I THE D AILS' EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1SCD. spirit or sxxh muss. Kilttr1nl Opinions of tbe I.nndlnK Journals Upon Current Topics t'niiiiillod Krerr Ubv for (he llrnln Telegraph. . THE FUTUItE OF TAHTIES. From the N. 1 Tim. The tone of the Tr ident's Memago and of the oponing dobutes in Congress Hullioiently indicates the future poliovjof the Jiepublican party if we way call that a policy which is rather an accident or the natural consequence of foregone events. The party of "great moral ideas" and thero in a substantial truth as well as a sarcasm in the phraso proposes now to settle down into the stern yet neces sary, the honest yet wearisome, task of pay ing off the national debt, of restoring and improving the dignity of our relations towards foreign powers, and of introducing into the Government civil service something of that purity and eprit do corps which have characterized, as a rule, the service of the army, the navy, and the judicary. These are praiseworthy purposes. u.They embody that which is most essential in a re publican government. But they make no appeal whatever to passion or to popnlar vanity. Even in the case of Cuba, in which a vivid appeal might have been made to the dympathies of the masses, a calm statesman ship and a rigid observance of international law, addressing only the cooler judgment of enlightened publicists, take the place of hot invective and of a grand apotheosis of the Monroe doctrine and the Bird of Freedom. The Darien Canal carries with it some ele ments of popularity; beyond that all is hum drum duty and quiet resolution to lessen the burdens of taxation while the national credit is made sure. There are, to be sure, some fag-ends of reconstruction left to be com pleted, but reconstruction is now bo nearly an accomplished fact that both parties are willing to let it have free course and run, in the confident assurance that the good in volved in the general result will ultimately overshadow all defects in the agencies em ployed. We have employed the phrase "a party of great moral ideas," for nothing can be more descriptive of the Republican organization, of the impassioned zeal with which it will fight for a principle, of the persuasive and proselyting power it can exert when grand interests are at stake. It has unswerving courage in the front of battle, but it detests the tiresome drill, the irksome discipline, and the long march that loads up to the enemy; to carry out the army comparison it has its inert main body, its guerillas, who, like the Ku-Klux Klan, insist on fighting after the war is over, and its camp followers and sutlers. The latter were a large and influential class, and the Republican, like all other parties, has its corrupt element, of whicn nothing save continued defeat can purify it. So long as it has the prestige of victory and spoils, it can rely upon the voice and vote of a host of worthies who are sure to leave it in the day of its adversity. We argue, therefore, that the Republicans are in a position altogether different from any they have occupied during the sixteen years of that wondarf til career in which they have achieved successes and reforms which seemed, even to themselves at the outset, to be the work of a century. They have no longer a hold upon tno ordinarily indinerent class who vote only for ideas; their theory of administration is too Honest lor tne camp fol lowers, and they are deficient in mock thunder and claptrap. More than that, patriotic duty compels them to entoree onerous nscal obli gations, with none of the usual iops to Cer berus in the snape or glory, armed acquisition of territory, or other violent wavings of the American flag. This is a sorrowful statement; for it in volves a confession that many good men )nly support a cause in its emergencies; ' hat many weak men desert it except under he stimulus of high example: and that the .'orruptionists who follow its march to victory re willing to hght upon the other side when the spoils are no longer forthcoming. Is the Democratic party in any better posi tion? So far as affirmative political doctrine is concerned, it has done. Its "mission" for years past has been to prophesy ter rible results from the continuance of ltepub lican rule. These predicted results have never come to pass. If they had it would have made little diff'erenoe; for the De mocracy has no claim to any policy of its own no distinctive theory as to the payment of the national debt; no scheme of reconstruction, save to fall back upon the atatvs existing before the Rebellion, and which caused the war; no purpose ami hardly a pretense of honesty and eoonomy in expenditure; and no power of appeal to the populace in any bold, aggressive mode of handling our foreign relations. The Demo- cracy has nothing ainrmative left. What little ' of principle it may assort is but a sapless and withered thing of the past an old man's memory of great contests over potty