THE bMiif EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 18G9.'
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
EPirontAti opinions or thb lbadimg otritxLS
proN Ct'BBBST TOPICS COMPILSD KVKHT
DAT FOB THJJ KVKKINO T8LBOHAPH.
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However aotire aod rlgorons may be Presi
dent Grant's private tjiupatklea iu behalf of
the Cuban luurft., aud however deslron
be may be, on personal grounds, of a war with
Bpaln, he la not ht liberty, in this case , to
hi individual impulses. He is pabllo
offlwr of the United States ,arorn to " take
care that the law b. faithfully exeouted.'
The neutrality lawa may be very dUtaataful
in him- but they are nevertheless laws, and he
ild ns'in Ms iniaral that he would e
onte all laws, whether he personally approved
Stem or not, thinking that the aurest way to
make a bad law odious and secure its repeal
Is by Ha strict enforosment. lie has now a
pood opportunity to pat this dootrine of his
ta praotioe, If, aa is supposed, he dislikes the
neutrality laws. .
The reasons for supposing that uanerai
Grant's animut in this Cuban disturbance is
not paoifio, are various. In the first plaoe, it
Is known, on credible testimony, that he was
strongly In favor of marching into Mexico and
driving out Maximilian immediately on the
close of our oivil war a faot that is very sig
nificant of the tone and temper of his mind.
In the next plaoe, his strengthening our naval
and military forces on the Gulf for the pro
tection of our citizens, without at the same
time taking any steps for the suppression of
expeditions from this country to aid the in
surgents, is a dear Indtoatton that his feelings
are not neutral, but strongly biassed in favor
of Cuban Independence. In the third plaoe, he Is
a soldier, who won all the popularity he ever
possessed by hia military successes; and a war
with Spain is the readiest method of recupe
rating nis waning credit. In the fourth plaoe,
he la notorloubly ignorant both of oar own
laws and the laws of nations, and cannot be
very deeply impressed with a sense of neutral
duties. It seems, therefore, the duty of the
press to do what it can to enlighten his mind,
and call his attention to the obligations whioh
rest upon him in the present conjuncture.
The country does not want war; bat we fear
the new President is managing in such a way
that we may drift into a war with Spain with
out any justifiable cause.
The ostensible purpose of concentrating a
force In the Golf ii the protection of American
citizens; a laudable object whenever their
rights are endangered, and perhaps Impera
tive necessity slnoe the late offensive deoree of
the Captain-General of Cuba. But the Presi
dent of the United States Is bonnd to oonslder
the duties of this oountry, as well as Its rights;
especially in a case like the present, where
the exposure of our citizens to danger is the
dlreot oonsequenoe of their attempts to violate
our laws, buloe threatens to shoot as pirates
all persons caught bearing aid to the insur-
Sents. President Grant thereupon Immediately
icreases our naval foroe In the Cuban waters,
apparently to prevent or avenge the exeoation
of this threat. It was proper for him to do
this, but not this alone. If oar neutrality laws
were faithfully executed, there would be no
body In whom this Government Is Interested for
the threatened severity toaot upon. It Is quite as
important that oar citizens should not oommlt
a crime which oar own laws condemn and
punish, as that they should be proteoted from
, excessive penalties at the hands of an injured
foreign Government. Our Government should
not be less solicitous to discharge Its duties
than to maintain its dignity and rights. How
happens it that the Cuban waters are Infested
with the kind of offenders against whom the
Captain-General launches his barbarous de
oree f It Is owing to the violation of a law
whioh the President of the United States is
solemnly sworn to enforce. There Is danger
that his exhibition ot vigor to shelter these
criminals from undue harshness will be con
Btrued by them as a token of his favor and
enoouracement, unless It is aooompanled by
an equal exhibition of vigor for the repression
of their unlawful enterprises. We will quote
a single section of the stringent neutrality
law of 1818:
"If any person shall, within tho territory or Juris
diction of the United States, bcirin or set on foot, or
provide or prepare the means for, any military expe
dition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence
against the territory or dominions of any foreign
prince or State, or of any colony, district or people,
with whom the United States are at pence, every
persou so offending shall be deemed irutlty of a high
misdemeanor, and shall be lined not exceeding three
thousand dollars and Imprisoned not more tUuu three
years."
