
fying nothing. For the purpose of momentary
effeot, a deduotion of thirty or iifty per cent,
from the estimates furnished by the depart
ments may be well euongh; but as a measure
of retrenchment it becomes a farce if, at the
end of the year, the difference reappear iu
the form of a deficiency bill. Cutting down
estimates amounts to nothing unless the sums
Toted be sufficient for the service they are
Intended to cover. The mauner in which
these things are done constitutes the differ
ence between wise and unwise retrenchment.
The danger now to be apprehended is that
of unwise work. In the hurry to make a
good appearance, estimates are cut down
eummarily, without referense to probable re
quirements as estimated by the heads ot de
partments. So many millions are asked; for;
thirty or fifty per cent, less is appropriated,
and the difference is claimed as money saved.
Hut if the wants of the department be not
diminished in the same proportion, there will
ho no real saving; simply embarrassment of
the Executive and an exemplilication of folly,
next year, when a deficiency bill comes before
Congress.
The proper method to be pursued is mani
fest. It is the duty of the Appropriation
Committee to confer with the departmental
Leads, with the view of reducing the estimates
as much as possible. Any economy thus
effected is genuine economy; the amount of
the reduction is an amount gained. But this
is not the course at present followed. Esti
mates are discarded; the departmental idea of
What is wanted is repudiated; and zealous
members, in the name of economy, urge
appropriation bills which in many items are
inadequate to the efficient performance of the
duties required. The credit thus won will not
Stand; it will be followed, in due time, by dis
appointment and disgust.
The system is rendered more objectionable
ly its effect upon the operations and repute
of the incoming administration. General
Grant enters office voluntarily pledged to a
policy of retrenchment and economy. No
body doubts his determination to keep his
promise. But even General Grant cannot per
form impossibilities; he cannot make ten mil
lions fill the place of fifteen. Vigorous
honesty will accomplish much, no doubt, and
on this quality the country relies. But the
Government must be carried on its essential
wants must be satisfied; and if the moneys
voted by Congress be insufficient for the pur
pose, deficiencies will inevitably ocour, which
must next year be made good.
We are not suggesting any unusual lati
tude in expenditures for the new administra
tion. But it is entitled to demand lair piay,
And the measure of fair play, so far a3 pay
ments go, is an intelligent estimate of what
the publio service needs, not the arbitrary
deoree of members intent upon earning
popularity by a pretense of retrenchment.
The Supreme Court Decision.
From the Xf. T. Times.
The press, without distinction of party, dis
cusses with evident satisfaction the recent
decision of the Supreme Court, and predicts
for it a wholesome inlluence upon the opinion
and business of the country. The equity of
enforoing the specific performance of coin con
tracts entered into prior to the war, the pro
tection afforded to creditors under contracts of
this nature now outstanding, and the security
afforded for the future conduct of business on
a speoie basis without waiting for further
legislation are points on which the publio
judgment seems to be tolerably well estab
lished. No apprehension of embarrassment
is expressed in any quarter. The construction
that may possibly be put upon ante-war con
tracts, in which payment in coin was not
covenanted, remains to be ascertained. But
on the general question of coin contraots and
their binding force, Democratic and Repub
lican journalists write in a tone of respectful
acquiescence in the conclusion of the Court,
and with a good deal more than formal ap
proval of the effect which the decision may
be expected to produce upon the country.
The impatience manifested by Senator Drake
towards the authority of the Court, and the
idta he suggested of resistance to its dicta,
hud favor no whe'e.
The favorable bearing of the deoioion upon
the Legal-tender act doubtless contributes not
a little to the opinion generally expressed.
Although no direct reference is made by
the Court to the question of constitu
tionality as connected with that act, the
whole argument on which the majority judg
ment rests implies au admission in the affirm
ative. The reference to two descriptions of
lawful money in ciruulaiiou the explicitness
with which two forms of contract are speci
fied, OHe payable iu coin, the other in Legal
tender notes would be unintelligible except
on the hypothesis that the Court couoedes the
constitutionality of the Legal-tender act.
Some of our Democratic contemporaries ex
hibit a litttle chagrin in their comments upon
this aspect of the decision, their prophetio
reputation having been stake! upon the oppo
site opinion. To the people, however, this is
not the least significant or the least agreeable
result of the cae; for besides imparting an
element of stability to business by doing what
Congress has hitherto failed to do in the mat
ter of gold contracts, it practioally ends the
controversy in regard to the constitutional
vanaiiy ot the greenback law. Jn Doth re-
pj tcts it is as timely as it is important.
