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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1870.
LEGISLATURES AND MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENTS.
The Legislature of Alabama recently attempted
to uproot the city government of Mobile, and
they succeeded so far that two municipal gov
ernments are now in full blast in that favored
locality. A new Mayor has been nominally
installed before the old one vacated his posi
tion. As a result, the telegraph informs ns
that "Price (the old Mayor) still holds his
courts and controls the police, while Harring
ton (the Mayor .created by the Legislature)
manages the clerical and legislative branch of
the city government." Harrington has called
for troops to enforce his authority, but the
Governor positively refuses to send them,
and meanwhile the puzzled citizens
hardly know whom they should obey or what
misohief a may result from the prevailing oon
funion. In Philadelphia we have not yet
been placed in quite as bad a position as the
people of Mobile, but from present indica
tions we are rapidly approaching it. In the
decision given by Judge Sharswood on the
City Trusts bill, the principle is boldly enun
ciated that "fme Legislature, acting for the
State, can resume all the franchises of the
municipality into its own hands;" and the dis
position to exercise supreme control over
mumioipal affairs at Harriaburg has increased
so rapidly of late years that we
Lave only the semblance ! of a
local government left, and for all i practioal
purposes, except the fixing of tax rates,
Councils might nearly as well be disbanded.
If the appeal from the decision of the Su
preme Court of the State in the City Trusts
bill does not prove successful, the control of
the Oirard Estate will speedily pass into the
hands of a oommittee created by Legislative
authority. A bill appointing a Legislative
Committee to erect a House of Correction
was recently hurried through the Legislature,
' and it la said that it has already received the
signature of the Governor. The Police Com
mission bill was only defeated by an
unexpected veto. The Legislature now
has under consideration a bill affecting
the organization of the Sohool Board.
From time to time the city is compelled to
incur heavy expenditures for the erection of
sew bridges, or to give the use of her streets
gratuitously to chartered companies, by
Legislative authority; or the salaries of her
offloiala are unnecessarily increased; and,
practically, the doctrine is now fully aocepted
that the city has no rights which the State is
either bound or disposed to respeot. We do
not pretend that Councils on the one hand,
or the Legislature on the other, are always
either wright or wrong, but the prevailing
system of dividing authority gives to every
knavish proposition a double chance of sue
cess, and in the long run it works
great injury to the interests of the
people. The theoretical control of the
city by the State practically means a grant of
Absolute power on local questions to the
Senators and Representatives of Philadel
phia, when they are united, and although we
are not afflioted, like Mobile, with two
Mavors. we are subjected to two sets or con
flicting authorities whose disjointed opera
tions produce scarcely lees confusion than
would result from rival municipal govern
ments. When the Aot of Consolidation was
passed, it was commonly supposed that the
citizens of Philadelphia would be permitted
to govern themselves; but despite the care
displayed in preparing that act, itjhas proved a
failure, and the whole framework of the
political organization of the oity has since
been Be thoroughly reorganized by legislative
patchwork that nothing but the shreds of the
old charter remain. With each new year the
importance of municipal government in
creases with our rapid growth, our pressing
needs, our heavy debt and onerous taxation,
and vet with each new year it
receives less attentive consideration, and be
comes more the sport of a battledore and
shuttlecock game between Councils and the
Legislature. For these evils a cure could be
devised if the best men of both parties
applied themselves earnestly to the task.
Guided by the light of past experience and a
full knowledge of the existing defeots, care
ful inquiry would enable them to discover a
remedy, and if it was embodied in a compre
hensive bill which commanded popular ap
proval, there is a fair prospeot that some
future Legislature would be found willing to
pass it, and that aline of demarcation would
thus be established between the authority of
the State and the city, which would give to
Philadelphia a chance for progress and pros
' merit. As matters are drifting now, tax
payers are compelled to pay all the looal ex
neniAs that mar be authorized either in
Independence Hall or in the State Capitol,
' and if they wish to effect a reform they must
, amuse tneir enersnes in bo out uuouuuuo
. . .. , ... i j :.
-' that their best efforts are well-nigh hopeless.
An xffobt is being made in tbe Legislature
to hawe the publication of Bates' "History of
the PennBTlrania Volunteers continued.
This "History" is nothing but ft soandaloos
job for the benefit of Bates, and it ought
, never to hare been sanctioned by the Legis
lature. The best thing that can be done now
is to stop any further payments for it, and
let tbe money that has been expended go, with
i feelings of congratulation that it is no more.
