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THE RHETORIC OF "RECONSTUCTION."
from the N. Y. World.
The politics of Tennessee, ns they are now
conducted, furniHh a beautiful testimonial to
Ihe merits of that policy of radicrd recon
struction of which thoy are the ripont fruits.
With the view of enlightening persons not
exposed to the blosnings of reconstruction
upon the practical workings of that boon of a
benign Congress, the World yesterday pub
lished a report of the canvassing which is now
in progress between the rival candidates for
the succession to the courteous and Christian
Mr. Brownlow in the Governorship of Ten
nessee. It is a melancholy pleasure to ascer
tain, from the manner in which Htokes and
Senter carry on their oratorical projection of
mutual mud, that, whichever of them succeeds,
the office will be filled with all the gontloness
and all the dignity with which Mr. Urownlow
illustrated its incumbency.
There does not seem to be anything to
choose between the persons of Messrs. Stokes
and Senter, and rpiite as little botween their
politics. For, as in Faris in the height of the
French revolution, as its greatest historian
has described it to us, so now in Tennessee,
there is no distinction of patriot and unpatri
otic, but only of the limited patriot and the un
limited. Both candidates lay claim to bound
less localty, and the endeavor of each is
to discredit the loyalty of the other, with
nearly equal success. Both these spotless
loyalists have disgraced the service of the late
Confederacy Stokes in a military and Sonter
in a civil capacity and the aim of each now
is to establish, what is almost a self
evident proposition, that his adherence was
of very small benefit to the Confederate cause,
as well as to show forth the loil works by
which he has proved his repentance of that
political sin. AVe blush to say that Senter is
at present the more conservative of the two,
although, if their positions were reversed, we
Would be forced equally to blush in saying
the same of Stokes. But Senter is conserva
tive in wishing to exclude negroes not only
from the polls, but from the witness-box.
The arguments which he adduces for this lat
ter deprivation can only be fitly weighed
when it is given in his own lofty language:
"What have we come to when it is gravely pro
posed to let a nigger come up and he sworn like a
white man. Thiuk of It! A buck nigger, with his
toes spraddled out like a pair of tongs, a nose as flat
as a pancake, and his heels running so fur behind
that they would hold a bolt of calico; such a thiug
coming up to swear away the life of a white niau!
Why, it's too preposterous to talk about."
From this fragment the rest of Senter's
speech can be conjectured. It devotes itself
to a great deal of scurrility about Stokes
what the papers friendly to Senter call a
"scathing exposure" of Stokes a great deal
of clumsy but heartfelt panegyric upon Sen
ter, and a touching compliment to the audi
ence upon the prevalence of clean linen and
shaven faces which the orator remarked
among them. Mr. Senter ulso dwells at great
length, although not exactly with extreme
unction, on the bald head of Mr. Stokes, the
baldness of which appears to the mind of Mr.
Senter to be a conclusive reason why Mr.
Stokes should not be elected Governor of
Tennessee.
It would be impossible to excel Mr. Senter
in the peculiar rhetoric in which he enwraps
his thoughts: but what man could do in
that direction Mr. Stokes undoubtedly did
Before beginning his remarks, he picked up
the pitcher from which his predecessor had
been imbibing what purported to be water,
but what the disgusted sniffing of Stokes pro
claimed to be spirits, and nobly cried
"Take this away ! Take it away ! I want
water!" The heat of his subsequent criticism
of Senter betokened that he did. Stokes ad
mitted that he had bought and sold the
colored brothers whose votes he was then
having the honor to supplicate; but he hurled
back with scorn the charge of Senter that
he had sold the last negro sold in Tennessee,
and proved how, although he had offered
him for sale, the market was so dull or the
negro so essentially unmarketable that a sale
of him could not be effected, and he was
therefore left on Stokes' hands to receive the
blood-bought boon of freedom. And if he
had been a Confederate officer, was it not a
notorious fact that Senter had been a Confed
erate legislator? And if he was bald, was it
not flagrantly obvious that Senter was
fat ? Without assuming to decide, in the
abstract, upon the relative degree of his dis
qualification wrought by baldness and by
pinguitude, Stokes continued to affix a
special stigma to the pinguitude of Senter:
"liow came he fat ? Why, tie had set back on his
sofa during the war, and done nothing. Why didn't
he go into the army and relieve himself of his fat
ness T The army was a good place to get fat off."
