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-QUESTION OF ETHICS
-QEN.HICKLE3.
. , . ixj, x Y. World
cop, 'from the Newark .lrfWr the
Uowing 'strictures on the exposure, recently
STiii these colnmnH, of the career of the
iXioua Daniel E. Sickles, who ha been
nt by Indent Grant to represent our Gov
Bm.nenUt Madrid, without conlirmat.on by
the Senate. We choose to reply to tin par
ifcX inculpation, in preference to any one
of Several othera, because, though dealing
JreriTS invective, it has never helcss flomo
Stance of reasonin?. ye will not retort
Us d soourtesy.butwilT endeavor to observe
Ihe Hobriety and decorum b0"6:
cuBsion of a grave moral Bubject. All that
e regarctod as argument , in the arhcle
from whicli we quote is comprised xi tne: 01
lowinsr extract:
"Now we do not propose to go into any nves ga
inn of the past history of General bioklea. It is
wUh-lT know,Hnd I should be frankly admitted, that
re Is much c i his record which ho and his mends
ToZ gUdly forg.-t. We leave that to stand, only
rroktln again the mass of Insinuation and of
Siht n iuor which the World has chosen to mingle
with sVSnni of fact. Kvory life carries Its sorrows-
a some their crimes. No
prtvato history Is proper for publicat ion What
"rmeSa to assert is that the plain verl y o truth
way be the meanest and grossest of libels; that It
mix be a crime to utter it, hardly second to the
SrtJinal oireuse. 'The greater the truth, the greater
Sffil h til. meanTng. When , . i man tells truth
he should do it with a decent motive. 1 he 'truth,
teller" who would blacken the reputation of the
voman he hid betrayed may bo ab o to prove his
fact but never to Justify their disclosure. Ho, too,
Jt nUgh happen that thi shadow of a great sin Ilea
icroHS the pathway of a man who not only repents,
but has done work's meet for repentance. Suppose,
lor instance, that we to-day should publish and
prove that a man who has been for manyywrs an
estimable citizen was In his youth In Jail for theft,
or forgery, or other luamoua crime. What right
have we to disgrace his grey hairs and bring shame
1,1. hll.lr..n9 . f if nil IllielS. tllSt WOtllll DO thO
most malicious, and have the least jnstiilcatlon in
any honorable soul. The law makes it a crime, and
it im s miauruhlv mpflil and inexcusable crime.
'The peculiar point in the life of General Sickles Is
that no, under a burden which would have crushed
jny but an indomitable will, and a weight of censure
lileh would have made most lives utterly hopeless,
las fought his way upward and onward, redeemed
iimself in public estimation, and conquered what
teemed to lie an Irrevocable fate. He has opened
with his sword a deep gulf between his present and
lis earlier life. Holding high executive positions
which required the coolest temper and the strongest
Integrity, he has satislied his countrymen and won
their suirrage. And now, when on the eve of his de
parture to till a place of high and responsible trust,
his fellow-citizens of all parties, and of the most dis
tinguished social rank, combine to do hlra honor, it
Is no time to make him the target of all the scandal
of a passionate and stormy life. If he had gone
down, as weaker natures would have done, slowly
sinking U) abasement, the world would have been
Pllent, or perhaps charitable to the faults of 'the
jioor fellow.' liut now that he has 'plucked up
drowned honor by the locks,' saved himself and
helped to Bave nls country ; now t hat his Government
selects him as its ambassador and good men crowd
to do him reverence, it is ouly wicked to revive, with
eager particularity and revengeful gossip, the blem
ishes in a career which, for its sins, has atoned with
justice, and which, out of all Its sad events, has risen
to the dignity of acknowledged statesmanship and
patriotism."
Tfte subBtance of this impetuous effusion
is, that although the past life of General
fcJicklea is infamous and indefensible, it ought
to be condoned in consideration of bis more
recent career. From the abstract proposition
mat iaiuuui repentance ougui to tuiieia ior
mer misconduct irom wanton censure, no
considerate mind will dissent. But in apply
ing this principle to particular cases,
some regard must be had to the right
of other people than the criminal to judge
for themselves as to the treatment which
may be due him in consequence of
his penitence. If there had been given to
General Sickles, instead of the recent recep
tion, a private dinner party to which New
York gentlemen had been invited with their
wives or daughters, we suppose that no ladies
who value their social respectability would
have consented to attend, and that no father
or husband who is at all strict or fastidious
respecting the social credit of his family
would have permitted them to be present. It
is obvitus enough that the Newark Adver
tiser'! argument that General Siokles' past life
ought to be condoned has the same applica
tion, when stated in general terms, to a joint
Social recognition by ladies and gentlemen
as to a reception by gentlemen alone. If
Belf-reepecting ladies shrink from association
witn ueneral bickles, as from a contamina
tion which would compromise their social
standing, their refusal rests, for its sole rea
son, upon the acts which have branded that
man with social infamy. Nothing could well
be more impertinent, or more subversive of
accepted social standards, than to question
the right of such ladies, or the right of their
husbands and fathers, to be their own judges
as to their duties and obligations in such a
matter. Sentimental saws about the forgive
ness earned by subsequent conduct would be
treated, in such a case, with derisive scorn.
The appointment of such a man as Sickles
to an important foreign mission is an insult
ing invasion of the social rights of the circles
in which a foreign minister is expected to
move. The social relations of a high diplo
matic officer are even more important than
his oliioial relations. It is but occasionally
that he is charged with negotiations of much
consequenoe; his habitual duties consist in
keenly watching current events in the country
to which he is accredited, and supplying his
Government with early information. To know
things after they have occurred is of little
use; vuui ju.xiu ui uuuriuuuuu is attainable, at
tailing expense, from the public journals.
