THE DAILY" EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, N0 EMBER 19, i860.
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EdlrarlKl Opinions f th Leading JeurnaJa
Upon Cnrront Topics Compiled Erer
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TIIE DRAWBACK FRAUDS.
from the Jf. Y. World.
It BoemB to us that the prominence given to
such of the developments in what are called
the drawback frauds as are really vein is quite
disproportioned to the intrintno pnblio im
portance of such developments. There has
been an attempt to throw a ftonsational flavor
over the recent discoveries by elaborate de
scriptions of the formalities necessary to ob
tain money from the Government, as allow
ance or drawback on articles on which an in
ternal tai has boon paid, when the articles are
subsequently exported to a foreign country,
and not consumed within the limits of the
United States. The whole subject is clearly
treated in the Rection of tho Internal Reve
nue law of July 1, 1802, which permits pay
ment of money out of the Treasury Depart
ment for such purposes. To one who reads
or bos read this law, there is no need of any
amplication. It is in those words:
"And Do It further enacted, That from and after
the date on which thl act takes effect, there shall be
au allowance or drawback on all articles on which
any Internal duty or tax shall have been paid
equal In amount to tho duty or tax paid thereon,
and no more, when exported ; the evidence that any
such duty or tax has been paid to be furnixhed to
the satlHfactlon of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue by such person or persons as shall claim
the allowance or drawback, and the amount to be
aHcertuinvd under such regulations as shall from
time to time he prescribed by the Commissioner of
Internal Kevcnue, under the direction of the Secre
tary of the Treasury, and the same shall be paid, by
the warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury on the
Treasurer of the I'ultvd States, out of any money
arising from Internal duties not otherwise appro
priated." It will be seen that tho Commissioner of
Internal Revenue is made by the law the re
sponsible officer in the execution of this sec
tion. On his decision the Secretary of the
Treasury is required to draw the warrant.
When, many months ago, the character of the
frauds was discovered by information given,
as was said, to the District Attorney of the
United States in Brooklyn, and prosecutions
against the parties implicated were thereupon
commenced, the publio was fully informed as
to the regulations prescribed by Commis
Bioner Rollins, under the direction of tho
Secretary of the Treasury, and also the ma
chinery by which money was illegally ob
tained. It was thoroughly understood then
that, in order to obtain money as and for
dra backs, the Government must be satisfied
first, that on specific merchandise a certain
amount of money had been paid to
the Internal Revenue official as a tax;
secondly, that the identical merchan
dise, in the condition in which it was when
the tax was paid, had been exported to
a foreign country and actually landed therein.
Upon proof on these two points, Congress had
authorized the Executive to return the money
to the person paying the tax. It was then
understood by the public, and we assume by
Government officials also, that inasmuch as
the merchandise, if regularly exported, must
have gone through a custom-houao of the
United States and been made to appear in
the manifest of the ship or vessel transporting
tne same, tne collector 01 ine port or expor
tation would be the proper person to prove
the fact of exportation, as the Treasury regu
lation said he should be. When, therefore,
many months ago, District Attorney Tracy
examined into these frauds, he must have come
to a perception of the fact that, if a custom
house officer had certified to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue that on the proper mani
fests it appeared that certain merchandise had
been exported on a certain date and by a cer
tain vessel, and the truth was that the mani
fest of the vessel referred to contained no
each record, or that there was no manifest on
file of any Buch vessel, then there must be
something wronor about the Custom House
official who had made such certificate. It ap
pears now, by the evidence before Commis
sioner Osborn, that the initials of Chief Clerk
Blatchford, then a chief clerk in the Custom
House and promoted by Collector Grinnell to
be a deputy collector, were on all or a great
part of the fraudulent certificates; that the
deputy collector gave his signature to the cer
tificate as a matter of course, relying upon the
fidelity of his chief clerk, who represented
that he had made the needed examination and
found the facts as he stated them to be.
Now, if this be so, did the officers of the
Government, including Mr. Tracy, stop at
this point which implicated Mr. Blatchford ?