We have given this outline of the great
questions in dispute between the two parties
which divide the State of Tennessee, as stated
by the chosen champions of those parties, for
the purpose of showing what a state of things
that "reconstruction ' which has had a
longer and a fairer trial there than in any
Other State, and which was to inaugurate
a reign of higher and purer politics
to the South and to the country has
actually resulted in. What a descent it is
from the politicians of an earlier era,
from Andrew Jackson and John Bell nay,
from Andrew Johnson to this blackguard
Stokes and this blackguard Senter! From
the decent discussion of national measures
which prevailed in that era to the nasty squab
bles, the low buffoonery, and the sickening
demagogy of those hungry camp-followers of
Congress, how vast an interval it is ! Yet
Stokes and Senter are the ripe consummate
flowers of the same rank vegetation which is,
in the blade or in the germ, throughout the
South, and what we now see in Tennessee we
may look in the fulness of time to see wher
ever the seed of Congressional folly has been
Sown. Abtit omen.
AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES.
From the X. 1'. Sun.
The controversy carried on in our columns
by several distinguished writers as to who
stood godfather at the baptism of the Repub
lican party awakens reminiscences concerning
tha toning borne from time to time by the
frreat tMlitical organizations of this country,
T)ia rlient titles assumed by parties after
the adoption of the Constitution were Federal
and Republican. The more conspicuous
lalur of the former were John Adams,
Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall; of
the latter. Jefferson, Madison, and George
Clinton. Among the prominent younger
members of the Republican party were Henry
Clay, De Witt Clinton, and, near the close of
Jfcfferwon'u administration, John Quiucy
Adams, all of whom subsequently became
listinguiwhed opponents of the same party.
The Republicans favored a restriction of the
-nowers of the Nutionul Government, and ad
vocated State Rights, whilo the Federalists
held antagonistic opinions on both these suV
iects.
The two parties continued to bear those
names until the era of good feeling under the .
Record term of Monroe s administration, when
the Federal party expired. During the ad
ministration of John Qnincy Adams, his op
ponents, under the lead of Van Buren and
Jackson, assumed the name of Democrats or
Democratic Republicans, the latter being the
favorite designation in Now York; while their
antagonists called themselves National Repub
licans, their conspicuous chiefs being Clay,
Adams, and Webster. During this period, a
third party nrose, called Anti-Masons, whose
founders and leaders wore Thurlow Weed,
Thaddens Stevens, and William 11. Seward.
This party exerted a good deal of influence in
moulding the politics of New York and Penn
sylvania, but on national issues it was in close
accord with the party of Clay and Webster.
Under the administration of Jackson the
materials of which parties were composed
changed very essentially. Large numbers of
old Federalists went over to Jackson, while a
respectable body of Democrats rallied around
Clay. Near the close of Jackson's adminis
tration the party of Clay and Webster was
made up of the mass ftf the old Federalists,
now called National Republicans, and the
rank and file of the Anti-Masons. Scarcely
had Van Buren pronounced his inaugural
address when the opposition to the Demo
cracy assumed the name of Whigs. General
James Watson Webb, of the Courier and En
quirer, claimed the honor of bestowing upon
that great and powerful organization the
popular cognomen which it bore through
eighteen eventful years.
Soon after the formation of the Whig party
the slavery question began to assume promi
nence in national affairs, and resulted in 18(0
in organizing the Libertjparty, which, though
small in numbers, inculcated doctrines that
ultimately controlled the country, and, as the
fruits of a long controversy and a successful
war, incorporated into the Constitution those
amendments respecting slavery, the rights or
citizens, and the universality of suffrage,
which have so radically changed that instru
ment. Among the founders and leaders of
this party were James G. Birney, Gerrit
Smith, Joshua Leavitt, John G. Whittier, and
Henry B. Stanton. From the same root
sprang first the Free Soil party of 184 1, in
which Salmon P. Chase and John P. Hale
were distinguished, and then the Free De
mocracy of 1848, with its famous Buffalo
platform, whereof those eminent Barnburners,
John Van Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Sanford
E. Church, and Dean Richmond were the
main architects Martin Van Buren, better
known as the Sage of Lindenwald, being the
chief cornerstone. This celebrated organiza
tion swept into its ranks all the Liberty party,
all the Free Soil party, a majority of the De
mocratic party of the State of New York, and
a large number of prominent Democrats and
a respectable sprinkling of Whigs throughout
the free States.