We Bend ministers abroad to learn events in
their seeds and beginnings, in order that our
Government may bo prepared for what is
coming, and not be taken by surprise, and bo
be wise behind time. It is therefore of the
first consequence that a minister have confi
dential access to the social circles in which
those men move who plan and direct the
policy of foreign governments. Such an ap
;ointment is universally regarded as a pass-
port to the highest socioty. The salaries of
ministers are accordingly liberal, to enable
them to maintain mat intercourse oi nospi
tality through which alone they can expect to
learn anvtning wnicn tne uovermuent
home might not as readily find out through
the ordinary publio channels of informa
tion. Our ministers to England and
France receive each a salary
iil7..'i(H) in gold, equivalent to 24,500
currency when cold is 140, a sum nearly equal
to the salary of the President of the United
States, and more than three times the salary
of a member of the Cabinet,' Mr. Sickles, a
minister to Spain, will receive a salary of
12.000 in cold, equivalent to f V,bW in cur
renov. or more than double the salary of the
Secretary of State, his official superior who
trives him instructions and supervises his con
duct. The object of the high salaries paid to
foreign ministers is to enable thein to mam
tain such a social rank as will give them ao
ress to the best sources of information. Un
lens they are received on terms of equality an
onfidenoe in tno. circles, there is no
iustiflcationirTho heavyWjftopses of their
pOHlllOHy" I l.fl comroi oi huciujvu nil cyi
lizM jftihilri. is acoorded to the centiei box
and when a minister is sont abrortl whom vir- I
tUotiH ladies cannot honorably mnnt he is ex-
cludod from the chief moans of nsefulnoss
which belong to a diplomatic career.
It is a great abuse and prostitution of our
foreign missions to convert them into asy
lums for broken reputations.' They are in
stituted for the publio good, not for the pri
vate advantafje of male Alagilaleus. loose
who think General Siokles has, in some de
gree, redeemed his lost character, might jus
tifiably be willing to see him the inoumbontof
some office which would bring him into contact
only with men, and not give him a presumptive
title to social recognition by circles of which
self-respecting ladies are the life, grace, and
ornament, liut our Government has no right
to tbruRt into foreign society a man whom
tho social code of every civilized community
would exclude. It has no right to give him
a diplomatic position as a moans of forcing
his way through the barrier of a social ostra
cism. It has no right to assume an insolent
dictation over that class of foreign socioty
with whom a minister ought to mingle to be
of any service to his own country. Whether
he shall receive invitations, and whether his
own invitations shall be accepted, are purely
social questions to be freely decided by the
voluntary choice of the society to which ho is
sent; and nothing could be more unwise, or
more insufferable, than for our Government
to assume to change or revise the ordinary
code of social ethics in a foreign capital, and
demand the admission on official grounds of
a mnn who would be spurned and excluded
for his personal character. Social considers-
. . a l i n -i i
lion ocing essential w uie tmucessiui uiscnarge
of the duties of a foreign mission, no person
should be appointed to fill such a mission
Against whose worthiness to be received in
companies of ladies and gentlemen there are
fatal objections, or even well-grounded
doubts. Our Government has no right to
force upon the society of a foreign capital a
conflict between otuciai claims ana personal
demerits, and bo create a dilemma be
tween the courtesy due to the officer
and the ostracism deserved by the man.
A foreign mission is the last place into which
our Government should intrude a man of
rotten or scarred reputation, because " the
Government would thereby seem to proscribe
rules on a subject quite out of its jurisdic
tion. If private individuals at home should
choose to recognize General Sickles and ad
mit him into their families, they have as
perfect a right to do so as others have to re
fuse him that kind of recognition. But every
one sees that it would be a most unwarrant
able liberty for a private person of the former
class to send General Sickles to one of the
latter with such a letter ot introduction as
would compel the person addressed either to
be rude to the writer, or to recognize socially
a man whose presence the ladies of his family
would regard as a contamination. Such a
letter of introduction would be an invasion
of social rights, an infringement of social
freedom, which men of spirit and breeding
would resent as an insult. A similar trespass
is perpetrated by our Government in accredit
ing to the society of a foreign capital a man
who has forfeited by a life of infamy every
title to be admitted within the sacred pre
cincts of a virtuous home. If anybody
thinks the infamy of General Sipkles ought
to be condoned, such a person has a full
right to condone it so far as himself is con
cerned; but every other person has just the
same right to judge for himself as to his own
treatment of such a man, and it is prepos
terous to complain of its exercise.
All this reasoning has proceeded upon the
assumption an assumption which we believe
to be utterly false that General Sickles has
redeemed his character by a genuine repent
ance and hearty reformation. Nobody, we
suppose, will so far insult the sense of publio
decency as to say that it would be proper to
give General Sickles a foreign mission if he
is not a different man from what he was eight
years ago. But there are some positions
for which a career of infamy must forever
disqualify a man, however sincere his sub
sequent repentance. If Mr. Callicott, for
example, should be pardoned out of the
State prison, the most steady and exem
plary virtue afterwards could never justify
the Government in appointing him to a for
eign mission. But the condonation argument
would have just the same force in his case as
in that of bickles that is to say, just none
at all. If the Government should dishonor
itself and insult a foreign nation by appoint
ing a reformed (Jallicott to a foreign mission,
it would be the clear duty of the independent
part of the press to revive the record which
demonstrated his unfitness. . Much more is
it its duty in the case of an unreformed
bickles. The following paragraph from the
Evening Post of Friday may serve to
show that the sense of national degradation
caused by Sickles' appointment is not con
fined to Demoorats.
