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TEE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAFIi PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 18C9.
snn.iT or tixii muss.
Bdltarlal Oplnlwsm mt (ha lnrliaT Journal
Upon nrrintTph :nit Krrv
)r Tor the Kvoulog Telegraph.
THE DOMINION OI? OONYEUTo.
From the Pall Hall Gazette,
Thore are othor acici linN of birth upon
Which the averia English child may con
gratulate himself beyoml that for which the
hymns which he learns make him grateful.
If he is fortunate in not being bora a nogro,
lie amy be thankful that in the great nujorir v
of chmi'r he ia not bom a Roman Cat holic.
It is difficult to conceive acuter moral griev
ances than thoHO under which the English
Roman Catholics who have always been
lloman Catholics are now suffering. In all
probability, if allowance be marie for the dif
ference of period, Lord Macaulay's descrip
tion of the lloman Catholio of James li s
day in in a great degree applicable to the true
English lloinnnist of our own. In his tastes
nnd in his social creed he may be believed to
be not less but more of an Englishman than
his neighbors, and we may even suspect that
lie has an equal natural affinity for the com
monplaces which are dear to them. The
declarations published by the lloman Catho
lio peers and commoners daring the straggle
for emancipation are very curious reading,
and show that the gentlemen who signed
them had gone very far in accepting
the principal artiolcs of llevo
lution faith. In those days the
favorite argument of their advocates was
that James the Second was a martyr to
the cause of toleration, and it was often asked
whether men who held the same doctrine
with the barons of llunnymede must neces
sarily be among the deadly enemies of free
dom. But now the Papal byllabus pro
nounces it a capital error to hold that even
immigrants into a Catholio country ought to
Le allowed freedom of worship; and, as for
Magna Chart a, it is incontestable that a Pope
cursed all who had art or part in it, and all
Popes are about to be declared infallible by
the (Ecumenical Council. The truth is that
the influences which operate on the lloman
Catholio Church of the Continent are neces
sarily very feebly felt by the English lloman
Catholio body. It is easy to understand why
the privileged classes of continental countries
hould suppose that they gain strength by
allying themselves with a power which tries
to bo, and to a great extent is, the centre of
conservative resistance all over the world.
But the English lloman Catholics have
nothing whatever to gain by denationalizing
themselves. Ultramontanism for them means
a closer connection with Irish agrarian dis
content; and this is hardly a natural alliance
for a well-to-do minority consisting chiefly
of landowners.
One misfortune which has overtaken this
lody of noblemen and gentlemen is probably
the heaviest which can happen to men of
taste and sense. They have fallen under the
dominion of converts. Some fifteen or
twenty years ago the Protestant world was
agitated by the preaching of a few lloman
Catholic priests who had deserted their
Church; and it is instructive to call to mind
its characteristics. The hearer of Father
Achilli or Father Gavazzi learned that the
Pope was a marvel of demoniacal cruelty, that
convents were sinks of immorality, and that
the Church of Borne was in league with every
form of oppression which weighs upon the
liuman race. Of Protestantism he heard that
the little happiness which existed in the
world was traceable to it, and that not n, sus
picion rested on the character or motives of
its founders. In other words, he listened to
some statements which in a general way were
true, to some wild exaggerations, and to
some rather impudent falsehoods. Now it
would be very unjust to the converts who
are riding roughshod over the English lloman
Catholics to say that they are men of such
equivocal character as were some of the per
sons who joined tne i'rotestant camp iroru
illomanism, but it is undeniable that there is
a strong generic likeness between the two
sets of apostates; aud, indeed, we are not
sure that the advantage is not in some re
spects with the Italians. Some of them had
really done and suffered much, and there was
an occasional manliness and force in their
language which favorably contrast with the
effeminate shrieking of men who have sedu
lously rid themselves of every fragment of
intellectual virility. If, again, there is a pin
to choose between the statement that every
convent is a brothel, and the statement that
modern civilization is founded on divorce, we
think that the latter is the most discreditable
of the two to the author; it is equally false
and malignant with the other in point of in
tention, and, besides that, it is nonsensical.
The Greeks observed common qualities in
olitical lefugees of all classes which
ed . them to make it an adage
that exiles ought never to be trusted; just in
the Bame way religious refugees of all sorts
have a great deal in common. There is in
all the same virulent hatred of the sect which
they have left and the same extravagant ad
miration and exaltation of the most doubtful
pretensions of the sect which they have
joined. Among those who profess a faith,
and especially an old faith, simply because
they were born to it, thore will always be
many to whom these characteristics are in the
highest degree offensive. Some things in
their own creed they do not greatly care to
have dwelt upon; some things in rival creeds
they do not altogether like to have attacked.
The easy-going Anglican saves himself from
uch annoyances by keeping as far away as
possible from the hall or chapel in which the
convert is lecturing; but for the old-fashioned
English lloman Catholio there is no such
scape. The oonvert is an archbishop, and
Lis utterances are pastorals; it would be dis
loyalty even to complain of either.