There ii not much use in the- people of tbe
State complaining about past swindles, thy can-
pot be, remedies now, and wo are chieny inter
ruled Ju those present and prospective. With
m K-ud to the '-History" the Senate seems dis
(minmI to give Hates what he asks for t carry
on bis iuterminalila rigmarole, but thoj House
proposes to keep the matter in abeyance for
a time, find to appoint a joint committee to
ascertain the cost, and to notify the State
printer to cense the publication until, other
wise ordered by act of Legislature. ' It would
be much more satisfactory if further publi
cation were to be forbidden outright!, and it
Is not a promising sign for the discontinuance
of this drain on the treasury to find the
Senate appointing a committee to harmonize
the views of the two hoasos on the subjeot.
TI1E INDICTMENT OF RICHARD
F1CKEN. i
The District Attorney, Judge Ludlow, and
the Grand Jury have taken prompt action in
the case of llichard Ficken, and that Indivi
dual was brought into the Court of Quarter
Sessions yesterday on a bench-warrant issued
on the application of Mr. Gibbons, who
stated that he had proparod a bill of indict
ment against Fioken, which had been returned
by the Grand Jury. The bill charges
Fieken with assault and battery; with as
sault and battery with intent to kill; with
shooting at with intent to murder; and with
shooting at with intent to disable Isaao Dar
ker, a lad who was in company with young
Curran at the time he was shot. Testi
mony was submited to show that
Ficken fired a pistol at the boys,
and also with regard to the condition of the
wounded lad. The boy Isaac Barker stated
positively that he saw Fioken fire, and Mr.
John 0. Curran testified that Ficken came to
his house and apologized for the occurrence,
offering to bear the expenses of medical treat
ment for the iajured boy, and giving as a
reason for the outrage he had committed that
he thought it was only one of the alley boys.
Mr. Curran Tory justly thought that this ex
cuse only aggravated the offense, and he re
fused to let the matter be hushed up.
The surgeon In attendanoe on young Cur
ran testified, that the ball was still in the
limb, where it could not be found, and that
the boy'a life was in peril, though not in
imminent danger. Under these circum
stances Judge Ludlow said that the
defendant must remain in custody to await
the result of the boy's injury, and he also
held him in the Bum of $5000 bail on the
charge of assaulting Isaao Barker. There
seems, from the disposition of the court and
Distriot Attorney to do prompt and impartial
justice in this case, a very fair chance that
Fioken will get his just deserts, whicb, if the
boy reoovera, under the law will be a fine not
exoeeding $1000 and an imprisonment not
exceeding seven years. If the boy dies, Ficken
will, in the language of Judge Ludlow, be
called upon to answer for the highest crime
known to the law. :
It distubbb the equanimity of the Age to
find that Foster Blodgett, the United States
Senator elect from Georgia, is disposed to be
virtuous in a manner totally unprecedented
in the annals of the Democratic party. The
Age never heard aud never will, hear of a
Democratic Senator elect asking' that his
charaoter shall be cleared of charges against
it before taking a seat in the highest de
liberative body of the nation; for if such a
practice were to become a general custom, the
Democracy would not be able to have any
Senators to represent their interests. It
would undoubtedly be a good . thing for the
nation if our Senators and Representatives
were obliged to purge themselves as Blodgett
proposes to do, but we are not astonished that
our esteemed contemporary should become
alarmed at the idea of Buoh a precedent being
established. Blodgett, in a frank and manly
letter, requests the Governor of Georgia to
withhold his certificate of eleotion until the
charges against him shall have been proved
or disproved in the most Batisfaotory man
ner. He asserts that these charges were pre
ferred for political purposes only, and that
they have been allowed to stand in court,
without any attempt being made to prosecute
them, solely for the purpose of annoying
him and embarrassing him in the Senate.
His letter shows that ho is not afraid to meet
them, and so we exolaim with the Age,
"Bully for Blodgett!" -
The Lxoihlatcbb seems inolined to extend
the band of friendship and forgiveness to
Geary again at least we judge so from the
fact that a bill was reported formally in the
Senate yesterday appropriating the sum of
$1000 to pay the inaugural expenses of the
Governor. The inauguration of a Governor
of this Commonwealth consists simply in his
taking an oath to support tbe Constitution of
the United States and of the State of Penn
sylvania, and to attend to various other mat
ters, such as faithfully execute tbe laws, etc
Why it should cost such an amount as $1900
to "swear in" Geary at the commencement of
his second term, is worth inquiring about in
these days of high taxes. Who is to reoeive
the money, and what is it to be paid for ? is
what we want to know.
