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SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCES.
from the K. T. Tribune.
1'rince Arthur prommen to Appear among
lis in time to join in the tribute which Ameri
cans will pay to the memory of Mr. l'eabody.
JThis act would be meritorious however pre
determined. It would complete the homage
which royalty, aa a subject, has rendered to
onevolence in its character of Bovereign. A
Prinoe on this aide of the Atlantio would echo
the good feeling manifested by a Queen on
the other. lie would be entitled to speoial
we lcome as a mourner. Though the Ameri
can people will unavoidably reflect that a
prince as compared with a lire citizen, is a
good-natured fiotion, whose public aspect is
more or less the puppet of a policy, yet the
policy which honors a good man ought to find
hospitality, even among those who may have
reawon not to delight in royalty.
We hope our British brethren will not now
take us to task on the score of sentimentality,
l'ot we may err through weakness in thus
offering a hand of melancholy friendship to
our young visitor. Perhaps we are wrong in
exhibiting an indulgent super-sensitiveness
in reHpect to princes and lords, who are but
the breath of Kings. We may yield to a mis
taken sentimentality in honoring the Prince
beoause his mother honored Mr. Peabody.
Why. indeed, should we mourn with princes?
There is no authority for it in Wheaton.
Why should the Queen grieve over a foreign
benefactor? It is not according to Vattel.
In short, the exhibition of national sympathy
and sensibility is at war with Grotius and
Iiffendorf.
Really, if we have to own some "senti
mental grievances," it must be admitted that
our British friends have taken an equally sen
timental way of satisfying them. We have
lamented the premature recognition of the
Bouth, we have deplored the Alabama dam
ages, it is true; but, on the other hand, what
business had the Queen to mourn over Mr.
Peabody ? We suppose some room will have
to be allowed in our national calculations for
this odd quantity of sentiment; some provision
made for what one of the English papers calls
"lacerated feelings." Whether we speak of
our Alabama claims, or are provoked to con
aider our Peabody claims, the press of England
can more than match us with sentiment. Do
we not speak the same language? Have we not
the same traditionn ? Is not blood thicker
than water? thicker than our diluted claims,
by the way. Will our English friend be
good enough to remember that we have the
same laws and literature; that we have a con
sanguinity, as it were, of institutions and
society; that we are co-heirs of immortality,
n joying the same great pacifio mission for
the development of mankind? More such
entiment might be extracted from the genial
Utterances of our contemporaries over the
Bea. We might place against it Mr. Fish's
eloquent showing that our commerce has
been seared, and scarred, and lacerated in the
most nnsentimental nanner possible, and
that we would like to have indemnity. Bat
would it quite suffice ?
Lord Clarendon has made an exceedingly
practioal defense of the causes and results of
the Alabama wrong. What he says on this
point is cogent "enough, we doubt not, to
make many of his countrymen believe that he
has stripped the question of every vestige of
sentimentality. Let it be ever so practical,
however, it will not escape the sentimentality
of so calculating an authority as Richard Cob
den, who, in a letter to Mr. Frederick Milnes
Edge, wrote: ''But I confess I think the
money amount of the captures the smallest
part of the future penalty we shall have to
pay. It is the loss of productive value in
ilictod on the whole of the United States
mercantile marine which is the most preg
nant fact; for it shows what half a dozen
swift stoamers would do to our mer
chantmen. And with whatever maritime
power we may be at war, we may be assured
the Americans will pay us in our own coin.
With such a prospect I hardly see how we can
go to war with even Brazil." The same prac
tical gentleman sentimentally exolaimed in
the House of Commons: "You have been
carrying on war from these shores against the
United States, and have been inflicting an
amount of damage on that oountry greater
. than would have been produced by many
ordinary wars. " It is a little curious that the
very Englishmen who afford us our choicest
arguments for the Alabama claims, represent
in tnemseives almost tne only kind or argu
ment anoraea us tor mating tnose claims as
moderate as considerate. Moreover, it is a
sentimental one.
THE NEW
ALABAMA
CORRESPOND.
ENCE.
From the London Saturday Review
Lord Clarendon's conclusive criticism on
Mr. HamiltonJFish s violent and declamatory
despatch will produce little effect ia America.
