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Editorial rolnlona of thi landing Journal
l'pa l'i ."Vnt Toplrw Compiled KverT
Parlor the Evening; Telegraph.
SHALL VIRGINIA. COME IN?
From the N. Y. TriLutm.
Many subjects will be treRnel upon' the
attention of Congress forthwith; yet we deem
none of them more important or more nrgont
than the retitorntion of. Virginia to hor proper
place in the councils of the Republic It
wflfl, in our view, a blunder not to ftdmit her
at once, imd without division or demur, on
the . meeting of Congress last month. We
entreat the Republicans of both houses to
deal with this matter promptly and do
ciHiyely. We know what can be said much of it
with truth, all with plausibility against un
conditional admission. It is quite true that
many Virginians firmly believe that they were
right in resisting thp authority nd arms of
the Union that their State had a right to
lecede from the Union for any reasons, good
or bad, that she deemed sufficient that the
United States madt war on Virginia, invaded
her, etc., etc These opinions are, in our
view, at war with history and with common
sense. We hold that the authority of the
United States and that of the State over the
region known to geographers as Virginia was
alike perfect that the State had no more
right to extrude the authority, the oftloers,
the processes, and the mails, of the United
States, from that region than the Union had
to extrude those of the State. We hold, there
fore, that the State, in thus extruding the
Federal authority, committed a flagrant usur
pation and declared an unjust war, and that
the attitude and efforts of the Union were
defensive from first to last that is to say:
she fought to vindicate her rightful authority,
and the State to subvert it. On jevery point,
we hold the Union clearly right, and the State,
in so far as she resisted the Federal authority
and arms, utterly wrong.
.What then?
When the Farliament and neople of Eng
land expelled James II and called William III
over from Holland to fill the throne which
Parliament had declared vacant, there were
many whose judgment and consciences re
volted at the national decision. These were
a minority in England, but they were a ma
jority in Ireland, in Scotland proper (the
Highlands), and in some of the colonies.
Many of those who regarded their oath of
allegiance to James as still valid and binding
were among the best men in the three king
doms, embodying a full share of its learning,
ieiy, ana genuine loyalty, nuppose Willi a ta
ad insisted that each of these should reneni
of his adhesion to James or be forever dis
franchised and proscribed, would that have
been wise or just? Would not the realm
have been distracted and weakened by such
an exaction ?
Certainly, no such was made. Present and
future loyalty any established government has
a right to exact of all subject to its sway; it
cannot justly require them to renounce and
undo the past.
But the Rebels, " it is urged, "are still
malignant, still bitter, still implacably inimi
cal to Unionists, bu especially to the blacks.
They will use the power you propose to give
them to crush out their loyal neighbors and
fellow-citizens." .
Doubtless, there are those in Virginia, and
in every Southern State, who thus feel and
act. ' We cannot reasonably expect millions to
nnloarn at a word all they have supposed true
and renounce all they nave believed. You
cannot reasonably expect men reared in the
belief that slavery was the . true condition of
the negro to be converted at once to a hearty
faith in the equal rights of men. There are
doubtless still many thousands in Virginia
.ho wish that our civil war had resulted dif
ferentlythat Grant had surrendered to Lee
rather than Lee t Grant.
Suppose England had kept the Highlands
nnder martial law so long as any one re
mained who deplored the result of the battle
of Culloden and sighed for the return of
"Charlie over the ; water," what would have
been the probable effect
We have a perfect right to take all reason
able precautions and erect all needed barriers
against the re-establishment of slavery, in
spirit and substance, in any Southern State;
we have a right to take all possible care that
Unionists shall not be persecuted in Virginia
merely because they are Unionists. . But a
great people has no right to evince cowardice
nor that excessive apprehension of blows
from a prostrate foe which is near' akin to
cowardice.
Of course, there is some risk in admitting
those who lately did their utmost to over
throw our Government so a full participation
in political power. Many have virtually said
with Caliban, .- .
You taught me languagp ; and my proflt on't
Is, I know bow to curse."
We admit the whole case made out against
our position, so far as any reasonable person
would insist on it, and say in reply, The
risk you , deprecate is one required of us by
the very essence of republican liberty. Re
publicanism does not imply that all men are
good, but only that, being allowed fair play,
the good element of the community will over
bear the bad, or, at least, that the chance that
it will not is no greater than must be en
countered under any other form of govern
ment. To say that the evil-minded must bo
excluded from power is to concede that the
republio is a blunder or a fraud.
botrietiine or other the whole people must
be enfranchised. If this be not conceded by
the Republican party,it will assuredly be car
ried bver that party. If there be risk in con
cession there is certain ruin in denial. .
