THE DatijT pVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1869.
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Canada and Annexation
From th N. T. Timet,
Mr. Cndllp'B resolution in favor of annex
ing New Brunswiok to the United States has
been declared "treasonable," and ignomini
oobIt "refused a place on tbe notice book."
Let Mr. Cndlip bide his time. New Brans
wiok is not tbe whole dominioo; most cer
tainly as regards tbe disposition to "gravitate
towards the United States," New Brunswick
is not Nora Sootia. Rome was not built in a
day, nor can tbe formation of onr "ocean -bound
republio" of the future be widely pre
cipitated. Hut if to resolve annexation be treasonable,
clearly it is not treason to talk it. The Lon
don Timet itself, which holds that the Can
federation movement of the provinces makes
them "more free than ever to dispsse them
selves as they please," declares now that "if
the mass of the people should hereafter desire
to enter the American Union, England will
assuredly not lift a finger to prevent it." Is
this presentiment of Canadian annexation in
the future a general one in England ? It
should seem so, sinoe the Times declares that
its opponents on the Confederation question
also hold that "the territory must be absorbed
sooner or later by the United States."
Amerioans sometimes are ridiouled, aud
oftener ridicule themselves, for a "manifest
destiny" Inflation a thirst for territorial ac
quisition. But it is not In the United States
that this Bubject is most talked about. To
find the manifest-destiny fever running highest
we must go to the press of Canada and Mexico,
which countries stand half hoping half dread
ing, and altogether certain to be annexed, and
to that of Great Britain and France, which
have made np their minds to annexation as
something inevitable. It is the London
Times itself whioh exhorts us to seize Mexico,
and whioh dimly hints at the Canadians "gra
vitating towards the United States by a natu
ral law," and "destined one day to obey the
centripetal force." Mr. Reverdy Johnson's
after-dinner speech to the British Colonial
Soolety, suggesting that "some of the colonies
whioh now flourished under the dominion of
her Majesty might, in the process of time, find
themselves under the Stars and Stripes,"
was reoeived withont any indignant protest.
The papers that commented on the speeoh
took the prospect of annexation, some with
grim, Indian-like fortitude, others with more
Indian-like reticence, and some on the optl
mlstio theory that it would be Just as well,
for all parties, to let Canada go.
The British tourists in Canada are, how
ever, the most outspoken advocates of an
nexation, and the most oheerful and confident
prophets of its happy results to everybody.
Take, for example, Mr. Frederiok Whymper,
who declares, "That it is the destiny of the
United States to possess the whole Northern
Continent, I fully believe." This writer, so
far from doubting or deprecating such an
issue, declares "We shall e released from an
Incumbrance, a souroe of expense and possi
ble weakness; they (the provinces) freed from
the trammels of periodical alarms of invasion,
and feeling the strength of independence, will
develop and grow; and speaking very plainly
and to the point our commercial relations
with them will. double and quadruple them
selves in value." It would be easy to cite
similar advioe from dozens of intelligent Eng
lish tourists.
Now. the noticeable point in these aud
similar ntteranoes occurring every day is the
drift of public sentiment. There has been a
wondrous change in this respeot within ten
years. Formerly, the talk of speedily "ab
aorbing" Canada was indulged mainly by
enthusiasts; now we find a general, indistinct,
but powerful impression prevailing every
where that annexation at some day is inevita
ble. Formerly, very lew people believed in
the wisdom of annexation; now, Englishmen
themselves are arguiDg its advantages.
The lesson is obvious. Ten years hence
that which is now a possibility may have be
oome an actuality a happy and paciflo con
summation to whioh Great Britain, British
America, and the United States may have all
with equal alacrity lent their hands. For
that very reason the talk of "oonquering
Canada" in war, of buying it for a hundred
millions in peace, of giving it over as a prey
to Fenians, and the like, is all gratuitous.
Canada must come to ns, if at all, by the free
consent of her people and ours. It is a fruit
that is not to be gathered till it falls ripe to
the soil.
The Alabama Convention,
FromthlN, Y. World.
No one of our readers has inferred, we
trust, because we have advocated the ratifica
tion of the Johnson treaty, that it is a matter
ef any concern to ns more than to all other
citizens of the republio whether it is ratified
or rejected. An administration is now in
power in this country with which we have no
politloal connection or sympathy; but we do
not wish, for that reason, to see the Govern
ment commit what seems, to us a great mis
take, or to see the country placed in a false
position. It is not to be denied that, iu
making the convention which has been sent
home for ratification, Mr. Reverdy Johnson
pursued, step by step, the speoiflo instructions
of his own Government. By iustrnotiou, he
asked the British Government to assent to a
mode of settlement to whioh it has assented.
By instruction he procured tha agreement of
that Government to every stipulation whioh
the treaty contains. Now it Is, we venture
to say, a new idea in our diplomacy that
. a ohacge of administration breaks tha
continuity, if we may so express it, of its
diplomatic aotion. The world at large doea
not take suoh special notioa of our political
changes as to expect to see one administra
tion repudiate the stipulations entered into by
another, when we ourselves, through our
regulaily constituted organs, have induced
another country to enter into those stipula
lations. Something of this kind onoeooourred
in the relations of Kngland and Franoe. The
Ministry of M. Galzoc, under Louis Philippe,
entered into a convention with England con
ceding the mutual right of search'.by ve83els
suspected of being encaged in the slave-traae.