Did they make inquiry as to whether his
initials were forged 'I Did any person at that
time require him to report how it happened
that he had given his initials to statements in
regard to the contents of manifests which he
said were on the file of the Custom House,
which, upon examination, turned out to be
utterly false? If this was not done while the
matters were under examination by Govern
ment officials, many months ago, it is im
portant for the public to be informed of
the reason. We do nat fail to remember that
District Attorney Pierrepont, who, bo far as
it appears, up to that time had.no personal
or official knowledge of these drawback trans
actions, was told by one Korn, a person
already implicated, of the alleged complicity
of Mr. Blatchford. That is all well enough,
so far as concerns District Attorney Pierre
pont, and the publio have reason to com
mend that officer for the fidelity with which
he seems to have followed up the matter
after it came to his attention, although we do
not quite understand why it took the Trea
sury Department nix weeks after Korn gave
the information to satisfy itself whether
Deputy Collector Blatchford was or was not
conspirator with the parties already impli
cated by District Attorney Tracy.
In a word, the only neie development in
these drawback frauds, beyond what wan dis
closed manv months aco to the publio by the
District Court in Brooklyn, seems to be the
immited tmilt of Mr. Blatchford. Here acain
there is something quite inexplicable in the
conduct of Secretary BoutweU, who permits
Mr. Blatchford, bo far as the public is aware,
to still retain the commission of deputy col
lector of the customs revenue. It is useless
for the Treasury Department to pretend that
there can be any sucn mystery as requires so
Inner time to ascertain whether or not Mr.
Blatchford is guilty. Six weeks have elapsed
since their attention was urougm to that offl
Vv Knrn. If Blatchford is not cuiltv.
Hin Homa of the action of District Attorney
Pierrepont in the pending trial is very severe
twiJu Kim Tf. on the contrary, Mr. Blatch
ford be guilty, it is very unjust to the publu
that tue former ue permiuou iu iu n.
sponsible an office. An example should at
once be made of him by conspicuous ex
pulsion. TIIE REIGN OF TIIE TITE-BARNACLES.
Prom the N. Y. Time.
It is hard work to break down any system
which politicians have found handy for pur
poses of corruption. We have not only to
light against the corrupters, but the cor
rupted, and the still more numerous class
which is quite willing to be corrupted if any
one will make it worth their while. But if I
the public can once1 be brought to a proper I
appreciation of the evils produced by a vicious
institution, tnoy may be reliod upon to Bweep
it out of tho way. We have long endeavored
to secure a reform of the Judioiary in this
State; and to superficial observers it might
have seemed that our labor was lost. But the
very heavy vote it may turn out to be a ma
jorityfor the Judiciary article recently sub
mitted to the people, shows that the publio
mind is always open to the reception of
truth. For this reason we gladly welcome
any new effort to arouse the whole country to
the importance of remodelling the civil ser
vice. We may have to toil on for somo time
yet, but "constant dropping wears away a
stone," and we shall certainly win in the end.
It is impossible that people can go on reading
Mr. Jenokes' statements and arguments, or
articles like those of Mr. Adams in the North
American Jhrinr, and of Mr. Parton in the
new number of the AtlanticMonthly, or the
essny of Mr. G. W. Curtis at tho Social Sci
ence Congress, without being stirred to rid
the country of ono of tho greatest scandals
associated with it, at home or abroad.
The civil service is n dishonest blunder
from beginning to end. When we have a good
man in any post we very rarely allow him to
remain thero long. We either transfer him to
some appointment for which he is not fitted,
and in which his special abilities are utterly
throw n awny, or we get rid of him altogether,
and put a worthless, incompetent, unprin
cipled office-seeker in his place. People go
to members of Congress and demand ap
pointments as a matter of right. The same
plan is sometimes tried in England. A voter
goes to a member of Parliament and says:
"I was on your committee at the last elec
tion, and, as you know, I had a good deal to
do with your success. Now I want to get my
son into a Government office." But the
member cannot help such a man if he
would. The Prime Minister himself could
not put any one into a public office, although
he might give him an appointment outside of
it. All he can say to the applicant is: "If
your son possesses the qualifications exacted
by the particular office you wish him to enter,
he will be able to pass the competitive exami
nation, and that is the only door open to you,
me, or anybody else." The son of a lord
must pass just the same examination as the
son of a shoemaker. People who wish their
children to enter the civil service have them
trained at school especially for it, and if
afterward they fail to pass the examination,
they know that it is necessary to find some
other occupation for them. Back-stairs influ
ence will do no good whatever. But in this
country the member of Congress badgers tho
head of a department until he gots places
for as many of his friends as he is anxious to
oblige.
