THE DAILY EVENING TELEQRAPIl PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 18G9.
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CUBA
THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY OF
GENERAL Oil A NT.
Vrmi the X. Y. llera'd.
TLo great opportunity of General Grant to
Invo Lis mlmiiiislraliou from pn'olio disfavor,
to r ipetuato Lis own ro'iularily, niul to ro
mre Listing fame a.t n statesman is in treating
the CuLun question in ncnonlanco with popu
'jr ficntiineut, a 1roal American policy and
he interests of (he country. This is really
:ha most important question of the day. It
involve vast commercial interests, the syni
pathieN of the American people, tho cauMO of
republican liberty in America, tho natural
growth and progress of this republic and the
iosition wo are to occupy hereafter with
regard to all questions pertaining to this con
tinent. If tho Government Bhould resolve to
ignore Cuba and either to pormit tho Cubans
to be crushed or tho island devastated, it will
iibnudon tho cherished principles upon which
our own independence was claimed and
secured; it will become tho friend and
ally of European despotism on Amorican soil;
it will do violence to tho feelings, Rontiments,
and love of freedom of the American people;
it will ronounco the Monroe doctrine, it will
degrade us in tho eyes of the world, and will,
for the first timo in our history, inaugurate a
policy inimical to republican institutions and
in the interests of monarchical and European
Governments. If, on the other hand, tho
Government should determino to seize the
opportunity afforded by tho insurrection in
Cuba to promote the cause of republican free
dom on American soil, to extend our influ
ence, power, and commerce in this hemi
Kphero, and to sever tho bonds that hold a
part of tho American peoplo and territory
under European rule, that would bo a fresh
Starting point for a grand and comprehensive
policy in accordance with our growth and
destiny. It would show Europe that we com
prehond our high position as ono of tho fore
most nations of tho earth and tho law of our
existence, and must iu tho end inspire the
respect of the whole world.
Hence we said tho Cuban question is the
most important ono of tho day. Moro than
that, it is tho only ono that presses for imme
diate solution, Reconstruction of the South,
upon which Congress and the public mind
have been occupied, is about finished: tho
various questions pertaining to the national
finances require time, for consideration and
have not Lecomo urgent, because neither tho
revenue nor country will Buffer from tho ne
cessary delay; tho Alabama claims will not,
and, perhaps, cannot, bo brought ton decision
for some time to come, and they aroused
only as a political hobby by Mr. Sumner and
Mr. Secretary Fish: all other questions of do
mestic or foreign policy are either not press
ing or can bo solvud without difficulty. Tho
only live, urgent, an 1 important question at
present is that of Cuba.
Tho initial American policy in tho case of
Cuba, for such we may call it, reachos far
beyond that island or the present time. It
is the key of our destiny over the whole of
tho Antilles, Mexico, und Central America,
and, in a measure, over South America also.
It will fix in tho public mind of both this
country and of Europo what is to be the
f uturo course or policy of tho American re
public in this hemisphere, and especially us
concerns European domination, influence, r
rulo here. There never has been a move de
termined or Loroio struggle for republican
freedom, and against the most atrocious
European despotism in America, than that
which tho Cubans are making; no, not in any
of tho .South American States; and there,
never was better ground or as good a reason
for this country to recognize tho indepen
dence of an American people 'Tho course of
the Government, therefore, in tho case of
Cuba will be regarded as tho policy that is
to bo pursued hereafter on all Amorican ques
tions in which European nations are con
cerned or chooso to interfere. It will teach
tho population and States of the Amorican
Continent and its islands either to lean upou
this groat republic and to look to it for sup
port and guidance, or it will disgust and drive
them to seek closer relations, commercial and
political, with Europo. Not the brave Cubans
only, but all the peoplo of tho two continents
of America are watching with intense inte
rest tho course of our Government with re
gard to Cuba. Shnll we abdicate tho high
position we have all through our history
takon? Shall we, in the day of our might and
strength, when no nation has tho power or
dares to thwart our policy or destiny, abandon
the cause of republican freedom in America?
To do so will be to dishonor the fathers of tho
republic and our statesmen of former times,
and will bring everlasting disgrace upon the
country.
General Grant in hU heart Kyiupathiy.es
with theso views, wo have no doubt, for they
are American, republican, national, and
liberal, and throughout his whole public
career ho has shown the most elevated
patriotism and broad American views. But
in the case of Cuba he has been trammelled,
there is reason to fear, by tho weakness and
narrow-minded policy of the Secretary of
State, and perhaps, also, by the senseless pre
judices of other members of his Cabinet.