affairs. It only exhibits itself as a drag upon the wheel of progress. Its conservatism has dege nerated into liourbonism. How will it bo in 1872, when all these causes in both parties will combine to control another Presidential election? The Demo cracy will have no record save that of the vilest and most thievish of Slate and munici- pal governments; but that record alone will be of magnitude enough to rouse the indiffer ent element among thclti-publicans and teach it that "great moral ideas" are continuous and not spasmodic in their action. At the same time the Republicans will come before the people with a story cf national credit restored, of debts paid, of economy enforced, of terri tory aoquired, of peace and good-will esta blished between lately warring seotions, of commercial prosperity, and of great material enterprises accomplished. In the meantime sundrv causes of discontent will have been removod. Gold and paper, we may hope, will le equivalent in value, the rough nnctua tions in the price of gold which now imperil the importer and the merchant will have passed away, taxation will have been re- dnoed. and a compromise will have been effected upon the tariff question by which justice to the consumers shall be reconciled with reasonable encouragement to domestic industry. With such Democratio negations on the one side, and Republican achieve ments on the other, we may hope for and prediot a national Republican triumph in 1872. SHALL TUE INCOME TAX HE CON TINUED? From (he V. Y. World. The unjust and odious inoome tax differs from the other fiscal questions which chal lenge the consideration of this Congress in its freedom from entanglement with collate ral subjects. It is an acknowledged excres cence in our financial system; having been originally enacted for a limited period, and its continuance being recommended by the 1 'resident, at a reduced rate, only for another limited period of three ye.irs. It differs from the currency question and the tariff question in the fact thut no particular section of the country, great intereHt, nor parly, feels that it ban any stake in the per- I initiation of the present state of the law. It is a mere question of revenue, pure and sim ple; havingnothing in it that can enlist party zealotry on one side or the other. The admission of its advocates, that the tax ought to be transitory, betokens their despair of defending it on any ground of principle; and as a temporary expedient it can be justified only by the insufficiency of other sources of revenue. Hut, in point of fact, the revenue from other sources is redundant; the current surplus being sufficient, as is claimod, to reduce the public debt at the rate of nearly a uunarea millions per annum, its total aboli tion is confessedly not a question of princi ple, but only a question of time; and what time can be more opportune for tho removal of an unjust and odious tax than the earliest I moment when it ceases to be necessary Tt we nave recently set lortn Borne of tne reasons wny an inoome tax operates more unequally and oppressively in this country than it does in Great Britain, showing that a difference of circumstances renders the British precedent inapplicable to this coun try., nut even in Ureal Britain the income tax is felt to contravene every principle of equity. The strength of denunciation with which Mr. Bright assailed the income tax of Great Britain, and his vigorous, almost indignant, protests against its gross inequality and in justice, snould arrest the zeal of its advocates in this country, who have little to stand upon but the British precedent, and who fancy tnat tne .uritisn tax is regarded as equitable. If it is unjust there, it is, as we took some pains to show, a hundred-fold more unjust in 1? - .1 - T ... . m. a new country iute tne united mates, xne Commissioner of Internal Revenue is the only officer of our Government who has undertaken to defend its equity, and as we are willing our readers shall see all that can be said in its favor, we insert his argument: "After all, tt Is but a tax upon the Increased wealth of the nation ; and when it Is understood that Gov ernment securities are exempted from taxation, and that the interest on these securities produces a large aniouut of the incomes of tax-pavers, I submit if it will be wise to abolish the Income tax as long as the labor, Industry, and business of the country are directly or indirectly subjected to anv considerable taxation. These observations are Intended to apply to the question whether the Income tax shall bo retained or abolished, and not to the rate of the tax, or the manner of its assessment and collec tion.'- It is discreditable to our Government that reasoning so flimsy and inconsequent as this should be put forth in a public document. Mr. Delano defends the income tax on the ground that it is paid by the bondholders whose property is otherwise exempted from taxation. For the refutation of this argument nothing is required but a slight knowledge of n..; M,w, ; 'rv. -....: i... ; r . - i . 