Of course we lose all the good men and
get all the bad by this process. You cannot
induce first-class men to go begging round
among members of Congress for an appoint
ment. The persons who are ready for that
kind of work are tho very ones whom the
Government ought not to employ at any
price. The Government, to begin with, does
not pay enough to compensate able men
who have no private means for devoting tho
whole of their time to the service of the
country. The late Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court gave up a lucrative practice at
the Maryland Bnr in order to accept the post
offered him by the Government. His habits
were moderate, but he died in a destitute
condition. "When I was in Washington last
winter," says Mr. P.irton, "the daughters
of the late Chief Jnstice were earning a
scanty, precarious livelihood by copying
documents in one of tho publio offices at eight
cents per hundred words." Another member
of the Supreme Court was last winter paying
the whole of his salary for the board of him
self and his wife. It took all the ex-Attorney-
General s salary to pay his rent. We all know
what happens when men of an inferior type
are placed in this predicament. They eke
out their salaries by taking bribes, by plun
dering the public, by defrauding the Govern
ment and they persuade themselves that
thev are justified in so doing because the
Government is trying to cneat tnem by tailing
their time without paying for it.
The perpetual scramble for place is demo
ralizincr the public mind, and impeding the
business of Government in every direction,
It is all very well to recommend people to go
out to the wilderness ana worn, wny snouia
thev toil for bread when by scheming and in.
triguing they may obtain an "officer Of
course a large proportion must lan. nut tney
never cive up hope. They would rather do
tbe heels or a member 01 uongress, or nauni
the precincts of the White House, for a year
. . . m- i
tocether. than do a day's hard labor. Once
let it be understood that a proof of compe
tency will be required from every man before
he can obtain office, and all this dirty work
will come to an end at least so far as the
civil service is concerned. For this reason
we recommend, as we have done before, the
institution of a system of competitive ex
animations. What can be fairer? The best
man will win in the larger number of cases.
A higher standard of honor would prevail in
the new service, and that alone would go far
towards extinguishing corruption. In ing
land the plan has answered to perfection, and
it has been extended to India with the very
best results. Once, valuable appointments
in the Indian civil service were in the gift of
a few families. Now the poorest boy in Great
Britain is eligible to compete for them and
what is more, the poorest boys otten get
them. It is not an untried experiment
which we urge upon the publio attention. It
has produced an efficient civil service in
every country where it has been adopted
Why snouia we nesitate to ascertain tne
Qualifications of our publio servants before
eneacring them, and afterwards to remunerate
them at a fair rate ? It is the only way of
getting the work of the nation well and
honestly done.
INTERNATIONAL RACES MORE CHAL
LENGES FROM MR. ASHBURY.
From the A". T. Herald.
A letter has been written by Mr. Ashbury,
the owner of the English yacht Cambria,
challenging Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr.,
to a series of yacht races. Tbe challenges
are as follows:
- xa:o nu. 1. A JU WIO HIBL nn:k Ul IIUIVM,
1H70, from Hyde round tne Isle of Wight, ltoyal
11J-a " a . A , 1 . 1. .1 . . Wnwl.
Thames Yacht Club measurement and time allow
ance: no restriction as to number of bands, canvas.
or friends; to start from our anchors all canvas
down.
"Race No. 9. A race from Ityde round Cherbourg
Breakwater and back, Royal Thames Yacht Club
im anurement and time allowance ; no restriction as
to number of bauds, canvas, or friends; to start
I'oui our am hois with foresail and mainsail set
ivrcc nu. o. nuiiut viia tin u mo luui u maivii,
a raH from coweu to New York; a flying start, and
111! i tl 1 Ihn flh ...., ,i. I. "fc. .i.rth
no quuons as to tonuago, time allowances, or ro-
tricuom, f unv descrintiou.