Possibly Mr. Sumner, in tho excess of his
'vanity about his Alabama claims speech and
from his desire to muko politic! capital out
of that, may have had some influence
iver members of tho Cabinet, and, indirectly,
jver the President. It is lament tblo
wi think that a great question of public policy
ihich jtho American peoplo have at
feart, aud which concerns so intimately
he interests of our country and the
progress of republican freedom, should be ob
structed by a few men to gratify their vanity
or prejudice, or for Homo doubtful political
object. Will not the President emancipate
himself from theso inlluoneos? Will ho not
see. tho current of public sentiment, and
either "dismiss his weak and prejudiced ad
visers or act independently of them? Let him
follow the good udvico of his wise friend, the
lamented General Ituwlius, tho impulses of
whoso noblo soul were right in accordance
with the sentiments of tho American peojile,
and who had a proper view of tho duty and
destiny of his country, and lot him ignore the
miserable subterfuges of Sumner, Fish, Hoar,
and others on this Cuban question, and ho
will become as popular iu tho Presidency as
he was in the war. Wo have the best reasons
for believing that Mr. Hoar failed to bo con
firmed in tha Senate as Judge of tho Supreme
Court more on account of his narrow-minded
and prejudiced course relative to Cuba than for
anything else. This ought to be a warning to
the President, for no man, however exalted
"n position, oan safely act in defiance of pub
ic opinion in this country. General Grant
tas now tho opportunity of doing a glorious
Ling in securing tho independence and an
lexation of Cuba, the most valuable posses
sion in tho world, and of establishing a bio id
American policy that will make hi in the m st
popular man as well as one of tho most I
famous statesmen in history. Cuba is tho
grrat question of his administration Will
Ait? imui-imiiuu nmi . it loijuwn luu ui'" ,
fates of Lis heart nnd rommon sonso ho will
do right and reap tho glory. If he submits to
the shortsighted and weak men around him
he will assuredly lose his popularity, and tho
American peoplo may forget his war servicos
in (ho failure of his administration.
NILE NOTES OF A DONKEY.
From the X. Y. World.
Tho Herald a few days since invited its
readers to pernso and admire tho contribu
tions of its Egyptian correspondent. We
have read some of them. They aro cer
tainly very surprising productions, and, if
they do not quito justify tho exultation with
which the editor refers to them, they deserve
a wider circulation than tho Herald is able to
give them. They aro a littlo too sublime for
cverj'-day reading; they contain too much elo
quence to tho square inch; and ought to bo
printed in brief instalments in order to
guard the reader against intellectual rupture.
Egypt seems to have rendered to tho writer
the stimulating conserves of hor ancients; he
has eaten of the insano mummy that takes the
reason prisoner; Cheops hath been measured
to him for drug's; ho has tasted of Chamnes
in electuaries and consumed Amosis tn pills.
How else can his rampageous rhetoric bo ac
counted for? When Coleridge was unusually
gorgeous of speoch it was known that ho had
tired his imagination with opium. As tho
correspondent steals a grace beyond tho
reach of art, it is evident that ho has been
nourishing Lis faculties upon mummy, the
inspiring qualities whereof are certified by
Astrampsychus and lladivil and Junkenius,
and even Lord liaeon. But a truce to eulogy
and conjecture. Let us usher this eloquent
being before tho reader, and allow him to uu
fold Lis blazonries of speech. "From sudden
sunrise to quick sunset," he says, speaking of
the Nile, lithe tourist goes through many
worlds and phases of thought. Tho silenco
fast impresses him as ho glides along undis
turbed in contemplation either of the banks
all quivering with living things, or of tho
stupendous piled rocks and sand-hills,
or tho desert, or the park and garden
green which contrast against hoary old
ago by patches.'' How he, whoever ho
is, could remain undisturbed through such
n range of contemplation is a niysteiy. Dirt
if the garden green contrasting against hoary
old ago by patches failed to move him, tho
sounds and visions described in the ensuing
sentence would, wo should think, stir him,
even if he were as stolid and immovable as
the sphinx. '"Tho pelican."' ho says, 4,tl ips
his wings, (hi jur.-iil irhirh ah-a-e, ii'hugs lisli
gulps and staitles one, a partridge or qn lil
rises, and all along that boundless calm a
yearning to know more of the hidden past."
This is the finest writing wo ever saw or
heard of, but it seems "to be in patches"
deficient in the element of probability. Hero
dotus went to Egypt, and has told us somo
rather indigestible stories about what ho saw
there. But he nowhere mentions the soaring
jackal. We have instructed our Moonsheo
to look up the jackal subject, from Pliny
to Professor Owen, nnd ho has done so
with diligence. But. thero is nowhere
any account of the laying variety. One,
it is true, occasionally Lours of a shower of
frogs or pilchards, and (he Esquimaux have
a tradition that it once snowed wulruues that
bellowed as they fell; and wo beliovo that
there is a Siamese legend of a shower of ele
phants. So that tho correspondent's tale of a
cloud of jackals, though rather trying to tho
credulity, does not huom absolutely impossi
ble. Betoic rejecting it altogether, we shall
await further testimony on tho subject. Tho
writer descends gracefully from the aerial
jackal, and speaks very generously of the
rivor. "When night has succeeded day," ho
says, "nowhere can moonlight bo what it i?i
on the Nile." As a statement of fact this is,
of course, not to bo disputed, and, as a
phrase, it is as much above criticism as tho
jackals were above the head of the writer.
We are embarrassed by tho riches to which
the Herald has jo exultingly drawn our atten
tion. The verbal grace and melody are suf
ficiently overpowering; but they also un
fold romantic tales as sunny as thosa of
Boccaccio. Tho central figuro of theso ro
mances is an anonymous maiden of myste
rious purposes and character, who seems a
croha between a banshee and a lunatic, and
who goes through a series of the most mar
vellous adventures. She takes tho corre
spondent into her confidence, aud allows him
to look after her baggage. She converses in
differently with camel drivers and kings, is
sometimes seen upon tho dizzy summit of a
tlonicey, ana sometimes observed, in postures
of mystery and partial dislocation, at balls and
festivals. She flickers through tho hurly-burly
attendant upon tho fetes of Do Lesseps like a
stage fairy through the turmoil of gnomes and
goblins iu tho pantomime. Through the aid
of this extraordinary person, tho correspond
ent is brought into occasional propinquity to
royal and sacred persons. He looks upou the
whiskers of the Emperor of Austria and noon
the boots of the Prince of Prussia, and says
that the conqdexion or the Empress is built
upon a basis of rice powdi-v. Ho scrutinizes
the effulgent Viceroy, and that fnt potentate
returns Lis gaze of admiration. Finally, the
whole romance breaks into a sputter of im
possible counts and aide-de-eamps and Arabs,
as a comparatively sedate f rework, just be
fore its extinction, blazes into an inexpli
cable whirling chaos of flames: and corres
pondent, anonymous lemule, ilyirir; jackals.
and sovereigns waver iuto a murky mist of
words ami disappear.
