i THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 18G0. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), AT TUB EVENING TELEGRAHI BUILDING, NO. 108 8. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Tie Price it three cent per copi (jtoiMie ahert) ; or eighteen cent pi-r week, payalilo to the carrier by whjm grrved. Tlie ultoription price by mall i Nine. Jkllar$ per annum, or One Dollar and Fifty Cent for two months, invariably in ad it anoe for the time ordered. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1869. COUNCILS AND TIW METRO POLT. TAN TOLICE BILL. A BKflOttmoN was offered in the Seloct branch of Councils yesterday which prorided for tho appointment of a committee to inquire "why a certain amount haa been taken from the lalarioa of policemen, and ascertain the nne of Buoh exaction." This resolution, howerer, was defeated, in spite of the fact that the city is tilt with rumors that a corruption fund is How being extorted from the policemen for the purpose of prerenting the passage of a Metro politan Police bill at the coming session of the Legislature. The names of members of the foroe who are alleged to hare been discharged on account of their refusal to contribute money to this in famous purpose have been published, and the general character of the plan of operations has been outlined. It is alleged that a huPQ eient number of Republican members of the State Senate are to be bribed to form, in con. junotion with the Democratic member of that body, a reliable working majority uamxt any aeform of the police system of I'hilnlel phia. Sufficient evidence of the truthfulness of this story has already been adduced to make it exceedingly probable. Despite the opposition which the proposal to investigate the subjeot encountered in Counoils, the online of publio justice and morality would be pro. motod by a thorough exposure of such in famous projects. We believe thore is a luw on the statute-books prohibiting any attempt to bribe the Solons at narrisburg; and it is perhaps a question whether the Grand Jury cannot properly inquire into tho alloyed fact', and, if they are found to be true, present as criminals the men who are actively engaged in engineering this grand scheme of corrup tion; but certainly Councils have a clear right to asoertain whether the money of the city is to be used for the purpose of preventing the Legislature from promoting the true interests of the municipality. It i commonly re ported that the defeat of the Metropolitan Folioe ' bill at the last session waa due mainly to the expendi ture of a Democratic corruption fund, and the same system of operations is now, appa rently, about to be repeated, with the added enormity that the price of treachery and treu- BOn is to be wrung from the depleted cotters of the City Treasury. Surely, if these stories be true, the people should know the fact, and the imputed criminals of high or low degree should be made to feel that the pub. lie fully oomprehend and thoroughly condemn their contemptible knavery. If the polioe. mon can spare thirty dollars per man to buy np Senators and enrich professional borers, their salaries should be reduced to this extent, and the oity instead of legislative rogues should receive the benefit of the contribu tions. It is bad enough that the cause of peace and order here is to be trifled witfi, and that a bad system of appointments re sulting in an exceptionably bad set of oflicers is to be perpetuated, but insult in heaped on injury by the attempt to wring from our own taxpayers the moneys which are to purchase their humiliation and defeat. ANOTHER STATUARY JOB. Olajlk Mills is endeavoring to have another of his bronze abominations imposed upon the nation through the agency of his friends in Congress. Every visitor to the capital has seen the equestrian statues of Washington and Jaokson exeouted