THE PAIL if EVENING TELEGRAPH, PHILADELPHIA , MONDAY, JULY 12, 1869.
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Editorial Opinion of the landing Jonrnal.
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rOrULAlt UriIEAVINOS IN EUItOrE.
Trom the if. Y. Herald.
Since 1848-49 we hare had no HitunUon In
CHIHO into' , n.. . i.f im). nnw
llnronfl at all reneiuiui"B . .
ji.,tit and more nenriy snuuiu
a ,Wn hna linn lna f,f
Aeons. II BiiuiMH"'"
lihBt we should call unity oi cum.an-.i
Bf immediate Mid irrewtible force it must
l,e admitted that now the popular discontent
In Tonite afl coneral, nnd that the expression of
SfidKtont, if less violent, is quite M de
ridod a well as more continuous aud more
puccesHfnl. The 1MH outburst was a failure.
1'he popular uprisings of those last two or
three years have all boon more or loss success
ful T1m British people have demanded two
trreat reforms. One has been obtained. The
ther is on the point of being achieved. The
lloform bill carried under Mr. Disraeli and the
extinction of the Irish Church Establishment
jindor Mr. Gladstone have given ample proof
to the world that in England the people are
jiow masters of the situation. The resurrec
tion and reconstruction of Italy, the resur
rection and reconstruction of (iormany, the
revolutions which have been accomplished in
Austria and Spain, the reforms now being
inaugurated in Trance, not to spoak of the
changes in favor of the people which have
Jaken place in Russia and Turkey, show that
the European Continent, from some cause or
causes, has entered upon a new era less in the
interest of absolutism and more in favor of
jpopular rights.
It would not be nnintoresfing to enter into
ft full explanation of those changes, to show
Jiow tyrannies and privileges are everywhere
yielding to justice and in favor of popular
lights; but a full explanation is not compiiti
Mo with our present purposo. This is the
Joss to bo regretted that a satisfactory expla
nation is visible and lies on the surface of
i Lings. The secret of the success of all re
cent popular demands is to be found in the
telegraph, the railroad, the printing press,
Jul particularly in the newspaper.
Formerly it was difficult to get up on any
Question a common and vigorous public senti
ment. In the olden times nations might
fctragglo for months and even years and the
i'orhl would be ignorant of the fact. This
Vas not more true of nations in regurd to each
Other than it was true of one section of a
country towards every other section. A com
mon sentiment could not be created except by
years of effort, and hence a powerful public
Hentimont was next to impossible. Now all
is changed. Nothing is more easy now than
Jto thrill the world with a thought. Steam,
electricity, the printing press have destroyed
nil the ancient barriers, have spanned tho
tleep valleys, pierced the everlasting hills,
Ijritlgod the mighty wastes of waters have,
in fact, in the language of ancient prophecy,
."made the crooked places straight and the
rough places plain" and thus made the world
B unit and brought every man close to the ear
of every other. If a great thought now finds
expression, the world hears it. If a great
Action is contemplated, sections and nations
can move as one man.
The success of recent popular outbursts
finds a secondary explanation in the extra
ordinary success of popular government in
ihe United States. It is something to be
laught what to do. It is something to have
the mechanical appliances put into one's
liand to give the lessons received a practical
fthape. It is another and a more important
thing to have set before one a living, power
ful, compelling example. Such example the
United States now exhibits to the world. Time
Was when the republio was despised. Later,
End bet ore the civil war broke out, it was
regarded as an experiment. During the war
it was pronounced a failure. Since the war
it has universally been pronounced an un
questioned, a complete success. As a people
we have passed through an ordeal of lire
Euch as no people have passed through in
tho world's history. The nations of Europe
iiave seen us emerge from the llainos with hair
comparatively unsinged and with scarcely
the smell oi nre upon our garments. Our
deliverance nas been almost as miraculous as
that of the three Hebrew youths "upon whose
fcodies the fire had no power." This does not
fully state tho case. Not only have we sus
tained little or no injury. We have grown in
might and majesty. We have increased in
wealth and influence. The late war revealed
to oursolves our greatness; and that greatness
is now confessed before and admitted by the
world. Hence the magnetio power which
these shores have over the millions of Europe,
&nd hence, too, the confidence which the peo
ple have found in themselves. If popular
government be such a blessing, why should
sot that blessing be shared by all? Expressed
or unexpressed, this is the revolutionary sen
timent of the hour; and the sentiment is as
much a terror to tyrants as it is an anchor of
hope to the oppressed.