"Mr. John Uav is anDolntcd Secretary of Legation
at Madrid, in nlace of Mr. Perry. We congratulate
Mr. Perry that he Is relieved from, a shameful asso
ciation, to which he would be obliged to submit on
the arrival of Daniel E. sickles as our Minister to
fpsin. if tho couutry is to be dishonored by being
ciMCBcnicu uoroaii uy a person so infamous as
Bickles, It Is very proper that a worthy man like Mr.
Perry, who has rendered the country essential ser
vices in VftrWin a wavw u. . ... i ,1 i... . i i . i r
ought not to bo made to bear more of the disgrace of
...a ou irpicBuuieu man would oe tne sharo or
uuier citizens OI ttia Ilnltml Ktnlu. Th nu f
wimf,CHmm!t.ted.by fiklea, which the other day
Was published in the u-, hi nurnnu.ior i..- ,r.
no denial, nor even the feeblest attempt at extenna-
-" .! biiiio uiftijer fii inn nuv wrnra vua
iHiri -M'muon oi tnese charges, with the
r.""""? i1: ol".cr8i "ringing down the horrid cata
nV--,oH "Tle Jf late aHte- This has been
7 V " u'sereet suence. Of Mr. Hav.
.f1t2"i"mu,n,or taleut n1 respectable charl
-.lr..,c u,,l, sy out wimt Is favorable.
If he accepts the appointment, we shall condole w tn
Mr? lVry.me "1UCerB 81lnt that w SS?utat5
1TIE SUEZ CANAL ISMAIL PACHA AND
THE PKESS.
From tht 2T. Y. Herald.
In September next it is expected the open
ing of the Suez ship canal, connecting the
lied Sea and the Indian Ooean with the Medi
terranean and the Atlantio, w ill be celebrated
with a royal gathering and regal splendors
never surpassed, nay, never approached in
the grandest celebrations of ancient or
modern times. All the accessible potentates
and powers of Europe, Asia, Africa, and
doubtless of America, too, are to be repre
sented on the great occasion. We presume
too, that many distinguished ladies from
various nations will be presont, inasmuch as
the Empress Eugenie, in the name of France
and this great Franco-Egyptian work, is to
assist in the ceremonies. Through her in
fluence some one or more of the princes and
princesses of the royal family of England
will, in all probability, be among the constel
lation of notabilities. Last, though not least,
it is given out that the enlightened Egyptian
Viceroy, Ismail Pacha, has resolved to sot
apart a million of francs in behalf of the re
presentatives of the newspaper press; that
cards are to be sent out over Europe alone to
two hundred different journals; inviting a
delegate from each to the grand round of
fete and excursions, inoluding a steamboat
trip up the Nile to the cataracts; and thit, in
short, the liberal and progressive Viceroy in-
tends that this colohfation of the opening of
the Suez Canal,' like the groat work itsolf,
shall be one of the wobkIom of tho modern
world. -
We live in an ago of wonders. Tho print
ing press, the steam engine, And the electric
telegraph, in their amazing transformations
in human affairs, moral 'and material, re
eclipsing tho miraculous powers of tho maio
lamp of Aladdin. Through the publio press,
steam, and tho t olograph nil the nations of
the earth and the islus of the sen are coming
into immediate rojtjiort. Hence Austria
which but yesterday was dozing and droAinin,
among the effete institutions of the Middle
Ages, stands to-day in tho front rank of mo
dern progress, and distant China, whioh but
yesterday was closod on all sidos as by a Chi
nese wall against "outside barbarians," and
especially "the red-headed and sandy-haired
barbarians of the West," is throwing open her
gates to the world-subduing Caucasian. Her
civilization, which was grey when Europe was
but a wilderness of savages, yields to the
pressure of the newspaper press, steam, and
the telegraph. And now, it appears, the
Viceroy of Egypt, from his contact with these
potential agents of modern progress, is so far
advanced as to eclipse even the obsorvingand
sagacious Bismark in his recognition of the
pervading influences of modern journalism.
The Viceroy learned something of this, we
dare say, from the late Abyssinian expedition.
Such are among the marvels of the age we
live in. It is the new golden age. It U re
markable, too, that as the way was oponed for
the golden age of Home by the decisive vic
tories of OctaviuB in Egypt, so now in one of
the greatest events towards the consummation
of the now golden age Egypt is to be the scene.
The idea of a ship canal across the dosoi t Isth
mus of Suez, between sixty andsevouty miles,
is older than the Pyramids; but like the mys
tery of the inundations and the sources of the
mighty Nile, it has passed down to our
nineteenth century for its actual solu
tion. An English explorer, Sir Samuol
Baker, having completely solved , the
Nile sources, its unfailing stream and1
its annual overflow, has been commissioned
by the Egyptian Pacha, on a large and liberal
scale, to head an expedition to the great Nile
lakes of the Equator, in view of making ths
length of Egypt the length of the river, which
flows through some thirty-flve desrrees of lati
tude. I On the other hand, some French engi
neers ! having shown the feasibility of the
buoz Canal, the Pasha engages the French to
excavate it, and draws upon the wild Arabs
for their workmen, thus bringing the influ
ence, the foremost minds, and the best appli
ances oi me two greatest European powers
into his service with the children of the
desert. The Sultan of Turkey, then, who
owes the preservation of his empire to Eng
land and 1 ranee, has reason to be proud of
his progressive and sagacious Ecvntian
iceroy.