Mace moh. 4 and 5. Two races in New York
waters, ov. t!le usutti course of the New York
Yacht Club, V1( m accordance with their mode of
uicabureiueui,time allowances, or other usual con.
Mr. Ashbury challenges promise to be
come famous in annals of aquatic sport.
Uitjierco, so jut as they are known on tnis
side the Atlantic, thtT have been conspiou-
ous by their barrenness in refmlta.' Whether
thin has been dne tq the apathy or timidity of
yacbtmen generally or to some Unfortunate
peculiarity in the challenges themselves, the
persons' most interested are best titled to de
cide; but when a man issues a regular gamut
of aquatic defiance and never finally comes
to the trying of even a single point among
all those he proposes to settle, it must seem
to the general publio either that his points
are trivial or that the universal voice
of the yachting world is against the
fairness of his terms. In the for
mer challenges from this gentleman, of
which our readers have heard a great cieai, ne
proposed to contest the possession of the cup
wen by tte America, ana aiso in an ocean
race the relative merits of the English and
American models for yachts. Neither point is
trivial. But the cup is held on cortain con
ditions, and when these are complied with its
holders have no option they must mako a
race. The failure to race, therefore, could
not be their fault. No race was made for the
cup simply because Mr. Ashbury did not see
fit to comnlv with tho plain necessary condi
tions. In tbe proposed ocean trial Mr. Ash
bury coupled his challenge with conditions
that made a race impossible, and insist ea on
those conditions, ho that ho resolutely pre
vented the race he sccmod to desire.
His present challenges have tho same im
practical character. He knows by positive
declarations frequently printed that the
owner of the Dnuntlcss will not make any
but an ocean race in any caso where the build
and model of the vessels are such as to give
the contest an international character; that
he will not expose such a contest to the ac
cidents of eddies, currents, and pilotage, but
will only wage it on the sea, where the
chances are far more likely to be even and
where it is possible to get a fair result of
sailing power, endurance, and of seaworthi
ness in every aspoct. Although this has been
distinctly stated to him, Mr. Ashbury still
issues his cartel with a proposal for a race
sandwiched between two or three little im
possibilities. Why ? Is it because he knows
that it will not be accepted ?
Mr. Ashbury may not be quite satisfied
with the position ho was left in by his failure
to mako any race with all ms former chal
lenges, and he may desiro now to improve
that position. He at first issued several chal
lenges, so separato in their character and in
tention that differont parties were at liberty
to take him up on different points. The
owner of the Dauntless accepted one of these,
and Mr. Ashbury avoided this acceptance on
the point of relative size, though he now
says: "I am willing to set aside all technical
questions of mode of aieasurement as regards
the principal race, and accent as the Amorican
champion your vessel the Dauntless in lieu of
one of the Uambria s size, as required by me
in my formal challenge to all America in
18(18." He thus relinquishes the point on
which he formerly refused to race; but he
issues his series of challenges in a new rela
tion, so that who takes one must take all, or
refusing certain ones must seem to refuse
the rest. To such a challenge Mr. Bennett
has given the most proper reply in simply re
iterating his readiness to make the only race
he ever proposed to enter.
WHAT TIIE FREE-TRADERS PROPOSE.
From the tr. Y. Tribune.
The Evening Post insists that the free
traders have been misrepresented as hostile
to all duties on imports, whereas they are op
posed only to such as have protection for their
obiect. Hut let us quote the roxta exact
words:
'We have not heard of a single American free
trader who demands, or desires, or expects to se
cure, at present, absolute freedom of commerce
from restrictions. On the contrary, the free-traders,
In their leagues, in the Journals which support their
cause, In their speeches, addresses, and resolutions,
which have been made and adopted In crowded
meetings all over the country, declare, without a
single exception, in favor of a tariff a tariff for
revenue. Thev acknowledge everywhere tho neces
sity of raising a large revenue; and they consent
that trade ahull be taxed to help in accomplishing
this, and taxed by a tarlll.
"W nat tne iree-trauers demand is not, as me rimrn
savs, and as the enemies or iree-trane sometimes
assert, absolute free-trade, but a tariff laid for reve
nue purpose only ; a scheme of duties on imports so
arranged that tbe Government shall obtain the reve
nue it needs by duties on tne smallest possioie num
ber of articles, and by duties so arranged as to
interfere as little as may be with our industries,
most of which are dependent for their success, to
a large extent, on cheap materials ol foreign pro
duction.