If wo had not been allured by urgent edi
torial solicitation, we should not have looked
for any good writing in tho Hi raid. We
should as soon havo thought of looking in
the Septungint for a pun, or in tho Apocry
pha for a conundrum. It is a pleasure to bo
able to commend the ability and enterprise
exhibited by a contemporary, particularly
when the opportunities of doing so without
sacrificing truth to courtesy are so exceed
ingly infrequent; and we have tho deepest
satisfaction in felicitating our neighbor upon
its Egyptian correspondent.
REFORM IN NATURALIZATION.
FYoro the A'. 1'. Times.
The gross abuses practised chiefly in this
city and State in tho matter of naturalizing
persons of foreign birth are, we trust, about
to be stopped. The highest honor and privi
lege that a nation can confer upon a stranger
is the investiture of citizenship. Hitherto,
although Congress has had power over natu
ralization, the business has been practically
left to the several States, whoso real or appa
rent needs Lave guided their action, and pro
duced a mass of coaflicting laws that leave
the whole mutter in chaos. New York,
for instance, requires, according to tho acts
of Congress, a certain term of residence, and
the declaration of intention a certain period
before talcing out final papers. Somo of tho
Western States, anxious to induce immigri
tiini, confer oil the privileges of citizenship
after twelve months' residoneo, and dispense
with declarations of intention. Thus u for
eigner may becomo to a certain extent a citi
zen in ono State, and yet bo for years not n
citizen in another.
What is most needed is duo regard to (ha
importance of the act of conferring citizen
ship, and that dcsirnble reformation will pro
bably bo secured if the bill just intro lucod
info Congress by Mr. Jenekes becomes a law.
Its provisions aro, briefly: Residence with
out interruption of four years and six months
at the timo of application; declaration of
bona fide intention; renunciation of foreign
allegiance; resignation of any title of nobility;
date and place of birth, also placo of birth of
parents; date of leaving his nalivo country
and of arrival here, at what port and in what
vessel; description of tho petitioner, embra
cing name, age, businoss, residence, height,
complexion, color of eyes aud hair, and
any other distinguishing outward
marks. Ho must Lave resided a year
in the State where applying, havo pre
served a good moral character, bo attached
to tho principles of the Constitution and well
disposed toward tho Government. Tho most
important section declares that "the Circuit
and District Courts of tho United States shall
have solo and exclusive jurisdiction of all
npplieat ions of aliens to bo admittod to be
como citizens under this act." Registers in
bankruptcy are empowered to take testimony;
but no State court, power, or authority can
have anything to do with naturalization. Tho
act also provides for careful and proper proof
that the applicant has fulfilled the preliminary
conditions, and is worthy of tho privilege
sought. Duo provision is made for preserving
testimony and recording tho names of appli
cants. Supposing everything to bo right,
tho Court grants tho citizenship; but in
order to prevent tho rush just before
election, when party spirit runs high,
it is provided that the act of naturalizing
shall be of no legal force until after the lapso
of six months; at tho expiration of that period
the proper certificate shall bo issued, and thus
the work will be finished. This paper, which
must be produced before tho registrars and
inspectors of election, will contain tho de
scription of the party, which will do away
with tho outrage of voting upon dead men's
papers. Aliens who have served a year in our
army may bo naturalized without further re
sidence, if honorable discharged. Children
under ago becomo citizens, as now, ty the
naturalization of the parent. No woman shall
lose her citizenship because she is the wife of
mi alien. Onco a month the clerks of the
United States courls shnll forward to Ihc State
Department a list of all persons naturalized.
Theso c.ro tho main provisions of a mush
nccded act. Other sections guard against
fraud, and specify tho manner of administer
ing tho law. Tbo groat feature is tho taking
of naturalization iuto tho hands of tho Gene
ral Government. That will put un end to the
New York process of manufacturing citizens,
and wipe out one of the worst disgraces of
the timo. No well-meaning man will object
to any reasonable safeguard against tho abuse
of so high an act. of authority as tho making
of a citizen. Tho opposition, if any there
may bo, to the general purport of Mr.
Jenekes' bill, will come from those who care
more for party success than for honesty;
those who are always opposed to strict elec
tion laws and in favor of the largest liberty to
do wrong.
FATAL FRIENDSHIPS.
From the X, Y. Tribune.
What is the proper word to describe the
process of killing one's particular friends ?
Is it "homicide," or "umieide," or what ? So
much of this sort of thing is being done,
especially in politics, that wo really need a
nemo for it. Talleyrand used to point out,
as a jihilosophical phenomenon, that some
thing unpleasant always happened to any
Government which did not conciliate him.