The Ocean Yacht Iiacc.
From the N. 7. JSvraUi.
When the cable telegram told us of Mr
Aahburv'a aoceptanee of a challenge from the
owner of the Sappho, we were rather aston
ished at the Englishman's idea of an ocean
race. But it appears that something still more
astonishing was in store for us. Th cable
telegram did Mr. Abhbury an injustice in
making him propose a race that indeed was
not ooutemptible, although it had nothing to
do with the ocean. Its points were the Isle
of Wight, the Kddystone light-house, and
Cherbourg breakwater. Now, however, we
learn by the English papers that in this
eourse Mr, Ashbury saw three races races to
test "the seagoing qualities" of yaohts too.
The three wide nieu of Gotham who wont to
Jeaina tub were a'spleudid kindofalven
tnrers compared with the gallant yaohtmv.i I
who wants to go to sea around th hie of
Wlfiht. But the measurement that Mr. Ash
bury stands by is the Fame whether it ooun
by mail or the telegraph. It is Thames m--Fnrmient
forever. A correspondent forcibly
proposes that we also get tip a measurement,
ridiculously planned, to suit ourselves. W
phall call it the Krie Canal meaMirenmnt. The
Krie Canal is longer than the Thaaios, aud
deeper, too, in many places. By this system
we propose to tall the breadth double tUe
depth, and this would make the Cambria four
hundred tons to the Kappho's two huulted
and ninety. Races shall not be made except
on this measurement, and yachts of all na
tions that reject it shall be held at acknow
ledging their inferiority by their refusal of
our erms.
Mr. Itoncfcault on Originality.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Boucicault and Horace, two names well cal
culated to lend distinction to eaoli other, are
Lappily brought together by the former gifted
wiiter, the latter no being ou hand either to
cooperate or remonstrate, in a reoent letter to
the London newspapers. A question having
arisen as to the originality of Mr. Robertson's
new drama, School, Mr. Boucicault cornea
forward to prove, in the first place, that it is
entirely and in every respect original; and in
the second, that neither it nor any other
"legitimate" drama ought to be original.
The advantage of Mr. Boucicault's champion
ship in this matter is questionable, inasmuch
as Mr. Robertson's plays have a way of taking
care of themselves at the Prince of Wales'
Theatre, while the only effort of the great
sensational dramatist, at the same house,
fell sick and died in its infancy, in spite of
the most artful nursing. But that is a small
a Hair. Mr. Boucicault's remarkable declara
tion that "the rules of 'legitimate' drama
forbid originality absolutely and upon high
authority," possesses greater interest. Tnat
this is his own opinion, he considers
sufficient to establish the point conclu
sively; but, to clinch it, he brings
Horace upon the stand, and makes him
testify to the same effect. "Horace warns the
dramatist," says Mr. Boucicault, "against
original plots, and bids him beware of trying
to introduce original characters. He urges
the poet to take old subjects and well-worn
heroes, and not to wander from a beaten
track in search of novelty." This is a capital
example of Mr. Boucicault's well-kuown skill
in adaptation. Horace does say something not
wnoiiy uniiKe inis, and a dexterous turn or
two, with a judicious "cut," is all that is
needed to adjust it to the purpose of argu
ment. This is what the poet really suggests.
He first tells the Pieos that iu choosing a new
and unknown subject they must also take
care to invent new characters, and to make
them consistent throughout; and then he
warns them of the difficulties of invention,
and hints that the easier "method is to select
a plot or fab'e from Homer which is some
what different frcm distinctly forbidding
original plots and original characters. If Mr.
Boucicault. could take the trouble to go ou
towards the end of the Ars l'oetica, he would
find Horaie's views, more precisely set
down. He expressly praises Roman
writers for Ecornirjg the aid of the Greek
authors, and making effective use of home
subjects, either in portraying the manners of
high society (comedy), or in faithful repre
sentation of humble life (domestic drama). If
people will hurl about the arguments of the
old poets, they should prudently choose thoe
which have not the boomerang quality
of returning and rending unskilful throwers.
For our part, we attach little weight to the
Horatiau maxims. If they were all strictly
followed out we should have dramas in five
acts only, we should be deprived of
all scenes of animation and intensity,
we should never be allowed more
than three persons upon the stage at
once, and we should be pestered with the
chorus. But Mr. Boucicault affects to think
differently, and, this being the case, some
friend should call his attention to the follow
ing lines, which may be found in an epistle to
Ma'cenas. In the light of the prodigious suo
cefs of After Dark; they have a charming
significance:
"O linltatores, servum pecus! utmlhl (npo
JJilem, Biepe jocuua vestrl movers tumuitus."
or, as it may be freely translated, "O slavish
herd of imitators, how often has your rub
bish stirred my vexation and aroused my
laughter !"