Tns Episcopal Bskch in tbe present day by no
means represents the whole of the ecclesiastical
strength In the British House of Lords. Inthuen
sulDg Parliamentary session, besides the twenty,
four bishops, there wUl be nine olerloal peers entl-
liuea to seats, via. : The Earls of Carlisle and Buck
inghamshire, Lords Bays aal Sale, Soarsdale, Dj ne
ver, Aucuana, nroancit, O'Neill, and Buckhurst.
This fact marks the rise that baa taken place In the
social position oi tne wergy siuo the daya of Parson
Adams and Or. Primrose. Chsmberlalne. wrltliur
upon the state of England, aooi. after the Revolu
tion, remarks with evident satisfaction that, "low as
the revenues of the Church have been brought by
tbe sacrilege of former times, it baa pleased God to
suffer so much still to remain at te be an enoonrage
ment to the gentry aud nobility of the nation te edu
cate their younger children In that way. And the
present age can show several of the eaunenteat
churchmen now In England who have at one.
honored the Church and added a lustre te those
eminent families from which thoy are descended."
The list that follows Is very brief, and contains the
name of only one peer Lord Crow who was amply
rewarded.for his sealous ohurchmanshlp with the
princely revenues of the blshoprto of Dublin.
"Chief Jcstiob Chasi," says the Baltimore im
riran, "will find it hard to reconcile his opinion ai a
, juUc; of Vxt evriCUO Courf Cft tuc irgttl tender
question with those he entertained when, a Sw.re
tart of the Treasury, he became the fattier of the
greenback system;" commenting upon which, the
Mew Tork Commercial Advertiser says that "the
,4 nuriron tmdorrnteUhe mrofr aire of tits Chief
Justice, lie 1 like Daniel 8. Dickinson' inake, that
'wired tn and wired out', until the devil himself gave
up the puzzle of tracking him aa a bad JoV "
Tns Cronstadt Me$enyet saya that all the lron-
clada In the RusBlan fleet are now provided with
new 8 and V-lnnh steel gun a. Borne monitor hare
been armed with la-Inch smooth bore, and all ves
sels Intended for long Journeys have Inch rifled
ateel guns. A huge smooth-bore gun or fo-lnchea
calibre has been constructed at Perm. All these
guns were made In Kuasia. Every man In the navy,
too, Is now armed with the new rise according te
the tfaranoff system.
SPECIAL NOTIOE8.
For midttUmai Arwrfel Aoricet mm Oi Innid RMM.
FINEST
QSNTB'
RBADY-MADB
FURNISHING
CLOTHING.
GOODS.
JOHN
yANAMAKBIt,
N03. SIS AND 890
QHK3NUT
IT.
YOUTHS'
FASH10NABLB
AND BOYS'
MERCHANT
CLOTHING.
TAILORING.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
THK BTAR COURSE OF LECTURES.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
On THURSDAY EVENING. February It
Eubject-"Our Rational i'olly-Tbe OItU Bor-rice."
PROF. HENRY MORTON, '
On MONDAY KVKNINQ. February tt,
6ubject-"8oler Eclipses."
BAYARD TAYLOR, March I,
Subjtot "Inform and Art."
JOHN O. 8AXK, March it.
Subject "French Folk at Homo."
PROF. ROBERT E. ROT1CR8, March M.
Snbjeot "Chemical Forces in Nature and tne Art."
ANNA K. DICKINSON, April 7.
6nbjeoU-"Down Drakes."
A dniiseion to each Lecture. 60 oents ; Reserved Seats, Tt
cents.
Tickets to any nf the Lectures (or aula at Gould's Piano
Booms, AO. V&J UUKSK u X btreet, from A. AL to 6 V. M.
Doors open at 7. Leotnro at8- 1 17 tf
HORACE GREELEY
AT TRS
ACADEMY OF MUSIO, !
TUESDAY EVENING, Feb. 13.
Bubject-' THE WOMAN QUESTION."
Tickets at AhU UK AD'S, No. 734 OHBSNUT Street.
Reeerred Seats, 71 cents. Admission and Stage
Tickets, fcl cents. Reeerred Seats in Family Olrole, 60
oents. I Ilia 14 17 18 1911 22
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
Wist Jf.uhbt Ratt.roab Ookpamy,)
' TnKAHtTBKH'a OrncK.