' a (ueUjue chose inexplicable en. woi, qui
parte iiiilhfur itu.c youeeriu-iaens qui me ncj
liijent." But thero is a class of newspapers
rising among us with the contrary power.
No man can survive their friendship, after it
is once fairly brought to bear.
There was Mr. R. II. Dana, Jr., of Boston,
for instance, who really seemed to have a po
litical future before him, until an obscure
weekly newspaper of this city took him up
and killed Lim oil', in the Butler Congres
sional campaign. There were all tho mate
rials for a strong opposition to General But
ler. He had just avowed financial theories
which had displeased his Lost friends. Then
muny disliked Lim for what ho had done in
tho war, and many more for what he had not
done. He was not even, it was urcod, a citi
zen of his district, possessing within its
limits onfy tno rudiments or a barn, while
his opponent s father, at least, had house and
lands. So far so good for Mr. Dana, when in an
unlucky Lour the JSutioa took up his cause,
representing him as a high-toned conserva
tive and his opponent as a pestilent radical.
This was precisely what General Butler's
managers wished, and from that time they
had it ull their own way The special drawbacks
or General Butler, on which a shrewder oppo
nent would have made the light, wero at onoo
forgotten. If ho was to bo thrown overboard
as too radical, so would Sumner be ousted, so
would Bon: well, whenever the political Bour
bons grew strong' enough. This settled the
question. Mr. Dana wits left in a minority so
crushing that it will long parulyzo his political
career, and sir. Butler in a mammy most pre
judicial to his humility cf spirit. So much for
un injudicious and fatal triendship, that as
sassinates its ownallies.
Precisely fho same destructive process has
since been tried agaiust Attorney-Goner.il
Hoar, by tho stone class of journals, to whom
'Ihc Noilh Ami rienn llciicir Iiiih also supplied
a spare stiletto, in tho background. Mr. Hoar
went to Washington an advanced Massachu
setts radical, lie had always been tho frioud
and ally of Mr. Boulwell, aud bid fair to
stuiul with him in tho confidence of Republi
cans generally. It was no fault of his that
Lis mistaken friends undertook to muko him
out all that was respectable and conservative,
as compared with this dangerous, revolu
tionary Boulwell. But their support at once
exposed him to suspicion. Mr. Boutwell had
won the confidence of the nation aud espa
ciully of the party which had carried it through
tie war. Ho had been thoroughly tested.
Mr. Hoar had a certain claim on the public
commence as lioing -Mr. Jioutwoll s neighbor
ai:d friend. If he was to be set up in oppo
sition to Hie Secretary of tho Treasury, tho
caso was very dilierout. In vain the shrewder
Massachusetts papers, as the Springfield
Ji'ipi'Uicoi), protested against this falso
position assigned to Mr. Hoar; declared that
The. Aorli Anuria! u liniew'H description of
him was wholly imaginary; that, in tho lan
guage tif Mis. Betsey Gamp, 'thero warn t
no sich a person" as thero described. Tho
honored victim would doubtless have pro
tested also, had it been possible; but what
could lie do? An Attorney-General cannot
stand up before tho Supreme Court and say,
"May it pleuso your honors, I wish to lie
protected from my own admirers!" Thence
followed the misfortune of his non-conlirma-licn,
a thing made all the more galling, for
the victim mid Lis friends, by the ready assent
to Mr. Stanton's appoiutn.-nt. No doubt
thero were other ob jections to Mr. Hosr-r-hii
non-i esidenco in the Houthorn Circuit, his
wont of personal popularity, and so on but
theso were subordinate obstacles. A main
motive was tho reluctance to put in tho most
important post a man who could be indorsed
by The J'(itiii and The North Ameriran- Jt?-
vuiri. I he reason was. of cour.so. nbsurdlv
insufficient. Jt is concoding far too much
importance to any fourth-rate journalist,
when you allow him to take tho scalp of his
own liieiui. iiut we must accept human
nature as it is, and the next time we havo a
good noinineo for the Supreme Court, wo
must implore him, in advance, to muzzle his
conservative allies.
THE CALIFORNIA DIPLOMATIC UN HAP
PINESS. From the X. Y. Tribune.
The San Francisco despatch to (ho effect
that "new translations of tho Burlingama
credentials show that ho (Burlingamo) was
accredited to tho Western nations as kturr
tSln ten, aud had no lein'potcnliirj powers,"
evidently refers to an old item of news which
has apparently reached California after tra
velling all round tho world from Pckrn. It
was in October last that tho North China
Hi raid, an English paper printed at Shanghai,
published a translation of Mr. Burlingamo's
credentials which differed very curiously
from the official certified translation, and
which assuredly furnished the basis for tho
San Francisco despatch that has now boon
sent us. We found the doeumeut in the
Anglo-Chinese paper itself, which was trans
mitted to us with our regular English mails,
and it appears that in course of time a copy
of this paper has reached San Francisco,
from whence some of Mr. Ross Browne's
friends, who are Mr. Burlingamo's enoinios,
Lave taken the trouble to telegraph the stalo
item.
