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JOHNSON MEN IN OFFICE.
t'rvm the Ht, 7xi tirpubliran.
It will, perharro,'be remembered that, not lone
co, correspondents of different papers related
what purported to bo the words of a conversa
tion between the President and Senator Ross, of
Kansas, the end of which was that Senator Koaa
told General Grant to go to the devil, and Gene
ral Grant told Senator Rosa to leave the house
and never come back njfain. In the Senate the
day before the adjournment, Senator Ross rose
to a personal explanation, In which he declared
that the statements In question were grossly
Incorrect and slanderous, not only In regard to
himself, but In regard to the President; adding
that o words inconsistent with the strictest
propriety and decorum found utterance by cither
party during the interview.
The remarks of Air. Rosa arc Important as
disclosing the rule, or one of the rules, of Exe
cutive conduct In the mutter of appointments.
The purpose of his visit to the President was
to "protest against the sweeping changes which
were being made In the olliclais of his State,
whereby men who were among the best Re
publicans and the bravest soldiers of that State
were beiny removed for no assignable cause,
and an entirely different class of men installed
in their places." To this, as Mr. Ross alarms.
General Grant replied that "where any man had
held office during the past year and n half, it
was presumptive evidence that he was a Johnson
man." Senator Ross thought that the doings
and rule of conduct laid down by the President
were "in the face of his oft-repeated declara
tions that changes in the offices of the country
should be made only for cause;" and in this
unless the fact that a man had held office during
the past year nnd a half is cause he Is not far
ut of the way.
during more than the year and a half which
jrocd the retirement of Mr. Johuson, he was
unable t if move a man from or to appoint one
to otUac, wilUout the couscut of the Senate, and
the prerogative to giyp or p withhold consent
was exercised in the most tlictai;.".,al nd un
wrupuloua manner, and to an unlimited exCCD:
No man who was believed to be unfriendly to
Mr. Johnson could be removed; no one who
rested under any suspicion of being his friend
could be confirmed.
FIGHTJNG, THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
From the 2f. T. World.
It was stated In a Washington despatch to one
of the morning papers that Mr. Greeley's reason
for declining the conuniHslonership to examine
the Pacific Railroad, is, that he has engaged to
wito hook this summer in defence of protec
tion We WclCOtf? tU;9Y.ldCMec tlmf the. totter,
ing tariff is felt by its forci'uosl advocate 10 hoed
propping up; but," If we may borrow one of Mr.
Greeley favorite similes, he is like the bull that
planted himself on a railroad track with his
butting head defiantly turned towards the com-
ing locomotive, expecting to resist and stop it.
Here in New York, where Mr. Greeley has been
advocating protection for nearly thirty years,
the cause lias been steadily losing ground. The
Times, which was formerly a protectionist
organ, now leans the oilier way; the Express has
deserted the tariff cause and become an open
supporter of free trade: the Commercial Adver
tiser has ceased to print protectionist articles;
Mr. Dana, a zealous protectionist when mana
ging editor of the Tribune, has never a word to
say on that side in the Sim; the Courier and
Enquirer long since merged its existence in that
of a free trade organ. The Tribune is left alone,
as the solo surviving representative in the New
York press of the expiring cause of protection,
and It has not produced a new argument on the
tiubject for the last ten years.
If we look abroad over the rest of the country,
we shall find that most of the old protectionist
oracles are smitten with dumbness, while nearly
every Western journal which has the elements
of a vigorous life is scouting protection as an
obsolete abBtirdity. The Western public men are
moving in the same direction as tho Western
press. Some two years ago, the Tribune had
occasion to take Senator Grimes and other
Western Congressmen sharply to task for their
desertion- of the cause in a" critical juncture.
Even the Massachusetts manufacturers arc be
coming convinced that a protective tariff ope
rates against their interest. Dagon falls down
in his own temple and puts his worshippers to
shame.
If Mr. Greeley turns his view to other countries,
lie must flud the prospect still more dishearten
ing. Since he commenced his labors, protec
tion in England has been completely overthrown
nnd eradicated. There is no longer any politi
cal party in that country, nor any segment or
fraction of a political party, that professes any
lingering fondness for the defunct cause. There
is no organ of British public opinion that does
not habitually speak of it with the contempt due
to a superannuated absurdity. Those English
men who have given to Mr. Greeley's anti-slavery
sentiments their zealous sympathy, like Cobden,
Bright, and Mill, are among those who have ex
erted the most powerful influence iu exploding
protection. France has been for some time
moving in tho same direction with England, as
the Cobden treaty long ago bore witness.
The kind of facts to which wo have now
alluded, impressive as they arc, do not so con
clusively prove that protection is contrary to the
spirit of the age as some others whose bearing
on this subject is not quite so obtrusive. The
most remarkable monument of economical pro
gress In the last thirty years is the growth and
wonderful extension of communication by steam.
It Is within this period that steam communica
tion bus been established between the two con
tinents. It is within this period that nearly all
tho railroads of the world have been constructed.