Camden, February U, 187. )
The Board of Directors bare this day declared, from the
earnings of the past sis months, a semi-annual diridend
of FIVE PER CENT, on the capital stock of the com
pany, clear of National tax, payable to the stockholders of
this date, at the office of the eompany in the oity of
Camden, ON AND AFTER SATURDAY, February 19.
Tbe Stock Transfer Books will be closed from the date
hereof until the 19th instant.
UEORUK J. ROBBIN8. Treasurer.
184t West Jeissy Railroad Company.
figg- OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY. I
PHTLArBlinA, February 18, 1870.
NOTIOK TO 8TOOKHOLDKR8.
The Annual Election for Directors will beheld on MON
DAY, the 7th day of March. 1870. at the Office of the Com
pany, No. 838 South THIRD Street. The polls wiU be
omn from ID o'clock A. M. until S o'clock P. M.
No share or shares transferred within aistrdars ore-
ceding the eleotion will entitle the holder or holders
tuereul to rote. , '
( JOSEPH LB8LEY.
816tM8rp Secretary.
BfiT OFFICE RECEIVER OT TAXE8.
' Pnn.ADKl.PmA. Feb. la. lmn
NOTIOB. In oonsequenee of the oouf nuien inoident to
under the deciiion of tbe Supreme Court in the contested!
election case, it has been detei mined, with the indorse
ment of tbe Finance Oommittee of Councils, to onen tbe
duplioetes for tbe reception nf the City and State Taxes
lor tne year invu. on hvuvai next, ieuraaryai.
HIOHAHU PKLTZ.
il56t
- Receiver of Taxes.
tgr OFFICE OF THE DIAMOND COAL
COMPANY, No. mi WALNUT Street.
DIVIDEND NOTICE. ,
The Directors hare dee tared a dWidead of ONE DOL-
LA K per share, payable on and after tbe Hist lost.
S. ALTER, Secretary.
(jST A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
8TOCKHOI.DKH8 OF THK OONNELLRVILI.B
OAS COAL COMPANY wiU be held at' thoir Otfioe. No.
814 X WAJ1UT Btreet. on FRIDAY, Alaroh , 1870,
at 11 o'clock A. M., to consider tbe propriety of oreating a
Mortgage on the property of the company.
NORTON JOUNbON, Recretai
Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1870.
1 15 tufa 7t
Bgy AUSTRALIAN AND ALASKA DIA-
WON 1)8, MOHS AGATES, and all the latest styles
of Fashionable Jewelry, at low prises.
irie. near A rob. O. G. KVANH.
KVaas 15 A .A it, rio.oo nortn JLluuxil Btreet, west
I W lmsp
I
ST JAMES M. 8COVEL,
OAMDKN. N. J.
FOR COLLECTIONS CLAIMS OVER ONE HTJIf.
UHKU IHilAiAito, rlVJS rtLxk UoNT. Sep
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE WEW 1BOOU8
FOB SALE AT WHOLESALE PBI0ES BY
3 PORTER fc COATES,
Publishers and Booksellers,
No. 839 CIIE8HITT Street.
i i - 1
Our New and Else ant I
Airr OALLERV
Is now open with the finest collection of PAINTINGS,
0HROMO8 sad ENGRAVINGS la the oity. ixxmwf t
PIANOS. ' "
8TEINWAY & SONS'
PIANOS.
BLASIUS BROS.,
No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET.
118 PHILADELPHIA.
WANTS.
A ROOM OR SUIT OF ROOM8. WITH
A, fau Board, wanted by a gentleman la a private
family where there are few other boarders. Answers to
be nutioed mart state looaUon and aise of rooms, whether
luruiuieo. or uot, hoars of meals, and terns. Unnxoep-
V ,, . ref .renees liven and reiioired. Address "Mome,'
iilaUgfelAfiftut, litis
OLOTHiNO.
fcCTBRlOR CLOTHING,
RBADT-MADB
AMD MADB TO ORDER.
ROCKHILL & WILSON,
003 and 605
CHESNUT STREET.
J. . I
' BOYS' CLOTHING,
NEW STYLES, ' ,
CHEAP, CHEAPER, CHEAPEST.
QARCAIN8 IN
CLOTHING.
