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CIVIL SERVICE -Tllli ONLY REMEDY.
From (hi X. V. Tim.
The warmest upholders of our present bjb
' tern of appointment to oflioa must agree that
' the spootaole recently presented in Washing
Ion has been peculiarly disgraceful. To find
that city crowded with meu who are eager
applicants for offices to which they bare not
thi smallest adaptation, te hear of the Vice
President so badgered by these uublushing
place-hunters that he is obliged to abandon
Lis official position and take refuge in the
floantrr: and that even the iron constitution
of the President sinks under thU incessant
and shameless Importunity for oilice, and
Congress is glad to adjourn to esoape it is
ertninly altogether one of the most unplea
nam pictures we have had in a lDg time of
the tendenoy of our method of filling publio
A?oDg with thia spectacle, which is calcu
lated to bring disgrace everywhere on repub
lican institutions, come the thousand com
plaints and proofs from all sides of the utter
demoralization of our civil service. Our most
trustworthy officials estimate that the publio
losses from the inoompetenoe and dishonesty
of the publio servants, amount now everyyear
to the enormous sum of one hundred millions
of dollars. In other words, of every four dol
lars paid by the poorest citizen in taxes, one
is stolen by rogues or lost by incompetents.
Every man, woman, and child suffers from this
degradation of the publio service. It is paid
for in the hard earnings of the poor, by the
salaries of the professional classes and the
wealth of the rich. All lose from it. Worst
ven than this, it corrupts character and
disturbs honest industry. The buying
and selling of offices is depraving
every department of Government, and
casting far and wide the seeds
of corruption. We see the effeots in Albany,
In every State capital, and at Washington.
Names that ought to be most honored are not
free from its stains. The publio is losing the
cense of manly independence and high-toned
honor, under the influence of this soramble
for office and bargaining with publio positions,
young men are continually leaving pursuits
of industry and honest production for this
waiting for chances this drawing of
prizes. The system has beoome a curse and
a disgrace to the country. That treat politi
cal philosopher and economist, J. btuart Mill,
Tightly characterized it reoently, in a publio
letter, as "the one great blot and disgrace on
American Institutions."
What is worst, too, in the whole matter, the
avil will continually inorease. There never
was such an undignified soramble for place as
this year; there waj never more jobbery and
corruption, and never more difficulty and
seeming impossibility in filling the right place
with the right man. Four years hence the
apectaole at Washington will be only more
degrading, the soramble more disgraoeful, the
jobs and bargains more corrupt, and the in
efficiency of the publio servants more glaring
simply because the number of offioes will
fceoome each year greater, the prizes richer,
and the public sense of honor more dulled
under the present system. This is evidently
the inevitable drift of things in this country.
There is but one practical remedy for this
State of things, and that is the entire change
of the mode of appointment to places of publio
trust.
This can be secured only by the adoption
of the system begun so favorably In Great
Britain of appointment by examination, and
not by favor or from party service; or, in
other words, the passage of Mr. Jenckes'
bill. Yet we cannot say that the prospects of
this most salutary measure are very hopeful.
What Mr. Mill calls "the greatest perverters
of free institutions" the professional politi
cians control both houses of Congress and
all the machinery of elections. Two hundred
and twenty men oould not, with the utmost
care, be pioked out from the population of the
Whole Union who are, by interest, habit, and
" tradition, so opposed to the principles of this
bill as the members of the present House of
itepresentauves. Tne senate, too, has its own
grounds of opposition. The President, in-
. deed, is on the side of the bill, and a vast and
crowing constituency of intelligent men and
the opinion of the civilized world. But all I
these allies are as yet weak against the pro
fessional politicians.
- - . Moreover, there are among the masses cer
tain unfounded prejudices against the mea
sure. It is stigmatized as "English," though
it might more properly be called "Chinese;"
appointment by examination being a custom
of the Celestial Empire as old as the Norman
onqueet. It has given the English an honest
custom house, a post office whioh is un
equalled in the world for aocuraoy and
Tapidlty, and a most intelligent Indian ad
ministration. We have reoeived too many
good things from the little island to object if
we at length obtain an honest oivil service
' from the same source.