We have had our celebration of the openincr
oi ine I'acinc itanroaa, whicn, in some mea
sure, taps the industrious, swarming millions
and exhaustless trade of Eastern Asia; but
this road, after all, is rather a looal than a
cosmopolitan work. The Portuguese dis
covery of the shipway to the Indies around
the southern end of Africa in the fifteenth
century was hailed by the Western powers of
Europe as the most important discovery of
many centuries, it was in searching for a
western passage to the Indies that Columbus
stumbled upon America, and hence the name
of the Indies given to the islands of the Gulf
of Mexico. The trade of her East Indies is
to-day to England what Cuba has been to
Spain, a great source of her supplies. This
Suez Canal, in dispensing with the circuit of
Africa, brings this boundless t radio of the In
dies, including all the islands of the Indian
Ocean, by way of Egypt into and through the
Mediterranean, and thus promises to revive
something ofnhe old commercial prosperity of
all the States bordering that sea from Egypt
around by Palestine, Turkey, and Greece to
bpain. Hence the pervading southern Euro
pean interest in this Suez Canal. But. asain.
by this canal will pass the trade of the East
Indies with the Atlantio coast of tho United
States, until we shall have provided a shipway
across the isthmus, say, ot Darien.
This 1 work properly devolves upon the
United States, and we know not why it should
be delayed. A million of cheap and efficient
Chinese workmen may be engaged on a two
months' notice, and the canal may be made
in a year, it is the only thing that will give
us the commercial balance of power In Asia,
and to : complete a convenient ship circuit
round the globe we must cut off the doubling
of Cape Horn as the French are cutting off
the Cape of Good Hope.
THE PUBLIO DEBT PROCESS OF SINK
ING IT.
from the jr.-Y. Times.
The Government finances are looking re
markably well. Mr. Boutwell thus far admin
isters them ably. His fiscal year 1800 winds
up in triumph, and with an exhibit of resources
full of promise for the future, and rich in all
the elements that inspire public confidence
such as abundant revenues, reduced expend!
tures, administrative economy, and a com
mendable observance of the act of public
faith to gradually sink the principal as well as
promptly pay the interest on the great debt
of the United States.
This debt has been reduced since June 30,
18GH, forty-two and a half million of dollars,
recking the accrued interest on the 30th of
June of both years. Thirty-six and a half
millions of this reduction is due to the four
months of President Grant's administration.
Excluding the accrued interest, the reduction
in these four months on the principal of the
debt is fifty millions as the difference between
accrued interest on the 28th of I ebruary last
and the 80th of June ultimo, the actual reduc
tion is, as officially stated, :)i'.,4C0,77l
Embraced in this reduction is $8,807,232 by
the operation of the sinking fund, at the rate
one per cent, per annum. And the Secretary
exmuits a currency balance of f37,0!)7,81D
and D,718,703 in gold coin from which to
make further considerable applications to the
sinking fund; part of the purchases being held
subject to the annrovnl of ( jOnmPRH. T f a li ah m it.
deemed it his duty to go back of his own term
of office in the application of one per cent, a
j., uuugU lue Binking iund arrearages
llTlrty luta ,,wl , V. . . . .
iT7.. 'owcunsors suouid amount to about
Tio,uuuiiuu; but we are haDnv to find that
he doe deem it
incumbent, with reference
both to economy and the publio convenience,
" ",m!1uJ me undue accumulation of idle
UUCy ,u me treasury, to save all the interest
-0 ucyouu r proper working balance in
currency in tne sub-treasury and national
banks, and a liberal reserve of gold in his
strong box. As he cannot by law retire the
greenback circulation, nor call in the three
per cent legal-tender certificates without the
vyun. i m0 utuiKs ior whose accommoda
tion they were originally created, he has ar
rived at the proper conclusion to make extra
purcuaseaoi uuueu Mates Five-twenties, so
as to save tne goia interest thereon, leaving
Via n ... . r.f 41.- . '
v.. mD jiuriiiuneBt incorporation
of these extra purchases to the determination
of CongreBS. What its action will be.uuderthe
advice nf the President, there is no reason- I
ble doubt. The bonds will be ma lo part and
parcel of the sinking fund of 18G2, as duo to
the tund prior to the 4th of March, lrtii'.l.
TITY FOR GRANT.
from the X. Y. 7im.
The World pitios President Graut. In au
article bearing the rather premature bonding
auo mmn lie Uoes." the World announces
that "he the Presidentl is but another illus
tration of the homely saying that tho higher
up a monkey climbs, the farther he has to
fall. Really, wo mtv him." Such refined
comment might be looked for, perhaps, fro:n
Ihe "vigorous" pen of Pomeroy, but wo had
hardly expected it from the polite WorUl.
And the WorM not only pities, but propho-
sies. "It needs no prophet to as-mre us,
says the World, "that Mr. Grant will find
among his opponents, within ix months from
this tune, nearly all who voted for him last
fall." This is a bold prophecy, as it will only
take six mouths to settle it; but its present
force is perhaps somewhat diminished by tho
fact that last summer at this time the iVorf
predicted that Grant would not be elected
President. People who believed in and
betted on tho one inslauce of sagacity are re
commended to believe in and bet on the
other. We fancy, however, that thoro is
more wisdom in Hosea Biglow's advico
'Don't never prophesy, onless ye know."
However, in thus pleasantly discouutiurr
the "downfall" of President Grant, the
World't own course is clear. That journal
four years ago reviled Mr. Johnson as a
drunkard, he then being a Republican in
good standing; but, when "nearly all those
who voted for him" became his opponents,
the World took him up aud eulogized him.
Last year tho World spent its time in apply
ing the same epithets to Grant; and when its
wonderful Presidential parallel is complete.
'six months from this time," of course the
World may be expected to come round to
Grant's support. Meanwhile, it only "pities
him."
THE CONDITION AND rROSFECTS OF
ITALY.
from the tf. Y. Time.