The most distinguishing achievement of this
most remarkable age is the wonderful multipli
cation of quicker and cheaper means of inter
. course between all nations, and between all the
parts of every civilized couutry. But what is
i; the slffnlticance, what is the advantage, of this
vaunted achievement, the proudest boast of the
periodi1 If the protectionist theory be correct,
this marvellous multiplication of the means
,. of cheap intercourse is all a mistake, a
most fatal and mischievous blunder. Ac
cording to the protectionists, everv locality
ought to supply Its own wants; the producer and
'' the consumer should be in close proximity;
jroods manufactured at a distance should bo shut
out by artificial barriers, in order that home
producers may have the monopoly of the homo
market. There Is no method by which this
result could be reached with so much certainty
us by the destruction of cheap means of com-
munication. A tariff laying fifty per cent, duties
may be evaded by smugglers; but if it costs fifty
per cent, of the price ol goods to transport them,
that is a protection against which the smuggler
are powerless. Fill up the Erie Canal, tear up
the track of all the railroads between tho East
and the West, convcv all goods between the At
lantic coast and the Mississippi valley in wagons,
and Western manufacturers would bo perfectly
safe against the competition of the Eastern States
and of Europe. The cost of transportation would
make tho Eastern good so high by the time they
reached the Western markets, that the Western
manufacturers would easily undersell them. ; If
homo production is true economy, if shutting
out all foreign productions is a proper means of
fdsterinir and building up home industries, then
our exultation over the most conspicuous achieve
ments of this ago is an empty, foolish boast; and
the thousunds of million of money that have
been invested in steamships and railroads have
been worse than thrown away. Protection,
therefore, is opposed to the spirit of the age,
and contradicts the common sense of mankind.
The protectionist theory is a hostile to the
improvements in niaclilnory by which produc
tion is so wonderfully cheapened, as It Is to the
new facilities for intercourse. Machinery cheap
ens production only when the production is on a
large scale. A few hundred yards of cloth could
' be far more cheaply made with an old-fashioned
Land-loom than iu one of the great factories at
Lowell. It costs so much to construct the ma-
ililnwy Uwt,' uufcM it cn b kTl wwtwrt1
running and turn owt millions and millions of
yards, there la no economy in it use. A single
yard of cloth made In such an establishment
might cost half a million dollars; a thousand bil
lions of yards could be manufactured at a small
price per yard. But to manufacture on a large
acale, you ranst have tho command of an cxteu
sive market for the sale of your goods; and
the cost of manufacture plus the cost of
transportation la far less, and brings the
goods to distant customers at far chaaper
rates, than If they were made in -each locality
where they are consumed cither with or without
the appliances of modem machinery. The pro
tectionist policy Is, therefore, hostile to the use
of tho mechanical inventions by which produc
tion has been so surprisingly cheapened in this
nge. To make the mort of the command which
mankind have recently acquired over the forces
of nature, goods niiir-t be manufactured on an
immense scale in large establishments admitting
of the extensive use of machinery, and dis
tributed throughout a vast market by cheap
modes of conveyance. This method of produc
tion and distribution illustrates, more signally
than anything else, the most valuable achieve
ments of this improved ago, whoso whole spirit
and tendency Is adverse to the protectionist
notion that the producer and consumer ought to
be near neighbors, and insured against the
intrusion of distant competition. "The stars in
their courses fought against Sisera;" and the
chief ngents in the prom-ess of modern civiliza
tion arc equally lighting against the fossil
economists who are ti j ing to infuse new life
into n doomed and dying system.
SOME FACTS FOR PRESIDENT GRANT.
From the X. V. Time.
One of the most striking Instances of what Mr.
Mill calls "the blot on American institutions"
that is, the condition of our civil service was
presented on Wednesday in the telegrams of the
Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco to the
President. The facts arc these: Three thou
sand miles from Washington, almost in another
country, a United State.- Mint has been for some
fifteen years coining the bullion intrusted to it
by private citizens, umier the superintendence
of an official R. B. Swain, Esq. known and
esteemed by all parties for his integrity and
ability. His subordinates and employe have
been equally valued and trusted by the whole
community of California ivr their "honesty and
fidelity. No Republican or Democrat has ever
jathed a word of reproach against the
thorough Integi'l;- "A fiUifl!KS5 ?! w liim
Mint officials, Mr, (uhi liluiself is a man of
fortune nnd lilgii position outside of Ids official
place. It will interest our readers to know
something of the hoi. est work done by these
California office-holder:-. In the course of each
year some $30,000,000 worth of bullion are put
into the hands of these men for coining, being
deposited by some tirelve thousand different
persons, and requiring sixty thousand separate
assays.
. So ".'wCf's'saVV is Ios and wastage, that tho
Government allows ouc-llfth of one per cent, on
the amount of bullion handled. This legal
wastage in gold would be in one year tf.VJ.tllO.
This is the loss allowed to the Superintendent.
We need not say that, under a political superin
tendent appointed suddenly by a successful
party, this has been usually the loss, whether
through incompetency or dishonesty. Under
the changes threatened, this amount will cer
tainly go "up the chimneys," us the saying is
in San Francisco. Under Mr. Swain's manage
ment this legal loss was reduced in one year
(1800) to 2120; and in silver, owing to the silver
contained in gold, there' was no loss, but a gain
of 3141, though the lc.- :il loss was to.i'.K).
In the coiner's department the results are
equally remarkable.
During the year 1S00 the legal loss allowed
him was $ 44,1)23; the real loss was only $1503.
Taking gold nnd silver together In that year,
.? 30, 000, 000 of bullion were" manipulated in the
San Francisco Mint, and the legal wastage was
109,li37, which of course could have gone Into
the pockets of the Superintendent and his sub
ordinates, and which will undoubtedly do so
with their political successors.
The real loss to the Government was only five
hundred and sixty-three dollars.
We hear much of California "sharpers" and
rogues (and undoubtedly our California fellow
cltixvna are tolerably " wide awake), but we
should like to know of any important Eastern
office managed with half such integrity and
business efficiency as this.
General Graut is suid to have a leaning
towards honest men who do public work as if
it were their own. We commend him to these
simple facts in San Francisco.