Mr. Jenckes' bill, it is said, will establish
'an aristocracy of officials." But this has
' been a measure in England which was most of
' all a pet of the Liberal party, and was at first
" opposed by the aristocracy. It does away with
. favoritism and appointment by blood or by
personal or party intlneuce. It comes down
to the true democracy o intelligence and char-
aoter. To establish "a profession" of ollioe
, holders a trained body of men of character
and fitness for their plaoeB, with the tsprit du
corps of a regular profession, is what is most
of all needed in this conntry. The sooner we
... have such an "aiistooraoy," the better for
ns all.
It is urged, too, that it is a mere measnra
Of "pedantry," making book-learning the
great test for publio service. This is a mis
take, in tne Dritisn competitive exami
nations, an expert in every depart
. xnent is present at the examlna
tlon of the applicants in his own branoh
if - i . i . ...
moreover, ouaraoier ana poauy neann are
ioth made tests, and. on a broad scale, it is
found that intellectual training is, to a oertatn
extent, a pledge of character. But the advau-
Sage of the examination in ordinary school
tnranohes is, that the publio seoures at least
a respectable education in its servants, and
' Ihlfl, with oharaoter, health, and the tested
1 ' knowledge of the praotioal branoh aimed at,
. makes a better basis for eventual seleotien
.- than the faot that the applicant Is a friend of
.a Congressman, or has made a stump speech
oartr.
Mr. Jencke bill, we believe, provides that
all those who obtain me oeruncaies 01 me ax
Board shall alone form the class from
' whom the final selection is to be made; so that
, m ah all have. then, a trained class of oflue-
aeekers, who can apply without any loss of
aelf-reepeet, and whose appointment entails
nn corrnntion or iobberr.
Thla great reform is, perhaps, too profound
' to' be expected speedily. But everything
. nay bo expected, in an intelligent oommnnlty
. like ours, from diseumion. When we remem
ber what discussion has aooomplUhed within
' two years, in ' exposing "the greenback
heresy," we may .hope, In time, even for
the
fueoess of "competitive examinations."
TOE ENGLI3II NEGOTIATIONS.
From the X. Y. Trilnu.
Mr. Chandler is a Senator whose filellty to
his convictions is only equalled by the mar
vellous freedom with whioh he sometimes ex
presses them. There is never any doubt
about bis feelings. lie is nothing if not down
right. Withal, he is so good a man, and has
rendered such sturdy kervloe, in times past,
to a good oauee which was not then popular,
that we may now regret, but can still forgive,
his extreme demonstrations against Great
Britain.
Yet, since Mr. Chandler has himself chosen
to remind the country of his past oourse on
the questions that are now resolved into the
Alabama claims controversy, we may reoall
the fact that he has never oa this subject
represented the position or purposes of the
American people. In 1304 he wanted to de
clare that the baee of the Rebellion was in the
Canadas, and to act accordingly. As a mat
ter of fact very few now believe that this was
true, and as a matter of policy everybody
sees that its announcement would have been
unwise if not disastrous. lie tells us now
that he did not make hi a proposition without
consultation with the military authorities,
and calculations as to how soon threats of
this sort would enable us to collect our
claims from Great Britain. But his consulta
tions came to nothing, and his resolution was
never reported, one way or the other, from
the committee to which It was referred. In
18G6 Mr. Chandler wanted to have peremptory
demand made for immediate payment of our
claims, and, this failing, wanted an act of
non-intercourse, and the instant withdrawal
of our Minister. Probably no one but the
earnest and patrlotio Senator himself now be
lieves that non-intercourse was the remedy to
be tmployed in 1806, or that the withdrawal
of our Minister would have resulted in graver
discomforts to the British empire than it
would have inflicted upon ourselves. There
may be those who think with Mr. Chandler
that such a course would have insured a set
tlement of the Alabama claims, but they
cannot be of the number who remember
with us that our cousins aoross the
water have nearly or quite as much
human nature as ourselves. The sena
tor's next adventure into this field was
a proposal to repeal our neutrality laws.
Surely there oannot be three members of the
Senate who agree with him in regarding the
suggestion that we do wrong because Great
Britain refuses to do right, as any solution of
our difficulties. In 1807 Mr. Chandler wanted
to declare our strict neutrality between the
Governments of Great Britain and Abyssinia,
in the war then pending. If any one besides
the Senator now thinks that the moral posi
tion of the United States before the world
would have been improved by such an abandon -ment
of all the principles we professed on the
subjeot, we should be at a loss to know where
to look for him. In all these demonstrations
we believe Mr. Chandler to have been sincere
and solitary. He occupies very nearly the
same position now.