"The tree-traders want now a reform of the reve
nue s v stein : we are revenue reformers. When, by.
and-by, the debt is paid, we shall no doubt demand
tne abolition 01 custom nouses : aim. in tne mean-
time, if anv man ';nn contrive a practical and simple
system of direct taxation for this country, we free
traders will welcome that, and urge the people to
substitute it for the present or any otner system 01
indirect taxation."
It is the indisputable right of every party
or Beet to set forth its own dogmas to define
its own position. It has a right to be glar
ingly inconsistent, ao long as it remains
honest. Yet, when Professor Perry was
asked, at the close of one of his free-trade
addresses in our city, "flow would yon sup
port the Government and pay its debt ?" we
understood him to answer, liy a tax on in
comes solely. However, let us take the rout s
authority as that of an elder if not a better
soldier, and consider where it places the free
traders.' ' ' -
We have always understood them as con
tending, in opposition to us, that a duty or
impost on an imported article necessarily
raises the price to our consumers, not merely
of that article, but or any aomesuo proauct
that comes in competition therewith. They
generally assume the truth of this proposition
as sell -evident. Ana tney uoia inis increase
of price to be a wrong to the consumer and a
detriment to the community,
Now let us take the article of iron for ulus
tration, and suppose a duty is levied on im
ported iron (for revenue solely; or twenty per
cent, ouppose that, nnaor saia auty, we inr
port twenty thousand tons of iron per annum
and make at home eighty thousand. Call it
all worth $.riO per ton, enhanced by this duty
to iffuu per ton. The duty (according 10 iree
trade assumptions) takes ten millions or doi
lars out of the pockets of the consumers of
iron, civeB $8,000,000 of it arbitrarily to the
American iron masters, and puts the odd
$2,000,000into the Treasury! Is that what you
can pouucai economy."
Our view is radically different from this.
We believe our people are supplied with iron
cheaper uecause of the duty on its importa
tion that, though thev may pay more aw-
lart, they get their iron for less labor, because
they pay for it really in fruits, vegetables,'
fuel, fodder, etc, which they could not sell
to Europe, and which would not bring them
nearly so much if our iron were made there,
All this the free-traders scoff at; but the
point is not tVia unrinilriaNN nf nur doctrines.
but tbe consistency of thoir professions with
meir assumptions, on w hat ground do tney
deem it wise or well to tax the consumers
of iron ten millions of dollars in order to
put two millions into the Treasury ? Who
will say ?
Old women sometimes say of a young one
that, if not married, she ought to be. If we
believed in free trade a t all, we should be
ojfposed to all duties on imports, no matter
whether levied for revenue or protection. 1
TOE INDECENCIES OF TOLITICS. '
From the N. Y. Tribune.
We value highly a vigorous ormosition. In
a free oountry tho best administration is im
proved, the worst is made more tolerable, bv
pungent, fearless, unsparing criticism. A
good ruler or mnistor will Hometimes err;
and a stern, watchful, merciless antagonism,
whether it address the publio originally
through a parliamentary forum or directly
through editoriul animadversion, will often
enable and encourage it to retrace its false
steps before they becomo irreversible. As a
general rule, falsehoods and groutidloss ca
lumnies injure their authors more than their
subjects; since the public, having detected an
nsBiiuaui in one wanton slander, aro slow to
give credit to his subseo uent Hnpinifttiiiiiq.
Hence, we contemplate with patience and
philosophy a journalistic effort to damage an
uumiuiMuiuiuu uy me ciumsy, coarse expedi
ent of throwing infinite mud, in the expecta
tion that some portion of it can hardly fail to
mil n, ui ul iuuhl 10 stain.