by this individual, and every person with the faintest shadow of artistic appreciation knows that they are dis graceful to American art and the objects of ridicule to every intelligent foreigner that looks at them. In the face of all the criticism these works have received, Mr. Mills is still able to find advocates in Congress who are willing to press his claims for another job. Yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Whittemore, of South Carolina, the House of Representa tives referred to the appropriate committee a bill authorizing tho Secretary of the Interior to oontract with Clark Mills for a group of statuary for the south wing of the Capitol. Mr. Mills is an experienced lobbyist, and if an energetio protest is not made against this scheme, he will, in all probability, get this job through Congress without difficulty. The nation already owns more of Clark Mills' sta tuary than it ought, and in view of his utter incompetency for the execution of a great work of art, there is a manifest impropriety in intrusting anything more to him. Even if his statues had a hundred times the merit that really belongs to them, Mr. Mills has had more than his share of that kind of work, and it is only fair that some of the ther artists of the country, who are in every way superior to this lobbyist, should have a chance to contribute to the embellish inent of the publio buildings. . jAPANEE JUSTICE. It is said that in Japan, when a fire, origi nating from any cause, burns down a man's house, he is condemned as a enminol for what may have been an unavoidable aooident, and summarily executed. In Mexico, too, it was formerly deemed as dangerous to be the first to discover the dead body of a murdered! maq as to be the known murderer, on acoount of the cumbrous character of tha maahinery of justice, the committal to prison as a witness, and various costs, fines, and difficulties. In riuladelphia an approach to this Japanese or Mexican system was reached a few days ago A citizen f the First ward, discovering on WoduobUuy night that au attempt ww boing made to effect a burglarious entrance fato the basement of his house, pursued the burglar, end eeiainghim, knooked him down. Subse quently, when both parties were taken to the polioe station, they wore both looked up, the householder who defendod bin castle so reso lutely being held on a charge of assault, and only securing his release when the facts came out at a hearing before an alderman. ltprtrmATioN was repudiated in gallant style In the House of Representatives yesterday, and the most edifying part of the speotaole v, as the manner in which this infamous doc trine was assailed by those who have not scrupled on other occasions to support or in siniate it. Mr. Mungen, who lives in the shadow of Pendleton, the great personiuoa tion of repudiation, doubtless imagined that he was leaping at a single stride into the Democratic leadership; but the significant manner in whioh he was summarily sup pressed by the prominent Democratic mem bers has given him a lesson which he will not soon forget. Putting all the circumstances together, it is not surprising that Mungen lost his temper and became very choleric, and even went so far, after the adjournment, a to assert that "every one of them has tine and time again privately talked open ani un qualified repudiation of everything except their salaries." This may be goo7 Demo cratic doctrine in private, and ev" on na stump, but it isn't exaotly the tbng in Con gress, as Mr. Mungen has at las' discovered. Thk Spaniards are exerciserfover tho loss of their crown jewels, which it is charged that the ex-Queen carried oft with her when she fled the country. Tha charge Isabella has denied: but. an tha jewels are not to be found, her lato su'lv'08 HtiU persist in assert ing that, in aduV'ion to her other offenses, she is guilty of grand