Now. what are the annroprlate and cus
tomary means of enforolng a law of this ohar-
. aoter f The precedents on this subject are
so numerous and so uniform in their charac
ter, aa to snare President Grant any neoesaity
for thinking out the subjeot ftfr himself, if be
will onlv be at the pains to learn what has
been done by his predecessors on similar occa
sions. No President before General Grant has
stood back and left things to take their coarse,
when ant eitizens were exposed to the allure
ments of a strong temptation to violate the
neutrality laws. President Washington issued
a proclamation of neutrality at the outbreak
of the war between England and France In the
' French Revolution; President Van Buren at
the time of the "Patriot War" In Canada;
President Fillmore at the time of the Lopez
expedition against Cuba. Mr. Webster was
Secretary of State at the time of the last, and
probably wrote the proclamation. The
necessity of snob. proclamations
rests upon reasons of humanity as well
as upon the duty of exeouting the laws. The
enthusiastic warm-blooded citizens who em
bark In such enterprises are generally iguo
rant ot the laws, and are often hurried uult
tinfflr into orlme by their generous impulses,
It U the duty of the Government to enlighten
their ignorance, to warn inem against violat
ing the laws of their oountry, and, If possible.
save them from penal consequences. Another
method of repression which former Presidents
Lave thou cb.t it their duty to adopt In like olr-
oumstanoes, is to issue epeolal instructions to
the district attorneys, marshals, and collectors
of oustoms, to exert the most aotive vigllanoe
for the deteotlon, prevention, and punishment
of these unlawful enterprises, it was in oon
sequenoe of suoh instraotlons that Governor
Quitman, of Mississippi, was arrested and tried
for abetting the Lopez expedition against Cuba,
and resigned his offioe In order that the dignity
of the State might not suffer by his trial as a
orlmlnaL
How, why is it that General Grant, while
bowing a praiseworthy leal for the protec
tion of our citizens in the Gulf, has adopted
pone of the usual precautions for preventing
their exposure to the juit penalties of our
own laws and the threatened atrooitlea of the
Captain-General of Cuba f Does he mean to
treat the neutrality laws as a dead letter f If
not, by what peculiar and unprecedented
methods does be propose to exeoute them f
He Is precluded from saying that the oooaslon
has not ret become grave enough for a resort
to the ordinary precautions. When it Is ne
eessarr to make a formidable naval and mlll
Ury demonstration to shelter transgressors of
the neutrality laws from theexoesslve severity
of a foreign government, one would think it
wm high tixa that the wort warned, against
the conr-qnences of snob tranpgresslons. A I
matters now stand, with rights vigorously In- I
slated on and duti- utterly neglected tt looks
too niuoh if the l'reien wiiuug un
.American citizens should run their heads into
the lion's moutb, In order that he may have
the credit of their rescue at the expense of a
war with Pp&lo.
9 4'ulmit 41ilini3tn;n.
fYow the If. V. 7V'w.
Given, as a et of popular insurrection, a
long, narrow island, with unhealthy ooaMand
aVakbone ofmonutaiu fastnesses, with thou
sands of situations admirably adapted to an
Isolated defensive warfare, but without ready
nieans of communication through a territory
which, though not so large as New York, pre
sents distances between Its leading oitles
greater than from tide water to Chicago;
given a population ill-armed and too scattered
for a close organization, but generally in sym
pathy with the insurgents; a power three
thousand miles away, itself in the later stages
of a revolution, with few troops and less
money, straining Its resources aud i s credit
to the utmost iu the effort to reduce this island
to subjection; the Government foroes nnaooll
mated, 111 fitted for aotive operations, and
comparatively Ignorant of the oountry, the
insm gents hardy, familiar with the regions
throngh which they move, and exempt from
the teirors whioh the approaobing unhealthy
season brings to new-oomera.
With such conditions, what features would
a campaign be likely to exhibit f The problem
does not seem one of remarkable difficulty; the
journals whioh complain so vehemently of the
ooiifusion in the Cuban news might almost, in
Emersjnian style, evolve its eolation from
their own consciousness.
There oould be no great battles, because
there are no great armle?, and no means of
r apid concentration. There could be even no
effective cooperation. Each little band, having
its own stretch of country on which to forage,
and its own easy line of retreat to the moan
tains, would make a little campaign of its own.
The insurgents of to-day would, on oooaslon,
sink Into the peaceful planters of to-morrow.
The country would be turbulent, outbreaks
would be frequent, property and lite would be
unsafe, but the insurrection itself would be
hard to fix.
