the rmr iyeicikg TELEciurn--Philadelphia, Saturday, januatiy is,- isto. srzniT or the mesa. Edllnrtnl Opinion i( th iHHn; Jaurnni I l.on t'llrrfPt T.nt -'m.ild KT ( llnjrlur Ihc f veiling Triumph. THE QUAlUtEl i IN THK NAVY. FVt.i fnii 1'. Tiihvtit. If tbo dispute between tlin line nnrt staff of Ihe navy concerno.l mly the faw hundred enllomen who il"ti-..-! uurnliips oni naval itations, v.e shouM fed little dmioUiu to take part In it. Vv'fl Imlmve. however, that it ins now' readied rv i'"'11' which-touches the fflictcncy of tho nervine nixl intimately nft'ects Iho whole country. An American vensol of varinthQ present. ,nt ate of things, niunt'be littlo hotter Uian a hell afloat, unless hy good fortune tho line and stnft' lncera on board happen to bo men of.Ruch ivmt temper, com mon RonRP, and mutual adaptability that by their personal qnnliHeH they can neutralize the misfortunes entailed by their falsa rela tions towards- each other. How pften. it chancer that all the oflioers of a ship are such paragons, our readers may guess for them selves. Tho complaint of tho staff officers is not a mere sentimental griavanoe, or a question of a gold stripe which enn be settled by coaxing them to go home and bo cmiet. Bank, with Hs accompanying pay, privileges, andhonors, is a serious matter to a naval or military man, the only materiat rewaid he can ever look to after a long life of toiL When the war broke out. and new grades were created in conse quence of the enlarged bzo and expanded du ties of the navy, all the line officers were pro moted one or two degrees. J. ne act or con cress made no special mention of the staff, but it was taken for granted that the purpose was to advance them in proportion. So when the captains were promoted to be comma dores, the surgeons, 1 engineers, ana pay masters, ranking with captains, were assigned relative rank with commo doros, and so on through the list. That Congress approved this interpretation of the law is evident from the fact that during eight years the Senate unhesitatingly confirmed nominations made in accordance with it, and not a whisper of illegality was heard. But as noon as Vice-Admiral Porter, who is generally regarded as too leader or tne line in the pre sent quarrel, was placed in virtual cnarge of the navy, it was discovered tnat ail tnese pro motions were illegal. All the surgeons, engi neers, . paymastors, and constructors were consequently degraded, their pay being at the same time of course reduced, so that cow the highest grade a staff officer can obtain is the assimilated rank of captain The senior staff officer on the active list has been forty-three years in the service, and has held his present rank nearly thirty-eight years, No captain in the line and only eight of th e twenty-five commodores have been so long in the service. But the question is not only whether the stan shall have rank in propor lion to the line, but whether they shall virtu ally have any rank at all. The line officers now declare tnat tney ougnt to take prece dence of tne staff on all occasions, afloat and ashore. The spruce little midshipman just out or scliool must outrauk tne surgeon who may have assisted in bringing him into the world. Of course the executive officers in charge of a ship must have authority over all on board; nobody disputes that; but relative rank does not imply a divided command, and the staff do not ask that under any circum stances they shall exercise the powers which properly belong to tne line. There are certain mysterious privileges of the cabin and the rues table involved in this controversy which we do not profess to under stand and do not much care for. But it seems to us that a class of r3?rss whose services are highly important to the country are now subjected to a contemptuous treatment which would probably drive most of them out of the service if they were not wedded to it by long custom, or were sure of immediate employ inent in civil life. As a rule we don't believe they are dangerous and violent men who need to be kept under. We don't believe that mutiny and general disorganization will be the inevitable result of treating them civilly We believe that their manners and morals will not corrupt the fighting officers who seem so loin to associate witn them, and their duties do not unfit them for the society of gentlemen. A line officer is educated from boyhood for his special duties at the expense of the country, liut our surgeons, our engi neers, our paymasters, and our naval con. structors we must get ready-made. We cer tainly shall not get good ones unless we offer them some inducement to serve us. 111?. SUMNER'S