THE DAILY EVENING TELEOIUPn PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 18G9.
MOKE-TA-VA-TA,
Till? MAKTYKKII CHIEFTAIN.
E DICTUM EXTEIIMINATUM.
BY .SHENANDOAH.
"We niUHt Hd Willi vindictive earnestness
i.tftiiuKt the iSioux (Indians), even to tlielr exter
mination, men, women, nmt eliildren.
less will reneli tlie root of t lis easo. U . J.
Hhmnan, Lieuirnnnl-deneral V. A., 10
Vweral V. . ''"', J'''v'"her S3, 1H(..
I.
A sound of war is on tlie western wind,
Tlio sun, with iierv Hume, sweeps down tlie
Athwart Ills lireiict the crimson shadows fly
Of fearless forms no fetters e'er euu bind.
ii.
The eagle pinnies from his mountiiin nest,
And, sereaniliiir, fours above the distant plain,
I'liic'khnr his plumes without a pang of aln,
Tlioinjh stained witli blood from his owu lieut
ini; breast.
in.
The hunter seeks the heated herd no more,
Tho war-bird' pinions deck his dauntless head,
The antelope, w ith lleotost feet, has tied
From woodland copse and streams' enticing
shore.
IV.
The moving purpose of ft mighty mind,
Resistless as swift death, a race now claims,
AV resting Its weapons from their wonted aims,
Leaving pule, fenr uud famine far behind.
v.
Moke-ta-va-ta, thy form appears again,
Thy spirit to Its hunting-grounds hath risen;
Thy body, bursting from its wintry prison.
Blossoms in blood red flowers on the plain.
VI.
Thy voice makes eloquent the vital air,
Thy splendid Imago fills the day's clear eye;
Thy people, hearing, seeing, swiftly fly,
Like war-birds Hocking, thronging everywhere.
VII.
In thy sad fate their own is prophesied:
They strike to cleave in twain tho burning
band
Fastened upon them by a reckless hand,
Enclosing, crushing till they all had died.
VIII.
The edict uudcr which thou hast been slain
Hath been tlie nation's crime, latest and first,
IJy which our eldest brother was accursed,
Yet we unblushing bear the brand of Cain.
IX.
What crimes were thine, of what dread deeds
accused ?
Wert thou a foe to freedom or thy kind ?
.Spoke thou w itu double tongue or faithless
mind,
That thus thou wert betrayed, reviled, abused ?
x.
No! From great nature's paths thou freely came,
Leading thy people to the nation's feet,
And when tho two in conflict e'er did meet,
Thine was the honor, ours the sin and shame.
XI.
wisdom's
Thy
words were
essence, and were
Bixike
With guileless spirit and with singlo tongue.
No falsehood's venomed arrows 'neath them
clung,
No trust was e'er betrayed, no promise broke;
XII.
The stranger sought thy tepa not in vain,
Thou gavest him clothing, rest, and food
and
fire
What'cr could fill his heart or mind's desire.
E'en though the giving brought thy bosom pain.
xm.
Nature revealed in thee her perfect art;
Thy truth and valor all might emulate:
Thy potent power true homage to create.
Thy magnanimity of miud and heart.
XIV.
Even thy foes could win thee by their faith.
Between them and the vengeance of thy kin
Thou oft lias stood: though there's the damned
sin
Of thy betrayal, thine tlie martyr's death,
xv.
Thrice earnest thou with offerings of love,"
Pledging thy people, with the pipe of peace,
That nor thy warrior uor tny increase
Against the Government in war would move,
xvi.
Once, when the nation's banner o'er thee waved,
Tliyyvilhige rested 'neath its promised care,
The dastard coward struck thee unaware:
Only by courage were thy people saved.
XVII.
Thy brother's blood beneath thine eye did flow,
Tho fire-arrows had stung thy faithful wife,
Yet thou didst fly to save the stranger's life
"I think you spies, I do not kuow it, go."
win.
Again, the blundering hand of power destroyed
Thy stock and substance, and thy tepas burned;
Tho tardv recompense thy spirit spurned
Remembrance of a wrong thou wouldst avoid.
XIX.
When thy young men the war-bird's plumes
would wear,
To vindicate thv right, avenge thy wrong,
Thy voice uplifted this persuasion strong '
"Tlie antelope can never fight the bear."
xx.
And when tho battle-cry was well begun.
And all thy influence for peace was past,
From thy proud form the chieftain's robes
were cast,
And thou didst sadly seek the setting sun.
XXI.
Followed by her whoso faithful, willing feet
Companioned all thy weary wanderings:
Camping, with thy small band, near the clear
spriugs
From which the antelope doth drink tlie life
full tide,
XXII.
Ah! then the latest and the foulest wrong
Came upon thee, without a warning word.
Thee and thine stricken, like a hunted herd,
By that false power which makes tlie mighty
strong.
XXIII.
And thou wert slain. Whoever dared to trace
llis name upon the order for thy death
Will wear tho sting until his latest breath.
