TEE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 18G9.
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PAT FOB THK BVKNINO TKLKQBAPH.
THE GRAIN TRADE.
from the A'. J'. Tribune.
Chicago is an enterpriaiDg, go-Ahead city,
which Wta had a rapid growth, and naturally
indulges In high-ruaohiug anticipations. Wo
forgot bow soou eh in, muoirdin to those an
ticipations, to surpass New York in business
and population, nor is it s8(ntial to remeuibsr.
tSuflice it that she is a city of generous promise
and very considerable fulfilment, whode sha
dow, we trust, will never be less.
Of late, the tact that a good deal of Western
grain is paseing down the Mississippi on its
way, via St. Louis and New Orleans, to the
East and to Europe, has arrested the attention
of ber publicists. They do not seem to know
exaotly what to make of it. Chicago, they in
sist, is the emporium of the Western grain
trade; and"eotnethiDg mast be wrong when
Western grain seeks the seaboard otherwise
than through Chicago. So editorials are writ
ten, and conventions held, and reports pro
mulgated, with intent to stop the transit of
grain down the Mississippi and turn it to com
ing East via Chicago as yet, we believe, with
little effect.
One of the schemes under consideration pro
poses a magnificent canal or rather river
whereby the water of the lakes shall be made
to now southward through the Straits of
Mackinac and the heart of Chicago Into the
Illinois, and so into the lower Ohio and Mis
sissippi, at a cost of only $84,000,000, or some
such trille. The objeotion that Cairo would be
swamped perhaps we should say reswamped
and muoh of the valley of the Lower Mis
sissippi drowned out by this "new cut." does
not seem to make much impression, being
dwarfed by the prospect of seeing Detroit,
Toledo, Cleveland, and Buffalo high and dry,
and Niagara Falls assimilated to a rural mill
dam in a dry summer; but the problem, " tlow
is Chicago to be benefited by such a river 1" is
grave enough. To our mind it is plain that,
if the oew river should float mnoh of the soil
of Illinois, including the foundations of Chi
cago itself, into the Gulf of Mexico, it would
impel the "Queen of the Lakes" to ship her
own grain via New Orleans, and thus aggra
vate the calamity she is seeking to avert. By
annexing herself to the great valley, Chioago
would be far more likely to accelerate than
impede the momentum whereby prod ace now
seeks the East by way of the South.
A far more hopeful projeot is that of enlarg
ing and deepening still farther our Erie Canal,
and thus diminishing the oost of reaching the
seaboard via Bnifalo and Albany. This looks
praotical; but who is to bell the cat ? It must
cost heavily; and though Chioago may care
nothing for snob, a flea-bite ai $84,000,000,
New York has been sobered by experience and
does not take kindly to the suggestion of new
outlays and nw debts, especially when it is
intimated that she is expected to disdain any
pecuniary return. The general drift of Chi
cago and even of Northwestern opinion seems
to require that oar State shouM, first, doable
the capacity of her great tana1; secondly, re
duce the tolls so that they uuld not possibly
reimburse her oatlay; thirdly, cut (or have
the Federal Government cut) a magnificent
shunpike around Niagara Falls, so as to de
prive that canal of half its natural traffic. We
should have to send to Chioago for financiers
competent to demonstrate the advantage to
our tax-payers of these dashing operations.
Finally, the recent Convention of Boards of
Trade at Chicago adopted the report of its
committee, concluding as follows:
"Thirdly, Your committee nsks your consideration
of the project of orj;aiii.i!iir, during the ensiiii)j sea
Kon, for the purpose of prexsiiiK upon Consrresn the
necessity of Hiding the State of New York to open
the Krie and Oswego canals to the people of tho
United States fur the transportation of product! free
of toll; and to hasten the btillillnir of the Niagara
Ship (.'anal by the General Government- All of
which Is respectfully submitted."
This goes to the root of the matter. If Con
gress shall see fit to devote one or two hun
dred millions or so of our surplus revenue (?)
to the purchase of the Erie and Oawego Canals,
and to doubling their capacity, and to making
a ship oanal around the Falls of Niagara, Chi
cago can doubtless hold her present grain
trade, and probably increase it. But St. Louis,
and New Orleans, and Cincinnati, and Mem
phis, will hardly be "enthused" by the pros
pect; nor will Norfolk and Baltimore, Pitts
burg and Wheeling, be likely to see their
account in it. On the whole, we cannot realize
that this new-old scheme of "paying the taxes
out of the Treasury" has a living chance of
sucoess. Our Pacific Railroad experience is
yet fresh and by no means assuring; and we
apprehend that Uncle Sam feels too poor to
buy or dig grand canals just at present. So
we submit that the proposed purchase of the
Erie and Oswego Canals by the Union much
more, the construction of a Niagara ship oanal
with Federal funds must stand over for fur
ther and very deliberate consideration.
OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.
JPVom the A'. Y. Herald.
The Alabama olaims question appears to be
assuming an importance which it should have
assumed long sinoe. It is only the sad politi
cal condition in which the "reconstruction"
radicals have kept ns that has prevented our
settling this English aflalr. In the conversa
tion between Mr. Sumner and our correspon
dent, publibhed on Monday, Mr. Sunnier justly
aayt: "We have defined our position now,
and there will be so yielding. We ask nothing
but what is fair, and our people man to have
justice at least."
We do not apprehend that war will result
from the attitude we have assumed; bat the
retult. on the contrary, will be a closer and
better understacdiug between the two nations.
Snoh men as Reverdy Johnson only help to
bury the real issne nuder mountains of roast
beef, tilam pud line. "V and "at" and cham
pagne. The action of the United States Senate
was necessary to sweep away the debris and
get at the question. We made clear work of
it, and with a smooth floor before ua we are
ready to open a lively commercial can-oan with
John Ball, or, as he has the largest family of
she ships on the ocean, we win launuu a lew
AUhamaa and commeuce coquetting, if that be
required. Bat Euglish good sense and love of
fair play will nodoubt settle all this war Amy
n nnr untire satisfao ion. We are now ex
actly where we thoroughly understand eaoh
other, and that is the first broad step towards
a settlement.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND COUNTRY
Voin the ChlfWlu JiepiiliHean.
Is is useless to couceal a fact which has be
ma riRtnt to ail. and that is that the ad
minUt ration has disappointed, not only the
country generally, bat its immediate party
friends. Even the jackals and very buzzards
nnivnrra of the party camp not on
scent a rising gale of popular diiisatUfAotion
but are preparing to veer round aud take ad
..r.tsra f the unexpected ch-iuae of seuti
nt. The very mu who, a short time sine,
claimed to be trieu'is or me rresxiem par ex
cellence, re now waging tbelrtongnes against
Lim in the streets aud publlo bar-rooms, and
pronouncing him a political failure aud his
jjouiintfon P1 Wander. Take as evidence
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tie Chlcdfro Tribune, whlota, after ralnly strltr- j
lrc for wetks to justify nomIntloni forod upon I
the President br its own immediate friends
and supporters, now luffs np into the very
wind's eje of its former teaohlngs, until every
rsg of canvas in tha'. unstable oraft flatters
and ilps in the breeze, and threatens to fly in
shreds from the bolt-ropes. Now this sadden
charge of tbe course of the sheet ia qatstiou
has been attributed to disappointment beoanse
one of this proprietors was not awarded a
foreign mitsion, which he was to obtain with
tbe astietsnoe of tbe Vi 'e-l'resident. Bat this
is not the real reason f r the change ia the
course of that journal. The real reason is that
the management, like the other scavengers of
the party camp, thinks it detects a change in
public sentiment on the subject of the Cabinet
appointments, and wishes to profit by feeuiing
to lead that which it merely follows. The
truth is no party organ in the country has
done more to produce the evils and embarrass
ments which now threaten the integrity
and security of the aimiuistraUon thau the
Chicago J'ribune. From the oommenoemeut,
that journal aud its immediate supporters as
sumed to take personal charge of General
Grant. By from the oommenoement, we inan
from the day its managing editor supposed
General Grant to be the "coming man." The
Tribune not only proposed to elect Grant, but
to "run him" after be was elected. It told
bim be must cut loose from professional poli
ticians, always saving and excepting the
Washburne family and the Tribune editors.