FINANCIAL SCHEME, From the X. T. World. Mr. Sumner's plan for refunding the na tional debt is not worth much discussion at present; because, whatever its merits, it not immediately practicable. .hven if we shared his sanguine estimate, and believed that the Five-twenties of 18(i2 could be re funded this year in five per cent. Ten-forties, we should nevertheless think that part of the nroieot premature and ill-judged. For if the Government can borrow at five per cent, be fore the resumption of specie payments, it could borrow at a much less rate after re sumption; and there would be no eoonomy in binding the nation to pay a disadvantageous rate for so long a period as ten years. Mr. fciumncr proposes to substitute five hundred millions of Ten-foity bonds for the same amount of Five-twenties. The saving of in terest would be one por cent., amounting to nly five millions a year; a trivial gain even f the substitution could be accomplished, nd a damage to the public credit if it should e vainly attempted. The country needs mmodiate relief, not from five millions of unual taxes, but from a hundred millions; nd this relief could be had at once by reduc ing the revenue to the actual necessities of expenditure, and postponing, for the present, the polioy of diminishing the principal of the debt. Mr. Sumner, to do him justice, has a clear perception of the absurdity of the spasmodio strain upon the national resources over which Mr. Boutwell and hiH blind eulogists are so fond of bragging. With his fondness for far fetched illustrations, ho likens Boutwell's policy to the famous charge at Bulaklava, when the six hundred rode "into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell," as Tennyson sung it. "This is lino," said a cool mili tary spectator of tho charge, "but it is not war." And in our financial policy, Mr. Sum ner, although he does not quote this line of the poet, thinks that "somebody has blun dered." He says of Boutwell's tremendous financial ride into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell, "this may all be very fine, but it is not business. ine credit 01 tue liov. eminent is not promoted by taxing the coun try into poverty to pay debts before they are lue. It is as if a farmer should sell his Jnnr.lm and his seed-wheat and keep his ieldd barren to prepay the next year's interest n a mortgage The proper order of financial proceedings Jt, first, to reduce the taxes; then, to resume specie payments; and, lastly, to refund tho I debt at a lower rate of interest. . . First of all, the urgent thing to be done is o relieve the industry of tho country from he crushing burden of needle ts taxes. Mr. Boutwell boasts that he is propaylng the pub ic debt, in advance of its maturity, at tne rule of a hundred millions a yoar. 1110 taxes may bo snfely reduced to the full amount of these uncalled-for advances. Who would have a right to complain? Not the publio creditors for their principal is not due in fifteen years, aud meanwhile the Government discharges every obligation to them if it raises money enough to pay tho interest. The snflering people will not complain; lor relist from taxes is the very thing they are socking. If anybody complains, it will be a set of shallow, gasconading demagogues, who fancy that it is finer for the country to be getting out or debt than to be getting rich. Fray, what is the object, wherein lies the advantage of re funding the national debt, whioh Boutwoll, Sumner, ana everybody, unite in regarding as desirable? They tell ns that it will lighten the taxes. But if it were possible to refund the whole debt to-morrow at four per cent., the relief would be only half as great as would result from bringing the present revenue of the Government down to its present wants. The greater relief is practicable; the lesser relief is, for the prosent, impossible. Why not, then, do at once what can easily be done at once, and proceed to cope with the difficult problems after the simple one is solved? Lot the burden be first reduced by simply taking off taxes which are not needed, and thon let us do our bent to reduce them still further by exchanging the six per cent, bonds for others at a lower rate. Mr. Sumner's views respecting the justice of spreading a large portion of the debt over future generations, are sound and aptly illus trated. The war, ne says (following Air, Wells), has cost the North upwards of six thousand millions, and gonly about twenty- four hundred millions now remain as debt, The results of the war will benefit all future generations; and every generation more than this, which has borne so great a proportion of the