This mint, as is well known, is an important
national institution. It was established In 18.'4,
and has coined since then over 2:10,000,000, or
half the amount coined by the Philadelphia
Mint since 1708, It had accommodations for
coining .$5,000,000 per annum, but so efficient
has been its management that its work is from
four to five times that amount.
This well-conducted business establishment,
managed by it Republican and an appointee of
Mr. Lincoln's, saving to the country nearly one
hundred thousand dollars a year, and, above all,
showing the nation that public business was
capable of being conducted as Honestly and
thoroughly as any private businessone might
have supposed was safe from being the prize of
successful partisans iu an election campaign.
Certainly the vast majority who voted for
President "Grant never supposed that ho would
so come under the control of "the professional
politicians as to hand about such olliees as
these for party rewards.
Had he stood firmly on the position that an
honest official, doing lib duty Well to the coun
try, should not be changed for partisan reasons,
the whole nation would have' nailed him as the
great reformer of the (.ay. lie would have in
augurated a new era iu our affairs.
For some reasons unknown' t the public, the
President felt it necessary to change the whole
force at the San Francisco Mlnti aud to hand
the establishment over to new men probably
to party tools of politic tl leaders in California. "
Immediately the leading merchants nnd citi
zens of San Vrancisco. the Chamber of Com
merce, and others, wiihout distinction of party,
form public meetings and telegraph to Washing
ton that a change would be very disastrous to
business interests; that a large amount of bul
lion is awaiting coinage, and that new officials
would not understand t'lC management, and thus
great delay nnd loss would ensue. It Is rumored
that tlie administration will delay tne proposed
removals.
But the whole traiisartiou is enough to call up
a blush of shame on tl.u face of every friend ol
republican institutions. The loss and delay to
public and private mi'-mess will be just as groat
a tew months hence as now. Here is a public
duty honestly discharged for years by private
citizens, and the new 1 resident s only reward is
summary dismissal, because a defeated Republi
can candidate iii California wants the places,
and has in some way persuaded his superior that
the old officers must be changed. We trust that
the united representations of the California
business men w ill be heeded bv the administra
tion. THE
DEMORALIZATION OF THE
REPU1J-
L1CAN PARTY.
From the X. Y. Herald.
The Republican partv is fearfully demoral
ized. The rank ami file ol tliis hitherto all
powerful organization have no longer any com
mon bond of union, ev. ept the common bond of
tho public plunder, and over the plunder since
the 4th of -March hisi ihcv have been growliii"
snarling, snapping, ai.d lighting like infuriated
cats and dogs. 1 here have been, on an average
say ten applicants tor every desirable ottleehi
mo gin oi uiu i icsiueiii with tue consent of tho
Senate, and so, lor every patriot removed, nine
patriots are disappointed and some are incensed
and disgusted. 1 he President has been
quick work ol an ugh job. Within two months
Jrom his inauguration he has filled nearly all the
desirable places: but lie has at the same time
with the consent of the Senate, tilled tho land
with the groans of the wounded. The uulucky
place-hunters have turned against him, agalust
the. lucky ones, and against each other; and such
an exhibition of wrath and scandal, wltu the
washing of dirty linen before the public, we
have not had since the first great Cabinet im
broglio ol Gcucrul Jucjktton.
From .Republican Journals wc are informed
that the great Wnsbburno la little better than a
small political Jeremy Diddler; that he cheated
Wilson, of Iowa, out of tho State Department,
ana has humbugged the President and disgusted
Secretary Fish iu naming Washburnc's men for
all. the foreign appointments before retiring:
that there is no love lost between Fish and
Washburnc; that Secretary Boric is tired of tho
gold-laccd straight-jacket of Admiral Porter,
and will get but of It very soon; that Attorney
General Hoar has had enough of Grant's Cabi
net; and that Grant himself thinks tho time for
another reconstruction has come. From the
same sources it further appears that at least half
the Republican Senators are soured with Grant's
appointments; that tho Senatorial disaffcetions
against the administration are not limited to
Spraguc, Ross, Carl Schurz, and Parson Brown
low by any means; that the party leaders in
almost every State excepting Massachusetts and
Illinois consider the President a poor stick, and
that he will find it out in the coming fall elec
tions; that,' in short, in failing to bring about
within sixty days tho millennium of Tittlebat
Titmouse, "everything for everybody," the
administration Is . a failure and "the party ma
chine is smashed."
A few specifications of the sort of harmony
which prevails amongour Republican contempo
raries will serve to season this dish.
Isn't it a daintv dish
To set before the king J
For instance, the patriotic free trade poeis of
the Post have a fling or two at some of General
Grant's nppointineuts; and then wo learn from
another quarter that it is because they have
failed to be sent to take possession of their
"castles in Spaiu." The facetious Dana next
ceases to be funny, gets out of patience, gets
into a rage, and proceeds fervently and furiously
to scold aud scandalize the administration; where
upon it appears that it is because Dana has failed
in his dreams of the Custom House, aud even of
n good whisky district, which would enable him,
in his conch nnd four nnd diamonds nnd gold
chains, to shiue like Sheridan Shook. Worst v
nil, Dana, dropping his mock heroics over Greeley,
produces some biting revelations of the curiosi
ties of a joint stock newspaper system calcu
lated to petrify the Tribune philosopher; where
upon the enterprising Dana Is brought face to
face W illi a hundred thousand dollar libel suit,
nnd there is a great fuss among the small fry in
Philadelphia. With these things and the Spraguc
war still on in Rhode Island, and nmid the gene
ral iiirmoH noise, ana contusion In tho Republi
can 'camp7tue formidable f isK und his railway
lawsuits are for the time eclipsed. nR'Uthe,
politicians get Into a Donnybrook "scrimmage"
over the spoils Fisk, must fall back, for he ceases
to be the living sensation.