Tho points on which tho China Ilriibl
translation of tho Burlingame credentials
differs from tho officially certified translation
are of no real significance, though thoy aro
curious as showing the diplomatic forms of
tho Chinese Government. Thus, iu the
CI ina Herald translation, tho Celestiul Em
peror opens by referring to his ''titles to uni
versal sway received from Heaven," but in
the official translation this is rendered as tho
"commission his Majesty has received from
Heaven." Again, in tho China f rnld trans
lation, foreign countries are spoken of as tho
"central nnd outer nations or lesser Slates in
amity with us:'' but in t'..o official translation
tLis is simply rendered as the "foreign
nations r.t an.ily with China." Still
ngain, in (ho Cii'ina Herald translation,
Mr. Burlingnmc's powers are not pre
cisely or expressly delined: ho ami hi.s two
assistants are spoken of as "capable and
intelligent officers," "who are here to manage
satisfactorily," and who, "thero is reason to
expect, v ill provo a competent exponent of
our views in international affairs." Ia the
official translation, on the other hand, Mr.
Burlingamo is described as an "officer tho
roughly conversant with Chinese and foreign
relations," in whom "wo have full confidence
as our representative," aud who "will act as
our High Minister Extraordinary and Pleni
potentiary." As wo have said, these differ
ences are less a matter of importance than of
curiosity; and, moreover, tho fact that tho
credentials which Mr. Burlingamo has dis
played abroad are the officially certified trans
lation of the Chinese original is conclusive
as to his powers, even rf his plenipotentiary
authority had not been demonstrated by the
subsequent action of the Chinese Go-vern-lncut.
ENFORCING THE LAWS.
From the X. Y. Sun.
It is affiimed in tho Cincinnati Coinutcreial
that the Tenure-of-Oittoo net is regarded as u
dead letter by somo among tho members of
General Grant's Cabinet. According to that
journal, hundreds of officeholders wero sus
pended during tho recent vacation of Con
gress, but not a single reason for such sus
pension has been communicated to the Senate
by the President, and the Senate has acted
upon nominations to fill vacancies caused
by such suspension in the same manner it
has acted upon vacancies which have oc
curred from death, resignation, or other liko
cause.
The law prescribing the qualifications of
officers of the Internal Revenue Bureau is
likewise disregarded and treated as a dead
letter by the President and his subordinates;
but no notice is taken of the fact in Congress
or elsewhere except in the columns of the in
dependent press. Tho statute requires that
every assessor shall be a resident of the dis
trict in which Lo discLargcs his functions.
When Chief Justice Chase was Secretary of
the Treasury, the provisions of this statute
were rigorously enforced; but General Grant
regards tho law with contempt. His old crony
Augustus Ford is Assessor of tho Eighth Dis
trict in this city, but has his residence in
Brooklyn. His friends have assured us that
he thus violates tho law by special permission
from General Grant, but wo cannot think
this is so. Such permission would bo an
act of direct usurpation on tlte part of
the President. If Lis conscience is
dull, Lo may ignore the law, as in the
caso ot the Tenure of Office act, men
tioned by the Cincinnati Commercial; he
may even connive at its violation, as iu ap
pointing Lis friend Ford, and in allowing
him to act as Assessor of tho Eighth district,
without changing his residence; but we do
not believe ho would arrogate to himself the
authority to give Ford express dispensation
to continue to violuto the law when Ford
Lad himself called Lis attention to the re
quirements of tho statute. Would it not be
well for Congress to examine into theso
transactions? General Grant has not only
sworn to execute the laws, but ho Las repeat
edly proclaimed it as Lis special and peculiar
design to see to it that they were thoroughly
executed. Tho last words of his message
were to this effect: "On my part," said he,
"I promise a rigid adherence to the laws and
their strict enforcement." Professions are
always easier than practice, and General
Grant seems to form no exception to tho rule.
GENERAL SCHURZ'S BUNCOMBE BILLS.
From the St, l.ouia liepublican.
Our German Senator is evidently not so fe
licitous with his maiden bills as ho was with
tho little short maiden speech ho made during
the last session of Congress. He then com
bined, a certain httiDg modesty wrtlr some
sound thoughts and statesmanlike views. It
seemed particularly meritorious to us then
that he eijcapod the temptations to make any
thing like a buncombo speech, which might bo
construed as intended for homo consumption
among his German countrymen. It is entirely
ililieixnt w ith the two bills introduced by him
at fho commencement of the present session of
-Congress. Of his civil service bill we havo
already spoken. It Las such an outspoken
smack of the Prussian that it never can be
made palatable to American tastes. It pre
supposes an organization of society, and 6iUo-
ciully air educational system, so totally at vari
ance with ours, that it fnenator hcliurz s lull
should become a law, its enforcement would at
once meet with insurmountable difficulties, or
at least prove to be an Additional and costly
trouble, and in the main woul 1 not chango
anything. It, however, will have ono olTsct,
and this will Rparcely bo imperilled by tho re
jection of tho bill. It will movo certain Teu
tonic fibres in tho hrutrts of Sohur.'s country
men, and they will bo forced to admit that
their Senator has at last attempted to intro
duce some peculiarly German not ideas
notions into American legislation. Senator
ScLurz evidently foresaw tho defeat of his
bill, and prepared the public for such an
event by deeluring in ono of his lato lottor.s
thot he did not expect any such bill to bo ac
cepted, but that, in spito of this unwilling
ness of Congress to inaugurate such an inno
vation, a most energetic attempt would be
made, which would at least result in direct
ing tho attention of the public to this subject.
Wo aro aware that it has long been tho prac
tice of a certain class of politicians to arouso
public attention by buncombo Rpoeches an 1
vaporing newspaper articles; but, that Con
gressional bills should ever bo introduood as
such stimulants seems to us incompatible
with tho dignity of lawgivers.
