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MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1870.
COLLAPSE OF THE CUBAN REBEL.
LION.
Thh Havana journals of the 1st iunlant an
nounce that the leaders of the Cuban Junta
In New York hare iwmed a oircular directing
the insurgent to lay down their arms for the
present and to submit to the Spaniard, in
order to avoid further bloodshed. A dos
patoh from London of the same date alleges
that the British Secretary of Foreign Affairs
has acknowledged to the Spanish Minister
that he was satisfied, from offioial in forma
tion, that the Cuban rebellion was declining
in strength veiy rapidly. This intelligence
corresponds substantially with the preioua
ftdrioes received in this country, and thore
can be little doubt that the newly-constructed
gunboats which are about lo sail from New
York to. Cuba will, after their arrival in the
ever-faithful isle, speedily extinguish the ex
piring embers of the robollion. The contest
was substantially decidod before their de
parture from our shores was authorized, and
during its continuance the Cubans derived
m iU rial assistance from this country, so that
the incidental aid granted to their oppressors
its period when it was no longer needed is
more than counterbalanced. The sympathies
of the American people were with the insur
gents, but after it became evident that they
were putting forth only a small share of their
energies, and trusting to Americans to fight
their battles rather than to their own good
right arms, there was bat little cause to hope
for the overthrow of Spanish ascendancy.
The number of sincero, rcsoluto, conrageoua,
and golf-sacrificing patriots was, after all, but
limited. There were thousand who longed
for deliverance from a hated yoke, thousands
ready to intrigue or to pay for independ
ence, but when it came to filling up
the ranks of armies, maintaining them in the
field through a series of years, and inuring
them to toil, exposure, disease, and dangea,
the patriotic Cubans were unable to cope
with their formidable antagonists. The chief
reason of their failure, however, is to be
found in the abandonment or desertion of the
island by thousands whose presence in the
patriotio camp would have formed the very
soul of the revolution. The achievement of
national independence is no holiday task to
be performed in the hotel and boarding-house
parlors of foreign cities. To win such a
Loon men must not only pledge "their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honors," but
, lose them, if need be, and fight on through
good and evil report, in the full conviction
that there is no alternative be
tween victory and death. The
Cubans infused some of this spirit, but not
enough, into their conflict, and they have
but a limited number of resolute and reliable
cop&wriots from whom recruits could be
drawn. A large proportion of the slaves of
the island continued to toil peacefully upon
the plantations, the native Spaniards rallied
with desperate courage and wondrous
unanimity around the loyal standard, and as a
large proportion of the Creoles who escaped
massacre, banishment, or imprisonment fled
for safety to more hospitable coasts, the sup
pression of the revolt is a perfectly natural
result; and however much we may regret it,
it was, under the circumstances, inevitable.
HACK LITERATURE.
The last Atlantic contains an essay on the
lack of originality among American writers,
which urges, as a corrective of their present
subserviency to the English standard, a
broader culture and the study of -the French,
German, and Italian schools. But we fancy
the need lies deeper than this. It is neither
culture nor learning which moulds the ideas
of a nation, but the master touch of two or
three groat original minds. The literature of
a people has little to do with the horde of
petty litterateurs.
"I have but one child at a birth," said the
Queen of the Beasts, "but that is a lion."
There is oonstant complacency among lite
rary men nowadays in the greater encourage
ment given year by year to authors, the in
creased rates of pay, and the consequent
liberty which a man obliged to support a
family feels to devote himself to authorship
as a profession. Dryden's famous five pounds
of wages is contrasted with the present royal
rates of payment of our publishers, with ua
oeasing congratulations and pleasure that
our lines have been cast in the better days of
the present.
lut, after all, would it not bo thebetter and
wiser plan to go back to the old scale of prices;
to do away if possible with copyright alto
gether? Authors would starve, probably,
but would not the public be benefited?
TYhen a man writes or paints in hunger or
pain, simply because of the inexorable neces
sity there is in him to utter his thought, de
pend upon it that poem or picture will be
something which the world will deem worth
the keeping. "That song," says Carlyle,
"only should be sung whioh will not be silent."
No doubt it is a very comfortable thing for
the mob of gentlemen and ladies who write
with ease nothings about everything to 'be
sure of their twelve or twenty dollars a page;
but what becomes of the "holy cause of lite
rature" meanwhile? Hawthorne wrote his
first book in a tireless house, with wife and
children half BtarviDg around him. Miss
Kvuiia' books, says her publisher, are sure of
a run of ten thousand oopios. On the one
hand wo lave "The Soarlot Letter;" on the
other, "Ht. Elmo." In the old iron age of
uuoiLiu we Lad a jiegleuted player giving
birth to Isi r and Hamlet; or a blind and suf
lering old man solacing himself by his vinions
of heaven in "Paradise LoHt." Now we have
Mr. James Farton rolling in silvor-palace cars
over the continent, and serving up our cities,
religions, and ideas in his own little dishes,
Hure of a goodly sum of shekels per1 di.sh.
Literature is almost given over to a horde of
James Fartons, of more or less ability, hack
writers who are ready to serve up any sub
ject, science, art, or fiction, at the shortest
notice, for a proper consideration.
One cause of this is the number of literary
magazines in England and this country. Now
magazines are no doubt useful auxiliaries to
knowledge. A hurrying, enorgetio people,
too busy in building railroads across the
globe for thorough study of any subject, find
it pleasant to find all subjects set before them
tins in miniature. They take their snpply of
thought as they do their moalt, on hnnty
sandwiches at railway stations- But the
method pursued by the publishers of the first
English magazines was different from that of
ours. They applied to scientific men and
scholars for articles containing a resume, in a
popular form, of their special branoh of
knowledge. A man thus might perhaps con
tribute but once to a magazine, but that ono
article contained the essenco, probably, of a
life's research. Now each magazine and lead
ing newspaper has its corps of shallowly edu
cated men, who stand waiting, at call, to give
a description of the last transit of Venus, or
prize-fight, as indifferently as a dairyman
would skim pans of milk standing side by
side.