With the growing power of steam, electri
city, and the printing press, and with the in
creasing influential example of the United
fttatea, we may expect to witness more won
derful changes in Europe. We scarcely know
what we are. We can form no adequate con-,
eeption of what we are to become. With
truth we can say all our victories are victories
in the interests of Christian civilization and
iiuman progress. AU our movements are on
. ward and upward. As we move on the peo
ples everywhere feel the impulse and take
courage. As we triumph, liberty all the world
Dver nails victory to her standard. Our suc
cess already makes it certain that tho time is
Jiot far distant when the monarchs, tho oli
garchs, the monopolists, the tyrants of the
Did World, by whatever name named, shall
Jbe no more. We approach that grind period
which shall witness the parliament of man,
the federation of the world.
THE "WORLD" AND SICKLES.
from the A'. Y. World.
The World was perfectly aware, when it
Undertook to display the character and career
of Sickles, that there would be an unpleasant
effluvia from the mass of mouldering muck
which it felt compelled to stir up with the
iritchfork of exposure. It was also aware for
Lad not Mr. Horace Greeley told it ? that the
rural radical journuls were mostly under the
Control of "narrow-minded blockheads. liut
it did not dream that any of those persons
could be narrow-minded enough, or block-
Leaded enough, to blackguard it, as if it were
responsible for the moral cesppool which it
Lad only unoovered. "When Hercules turned
the purifying river into King Augeas' sta
ples, ' Thomas Carlyle observes, "I have no
doubt the confusion that resulted was con
iderable all .around; but I think it was not
llerculea' blame: I think it was some other's
plamo." ; Something like that the World may
knv cf ifjutlf nnrl iYia vara t i u.-ni u t i n n rnf. VArtr
Uecessary, piece of work it has lately folt com
pelled to perform.
Why, piteously inquire the bnoolio prints
la question, why bring to light what has
passed Into oblivion, to inflict pain and dis- I
f;race upon a man whose recent record, at I
finst, has not Leen discreditable to him ?
Why mention that a gallant soldier of tho
Union, tinder tho impulses of hot youth, pur
sued the profession of pandarism and lived
in open concubinnge with a public trull ? If
Sickles was a mail-robber, ho has since been
nado a major-general. If he once casually
murdered a man, did he not got a log shot
off at Gettysburg ? And if ho forgod noto.i
in the piping times of peace, did he not fight
bravely in time of war 'i
We answer that the World showed that all
tho acts of Sickles' life were of a pieco. Wo
showed how the impudent chicanery by which
he got temporary credit for having organized
a brigade was the same impudont chicanery
by which ho got a disreputable woman pre
sented at the Court of St. James, and another
and still more disreputable woman admitted
to pollute the floor of the Legislature of this
State, while that body was yet capable to
be polluted. We showed that tho mutinous
and unscrupulous temper which led him to
betray his benefactor when he was a black
guard boy was the same quality which
led him, in tho ripeness of his manhood and
his major-generalship, to intrigue against
the superior whose orders ho had diso
beyed, whose victory ho had imperilled,
and who had treated him with only
too much forbearance. Wo showed that tho
same conscienceless callosity which lod him
to take tho life of a man who had dishonored
him (dishonored him ), and so bruit his dis
grace to all tho world, led him, years after
wards, by taking back a faithless wife, to
brand that disgrace indelibly upon himself.
He is the same man now that he was then,
for anything that appears. If he had changed,
the remorse and disgust which would follow
his first and faintest perception of himself in
his true character would drive hiiu to a wilder
ness for life-long penitence and penance, if
so bo his memory might be blotted from the
minds of his fellow-men.