The treaty enoountered great resistance iu
France, and the Chamber of Deputies flu illy
passed a vote which condemned it. The ex
ecutive government was thus placed in a grot
dilemma, from whioh it was found very diffi
cult to rescue the country with honor aul re
nnnt.lillitV.
Certainly, It Is true that a treaty requires
the ratification of the Senate of the Lulled
States, and that until that ratification is
voii Trvthincr li vrovisional. or, to use
ilia llnlnm atio r.hrase. the proposed treaty is
a. mar "nrotoool." But when the Exeoutive
h.a ant an meant abroad with speoiflo in
' straotions to propose a certain thing, and
assent to it has been obtained, there ouglrt
, to be a very clear csbc of inexpediency made
out before tbe (senate can riguuuuy reiure u
. ratify that to whioh a foreign government has
been urged to agree and to which tUey have
agreed.
New, what ar tbe oViJtwtlong to this treaty
We bave heard it said that the groan 1 Is to I
1m tikn bv
the new admiuiairauon mat u is
beneath the dignity or mis oountry to aK lor
pecuniary recompense for the losses oansed
by the Alabama, and that what is to be re
quired is an apology for the affront offered t
ibis country iu permitting her to be fitted ou'.
from a Britieh port. The answer to tkls sug
gestion strikes us with great force. In the
first place, we have asked for peouutary re
compense to the injured owners of the pro
perty destroyed by the Alabama, and the de
mand has been considered and a mode of try
ing the question of liability Las bn assented
to. Is it not rather late to say that we have
hitherto mistaken our true dignity, and that
what we have been clamoring for during the
past three years was not what we want?
In the next place, who does not see that the
demand for an apology leads directly to the
Issue of war, and that the demand for pecu
niary reparation of tbe injuries assented to
as it has been leads to no euoh issue f Who
can iniBgine that Kngland will oonsent to apo
logize lor the attitude of neutrality assumed
by the Queen's proclamation, issued on the
responsible advioe of ministers f It is not
their habit to place their executive in a
fake position. What one set of ministers has
advised tbe Crown to do in foreign intercourse
is invariably upheld by all administrations.
But a succeeding administration may be very
willing to submit the question of the diligence
of their predecessors to investigation, because
Such an inquiry involves their predecessors
alone, and does not involve the honor of
the Crown or of the country. We may be
very sure that, if we press this matter to t'ae
point of requiring an admission that the
original attitude of neutrality, as between
two belligerents, was wrongful and requires an
apology, the unanimous feeling of the nation
will be opposed to any such admission. No
minister could stand up in the Ilouse of Com
mons and propose it withont being instantly
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voted down. Buttho question whether there
was negligence in the discharge of the duties of
neutrality, is one that any ministry can agree
to try without compromising anything but
the official characters of their predecessors;
and there is no practical utility in raiting this
question, excepting to prooure reparation of
the losses which the supposed negligenoe may
have caused.
From all the private advices that we have
seen, we are satisfied that the feeling is gene
ral in lingiana mat, H America does not
choose to ratify this treaty, England is well
out of the difficulty. It was a mode of settle
ment which our Government Itself proposed;
it obtained the assent of two suooessive minis
tries. Private letters reoeived here within a
week deolare that the feeling in England is
almost universal that, it we are not disposed
to meet tnem nan-way now that they have
advanced half-way at our solicitation, there
is nothing more to ba done. It is very much
to be hoped that our Government will not
enter into the hazardous enterprise of endea
voring to obtain any other apology than such
as is implied in the agreement to adjudicate
the question of liability for certain peonniary
losses of onr citizens. Any direct apology
must necessarily be preceded by au agrtemeut
of the facts which rendered the acts done or
omitted a national insult. If Mr. Seoretary
Fish and Mr. Thornton were to sit down in the
State Department together for the purpose of
settling the facts which are to form the basis
of an apology, what prospect is there that they
couia agree r
Georgia.
From the N. T. Tribune.
Whatever Congress may see fit to do with
regard to Georgia and we have forborne to
urge any particular oourse the vital fact must
not be ignored that her present difficulties are
wholly the work of the upholders of "a white
man's government." The state was reoon
Btructed she had a Governor and Legislature
of her own ohoioe, with Representatives in
Congress the disabilities of her ex-Rebels
had been practically, removed when the
"white man's party" reopened the war, by
ejecting all the colored members from either
branch of the Legiilature. . This was done
under the impulse given by the Demooratio
National Convention which met in this city
last summer and nominated Seymour and
Blair it was, in fact, the most significant re
sponse to that imposing demonstration a
virtual echo of Frank Blair's famous letter
The colored members had united in aooording
seats to all the Democrats elected, though
more than one-half of them were ineligible as
Banting liebels under the Keconstruotioa aots
of vongreBB; now, these very ineligible Rebels
combined to expel those very colored mem
bers, who might have objected successfully to
ineir laning seats at ail. it is quite safe te
say that this would not have been had the
Rebels foreseen the election of Grant and
Colfax.
