THE DAILY, EVENING TELEGRArilrniLADELPIIIA, 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY! I8V0.
crxnx? or Tnn mess.
Biatrial Opinion f the lmdin; Jenrnnle
Upon Current Topice Complied Every
Day for the Evening Teleirraph.
REFORM AT THE ELEVENTII HOUR.
from the IT. T. Timet.
It is to be hoped that great practical good
Will result, and that quickly, from the mea
sures which have beea taken for the reform
of the New Uork Bar. Two things are per
fectly obvioiia that these proceedings have
not been adopted a day too Boon, and that
the reformers have a difficult enterprise be
fore them. Externally there are, of course,
no obHtructiona. The stumbling blocks will
present themselves within the boundaries of
the legal profession. The members of the
bar who have met to consider the need of
radical changes are thoroughly in earnest,
but they must know better than other people
how little it would be to the interest of many
of their professional brethren to see the pro
posed reform accomplished. A large propor
tion of Advocates would prefer to carry on a
business subject to nooriticism or supervision.
They are quite satisfied, if not with their pre
sent profits, at least with the way in which
those profits are made. It would greatly inter
fere with their "connection" to compel them
to conform with any code of honor save the
very peouliar one which they invented for
themselves, and which is based npon the ideas
of their worst clients.
The reformers will have to fight against
the open opposition of some, and the silent
and sullen resistance of many more. But
they ought not to be deterred by this pros
pect from endeavoring to free their profession
from the dark and grievous scandal which
has gathered so thiokly npon it. No respect
able man wonld voluntarily rest under the
odium which is popularly associated with
the New York bar. The public cannot
rightly apportion the blame between indi
viduals. It can only look at affairs of this
kind in the mass and from the outside. It
has the best of reasons for knowing that
never did bench and bar stand lower in the
estimation of civilized mankind than the
Bar and bench of New York city. The mem
bers who do not deserve to be involved in the
general condemnation owe it to themselves
to come forward and let their dissatisfaction
be known. The judges may look npon the
act with displeasure, but the time is fast
coining when the bench itself will be unable
to exist in its present degraded state before
the torrent of indignation which is rising
Steadily against it.
With regard to the precise means by which
the bar is to be 'purified," the members who
conferred together on Tuesday did wisely to
begin at the beginning. They put forward
the claim that they ought to have more con
trol over admissions to the bar, and that the
laws "whichhave made access to the bar as
easy as to the theatre" ought to be abolished.
This touches the root of the evil. When any
body and everybody can be a member of the
bar, what distinction er honor can it confer ?
What seourity is there against the admission
of unworthy and incapable men ? A positive
and unerring safeguard of . this nature it
would, of course, be very hard to devise. The
bar in all countries has contained men who
were a disgrace to it. But it is quite possible
to set up a partial test. A few years ago it was
found that a preliminary examination kept
away a very undesirable class of applicants
from the English bar. It had formerly been
the custom to admit any one to an Inn of
Court as a student, provided the applicant
paid certain fees, and complied with certain
easy conditions. But afterwards an examina
tion was ordered before the applicant could
be admitted even as a student. It was not a
very severe examination: but it acted as a sort
of filter, and kept out men of the very class
who in this city flock to the bar for the ex
press purpose of making it an instrument of
corruption. An extension ot mat system nere
would certainly be productive or good results,
Furthermore, it is quite practicable to plaoe
in the bands of the bar itself greater power to
punish those who are bringing it to disgrace
The reformers must agree upon the exact ma
chinery to be employed, but the end is as
suredly not unattainable.
No matter npon what measures they deter
mine, we cannot but wish them suocess. A
noble profession has been dragged in the
dust, and the injury wnicn tne public Has
sustained in consequence can scaroely be
overestimated. A man who consults with
lawyer ought to be able to trust in his honor
as thoroughly as he would in that of his
physician. Every one knows that there are
many members of the bar here who are so
trusted. The speakers at the meeting on
Tuesday night, and the names plaoed upon
the committee, are examples of this higher
class. But there are also lawyers occupying a
high position who have sold for a mess of
pottage the heritage which they ought to
have preserved. They cannot barter their
good names without suffering the penalty
in the loss of publio esteem. It is an advo
cate's duty to give his services in all casbs
which do not involve his personal dishonor;
but there are members of the New York bar
who have disregarded that limitation. The
time has arrived for making them sensible of
the offense they have oommitted. The com
munity is at length aroused to a full percep
tion of the dangers which menace it in conse
quence of a corrupt judiciary and a depraved
bar. The bonds which hold civilized sooiety
together are going to pieces. We are living
as if in a state of siege, our masters being
the outcasts of every nation and people on
the face of the earth. All that happens to a
murderer now is to be kept in gentle confine
ment at the public expense. The publio, we
may depend upon it, will have no more of
this vast abuse. Every fresh crime stirs up
a deeper feeling. With civil justice it is the
" same. The people are weary of seeing judges
and counsel joining with chartered swindlers
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in one common league against law ana rig at.
It was inevitable that an end should come to
so monstrous .a confederation. We believe
that above the din and confusion which at
present engage the men's attention we already
discern tne beginning 01 me enu.
TOE REIGN OF CRIME.
From the If. Y. Herald.