What sort of men can those be who are so
eager to condone such crimes as those of
Sickles without even a profession of peni
tence from him? Do they think that a mili
tary command, got by trickery nnd lost by
treachery, ought to make us forget a life of
infamy? Can a man atone by laying his log
upon the altar of his country (not that Sickles
would have laid it there if he had had tho dis
posal of it) for laying his manhood at the
altar of a wanton? It is better, tho Bible
metaphorically tells us, to enter into life halt
or maimed, than, having two hands or tww'
feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. But our
censors Give us to understand literally that
this man walks heavenward on crutches,
nlthough his legs always carried him in the
diametrically opposite direction. What these
people mean, if they mean anything, is that
political perfidy is an ample atonement for
personal infamy, and that if a man is only a
radical he may be whatever other scoundrelly
inmg ne pleases.
borne exceptionally stupid papers call our
account of Sickles "malignant." That ac
count was a mere and unadorned statemont
of the facts of his life. In another article
we drew what may be called the immoral of
that life. There is a malignity, and there is
an indignation. It was the latter that we felt
and expressed. Private citizen Sickles is a
disgrace to himself. Maior-General Sickles
is a disgrace to the United States army. But
Minister Sickles is a disgrace to all the people
of the country which sends him, and an insult
to all the people of the country to which he
is sent. In this capacity, all citizens of his
country are involved in his infamy, and we
meant to give notice, and we mean to give
notice, that there are some citizens who do
not intend tamely to partake that infamy.
We mean to prevent the elevation of other
Sickleses to any post where they in any way
officially represent the hundreds of thousands
of readers whose sentiments, in this matter,
we know we speak. And we horeby give
notice that we shall serve every such scoun
drel as we have served Sickles, with a view to
the suppression of Sickleses and the purging
of politics.
But the radical journals are not all so stu
pid or so perverse as those whose comments
we have been considering. The Nation has
taken advantage of the opportunity for a dis
til n v nf nnlit.irnl inilnnntirlanno wYiili liia
I, J V' x-n i .UWJlIVUUVUUW nu.vu HUM
Sickles business gave it in the article which
we reproduced. Ihe article is so just and so
temperate that we are in hopes that it will
carry conviction in quarters where any argu
ments or asseverations that might appear in
this journal would be logically and courteously
receiv ed as effusions of Copperhead spite.
MORE ABOUT OFFICE-SEEKING.
From the If. Y. Tribune.
We are so anxious to induce correct habits
of thinking and acting on this important sub
ject that we have innmte patience with those
who controvert our view oi it. One of them,
after much that is inconsequent, says:
"While Indiscriminate denunciation of 'office-
seeker.' has little eirect upon the Jobbers and the pot
house politicians, It does beat back and discourage
those deserving men who respect themselves and
are respected by others. It, therefore, Indi
rectly aids the vile and unprincipled. But,
pray tell us, dear Tribune, how many men
tliut have been eminent In public affairs
have not been office-seekers? llave wo had
as many as three Presidents of the United
(States who did not seek that office? Did not
Henry Clay seek It again and again ? and did not the
editor of the Tribune mourn over his defeat as over
the death of a friend ? There are men who have
sought, won, and done honor to high positions.
Would the Tribune have the President Ignore such
men, and appoint unknown mot! to important
places unknown men who could not be unknown if
they had rendered any signal service to our cause?
if to be active and aspiring in political aifalra Is to be
rewarded wnn neglect, ami even witii aenunciation,
then men of character and capacity will turn away
with dlHgust, and not even 'fiityof the leading men
In a district' can coax them back. The fluid will bo
left clear for the 'Jobbers.' "
J!ch)okh6 by the Tribune.
Our correspondent asks, "Have we had as
many as three Presidents of the United States
who did not seek that othce ( and we answer,
Yes, more than twice three 1 We venture to
say that neither George Washington: John
Adiuns, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson,
liam Henry Harrison, James K. Folk, Frank,
lin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, or Ulysses S,
Grant ever solicited the aid of any man to
make him President. There are eleven; and
we doubt whether all the others were so inde
licate as to solicit votes.
it by "seek our correspondent moans
nothing more than desire, he uses words with
inexcusable carnlnuKneMR. Mr. lllav did rlnsiro
to be President; but whom did he ever solicit
io mipport nun ? We know not.
v e oi.ject to office-bogging that it unfairly
y.v iJciMons bef'sed or in a most per
plexing position. Here is one you know and
would gladly serve, yet whom n A
skier just the man for Minister to Lisbon or
u,"u nuui. iui ne gets up a peti
tion xor me oince, and brings it to you for
your signature, giving you the alternative of
complying with his solicitation or incurring
his ill-will. So you either sign, thereby de
claring what you do not believe and would
ratner not say, or retuse, and are regarded
by him as an enemy; when in fact you wish
him well, but think there are better men for
this place, and that one of thorn should fill it.