larceny. The Cortes yesterday adapted, by a vote of 120 to 5, a resolution to investigate this robbery, and Minister iguerola persisted in the assertion that the ex-Queen and her mother had ab stract the jewels. This is a subject that wiU interest the Spaniards even more than hunting for a King; and if the investigation is prosecuted with any skill or energy, there is very little doubt that it will be discovered ere long whether lobelia is a thief or not. Jidgk Guikh's RKhKiNATioN of his position upon the bench of the Supreme Court of the United Stales is officially announced, and we elsewhere publish the highly complimentary response made by tho President in ac cepting it. The latter recalls the grout services rendered by Jndge Grier to the country in the darkest hours of her history, ; by the vigor and patriolio firmness with which he upheld the just powers of the Gov ernment, and vindicated the right of the na tion under the Constitution to maintain its order and existenoe." This high eulogy is certainly well deserved, and a sufficient justi fication of it is fomnd in the sketoh of Judge Grier's long and honorable career published by us a few days ago. Ashxky, the great original impeaoher, has come to grief at last; not, however, by reason of the causes which should have prevented his appointment to the governorship of the Territory of Montana, but for the reason that he has joined in a Democratic crusade against the colored people in the Territory. His re moval on any grounds whatever is gratifying, and hence we ore not disposed to find fault in the matter, especially as the cause assigned is a sufficient justification. A cn bap morning paper, of llmltutl circulation and Influence, makes a great fuss over au alleged appro priation by us or one of Its special despatches from Washington, without credit being given therefor. The despatch in question reached us the day before It was published in either paper, but too late for in tertion in our regular editions. For this reason it could not appear until the following afternoon. It might be interesting for the public to know the pecu liar circumstances under which the despatch in question found its way into the columns of our con temporary in advance of our own publication of it, and a similar revelation concerning the bulk of the telegraphic news which appears in the said contem porary would not be less entertaining. For our part, we shall henceforth keep an eye on the rat-holes about our office. SPECIAL NOTIOES. jjgy- SAMPLES OF TUB PRIC Now prevailing at the C RAND CLEARING SALE In progress at JOHN WANAMAKER'S, SOS. 818 AND 820 CUKSNUT STREET. A Fine Petersham Overcoat (handsomely trimmed), Worth 12, reduced to l8-r. A Fine Chinchilla Overcoat, Worth 138, reduced to . A Business Suit of Tricot or Melton, Worth 135, reduced to IW. A Black Dress Coat (swallow tail), Worth $28, reuuoed to 118. A Pair of Fine Pants, of fashionable make, Worth $9, reduced to 15. A vest of Cloth or Faaoy Caaslmere, Worth 151W, reduoed to 3. The Whole Present Stock is To be disposed ef AtPrtce IJ. Ute above, at TIU CUKSMUT tmiltBT CLOTULNU KSTAB. USIIMKNT, NOfl. 81 AND m OUKtUCUT 8TRKKT. JOUH WAMAMAKKO. r OOACHMBH-S OVHIiOOAT. WITH DA WJNQ GAUHTLETa. 1113 8PEOIAL NOTIOE8. Sfir' HO LI DAT " ANN 0 UN C EENT. We ell attention to our spools! prprftotu fewiha Coming Holiday. We bats had manufactory a lnr iortmt GOWNS, JAOKriS, and yRkVPVM. rniubl tor CbrUlma. Present and Hew Tear'. (Mfu'lnade of a variety of fine material, and moat toad-ome'r shaped and trimmed. DFKHMNO OOWNS, SMOKINO JADKKTH. BILLIARD JAUKKTS. MOKNINii HTR A PPKRS, STlUV UOWN8. A varUtf of New Rtjrlee of nllru HOLIDAY HUAKl'H TIKS, anil 0KAV4T8. Toilet and Fanof Artfclea. Osnes anil Umbrellas. OHRimiAS BOXRS, Oontalnln ona-half Airen Floe Hanrtkwolilefs, a Tery appropriate present lo a irem Ionian. BoelOoa maiiy orter artiolet