It denounced Congress in advanoe as utterly
corrupt, worthless, and unreliable. It pro
claimed General Grant to be the only man (in
fact the modern Hercules, raised up by Provi
dence and the aforesaid Tribune) who could
cleanpe the Augean stable of politics. It egged
on Washburn, and pointed to him as the
mouthpiece of General Grant, to make that
famous, or rather infamous, speech of his
in Congress, which was literally the gauntlet
of tbe President dashed in the very faoes of
the men who bad elected him. It next de
manded the immediate repeal of the Tenure-of-Oflioe
law, in order that the President might
be enabled to act independently of the states
men and politicians of all those in the party
which bad elected bim, who were capable of
giving bim advloe and assistance. Then,
when it supposed the President had ob
tained sufficient control to be able to use the
Herculean broom, the Tribune and its satel
lites took care that for every office
holder swept out one of its own buzzards
should be put in. Let the reader imagine the
public table freshly laid by the new adminis
tration, with all the art of modern gastro
nomy, from the piece tie resistance to the deli
cate Charlotte liusse. Outside the public en
trance crowd the horde of office-seekers who
have not assumed the personal supervision of
General Grant. At a private door enter
Washburne, J. Russell Jones, the Dents, the
Caseys, and other hangers-on, who proceed,
before the publio door is opened, to attaok
the various dishes indiscriminately or accord
ing to individual taste. Washburne staggers
oil' nnder the weight of the piece de resistance.
The Dents and the Caseys squabble over the
pates and the pasties. Jones and a few Gale
naites plunge thereupon into the Charlotte
liusse, and leave but a mere crust for the next
comers. Thwn the main entrance is thrown
open and the publio are invitod to gaze upon
the ruin which the wreckers have made, or
feed, if they can, upon the fragments. But
what will the publio think of these cormorants,
after they had been gorged with the good
things which they secured to themselves by
excluding from the circle of the President's
personal friends and supporters every man
who they supposed would interfere with this
ring arrangement, when they are now found
among the first to denounce General Grant for
doing what they forced bim to do r The pub
lio muBt necessarily look upon them as the
most unmitigated scalawags ever spawned
upon the surface of party politics. Yet it is
a faot that the very men who have plunged
General Grant into this quagmire, oat of
which he can only be rescued by the most
dexterous management and by the forbearance
of his party and the country generally, are
now denouncing him. Washburne forced
General Grant to degrade the great office o
Secretary of State by making it the means of
paying a compliment to a friend. Not only
so, but while proouring the President to
cheat tbe country by a pretended appoint
ment, Washburne cheated the President and
the real appointee by using wnat was in
tended as a mere personal compliment as a
substantial means of advanoing his own and
his friends' political prospects. Mr. Wash
burne named forty-eight foreign appointees
on the strength of a mere personal compu
ment. Mr. Fish finds himself responsible
to tbe Senate and oountry for Mr. Washbarne's
appointees, many of whom the Senate post
tively refuses to conllrm. JNovr, in all con
science, who is to blame for this fiasco f Is it
General Grant, a Cincinnatus, honest and con
tiding, or Mr. Washburne, a crafty political
wire-puller, who, nnder the cloak of redress
ing political evils and cleansing the State of
political corruption, crams every possible
place with his immediate personal friends
and relatives, most of whom are so totally
unfitted for th positions given them, as to
cause a storm of indignant protest to come
up from the party and country, throneh
every newspaper iu the land down to Mr.
Washburne's reputed organ itself ? General
Grant deserves sympathy, not blame; while
the men who have used him and are now
abusirg bim should be the objects of the
soorn and contempt of all good men. The
New York 1'ust is cmplll to demand the
removal, not on'y of M'. W, shbume, but of all
his friends from tflice. The New York Times
bemoans the mistakes of the President. Mr,
Trumbull Fays: "We shall be broken up," if
this sort or thing continues. Leading papers
aud politicians in every part of the country
declaim against the curse lix-d upon the Presi
dent by the Chic go Trilun: and Mr. Wash
burne, which iu two short mouths has borne
such bitter fruits. No administration was
ever before so imperilled by a set of unprin
cipled pnliticul harpies as that of General
Grant. The wisest men of the party look
upon the political situation with the most
painful and anxious solicitude, arid predict
that four years of i a present management
will most assuredly uiaku bhipwreck of it, if
cot of the country itself.
RECONSTRUCTION 10 BE RECON
STRUCTED. From tie X. Y. World.
"Reconstruction" has reversed its engine
and is "taking the back trick" in Virgiuia'
with tie sauoiion of the Federal authority'
We are too well pleased with the new niovI
nuent to taunt tbe R-pub luau party with its
vainglorious boast iu the Chicago platform
that this work of reuoUolruuiion had been tri
uuaphautly completed. There are still four
nnteptessiited State, inclndiug Georgia two
fifths of the whole number of states, contain
ing more than half of the rebol population.