The wrong is persisted in. The colored
members are still excluded from the seats
to
whioh they were overwhelmingly chosen
Their exclusion (they being all Republicans)
gives the Democrats a majority in either
house. Enough of those Democrats were
willing to vote with the Republicans to enable
them to ratify the fifteenth amendment. But
that would have kept in power those who ex
eluded and still exclude the colored members,
and who carried the State for Seymour an
Blair at the point of the bowie-knife; and this
some ot tne ttepubiicaus refused to connive at
They voted against ratifying the fifteenth
amendment not that they were by any means
opposed to it, but that they did not see fit to
surrender their State to tbe despotio oontrolof
loombs, Mil'er, an t the old clique or pro
slavery politicians who hare once already
rufrnea Ler to rum. iney tniuk. that enough
Theee facts are not generally understood.
because too many have a palpable interest in
perverting them. Every false-hearted trim
mer, who calls himself a Republican or, at
leabt, a Grant man is busy iu mierepresent
ii'g them to prejudice the case of thn stead
fast Republicans of Georgia. But "Time at
last tets all things even," and the truth will
at length be made manifest and understood.
Whither Are Wo Tending J-TIie Danger
Me fore I's.
From the N. T. Herald.
All the free governments that ever flourished
became tyrannies, aud fell iu exactly thesame
way. History is monotonous with the story
of the ruin of nations by the same events in
the same order. Always the motive power is
a minority of plotting politloans. They study
first to secure to themselves the plauder and
r poll of tbe national wealth. They can only
succetd in this by getting power, and they
cannot get power so long as those constitu
tional foims are intact by which power be
longs to the majority. Down goes the Consti
tution, therefore, crippled at lirst by a restric
tion at one point, an addition at another, and
overlaid by changes of every sort. Bat the
most Important change is that the Exeoutive
is always reduoed to a nullity. Ia a free gov
ernment, especially a federal government, the
Exeoutive is the only direct expression there
is of tbe majority of the whole people. lie re
presents tbe popular unity, while all other
representation is of parts. He la the keystone
of an arch. He is the will of the nation its
initiative. And if a nation is to be really vital
among nations to be respected, and etrpug
abd free the only theory of government upon
which it can stand Is that the Kmoutlve is the
government, and all other parts are bnt safe
guards prevent tyranny. This is the re
verse oi wnat tne oilgarobs say they holding
tbat a Congress is the government and tun
Executive the functionary of Congress. Pur
suing this idea, the ambitious minority always
woiks upon tbe fears of thi people by repre
senting the Exeontive as aiming at tyranny,
and thus executive power is given into the
bands of the legislature. Theu follow In the
conlli.it of cchemes and counsels disorder,
lioerise, corruption, anarchy, the destruction
of property, the loss of all publio morality,
till the nation becomes a baudttn and is
blotted out, or till some fellow halts his
guard in front of tbe legislative hall, strides
in, and declares himself first consul, king, or
emperor, ami cas the applause oi tbe union
because at least he represents order and
safety. One might write a formal history of
republics on this outline of events, changing
the names to suit occasion, and it would be
alwavs true.
We are led to these reflections by the ap
pearance in the New York Sun of a proposi
tion that tne American people shall now take
one more step than they have hitherto taken
in this career. The Sun is the orgau. and in
great part, we believe, the property of a Sena
tor who takes an aotive part in the support of
the Tenure of-Uffiae law, and therefore, in
shadowing forth the programme of the men
who mean to rule this oountry by Uraut or
without Grant, it may be supposed to have
authority and to speak by the oard. We
ought at least to be glad that the men who
propose those steps that must inevitably lead
to ruin will let us Know what they are at.
Thus says the Sun: "The fact that Congress
has been administering this Government these
past three or four yeai s, in substantial inde
pendence oi tne executive, inarms our
course towards new methods ot politi
cal development. This tendency to the
limitation of executive authority is especially
worthy of phllosophlo observation." Yes,
it 1 as been worthy of philosophical obser
vation a long while, and there is some good
philosophy on the subjest in the debates of
the body that lormed our rederai uon3tuu
tion. Therefore we soarcely assent that it
points to any new methods in government.