Admit that those you would exclude will
soon be enfranchised, it is too simplest dic
tate of good sense and good policy that you
"go not, like the galley-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon,"
but act promptly, cheerfully, courageously,
magnanimously. To say that ex-Rebels may
vote, but must not vote for such as them
selves that thoy may vote, but must first
profess to repent of what you well know they
do not repent of that thoy may vote, but not
till you have heaped degradation upon humilia
tion who does not realize that this is (to say
the least) moistrounly impolitic? The Yan
kee who described his neighbor as having
"winning ways to make people hate him"
must have lived in a school district where
Butlers abounded,
Again we entreat the Republicans in Con
gress to act promptly, generously, wisely. It
was wrong to have suffered a day to pass
' after the Virginia delegation presented itsolf
without admitting them. Every exaction now
made of them will tend to evil, and that only.
Every day's hesitation is an injury and a loss.
Any requirement that the Legislature shall be
purged of those fairly elected will be an exhi
bition of bad faith, and tend to invalidate
Virginia's ratification of the fifteenth amendment.'-
We pray that Virginia be admitted
without further exactions, and before 'tho
close of this week. " ..'.'..,
THE DAILf EVENING TELE GR AFIi PHILADELPHIA, 1 TUESDAY, 1
IMPORTANT EXHIBIT OF THE CUBAN
. NEGOTIATIONS.
From the If. F. Hm-ald.
We submitted to our readers yesterday, in
our Washington despatches, a carefully pre
pared Humming . up of the negotiations be
tween the United States and Spain on the
Cuban question since the appoiutment of
General Sickles as our Minister at Madrid.
Although from a mistaken departure, as we
think, the initial and successive steps and in
cidents in theso negotiations, as detailed in
this statement, make the whole case perfectly
clear and consistent in reference to the course
pursued by Mr. Secretary Fish and our Minis
ter, and in reference also to the embarrass
ments of the Spanish Government. ' ;
The preliminary proposition of General
Sickles on the 3d of September last to the
provisional government at Madrid, it thus
appears, was simply the friendly offices of the
United States in behalf of an amicable settle
ment between Spain and the Cuban revolu
tionists. This offer being favorably received,
our Minister, pursuant to instructions, next
submitted a basis of settlement, embracing
four propositions, First, Cuban independ
ence; second, indemnity to Spain; third, the
abolition of slavery; fourth, the cessation of
hostilities. The proposed indemnity to Spain,
to be guaranteed by the United States, in
plain English, was the payment of one hun
dred millions of dollars for the island. In
answer to these propositions Senor Silvela,
the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, sub
mitted as an indispensable condition prece
dent that the Cubans lay down their arms,
and that next the question of a separation
from Spain be submitted to tho people of the
island in an election nnder the Spanish au
thorities. Mr. Fish could not entertain these
propositions, and thought that the election
under the conditions suggested would be a
mockery. Finally, the propositions from
Spain assumed this shope: First, a disarm
ing by the Cubans; Beoond, indemnity to
Spain for Spanish property destroyed, to be
guaranteed by the United States; third, a free
election to the Cubans on the question of
separation from Spain; fourth, a general am
nesty. These four propositions against the four
submitted by General Sickles give us the con
dition in which the negotiations Btand at this
time. Nothing further has been done towards
striking a balance between the high contract
ing parties. It seems to be understood, how
ever, that the internecine difficulties of Spain
have compelled the present Government to
deal wjth this Cuban question with extreme
caution; that any definitive movement to re
linquish on any terms tho "Ever Faithful
Island" would be apt to fuse the republican
Earty, the Church party (comprising the ad
erents of Isabella), the Carlists, and all the
rival personal factions of the peninsula in a
common cause against the de facto govern
ment; but that, with a strong government
established under Serrano or Prim, for in
stance, the transfer of the island from Spain
to the United States may be readily accom
plished. Meantime, it appears from an
impartial reoonnoissance of the island made
by our Consul-General Plumb in person, that
the rebellion is substantially at an end; that
the insurgent are reduced to a few thousand
bushwhackers scattered about in the moxn
tains, incapable of anything beyond petty
guerrilla operations, which may be prolonged
indefinitely to no purpose.
We are, then, on the Cuban question re
duced to the alternative of awaiting the
establishment of a strong government in
Spain. When will that be ? This is a ques
tion hard to answer; but as the Spanish Gov
ernment pro tern, has apparently exhausted
itself in its efforts to seoure an outside volun
teer for king or regent, a coup d'etat on the
part of General Prim is hourly expected.