And bind the curse of Cain upon ills race;
xxiv.
Six times the waning, weary moon hath turned
Her forehead from tlie heart-siek earth away,
Pining because of justice' long delay,
Since thou, Voishta, hath a captive yearned
XXV.
For some aveuging hand, some voice from
heaven, ...... '
To strike with serpent sting tins nation strong
That dares decide to whom life doth belong;
She of tho twelve wounds wails Thou, Jesus,
. had but seven.
XXVI.
.vir Hum; a hundred winters' snows
And golden harvest moons have poured their
flood
Of wine and corn upon a people good.
And yet tho life-blood of a nation flows.
XXVII.
To slav the eldest children of a race
Nearest and dearest to Columbia s breast,
Because their teet ner virgin wmuo
nd now their blood uud tears stam her loved
Aud
lace.
xxviil.
With ea"cr hearts and unrcluctant feet
We turn from our fond mother's breast away,
We scorch our brows with bunds ot bla.mg
Then sigh' lii rain lor her dear life-blood sweet.
XXIX.
Civilization, with 'Its burning power,
Slays her fair Imago with its fearful glaive,
Then, tolling, wo become Its ready slave,
And vainly pine for respite one brief hour.
XXX.
This was a race of kings, as strong and true
As Roman citix.cn or Hpartan brave;
Theirs was the pride, and theirs the heart to
save,
Keeping great nature's lessons full In view,
xxxi.
Moke-tn-va-ta, thy wrongs shall lie redressed,
Thy viewless form fills all Die vernal air,
Nor earth's fair bosom, nor the spring more
fair.
Can stay tlie footsteps of a race oppressed.
XXX II.'
Their name is legion, and from mountain slope
And distant plain their fearless forms appear,
All conquering, and all potent, without fear
They come with our proud nation' now to cope.
XXXIII.
And if the rivers shall run red with blood,
And if the plain bestrewn with mangled forms,
And cities fmrned amid the battle's storm,
Ours is the blame, not thine, thou great and
good.
XXXIV.
Thy name shall live a watchword for all limo,
A herald and a beacon light to all
On whom tho tyrant and the despot fall,
Making thy death a heritago sublime.
XXXV.
If of this noble race thou wert tlio last,
And stood on the extrcmest ocean verge,
Thy eloquence would all thy people urge;
And in one deadly conflict they would east
XXXVI.
Their gauntlet In our shameful, flaming face,
And then, without a thought of praise or
blame
Would perish to avenge thy noble name,
And prove that thou wert of a kingly r:iie.
XXXVII.
A sound of war Is on the western wind,
The sun, with fiery flame, sweeps down the
sky,
Athwart his breast tho crimson shadows fly,
Of fearless forms no fetters e'er can bind.
XXXVIII.
Down through the golden gateway they have
trod.
Tho mighty scions of a nation come
In sweeping circles from their shining homo,
With weapons from the battle plains of God.
NOTES.
Moketavata, chief of the Cheyenne Indians,
assassinated at the massacre of the Washita iu
November last.
Voishta, wife of Moketavata.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OV THR LEADING JOURNALS
CFON CURRENT TOPICS COMPILBD EVERT
DAT FOB THE BVENINO TELE3RAPH.
AFRAID OF THE FACTS.
.From the Mixtottri Democrat.
It is strange that the English leaders and pa
pers persist in shutting their eyes to the real
opinion of this country in regard to the Alabama
dillleulty. Tho papers, for example, do not
print Mr. Sumner s speech. Can anybody ima
gine a speech so affecting our affairs which
American papers would hesitate to copy? If it
assails us, so much the more we want to see it.
If it combats our most cherished opinions, so
much the more do we long to see what possible
reason it can give for doing so. If it looks like
war, we want to face the facts at once. John
Bull has had some reputation for courage in
former years. But this suppression of Mr. Sum
ner's argument is a thinj so cowardly that it
forces one to remember Napoleon's saying, "the
British have become a nation of shop-keepers."
In the very same spirit of abject cowardice
the Government refuses to believe that the
speech of Mr. Sumner represents the Senate, or
that the vote of the Senate represents the Ameri
can people! The Foreign Secretary declares
that he is informed that the vote means nothing,
for it was dictated by political complications in
this country! It is impossible to suppose that
the man is ordinarily so ignorant of American
affairs. Nothing but nn overpowering dread of
facing the fact as it really is could have bliuded
him to the meaning of that vote. To the most
ignorant foreigner, it must seem miraculous that
any political complication can drive both politi
cal parties to vote as one man! To a person as
well informed as a British foreign minister ne
cessarily is, it must bo perfectly well known that
nothing less than a perfectly overwhelming and
lrresistiiiie public sentiment could have forced
every Democratic Senator save one to support
me speecn anci motion or cnaries Sumner!