Nothing in the history of Christian cities
the worst capitals in the worst ages of the
past can equal or approaoh the dreadful
prevalence of crime in this metropolitan
shamble. Scarcely a day passes without its
frightful story. Our city news is just now
only spared chronicling two more murders,
similar in character to the Townsend batohery,
by the failure of the murderous aim in both
cases. Already in the one month of this year
we have chronicled a murder or attempted
mnrriar for every day in the month and not
one of these orimes but seems inspired by a
spirit or nenciwn savagery equal to the worst
act men or devils could conceive. It is not
only that the pistol and the knife are on all
hands the ready arbiters of every difference,
but it is almost as if some general madness
to kill had taken possession of certain classes,
and as if this frenzy rioted in the certainty
that the indulgence of its impulses was abso-1 it before the people, and sound views of poli
lutely safe. The worst feature of all those I tieal economy. Even the conservative papers
crimes is the readiness with whioh violators of bis section approve the ehoioe. belierlna
of the law pnsh miaor offenses to the enor- ,
mity of murder. Here is an old man in Hud- f
son street wnoreiusos to naroor a rogue inni
comes into his bouse, and thU refusal invites
a death-blow. He keeps his eye so closely on
the Intruder into his little shop that no ohanoe
is afforded for the theft he went to commit.
Ordinarily we might suppose a thief thus
foiled woidd go away and ply his craft else
where. But no; he stays and murders where
he cannot BteaL To him there is no differ
ence between thehe crimes. He would as
soon commit one as the other. He is equally
ready to extend his hand to take a watch' or
take a life. He would as leare strike as
bandy words, and recks not at the thought
that the hand that strikes is armed with what
will make it unnecessary to repeat the blow.
He has a temper so desperate and savage as
not to be appalled by any consequence of
what he may do. The men who shot at the
plumber in his doorway the other night sent
the bullet intended to murder him as their
answer to some speech of his. In a recent
murder in a rum-shop, never yet investigated,
the fatal bullet was a retort in a discussion.
It is bo through the catalogue; and this
readiness to kill is bo notorious that citizens
hesitate to interfere with lawlessness or vio
lence of any sort, for a word may oripple a
man for life, and an affray is certain death.
It appears to ns that the first cause of the
outburst of crime hore is the vindictive, vio
lent, desperate character of the ruffians of this
city, and their readiness to assert and perform
their own outrageous purposes, not only in
defiance of all law and order, but with abso
lute disregard to the extremity of the steps
they may take and the consequences that may
ensue. But what is it that has within a few
years thus given the reins to the fury of these
murdering wretches? It is their conscious
ness of immunity; their diseovery of the enor
mous power that they wield in our corrupt
political system, in virtue of which power it
is impossible to punish them; the repeated
connivance in their escape of all the authori
ties, from the polioeman in the street to the
judge bn the benoh; the state of the law,
the state of the administration of justice
in this city, and the state of the publio
mind with regard to the death penalty.
Scarcely less guilty than the murderers them
selves are the so-called philanthropists who
have unsettled the publio mind with regard to
the propriety of capital punishment, inese
lunatic teachers of free love, who have broken
down the morality of society in their assaults
on the institution of marriage, have also
broken down the great barrier of safety to
human life in undermining the only penalty
that appalls the thought of the murderer.
Without the weakening effect that the doc
trines of these persons have had on the pub
lio mind, it would never have been possible
for judges to so scout justice and for all the
authorities to so connive at the escape of mur
derers as they have done. Then consider the
direct effect of these lessons on tne murderers.
"Hanging for murder is played out," there
fore murder on never stint your will;
keep the tools plying till "the heart shall be
merely a strop for the knife." For murder
there is at worst an imprisonment of a few
years. For theft there is alno an imprison
ment of a few years. Now, the criminal
classes distinguish between crimes only by
the results to themselves tne penalty; there
fore, they read this the same punishment
the same crime. Hence the butcher Bream
believes that for what he did in Hudson
street he will have a few years in prison, just
the same as he might if he had stolen the
old grocer's till. He is ready for that, but
he "does not want to dio."
But though the state of the publio mind on
this topic has rendered it possible for corrupt
judges to trifle with the safety of society
without danger to themselves, yet nothing
excuses, nothing can in the least degree pal
liate, the heinous offenses that have been
committed here in shielding murderers by the
very machinery contrived for the administra
tion of justice. Our city is corrupt and rot
ten with the guilt of this offense. The
judge's ermine is dabbled in the blood of the
citizen, and he holds his place, not to protect
society, but to protect its foes.
SENATOR REVELS.
;From th Albany Journal.
The election of Dr. Revels, a colored man,
to the United States Senate' from Mississippi,
presents in direct and practical form a ques
tion arising naturally under the reconstructed
condition of the South, it was not to be sup
posed that the colored race, admitted to
equality of civil rights and politiool privileges
by the fundamental law, would be content to
exercise the merest elementary functions or
citizenship to satisfy themselves with voting
white men into office, ana resist the desire
and temptation to seek for themselves the
honors and emoluments of publio station. In
South Carolina and Mississippi, for instance,
the black population is equal in numbers to
that of whites. It embraces many shrewd,
intelligent, ambitious men. hucu persons
naturally secure the conndence and support
of their own class, and the wish to be repre
sented to them must be instinctive. Thus we
find that the reconstructed Legislatures
invariably had many negro members,
Nor has the experiment of fusion been at
tended with bo many difficulties as were
anticipated, in ueorgia, a special occasion
of trouble arose, through the judicial louy and
blindness of the Democracy. But in North
and South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana,
the freedmen legislatoi s have acted with sueh
moderation and wisdom as to command re
spect, allowing themselves to be guided by
principles of sound statemauship, avoiding
all extremes, and evidencing an eagerness to
prove themselves worthy of the high trusts
bestowed upon them. So far as State admin
istration is concerned, the problem may be
considered settled. JJut we have yet to see
the black man taking part in affairs of the
National Government, oooupying a seat in
Congress, and impressing himself upon the
Federal policy. Can the barriers of custom
and the prejudices of race be sufficiently
overoome to render persons of color weloome
in the halls of the beuate and House of He pre
sentatives ? And will they be able to hold
their own in a competition with the intellect
and political ability or the raoe that has
heretofore held exclusive control in matters
of state ?