After such coup d'etat, if a Napoleonic suc
cess, the necessities of Prim in the matter of
cash will probably leave him no other resource
than the sale of Cuba for the one hundred
millions awaiting him in the unrecalled offer
of our Government through General Siokles.
Dealing with things as they are, the cause of
the Cubans is lost as a basis of action and as
a balance of power, and our only course now
appears to be to await tho upshot of events in
Spain.
General' Grant, in other words, has per
mitted a golden opportunity to slip through
his fingers. A little dash would have fixed it.
We can see, in all the details of this business,
no cause of complaint against General Sickles.
On the contrary, in obedience to his instruc
tions, he has acted throughout with remarka
ble fidelity and discretion, whatever may be
said upon small technicalities, which signify
nothing. The great mistake was made at
Washington in the outset in utterly ignoring
the resolution adopted by the unanimous vote
of the House of Representatives at the close of
the last session of Congress, a resolution which
would have been seconded by the Senate had
the session continued even one day longer.
That resolution, in the absence of Congress,
and by the unanimous voice of the represen
tatives of the American people, gave the Pre
sident full authority to concede belligerent
rights to the Cubans in his discretion. Had
he assumed the responsibility to act accord
ingly he would have been supported by Con
gress and the Amerioan poople, and the
Cuban question would have been settled
within ninety days. '
But what of the Alabama claims? Would
not the recognition of Cespedos have been
the recognition of Admiral Semmes ? Oh, ye
of little faith ! Oh, that ye . knew the age we
live in! That recognition of Semmes was
the apprehension in the State Department,
and, moreover, Mr. Senator Sumner professed
to have his misgivings of the maintenance of
slavery in the Cuban republic. Still, the
whole Cuban problem resolves into this:
The island, which was fairly within our reach,
without money and without price, we shall
probably be able to purchase for one hundred
millions of dollars in the event of the estab
lishment of a strong government in Spain.
It is only the difference between shnping and
awaiting the drift of events, vMch was and
is the difference botween the Bonapartes and
the Bourbons. '
OUR PRESENT TAXATION INIMICAL TO
DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
From the X. V. Tiweu.
In pressing the duty upon Congress of re
ducing taxation, whether under the internal
administration or tho tariff, it must be re
membered thirt this journal is speaking, not
on a matter of theory, but upon stern facts
which preBS upon "every 'individual. The
great middle class of consumers the lawyers,
physicians, clergymen, moderate, merchants,
mechanics and farmers know how severely
the present state of things presses upon their
means; how dimoult it is now, at the end of
the year, "to make both ends meet." They
do not always understand the rousons of the
increased ditUculties in supporting. their fami
lies and luying up a litllo "for a ruiay day,"
but they feci them continually., .. ; ... ..
Our especial object in the artiolos upon
taxation in these columns, which have had so
wide a circulation, is to hhow where the shoe
pinches, how it is that the poor grow poorer
and tho rich richer under our present abHurd
IRystem, and why it is an indispensable condi
tion, even to resumption, that we should be
relieved of somo of these taxes. .
i ii aome oi tnese neavy burdcni laid upon
an consumers were ' protecting a native in
dustry, so that! soon wo should have a pro
duct cheaper, and wore building up thua a
domestio manufacture and . a home market
for agriculture, we as consumers might have
sometonsolation for the load we wore forced
to carry. But it is because we see that many
of our taxes have no sort of rotation to
"preteoting" or building up a native indus
try, but rather, to undermining what we
possess; that they only benefit a few capital
ists, and not the people; that they lessen
every man's means, and cripple every other
industry; and that they add very little to the
notional revenue. . It is for such reasons that
we protest against them, and urge a thorough
overhauling of our system of internal and
customs taxation. The truth is, Congress
has nearly taxed many branches of industry
out of existence, and has made the expensos
of every mode of production and every indi
vidual so great that we can now hardly, ex
port a single manufacture which can com
pete, on foreign . markets, -ith the products
of the world. This defective system of
taxation is felt personally by every man,
woman, and child throughout the country in
their daily expenses. All manufactures, all
agriculture experience it. Our taxes are
slowly destroying the industrial life of the
nation.
We are running in debt to foreign nations
about $200,000,000 per annum. Every year
this country is less able to pay. this groat in
debtedness. We cannot manufacture at suf
ficient" profit to be able to export our own
products in payment. If specie payments
could be resumed this year, it is doubtful if
we could keep the gold in the country, so
constant and heavy is our foreign indebted
ness. Thus in manufactured cottons, which
nscd to be one of our strong points, we were
only able to export f.r, 871,000 in currency
value in 1809, against .flO.O.'U.OOO (gold) in
18C0, or about one-quarter of the former. In
w oolens our export was even less in propor
tion, having fallen off sixty per cent, the past
year, amounting only to the small sum of
!1(!0,000, while Great Britain during the
same year exported 1 20,000,000. In one
branch, the manufacture of boots and shoes
we formerly considered ourselves pre-eminent.