All English converts to Roman Catholicism
have not been of the exact type of Dr. Man
tling, but it seems eertain that all future con
verts will more or less belong to it; aud, at all
events, it is only such converts that the Holy
Bee delights to honor. For adherents of the
stamp of the eccentrio Mr. Ffoulkes the
Church has had no room since the Informa
tion, and it is only wonderful that he should
have thought otherwise. But, beyond this,
it is becoming clear that there will shortly be
no ulace even for converts like Dr. Newman.
We do not profess to understand accurately
what is implied in the difference between
making Dr. Manning an archbishop and offer
ing to Dr. .Newman uie post oi Aueoiogian to
the Council; but it may be suspoeted that the
latter distinction carries with it the privilege
of giving opinions which nobody is obliged to
accept, and in point of fact it is clear that the
advisers or tne rope are oeni on iaiuug
awav a certain liberty to speoulate about ma
actual teaching of the Church whioh has
hitherto been permitted to lloman Catholioa
n consideration of soundness on the points
of difference between their own communion
and others. The movement which the Papal
tsoterie is urging on is essentially a revolt
gainst learning, the learning of Dolliuger
aud writers of his order. The men who have
caused the council to bo summoned are im
patient of a state of thingi which allows the I
proof of a particular doctrine to drpeud on
the researches of canonists and ecclesiastical
historians, even though their orthodoxy should
1 -' i ll , i t.i r i i i
ub ummimacuaiue. XjIkb JjOTU naaitesuury,
they complain of the "tyranny of professors,"
and they seek to close all controversy by pro
claiming the infallibility of the Pope, just as
the evangelical leader proposed to end it by
affirming the infallibility of the authorized vor
nion of the Bible. The man o erudition who
is guided by the standards in use among the
learned, the reasonor who insists on using
his faculties, are not therefore likely here
after to find refuge in the lloman Church,
even though some natural perversity should
incline them towards it. There will only re
main, we trust we may say it without disre
spect, the gushing and shrieking convert.
The chances, too, are that he will be the moat
extreme and therefore the most offensive of
the kind, since, owing to tho freedom which
controversialists of a very different order
have established within the pale of the Church
of England, there turn out to be ample op
portunities in it for indulging a taste for
foolish paradox and silly ceremonialism with
out openly deserting it. The future convert
to llomanism is bnt too likely to be even an
exaggeration of Archbishop Manning or
Father Faber, and, as his extravagances are
evidently those for which the Papal Court is
feeling the strongest inclination, it is likely
that there will be a long succession of oonvert
archbishops and bishops.
EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYES IN CITY
AND COUNTRY,
from th H. T. Tribune.
One of the newest of our city institutions
is proving to be one of the worthiest, already
realizing a degree of success that may well en
courage other similar efforts in large cities
for promoting the publio welfare in town and
country. The "Free Labor Bureau," in the
first six months of its existence, has demon
strated what may be done by well-directed
effort in bringing together employers and em
ployes on terms mutually advantageous pro
viding situations for the destitute, and pre
venting or relieving much distress thus aid
ing to solve one of tho most important prob
lems of society, especially in large cities.
Multitudes on both sides of tho industrial
question persons wanting "help," and others
needing employment have now at last an in
stitution where their respective necessities
can be answered successfully within its limited
sphere. The matter is worthy of special
attention by all who stand in either relation,
in city and country; for the dearth of "help"
in the rural districts renders doubly impor
tant an institution that enables thousands of
our country friends to secure adequato as
sistance from the superabundant population
of the cities from other large cities as well
as from New York, as it cannot be doubted
that other cities will profit by our example in
establishing this important bureau.
Editors through the laud, especially in the
Western regions, where labor is most wanted,
may benefit their readers by turniug thoir
attention toward a responsible public institu
tion like this in New York, where thousands
may be found who will gladly take situations
in regions where they can enjoy more com
fort, with prospect of greater worldly pros
perity than usually follows employment in
large cities. In this v.-av a large amount of
inconvenience and distress may be prevented
or remedied, and all parties (employers aud
employes, and tho public generally), ba
greatly nenentod.
The "Free Labor Bureau" is, as yet, very
little known even in this city, for it has not
been advertised as it should be to produce the
full results that it is capable of effecting. A
few facts respecting its first few months may
at least faintly indicate the great bentits it
can render when its character is widoly kuown
in country as well as city. Personal examina
tion of the institution and its records cheers
us in saying a few words about what has
been already accomplished. In the six
months since its organization from June 1"
to December l." it has supplied the wants
of about twenty-eight thousand persons,
by furnishing over fourteen thousand (14,0:3)
persons with employment, and of course
about an equal number of employers with
"help." About one-fourth of the persons
furnished with situations are males, and the
remainder women and girls, in addition to
the (about) twenty-eight thousand em
ployers and employes thus supplied as they
desired, there are about seven thousand ap
plicants on the books for help and for em
ployment among which number the em
ployers are nearly sixteen hundred more
numerous than the persons seeking places.