But where is all this mutiny and uproar
among the powers that be to end? "We shall
be broken up." says Senator Trumbull, "unless
some administration will set the example, or
some legislation will compel it, of making the
price of office good behavior only." Ho says,
moreover, that "the scenes and tho scramble of
the last month have been disgrace! ul; that Con
gress is becoming demoralized and paralyzed,
and that unless wc have a great reform in this
business of tho spoils, "the political state of the
country will be degraded beyond recovery."
Our opinion is that n terrible recoil will come
upon the corrupt and demoralized party in
power, and that a wholesome political
revolution will loilow, in bringing a new
party into the foreground. Thus, -while
me, signs ot tne times indicate that the
present administration will be a disastrous
one to the Republican party, wo tliink it will he
good for the country. In the policy which
General Grant is pursuing of faithttilly and
rigidly carrying out the laws and the orders and
the wishes of Congress, the consequences are
becoming apparent to the people; and thus tlu
dominant party, through its own devices, is
rapidly hurried on the road to ruin. Andy John
son, from his policy of opposition to Congress,
kept this purtyjilive and furnished It political
capital for every election; General Grant, in
giving to Congress and the party programme full
sway, aud in carrying out the party law of rota
tion" in office with an unsparing hand, is in a fall
way to the inauguration of a new nnd more
startling and more progressive revolution than
tlntt which auliulimtod In lilu election. Wc say,
then, let him go on. and let it come. A sweeping
revolution ls:thc only remedy for universal cor
ruption. EIGHT-HOUR LEGISLATION.
From the X. Y. Tribune.
The 'movement for a reduction of the usual
hours of daily toil seems to us wise and timely.
There have been very great strides taken of late
iu the way of increasing the efficiency of human
effort, and labor should and must share in tho
resulting benefits. If, by the help of the spinning-jenny,
power-loom, and sewing machine,
two coats are now made with the labor re
quired to produce one coat a century ago. we
ought, as a consequence, to have cheaper coats,
or coat-muUcrs should receive more for u given
amount of work. And, while higher wnges are
the ordinary mode of increasing compensation,
we think it may quite as well take the shape of
a reduction iu the hours of labor.
Why should it not!' If labor is now twice as
efficient us formerly, why should not fewer
hours' work suffice to earn a mun's living:-' To
be sure, he may choose to dress more richly,
have a better house, more costly furniture, and
daintier food; but suppose he does not choose
this, and does choose to have more leisure for
reading and reflection, why should not his choice
be respected? We cannot imagine. But when
the advocates of the Eight-hour reform virtually
say, "Wc promise to take all the advantage of
the proposed change to ourselves, and inflict all
its cost upon others," they demand what seems
to us at once unjust and Impossible.
For what are wages? Why does one man
work for another? Simply because he can make
more by doing so than by working for himself.
Nearly every one could work for himself If he
would; If he does not, it is because he thinks he
can do better. Men leave the farms they in
herited, and come to New York to hire out, in
order to increase their earnings. They work
for the most they can get, and of course where
the most is offered them.
Now the wages one receives are the market
value of his work neither less nor more. If
he does more work he will be pretty apt to
secure more pay; if he does less, his wages
must fall. We do not deem it possible to re
duce the amount of labor performed without
reducing the sum paid for doing it. The nuin-
her ot dollars may ue the same, nut tuey win
inevitably buy less than they formerly did. If
the shoemaker gets more for making a pair of
shoes, the shoe-wearer must pay more for tlue
shoes, and must charge more for his product,
whatever it may be; so that the net result,
of doing les work must be a smaller recom
pense to the workman. Unless he can upset
the law of gravitation, he cannot escape this
result.
But does a reduction of the hours of labor in
volve a corresponding reduction in its product ?
That is the vital question. If a day's work of
eight hours will produce as much as one of ten,
It ought to be paid as much; If it will produce
ninety per cent, of the former amount, it ought
to command nine-tenths of the pay. The vital
question is one of fact.
Congress passed un net making eight hours a
legal day's work in the public service, but said
nothing as to the effect of this change on tho
compensation of the employed. That question
now comes up for settlement. Senator Wilson's
late letter discusses part of it lucidly and fit
tingly. But, as to what seems to us the main
issue, he only quotes Senator Conuess ns hold
ing, in the Senate, that ' every man who labors
knows very well that he can perforin as much
work in eight hours us he can iu ten, taking the
average of tho season through." Now, if this
be the truth, the controversy is ended. But is
it the truth? We have had the eight-hour law
in force nearly or quite a year in the Govern
ment Printery, the Navy Yards, Armories, ete.etc.
What has been the relative value of tho new
as 'compared with the old day's work? Here
is the turning point; yet no1 In formation respect
ing it seems to have been evon sought. Con
gress ought to have required each superinten
dent to report upon it specifically and promptly.
Here la the Springfield Armory, there is the
National Printery, with Navy Yards, Arsenals,
etc., In half tho States. Haa the average pro- ,
duet of a day'a work in these fallen off one-fifth,
or one-tenth, or to any extent whatever? We
ought to know; but the facts have not even been
required. When we shall nave been informed,
we can tell whether it is or Is not Just to reduce
compensation, and to what extent; until then,
we are quite in the dark. i
We urge the workers for wages to consider the
whole matter calmly and carefully. We do not
know that the time has yet come for reducing
the hours of labor to eight per day; bur, if it
has not, wc cannot doubt that it will. It will
come through the progress of discovery and in
vention, making eight hours' labor more effec
tive than was that of ten hours a few years ago,
or twelve hours forty years earlier still. Wo do
not approve the making of Government em
ployes u favored, petted, pampered class; but If
the act of Congress shall result In demonstrat
ing that a day's work of eight hours Is as pro
ductive as one of ten, it will have done a great
good at a very moderate risk and cost.