3 holders make but an insignificant fraction of the proceeds of the income tax. The total amount of the bonds is about $2,000,000,000, Secretary Boutwell, in his annual report, es timates that from seven hundred to nine hun dred millions of these bonds are held abroad Supposing the amount in foreign hands to be eignt nunarea millions, tnere would . remain in this country twelve hundred millions, the interest on which is subject to the income tax. The interest on twelve hundred mil lions at six per cent, is seventy-two millions, and the income tax of five per cent, on this interest is only ;5,0(),0()O; whereas Mr. Delano states that the whole income tax col looted this year will amount to $(2f',,)()0,0()(). It will thus be seen that the bulk of tho income tax does not fall upon the bond holders, as Mr. Delano assumes, but upon other classes of the community. Allowing for tne exemptions and for tne lact that tne ten-forty bonds yield only five per cent. interest, probably not more than three mil lions of the income tax are collected from the bondholders, and the other twenty-three millions are the most unjust tax ever levied Mr. Delano defends it on the ground that it is a tax on "the increased wealth of indivi duals from investments. "After all," he says, "it is but a tax upon the increased wealth of the nation." If this were true, and all the increased wealth of the country contributed in equal proportions, the tax would be justi fiable. But it is not true. A large part of it is levied on salaries which are barely sufficient to meet the current wants of the recipients. It is not a tax upon their "increased wealth," but upon their scanty means of living. The payers of this part of the income tax are no better off at the end of the year than they were at the beginning. Instead of being paid out of their accumulations, it curtails their ordinary comforts. That large part of the inceease of the na tional wealth which comes with the least ex ertion is not touohed by the income tax at all. We refer to the hundreds of millions of dol lars invested in this country by shrewd, wealthy men in unimproved real estate, which is constantly rising in value, but yielding no tangible income as long as it remains unsold. There is no class in our country wno are so apidly increasing in wealth as the investors in such property, and yet they pay no income tax, while people who make money by their activity and industry, and who are the real creators of the increased value of such in vestments, bear all the burden. Nothing could be more unjust than a law which thus exempts accumulations which come without exertion, and taxes the uncertain prohts of business, and tho precarious salaries of indi viduals who have no resource when sickness or the caprice of employers puts a stop to their earnings. Moreover, the income tax scarcely toucnes sericulture, the most extensive and most thriving interest in the country. The rise in the value of I arms is as ie accessible to tnis form of taxation as the enhancement of un improved real estate. The food of the farm er s family, raised on his own land, escapes entirely, while that large part of other in comes which is expended for food pays me full five per cent. No tax is endurable which is distributed with such glaring disre gard of equity, As there is no reason why a renewal of this unjust tax should be inada a party question, we would fain hope that it may be permitted to die a natural death with the expiration of the present law. TINKERING THE TARIFF. From th$ .V. 1'. Tribune. It there be one among the many excellent suggestions embodied in the President's first Annual Message which, above all others, stamps him as a man of practical good sense, it is that in which he counsels Congress to let the tariff alone until the arduous task of fund ing our great national debt at a lower rate of interest shall have been virtually acooin plibhed. If the debt were of moderate amount, we might easily fund . it at four per cent. Its magnitude alone renders the task one cal culated to tax the resources of master of finance. It is only bvniakino U. 8. bonds scarcer and scarcer in the market that we oan hope so to appreciate them that the holders must either accept a lower rate of interest, or give place to others who will. If we oan keep on buying and retiring two millions of bonds per week, we must soon be able to fund tne residue at a low rate, so far as they shall be advance of their price in Ixmdon directly on the receipt of the Freiiidents Message foreshadows the rosnlt of a hearty concurrence by Coagress in the leading suggestions of the Exeoutive. Abounttful revenue is one vital condition procedont of the funding in question; for witnont sucn a revenue the purchase and retiring of bonds must soon be arrested. Our preRont tariff and intornal taxos afford the weekly and monthly