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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY, .FEBlltiAUf ig; 1870. ;
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Editorial Opinion mt the IndlnB JorU
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TI1E DEATH KNELL OF THE "RINO."
frtm the It. Y. Time.'
A very remarkable article of the World
on the misgovernment of this city at this
perticular moment presses tipon the reputa
Lie section of the Democratic party. This
new manifesto will not' Burprino any one who
liaii read the World attentively of late. It
baa left off criticising its political opponents,
and boldly come forward with a distinct policy
of its own. Its enemies assert that in taking
this course it is not actuated by the purest
motives. 'That sort of retort is the very one
which we. naturally look for from mon who
are known to be dishonest themsolves. It is
part of their tactics to vilify the motives of
all who threaten to expose their misdeeds.
"We have nothing to do with these charges,
and it is no part of our duty on this ocoasion
to inquire why it happens that the World has
proclaimed "irar to the knife" against the
"rinc." We are very well contented to find
it fighting for the same object as ourselves.
Its assistance in a good cause would be wel
come even if its foes could substantiate state
ments which at present are entirely unsup
ported by evidence.
We have again and again called the atten
tion of all honest Democrats to one plain faot
namely, that the corruption and misgov-
ernment of this city, the shameful judiciary
(with certain exceptions), and the general
collapso of law and order, are taken by the
country at large as the natural outcome of
Domoeratio principles. When Democrats say
to the people, "Place the Government in our
Lands and see what we will make out of it,"
the people answer, "We. can see that already
in New York city. Some of your well-known
judges are in league with the vilest criminals,
and your citizens are taxed heavily for the
maintenance of tricksters and social outlaws."
Thus a stigma of the blackest kind has been
affixed to the whole party. All over the civil
ized world the name of "New York Demo
cracy" has come to be identified with a vast
system of robbery and spoliation. The more
orupulons members of the party natural y
feel this to be an injustice. In the country,
especially, Demoorats know that they are
suffering for a sin which they did not com
mit, and could not prevent othees from com
mitting. It is not too much to say that our
city government is doing them every day as
much harm as all their mistakes during the
war combined. What prospect is there of
winning a Presidential election with this
lxeavy disgrace clinging to them ?
The World has been one of the first of the
Democratic journals to acknowledge the jus
tice of these considerations. The time is
critical. Next fall a Governor will have to
be elected, and a still more important contest
will then require study and preparation. In
what condition are the Democracy for meet
ing these trials of strength? The World
teUfl us very frankly. The "ring" has "de
bauched politics and defiled the name of De
mocracy. A little knot of men "have plun
dered us of millions yearly, obstructed our
material growth, made our markets, our
wharves and piers and streets, mere monu
ments of their rapacity, our eleotions a farce,
and now have put up judges in our very court
houses to sell injustice for a price. ' Our
readers have often met with denunciations of
that kind in these columns. But it is like a
new revelation to receive them from the
World ,, Our contemporary, however, is
speaking not against its party, but in the
truest and best interests of that party. The
"ring", will, of course, howl at it. Corrupt
judges may set their infamous tools to work
in the hope of averting the retribution which
is certain to tall on tneir beads some aay,
But if the better sort of Democrats do not
take the lessons which the World now reads
them seriously to heart, they will lose the
beBt opportunity they have had for some
years past of recovering a dreary expanse of
lost ground. . . ' ,
Future historians may have to record that
this schism in the Democratic ranks was the
precursor of the revival of a party which has
its uses no less than our own. The vital
principle of parliamentary government , is
that there should be two parties in the coun
try one to govern, the other to exeroise the
wholesome check of opposition. The Demo
crats have not known how to fulfil the latter
function, and for a long period they have
abandoned themselves to false leaders,
and fallen into deep pits while pursuing
shadows. The World would summon them
to that higher prrt which is still open to
them; and it is of little moment for any one
to turn round and tell us that the World is
only playing a game. The question is, Does
the World speak the truth or not? We know,
and everybody in the country knows, that it
dot?.' This one city is accomplishing the
ruin oi ft party still great, in spite of its
numberless errors. New York is drinking
the life blood of Demooraoy. Everywhere
Democrats ought to suite their strength in
one tremendous blow at tie infamous clique
who would peddle away the ionor of the
nation. without one tinge of remorse. The
rural members of the party ought to ally
themselves with every honest Democrat tby
can find in New York. They will never have
so good a chance again as they have at their
command now. It is the turning point in
the checkered history of their party. Let us
be rescued from a municipality whieh has
booome almost a national scandal, from
licensed assassins who do the work of politics,
and from officers of the law, high and low,
whose hands are soiled with dishonest gold,
if not with blood.
AMERICAN JUDGES.
Front the London Saturday Belie.
Few things are full of uglier omen for the
fntnrA nt th United States than the growing
disrespect for the judicial body which seems
to be spreading itself through the country.