We say it is unfair and indelicate to corner
any one in this way.
We mourned the defeat of Mr. Clay in 1814,
bnt not mainly for his sake. We sorrowed for
our country, not for any one citizen. And
now looking back calmly, after an interval of
a quarter of a century, we say that, in our do
liberate judgment, tliis country would have
had twenty-live per cent, more wealth, and
some two millions more people, had Mr. Clay
been declared elected, as he truly was. New
York and Louisiana gave him a majority of
their legal Votes, but gigantic frauds deprived
him of their electors, as they did General
Grunt last fall.
Our correspondent asks, if wo would have
the President "ignore those who have won
and honored high position, and appoint un
known mon to important places." Why, sir,
this is is just what we would not have, and
what your system socuros. Those who have
done nothing for the country are always fore
most to do for themselves. Thoy can badger
fifty men into signing their papers whore
genuine, modest merit cannot get one.
There have been instances of men who did
not even vote atan election starting bright and
early next morning with a begging-paper and
getting half the town to sign their petitions
for office. No means were ever better adaptod
to an end than is the begging system to level
all distinctions between merit and demerit,
eminence and insignificance.
Our correspondent thinks it a pity if men
who are "active aud aspiring" are to bo ig
nored in the bestowal of office. The "active"
will not be ignored, if you leave Presidents
and Governors to make their selections un
bored by "the aspiring," who are often a very
different class. Leave every one free to sign
or speak for those whom he deems most
worthy, and all will go well; but the button
holing abuse puts everything at hap-hazard.
Away with it I Ed.
THE PRESIDENTIAL FIELD BURLIN
GAME. From the X. Y. Sun.
On to-morrow, the 13th inst., a remark
able convocation will be held in Memphis,
Tennessee. The representatives of all the
Southern States will then and there deliberate
on the introduction of Chinese labor into the
South. An eloquent call has been published
in tho Southern papers, setting forth the im
mediate and imperative necessity for "ready
and reliablo" laborers on the plantations to
save them from desolation, and suggesting
Chinese immigration as the solution of the
problem. Captain Cesare Moreno, the dis
tinguished Asiatic traveller, will possibly re
ceive a special invitation to attend the con
vention, and we may, therefore, look for some
practical business.
Should the proper stops be taken, we have
no doubt that next year will see ship loads of
Chinese arriving at every Southern port, and
endless columns of the same people moving
from the Pacific coast, and debouching from
tho eastern terminus of the Pacific Railroad
across tho green plains of the Mississippi
Valley. The South will have po.ice and
plenty at lust. The cotton fields of Georgia
and Alabama, with Celestial luborors in coni
cal hats and tlowery gowns among the stalks,
will resemble the sunny pictures on tea
chests and caddies; while the rice swamps
of the Carolinas will furnish interesting liv
ing illustrations ot the Uninese modes of irri
gation, so dear to boyhood's memory in the
cuts of Peter Parley's Geography. Mr. Gree
ley s long-chensned dream ot growing tea on
our southern niiisidcs will doubtless bo real
ized without delay, and the Augusta cotton
mills will forthwith becin to turn out silks
instead of jeans.
But we see in this populating of the South
with Chinamen a political move of deep sig
nificance. We say nothing, for the present,
of the new difficulties it will add to the civil
rights and suffrage questions; nothing of the
fresh labors to be imposed on the Freedmen's
Bureau and Christian Commission in civilizing
and converting these followers of Buddha and
Confucius; nothing of tho immense vexation
of the Hon. James Brooks at having to prove
that straight hair and lips are as much the
signs of an inferior race as kinky hair and
thick lips; nothing of the painful quantity of
whipping, shooting, and roasting alive which
the Southerners will be obliged to undertake
in a similar philanthropic work of domestica
tion to that which they have performed for
the Atncans.
We regard it as a formidable, possibly re
sistless movement on the Presidency of the
United States by his Excellency the Hon.
Anson Burlingame, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Imperial Gov
ernment of China. The control of some of
the new States and Territories of the Pacific
coast is already within easy grasp of the
Chinese, should they but reach" forth and
take it. The South will be even more com
pletely theirs by the time Mandarin Burlin
game completes his tour of the courts of
Europe. The North is already Burlingame's !