THE PRESENT DUTY.
From the Xorth Carolina Ktantlard.
The long and heated Presidential campaign
terminated in a victory for the Republican party,
nnd Grant is now President of the United States.
The duty of Republicans is. however, far from
finished. Grants cloction is but the beginning
of the end. By his triumph the country was
prevented from "falling under tho control of the
traitors who had beloro used their utmost en
deavors to disrupt the Government. It now
remains to repair the evil they have worked,
and to use our best endeavors to restore to our
country that prosperity which she lost by
the Rebellion. To do this we must keep our
organization full of life and our ranks firm
and unshaken. Without unity of action
nothing can be accomplished with it, every
thing. Tho Republicans of the South have much
to do. They have to perfect their organh-'.tlon
nnd increase its strength. They have to ad
vance the interests of Republicanism by dis
seminating its publications and expounding its
principles to the people, that thousands who
now oppose it from Ignorance of its true prin
ciples may be brought to favor It. They have
to encourage everv industry that promises to
benefit the State. They have to replace the evil
wrought by years of Democratic and Rebel rule
with good. All this and much more the Repub
licans of the South have to do. The hour for
victory is not tho time for rest. It is the hour
for nrduous nnd continued exertion, that the foo
may be prevented from recovering, and that tho
victory nifty be rendered lasting.
There is one thing that Republicans must U'fik
to. one evil which must be rooted out--Rebel
office-holders. Throughout North Carolina men
openly hostile to the 'Government aud to the
dominant party arc in places of honor nnd trust,.
This is manifestly wrong. No traitor should be
allowed to represent the Govcrnmejit in iny po
sition, w mutter how small iiay be IU impor
tance. There are loyal men enough, to fill all
the offices, nnd they aione shouH have them.
No limn can do good vvork with KsOt tools,ncithcr
can a political party uccotnhh great and good
results when represented .y men who are un
friendly to it. The Rcfl-mWiean partv is in power
and should be rcprefowted by none but Republi
cans, for to none bV.t its friends can it trust the
administration Its affairs.
Wherever n, man is found in office who Is not
true to tho Government, let him be turned out
and his place filled by a loyal man. Wherever a
man is found, elected to" office by Republican
votes, who is unfaithful to his party, use every
endeavor to have him removed, for he has shown
himself unworthy of the confidence of the
people. If any State or county officer gives aid
and comfort to traitors, by retaining them hi
office or in places of trust, to the exclusion of
loyal men, mark him, and let him feel the anger
of the people whose trust he has betrayed. In
this manner the influence and power for evil ol
the Copperheads will bo destroyed, and the arm
of tho Government be strong to protect the good
and to punish the bad.
This is tho present duty of Republicans, and
upon its faithful performance depends future
success. Earnest and constant work should
never stop, but those who are true to the Gov
ernment, true to the great and glorious pr'mci
11ub o Republicanism, should use their influence
to extend their power. As the true aims of the
Republican party become more generally known,
prejudices are giving way, and thousands, who
before condemned it, are now arraying them
selves under its banner. The present is bright,
but the future is glorious, and North Carolina
will be far greater in the future than she has
been in the past.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC
ESTABLISHED 1S28.
WATCHES, JEWELRY,
CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, and
FANCY GOODS.
.C-"W. RUSSELL,
NO. 11 N. SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM B. WARNE & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
WATt'HES AND JEWELRY.
S. E. corner SEVENTH and CUESNUT Streets,
3 25 ) Second floor, and late of No. fl S. THIRD su
JVUS LAD0MUS & CoT
DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS.
II WATCHES, JKWELHY BII.VKll UAIIK.
VWATOHES and JEWELET BEPAIEED. .
SSj02 Chestnut St., PhHL
Ladies' and Gents' Watches,
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED,
Of the most celebrated makers.
FINE VEST CHAINS AND LEONTINES,
In 14 and 18 karat.
DIAMOND an other Jewelry of the latest designs,
Engagement and Wedding Rings, In 18-karat and
coin.
Bold Silver-Ware for Bridal Presents, Table Cut
lery, Plated Ware, etc 8 27
CLOTHING.
WESTON & BROTHER,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
S. W. Corner NINTH and ARCH Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA.
DAILY RECEIVING
SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES OF
THE LATEST IMPORTATIONS.
A Superior Garment at a reasonable price.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 8 81 Smrp
CENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS.
pATENT SHOULDER-SEAM
BHIRT MANUFACTORY, !
AND GENTLEMEN, FURNISHING STORE.
PKRFECT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made Irorn mensureuient at vory uhort nutioe.
AU other urtioltw uf Ui'-N 1 LKMKN'S lKitSS GOODS
UluU-ty. WINCHESTER & CO., i
11 i rO OHJCSNUT Street.
H. 8. K. C.
Harris' Seamless Kid Gloves.
EVEItV PA1U WAUKANTKII. I
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR CENTS' GLOVES.
J. V. SCOTT & CO., I
6 275rp NO. 81 CUE8NUT STREET,
INSURANOE.
OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA, Mo. Si3'A WALNUT
Btroet, I'hilddellilil. r
Incorporated 17 '!. flhartef Perpetual,
Capital, SSOO.OOO. '
AaMta. 330,000
MARINE, INLAND, A WD FIRE INSUKANUU.