General Grant's message, which expressed in
more general terms the same hostility to
England, was received in the United States
with the general approval which has for many
years awaited similar declarations of un
friendly feeling. Mr. Dallas used language
nearly as acrimonious before the civil war
was thought of, although it suits Mr. Fish's
purpose to dwell on the amicable relations
which he supposes, for the purposes of his
invective, to have been wantonly interrupted
by the proclamation of neutrality. The same
Minister reminded Baron Brunnow of the no.
torious fact that throughout the Crimean war
the sympathies of the United States were on
the side of Russia. It is inoonvenient that
national sentiment should be made a subjeot
of diplomatic complaint, but it is certain that
the popular feeling of the United States to
England has at all times been one of uure
ciprooated ill-will. It seems to be the object
of Mr. Fish a State paper to perpetuate the
one-sided quarrel, unless it is rather intended
to prepare the way for an actual rupture. As
if for the purpose of making negotiation im
possible, the American Secretary of State pro-
losses not even to have satisfied himself of
the nature and extent of his demands. The
plan of arbitration, in which both Govern
ments have formerly sought a solution of the
difficulty, is superseded by the assertion that
the liability of England for the so-called Ala
bama claims must in all future discussions be
taken for granted, t The wild exaggeration of
nna Confederate cruiser built lv nrivar arl-
renturers into a piratical fleet employed by
the English Government against American
commerce would be sufficiently disposed of
by Lord Clarendon's reply if American states
men were inclined to, listen to reason or to
facts. Both parties in the controversy quote
the admissions or arguments in their favor
of fellow-conn try men of their, respec
tive opponents; but Lord Clarendon confines
liiuiself to the professional opinions of A men
can jurists who have no leaning to the side
or England. Mr. imn, on in a otuer hand
refers to the rhetorical hyperboles of Mr,
Cobden and Mr. Bright, who wero both, from
first to last, passionate and consistent parti- I
sans of the Federal cause. Mr. Bright fur- I
Dishes Mr. Fish with the paradoxical preposi
tion that England was the treasury and store
house of the Confederate States; yet neither
the English orator nor the American Minister
have any meaning exoept that numerous
English vessels succeeded in running the
blockade. Lord Clarendon calmly shows that
no neutral government is bound to assist a
belligerent in blockading the ports of his
enemy. As he remarks with considerable
point, a blockade would be wholly superfluous
if trade with one of two belligerents could
of itself be treated by the other as a viola
tion of neutrality. American disputants have
indeed uniformly assumed that a blockaded
port is not a port at all; yet the Government
of the United States has properly abstained
from interfering with the constant traffio of
American vessels with the blockaded ports of
Cuba.
In the dospatch of the, Seoretary of State.
as in the passage whioh he probably contri
buted to the President's Message, scarcely an
attempt is made to answer the cogent argu
ments by which the pretensions of the United
States have already been met; but Mr. Fish
devotes a few sentences to an imaginary dis
tinction between the conduct of England and
that of the other European States which re
cognized Confederate belligerenoy. France
and Spain, he says, committed an isolated
error in proclaiming their neutrality; but they
never afterwards proceeded to injure or molest
the United States. It has been domonstrated
again and again, that the recognition of bel
ligerency was an aot complete in itself, nor
would even Mr. Fish pretend that there was
not a state of war at the time when the Ala
bama was launohed. It is neoessary for his
purpose to assert that the conduot of France
and Spain was wrongful, although it may not
have been necessary to resent it; yet Mr. Lin
coln, who had the Bole right to represent the
opinion of the" eaeral uovernment, lormaiiy
thanked the Spanish Minister for the very
proclamation which is now described as an
offense. Ua also stated in a publio document
that the conduct of all nations had been
friendly, although, with England at their
head, they had just proclaimed their neu
trality between the belligerents. Lord Cla
rendon explains for tne twentietn time tnat
the announcement by Lord John Russell of
the forthcoming proclamation was subsequent
in time to the arrival in England of the news
of the blockade which assumed tho existence
of a state of war. The formal notification of
the blockade by the American Minister was
made some days before the proclamation was
issued. Even if the dates of the tolegraphio
message and of the diplomatic communication
had been less conclusive, there would still be
no ground of complaint. As the President
lately said, belligerency is a question of fact;
and if the neutral is actually in the right, it is
wholly immaterial whether he has derived his
information from official or non-official
sources. A competent American court two
months afterwards retrospectively affirmed,
in a judgment wmcn Has never been ques
tioned, that the proclamation of blockade was
official evidence of a state of war; nor is it
disputed that the blockade was established
before the English recognition of the fact
which it proved. At tnat time no man in
England or in America required demonstra
tion of a visible truth. As .Lord Clarendon
reminds Mr. msn, tne Uonteuerate army was
threatening Washington at the timo when it
is pretended that the conduct of the English
Uovernment converted an incnoate rebellion
into a civil war. If tne declaration of neu
trality were to be interpreted by
subsequent measures, Mr. Fish well
knows that tLe Finperor of the
French proposed to tiio Lualish Government
a joint mediation which would have involved
recognition of Uontederate independence,
France and every other State afforded hospi
tality to the Confederate cruisers, and the
Alabama sailed from Cherbourg on the very
day on which Bhe was sunk. Mr. X ish asserts,
without a shadow of foundation, tnat the
English proclamation of neutrality conferred
the character of a man-of-war on a vessel
which would otherwise have been a pirate;
yet it is evident that the act of the English
Uovernment, even if it bad in any way at.