The Campaign of the Cuban. Tatriots.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
The military situation in Cuba, eliminated
from the crowd of strange names aud confused
particulars in the daily despatches, may be
briefly stated. A population of a million and
a half, spread over an island eight hundred
miles long, with a backbone of mountain fast
nesses running through nearly its entire
length, is almost unanimously in sympathy
with the insurrection. The insurgent forces
are constantly swelling, and they spring up
in every unexpected quarter throughout the
island. Against this disaffected population
Captain-General Dulce is able to bring a force
not numbering, all told, 'zi,vw regular troops,
of whom whole regiments have already beeu
demoralized by cholera and other diseases
arising from the climate. He attempts to
suppress the insurgent risings, but the places
which his soldiers leave break out into insur
rection before those to which they march
have been reached. His most prominent com
mander in the field, Count Valmaseda, uiovea
against Bayamo. Arrived before its smoking
ruins, which the insurgents have abandoned,
he hears of the outbreak at Puerto Principe,
behind him. Turning thither, and skirmishing
a little on the way, he reaches that city in
time to bear of simultaneous risings at hspi
ritu Santo, Trinidad, aud Nuevitas. Towards
each in turn small bodies of troops are de
tached, but, before order is restored at either,
we have popular commotious in Matanzas,
ritings at CieDfuegos, the American Consul at
Trinidad leaving his cilice to join the insur
gents, occupation of Tunas, seizures of tele
graph lints, aud stoppage of maiis throughout
the whole central and eastern parts of the
inland.
In these occurrences may be read two signs,
one favorable, the other not unfavorable, to
the insurgents. The sentiment of revolt against
their Spanish rulers is universal. The insur
rectionary leaders develop no harmonious or
comprehensive plan of campaign, beyond the
eiion to aistraui and wear out the raw, unao
climated Spanish troops, by a multitude of
minor outbreaks. Cespedes and Quesada, the
two conspicuous Creole chiefs, mean to avoid
general engagements; to make no effort to bur
den themselves with the care of captured
cities; to harass the Spanish troops by sudden
appearances, and retreat, when hard pressed,
to the mountains of the interior; to keep the
standard of revolt raised throughout the
whole island; and to take time for their ally.
Thiee months more of such a campaign will
bring the Spauish troops iuto the sickly sea
son. Meanwhile, the Cuban revenues of
thirty-three millions a year, on which the
Home Government so largely relies, will have
been cut off, ano the difficulties of the situa
tion at Madrid may falily be expected to have
becoiu so preying that there will be less dU-
position to kep np the strain of a long etlirt
gainst Cuba. 7 hen will b the Creole oppor
tunity. . Till then, Cespedes and Qienala
tlieinselves do not probably expect to oo;u
ple'e the entire expulsion of the Spaniard.
It Is evident that the Spanish authorities
are thoroughly alarmed. They recall the
tmdy liberal concessions, and establish, iu the
uftiie of the Provioioual Government and free
Spain, a rigor worse thau that of the Bjar
bou. They issu, every day, fresh stories of
the immediate arrival of two thousand, three
thousand, four thousand reinforcements.
They deceit the eastern end of the Inland en
tiiise, and the column escorting the refugees
to Havana Is harassed by flying bauds of the
insurgents, banging upon its Hanks. Thny
even suffer the transmission of a statement
that Havana ittelf is almost in a state of
fiepe.
Those who have watched the progross of th-
Creole movement have long noted the abseuc-i
of any appearance of an organized insurgent
Government. This, as we now learu, they
bare iu full operation, with Cespedes as Se
cretary of War, Qnesada as commander in the
field, and the Havana Junta in perfect co
operation. Outside the garrisoned towns, they
control the whole eastern half of the inlan l;
while the Captain General controls simply the
ground his troops stand on. The Western
.lurisdictions seem to be more quiet only be
cause the Spanish force there is strouger. Yet
up to the very suburbs of Havana, insurrec
tionary outbreaks have occurred; an organized
insurgent force is reported M Matauzas;aui
at Inst the patriots have dared to raise their
beads even to the westward of Havana. A
baud three hundred strong is reported at San
Antonio, and another so far west as at Colon.