With this sort of stuff for preface, we have
laid before us the future programme of the
a arohitsta lu the Senate, which is that if Grant
will not relinquish his present attitude, if he
will not give way to tbe pressure of the plan
derers in their eagerness for office, if he will
not send to the right about "the inferior and
unknown men" now in his Cabinet, and put
in their places ' distinguished representatives
of lnllut'Utial political and national interests"
the "recognized leaders ot opiniou and
action" and will not give np to the poll
tlcians the whole run ot Government
patronage and plunder, -then they will
regaid him as having forced the
"first step towards the constitutional change
which shall finally extinguish his office, aud
will so order their measures that he shall be,
if not the last President, at least the last with
even a semblance of power, and the men of the
future, with the Presidency blotted out, shall
look only to the hal s of legislation for the
theatre of their anticipated renown." Here
is a plan. Here is finally the open announce
ment of the intention to destroy the Govern
ment, if possible, in the interest of the politi
cians if they cannot otherwise be satisfied in
their eemamis. The politicians are more than
the people t This is their declaration. Grant
is elected by the people; thedircot representa
tives ef the people are with htm, and this
Senate, a body of men holding places bought
from venal Legislatures, fulminates ita deoree
for his doom. The inipudeuue is sublime and
ridiculous too.
Iu this programme 13 sketched the natural
culmination of the radioal policy. Whither
oould it lead but to this ? Under our system
the test of the power of parties before the
people has been on the one grand point, the
choice of an Executive. Radioaliam oouldbut
hate this; for its purposes were not the pur
poses of tne people, and it oould never seoure
the Executive of its choice. Henoe, sure that
it can never secure the omse, it desires to
abolish it. Under our system the Executive
is directly responsible to the people, and the
radicals, knowing well how little their aots
will bear scrutiny, have even desired to shut
np the Supreme Court rather than submit
their laws to revision. From the day when
we saw by their reoonstruotion nigger legisla
tion that they did not respeot humanity itself
or the laws of ttod, when these were inimical
to their Bcbemes, we could not suppose that
they would reFpeot in the same contingency
our forms of government, ttom the first dis
oovery of their power in Congress theee men
have proposed euoh a change in our government
as would give them power, though the deluge
came after; and in the enaotment of the
Tenure-of-Office law they made use of the mis
takes of a foolish Executive, using him as a
cover in laying the foundation of their plan.
But how far oan this go f What is the point
at which the President is no longer bound to
stand still f At what exact point does the
tentative towards anarohy untie the hands of
tbe officer whose primary duty is to uphold
order ? It has been accepted as a theory of
our law that the Constitution supposes its
own protection, and James Buchanan is held
as having been altogether in the wrong in
that regard for certain parts that would have
sacrificed the whole. The same is true of the
Executive. Regard to its own existence and
intecritv is presumed as the first of its duties,
and it is in hands that will render up its
powers as good as they were found, from an
Ju&tinot of natural honesty. Although the
nolitiktans have forced Grant into some tight
nlHfi-8 and bothered him with intrigue aud
bullying, it may not be untimely to remind
theni that when the element of force Is Intro
duced they will put him to a power with whose
use he is more familiar.
rmk'ent Uraut and Moprcscutallre
Mulier.
From the N. T. World.
It is the oddest, and. if one will well con
sider it, not the least significant olrcumstanoe
of the present embroilment at Washington,
that President Grant is borne upon the shoul
dera of General Butler, like an iuSxpert
swimmer in a roaring torrent npon the back
of Lis late enemy. Butler is Grant's foremost
cbiiinBion iu bis chief controversy. Grant 8
heart is (or vat) eel npon the repeal of the
Tenure-of-Office aot; and Butler is the ally
who baa enabled him to protraot the fight
during these three turbulent weeks. It was
Butler who, in Grant's Interest, introduced
aud carried promptly through the House a
repealing t ill early in the lasfsession. It was
Butler who reintroduced and pushed through
the eame bill a seoond time, soon after the
aste mbllrjg of the new Congress. When the
Senate passed a substitute and Bent it down to
the House for conourrenoe, it was Butler who
marbballed the President's friends, managed
his care, and, by a combination of Democrats
with the KepubUoan minority, aeiemeu me
Senate's amendment, and strengthened the
waverinsr President to stand UP again for re
peal after suoonmblng to the Senators. It is
needless to inauire into Butler's motives,
but certain it is that General Graut oould not
have been Bnbjeoted to a greater humiliation
tbau in aooeptlng snob, a champion. Butler
is tbe last man in the Kepnblloau party to
whom the nnw President would spontane
ously wloh to be indebted for a favor, least of
all for tnch a ooncpicuons servloe as Batter
is now rendering him. Wha poor old King
I.wsr, In the play, has no friend left to take
his part against his thankless daughters but
the injured Kent, we get a more vivid impres
sion of bis forsaken desolation than the ioet
could bave given ns in any other mauner.
But Lear was spared the degradation of
accepting tbe eervioes of Kent knowing who
he was. Sbakeppeare would have sunk
that wonderful tragedy into a faroe,
he would bave stripped its hero of all
dignity, if be had not made the ban
ished Kent disguise himself so that the deso
late old King thought he was iniebtnd to
a stranger, not to a courtier whom he bad dis
giaced in a freak of passion and driven from
his presence. But General Grant's pride in
not thus saved in aocepting the championship
of Butler. Everybody knows who Grant is,
who Butler is, and what malignant stabs they
have been so long pnblioly dealing at each
otter's reputation. The new relation whioh
has so suddenly sprung up between them
does not in the least humiliate Butler; it is
rather bis triumph. It enables him to spread
the tail-feathers or magnanimity; to patro
nize a man who has aileoted to despise him;
to figure before the country as the Congres
sional organ of the President. But nothing
should be more mortifying to General Grant.