The stories which now reach us are widely
different from anything heard before of Ame
rican Judges. The worst we formerly knew
of the bench, even in the wildest frontier
States, was that its oooapants did not wear
precisely the same awful costume ana prao
tise the same dignified usages as the judges
ana barons of . Westminster Hall; but it was
probable that they knew a great deal more of
law than anybody about them, and that
they did not flinch from applying what they
knew. Even the functionary who decided
the celebrated case of Silas Fixings was
probably right in his conclusions, and car
iainly he rtas not afraid to back them. . But
now almost every mail brings us proof that
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in uie inrgvHk w uo iuiihi, oivutzea oi
the older (States onargea oi nagrant- oorruo-
tion against judges are of everyday olroula-
tion, and tnougn it rs every now and then
urged that - the .character of such , or such
gentleman is beyond suspicion, or. that
the evidence is not thought in such or such
a case to warrant the accusation, nobody
Areaais that the corrupt taking of money or
money's worth for justioe by a judge is in
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conceivable or impossible, or even unoom
mon. If Americans were in the habit of
comparing the facts whioh fall under their
immediate notice with the experience and
history of other communities, they would
see that this phenomenon of judicial oorrnp
tion, generally believed, but aoquieecod in
without much very serious complaint, has no
parallel or example since the boginning of
civilization. Some of its mischievous couso
quences are boginning to be folt, not only 'by
simple Erie bondholders, but by the English
legal profession. The two brancnes oi me
English raoe knew curiously little of one
another till the War of Seoesaion, but there
was an exception to this ignorance in the
steady interchange of judicial precedents.
There were certain American names which
wore appealed to here with soarcely less confi
dence than Coke or Mansfield. But quite
reoently English judges have been known to
shrink from recognizing the authority of
modern American cases, and, very possibly
not quite fairly distinguishing between one
man and another, or between one State and
another, have significantly inquired what
these charges of corruption meant.
When an English gentleman deputed by
some railway bondholders addressed the New
York Chamber of Commerce the other day
en the effect of the action of the New York
judges upon the interests whioh he repre
sented, the (Jhamber broadly aanuttea tne
corrupt origin of this judicial intervention,
but attributed it to the ignorance of alien
constituencies. This merely meant that the
judges of the State of New lork are eleotive,
and that the Irish vote is very powerful in
New York. If, however, the purification of
the American judicature is not to be expected
until Irishmen are debanrerWrom voting, or
until the people give up the direct appoint
ment of publio servants, it may be iong
before the reputation of American judges
recovers itself. It is satisfactory, there
fore, to find one of the most thoughtful
of American newspapers finding the
source of the evil less in tne moae oi ap
pointing judges than in the mode of ad
mitting legal practitioners. It is in fact
quite clear, from Jingiisn experience, mai
the best security for learning and purity in
the bench is learning and a feeling of honor
among the bar. The most powenui oi au
forms of Dublin opinion is professional
opinion, and if the professional feeling of the
New York practitioners revolted against ig
norance and corruption as mortal sins in a
judge, the machinery for creating judges
would lose most of its importance. The mere
discomfort of sitting in a court full of men
of greater knowledge and higher honor than
himself would Keep tne rocapaoie party nacic
from desiring a seat on the bench; and, be
yond this, the experience of several com
munities shows that a popular constituency
charged with the selection of functionaries
for whom professional qualifications are
required is influenced in the strongest way by
firofessional opinion. But the American
egislatures have, we are told, adopted of
late the policy of nearly open admission to
the legal profession, the advocates or the
measure defending it on the extraordinarily
fallacious ground that there is no more reason
why special conditions should be demanded
for the calling ot a legal praoiuionai tnan ior
the calling of a grocer or a butcher. As one
would have thought it enough to reply that
the only callings which it is best for the
public interest to leave quite open are those
to which the maxim , caveat emptor applies,
and that no client can possibly tell whether a
given lawyer can construe a legislative enact
ment correctly, the only inference which can
be drawn from such au argument is an infer
ence as to the class to whom it was considered
worth while to address it. But the faot seems
to be that in most American States
persons are now admitted to the
mixed profession of barrister and attorney
with the least possible inquiry, into
their knowledge or character. The result,
we need soarcely say, is very unlike that of a
lax system of admission to the English bar.
In this country the moral effects of all-powerful
traditions have to be allowed for, and the
effect of an undoubtedly unsatisfactory sys
tem of previous preparation is not that Eng
lish barristers are unlearned, but that they
are narrow. Even here, however, it is worth
while notioing that the experience of the
American States shows that, under a system
of unchecked competition, the raoe is in the
Ions run to the ignorant and the unscrupu
lous. Everybody of course would suppose.
and we are carefully informed, that even in
New York city there are many skilful and
honorable practitioners; but they seem to con
sider it their chief, duty to their clients to
keep their business out of court, and hence
little moral influence is brought to bear on
the bench by men of this class.