J lie man who is omul to tlie meaning
of such a vote must bo crazy with fear. Scarcely
less significant is the unanimity of the Republi
can members, as oilier debutes snow, there
were Senators upon the floor who were aching
lor a cnance 10 pucn into tne new aiinunlstra
tion and its policy. There were Senators who
came from States In which not a single ner
son cared one straw for the Alabama claims, or
lor American commerce cither, except iu the
broadest and most patriotic sense States which
lost nothing by the war would gain nothing by
tne settlement or these claims upon any basis
wnaiever, nave no direct interest 111 our com
mcrce, and can only bo Injured and retarded in
growth by a dillleulty with England. But of all
these Senators, from all these States, not one
ventured to raise a word of remonstrance against
the speech or thoaction of the Senate. Nothing
less than absolute unanimity of opinion among
the people can account for such united action of
the Republican Senators, on
volving party issues.
question not iu-
It is not only cowardly, but It is in the last de
gree silly and suicidal, for Great Britain to shut
its eyes to the real feelings of this countrv. So
doing, it renders any amicable settlement of
tins dilhculty impossible, Hie time is coniin
when England will wish it had been settled on
any terms. The plain fact Is that the people of
this country fully realize that they have suffered
at the liauita ol Great Britain, tho last nation on
the earth that should bo unfriendly to us, inju
ries greater than have ever yet been endured
bv any power capable of defending itself. Inju
ries inflicted at a time when wo were engaged in
a struggle so desperate and bitter that we could
not resent any insult. Injuries prompted bv the
meanest ot all mean motives, tho desire to steal
our trade and destroy our commerce, under the
cowardly guise of neutrality! That is the plain
and unvarnished statement of the feeling which
now rankles in the hearts of Americans in everv
part of this nation. If Great Britain thinks ft
can afford to ignore that state of fcellii", It Is
most sadly mistaken.
Sooner or later, England will find France
striking to avenge Waterloo. When that day
comes the sea will swarm with cruisers not
built in France. We shall be neutral, as Eng
land was. But no administration that this
country will ever see can prevent thousands
sent feeling exists, slipping off to sea In swift
ships to pay that debt." i'lio time will conio
when England will have to submit to Insult from
all Europe, because It does not dare to set looe
Yankee privateers. Tho tlmo will come when
not Canada only but other British possessions
will drop away, and there will be no attempt to
stop them. Wo measure English courage bv
the suppression of Mr. Sumner's speech. A.
nation which dares not face arguments does not
dare to face monitors. We need have no war.
If England Is afi'aid to look at facts as they are,
we can do ju.t,whut we please without -the'
slightest danger of rousing tho Hon from his
long slumber. Mr. Motley will go out soon, and
will do his best, we trust, to convince tho British
people that America not only sustains Mr. Sum
ner, but goes still tarther. Possibly a flank,
understanding of the real fitcts may lend to set
tlemeut. But if it does not, the day wiU come
U'Ull nivFu.n..-' -nin:ni;,uiB, wuiie 1110 lll'e-
when Knglaml will wish she had made a million
apologies and paid ft million dollars fr everv
, ciaft captured by tho Alabama. 7
MOTLEY.
From the Chicay Republican,
For somo time Motley is to 1 tim
ienn wear in England tn diplomatic circles The
greiit historian, transformed Into tlie Minister of
the United States near the Court of St. j'X wH
(nil from New York on the lftt.h i,,.t..., .'in.
chief duty will be tho settlement of the Ma', mi i
claims Reverdy Johnson was fed toaHcJ and
feted Into one treaty, unan innnJu- ... ..i ,
unanimously, rejected by the Nemvio' iv.. i. .'...
that Motley s gastronomic propensities will not
end him astray similarly Ji literary reputa
tion is u fine theme for late suinx r i;i,.i. ,i ,
He first published his IncomparaHo histories
under English copyright. He U i- ...i ..i ...
more of an English than of mi American cele
brity. His honors arc estimated as more Fiit-
li than American. Jinnee an t...,),nr
tempt will be mado to appropriate him as ,vn ex
ponent of English-American opinion Society
will doubtless open wide to him Iu K..i,.,.i,.:t
doors. Wine will flow in bis honor. He will be
set on a pedestal of British distinction. He will
be iwonica, apostrophized, anotlieosi,! ,.n i,.
tho interests of tho Queen's construction of the
Manama naiiuN.
mil donu i.ouiroi) jioiiey is not. th mm if
wo understand him, to be entrantmrf l,v iir.lvj
adulation. The historian who wrote "flic Rise
of the Dutch Republic" and the "United Nether
lands" possesses a mind too acute and pene
trating to be imposed upon by Noup, oysters,
toasts, and after-dinner speeches. Any one who
has read his Incomparable annals m...i hn
been convinced that Mr. Motley Im no ,ifti..itv
for aristocratical, oligarchical, or mr.,.,..!,!,.,.!
forms of government. All his sympathies arc
with the masses of the people. His philosophy
Is in perfect accord with the most onward de
velopment of human existence, ffe iliHnUoa un
productive consumers, and sounds constantly
tho praises of muscular and mental exertion.