income requirod very nearly twenty-lour millions per month. or these, ten millions (gold) are required to pay tho interest on our debt. Over two millions more are required for pensions; tho cost of running tne tiovemiuent eannot be brongnt below eight millions (currency) por month more; so that barely four millions por month are left to be employed in buying np the principal of our debt after the surplus in tho Treasury shall have been drawn down to its proper level. This is as little as will answer. the year just before us; if renewed, it will, as General Grant recommends, be reduced; so that, until our debt be funded, and the heavy burden of its interest lightened, we have no revenue to spare, and we beg Congress not to let any go. Fund the five-twenties at four-and-a-half per cent, (it should be four). and we shall have twenty millions per annum Bared by that process; and we can reduoe our taxes by that amount, yet keep on paying off uebt as betore. We understand that the House Committee of Ways and Means have substantially agreed tnat tne right thing to do with the tana, when the time shall have arrived for doing anything, is to extend the free list. That seems a wise conclusion. A very long list may be made of articles now subject to various duties which together afford very little income to the Treasury, while the trouble and expense or assessing and collecting duties upon them are very considerable. We presume a Hundred artiolos might be added to the free list without reducing the net receipts from customs; and two nunored more at a cost of but a few mil lions of revenue. At a proper time we shall favor and urge such extension of the free list. Shall coal be placed in that list? We hope it may, for reasons quite other than thoHe commonly urgod by the advocates of "free coal." New England will obtain some coal from Nova Scotia a little cheaper than she now does; our gas-company "rings" will make a little more money out of their Nova Scotia coal-mines than they now do; but that they will cive to their customers either cheaper or better gas, this deponent, not knowing, can t say. Southward and westward of the Delaware, "free coal" will amount to just nothing at all, save the loss of !!i.iO,(K)() per annum to the Treasury. READ BOTH SIDES! From the fit. LouU Democrat. We see now what a man may come to who depends entirely upon the New York Tribune for information. Mr. Beecher s defense of his course in the marriage and at the funeral of Mr. Richardson, and of his very strange language, prejudging a criminal case, declar ing the wife und the deceased utterly blame- loss, and denouncing the imprisoned husband, was that ho had not read the papers about the case, and depended for his information upon the editors of the J nbnne. Now the editors who informed him are very honest and worthy persons, but, like all other numan beings, they are sometimes iniiuenced in their judg ments by personal feeling, sympathy or pre judice. It was at the house of one of the editors of that papor, it appears, that Mrs. McFarland, whila yet undivorced, received many visits from Mr. Richardson, and at that house, still being tne who of another, she occupied with RichardBon adjoining rooms, there being no room between them. It was thero that she was seen by a servant to put her arms about his neck and kiss him though still the wife of another. Another of the editors of the Tribune was the principal wit ness in obtaining the divorce, und came from New York to Indiana for that purpose. No blame to her for that ! It was not only right. it was her duty to testify to the facts. But her prominence on that occasion rendered it qui to natural that the sympathies of Airs. Cal houn were with the wife, and it was Mrs. Cal houn who applied to Mr. Beecher to solem nize the marriage. Had Mr. Beeoher known that the divorce was obtained in Indiana, sim ply because there was not alleged to be any ground for it under the laws of New lork, he might have hesitated before speaking so strongly as he did. But, as he says, he relied entirely upon statements made to him by his friends of the Tribune, and with that paper Mr. Richardson was connected. Did it never occur to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher that in such a case it would be well to hear both sides 'i Not because his informants were not trust worthy, but because they were partisans in the nature of the case because their natural sym pathies were strong ! The informants upon whom Mr. Beecher relied are indeed most honorable persons, to whose statements he had reason to give great confidence. But what one of us all is not liable to be warped in judgment by personal feeling? To say that the editors of the Tribune may have been, is not to question their integrity it is simply to say that they were human. Knowing that they were human, and knowing their natural sympathies, Mr. Beecher would have done w isely had he insisted upon reading both sides. He