There would be many attacks on isolated
outposts, many devices to harass the garri
sons, every effort to wear oat the enemy and
prolong the strnggle; bat there would be few
attempts to hold large towns or extensive
traots of the oountry. Operating in this way,
the insurgents would have nothing to defend;
they would be free to embrace every oppor
tunity for attack; and their movements
would compel the enemy to waste his re
sources in keeping up a number of posts,
and leave mm no troops to take the field.
Thus the contest would be prolonged; the
financial distress of the mother oountry would
be lnoreased; the army of the enemy would be
gradually weakened; and, as the hot season ap
proached, would come at last the Cuban oppor
tunity. Meanwhile the whole field of the strag
gle would be covered by a mist of exaggeration
and uncertainty, in the absenoe of great en
gagements, there would be multitudinous ao-
ooants of small ones, which we might be sure
would lose nothing in their proportions at the
hands of the grandiloquent Spanish reporters.
The day when the skirmishes in West Vir
ginia were pronounoed tne campaign of a
second Napoleon is not yet so remete that we
need to express very muoh wonder at the
imposing display in the bulletins of other
Eeople s wars, we snouia quite naiurauy
ave casual rifle shots reported as heavy
bombardments; little gatherings of half-armed
guerrillas masquerading in the newspapers as
heavy columns oi insurgents; marcues irom
a camp when the forsge was exhausted to
another that offered a better supply appearing
as stragetio movements of the gravest and
most mysterious import; while eaob, little
affray that actually oooarred might very well
be expected to assume the proportions of a
terrifio contest, in whioh the Bide that told the
Btory gained a brilliant viotory, with a loss of
none Kiiiea ana two or mree aisaoiea, mougu
the field was Btrown with the corpses of the
enemy, and no hospitals oonld be found to
accommodate their wounaea. uaiore our
armies were consolidated and oar raw troops
taught war, we went through all this our
selves; we migui now ne aoie, wunoat nay
great stretch of the Imagination, to oonoeive
how at least a similar experience migui neiau
the Cubans.
Wo have been treated of late to a great
manv sneers at the Cuban insurrection. That
the readr organs of the slave power, while it
lasted, and of the bogus Demooracy which
now inherits its vices without its virtues,
should make haste to oppose any struggle for
liberty anywhere, was to be expeoted. is at
that Journals whioh sympathized with the
eilort oi fcicain to secure popular government
for herself should sympathize, alse, with her
effort to deny it to her rlohest and most im
portant possession, is inexplicable, wnen
these seek, therefore, to make light of the
struggle in progress on our neighboring island,
we are foroed to believe that they cannot have
sufficiently considered the conditions under
which it is made. We have bad no reason to
expeot great battles thus far, and there oer
tainly have been none. We have had no
reason to expeot even a fully organized Insur
rectionary army, and there is none; no
reason to look for the capture of important
towns, or for any effort, save to nurse the
flame of hostility to the Spaniard, and pro
long the revolt into the unhealthy summer
montbs. it is too soon yet to pronounoe tne
Insurrection a success; but it is not too soon
to svy that these aims have been attained
and that, with them attained, the prospeot for
Cuban independence was never brighter than
now.
Our I'Cgutlon iu Spaiu.
From the N. Y. Time.
Hon. John P. Hale, our Minister at Madrid,
Borne time since wrote to a New Hampshire
member of Congress, begging him to seoure
his retention in offioe not mainly because he
wanted the offioe, but beoanse he wanted to
triumph over Mr. U. J. Perry, his Seora
tary of Legation, and Secretary Seward,
both of whom had proved themselves,
onioiauy and personally, his enemies.
The letter was forthwith published. Mr.
Fogg, formerly our Minister in Switzerland,
and more reoently United States Senator from
New Hampshire, feeling the honor of his
State Involved In Mr. Hale's person, forthwith
rushed to the resoue, and wrote another letter,
eohoing his requests for retention, and re
pealing Lis slanders on Messrs. Perry and
Seward, which was also forthwith given to
tbe public
The quarrel between Dale and Perry, how
ever, Is of somewhat ancient date, and the
State Department at Washington abounds In
doonments touching Its origin, progress, and
leading features. Some of these papers have
been published, and will be carefully perused,
we trust, by Mr. Fogg and the other New
Hampshire gentlemen who oonslder Mr. Hale's
personal and official honor identloal with that
of their common State. After they have given
the subjeot a oarefal study, we shall be glad to
hear from them farther as to what they think
about It.