Such a man cannot be misled by ovations comin"
ironi uie Kiois 01 caste.
It must bo recollected that bis fli'ttlnrt onl-
IllollS, laid away safely upon tho shelf of delibe
rate judgment, have been mado upon data fur
nished by tho societary formation and schemes
of polity both in Europe and in America. His
contact with monarchical institutions is not new.
He goes to England with a full comprehension
of the policy which has dominated that country
for centuries. He is too old a bird to bn ruun-lit
witli chart. A man about fifty-live years of age.
who has shown his comprehensiveness and
depth of thought, is not to bo misled easily. We
are not aware that he has any diniug-out pro
pensities. His pursuits exclude that supposi
tion. et he has. as all human beings have, his
prominent failings. What these are his mission
will be sure to develop. Before Mr. Motley shall
have been one month in England, we shall learn
what are his weaknesses of character. Experi-
mentalisni will find them out, beyond a pcrad-
venture.
Our only fear for Mr. Motley is his honesty
:md straightforwardness. He has never trod
the crooked paths of diplomacy. Evasion has
never been one of his intellectual weapons.
Trickery is no part of his nature. He bus never
been brought face to face with the impedi
ments, devices, and complications of interna
tional negotionation. He is not by experience
fitted to see through the infinite variety of sub
terfuges adoi) ted by foreign cabinets to accom
plish their ends. Like any innocent and un
sophisticated exponent of our national interests,
lie is liable to be imposed on by apparent sin
cerity. Yet, even here, as what "is said to him
ollicially must be In terms of words, a man
accustomed to deal with the meanings of word
and to eompreheud their deepest import, little is
to lie learcd. Sentences, we teel assured, will
not war) the jndgment of Mr. Motley. Hols
an American everv inch of him. Iu fact, he is
the very best of all the foreign appointments.
Would that all were as good and unexception
able as he !
ARE WK NEUTRALS '
From the X. Y. World.
There is a tendency iu certain quarters to
square tne I. uban by tlie JMigasii problem, and,
no matter what our" convictions of right may be,
to do, or to refuse to do, things in respect to
the Cuban insurrection according to the influ
ence which our acts will naturally have upon
our side of the pending dispute witli Great Bri
tain growing out of the Queen's proclamation of
neutrality or the fitting out within her territory
of Anglo-Rebel cruisers to devour our commerce.
Such conduct is undignified and unworthy of
tlie United States.
Whether President Grant has come to a con
clusion in respect to the form of the issues, if
any, lie will frame against England, since the
rejection of the Johnson-Stanley treaty, tho
public is uninformed. We do kuow, however,
that quito recently, in conversation' on the sub
ject, the President remarked that, rather than
adjust tlie dispute on the basis of mere pecuniary
damages to Injured ship-owners or cargo-owners,
ho would prefer that Congress should undertake
their indemnification. This would seem to imply
that, iu his opinion, there was a wrong and in
jury to our national honor for which Great Bri
tain must satisfactorily atone. Whether he finds
evidence of such intentional wound of our na
tional dignity in the original declaration of neu
trality (.where Sumner liuds it), or in failure to
preserve that neutrality, as made apparent by
the implied permission to the Confederates to
maintain their naval bureau in Liverpool, under
tlie charge of Captain Bullock, and fit out there
from, with the guilty connivance of English
ship-builders and otileials, naval expeditious
(.where tlie World finds it), we are iu tlie dark.
Far be it from us to expect any subsequent
administration to vindicate nil tho ollicial per
formances of Mr. Seward as Secretary of State.
For three or four years he vexed the ears of
foreign powers with useless discussion us to tlie
name to be giveu to the thing which was slink
ing a continent with the tread ot its nositie
armies the gigantic struggle in tlie heart of the
United States, on the one hand, to uphold, and,
on the other hand, to destroy the Federal Union
as though war were any the less war because
a civil war. Instead of accepting the proffer of
neutrality by England, and then holding her
resolutely to" all the obligations that neutrality
inn osed, Mr. Seward ' occupied himself in
teasing Earl Russell to revoke the decla
ration, and. at tlie same time, humbly
apologizing to that power for the
act ol Captain Wilkes in taking from the
steamer 1'rent contraband ot war in the persons
of the two Insurgent ambassadors, Mason and
Slidell who, In their diplomatic character, were
coin eying political and indirect military aid to
tho Rebellion and accompanying this apology
with an unnecessary admission" that tlie act of
Captain Wilkes was wrong in principle. But,
aj art from ilio vagaries of Mr. Seward,
tlie I ulted States have again and again an
nounced tho doctrine that a neutral is bound to
prevent a Proximate act of war against a bel
ligerent from originating on Its territory, ind,
It so originated, it is a just ground of com
plaint by such belligerent and demand for In
demuity.