This remarkable party, though it did not
dwell among men for a great while, lived
long enough to prepare the way for the ad.
vent of the Republican party. Under the
inspiring lead of John Van Buren, it was the
precursor of the new political dispensation
of 18,-)4-.r. when the free-soil principles of the
Buffalo platform furnished the materials for
the erection of the great political organiza
tion which for the past ten years has ruled the
country.
Ihese historical reminiscence's show that
the Democracy have been more tenacious of
their name than their opponents. But Mr.
Lincoln used to insist that though the De
mocratic party had saved its name, tha Re
publicans had stolen away its cardinal prin
ciples, and that the latter were now the only
orthodox disciples of Jefferson. However,
Mr. Lincoln is no more, and it will be well
for the party that gave him power and pres
tige to take heed lest it also soon pass into
history, and be known among living men no
more.
OUR NEW SPANISH EXPEDITION.
From the X. Y. Herald.
Our telegraphic report from Europe on
Wednesday brought consoling advices to Mr.
Secretary Fish in the shape of an encourag
ing pat on the back from John Bright's Quaker
organ, the London Star, "for taking measures
to prevent the departure of filibustering par
ties for Cuba. The only drawback to the
pleasure of our worthy Secretary of Stated if
it is a drawback, is the fact that his measures
do not seem to have prevented the departure
of a single filibuster. We admit the doubt
because private assurances from persons very
near to Mr. Secretary Fish insist that he sym
pathizes with the Republican cause in Cuba,
that be desires to see it triumph at an early
day, and that he is only coquetting with Spain
for the purpose of keeping a dreadful Euro
pean complication off the backs of the belli
gerent Cubans. The said private assurances
furthermore intimate, with a tone of in
tense wisdom, that something particularly
private in relation to Cuba is going on be
tween our Government and that at .Madrid
that General Prim has been seen, Serrano
looked after, and that the best results may
be hoped for if we will not commit the Gov
ernment. Our experience'in both public and private
affairs is that straightforward truth and man
liness is the best, and, as Sir Boyla Roach
said, that the only way to get round a difficulty
is to meet it plump. Now, as the administra
tion is about to send a filibustering expedition
into the very heart of the Iberian peninsula,
under the command of one of our most keen
and audacious generals, and as the Cabinet is
preparing his instructions, both public and
private, we desire to say a few words on the
state of affairs in these Spanish-American
questions. The first point of interest is that
we mean to keep faith not such faith as Spain
kept with us in our late war, but loyal, good
faith with the friendly powers of Europe and
America, and we wish it to be distinctly under
stood that this determination does not commit
us to the policy of assisting Spain to break
faith with lier own people, or to the waging
of a style of warfare in defense of her re
sisted claims, which shall be an outrage to
humanity and Christian civilization. The
second point of interest in these great ques
tion is this: In common with the whole
world we hold that a prisoner is not to be
punished for availing himself of an oppor
tunity to escape, nor an oppressed people for
improving an occasion to throw off the hate
ful chains of a colonial despotism; and we
desire that this feeling on our part sluill not
be hidden from Spain, but rather do we desire
thnt it shall be clearly made known to her.
The third point with which the oommander
of this new Spanish expedition should be im
pressed is this: Should any of our enthusias
tic and liberty-loving citizens, believing that
the cause of republican Cuba is the cause of
freedom, which all true men love, choose to
emulate the example of Lafayette, and, run
ning the risks of hostilo cruisers at sea and
well-armed (seeing that we sold them their
breech-loaders) foes on shore, proceed to take
part in honorable warfare in Cuba, we will not
under any circumstances hold that they are
I pirates, enemies of the human race, or in any
way entitled to harsher treatment than what is
imposed by the laws and chances of war. The
fourth and last point which we deiire to
be made known to Spain in the outset of any
little private discussion is this: It is the al-
mitted belief of every pnbho man and private
citizen in this country that "Cuba gravitates
towards the American Union, and we are by
no means ignorant of the weakening which
recent events have brought to the ties tht
bind her to Spnin. We therefore cannot ad
mit that the latter power, because she finds
it impossible to retain Cuba hersolf, has the
right to do anything which shall hnve merely
the effect to reduce the value of Cuba per e,
and make it less useful to us when the ripe
ness of time shall have brought it into the
fold of free and independent States.