Mr. Edward Dicey, on more than one oooa-
sion special correspondent in Italy for Eng
lish journals, and well known as the author of
several valuable works on recent passages in
Italian history, has been revisiting the coun
try ho has Btudied so thoroughly, and in
whose welfarhe takes bo great an interest.
He has given the public the benefit of his
impressions as to the present condition of
Italy in an articlo in Macmillan's Mugnzine,
w hich is specially opportune at the present
time, and deserves to be widely read. So
much prominence has of late been given to
the unfortunate shortcomings of the Italian
Government, its temporary inability to cope
successfully with the political difficulties and
financial embarrassments by which
it is surrounded, and the generally
unsettled state of the kingdom, that
people have Vegun to ask themselves if
the expulsion of the Austrians, the overthrow
of the I.'ourbons and the unification of the
country were really blessings, or even bene
fits, after all. And as a free and united Italy
has many and unscrupulous enemies, both
open and disguised, who never hesitate to
distort every item of intelligence unfavor
ably, and to exaggerate every little political
contretemps into an omen of approaching na
tional disaster, it was not always so easy to
answer the question in the affirmative with
confidence. But we now have the valuable
testimony of Mr. Dicey, who has been pre
sent in Italy dnring the most important crises
of her recent history, and who, though avow
edly a warm sympathizer with the Italian
cause of unity and freedom, may be relied
upon to state without exaggeration the chances
for the better which he finds to have taken
place in Italy since 185!).
we are glad to hnd Air. Dicey s report so
unequivocally favorable with regard to what
has been accomplished during the past, and
bo sanguine with regard to what may be
hoped for in the future iu the way of mate
rial and moral progress in Italy. On one
point at least he is well assured, and that is
that notwithstanding all the loudly expressed
irritation against tne uovernment, not a sin
gle Italian could be found unconnected with
the Church or the Bourbons who would not
admit that anything was preferable to the
re-establishment of the old regime. Through
out Italy, in all the cities and towns which
he knew before 18.5!), Mr. Dicey reports the
erection of fine and massive buildings,
increasing commercial enterprise, an
eager demand for the means of popu
lar education alike ior youtns ana auuits,
and earnest efforts to gratify it, a marvelous
augmentation in the number of newspapers,
and a universal inristr ior pouticai informa
tion. In short, he everywhere recognized
- . t a i?a i 2 e
signs of activity, legitimate speculation, and,
generally, or "a larger ana ireer ine. j.ne
Italians, he is convinced, have learnt since
the commencement of the revolution, which
may be still said to be in progress, "that no
nricfl is too heavy to pay for unity." It is
with L-reat satisfaction that we receive Mr
Dicev's testimony on the subject. The failure
of the movement towards natural freedom
and progress in Italy could be hailed as a tri
umph by the enemies of liberty and enlight
enment throughout the world, and it is satis
factory to find, on reliable evidence, that such
is not likely to prove the case, notwithstand
ing all the misgivings of faint-hearted Ita
lians, and the misrepresentation of the adhe
rents of the old dynasties.
OBEY THE LAWS !
From the JV. Y. Tribune.
The State of Massachusetts has, for the
second time, enacted a Prohibitory Liquor
law Henceforth, until that law be cnangou,
the lawful sale of alcoholio liquors is restricted
to their mechanical and medical uses; carotin
TM-nvision beincr made to have them sold in
every part of the State for such uses, and for
no others, lie wno sens weiu 101 uj
is a law-breaker, and liable to the penalties
denounced against trunsgressors.
This net took eftect July 1, and a new Gov.
einor. Senate, and House of Representatives
n,iii 1A r-hnsen early in November, to come
into power January 1. If prohibition is (as
niw1 condemned by a majority of the
will verv scou be enabled to
iih.Ih tlmt. frntli manifest.
-We appeal, then, to Massachusetts men of
all parties and of none to insist that this law
i.o f;,fiiw viiiil. not only where it is
nrmnW l.nl where it is presumed not to be.
Boston, for example, is presumed to be largoly
hostile to nrohibition. and those who like a
"social glass" expect her to go heavily against
it next November. But, if all who may want
to sell or drink in Boston find impunity in bo
doing, what will they care for the repeal of
the law? How much will they be moved by
the privations of the thirsty souls of Williams
town or Nantucket? If we were in the Boston
liquor interest, we should insist on the rigor
ous enforcement of the new act as strenuously
as wo now do. General Grant's suggestion
that every law should be strictly enforced, no
that, if it bo a bad one, it may be proved such
and repealed, is directly in point. ' Let this
net hr Mringently enforced thr.ivhot, and
tl:' next election will show exactly what the
J c i lo think of it.
Vp urge the prohibitionists to enforce th"j
)avt everywhere in the worst slums of Boston
hs thoroughly as on the breezy hills of Uork
fbhe. Let tho liquor men realize that you
ate earnest and vigilant., and they will stop
filing and devoto their energies to the fall
ri.nviiss. l't us have at least three months
of veal prohibition before Nevember, so that
the people m:y vote intelligently on what will
then be tho main issue. Nothing is so calcu
lated lo discredit. iK-ohibilion as the spectaclo
ot l:quor-sclhng m full Wast, in ostentatious
tlrrmiico of law. ' License has had a fair trial
in MiiHNachus.etU; now let prohibition have t in
stiiue.
GAS LIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY.
SAFE, RELIABLE, AND ECONOMICAL.
PLACED OUTSIDE OF BUILDINGS ! !