It seems that as long ago as in the spring of
1867 the Spanish Government mads formal
complaint, through our 8oretary of Watloo,
tbatonr Minister, Mr. Ula, had been la thi
Iiaiut ui nuiuKKimg good iniO Spain UUdrtr
oover of his diploinatio privilege, for the profit
I arid advantage of a 8 punish o immerolal home,
ana 01 receiving regular payment at the hands
of that house for the tax of whioh the Gov
ernment was thus defrauded. Fall proof of
these transactions were at the same time far
Dished, and it was shown that Mr. Uale had
kept, with the commercial house oonoerued, a
regular account current of the profit aud loss
of this dicgraoeful triffli. In oouAequeno of
the desire of tb Spaulsb. Government not to
give a nseleps notoriety to tb transaction, our
Secretary, Mr. Perry, contented himself with
reporting the matter in due c.iurse to
the Government at Washington, and with iu
forming Mr. Hale of the aotion taken by the
Spanish authorities. Mr. lUle, on the con
trary, seems to have thereupon oommeuoed
that personal warfare npon Mr. Perry snd hts
family whioh he has oontlnued with so muoh
assiduity down to the present time one of
his most recent official communications biiog
a desoription of the personal appearanoe, age,
dress, and general demeanor of .Mrs. Perry.
Why he was left in office by Beoretary Seward
for so long a time after his official mlsoonduot
bad been officially brought to the notioe of
our Government, we find it difficult to under
stand, lie returned this forbearance, as
might have been expeoted, by the coarsest and
most mendaoious abuse of the official from
whom he had reoelved It.
We see it stated that the dispute Is to be
settled by the removal of both Mr. Hale and
Mr. Perry. We fall to see either justioe or
good sense in snob, a disposition of the case.
If both parties were equally In fault, or If
bothy prrtles being in fault, It were
difficult to deolde whioh had been most to
blame, the case would bear a different aspeot.
But It is not so. Mr. Hale is shown to have
degraded his official position, insulted the
oountry to whioh he is aooredited and dis
graced the nation he represents, by carrying
on the business of a smuggler under oover of
his diplomatic charaoter. A grosser or less
exousable offense it is not easy to imagine.
Mr. Perry has been guilty of nothing, is
not even aooused of anything, and is univer
sally conceded to bave performed the duties
of hia office with ability, dignity, and suooess
He has bad the entire respeot at all times of.
the Government to whioh he was accredited.
and of the people among whom he lives. We
see no reason why he should be removed from
office, or why ho should reoelve anything but
approval ana applause at the bands of the
Government he has served.
Senator Sprague's Last Spread.
From Vie X. Y. Uerald.
Senator Sprague of Rhode Island has again
eieotnnea tne benate and tne oountry with
another of his pungent, stirring, and char
acteristic 1p3ecb.es. His theme, like its pioneer
enort, was the deplorable condition of the
oonntry, taking the whisky and tobaooo tax aa
the text upon whioh to hinge his sparkling
effusion. Although on reading his speech It Is
at times a little difficult to discern what he is
exaotly driving at, yet It mast be remembered
that one of England's most remarkable men,
Horace Walpole, was noted for occasional
obscurity and ambiguity while giving utteranoe
to noble thoughts. Senator Sprague is the
vvaipoie or the American senate. Like Wal-
pole, be rarely addresses the Senate, but when
he does be stirs up the old fogies amaslngly.
As was said of Walpole. so we may remark of
Sprague his life is devoted to the gratification
of a fastidious and whlmsloal taste, and In a
measure to retailing and recording the politi
cal gossip and fashionable soandal ot the day.
Furthermore, and in continuation of this an
alogy, Sprague, like Walpole, is plaoed in
oomfortable circumstances so far as worldly
possessions are oonoerned; Has a taste for pio
tures. prints, books, manuscripts, relics of an
tiquity, objeots of vertu and a thousand odds
and ends; in brier, be is a sort 01 gauierer-np
of unconsidered trifles, with whioh he amuses
himself and edifies his friends. Moreover,
Sprague, like Walpole, to continue the figure,
is famous for his letters, the style being sin
gularly easy and appropriate take, lor exam
ple, tne brusque note addressed lately Dy Dir.