did not, and is in trouble. Good people and honest people get into trouble in exactly the same way every day. They hear one side of a story, are content with that, and instantly become violent par tisans. If the truth happens to be against them, of course they suffer. But it serves them right. They ought to have read both sides. No man has any business to snirn tne responsibility of having an opinion of bis own. If be bears one side only, ne aucepuj the opinion of somebody else, and suffers his influence to be used as a tool iy anoiuer. Mr. Beecher's possession of large influence imposes on him commensurate responsibility, wnicu ne eannot snaKe on. o every woman who has influence, be it large or small, isjbound to direct it by an independent opinion, not borrowed from anv partisan, but fonued from a knowledge of the case. And the case always means more than one side of the case. But it is a prevailing vice of the times to permit somebody else to do our thinking for us; to hear one side, adopt that, and not in frequently to refuse to hear any other, with a fierce bigotry proportioned to the narrow ness of information in which it originates. Men who hear only one side are always bigots. Mr. Beecher would never have blazed out so violently against those who criticized him if he had known the whole truth. Exactly the same spirit is engendered in politics. "I won't have the nasty thing in my house!" said a radical of a Democratio sheet, able and well edited, but villainously wrong in politics. Unhappy man I his was nut the radicalism of reason. He borrowed it of somebody, aad therefore was afraid to hear both sides. The radicals are scarce, we hope, who are guilty of such stupidity, but we honostly fear that there are few Democrats who read both sides, and a groat many who read not. even one. Of course they are still more intolerant, and be ing abnolut fools, politically, rave about tho necessity of shooting folks who do not agrrn with them. New questions are coming up for discus sion. Men are forming or borrowing opinions. We wish every man could take to himself seriously the lesson of Boecher's blunder, and resolve to hear both sides before J snrrendoring himself a captive to either. The man who hears only one does not form his own opinion; he has it crammed into him, as we put dressing into a turkey. And the men who do not form their own opinions are not voters, but voting cattle. Somebody drives that herd, or, like a troop of mules, they follow the leader with a bell the leader, not uncom monly, being ridden by somebody else, with purposes of his own. "Men and brethren," tin ITorace says, let us each do his own thinking! And to that end let us hear both sides. So may we avoid the unhappy predicament into which this same Horace and sundry others have drawn poor Beecher that of finding himself chief cham pion of a cause the merits of which ho has not investigated! How painful it must be to be leading advocate in a case one knows nothing about! De your own thinking ! Nobody who buys his opinions as he does his steaks at the meat- shop, ready cut for use, can be said to have any opinion of his own. The butcher may be a veTy reliable person, but even from him we like to buy only after comparing and select ing what is best. If, unfortunately, your thinking apparatus does not produce inde pendent thought, and you are forced to de pend on some intellectual meatshop for ideas, nt least exercise a man's faculty of choosing for yourself ! Hear both sides and choose. ABUSE OF THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. From the A". F. Ilerald. The franking privilege enjoyod by Con gress has long been justly inveighed against bv the entire newspaper press of the country. The system in itself would not be so bad or bo condemnatory, however, were it not that it leads to such abuses as has drawn upon it universal odium. In his excellent message to Congress and to the country President Grant assures the people of an administration of economy and retrenchment in all the depart ments of the Government under his especial charge. It is to be hoped that Congress will keep step with the Executive in this course of retrenchment and economy, and that the first earnest of its good intentions in this regard will be to abolish the franking privilege alto gether, or institute a reform in the present system which will render impossible the frauds upon the Post Oifioe Department, to which it is now notoriously subject. The abuse of the privilege has gone so far that not even the semblance of the autograph of a Representative or a Senator is necessary to frank letters to the most distant parts of the Union, in Washington not one person in a thousand ever stamps a letter mailed in the Post Office. It is all the same whether Congress be sitting or not,' from the fact that members while in Washington, by means of engraved stamps, flood the city with their autographs, which hold good all the term of their