It is very difficult for an Englishman to
judge to how many American States, and even
to wnat parts oi the State of Mew York, the
suspicion oi judicial corruption justly ex
tends. Yet there are many signs that the
sacredness of the judicial office is passing
away everywhere. Nobody has ventured to
breathe a word against the character of the
Judges of the United States; but yat there is
evidently bo Bcruple in packing for party pur
poses the Supreme Court, probably in some
respects the most august tribunal in the
world. The party now all-powerful evidently
intends not merely to keep Demoorats and
Southern partisans out of it (which under ex
isting ciroumstances would be scarcely
Wondet'iUi;, . Dl" to ueuy cutruuue
into - it to all but ; the extremest
fanatics of its t?wn opinions. The other day
President Grant, having two vacancies in the
Court to fill up, proposed for them Mr. Stan
ton, the late Secretary at War, and Mr. Hoar,
the present Attorney-General. , Mr. Stanton,
who was thought to be dying, W&S a very
great administrator, but one of the bitterest
of partisans. Mr. Hoar, though a ltepnbli
can, is thought to be wedded to a high
standard of Judicial purity and independence.
The Senate instantly oonfinned the appoint
ment of Mr. Stanton with almost indecent
haste, but , suspended its approval of , Mr.
Hoar's nomination. This plain intimation to
the President that none but the extremest
Earty appointments would be palatable to that
ranch of the American Legislature which is
all but omnipotent is nearly as disastrous a
symptom of one sort as the New York stories
are of another.
GHOSTS IN ST. LOUIS. V " '
From the Si T. Tribune. . i ,'.,
J The city of St. Louis (whether it may or
may not, become the-capital of the United
States) is beyond question, easily first of all
our villages, either Down-Eastern or Far
Western, in all matters ghostly,, thaumatur,
gical, . spectral, magical, or miscellaneously
miraoulous. " Only a little while ago we re.
corded the presence in Bt. Louie of the great
Dr. Manchester, who is renowned for under
taking to raise the dead, and still more re
Downed for hot doing .it, ,' But. this angelic
doctor is now forgotten in, the. yery soeue of
his illustrious failures.
A few days since, a young woman, Miss
Jennie Debonaire, called upon a polioe cap-
tain. Miss Jennie was not, in spite of
her
name (to quote a line from Muton), "so
buxom, blithe, and debonair," for she has
seen things calculated to curdle her blood,
and make her flowing ringlets somewhat per
pendicular and porcupiny. Only for five days'
bad she been domiciled at a house in Morgan
street. Every tjight a man appears to her
and says that his name is not Giles Hcroggins
but Joseph Scott. Let not the reader inter
pret this appearance to the disadvantage of
Miss Jennie s virginal purity, for the man is
spectral and can do no harm. Even if he
were veritable flesh and bone, his tout cn
icmble is not of a kind to kindle the
fires of passion; for, though he has "a fair
complexion and brown, curly hair," advan
tages sufficient to catoh. a woman's eye, he
"has also a deep gash in his throat, a out on
his head, and he is all covered with blood."
No gallant, thriving wooer ever eame in this
plight; and moreover his name is Joseph
not Joseph the son of Jacob, nor yet Joseph
Andrews, but Mr. Joseph Scott. This phan
tom told the trembling Miss Debonaire that
(while In the flesh) he was slaughtered by one
Philip Amburg, who Btole his money and
buried it (with the body) in the cellar of that
very house. This he proceeded to prove to a
demonstration; for he led the trembling
maiden to the cellar and showed her upon
which side ho was buried and
upon which side the speoie was
deposited. After this he became a little
amorous, demanded a kiss, which showed
that, though his throat was slit, he had yet
all his wits about him, ana men he exhaled.
The next night he came to Jennie's bedside,
and pathetically implored her to speak to an
undertaker and have his bones removed from
their present ignominious resting place to
some regular cemetery, adding that she was
at liberty also to disinter the money, pay the
bills out of it, and keep the balance for her
own personal use. He also offered to conf or
upon her the power of curing diseases, making
her Dr. Jennie Debonaire without the trouble
of studying for a diploma. And then he ex
haled again, whether with or without a kiss
we are not informed.
These were, indeed, astounding statements.