Th business which is about to engage the
Ojief attention of President Grant now that
be has got clear of the throng aud
pressure of the plaoe-huuters U
tti reconstruct reconstruction, aud
bting tbe unrepresented States to
tbe door of Congress for admissiou. His
messnge asking for authority to submit the
new constitutions in paits, so that the people
may have an opportunity to vote down tha
disfranchising provisions, is one of the few
things he Las done which meet our approval
and the adoption of his reooinmen U'iou was
a confession by Congretg that the congratula
tions tendeted to the ii tautry in 'he Ch OHgo
platform were a stroke of dtnuigngue iuipi
dence. With more thn half of ihe white
population of the Southern States still un
represented, the prfti a-, put forth nearly a
year ago, that the work of roou-ttrnctloa hud
been perfected, was a brazen and thauieless
vaunt.
The passage by Congress of the bill autho
rizing tbe President to submit the ur con
stitutions to the popular vo'e in parts, is a
sneaking retreat by tht body from iis policy
of disfranchising the lea ling oitiisns of the
South. It is a compulsory retreat; for tux
Republican party count not stand uuier the
cdium of keeping halt the population 0f th
South unrepresented for an iudeliuite period,
and the same majority in the unrepresented
fctates mat votea aowu reconstruction last
year would suffice to block it perpetually.
Congress has, therefore, virtually decided
that it will no longer insist on disfranchise
ment as an essential part of the reconstruction
policy. It was perfectly well understood that
the purpose of General Grant's message was
to get authority to enable the people of the
States to set their brand on disfranchisement;
it would be a preposterous mockery to
give them permission to do this, if CoagreH
still adhered to its policy of disf rauohlsemunt
as an Indispensable condition of restoration.
Disfranchisement has, therefore, been virtually'
(though sneakingly) abandoned; for as, in
logio aud in law, all the revolted States stand
on the same footing, as they all committed the
same crime and deserve the same retribution,
when Congress gives np this main feature of
its policy in relation to some of them. It is
precluded from any longer insisting on it in
relation to the others. When Virginia is ad
mitted with a constitution imposing no disa
bilities for participation lu the Rebellion,
notioe will have been given to all the other
States that they are at liberty to resoind the
disfranchising clauses of their constitutions
without any danger that Congress will inter
pose for their enforcement.
The virtual abandonment of this policy at
so early a day recalls the well-known epitaph
on tbe tombstone of an infant of premature
birth that died as soon as it was born:
"Since I'm so quickly done for,
What was I begun for?-'
The disfranchising policy thus early aban
aonea has been the oaase or more exaspera
tion aud bad reeling, it has done more to sour
aud alienate the bouth and to retard the re
storaticn of kindly feeling", than atjy other ex
hibiiion of radical bigotry aud malignity. And
ibis insane policy, which is now oueakingly
confessed to be a binuder. was, from the be
ginning, the central thread of the Republican
scheme of reconstruction. When Presiden.
Johnson came into cilice, and had not, as yet,
any thought of breaking with the R-spubllcia
party, be echoed its predominant sentiment In
his frequent and foolish speeches declaring
that 'Kebels must take back seats," tha'.
"treason must be made odious," and a great
deal of vituperation in the same veiu, imply
ing that all who had lakeu a prominent part
in the Rebellion oiiuht to be 8 'ripped of their
political rights. We refer to those speeches
merely to show what was at that time the
prevalent feeling ot the Republican party
The President grew more liberal when he had
time for cool reflection; bat the Republican
party steaiily and strenuously insisted on
political disfranchisement, and some of its
prominent members, like Tbaddeus Stevens,
would have added a wholesale conoicaclon of
Rebel property. Disfranchisement was the
key-note of the radical policy; it was aleadiug
feature or every proposal made to the sonth.