OVER 820,000,000 LORRKS PAID BINOB ITS
ORGANIZATION.
. , DIRECTOR.
Artbnr O. Ooffln, (Jeorg 1 Harrlnon,
, Bamuel W. J one, FranoiB K. Cope,
Jolin A. Urown, Kiiward H. Trotter,
Charles Taylor, Kdward H. Clarke,
.Anihroee White, T. Charlton Henry,
Richard D. Wood, Alfred D. Jomup,
William Welsh, John P. White,
8. Morrii Wain, Iiouie C. Madeira,
John Maaon, Charles W. Cuahman.
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President.
Cll AkI.K.S PLATT, Vioe-Preaident.
MATTHTAi Maris, Beoretarjr. ii 1
rim E EN TERPRISE INSljRANCEb71)F
X PHILADELPHIA.
Office Southwent Cor. FOURTH and WALNUT Street.
FIKK IN8URANCK EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUKD.
Caeh Capita Jmi.iki0TXI
Cash Assets, January 1, 47H,ie3 30
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Livingston Krrtngor,
nnlliro trailer,
John M. Atwood,
Benj. T. Tredick,
George II. Stuart,
James L. Claghorn,
Win. (. Boulton,
Charles Wheeler,
Thos. 11 . Montgomery,
Joliu 11. lirown,
This Company insures only tirst-class risks, taking no
tiames Aensen,
specially hazardous risks whatever, such as factories,
mills, eta.
F. RATCHFORD RTARR, President.
THOS. H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. Wiktkk. Secretary. aft!
JMPERIAL " FIRE INSURANCE CO.
LONDON.
ESTABLISHED 1S03.
raid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
8,000,000 IN GOLD.
PEEVOST & HERRING, Agents,
3 No. 101 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
CIIAS. M. PRBVOST. CTIA8. P. IIERRINg
SHIPPINO.
?5 LINE FOB
Sailing Tuesdays, Thursday, and Saturdays. .
REDUCTION OP RATES. fc
Spring rate, commencing March 1.
Sailing Tiu-wlttys. Thursdays, aud Saturdays. On
and after lMh of March freight ly this lino will be
taken at It eimts per 100 pounds, 4, cents per foot, or
1 cent per gallon, ship's option. Advance charges
cnSw.H at olllce on Pier. Freight rccolvod at all
tmic-s on covered wharf.
JOHN I". OIIL, .
8 285 nr 19 North Wharves.
N. B. Extra rates on sural! packages Iron, metals, etc
"u-- UK LIVEKf OUL AND
-rr 1 ' - .""
" IX steamers are appointed to sail as fol-
BtrrrrSi lows
l ity ul Antwerp. Saturdny, April 24, at 1 P. M.
City of Puris, Kutiirdiiy, Mny 1, ot IU A. M.
City of Cork, via llnliiax, Tuesday, May 4, at 12 nnon.
And each succeeding Saturday and alternate, Tuesday,
from Pier 46, North River.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
BY TBI! MAIL RTEAMEH SAILING EVKliy. SATURDAY.
Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency.
FIRST CAbIN $1(10 STEERAGE $35
To London 105, To London 4U
To Paris 1151 To Paris. 47
FABHAOE BY THE TUESDAY STEAMER, VIA HAUt'AX.
K1MKT CABIN. BTEKHAOK.
Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency.
Liverpool IJRO 1 Liverpool $30
bulitux 20, Halifax 15
St. John's, N. F ) St. John's, N. F., 1 ttl
by Branch Steamer ( " by Branch Steamer 5
f assnngers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen,
etc.. at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by persons
wishing to send for their friends.
For further information apply at the Company's Otficos,
JutiiM a. VA.L.K, Agent, no. m, bkuauwai, . x,
or to O'WONNELL 4 FAULK, Agents.
4 6. No. 411CHESNUT Street, Philadelphia.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
TUE SOUTn AND SOUTHWEST
FAST . JTREIGIIT LINE,
EVERY THURSDAY.
The Steamships PROMETHEUS, Captain Gray, J,
W. E VERM AN, Captain Vuuce.
WILL FORM A REGULAR W EEKLY LINE.
jne steamship .j. w. J3.ver.majn will sail on
1 n lkmja i, May a, at i f. at.
Through bills of lading given In connection with S,
C. It. li. to points In the South and Southwest.
Insurance at lowest rates. Rates of freight as low
an uy any oiuer route. or ireignt, apply to
E. A. HOUDEU CO.,
8 82tf DOC1I STREET W'JiARF.
ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE
THE GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC!
fcSiTCTV COMPANY'S MAIL NTK.AMSHIPM
Lto 1 VV EEN NEW VOICE. AND HAVRE, CALLING AT
BR EST.
The Bplendid new vessels on this favorite route for the
uonunenc win sou irom nor rio. 6u North river, as fol
lows: PEREIRE
LAFAYETTE
ST. LAURENT
VILLE DE PARIS.
.Duchesne Saturday. May 1
.Rousseau Saturday, May 15
.Leiimrie Saturday, May 29
.surmount Daturaay, J una 13
PRICE OE PASSAGE
in sold (including winol,
TO BREST OR HAVRE.
First Cabin 140'!Second Cabin $86
TO PARIS,
(Including railway tickets, furnished on board.)
First Cabin $1-15 Second Cabin $86
These steamers do not carry steerage passengers.
Medical attendance free of charge.