The election of Dr. Revels presents this
issue in a striking form, alike from the ex
alted nature of the office to which he lays
claim, and from his own personal character
istics. No doubt he is an admirable type of
the more intelligent colored people. He his
enjoyed the advantages "of a superior oolle-
giate eduoation, 01 service in tne puipit, ana
practice as a professor of medicine. He has
mingled much, with men, under favorable
circumstances, and gained a good practical
knowledge . respecting "the ways of the
world." In a successful canvass for1 the
' State Senate of : Mississippi, be developed
in speeches and letters a large amount
of information, great ability in patting
as they do that no other leading member of
the Republican party would be more likely -to
advocate a policy of moderation, crenerositv.
and mutual forbearance. lie will certainly
be more devoted to the welfare of the coun
try, and prove a truer exponent of the
people's interests, than was Jeff Davis when
he ooenpied the seat to which the Dootor has
been chosen. If colored - members are to
figure hereafter in the proceedings of the
United States Senate, it does not seem possi
ble to have selected one better fitted to inau
gurate the practice.
The point is made that Hovels is disqua
lified under that provision of the Constitution
whioh requires that a Senator shall have been
for nine years a resident of the United States.
This resuscitates the dictum of Judge Taney
in the Dred Seott case, that a negro was not
a citizen, and assumes that he became suoh
only by virtue of constitutional amendment
in 1866. But the practiee of the majority in
Congress has been to regard all persons as
citizens who are natives of the Union, and
the disqualification is held applicable only
to aliens, who are invested with the suffrage
itself through processes of naturalization.
Even if the other view were taken, precedent
is against a literal application of the theory.
When Texas was annexed, and when
California was admitted, their inhabit
ants had been foreigners, yet they
were immediately aooorded representa
tion in the Senate and House, notwithstand
ing the requirement of nine years citizenship
for one and seven years for the other body.
A similar plan will no doubt be pursued
towards the reconstructed States. If Dr.
Revels is denied hisjseat,the pretense may be
set up that he is legally disqualified, but the
fact will be that his color operates as a bar
against admission. In view of the long and
successful fight whioh the Republican party
has made for civil equality, it does not seem
probable that the majority in the Senate will
care to assume this ground. The test must
be made some time better have it come
while the friends of the colored race control
all departments of the Government, and while
they are likely to have the encouragement of
sympathy and fair play.
SENSATION IN JOURNALISM.
From the X T. World.
The Chicago Tribune has an article upon
some recent remarks of ours touching this
topic. Its observations, though just enough
in the main, show that that journal entirely
misapprehends the point or the artiole to
which it replies. That may be its fault, or
ours. - In pleading for a fuller treatment in
newspapers of whatever concerns sooiety, and
a freer admission to them or sooial topios
which concern all men and women, while
politics, whioh is the staple subject of their
chronicles and controversies now, is of in
terest to only a moiety of men and to no
women, we by no means meant to limit that
treatment to such cases as were offenses
against society. The Tribune considers that
we meant to promote the practice of
detailing "an act of seduction, adultery,
or rape.'' Such things may be the
only interesting social topics in Chicago, and
the lnbunt is naturally led to the assump
tion that they are everywhere. But we be
to assure it that the "relation of the sexes.
which we spoke of as being a subject of uni
versa! interest, is not confined to acts of
"seduction, adultery, or rape" in New York.
Those are very lamentable and very excep
tional excrescences here from the social sys
tem. And it is, among other things, that
they might be as inconsiderable in Chicago as
they are here, and that they might be lessened
everywhere, that we urged the discussion of
our social system; of which our politioal sys
tem, so extensively and in more senses than
one exhaustively dtucussed, forms only a part
in the newspaper press.
The laws which Congress or a State Legis
lature makes touch us at only a few points,
and it is quite possible that a peaceable man
may pass a lifetime without being brought
into direct relations with them, or even being
aware oi the existence of the vast majority or
them. But the unwritten laws of social cus
tom form a web which envelops us all, of both
sexes, from the cradle to the grave, and which
is quite as stringent and immeasurably more
important than the shackles of statutory in
junction or prohibition, let, led by a tooiisn
tradition, journalism, which ought to be the
abstract and brief chronicle of the time in
everyway, devotes itself to harping exclusively
upon measures of legislation which have no
other efficiency than what they derive from
being the mere registration of publio opinion,
and leaves untitled the vast neid or society.
Hence their readers are confined te one sex,
and an addiction to newspapers on the part
of a woman afflicts ns with a sense of incon
gruity and masculinity. She is remitted to
the novel for what interests her, while her
husband finds his pabulum in the newspaper.