By all moans let us go back to the old sys
tem of low prices or no prices. If the true
poet starves, he will give us his sweetest song
in dying, and the litterateurs will starve and
give us no song at all; and in either case the
world will be largely the gainer.
NAVAL STAFF BANK.
We have received an official copy of the oill
prepared by Senator Spencer for the reor
ganization of the Medical, Fay, and Engineer
Corps of the United States navy, and to regu
late and fix their absolute rank, uniform, etc,
which he introduced in the Senate on De
cember 7. This bill is the best solution of
the difficulties between the staff and line of
(he navy that has yet been offered. It gives
the staff officers all that they can justly
claim, and it fixes their rank, privileges, and
niiiform with sufficient exactness to protect
them from imposition, and at the same time
it does not infringe upon any of the rightful
prerogatives of the line, or in the slightest
degree undermine the foundations of good
disci line.
By this reorganization of the staff, the new
grades of fleet surgeon, fleet paymaster, and
fleet engineer will be created, to rank with
commodores and captains; surgeons, paymas
ters, and chief engineers will rank with com
manders and lieutenant-commanders; pas-tad
assistant surgeons, passed assistant paymas
ters, and first assistant engineers will rank
with lieutenants; assistant surgeons, assistant
payn. asters, and scrorvl assistant engineers
will rank with maulers; tLird assistant engi
neers will rank with ensigns, and cudet engi
neers with graduated midshipmen. It is also
provided that there shall be a director-general
of each corps, with the rank of rear admiral,
to be appointed from the fleet officers for a
terms of four years.
The bill gives each staff officer on the issue
of Lis new commission the absolute rank,
uniform, pay and emoluments, right to quar
ter, honors, privileges, immunities, prize
money, pensions, etc., of the same rank in
the line; but it expressly declare that they
shall not exercise oommand or authority,
ashore or afloat, except in the corps to whioh
they belong and over those placed under the
control of their particular departments.
There is but one objectionable feature in
this bill, and that is the very unjust discrimi
nation it makes against the engineers. Pro
vision is mode for immediately confirming the
r embers of the Medical and Fay Depart
ments in the new grades establishel, while
the Secretary of the Navy is direoted to sub
ject the engineers to a rigid medical and phy
sical examination, and the Superintendent of
the Smithsonian Institute, -the Superinten
dent of the United Slates Coast Survey, an 1
the Superintendent of the National Observa
tory are designated as a scientific board for
tLis purpose. While these gentlemen may be
perfectly well fitted to conduct an examination
embracing the higher scientific branches of
engineering, it is extremely doubtful whethor
they are qualified to discuss such matters
as the designing, construction, and praotio tl
management of marine engines; aud even if
they were, there is a manifest injustice ia
obliging one class of officers to pass through
an ordeal from which the others are exempt.
The engineers have been subjected to u
strict examination before each promotion,
and they have a right to demand that they
shall be treated with a reasonable show of
fairness. With the exception of this very ex
traordinary feature, Senator Spencer's bill is
entitled, to tie candid consideration of Cjti
geess as a fair and equitable settlement of the
difficulty that is exoiting a most demoralizing
effect at this time on oar naval service.
At an infoemal caucus of the RepuLlicau
members of the Harrisburg House of Repre
sentatives, held on Saturday afternoon, B. B.
Strang, of Tioga, was chosen as the candi
date for Speaker. This is an admirable selto
tion. At the last session he distinguished
himself by his zeal and hardihood in support
ing retail and wholesale schemes of plunder,
and he was especially determined in his de
fense of the infamous bill which provided for
the payment of a large number of unnecessary
pat-ters aud folders, in defiance of existing
laws. No man in the House has a better un
derstanding of the art of facilitating the pas
sage of objectionable bills, or of the device t
whereby legislators and the applicants fur
legislative favors may be enriched at the ex
pense of the State. Strang's seleution u
Speaker, therefore, is an aiwpioious augury of
large "divvies" and plenty of them, and the
voters of Philadelphia Lava additional rea
sons for congratulating themselves upon the
re-election of men who are abundantly quali
fied to improve the superior opportunities
that aro likel y to bo presented.
MED OB A LEI OH.
On our sixth pago we publish a synoptioal
review of a book just published in F.ngland
under the editorship of Dr. Charles Maokay,
which is an appropriate supplement to the
disgraceful narrative with which Mrs. Stowe
treated the world in the columns of th At'
lantic Monthly. This is the autobiography of
Medora Leigh, the unhappy oreature whom
Mrs. Stowe designates "the child of sin,
with letters and editorial oomments that serve
to make hor story complete. There is every
reason to believe thtt the facts
given in this new development of the Byron
scandal are substantially correot, and the
exhibition of depravity that is thus made is
anything but edifying. Thore does not
appear to be any evidence whatever that
Medora Leigh was the daughter of Lord
Byron, beyond the mere word of Lady Byron,
who, by the most charitable construction that
can be placed on her conduct, seems to have
been under a hallucination on this point.
Medora, for her part, was apparently scarcely
more than half-witted; and the story of hor
sufferings and the treatment that she received
at the hands of her relatives is one of the
most disgraceful revelations that has ever
been made with regard lo any family.
Lady Byron's own conduct to
wards her searcoly seems entitled to
the laudation that Mrs. Stowe bestows uprn
itfor her sole object appears to have been to
get the miserable oreature out of her sight,
and to hide her in some obscure place whore
she would cease to be an annoyanee. With
the exception of a brief confinement in a
private lunatio asylum, Medora was left to
take care of herself, exposed to all the temp
tations that were most potent-over her tveak
mind and passionate temperament. And
some of her relatives, so far from placing any
restraints upon her, seemed rather to seek
her ruin by plaoing temptations in her path.