It bbows bow poor he is in vigorous friends,
when he is reduced te acoept, as bis leading
advocate and manager, a man whom he has
publicly scorned and disparaged, and whom
he canted to be sent home from the army in
disgrace.
This President Grant, who leans so surpris-
icgly upon Butler, is the same General Grant
who made au annual report in whioh he ridi
culed General Butler as having been bottled
np with his army on the James, who aooused
him of going to tort tisher without orders,
and who made that fiasco the oooaslon of
stranding him as a soldier, and ending his
military career. It la tbe eame Ueneral Grant
who has never sinoe, till within the last five
months, spoken to Butler at all, nor of him
but in terms of contempt and dislike. And
this Butler, who figures as Grant's foremost
counsellor and champion among the Republi
can members of Congress, is the same But
ler who kept paid spies about General U rani's
headquarters in the Army of the Potomac;
who made a record oi au the
ugly and discreditable . facts he
could gather; who, after he was
sent home to Lowell, made a harangue to a
large publio meeting arraigning Grant for
butcherly saciinoe of lite, aconsing him of
thwarting all arrangements for the exohange
of prisoners, and making Lim the beartlees
author ot the cruel euiierings ana loathsome
deaths of cur poor soldiers in the Rebel mili
tary prisons, it is the same liatler who
wrote, and less than a year ago caused to be
printed, a scathing pamphlet exposing General
Grant's incompetence as the commander of
the army which operated against Richmond,
aud held that pamphlet in reserve as a rod in
pickle for Grant, to be used on the first op
por'.une occasion.
it uenerai arani were nainrauy oi a placa
ble, forgiving temper, his present de
pendence on Butler would not seem quite
eo humiliating; but everybody Knows that
the new President is singularly stiff and
stubborn in his resentments. His hatred of
President Johnson was bo obstinate that he
violated the customary decorum of inaagura
tion day. although the retiring President,
himself a man of a dogged temper, mads suoh
voluntary overtures that General Grant oould
gracefully have yielded on that ceremonious
occasion without the slightest sacrifice of rea
sonable ptide. Ills surprising reoonoiliatiou
with Butler goes very far beyond a publio oon
cession to deoorum on a ceremonious ooca
Bion. To have rede in the same oarriage
with President Johnson would have implied
no restoration oi oordiauty, nor even of pri
vate civility. But he is more than reconciled
to Butler. A magnanimous man may nobly
forgive an injury; but it is not magnanimity,
it is meanness, that descends to aocept a load
of obligations and cervices from one who has
persistently belittled and disparaged you, aud
whom yon have persistently disparaged, as
Butler has Grant, and Grant has Butler. In
proportion as Grant's hatreds are notoriously
inveterate andhts prejudices unyielding, just
in that proportion is it evident that he has
aocepted the championship of Butler from the
lack of other strong supporters. His poverty,
not nis wiii, consents.
If General Butler's standing In the Repub
lican party were different from what it is. it
would not be quite bo degrading a humiliation
to the President to have formed with him
these close relations of dependence. It might
be claimed that General Grant had saorifloed
his personal antipathies to Butler's reoognized
position of leadership. But it is notorious
that Butler holds no suoh position. A strong
effoit was made by the Republicans of other
parts of the country, at the last eleotion, to
defeat bim in his own distiiot. Three-fourths
of the Republican papers of the oountry pub
licly deprecated his election. Another Repub
lican candidate was put into the field against
bim. Money and hostile speakers were sent
into the district to defeat him; his reelection
being generally regarded as a calamity and
scandal to the Republican party. Besides
Butler's minor audacities and esoapades, and
his known trmity to General Grant, be had
bddly ttolen Mr. Pendleton's thunder. He had
advocated not only the payment of the bonds
in greenbacks, but the overthrow of the
national banks. He was thus in hostility
both to the Republican platform and the Re
publican candidate. In accepting suoh
champion the new Piesident most assuredly
bas not deferred to the wishes of the Kepub
1 can party. Butler bas probably espoused
Grant's quairel to revenge himself upon his
Republican enemies. By the same means he
tau expose the weakness of Grant and breed
disturbance in tbe party. The Republicans
who opposed his return to Congress on the
ground that he wan the enemy of General
Grant must feel rather queer in seeing these
two quati Republicans pulling in the same
harness, in opposition to a majority of the
paity, in a joint effort to show that the law
wbiub President Johnson was impeaohed for
vitiating is an infringement on the constitu
tional rights ot tbe Executive. It is a good
index of General Grant's present standing iu
the Republican parly that Butler is the Re
publican member of Congress on whom he
chit fly leans.
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A French oollege has lately been esta
blished at Constantinople. It now has 500
students.
Michelet intends devoting himself exclu
sively to historical studies, it is said, daring
the rest of his life.
The dentists of Japan loosen the teeth
by blows from a mallet, and then poll them
out with their fingers.