Here then is a total of more than thirty thou
sand persons brought togethor as employers
and employes during the brief career and
with the limited means of this single bureau.
Let the advantages of this bureau be fully
understood through the country as well as in
the city, and the inoreased applications will
soon form an aggregate which will render
even that thirty thousand a comparatively
small number. It is an encouraging sign,
at this early stage of the enterprise, that
about one-third of the employes were pro
vided with situations in the country.
The way that employers and employes are
brought together aids greatly in satisfying
both parties. The Legislature having pro
vided 10,000 towards paying the expenses of
"the experiment," as it was considered, the
applicants have nothing to pay so that
bribery and collusion, so frequently charged
against some of the ordinary intelligence
offices, find no field for operations here. The
scrutiny of character contributes largely to
the gratifying results. Testimonials or refer
ences are required, so that unworthy em
ployers, especially in the case of females,
cannot make this bureau a convenience in
getting recruits for unworthy purposes. Ap
plicants for places are, of course, required to
furnish "characters" or "recommendations."
All these testimonials, on both sides, are re
ferred to in connection with the names in
appropriate registers; besides which, there is
another record, a "Black Book," wherein are-
entered the names of employers and em
ployes who may be found unworthy of confi
dence. Gambling aud other "houses" of
unpleasant description are noted accordingly.
as soon as their characters are ascertained
for "help" is not sent to suspicious places
while uuwortuy employes are dulv "marked
in the same "Black Book" with the offenses
for which they were discharged.
The manner in which all "registered" per
sons are treated inspires respect for the iusti
tutiou among employers and employes, as it
must also among uil visitors. Excellent order
is preserved in every respect, and it is a com
fort to find that the legislative provision made
for the bureau and the judicious arrange
ments nindo by the commission, of whioh
General Bowen is President, are so faithfully
administered by the indefatiiablo Superin
toudent, Mr. G. M. Losee, about whom it is
simple justice to say that it would be difficult
to find a better mau for a position raviuiriusf.
such peculiar characteristics in an enterprise
so important to the public weuare.
People who desire to sea and jude for
themselves will bo repaid for their trouble by
calling at the "Frse Labor Buroiu" th
term "free" having reference to tiiii i'ot tint
its services cost nothing to applicants. Tho
location is pleasant and convenient of ,v;c3s.t
in the Plimpton Building, on Ninth street,
between Second and Third avenues, naiir tun
Cooper Institute, Bible House, Historical
Society, and other prominent institution's.
Applications from tho country begin to pour
in, and the demand from tho West will doubt
less be Tory great as soon as people kno.v
how to secure "help" from this valuablo in
stitution about all which matters Mr. Losoa
will give full information to persons who
write or call upon him. It is worthy of par
ticular notico that about one-third of all the
applicants for employment have already been
furnished with situations in tho country a
very encouraging indication of what may be
done, by increased effort in this and oilier
cities, for relieving multitudes who suffer in
large towns for want of the eniployuiont which
the country readily affords.
"WASHINGTON AND ITS niorOSED IN
TERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
From, the K. Y. Time.
Our Washington correspondent communi
cates the intelligence that tho people of tint
city are "getting pretty thoroughly arousod"
on the subject of the International Exhibi
tion. This is well; and if the said people will
only keep on getting pretty thoroughly
aroused until 1872, for which year the exhibi
tion in question is fixed, they may very likely
get worked up to a pitch of positive enthu
siasm. But, in sober truth, we are fain to
confess that thus far they have moved, not
forward, on to the Exhibition, but crab-like,
sideways, upon their old stand-by, Congress.
As some of Dickens' characters aro employed
chiefly in demonstrating "How Not to Dolt,"
so some of the 'NVashingtonians have been
hitherto showing "How Not to Havo It." Tho
way in which the proposed enterprise ought
not to be held, is through drafts on tho
National Treasury. If resolutions like those
coolly calling on Congress to appropriate
several millions to the use and behoof of
Washington are persisted in, it will also bo
demonstrated " Where not to have it."
"We say "to tho use aud behoof of Wash
ington," because civic aggrandizement ap
pears to be tho chief aim of the new project.