The Senator proposes that our newly-appointed
Minister should go to London with a
demand in one hand and a threat in the other.
"If Great Britain should meet us in a friendly
spirit, acknowledge her wrong, and cede all
her interests in the Canadas in settlement of
these claims, we will have perpetual peaoe
with her; but if she does not, we must con
quer peaoe. We cannot afford to have an
enemy's base so near to us. It is a national
necessity that we should have the British pos
sessions. He hoped such a negotiation would
be opened, and that it will be a. peaoeful
one; but if It should not be, and England
insiBts on war, then let the war be 'short,
sharp, and decisive.' If war should come,
he would say now that the 00,000 veteran
soldiers of Michigan would take the contract
to capture the Canadas in thirty days, with
out a man or gun from any other state."
From the tone and temper of this we hasten
to express our utter dissent. We believe,
with the Senator, that this nation has been
crieveuslv wronged. We believe, with him,
that the measure of our redress must be far
more than the mere money value of the
ships actually destroyed by pirates equipped
In British ports, we believe, wnn one wnose
words, rising from a grave over which
both hemispheres have uttered their
lamentations, that "Great Britain car
ried on war from thesa shores with the
United States, and inflioted an amount of
damage ere ate r than would be produced by
many ordinary wars;" that the capture and
burning or American vessels, in itseii great,
has been but a small part oi tne injury
inniotcd on the Amerioan marine;" and that,
to quote Mr. Cobden's emphatio conclusion,
we (the British) have rendered the rest of
her vast mercantile property useless." We
believe that, when-this just and honorable
basis for estimating the liabilities aotually in
curred by the unfriendly and most unfortunate
acts of the British Cabinet shall be onoe
settled, the offer to cede the Canadas may well
be made on tne one band, and considered on
tne oilier.
But we do not believe that the nrODer spirit
in which to oonduot this negotiation is one of
bluster or threatening. We do not believe
that it is desirable to approach an ancient
empire, as proud as she is still powerful, with
the notioe that she must settle promptly, on
our terms, in mirty days, or ugiit for her pos
sessions, which we are quite capable of
taking, in thirty more, with the volunteers
from a single one of our States. We doubt.
indeed, whether we need make haste to settle
the matter at all. We lose little bv delav
she may lose much. The longer the adjust
ment is postponed, the surer we are of reoom
pense for our losses. Time is our ally.
Meanwhile we trust and believe that what
ever negotiations mar occur will be conducted
in a spirit of the most perfect courtesv and
me siuceresi desire to promote a peaoeful ad
justment. Neither the nw administration
nor the new Minister will forcet that, after
all, the English, are of the same blood with
ourselves, and that, because thev are. thev
must uoi De puuiea. Mr. Sumner's at(!h
in this and most regards, represents the set
weu determination oi the Amerioan people
bit. Chandler's, only passionate prejudices,
wuiun wm not control our policy. We all
know that Great Britain is too proud a nation
io ue coerced by unworthy fears. Let us not
lorgei mat the United States is too great
unuon io iaii in seouring justioe, and too ab
oimeiy assured of her power to seoure it to
be guilty of the blaster and bravado which
wuurauierue only the weak.
CHANDLER ON THE
From the X. y. Herald.
ALABAMA CLAIMS.
At the present stairs
of our
With England on the Alabama olalms, we ought
not to belittle and weaken our own oase by
conduot wanting in national dit . i.i
such extreme assertion of our own views as
must at onoe close disousslon by forolng it b
yond the rational limit. Such an utteranoe
as that of Mr. Chandler in his resolution in
regard to Canada damages our oase, so far at
Las any effect whatever, and if kl, resolu
tion were acted upon it oould have no other
result than to forfeit the very strong ground
7-M0Wrh0,dA 0Uf dltfee England.
If Mr. Chandler was talking for Mlohlgan. we
must regret that he chose this rery Important
subject at a time when every word spoken
la our Senate may be sorutinlied for the
I Indication-'of our temper; for certainly It
I would not b creditable to us to have it sup
posed that we entered in this spirit upon a
Breve quemon or national right and honor.