GOOD BUSINESS SUITS lis, were 19
na no
us m
OVERCOATS til u IM
EVAN8 & LEACH.
No. 628 MARKET STREET.
II S6 mrp PHILADELPHIA.
PRY POOPS.
MOURNING GOODS.
JUST OPENED,
Oar First Importation
SPRING FABRICS
FOR
MOURNING WEAR.
Pqtiare Mesh.
tircnadlne Ilareprts, all quali
ties
Batiste aLalme
: All-wool Taffeta. '
Mohair Tamlse.
Entxllslt and French Bombazine. '
Ratz de St. Cyr. j
Drap d'Alma,
Cobellne.
Mohairs and Alpacas.
With
a fall assortment of all Goods
Suitable for Mourning.
HOMER, COLLADAY & CO.,
Nos. 1412 and 1414 CHESS UI Street,
, s It wfmt4p ,
ABOH BROAD.
LINEN STORE,
No. 820 ARCH STREET
AMD . ,
No. 1 128 CHE8NUT Street.
i
Spring Importations.
IMMENSE STOCK OF
LINEN GOODS, . i ... ,
WHITE GOODS, and
HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS.
PRICES DOWN . . . .
SBlmwft TO PRESENT GOLD RATE.
J.
W. PROCTOR
CO.
! i
SPECIAL NOTICE. :
COHTXHUATXON OP SALS.
Balance of 8tck remalnlac oa havod will be
sold at Ketall. Tbe whole oi inn stock u
bow the first fleor. KenI Bar
gains may be expected.
STORE NOW OPKN. i
Business Horse, Mirrors, abont 70 Walnut
Frames with Ulaaaeala lor banclnff la llo
telot and maay article suitable for Cloak
manufacturers. Wax Figures, Kte. S Ifltf
MBS. R. DILLON, NO. 823 AND 881 SOUTH
Btreet. has a Urge assortment of floe Millinery
for Ladies and Misses, Bibbont, Batins, Silks, Velvets
and Velveteens, Orspes, leathers. Flowers, Vramea,
Kaah Ribbons, Ornaments, aaoanuac aa wintry,
vsr
Veils, etc
rEPHTRS AND GERMANTOWN WOOLS.
tJ Blocking Yams of aU kinds: Tidy. Crochet, and
Mending Cotton, wholesale antt retail, at' Factory, Ma
tUiM LOMBARD BUreet. UIBsni
WATOHE8.
1124 CHESNUT STREET.
American, Swiss and English
WATCHES
AT
CLARK & BIDDLE'S,
Special Agent in Pk&adelpJtfa for
AMERICAN WATCHES,
e4c bj S. fiowwa ft Co.. sostou. CI It Trta
BEWINQ MAOHINE8.
WHEELER
& WILSON'S
tOOK-STlTOH
Tamily Sewing Llachino.
ovrn cay now im trait.
KKAMIKK IT BFrORE BUYING ANT OlUttR.
Sold oa Lease Flak $10 Per Month.
ii:ti:rson a. CAitPisaTisu,
GENERAL AGENTS,
Ho. 0t4 CIIItMrvirr tftreet,
ermwt philadbuuia.
THE AMERICAN
Combination Button-Hole
AND
SEWING MACHINE
la now admitted to be far superior to alt others aa a
Family Machine. The SIMPLICITY, EASE and
CERTAINTY with which It operate, aa well as the
uniform excellence of its work, thronghoat the en
tire range of sewing, tn '
Stitching, Hemming:, Felling,
Turkinfc, Cording, Braiding,
Qnlltlng, feathering and
Sewing on, Orerseamlng,
Embroidering on the
Edge, and Its Beautiful
ButtonHole and Eye
let Hole Work,
Place it unquestionably far In adrance of anr other
similar Invention.
Thia la the only new family machine that embodies
nay Substantial Improvement upon the many old
machines In tbe market.
It Certainly has no Equal.
It la also admirably adapted to man u factoring par
Boees on all kinds of fabrics.
Call and boo U operate and get samples of toe
work.
We hare also for sale our "PLAIN AMERICAN,"
a beautiful family machine, at a Reduced Price.
This machine does all that Is done oa toe Combina
tion except the OTerseamlng and Button-bole work.
Office and Salesrooms,
S. W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnut,
1 ST thstu3mrp
PHILADELPHIA.