The captain of the polioe was puzzled, but
made a memorandum on the station book. A
regiment of "spiritualists" went into per
manent session in the haunted house, ready
to cross-examine Joseph Soott; and two re
porters called for "an interview." They
learned very little, and, of course, made very
long and affecting reports in their respec
tive newspapers. But what is most remark
able is, that though "the spiritualists" have
assiduously dug in the cellar, enlarging it to
twice its original capacity, they don't find
any bones. This would be of very little
consequence by itself; but, mournful to re
late, they don't find Mr. Joseph Scott's money
either. At least, if they do, they keep it a
dead secret and refuse to take the publio
into their confidence. Still we must oonfess
that it is a very remarkable case. Should
any ribald scoff at the tale, the proper way to
put him down is to quote at him the stock
argument of "the Spiritualists:" "There are
more things in heaven and earrh, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
And why should there not be "more things"
in a St. Louis cellar? Why not, we repeat,
why not? Alas! even while we are writing of
it, the mystery of the haunted bouse of St
Louis is exploded. The girl Jennie is no bet
ter than she should be. She and others had
squatted in this house, and being determined
to keep others out of it, they devised various
apparatus for ghostly knocking and sundry
lies about the ghost with the slit throat. Miss
Jennie is locked up; the poor ghost is no
longer perturbed; and the city of St. Louis no
longer trembles. How many of these beauti
fully harrowing stories are to have this limp
ing and potentless ending.'
THE CASE OF FITZ-JOHN PORTER,
From the X. Y. Bun. 1 ' ' 1 1 ' ' "
The agent of the Associated Press, on Wed
nesday, telegraphed from Washington a sum
mary of the controversy touching the case oi
iitz-John Porter, who, it will be remem
bered, was cashiered and deolared, by a com
petent military court, to be ever after dis
qualified from holding any office of honor or
trust under the Government of the United
States, i .
' ' The reason for this sentence was simply
that Porter, while commanding a corps of the
Army of the Potomao under Pope, during the
second - Bull - Run campaign, was criminally
slow in marching to the assistance of the
latter, and that, after arriving upon the flank
of the enemy, within a short distance of the
field of battle, he failed to attack; although
positively ordered to do bo. , .
Porter asserted at the time of his trial that
he had marched as promptly and rapidly as
possible toward the enemy, and that he failed
to attack previous to the receipt of Pope's
order because he , was convinced that the
enemy was not only too strong, but too
ttrongly intrenched, to leave him any hope of
success; and that when he received Pope's
order, whioh reached him shortly before sun
down, it was then too late to obey it. He
now claims to have obtained evidence from
Rebel official reports showing that his convio
tions were correct in regard to the position
and strength of the enemy. Upon this he
makes an appeal to the President for an
order relieving him from the disqualification
imposed by the sentence of tke 'court which
tried him. As for this Rebel evidence, after
having examined it carefully, we have to say
that it does not in the least anect the main
as before, the only fault to be found with thai
tribunal is that, when it found the accused
guilty, it did not order him to be shot. n
It is sometimes said, by way of excuse for
Potter, that General Pope "labored under the
misfortune of being the most disbelieved
man in the army;" but it must not be forgot
ten that, truthful , or untruthful, Pope was
the legitimate commander ot tne army then
in Virginia; that he had marohed promptly in
search of the enemy upon au occasions, fight
ing whenever and wherever he could find
them; that, in this instance, he had actually
outmarched . the swift-footed Jackson, and
planted his own hard-pressed forces betweon
Jackson and Washington, while Porter's
corps, fresh and active froid the transports
which bad brought them froJi tne James
river, had ' been ' marched ' relueiw&tly and
slowly . towards . the battle-field. There
is no i shadow of a doubt that
fought the enemy with determination, while-
Porter, although within sound of the bat
tle, -did not Jight, though he : must have
known that, if Pope and he could not con
quer together, neither could do it singly. , He
should nave xougni witnout oraers, in ac
cordance with the suggestion of McDowell;
and when the orders finally ' reached him,
even after the shades of night had gathered,
La should have moved forward at onoe to the
attack. With Buch troops as his the best
corps in our service better soldier would
have . hailed darkness as. a fortunate, ally
against an enemy so' numerous' and strongly
posted. Suppose "Sherman ' had ' failed to
attack the end of Mission Ridge, during the
brilliant campaign against Chattanooga,
merely because he found the enemy pontsd
upon an impregnable position, or that Thomas
had declined to move against the lace oi mat
ridge for a like reason, who doubts that we
should have had one less victory to inscribe
upon our banners ?
General Pope was responsible for the order
requiring Porter to attack, and he alone was
responsible for the plan upon whlcn it was
based. Porter's duty was t obey, and the
excuses he gives for not obeying are pre
cisely the reasons why his case should not be
reconsidered.
SPANISH BARBARITIES IN CUBA THE
SHAMEFUL INDIFFERENCE OF OUR
GOVERNMENT.
JrVom the W. Y. Urrald.
The remains of Greonwallh. the victim of
Spanish barbarity at Havana, were interred
here on Wednesday. Though the friends of the
unfortunate man, and those of his colleagues
who still remain in Cuba with his employers,
used every means to prevent any demonstra
tion, there was nevertheless a deep-seated
feeling of indignation in the publio mind.