Bull'es aod vaporersbave no man's respeot,
and it is a weak case that has to be sustained
with threats. Our position among the na
t ons and our demonstrated power are such
that no nation can put ns off with a joke
unless we begiu th joking. Eoglaud oannot
tefuse to hear aort. heed with due respeot our
statement of grievances unless we put that
statement in eu.h a shape that a common
tense of conrlesy and right the world over will
justify her in refusing to listen to it. And
this we do if we open the oase with a threat
that ber territory hall not be safe so lsng as
she refuses to accept our conclusion. Oar
ense might have been very well lett to go to
the common sense of England on Mr. Suuiuer'a
statement of it; but our opponents on the
ether side of the waer may well use Mr.
Chandler s ridiculous clamor to show that we
are a people with whom It is in vain to
reason.
GRANT AND GREELEY.
1'rnm the X. V. World.
Mr. Horace Greeley's remarks in Tuesday's
Tribune, upon finally finding that the Presi
dent was not minded to give him any oflioe,
form one of the most mournful and lugubrious
attempts at jollity whioh the melancholy mind
of man ever gave vent to. The Mark Tapley of
fiction cheering himself in the wreck of matter
at Eden, and bearing up against the unholy
tricks of Scadder, is a spectacle upon which
the humane mind may find a certain satisfac- i
tion in dwelling; but the Dootor Johnson of
history "oraoking his Jokes and curslag the
sun," is one from whioh even pity must turn
repelled. And it is muoh more in the latter
guise than in the former that the versatile phl-
losopner oi tne irwune represents himself to
us. Indeed, If we take away from the lexi
cographer his wit, his wisdom, and his
learning, the residuum presents some
points which have a striking resemblanoe
to the charaoter of H. G. Bat although Dr.
Johnson has recorded, in the most pathetio
of his productions, how he endured to
dance attendanoe upon the coucheet and
to be shouldered by the lackeys of a Chester
field, he at least had the grace to withdraw
after months of a fruitless suit, and when he
perceived himself to have exhausted "all the
powers of pleasing that a retired and na-
courtly soholar can command." And, more
over, he had not the dUh-mesty to dissemble
how sorely he was hurt. Bat II. G. has
notoriously wooed President after President,
and exercised all the wiles of a "retired and
unoourtly" journalist upon a series of politi
cal mistresses, who, agreeing in nothing else,
have nevertheless agreed in rejeotiog him.
And, having so far and so often forgotten his
high calling, II. G. oomes before us now with
the air of an undertaker's mute off duty, and
disingenuously endeavors to persuade us that
the contortions of his benevolent features
under torture are the unforced smiles of hila
rious joy.
"Thouph he"' (irct'loy relates of Greeley "has
twice conversed treely with the President respecting
certain meditated appointments, no word or hint
was dropped on cither side which Imported that lie
was or siinuested that he might be himself appointed
to any post whatever."
Conjecture is baffled in the endeavor to re
call what may have been the conversation of
these two great men. What blandishments
can U. G. have employed to win the heart of
Grant withal ? One can fanoy him wandering
from politlos to poultry, and from the tariff to
the strawberry-patch, without touching a re
sponsive chord in the bosom of Grant or
awakening a gleam of intelligence in his pis
cine eye. And the ignorance oi tne philosopher
upon thoBe subjects which engage the pro
found mind oi the president is, li possible,
more marked than his ignorance upon things
in general. He knows nothing to speak of of
horseflesh, and nothing whatever of the pups
of Marshal iirown or ot other men. ills little
aooomplishments in the way of danoing and
dressing are not such as to commend him to a
functionary who cares lor neither, worst of
all, it does not appear that he ever gave Grant
anything except some political cervices,
which were all the more meritorious in pro
portion as they were distasteful, but which
are the one sort of gifts for whioh Grant has
evinced no gratitude. It is not surprising,
therefore, that "no word or hint wa3 dropped,"
from the President at least, about the pro
priety of bestowing an office upon an U. G.
who came to him thus uncongenial ana inus
empty-handed.