Now, in respect to Cuba, it is clear that we
of the United Slates can desire nothing so much
us to see her people pursuing the path of pros'
perity and Happiness under lnstitutiwiis similar
to our own. it, then, tlie administration aim
the country are convinced that our obligations
to a community struggling to throw oil the do
minion ot spalu and secure tor ltseit liberty pro
teetcd by law demand that, as a nation, we give
moral and material aid, then let us manfully say
so. and onenlv intervene in favor ot the lusur
gents and anal us t the parent government. Above
all, let us avoid sneaking into a war with Spain
or any other foreign power.
All accounts we get from Washington repro
sent President Grant as sympathizing strongly
with the Cuban insurgents. In that he Is In ac
cord with the mass of our people, who think tlio
Insurrection In that 'island looks to larger Indi
vidual liberty and tho advancement there of the
rights of men. But President (J rant is not quito
free to indulge his personal sympathies so far us
to let them control his ollieial conduct. He In
augurated his administration by a declaration
unit bad laws would tie eniorced, it tor no otne:
reason thuu to secure their repeal. Perhaps tul
was but a shining bubble blown to amuse thq
people, like his promise to reform the Govern
ment and purify tho administration by expelling
mere "politicians" from places of executive
power. At any rate, ho gave the pledge; and
ther is a law on the ,, fcUtute
book which, among other things,
provides that, If any person shall have
set on foot or prepnro the means for any military
enterprise, to be carried on from thence against
Sp.ilii, such er.son sluill be fined and imprisoned.
AUii, if any citizen of tho United Stales accepts
and exercises in New York a commission to
serve against Spain, or procures anybody to en
list to serve n'rainst Spain, lie sb. ill be fined and Im
prisoned. This is municipal law, which President
Grant is bound to enforce, if lie be a neutral in re
spect to Cuba. Has he put in operation any
meain to exo.Mile this law? Has he Issued any
proi'liimation announcing liis neutrality, and
warning bis ft llow-c.itizcns of the impending
pains and penalties of tills law? Has he in
structed Mr. Picricpont, or Mr. Grinnell, or Mr.
Barlow to lie vigilant in this respect, to the end
that we maintain our honor intact uud be a Gov
ernment of law and not of passion?
If the nation is not to bo neutral, but Is to be
an enemy of Spain and ally of the insurrection
against her sovereignty, then be It so ! But had
not President Grant "better convene Congress
and send to them a message asking that autho
rity be given to linn to suspend, as to Spain, our
neutrality laws, and, if need be, declare war
igainst that power?
Joes 1'residcnt Giant intend to maintain an
lonest or u dishonest neutrality, oiiio neutrality
it all?
CONGRESSMEN ON T II KIR TRAVELS.
From the X. Y. Timet.
Time wus when the close of a session of Con
gress brought relief to its committees. Or if
perchance a committee found the continuance
of an investigation noeessary, members re
mained at Washington to conduct It. That old-
laslnoned mode of transacting business no
longer suits the House committees. They pro
pose to turn the recess to pleasurable account,
nid to prove tneir zeal in tne public service bv
travelling hither and thither with all the pomp
ind circumstance 01 congressional authority, at
the public expense. There seems, indeed, to
have been a rather undignified game of grab
among the chairmen concerned to secure the
wherewithal for their enjoyment. The contin
gent fund is not unlimited, "and tlie maxim "first
conio first served has been applied to such pur
pose that little Is left for Inevitable expenditures.
The choclest plum has fallen Into the lap of Mr.
seiiencK. As the head ot the Ways and Means
committee, he has secured 10.000 "to defray tho
cost of a tour down and across tlio continent.
An inspection of custom houses at work Is the
prolossed object ol tlie trip, which will begin
;it JNcw York and end at San Francisco. With
free railroad passes, and dining and wining all
the way, ten thousand should bring back the in
vestigators handsomely. Three thousand form
the measure of General Banks enjoyment.
w hich is to bo sought In Cuba or Heaven knows
where; and a like sum has been made available
by Mr. Bingham for a jaunt to Alabama in rela
tion to Judge Busteed. New Orleans being more
expensive than Montgomery, it is not surprising
thut General Paine and his associates, who are
desirous of working up the Louisiana election
cases, could not consent to start with less than a
snug five thousand, which should provide a sulll-
ciencv ot niieps lor tlie hottest weather. Gene
ral Garfield and his Census Committee, and Mr.
Lynch and his Shipping Committee, are provided
tor with three and two thousand respectively
.h.ven tne committee on netrenciinient cannot
forego its chance of recreation, for which a
modest two thousand are nil that is available.
Fortune dispenses favors invidiously. A grate
fill and patriotic nation may not begrudge sum
mer enjoyments to its law-makers, but at least it
may ask that they shall be impartially dispensed.