The conclusion that all right-thinking men
must come to with rogard to this business is,
that whether Mrs. Stowe's revolutions ' I -:e
or not, she had no right to make IL "
that the persons who have given this disgust
ing story of Medora Leigh are no loss culpa
ble than the original author of the scandal.
No good end could be served by these publi
cations, and, true or not true, the world had
no right to know tho things that they reveal.
The contest for the State Treasurership is
said to bo complicated, by a struggle between
"the friends of a prominent banking interest
and several of 'the largest mercantile and
oil interests in the western part of the State."
This bitter fight for the privilege of fleecing
the taxpayers will enable the members who
have it in their power to decide for whose
benefit they are to betray their constituents
to charge even a higher price than usual for
their sweet voiocs, and to opon the session
with a Rplendid stroke of business. The only
thing that astonishes us is that they do not
divide the money in the Treasury among
themselves and their favorites, instead of
merely parcelling out the interest and profits
arising from the use of the State funds. The
principle is identical in either case, and it is
scarcely worth while for them to respect the
distinction between grand and petty laroeny.
They were sent to Harrisburg as plunderers
to plunder, and thuj may as well satisfy their
constituents that they are masters of their
profession.
The subject of University tests in England
has again been oalled into prommenoe by the
circumstance that the honors of Senior
Wrangler of the recent commencement at
Cambridge fell to the lot of an Israelite,
while the two who achieved the highest
honors in tha department of moral science
were unhappily "nonconformists." All three
are therefore debarred from the competition
for those luxurious positions termed fellow
ships. It is quite time that Mr. Gladstone
had turned his attention to this particular
iniquity of the old system which he is so vigo
rously and successfully assailing.
Thr Finances of Francs The report of M
Magne, French Minister of Finance, was issued ou
the 13th or December. The floating debt, he states,
has been reduced, to 1163,600,000, which, large ai It
ts. is $41,00(1,000 less than on the 81st of July. Uii.
There Is a surplus or 13,600,000 for 1864, an expected
surplus of $11,000,000 for 1869, and a surplus of
820,000,000 Is predicted for 1870. All this would be
very satisfactory, for there really has been an In
crease In the Indirect taxes, If only M. Magna cuuM
guarautee France agilust extra credits or in tre
loans; but he cannot, and the Chamber cannot tilt It
has obtained more control over affairs than it has
heretofore exercised. Perhaps, under tho censtltu
tlonal regime, this result will enauo.
8PEOIAL. NOTICES.
mr W A N A M A K E It.
The low price at which we have beea soiling
for tl e Uat few week will still prevail antil
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our Win tor Stock ia all cleared out and we
are ready for our Spring Importation!.
JOHN WANAMAKKR,
1 INF8T CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT,
Nos. 818 and 820 Chesnat Street.
Cure is the FINEST READY-MADE
CLOTHING IN AMERICA! Far euperior
In ercry war to all other Beady-made Cloth
log. and equal, to the BEST CUSTOM
WORK of most Establishments, but ia
closing out our preeent etook we are eelling a
cheap aa any home on either Market or
Cbesnut streets.
JOHN WANAMAKEU,
FINEST CLOTHING EsTABLlHUMKNT,
Nob. BIS aud B20 CHESNUT Street.
Ol'Il P.OYS' CLOTHING AND GENTS' FUBXI3IX
ING COODS ALL MARKED DOVVM,
mi can be buuKbt now at prloes which would (Justify any
toe In (vying in a stock for future use. :
' ' JOHN WANAMAKEltj
FINEST CLOTlIlNa ESTABLISHMENT,
10 Sfi5 Nos MB and & t!UB4 VUT Street
ftvT R A 8 P H E K K Y MIKINQUES
l-H'M !'M.V, AT
U 11 Utr MOKaavb. Mo. w ABOH Street.
JSPEOIAL. NOTIOE6.
jfcr OFFICE OF THR HOSPITAL OF Tlllt
Ml A, No. 7W WALNUT Stmt.
Tl. . ... .lAMtUIT I, IR79.
T nJ"7! .Mtln of the Onntrthntors to tbs H -iPl-illh-i.
iiH.K,P-K WHUHOH 1 Prtll.ADKI.P.llA
!?.tt i.,,,h,lw,MM TI'KHDAY, the 4(h int., at
iLk.,-w,'"n ibt Managers will he .Lot .J to
i f 'J r the en"n three rwara.
- ' JOH W A. CHILDS, Secretary
ISr OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER,
Paw-AOTtLMHA, Dec. S3, INM. -Warrants reentered
to No. ft,uv will be raid on presentation at Una effloo, ia
threat eeaeing from date.
JOS. F. MAHORR,
City Treasure.
1ST. OFFICE OF THE UNITED SFCUUI rt"
w r.lL''JlJJ3'.,BK(,E AND.TItrST UOMPA1Y
BUT 8tr5 ' 11 K-eot'""r,t ia nl CUK
. , . nii.Anri,pnTA. Dno. 81, WSX
J ns Annual Kleottrn for Dirootor ol thl Uomi.nm will
i2n '..dn".,.h"L' ,rtL9" WEDNESDAY, Jana.-y U,
SiO, ai llo clock A. M.
I" O. V. BFTrS, Secretary
ST OFFICE OF WELLS, FARGO COM-
FA NY, No. 84 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, De
Mtnbtr W, IW.-Nolloe le hereby given, that the Transfer
Boriktof Well, Karffo A Onmany will be C!I)4KI oa
the 'Kh day of JANUARY. 1H70. at 8 o'clock P. M ,to
emiblethe Company to ascertain who are owners of the
atock of the old Ten Million Capital. Tbe owners of that
stock will be entitUd to partioinate in the distribution
of suets piovided for by the agreement with tbe
Paciflo Exprtas Company.