It is absurd that this should be so, and it is
certain that it is so. And no wonder, while
the woman finds in the novel what she would
look for in vain in the newspaper state
ments and opinions upon topics which
really concern her life, and in which
she can take a rational interest. And
even a man's interest in a newspaper is lan
guid compared to what it would be it one
topio of a limited human interest were not
treated so as to exclude from the majority
of newspapers, or at least to crowd into a
subordinacy ridiculously below their rightful
pre-eminence, topics of universal human in
terest. There is no more fondness for
fiction, at least theoretically, in the
female than in the male boast. It is not
because the novel is a fiction that women re
sort to it. but because it is to them less ficti
tious, more pertinent, and more interesting
than the newspaper. Mr. Bonner's Ledger is
read bv women for its love-stories. If those
stories were true instead of false, and told of
the man in the next street instead of the man
in the clouds, and told every day instead of
once a week would the interest be less or
greater ? It is astonishing the lack of intel
ligence which has characterized the conduct
ot journalism everywhere on this point,
Why should some beings devote themselves
to getting np new tnunaer aoout things as
tedious as a twice-told tale, when there are
tales never told onoe waiting to be told, and
have the moral drawn from them Unluokily,
what iournals there are devoted to suoh
themes have the mibfortune to be conducted
by blockheads and blackguards who confine
social relations we don't refer to the Chicago
Tribune to aots of "seduotion, adultery, or
rape;"' who, by metonymy from themselves
to tne universe, confound nun mat is, what
interests them with " sensation that is,
what interests everybody and try to esonpe
dullness by sedulously avoiding decenoy
Such papers as they produce, no self-respect
jpg man and no decent woman can take
pleasure in. But the journal of the future
will bo a newspaper in whioh all men and
women can take an honest interest, and from
which they can all derive instruction.
THE ARMY AND ' THE DITLOMATIO
SERVICE.
Ftm tht JT. T. Bun.
All sensible citizens will approve of the
proposition to dismiss from the army suoh
omoers as are realty superfluous. The num
ber of these unnecessary officers amounts, it
is said, to over five hundred, and the saving
to be effected by disuharging them will be
something like a million of dollars a year.
The country Will gain both by the reduction
or the pay-roll, and ry the transfer of five
hundred men from the non-producing to the
producing class; and yet it must not be for
gotten that our relation to this class of publio
servants is very different from our relation
to those of any other class, or that our obli
gations to them are of a mueh more sacred
nature.
But there is another branch of the national
service to wmcn tne pruning knife of re
trenchment could be applied even more pro
fitably than to the army. Indeed, we are sure
that it might better be lopped off altogether.
While we are busy considering what we shall
do with our military men, who have great
claims npon ns for their services during the
war, suppose we look a moment at our costly
and useless amDassaaors aDroaa, who nave no
claims at all. Not one in Congress has yet
introduced a bill to reduce their number or
their emoluments; but if any money was
ever worth saving, it is that which goes for
their support.
For instance, we are paying $17,500 a year
to the Hon. J. Lothrop Motley for the
arduous labor ef living in a fine house in
London, eating no end of good dinners,
toadying the British aristocracy, and occa
sionally delivering a bungling and useless
despatch written here in America by Caleb
Cushing or Sidney Webster, and signed by
Seoretary Fish.
For doing about the same thing in Paris
that Mr. Motif y floes in London, the Hon.
ElihuB. Washburne also gets $17,500 a year.
Fortunately for him, however, the President
is not very exacting in requiring his attend
ance at the Frenoh Court, and lets him off for
months at a time to visit Homburg and other
famous watering-places. When there is any
real work to be done, such as trying to nego
tiate a postal treaty, some Congressman or
other has to be sent out to do it, at an extra
expense of several thousands of dollars. At
Berlin we are paying Mr. George Bancroft
$12,000. At St. Petersburg, Governor Curtin
gets $12,000. To Vienna we have sent Mr,
John Jay, and allow him $12,000. which
enables him to give close atteation to his
wife's father's property, so that none of it may
be snatched away by his "brother-in-law. At
Lisbon we were paying Mr. Shellabarger
$7500, but, like a sensible man, he resigned
and come home, tired of having nothing to
do. The Ministers to Spain, Brazil, Mexico,
China, and Italy also get $12,000 each; those
to Chili and Peru, each $10,000; and those to
twenty-two other countries, $7500 each. The
total amount required for salaries of these
men and their various secretaries of legation,
interpreters, and assistants, is $357,850
year, all of which is invariably paid in gold.
Besides this, $100,000 is appropriated for
contingencies, making the total cost of our
diplomatic service $457,850 in gold, annually.
Now this seems a small sum compared with
the total of our national expenses; but it is
certainly worth saving, and in the course of
time will amount to something handsome. In
ten years it would come to U0O.0OO, in
twenty years to $10,000,000, and soon. We
get nothing for it that is of any value. Our
consuls can do, in ninety-nine cases out of
hundred, all that our ambassadors do, and in
the hundredth case special envoys could be
called into requisition, as they are at present.
Where is the shrewd member of the House
of Representatives to attack this time-hon
ored abuse, and make himself famous as I
genuine economist ? Or will all our states
men prefer instead to turn out of office the
veterans of the war, who have few friends
and few votes at their command ?
MR. SEWARD'S ITINERARY.
Vent the N. T. Tribune.
Our Don-commissioned ambassador will be
home before a great while. He will come to
ns fresh from tne enforced hospitalities of
the negro-traders in Cuba, or he will bring
us word of what the Rood folks of another
island are doing in the name of liberty and
annexation. To drop in upon his old friend
Baez, and to visit his ruffled neighbor Soget,
would be quite in order. An amiable looking
into Hajtien or other affairs would be alto
gether in keeping with Mr. Seward s charac
ter as an inquisitive peace-maker, as the
soother and smoother of the wrinkled front
of grim-vissged revolution.