With these injunctions and a reminder to
the commander that he had a fingor, if not an
entire hand, in the Ostend convention, we
think Mr. Fish may venture to send his new
expedition into the heart of Spain. We ad
vise both the Secretary and the commander
not to cxpoct too much from their enterprise,
nor to let the grass grow beneath their feet in
the pursuit of it. Events on the American
shore of the ocean are hastening to new and
greater complications, and if they delay too
Jong their hoped-for adjustment of present
questions others of more urgent import will
push them from the field of diplomatic con
sideration. BRITISH AMERICA.
From the X. Y. Tribune.
There are unreckoned possibilities in the
immense territory north of us. Viewing this
fact, the Governor of Canada made a remark
able speech the other day on the union of
British America. Lord Bury, in Parliament,
not long ago, said that the navigation of
British America needed improvement but in
three places in order that a ship might be
taken from England to the foot of the Rocky
Mountains. Other Englishmen have been
speculative enough to agree with the noble
lord that the future communication between
England and India. China, and Japan would
be by the way of Canada, the Rocky Moun
tains, and the Frazer river, It is in accord
with this prediction that a scheme, pro
voked by the completion of our mter-
oceanichighway,has been revived in England.
As far back as HC() this scheme proposed "to
extend the broad belt of England in the
temperate zone round the world," by a rail
road through Canada, the Red River settle
ment, anil the Hudson Bay hunting-grounds,
to the Pacific, a route calculated to be 1.100
miles shorter than our own, and, in the jude
ment of its advocates, more practicable and
less costly. This British-American highway
to the sea would open up a new intermediate
country, which, it is said, comprises some of
the most fertile tracts in the world, and have
its Pacific terminus in the natural and admi
rable harbor near Fort Langley, at Vancou
ver's Island. Projects of emigration, and of
the utilization ot convicts, have oeen asso
ciated with this prospectus; and by those who
see most in it, it is held that British America,
what with its broad water-courses, its fertile
acres, and its great railroad, has in itself the
elements ot vast enterprise.
Therefore many Englishmen object to tha
guarantee by England of the .fl,. ")), 000 with
which Canada is to purchase the territories of
the Hudson Bay Company. They believe that
Canada can well trust to her exhaustless fu
ture, rather than borrow from the mother
country, anything but its population. The
purchase money secures all but a compara
tively small reserve of the great hunting
grounds, and yields up to immigration and
labor what uetore was jealously kept up as a
preserve for wild beasts. The ambition of the
Canadians is to extend their dominion from
the Atlantio to the Pacific, and the possession
ot the new territories encourages them.
Though to the further north of the hunting
grounds nothing invites the settler, yet the
southern and fertile belt just above Minne
sota has the capacity of receiving a popula
tion equal to that of England, and is upon the
proposed highway between Canada and
British Columbia. What change might be
wrought in this quarter by a continental en
terprise such as we have described may be best
conceived by the fact that when the Duke of
Newcastle first brought the project of pur
chase before the English Commons, Minne
sota had but 2000 inhabitants, whereas twenty
years alter, and about present writing, it has
400,000 inhabitants or more, M'2 manufac
tones, and 500 miles of railway.
The connection of British Columbia with
Canada is logically considered as of the
highest importance to the British dominion in
America. It was announced in Parliament
that the former province contained vast mine.
ral wealth, and that the Coal Company of
Vancouver had raised its dividends eighteen
or nineteen per cent.
Nevertheless, we hear occasionally from
lctona that the province is a chronic sut
ferer financially and industrially, and, to some
extent, loyally, if we are to value such pleas
for annexation as come to ns through its jour
nals, 'lme it is that a great many settlers in
Columbia are Americans, and a great many
of its Britons are loyal; but so long as the
colonies there have but a half-life the proxi
mity of the laws, institutions, and pros
perity ot the United mates will be tempting.
British America has but one remedy for the
desire of annexation, and that is to rely
upon herselt, to awake at once to the enter
prise of opening up a great part of this con
tinent, nnd to grow as we have grown. She
can thereby centre the attention of her mil
lions on her own empire and destiny. But
we fear that under the slow-going methods
of Great Britain, her growth will not be fast
enough.
THE CUBAN PROBLEM.
From the X. Y. Tribune.