Tho people of tho country havo lately been
talking (in lack of other things to talk about)
of removing the national capital to some moro
geographically central point. All sorts of
cities have joined in the cry Cincinnati and
St. Louis, Chicago and Cheyenne. A score of
places compete tor the honor. But, though
all tho talk has thus far come to nothing, the
permanent residents of the District of Colum
bia aro naturally alarmed at tho prospect of
removal. Suppose the "Star of Empire"
should accept Bishop Berkeley's suggestions,
and "westward tuku its way" what darkness
would follow for Washington! Suppose the
"tide of political power ' should curry the
capital with it to tne i.lississinpi valley what
would become of Washington, thus left high
and on
Moved by these gloomy thoughts, the people
of Washington seem to havo determined to
employ Mrs. Chick's specific, and "make an
effort;" and the effort has boeu in the direc
tioii of an International Exhibition. An In
ternational ExLibition, approved and sup
ported by Congress, would help Washington
amazingly, it is thought. Now, Washington,
in any case, is hardly the place for a treat
gathonng ot nations, it has long enjoyed a
reputation lor iliscomtort which would do
anything but attract htrangers. The almost
supernatural acuteness of some of its public
oracers and servants in entrappin the un
wary traveller is of world-wide renown. Wo
certainly do not object to the faots ia ques
tion. It is but a part of the year that Wash
mgton hiuls itscit lull, and accordingly tho
business of the twelvemonth is naturally con
centrated. But the city does not have the
means of accommodating such a throng of
peepie as an international Exhibition brings
together whenever it is a success. Additional
means could not bo provided without incur
ring such an expense as would have to be
saddled solely on the visitors in enormous
charges. The whole thing would result in
discomfort, and probably in disgrace. We do
not object to any ordinary schemes for lm
proving Washington; but such an extraor
dinary scheme as this is beyond approval.
un the other hand, what is to be seen in
Washington ? Our correspondent says "Con
gross will be in session, and will be an inte
resting study to all foreigners." But we
put the question to Congressmen, that they
may teU us frankly, each about the other,
whether that is the sort of spectacle calcu
lated to be edifying to foreigners, or im
proving to our own people, No, we cannot
think well of this new project for "improving
vv ashington alike at national and interna
tional expense. "The movement for an Inter
national Exhibition," says our correspondent.
"is a well-meant enort of the people here to
aid in removing the publio reproach from
Washington." Perhaps if it should "take
any shape but that" tho country might con
sent to carry it our.
In fine, if the vast publio spirit and civic
enterprise about which we are now hearing
so much in Washington shall take the practi
cal torn of ample subscriptions to an inter
national Exposition, it will be very well for
tho city. But if it only results in besieging
Congress, with renewed energy aud unanimity,
for largo appropriations, it ought to be, and
probably will l-e, love s labor lost.
JUSTICE TO WASHINGTON.
From the jV. Y. World.
Whenever an eminent radical dies, wo aro
immediately informed by his partisan ad
wirers that the dead man was a second
Washington. So many departed radicals
have received this post-mortem brevet that
we are forced to one of two conclusions
either the Father of his Country possessed a
marvellous variety of contradictory qualities.
or the complimentary comparison is as
meaningless as the cheap brevets so freely
distributed by Congress alter the close of tho
war. Mr. Lincoln was a second Washington
if we may believe his unreserved admirers,
Are we, then, justified in believing that Wash
ington had a fondness for sitting with his feet
elevated upon the Presidential table, and for
illustrating his diplomatio views with little
stones of a disproportionate breadth!1 bo, too,
Mr. Stanton was a second Washington. This
is reliable, for the statement is made by no
less an authority than that eminent
divine. that pillar of the
sanctuary and divorced woman
best companion, Henry Ward Beechor,
Wn shine ton then was, of course, profane,
boisterous, and insulting towards everyone
with whom he came in contact. Now, wo
are rather inclined to disbelieve this. Not
that we desire to speak ill of Mr. Stanton now
that he is dead, but because we object to do
tamiiiff the character of George Washington
who is certainly quite as deal as the late
War Secretary. If Stunton so closely re
sembled Washington that the former cau be
cal'ed a second edition of tho latter, it
logically follows that Washington must have
bt'i-u an early edition, an avatar so to spe.ik,
of Stanton. We ask Mr. Boooher. or Dr. !
'.cllows who allogod last Sunday in his
pulpit that Stanton's niannor was so insulting
that no man could hold intercourse with him
and retain his self respect if this is doing
full justice to Washington? Ara they satis
fied to read in all future radical histories of
Amorica thut tho Father of his Country was
nn early suggestion of Lincoln, a faint fore-
shadowing oi htautou.' And, if not. will they
not consent to desist from the practice of
Millying the Bplendor of his noble name by
taming to appropriate it tor the benefit of
every prominent deceased leader of their
party?
Ur, if they must Book among tho na:nos of
a past generation for titles to confer upon
thoir radical idols of this, they might at least
do content to cuoose ironi among namos loss
sacred than that of Washington. Thore is
Arnold, who, in his later years, was certainly
trooly loii; there is (Jon way, who lntnuuod
Against the commander-in-chief just as somo
well-known radicals intrigued against McClel
lan at a later day; and thore is Ethan Allon,
who was as rough and full of strange oaths
as Stanton himself. Let our radioal praisers
of the dead search for parallels among these
congenial spirits of the Revolution. They
will find them amply suited to their purpose
and they can thus respect at onoe the truth
of history and the reputation of Washington.
SIDNEY WEBSTER AND HAMILTON
FISH THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF
THE UNITED STATES.
From the X. V. Sun.