We hereby make our claim to be the first to
nominate Anson Burlingame for President in
18((. We would go for him in 1872, but we
are already partially committed to Schuyler
Uoiiax and John 1. lion man as candidates lor
that year.
What a glorious picture opens to the
prophetic mind! A mandarin of the highest
possible number of buttons in the Presiden
tial chair, with perhaps the learned and vene
rable Sun-Tajen and Chih-Tajen, only next
interior in buttons, for becretary of State and
Secretary of the Navy respectively. China,
if not Asia, will then be annexed, and the
Hon. Horace Greeley will go to England as
Minister, with a chest of American-grown tea
in each pocket of his old white overcoat!
The vision cheers, if not inebriates.
ENGLAND'S EXPLODED PEERS.
From the N. Y. World.
It is quite obvious that a knowledge of the
history of England is not one of tho accom
plishments required of British journalists in
these days. Else we should hardly be fa
vored with so much profound moralizing upon
the wicked and shiftless ways of England's
aristocracy in this nineteenth century. That
young peers, with no better moral training
than young men born : to great fortunes are
apt in all countries to get. should be at the
mercy of their own passions and other men's
interests, is a sad thing certainly, but neither
new nor strange. Tho extravagance and folly
which have brought the young Dukes of
Hamilton and Newcastle, the Marqnis of
Hastings, and the Earls of Westmarelaud and
Jersey, together with sundry juvenile nobles
of less importance, to public grief and the
auctioneer's hammer, are, after all, but an old
story often told, and in other lands than lsn
tain. Four centuries ago, an English duke of
more exalted origin than either Hamilton or
Clinton was formally degraded iroin his ranic,
by the British peers in Parliament assembled,
because he was "too poor to maintain his
dignity." He that had been Duke of Norfolk
died a pauper and an exile in Flandors. Two
centuries later, the splendid namesake of the
unlucky Villiers, Earl of Jersey, whose fate
now points so many paragraphs, expired, as
the poet tells us,
"In the worst Inn s worst room."
He, too, was a duko, and the ducal favoritn
of a spendthrift king. Philip, Duke of Whar
ton, at once the most graceful aud the most
gracolosH noblo of his time, brings the ancient
moral down still nearer to our own d:iys.
And the catastrophes which overtook tho
Earls of Hunting-tower and of Mornington,
tho latter the near kinsman of England's
"Iron Duke,"
"Who never lost an English gun,"
have not yet passed from the memory of men
ef the world still living and still equal to
their daily dinner and their daily gmo of
whist.
"Men have died and worms havo eaten
thorn" for now a goodly numbor of agos.
Poors have wasted their substance and
usurers have devoured them. So, too, have
mere republican citizens. It is childish, and
worse than childish, to mako grave questions
of political organization hinge upon ques
tions of a strictly social origin.
THE VIRGINIA VICTORY EFFORTS TO
MAKE MISCHIEF.
From the K Y. Time.
Two classes of mischief-makers are busying
themselves with tho Virginia election, with
the view of adapting it to their respective pur
poses. Democrats aro claiming it as a Demo
cratic victory, and insisting that it is tho
result of Democratic strongth and effort.
Partisans of Wells and tho defeated ticket are
denouncing it as the product of fraud, and are
invoking Congressional assistance to arrest
and reverse the action of tho people and the
law. Both of these representations are dis
honest. Both are false, as matters of fact,
aud are conceivod in the interest of those who,
on the one hand, would frustrate reconstruc
tion, and, on the other, would make it the
means of personal aggrandizement.
National politics really had little to do with
the contest. Old party names were banished,
and every attempt to introduce the more
political element was promptly repellod by
the supporters of Walker. Whatovor interest
wns manifested by Democrats out of tho State
wns clearly against the movement championed
by the Walker party. Tho World of this city
labored again and again to persuade the Vir
ginians to havo nothing to do with reconstruc
tion. And though now it chooses to "congratu
late Virginia on her superb success," we have
but to turn to its files to trace a subtle but not
the less malignant hostility to all plans for
bringing tho State into harmony with the
law. There were also Democratic politicians
in the State who resisted the ratification of
tho Constitution, and urged tho people to
dare the General Government to do its worst.
The pretense that the Democracy gained this
victory is, then, as hollow as it is impudent.