The constitutional amendment which was first
presented as a condition of restoration, was
rejected by'all the Southern States w tti prompt
indignation chiefly and avoweaiy because of
its disfranchising clauses. If it is wise to
abandon that cardinal part of the recon
struction policy now, it was a great piecs of
folly ever to have instated upon it at all. The
danger from the political activity of the dis
franchised classes was no greater then than it
is now. Had their politioal rights been
promptly conceded to them in the outset, the
concession might have been regarded as an act
of grace w hich deserved some return of grati
tude; at any rate, the South would not have
been provoked into an attitude of contain i-
cions resistance. But the extorted conces
sion, at this late day, sneakingly granted only
on ao ount of the demonstrated impossibility
of reconstructing the most important Sta'.es
without it, has no tendency either to secure
the respect or to awaken the gratitude of
Southern citizens.
If disfranchisement was necessary at all, it
was not as a precaution against an immediate
danger, but as a guarantee against a possible
future danger. With the great majorities
which the Republicans had in both hoases of
Congress, there was no danger that the South
ern representatives would carry any measure
which tbe Republican party did not approve.
It was only at Borne future day, wueu the Re
publican majorities should bit reduced, that
the South would have any eff-ctive pover in
Congress. To commence a policy of dis'ran
chisement and not persevere in it, is like
planting a fruit tree and cutting it down be
fore it puts forth any bloavims. Why exas
perate and poison the minds of the Southern
pbopfe by so illiberal and odious a measure, if
it was to be relinquished before it could bear
any other fruit tbau uiere exasperation aud
hatred ? The policy of disfranchisement has
been tbe most formidable obstacle to the
early restoration of tbn S'a'-es to their
Federal relations. Confeirtng nniversal suf
frage upon the brutal and semi-barbarous ne
groes was bad enough; but me negro voters
could be managed if the political talent of the
South were left free to act. Experience long
ago demonstrated that even the intelligent
white voters of the couutry exercise but little
real power. A few a iive politicians and wire
pul'era control all the elections by packing
and conti oiling the preliminary caucuses and
conventions; and if active political talent so
easily monopolizes all eflec'.ive power in the
free aud intelligent North, it cannot be a very
difficult task to outwit and circumvent the
igLoraut and pauperized negroes of the South
Give the Southern whites au open field and
fair play, and they are competent enough
to control the polit'cs of their section, in spite
of negro suffrage. In sneakiDg out of dis
i'raiicbirenieut, ther. f .re, tbe Republican
tarty will give np the main prop of its
Southern policy. This practical confession
that its policy has been a blunder will rapidly
undermine the waning conuMeuceoi the oouo'
try in the fitntss of that party to control pub
lio affairs.
STATESMANSHIP MADE EASY.
i'Vom the iV. 1'. TimeH.
The Washincton correspondents, to whom
the whole world owes bo much, are putting
the various great statesmen with whom they
have "interviews," and whose "ooaversa-
tions" they report, under special
they report, under special ounga-
tions of gratituJe. If any modern states
man av. for example, Senator Sumner or
Senator (sprane wishes to make publio his
ideas, he baB only to call in or let in a press
correppoudfcut. and leeiu to "converse." And
the great advantage of this arrangement is
Juit here: If the "interview" so rsportei
is a fortunate one, ana the statesman a
Ideas" are received favorably by the
publio, all is well; on the other band, if
they prove to be unsafe or unpopular, the
statesman ban only to disown tbe report, aoa
announce that be wai "misunderstood" or
"aiisreprepented." This sort of politioal
"table-talk" is one of the great improvements
which we have made on the old style of j
American politics, where a Congressman, for
example, was in the habit of putting his
publij opinions on reoird officially in Con
gress, aud so became responsible for them.
There is one drawback, however, to the use
fulness of tbe "lutervu-w ' correspondents,
namely, that they rarely fail to render the
great urn to whom they play the isoswell
taiber more oonceit-d, consequential, arro
gant, or ab-urd, as the case may bo, tbau be
is in his more formal publio conduct aud
ppteihes.
PRESIDENT GRANT AND 1II3 CABINET.
Frnm the .V. '. Jlrrahl.
It is evident that the men composing the
President's Cabinet are ill-suited to their posi
tions. None of them t-.ke hold of tbe great
questions appertaining to their departments
in a manner that indicates grasp of mind aud
originality in execution. We speak of these
things for the benefit of the President him
self. He requires men around him who have
sufficient brains to administer the laws in all
exceptextraordinary cases, which may rfjatre
oonsulta'ion and close exeoutive attention.