FERRIS & CO.'S
AUTOMATIC GAS MACHINES
Hnra been in iraoeeMftil operation for sloven renin, and In
all cases foron perfect satisfaction. The light, is much
superior to that oi city rm, at much leas cost. The many
accidents arising from the use ef KKROSKNK and UOAL
OIL LAMPS and worthless a-ss machines should in.
duoe persons to adopt a safe, economical, and ssti'fao
, 'i -i i ; .. : .. . ; . - i
its superiority oyer all othnrs on aoonunt of its RK VOLVl
1WU evaporator, which takeeiup all the oaroon from the
material, and the fact that it will run for yoars without
cost for repsirs, recommend it alove all others in the
market. '1 be maonine can be iwd in operation at our
Ulnce. where explanations and references win begivoa.
r nrtttm uu,,
6 ltnths 3m2p1 No. K7 OHKSNUT Street, FhUada.
Best quality of GASUL1NK always on hand.
WINES.
HER MAJESTY
CHAMPAGNE. '
dunton &. Lusson,
215 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
rrilE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS
X solicited to the following very Choice Wines, etc., for
'0 . .
S15 SOUTH FRONT 8TREET.
CHAMPAGNES. Airents for her Main!. TnA it
Montobello, Carte Bleuo. Carta Blanche, and Charloa
Fnrre's (jrand Vin Eugenie, and Vin Imperial, M. Klee
mai j Co,, of Mayenoe, bparkling Moselle and R1UNK
MADKIRAS. Old Island, South Side Reserve.
SHERRIES. F. Rudnlphn, Amontillado, Topai, Val
letta, Pale and Golden Bar, Crown, eta.
PORTS. Vinho Velho Real, Vallette, and Grown.
CLARKTS Promis Aine A Vie., Montferrand and Bor
deaux. Clarets and bauterne Wines.
GIN. "Moder Swan."
BRANDIES. Ilennessey, Otard, Dupuy & Co.'s various
vintages. 4 6
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A R STAIRS & MoCALL,
Nos. m WALNUT and 31 GRANITE Streets,
Importers of
BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETC.,
AXD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
For the sale of
PURE OLD RTE, WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHI8-
H.1KS. 5 28 2p4
CA RST A IRS' OLIVE OIL AN INVOICE
of the above for sale by
CARSTAIRS ft MoOALL,
6 28Sp Nos. 136 WALNUT and 21 GRANITIC Sta.
A
LEXANDER O. CATTELL fe CO.,
PRODUCE COMMISSION MKROHANTS,
AND
No.- 87 NORTH WATER STREET.
PHILADELPHIA. 9 33
AI.KT.ANDFR O. GATTKLI ELIJAH OATTKI.T.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE OR TO RENT
GKRMANTOWN, five minutes' walk from Waynf
Station, two neat and comfortable Houses on WAYNI
Street, below Manheim, suitable for a small and genteel
family, with all the modern conveniences, gas, water,
range, beater, etc. Rent, $500 per annum. Apply to
JACOB KAUPP, No. 77 WISTER Street, Germantown.
Possession at once. 818 tf
OR SALE HANDSOME THREE
toiy Brick Dwelling, three-story doable back build
iik. No. KM SIXTH Surest- above Green: modern im
provements, and in exoellent order. Was owned and buill
by the late Henry Derringer, deceased, of the very best
materials and workmanship. Immediate possession
Agent at house from U to i o'clock daily. 6 7 tf
TO RENT.
TO LET UNTIL 1ST OF APRIL, 1870,
a country Uottage on the Pennsylvania central Rail
road, X mile from Athensville Station; eight rooms, hve
acres, barn, stabling, spring house, etc ; large s;ardun,
fully planted. K. H. EYRE,
7 3 stuthat No. 117 GOTHIC Street.
fa TO RENT ROOMS AND BUILDINGS.
suitable for manufacturing- purposes, on north and
south side of Lombard, west of Twenty-fourth street.
Call and examine Apply to THOS. E. CAHILL.
o 3U 6t No. 436 WALNUT Street.
GERMANTOWN PROPERTY TO LET
large, modern-built house, tsauthraua. eoaah.
use. and live sores of land. hanrUomal laid mil wlk
and garden ; within two minutes' walk of Puy'a Lane Sta.
tion. Apply to J. ARMSTRONG. gal il(v
rpo RENT AN OFFICE SUITABLE FOR A
A PW,"1", ,or with or without board, at No
1 13 H GIRARil Street. 1
GOVERNMENT SALE?.
GOVERNMENT
KO.U1PA0K
STORES.
SALE OF CI)TIIINO, AND
AND QUARTEKMASTIt'3
Dki'UTY Quabtermahtrr-Gknkrais Ofpick,
Philadelphia, June n, lstttt. f
Will be told at puhlio auction, 5t SCHUYLKILL
ARSENAL, on WEDNESDAY, July 88, 189, com
mencing at 10 o'clock A. M., nnder the direction of
Captain William ILOI11, Military Storekeeper U. S. A,
a large lot of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage
and CuartennaHter's' btorex. consisting In part of;
84,ttH& Uniform Jackets, V et. Reg. Corps, new-.
47,740 yards Worsted Cords, new.
J7 V yards Black Cloth, new.
1,om y yards Green Kersey, new.
8,000 Common Tents, Uuen, new.
There will also be sold at the same time a large
lot of Damaged Clothing and Equlpiige and tiu ir
termaster's Stores, coiiHiatlng in putt ot:
8,700 Woollen Blankets.
2o,4'J3 Uniform Coats.
tM HMi k Coats,
l.lss Forage Cups.
409 Shirts.
ss6 pairs Stockings.
4,liBo pairs Trowsers.
1,100 drain Sacks.
'10 sets Harness.
81.4(h) feet Galvanized ripe.
10,1126 feet Gas l'lpo, assorted ;
and a variety of articles, embracing Chevrons,
Urawtrs, Flags, Knupsaeks, Camp Kettles, Bolts,
Carts, Saddles, Tools, etc etc.