'I'h us the little llame that four months ago
raised its flickering light iu the far Kant
among the mountains about Bayamo, has
swept throughout the entire length of the
island, has girdled the capital and leaped to
the westward beyond it. The cause commands
every Cuban heart; it seems supported
liberally by the Cnbau purse; it brings eman
cipation in its train; and it is managed by
men whose actions betoken sagacious plans
a'nd a thorough comprehension ot their
hindrances and their opportunity. We canuot
doubt that their r'ght to independence, thus
wisely and bravely suppoited, will soon be
established, and that the milsummer breezes
will, for the first time in the history of the
Is'ew World, bear aloft through the whole
length of the fair island, from Baracoa to
Nueva Pilipina, and from the mountains clear
down to the sea, the victorious banner ot free
Cuba.
Our Diplomatic Illations witli Cuba.
From the A. Y. Ileruld.
The relations of our consular representatives
iu Cuba with the Spanish authorities are far
from cordial. The consular clerk, Mr. Utley.
was recently arrested lor seditious language,
and is now in coutinement, we believe. Mr
Seward declines to interfere, but timply asks
a speedy and fair trial, if that were now possi
ble. Since then tbe Vice-consul, iU. Li Kein
trie, a citizen of the United States, but of
Mexican origin, requested of the Spanish
authorities a passport, from the island for a
citizen of the United States who was a native
of Cuba. The authorities replied by seizing
the person naifwt aud throwing him into
pritou. The Vice-Con.sul demanded his re
lease. The Spanish authoiities refused with
insult. Disgusted at the reply of Seward
with regard to Utley, La Keiftrie tele
graphed to Sewaid that unless the
Government insisted ou the release of the
prisoner by the Spanish authorities he should
tender his resignation. Mr. Seward immedi
ately telegraphed to the Vice-Consul that the
first Havana steamer would bring VV. F. Smith
(General Baldy Smith) to relieve him. We
are glad to see sturdy Baldy Smith go there
He has pluck aud good iudgment combined
We are sorry to see the Vice-Consul removed
for doing iut what he ought to do. We
utterly condemn the policy of 'At. Seward in
refusing protection to our consuls. Foreign
nations insult and even maltreat them with
impunity. Seward simply says, in his cold
blooded way, it is customary to throw the
shield of national protection only about am
bassadors and ministers. Consuls must shift
for themselves. If this be the general prin
ciple, it is not the practice of Great Britain
and France, and if it be persisted in by our
Government with the apparent indifference
and abject servility to other nations,
the United States will be brought into just
contempt in all foreign ports. We hope Bildy
Smith will be the rugged and wide awake de
fender of the dignity of our flag, as in the war
he was the courageous champion of its supre
macy. His name has been sent to the Senate
for confirmation as CouBul-General at Havana,
and the appointment should be immediately
confirmed without reference to party politics
or partisan feeling. The action of the Senate
in this matter amounts to a definition of the
attitude of the Government in relation to seve
ral thousands of American citizens now in
Cuba in a position of great danger to their
lives and fortunes.
General dranl's Cabinet.
Prom the i. Y. World.
During the few remaining days that
intervene before the 4th of March, the
chief topic of speculation in political circles
will, of course, be the composition of General
Giant's Cabinet. Every newsmonger aud
quidnunc will have his hypothetical slate, aud
eavesdroppers and retailers of gossip will be
able to repeat, with more or less approach to
accuracy, some things bearing upon this sub
ject which Generat Grant may have said in
conversation. But as it is his avowed pur
pose to conceal his selections, even from the
gentlemen he intends to appoint, he ia quite
as likely to fay things to bailie curiosity and
put officious inquit)itivenes8 on a false scent,
as to inadveitently divulge what it is his
deliberate purpose to conceal. When any
paiticularly plausible conjectures are thrown
out, we may attempt to do our part towards
contributing to public amusement by dis-
cubbice them; but lor the present, we prefer
to consider the principles on which Geueral
Grant would naturally proceed iu forming his
Cabinet, if he is as wise and wary as his pane
owista would have us believe.
First, then, if General Graut is a man of
sagacity, he will not break with the Repub
lican TiHrt v nor with its leaders iu Congress
If he should do this he would render himself
as powerless as Governor Seymour would have
' been, if he had been elected; more powerless
indted. than Governor Seymour would have
h,l h benn elected he WOllld have
had 'the moral support of a majority of the
,ur,lu tn t1t- nlV against CoUirreSS. While H
Ju,.al (lr.r.t l,i-aka with Li8 Darty, he can
not Bay that those who eleote 1 him laid upon
him the duty of opposing the Republican
policy. He would be regarded as a reuegale
by one party, without gaining the confidence
J :.i,u; ti- mi ihrm of hisadmiuia-
in nan.t !lilflv upon his
ability to gain control of the Republican
T;n. a iriuw tn moderate and guide H.