But thrs crvil service bill is not tho only
kite which Senator Schurz has floated over
the heads of his German countrymen. He
hns introduced another bill which is tinctured
with another German eloment of a taste still
less palatable to Americans. It provides that
officers and clerks onco employed in tho
I niteu .Mates Treasury Department shall not
be permitted afterwards to act as claim agents
against the Treasury rn any caso ponding at
the time of their employment in tho depart
ment. This bill is based upon a thought
which is still more repugnant to American
principles. It presupposes a government
which, instead of being established by tho
peoplo for their own greatest ndvantago, is
pronounced at war wrlh or at least on tho de
fensive against tho pooplo. Whilst every
American would reject the idoa that a pri
vate claim against the Government would
not bo in better hands than in thoso of an
agent who knows tho most about it,
Senator Schurz scorns to bo anxious that tho
Government should bo protected from tho
payment of the just claims of privato citizen,
by preventing thoso familiar with the routine
iu our public administration from assisting
in securing their collection. A bill of the
character of the ono alluded could ouly
spring from tho mind of one who, evan after
a sojourn of upwards of twenty years amid
the surroundings of fho democratic atmo
sphere pervading our Union, has found him
self unable to eradicate hi.s German notions
respecting the separation of the interests
of the Slate froiu those of its citizens. In
this country a citizen who ceases to bo an
employe of Government is, nnd should bo,
free to follow what occupation ho pleases,
and every ono is entitled to secure his s ir
vices nnd avail himself of tho knowledge ac
quired by his servicos as a public oliieor.
CENT.'S FURNISHINQ GOODS.
i v ii i: a t k it & j o.,
No. ?0H CIIiXNrT STitKET,
It:ivc in slock an cli.Runt variety of Goods u.'aptel for
useful und aixei'tublu
l'i'OKeiit is loi GontltMiicn,
com i-aisiKo
CAUlWiAN JAOKK'IS.
CLOVKIS IN CKKAT VARIETY.
PUINUK TI-.OK SOaKK.S.
liOltl) STA NLI'.Y SO ARKS.
SQUAHK UKAVAIS AND MU1' 'ILEUS.
A plumlid asHurtmcut of
Wrnmuix mill itreiiklu-,1 4'nntM,
with II Imiindiurp
PATKNT RHOUI.UKK SHAM 8I1IK1S, v
A ml il lr Slupln 1'ooija lit ropuliir Prices.
p AT E N T SUUULUEli-SEAM
BniKT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FUHMSIIINU STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWER"
made from measurement at very short notice.
At! other articles of UENTLKMEN'S DRE3
GOODh in full variety.
WINCHESTER A CO.,
11 3 No. 706 C'HE.SNUT Street.
rjMlY OUll $2 25 SllIKT.
TRY OUR $2 59 BHIRT.
TRY OUR 2 75 SIIIRT.
TRY OUR $3 00 SUIRT.
TRY OUR BOYS' SHIRTS.
The; are tho cheapost and bent fitting SHIRTS sold.
Ono trial will uinka you our cuatomor.
T. L. JACOBS ifc CO.,
11 17 2mrp No. 1226 OHKSNUT Street.
TT () i 1 1) A V 1 It K U N 'r &
FOU
CENTLKJIEN.
J. W. SCOTT & CO.,
No. 614 CHESNUT street, rrilladcipUla,
B 215rp our doora below Continental Hotel.
PRESENTS roiTTHEna0LIDAY3!
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Gentlemen's Mourning Wrappers.
CENTS' FURN1SH1NU STORK.
MRS. S. A. UR ANSON,
No. 140 South K1GUTU Street.
Wrappers mad to order. H 7 tuthnlui
FURNITURE.-
RICHMOND & CO.,
FIllST-CLASS
FURNITURE WAREROOMS,
No. 45 HOUTII SECOND BTltEET,
FAST SIDE, ABOVE OHKSNUT,
11 liJIT PHILADELPHIA
FBPE FURNITURE.
DANIEL IU. RANCHER,
Kos. 236 and 233 South SECOND St.
A I.ARCiK AND BI'LKNDID PTOOK ON HAND,
FOR WHICH EXAMINATION IS RESPECTFULLY
SOLICITED. U 4 tlistuiimrp
FURNITURE.
T. & J. A. EENKELS,
AT TIIEIH
NEW STORE, 1002 ARCH STREET.
Are now oiling thetr ELEGANT f CHNITURB at
verj reduced prices. 0 3 3iurp
li
I V R N IT U It K W A U 1' . ROO M S,
No. B09MARKET BTREKT.
PARLOR. DI NINO -ROOM, and OUAMHKR FUR
I NITl'RK, the Latent Stylo. and beat Mauufautur. AUo
FFAT11KR bl OS aud M AllRKSSKS. lObuiwILj
HIPPINO.
LOKILLARU A STEAMSHIP
UN If. FOR
IV 11 XV
"V O Ifc It.
8A1I.INO ON TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS.
AND
SATURDAYS. AT NOON.
On and after L oeember 15, the ratos will be 3Soont nor
U0 Itis , 10 couU poi foet, or 3 oenta per gallon, aliip'a
option.
Advance rimmed cashed at office on plnr.
Freight received at all tiinea on eorered wharf.
JOHN V. our..
Pior 19 NORTH WHAUVKS.