But it is none tne less iaiai io air. ureeiey
i . .y e I
as a journalist ana to tne proiession oi jour
nalism in general that Mr. Greeley as au indi
vidual should even Inour the imputation,
which he takes pains in bis foroed mirth not
to repel, of seeking a Federal office. He en
deavors to fortify himself with the name of
Franklin, who undoubtedly noia oinoe, ana
who also undoubtedly owned and edited, with
such editing as was then called for, a news
paper of the period. But Mr. Greeley will not
undertake to say that journalism in Frank
lin's time was a thing even analogous to the
Journalism of his and our day. A publio
journal may now be a great power,
but its power depends not uuiy uyuu
the ability with whioh it is oonduoted,
but upon the reader's belief in the
entire disinterestedness of the man who con
ducts It. Of course, this belief oannot
survive the spectacle of an editor running
about, or even being thought to run about,
after an office for himself. The quid pro quo
which he can give for it is only of one kind.
The office must be a reward for services past,
or a payment in advance for services to come.
That is to Bay, the publio good mast be pur
sued by him only so far as it does not oonlllot
with the political interests of the party or the
person to whom he owes his plaoe. The case
is similar to that whioh the law that exoluded
Mr. Stewart from the Treasury was framed to
meet. It was feared by the wise man who
drew up that prohibition that a merohant
who was also a publio offioer would be
tempted to administer his office with an eye
to his mercantile interests. In this case, the
danger is that an officer or an office-seeker
who is also a journalist will be tempted to
manage his journal with an eye to the getting
or the keeping of his office. By how muoh it
is more important that people should not be
lied to or misled by their politioal teachers
than that they should not be robbed by their
political agents, by so muoh this latter danger
U mnra tn l onnrdtul acrainst than the Other.
. . fl O i r 1 1 1
It Is lamentable that a journalist buouiu w
en it to ttt a riancflr at all. and should hold 80
lnv an nnlnlnn nf his readers as to believe
that his weight with them would not be les
sened by his refusal to disavow, as Mr. Greeley
has refused to disavow, aspirations for publio
office for himself.
BORIS.
Vrmu. th X. r. World.
pu n RorlA. who hss very little to
a in w.Bi.inirton. la ab hnsras abt at FblU'
delDhia. U i reoonstruotlng the nary jard,
lnv ont efflulent tneohanios who are
h..ti and fillinc their nlaoes with inoom
stents who are radioals. Keller. Myers, and
O'N-Hl Are rnnnlnir Horie at Philadelphia
Portor runs him at Washington when Borie
obanoea to be there. Mr. James Tatton, the
foreman boiler-maker of the yard, testifies that
tlia okief eDeineer. Lawton, who is stated to
be a recent importation from Masaohuseets,
told him that, In making the subordinate ap
pointments in h' d"partmut, "he must
tatisfy the outside politicians." Liwtonde
clared that "no workmen should b employed
Io the yard unless tby snpport thq present
administration." The question of compe
tency was not to be considered. Democratic
boiler-makers must be turned out to make
way for radical ballot-box stuffers. The ex
amination of applicants runs as follows: "Are
yon reoommended by Kell-y & Co. " "What
ticket do you vote?" If answers to these
questions are satisfactory, In goes some trad
lesa ward politician, and out goes a competent
Demooralio meehanio to make way for him.
It is thus that lSorie subserves the interests of
his ma-ters, Kelley, O'Neill, Myers, Porter,
and Grant.
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tion to
JAY COOKE G. CO.,
NO. 114 S. THIItD STltEET,
E. W. CLARK & CO.,
NO. 35 S. THIRD STREET,
Fiscal Agents of the Lake Superior and Mississippi
River Railroad Company. 8 10 60t4p
Union Pacific Railroad
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
ItoiiRlit nml Mold at lie. Jlurket
Irice.
These Bonds pay SIX PER CENT. INTEREST IN
GOLD. PRINCIPAL also payable In GOLD.
Full information cheerfully furnished.
The road will be completed in TWENTY (20) DAYS,
and trains run through lu THIRTY (30) DAYS,
DE HAVEN & BRO.,
Dealers In tiovrriimeiit Securities, Hold, lite,
NO. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
4 91m
PHILADELPHIA.
GLEMUNING, DAVIS & CO
NO. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNIM. DAVIS & AMOHY
NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegraphic communication with the New
York Stock Hoards from the Philadelphia
Olllce.