American travellers going to or returning from the con
tinent of Europe, by taking the steamers or this line avoid
unnecessary risks from transit by English railways and
crossing the channel, besides saving time, trouble, and
expense. GEORGE MACKENZIE, Agout,
No. 5S BROADWAY, New York.
or passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams' Express
Company, to 11. L. LEAF,
1 HV No. 3S0 CHESNUT Street
PHILADELPHIA. RICHMOND.
fc .&'i5;ANI NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINK,
W-SEtt THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO
UU111 AIVU WEST.
At noon, from FIRST WHARF above MARKET
Street.
THROUGH RATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS to
all points in North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air
Lino Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth and to Lynch
burg, Va., Teuneasoe, and the West, via Virginia and Ten
nesste Air Lino and Richmond and Dunville Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUT ONCE, and taken at LOWER
RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE.
The regularity, safety, and cheapness of this route com
mend it to the public as the most desirable medium lor
carrying every description of freight.
No churge tor commission, drayage, or any expense of
transler.
Steumxhips insured at the lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO.,
No. I I North und South WHARVES.
W. P. rORTER, Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROW ELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. 6 1
NEW EXPRESS T.TVE TO
r Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washinirton. D.
C, via Chosaueuke and Delaware Canal, with
connections at Alexandria lroiu the most direct route 1'or
Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, Nashville, Dalton, and the
Southwest.
Stoamui s leave regularly every Saturday at noon from the
first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 1 ' North and Souih Wharves.
J. B. DAVIDSON, Agent at Georgetown.
HYDE A TYLER, Agunts, at Georgetown; M.
ELDlilDOK A CO., Agents at Alexandria. til
fm fc NOTICE. FOU NEW YoTlK, VIA
Lfpli 'Yt . DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL,
t EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
ine CHEAPEST and UUICKF.ST water communica
tion between Philadelphia and New York.
Steamers leuve daily from first wharf below Market
Street, Philadelphia, and foot of W all street, New York.
Goods forwuiued by all the lines running out of New
York, North, East, and West, free of commission.
Freight received and forwarded on acoominoduting terms.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents,
No. Iii S. DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia.
.1 A M l.'U U 1 VI. A .
No. 1 19 WALL Street, liow York.
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK.
7 ys .Delaware and lUritan Canal, SWIFT
S'' SURE THANKMIIHTA'I'UIV IHIUPANV.
UBOi Aun AJNli SW1FTSUEE LINE.
The business by those lines will be resumed on and after
the 8th of ftl arch, l or Freights, which will be taken oo
accommodating terms, apply to
W. M. BAIRD A CO.,
8 24 . . No. I3i South Wharves.
KODOERS' AND WOSTENIIOLM'3 POCKET
KNIVES, Pearl and Stag Handles, of beautiful finish.
RODGFRS' and WADE A BUTCHER'S RAZORS, an I
(be celebrated LECOLTRK RA.OR SCISSORS of the
finest quality.
ltanora, Knives. Scissors, and Table Cutlery Ground and
Tolishod.at P. MA tttlHA'b, No. 1 15 H. TENTH Stron
Blow Gtiesnut.
C. L. M A I S B 11,
MAKCFACTUIiBB OP
FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF SAFES
LOCKSMITH, HELL-HANGER. AND DEALER IN
ilUlUllNU HARDWARE,
8 6(
No. 84 RACE Street.
AsasisB!?ff'
- NSJRANCE. .j.
Office, 8. E. earner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
n V.Il rARI;'iK INSURANCES .
On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all partof the world.
O- goed. b, Jffia carriag. to all
f5..1,.tn Union.
On Merchsndlss gea.rallj Stores, Dwellings, Houses,
S8CTS 09 TBK COMVAKY,
. . Novemlier 1, 1HX i
300,000 UnitdBtte. Fiv. Percent, Loan.
130,000 United SUtei'sig' Pe'r 'C.nt: w'ou
60,000 UnitedSUtesSiiW'erCent'in'ifor 138'W0'00
Paciflo Railroad) snnm-in
800,000 Stataof Pennsylvania BUPerOenU '
126,000 City of'pnVladelpnia'Six'pw'Cen't.' B1'8"W5.
Loan (exempt from tax) 1XJ2M-00
63,000 SUt of New Jersey Big Percent
80,000 Penn. Ran" ihret'Mortgagi' SU Per l"iU0'00
Cent. Bonds aUOO'Oi)
86,000 Penn. Rail. Second Mortgage Big Pel
m Cent. Bonds &4 UuU'lln
86,000 Western Penn. Rail. Mortgage Big
Per Cent. Bonds (Penn. Railroad
guarantee) 90,325-00
80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent4
Loan 81,000-00
7,000 State of Tennessee Big Per Cent.
Loan ,, s,(ai-a5
16,000 Germantown Gas Compsny, prin- , f
oipal and Interest guaranteed by
City of Philadelphia, SuO shares ' N
, Stock 16,0001X
10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 8U0
hr,, lL&JO'UO
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100
onnno T,fh,r?".fs,,'ck"--J 8.50000
80,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Co., 80 Sharw Stock 16,000-00
HJV.HO0 Loans on Bond and Mortgage, first ' 1
Liens on City Properties 907,900-00
$1,10900 Par. Ma rket value, $1,13026 !J5
Real Estate.. I..,!...'. 9fi00fl-0l
Bills receivable for insurance made!.". .!.'."."!!"." 8a2i4B6 N
Balanoes due at agencies, premiums on marine
Kuiities, accrueu interest, and ot uer debts due
the company
Stock and scrip of sundry corporutional'VtsL
F.stimated value
Cash in bank ftl'lR IRnii
.178-88
1,813'UO
Cash in drawer 41d o6 H8,53 TS
$l,6l7,3ri7'W
WR;tTons-
.F'.dmund A. Sonder,
I Samuel E, Stokes,
j Henry Sloan,
i William C. Ludwig,
i George G. Leiper,
HeuryC. Dallett, Jr.,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bemartou,
IWilllttW G. Houlton,
' Jacob Hit-sol,
Spencer I.lcllvalne,
il). T. Morgan, Pittsburg
I John B. Homple, . "
Thomas O. Hand,
James u. linnrt,
'J'boophilus Paulding,
Joseph 11. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John R. Penrose,
tiacou i . oones,
James Traquair,
Edward Darlington,
H. Jones Brookoa
James B. McFsrlaud,
Edward Lafourcade,
uuenua Mr. r-yre,
a. i. jierger,
TnOMAS C. 1 1 AN It. PrMnfc
HENRY LYLBTVNretr1
HENRY BALL, Assistant beoiotary.