fected the character of tne vessel, could pos
sess only municipal validity, 'lne French Gov.
eminent, therefore, either reoeived a pirate
into its ports, or repeated the English process
of converting the Alabama into a legitimate
cruieer.
In its overbearing tone, and in its disregard
to international law, Mr. Fisb's despatch re
sembles the state papers by which Napoleon
was in tne nabit 01 pr elating ms invasions;
and more especially the extravagant series of
despatches v Men were addressed to tne rope,
The Emperor threatened to dethrone Pius
YII for not taking active measures against
excommunicated English heretics in the same
spirit in which Mr. Fish resents English want
of 6y apathy with' an anti-slavery policy
which, at the time in question, had bem
solemnly and repeatedly disclaimed by the
American Government. The piety of Napo
leon I and the philanthropy of General
Grant, are entitled to equal respect. It is as
unprofitable as it is painful to argue against
accusations which are not intended to be juut.
English writers can only repeut again and
again the unanswered refutation of
the charges which are preferred with
continually increasing virulence by ofti
cial personages and by volunteers. Mr.
Bemis, who has taken nn activo part in the
controversy since it first commenced, has
lately: published a pamphlet, not so muoh
against England as in depreciation and cen
sure of Mr. lieverdy Johnson. Witn a care
lessness unworthy of a lawyer, Mr. Bemis,
throughout his essay, confounds the lnstruo
tions given to a Minister with his full powers;
and accordingly, when it is recited in the
common form that the Plenipotentiaries
found their respective powers good, he infers
that the English Minister must have known
that Mr. Reverdy Johnson, who had of course
not communicated his confidential instruo
tions, was exceeding his authority. It 1 un
necessary for Mr. Bemis to prove that the
Senate has a constitutional right to confirm or
reject any convention. The question is
whether the English nation has a
right 'to complain of ' the exercise - of
an indisputable power. Now - the
Senate exceptionally ratified the nouiina
tion of Mr. Reverdy Johnson with full
knowledge that he would be instructed to
treat on the principles repeatedly propounded
by Mr. Seward. It is unnecessary to inquire
whether Mr, Reverdy Johnson oonformed to
his instructions tn negotiating the first con
vention with Lord Stanley, for Mr. Bemis
admits that the convention with Lord Claren
don, which was afterwards, rejected by the
Senate, embodied Mr. Seward's intentions
and received his approval. With Mr. Bemis'
sneers at the publio character and position of
Mr. Reverdy Johnson Englishmen nave noth
ing to do. It is a new doctrine that a Govern,
raent receiving a foreign Minister is bound to
look behind Lis letters of credit to Lis per
sonal pretensions; yet Mr. Reverdy Johnson
could have stood the test at least as woll as
any of Lis predooeusors. Whon, a short time
before his appointment, he was treated with
characteristic insolence by a foul-monthed
mannger of the impeachment, the entire
Senate resented the affront, and approvod of
Mr. Johnson's dignified rebuke of the offen
der. Though a Democrat, he had been em
ployed in confidential missions by Mr. Lin
coln; he was universally respected by a
Senate which contained a large majority of
his political opponents, and he was perhaps
the first lawyer in the United States. Mr.
Bemis, in his blind partisanship, forgets that
the American Government oan never send a
representative abroad who will not be equally
open to criticism. Lord .Stanley and Lord
Clarendon treated the American Minister as
the representative of the President, and the
President as the Chief Magistrate of the Re
public It was only after the aocession of an
other President that Lord Clarendon deolined
to enter on fresh negotiations until Mr. John
son had received instructions from the incom
ing Government. There is every reason to
believe that the Senate, and more especially
the Chairman of Foreign Relations, had in
tended to procure by the appointment of Mr.