N. R. Extra rntci on small packagoa lrou, tuotal, eto.
etc a
FO K
LIVEKPOOL ANI
::--t-.V-a-2Wl'K.KNSTOWN.-lnmaii Line of Mni!
'yierLr- i& WtwHnora are appointed to aail aa iul
L I I . . I -.' L' i I . n - r
, - " ' -
111 V Ol HMliimrlnii Nnttiritnv .T.nn.M I 10n f D
I'ity of Npw York, Natnrclny, January H, 111 A. M.
Oily of Paltimoro, Tin Hahfni, Tnomlaj-, Jan. 11, 13 Noon.
i'iif of Ronton, Maliinlny, Jan. 1ft, 1 I". M.
t'ily ol Kronklyn. Natonlny, Jan DM. 9 A. M.
And oh Mirrnoitinir Saturday nnd alternate Tuosday,
rem l'icr 4i", Notfli Kivnr.
RATES OK PARS AOK.
ht rn. mail m kamku bailimi rvunr RATimnAT.
I'nvuhln in (Inl.l a I1.. .).), in
FIRST OAIWN Sinn I 8TKKRAHK
To lindon mr, To London 40
To Pari. UB I To Pnri
1-AhNAUK IIY TIIK Tl'KHDAY STKAMKU, VIA HALIFAX.
Pnyalile in Oold.
iverpool ,
luliinx
t . ilolin'n. N. V..
Payable in Currency.
Liverpool $33
Halifax 15
St. JnhD'a. N. F.. I
u rv i.'li a. itf
...mi
J 45
by lSnim-.h Stoamer.
I.. I, l, Sl.m t
1 awipnironialco forwarded to Havre, llanilur, Dromon
et
- ... ...... p.. . ... . ... .....uuinvu iua iij pursoa.
iMniiR to Bond for their friends.
1 ' 1 1 ' L 11 1 b .1 I, a Iw.t1rllf hnVA .1 nrn.t n , . 1.
JO
r lurtlier particular, apply at tho Oomr.anv'a Office..
UN U. 11AI.K. A, nt. Nn IK Itl'iltliwiv M v '
urto OilONNKM, A FAULK, Agri'its! "
5 No. 4u-J CHKSNUT Street, Philadelphia.
f-rr.pXLY DIKF.CT LINE to FRANCE
W itf V' TIIK OKNER A F, TRAP'S TLANTIfJ
JrtriniMl'ANY'S MAIL KTKAMSIIIPM
J I, h N Mi W Y O R K A N D 11 A V R 15. O A LL 1 N U AT
Tho milondid now vcshcI. on this favorite route for the
nnlinent mil .ail from Pier No. 60, North rivor, ovory
cuturduy.
... ... FRJOIC OF PASS AOK
in (fold (including winni, -TO
HUES T OR HAVRE,
First Cabin $140 Second Cabin
TO PAULS, , '
(Including railway tirketa, furninhed nn board.)
I rut Cabin i(IUfi I Second Cabin $55
'I bene KteanierH do not cany ateoraKo paflcngera.
Mutlical attendance free ol ohar;o.
American truvellera iroinj to or rtiturnitiff from t!ie con
tinent if Europe, by taking the atoamraot this line avoid
noneciiwiiiy r.ak i from transit by Knlinh railway, and
cnwhinR the chanucl, besiili-a navinn time, !roubl: and ex
porno. GEOliUK. f.I ACKK.N7.IK, A;ont,
No. M Hit JADVYAY. New York.
I i.r pa&triRO in Philadelphia, apply at Ail imi Kxpre.ll
Cr nipauy, to II. U LtCAF.
12J5 No. D20 CiUCSNUr Street.
r-r. ii i r f. ii k i . r 1 1 1 v. it i c t i io n i .
-i: ..rr. NO FOLK STKAMM1IP LIXK.
.-'J'- 'na"i)"U c li r.ii, ii e A I tt 1.L3IH, I CI
4":r..'iiii! sou r and wEvr.
KVKKY SVI'UUDAV,
At noon, from FIRST WHARF aluvej M VRKET
Kited.
TtlHOUGH RA1 ES to nil points in North nnd South
'arnlina via Seabonrd Air lino Itai'ronl.oonnoctin'j at
Portsmouth, and to I.incnburff, Yn., Trnnnsioe, and the
Voi-t, via Virginia and Tcnnoaioe Air Lino and Richmond
and UanviUe Hnilread.
Fro rht 1IANKLI.I) RUTOVOK, and taken at LOWER
RA'I ES THAN ANY OIHKIt LINK.
Tbo regularity, aafoly, and chotpuosn of this route com
mend it to tie public as the most desirable medium for
cm lying overy doacription of freiicht.
No charge lor commission, iliayiii;a. or any expense of
trrnsft r.
Stei.maUips innnrod at the loweat ratos.
Freight roceived daily.
William p. cilydk a 00 .
No. 12 S. WHARVES and Fieri N. WHARVES.
W. P. PllRTKH, Agent at K.ohmond and City Point.
V. P. OHO WELL & CO.. Agents at Nor,'o!k li 1
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.
C via Chesapeake nnd Delaware Canal, with
oomifctions at Alexandria from the most direct route for
Ljiu tibutg, liriatul, lvnoxviUo, Nashville, Oalton, aud the
bouthweat.
Steamer, leave regnlnrly every Satiudaf at noon from
the lirst wharf iibove Alurket street.
1 ruitfht received daily.