The Transfer Books will be opened on the SSddsyof
JANUARY, at 10 o'cl jck A. M , after which time the
v,uuu,ui v new stoca win oe delivered.
Kotice is also given that the Transfer Book of this Com.
panywill be CLOSED on the tSth day of JANUARY,
1870, at t o'c lock P. M , for the purpose of holding the
annual ELECTION OF DIRRCIORS of this Company.
The books will be RB OPENED on the 7th day of FEB
RUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M.
"31 tF7 OBOROK K. OTT8. Secretary
jgr OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DIREC
TORS OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANTS'
UNION KXPKE8S COMPANY, No. 113 BROADWAY,
ohw UK R, November Sfl, 196.
ine Board of Direotora of the American Merchants'
Union Fipress Company havethii davdeclared dividend
ef THREE DOLLARS ($) per share on rhe outstanding
capital stock of tbe Company, payable on the lilh iar of
January mat.
The tranater books will be closed on tbe flint day of De.
camber next, at 8 o'clock P. M., and reopened at 10 o'clock
A. at. on tbe 16th day of January next.
By order of the Board.
l? 8!16t J. N. KNAPP, BeoreUry.
tfcj- OFFICE OF UNION MUTUAL INSUR
ANCE COMPANY, N. E. corner THIRD and
WALNUT Streets. .
Philadelphia, December 90, 186).
The Annual Meeting of tbe Stock and Saripholders of
the Union Mutual lnauranoe Company of Philadolphia
will be bold, at tbe Office of tbe Company, at U M. MON
DAY, January 10, 1870. At the aame time eight Direotora
will bs elected, to serve the ensuing year.
12 SB IjlO JOHN MOSS, Secretary.
gjf OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD OY CALIFORNIA, No. M WILLIAM
STREET, NEW YORK, December 17, lS6.-The SIX
PKR CENT, interest coupons of first mortgage bonds
of tbe Central Pacifio Railroad of CaUfornia, due Janu
ary 1, 1870, will bo paid at tbe banking house of r isk A
Hatch, No. 8 NASSAU Street, Npw York.
11! SI ISt O. P H V NT I M UT. N, Vioe-Prosident.
jags'- OFFICE OF THE BELVIDERE MANU
" l' AOTUKlNG COMPANY.
BEi.vumnR, N. J.. Deo. 8, 18W.
Police it bcri-by given to the stockholders of the BEL
VILEK KMAN Ur At TURING t)U l' A N Y respeotively,
tbat-sietmt-nts emountitw to SIXTY PER CKNTUM
of the rupital stock of snid company have been made and
paymont of the axme cnib-d tor on or before the eigbtb
(layol February, A l. 1870, and tlW payment of such a
proportion ot all Bums of money by thorn anbscrlbed i
caliou for and domamled fom thorn on or before the aaid
time.
by order ot the Board of Directors
1228 6W 8. SHEItRKRD, Secretary.
OFFICE OF THE IIESTONVTLLE.
MANTUA. AND FAIR.WOI NT PaS KVUkU
RAILWAY COMPANY.
PiiTLAnET.pmA, Dec. 27. 18(W.
NOTICE TO STOCK !M 1KRS.
The Annual Meeting of tbe Stockholders of thin Com
pany will be hold at ibcirOttire, ro. 2W2 CALL vv till, L
turret, on MOND a I , Jaooary 10. .870, at U o'clock P.M.
An Election tor a President and five uirsctors to serve
lor emming year will bo hold at. the Mine pluce and on the
aanie nay, bvtween tbe hours of 2 and 4 o'clock 1. M.
12 28 lift CIIAS. HASTI!GS,TroaurerL
OFFICE OF THE GREEN AND COATE8
STREETS PHILADELPHIA PASSKNORR
RAILWAY COMPANY, TS KNTY-FOURTH and
CO ATES STREETS.
I'irn APF.i.fHlA, Dec. 2T, 1869.
Tbe Annual Meeting of tbe Stockholders of this Don.
pany will be beld at the OIHoe of tbe Company, on HON
DA Y. January U, 18711, at III o'clock A. M at which ti ne
and place an Election will bo held for a President and
twelve Direotora, tw serve for the ensuing year.
12 27 & 81 J 8 6 7 8 111 J. B. MUKK1TT, Secretary.
tS" OFFICE OF THE FAME INSURANCE
COMPANY, No. 80HCHESUT Street.
fHiLAUEi.PBIA. Deoember28, 1869.
The Atisual Meeting of the btookholders of tbe Fame
Insurance Company will be beld on MONDAY, the 10th
day of January next, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the ollioe of
tbe Company.
An Eleution for Twelve Directors, to serve for the en
suing year, will be held at tbe aame time and at the aame
place, between the hours of 10 A. M. and t o'clock P. 11,
WILLIAMS L BLANCH ARD,
18 88 lit Secretary.
Rgy OFFICE OF CALIFORNIA AND ORE
GON RAILROAD, No. M WILLIAM STREET.
NEW YORK, Dee. 17.-The Six Per Cent. Interest Cou
pons of Hint Mortgage Bonds of the California and
Oregon. Railroad, due Jan. 1, 1870, will be paid at the
Banking House ol liik A Hatch, No. 6 Nassau atroet,
New York. C. P. HUNTINGTON,
12 81 liit Vice President.
OFFICE OF THE NORTH PENNSYL
VANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 407 WAL
KITT Hlnud
Philadelphia. Dea. 84. 18t9.