General Grant has made a mistake in suppos
ing that oivil government can be directed by
military forms. The oivll power Is the reverse
of the military. The former proceeds frem
the people to the centre tbe mass governs
and directs through its mouthpiece, the Presi
dent; the military power ia the centre, cre
ating all aotion and shaping everything. It is
with the military idea predominant and in
keeping with his edacation aud habits that
General Grant came into office. The Cabinet
waa selected nnder this principle, and not
having been accustomed or fitted to work in
such a direction, they alreaiy show signs of
imbecility. The Secretary of the Treasury
finds the finanoial problem too ponderous for
the keeper of a country store or for solution la
accordance with the old European book the
ories. He finds it impossible to run the Ame
rican treasure-box on European wheels.
A letter from Washington says truly that
"Mr. Borie was called from the most complete
retirement," much to the astonishment of
himself as well as the country. Admiral Por
ter is to-day virtually filling the office of
Secretary of the Navy. The Secretary of
State, worse than all the rest, is as un-American
as it is possible for au officer to be. His
tame foreign policy is in ill-keeping with the
bold attitude of the people and the Senate.
The country does not expect him to think for
it, but simply to watch its temper and obey
its mandates. When he fails iu this he ceases
to be the representative of the United ftates
iu the position where the Piesident has nu'or-
tnr ately placed him. We ate little disposed to
have a Secretary amuse the people with ideas
of a bold tolicy on any foreign question, while
he has a private and opposite understanding
with the power to which It relates. This is
too much in the track of the last eight years.
We speak of the necessity of remodelling
the Cabinet that 1'resident urant may have
atonnd bim good working men, who live with
the times and understand the animating foroes
of our political existence. We know that the
President enjoys himself in looking upon his
fast horses rather than In the analysis of ab
stiuse governmental questions. This and good
a-ststauts win enable nim to last out his term
of iffice. General Grant is a man of very solid
sense, and will readily see the necessity for
abler Cabinet brains, not ouly for the reasons
we have indicated, but for tbo?e which he
himself gave in bis inaugural address.
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TORIES, ETC.
Patent Wire Riilllni?. Iro Redsteads, Ornamental
Wire Work, Paper-makers' Wires, und every variety
of Wire Wwik, manufactured by
M. WALKER A SONS,
8fmw NO. 11 N. blXTU btrect.
FINANOIAL..
4 ,600,000
SEVEN PER CENT. GOLD BOUDS,
THIRTY YEARS TO RUN,
ISSUED BT TUS
Lakfi Superior and Mississippi
Ri ver Jiailroad (Jompamj.
Til KY ARE A FIRST MORTGAGE SINKING FUND
U)N1), Kl'KE OK I'NITKD STATUS TAX, SE
U'UKD BY ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED
AKDTII1UTY-TWO THOUSAND ACRES
OK CIIOICK LANDS,
And by the R:i!iroa.l, its Rolling Stock, ami the Fran
chises of the Company.
A DOl IU.K SR( TRITY ANT) FIRST-CLASS IN
VESTMENT IN EVERT RESPECT,
Yielding in Currency nearly
Ten Per Cent. Per Annum.
Gold, Government Bonrls and other Stocks received
In payment at their hlphest market price.
Pamphlets and full Information given on applica
tion to
JAY COOKE & CO.,
NO. 114 S. THIRD STREET,
E. V.'. CLARK & CO.,
NO. 35 S. THIRD STREET,
FlRcal Agonts of the Lake Superior and Mississippi
River Railroad Company. 8 10 6Qt4p
Union Pacific Railroad
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
nought and Sold nt Hcst 3Iarlet
lricc.
These Bonds pay SIX PER CENT. INTEREST IN
GOLD. PRINCIPAL also payable iu GOLD.
Full Information cheerfuHy furnished.
The road will be completed iu TEN (10) DAYS,
and trains run through lu TWENTY-FIVE (2S) DAYS.
DE HAVEN & BRO.,
Dealers In tioveriiiiient securities, Gold, Etc.,
KO. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
4 9 im PHILADELPHIA.
B
ANK.INO HOUSE
OF
JAY COOKE & CO.,
Nos. 112 and 114 South THIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old B-20S Wanted lu Exchange for New.
A Liberal Difference allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wautect
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
COLLECTIONS MADE. STOCKS bought and sold
on Commission.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladies.