Emigrant wagons have been going through
Illinois carrying stoves in full blast during
the past cold weather.
Austria and Italy have agreed to allow
the Joint stock companies of each oountry to
carry on operations in the other.
CARPETINGS.
OPEN ING
or
SrillKG CARPETIXGS,
Wo. 729 CHESNUT Street.
E. II. GODSIIALK & CO.
SPRIflC-IQGO.
LEEDOM & SHAW,
No. OIO ARCH Street.
We are now receiving a very large stock of
CitjYi uoou.1 ror
SPRING SALES,
Embracing all the new styles of
CAHPETIEJGS,
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
JIA.T TINGS,
S It wfaf m
ETC. ETC
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC.
JAMES & LEE,
STO. 11 HOBTII IECODD SiTBKET,
Sign, of the Golden Iiamb,
Are now receiving an FN TIRE NE W BTOCK of
Spring and Summer Coatings,
To which thej Invite the attention ot the trade aad
others, is 28 w
AT WHOLE8ALK ANB BETAIIk
CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHS.
piC TUBES FOB PRESENTS
A. 8. R O 13 I NSb N.
No. 910 CHESNUT Street,
Has just received exquisite epeolmeus of
ART, SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS,
FINE DRESDEN VENAMELS" 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, ETO. -
AiM, RICH STYLES FRAMES, of elegant
aew patterns; l
TRUNKS.
IMPROVEMENT IN TRUNKS.
. ALL TRUNKS NOW MADE AT
The "Great Central" Trunk Depot,
Have Pinions' Patent Safely Hasp nd Ball., which
nfcurely tasteu. the Trim ou boi bends witn heavy
JUolt, and la the ceo ire with, tha ordinary lode
PoaUively no extra charge.
GREAT CENTRAL TRUNK DEPOT,
V. W. Cor. SEVEN III and CHESNUT Sts.
TRAVELLERS. NOTICE.
Purchase yonr Trunks with Simons' Triple Fasten
ns, heavy Bolt.; no fear look breaking;,
AT THE GBEAT CENTRAL,
.Htm o. 701 CHE8N0T Ptreei '
CODFISH,
US. PATENT OFFICE,
Warhikuton, D. U,
fetich 2, UM9.
W. P. CUTLER, Esq
i" leaRenna Deiow a communi
cation from Ibe Examiner, In
tbematur.f Interference be
tween Rand, Lewis, and Cu
If r, lor manufacture from Cod
flib. Very respectfully.
KLllSlf A FOOTE.
ComnilBtloner of Patents.
Examincb's Book: in tbe matter above referred
to. priority of Invention IS AWARDED TO CUT
LER, and tbe apuUculons t Rand aud Lewis are re
ject, d. B. H. U END KICK, Jtxamlner.
1 bis establishes the patent under which tbe BOS
TON AND PHILADKLPHIA SALT i'I8H CO&t-
I'AHY. c.5!cl COLUMBIA Ayeoae, tuauutacture
their DESICCATED CODFISH.
For sale by all good grocers.
WAKNKR, iraODHB & CO.,
WATER and CHESS UT Streets General Agents,
None genuine unless bearing our trade-mark as
above. Parties offering aay other will be summarily
prosecuted. 8 2i 61
. GROCERIES, ETC.
THRESH FRUIT IN CANS.
PEACHES, PINEAPPLES, ETC.,
GREEN CORN, TOMATOES.
FRENCH PEAS, MUSHROOMS,
ASPARAGUS. ETC. ETO
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
11 rjrp Cor. ELEVENTH and VXHg Streets.
PROVISIONS, ETC.
BPCIIAEL MEAGHER & CO.,
No. 223 South SIXTEENTH Street,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
PBOTISIOKM,
OISICES, AND SAND Cr.AM.
rR ft-A-nixY VSR,
teukai i9s io pcu sozea. g
FLOUR.
QHGICS FAffilLY FLOUR,
For tbe Trade or at Retail.
EVEUT BARGEE) WARRANTED.
KE1ST0NE FLO UK MILLS,
. MOR, 19 AND al UIUABD AVENUE,
tlDimrp . East ot Front street
lr- SBfilCK & HONS
SOUTH WARE FOUNDRY,
Wo. 130 WASHINGTON AVENUE, Philadelphia
WILLIAM WRIGHT'S PATENT VAKIABL1
CUT OFF BTKAM-KNOINa.
Rstulated by the Governor.
JtaRRICK'H SAFETY HOISTING U ACHINN
ateuteu June, 188. .
" DAVID JOY'S
PATENT VALVELEUS STEAM HAMMK.B
D. M. WESTON'S
PATENT SELF-CENTERING. BKLF-B ALA NOlMt
CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MAUHINX
- AW ' .
HYDRO EXTRACTOR,
far cotton or Woollen Mannlaotor. , lamw
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVA9, OF
all DDmbers and bxanda, Tens, Awuloft, au
Wiou-Coverlnick.