10
1829,
CHARTER
PERPETUAL.
FranHin Fire Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Ofiice, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St,
Assets on Jan. 1,1869, $2,6.7,3,213
CAPITAL .,
ACCRUED SURPLUS....
PREMIUMS
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,
... 8100,000-00
..l,0!S;t,ft-.S'?
INCOME FOR 1809,
$:tUO,00(J.
Losses paiti since 1829,over $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Polioies on Liberal Terms.
The Company also issues Policies on Rents of Buildings
of all kinds, Ground Rents, and Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker,
Damuei urani,
George W. Richards,
lsuao Lea.
Thomas Suarks,
William S. (.rant,
Thomas S. Ellis,
GllKtiLVIlM S. lOinvin
George t ales,
ALFRED G. BAKER, President.
JA8. W. McALLlh'1'Elt, Secretary.
uriUttua i ALES, Vice-President.
THEODORE M. REGER, Assistant Secretary.
89
fa S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 291 BROADWAY Cor. READE St., New York,
t'lihli t nj.ilnl M.YtMHH)
$125,000 Deposited with the State of New York as Security
lor Policy Holders.
LEMliEL BANCS, President.
GEORGE ELLlu'lT, Vice-President and Secretary.
EMORY McCLINTOCK Actuary.
A. E. M. PURDV, M. D Medical Examiner.
KEFEUKNtKS UY PKIIM1MHION.
Thomas T. Taskcr,
John M. Maris.
J. B. Lippincott,
James Long,
Junius Hunter,
naries openccr,
John A. Wright,
Arthur G. Collin,
William Divine,
S. Morris Wain.
John B.MoCreary.
is. il. worne.
In the character of its Directors, economy of manage
nient, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN
OF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female
lives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and no re
strict ion ot travel after the first year, the ASiiURY pre
sents a combination of advantages offered by no ottier
company. Policies issued in evory form, and a loan of one
third made when desired.
Rhkcul advantaof.s Offered to Clergymen.
For all further information, adress
JAMES M. LONGACRE,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Office, No. SK,H WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
FORMAN P. HOLL1NSHEAD Special Agent. 4 1
gTRICTL Y MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFIC E, No. Ill 8. FOURTH MTREBT.
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among
members of tho Society of Friends.
Good risks of any clans accepted.
Policies tabued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY,
Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETH,
Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY.
The advantages offered by thin Company are un
excelled. 8 1 27
J N B U R E AT II O M E,
IW TBI '
Penn IMual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
No. 921 CIIESNUT STREET, PIIILYDELnilA.
AMKETH, 8,000,000.
! CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE.
BIANAtSEO BY OUR OWN CITIZENS.
LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID.
POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Applications may be mude at the Home Office, and
at tlio Agencies throughout the State, a is:
JAMES TRAOUAIR PRESIDENT
SAMUEL K. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. IIORNOK A. V. P. aud ACTUARY
HORATIO S. STEPHENS... .SECRETARY
PIKKNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
X PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATE!) lbWI CHARTER PERPETUAL.
jso. " ah" piioui, uppuait., ,,ue r.Aunnnge,
This Company insures from loss or damage by
1-lRE,
on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture,
etc., tor limited periods, and permanently on buildings by
deposit ot premiums.
The Company has been in aotive operation for more than
SIXTY YEARS, during which all iumuMt bave been
promptly adjusted nd11l!'lJ:nnH
John L. Hodge, . David Lewis,
' XI W. Miillnnv.
llouinmiD kiting, '
Thomas H. Powers.
A. R. fta-Henry,
Edmund CastiUon,
Samuel Wilcox,
John T. Lewis,
William S. Grunt,
Robeit W. Learning,
1). Clark Whanou,
Lawrence Lewis, Jr.,
iiewis kj. iNorriy.
BAMt'KL wilcox. Secretary. s
" " ' " " uvun.nt.il. fresinena.
XI
'HE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
GUM f ANi.
In rnrru... t .1 1u. I ' I. .. t .
T , .. . . V ... v r-erpeioai.
"ft.'J1 V A1-" U,1 fcfeot, opposite independence Square.
1 his Company, favorably known to tite community for
over forty years, continues to insure against loss or damage
by fire on Puhlio or Private Buildings, either permanently
or for a limited time. A lso on Furniture, Slocks of Goods,
and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.
1 heir Capital, togethor with a large Surplus Fund, is In.
vested in the most careful manner, which enables them to)
ofler to the insured an undoubted security in the ease of
loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr., I,BTORJohn Devereus,
Alexander Henson, I Thomas Smith,
Isaac liazlehurst, Ileury Lewis,
Thomas Robins, I J. GiUingluun Fell,
Daniel Huddock, Jr.
DANIEL SMITH, Js., President.
WM. G. CROW ELL, Secretary.