Sprague to tbe editor of a unoae isiana paper;
and as was said of Walpole. so 11 may ds re
peated of SDraeue: "the most eooentrlo, the
most artinolal. tbe most lastidious, tne moBi
osprloious of men," he Is, nevertheless, j ast
tbe man for the times for the united states
Senate as at present constituted. He startles
tbe old dry bones of that body with a sudden
shook that a telegraph operator sometimes feels
while manipulating his instrument during a
thunder storm. If he does not make them
howl he makes them laugh, whioh is evidenoe
that at any rate he enlists their attention a
merit that Garrett Davis' long-winded haran-
Brnes nnon blown-no tonlos cannot boast of.
There fs one thing, however, deoldedly trans
lucent in Senator S Prague's last spread he
deolares that he has not bought the National
Intelligencer. Here be shows wisdom. There
is no indication of vacillation, no exhibition of
Imbecility of mind, so far as that operation is
concerned. And while his colleague, Senator
Anthony, attempts to put a rosy and facetious
glow npon Senator Bprague's stunning orato
rical effort on Thursday last, by pronouncing
bim, with more truth than jest, a leader of
finance, in the same breath in whioh he char
acterizes Colorado Jewett as a diplomat and
ueorge Francis Train as a general statesman,
bprague himself subsides amid the ap
proving smiles of a galaxy of fash
ionably attired ladies in the Senate gal
leries, Sprague does not like Anthony. Neither
do we. Ant holy is envious of the advancing
celebrity of his gamecock colleague. Hence
Anthony's wings are likely to be clipped in
the little bantam State of Rhode Island, and
Sprague will crow loader than ever. Sprague
is useful in tbe Senate. The eighteen-year
settlers in that body are growing mouldy
like old cheese. They are getting tough and
oorrnpt. ibeir Indian puddings, famous
New England Is for maklDg them, are bad
jobs. They require ventilation, and Senator
bprague is Inst the man, with bis pluok,
brains, and cash, to give them an airing. He
can afford to speak out. He wants no offioe.
His ambition is to save his oountry. Go on,
Senator Sprsgue the Walpole of the Ameri
can senate you are aeveioping a splendid
mine of intellectual wealth, and every patriot
in the land will wish you uod-spsed la your
sublime efforts to reform the corruptions and
abuses that have orept into the high plaoes In
our political tabernaole.
Prim Is bo prim as to bo called the Spanish
Sjihynx.
Dr. Livingstone was elected to tho French
Aeudemy by 44 votes out of 5tt.
Tho King of Italy has mado Henry Lumlcy
a chevalier for inventing an improved ruuuer.
The Consulate-General of France in the
capital of Peru la to be raised Into a legation.
Baron Sina la said to be the rlchent man In
Vienna. He is richer than any of tho Roths
childs.
Mnrrh 4 hi'lnc tha anniversary of Starr
King's death, was appropriately observed lu Sau
Fruuelaco.
One banking-house In Lubeck receives every
six mouths upwards of 975,000 worth of United
oiaies coupons.
The London' Teliaranh sara that the now
F.nglltth court drctis Is a copy of the favorite coa-
tuuiu worn Dy ueorge W aaulngtou.
OARPETINQS, ETO.
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ISONP, FKF.K OK VN1TKD STATES TAX, HK
CUKKI) 1Y ONE MILLION BIX HUNUHKD
ANDTHIRTY-TWO THOUSAND ACRES
OF CHOICE LANDS,
And by the Railroad, Its Moiling Stock, and tho Fran-
ciiIhcs of tho Company.
A DOLT.LK SECURITY ANT) FIRST-CLASS IN
VESTMENT IN EVERY RESPECT,
Yielding in Currency nearly
Ten Per Cent. Per Annum.
PRESENT PRICE PAR AND ACCRUED INTEREST
Gold, Government Ponds and other Stocks received
In payment at their liltrlieRt market price.
Pamphlets and full Information given on applica
tion to
JAY COOKE & CO.,
NO. 114 S. THIRD STREET,
E. W. CLARK & CO.,
NO. 35 S. THIRD STREET,
Fiscal Agents of the Lake Superior and MlRHlsslppl
River Railroad Company. 8 10 CoUp
Union Paoifio Railroad
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
Hought and Sold nt I!cs( Markct
l'rlco.