burden. Has not this generation already done its share, and far more than its share, in defraying the cost of the war? Of its actual money cost we have paid more than three-fifths; we have borne all the anguish, all the mourning, all the sundering of dear domestic ties; and on this genera tion falls the whole burden of deranged industry, disordered currency, and fluan cial peril, which are the evil legacy of a great war. ' This generation has done its part; and posterity will have no reason to impugn its equity, if, with tho greater portion of the benefits, it transmits also some share of the burdens. This roasouing would hold, even if the population and resources of the coun try were to remain stationary; but as those will be tenfold their present amount within the next century, the burden will be spread out so thin by dinusion as to be scarcely felt. At any rate, we have done our part towards the extinction of the principal. If we faith fully pay the interest, and refund the debt on terms favorable to those who are to come after us, they will owe us, not complaints, but gratitude. ihe reiunding 01 tne debt oomes next in order after the resumption of specie pay ments, iaasmuch as successful refunding de pends upon tne national credit, and the national credit can never be good so long as an inflated and unstable currency holds over all our business a constant menace of con vulsion. Mr. Sumner's scheme therefore deserves attentive examination only bo far as it hears upon a return to the specie basis. That is too extensive a subject tj enter upon at present, and we postpone it to another day. FREE LOVE, FREE DIVORCES, CON FLICTING STATE LAWS, AND GENE HAL DEMUR ALIZAITUN. From the N. T. HtrM. The Rev. Horace Cooke Is the latest free love sensation. A fine looking, dashing fel low, it appears that he has been a gay divine. a man of fashion, a ladies' man, given to flir tations and addicted to opium, liis mcohe rent letter on his late escapade betrays a mind unhinged, a brain disordered, a man driven to remorse and desperation by the crime whioh he meditated, the folly of undertaking it and by the hue and cry which has hunted him down. He was not so far depraved as to carry out his base design, and in resisting the temptation at the point when be had ruined himself, in order to rescue his deluded com panion, he challenges something of respect for his apparent repentance, though passed beyond the pale of restoration to conhdonce, except through a long probation. This unfortunate affair, however, we cannot limit to the wicked blandishments of the Rev. Mr. Cooke and the weakness of the silly girl in her encouraging flirtations. In the ex tremity of his distress and despair he writes to the New York Tribune a statement mainly intended to establish the innocence of the misguided young lady in his late adventure, and this little circumstance puts us on the track which leads to the sources of all these aggressions upon aud departures from the laws of society tomching the relations between the two sexes. In addressing his letter to the paper in question the happy thought doubt less occurred to the discriminating writer, in connection with the late Kicnardson-Jlcl' ar- land tragedy, that if sympathy could be ex pected in any qnartor for hi faux pas in the way of free love, ho would get it at the Tribune office. Aud here we btrike tho vein of FourioriBm, passional attraction, spiritual affinities, and free love iu all their glaring manifestations. Hero, too, we enter upon a broad highway of modern reform in morals and religion which leads to Plymouth Church on the one hand and to Sing Sing on the other. The fascinations of the Gospel of Plymouth Chureh.where Mr. James link. Jr., as one of tho highest bidders for a pew, has learned the easy way to salvation, are cheap at any price. The Iter. Mr. Irothingnam, in the deathbed marriage of poor Richardson, has told us what tnese lascinations are in this, "We thank Thee for what these two have been to each other;" aud his brother Beecher has endorsed it on proclaiming that by the authority of his Church "these two are husband and wife. While from some of our fashionable churches the seeds of social demoralization are thus scattered abroad, we find under our convenient State laws and courts of justice that divorces can and are procured in num bers that are appalling, without publicity and without the Knowledge or the wife or husi band who has become au inconvenience to the other party. Here we have the degraded lawyer ready for the work, the convenient referee, tho obsoure newspn'oor for the re quired notice to the other side, and perjured witnesses