Ten years ago no country could com
pete with tho United States in the quickness,
cheapness, and efficiency with which a boot
or shoe could be made. Since then our ma
chinery has been improved. But now, suoh
is the burden of our defective system of taxa
tion, a boot or shoe costs more in gold than
it did in 18"8; and as a consequence wo can
not exchange them with ' the . products of
foreign countries, where they are manufac
tured more cheaply. The export has declined
from fl,JJ2J,00() in 1803, to ifr81,70G in 1807,
and $475,050 in 1809. Again, this country has
possession alone of machinery which can
manufacture combs, piano-keys, and other
articles of ivory cheaper than anywhere else.
But so heavy i i the tax on ivory that there is
now scarcely any export of these articles from
the United States. In exclusively domestio
manufactures, we all know how entirely ship
building has been destroyed by our taxation,
so that while our increase of tonnage in 18G7
ought to have been, according to the past
average, 500.000 tons, it was only 50,000,
thus throwing out of' employment (according
tq a trustworthy estimate) in that one year
40,000 men in building, equipping and sailing
vessels. Or we may take a smaller branch
yet, employing $20,000,000 of capital the
silk and fur hat manufacture. Here, with
duties of sixty per cent, on the raw material,
the cost is so heightened that the export is
almost entirely cut off, and the demand at
home reduced twenty-five per cent, during
the past three years. All the revenue derived
from this branch is $G50,0C0, and the do
mestio manufacture cannot compete with the
loreign.
' These instances could be multiplied by the
scores, where taxation direct and indirect has
eaten out the vitals of our industries, Ex
penses of production are rendered so heavy
that " we cannot compete with foreign
countries, while every one is paying a useless
tax. When will Congress have courage for a
thorough reform ?
THE INJUSTICE DONE MRS. STOWE.
From, the Wilmington Del) Commercial.
A good woman, of heroic labors in behalf
of many great endeavors, Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe deserved far better at the
bands of liberal American newspapers than
she has received. Certainly whatever her
verboseness, dr her feebleness of argument,
or her faults of style, all of which have been
so freely charged against her Byron article
and book, she did not 'deserve the contumely,
ridicule, and misrepresentation which a large
portion of these journals have reoently thrown
at her. For their intemperance, their inde
cencynay, their brutality, we can find no
explanation or excuse; their conduct has
amazed us. . . . ;
For Mrs. Stowe may have shown bad taste
in publishing her stories about Byron at all.
If so, in that degree, she may be condemned.
But she sincerely believed she ought to do so.
Of this, no one who appreciates her character
can doubt. And the reasons she assigns for
the step are at least plausible. Then her in
discretion must be to a large degree pardona
ble. Let us pass that question, leaving what
ever of ground remains uncertain to her op
ponents. What next ?
Nobody doubts, : surely, that Lady Byron
distinctly stated to Mrs. Stowe that her hus
band had been criminal with his sistor. Lady
Byron says be, himself, told her so. What
then?
Mrs. Stowe asserts, and to our satisfaction
it is proved, that Lady Byron was Incapable
of maliciously inventing the story; that she
was of sound mind, and therefore could not
bavo imagined it; and that her. subsequent
treatment of Mrs. Leigh can be explained on
the supposition that for some time possibly
somo years she believed that the Bister had
not yielded to the brother's criminal ad
vances. What, then, remains, wherein Mrs. Stowe
has so erred ? Was she wrong in saying any
thing about the foul family ? Poasibfy she
was, but bhe bad large, if not full justifica
tion. Has bhe failed to fairly prove her cose ?
It is difficult to perceive the point of failure.
Has she done injury to the memory of Byron?
Surely, nothing can blacken hi biography.
. Let us, then, dibmisS the subject. It is
not a pleasant one. But, in doing so, we say
once more, with perfect plainness, that the
personal attacks upon Mrs. Stowe by many
generally liberal newspapers have been
bhnmeful, disgusting, and without possible
excuse. Sho has done nothing to call for
such intemperate and wholesale criticism.
, i ,
Governor Flanders, of Washington Terri
tory, deuiea that ho vetoed 105 bills Uuiiiifc the
recciit ecsf-iou of tho Legislature. Ho says tho
number was only lot, aud lie explains that of
these only three were new laws, the others belt)
old luwe re-enacted hr tho purpose of having
them printed at tUo expense- of tho General
tiovcrnuicut.