Wherever the matter was spoken of the
Spaniards were execrated, and shame was
felt at the pusillanimous oonduot of our Gov
ernment for its indifference to the many out
rages upon Americans in Cuba. If Green
walth was not an American citizen he was a
resident here, and left this city for Havana
but a few weeks ago. . But his companions,
who were brutally wounded, wore American
citizons. ' 'J. his case of barbarity, however.
was only one of many upon our oitizena by
the Spaniards in Cuba. We have had
authentic accounts of many before. It is be
cause the Government at Washington has
failed to notice those previously that this oc
curred, xiaa reparation been demanded in
previous cases, and protection to our citizens
been insisted upon, we should not have heard
of the brutal outrages on Greenwalth and his
companions. Our Consuls in Cuba and our
navy in its waters might just as well be at
home. : They are utterly useless there. Well
may the Spaniards despise us and laugh at the
idea oi tne unitea mates venturing to go to
war with Spain. The most contemptible na
tion in the world would not suffer the indig
nities this republic has borne. Any little
Mate wouia give better protection to its cm
zens. now has this mighty country fallen
unaer tne cowaraiy men who now rule at
Washington I
'Xhink of our degradation when the friends
of poor Greenwalth and the other viotims of
Spanish barbarity implore the people here to
mane no demonstration of indignation for
fear of the consequences to those Americans
who still remain in Cuba ! We must not give
vent to our feelings for fear the brutal vol
unteers might murder the Americans that are
left in Havana and other parts of the Island !
American merchants in Cuba, as we are well
informed, dare not send letters in their
packages of correspondence for Cubans or for
those who might be suspected of sympathizing
with the Cuban cause. Such is the reign of
terror under the volunteers. The so-oalled
Spanish Government in the island is powerless
and the mere instrument of a bloody revolu
tionary faction. American citizens are com
pelled for self -protection to deny their coun
try and to hail as Englishmen or as other
foreigners. We have no doubt that in this
last case of barbarity oar weak and timid
Secretary of State will accept the hollow
apologies and misrepresentations of Spanish
officials, and that those same olhcials, con
temptuously laughing at the imbecility of our
uovernment, will neither punish the criminals
nor prevent similar outrages in the future, in
all matters relative to Cuba and to what is
occurring in that island now the Government
of this great country has made itself con
temptible. The republio is disgraced in the
eyes of the world. Every true American must
feel the shame of such humiliation.
! RUIN TO THE RING.
From the N. T. World.
The lawyers of this city, in their newly
formed association, have offered a reward for
the detection of the man who attempted to
assassinate one of their number. They are
evidently awake, at the outset, to the import
ance of their association and to their pros
pective duties. The popular estimation of
the inemoiency of the administration oi our
city government, and the. disposition oi me
people to array themselves against it ior
mutual protection, have been manifest in the
frequent formation cot, ytheBe voluntary
associations; some - - temporary, for a
single objeot, .'and ; some . more i perma
nent 1 In purpose 1 ' and torm , uut
the habit is growing, and it has pointed
towards well-ordered and vigilant committees;
for thiB direct action of the people seldom
fails in its object. The people vote, and the
ring leaders well know that a collision witn
any of these voluntary organizations, and a
defeat, might make a local agitation that they
could not withstand. In this respect they
were taught a lesson by the East Side Asso-
ciauon at me last election, xuo mm
mocrats are organizing against their misrule;
the enthusiasm and power of the people will
be with them.
The association of ' the lawyers for the
honor of their profession and the purity of
the administration of justice finds its ground
and reason in the conduct oi tne judges
whose acts and decisions mark them as ring
adherents. This modern encroachment on
the elevation and purity of the courts is an
instance of the misrule which is to be re
sisted bv a capable and comprehensive
orr-nnization with votes and influence over
nii.. The Fifth avenue residents have asso-
ointoA in rpnt the ring's poultice pavement.
and to find out the very men into whose
pockets the profits of that job have gone.
Th Fjat Kide Association and the West Side
Association long since organized to protect
their property interests against the ring men
in the city administration who delay and
resist improvements, who make fraudulent
contracts and extortionate assessments; and
here and there the residents on particular
avenues and .'streets are organizing to resist
the various wrongs Bought to be imposed
upon tbem by the ring in tne guise of street
imnrovements. The life insurance compa
nies associated reoently to resist an. evi
dfiht ring strike from Albany. Without
further enumeration, it is clear that the people
have learned the habit of organizing against
the ring. ; , .
The World invites these organizations, and
"all who support them, one step further. The
of separate resistanee to separate at-
rv these ring thieves is over.' The time
has now Cma break down and utterly de-
stroy the rhg use"- Q7 aone. '
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In all their aUiea, at little elpniw, little or do ohana-eln
diet, and no inconvenience. It I pleasant In taMto and
oflnr, immediate In Ita aetiun. and lrea front ail injnrmu
propertioa. 1 28
lF PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL-
KUAU (JO., Office, No. 137 B. FOURTH Street.