A TRADE SALE OF BARTRAM & FANTON
-tV Family Sewing Maehlnes, to be held at SOOTT'S
AUCTION ROOMS. No. 1117 OHKMNUT fctreet. on
MONDAY MORNING, rebrnary si, by order of William
L. Hopkins, Ueneral Agent for the Company, for the
purpose of introducing their- superior merits to the
publio- 8 li It .
PROPOSALS. '
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. BRIDGES,
8K WERS, ETC. OFFICE OF CHIEF COMMI8
SIONER.No. 104 8. FIFTH Street, -
Philapblphia. February it, 1870.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed Proposals will be received at the office of
the Chief Commissioner of Highways until 19 o'clock
M., on MONDAY, Slst Instant, for tbe construction
of a 8ewor on the line of Haines street, from Twelfth
to the east onrb-Une of Thirteenth street, at two
feet six Inches In diameter: on bare street, from the
sewer In Twenty-fourth Btreet to Ringgold street,
thence on Ringgold Btreet to within eighty feet of the
south line of Brown street of three feet diameter ;
on Thirty-eighth street, from Walnut to Locust
streets, thence on Locost street to Thirty-ninth
street, of three feet diameter. W 1th suoh man-holes
as mar be directed by the Chief Engineer and Sur
veyor. - The understanding to be that the sewers herein
advertised are to be completed on or before the 81st
day of December, 1870. And the contractor shall
take bills prepared against the property fronting on
aald sewer to the amount of one dollar and fifty
oents for each lineal foot of front on each side of the
street, as so much cash paid ; the balance, as limited
by ordinance, to be paid by the city ; and the con
tractor shall be required to keep the street and
sewer in good order for three years after the sewer
Is finished.
When the street Is occupied by a City Passenger
Railroad track, the 8ewer shall be constructed along
side of said track tn such manner as not to obstruct
or Interfere with the safe paHsage of the cars thereon ;
and no claim for remuneration shall be paid the con
tractor by the company using sold track, as spewed
In Act of Assembly- approved May 8, 1806. i
Each proposal will be i accompanied by a
certificate that a bond has been filed. In
the Law Department as directed by Or
dinance of May tea, iwo. It the lowest bidder shall
not execute a contract within five days after the
work Is awarded, he will be deemed as declining, and
will be held liable on his bond for the difference be
tween his bid and the next lowest bidder. Specifica
tions may be bad at the Department, of Si
urveys,
which will be strictly adhered to. The Department
of Highways reserves the right to reject all bids not
deemed satisfactory.
- All bidders may be present at the time and place of
opening the said proposals. No allowance will be
made for rok excavation unless by special con
tract. MAHLON IL DICKINSON,
' 8 18 t Chief Commissioner of Highways.
"PROPOSALS FOR STREET , CLEANING. .
SEALED PROP08AL8will be received at the
Office of the BOARD OF HEALTH, 8. W. corner
of SIXTH and SANSOM Streets, Philadelphia, until
11 o'clock noon on the X6th day or February, 1879.
for olcaalng and keeping thoroughly clean at all
times from the 1st day of MAH( 'if, 1870, to the 81st
day Of DKCEMBKli, 1871. all the paved streets,
alleys, courts. Inlets, market houses, gutters, gut
ters under railroad crosttiugs, gutters of unpaved
streets, and all other public highways, and the im
mediate removal of all filth and dirt therefrom, after
the same has been collected together; also, the
removal of ashes and the collection and burial of all
dead animals embraced within the following dis
tricts, vis. :
First. That part of the city lying north of ALLE
GHENY Avenue, known as Bridesburg and Frank
ford ; to be termed the Twentieth district.
Second. That part of tbe city known as MANA
YUNE ; to be termed the Twenty-first district.
Bids must be for separate districts, nainiug the
Dumber of the distriot.
Tbe Board reserves the right to reject any and all
bids; also the right to award contracts for one dis
trict only. i
Warrants for the payment of said contracts will
be drawn In conformity with section i of the Aot of
Assembly approved March is, io.
Envelopes inclosing
proposals must be Indorsed
'Proposals for Street Cleanlug." etc.." naming the
number of the district bid for.
E. WARD, President
Chas. B. Bakbbtt, Secretary. 1 18 6t
THE FINE ARTS.
Qm F. H A 8E LTINCfl
Galleries of this Arts.
No. 1125 CHESNUT STREET.
TIIJ3 AUTOTYPES
AMD
LANDSCAPES
morp HA V ABETTED.
PERSONAL..