Tho orhl evidently believes th fit. it. pnm.
mends itself to its own party by the extraor
dinary grossnetis nnd persistency of its impu
tations on the President of the United States.
lethaps it does. We are no ind.ms of the
rankness of that party's appetite for abuse;
but, judging from what it bas swallowed
without protest, of sneer, and jibe, and scoff,
and scurrility, aimed at the dead Lincoln, it
can not oe iasuaions much loss squeamish
with regard to the living Grant. Yet it does
seem to us that the World overdoes its work
in uttering column after column of such in
vective as the following:
"The CrsTOM House Frauhs.v .m tint nrn.
pose to derogate In the least from the special dis
honesty of the persons especially Implicated lv the
disclosures of the Custom IIoubo frmul. Neither
do we wish to overt the blame which thn nreHeiit
administration has Justly Incurred for the scandal
ous recklessness with which it has annotated incom
petent persons to oillce. But behind all this Is the
lact that the tarill under which these swindles have
been brought to light, and under which far greater
swindles have doubtless been perpetrated with im
punity, is one which oilers every facility to uuscru
lous placemen to aggrandize themselves."
I. "The present administration" has ap
pointed to office none of the persons impli
cated in the Custom House frauds here and
elsewhere which its agents have detected.
On the contrary, it had removed some of
them prior to such discovery, and superseded
the rest directly afterward. It is exactly as
responsible for those frauds as the Sheriff is
for the crimes of the felon whom he has
arrested and holds in custody.
II. "The tariff under which these swindles
have been brought to light"' had nothing to
do with most, if any, of them. During the
late exbouhting civil war, it was found neces
sary to impose an excise or internal tax on
most domestic manufactures. When ex
ported, inose manuiactures were allowed a
drawback or return of this excise, upon due
proof that they had paid it, and that the goods
thus taxed had been exported. On this state
of facts, certain knaves out of office conspired
with other knaves in office (one here, another
at Washington) to swindle our hard-pressed
Treasury by means ot forged papers. They
succeeded. Large sums were obtained from
the Treasury by the unofficial contrivers of
this fraud, nnd apportioned, four-fifths among
themselves, one-fifth to their official confede
rates. In all, nearly a million of dollars was
thus stolen from the people of the United
States. i
III. The duties on American manufactures
were abolished so soon after the close of the
war as they well could be some three years
ago. Ot course, the drawback fell with them.
This whole system of frauds necessarily fell
with the excise and its drawback. No dollar,
bo far as discovered, has been fraudentlv
drawn from the Treasury by an appointee of
oenerai vrrani, nor under his administration.
No appointee of General Grant is even sus
pected of conniving at these iniquities. The
lrnuds occurred under the regime of Andrew
Johnson,Henry A. Smythe &Co., long enough
before General Grant's election. All that
those now in power have done is to detect the
villainies and bring a part of their perpetra
tors to the bar of justice. Can that have pro
yoked the savage malignity of the World?
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OOMMIS8ION MERCHANTS
For the sale of
PURE OLD RTE, WHEAT. AND BOURBON WHIS.
K.KS. iSSivi
pARSTAlRS' OLIVE
W ot the above for sale by
OIL-AN INVOICE
n A RSTAIR8 A MnOAT.T -
intpf
Roe. 126 WALNUT and il GRANITUkU
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE
A New Oonrse of LeoturM, delivered at the New
York Museum of Anatomy, embracing the suhieoU:
How to Live, and What to Lire 'nrS Youth, Maturity, and
Old Age; Maubood Generally Reviewed t The Gauseof
ludlfMilion; i lulu leuox and Korvous Diseases Aooounted
lor; Marriage fhilosouhioallr Coil tide red, eto. eto.
Pocket volumes aontaining these Lectures will be for.
warded. Vint uaid. on riumi of cents, bv addreaeinr VI .
A. LKABY, Ju., 8. H. oornerol i'U'i'u and WALNUT
btreau, Philadelphia.
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1?AHTON 4 JIcJIAHO 1,
Id BHIWKO AND uoMUISStOH MKHOHANT
Ko.S OOH.NTIK8 BLllNw York.
No. 18 riOUTU WHABVKh. Philadelphia,
No. 46 W. PRATT bireet, Baltimore.
We are prepared to ship ee' description of Freight to
Philadelphia, New York, VVilmiiUfUw, and Intermediate
pomis with promptness aad-deepatoh. Oaoai lieatesad
biaui Aus taruithed et tbe borteet aoUee.