Terms cash payable Iu I lilted States currency.
All propel ty purchased must bo removed within
tlV (ItiVtte
Goods will be sold In lots to suit purchasers.
Catalogues will be fumlblied on application at this
cirtlce or at the oltlce of Captain Gill, Schuylkill
Arm n'iil or at the miction rooms of M. Thomas &
sons Nos. W and l1 Ho,ltil fourth street,
sons, ioa. STEWART VAN VLIKT,
Peputy Quartermaster-General ami
c s9 t Brevet Major-General, U-JA
I FNK83. EVERY INSTRUMENT THAT
1 ) scie nce and skill have invented toasaUt the hearing
In rvery dniireeof doafueas; also. Respirators; also, Cran.
ii.ll1. Pa trui Crutches, superior to sny others In use, st P.
MakIKA'S. Ho. IU HulU 1KSTU btittet, elow
CUetuuU i '
OITY ORDINANCES
c
OMMODI CUVNUll- DC rilll.AMrtUMl A.
rnu.AnKi.riiM. June lCJ I
In accordnnoe with a lttMolutl u sdmitrd !r tlifl
Common Council cf the City of Philadelphia, on
TliursMluv, the twrty-iotirth tiny of June, lf., th '
sviiiit'Ki'ii inn, rnir iri
ah tiriHiianre to Atttriorir.e a l.oan rorthcrny- ;
mentof Ground l.vms nod Mortgag-'," L hereby v
published for public Information.
HHN KCKSTKIN, f
Clerk of Cominou Council.
AN onnn a n c k
To Authorize a Loan for the Payment of '
Ground Rent and Mortgage. - 11
Section 1. The Select and Common Connclls of the '
City of 1'lilladelphl i do ordain, Tlmt the Mayor of
Philadelphia be ami lie Is hereby authorized to bor-
row, at not less tliiiu par, on the credit of the cltr
from lime to time, seven hundred thinuaid duIUnl i
for the payment or ground rents arid mortgages held
against tho city, lor which Interest not to exceed the j
rale of six percent, per annum miall bo paiil, hlf 't
yearly, on the first d.iys of January and July, at tho ';
ofllce of tho City Treasurer. Tho principal of said 1
loan shall be payable and paid at tho expiration of ;
thirty years from the dato of tho satins iml not be-
fore, without the consent of the holders thereof; ami i
the certillcates therefor, In the nsual form of tho cer- 5
tlflcntcH of city loan, shall be Issued in such amounts 1
as the lenders may require, but not for any fractional I
part of ono hundred dollars, or, If required, In
amounts of Ave hundred or one thousand dollsrs: :
and It shall be expressed In said rertiilcatea that this
loan therein mentioned and tho Interest thereof are '
payable free from all taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan shall he made by ;
virtue thereof j there shall be, by force of tliisordl-
nance, annually appropriated out of tho Income of
the corporate estates, and from the sum raised by
taxation, a sum Butllcieut to pay the Interest on said i
certincatcs, and the further sum of three-tenths of f
one per centum on the par value of such certificate j
so issued shall be appropriated quarterly out of said i
Income and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund
and Its accumulations are hereby especially pledged J
for the redemption and payment of said cerUU- 1
catcs.
?
RESOLUTION TO PURI.IHIl A LOAN BILL. f
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Council be A
authorized to publish In two daily newspapers of f
this city, dally for four weeks, tho ordinance pre-
Rented to the Common Council on Thursday, Juno ,
84, 1H, entitled "An Ordinance to Authorize a Loan '
for the Payment of Ground Rents and Mortgages."
And the said Clerk, at the stated meeting of Coun- i
clla after the expiration of four weeks from tho
first day of said publication, shall present to i
this Council one of each of said newspapers for i
every day In which the same shall have been i
made. 6 88 84t
BHIPPINQ j
j. CHARLESTON, ft n
TUB BOTJTH AND SOUTHWEST '
WAST iFllEIGrllT LITXE, :
EVERY THURSDAY. : "
Tne Steamships PROMETOKUa I Captain Gray, and
KM I'llt K, Captain Snyder,
WILL FORM A ItKGULAR WKKK.LY LINE.
The steamship EKOM ETHEL'S win sail on
THURSDAY, July 8, at 4 P. M. a
Through bills of lading given In connection witn 8.
C. R. R to points lu the South aud Southwest.
Insurance at lowest rates. Rates of freight as low
as by any other route. For freight, apply to
K A. SOU lift ft ft CO.,
22 DOCU STUtifiT WHAlfa.
ONI.V 1HRFHTT TMBTAun iTin
TH IT. rjTTT 17T A T. TD A VO A rwrr a wrarwM
BRKST .viu! uaj!,UAjaiUIUAl
The splendid new vessels on this favorit roots forth.
Continent will sail from Pier No. CO North river, a Jo
FFfTTTr ohe Saturday. May.
BT tA7ittj J v "?ue Saturday May l! '
81'. LAUKRJST ,.Lemarie Satnrrla Mil ou
VILLK DK PARIS Surmoui,t VSSSSSjjlSi S
i i a, PRI0K OV PASSAGH
lit gold (inoluding wine),
m TO UHfeST OB HAVRJB.
FirstCabin $140 1 Second Cabin.... sMs
, TOPAKIS.
x (Jpolnaing railway tickets, furnished oa board.)
First Cabin $n0l Second Cabin. dm
1 hese steamers do not carry steeran rnwsnirnra '
AI edical attendance free of charge. "
American travellers eoin to or retnrninjt rrom the oon.
tment of Kurope, by taking the steamers oF this Uneavold
unnecessary risks from transit by Knclish railways land
crossing UlS channel, besides saving- time, trouble. anS
ipemw. GKOKGK MACftKNZlKgent.