' Prm.ArrM.PHiA, Deo. U, ltM,
DIVIDEND NOTIOK. I
The Transfer Bsoki of th Companr will be otneed on
FRIDAY, the Slat lnataat. and reopened o TUKSOA.Y
January 11, 1870. i
A dividend of FIVK PKR CKNT. has bora deolared on
the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National and
Bute taiea, payable In OABH,o and aUr January 17,
187U, to tae holder thereof aa thayihall stand reclatered
on the booka of the Company on the Slat Instant. AU
payable- at thli offloa. All ordera for dividend canal be
arltnesaed and itamped. 8. HRAOfc'OKD,
lasaaut Treaenrw.
rtgy- H ELMBOLD S CONCENTRATED EX-
m nry A ifp TJ I tfy tl TT 1- A I A 1u il n
BOI.TVS CONCENTRATED EXTRACT bABHAI'ABH.LA IS th9
Great Blood auriUvr. lioth ira nran&red AueorHinsr in
rnlnt of Pharmncy and Ohemiati?, and ara tba moat aottt-a
inat can do naae. i tin
fsr- BATCHELOR 8 HAIR DTE. THIS
aplendid Hair Dye Is the beet In thewoJld. Harm
leas, reliable, instantaneous, doea not contain lead, nor
any vilalit poison to produoe paralyaia or death. Avoid
toe vaunted ana aeiomve preparations boasting virtues
they do not possess. The genuine W. A. Batohelor'e Hair
Dye baa had thirty year untarnished reputation to nu,
bold its intearity as the only Perfect Hair Dyo lilack or
ltrown. Bold by all DnmgUts. Applied at No. 11 BOND
m rest. New York. 4 V7rawf
II ELM BOLD 8 EXTRACT BUCnU
Kivm unsitu iuu Tiviir w iiifj inunv anu Dioorn vO
tha pallid cboek. Debility U accompanied many
alarm id fc nymptomt, and. if no treatment iasubmittad to.
THE FARIIAM BKvvINQ MACHINE
Company's New Family Sewing Machines are most
empnauoaiiy pronounces to oe tnat groat aesiueratnm so
long and anxiously looked for, in wulob au the
of a pi
la
erfeot machine axe com
in wi
itiined.
No. 7(M OHEBNUT Street
1- ENFEEBLED AND DELICATE CON-
atltnllAna aI knth aa.u Utff UUmiUO 17 V.
TRACT KIRJHU. It will giro brisk and energetic feel.
di imtiuii vt ill uuiu Roam, anew wi liiu kulilt ca
ings, ana enauie yon to aieep well. 1 21
tOr- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
o a piTAii, jea,ooo,ouo.
BAB INK, AI.iTk.N A DUIXKVAfenU,
FIFTH and WALNUT Streets.
H 1
tfiS- THE GLORY OF MAN IS STRENGTH.
Therefore the nervous and debilitated should Ira.
mediately use helm hold's kxtraot liuomj. l )H
COLD WEATHER DOES NOT CHAP
ormnshen the skin after nin WRIOHTS Af.
CONATKD ULYCKRINR TABI.HT OF SOUDIFIKD
OLYOKRINK. Ita dallv nee makes the skin delicately
eon anq Doaaunu. oma dj au aruggists.
I R. A O. A. WRIGHT,
19 No. 6S4CHKNNUT Street.
IS?- MANHOOD AND YOUTHFUL VIGOR
era regainea dj xuliajiibujuu o xiavj a
bwuu iiw
' HELMBOLD 8 FLUID EXTRACT
swssr tlnrtniT l t a a a i J m i
duudu in pieasant; in tasie ana oaor, irea irora au
lnjnnoun properties, ana imraeatate in Its action. 1 U
tr?j- DR. F. R. THOMAS. THE LATE OPE-
rator of the Colton Dental Association, is now the
only tmt in Philadelphia who devotes his entire time and
practice to extracting teeth, absolutely without pain, by
iresn nuroua ouue gaa. umoi.nu WAJifllllDl, 1
IS?- TAKE NO MORE UNPLEASANT AND
unsafe remediea for unpleasant and dangerous dis
eases. Use HaXMBOLD'a EXTKACX BUCHU AMD IMTBOVKO
KOBE WA8H. 118
gy SHATTERED CONSTITUTIONS
RE'
WINES AND LIQUORS.
HER MAJESTY
CHAMPAGNE.
UTJNTOrJ & LTJSSON. ,
215 SOUTH FBONT STREET. :
TBE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE ' IS
solicited to the following Tory Choice Wines, taa
for sals by , , , .
I 815 BOUTH FRONT BTRKET.