In the short journey which Mr. Seward
made through Mexico, he may have seen that
picturesque country rather more in the light
of her favoring suns than of her lurid revolu
tions. Clear skies with innumerable moun
tains to rest upon; all nature disposed to be a
picture and to be looked at; all men ready to
be his entertainers, may have seduced Mr.
Seward to a charming oblivion of the distress
ing apology which so tuany actualities in
Mexico are to their pretensions and surround
ings. A much exaggerated country in more
than one respeot, it is both better ana worse,
no doubt, than it seems. But its revolutions
almost surpass calculation, and its pronun-
ciamentos are certainly more common than
shocks of earthquake. When our wander
ing philosopher saw the schools of Guadala
jara, he loudly wondered why any one should
talk ot protecting a people so pertectiy able
to take enre oi themselves. Here was
illusion number one, but sot altogether
an illusion. The Mexicans are dread
fully self-protective, as their innumera
ble pronunciamentos attest, and this
is precisely what ails them. Could they obey
Mr. Juarez, the first long-enduring President
thev have over had, it would bo better for
them, argue one class of reasoners; but then
they must protect themselves even from Mr,
Juarez. Could Mr. Juarez have refrained
from shooting Maximilian and authorizing
the murder of Governor Patoni, it might
have been better for him, argue another class
of observers, in bpanisn-American ques
tions, much may be said against both sides,
It, is undoubtedly true that Mr. Juarez has
presented the most able, the most hopeful,
side of Mexican an airs; but short of belie v
ing in a miracle, it is scarcely possible to
believe that he will oonauct his eountry to
final peaoe. The murderer of Patoni. who
declared that he committed a crime which bis
Government denounced by sealed orders of
tbat Government, is still not brought to
trial, though his fearful crime is more than a
year old. I hat crime, unaoaounted for,
btuins every act of Mr. Juarez, kills every
hope for his country, and still places it before
tbe world on trial for murder in the first
decree.
I Poor Mexico! Iler fate has been a marvel
of tribulation we wish that hor palvation
micht prove one of the miracles of Provi
dence. Her children have none, day after
du v. into st ranee lands, and learned strange
laucuage; but they are not half the aliens to
themselves that their brethren are who de
vour each other in fratricidal insurrections.
On all her Institutions rests the mildew of
suspicion. Something of her truest life has
been frightened into the convents, and sad
dened into the Church, yet around both are
the shadows of calumny and notoriety. Now
comes to us a confirmation of the report that
revolution is active in the States of Mictaoa
can, Queretaro, ruebla. Ban Luis, Onerrero,
and we may have to add Morelos. The situa
tion seems hopeless, romarks a Vera Cru2
paper. Under these circumstances, ' Mr.
Seward must revise his speech to the
pyramid. ..
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Books ot WoUa, Fargo A Company will be CLOSED on
th 1Mb day ot JANUARY. 1870, at o'clock P. M ,(o,
nabla tbo Company to ascertain who are owners ot th
took of tbe old Ton Million Capital. The owners of that
stock will, bo entitled to participate In tbo distribution
of assets provided for by tbe agreement with Uie
Pacific Kxpress Company.
The Transfer Books will be opened on the 33d day of
JANUARY, t 10 o'elook A. M., after whioh time the
(6,000,000 new stock will be delivered.
Notice Is also given tbat tbe Transfer Books of this Corn-
any will be CLOSKD on the t&th day of JANUARY,
1870, at 8 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of holding; the
annual ELECTION OF DIRECTORS of this Company.
Tbo books will be RB-OPENEDon the 7th day of FBB-
R U A RY.at M o elook A. M.
U 81 tF7 UKOKUK K. OTIS, Secretary.
ttgy- OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
PKU.anKT.riru, Jan. 25, 1870.
NOTIOK TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Annual Meetinnef tbe Stockholders of this Com
pany will be held on TUK8DA Y, the 1Mb day ef February,
1870, at 10 o'clock A. U at tbe Hall of the Assembly
BnildisKS, 8. VT. comer of TKNTH and OHK8NUT
Street. Philadelphia.
The Annnal Kleetion for Directors will be held on
MONDAY, the 7th day of March, 1870, at the Offloe of the
Company, No. 838 S. THIRD Btreet.
1 35 Sw JOBKPH LKHIKY, Beoretary.
i OFFICE OF TIIE BELVIDERE MANU-
Kki.vidkrR. N. J.. Dee. 8. W0.
Notice ie hereby riven to the stoekholders of th BRL.
VIDKKK MANUFACTURING COM PAN Y respectively,
that aaeeoiwenU amoantin to BIXTY PKR CKNTUM
of tbe capital stock of said oompany have been made and
Sayment of tbe same called for on or before too eighth
ay of February. A. D. 1H70. and tbat payment of each a
ay of February, A. D. 1H70, and tbat payment of suoh e
proportion of all sums of money by them subscribed is
caued for end demanded nomtnein on or before ue said
lima.
By order of the Board of Directors. ' 1
13 88 4W B. blWCRRKRD, Secretary.
frty I OFFICE OF ST. NICIIOLAS COAL
COMPANY, No. 805M WALNUT Btreet.
Philadelphia. Jan. 3S. 1870.
Notloe is hereby Riven that the Annual Meetinet uf tbe
Btockholderswf the Bt. Nicholas Coal Ooniuanr will be
held at this Office on MONDAY, Feb. 7, at li
o dock M.
An Kleotion for a Board ot Directors will be hold at the
same time and place. -
1 28 Bt R. JOHNSTON, Secretory.