Mr. Sidney Webster is a gontloman who
understands how to do things. He seems to
have possessed a natural aptitude for state
craft; and the faculty has been long and suc
cessfully cultivated. Soon after completing
u:.. n..:-i- J 1 1 i... i
ins uuuegiaie uuu legiu euucauon ia .new
Hampshire, he went to Washington as the
Privato Secretary of Franklin Pierce, with
whom he remained until the end of Mr.
Pierce's term. He soon came to be recog
nized outside as a power inside of the White
House. If parties were anxious to get a dif
ficult measure through, and the sanction of
the Executive was requisite, it was a fact that
seemed to bo instinctively smelt out, that
"Sid v ebster, as he was familiarly called,
wus the man to do it.
Somo time after the retirement of Gonoral
Pierce, Mr. Wobster came to this city to prac
tise law, aud married a duughter of the Hon.
Hamilton fish, a boautiful and highly ac
complished young lady. Mr. Fish at that
time, although be had been much in publio
life, teemed of all men tho least likely ever
to be anything more, politically. But as it
is sometimes said of lucky business men that
everything they touch turns to gold, so a
mysterious good lortune seems to wait tipon
the most unpromising political ventures of
Mr. Webstor. Throughout tho war it was
generally supposed that his sympathies wero
rather Southern than Northern. He was one
of the gentlemen so often seen about the
Now lork Hotel: and there was a strong nu
presnion that a Confederate atmosphere sur
rounded that locality. His warm friendship
for Mr. Pierce who was a sympathizer with
the Rebellion remained unbroken; and Mr.
Pierce bequeathed to him some token of
regard by his last will and testament.
General Grant was elected President, and
he adopted a new rule for tho solection of his
Cabinet. Tried by tho recognized touchstone
of merit suecoss Grant had proved himself
a great Oeneial. lie had had scarcely any
experience in civil affairs; was rather an
ignorant man for a West Point graduate;
laid was singularly wanting in that intuitive
sense of propriety which had prevented all
former Presidents from incurring so much as
the appearance of evil in regard to making
political appointments for pay. General
Grant made up his mind to select his Cabinet
from the list of those who had given him
money. Of course there had to be one excep
tion to this; General Rawlins, whose brain
had guided him through his military cam
paigns, had to be retained. But for Secretary of
the Navy tho President selected Mr. Borie, his
largest pecuniary benefactor out of Jfew
York; for Secretary of the Treasury ho se
lected Mr. btewart, his largest pecuniary
benefactor; and when Ur. btewart was found
to be ineligible he selected another New
Yorker, who had given him one thousand
dollars, for Secretary of State; and that was
Hamilton Fish. Whoever, with all the facts
before him, will undertake to say that General
Grant was not influenced and governed ia
making appointments to high offices of state
by considerations of pecuniary presents to
himsell, is simply incapable oi weighing evi
dence, and is incompetent to perform the
duty of a juryman in a case involving ten
dollars.
It was an unprecedented, a corrupt, and an
infamous system. No one step has evor been
publicly taken more calculated to demoralize
our Government. It was an open and shame
less proclamation, a publio advertisement,
that the administration was to be venal, cor
rupt, and rotten from the start and at the
core. One act of receiving a large sum of
money, and then appointing the giver to a
high office one such aot, of which General
Grant has done so many openly and publioly
one such act, we say, if done privately and
afterward proved, would have impeached any
President that ever lived. It would have im
peached George Washington, and it would
have convicted Andrew Johnson. No such
pecuniary stain rests upon any other Presi
dent. Low as James Buchanan sank in the
scales of wisdom, if not of patriotism, he
never took bribes.
'This terrible crime of General Grant's was
overlooked at the time, because the great
heart of the people was warm and gushing
with gratitude towards him for their salvation
in arms, and their eyes were temporarily daz
zled by his military glory. But the great blot
will remain a stain on his name, as the ac
ceptance of bribes affixed eternal dishonor to
the name of Eord Bacon.
At the time of General Grant's in augur a
tion, the revolution in Cuba had developed
such strength as to indicate that its success
was highly probable. It seems to be esta
blished by sufficient evidence that nearly the
entire native population of the island were in
favor of throwing off the Spanish yoke. As
was natural, the American people sympa
thized warmly with the Cubans, contiguous
to our shores, in their efforts to tree them
Bclves from a foreign dominion. The Spanish
Government, keenly alive to the situation of
affairs, perceived that the outbreak of this
feeling, which was rapidly rising in the
United States, must be checked, or, it
was likely to take the shape of material
aid to Cuba. They saw that money
bad been potent In the appointment
of Giant's Cabinet; and they saw that the
American Senate, faithless to its traditions
of purity, had confirmed the nominations
which the President had mado in reciproca
tion of presents. Money, then, it was plain,
was the agency by which President Grant's
foreign policy could probably be influenced,
for ids home appointments had been con
trolled by it. The shrewd Sidney Webster
was a practising lawyer in New ork, open
ft r the i fetation of fees, not diffident about
the reception of large sums; aud his father-in-law,
Hamilton Fish, was Secretary of
State at Washington. It required but a vory
simple process ot reasoning, under these cir
cumstances, to lead to the spcoial employ
ment of Mr. Sidney Webster as leadiug
counsel for the Spanish Government in this
country.