OHAMPARNKS. Airnnta for her M ). TVnn Am
Montebello. Carta Blaaa. dart Blaiwha. and flharlaa
Fane's tirand Vin Ksk.ajo, and Vm Imperial. M. KJee
miin A Co.. of AlavenoA. Auarklinsr MoMlIa and RH1NBI
WINES.
M A UK IK AH.-Old Island. Booth Bids Keeervs.
BHI.RR1KS. F. Kudolohe. Amontillado, Tanaa. VaL
lette. Pale and Golden Bar, Ciowa, eto.
ruK io.-vuino veuio tteai, Valletta, ana urown.
CLARKTS. Promia Aine A Oie.. Montiarrand and Bos.
deaui, Ularets and fcauterne Wkiea
, OIN. "Meder hwan."
BRANDIKS. Hennessey. Otard. Dntrav A Oo.'a varlooa
vintages. 46
Q A II 8 T A I K S , & MOOALL,
NOS. 136 WALNUT and ill UKAAITB Street.
Importers of '
BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETO.,
AND '
COMMISSION MEROHAJTTS
For ths sale of
PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT. AND BOURBON WHI8.
jvir.o. aa mi
CABSTAIKS' OLIVE OILAN INVOICE
of the abovs for sale by
f)28 2p? ' Nos. 138 WALNUT and 21 GRANITE hta.
W1
T.TAM ANDERSON & CO.. DEALERS
In FiM Wbiakias, . .
eta. i norm auwnu atr a,
PbiUdelpb)
IIAKDING'8 EDITIONS
op
THE HOLT BIBLE.
FAMILY, PULPIT, AND PHOTOGRAPH BIBLES,
FOB
WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS.
ALSO, PRESENTATION BIBLE3 FOR
)
CHURCHES,
CLERGYMEN,
SOCIETIES AND
TEACHERS, ETC.
New and superb assortment, bound in Rich Levant
Turkey Morocco, Paneled and Ornamental Designs,
equal to the London and Oxford editions, at less than
hall their prices.
NO. S2 CHESNUT Street.
STRENGTH, BEAUTY, CHEAPNESS COMBINED!
HARDING'S PATENT CHAIN-BACK
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
For Wedding, Holiday, or Birthday Presents, these
Albums are particularly adapted. - -' '
The book trade, and dealers in fancy arMoles, will
find tie moat extensive assortment of Photograph
Albums In the country, and superior to any hereto
fore made. For great strength, ' durability, and
cheapness, Hardlag'a FatontChain-back Albums are
nnrlvalled. Purchasers will find It greatly to their
advantage to examlnetaese aew lines of goods be
fore making up their orders for stoofc ;J o.i.ji
' Also, a large and splendid assortment of new styles
of, Photograph Albums wade n the usual manner.
i i'::, : zr.nK -.-ti V Wo; m CHESNUT Street,")-'.'
'. (' v.. ;.Jj '(
1 II Philadelphia.
Lumber.
1870
nrRtrcB joist.
Bl'KUOK JOIST.
II KM LOCK.
UKMUMJfc.
1870"
1870
BRASONKI) CLEAR PTN5.
1870
HKAHONKU (ILKA
,H 1INB.
CHOIOK PATTKKN PIN K.
8PANIbH.CK.DAK, FOR PATTERNS.
KKJJ CEDAR.
1870
FLORIDA FLOORING.
FLOMDA F1XXIKING.
CAROLINA FIAXmiNO.
VIKUINIA FLOORING.
DKLAWARK KLOOIOHa
ABH FLOOKINU.
WALMJT KIXKilUNO. .
FLORIDA 8TKP BOARDS.
RAIL FLANK.
1870
1 R7 A WALNUT HOARDS AND PLANK. 1 OTA
10 i V WALNUT BOARDS AND rLANKlo70
WaLhUT 1 LANK. - ,
1870
UNDERTAKERS' LTTMBKR.
UNDERTAKEH8' LUMBER.
RKI) CEDAR.
WALNUT AND l'INK. .
1870
1870
SEASONED POPLAR.
SEASONED CHERRY.
1870
' ' Anil.
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
1 CTn CIOAR BOX MAKERS' - OTA
10 (V CIUAR BOX MAKERS' lo7U
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
FOR SALE LOW.
1870
CAROLINA ooAJSTLINQ.
CAROLINA 11. T. BILLS.
NORWAY 8CANTL1NU.
1870
1870
CEDAR 8U INGLES, 4 OTA
CYPRESS SHINGLES. lOlU
MAULS. BROTHER CO.,
No. 9B00 SOUTH Street.
in
PANEL PLANK. ALL THICKNESSES..
1 COMMON PLANK. AIX TH IOKif KoSKiL
, . 1 COMMON BOARDS.
1 and SIDK FKNCK HOARDS.
WHITE PINK FIOORINO BOARDS.