AIkOi I Pup'' Manufacturers' Drier Felts, from
thirty luehe. losevenly-elx Inoltei wide, PaulHi.Rei
Ins. Sail TwUMb etc JOHN W, KVKRlUNi
' Be. 108 CMU&VH SUM tMf UMts
SHIPPING.
iMl LCRILIARO STEAM E HIP LINE
FOR WLlMJT0S,N. C.
The Flml-clase Iron t.amshlp VOLUNTEER,
CaiUln Jones, will tall from line's Pier, 31 KA.8T
RIVER New York, on 8A1U. DAY, April f.
Frrgbt received and thronga bills ol lading given
at line's Pbll.de'.plila Plnr, Iff MHt II Wit iRVBi,
up to 1 UU&-DA7 A F . ERNOOJJ, I o'olock, at Very
low rates.
Inburance In New York ofUces at loweit rates.
For freight or further IsioruiaUon apply al line's
office, Pl.r 10 NORTH WHAuVE.
Stlt , JOU8 F. OHL.
FF, LORILLAED'8 STEAMSHIP LIN 3
FOR NEW YORK.
Balling Tuesdays. Thursdays, and Battirdays.
REDUCTION OF RATES.
Spring ratee, commencing March 15.
Sailing Tuesdays. Thursdays, aud Saturdays. On
and alter ltth of March freight by this Line will b
taken at ll cent, per ldtt pouuds, cents per foot, or 1
cents per gallon, ship's option Advance charges
cashed at office on Pier. Freight rauelved at ail
times on coveru4 wharf.
JOHN F. OHL.
S 28 1 pier 11 North Wharves.
B, B. Extra rates on tmrtll psckagos iron, metals, etc.
rA CHARLESTON, 8, C.
The Sooth and Southwest
FAST rilEIGIIT LINE,
evert tuvrsdat. ,
mo owRuiiiQH'S rKvjnjiifliiiD. vupiaiQ Gray. J.
W. EVKRMAN, Captalo Vauco,
WILL FORM A RJlUULAR WMBICLY LINO.
The steamship PROMETHEUS will' sail on
THURSDAY, April 1, at 4 P. M.
1 haoukb bills ol lading given in connection with 8.
O. R. B. to points in tLe South, and south treat.
liisurar.ee at lowest ratt a. Rates ol freight as tow
as by any other tout. For freight apply to
m. a, toucan d cc
tat DOCK bTRKET WHARF.
FllK f IVtfHltKir 1VI. I iT,..t i n
tm TOW N. lnmau Lin. at Mali
CITYOFNKVk ORK, Saturday, April I, at 11 A. H
i.TIA(Vialt.!il., Tuesday, April tt. at if.k
lilt OF i.U&uOZi. Baturuy, Airlllu, at 1 P.
fiROOKLN. Si.lutday, Aprl, 17. at lit J.
fl'ttA t?la ualilax), 'i'ueiid.y, April 2o, ail noon
ana auu succe? nlu SAiurday and alternate 'lussOAt.
from Pier N rih lavrr.
UAiEtt OF PAsttAUJi: by run xtiu stsahsb
miu syiar urumr,
Payable in &old. Payable lu Currency.
FIRST CAlilN .....$100 ll'ttiUi AUiv ......... f!5
. to I)Uilou..... 106 , to Luudon..., 40
to Pari. nil us Paris. ...... 17
rBAa ir th TujasDa stcamkb via u iuru,
rmsr OAniN, btjekb.ms.
Payable la Uo.'d. Parable in Currency.
LIverpool.M...M.80 Ltverpool...M..........30
Hailiax .. Sl) tlitiU.x is
objonn-s, r. .,... 1 4 1 si. Joun's, K. b
by Branch Steamer..- I Brauntv Hinanmr..
Paaseugers alsi fcrwartled to Havre, Hamburg,
Tickets oan be bought here at moderate ratos fay
pert one sendlDg lot tnolr friends.
For further Information Hppijr at the Company's
Offices.
JOHN Q. DALK. Agent. No. IS BROADWAY, N. Y.
Ox to O'bOiMiSiiXI. A PACLIC. Agents,
NO. Ill CMESN UT St rett, Philadelphia.
.Only" dirkct luse ro France.
i lx. uaAJKRAL TRANSATLa NTIO COMPANY'S
JIlJUU ClAAMOJlirO AAltTAllt 1-11, w xuikiL
AMJ Ua VRE, CaLIJJSU AT BRUdT.
Thespleudid low vessels ou mis Uvonte route for'
the Continent will sail from Pier No. bo North river,
as follow.:
ST. LaUKUNT . Brocande...M.Saturday,Ook
VILLK DE PAltiiS.m .burmoin.......baturouy,uct. 17
P EKflil BKmi. .......Iuohe.uo...satuf ay ixjti u
PRICK Ob PAtiSAGA! , .
lugOld(lDCludli-n lu),
TO EXha f OR HA VRK, r '
FlntCablB.M..M.n........fi4ti I e-econd Cablu..MM.mMH fits
'IO A.bAUfc
(Including railway ticseis, lurniahou on hoart!)