. No- BROADWAY. New York.
CoFnaOT iU Pb tiS
.. - PH IT, A HK TPTTT A TntxwICii"FT
ILHTH ROUGH FKFTRHT T?i?VWJffl
ssssBtasssssMaaassssssaaasaakssaiaaBsl 'vwa.ia, oaw u Ty run
KVRRY SATURDAY,
Btfetn00n llKST WUAiUf MARKET
THROUGH RATES to all points In North land Bonth
?or?a
Frei(iht HANDLKD BUT ONCK. and taken at T-OWJrn
RATKS THAN ANY OTHER I.lSiK
The regularity, saf ety, and cheapness of this route com
mend it to the nublio as the most desirable) medimxtor
oarrying every description of freight. ,uc
transfer" ""'"niission. drayace, or any expanse of
Steamships Insured at the lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
He, i a s. wharVSSSS lN7wWHARi!a
iT-l r 'XltTHII sniITri 1 un n-,.. iaiiJ IV
LOKILLARD'S STEAMSHIP
LINE FOR
NEW YORK.
aiiisff i.st
Balling Tnesdaya, Thursdays, and Saturdayt,
REDUCTION OF RATES.
Bprlnp; rates, commencing March IB.
Balling Tuesdaya. Thursdays, and Saturdays. On
and after 15th of March freight by this line will be
taken at 19 cents per 100 pounds, 4 cents per foot, or
1 cent per gallon, ship's option. Advance charges
cashed at oillee on Pier. Freight received at all
times on covered wharf,
.so. J0HN F. OHL,
' 285 Pier 1 North Wharves.
N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc
. fiT?. Jh ' EXPitESS LINE TO
lMftTT ciUza' Gvr8town, and Washington, IK
KmeKMsm 6., via Chesapeake and Delaware OeaaL Witll
connections at Alexsndria from the roost direct route foe
InchburK, Bristol, Knoxville, Naabvilia, Daltoo. and Uut
pout u west.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from tha
first wharf above Market street.
creiiit raoeived daily. . ....
w.rp"AM OLTDK ts CO.,
. ,."o. 14 North and South Wharvaa.
HTDK A TYLRK, Agents, at G eorsretownt Itff
EL1RIJX,K A CO.. Aa-enuat Alexandria 1 1
FOR LIVERP IXll'iMn
8V.KEM'rOWN. Inman line of Mail
ililowatl appouiKa to sail as ai
tjnv ot PiiriH. Kir.iiiMv .Tnlo In - 1 t
Ktna, via Hulifux, 1 uosday" July 13, at 1 P. M
ytij oi ruaiun, naiun a. July II, at 13 noon.
Cny of Loudon, Saturday, July 24, at 1 P. M.
And esoh sucoecdinir Saturday and alteraata Tntllsr
from Pier 45, North Hi r.
UA'1'I.'U fW DlflQiflll!
BT THE MATX STKAXSB SAULLNtt KVKMT SiTCnDAT
Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency.
T CABINV. 6TKKHAUK. ' an
1ondon In6 To lndua i
ill rrrt !--. ........ w
WPBT
Tn lindtin.
raijHAOK BT TFrit TliisiA UT&iMtH, 'xUHAjjirA3L.'
rUtWT CABIM. STFltRAOB.
Payable in Gold. Payable m Currency.
Liverpool. ....$80. Liverpool
Halilax au Halifax S
St. John's, N. V., I St. John's, N. It., "
, by Branch 8Umsr. by Uranch Stumer
Passengers also fo warded to liavra, Haubora'. Atretnasi.
to , st reduced rates. "iuw,
Ti. keU can be bough t hero at moderate rate by person
Wialiing to send for tuoir friends. -m
For further information apply t the Company's Ofllnaa.
JOHN U. DALK, Agent, So. lS.BKOAUWiV. N )T
ort? O-HiNNKLL A FAULK, Agent, '
4 5 No. 4lll)HKSNCT Street, PhiladelpU.
TaP.,1. 1IK Trt I'.h.
NOTICK FOR NEW YORKVLl
yy IiKLAMARK AND BARITAN OAN1I
'It.- lltlllDIUK --.I J,IIt. !.' ifL-n" . "iIran .
tion between PhUad.,lphia aud New York" mmttato
Steamers leave daily from first wharf below Markaa
Strout, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street. New York
Goods forwarded 1 y all the lines running out of Nest
York, North, Kaat, and West, free of oomniiaaion.
JfreiRht received snd forwarded on accommodating terms.
Vt.ll 1.1 4 M P ( !I.V Ik ir a t u a ...
No. 13 & lsKLAYVAKK Avoaue, Philadelphia.
, J A.atta HAND, Aguni.
No. 110 WAIA, Street, New YoTk.
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK:
VI K Tin swnrsi mnA U.U.- ri f
S IT Tt K ' I hf A V SPI .n i'??. ,li7S'.,n," " "
ilb'KPATdU A V i 1 L it. 7 lV," , i A . i"' r-n.
- - - - -..HiMpuiuaa una,
uT,Jur'e'" P ! wiU bs resumed on and afte
the Bin of March, lor treighta, which will be taken oa
aooouiinodatinc tanua, apply to
J No J.:) houiib. Wharvaa,
1 1 ODGEHS' AND WOSTEN IIOLM 8 pJcKEi
JV' KN1VKS, Poarl snd Stag Handles of hn.ii,,l . iT
ItODGKHH' and WADK Al if " k"'H KAZORS iS
ltaxors. Knives Buiasors, and Table Outlerv Ilnn4 ...a
.