of anon combined beantjr and ut ilitj aa mart .make tham moat pleasing and aocept- THKCBKHfTOT 8T. OLOTHINO KSTAHMSHM KNT. JOHN WANAMAKK.R, Hid and fan OIlKSNlfT street. BUOKAKIN UNDER OAKMKNTH. A NOVKLTV! A PtKMrver of Health. A PrerenttTe of Cold. A Hnre On re for Rhenmatistu. CALL AND KX4MINKTHKM at the BOI.K AGKNOY. JOHN WANAM Ak'KIt'S OLOTHINO K8TABLIHHMKNT. No. 81 and KM C11KSNUT STKKKT. Soe other adrertiemnenta of this Honae. li Utf wy- KF.VIVAL LOVK FEA8T TIUMTY" M. K. IHUR0H,HI(1HTH Street, abort! Raoe-Thi (Fridar) Krenin. iff o'clock, (loineearlr; eevora a a;oo aeat. Friendaof Ohriat all invited. Dome and speak for JoMua. It itfST BISHOP SIMPSON WILL PRF.ACH Tills Evening- in the OXKORH P RKSBYTK.KIAN CHURCH, oornerof BROAD and OXFORD HtroeU. lt OLOTHINO. THINGS BY THE THOUSAND! A Thou and Overcoats! Of Beaver, Of Helton, Of Tricot, And of everrthina-else That Overouata Oujrht to be made of. Of Oheriot, Ovoooata with Olot h collar. Oreruoata wito Uilkpn collars. Overcoats with Straight collre. Overcoats with Rolling collar. Ove'OOSts With Brass oollars. Overcoats with Gilt ICdged roi'.ir. A Thousand Pantaloons! In puiri. Arranged for rapid diRiKxuiL DouMe-barrpled Pantaloons. Extra Striped and Diagonal Puntil inn". Pantaloons, the I ke of w iinh hs Never before been otfwod. A Thousand Vests! Best Vests! Glorious Investment. Vtaisof Velvot. Vesta ot etilk. Veste of laaeime'e. Vests for rVwddiiig Ivs. Vests for Kvery Day. A Thousand Boys'S'iits! Warranted to tit One thousand good boys To their toiup'.ote satisfaction. With the full approbation Of thoir doting mammas. With a Determined Determination To satiMir Everybody, . We offer These Thousands of Habiliments AND Many Thousands More! More!! More!!! MORE!!!! CHKAPEB THAN YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF, AT OUK GREAT BROWN HALL. ROCKHILL & WILSON. 603 and 605 CHESNUT street. UMBRELLAS. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. UMBRELLAS! UMBRELLAS! Every Variety IN QUALITY AISI FINISH. WILLIAM A. DROWN & CO., No. 246 MARKET STREET, M17Up PHILADELPHIA. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. MUSICAL BOXES. "Robin Adair," "The Ijiat Rose of Summer." "Home, Sweet Home," "Tho Monastery Hells." "Coming 1W tha Rye," "Aald Lang Hyne," with OUoir Selections from "Luorezia Borgia," "I Kelle Helena," "The Grand Duohene," "lrovatora," "Norma," "Martha." and other favorite Opera, will be found In our handsome assortment of Musical Boies, making A RKAUTlfc'UL AND AP. PHOPK1ATK CHRISTMAS OUT. Made to our own order and imported direot by FARE & BROTHER, No. 324 CHEHNUT STREET. II I7rmwf BELOW FOURTH. R& C. A. WRIGHT, 'i No. 624 CHESNUT STREET, Have Just received a large aMortmcnt of NEW AND ELEGANT J IP a,rtcy A. rticles, Belected In Europe this season for tbeir NOVKLTT AND BEAUTY, ESPECIALLY FOlt CUKISTMAS PRESENTS. Alao, a Urge and beautiful auaortmcnt of genuine MKER8CHAUM PIPES, Which they oirer for sale IS 14 Ut AT YEUY REDUCED PRICES. AMILIE8 DESIRINO PURE AND UN ADULTERATED WINES AITD LIQUORS would do well to give me a trial. My M Brandy for M lace-Mint aallaitea all who try 1U McALEER, li 14 t ro a E. corner SIXTH and COATKS Hu. nnn to invest upon mortgage. rjl'lV Apply to A. KITWCrt, QliK No. tl N. HIXTU Birtmt. MRS. FRENCH, MEDICAL AND BUSINESS Utainuyant, No, Kit) N. K1UUT11 fit. li 18 til rp OROOERIES, ETOi ESTABLISHED 1826. Holiday Appliances. A LARGE ASSORTXvIEBTr FANCY GROCERIES, ComrriHing all the Delloaclrg known In the trade, purchased expressly for the Holidays, U now Offered for salo, at reduced prioefl, by Crippen & Maddook, (Late W. L. Maddook A Co ), Wo. 115 South THIRD St., BELOW CHESNUT. White Almeria Grapes, In Largo Clusters. Finest Quality Dchcsa Raisin, In quarter, half, and whole boxes. New, Fresh Nuts, Paper Shell Almonds, Paradise Nots, English and Grenoble Walnuts, Pecan Nuts, filberts. Havana