As the matter stands, tlie iioiiuav lournevings,
with Uncle Sam as the ireasurer, are confined to
a handful of the members, and they all of one
party. If Mr. Banks, for example, is entitled to
an ocean trip and its delightful et cetera, tlie
cost thereof being drawn from the House con
tingencies, why should not Mr. Fernando Wood
draw upon the same source for his European
excursion? And so all rouud the House. If
mileage and sessional allowances are not to be
the limit of the country's provision for its legis
lators, and if trips bv" laud and sea arc to bo
added as a means of enlarging the minds and in
vigorating tlie bodies of those who weary of
W ashington and home, we insist that all" the
members shall profit by the arrangement. There
is quite enough ot monopoly without extending
it to pleasurable pilgrimages.
as to the plea that these wanderings are un
dertaken in tlio public service, with a viov to
tne acquisition ot knowledge or the perform
ance of work, we attach no credence to it. If
the Ways and Means Committee wants to learn
something touching the operation of tho tariff,
or the machinery of tho customs department, it
should call to its aid experts and practical, ex
perienced men, who really have somo ideas on
tlie subject. Tho Special Commissioner of Reve
nue, we venture to say, already knows more in
regard to it man will the members ot the com
mittee alter their return from San Francisco;
and if, on some specific point, more light is
needed, he, or some one like him, is tho best
man to supply it. The perambulating process
is more likely to confuse than to enlighten; it
may yield big blue books, but of accurate, trust
worthy, and exhaustive Information It will
almost necessarily be barren. And as with the
Ways and .Means committee, so with tne censas
and Shipping Committees. Their investigations,
conducted on the wing, will be larces, or some
thing worse.
The whole business is derogatory to the dig
nity of Congress, and a burlesbuo upon practi
cal" methods of inquiry and work.
VIRGINIA RECONSTRUCTION.
from the X. Y. Tribune.
General, Canby, acting under instructions from
Washington, will very soon issue his proclama
tion appointing a day of election and prescribing,
the mode in which the pending constitution
shall be voted on by the legul electors of tlio
State, the registries boing meantime carefully
revised and corrected. The day will probably
be the lust Thursday in June or tlie first of July;
if the 4th of July did not fall this year on Sun
day, we could wish that the new birth of the Old
Dominion to freedom and loyalty might date
from that day. Meantime the "conservative"
State ticket having been formally withdrawn, it
is manifest that most of its lute supporters will
vote the Independent Republican or Walker
ticket, so far as they shall vole at all. And
though the election is still nearly two months
off, the issues unsettled and the parties about to
come Into collision arc now matched for tho first
time, the cardinal principles which are to
triumph in the struggle arc already clearly Indi
cated, as follows:
1. The Free Constitution, framed a year or
more since, will in the main be accepted by a
lari'C majority. If not without serious opposi
tion. (.Tills secures blacks equal rights with
whites.)
a. The test-outh and all disabilities not pre
scribed by the AlVth Amendment to tlio Fede
ral Constitution will be voted down also by
large majorities. ...
8. State olllcers. Representatives In Congress,
and a new State Legislature will bo chosen, of
whom a decided majority will profess to be, as
most of tlicin will truly be, friendly to General
Grant's administration.
4. Tw o U. S. Senators ot like faith will be
chosen by this Legislature the week after Its
assembling. , ...
5, The predominant desire of the masses to
have peace, industry, security and prosperity
will make itself very generally respected, ill
spite of tho bitterness still rankling In thousands
ot hearts. , , r
(I. A vnst Immigration from the North,
whereof the vanguard Is already traversing Vir
ginia's valleys and scaling her ridges, will
rapidly appreciate the value of her lands, break
up her plantations into farms, permeate her
omnipresent forests with new roads and new
clearings, while a very considerable proportion of
her utill growing timber is destined to enter
into the construction of new dwellings and other
structures within the next few years. In short,
Virginia, huviug had euougU of civil war aud
devastation, is about to subordinate political
striio to Industrial progress and material pros
perity, and thus advance to a future of power
and wealth undreamed of in her past.
We have said nothing as to the relative
Hlrengthof tho Wells and Walker tickets re
spectively, nor have wo even indicated a prefer
ence between them. On this point we may
speak hereafter. But General Wells' late letter,
wherein ho courteously yet clearly ropudUtcs
enduring proscription and disfranchisement,
recognizing and acquiescing in tho benignant in
timation on tills head ol tho last Chicago plat
form, has divested the contest between tliotn of
lunch of lis original importance. For the pre
K'nt, we rest in tho joyful conviction that 180.1
will see Virginia fully reconstructed and re
established on the substantial and beneficent
foundations of universal amnesty and impartial
suffrage.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS AND GENERAL
GRANT'S FOREIGN FORi'.lGN POLICY.
i'Vom the X. '. Herald.