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A N K I N G
HOUSE
OF
JAY COOKE & CO.,
Nos. 112and 114 South THIItD Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old 5-20s Wanted In Exchange for New.
A Liberal Difference 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 Life Insurance Company
of the United States. Full Information given at our
oilice. 4 1 Sin
STERLING & WILDMAN,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
llO. 11V CT. 1111HU (.. A'allia,,
Special Agents for the Sale of
Danville, llnzleton, and Wilkea
burre lluilroud
FIltST MOKTtJAGK BONDS,
Dated 1R6T, due in 18ST. Interest Seven Per Cent,
payublS half yeurly, on the II rut of April ami first of
October, clear of State and United States Taxes. At
present these bonds are offered at the low price of 80
and accrued Interest. They are In denominations 01
I.iki, f.vto. and Iiooo.
Pamphlets containing Maps, Reports, and full In
formation on hand for distribution, and will bo sent
by mail on application.
Government Bonds and other Securities tuken In
exchange at market rates.
Dealers lu Stocks, Bonds, Loans, Gold, etc. 8 80 lm
p, S. PETERSON & CO.,
Stock and Exchange Brokers,
No. 39 South THIRD Street,
Members of the New York and Philadelphia Stock
and Gold Boards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Etc., bought aud sold on com.
mission only at either city. 1 80S
CITY WARRANTS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.,
No. 20 South THIRD Street,
i
PHILADELPHIA.
FINANCIAL.
B. K. JAMISON & CO.,
SUCCESS" ,)KS TO
1. JT. IfJSLiyy- ateOO.,
BANKF.P.S AND DEALEHS IN
Gold, Silver, and Gflverameiit Bonis,
AT CLOSEST MARKET RATES.
N.W. Corner TIIIHL and CHE 3NUT Sti '
Special attention g'ven to COMMISSION ORDERS
In New York aud and Philadelphia Stock Boards, uto.
11118m
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BACKERS,
lliilat1eljliln mid rVew York.
DEALERS IN UNITED STATES BONDS, and MEM
BERS OF KTCM.'K AND GOLD KXC1IANUE,
Receive Accounts of Banks and Bankers on Liberal
Terms.
ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON
C. 3. II AM BRO ft SON, London,
B. METZLER, a SOHN A CO., Frankfort.
JAMES W. TUCKER A CO., Paris.
And Other Principal Cities, and Letter of Credl
Available Throughout Europe.
HENRY G. GO WEN,
(I.ntc of Coclunii, Cowrn iV Co.),
BANKER AND BROKER,
IVo 111 H. TIIIKD Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Stocks and Bonds Bought and Sold on Commission
In Philadelphia ami New York.
Gold and Government Securities dealt in."
New York quotations by Telegraph constantly re
eclved. COLLECTIONS made on all accessible points.
INTEREST allowed ou deposits. 8 80 Ira
I EDYARD & BARLOW
HAVE REMOVED THEJR
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 Unite
States, British Provinces, and Europe.
Bigm wnuts auu maturing raper collected ar
Bankers iRates. 1 28 Gm
STOVES, RANGES, ETO.
NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED!
would call the attention of tho public to his '
MOW UOLDKK KAULK FUHNAUR. '
Till. 1M an Antirnlv nnur hniktn.. It la an ......t ...........
- , .a m. uuuati uuinu
a. to once commend ntell to general favor, being a combi
nation of wrought and ca6t iron. It is very simple in it.
construction, and is perfectly air-tight; self-ulsaning, hav
ing no pipes or drums to be taken out and cleaned. It ia
so arranged with upright Hue. as to produce a larger
amount of heat from the same weight of coal than an. fur
nace now in use. The hygrotuotrio condition of the air as
produced by my new arrangement, of evaporation will at
once demonstrate that it ia the only Hot Air r uruaoe that
will produce a perfectly healthy atmosphere.
Thusoinwaut of a complete Heating Apparatus would
do well to call and examine the Golden Ragle.
CHAKLKS WILLIAMS,
Nos. 113 and 113 4 MARKET Stroot,
i . . , . Philadelphia.
A large assortment of Cooking Ranges, Fire-Hoard
Htovea, Low Down Grates, Ventilators, etc., always oa
W. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly dons.