He wants his nominations confirmed; he wants
. .i.. i v, rAiiirh Coneress; he
ilia meanuioo ,
.1 ., l.ir npl.i.'ll nublid 01)111
i 1. tn. vnrk amoothlv Aud easily
iii his favor. He can expect none of the.-.
advantages If he places himself ia oppoamou
to the party that elected him. We have,
therefore, no expectation that he will go out-
tide the Republican party for a single ap
pointee to any office, Ligh or low.
hi General Grant is certain to make np a
Cabinet of Republicans, we do not see that
anything would be gained by his showing a
marked preference for that wing of the party
which is called conservative. If he meaus to
control the party, his Cabiuet must consist of
men who enjoy its conndeuce. We believe
that be could make a more moderate and
reasonable administration with a Cabiuet of
radicals than with a Cabinet of conservatives.
He has cot to humor the Republican party,
as a wise physician humors the fancies of au
insane patient, an a meaus of controlling him.
General Grant cannot alter the past; with a
CongresB so largely Republican he cannot pro
cure the repeal of auy of the favorite Republi
can measures. He may, therefore, as well
mnke the best of them, aud select as bis advi
sers men who have powerfully contributed to
tbeirestablichuaent. This would allay the fears
and distrust of the party, and prevent its judg
ing LiB administration in a jealous, cavilling
spirit. The Republican party will acquiesce in
many things from a supposed friend, whL'h
they would not endure from a professed enemy,
eejecially if they regarded tbit enemy as
au npoidate. A Cabiuet of rdicrl3, privAtely
pledged to moderation, would have a better
prospect of success thau a Cabinet of avowed
conservatives, inasmuch as the latter would
pot enjoy the confidence of the party and
could not lead it. General Grant would pro
bably have no difficulty iu liu liii lUdU of r lii
cal antecedents, who, for the sake of oflk-e aud
influence, would be willing to stop with wht
the paity has already done, aud promise th'-ir
fullest croperation in toning down the aggres
sive spirit it ha3 heretofore exhibited. It is
much better that he should do this thau pro
voke it to go great lengths by futile opposi
lion and defiance. His best stroke as a cou
serva'ive tarticiau is to capture as many as
possible of the ladical leaders, aul pledge
them to moderate counsels.
Secondly, if the course we have indicated
would be wi-e, it would be a mistake for
General Graut to make up a Cabiuet of e.rpi rh,
each iu bis own department, as some have
supposed that be may. The general ability
anil political influence of the Cabinet are quite
as important as their special knowledge. Ex
perts are seldom men of much sagacity or en
largement of views. They are exceedingly
useful, often Indispensable, as subordinates;
but men of Eonud judgment aud wide expe
lience make better heads of departments,
although these should ot course be conver
sant with the affairs they aie called to direct.
li sides managing their departments, Cabinet
officers should be capable of aiding the pas
sage of administrative . measures through
Congress. They are in constant intercourse
with the committees of Congress, whom
they supply with information; and if they
are able aud sagacious, they can exert
a great power in moulding the legislation
of the country. The chief Assistant Secre
taries should be experts, for their duties do
not ex end outside the walls of their depart
ments; but the Secretaries themselves
aie brought into constant intercourse with
leading members of Congress, and should be
capable of rising out of the atmosphere of a
department, and taking broad views of public
questions. If General Grai;t should put a ineie
toklier at the head of the War Department, a
mere naval officer at the head of the Navy
Department, a mere statintioian or political
economist at the head of the Treasury Depart
ment, aud fill all the places in a similar way,
it would need no prophet to predict the failure
of his administration, its success depends
npou its ability to coutrol men and inlluence
public opinion, and these are the functions,
not of experts, but of statesmen. It would be
thought ridiculous in England to 11 11 the lead
ing places in the Cabinet with men who wore
merely capable of conducting the interior busi
ness oi their several ouices. The more special
knowledge the head of a department possesses,
oi course the heller; but unless he possesses a
great deal else, he will play a veiy insignificant
part in the administration. A Cabinet wholly
made up ot such men would soon become a
butt of derision.
Thirdly, supposing General Graut to act on
the principles we have suggested, it would
be easier to conjecture whom he will exclude
lrom his Cabinet than whom he will appoint.