Ihe trovernment has not yet tound cause
or occasion to concede to the Cubans bellige
rent rights. Such is the substance of an im
portant declaration made on Thursday from
Washington. ihe authorities there, it is
said, have no proof positive that the Cubans
have been able to hold a single town, or any
atlhciul advice that the opposing forces in
Cuba have ever met in the open field. There
is a further avowal that while the Spanish
Minister hus been frankly told that the United
States sympathize with Cuba, he has also been
assured that they hold themselves bound to
enforce the legal neutrality. Our authorities
have beeii selling surplus arms to all buyers
without asking questions, and we suppose
that Cubans and Spaniards have alike had
chances to buy.
The course of the Government has been
evidently inspired by caution and fairness.
But we have to take serious exception to one
of the statements which have been made ap
parently with semi-official assumption.
Surely our Government knows better than to
have said or to have quite bolieved that
neither of the parties in the island have
fought in the ooen field. Cuban. Snauish.
and American testimony has been given of the
fact that they lmve fought battles, severe
enougn, considering the nature of the coun
try and the forces on i both sides. , Th9
opinion is general, grounded on the
best evidence that can be extracted
from Cuba, - that the encounters
in the Sierra Cubitas, at Las Tunas, and
lately at Puerto Padre, rose to the rank of
battles. We grant that the Government msy
have no official advice of this fact but hs it
any to the contrary? has it, in fact, any spe
cifically official advice whatever that we may
take as authoritative!" we have no agent with
the Cubans, md it appears to be not safe to
believe the Spaniards. In short, it is a very
fair question whether the Government has
any agent in Havana capable of giving it Cer
tain or trustworthy information of the Cuban
revolution, w hat is so far hinted to us only
seems to show that the informants of the Gov
ernment are either not sufficiently self-pos
sessed, or are not enabled by circumstances
to find out what to believe.
TEARS FOR TEXAS.
From the X. Y. Time.
The World weeps for Texas. "The Lone
Star has been drawn back," it sighs, "by the
powerful attraction of United States bayonets."
i he trouble with Texas is not, according to
the World, in "native Texans of conservative
extraction" oh, no I They are never among
the desperadoes and ruffians who plunder and
murder innocent people there. The villains
are all "radicals," so that, "if you are not a
devout radical, the chances are nine to one
against you that you will get murdered by a
delegate or a delegation of outlaws, who have
neither military commission nor civil process
to fear." Is not this a dreadful state of
affairs ? And is not the World's a fair and
candid review of the condition of Texas,
where it tells us, every man who is not a
devout radical is "murdered" or, at least.
stands but one chance in ten of escaping?
The . Worm should take comfort from
Semmes. That worthy reads its articles.
likes them, borrows its phraseology, calls the
Government troops "military satraps and
tyrants," and spells loyal "loil. Yet he hope-
luliy addresses Texas thus:
"Glorious Texas! what If thou art a little too much
gtven to the bowie-knife and revolver, aud what If
grass widows are somewhat frequent in some of tli
i
localities, thou art all right at heart ) In an ev
hour you were beguiled into accepting the fatal em
brace of the l aukees. Hide thy time 1 Thou art
rapidly filling up with population. Thou wilt soon
become an empire in thyself, and the day is not far
distant when thou muyest again strike for free
dom I"
Cheery language like this from a man who
is not "loil," ought to stir up the World from
its despondency. Semmes does not grieve, as
without hope, over the fact that "the Lone
Star has been drawn back to the present ga
laxy by the powerful attraction of United
States bayonets. " No more should the World
play the part of Dismal Jemmy because the
Attorney-General has given an opinion in
favor of the legality of the conviction by
military commission of Weaver, who wan
tonly murdered the negro. "The one reflec
tion,"' says the World, "which at present can
gild the dismal horizon which encompasses
iexas round about is, for the inhabitants
thereof, ?We once were Texans. " Not at
all. Such reflections may do very well for the
Weavers and the Yergers of the Southwest to
gild their horizons with, but the Weavers and
Yergers are, fortunately, a very small part of
the peaceable, . order-loving, and murder
ba'ing communities who are to control the
destinies of those regions.
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brick dwelling house Is attached to the store, the fur
niture of which can bo purchased very reasonable,
or the building will be disposed of, If desired. HAV
ING BEEN ESTABLISHED THIRTEEN YEARS,
AND THE CLOSEST ATTENTION PAID TO IT,
THE ORDER PORTION ALONE OF THE TRADE
IS A GOOD BUSINESS IN ITSELF.