CARD MY OLD GALLERY II A VINO BEEN
Uken by other parties for a short time for the. ale of
Palatines. I would state that I am nut oonneoted wth
thatpl.oeinany way. Sly Gallery la looatedat SieMill
OHKbNUTBlreet, Uirera now.
8, SQ0TT. in,
LOOKINQ CLASSES, ETO.
fTARLES CALL C R I C 8
AND
L00EIZTO GLASS WARER00MS,
No. 616 CHESNUT STREET.
JTJBT OPKrTF.D,
NEW PORCELAIN PIOTURES. from Dresden and
Minion.
A NKW STYLE Or FOLIO STAND, for Parlors.
PORT FOLIOS, for Rngravtngs.
NEW IHKOMOH. Rto. Kte. '
CARVED RUSTIC, Oard and other Frames!
OENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS.
piNE DRESS 8HIRT8.
J. V. SCOTT & CO..
No. 814 CHESNUT STREET,' POILA,
GENTLEMEN'S FANCY GOODS
IN FULL VARIETY. (1 seaUuvjl
CHINA, GLASSWARE, ETO.
CAY'S CHINA PALACE
Has the most complete assortment of
China, tilan and Queensvrare
To be fotud in this city.
All the foreign goods are imported direct from the
manniaotorers, and are off seed to the oonsamtr below
iotbin rates. i c.
Goods to so oat of the city packed and delivered te
transportation omoe free of charge, and insured ssminsl
breakage to destination. 1 17 thsalmrw
wo. ioaa cnnsntirr streot.
BOOTS AND 8HOE8.
WINTER
BOOTS AND SHOES
FOR UKNTLEMEN.
BARTLKTT,
No. 33 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
1 13 tbstuDBl
ABOV3 CHESNUT.
MINERAL. WATER.
LLEGILENT MINERAL , t WATER,"
VIBOIMA.
' Tbe undersigned, ssonte for the water of th above
Springs, have s constant sappiy on band.
For price and oironlars apply to
MITOHKLL A ALLEN.
8 10 thsta Imrp , Ne. 811 8. FRONT Street.
QROOERIE8. ETO.
COFFEE.
A CHOICE LOT OF
MOCHA COFFEE ,
1 f . ' -
JU3T IN STORS, AT LOW PRI0B3.
E. BRADFORD CLARKE.
Sueeestor to Simon Colton & Clarke,
S.W. Corner Broad and Walnut,
Btuths
PHILADELPHIA.
1809.
"yy ARRAKTED GENUINE OLD
' Government Java Coffee,
Roasted
every day. at
per pound, at
40 cento
COUSTY'S East End ' Grocery,
No. 118 South SECOND St.,
8 17 thstn BELOW OHBSNUT BTREKT.
OOQP8 FOR THE LADIES.
Q. It AN 1 OPENINO OF
SPUING FASHIONS
r
' Imported Paper Patterns.
TUESDAY, UAROH t, 1878.
The old established and only reliable Paper Patter
Dress and Cloak Making Emporium.
Dresses made te fit with oase and site ease in M hoots
notice.
MRS. M. A. BINDER'S recent visit to Paris
ber to receive fashions, Trimmings and Fancy Ooed
superior to anything in this eoantiy.
New in design. Moderate in prioe.
A perfect system of Drees Chitting taught.
Cutting, Basting, Pinking.
fashion Books and OoBering Machines for sale.
Beta of Patterns for Merchants and Dress Makers now
ready, at
MRS. M. A. BINDER'S,
HOI,
X. W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnut
Carefully note the name and number, te avoid being
deceived. - 1 6 stem.
HOSIERY, ETO.
XXOOT 0&X3X? AT
llOFMANN'S U0SIEBY STORE,
No. 9 NORTH EIGHTH STREET,
GENTS' WHITS WOOL SKIRTS,
GENTS' WHITS WOOL DRAWERS,
GENTS' SCARLET WOOL 8HIRTS,
GENTS' SCARLET WOOL DRAWERS,
GENTS' MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS,
LADIES' MERINO VESTS,
LADIES' MERINO DRAWERS,
LAD1KS' CA8HMERB VESTS.
CHILDREN'S MERINO UNDERWEAR,
GENTS' COTTON SHIRTS AND DRAWERS,
LADIES' COTTON VESTS AND DRAWERS.
Also, a very large assortment of (4 f waif
cotton; .wool, and vasm,Q uwixb.ik
t