The Annnal Meeting of tbe Stockholder)! of the
NORTH IKNNKY LVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
will be held at the office ol the Company, No. 407 WAL
NUT Street. Philadelphia, on MONDAY, the loth day of
January. 187U, at 12o'olck M., for the purpose of eleoting a
rmmfiii uu ash i firm tors, w servo lor lueeuauing year.
uvf lit nowAitD Atiaoi nu.iu, secretary.
rt- OFFICE OF THE SEVENTEENTH
AND NINETEENTH STREET! PVHKKMJ KR
RAILWAY COMPANY, NINETEEN TH and M AHTSCK
Street Phil-.DK. I HI A, Duo. it. "tRu
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Cien-
fimy will be beld at the Ollice, MOM) AY, Janu.try In,
811, at 12 o'clock, at will, h time and place aneieuiiou
will Le beld tor President and l ive Directors to serve tbe
enruing year.
12 28 CHARLES T. YKRKE8, Jr., Secretary.
OFFICE OF THE HOUSTON AND
TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY, No.
61 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. Deo. 87. 18.-The
Coupons of the Mortgage Bonds of tbia Company, due
Jan. 1, 1870, will be paid in gold eoia on and after that
dute, at the National City Bank, New York.
12 81 16t D II. PAIilE. Vioo-President.
jfr- OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACI FIC R AIL.
ItOAD OE CALIFORNIA, No. 54 WILLIAM
STREET. NEW YORK, Deo. 17, 119 -The Seven Per
Cent. Interest Ooupoes (Bonds of 188 1) dne Jan. 1, 187J,
will be paid at tbe banking house of Eugene Kelly A Co.,
No. 81 Naaaaa street, New York.
12 81 18t C. P. HUNTINGTON, Vloe President.
tj3T NEW YORK AND MIDDLE' COAL
FIELD RAILR OAD AND COAL COMPANY
Office, No. 826 WALNUT Ntreet.
Philadelphia, December 27, 189.
The Annual Mtetirg of tbe Stockholders of tbia Com
pany, aud an Met'Ui.n of Directors to nerve fi tbe ensuing
ytar, win be leld at their CHIce on TUESDAY, the llth
da ol January, A. D. 1870, at 12 o'cl x k M
12 28 lit CK, LINUS A Y, Seoretary.
ftST BHAMOKIN t'OH COMPANY",
Office No. 2IM WALNUT Street.
PhiLadklvhia, Deo. 81, 1849.
The Annual Meeting of the Mtockhold-rs of the above
naiiioo t otupunv, and an eli-ction oi D.r.ctor to aerve for
nming Br, will beld at iheir Ottioeoii W KDNrfSLlA Y,
tbe IxtTi day or January, A. D. 187U. at 12 o'clock M.
12 81 Hit O. B. T IivP-UY, Secretary.
CuLTON DENIAL ASSOCIATION
originated tbe antuftthettc use of
Ni l ROUS OXIDE, OH LA UOIIING GAS,
t nd devote tbnir wbole time and practice to extracting
teeth without imin.
Otli.e Fit-Hill and WALNUT Streets. II 85
fry- COLD WEATHER DOE8 NOT CHAP
orroughen tbe tk.n alter umug Wh flJH l"H AI,
(!I)NTM .1.Y KRINE TABLET (IK SOLIDIFIED
ULVCmiKK. Itadailviwe makes Ibe akin delioalely
aortarulUauUrol. bold I., allu.s. WR
14 No. ti34CHK8NUT Bireot.
ar STEREO 1TTCON AND MAC.IO LAN-
TfchN EXHIBITIONS given to Sunday Schools.
.chool, t'-ollHKoti, and for tirivute enterttiuaoml.. W.
sll'l I lll'I.L k Al.l.Ih'l Kli. iVo. W iJUEMNUI' Street,
second story. 11 8 Uuirp
i2r)UEENFIUK INSURANCE COMPANY,
LOM'OP. AfD LIVRKPiMIL.
OA PITA 1.. fauxiuw.
flAJBUXK, ' I fm i 'I t KS rente,
M rUTU sa WALNUT BlrwU,
SPEOIAL NOTICES.
JGfcjT NOTICE. CITY LOANS MATURING
January 1, 1870, will be paid oa and after the 1st day of
January, fBTf.
JOSEPH P. MAROKR,
l8i " City Treaaurer.
ffcjT CITY THE AHU RISK'S OFFICE,
PniLAoaLPniA, January 1, 1870.
Tbe semi-annual interest on City Loans due January 1,
1870, will be paid oa and al?r this date.
JOSEPH F. MAROKR,
1 8t City Treaaurer.
BQY- OOTOlLMS PH 1 LA IVKT P HIA CITY
AND RUSIlKSd DlftEOTORIRS.
auharriber takes tbia method ef not ifying the pablle
that be baa finished tbe compilation of the ah ire bonk.
Any peraoa or pereone having mmls changes in firms
places of business or reaidenoe, will do well lo Klfr tns
anmeat the Directory imio, corner MKT II and WAI.
NUT Streets, on or before TUEHD A Y.the 4th of .laanarv,
1K70. so that the neoewary alterations may be made in tbe
mammoript before printing.
118 13 A AO COSTA, Compiler
Btjw- IRI8H BAR D 8 AND HALL AD A.
CHARLES W. BROOKE, KSg.,
Will Lecture on tbe above subject at
tXlNCERT HALL,
On THURSDAY EVENING, January 6, 1870.
To give proper expreasioa to the melodies of tho Irish
Bards,
t MADAME .TOSRPHINE 80HI.MPF
bna kindly consented to appear.
i 'arris of Admieeion, Fifty Cent.
RaeervMl Seats to be had at J. It. Oarneross A Cn.'a, No.