Johnson the arrangement which he actually
concluded.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
THE
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION,
Prom th$ If. 1'. Herald.
The great Republican party is very far from
being united on important questions of publio
policy. In fact there are two well-defined
parties and several little tactions or rings
under the same political organization making
war upon one another. Even the administra
tion of General Grant, which all combined to
bring into power and which has held tho reins
of government less than a year, fails to unite
or control the party. While there is a desire
to hold the party together and to make the
administration the bond of union, there are
really no cohesion and no general principles
of publio policy upon which the factions and
cliques can unite. This is seen on the very
important question the greatest politioal
question . of the day the restoration
of the Southern States. The debate
and votes in both houses of Congress
on the question of restoring Virginia show
that the prominent leaders as well as the He
publican members generally are widely di.
vided. There is a fierce struggle between
thoEe who advocate a moderate and conserva
tive policy who would admit Virginia as she
presents nerselt for admission, and wno
wish to see reconstruction promptly com.
pleted and those who are for imposing more
disabilities and restrictions upon the South
ern States. It is a fight between the extreme
radicals, of whom Sumner in the Senate and
Butler in the House ara leaders, and the con
servative Republicans. This difference is ex
aggerated, too, no doubt, by the personal
rivalry and feeling of leading members. The
administration is with the conservatives on
the question of restoring Virginia and the
other Southern States. In fact, the Presi
dent proclaimed this policy in his message to
Congress, and thus luid it down as the plat
form of the party. Yet we see the radical
division of tlie party ignoring tne views or
wish of the President, and showing a strength
in Congress which the administration and
conservative Republicans combined may find
it hard to overcome.
Then, again, we see one of the most promi
nent Republicans in Congress, and the chair
man of the Committee on Appropriations, Mr,
Dawes, attacking the administration for its
extravagance and for breaking its promises to
the country in the matter of economy. His
speech in the Ilouko on Tuesday on this sub
ject was most damaging. He was fearless
enough to say the truth, however much it
might hurt the administration or the party to
which he belongs, lie denounced all the
members of the Cabinet for violating pledges
to the people and for reckless extravagance,
except Attorney-General lloar. This excep
tion of A Mr. lloar, however, amounts to
nothing, as the Attorney-General's office has
little to do with the expenditure of the publio
money, and does not require muoh to carry on
its operations. Mr. .Dawes paid particular
attention to the large and reckless estimates
of the Hfcretarv of the Navv and of the Post
master- General, and his censures were well
sustained by figures. The book of estimates,
he said, for the next hsoal year contained ap
propriations for publio works of f 24,(;23,17J,
against appropriations for the same objeots
last year ot i,4Viy,uoo. lie showed that the
Republican party had come into power by its
assaults upon the profligate expenditures of
Andrew Johnson's administration and upon
its professions of reform and economy: vet.
he said, the estimate to carry on the Govern
meut for the next year was an increase of
$28,000,000 over the amount required by
Andrew Johnson, and of $4!),028,5a7 over the
amount appropriated for the present year,
ah mis snows that the professions of econo
my by the Republican party in Congress and
11; T
xiepuuucan administration were insincere,
and were only used as political capital to get
the votes of a credulous and victimized pub
lic -
Lookrng at the division in the dominant
party .on vital questions of publio policy,-at
its violated promises and shortcomings, at its
reckless extravagance, at its want of defined
principles in the management of publio
uffiiirs, and at its indifference with regard to
smiiioi tin g the administration it has chosen,
we are naturally led to inquire what prospect
there is of perpetuating its power, and what
chance there may be for the opposition party,
Thero was a positive issue on the slavery
question the one, in fact, which brought
the Republicans into power as there was.
too, in the prosecution of the war; but
neither exists any longer. The Republi
cans, however, have used the slavery
agitation and tho war for political
capital long after the questions were settled
and until they are worn out. The people are
. - t 3 1 - 1 - - 1 1 aI
ureu oi mem, uuu jooa tor inner questions or
lKturs that bear upon the present and future,
In this respect the dominant party does not
meet the wants and expectations of the coun
try; for, as was said, it has no positive polioy
no plafform of principles, and no unity or
col ebiveness beyond that which the spoils of
office give. W bo, then, is to govern this
great i country ? What party can take the
pluce of .the one in power ? Are we to drift
along in this negative way without prinoi
pies and statesmen, or shall we have a party
with- a defined policy, that will represent the
sentiment of the country and the living issues
or me dayr
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE
- ! .TELEGRAPHERS' STRIKE.