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8PEOIAU NOTIOES.
ajr FAKMEKS' AND MECHANICS' ,n
TIONAX BANK.
. "w. Pnu.Ar)F.ijmA. Dw. Ii), IR.
Th Annnnl Klootlon fot Director of this )nk will b.
hnld t the Hunking lloum on WI-.UNP.tll) K Y, Mm 13th
flay of .IrnitiMT rcit. between lh. hour, of llo'olock A.
M end o'clock P. M.
12 ut j 13 - w. wmrrrow. jw.. outlier.
OFFICE OF W EL 1.8, FAROO COM
' PANT, No. M BROADWAY, NEW YOlOC, D
ef mhr S, lw.-Notlce t. herein tfTen, tht thn Trhfor
Koolnof WollR, Fttrr A nompnnj will be CLOSRUon
the tWh dr of JANUARY, HOT, at 3 o'clock P. M , to
nubia tho Company to atctrt.in who ar ownora of the
took of tba old Tan Mill lot Capital. 1 ha ownen of that
took will heen'lllfd to participate in the distriUntiati
of .Met. ptoTtded for by- the agTooinont with tli.
Pacific Kiprisa Company. j ; " , .
Tha Tranafcr Gouka will be opened on the S24dnrof
JANUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M , after wbion tiftie t!i
(a.UVO.WODew'atockwtUbedeliTared. i
Notioe ia alao Wen thnt tba Tranefer Hooka of this Com
anjrwill baCLUKRl) on tha S6tli day of JANLfAKY,
1870, at S o'clock P. M., for the purpose of holding the
annual ELECTION OF DIRKCTOlUi of tbia Company.
The book, will be RR. OPENED on the 7th day of FKU
RUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M.
13 1 117 OKORGK K. OTIS, Beoretary.
BY- OFFICE OF TI1E BOARD OF DIREC
TORS OF THK AMERIOAN MKR01tANT3
UNION EXPRE8S COMPANY, No. 113 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK, Norember 29, 1869. . .
The Board of Director, of tha American Murchanta'
Union Kxpreaa (hmpany hare this davdecbired a diridead
ef THREE DOLLARS ($3) per shiiro on the outstanding
capital atook of the Company, payable on the 15th day of
January ntxt.
The tran.fer book, will be closed on the 81st day of De
cember next, at 8 o'clock P. M and reopened at 10 o'clock
A. M. on the 16th day of January next.
By order of the Board. ; . ,
M 81 16t J. N. KNAPP,.8eorotary.
gY- OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD OF CALIFORNIA,' No. 54 WILT.TAM
BTREET, NEW YORK, Deoomber 17, lW.-The SIX
PER CENT, interest coupon, of first tnortrire bond,
of the Central Paclflo Railroad of California, due Janu
ry 1, 1870, will be paid at tbe banking house of Fiak k
Hatch, No. S NASSAU Street, New York.
, 12 81J6t Q. P. HUNTXNUTDN, Vice-President.
jjfgsf OFFICE OF THE HOUSTON AND
TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY, No.
52 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, Deo. V, 18!H.-Tne
Coupon, of the MortgaRe Boads of this Company, due
Jan. 1, 1870, will be paid in gold ooln on and after that
date, at the National City Bank, New York. - .
1231 lKt D. il. PAIOB. Vioe-Preaideat.
flfgy- OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL.
I ROAD OF CALIFORNIA, No. 54 WILLIAM
STREET, NEW YORK, Doc. 17, lS9.-Tbe Seven Per
Cent. Interest Coupons (Bonds of 1K81) due Jan. 1. 187J,
will be paid at tbe banking bonse of Eugene Kelly & Co.,
No. 21 Nassau street. New York. "
; 12 al lat C. P. HUNTINGTON, Vice President.
jjgy- OFFICE OF CALIFORNIA AND ORE
GON RAILROAD, No. 54 WILLIAM STREET,
NEW YORK, Dec. 17. The Six Per Cent. Interest Con
pons of First Mortgage Bonds of the California and
Oregon Railroad, due Jan. 1, Vm, will be paid at the
Banking House of risk A Hatch, No. 5 Nassau street,
New York. C. P, HUNTINUTON,
j 12 3U0t . Vice President.
Kay- OFFICE OF TI1E BELVIBERE MANU-
, FACTUU1NG COMPANY.