We will receive applications for Policies of Life
Insurance In the National Life Insurance Company
of the United States. Full Information given at our
oillce. 4 1 8m
GLEMMING, DAVIS YW
KO. 43 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLEMMHG. DAVIS & AMORT
KO. 2 KASSAU STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegraphic communication with the New
York Slock Boards from the Philadelphia
Oillce. l'i
C I T Y WAR RANTS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & Q0.,
No. 20 South THIRD Street,
4 9 PHIT.ADKLPHIA.
LED YARD & BARLOW
HAVE REMOVED THEIR
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
TO
No. 19 South THIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Anil will continue to give careful attention to collect
ing and securing CLAIMS throughout the United
Slates, British Provinces, and Europe,
Sight Drafts aud Maturing Paper collected at
liunkers'.ltates. l'i.SCm
KITH. RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS,
rMIadi-lpliia und Sew Vork.
DEAI.EHS IN UNITED STATES ISONOS, and MEM-
11EE3 OF STOCK AM) COLD EXCIIANOK,
Eecclve Accounts of lSanks aud J3unkors ou Liberal
Terms. '
ISSUE HILLS OF EXCHANGE ON
C. J. IIAMMiO A SON, London,
11. MKTZUiK, S. SOIIN CO., Frankfort
JAML'S W. Ti t K EH & CO., Paris.
Aud Other Principal Cities, and Letters of Credl
Available Throughout Europe.
FINANOIAL.
B. K. JAMISON & CO.
SUCCESSORS TO
1. JP. KELLY & CO.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN
Ge!J, Silver, Government Bonis,
AT CLOSEST MARKET RATES.
IT. W. Corner THIRD and CHESNUT Sts
Special attnntlun Riven to COMMISSION ORDKR8
In New York und and Philadelphia Stock BoardR, etc
etc. 8118m
E
M
O
L.
ELLIOTT & DUNN
IIAVINU RF.MOVKD TO T1IKIR. NEW BUILDING,
No. IOO S. THIRD Street,
Ar now preparod to trnnnnota OKNK.IIAL BANKINd
lil'SINKSS, and cl.-al in (iOVEUNMKNT and other Se-
cnritirs,tiOM, HI l.l.N, Kto.
Receive MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowin intoront.
NKOOTIATK LOANS, (fivinn special attontkm to MER
CANTILE PAPER.
Will execute orders for Stocks, Honda, etc, ON COM
MISSION, at the Stock Exchange of Philadelphia, New
York, Huston, and liultimore. 4 !Kt
pm S. PETERSON & CO.,
Stock and Exchange Brokers,
Ho. 39 South THIRD Street,
Members of the New York and Philadelphia Stock
and Gold Boards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Etc, bought and sold on com
miHBlon only at either city. 1 gc
HOSIERY COODS.
J WILLIAM IIOPFMA N,
No. l N. KHillTH Street, Philadelphia,
Dealer in Hosiery Goods,
Offers for sale a largo assortment of Hosiery, for
Ladles', Gents', an Children's wear; Socks, three
quarter Sucks, end Long Hose, of English and Ger
man manufacture.
U IJ D 2 R17 2 A H
Of Cartwrlght A Warner's manufacture, acknow
ledged to be the bes ..n ported.
Also, the Norfolk and New Brunswick, acknow
ledged to be the lies of American Goods.
These Goods In all sizes, for
4 T wsly
Spring and Summer Wear.
WINES.
HER MAJESTY
CHAMPAGNE.
DUNTON & LUSSON,
215 BOUTH FitONT ST.
THE ATTENTION OF THE TKA3E IS
solicited to tha following very Choice Wine, Ao., for
sale by
DUNTON A LUSSON,
215 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
CHAMPAGNES. Agents for Her Majesty, Duo de Mon
tehello.Carte iilouo. Carte Blanche, aud Ohas. Farre's Grand
Via Eugenie and Vin Imperial, M. Kleetnan A Co., ot
Muyenco, Sparteine Moselle and RHINE WINES.
MA OKI HAS. old Island, Kouth Side Reserve.
KHEKK1KS. F. Rudolphe, Amontillado, Topaz, Val
letta, Pule and Golden Bar, Crown, ia.
l'OKTN.-Vinho Volho Real, Valletta and Crown.
CLARETS. Promia Aine A (lie., Montlerraad and Bo
deaux, Cliiretsanil Kauterne Winoa.
IN. "Meder Kwan."