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iriNANOIAL
A RELIABLE TOE INVESTMENT.
THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
Of THB
Vilmingion and Reading Railroad,
BEARING INTEREST
At SEVEX PER CENT, la Currency,
PAYABLE ArKIL AND OCTOBER, PREB OP
8TATB AND UNITED STATES TAXES.
This rt) ltd rnns through a thickly populated and
rich ogrlcultural and miinnracturlng district
For the prefH'tit, e are offering a limited amount
tne aoove Bonds at
85 CENTS AND INTEREST.
The connection or this road wltn the Pennsylvania
and Heading Railroads insures It a large and remu
nerative trade. We recommend the bonds as the
cheapest first-class Investment In the market.
TOXVX. PAITITjCXI & CO.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS,
No. 36 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
t 81 PHILADELPHIA.
UNITED STATES BONDS
BOUGHT, SOLD, AND EXCHANGED ON MOST
LIBERAL TERMS.
o o l. r
BOUGHT AND SOLD AT MARKET RATES. COU
PONS CASHED.
PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
S T O O IC S
BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION ONLY.
COLLECTIONS
MADE ON ALL ACCESSIBLE POINTS.
DE HA YEN & BKO.,
No. 40 South THIRD Street,
l8 PHILADELPHIA.
13. II. JAIYXISOri 4SL CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
P. Jf. KELIiY A CO.,
flanker and Dealers im
Gold, Silver, and Government Bonds,
AT CLOSEST MARKET HATES,
JT.W. Corner THIRD and CHESNTJT St,
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS
In New York and Philadelphia Stack Boards, etc,
eta 6 6 tig 81
ELLIOTT A DUNN,
BANKERS,
NO. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON THB UNION
BANK OF LONDON.
DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
GOLD, BILLS, Eto.
Kecelre MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing interest
Execute orders for Stocks In Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, and Baltimore. 4 so
QLENDnramo, davis & co.,
NO. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNING, DAVIS & AMORT,
NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW TORS
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegraphic communication with the New
York Stock Boards from the Philadelphia omce. figgj
gJfllTH, RANDOLPH A CO..
BANKERS,
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK,
DEALERS IN UNITES STATES BONDS, and MEM
BERS OF STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGE,
Receive Accounts of Banks and Bankers on Libera
Terms.
ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON
C J. HAMBRO A SON, London,
B. METZLER, & SOHN CO., Frankfort
JAMES W. TUCKER & CO., Parts.
And Other Principal Cities, and Letters of Credit
Htf Available Throughout Europe.
JOHN 8. RUSHTON & CO.,
No. 60 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
NOVEMBER COUPONS
AND
CITY WARRANTS
10 B 8m BOUGHT AMD SOLD.
CITY WARRANTS
, BOUGHT AND SOLD. V 1
C. T. YERKESs Jr., & CO..
NO. 20 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
, . : . , PnnBLPHIA
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FINANOIAU.
A Seven Per Cent Gold" Loan
86,500,000.
THK KANSA8 PACIFIC RAILWAY, bow la
fal operation from Kartnaa City to Nneiidan. proposes to
Dniia an eitmslra to Usurer, Colorado. Tea Oorernmani
has (ranted Three Millions of Ac roe of the finest land la
Kansaa and Colorado, which are mortgaged for the seoa-
rilr of a loan of
6,500,000.
Thia loan t MonnMi in thai mm( af.i v
r v.-v.nw.vH. mi. UVU U,
trade of the Rooky ftionnta'n country and oonneot it with
(llM..linn mtA will .U
irui 01 we Mm. it u oonstderod to be ona
of the best loans In tbe market.
KVKN BKTTFK TN ROMK RKSPKOTi THAN GOV
r.ivi,ir,i I MKUUKITIKS.
The loan baa tblrtlr vp.n n mn n.innin.i i. .
..iu .umji on.
payable in (cold, semi-annually, seven per cnt
1 ne coupons will be pitysMe semi-annually in either
Frankfnrt- ImtAim n. wAV v,l. i i , .
. - - win. win u. ini. iniv
Government tnintinn. The bonds for tbe present are
win id currency at m, wun aoorueo: interest.
iircniars, maps, and pamphlet sent on application.