We have no disposition to be untust to Mr.
Webster. In whatever he has done, he cer
tainly has kept within the limits of the duties
of counsel, as defined by Lord Brougham.
That groat advocate, in his celebrated defense
of Queen Caroline, said: "An advocate, by
the sacred duty which he owes his client,
knows, in the discharge of that office, but one
peif-ou in the world that client and none
other. To save that client by all expodient
means to protect that client at all hazards
and costs to all others, and among others to
himself is the highest and most unques
tioned of his duties; and he must not regard
the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the de
struction which he may bring upon any
other. Nay, separating even the duties of a
patriot from those of an advocate, and oasting
them, if need be, to the wind, he must go on,
reckless of the consequences, if his fate it
should unhappily be to involve his oountry
in confusion for his client's protection."
Vt e once beard the late Daniel Webster ex
press in decided terms his dissent from this
doctrine of Lord Brougham's; but this is a
free country, and it may be that one Webster
thinketh differently from another Webster.
And in regard to Air. 1' ish we have as little
disposition to do the slightest injustice. We
do not suspect that he deliberately weighed
out so many pieces of silver against bo many
ounces of blood. We do not even suppose
for a moment that Mr. Fish could be ap
proached by any offer of money; nor, more,
that he would intentionally or knowingly
allow the circumstance that his son-in-law has
been retained by the Spanish Government to
influence bis foreign policy.
But is Mr. fish certain trat he is not, un
consciously to himself, influenced by the
heavy retainer paid to Mr. Webster ? Is Con
gress certain that the foroign policy of the
State Department is wholly uninfluenced by the
Spanish gold paid to and received by Sidney
Webster?
Can any man who has faith in human na
ture say that Mr. Fish's position is ono in
which it is safe and prudent for a Secretary
of State to stand? Would John Quincy
Adams, or Andrew Jackson, or (Jaleb Cush
ing ever have allowed such a shadow, suoh a
doubt, or such a question even, to rest upon
his name t
The New York Times just as the Spanish
gunboats leave on thoir mission of slaughter,
and to strangle tho cause of infant freedom
in Cuba publishes an acoount of a magnifi
cent dinner party at Secretary Fish's, with
the announcement thut Mrs. Fish received in
a stately manner. Stately means state-like.
Now we do not object that the Fishes are
state-like, but that the State is becoming
Fish-like and Sidney Webstor-liko in its for
eign policy, and that Sidney Webster savors
all over of Spanish gold, the price of patriot
blood and ot (Juban lreedom.
CENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS.
pATENT SHOULDER-SEAM
6HIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
FKKKECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWER'
mutte from nitasuremeut at very short noiioe.
All other articles o( GENTLEMEN '8 DHffiS
GOODS in fuU variety.
WlKC'lliCSTKlt UO.,
11 9 No. 7l) CU.IMNUT Street
IHY OUR $ 2-25 SHIRT.
TRY OUR ffa-50 BHIRT.
TRY OUR 2 76 SHIRT.
TRY OUR $3 0U SHIRT.
TRY OUR BOYS' SHIRTS.
Tuey are the cheapest Bad best fitting SHIRTS sold.
One trial will make you oar customer.
T. L. JACOBS & CO.,
1117 2mrp No. 1226 OHESNUT Street
J J O I. 1 1 A r
pit i:si:th
GENTLEMEN.
J. W. SCOTT & CO.,
No, B14 CHESNTJT Street, Philadelphia,
s
6 STirp oar doors below Continental Hotel.
PRESENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Gentlemen'! Mourning Wrappers.
GENTS' FURNISH1NU STORE.
MRS. 8. A. BRANSON.
No. 140 South EIGHTH Street.
Wrappers mad to order. 12 7 tattulm
FURNITURE.
RICHMOND & CO.,
FIRST-CLASS
FURNITURE WAR EROOMS,
No. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
EAST SIDE, ABOVE OHESNUT,
116 PHILADELPHIA.
FINE FURNITURE.
DANIEL M. KARCHER, j
Nob. 236 and 238 South SECOND St.
A LARGE AND SPLENDID STOCK ON HAND,
FOR WHICH EXAMINATION IS RESPECTFULLY
SOLICITED. 11 thtu3mrp
FURNITURE,
T. & J. A. HENKELS, !
AT THEIR j
NEW STORE, 1002 ARCH STREET.
Are now oiling their ELEGANT I DRNITUHK at
very reduced price. 29 3mn
TJUTTON . McCtWMKLL,
FURNITURE WARKROOMS,
No. m MARKET STREET. i
PARLOR. DINING-ROOM, and CHAMBER EUR.