who will swear to anything for money; and through tnese agencies honest and trusting wives are disgraced and left deso late, often with helpless childron upon their hands, and unsuspecting husbands are sepa rated from their wives and outlawed before they have any knowledge of such prooeed iiif'S. Mcl'ai'land, when he killed his into! erable tormentor, had learned thit there w.w a divorce in the case an Indiana divorce but it only exasperated him hec.iuso pf the secrecy through which it had boen procured. From nil thoso Instrumentalities of socul disorcani.atidn, free-love elopemunts, freo- lovo copartnerships, and free and oasy di vorces have become so common that the crimes involved have aloiost censod to be re garded as crimes, or only criminal when so bunglingly managed as to bo found out too soon. ' At the same time oar sensational pa pers, in order to supply what they supposo to be a morbid public appetite for hcaii. M'ty., in order to give pungoucy to on elopmiiont or divorce, resort to invention where tho facts are deficient, as we have seen iu this case of tho Rov. Mr. Cooke. What is to be the end of all theso causes and active agents of Bocial disorder and destruction t They ere loading the country rapidly to the old free-love sys tem of tho Australian savages, where the wife was secured by capture and dismissed at plea sure. As we are, does the one-wire law 01 Chicago or New York exhibit to-day a higher standard of practical morality thou the polyg amy of Great bait Lake City ? And what is the remedy for all this chain of evils, so de structive of peaoe of the family and so peril ous to the very existence of society 7 A whole chain of reforms is needed in our laws relating to marriage and divorce, and first of all, we think, we want a now amend ment to the Constitution of the United btates whereby from Congress we may have a uni form and general law of marriage and di vorce operating over all the length and breadth of the land alike. It has come to this neeossity of a general law f Congress for the regulation of railroads and telegraphs, for which Congress has the power, and it has come to this necessity of a general law touch ing marriage and divorce, for which Congress ought to have the power; for tho day when conflicting State laws affecting the order or society micht be tolerated has, with the in troduction of railroads and telegraphs, passed away. Therefore we want an amendment to the national Constitution giving power to Congress to make uniform laws regulating the institution of marriage and the last resort of divorce. MORE OF ADMIRAL PORTER'S ECO NOMIES. From the N. T. Sun. Among Admiral Porter's so-called reforms of the Navy Department is tho establishment of a torpedo corps, composed of a superin tendent and about twenty assistants. The navy report fails to explain exactly why the country needs such a corps in time of peace, Then, too, wo havo a signal corps organized upon the army principle, with its superintend. ent, numerous assistants, and hundreds of men now being instructed in tho mysterious signs which go to make up the code. Wo also have the new grades ot seamen gun ners, machinists, coppersmiths all at higher rates of pay than were formerly civeu to others performing these duties, but with out at all decreasing tho number employed in other grades. JJut a leak ot lar more importance one not originally created, but permitted to con tinue by tho present administration is the order giving nn increase of li.'ii per cent, upon the salary of every officer. In 18(i(i Congress tacked to the Naval Appropriation bill a clause repealing au net which repealed another act passed in 1812, making certain small allowances to officers for quarters and fuel. Secretary Welles thereupon issued a general order statins that, as tke apportion incut of the allowances under this revived law would be attended with much difficulty, every omcer would be allowed In lieu thereof an addition to his salary of i:!L per cent. The order at the time it was issued created much excitement, and the press denounced the measure upon the ground that by a single stroke of Mr. Welles pen more than $2,000,- 000 were added to the expenses of the Gov ernment. The attention of (Jongress was finally directed to the subject, and a resolu tion was introduced calling upon the Secre tary to explain his authority to issue suoh an order, and Lwhat amount was necessary to carry out its provisions. There the matter dropped, the resolution boing tabled, and finally the order was forgotten. Upon the accession of becrotary Bone great anxiety was felt throughout the service lest the famous order should