and Florida Oranges, Lemons, New Layer Figs, Quava Jolly, Marmalade, Havana Preserves of various kinds. TEAS G11EEN AND BLACK, Have been selected with great care, dlreoted to their purity and fragrance. Special care has also boon taken to procure COFFEE Of the finest mark Imported, such as Liberia, Bust India, Mocha, African, Oov. Java, Mara calbo, etc eto. MEW MES3 MACKEKEL, SHAD AN SALMON. We call espocial attention to our FRESn AS SORTMKNT OF FRENCH DELICACIES), mich as French P. as, Muuhrooms, Truilles, U Henry; Pates tin Foie Cras, Honcleas Sardines, and a great variety of oi.her brands. FRESH 008VEN BUTTER, In small tubs, selected expresaly for family use. Agent for the saio of M. Work & Co. Golden Sparkling Catawba Wine. All Ooods sold to families in unbroken packages at wholesale prices and delivered free of charge. CRIPPEN & MADDOCK, No. 115 South THIRD Street, 12 IB wsstj f BELOW CHE8N0T, Philadelphia, Ikonlcrft in iintl Importers of Fine SrocrIM. NEW PUBLIOATION8. 808 TunnEtt'. No. SOS CnESNUT STItEET. ALL THE XffXSW BOOKS AT TURNER & CO.'8 CHEAP BOOK STOKE, No. 808 CHESNUT STREET. AVOID THE BUSH AND BUT AT ONCE WHAT TOU WANT FOR PRESENTS. WE DEFY COMPETITION. Chromes ! Frames ! Books ! IN GREAT VARIETY. New and Superior Books, Suitable for Holiday Gifts. Juvenile Department. Our JCVKNILE DEPARTMENT is the mont ex tennive In the country. All of Paul )u Clialllu's, Oliver Optlc, Mayne He Id's, etc. PRAY El t BOOKS, BIBLES, ALBUMS, CHROMOS, The finest in the city. We have on band and are receiving constantly the choicest foreign subjects of Chromo-Lithography, which are equal in every respect to Oil Paintings. Subscriptions taken for ail the Magazine! at Pub lishers' prices. No better present for any one than a year's Magazine. TURNER & CO., No. 808 CHESNUT STIIEET, Above EIGHTH, Philadelphia. Binding done In all styles. u n J!t4p U N RIV AUE D A S S 0 R T IVI ENT OK Hooks for the Holidays, COMPRISING ALL THE NOVELTIES of the SEASON. ILLUSTRATED AND STANDARD WORKS. JUVENILE BOOkS. RICHLY-COLORED riCTL'RK BOOKS. BIBLES AND PRAYER-BOOKS, In rich bindings. PRESBYTERIAN, LUTHERAN, MKTHODIbT, BAPTIST, and DUTCH RFFORMKD HYMN BOOKS, PSALMS OF DAVID, etc., AT VERY LOW PRICES, aT Wo. 1214 CZEBSUtTT Street, 18 IT Strip PHILADELPHIA. HOMER, GOLLADAY & CO.'S STOCK Ol DRESS GOODS, SILKS, ETC., MiiHt lo tSolcl Off Homer, Colladay & Co. Crape Poplin Only 25c, Worth 50. Homer, Colladay & Co. Xloubaix roplins, Only 25c. Worth 50. Homer, Colladay & Co. Double Told. Heavy Corded X&ohairs in Fashion able Dark Shade. 37c, Worth $100. Homer, Colladay & Co. Triho Poplins For Walking 8oits, Only 50c. Homer, Colladay & Co. Sest Quality Serges To. Walking Suits, Only 45c. Homer, Colladay & Co. Silk Epinglincs, Only 75c, Worth $150. Homer, Colladay & Co. Fine Empress Cloths in all the New Colors. 56c Homer, Colladay & Co. Sest Quality Green and Slue Plaids Imported. Only 871 c HOtYlER, COLLADAY Cc CO. O JL. O DEPARTMENT. In this department wo have made an entire revision o' tho Pilcco of our Cloths, Astrachans, Cloaks, Suits, and Velvets, and the greatest bargains are now offered to pur chasers. Nos. 1412 and M14 CHESNUT STI.IKET, it n torn ru ly Hit .lifteofillt of Homer. Colladay & Go. Black Silks, Best Lyons Make, $150 worth 32 50. Homer, Colladay & Co. Black Silks. Boat Lyons Make, S2 00, worth S275. Homer. Colladay & Co. Black Silks, Best Lyons Make, $225, worth S3 00. Homer, Colladay & Co Black Silks, Best Lyons Make, S2'50, worth $325. Homer, Colladay & Co. Hosiery of all Kinds, from 25 to 33 less than before. Homer, Colladay & Co. Linen Housekeeping Goods, An immense Stock, At 25 to 331 Less. Homer, Colladay & Co.? Lyons Silk Velvets, All Widths, t At Large Concessions. Homer, Colladay & Co. Mourning Goods In Infinite Variety, Lower than since the War. P'JILADSUMIU.
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