AltIM?Y. MOIM.A Ac CO.,
No. 68 EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YOUK.
91. u. .ii:i;5 & c.,
No. 19 PINE STKKET, NEW TO HE.
We are ant.hnrlftiwl in anil ttlA hnnria In PKtl.rfl..l.t.
offer them aa a reliable investment to onr frloud.
No, 309 WALNUT Street,
107mwf lm PHLLAJL,rxlj?LA
JJANKINO HOUHE
OP
JAY COOKE & CO.,
Nob. 112 and 114 South THIRD Street.
PHILADELPHIA,
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old D-80B Wanted in Exchange for New.
A Liberal Dltference allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted,
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
COLLECTIONS MADE STOCKS bongnt ad SOU
on Commlijsion.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladles.
We will receive applications for Policies of Lire
Insurance In the National Life Insurance Company
of the United States. Full Information given at oar
office. 10 1 8m
pa 8. PETERSON & CoT.
Stock and Exchange Brokers,
NO. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
Members of the New York and PhOadelpius) Stock
and Gold Boards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Etc, bought and sold on oora
mission only at either city . l sot
OARPETINOS, ETO.
PJEW CARPETING 8.
TOLLUM, CREASE & SLOAN,
No. 509 CHESNUT STREET,
Importers and Retailers of
C A U P E T I N G S
Of every description.
FALL IMPORTATIONS. r
NEW DESIGNS IN MOQUETTE, n
CROSSLEKS VELVETS, t-t WIDE,
In original and exclusive patterns.
1000 PIECES BRUSSELS,
,Of the best English manufacture, of new and novel
styles, many of them designed expressly tor as.
1000 TIECES CROSSLEY TAPESTRIES,
All the newest styles. v
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN OIL CLOTHS.
McCALLUM, CEEASE & SLOAN'S
CARPETING AND OIL CLOTH WAREHOUSE,
No. ,609 CHESNUT STREET,
i PHILADELPHIA, , ,
9 8 wfm8m Opposite Independenoe HalL
EW C A R P E T8.
AXMINSTEBS,
WILTONS,
VELVETS,
BRUSSELS,
3-PLYS AND IffGRAINS,
Venetians, Druggets, Oil Cloths, Eto.
LEEDOM & SHAW,
No. 910 ARCH STREET,
t 8mr PHILADELPHIA
QENT.'S FURNISHING OOOD3.
rpilE FOUNT Ol1 l'AMIllON.
GENTS' FURNINHINU STORE.
MRS. M1KNIB OUMMINGS baa opened the abora
named plaoa, at No. 118 booth KIOH j'H Street, where
gentlemen oea find ever? tblos in their Una.
Tha beet fitting. BHIKT8 in the cltjr. read made or ,
mace to order.
Purobaaera of twelve artlolea reoeirs tha thirteenth as
Gift.
UHBBELLAS TO HIHK for 28 oenU.
. Bandkerei lets bsmmed free of charge.
' Polite Salesladies in attendanoe,
call la respectfully solicited and satisfaction (aar
snteed. . ; .
VS MISMK OUMMINQB.
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GENTLEMEN WILL FIND AT
X. Ij. Jacob Ac Co., .
X.
No. 1326 CHESNUT Street,
a large and well-selected stock of red and white Shaker
Flannel, Merino, and Canton Flannel Undershirts and
Drawers, llntmh super stout Half Hose, Fins Iirees Hhirts
for men and bora, Collars, Ties, UraTats, and Bows, and a
general and complete assortment of urmsUlnfl Uoodeof
superior quality, at the lowest rates. Krerr article war
r.nted to be as represented, and straightforward, fair
dealing oareiuliy adhered to. u gja
pATENT SHOULDER-SEAM
BinitT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWER
made from measurement at very short notice.
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRES
GOODfi in full variety.
. WINCHESTER A CO.,
11 ; No. Tt)6 CHEHNUT Street.
DRESS
AND
SHIRTS
GENTS' NOVELTIES.
J. W. SCOTT & CO.,
No. 814 CHESNUT Street, PnlladelpUU,
t I75rp ' Pour doors below Continental Hotel.
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