KITURE. tbe Latest Styles and bast Munuiautura, Also,
KKATH KK BEDS and MATTRESSES. Ill inwftni
OO'lTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVA
VV of all MSabers sod brands. Taut, Awning, True
and VV axun vover luik. AIM, Paier alanutautarars'
l)r,ir Fells, from thirty to seteuty-sU tnubee wide,
l'sulius. lisltUw. Kail Twine, etc.
itu.iiu,i.vuai. JOHN W. KVFRMAN,
Ko. 1H3 OUUUOU Street (Uity Stores)
IMIPRINQ.
LORILLAKD'd STKAMSUIP
LINK OK
IV IS V Tl O It 1C.
BAILING ON TITK8PAY8, THURSDAYS. AND
On and after lieof mtmr 1 J, the rates will !e 9J (tents per
100 lbs , 10 oents per foet, or I oents per frallon, ahio'a
option.
Advance ehnrffes cashed at offloe on pier.
Freight received at all liius on ooTersd wharf.
JOHN r. OIIL,
Plsr 19 NORTH WHARVES.
N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metal, etc.
FOU LIVERPOOL AND
Ot T If It Nil 'Ft iWH f f : .,.
Wii.migi ' r " . uiiinu Lai IIS Ul VI All
fcssciaariows:-
ot Yi aahinirton, Halnrdaf. January I, lf)70. IF, K,
f :itjr cf New York, rtatnrctnjr. January H, 10 A. M.
t'ily of Haltimore, la Halifax, Tnesdajr, Jen. 11, 13 Noon
City of Itcwtmi, Haturday, Jan. 1ft, 1 P. M.
City of Brooklyn, Hatnrtny, Jnn il, 9 A. M.
And each succeedinc Saturday and alternate Tuesday,
from Pier Hfi, North Kivnr.
RATION OF PASSAOK.
TIT TTtR MATT, HTRAMKR BAIL1NO RvmT SATTTTtT)AY.
Payable in Hold. Payable in Uurrouor.
FIRST CABIN $100 I BTKK.UA UK
To I,ondon luft To lndon 4ii
To Paris 115 To Paris
FAHHACta BY THK TUBSDAX BTEAMKB, VIA HALIFAX.
Psyalile in Uold.
Llyerpool
Halifax au
St. John's, N. F., )
PIHMT 'AltlN.
Payable in (Jurrenoy.
Liverpool tM
Halifax u
St. John's, N. F ) ...
HTKKflAdK
ny liranen rtteamer.
Panne tigers also forwarded to Harra. Hml
by Branch RUtainer... . ou
etc., at reduced rates. 1
Tlrkots can be bought here at moderate rates by persons
v.,-,, if ii i, iur i uqii innuua
For flirt hnr rtart.iaulars annlv nt ihm nnmiwn. "If:
JOHN U. DALK, Agent. No. 15 BROA DWAY, N. Y .
or to O'lHlMNKM, A FAULK. Ants,
4 6 No. 402 CHK8NUT Street. Philadeloh a.
. ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE
. VH,l- THK GFNERAL TRANfl ATLANTIO
."j jr Will r ft n I II Jl A I It b I K, A M H I PH
SStS? M,lW TORK. AND HAVRE. GALLING i
The splondid new easels on this fayoriU mate for the
Continent will sail from Pier No. to. North river, erar
Sa turd ay.
. ,a . PRIOR OF PABSAGB
In uold (including wine).
TO BKF.RT OR HAVRR.
First Oabln $140 I Seoond Cabin M
TO PARIS,
(Including railway tickets, furnished on board.)
First Cabin (145 I Seoond Cabin M
1 hese steamers do not carry steerage passengers.
Medical attendance free of charge.
American travellers sning to or returning from theeoc
tinnnt of Europe, by taking the steamers of this lioeiroii
unnecessary risks from transit by English railways aof
oroRaingtbe channel, besides saving time, trouble, andez
pens. GKORUK MAOKKNZ1K, Agent,
. No. 6 BROADWAY, New York.
or passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams' Rxors
Cornpeny. to J" H. L. LICAF,
I 374 No. 831 OHKSNUT Street
PHILADELPHIA. RICHMOND.
v-Affff.KPJOI.K BTrfAMH
1'THK SOUTH AND WICST.
HVKHV HATUKIJAY,
B Anoon, from FUIST WHARF above MARKHTI
TH ROUGH RATF.8 to all points In North and Boat
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Ijoe Railroad, oonneoting at
Portsmouth and to Jjncbburg, Va., Tennessee, and tin
Yi et, via ) iroinia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
Froight HANDLKU BUT ONOK. and taken at IX) WEB
RATKB THAN ANY OTHER LINK.
The regularity, safety, and cheapness of this rente oom
mend it to the publio as the most dest"able medium
carrying every description of freight.
No charge tor commission, drayage, o ny zpena
trsnsfor.
Stoamahips insured at the lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. OLYDR CO.,
No. 13 8. WHARVK8 and Pier 1 N. WHAKVK8.
W. P. POKTF.R. Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROW F.LL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. 6 18
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.
; C. via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with
connections at Alexandria from the mriat direct route for
lj nchhurg, Bristol, Knoxville, Nashville, Dalton, and the
Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from
the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. OLYDK ft OO.,
No. 14 North and South wharves.