So far as they revealed old party affinities,
they were against both Walker and Wells;
they were against every stop that seemed to
lead in the direction of reconstruction. Tho
"superb victory" of which tho World speaks
was achieved not only in spite of the sugges
tions of that journal, but in defiance of the
declared will and purpose of the partv it
represents.
The absurdity of the Democratic pretense
becomes still more apparent when the nature
and consequences of the victory are consid
ered. Had tho Walker platform been euuivo-
cal, or had the triumph of the Walker ticket
been attended with the rejection of the Con-
Hiiuuion, we could nave understood the at
tempt to pervert tho significance of the popu
lar vote. But the election has settled every
thing precisely as the Democrats desired not
to have things settled. It has decreed the
continuance of universal suffrage. It has
invested the negro with political equality.
It has imparted life to the Constitu
tion prepared by the convention held
under the Reconstruction acts. It has
created a Legislature whose members are eli
gible under the law, and of whose readiness
to ratify the fifteenth amendment there seems
no doubt. It has chosen qualified men for
Congress, and has vested the chief offices of
the State in hands pledged to the support of
the Republican policy, and prepared to labor
in cordial harmony with President Grant.
Finally, it has dispelled the fear that in politi
cal affairs race would be ranged against race,
and has demonstrated the mutual willingness
of white and black to co-operate for a com
mon purpose, and that purpose one which
commends itself to the feeling and judgment
of the country.
If there is anything in this result over
which Democrats can reasonably chuckle
we are curious to know where and what it is'
The very measures which they denounce
most vehemently in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
Indiana have . been sustained in Virginia.
The policy they approve, Walker and his
supporters have repudiated. The new Con
stitution which they have described as a
"covenant with death," has been ratified by
a majority of forty or fifty thousand; and
the ratification of the pending amendment,
which they describe as "a league with hell,"
has been assured by the Same majority. A
more complete Republican triumph could
not be desired. For though national politics,
as such, played only a slight part in the con
test, the Republican character of tho victory
is proved by the results it achieves. An elec
tion which gives effect to the policy of Con
gress, realizes the objects contemplated by
the President, and places at the head of the
State a tried and consistent Unionist, who is
in cordial unison with the principles and aims
of the national administration, cannot be
characterized otherwise than as a Republican
success. The battle was fought on Republi
can ground, and the mortification of defeat
belongs to the national Democracy as well as
to the proscriptionists composing the Wells
party.
The endeavors of the latter to weaken the
moral force of the victory by describing it as
the product of political profligacy, aided by
fraud at the polls, are not deserving of re
spectful attention. They are so manifestly
occasioned by disappointment and defeat that
they will obtuin little heed from the country.
A despatch we published recently reports
General Canby to have declared himself
"much pleased at the good order in the oloc
tion," which, from the reports of his officers,
he believed to have been "as fair as could be
held in any State of the Union." We do not
doubt that he is right. From not a single
locality have we seen evidence of violence
or rascality at the polls. The contest was
conducted with creditable order, and its ter
mination reflects the deliberate preferences
and purposes of the people.
As to the pretensions to superior political
oithodoxy which are put forward in behalf of
Wells and the defeated ticket, we are per
suaded that they will not endure examination.
The penonitti of the winning ticket, con
sidered with reference to character and ca
pacity, is in every respect entitlod to conside
ration. And in regard to principle this fact
should be decisive: the Walker and the Wells
platforms are identical in their Republicanism.
Whatever difference of principle exists be
tween them relates to the proseriptive pro
visions of the new Constitution, which have
been expunged. And, as General Grant
favored the expurgation of these clauses,
which were voted down by the Walker pa,ity
while the Wells party, an a whole, sustained
them, it is tolerably plain that, on tho only
point of difference betwoon the parties where
principle is involved, Walker is in more cora
jilele harmony with the administration than
Lis opponent.
This review of the case is rendered appro
priate, if not necessary, by the evident desire
of misehief-makors to invest the victory with
a iaise coloring, as a preliminary to an appeal
for Congressional interference. The guilt
slid shame of this desire belong equally to
Democrats of other States and the supporters
of Wells in and out of Virginia. The former
class are more solicitous for the defeat of re
construction than for its miccess; the latter
care nothing for reconstruction, except as a
means of promoting their personal intorests.
They are equally untrustworthy, and their
purposo is a common one.