ft,m the y. Y, Trmt. -
- The peremptory and contemptuously brief
notification by R. W. Tape, "G. C. O." of
the Telegraphers' League, to the Western
Union operators, forms a melancholy com
ment upon a transaction whioh will not soon
be forgotten by those concerned. He curtly
tells them that he has "canvassed the situa
tion," and believes that to oontinue the strike
is ''useless. 'r ' And he further 'absolves'
tLciu ; from their oath, advisiny them at the
feme time to return to their work. Thus
term) nates a struggle which oould only have
one result, that of injury to a large class of
employes, who have lost time aud money, and
in many cases occupation. It is on their ac
count fortunate that the company, while it
was put to temporary inconvenience in trans
acting its business, has shown good feeling
from the beginning, and has recognized the
fact that blind confidence and want of judg
ment led the operators into a step the mo
tives for ordering which they were not per
mitted to understand, and the conseauences
of which they might have foreseen, but did
not.
And yet a little reflection would have pre
vented all this. The members of the Leaaue
might have known that the organization was
based upon two principles, whioh at onoe
gave to it a sinister and dangerous relation
towards themselves. It was secret and oath
bound. It conferred irresponsible authority
upon, as it now appears, one person. The
first of these conditions was humiliating, in
view of its objeot. It was intended to seoure
that good faith and truth which the organi
zers could not, they implied, leave to the in
dividual private honor of the members, and
in that sense was an insult. The strike was
ordered as no other that we ever heard of has
been. A reason was given, which, if true,
was insufficient, but which, being substan
tially false, left the real motive in tho dark.
We can understand and sympathize with an
important labor movement, the preliminaries
of which are discussed, and which is impelled
by some manifest wrong. But the tele
graphers strike was of a totally different cha
racter it waB not a labor movement at all,
properly so called. It was a conspiracy for a
secret purpose, and that purpose not the ulti
mate benefit of its victims. The trades'
unions appear to have seen this, and hence
the very partial aid which they were disposed
to render.
The strikers are "absolved" from their
"oath I ' There is something revolting in the
cool ease with whioh that act is consummated
and promulgated. It looks -as if the "G. C,
O." were invested with attributes scarcely
vouchsafed to ordinary human beings. lie
holds the power to bind and to loose within
the hollow of his hand. An obligation which
those who took it upon themselves no doubt
regarded ts possessiag a sacred character, be
treats as a mere farce. It is to be presumed
tnat tne telegraphers, who have been deceived
and greatly injured, will not rest content
without some effort to trace the hidden
springs by which the strike was set in motion,
Home comments by a portion ot tne press
will supply them with a few hints. The out
cry was raise that the Htrike was the result of
a monopoly, very little was Baid of the re
muneration oi employes, nor 01 any injus
tice to wnicn tney may nave been subjected.
But the argument was directed against a par
ticular company, wmcn was asserted to be an
unjust monopoly, and, as such, should be
crushed. The inquiry- naturally follows
whether the strike was not forced with a view
of benefiting nome ulterior scheme by embar
rassing an existing Interest. Possibly the
wire-pulling was done at a considerable dis
tance from Han Francisco, and possibly, also,
tnere were some persons engaged in it or
whom the publio little dream at yet. A dis
closure of the facta with reference to these
points would prove very interesting.
Meanwhile, tne strike being ended, thero
remains the counting of the cost incurred,
and the advantages gained. The first is made
up of direct loss of money, and we fear some
what of the confidence of the employers. It
will take some time to restore the latter, aud
the former cannot be replaced. As to the
advantages, there are none, unions indeed
the exposure of an unprincipled set of orga
nizers be reckoned as one. The best way for
the operators now is to endeavor to efface
the recollection cf their mistake, by renewed
zeai at meir amies. And, as nas been re
peatedly said, the company considers them
more Binned against man sinning, and is
willing to let the dead past be forgotten as
far as may be. More than this the telegraphers
could not ask; there are instances enough
where a less frank and really generous treat
ment has been resorted to.
A BUGABOO DISPOSED OF.