HYPF A TYLER, Agents, at Oeorgetowu; M.
RLDRIDGK A CO., Agents at Aloxandria. 615
nuiivrj. ruu i.j2,T i vyirv, via
IIKliA K AKK AN't KAK 'AM
CANAL.
(XPKF.SS STKAM BOAT COMPANV.
1U CI1KAPKST AND OUICKKST watar onuimuninm.
tion botweon Philadelphia and New York.
Steamers leave daily from tiret wharf below Market
Street, Philadelphia, and toot of Wall street, New York.
Goods forwarded by all the lines running ont of New
York, North, Fast, and West, free of commission.
Freight received and forwarded on accommodating
Urma. WILLIAM P. OI.YDK A CO., Agonts,
No. 13 S. DKLAWARK Avenue, Philadelphia.
JAMK.8 HAND. Agont,
5 8 No. 119 WALL Street. New York.
fc NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA
P Dolaware and Raritan Canal, 8WIFTSURK
i TRANSPORTATION llOMPANV nifM.
4 l KjII SOU DtVlf 1IIUK1E LINK,
The businosa of these lines will he resnmod on and after
the 8th of March. For freights, which will be taken on
accommodating terms, apply to
W. M. BAIRD ft OO.,
8 9 No. 13a South Wharves.
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO.
PENN STEAM ENGINE AND
'BOILFR WORKS. NEAFIK ft LKVY
PKACTItJAL, AND THKOUKTIOAS.
KNUINKKH8. MACHINISTS. HOir.KO-
A.AKKlch, IILACKSMITHS, and FOUNDKRS. having
for many years been in successful operation, and been ex
clusively engsged in building and repairing Marina and
River Engines, hich,and low pressure. Iron Boilers, Water
Tanks, Propellers, etc. etc., respectfully offer their ser
vices to the onblio as being fully prepared to oontraot for
engines of all sines, Marine, River, and Stationary; having
sets of patterns of different sizes, are prepared to execute
orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern
making made at the shortest notice. High and Low pres
sure rine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the beat Penn
sylvania Charcoal Iron. Forgingsof all sixes snd kinds.
Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions. Hull Turniug
Screw Cutting, and all other work connected with the
above business.
Drawings and specifications for all work done at th
establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed.
The subscribers have aniple wharf dock-room for repairs
of boats, where they cau lie in perfect satety, and are pro
vided with shears, blocks, falls, etc. etc., for raising heavy
or Ua-ht weight.
JACOB O. NIT A FIE,
JOHN P. I.K.VY,
81 BKAOH and PA L MKB Streets.
SOUTH WARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND
WABUINUTON Streets,
Pnii.APKLPHIA.
MEKIUUK ft SONS,
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS,
nianafactnra High aud Low Pressure Steam Engines
(ur Laud, River, and Murine Service.
Roller, UaHoiiictora, Tanks, I roll Boats, etc
t astings or all kiiidH, either Iron or Hr;isa.
Iron Fiurue Hoofs for (lag Works, Workshops, and
Railroad Stations, etc
Ketone aud Gas Machinery of tbe latest and most
Improved construction.
Every description of Plantation Mactilnory, also.
Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum I'aus, Oil
Su-ara Tiutua, Defecator, I'LUera, Pumpitut Kit
glues, etc.
Solo ARt.'Uta for N. Blllpox'g finpar Boiling Appa.
ratus. Nesmyth's Patent Steam Hummer, and Aspin.
wall A Woolney'g Patent Centrifugal sugar Dr.klu
lug Machines. 4 3tr
QIRARD TUBE WORKS.
JOIIN H. MURPHY & BROS,
flsautitcturers of Wrought I rest F1, Its,
PU1LAOKLPHIA, FA.
WORKS,
TWKIXTY.TH1UJJ svod FIIJBKKT Mtreet.
OFFIOK, (( I
isjw. 4'J Nanh FIFTH Mlws.
FIRE AND BUROLAHPROOF SAh '
J. WATSON & SON, r
I Of th late firm of EVANS WATSON, j kffjl
FIKK AND BURGLAR-PROOF
8 A F Ju M T O It 13,
VO. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
8U A few doors above Obennut at., Pnlld
j.iiir! hibsi!s i: ltue !!::
What is nicer for a Cbristuius present thun fine
BlNOlNO CANARY and a BEAUTIFUL OAGRf
Cheaper tuiiO any place in tbo city.
No. 114 NortU SIXTH Street.
12 18 tin Odd FeliuM' Hall,
v. a. m:uv.
CAM I'EL SMITH & CO., No. 4 8. Rr.VENTIt
O Mm-t, b'IKAM AM) OAS lUlKK AM
I'l.l M lKU3. Tube, Fituuun and bruta Vo,k ooJUuLy
OU lihlid.
All ork promptly attended to.
(lulvauiiud 'l ube lev CJeiuoiury I ola luniiaaeX II l3:n
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