share the fate of others issued by Mr. Welles. Had Admiral Porter not been on hand to prevent it, this might have been the case; but his $000 per year was increased under this order to $'.);!33, and rescinding it was therefore out of the question; and to this day more than $2,000,000 per year are expended in paying these one-third additional salaries. Let us see if the majority -of officers need it. There are over fifty young Lieutenant Commanders from 20 to 25 years of age, who receive the following salary lor their distin guished services: l ay proper. $2-S43 3.'j per ceni 781 luuiuu, Boo. per day 109 Total $3-253 On foreign service this salary is paid in gold. A lieutenant, not more than a year or so out of the Academy, where, at a cost of $25,- 000, he has had drilled into his cranium just sufficient learning to make him dangerous, receives for the honor he confers upon the United States by holding his commission the following: Pay proper. l,fl75 82'),' per ceut. . C25 Haiion 109 Totul 12,609 And so on throughout the service. In the case of older office, who are few in number, no doubt the salary allowed by law is quite hrunll enough, in fact it should be increased; but our one hundred and eighty lieutenant Commanders and all below that grade, boln in the line and staff, are paid far more than their services are worth and more than the country can afford. Before the war Lieuten ants were naid per year, and um not attain that rank till years after graduating. It is to be hoped that Congress will giro this matter the attention it deuervea, ana at once abolish the old law under whioh this allowance is made. Nothing can be plainer than the fact that the navy needs a thorough reconstruction. The many abuses which have crept into it, the jealousies and biokerings between different classes of its oflicers, and the frightful extravagance shown in the ad ministration of its affairs, have driven it into its present lamentable state of lnenusiency. " DOWN WITH THE TAXES 1" From the N. Y. Times. This is the cry which Senator Sniunor now echoes, undeterred by the fear that he will be proclaimed a "traitor" because he dare to ttiverge from the policy which is laid down by the Secretary of the Treasury. 1 he truth is that tho demand for a reduction of the taxes Las now reached a point at which no Government could afford to disregard it. The contradictory vagaries of one or two journals ouly serve to bring out iuto greater proini. nciice the uuaniunty with which the large proportion of the press, and the bulk of the people, ask for the immediate reduction of the burdens whjoh are paralyzing .trado, restricting enterprise, and rendering every body poorer. Tho taxes are kept up at a war rate merely to indulge a delusion. It is . argued 'that if wo do not pay oft' the whole of our ctobt now, we shalf never do it. Tho supposition has no more value than can be at tached to any other hallu cination. Surely we have already paid a very fair proportion towards the expenses of a war the advantages of which will extend to all time. Senator Sumner boldly tolls those who are for merciless taxation that tho national debt was incurred for suoceeding generations no less man lor ourselves, and that posterity ought to take its part in paying it off. The resources of the people are being' strained now to the last point. Suppone we had an other war upon our hands, where should we find the money with which to carry it on? We should be obliged to stop paying off the debt in any case. But could a people long suffering from pitiless depletion at the hands oi tax-gatherers be expected to pay enormously increased taxes for the purposes of the hour? It is not only shortsighted to keep up the present rate of taxation in time of peace; it is absolutely dangerous. it is said that we are bound to prove to the world that we can and will ray our debt. Who on earth doubts it now ? Who that we shoidd care to convince supposes that we have not the power to pay our debt in a rea sonable time? We are now absolutely wasting our energies in the attempt to com ply with a crochet of a few doctrinaires, all of whom are unfamiliar with economio science, and have been carried away by a fig ment of their own brains. Who does not smart every day from excessive taxation in one form or other ? We were bound to bear it once. There was no help for it But we ought to be relieved now, and all the more cheerfully because we made many a heavy sacrifice without a murmur all through the time of peril. The Government ought not now to say, "while you are willing to pay. we win take care to squeeze as much as pos sible out of you," but rather