I . BF.LvinKjt. N. J., Dee. fl, HWSl. '
Notice is hereby giren to the stockholuers oi tho lii'.L
V1DEKE M ANUt ' ACTURINO COM f AN Y reiuectivoly,
tbat aatessmenU amounting to SIXTY PER OKN i'UM
of the cepital stock of aaid company hare been made and
payment of the same called for ou or before the eighth
day of February. A. D. 187(1, and thtt payment of auch a
proportion of all anma of money by them auhecribed is
called for and demanded from theut on or before the aaid
time. . . , ,
By order of the Board of Directors. '- "
liiaaew ' 8. 61i'aRRKRD( Beet-etary. '
ja- OFFICE OF' THE DIAMOND COAL
COMPANY, No. 809 WALNUT Street. .
NOTICE. Tbe annual election for Seven Directors to
serve for the ensuing enr will be herd at the oliice on
WEDNESDAY, January 12, between toe hours of 12 and
1P M. , ED. PEACE,
I 4 7t i - ' I ' r . i r President.
tSF OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER,
Philadelphia, Deo. 23, 18S9. Warrants registered '
to No. t9,0C0 will ba paid on presentation at Ibis otfica, in
terest ceasing from date.
, JOS. P. MARC EH, ,
1228 ' City Treasurer.
OFFICE OF THE UNITED SECURITY
L1FK INSURANCE AND TRUST -COMPANY
OF PENNSYLVANIA, 8. K. corner FIFTH and C HEL
MUT Stroete.
. ,' . . PHILADXXPHI4. Deo. 81, 1869.
The Annual Election for Directors of tills Company will
J!5.?eld..,t.t,he!r i)tt 00 WEDNESDAY, January 12.
1870, at 11 o'olock A. M.
1 l"t - O. F. BBTT8, Secretary.
B 8HAMOKIN COAL COMPANY,
Office No. 826 WALNUT Street. ' !
. PmLauKLPinA, Dee. 81, 1888.
Tbe Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the above,
named Company, and an election of Directors to serve for
ensuing year, will beld atlheir Office on WEDNESDAY,
tba lfth day of January, A. D. 1870, at 12 o'clock M.
12 81 It . O. R LINDSAY, Sooretary.
Ifcay EAST MAHANOY RAILROAD COM
PANY, Office No. 22T 8. FOURTH Street.
'., , ' . Philadelphia, Dee. 21. 1889.
Notice ia hereby given to the Stockholders of this Com
pany that a Dividend of Throe f8) per Oent., free of Suite
taxes, has this day been declared, Datable in cash on tha
Utb day of January, 1870. , RICHARD COE,
12 28 aot, vl. Treaaurer.' '
SUSQUEHANNA CANAL COMPANY,
Office No. 417 WALNUT Street.
' . Phjladklphia, December 80. 1869.
Notice ia hereby given that the aomi-annual interest on
the Preferred Bonds of the SUSQUEHANNA CANAL
COM PANY and the Priority Bond, of the TIDEWATER
CANAL COMPANY, falling due on tbe lat of January,
1870, will be paid at tbe offices of the Company in Philadel.
phia and Bal timore, on and after tbe 8d proximo, on pre
sentation of tbe coupons thereof, numbered 11.
- ROBERT D. BROWN,
m 8 81 8w ' 'treasurer.
Qf- 8U8QUEIIANNA CANAL COMPANY,
Office No. 410FALNUT Street.
, PHif.ADKi.pniA, December 30, 18S9.
Notice is hereby given that the anmi annual Interest on
the Common Bonda ef tbe bUSVUKHANNA CANAL
COMPANY, falling due on the lat of Jauuary, 1870, will
be paid on and alter tbe Sd proximo, at tbe Firat National
Bank of Philadelphia, on presentation of the coupon, for
tbe same, numbered
, , ROBERT D. BROWN, '
18812W , ., - Treaaurer.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Stockholders of the SUMMIT BRANCH RAIL
ROAD COMPANY will lie held at the office of the
PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILKOAU COM
PANY in Philadolpbla, Pa., on the 17th day of January,
1870, at 1 o'clock P. M., to eloot Directors for the ensuing
year, and transact suoh other buBinexs as maybe pre
sented. WILLIAM B-FOWLE, ,
12 28 17t Beoretary.
ssr.
CAMBRIA IRON
COMPANY. THE
Stockholders of the
will be held at their
Anniuil Meetinff -nf th
CAM!
1IK1A IRflN flOMPAKV
Clfico, No. 4l CHRSNUT Street
DAY, the 1 nth day of January
, Philadelphia, ou TUK3-
uext, at 4 o clock I. M.,
fur Sevan Directors, to
worn an eieouou win ue neltl
serve for tba ensuing year.
Philadelphia, Deo. 16, 1869.
JOHN T.