6 North Eighth street. li 81 6t
jjfca?- THE COUPONS DU1V JANUARY l7l870
of the first mortgage bonds of ST. PAUL AND
PACIFIO RAILROAD COMPANY (First Divisioa
Branch Line) will be paid on and aftsr tht date upon pre
sentation at tbe office of DABNEY, MORGAN A CO.,
No. 68 EXCHANGE Plaoe. New York. 1181 12t
jjiaY- PHILADELPHIA AND READING R UL-
ROAD CO., Office, No. 837 8. FOUR r Street,
Philadelphia, Deo. 22, 18ti8.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Bjoks of the Oompaoy will be closed oa
FRIDAY, the 81st instant, and rjopened on TUESDAY
January 11, 1870.
A dividend of FIVE PER CENT, has been declared oa
the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of Nath aUanl
State taxes, payable ia CASH, on and after January 17,
1870, to the holders thertef aa they shall stand regiaterad
oa the books of the Company oa tbe 81st instant. All
payable at this office. AU orders for dividend must be
wityiesaed and stamped. S. BRADFORD,
18 8360 Treasurer.
gy UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.
(SOUTHERN BRANCH.)
Coupons of the Six Per Cent Gold Bonds of this road
due on 1st prox. will be paid oa and after that date, free
from Government tax, by
CLARK, DODGE A CO..
18 81184 No. M WALL Street, New York.
EAST PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
Notice ! hereby given to the Stockholders of this O ,m
pany, that the Annual Meeting and Election for Presi
dent and Eight iiirnctora will beheld at the OtHoe of .ne
Oompanr.in the City of HEAD NO, on MONOVY.the
loth day ol January, 1870, betweeu 12 M. and 2 P. M.
HENRY C. JON Et,
Secretary.
Philadelphia, December 8. 18fi9. 12 ill vi.
WEST CHESTER AND PHILADELPHIA
R A II. HO A D OOM PAN Y. The next Annjal Moot
ing r.f tbe Stockholders of this Oompanv will be bold in
the HOUTIl IIL't I K AL H ALL. in the B trough of West
Cheater, on MoNUAV, the Lth dayot January, A. It.
187", at II o'ol ck A. M., wbea and where an Election will
be be'd of Ottiwe to 8' rve the enauii g year.
By order oi tho Board,
-A. LEWIS SMITH, 8erotry.
Philadelphia, Deo IS, 18. 12 28 lit
IfeST NESQUEIinNJNG VALLEY RAILROAD
COMPANY. Office, No. 122 8 SkOO.SI) Street.
i HiLAiiKi.pHiA, neo.i'i. l8ttt.
Tbe Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany, and an election for President an Twelve 1'irect .r
to serve tor tbe enauing year, will be beld at Una Office,
beteu Uie hi ur of twelve and two, on MONDAY, the
Kith day of January, 1870.
12 28 lit W. B. WHITNEY, Sccret.iry.
arty- THE PHIL VDELPIIIA, WILMINGTON,
AN BALTIMORE K A I I.KOA I) O ) VI P IN Y.
. Puilaukij'Hia, Dea 2.J, :8i'..
The Arnual Meeting of the Stock holders of thuCom
pam and an Electi on of Direotora will take place at tbe
t.thre nt the lon.pi.ny, iu Wiluiini(tn, on MONDAY,
the llth of J.nuary, 187U, at I P. M.
It 1 88 lit A. HORNER, 8eoretarr.
jteiT NATIONAL BANK OF THE RE
MB1.IO. PHrLADKLPHIA, Deo. 3). ll.
The annual election for Director of this Bank will be
beld at the Banking Howie on TUESDAY, Januaiy 11.
18-.ii, betwten the hours of II A. M. and 4 P. M.
12 3u lut .1. P. MUM FOKP, Cashier.
fe- FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' NA-
TIONAL BANK.
, . . Philadelphia, Dee. 10, 18"W.
Tbe Annunl Election for Directors of this Bank will be
beld at tbe Banking House on WEDNESDAY, the 12th
2."'' 0,J"n.u?rrJflt hetween the hours of 11 o'clock A.
M. and 2 o'cloc k P. M.
iabtJ18 W. RUSHTON, .Ib Oaahler.
THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK-
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Deo. 11, 1869.
Tbe Annual Rlnotion for Director of this Bank will be
beld at tbn Banking House on WEDNESDAY, the 12th
day ol January, 1870, between the hours of 11 A. M. and 2
P. M. S. O. PALMKll,
Ul.SmthPt UsHhier. (
SOUTHWARK NATIONAL BANK.
PHiLAr RLPHiA, December 11, 18i.
The Annnal Election for Directors will be held at the
Burking Honse.on TUESDAY, January 11, lt7l, between
the hours of 1 j o clock A. M. and 12 o'clock M.
12l8mwn8t P. LAMB, Cuahlor.
GIRARD NATIONAL BANK, THILA-
DELPHI A Deoomher 10. 180).
The Annual Moctinrj of the Stockholders, for the eleo
tioo of Directors an l for other purpoHoa, will bo beld at
Ahe Banking Houao on WEDNESDAY, Llth January,
I87'l,a 12 o'clock M.
Tbe eleotion will take plaoe between the hours of 10 A.
M. and 2 P. M.
.12 II sat W. U HOHAFFER, Osshier.
tF CORN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK.
Phtjbeuhia, Decembi r 11,
The Annnal Election for thirteen Direotora of tbia llauk
will be held at the Banking Houan on TCKSDAY, Jauu
ary II, 1870, between the hours of 10 .o'clock A. M. and 8
o'clock P. M. 11. P. bOUKTKY,
12 11 atutblat Cashier
g? THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COM-
PANY, OK PHILADELPHIA. Company'a Build
in. No 4tKI WALNUT Street. Deo. 24, Ittot).
SOI IUK.-Ihe Annual Msetmgof tbe Stickholdnra of
the ENTEKPHlhE 1NSURANOK COMPANY will be
btldon MO v DAY, the luth day of Jaouary next, at 10
o'i lock A. M., at th- Orlice of tbe Company.
An election for Twelve Directors to surve the ensuing
year will be bold on tbe aarae dity, at the aame pine-, be
tween tbebruraof lOi'clock A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M.