Front the X. Y. World,
There is one looming but unsubstantial
difficulty in the way of a reform of tha tariff.
it is uie tear leic by tne ignorant and pre
tended by the protectionists that to lower
duties may be to deprive us of necessary
revenue. The high-tariff men menace with
this calamity of an empty publio purse suc
cessively the advocates of this reduotion and
of that, and the Ways and Means Committee
permit themselves grudgingly to yield a trine
here and a fraction there, taking on airs of
patriotism for such good guardianship of the
people's fiso. Their negligence or incompe
tency is aiagracei ui. A budget can ba
framed, and it is at any rate somebody's busi.
ness to trame it, wmcn would give us money
i or ail our extravagance, as mucn money as
we now raise, with far less friction and far
less depression of industry, and which would
get iroin dozens oi articles a revenue now
sweated off of thousands.
That this can be done is indinputable. It
is done by Epgland, with a smaller population
than ours and a larger debt. Her statesmen
make an annual budget, spending the strength
of their best intellects freely to lift the bur
den oi taxation a in tie on one place, or
wholly off in another. The men who occupy
tne liignest places or statesmen in Washing.
ton recommend that no change be made this
year in a tariff which is idiotic for Us stu
pidity as a means of revenue, cruel for its
exactions, plundering in its protection, and
which slaughters many millions of dollars'
worth of domestio industry to heap tip ' for
squandering a few millions of dollars of
publio surplus.
An actual surplus, we say; and vet this
fear of the ignorant that to lower the tariff
may deplete ns of needful revenue, is the
main i defense of the protectionist against
that wrath of the people which wonld other
wise be surely aroused, and would sweep
away this most disastrous fetter of the coun
try a industries.
" Doubtless, to such timorous souls it is not
sufficient to say that lower duties would raise
more revenue, and that if fewer articles bore
an impost . many more dollars would be paid
into our custom-houses. This is one of the
paradoxes of free trade, or rather of eoonomie
truth, which some people have forgotten to
learn whilst educating their emotions to flow
out supremely towards black ruea and
brethren. . High competency in the sentU
mental politics of the last thirty years is no
guarantee of ability in the business politics of
the next decade. Even Mr. Greeley is in a
State of arrested development, and knows no
more of the established and proved prtnoiplea
of political soouomy to-day than he knew
when I he stopped considering the duty on
coffee to take up what he thought his duty to
Cuffet.. Meanwhile, that science has grown
to foil maturity in wmcn no and most of the
members of the Forty-first Congress ara still
as ignorant as infants. ,
-T he bugaboo of a deficit so it comes to
1 paswis less easily exploded by reasoning
which Congressmen do not know enough to
understand, than by a simple experiment in
budget-making, suoh as the Free Trade
League have made. They show just how an
abundant revenue can be got on what arti.
cles duties may be laid, and how heavily, to
get all the money we need without throttling
innumerable domestic industries, an now.
W rmiT it nlnnwhAre. not for the nnroosn of
expressing the World's approval of it as the
best possible budget, but for the purpose of
making Congressmen to understand, and all
fearful souls elsewhere to understand, tnat it
if one of forty possible budgets, any one of
them Incomparably better than the present
oppressive, swindling, stupid tariH.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
jgJT OFFICE OF WELLB, FAKOU CUM-
rAHY, rto. n DHUiunAi, nun luutv,
etmbcr SS, 1W. Notice i hereby Riren, that tha Tmnfer
Book of Woll, Fro Compinjr will bo CLOSKDon
thelPth day of JANUARY, 1S70, at S o'clock P. M .to
enable tho Company to ascertain who are owner of the
took of the old Ten Million Capital. The ownen of that
tock will be entitled te participate In the distribution
of aMota pioviiled for by the agreement witn the
I'eciflo Kxprtu Company.
The Tri infer Book will be opened on the 23ddnyof
JANUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M.. after whioh time the
(S,m0,0t0 new Block will be deliTered.
Notice is also a-Wen that the Transfer Book! of this Corn.
Mm will be CLOSED on the S5th day of JANUARY,
1870, at 8 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of nouiing tne
annual ELK0T1ON OF DIRECTORS of this Company.
The books will be RK OPENED on the 7th day of FEB
RUARY, at 10 o'clock A. H.
12 SI tF7 OKOROR K. OTIS, Seoretary.
-
fiKff- THE ENTEKrKISK INSt KAMt'lfi
COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA. Offioe, No.
400 Walnut street. ...
lanuary n, mn.
At the annual moetinr of the stockholders of the Com.
pany, held on the loth day of January, the following (en.
tlenmn were eleoted Directors for the ensuing year;
r. Katcmord Ktarr, uonn n. nrown,
x' 1 1 ... L' -: -
J. L. Krriturer.
John M. At wood.