These BondH pay SIX PER CENT. INTEREST IN
GOLD. PRINCIPAL also payable In GOLD.
Full Information cheerfully furnished.
The road will be completed in THIRTY (30) DAYS,
and trains run through la FORTY-FIVE (4ft) DAYS.
DE HAVEN & BRO.y
Dealers in Government Necuritien, oll, Ktc,
NO. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
4 91m PHILADELPHIA.
B
ANKINO HOUSE
or
JtrCoQKE&
Nos. 112 and 114 South THIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old 6-208 Wanted in Exchange for New.
A Liberal Dillcrence allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
COLLECTIONS MADE. STOCKS bought and sold
on Commission.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladles.
We will receive applications for Policies of Life
Insurance in the National Lire Insurance Company
of the United States. Full Information given at our
oftlce. 4 1 8m
TERLING & WILDMAN,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
Io. HO S. THIRD St., l'hlla.,
Special Agents for tho Sale of
Danville, llazleton, and Wllkes
barre ICailroad
FIRST MOIlTfJAUE BONDS,
Dated 186T. due In 188T. Interest Seven Per Cent.
payable half yearly, on the first of April anil first of
October, clear of Mate and United States Taxes. At
present these bunds are offered at the low price of BO
aud accrued Interest. They are iu deuomiuallous of
t'.xK), f.vw, and f 1000.
I'anipiuets containing Maps, neports. ana run in
formation on hand for distribution, and will be scut
by mail on application.
tioveriimt'iii itoiuiH una otner securities laneu in
exchange at market rates.
Dealers in Blocks, Bonus, Loans, uoiu, etc. B20im
II
O M E
INVESTMENTS.
IfcesKling: II. Xit. Sixes,
Clear of Statu, United States, aud Municipal Taxes.
lVuimylvniiia find New York ('mini and 11. tl.
CoiuiMtnv Seven IVr (Vul. 1'irst
.HorlKiige Itoiulh,
Principal aud Interest guaranteed by the
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.
We have but a small amount of the above Hond,
aud oiler them at a price that will pay a good In
terest on the Investment.
DREXEL & CO., Bankers.
8 19fmw4tf No. 34 S. THIRD St, Phllad a.
pa S. PETERSON & CO.,
Stock and Exchange Brokers,
No. 39 South THIRD Street.
Members of the New York and Philadelphia Stock
aud Gold Boards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Etc, bought aud sold on com
mission only at either city. 1
CITYWAIl RANTS
. BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. T. YERKE3, Jr., & CO.,
Ho. 20 South THIRD Street,
41
PHILADELPHIA.
FINANOIAL..
HE1IRY G. GO WE II,
(Ijtte of forlinin, (l.wrs &- V:,
BANKER AND BROKER,
NolllH. TIII1C1) Htroot,
rniLADELrniA.
Blocks and Bonds Bought and Sold on Commission
in Philadelphia and New York.
Gold and Government Securities dealt In.',
New York quotations by Telegraph constantly re-
Qelvcd.
COLLECTIONS made on all accessible points.
INTEREST allowed on deposits. . 8 10 lm
GLENMING, SATIS & CO
NO. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
GLEHBIMIHCBAVIS & AMORT
NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegraphic communication with the New
York Stock Boards from tho Philadelphia
Ollloe. is
BKJamison&,Co.
SUCCESSORS TO
1'. IP. KELLY CO.,
BANK Kits AND DEALERS IN
Gold, Silver, and Govraeiit Bonds,
AT CLOSEST MARKET RATES.
N.W. Corner THIRD and CHESNUT Sts
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS
in New York aud aud Philadelphia Stock Boards, etc.
etc, 8U 3m
DEALERS IN ITslTED STATES BONDS, and MEM
BERS OF STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGE,
Receive Accounts of Banks and Bankers on Liberal
Terms.
ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON
C. J. HAMBRO & SON, London,
B. METZLER, S. SOUN & CO., Frankfort.
JAMES W. TUCKER & CO,, Paris.
And Other Principal Cities, and Letters of Credit
Available Throughout Europe.
DY A R D & BAR LOW
HAVE REMOVED THEIR
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
TO
No. 19 South THIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
And will continue to give careful attention to collect
ing and securing CLAIMS throughout the United
Slates, British Provinces, and Europe.
Sight Drafts and Maturing Paper collected at
Bankers' Rates. 1 28 6ra
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETO.
c
LOTH
HOUSE.