Apply to JOHN GREIG,
e it Chester, Pa.
LOOKINQ GLASSES, ETO.
E
STABLISUEL) 179 5.
A. S. ROBINSON,
. FRENCH PLATE LOOKING-GLASSES,
ENGRAVINGS,
BEAUTIFUL CHR0MOS,
PAINTINGS,
Manufacturer of all kinds Of
LOOKING-GLASS,
PORTRAIT, AND PICTURE FRAMES.
NO. 910 CHESNUT STREET,
8 IS Fifth door above the Continental. Phlla.
JOHN SMITH,
LOOKING-GLASS AND PICTURE FUAiUE
MANUFACTURER,
BIBLE AND PRINT PUBLISHER,
And Wholesale Dealer In
AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLOCKS AND REGU
LATORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Also. General Agent for the sale of the "Eureka"
Patent Condensing Cetfee and Tea Pots something
that every family should have, and by which they
can save fifty per cent.
Traue suppuea at a nrierai nisconnt
416 8m N. 916 ARCH STREET.
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETO.
JOBEKT
SHOEMAKER & CO.,
N.
Corner FOURTH and BACE SU
PHILADELPHIA.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
Importers and Manufacturer! ot
White Lead and Colored Faints, Putty
Varnishes, Etc
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINO PAINTS,
Dealers and consumers supplied at lowest prices
for caah. IS 45
s& C-.F-R0MPP'.
t lajjiffl rJlWTT rC "anuiavturer ana unporter oi
FATCCV LEATHER. GOODS,
KOS. 116 AND 118 NORTH FOURTH ST
Pocket Books,
Pulchels,
TraTelinjr Bap 8,
Porte-monnaieS)
Portfolio.
Oixar Cases,
Writing Oases,
Writing Desks,
Hankers' Oases,
Dressing Cases.
Money Belts,
Match Cases.
- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
N0S. 116 AND 118 NORTH FOURTH ST.,
6 61m PHILADELPHIA.
COAL OIL', ETC, ETO.
W
7ILLIAM BALDWIN & OO.
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Coal Oil Yinepr, Benzine,
ALCOHOL, TURPENTINE,
LUBRICATING, WHALE, LARB, and OTHER OILS
No. 129 ARCn fitreet and
Nos. 1440 and 1443 WARNOCK Street
PHTLAPELPHIA. 61m
w
INDOW GLASS
The snhscribers are manufacturing daily, lu.uvo feet
best ((jiality of
AMERICAN WINDOW GL AS
They are also constantly receiving importations of
FRENCH WINDOW GLASS.
Roneh Plate and Ribbed Glass, Enamelled, Stained
Fnpruved, and Ground Glas, which they oiler at jfn
market rates.
EVANS, SHARP A WESTCOATT.
5 !9 8ra No. BIS MARKET Street, Philada.
PIANOS, ETO.
ALBRECHT.
RJFKKS A (SCHMIDT,
MANITAI'TCIIMIS OS"
FIRST CLASS PIANO FORTES.
Full guarantee and moderate prices. ...
8 S 8 W A REROOMS, No. 10 ARCH 8'
-r-2, CIIICKKKING
W"T--' Grand huuare and Ueriabs
PIANOS.
IJjtf No-ttUOUKSNU l' BUeek.
BHIPPINO.
.CHAnLESTOF4. 8. C.
THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST
FAST FHEIGHT LINtL
EVERY THURSDAY.
The Steamships PROMETHEUS, OsprMn Gray. J
W. b BM.MAft, I'aninin Vance,
WILL FORM A REGULAR WEEKLY LINS.
The gtcmimliln J. V . KVKRMA N will ..n -
TIlliP.SDAV, Ju.y 1, at 4 P. M.
Through bills ot hiding given In connection with 3
v. R. It. to point In the South and Southwmit.
Inttnrnm-e at lowi'Ht rntixt. nty at froi
as by any other rmte. For freight, ppiy to
OTtf tXXll STKKKT H'inillf
BREST.
The splendid new vessels an thu .