He will probably not appoint Charles Francis
Adams Secretary of State, although that
statesman is better qualified for the duties of
the cilice than any other man in the country.
But the fact that the average feeling of the
Republican party towards Mr. Adams
is cold or hostile would prevent his
adding any effective strength te General
Giant's administration. Probably General
Grant desires to do nothing which Mr.
AdamB would not cordially approve, aud if
an administration were not dependent on
Congress and publio opinion, there could not
be a more admirable selection. But General
Grant would find it less difficult, to mike
moderation popular, if he selects party favo
rites as his instruments aud coadjutors.
Mr. Adams would be looked at by the Re
publicans with jaundiced eye3, whereas a
radical doing precisely the same things
would be judged with candor and indulgence.
The same remark will apply, though with
less force, to Mr. Fessenden, who, next to Mr.
Adams, is the fittest selection General Graut
could make in poiat of qualifications. Mr.
Fesstudeu has given a strong support to the
reconstruction policy and the general mea
sures of the party; but his opposuiou to im
peachment and his supposed conservative
leanings cause the party to look askance at
him. He and Sumner are not ou speaking
terms, and Sumner is certain to be the Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Relations
throughout General Grant's term. Ia foreigu
aliairs the Senate is very potent, as all treaties
require its confirmation; and the machinery
of government would be a good deal out ot
gear,, if the two moet inilueutial persons cou-
ntcttd With this great branch ot the public
service were virulent personal enemies. As
Geneial Grant must naturally dtspise Sum
ner, he may cive the cilice to 1'esceudeu not-
lkitriktaudiui? this objection. But it i.s next
tn (tertain that he will not oiler it to Mr.
Adiie.
If the exclusion of Mr. AJams is certain
and the selection of Mr. Fessenden doubtful
An the crounds we Lave indicated, we sup
pose there can be no probabiyty of the ap
T.nii.tmfut of Commissioner Wells to the
Treasury Department. Mr. Adams and Mr.
Lw-Twlun are statesmen, fitted to exert . in
fluence in every respect, if they but enjoyed
). fall ciontideucH of the party. Mr. Wells
is meiely a statistician. He might manage
Oiu it.,rinr nf the department well, but he
would exert no inlluence outwide of it, aud
,-,.i,i not strengthen the administration.
ti.u Tr..nnrv Department can probably have
fnll advauthue of Mr. Wells specul quali-
fl..aitDus in some other position thau at its
head; and as General Grant would naturally
covet for his administration influence, not
isolation, ho needs a very strong aud experi
enced statesman in this, the uost important
of all the departments.
Eipeits at the head of the War and Navy
Departments would neither strengthen him
nor benefit them. If an officer of the army
or navy resigns his commission, to take a
Cabinet office, which there is no certainty
that he would hold till the end of General
Grant's term, be would make a very foolish
txebaege, unless be is resolved to abandon
bis profession for other reasons. And there
are no army or navy officers who would ai l
anything to the political strength of General
Grant's administration, or could aid him ia
rurrvinz favorite measures through Congress.
Civilians In those places could at all times -
temmand the advice and counsels of the offi
cers of their respective departments; so that
whatever may be the value of their knowledge
as experts, it is equally available whether
they are in the Cabiuet or out of it.
ELANK BOOKS, STATIONERY.
JAQ. H. BRYGON & SON,
Ro. 8 tfoilU SIXTH Street,
Stationers and Printers.
Dlnnk UcoJ'H, ledgers, Daj ItooLs Cash
Hooks, tie. Etc.,
Mule to order at tlin nhortFt notice, at the loweat
market rates.
I.r.TTFK PAPKR. per rm. 2-?0
K' OI hi A I' l'Al'KK. per ream 8 0
tiDlk. l'Al'KK pit ream Vi6
A lull assortment ot Imparled and atapln HTA.
TIONKRY. always On liaod: INKS, PKXUIL8, l'lSS
BOI DEltH. Ktc, In great varlnty,
KfsVil.OPli', bnfl, letter Ue f I '"O per 1000
hli, " I SO "
A great variety of Rtyltn aud trades alwayj on
bai.u, at tne lowest raws,
fltlMHD ELAKKS, CAItDH, PAMPIILST3,
Kic.execuied In the moot approved style 1 lua
JAMBS B. SfsIITH & CO,,
I L A N K 15 O O K
iTA N U A C f U R K W,
WHOLi:SALE AND UKTAIL,,
J,o. 27 S.ouih SKVESTH JSlret't,
12 IS rar3m
PHIL4.DKLP11IA,
BTATX OWiJ UM,
CHHU MoTlT U()G RAPHS.'
j5 I C T C H K S fO K 1'UESKXTS
A. H. K O 1J I N S O N.
No. WO CUKSNUT Sireet,
lias just received ejcqiilslie specimous of
AKT, 8U1TA1JLE toll HOLIDAY GIFTS,
FIK DUESDKX "ENAMELS" ON PORCE
LAIN, IN CiUEAT VAKIETY.