KII.LE,
Secretary.
12125t
j- UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.
(SOUTHERN BRANCH.)
Coupon, of tbe Six Per Cent. Gold Bonds ef this road
due on 1st prox. will be paid on and after that date, free
from Government tax, by
I CLARK, DODGE CO.,
12 SlUt No. 51 WALL Btreet, New York.
iSJ- THE COUPONS DUE JANUARY 1, 1870,
- of tbe first mortgage bonda of ST. PAUL AND
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (First . Division
Branch Line) will be paid on and after that date upon pre
sentation at the office of DABNEY, MORGAN A CO.,
No. 53 EXCHANGE Place, New York. 12 31 12t
COLD WEATHER DOE8 NOT CHAP
or roughen tbe akin after nsing WRIUHT'H AL
pONATKD GLYCERINE TABLET OF SOLIDIFIED
GLYCERINE. It duilv use makee tha akin delicately
soft and beautiful bold by all druggist.
' R. 4 O. A. WRIGHT,
,4 No. 624 CHESNU'f Street.
tOf COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION
. ericinated the anwsthetie UBeof
j NITROUS OXIDE, OR LAUGHING GAS,
And devote Uieir whole time aud practice to extracting
teeth without pain.
Office, KlUli i U and WALNUT Streets. 11 8
y DR. F. K. TnOMAS, THE LATE OPE-
. rator of the ( Vilton Dental Association, ia now the
eev one in Philadelphia who devotes his entire time aud
practice to extracting teetb. absolutely without pain, by
frenh nitrous oxide gas. Olfloe. HU WALNUT tit. 1 26
lS- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
W, LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.
1 CAPITAL. jf-J,00u.il. i
i SABINE, A LITkN A DULLES, Agents,,
k -.Jl!aiJAyi'y'u'
efctfi I M P O R f A N T V( )TlCE.-Wir.L
shortly open, a braueli of the NEW YORK ML'.
BRUM OF ANATOMY. 1 6 h'
bOOOS FjOR THE UAOieS.
JJRIDAL, mUTimAY, AND HOL4DAY
o t FilESENTS. .jjV
u. vae iniiar vnparrment eootaina a lange aaaortmant
of FINE FuRNOH GOODS, embracing
DESKS, WORK, OLOVR, HANDKERCHIEF. AND
DRESSING BOXES, in great variety.
DOLLS, MECHANICAL TOYS, and TREE TtUM
. . MINGS. ......
SILK FANS, LEATHER BAGS, POCKET BOOKS.
CHINA VASIS and ORNAMENTS, JEWELRY, ET(J
' From fll'00 to (SO'OO. v
Call and examine our Paris Goods.
Party and Evening Dresses made and trimmed front
French and English faahien plate.
Fancy Costumes for Masquerades, Balls, eto.,enads ta
order In forty-eight hours' noUceat r ,
MRS. tel. A. DINDER'8
LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS, PAPER PATTER
DRESS and CLOAK MAKING ESTABLISHMENT,
N. "W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnut,
ilLht e PHILADELPHIA.
' OENT.'S FURNISHING OOODS.
p AT B N T SHOULDER-SB AM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FCRNISIIINQ STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING BnntTS AND DRAWER'
made from tncaimrement at very short notioa.
(DStafuUTarto?,.01 GSa DB1B .
I ,, . WINCHESTER A CO'
, 111 No. TOfi CHESSCT 8treot
'J'llY OUll 12 25 SHIRT.
TRY OUR 2 SO SHIRTf , "
j TRY OCR 2 75 SHIRT.
! , , , TRY OUR $3 00 SHIRT. .,. ' 5
i . " kt oub Bore shirto. ,
! They are tba cheapest and' best fitting SHIRTS sold.
On trial will nuke you our cuflomer. ' ; ' ."
1 ' T. L. JACOBS A CO.,
Li1.17. imn 1 No. 1238 CHESNUT Street.
HOIjll?AV i it e s iTnrrs
i GENTLEMEN.
ale W. SCOTT & CO.,
I No. 8U CHESNUT 8treet, PhUadolpula,
.LBS7SrP ; ' do below Continental HoteL
H08IERY, ETC.
! . now orEX? jlt : '
HOFMANN'S HOSIERY STORE,
; Ko. 9 KORTn EIGHTH STREET,
! GENTS WHITE WOOL SHIRTS, ' '
', GENTS' WHlTK WOOL DRAWERS,
GENTS' SCARLET WOOL SHIRTS, 1
GENTS' SCARLET WOOL DRAWERS, : - '
j GBNT8' MERINO SniRTS AND DRAWERS. '
: j LADIES' MERINO VESTS,
! LADIES' MERINO BRA WBRS,
; LADIES CASHMERE VESTS. ' . V '.