BRANDIES. Uenoeaaey, Otard, Dopey A rinnj
finttmea. 4 S
STOVES, RANGES, ETO.
NOTICE THE UNDERSIGNED
would call the attention of the publio to his
NEW GOLDEN EAGLE EUKNAUK.
This is an entirely new heater. It i. so conatruotad
as to once commend itself to ffoneral favor, being a combi
nation of wrought and oast iron. It is very simple in itfl
construction, aud is perfectly air-tight, solf-cleaning, nav
lug no pipes or drums to be taken out and cleaned. It ia
so arranged with upright flues as to produce a larger
amount ol beat from the same weight of coal than any fur
nace now in use. 'J'be hygrotuetno condition of the air aa
produced by my now arrangement of evaporation will at
once demount rate that it ia the only Hot Air Furnace that
will produce a perfectly healthy atmoNphore.
Those iu w.'mt of a complete Heating Apparatus would
do well to call and examine the Golden Eagle.
CHARLES WILLIAMS.
Nos. 1 13 and llll 4 MARKET Street,
Hhilmlnlphia.
A large assortment of Cooking Ranges, Eire-Board
Stoves, Low Jiuu Orates, Ventilators, etc., always oa
band.
N. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. S 10
THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER
in or f.unuiT.An ia i u r., lor Tamines, noreis, or
J1 ....t.K i '1' L 1.' UT 1 I k I !!.' I, u VII
IIIII'IIW IUI llUi KMin, It, . 1 1.1. A X J- I V K I'. IV I'. .1 1
- SIZES. A Iho, i'hiludelphia Ranges. Hot-Air Fur
naces, 1'ortable Heaters, ljow-down Gratos, Eirehoard
Stoves, Bath Hollers, Stuw-hole flutes, Boilers, Cooking
btovea, etc., wholuoale aud refill, by the msnufucrurors.
11 Sowtmtim
No. JtilJ N. SECOND Street.
nil Aitrr. a i mu.yiiwj.ti,
MEDICAL.
piLES Oil HEMORRHOIDAL TUMOKS
All kinds perfectly and permanently cured, without
puin, danger, caustics, or liiKtriinients, by V. A.
McCANDLKSS, M. 1)., N. la-Jo Sl'KINCi GARDEN
Street. We can refer you to over a thousand of tho
beat citizens of IMiiliiileljihia eurud.
lleference Riven at our ortlce. 8a8 2rn
D rT KIN K . I . T N , AFTER" A RESIDENCE
and practice el thirty yeurs at the Northwest corner
Ol Third and I'm. u blieets, I urn laleiy removed to South
Ell EN'l H Stn. ..'I, hot Keen .Market and Lhosimt.
Ilia superiority 111 the prompt and perfect cure of all
recent, clirouic, lecnl, and constitutional alfeotioua of a
speeiiil nature, i i n'vei lmil.
Diseases of the skin, iij.pearing in a tiundrod different
forma, totally erinii -iiied ; uiuniiu und physical wouknea
and all nervous . ehilMies aciciitiliunlly and auoceastully
trcuted. Olfice hours Horn 8 A. M. to 8 P. M.
M
E K K 1 C K & SONS'
SOI TIIWATiK FOT'NDRY. i
No. 430 WAS1 1NGTON AYKNTE, Philadelphia.
william a incurs patent vauiablb
CCT-tr STEAM ENtilNE,
IJepulated by I lio Governor.
MLTMIICK'S h AI'ICTY HOISTING MACIIINIS,
patented Juue, uos.
DAVID JOY'S
FATENT VALVELESS STEAM HAMMEIL
1. M. WESTON'S
PATENT SEI.l -I LVi'ldNU, SKI.F-B LA 'i '!NlJ
CENTKIl' IG.L SL'GA U-DKAIMNU MACHINE.
AM) '
nVPKO EXTRACTOR.
For C'ottonor Woollen .Maiaifucluivra. 7 1U m.vf
VOV IS THE T I M K TOCLE A N is 13
VOUll HOUSE.
WIt'tBr.!3, BBABCT.UA & VO.'H
W ANlUMJ AMI Cl.KANSI M POWDER
Is nne,!ia!!ed for s-ruU.ing paints, Floors, and ail huits.
hold use. Auk tor it uinl (Ah nn oilier
W. II. RilWMAV.Koln Agent,
4 No. lUi I RANK vJitD lload.