The opportunity now offered to General Grunt
for the extension of the boundaries of tho nation
and its moral and material power throughout
tho world is without a precedent in American
history, and without a comparison iu tlio records
of the' human race. If as a soldier the results of
ids strategy nnd tactics and his co-operative
combinations of numerous armies, amounting to
over a million of men, and distributed over an
area of eight hundred thousand square miles,
eclipse the grandest combinations of the first
Napoleon, lie lias now the opportunity as a
statesman to reduce by comparison the late im
perial programme Of Napoleon tho 1 bird In botu
hemispheres to a more bagatelle. General ('rant,
in a word, has the opportunity of making this
Government, by general conseut, the arbiter of
the American continent, and ho has tne advan
tages for securing, through China and Julian, the
commercial balance of power in Asia, lie may
thus make Washington morally tlie dominating
political capital of tlio civilized world, aud New
York and San Francisco tho commercial and
financial centres of tho world's exchanges.
Cuba, Mexico, and the Alabama claims cover
the three great foreign questions upon the set
tlement of which the commanding position indi
cated may bo secured tor the United States, i lie
annexation of Cuba is only a question of time;
but the time may be lengthened or shortened,
according to tho interest of tho administration
in tho settlement of this question. It Booms to
us that without any difficulty, considering tho
domestic embarrassments of Eugland, France,
and Spain, the subject of tho annexation of both
Cuba and the island of St. Domingo might be so
far pushed forward meantime as to bo submit
ted for tho ratification of Congress at its next
session in December, Such, too, upon this mat
ter, is tho present favorable aspect of things in
the Gulf, and at Washington and in Europe, that
we nre strongly inclined to the conclusion that
the annexation suggested will be among tho
recommendations of General ('rant's next mes
sage to the two houses. These acquisitions will
give us the lock and tho key of tho Gulf of
Mexico, and by tho law of gravitation as they
ripen all the contiguous Islands will fall in.
Tho possession of the Gulf Involves the control
over every isthmus ship canal interoceanic transit
route from Tehuantepec to Panama. To make
this control effective and useful, however, the
absorption of Mexico and Central America be
comes a political and commercial necessity.
Having, siuee Napoleon's protectorate, given the
people and politicians of Mexico ft fair trial in
self-government, in which they have signally
failed, we may now, without fear of European
opposition, follow the example of Napoleon,
nnd, in the interests of humanity, civilization,
law, and order, take Mexico under our care, and
by treaty with the local authorities provide also
for the fusion into the great republic of tlio Cen
tral American Statos. The great impediment
which in 1847 deterred General Scott from the
acceptance of Mexico as a free gift in the name
ot tlio Limed Mates, was in tlio broad political
lines of distinction and caste which at that time
divided the whites from our black and African
tinctured people. Now those barriers are all
removed, and under the new dispensation of
"liberty, equality, and fraternity" the hybrids of
Mexico cease to "be au embarrassment on either
side. Subject, then, to tho will aud pleasure of
our Government, Mexico and the Central Ame
rican States await the development of General
Grant's foreign policy.
On the Alabama claims tlie upshot of Senator
Sumner's exhaustive and conclusive exposition
of the case for the United States lias been put
into a nutshell by Wendell Phillips iu this
demand a full pecuniary recompense for the
damages suffered by our commerce from Anglo
Rebel cruisers, and" a distiuct disavowal of Lord
Russell's neutrality and belligerent rights of
IStil as a precedent for tho future guidance of
England. Now, as with the acceptance of this
ultimatum the most convenient settlement to
both countries will be the cession of British
North America, so with tho rejection of this
ultimatum by England tho occupation of tho
New Dominion will bo the most conve
nient alternative for the United States.
For this alternative, upon a call for volunteers,
two hundred and fifty thousand trained soldiers
could be mustered along our Northern border
within sixty days. Seuator Chandler's lata
speech on "this subject was rather a stump
harangue from a Western demagogue than the
argument of a responsible American statesman;
but still his leading idea is fixed in the public
mind of the great Northwest. Those people, as
to a natural outlet for their heavy surplus pro
ducts, are looking now to tho opening of tho St.
Lawrence to tlie sea with something of the same
feeling which led them against the late Rebellion
to tho reopening of the Mississippi.
General Grant, as a Western man, we doubt
not, is a believer in this whole pro
gramme of expansion, North and South. lie is,
too, a man of war; but as President of the
United States it is manifest that his paramount
desire is peace, at home and abroad. Our only
apprehension concerning his foreign policy is
that liis desire to avoid war may so entangle him
iu diplomatic cobwebs and red' tape as to render
him powerless to do anything in giving a satis
factory shape and direction to the Cuban or
the Mexican question, or tlie Alabama
claims. Upon nil these questions, more
over, tlio powerful interest of the bond
holders will be apt to prove a drag upon the ad
ministration. We rely, however, upon the pro
gressive ideas, sagacity, and moral courage of
General Grant, sustained by the general drift of
public opinion, in our expectations of a foreign
policy which offers not only the continent for our
occupation, but its boundless resources from
which to meet our public debt.
TERRA OOTTA WORKS.
QLOUCESTER TERRA COTTA WORKS.
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NO. 122 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
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PHILADELPHIA,
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DRAINING TILE, PAVEMENT TILE,
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OWNERS, BUILDERS, AND CONTRACTORS
Will consult their interests by giving us a call.