CHILDREN'S MERINO UNDERWEAR; Vv I
! GENTS' COTTON SHIRTS AND DRAWERS,
LADIES' COTTON VESTS AND DRAWERS,- ' ' '
Also, a very largo assortment of
HT WBly
COTTON WOOL, AND MERINO HOSIERY.
WINES AND LIQUORS.
H E
R M A J E S T Y! '
1 CHAMPAGNE.
I duutow &. Ltrssora".
I ! 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. ' j
TBE .ATTENTION OF . TTJE TRADE 13 '
fieaSbS? following very Ohoioe Wines, mtcZ
DUN TON A LUSSON.
116 SOUTH Jb'RONT STREET. '
. CHAMPAGNES. Agents for her Mmirmfv Dna Am , ,
Montebello. Carte Bleue, Carta lincheTTn'd Ohrle! 1
i,'.,,.ndinEu'onJ Jia V,n I"peril, '
"j"!30-" ot Mayenoe, bparkling Moselle and RHINE
lette Pale and GoWenBarownTetoTT
CLARETS. Promts Aine A Cie., MonUerrand and Bor
den ui. Claret, and Sauterna Wines
, GlN.-"WederSwsn."
BRANDIES. Banneeaey, Otard, Pupuy k Oo.'a varioua
vintages. g
Q ARBTAIBS A McOALL,'
; Noa. ISM WALNUT and St GRANITE Street.
' i Importers of '
! BRANDIES, WINES. GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETO., '
' AMD
; COMMISSION MERCHANTS ' "
For the sale ef '
PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHIS.
; KIES. t2glpf .
CAE STAIRS' OLIVE OH-AN INVOICE
of tbe above for sale by
toco. ,M,. OARSTAIRS MoOALL,
828Sp Nos. 136 WALNUT and 21 GRANITE Ste.
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE
J. WATSON & SON. '. rJ.
HWtfSjOf th.lateflrmof EVANS WATSON, jr?. 1
FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF ,
IT 13 S T O It E,
NO. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
88H A few doors above O basnet si, Pbilad '
ROOFING.
T K A D T ROOF!
N
G.-
ah This Roofing la adapted to all buildings.
ADllliAil tj
It
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS - .t
at one-half tha expense of tin. It ia readily put oa
& Dingle Koois without removing the shingles, thus avoid,
il! the damaging of ceibnirs and furniture while aadae
gin ox rfipairs. (No gravel used.)
PKEbKRVK 0VSilnoSMr!rtTn WBXTOS'
I am alwaya prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at shod
notice. Alao, PAINT FOR BALK by the barrel or cailoa
tbe beat and cheapest In tha market. '
y s WELTOrf
1179 No. 711 N. BLNTH Htraat. above OoaW
TP OWNERS,
IR3, architects, builders.
'ER8.-Roofe! Yes, yes. Every siieanj
.At No. 643 N. THIRD Htreet, the AMlS
A AND KOOH
kino, oiu er nnw. lflo.Wl Hi. TH1R1 Htreet, the AM K
fcllMN CONCRETE PAINT AND KOOE OOa!
are seUlag tbslr celebrated paint for TIN ROOFS, and
tor )iesirviDg all wood aud metals. Aluo, their solid eom.
plei roof covering, tbe best ever offered to lb public, with)
bruslies, cam, buckets, eto., ror the work. Anti vermin,
rut), snd Water-proof; Uijl.t, TUiUt, Durable. No erauk.
ing. peH ing,orabriukinf. No paper, gravel, or heat. Good
K-i II cluiata. Directions given for work, or good work,
niea .implied. Care, proiupluese, eertaialyl One) nee(
Cilll Kramtuel Jurbtel w
A veuia wanted for interior noantlne.
f I'Ait-li'nelpaJ.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
rniL080PHT OF MARRIAGE
A,N" Course ol Lectures, aa delivered at the New
Yer Mi.i-ftum of Anatomy, emliraoing tbe ant.inou"
How to Live, and VVhat tu Live lor; Youth, Maturity, and
Old Age; Manhood Ceunrully KoviaweJ; The Clause ot
IniliBtiou ; I lutulenoe and Nervous DiLcnaoe Aocouutad
Kiri aiariiage Philtiaoiihiokliy tk.w,l.red, eto elo.
1 orket voluiuos coniuniiiHj uitu 1-eoturta iU ,
A. 1 KAftY. J.,r, . ytntt ililU u WALNUT
btreuu, I'UiUae 4J
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