William O. Houlton,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas H. Montgomery,
Tamea M. Aartnen.
rienjamln I . Treaiok,
James L. Clagborn,
Ueorge ti. btuart,
At a meeting of
the Board of Direotors, held this day.
F. Ratohford Ht
arr was re-elected President and Thomas
H. Montgomery re-elected Vice President.
1 ututhatft. AIltA. vt. VYiBTB.it, peorotary.
IttfS- OFFICE OF TI1K KEKUOM IKON
AND BTEEL COMPANY, No. 80 South THIRD
Htreet. ... .
Tha annnal meeting of the (stockholders of the KRKK-
1-HH.arnixrinA. Jan. 17. imv.
DOM IRON ANDbTKRL COMPANY will be held at
the Oflice of the Company, No. 230 South THIRD Street,
Philadelphia, on TUUhSDAY, February 8, 1H70, at 12
o'clock M., when an Election will be held tot Thirteen
Diriwitma to anrve for the enauinff Tear.
1 he Transfer Books will be closed lor fifteen days prior
to trie day of said election.
Bg9- OFFICE OF THE BELVlUlSKiS M.AJN t
i) ... v T ti..- a loan
Notice Is hereby frtrpn to tha stockholders of the HKL
riDKRK M A H LI ACTURINU OO M t A N Y resnectiTely.
that sstewmeots amounting to SIXTY PER OKNIUM
of tha cnoital stock of aaid comDany have been made and
cnyme
nyinent ot tne same caiiea lor on or oeiore tne eigatn
riuv of February. A
D. 1H70. and that payment of suoh
I tt
proportion of all sums of raone;
called for and demanded front them on or before the aaid
oy mem auosonoea is
timo.
12 28ew 8. Stl'KRRKRD. Secretary.
Kv nrnar M lha RnArfl nt Tlivootftrn
tj OFFICE OF THE CUT TKKASUKKK,
Philadelphia, Deo. 23, 1869. Warrants registered
to No. (P.OCO will be paid on presentation at this office, In
terest ceasing from date.
iiua. r. nAKucn,
J228 City Treasurer.
jgy- PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD CO.. Office, No. 337 S. FOUR TH Street.
Phtlapf.lfhia, Deo. 82, 19t$.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed on
FRIDAY, the 81st instant, and reopened on TUESDAY
January 11, 1870..
A dividend of FIVE FER CENT, has been declared on
the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National anl
State taxes, payable in CASH, on and after January 17,
1870, to the holders thereof as they shall stand registered
on the books of the Company on the 81st Instant. AU
payabUat this office. All ordora for dividend must be
witnessed and stamped. S. BRADFORD,
12 22 60t Treasurer.
jftgy BATCIIELOR 8 HAIR DYE. THE
bat in ih irorf.f -doS not oontain lead no vitriol
poisons to paralyze the system or produce death. ' it
ptrj'toitu harmle reliable intatiinetwn. Avoid the
vaunted ana delusive preparations Doasting virtues tney
do not possess, if you would escape the danger. The
genuine W. A. Betchelor's Hair Dye A'" tliirh yrart' rrpti.
Ialim to uphold its integrity. Sold by Druggists. Appliod
at no. in bujnu otreet, . i. xj mwij
jgj- THERE'S NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT
If you are in want of a prime article of either Le
high or hchujikill Coal, visit the great northern depot of
J. C. HANCOCK. N. W. corner of NINTH and MASTKR
Streets. The Coal furnished by Mr. Hanoouk is carefully
screened and picked, and full weight guaranteed to every
purchaser. He ia the nrst to lower and the lost to raise
the price, hence those who atromze him buy at the
lowest possible rates. i a wsmow
COLD WEATIIER DOES NOT CnAr
vr iTTiiifurju uo saiu aiii usiiim vv u a ct au
CONATKD ULYCKRINB TABLET Ok" SOLIDIFIED
GLYCERINE. Its daily use makes the akin delicately
eon ana beauuiui. eoia by an aruggisia.
tH Wo. 624 OHKSNUT Street.
xt. A U. A. WK1UHT.
tgy COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION
KITROIIS OXIDE. OR LAUGHING OAS.
And devote their whole time end practice to extracting
teetn without pain.
(Jlflcs. K1UH1H I
and WALNUT Street.