13-1 OFFICE OF TIIE LEIIIGII COAL AND
NAVIGATION OOMPANY.
Tkkahtjrt DsPAttTsntwT, )
PTTTXADKLPHIA, January 31, 1H70.V
Certificates of the Mortgage Loan of this Company,
dneJVIaroh 1, 1870, will be paid to Holders thereof, or
tbeir legal representatives, on presentation at this ofnoe
oa and after that date, from which time interest will
oeaee. B. BUKfHKKU.
1 81 mwf!3t Treasurer.
1ST PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD CO., Offloe, No. 327 S. FOURTH Street,
i PHrLADKLPHIA. Deo. 33, 1869.
DIVIDEND NOTIOK.
The Transfer Books of the Oompany will be elosed on
FRIDAY, the 81st instant, and reopened on TUESDAY
January 11, 1870.
A dividend of FIVE PER CENT, has been declared on
the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National and
Btate taxes, payable in CASH, on and after January 17,
1870, to the holders thoreof aa tbey shall stand registered
on the books of tbe Company on the 81st instant. All
payable at this offioe. AU order for dividend must be
witnessed and stamped. 8. BRADFORD,
13 23 6Ut Treasurer.
rj3- CONNELLSVJLLK GAS COAL COM-
FANY,
Pmr.ADFLITIA. January 34. 1R70.
Tbe Annnal Meeting of tbe stockholders of the OON-
NKLLBV ILLK GAB DUAL COMPANY will be held at
their office. No. SUM WALNUT Btreet. on MONDAY.
February 7, 1870, at 13 o'clock M., to elect five Direotors
IO serve lor iue ensuing year.
1 24mwl6t NORTON JOHNSON, Seoretary.
jjgf NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.
THE CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL
will be closed, for repairs to a lock, on MONDAY MORN
ING, the 7th of February. 1870, and opened for navigation
in a few days thereafter, due notice of whioh will be given.
HENRY V. LESLEY, Seoretary.
Philadelphia, Jan. 37, 1870. 1 37 dtlSF
ggsr THE FAR HAM SEWING MAGHINE
Company's New Family Sewing Machines are most
emphatically pronounced to be that great desideratum so
long ana anxiously looked tor. in wnicn an lue essentials
of a perfect machine are combined.
1M no. viH uimawux street.
QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
UVi1 l-'J I ana S-im v M.4 isi WaAi
CAPITAL. iC3.0UO.IXIO.
BAB1NK, ALLEN A DULLES-Agenta,
5 FIFTH and W AI UT Sueet.
Igy COLD WEATHER DOES NOT CHAP
I AU- -1.2 UTD Y3.Urrrtit3 A T
or nRiKiiou lli n um st vox uni ua vv r j. vt i j. a a au
DONATED ULYCUR1NR TABLET OF SOLIDIFIED
GLYCERINE. Its daily use make the akin delicately
oft and beautiful. Bold by au druggist.
t No. 634 OHE8NUT Btreet.
1L K W. A. VVKlUHi.
ggy COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION
originated the snnsthetie use of
NITROUS OXIDE. OR LAUOHINO OAS.
And devote their whole time end practice to extracting
teetn wit none pain.
Office. JUG I
H1H a
and WALNUT Streets.
113(
Da. F. K. THOMAS, THE LATE OfE-
rator of the Colton Dental Association. Is now th
on?yoMin Philadelphia who devote hi entire time and
practice to extracting teem, ausoiuteiy vntnout pain, oy
freab nitrous oxide ga. UfflOMUl ALBU i OI 1119
WINES AND LIQUORS.
HER MAJEST
CHAMPAGNE.
DUNTOK dt Lusson.
215 SOUTH FKONT STREET.
rpHE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE 13
X solicited to the following vary Choice Wines, eto.,
for sale by
vuniun Luonun,
ili SOUTH FRONT STREET.
CHAMPAGNES. Asenta for ber Majesty. Duo de
Montebello, Carte Bleue, Carte Blanche, and Charles
Farre's Grand Vin Eugenia, and Vin Imperial, M. Klee
iun A Co., of Alayenoe, (Sparkling Moselle and RUINR
WINES.
M ADKlliAB Old island, noutn Bine Reserve.
MlKRIilKS. F. Budolphe. Amontillado. Tooai. Val-
letle, l'uleand Golden Bar, down, eto.
FUJI I H. Vinlio Velho Keal, Valletta, ana urown.
CI.AKK18 Promts Aine A Ot.. Moatf errand and Bor
desux, Clarots and Bauteree Wine
Mil. "jMeoer owan.
B RANDIES. Uannessey, Otard, Dupuy A Oo.'s varioos
vintages. 4 a
i A K S T A I li S & MoO ALL,
i No. 136 WALNUT and St GRANITE Street.
Importers of
BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETO.,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
For th sal of
PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHIS-
K.1K&. I BMP)
OAHSTAIKS' olive oil an invoice
of
the above for sale bv
CARHTAIRS A MnOALL.
1 38 2pl No. 136 WALNUT and 31 GRANITE Bt.
VILLIAM ANDERSON
A CO., DEALERS
' v In DIM WkWriM.
Mo.
North SOOOND Street.
Pniladelpb.
at
rOTTON SAIL DUCK ' AND CANVAS,
J ot all numbers and brands. Tent. Awning. Trunk.
and W imn .r.wu- Iki.nlr A Imn PanAr HunifutnMpJ
Drier celts, from thirty to seventy-aix inobe. with
raulina. tilling, bail Twin, etc .