12 84 lmwtj 10 A LEX W. VV IwTEH, SecreUry.
jj2j- CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY. THE
Annual Meeting of tha Stockholders of the
CAMBRIA IRON I OMPANY will be hold at thmr
Ctfice, No. i CHE8NU I' Sirtet, Pniladelphia. on TUK-i-AY,tbe
18th day of January next, at 4 o'clock P. M.,
when an election will be bold for Seven Direotora, to
.crv. for th. onauing year. JOHJf T. KILLE.
Sec rota rr.
Philadelphia, Dec, la. IHOS. 12 18 2at
Eir SUrQUEHANNA CANAL COMPANY,
Cilice No. 417 WALNUT Street.
Phii.adklpiua, Deoombor 30, 18ii8.
Notice ia hereby given that the a'ini-eiinul iutereat oa
the IVflfurred id.ldu of the HUhQUMlANNA IIANAL,
COMPANY and the Priority Hoods of the TIDE WATKK
CANAL COMPANY, lulling due on the let of Jaouary,
1H70, will bo paid at tbe ofiicos of the Company in Philadel
1 hia and Baltimore, on and altor tha Bit proximo, on pre-
auutation ol the ooupona tUeieof, numbered II.
KOUKitT D. BROWN,
12 P.' 8w Treaaurer.
8Y SUSQUEHANNA CANAL COMPANY,
Cffioo No. 417 WALNUT Street.
Puiladki.piiia, Dooemher 30, 18!.
Nttice is hereby givea that the souii annuul interest on
t1oli.iiin.no Borda if the MThOUEIIANNA CANAlj
COMPANY, failing due on tbe Ut of January, lB.'O, will
.o .i id on and a.iur the HJ piiniino, at the 1'irnt, Maiioiwl
linnk of l'hilailriipliiu. on proKbutation of the coniiunsfor
tbe tame, ntuabeieit H.
ROBERT D. BROWN,
12 31 8w Treasurer.
EAST MAHANOY RAILROAD COI-PANk.-
OJSce No. 227 H. FOUKTIt Street,
Puil.Aliri.piiii.DooU,!'.
lbs Annual Meeting of tbe btookholdara of thiat'-oui
pai. and au eloctitin tor I nVcoin to sorvo fur t'10 eotuinn
tiiir.ttill be bold at the t ltioe ot lha doiiipany uq
DAY, Jacuuiy 10, IKVt, at 2 o'clock p. M.
ALBERT V 'STETI,
I214 2EH Sirelry.
ttoV- THE MAHANOY AND BROAD M0Uv
tAl HAlLitOADC OMPANY.-Oilico No. 227 H.
FOI'K'l 11 blroet.
Pnn.Ann.rniA. Dec IB, l-WB.
T he Annual Meeting of the SlooI-.I o'dira ol tha t)im
Phiiy aim an tl' ctiou lor Ottu-eia toafiee for theenbinnr
f..r, iiij.e I10I1I at Iho Otli.e of the Uuuenan on MON
DA Y, Jaffuu., IP. I, at I o'cloc k rv.,
ISl42;n H-cri'tury
fKj- DR. F. U. THOMAS. THE LATE OLM
rni.tr tun . vi.u. mki...iui ui p.jw CIS
l f.n. ill I hiialiclphill who l'n-V(it.;i. hit, ei.tlril tilll.AHll
mi Iff
freeu aitiwus oaids gas. taive, ail n .i una. Iwm
OPEOIAU NQTIQES.
jjraST THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MHKT-
... Jlf PI1II ADKI,PHIA BIBt.H HOUIHTr
will he held Ulln AtTEK.VOOM, at 4 o'elook ll tha
J.ini.K HOITRR. wbea the annual report ol the Urd W
Manage, will be read.
tW THE ANNUAL MEETNG7t7i:
Btorkhoders of thw SUMMIT BRANOH tA.ii
Pi 4Hmvawv will h. beld at the ofneeef Ue
lENNhYIVANlA OeNTRAL RAILKOAD 00""
iu.NX.,".Ph'i,iell,h,' 00 the 17th day of Janusry,
1870, at I o'clock P. M , to eleot Direotora for tbe eaaaiDg
y". and transact euch other buninewi as may he arev
WILLIAM B- FOVVI.O.
"1"7 Secrwterf.
jgsr THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
w a Vr'Birib.nU,r th" PRI STOI8 RKTKKATiwill be
beld at the Kutmat, HAM.LToN and TWK.iktk
at 4 o clock, for the pnpoe of electing twenty fowr
Maoarers, a 1 rtasurer, and tw Auditors, and of traassot
Ing such other bnwneiw a may b- tiroo iht forward
Philadolpbi. UBs4K,T8 WUSfeg
Jtar THE ANNUAL Mf.ETINU OF T'ilK
.ttoc"nr'w"r" of 'he PHILADELPHIA A.le
TRENTON hAIIJtllAD COM PAW will be held ew
MoMiAY, the Hah of Jsnnary, iwi, at I o'olork P. M .at
the -B,,snya Otnoe, No. 2K4 . DKI.AW AM.K Avennn! at
which tune an Kleouoa fur Twle I M roc tors will ia.se
V iV 1 1 ,. . - J' MORBKHj. "-oret-ry.
I hijadol phis. Dee. 88, l8fl. 11 xSwfmW 18
prST THE ANNUAL MEKTING OF THE
Pbcklnldemof the THIRTEENTH AND PIK-
TKKNIH blBKETR PAShENOKH IraII.wTy OO-;-iXi.!S,ri.t"ubM,t,
,tmi- K orof BROAD and
i, fl Vrl rKJ Streets (outran e on Car .enter stroet), oa
j;ONDA , the luth dayot Jnnna- , 1H7U, at IU o'clock A.
ftl .fot thecl.'oMooof a Prmflont and five Direotora te
aerve tor the ensuing year, and for tbe transaction 0 sank
otber buaineee aa may he pmeented.