WILLIAM P. OLYDR ft OO.,
No. 14 North and South wharves.
IIYDTt A TYLER, Agents, at Oeoigotown: M.
FLOKUIGE A CO., Agents at Aloiandria. b l J
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA.
DKMWABK AND HARITAN CANAL
cifKit EXPRESS STEAM HOA 1' COMPANY.
llio CHEAPEST AND OU1CK.KST wal.ir r.Ai,,n.,i,,ie.
tion between Philadelphia and Now York.
Steamer, leave daily from tirnt wharf below Market
at root, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street, New York.
Oood. forwarded by all tho lima running out of New
Yoik, North, Kant, and Went, fren of commiwuoa.
Freight received and forwarded on accommodating
terms. W ILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agent.,
No. 13 S. 1) FLA WARE Avenue, Philadelphia,
JAMES HAND. Agent,
63 No. 11M WALL St root. New York.
... NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK. VIA
,r ....... n .u n.i.. ..... Clival, mill loilf,
SSV TRANSPORTATION COMPANV.iHOi.
"K ' 11f.l,w..a .n1 T)nK;nn i ' 1 UU7I L1UITUU
IXILM HIJ tll IMIMR 1.1 IV K.
The but inees of theso lines will be resumed on and after
the bth of March. For froigbts, which will be taken on
accommodating terms, apply to
W. M. RAIRD A OO.,
8 2 No. licj SouthWharvea.
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO.
hu-is PENN STEAM ENGINE AND
II f. r U U A t 1'ITf Ul A Mn rniiOiU) i.iii. i w
ii33?rw3-y EMHNEKRS, MACHINISTS. UOlLKt
JviKl.itfS, LLACKSM1TI1S, and FOUNDERS, having
for many years been in .nenesnful operat ion, and been ex
clusively engaged in building aud repairing Marine and
River Fngiues, higb,aud low pressure, (run Boilers, Water
Tanks, Propellers, eto. etc., respectfully otfer their ser
vices to the puhlio an being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all sizes, Marino, Rivor, aud Stationary; having
setB of pattern, of difterent sizes, are prepared to exeoute
order, with quick despatch, livory description of pattern
making made at the shortest notice. Hi ill and Ixiw proa
Bine Fine Tubular and Cylinder Rollers of the beet Penn
sylvania Charcoal Iron. Forcings nf allsizesnnd kinds,
lion aud Itrass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning
Strew Cutting, and all other work oouneoted with the
above busineb..
DrawiiiK. nnd ppociHcatinns for all work done at the
establishment free of chargo, and work guaranteed.
The subnet iburs have an. pie w hart dock-room for repairs
of boat., where they can lie in perlect safety, and are pro
vided with shears, blocks, falls, etc. etc., for raising heavy
or light weights.
JACOH O. NWAKIE,
JOHN P. LEVY,
J)J5 Bf-A011 "1 PA LMKR Street.
COUTH WARK. FOUNDRY, FIFTH ANli
O WAfclUMGTON Streets,
rmi.APRhraiA.
MERRICK A SONS,
ICNGlNEF;iiS AND MACHINISTS,
mfinufacturo illjjli und Low Pressure Steam Enjjlnei.
fur I.huiI, River, and Marine Service.
Fullers, Onsuineters, Tuiihs, lrou Uoatfl, cto.
('astiriRH of oil kinds, cither Iron or Urass,
Iruu l riuiie Koois fur Qaa Works, W'orkaUops, and
pLHilroaa Stutiuns, ct.
Retorts and Oa Machinery of the latest and most
lip uoved coiiHl.nieMnu.
tvery ilebcrlption of Plantation Machinery, also.
Siigiir, Saw, aiil Orlst Mills, Vacuum lVua, Oil
Steaiu Trains, Dtfecatoia, Filters, Pumping Ea
g:neH, etc.
Sule Apeuig for N. lillletis'a 8ui?ar Bollltij? Appa
ratus. N smyth's Patent h'teHiu Hammer, and A.sulu.
wall & Vt'ooist-.y'a l'uteut Ceutl Uu(jal butfar Drain
ing Machines. 4 30$
QIRARD TUBS WORKS.
JOHN II. MURPHY & BROS.
Plaaufnrlurera of ViouLi Jroa Pipe, Ctaw
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
WOKK8
rWKNTY.TIlIKJ ami FlIJiKKI Mcroet.
officii:, i l
. A'i Worth KlFTn Hrl
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOFSAFE
Palfl J. WATSON & SON,.
iKfljtJjOf the tat. firm of EVANS A W ATBON, 1 J 'ji
FIRK AND BURGLAR-PROOF
S A F K T O It K,
NO. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
8 XU A " doors above O beannt at., Pbiladt
J)lltl milN!! lemEiK!!!
What is nicer for a fhrUtmas present than fitio
SINt.lNt; CANARY and a UK AUTIl'UL OACiRr
Cheaper than any place in tho city.
, No. Ml Noith SIXTH Street,
11 Im Odd Fellows' Hail,
YV. A. IIIOIEV.
(JAM I'EL SMITH A CO., No. 4 8. SKVKNTll
r Hreet. b'IKAU AM) OAS MTTKKS AND i
PI. I MllKliS. lube, l'ittuis aud Uraae Woikj ouataully
on baud.
A II i.i k promptly attended to.
(.a'.vaui.tid 'IuImj tor Coiuetmy ( ol furuiahod.
II W3:a
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