It is in view of this opposition, open or
treacherous, that a corroct understanding of
the scopo and significance of tho election,
and of the antecedents, charactor, and prin
ciples of tho successful candidates, bocomes
important. The facts of the case are all fa
vorable to tho work accomplished by tho
majority. They prove conclusively a literal
compliance with tho requirements of Con
gress, and a bona fulo acceptance of its policy;
and more than this is not necessary to entitle
tho State to tho privilogos incident to recon
struction. FINANCIAL.
UNITED STATES COUPONS
DUE JULY I, WANTED.
coupons or
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
DUE JULY I ,
Taken Same as Government Coupons.
DE HAVEN & BRO.f
BAKKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS,
NO. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
11 PHILADELPHIA.
15. XI. JATtlXSOn & CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
P. F. KELLY & CO.,
Hankers aud Dealers in
Gi, Silver, aii Giveinent Bonfls,
AT CLOSEST MARKET RATES,
N.W. Corner THIED and CHESNUT Sts
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS
n New York and Philadelphia Stock Boards, etc.
eic e S tia 81
QLENDINNING, DAVIS &CO
NO. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNING, DAVIS S AMORT,
NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegraphlo communication with the New
York Stock Board from the Philadelphia
Office. nas
LED YAR D & DARLOW
HAVE REMOVED THEIR
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
TO
No. 10 South THIRD Street.
PHILADELPHIA,
And will COnHnaa to arlva carafnl attnnttnn tn noil eat
ing and aecurmg CLAIMS throughout the United
DutmB, jsrumii rrovincea, ana Europe,
eight Drafts and Maturing Paper collected at
Bankers' Rate 1 S8 om
R
M
ELLIOTT & DUNN
HAVING REMOVED TO THEIB KKW BUILD LH
No. 109 8. THIRD Street,
Are now prepared to transact. GKNERAL BANKING
BUS1NR68, and deal in GOVERNMENT and other 8
oaritiea, HOLD, BILLS, Eto.
Keceire MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing lnterert.
NEGOTIATE LOANS, giving ipeoial attention to MSB
OANTILE PAPER.
Will exeout. order, for Btocka, Bond, .to., ON OOM
MISSION, at the Stock Exchange of Philadelphia, New
York, Boaton, and Baltimore. 4 Mf
CITY WARRANTS
t
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.,
' So. 20 South THIED Street,
4 I
PHILADELPHIA.
p, 8. PETERSON & CO..
Stock and Exchange Brokers
No. 39 South THIRD Street.
Member, of the New York and Philadelphia Stool
and Gold Boards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Eta, bought and fold on corn
mission only at either city. l get
SAMUEL WORK. FBANOIS F. MILNH.
wozik a mxrjij,
BAKKERS,
STOCK AND EXCHANGE BROKERS,
jr.. ua 4 ratao a pbujlbmltmia
FINANCIAL.
A RELIABLE HOME INVESTMENT.
THE FIEST MORTGAGE BONDS
or m ' '
Wilmington and Reading Railroad,
BRAKING INTEREST
At SEVEN PEIt CENT, in Currency
Pityiible April nnd October, free of STATB an4
. UNITED STATES TAXES.
Thi. road ran. tbroah a thick! populated and rioh
airricnltaral and manufacturing district.
For the present, we are offering a limited amount of tba
above Bond, at
85 Cents and Interest.
The connection of thl. road with the PenmqrWania and
Reading Railroad, innnroa it a large and remunerative
trade. We recommend the bond. a. the cheapest Bnt
elaa. investment in the market.
WXE. VJUOJTHH 5t CO.,
BANKERS AXD DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS,
NO. 30 S. THIRD STREET,
J PHILADELPHIA.
JjANKINQ HOUSK
or
JAY COOKE & CO.,
Ncs. 112 and 114 South THIRD Street
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers In all Government Secuntiaa.
Old 6-Joa Wanted m Exchange for New.
A Liberal Difference allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed on Deposit!
COLLECTIONS MADK. STOCKS bought and sold
on Commission.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladies.
We will receive applications for Policies of Life
Insurance In the National Life Insurance Company
of the United States. Full information glren at our
omce. ism
QMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS,
Philadelphia and Nev York.
DEALERS IN UNITED STATES BONDS, and MEM.