take up a liberal position towards a people who have been so generous to it. We shall not discuss the bill Introduced by oenator sumner until other plans already pro mised are before us. But we are glad to find tnat ne is prepared to raise his voice in Congress in favor of a policy which has reason, justice, and safety to recommend it. the country, he says, "is uneasy under its heavy burdens. War taxes should not be peace taxes; and so long as the present sys tem continues there is a constant and painful memento ot wnr, whilo business halts in chains and life bends under the load." He proceeds to show that wo are impoverishing ourselves now in order to pay our obligations long before they become due, but that, on the other nana, n we reduce . the taxes, our re sources will be immeasurably increased, "tho country will breathe freer, business will be more elastic, lite will be easier, aud the national debt will cease to bo a burden, bo comirg fine by degrees, and beautifully less, until it gradually ceases to exist. We com. mend every word of this statement to the ear. nest attention oi the Administration, it is childish to meet this most reasonable appeal to the Government for relief with the cry "You are running away from your party." It is in the true interests oi the Government that we entreat it to open its eyes to the vast importance of taking off some of the load under which the people of this country are now languishing, and from which they are crying with one voice to be relieved. SPECIAL. NOTICES. ngf OFFICE OF W ELLS, FARGO & COM PANY, No. 84 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, De cember 8, 1809. Notice is hereby Riven, that the Trnnnfor l!(Kkof Wells, Fargo A Oompnny will be CLOSKDon tUelHthday of JANUARY, lbTO, at 8 o'clock P.M. to enable tbe Oempany to ascertain who are owners of the stock of the old Ten Million Capital. The owners of that stock will be entitled to participate in the distribution of assets piovided for by the agreement with the Pacific Express Company. The Transfer Books will be opened on the 23d day of JANUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M., after whioh time the $6,000,1X0 new stock will be delivered. Notice is also given that the Transfer Books of this Com pany will be CLOSED on the 25th day of JANUARY, 1870, at 8 o'clock P. M., for tbe purpose of holding the annual ELECTION OF DIRECTORS of tbis Company. Tbe books will be RE OPENED on the 7th day of l'EU- RUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M. 12 31 tK7 GEORGE K. OTI3, Secretary. EfS OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DIREC TORS OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANTS' UNION EXPRESS COMPANY, No. 113 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, November 29, 1809. Tbe Board of Directors of the American Merchants' Union Express Company have this dardoolared a dividend of THREE DOLLARS ($8) per share on the outstanding capital atook of tbe Company, payable on the 10th duy of January nxt. Tbe transfer books will be closed on tbe 31st 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. 12 31 15t J. N. KNAPP, Secretary. BCS" OFFICE OF Til E BELVIDERE AIAH U- ltKl.vilKHE. N. J.. Deo. 8. 18W. Notice is herebv aiven to tho stockholders of the BEL- VI DELE MANUFACTURING UOafANY reBiieutively. that auesxments amountmff to SIXTY PER CENTUM of tbe eniiilal atook of said oomuany have been made and payment of tbe eauie called for on or before the eighth day of February, A. 1). 18T0, and thit payment of suoh a proportion ot all sums of money by tiioin subscribed i' culled for and demanded from tucin on or before the said time. luaibw 8. SIMRRERD, Seorotary. KvArflArnf Inn KimrH nf lllreetoni. OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACIFIC KAIL- ROAD OF CALIFORNIA, No. 54 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, Docembor 17, I860. The SIX FER CENT. Interest coupons of iirnt mortgage bonds of the Central Pacilio Ruilroad of California, due Janu ary 1, 1870, will bo paid at tbe banking house of 1'isk A Hatch, No. 6 NASSAU Street, New Yoik. 13 81 Hit O. P. HUNTINGTON, Vioe Presidont. f!i?S- OFFICE OF THE HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY, No. 63 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, Deo. 87, 18.