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THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER
orKUKOPKAN RANGK. for families, hotels, or
Eubho institutions, in TWKNTV DIFFKKKNT
1ZK8. Also, Philadelphia Ranges, Hut-Air Fur
Portable Heaters, Low-down Grates, Fireboard
- ' "'" ' j " ..u Ian:;., nullum, UIIUKlUg
btoves, etc., wholesale aud retnl, by the manufacturer.
.... S11ARPK A THOMPSON,
11 S5wfmm No. N. UKCOXD Street.
CHROMO LITHOGRAPHS.
p I O T URE S V O It 1 It E S K N TS.
A. S. nOBINSOZf,
No. 910 CHESNUT Street,
Has just received exquisite specimens of
,'AKT, SUITABLE FOK HOLIDAY GIFTS.
FfNE DRESDEN "ENAMELS" 0N PORCELAIN,
IN GKEAT VARIETY.
SPLENDID TAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS,
Including a Number of Choice Goms.
A SUPEIiB LINE OF CIIROMOS.
A large assortment of
NEW ENGRAVINGS, ETC.
Also, RICH STYLES FRAMES, of elegant nevr
patients.
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PLUMBING AND OAS FITTINC.
PLUMBER, OAS PITTEE,
AND UK A IN IJtYl K,
943 South Fifteenth Street,
Below loctmt
LECAL NOTICES.
TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOK
1 THK. CITY AN!) COUNTY OK PHILADELPHIA
WILLIAM BTOPPI ItAX vs. KM. MA M. STOPPEttAN.
September IVim, 1KW. No. 43. In Divorce.
To F.mma Al. (Stoppnivm :- PleaHo lake notioe that the
Court have gmnted a rtil; upon yon to show cause why a
divorce a vinculo mammomi should not be decreed in thia
case. Ketumublu in HATl'KOAY, May 1, lHtiH, at 11
o'clock A.M. FUF.DKKHJK DITTMANN,
2 aiwth4t Attorney for Libellant.
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND COUNTY K PH II, A OKLPHIA.
Kstateof JOHN SAl'.NOKKS, Jr., deceased.
The auditor appointed by the t 'ourt to audit, settle, and
adjust the account ot JOHN, THOMAS H. and
CHAKI.F.H SACNHKltS. F.xeoutur. ot th. Ut iiiii
JOHN (iAL'NDKKS, Jr., deceased, and to report distribu
tion of the balance in the lunula of the accountants will
meet the parties inten.-sted. for the purpose of his appoint
ment on TlrOHDAV, April 37, lS4iH, at 4 o'clock P M at
his Othee, No. i'Jii WALNUT Slreot, in tho city of Pud,
delphia. THOMAS J. WOKltKLL,
lit"'08 . Auditor.
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
1 AND COUNTY OK PHILADELPHIA
Kstateof CLAMOR 1 KKUK.KIt K H.U.KOORN, Deo'd
1 he Auditor appointed bv tho Court to andlt, settle and
adiust the account of GOIIFKKY FUK. l'a a id
HKKM AN THIOOPH II.US PI. A I K, Kmt.m of tt.e
itwT'i'J.Juv ""''"''' CLAMOR FREDERICK.
HAt.F LORN, deceased, and to report distribution of thu
balance in the haiuls i.l the accountant, will meet t'aa
1ifirJviiIv9rrrtSlVif",r Vilse of hiaapp mitmenoii
MONDAY, the Sbthdayot April. 1W. at 4 o'clock 1'Al ,
at the omoe of J A MEN W PA uL Ksu No W V
FPU RTH Ktreet. in the city of Pltildtt.l!mjt " u?t'
I? ASTERN DISTRICT OF l'ENNSYLVANI V
IN BANKRUPTCY.
At Philadelphia, April 21, IS.
Ilia undersigned gives notice of hu appointment as
assignee of BENJAMIN M. rKI.TWEIX, if "lie loitv of
Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, and Ntale of
Pennsylvania, who has been adjudged a bankrupt upon hi.
own petitlou by (lie Di.tnut Court of said District
i'tl,:lt K- L. ASHUUKST. Assignee
T P- F. (.IRAKI), VETERINARY SUR.
JtTl HKON. trul. oil Hi ... i '.
I.?'"'?! l,e"'tiu". tlh ertioieiit accommodation J
itW; Pop-i. ' ' ""LL Street,