SPLENDID PAINTED PUOTOaUAPHS,
Including a Number of Choice Oeuis.
A SUPERB LINE OF CIIUOMOd.
A large assortment of
NEW ENGRAVINGS, ETC.
AIpo, RICH STYLES FRAMES, ot elofjant
qc-w pattern 3 15J
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
JOUERT SnOEMAKEB & CO.,
N. K Comer of FOURTH and RAC Htn,t
PHU.A PKIiPHtA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
IMPORTERS AND MANEUTAOTURiERa U
v;jtf Lead aud Colored Faints, Futt
TU1UIM1CS, JjlC.
AOKNTd FOB THK OKLEBBATKD
FRENCH ZDiC FAINTS,
JJKALKKS AMD CONSUMERS
8UPPLLEO Al
12 U
LOWITBT PRICKS FOB CASH.
LEGAL NOTICES.
I
N TUB DISTRICT COURT OK THE UMI'BD
I'KNNSVLVAN 1 A
iitKanuncr,
At Philadelphia. February lo, A. D. i860.
Tin uud.raiitiid hereby Elve notice of hU apoMrit-
nitrt as Atliite of ilORlilfi EINSTKIN. of Phila
delphia. Id the county of Philadelphia aud Slate of
I'timtylvaiila, wbhlu said District, who bus been
adjudgt d a liaokrupl upon bis own petition by the
Dlftrlct Cuiirt of fluid Dlatrlct.
CllAKXiKU II. UATIIKWS. Assignee,
2irn 3t No. nil BANSOM 6;teet.
TN 1UK ORPHANS' CuURT FOR THE CITY
JL AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate ol UlAHV B. and HEOKUK H. HOPE, minors.
Tbe Auditor appointed bv iheCotirt to audit, settle,
and adjust the account of R. D. MURIUM, Kuardlai,
aud to report U.sirlbutlun cf the balance In the hands
ot the auiouutaut will meet the parties Interested,
for the purpose of his appointment, on 1 UK-iUA Y,
March 2, A. D. Ikhi, at eleven (UCo'cloclc, A. M. , at
lua ellice. No. 400 WALNUT Htreet. in tt ecpyof
Philadelphia. WILLIAM. D. 1JAKKK.
I VI IUi il Auditor
ROOFING.
r E A I) Y H O O V I N O.
i) Tills Mooting is ailuptil io all Mill. Unas.
It CPn bo BpplieU to STi:Kl OK I'J.W
ItOOlSat oiie-hif luO expeuBe of tlu. ll U
leadily put on old Hblu'jle Knofa wltuou ro-
,,n. iiiu ibe Hiilnuk-a. thus avot(ilot tliedmas;-
W.ii til ctintifcH aijii immure wbilo unilcruiug
K tairi. (No gravel iihtti.)
i:t !.l lt VK Torn TIN TIOFt WITH
HILIUX'S .1,S1IC fAlNT.
nlwnyH piepand to Impair rih! Piint
KontH Pl bbort notice. AUo. I AIM' I'lllt
N.VI.I'. by tbu barrel or ta'.lou, tbo neat aud
ciitapet.t lu tbeiuaiKet.
W. A. WElroV,
2172
No. ? 1 1 N. NINTH St., above Cornea.
BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC.
12 VVAJ SUT Uim -1 HKAAl'l i. Mi,
UdPOKVEKS OiT
Uiuudies, TV hies Uin, Ulivc Oil, Ktc Kit,
WHOLESALE DF.ALXns IX
WliK ItYE
WHISKIES,
.V IIOND AND TAX PAID. 4 11
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
Mt, Vernon Hotel,
8i Monument street, Baltimore.
Eligaiitly Furnished, with unsurpassed Cuisino.
On the European Plan,
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FOR RENT.
F
RENT,
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yOH BTORB OB OFFICa
ALSO, OFFICES AND LARGE BOONS InlUbU
fur a commercial (Jona, appd
anrjly at
, OF TUE REPUBLIC.