-The Coupons of the Mortgage Bonds of this Company, due Jan. 1, 1K70, will bo paid in gold coin on und aftor that date, at the Nationul City Rank, Now York. 12 HI lft D. It. PA 1(3 1), Vice Presldont. BSs- OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL ROAD OF CALIFORNIA, No. 64 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, Deo. 17, 18t. The Seven Per Cent. Interest Coupons (Uonds of I Kb J) due Jan. 1, 187U, will be puid at the banking bonne of Eugene Kelly & Co., No. 21 Nassau street, Now York. 13 81 12t C. P. HUNTINGTON. Vioe Presidont. E0- OFFICE OF CALIFORNIA AND ORE GON RAILROAD, No. U WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, Deo. 17. The Six Per Cent. Interest Cou. pons of Flint Mortgage Bonds of the California and Oregon Railroad, due Jan. 1, 1S70, will be paid at the Hanking liouto of Jbibk A Hatch, No. 6 Nassau Btrout, New York. C. P. HUNTINUTON. 12 ai 10t Vice President. IS? THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Stockholders of the SUMMIT BRANCH RAIL ROAD COMPANY will be hold at the offloeof the 1 I'.NNSYI.VANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD COM PANY in Philadelphia, 1'a , on the l'.lh day of Jauuary, 1K70, at 1 o'clock P. M., to elnot Directors for t he enuuuitc er, and Uauwict kuou other buaiiiewi as may ' Ho un tented. WILLIAM li- FiMVI.lC, 1 3 17t pucretary. rGv CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY. THE Annual Meatlnc of the Stockholders of the CAMMtiA IRON COMPANY will be held at their Otl'i e, No. 4W CUICSNUT bireet, Pniladeliibia, on TUEii- DAY, the Intu ouy o January uok, at souiou -. i whtu au election will be hold lur Seven Directors, M. to serve fur the ensuing year. JOHN T. KILLK, Secretin-'. LI 14 aVt Philadelphia, Deo. lit, l'- SPECIAL. NOTICES. $ZJ PHILADELPHIA AND HEADING K4IL- . ROAD CO., OlBce. No. 227 S. FOUR TU St.reot. I'mnriFt.rnfA, Deo. 2S, 119. DIVIDEND NOTIOK. Tho Tmnnfor Itixiks of tile Company Vlll ( cloned on FRIDAY, thelilst instant, and rjoponed on Tl'K.UAY January II, Itfio.. i- A dividend of FIVE PER CENT, has boen declared on the Preferred and Common .Hl.o-k, clear of Natlctilanl ptate tares, payable In CASH, on and after Januury 17, 1H70, to tho holders thoreof an they shall stand rexlstered n the books of the Company on the 8Ut InMant. All payabUat this office. AU orders for dividend muni be wttneed and stamped. 8. BRAOKOKD, 12 22 lt Treasurer. Jt&y AT THE ANNUAL- MEEHNtt Or THK rtincKMOinpra OI irio ll 1 1 1 jl. i iji iiia aiiii PKADIM KA II. ROAD COMPANY, he! .Innnary 10, J.-7o, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected ouicers lor 190: FRVHIIifNT, FRANKLIN B. UOWRIf, ' H. PraH JIcKean, I.I. H ! Ippinontt, A. F. ltorio, Molin Afelihuriit, R. li. Cabeen, Ktpliou Colwell. THF AH ItKIt. SAUUKL BRADFORD, hkiuktaiiy. WILLIAM 11. W EBB. .tttlUt fijOT- J liILADF.LrlllA AND TKKNTON mil bant a i n.i l a vv a-- Tr uu u u DELAWAt K AVENUE. Fnii.AiiFi.rHiA. Jan. I'J. in,u. Tbe Tram fer Books of this Company will lie closed on tbe 1Mb im (., and reopened alt r February lnt pros. 1 1: at J. FARKKH NOKKIS, Traaror. rHy- OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA. m CITY PASSENOER RAILWAY COMPANY, No. 4130 CUKHNUT (Street. . . . . l'mi-AiiFXPrnA, January h, intii. At a mcetlnff of the Board of Directors held thin day. a Dividend of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS ptr hate waa declared, free of all taxes, payable to the Stock holders, or their legal representation, on and aftor the i;nn Hint, iranster Booka closed nntu mm innt. 1 8 12t W. W. OOLKKT, Treasurer. gf OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER, PHiTDKt.rmA, Deo. 23, 1968. Warrants registered to No. tP.M'O will be paid on presentation at this office, In terest ceasing from data. jvjo. r. mA.nur.ti, 1223 City Treasurer. 8HAMOKIN COAL COMPANY, PHiuiirM'HlA. Deo. 81. lSfif. The Annnal Meeting of tbe Stockholders of the above- named Company, and an oleotion of Directors to serve for eniminu year, will beld at their OHlceon WK.DNK.SDA.Y, ice ivm nnyoi January, A. u. ism, at uo cioca m. l J ill it J. n. uni'lAl, oecretary. 1ST UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY. (SOUTHERN BRANCH.) Coupons of the Six Per Cent. Gold Bonds ef this road due on lbt prox. will be paid on and after that date, free from Government tax, by OLARK, DODGE CO., 13 31 16t No. (1 WALL Street, New York. egy COLD WEATHER DOES NOT UIIAF orrouRhcn tbe skin aftor nuina; WRIGHT'S AL CONA! FD l.LYCKRINE TABLET OF SOLIDIFIED GIACKK1NE. Itsdailvuee makes the skin delicately solt and boauutul. Bold Dy an druggists. K. a U. A. WKlUHli S 45 No. 624 CUESNUT Street COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION uriK'iinM'ii UiO UDiVSLUeilC UBB III NITROUS OX IDE. OR LAUGHING GAR. And devote their whole time and practice to extracting teeth witiiout pain. Orlice. KIOl! II 1 11 1 and WALNUT Street. 1189 DR. F. R. THOMAS, THE LATE UKE rator of the Colton Dental Association, is now the ontu on in Pbiladelnhia who devotes his entire time and freah nitrous oxide nas. Office. 