JAMES & u JZ 13 ,
No. 11 NORTH SECOND STREET,
SIGXOF TUK QOLVES LAMB,
Are now receiving a SPLENDID LINE of
Spring Fancy Cassimeres,
Comprlsiug all the best makes in the market,"
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 8 88m
AGRICULTURAL.
PHILADELPHIA RASPBERRY, JUCUN-
DA. Airrintlltiiriki. .nil tt Imp Klmwluirp.- T.wu
JJuckberrjr Plunts; Hartford, tiuncorrl, and other irap
Vines, t ut sals by T. S. A O. K i LKTUHKK,
8 3tf Deianoo, N. J.
PROPOSALS.
OFFICE OF ASSISTANT COMMISSARY SUB
SISTENCE. Fkankkohd Akkbnai, April T, 1869.
Sealed propocals, In duplicate, will be received by
the undersigned ut this oltlcc until 14 M., April 4,
18;9, for furnlBhliiu the troops stailoned at Frauk
ford Arsenal with FltESlf BEEF, of a good mar
ketable quality, In equal proportions of fore and hind
quarters, excluding necks, shanks, aud kldiicv tal
low ; tho beef to bo delivered free of cost to tho
troops In such qiiitntitifH and 011 such duvs as may be
from time to time ruqulrod by the proper authority,
and to continue in lon e six months, or such lesa
time as tho CoiiiiniK-Ktiry-Ueneral shall direct, and
subject to his approval, commeucing ou the 1st day
of May, lbCtf.
Upon acceptance of tho offer security and bond In
tho sum of six hundred dollurs will be required for
the faithful pt'ifoiiiiiiiu i' of the contract.
Bids to be endorsed '-UropoHiils lor Fivnh Beef."
WILLIAM PK1NCK,
4 8 Ct First Lieut. Ord., Bvt, t'upt. U. 8. A., O. S.
LEGAL NOTICES.
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
X AND COUN'IY OK I'll 1 1. A DKI. I'll 1 A.
KslMxof LOKKNZ JStUlY.
The Auditor aMii.intcd l.y the Court to audit, settlo, and
adjust the account of ,IOSKl'H XSt:H V, Kieuutorof tha
last will and testament of l.UKKNZ 18C11V, dftoeiiaed,
and to report distribution of the linlancn in the bands of
the axcuuiitnnt, will meet tho parties interested, for tli
imipoi-eot his appnimiiiimt, on 'I TKiSDA Y, April 13 A
. IN, at eleven CD o'clock A. M., at hisotfluo, No. 4UU
WALNUT Street, iu the city of PliiU.i,.lpl,i.
4 a fuiwot; WI1J IAM 1. MAKKK, Auditor.
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT KOR THE CITY
1 AND COUNTY OF PHII.A DFM'Hl A
Kstateiif O. R D'ORVIH.F. (O. K MoiJANN).
The Auditor appointed by thn Court to sn iil, settle, and
adjust the finul atcuunt of JOHN B. Col.AllAN Ks.i
tiuardianof C . K. D'OKVILI.K (C. K. MuCanin, warl be
coining ot ai7.i Januiiry 16, A. 1. lMoil, ami to report distri
bution of the balance in the hands of the accountant will
meet ""l,.fr!!L'':.lV,lui',,J f"r ,MB l1osu of his uppoint
liient,on1Ci'SI)AY, April Sl, A.U. ISW, st four( t o'clock
1 !,'.?' ,u" V""'" of J,,un ll- Colauan, Esq., Ho. kii WAU
MJT Street, iu tue city of Philadelphia.
sfiiuwDi W 11.1,1 AM 1).
BAKER, Auditor.
WOODLANDS CEMETERY COMPANY.
. .The following Managers and OUioers bars been
elected for the year lsdH:--
w.n. kLI K- PWpR. President.
William H Moore, William W. Keen.
IWuel H. Mouu, Foidiuand J. Drear ,
Jollies DaUett, Oeorge U Huby,
bdwin Ureble, H. A. Knight
Secretary and Treasurer, MOSKFll H. TOWN8FND.
The Managers have passed a resolution requiring both
Iot-liolders and Visitors to present ticket st the eulranoe
for aduiixsion to the Cemotery. Tickets may be had at the
OBioeof the Company, No. 8L3 AUUli titreel, ot of any
Of sUa Muagera, .It
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