1 KM OHCBCH Btreet (City Store.
OAMUEL 8MITII & CO., No. 4 8. SEVENTH
D RtrMt . RTKIM AND GAS FITTERS AND
PLUM bKRB. 'Tab. Fittings, and Brass Work cons tail Or
Oil usnu. , .
1 All won promptly ene
Galvanised Tub for Cemetery Lot furnished. ,
11
TOHN FARNTJM A CO., COMMISSION MEKj
vy chants ana jwanuraoterera 01 uonaaraga xicaing, eta.
No. m UtlaotiUl Qtreea, rnuaueiuui. 1 wrmj
8MIPPINO.
"t- LOR
LORILLARO STEAMSHIP
LINE rOB
N J2 V ' YOUIL' '
RUNNING RKOULARLY RVF.RY TTTFBDAT.THURfl
DAY, AND SATURDAY, AT NOON, would t
' eell attention of shippers totals
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Jreat Ilednctlon or Itnte.
On opening of Spring Navigation the (tenner of this
line will reu DAILY, at Scents per luo lbs. 1 eeota por'
foot, or H eent per gallon, ship's option. - .
JOHN F. OHL,
No. 19 NORTH WHARVES. ','
N. B.-Fxtra rates en snail paokacealroa. motels, see.
eto. list
FOR LIVERPOOL AND
TltlINTl)Wltf.m.. li.. U.ll
Steamer are appointed te sail as fot.
MW lows: , , .
til tr ot London, Hatnrriar, Feb. 5, at t A. M.
mm, via iianiax, iiiwai;, reo , at it A
M.
I, r-
City of Wafthiwrton. Hatunia. Feb. li, 1 P. M
()U of Baltimore. Hatarda. Feb. Ilk at a P. M.
City of fow York, via llalitai. Tweed. Feb. 33. Ill A. M.
And each snoeeedintf H&Uirf! and IaI um.t T.M.U.
from Pier 46. North River. ,
T TttT MATT, STEaMBB lalUNn KVFRT MATTmfMY.
Parable in Uold. Pnvahla in Unmuf.
riRbf CABIN SldO I STKKKAUK A3S
To 1 Hindoo li To London J
To Paris lis I To Paris W
FiHRAO BT TK tUUUAX BTBaMKB, VIA HAI.TTaX.
rillBT CAMFff. . RTFKRAUK.
Parable in linM. FinM. in -
Liverpool. "M Tlverpool ... ...B1
Halifax jj IIjIi.u IS
Bt. John's, N. F., ( I Bt. John's, N. F.. I
Twarli
by Branch Steamer j w by Branch Rtaaw...'.( " .
Paaeena-ere also forwarded to Hmvra. Ilamlmra. Knm.
etc.. at rArineed ratea.
Tickets can be bonsSt here at moderate rates by pen
Wtehine to send for thenr friends.
M.
ipSth
thah-f
Hot farther particulars ap
olara apply at the Ooranany'i Offloea.
O'DONNKI.L A FAULK. Ant, '
kfl CHBBNUT Btreet. Philadelphia.
41
No. 403
ONLY DIRECT LINK to FRANCE '
THK OF.WKRAT. TRANS ATT. A WTrn
I'flOMPAIIV'H MATT. HT H A u unroll
l&N NKYY YORK AND HAVRK.UA 1.1.1 Mil A3
BRKBT.
Tbe splendid new vessels on this favorite route for the
Continent will sail from Pie No. fin. North . ..or.
Saturday.
PRICE OF PAAAAflH!
tawldCmctadlngwine),
First Cabin 1U Beeond Cabin.
(Tnclndlng railway tickets, furnished on I
First Cabin (146 Beeond Cabin. .
hnant 1 ' '
noee steamers do not carry steerage passenger. .
Medical attendance free of chartre.
American travellers eoina to or nturntne from the eon.
tinentof Kurope, by taking the eteamersof this line avoid
unnecessary neks irom transit tr ungiun railways and
eroesiug the channel, besides saving time, trouble, and ex
ponas. OHORGK MAOKKNZIK, Agont,
Ho. M BROADWAY, New York.
For baasaga In Phlladalnhia. annl at Art M.mn Rvniskxeni
Company, to H.Ii. LKAF,
lHHi wo. Ms CUKaaUT Street.
NORTIT GERMAN LLOYD
Wr BTKAM BFTWRRH NHWVfinv awn
BRKMRN, VIA SOUTHAMPTON.
Thb Buhbw Btcamxim or rat North
tauMAN Lloyd run regularly between New York, Bre
men, and Southampton, carrying tbe United States, Kug.
nil, BUU UUUIIIIBUMI T'T,
FKOM BRFMKN EVKRY 8ATTTRDAT
FROM SOUTHAMPTON KVERY TUKSDAY
FKOM NKVY YORK EVKRY SATURDAY
lTice of lXutaye from Wrw York lo Bremen, London, Havre,
trir fjijiif tt .
First Cabin, $130; Second Cabin, (73; Steerage, $30, Gold.
From Hrrmm to JV.v Yiwk:
First Cabin, $120; Beeond Cabin.. $73; Steerage, $40, Gold.
These vessels take Freight to Iondon and Hull, for
which through bills of lading are signed.
An experienced surgeon is attached teeacn vessel.
aii letters must, pass tnrougn tne roat otnoe.
JMO Bills ot leading Buttnoseo! toe Uomuanv i
Dinpany will be
signed. Bills of Lading will positively not be delivered
beiore goods are cleared at the Custom House.