UK
gy DR. F. K. THOMAS, THE LATE OPE
rator of the Colton Dental Association, is now the
only one in Philadelphia who devotee his entire time and
esh nitrons onus gaa. umoe. mi WAumrat, i n
t- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
8ABLNK. A
J A rli A 1. JUft.UUU.lAA.
lHJLT.FS, Arenta,
I WALNUTBtraet
FIFTH and
WINES AND LIQUORS.
HER MAJESTY.:
CHAMPAGNE.'
DUMTorj Lussorc.
215 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
rrBE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE 13
A solicited to the following very Choice Wines, etc,
tor sale py
1 llUII ltin M LiUBBUfl,
816 SOUTH DKONT BTRKET.
OHAMPAUNK8. Aa-enta for her Alaieatv. Dae de
Blontebello, Carte Bleue, Carta rtlanobe, and Charles
Farre'a Grand Vin Kusenie. and Vin Iiuueriai. M. Klse-
niiniUa.ul Mayenoe. Huarklina- MoaalU and HJ1IN1C
WINKS.
M adkikan. uia island. Boutn Hide Keaerva.
K11KH.R1KH.K. Kniiolphe. Amontillado. Tonac. Val.
tette, rale ana iioiaen uer, uiown, ete.
(J1.ARKT8.- l'romis Aine A Cie.. ManUorrand and Bor
fiiu'i vinna veino ileal. aiiuite. ana urovn.
deaui.Clsretaana naaterne Wines
BRANDliUJ. Hennessey, Otard, Dupuy A OVt vnrioae
vuita.ee. ' e
c
AR8TAIRS A MoO ALL,
Nee. 13S WALNUT and 81 GRANITE Streets,
Importers of
BRAKDIKS, WINKS, GIN, OLIVE OIL, KTO.,
I . AMD
' COMMISSION MERCHANTS
I For the sale of
PURK OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHIS-
1 1 tU at aVl ft..
AB STAIRS' OLIVE OIL-AN INVOICE
J oi the above lor sale by
OARSTATRS A McOATX.
1 88 2p Noa. 138 WALNUT and 11 URANITK UU.
PIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE
J. WATSON A SON,
IjOf the late Una oi EVANS A WATSON.
PIRE AND BURGLAR-PRO OF
B A F B S X O KB
NO. 53 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
Sit
A few doors a hers Oneonnt St., Philat
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oils;1
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QENT.'S FURNISHING POOPS.
pATBNT BIIOUIiDBIt-SKAM
SUIKT MANUFACTORY,
AND OENTLBMKNTJ FURNISHING 8TORJBL ,
PERFRCTLT FITTING 8HIRT8 AN1) DRAWKRT
maxle from mcaanremout at vrrv short nottoe.
All other srttolRS of - GNTJLKjMN S DHBg
GOODS la fall variety.
ft No. IM ClifMNUT Slreet.
11
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voa
' ; GENTLEMEN.
J. W. SCOTT & CO.,
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M
t tTSrp oar doors below Continental Hotel.
LEOAUJMOTIOES.
"IN
X ci
THE ORPITAN8' COURT FOR THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF PHII.AUKI.PHI A.
Kstnta of JOHN H. DRAPK.lt. doMMl.
Tha Auditor antminted br the Conrt to audit, settle, and
kdjtiot the account of KUMUNI) DHAPuR and
nuniuir DHAI-K.K, vrno'o.i of juttn It. JJK&t'Kfi,
under the wilt of JOHN DRAPER, deceased,
and to report distribution of the balance in
the hands of the accountant, will meet the par
tie intereated, for the pnrpoee of his appointment, oa
MONDAY, January M, 1H7U, at i o'clock H. M , at bia
office, southeast oncnerof WALNUT and BiXTll Streets
(aooond tloor, la the city of Philadelphia,
1 IS wfmfM Auditor.
D EINO AND SOOUR1NQ.
TOSBPH HI O T T E X,
rj ki.kvf: dr parir,
FRENCH 8TKAM DYKIKU AND SOOURISO,
On any kind of Wearing Appaiel, for Ladies, tients, and
Children. Patent apparatus foe Stretching Pants from
one to tire inches.
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8 4 thstni CHARLES H. EVANS.
STATE BIGHTS FOR SALE. STAT1
Bichte of a valuable Invention last patented, and f
the SLICING, CU1T1NG, and CUD?P1NU of dried beet
eabbaxe, etc, are hereby offered for sale. It is an artioL
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w;ti
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