Having a lurgo supply of all kinds constantly on
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Respectfully soliciting your orders, we are, yours,
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A
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YHUDUUK (XJMIMINstiw mum; it a t.
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PHILADUU'UIA.
ix iandku O. CiAiitu. luah OArrtUiik
MJI90EL.Il.ANEOU3 GOODS.
CLARK & EVANS,
No. 630 CHESNUT Street,
Open Day and Evening.
Jobbing at Manufacturers' Prices.
i ....
Retailing at Wholesale Prices.
Gold Watches,
Silver Watches,
Fine Jewelry,
Plated Ware,
German Accordeons,
Splendid Cliromos,
Photograph Albums,
Family Bibles,
Table Cutlery,
Pocket Cutlery,
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Stationery,
reriumery,
Suspenders,
NecK Ties,
Hosiery,
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MONEY SAVED BY PURCHASING YOUR GOODS
OR
21
EVANS.
SPOOL. SILK, THREAD, ETO.
EMOVAL.-PRIOES KEDUCED.
W. II. MABREY
Wonld respectfully call the attention of his old cus
tomers, and all manufacturers of Clothing and
Shoes, and others, who use Spool Silk, Thread, Cot
ton, Needles, Shuttles, and Sewing Machine Trim
mings generally, that he lias removed from No. lit
North FOURTH Street to
No. 235 ARCH Street,
Where he will be happy to see all, and sell all goods
at reduced prices, aud defy all competition la price
and quality.
8 81 wfmam W. n. MABREY, NftKW ARCH St.
1115. W3L T HOPKINS
LADIES' EMPORIUM.
NO. 1115 CHESNUT STREitT (GIRARD ROW).
Lai-Kent anortmeot and Bert and Cheapest Good, in th.
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Manufacturer of Hopkins' Celebrated Champion Hoop
Skirta, for Lad lee, Misees,and Children, tnOTer four hun
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Coteil, Katino, and Jane. Corset., In eight different
styles, manufactured expressly for our own uloa, from
fe 1 l0 to S.V
,';$ different styles of superior fitting Frenoh worea
VhalelKne (JORSKTS. from 1 to
1 4 varietle of extra handsome Whalebone OoneU. from
?5 centato S'-i'SO.
Mioulder Braces, Madame Foy'i Corset Skirt Sup
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Mrs. Moody'. Patent Self-adjusting Abdominal Corset,
highly recommended by physicians, from S.'J to 97.
l'TIX LINES OF LADIES' UNDERGAR
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being gratuitously distributed to our customer, for th.
pniixe of getting them introduced. i 36 8m
DYEINQ AND PRINTING.
gSTA B L I S II ED 18 19.
The New York Dyeing and Printing
Establishment,
8TATKN ISLAND,
No. 40 North EIGHTH Street (West Side), Philadel
phia; No. 8S UUANK Street, aud 768 BROADWAY.
New York.
This old and well-known Company are prepared, as
usual, with the highest degree of skill and the most
approved machinery, TO DYE, CLEANSE, and
FINISH every variety of LADIES' and GENTLE
MEN'S GARMENTS, and PIECE GOODS, la their
usual superior manner.
GAKMENTS CLEANSED WnOLE. 3 11 thsta
NOTE Thisjs our only office in Philadelphia.
WINES.
HER MAJESTY
CHAMPAGNE.
DUNTON & LUSSON,
215 SOUTH FE0NT ST.
THE ATTENTION OP THE TRABE IS
solicited to the following very Choic. Wins, to., tat
sale by
DUNTON LUSSON,
315 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
CHAMPAGNES. Agent, for Her Majesty, PnodeMon
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PORTS.-Vinho Velho Real, Valletta and Crown.
CLARETS. Promis Ain. A (Me., MonUerrand and Boc
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carried in a paper to any part of the city, aa you ould
candy. Fifteen or twenty diiferent kinds of them are kp
constantly on hand, and ONE HUNDRED D1FFKKKNT
FLAVORS can be made to order for those who desire to
bave something never before seen in the United Slates,
and superior to any Ice Cream made in F.urope.
Principal Depot No. 1324 WALNUT Street.
Branch Store No. 1020 SPRING GARDKN Street.
b 1J F. J. ALLKliKETTI.
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C PECIALTY
O V
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AND
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OF THE LATEST STYLES and LOWEST PRICES',
ToRether with all tho NEW SPRING PATTERNS ot
llrst-eluss PHAETONS AND CARRIAGES, in stoclc
and finish. Vor sale by
S. W. JACOBS,
4 10 finw2ra No. 61T ARCH STREET.
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Patent Wire Railing, Iron Bedsteads, Ornamental
Wire Work, Paper-makers' Wires, aud every variety
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No. 11 N. SIXTH Htroet
s'mwj
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-mm 1 V A - .
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ir hoiww, at hujulliuiars No. ! MARbUALL Wwl
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