WANTS.
A
E N T 8 W h S F K D
t on A
rOPULAK C 0 Bl il E N T A R IT.
1Y ALFRED NKVIN, D. D.
TIiIm Commentary, whtoU 1 mainly of a revo
li r tilaivl PrM-Ui Hi Cbarrfcler, tri t ntt fl rut or
m no lo be ihnu. I mi ibe lioonn or mo Old ana
IStw Teelameij.s ny mib fnnin nuiuur.
CONTENTS.
I. The Text, wltu parallel pnsqngee.
IL A clear ):! eorupteliens ve exposition of
UieGoHiei, based on mo liverprttaUou
rcrelveu h.v h.1 Evauo'lcal Clu lutlana.
III. A illvlfkn! of Iho Giihpel Into 1.,0-iKOU. of
proper length, with appropriate Q,uj-
tiOUH HdllPlI ImPHO'1.
IV. A HarBirav f-f ' !ie UoMpelN.
V. A Cbronoioli'Ml Tn;e, v lvltifc the leading
tvei'lH Iii ibe Huviour'a Hie.
An Appeiiix. wllb a more minute ex-
piauatl"). f pei toiiB. placm. aud things
nlerred in in Hie Goapel tnau would
be proper in ibe N"lea.
II will be lidtcivM tbnt ihlt Commentary
will i.ohhi-ba tin' i ecullar und important ndvau-
ti te oi a priu 'i iu comiuiiauoii oi iour vol-
urutH In one. Willi Mils booK Iu Ms n vvi. tlie
e'uOVul will i,(hI niltier a Conriiirdance, a
Qucfcllou Pooh, or a P.'bie I)lcllfn'ry.
OPIMOMJ OF THK rKK.M.
Wo heartily commend R as one of tbe very
rw Ht Coimuenliirieti we have ever aeeu. i'Aiia
tlctjihia Jiulletin.
It is a thoroughly delUbtlul volume the
work of a master. 1'hiUtdc ))!Ua City Atcnu
It Is the mont thorough work of it clasi ever
produced lu this c iury. Philadelphia Prets.
To do all thHt ran be done to make perfectly
Clear Ibe text hin bueu tne evident almofttie
learned and liniusulous corumeuiaior. rixua-
Uttphia Inquirer,
bend for circulars and terms, giving lull de
scription.
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!lmwf!2t PHILADELPHIA.
WANTED LCCAIi AND TRAVELLING
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TO WHICH T13KT INVITE THE ATTEN
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AT WlHai NaLK AN BETAIIw fs?ffm
GROCERIES, ETC.
JpRESlI FRUIT IN CANS.
PEA CUES, PINEAPPL'S. ETC.,
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FRENCH PEAS, MUSHROOMS.
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5 29J PHILADELPHIA.
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CUT OFF STEAM-ENGINE,
Regulated by the Governor.
MKRIUCS'S SAFETY HOISTING! MACHINE.
FateD led June,
DaVID JOY'S
PATENT VALVKLKdS BTEAM HAMjUEB,
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PATENT SELF-CENTERING, BELF-RALANOINB
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eallv altucheo
arid requires
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t all ou llie (it
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2:ifmw? No. 11 N. BIXTH Btieet.S
PHILOSOPHY OP MARRIAGE
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buhjeciic-llow 10 Live and Won lo Live for;
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llerlBwed: Ihe Cmiae ol Ikdigebliou; Flatulence aud
Nervous Dlbeasei Accounted For; Marriage Pnllo
Bophlcally ConshW ru, etc. eio. Pocket volume eon
laluloK thee l.ecimtn will be turw.nUd, pout-paid,
on receiptor 25 cenm. hy addreBiis v. A. ,KlUY
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TT KINKELIS, AFTF.B A
MfsinifNrl
an
nd practice ol lulrly jeam at the Nnnb.nl
corner or Third and I '.l'.n- etieelt, bai lately ra
SY,"1 ui P,'!1 1-.J.1-VEuiXH Btreei, between MAR
K ET nd I'H EbN L I',
.11 1h superiority la .lh pttiwv aud prtct cur ol
all recent, chroi lc, local lud coiiNtllatlonal arteo.
tlont ol a upeclal . a'Pre, Is proverbial,
, DiirMtm of the kln, apiearlng to hundred dif
ferent lorma. tola ly 1 ia Uoaa-d: laDial and pliynUal
wakne,nd a' nervon. iIiMIhin rin'.lorl y
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