offices and for years after they are dead of which there have been instances. Not only mail bags of letters are thus fraudulently transmitted through tne 1'ont Ulllce, but tons of Congressional reports and documents anct such beavy matter, that is never read, but which involves the Post Ofhce Department in great expense and encumbers the mails and often retards their prompt transmission from point to point. Congress, perhaps for want of a little good advice in the matter, has hitherto persistently and contumaciously refused to abolish their privilege of franking letters and Congressional documents, notwithstanding all the abuses which we have pointed out as attaching thereto, und which have never been denied as existing. Now we propose once more that the privilege be abolished, but not without offering a substitute in its place. Here it is. Let there be a law passed granting to mem bers of Congress while engaged in their Con gressional duties postage stamps for all proper and necessary purposes, the Postmaster-Gone ral to keep a record of the amount of stamps thus contributed by bis department, dosig. nating the quantity allowed to each Represen tative and Senator. If Congress is imbued with any of the political wisdom of treneral Grant, w ho first in his own administration of affairs promises economy and retrenchment and recommends the same much needed po licy to the legislative branch of the Govern ment, it will surely move in the matter and act at once npon our suggestion, w ltn our suggestion the economists and reformers in Congress can once more direct their efforts to the removal of the abuses of the franking privilege. The opponents of the change ninst be few, as opposition to such a just and economic measure would assuredly bring down on members the obloquy and odium ot their constituents. The change which we here propose in the franking system would embrace all the de partments of the Government, civil and military. The check to an undue and extra va gant use or misappropriation of postage stamps would lie in the fact that the Post master-General in his annual report to the President for submission to Congress and the country would be required to make a return of tho amount ef stamps supplied to each Senator and Representative. In the same way he would designate the amount consumed by the heads of the various departments, and thus would be insured net only a redress of the present great abuses of the franking privilege, but would show the extent to which the Post Office Department would be entitled to credit for its share in the performance of the great work of government. FUAUDS OF NAVY PAYMASTERS. From thi y. T. Sun. We notice that Secretary Ilobeson bos neglected to make any change iu the system of Hettlino- the accounts of nary paymasters. This oyernight is rather singular, inasmuch as the Sun has already called attention to tbe fact that eicht or ten paymatiters are default ers, and that the defalcations of Paymasters Marcv. Cahoone. Washington, iorbes, and Parker amount in the aggregate to nearly a half million dollars, and possibly more. Every one outside of the department is fully advised of these extraordinary deficits, and yet it seems that nothing is to be done to pre vent their renetition whenever unprincipled Davmasters choose to use the funds of the United States to pay their little bills. Under tbe present loose and rotten system, there seems to be no way of detecting sucn irregu. larities until they have become bo serious that the law officers of the Government must be called in to initiate prooeedings against tbe bondsmen of the offenders. The tirimi riul is allowed to sink deeper and deeper into tho quicksand, and finally disappear from sight altogether, before a single step is taken to protect tne (ioverumeut. A poyuiaKter, whether Iroui lpnorunoe or oriuiiuul intent, is portnittod to niisappropri- ate Government funds for years; and when bin accounts are rendered, instead of being promptly and thoroughly examined and passed, they are placed in a pigeon-hole, after the good ola-fnshiontd, careless, rod tape style, there to slumber for one, two, or three years before they aro brought to the light of investigation, when they may be found to be utterly tad and inoorroct. Meanwhile the guilty party has . boon ordered to duty again on a foreign cruise, and cannot be reached for the moment to explain the ugly discrepancies that appear on his final reckoning. He is formally noti fied that he is a debtor to the Treasury De partment so many thousand dollars. He re sponds to this announcement by quietly taking from bis strong box the necessary sum and remitting it to the Treasury, ana lor his present cruise he is safe. He practi cally robs Peter to pay Paul, and Unole Sam is put off. The upshot of the affair is that the bondsmen pay the deficit so far as they are holdon, and the Government loses the balance. This sad state of affairs is owing entirely to the