First cal)io.....,l.. Ubcoud oi.I)1d.... 8S
Tlitutj sttaiuers (lu lot carry steerage pasAenge'.
tledicl aiienuauie lite of chaige,
American travellers gulDg to cr returnlog from
the continent of Jtuitpf. by taking the simmera of
this ime avulU unmuessnry risk, from transit by
KugiiBb rallwajs aud croksmg tne channel, besides
(svuig kme, trouble. nd exptuuo.
UtiUKUJi MACKENZIE, Agent,
Ko.MliKUAlWAy, New York.
For passage lu . Philadelphia, appiy t Atl.oia'
Ekpreb. Company, to II. L. jLKaJTi
ltf?t No. 820 CH KSN U f Htl eat.
PHILADELPHIA, KlCHMOlia
AND NUKTOUi BI'KAMeUIP LINT.
liiiOtuU i AiliwHT Alii laHi TO TiZM
EVERY oATUKIAY,
At noon, from FliisT rYHAXK abwa market
Street.
TM ROUGH RATES and THROUGH JfCEIPla
to all poll) i lu Monti and South Crollua, via Bo
bond Air Line Railroad, couueutliig at Portamouiu
aud to Lynchburg, Va.,Tonn6Mie, aud the Went, via
Virgin! aud Tennessee Air Line and Rlcamond auji
Danville Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUT ONCE, and taken al
LOW ER RATKS THAN ANY OTHSR LIKB.
The regularity, safety, and oheapueasof Ini. roms
oouuueua It to the publio as tae uiout desirable me.
dinm tor carrying every description of freight,
Mo charge for communion, dray age, or sat saeasg
Of transfer.
Steamships Insured at lowest rates.
Froikht reoeived dally.
No. 11 North and South WHARVES.
W. r. FOSTER, Ageut at luomuoaa ana City
Point.
T. Pi CBOWKLL CO.. Agents at Norfolk, 111
NOTICE. FOR NEW TOEK. VIA
iJjDELA W ARE AND RARITAN7CANAL.
nXPiUtba STEAMBOAT UOMPAJiv.
TbeCHEApjusT and UUiCKES water communl
cation between Pliiiadulpnla and Mew ork.
tueanirrs leave dally from first wharf below Market
street. Philadelphia, aud foot ol Wall street, Metv
Ytra.
fctuoda Jorwarded by all the lines running out 01 New
York, North, Eaut, and West, free of oouizuImIoj.,
Freight received ou and after tbe 8lu lustaut, anl
forwaidtd on accoainjodaliug terms.
W Li. 1,1 A At P. CiiYihi k CO., Agent.
No, l B. DMAjA WARE Avetu, Philadelphia;
.AMtLa UaNC, Ageut,
M Ko. 119 WALL Street. Mew York.
NfcW aaPliESa LINK TO ALEJ.I
th.gndria. Uttorsetown. and Wuhm,L.i.
itecilons at Alexaudrla from the moat direct route
for Lynchburg, ferii: 1, Knujtvllle, NaauvUie, Laitoa
and the Southwust.
Steamers lav resniarly every Saturday at Bona
from the first whrl atxfa Market sUeet,
RtfaMiwrtvrtfei. WM. Mj,
No, 1 North and Houth Wuarva.
J. B, DAVIL-4JN, Ageut at Georgetown.
M. KLDRlDOiii A Co., AgeuU at AlUiaiidrLa, VTr.
glma. ; el
fsr-r NOHCE.-1-Olt JSKW YORK,
ttfjL'X '. via 1 e aware and Raman Canai
eiJi2 b v, 1 ft v ut. TrtANarua f Alio Ji
tOW PA NY.
DESPATCH MiV BWIkTWHE LINB,
The bubiucs by Uiese liucs will be rtsuiued on ana
alter thetiili of ,i.uicb. iuri'ro tn., which will ba
taken eu accou-aioumlug u-run, i piy to
w in. n iu. E UO.,
l
No. iaA South Wharves.
GEMVS FURNISHING GOODS,
H. 3. it. G.
Harris' Lamless Kid Crlovos.
Btrti rAiit vVau&awt:i,
EXCLUSIVE MEN'I& FOR GENTN GLOVifS .
4. to. SCOTT & CO.j
ifri' o citrt.jtin vivljs?.
p A I K I sLOOLPIB.IKH
SniKT UAEUFACI'QUY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PElir KCT UVUKG SliluTS aNL O aa W EiiS
mtuelipm maurnnt;Mt at vry .liort 110U0
All other arltclo. i Uku.'iTLEMEN'd DRESJ
fJOODS In roJ variety.
WINCHESTER & CO.,
111
No. Ti OHEiSN UT btroet.
AGRICULTURAL.
lPHII.ACELPIlIARASPUERBY.JDCrjNDA,
!ll1Agrlcullurl.t, and oilier fciraberri Lawtoa
Btackbt-rry Pl.t U; ilarMoid, Concord." ud otUttl
Orap, Vlueg. or.ale bg pLErCHER,
tltf 1.0. u. J, j, j,