..,.,., ' VEB BROWN, Seoretary.
" h'ladelphia. Deo ka,leb. . 12 84 Si -J 1 hat
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF TI1E
.u Bto.kholder of HORTICULTURAL MALL, for
tbe Election of Directors and t be t rannairtion of othur bo,
neee. will bt held at ; the Hall onTUKSUAY KVOHO.
.l'!?k- l8 88tutbot
fraT EAST MAHANOY RA 1 LROAD COM
PANY, Office No. 227 . FOli H i ll Street.
., , . , , PhilaukLPUia, Deo. 21.IRIS9L
Notloelsherebv given to the Sr.nck'ioldr of thin Hm
rany that a IMvidend of Three ,81 per ti-nt., tree of State
taiea. bus this da been 4eolared, pa alile In cash on tha
,6i?o;,!L0,J'"","',IM7a- RICHARD OiK,
Tre.Miirer.
SSZT TnE INSURANCE COMPANX Ut ml
STATE OE PENNSYLVANIA.
a 1 . .. PnilHRLPinA.Deo. 9T, 18BJ.
An election for thirteen Directo.sot the Comiwnr will
be liHid at the offlce of the Company, Nue 4 and I HI.
CHANCE BUILDING, on MO.VDaY, Jan. Ill, mm, bV
tween the hours of lUr'olock A. M and 1 o'clock P. M.
'8 8712t JHLLWSHKAJnretarjr
fr BATCHELOR'8 HAIR DYE. THIS
splendid Hair live ia the beet in the world ; the only
true and perfect Dye; harmleea, reliable. inatanUneous; n
disappointment i no ridiouloua tintai remedies tho ill
etfucteot bad dyes: Invutoratee and loaves tha Hair soft
and beautiful, ' or brmrn. Sold by ail Druggmta aoi
Perfumera; end properly applied at Batcfaalor's Wig Eao.
tory. No. 18 BOND Street, New York. 487mavft
OLOTHINC
SAIL ON! SAIL ON!
The sale goes on !
TDK PEOPLE ARB ASTONISHED AT OUR LOW.
PftIv.'E8.
lTlK EXCELLENCE PF OTR CTOTHES GIVES
PERFECT B ATI8KAC ViOX.
s
THE BEAUTY OF OUR FITS PLEASES ALL TUB
WLlAttBHS.
THE VARIETY OF OUR fcTYLES MEETS EVERY
BODi'H APPBOBATION.
The continual question Is,
"How csn Rockhill & Wilson
Self their goods
At such tow prices?" j
AND TILE SALE GOES ON, ' ,
AUD IT WILL GO ON
TILL ALL THE CLOTHES
ARE GONE OFF I
Redaction!
Thirty Per Cent.
On all Clothes.
ROCKHILL & WILSON,
tiltEAT IHtOWN HALL,
603 and 605 CHESNT7T Street.
QARCAINft IN
CLOTHING.
GOOD BUSINESS SUITS,
w it ti
OVKR COATS
IH were i
1 " , 28
l " ' 1 48
tit " ft
EVANS & LEACH.
No. 628 MARKET STKKET,
1800 smrp PinLAjBLFnrjL
COPARTNERSHIPS. "
fPlIE COPAUTNEUSBIP HERETOFORE:
A exiatiae between ERA8MUS O. PBATT, JOHN H.
PRA1T, Gl'.OItlilC P. FAitMKK, and M4R8HALL
PRATT, under tbe name of KRASMU8 U. PUA1T A
CO., expiree tbia day by ita own Imitation. 7'bebail
aeaa wiU ba at ttlod by tbe new firm, at tboir office. No. Vt
Uhawbera street. New Yoik.
ERASMUS 0. PRATT.
JOHN II. PRATT,
iifeiORUK P. FARMER, '
HARiUATL PRAri',
No 88 Chambers street, Now York, and
No 28 Bank street, Philadelphia.
December 81, 136V.
JTEW YOUR, JANUARY 1, 1870.
A Copartnership haa this day boon formed batweoa
KRAhMUB (J. PKA'IT. JOHN 11. PKiTT. an!
t.KOKGK P. FARMKR. wbo will continue tbe bnaineaa
of the Ute firm at No. it Cbaiubers street, New York,
nodtr tbe firm of
ERASMUS O. PRATT, BRO. A 0O.
PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 1. 1870.
- A Copartnenblp bat tbia day beea formed between
MARSHALL PRATT, K. CI. PRATT, JOHN H.
PB AIT, and CJrORKK P. FARM KR, for the purpeae
of conducting" an Iuiportiufr and Uoinmiatlon builneta, at
No. SS Cbetnut street, corner of Bank struct, Puiladol
pbia, under the Brm ct
118t MARSHALL PRATT A nO.
1 OTA in NE r.SIUP. THE UNDEU-IOXED
composing the Una of
. DALI.ICTT A SON.
Hare tbia day aatabiubed a hums ia yew York city,
under the title of
DALLKT, B N8 A OO .
For the traatelioa of a Bblpu!n and Ueueral Oomniia
alon buriteaa. . ,
1 failadelphia, Januury 1, 197u.
II. C. DALLTCTT.
H. V. DALLKT T. J ,
JAM liS D ti.Licrr.
(Late of Dalloit A Maznraa, Hai VurW),
hi VI (I.N PilKY.
1 let
rS' Ti I.VASF. --LA15UK WAREHOUSE f N
L"l Jonttoo Pailroad.en MWA8POS Htret, f ul abl
;,.r I'KO.H'l Ol l'l.li.'.AHi'lXI Hl.t H
laawj i Mo. ie4rVAilAa kitreui