worthless system of settling accounts which the Government adopts. No one de partment controls the final reckoning oi me disbursing agents in the navy. The Navy Department settles the accounts lor doming, provisions, and supplies, while the Treasury controls the monetary expenditures. Between the two there is no close connection or inti macy. Each one looks for its own, and gives no care for the other. Millions of dollars are doubtless now at stake, and yet there is no way or probability f ascertaining bow much Is duo to the iov ernment from its paymasters or financial agents. Until the auditors of the Treasury or of the Navy Department have entire con trol of the disbursements of the navy officers, there will be no means of reaching final re sults in a way satisfactory to the Treasury. In justice to paymasters, too, there ought to be a prompt and thorough settlement oi ac counts; for frequently, after an interval of two or three years, the only persons who can authenticate them are dead or out of reach, so that paymasters are sacrificed to the delay and recklessness of the Government. SPECIAL. NOTICES. BSsp MEMOKIAL MISSION or Tins NOW RKUNITKD PRKSBYTKRIAN CHURCH mm ant, CORNKR TWENTY SECOND AND SHIPPKN STS. FAIR KOB TUB BALE OF USKKUL AND VANCY ARTICLES KOR CHRISTMAS GUTS, . , NOW DKINO BKU) IK HORTICULTURAL HALL FROM U A M. TO 10 P. M. CONTRIBUTIONS SOLICITKD. Kither Money or Goods mar be sent to the Kxacutive Committee, at the Hall. A Terr excellent MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT erery evening. u in jfep ACADEMY OF M U 8 iC THK STAR COURSE OP LF.OTURK8. THK CONCLUDING LECTURE OF THE FIRST SERIES. ON THURSDAY EVENING, Deo. 16. WENDELL PHILLIPS. THE MOST FINISHED ORATOR IN AMERICA, will deliver bis celebrated oration on "DANIEL O'OONNKLL." A ritnhsion, GO eenta ; Reserved Beats, 75 cents. Tickets fur sale at (iOUI.D'H. Nn. U2I tlHRSNITT St reel, and at t be Academy on the evening of the Lecture. uoors open ai 1 : iectnre at if. OrcheBtral Prelude at 12 10 6t 8TEREOPTICON AND MAGIC LAN- miut wiiiDTnimvTJ i a j i c u I i fnii riAaiDi i ivjiio ritou w nuiiuay cHutuuing Schools. (ioMeuB. and for Drivate antortaintneiitfl. W. MITCHKLL AkAIXItiTKR. IN a. 72H CUKHNLfr Street, second utory. 11 8 2mrp tt- OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD WJarail I, jnn.iiounr.ao ur.rAnimivn . Philadelphia, Penna., Nov. i, US). NOTICE TO b'lOOKHOLItKKS. Th Board of Director have this dnv declared a semi annual dividend of FIVE PER CENT, en tlie Capital Stock of tbe Company, clear of Natioaal and State taxes, payable in oasti on and after November BV. IHffit. -ilank Powers of Attorney for collecting dividends 0n be bad at the office of the Company, No. W aVmta THIRD Street. The office will be onened at 8 A. M.. and closed at 8 P. M.. from November to December 4, for the payment of Dividends, and after that date from V A. M. to a P. M., a usnal. . 11 a tl 1 THUrt. T. riKTH, Traarorer. OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY. Philadelphia, December 8, 1H69. Coupons due the 15th instant on the Gold Loan ot this company will be paid at their office, in gold, on and after thut date. Holders of ton or more coupons can obtain receipts therefor prior to that date. S. SHEPHERD, 13 87t Treasurer. f- FARMERS AND MECHANICS' NA- nlAU AT I J . XI XT PHTLAPRI.PH1A, Dee. 10, IMS. The Annual Election for Directors of tnis Hank will be beld at the Hanking House on WKDNKS1M Y, the Uth day of January next, between the hours of 11 o'clock A. M and 8 o'clock P. M. 1 2 1UJ la W. KUKtlTUN, JB., Uanhler. BSV COLD WEATHER DOES NOT CHAP or ruuKiiuii iiif rJi ill tubor uniiix nniuai n r L- CONATKD l.LYUKRINK TABLET OF HOLIDIFIKD CLYCKR1NK. Its dsilv use makes the skin delioately oH and beautiful, bold by all druits. K. A U. A. WRIUUT, 8 4 No. ttMCH K8NUT Btreet. DR. F. R. THOMAS, THE LATE OPE rator nf the Colton Dental Association, ia now tbe only one in Philadelphia who devotee his entire time and practice lo eitractuiK leetn, anwuuteiy witnout pain, by frvHb nitrous oxide aaa. Otfloe, iill WALNUT HL 1 2o tfcr COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION unKiniivu iijh niia oiiiciiu ubo hi NITROUB OX1DK. OR LAUGHING OAS. And devote their whole time and practice to extracting ttwtn W4inut pain. Oltice. K1G1 ;hih i I and WALNUT Streets. 