Oontmeut will sa,l from PtNo.N rtr,
PKRFIRr? Duchesne K,tBj M . ,
LAFAYETTE RoUMe.n " ". !!! Sd' aMaf,i
6T. LAURENT 1 .emari ". " 'hJ ,"I' '
VILLK DK PARIS Surmount . is
PRICK Or Plains
In gold (Including wine).
1U uitr.nr jk riavUK.
First Cabin $140iSeonad Oabia. sn
(Including railway tickets, furnished on board.)
First Cabin ftl Seoood Vul,in...Zl aa
1 hee atAmers do not carry steerage passengers.
Bledioal attendance free of oharge.
American travellers going to or returning from the om
tinent of Europe, br takina tha itaunan n tku n Trr.
unnecessary risks from trsnsit by English railways and
croasing the ohanurl, hoaidna saving time, trouble.
eipenae. UEOKUIC M ACRKiXZiK, A?t
. , no. UKOAUWAY, New York.
For niNUtira In Phlladlnhi ,..., J or,L
Ctompany, to " " K L LK Af
' HO. 3W UHKSNUT Ktii
- . i,.YJ'.urllleL RICHMOND.
TM r T T A rDT mtf . "
ClliJIC..1iTHROUOH FREUJHT aib ris'S'Sai
fc;i-:jn&TllK HI WITH ivn uiiib" v
EVERY SATURDAY,
Street.000 ilRaT WHARF .bora MARKET
THROUGH RATES to all points In North fand South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at
Portamouth and to Ijrnobburg, Ve., Tennessee, andthj
.TviliXlfrd! f -AirLin. Richmond
mend it to the jmMio as the moat desmble mediuaitaf
The rMrularitv. BHfet.v. and chcu.i,AM . --
os trying every
ro charge lor oommiaaion, drayago, or any aipenaa at
transfer.
Steamships insured at tha lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
VILLIAM P. OLYDR A OO
m No. 11 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WH ARVES.
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and Gitv Point
T. P. CKOWKLL OO., Agents at NorfolkTjjj "li
LORILLARD S STEAMSHIP
ViTOr LINa fob
new YORK.
Balling Tneidays, Tnnrsilays, and Saturdays,
REDUCTION OP RATES.
Spring rates, commencing March IB.
Balling Tuesdays. Thursdays, and Saturdays. On
and after 16th of March freight by this line will be
taken at 18 cents per loo pounds, 4 cents per foot, or
1 ctnt per gallon, ship's option. Advance charges
cached at otllee on Pier. Freight received at all
times on covered wharf.
JOHN P. OHL,
28 Pier 19 North Wharves. .
N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc
. ffJfc. . NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
LTT Alexandria, Georgetown and Washington. D.
Tinassi rmm O., via Chesapeake and Delaware OanaL with
connect loua at Alexandria from the most direct route for
Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxriile, Nashville, DaJton. and tha
Southwest.
Steamers leave regniarly every Saturday at noon from tha
first wharf above Market street.
Freight reoeived daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North and South Wharves.
HYDK TYLER, Agents, at Georgetown : M.
KLDRIDGK A CO., Agents at Alexandria g 1
JTUK LIVERPOOL AND
rttfPi;VTAUfM T r . .. .
Jrw'irrivr. ' """ xane oi mail
;JVy.i - steamers are appointed ta uil u int.
litrxiariows--
Cay ot Brooklyn, baturday, June 2fl, at W. M.
rCHy of Washington, via Halifax, Tuesday, June 2i, at 10
City of Antwerp, Saturday. July 8, at 12 noon.
City of Pi.r.s, Hut i-day, July lo, at 1 P. M.
And each succeed ina Satnrd .ni tu,.-
(rom PiW 45, Worth River.
BATES OF PASSAGE.
BTDTH. ,It 8 ' Kama sailing tvr.at SAftranAT.
Payable in Gold. Payable in Curronn.
FIRST CAhUJf .....IMISTEeAaGk!?.:..0.'- t3l
lo London loaj To London ao
ToPans llsl To Paris.
raMAGS BY TBB TUESDAY STEAMER, VIA HAUfaX.
Halifax aulHalifax "." ia
... U
..!
i 45DS 'nn ..-
1J UIMiruoiMMloioi.) )V
Passengers also forwarded to 11a'
eta., at reduced rates.
by Branch Steamer..
re, Hamburg, Bremen,
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates bf perrons
W. ....... 'm w OMU '
t or further information ap
JOHN O. DALE. Agent, N
it ion apply at tha Company's Offloea.
gent. No. 13. BROADWAY, N. V7
'DONNELL A FAULK. AgenuL
ortn C'DONNKT.T, Jk KAITr.ir
4 6 ' Wo. 4110HESNUT Street, Philadelphia.