911 WALNUT St. 1 Xj tes- BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS anlondid H.iir Dve is the best in tbe world : the enlr tree ana perfect Dye ; harmless, reliable, instantaneous ; no disappointment; no ridiculous tints; remedies the 111 effect of bad dyes: invigorates and leaves the Hair soft end beautiful, bttu-k or bnncn. Sold by all DruKKiata and Perfumers : and properly applied at Batohelor'a Win Fao. ton. No. 18 BOND Street, New York. 4 mwfl jgy QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, V A PITA Im Jta.UUU IHJU. SABINE, A FIFTH and ii.i.f.n a D U LLKS.A Kent, I WALNUT Street. WINES AND LIQUORS. H C R .M A J E S T CHAMPAGNE. EuriTori &. LUSSOZT. 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. TEE ATTENTION OF TOE TRADE 18 X solicited to the following very Choice Wines, etc., lor aaie cy 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. OHAMPAGNKS. Asents for her Maieatv. Dne da Montebollo, Carte Bleue, Carte Blanche, and Charlea in A Co.. of Alavenoe- Suarklirur Moaella and RHLNR rre surana vin f.uxenie, ana Vm iniDenal. AI. Kloe- VV IIS t.B. JM ADKIKAS. Old Island. South B da Reserve. SHKRR1KS. F. Rudolohe. Amontillado. Tnnu. Vml. leiie. ruie anu uuiuen mr, uvwi. eio. flIKi K. vinno vemo Heal. Valletta, ana Urown. CLAR ETS. Promie Aine A Cie.. Monti errand and Bor deaux, Clnreta and bauterne Wines ll n. "niener ttwan." BRAN D1KB. Hennessey, Otard, Dupuy A Oo.'s various Tintaces. e QA It STAIRS & MoOAL Kos. LIS WALNUT and 31 GRANITE Street. Importers of BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETC., AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS For the sale of PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHIS- AP STAIRS' OLIVK OIL AN INVOICE KJ of the above for sale by CAKoTAIRH a moo all. 6 28 2p Kos. 126 WALN UT and 21 GRANITE bta. SHIPPER'S GUIDE. IMrORTANTTi SHIPPERS. ALB, USA IS. I'lXEllUlBT lATiE BETWEEN PliiladepLhia and the West, Via Balti more and Ohio Routs. Shippers are respectfully notified that arrangements have been perfected between the Philadelphia, Wilming ton and Baltimore and. Baltimore and Ohio Railroads by wbicb freight toand fron the West, Northwest and South- wont will be transported, ALL RAIL. No change of oars between Philadelphia and Columbus, Citcinnati, Inoianapolis, Chicago, or St. Louis. (Special attention will be given to tbe prompt and rapid trannportation of first and aecend oIrss goods. Lutes furnished and Through Bills Lading given at the Office, No. 11 Moulli FIFTH Ntreet. Freight received daily until 6 o'olook P. M., at th Deput of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, Cor. "Washington Av. and Swanson St. JOHN S. WILSON, (Ion. Th. Frt. Agt, P. VV. A U, R, K. Oo. JAMES O. WILSON, Agent Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Oo. N. B. On and ui'er MONDAY. January 10, the rates to all points via Baltimore and Ohio rout will be th save via Canal to Baltimore aa by the Rail line. 1 8 unrp CLOTHS, w AS SI ME RES, ETO. -4- 'LOTH HOUGC. I No. 11 NORTH SECOND STREET, SIGN OF THE GOLDEN LAMB, Are now reeelvtntf new atylea of LADIES' CLOAKINGS, VELVET CORDS. ! BEAVER CLOTHS, . ' VELVETEENS, And all styles of gooda adapted to Mon mi Buy weur. 8 m ' AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, FIRE ANU BURGLAR PROOF SAr-B MARVIN'S SAFES ! The Best Quality! Tho Lowest Trices! ' ,The Largest Assortment! FIRE -PROOF. BURGLAR PROOF. MARVIN & CO, No. 721 CHESTNUT St., (Masonic Hall), rniLADELrniA, 2GB Broadway, N. Y. 108 Bank St., Cleveland, O. A number or Second-hand Safes ot different make and 8ly.es for sale VERY LOW. SAFFS, MACHINERY, etc, moved and notated promptly and carefully atrcasonablo rales. Please call and examine our assortment. 850,000-SAVED' In fine Watches anil Jewelry The contents of a large I A R V I 1 1 S OAFCZ Were perfectly preserved during the destructive lire of last Saturday at the store of J, , : , W. Warne, 719 Chestnut ' Street. MARVIN'S SAFES ARE Always Fire-Proof, Always Dry. MARVIN & CO., 721 CHESTNUT Street, (MASONIC HALL), lU6t PHILADELPHIA. MARVIN'S SAFES! The EestlQaality! ' The Xiowest Prices! She Xiar?cst Assortment! FIRE PROOF. BURGLAR PROOF. MAEYJN & CO., Uo. 721 CHESTNUT St., (MurouIc LTall), i ifiSBioadViay, N Y. PHILADELPHIA. las Bunk- St., Clef eland, O. A number of Second-hand Safes oi dirrorent makes and slzt'B for uule VERY LOW. 1 e tlwtuiot SAFK3, MACUINKUT, etc., moved and no-aie. promptly aud carefully, at reasonable rates. J'lcase call and examine our assortuu-ut.
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