118 f- QUEEN FIKE INSURANCE COMPANY lAIIIAll Ail Kll riivrvuUi CAPITAL, jCJ.OUU OU). BAB1NK, A U.K.N A DULLF8, Agents, FIFTH and WA 1 -NUT Streets. OROOERIE8 AND PROVISIONS. A LARGE VARIETY OF New GoodN, Suitable for tbe Soason, just received. ALBERT C ROBEKT8 , Dealer In Fine Groceries, 11 Tf Corner ELEVENTH and YINK Streets, jyj IOHAEL ME AGHER A CO. Ho. VB South SIXTEENTH Btreet, Wholesale and BetftU Dealers la PBOVISIONB, ... ... OYSTERS, AND BAND CLAM 8, ' FOR FAMILY TJ81 TKHRAP1NH tl PBTR DOZEN- 0.1. COAL. w. H. T A C C A R T. COAL DEALER. GOAL OF THK BKST QUALITY, I'RKPARED IX PRESSLY V0& FAMILY USE. 1208, 1210 and 1212 WASHINGTON AV., 13 1 3m Vetwtea TweUtb and Tulrtoontb streets. CLOVES, ETC " A SPLENDID FltESENT. A HALF DOZEN OR A DOEt PAIUS OF It! D GLOVES. , We will sell until December (4, RID OLOVBS by the half dozen or down pairs of the 8AM S size, at the following LOW r&ICEU. INCLUDING TUB BOX. Half dozen pairs "Joseph, " for fooo. , Half dozen pairs "La Belle," for $3-76. Half dozen pairs 'Mouvln," for 4 CO. Half dozen pairs "Bartier," for llODft. VTe have made these prices SO LOf as to taaur the IMMEDIATE SALB of the balance or this sea son's Importation Of all brands, About 050 Dozens, PRIOR TO BALANCIN01 OUR FOREIGN ACCOUNT AT THK CLOSE OF TUB YEAR. : A. & J. II. IIARTIIOI'tmuW, Importers of Kid Gloves, No. 23 NORTH EIGHTH STREET. P. S. The almve awortmcnts Include white opera or party colors, black and colors, each half dozen la a neat box (which Is Included at the above pi Ice. 18 a thtutr A. A J. B. B. SEWING MAOHINE9. QARTRAM & FAN TON'S FAMILY SEWING MACHINES ARB TUB MOST DURABLE, TILE LIGHTEST AND WILL PERFORM THE GREATEST BANGS OF WORK IN THE HOST SATISFACTORY MANNER. SOLD AT $ 10 CASH. BALANCE f 5 PER MONTH, Or Bpoil discount for cuh down ; re ntsd $4 per mouth Also lobantfod. Do not fall to Mtmin tham at Wo. 1115 CIIESNUT STltKET. 1127 ntnthtHtrp WBI. T. HOPKINS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. jjoLIDAY 1 It E S 1N T H', HARDING'S EDITIONS OP THE HOLY BIBLE. Family, Pulpit, and Photograph Bibles, FOR CHRISTMAS, WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY rRESENTf Alio, Presentation Bibles for CnURCUKfc, CLERGYMEN, ' SOCIETIES AND TEACHERS, KTt New and soperb assortment, bound In Rich Leviu Turkey Morocco, Paneled and Ornamental Design equal to the Loudon and Oxlord editions, at leas Uia ball their prices. Ho. 32G CHESTDT STREET, STRENGTH, BEAUTY, CHEAPNESS COMBINED I Harding's Patent Chain-back PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. For Wedding, Holiday, or Birthday Presents, these Albums are particularly adapted. Tbe book trade and dealers In fancy articles for holiday sales will find the most extensive assortment of Photograph Albums In the country, and superior to any heretofore made. For great strength, dura Dlllty, and cheapness, Harding's Patent Chain-back Albums are unrivalled. Purchasers will And It greatly to their advantago to examine these new lines of goods before making up their orders for holiday stock. Also.a large and splendid assortment of now styles of Photograph Albums made In the usual manner. W. W. IAltrIJNGr, NO. 320 CHESNDT STREKT, 11 27 im PHILADELPHIA. ANTED AGENTS, TEACHERS, Students, Clergymen, Farmers' sons and daughters, and all to sell BEFORE THE BEHIND FOOTLIGHTS AND THE SCENES. BY OLIVE LOGAN, The Great Jteforrner of Vie Stage, who, having abandoned stage life, now exhibits in vivid colors the whole show world BKKOKK AND bKtilNI THK MJKNK8. Heiuc Truthful, Moral, and Hkd toned as well as Sensational. Riob, and Racy, it eouells aC other books, beautifully illustrated witn 40 spirited es ? ravings, U4 full-page outs, 660pages, on rose-tinted paper. ireatcHt inducements yet offered. Fropeotua, HarupU Copy, lioxas, and Stationery Free For circular, explain? ing, address, immediately, PAKMELKK A UO-. Pub lmhers, either at Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, Ohio, or Middletown, Conn. It) Ho tuthsaJi PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE.. A New Course of Lectures, as delivered at the Nen York Museum of Anatomy, embracing the sabjeots How to Live, and What to Live for; Youth, Matunlx, ana' Old Age; Manhood Generally Reviewed) The Uauseot Indigent ion ; Flatulence and Nervous Diseaaea Aoooonted lor; Alamage Philosophically Considered, etc eta. Pocket volumes containing then Lectures will be for. warded, post paid, on receipt of J6 cents, by addressing W . A. LKARY, JR., 8. K eoroute FIFTH and WAJUNUT Street. philarihe. I St CARRIAGES. GARDNER & FLEMING, CAItltlAGE BUILDERS, No. 214 South FIFTH Street, BELOW WALNUT. A Large Assortmout of Nowaad Second-hand CAR JZ I A. O JS S, INCLUMNO Conpc Rockaways, PbRHonB, Jenny Llnds, Baggies, Depot W ogons, Etc Etc., 3 23 tutus For Salo at Reduced Prices. CARPENTER9 AND BUILDERS. R R. THOMAS & CO., DEALERS Of Doors, Rinds, Sash, Shutters, WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., N. V. OOUVBH or EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Street! IB sm PHILADELPHIA. PAPER HANCINQS. V OOK ! LOOK ! ! LOOK ! ! l-WALL PAPERS J and Linen Window HtvutiMi M..nr..t..Hj oherP""' In the e!ty, ai, Jdll NST N"b Depot, No. liMI (11M klsfevsanth I J ........ U XI c o EN EXCHANGE BAO MAP L'KACTORy. ' .Mill N T R ill kv h. B rornerof M AH KKT and WATER Streets. IhilxVlpliii,. ' DKALKR IN liAUH AND BAGOIKQ Of event dusoriution, (or Cram, Flour, Salt, huper-I'liospnats of Lime, Boa llust, Kte. Lartteaad small OUNM V I1A(.S constants on band, iliii AUo, WOOL SAtlKb. f
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