Specie taken to Havre. SouthamDtou. and Bremen at
the lowest rates. For freight or passage apply to
OKLKICHS A CO..
Jl7t No. 68 BROAD Btreet, N. Y.
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND,
AM NOKFOLK BTF.AMHHIP LINK.
THROUGH FRKlCrHT AIR link to
;TUK SOU I'H AND WEST. ,
KVRKi FUTUKUAi. ' '
At noon, from fiukt whapv virnrim
Btreet.
THROUGH RATKS to all points In North and South
Carolina via Seatioard Air Line Railroad, oonneotinir at
Portxuiouth. and to Lynchbnrv. V ihmm. mmi h.
West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and Riohmond
and Danville Railroad.
t re'ebt MAIND1,ED butohok. and taken at LOWER
rates than any oiher lIne.
Tbe regularity, safety, and cheapness of tills route oom
mend it to Ue public aa tbe most desirable medium for
oarrying every description of freight.
No charge lor commission, drayage, or any expense of
transfer.
riteamsblpe Insured at tbe lowest rate.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. OLTDR A OO ,
No. 13 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. PORTER. Agent at R.ohmond and City Point.
T. P. PRO WELL A CO.. Agent at Norfolk if
FROM CHARLESTON TO
5SS'Wl FLORIDA. VIA SAVANNAH. TRI.
WEEKLY LINK.
The following steamers will leave
tbariesuin lor f londa. via Bavannah. three times a weak.
after arrival of tbe New York steamships aud the North-
eaHtern itauroaa train:
PILOT BOY (inland Route, every SUNDAY MORN
ING at 8 o'clock.
DICTATOR, every TUESDAY TtVENTNO at 8 o'clock.
CIT POINT, every FRIDAY R VENINti at 8 o'olock.
Vlimnrh fciuketi to be had of all Charleston and Ravan.
nab Steamship Line Agenoie in New York.
O . is. aiasn m uu.,
Agents at Charleston.
, L. J. GU1LMARTIN A CO.,
14 ' ' Agents at Bavannan.
FOR ST. THOMA8 AND BRA
ZIL. united STATES AND RRAZIIa
MAIL STKaMoHIP OOMPANY.
Regular Mail Bteamer sailing on the
xiU ol every month :
jm ihkijiauh, uaptam vvier.
SOUTH AMERICA, Captain E. L. Tlnklepaugh.
NOR1 H AMERICA, Captain O. B. Blocuro.
These splendid steamers sail on sohedule time, and call
at St. Thomas. Para. Pernambuoo. Bahia. and Rio da
Janeiro, going and returning.
xor engagement 01 treignt or passage appiy to
14
No. 5 BOWL1NO GREEN. New York.
wni. tv. UAifcninvjn, Agent,
v'-.n mull ououurirt ttktd.
UX Steamships of this Line will leave Pier
TJ' No. 9. North River, at 3 o'olock P. M. on
bavlUKDAYb.
GHOHGE WASHINGTON, Gager.
MARIPOSA, Kemble,
Freight taken for Bu Louis, Mobile, and Galveston at
through rates. Cabin passage, $50.
For passage (first ana second class) or freight apply to
yw . , H. B. CROMWELL A CO..
14 No. 86 W EST Street. '
0-9 a. NEW EXPRESS LINE : TO
ljek'ir Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.
SrissisisiiJisirn C, via Chesapeake and Delaware Uaual, with
ouuiiucuous at Alexandria irom tne most aireot route lor
Ijinuhhura. Bristol. Knox villa. Naahviila. Dalton. and tha
fiomhwest.
bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon front
the tirat wharf above Market street.
roigut received daily-
i VlLLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
, No. 14 North and South wharvee.
HYDE A TYLER. Agent, at Georgetown: H. '
RLDR1DQK A CO., Agonts at Alexandria. 611
1 try Ba NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA
lrrr Delaware and Raritan Canal. 8WIETSURB
imLO TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DE
FaT'CH AND BWIrTNURE LINK.
The business of these lines will be resumed on and after
the 8th of March. Far freight, which will be taken en
eoeommodauns terno. apply to M BATRD A OO..
13 : . No. la. South W harves.
U. 8. MAIL TO nAVANA. '
XTi Trvijr sailing regularly EVERY THURSDAY
tax ssi i i r at t o'clock P. M precisely, from Pier
No. 4North Hirer.
MOKO CASTLE, Captain R. Adam.
COLUMBIA, Captain K. Van Bice,
f EAGLE, Captain M. R. Greene.
For freight or P-J 1LER ,
Ji No. 6 BOWL1NO ORKKN. NwJforfc
FURNITURE.
RICHMOND & CO.,
FIRST-CLASS
FURNITURE WAR ER00MS,
Ho. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
EAST SIDE. ABOVE OHESNUT.
I
HSU
PHILADELPHIA.
TUT YOUR FURNITURE
J3 BEDDING.
AND BUY YOUR
j TIIK GREAT AMKIlICAHf
Is without rival, Is without a rival, being the Finest,
utisapvet, aud LArgeav stocked furuttare and ateauwsi
Uti.Tinnui in Lhia 11. t.. and ita nrina bAin wholesale te
nil. v on ean save at least su pur cwev on any pui i
you msy make at our eatabushment. And our price
being On fcioe, makes it tne leading store m tne oust.
GREAT AMERICAN LARGE
No. lrt MABltKT Street.
MEW BUIIJDIN
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