BER3 OF STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGE
Receive Accounts of Banks and Bankers on Liberal
Terms.
ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON
C. J. HAMBRO A SON, London,
B. METZLER, S. SOHN 4 CO., Frankfort.
JAMES W. TUCKER & CO., Paris.
And Other Principal Cities, and Letters of Credl
1 8tf Available Thronghont Europe.
WINES.
; H E R MAJ EST Y;
CHAMPAGNE.
DuriTon tsc Lusson,
! 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS
ale Uclt81 to th" following very Choioe Wines, etc., foe
DUNTON A LUSSON,
S15 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
iCI!Av.M.?ANi'S,"7,Aent?, ,or bor Majeet. Da. d.
v.?.b? '' Jileue C18 Blanche, and Charl"
rf-f Kaenje' ?? Vin Imperial. M KlS
WINKS Mayence, bparkling Moeolle and RUINS
i r. d i Kudolphe, Amontillado, Topa. Val-
IeU-eV,r.fJ,e a?d po'don Bar, Crown, eto. -
ni0?H'T?.h0 Volhi """uValfctta. and Crown.
i fTSrp!n? Ame MonUerrand and Bor
deaux, dnret. aud bauterne Wines.
iIN. "MederKwan." .
vinue2mi8'U81In,,"0,' 0trd' DPn' WjoWi
QAR STAIRS & MoOALL,
Nos. 126 WALNUT and SI GRANITE Streets,
Importer, of
BRANDIES, WINKS, GIN, OLIVE OIL. ETO.,
AMD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Forth, sale of
PURE OLD BYE, WliKAT, AND BOURBON WHIS-
, Klgs- 6 2d 3p
CAo,RthS.
KM H 126 WALNUrlndGlANrrKSt
ROOFINQ.
T K A D Y ROOFING
PpUedU," Efln " dMted 40 " It eaVbc
BTEKP OB FLAT ROOTS
at one-half the expense of tin. It is readil nut w.
ShintfleKoof. without removing the shini? fh,J.L
irwtT.eda.n.gmg of ceiling, and f tfndot
Kcinjr rnnMra. (No rrnvol used.) -nue unaor-
PllESKiiVK YOUK TIN KOOF8 WITH WELTOWM
, KLASTIU PAINT.
Im y rPi to Repair and Paint Roof, at ahor.
noti. e. Also, PAINT FOR 8 ALK by she bsrwl or mTuS
to. beat and cheapest in the market. Callow.
' No. 711 N. NINTH Street, above OwtJs'a'ncI
- 1 !7' . No- 8W WALNUT Street
rXl.Vi'NER ARCHITECTS, BUILDEKd
J-AP "OOrKRS.-Hoofs! Yoa, yoa.
kind, old or new. At No. m N. TUlkl)8tri 7hl , I
RIOAN CONURKTI, PAINT AN U ROOKcit) V? PAMY
are selliug their celebrated paint for TIN RtJOK4iS.5
for preBerving .11 woo.l and mSuU Also, their solid
plei roof covering the l.et ever offered Ito th. nib 2 mM
hrarhea, cans, bucket, elo.. for ihe ,itk i., " :
Fire, and WaUr-proo IJghl. T JhJ fwbleNo
ing, pealing, or .hnnkiiig. Ne ptper, gravel, or hear TjooS
for ull chniaUa. Direction, g... for work or gj JS3?
Avenu wanted for interior oonntiea.
J'H JOSIO-a LEED8. PrtnolpsL
rX) BUlLDEKs AND "cONTkACfOliS
A are prepared t.,, tarnish Kt,elih imposed
In .quantities to milt thia rcotiug was used to nova 1H.
Pari kilubiuan in lfcoJ. w " ln
hmtMMS
OLD TRAVEL "OOFS COVE JtED0 VJR.
with Uastio Slat, and warranted for Vvvr.
la, HAMILTON A UOUIU KH.
W IHDO W C L Alf
8,
hT?quu?roi manQffc0Uv:ln da"Jr UK) feet
AMERICAN WINDOW OLAS
They ar. also constantly rsasiving Importation, of
FRENCH WINDOW GLASS.
Rough Flats and Ttihbsd Glass, Knamellsd'u. .
EVANS, SHARP & WESTCOATT.
0 89 8m.
NO. 613 MARKET Btroet, PJiUadV