YETXOW ANDSAP FIN K iLOORXNUii. 1M and 4W.
SPRUCE JOINT. ALL SIZK8. wMiaawwa.
, HKMIXKJK JOIST. ALL BIKES.
PLASTERING LATH A SPFOIALTT.
Together with a genoral assortment of ft sliding Lambes
for sal low for oaak. T. W. BMALTZ.
11 Mom FIFTEENTH and BT1LKS Streeia.
V KB Z
R UNDER
ALWAYS DRY.
.0 V I V
Walnot, Wilt Pine, Yellow Pine, Bprooe, Hem
leek, Sbinglea, etc., al ways on band at low rates).
mZX& OILLXNGHAJa, ,
VH ' No. VU RICHMOND Street, 18tn ward,
QFFICE OF THE
CUMBERLAND COAL AND IRON COMPANY. ,
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINQ. '
A special meeting of the Stockholders of the Cam- ,
berland Coal and Iron Company- haa been called by i
tbe President and Directors of said Company, to be
held at its office, No. 90 BROADWAY, corner Wall '
street, In the city of New York, on the loth day of
February, 18T0, at 11 o'clock M.'
The objects of said meeting are: To accept, as aa
Increase of the powers of the Company, and aa an .
amendment to Its charter, the provision contained .
the charter of the Consolidation Coal Company of
Maryland, which renders It lawful for all bodies cor
porate to become subscribers for and owners of the
capital stock of the last-named company; also, to
consider and act upon the question of a consolida
tion with the last-named company and other con
panics having coal lands In Allegheny county, Md.
to arrange the terms of such consolidation and the
manner of carrying the same Into effect, and to
authorize the Directors to effect the same; to autho
rize the Board of Directors of this Company to sab
scribe in Its behalf for $3,000,000 of the capital stock '
of said Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland.
and to agree with that company upon the terms and
conditions upon which such subscription shall be
mado, and to convey and transfer to the last-named
Company In free payment for the amount of stock
which may be so subscribed for, such portion of the
lands and other properties of this Company, includ
ing its railroad, as may be agreed upon. And gene-;
rally, to pass npon all questions whioh may arise
touching such proposed consolidation, or transfer of
property, or subscription for stocks, and the dispo
sition to be made of the stock subscribed for, and If
deemed expedient, to authorize a lease of the pro
perties of this Company or any part thereof, and te
make all alteratlonsln the by-laws which said meet
ing may deem necessary or proper.
Notice Is hereby given that, for the purpose of
holding a stockholders' meeting of the Cumberland
Coal and Iron Company on the 19th day of February
next, tbe transfer books will close on SATURDAY,
Jan. 89, 1870, at S o'clock P. M. .
By order of the Board of Directors. '
, , J. RICHARDS, Secretary. ';"
New York, Jan. 18, 1870. . ISOtFis ',
FARMS IN A LOCAL '
ALL WANTING
lty Exempt from Fevers and Lung Complaints. .
To Farmers, Horticulturists, Mechanics, Capitalists, '
Gentlemen of Leisure, Invalids, and all wanting a 1
homestead In a climate of unsurpassed salubrity,.
exempt from the rigors of a Northern winter, and -in
close connection with tbe commercial centres of
the South. Few if any sections offer such a oombl- , .
nation of Inducements as the town of Aiken, 8. C, ' '
and Its vicinity for a desirable and permanent home. Y
A pamphlet of 84 pages' now ready, containing a
description of the climate, soils, and the nature of .
the products In the vicinity of Aiken, especially "
fruit, cereals, cotton,' corp,' vegetables, eta, in- '(
eluding extracts from letters of distinguished vlsi -,
tors, correspondents, action of tgwn councils In- "
vlting emigrantt etc., to which Is added a descrlp-
i ..... , ,
tlve list of property for sale, including Improved
i .
farms, orchards, vineyards, water power, kaolin '
l
deposits, unimproved lands, and town rosldonoea. J ,
Fot-
sale by E. J. C. WOOD, Real Estate Agent, ;
Aiken, S. C,
The
book will be sent by mall 'on ''
receipt of price, M cents. Address J. O. DERBY, l r
Publisher, P. O. Box No. 1439, New York, until 1st ""T
of Febrnary, after that date at Aiken, 8. C I IT Ira -)
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WILLIAM WRIGHT'S PATENT VARIABLE J
. CUT-OFF STEAM ENGINE, ; . , ' '' ,
Regulated by the Governor, i '
MERRICK'S SAFETY HOISTTNq MACHINE. '.
Patented Jane, 1869. , , . ,,
! . DAVID JOY'S
PATENT VALVRLESS STEAM HAMMER ,7,
D. M. WESTON'S
PATENT SELF-CENTERING, SELF-BALANCING
isJkMAlvU UUMi PUUAn-uJiAAi.LNU JLACULNaV
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