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK VTA
DELAWARE AND RARITAN OANAI
EXPRESS STEAMBOAT UOM PA nv
The CHEAPEST and GUICKKST w,
tion between Philadelphia and New York.
Steamers leave daily from first wharf below Market
street, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street, New York.
Goods forwarded by all the line running out of New
York, North, East, and West, free of ooinmiasion.
st raight reoeived and forwarded on accommodating terms.
VULLIAM P. CLYDE A OO.. Aaenta,
Ho. 13 & DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia.
. JAMES HAND, Agent,
W No. 119 WALL Street. New York.
. tfTr Ik NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK,
L'i"i3Jr ti i)ei.War and Raritan Canal, SWIFTS
Si.mM.n.rr'l 6URE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND SW1FT8URK LINE.
The business by these lines will be resumed on and after
the eto of March, l or Freights, which will be taken on
accommodating terms, apply to
W. M. BAIRD A OO.,
No. Hi South Wharves.
ROOFING.
"DEADS ROOFI
N
Q.
an bs
Xi This Roofing is adapted to all buildings.
It
apyueu w
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half tha expense of tin. It is readily pnt on old
Shingle Roofs without removing the shingles, thus avoid-,
ing the damaging of ceilings and furniture while nndor
going repairs. (No trravel used.)
PRJSSKKVK YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WELTOITS
ELASTIC; PAINT.
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short
notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the barael or gallon,
the best and cheapest in tha market.
W. A. WELTON.
Ho. 7U N. NINTH Street, above Ooates, and
117 No. 818 WALNUT Street.
TO OWNERS. ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS
AND ROO EE US. -Hoofs! Yes. yes. Every size snd
kind, old or new. At No. M3 N. THIRD Stmet, the AME
RICAN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOK COMPANY
are selling their celebrated paint for TIN ROOKS, and
for preserving all wi"d and metals. Also, their solid oom
tlx roof covsring, ttie best ever offered to the public, with
brushes, cans, bucket, ete., for the work. Anti-vermin,
Fire, snd Water pront , Light, Tight, Durable. No crack
ing, pealing, or shrinking. Ne paper, gravel, or heat. Good
for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work
men supplied. Care, promptness, certainly! One price!
iau: r.xamine: it'i ;ko:
Acente wanted for interior counties.
4 A"tf
JOSEPH LEEDS, PrinoipaL
ryo BUILDEKS AND CONTRACTORS
A. Wa are prepared to furnish FnglLh imported
AKPHht.TIC ROOKING FELT
In quantitina to si. t. I bis rooting was used to oover ths
Paris Exhibition in 1 7. . . .
MERCHANT A CO.,
4 28ra Noe.617and61MlN01tJtroet
O" ld grave:, hoofs covered over
with Mastic tiu -. and warranted for ten years.
HAMILTON A GOOKFKR,
I lB-'.m No. 4a S. TENTH Street.
gARZELi:.E & DUCHEY,
Custom House ti rollers and Notaries Public
No. 405 LI3RARY STREET.
ALL CUSTOM Hd'SK BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
PASSP HT3 PROCURKD.
gf,iilY mKECTLINE TO FRANCE
'J Coo" PA N vlKih TF ""ATMWTI0
RMEfi INK W V ORK Am uivd. A 5 ' n
nki,uuUitUt
JOW 13 THE TIME TO CLEANSE i
TOUR HOUSE.
WIXClll'R. IIAKT.1IA3I .V CO.'g
WAMllNC. AMI CI.EANS1NU POWDER
Is unequalled for scrubbing Paints, Floors, and all bouee-
bold use.
avaa lor u ana taae no otue
W. 11. HOWMAN. Sole Agent,
No. 11M FRANKrOHO Hoad
1 CS4n
DR. V. (ilRAKD, VETERINARY 8UR-
f7 GEON, treats all diseases of homos and cattle.
md ail rurgt
or hort.es. at
I oiM'i-ktions. witli efficient accommodations
for horr.es, at his lnuruiary. No.
m
MARSHALL btreet,
above t'oiilar,