THE DAILY' EVENING TELEGIUrU nilLADELPniA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1670.
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DO THE "WOMEN ASK FOR SUFFRAGE?
From the PiUtbvra Commercial.
"Woman Buffrflgo i8 favorably regarded in
Borne parta of the country. In the West,
especially, considerable numbers of the poli
ticians seom inclined to bring tbe question
to the test of actual trial. In the Illinois
Constitutional Convention a resolution was
lately introduced which instructed tbe appro
priate committee to report on the propriety
of submitting tbe question whether or not
women shall be allowed to vote, to the women
of the State. This measure appears well
adapted to settle one highly important point
in the agitation of this momentous subject.
Not only by rigid, old-fashioned conservatives,
but by some male reformers of decidedly
radical tendencies, it is confidently affirmed
that comparatively few women really
desire to enjoy the privilege so highly
valued by the other sex. Terhaps a good
many of them might be gratified by the con
cession of the right, as a recognition of their
perfect human equality, and also as placing
them in a position from whicK an occasional
advantage might accrue to them but it is
alleged that even these would be generally
content in the knowledge that they could vote
if they pleased to do so, without any wish to
make their influence felt in that way. To
ladies of tbe genus technically designated as
the "strong-minded" this indifference seems
very contemptible. In denunciation of such
pitiful pusillanimity their rhetoric glows and
pparklos, and there is, no doubt, a consuming
force in their allusions to prisoners who shrink
from the light, and to slaves who hug their
chains. Indoed, it is possible to admire the
persistent zeal and fiery energy with which
many of these champions of female eman
cipation carry on the agitation of their
cause. . Not in a beautiful but in a striking
manner they refute the maligner of their
kind who denied character to women, as
being constituted of "matter too soft a last
ing mark to bear, and best distinguished by
black, brown, or fair." Yet, after all, it is
not doubtful, but certain, that these sublime
and stormful agitators exhibit not only a less
refined and delicate, but a less lofty and saga
cious appreciation of feminine ambition and
its spheres than is entertained by their quieter
and, as it seems, meeker sisters. Woman has
thus far creverned the world bv means of the
very qualities of which these reformers are
blindly striving to divest Her. A clear percep
tion of these truths is, we see, prompting
thoughtful members of the sisterhood to
TofliBt the innovation. We learn that anti
ro's rights associations have been
fawned in some places. Cogent arguments
against female sunrace nave appeared from
the hands of women. The recent movement
in Washington ought perhaps to be regarded
as tne most sigmncam ana important maioa
tion of the antagonism to which we allude. A
number of ladies, some of them wives and
daughters of high government officials, are
reported to have appeared before a committee
of the Senate for the purpose of giving their
views in opposition to the concession of suf
frage to their Bex. On account of the central
position and high social relations of the par
ties, this action may be the beginning of an
agitation destined to become coextensive with
the agitation to which it is opposed.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CUBA.
From the Y. World. '
When will the Republican party adjust mat
ters in respect to Cuba? When will the com
motion in Congress in respect to belligerent
reooenition cease? When will the revolters
n the' island know what they are to expect
from the political organization which reigns
fruprome in every nook and corner of the
Federal Government? When will Spain be
able to appreciate correctly whether Grant,
bis administration, and his Republican parti'
sans in the two houses of Congress are to act
in respect to Cuba in a fair or an unfair spirit?
Is there to be no caucus ot llepubucan oena-
tors and Congressmen to decide what rules of
pubho policy shall govern party and liovern
ment aotion in this grave matter? Is the re
nnblio of Cuba, as it now exists, a thine to
. be recognized by this Government as either
a de facto or an independent nation is
the fact that this republio of Cuba,
so called, is carrying on warfare, regular or
guerilla, beUo-gerere, sufficient to warrant this
Government in declaring it a de facto power
now outside the control of Spain ? In such
matters are we ' to look to see if whoever
solicits of ns such recognition has a govern
ment, and holds, or is likely to hold, securely,
well-defined territory under that government,
with which it is for our interest to have poli
tical or commercial relations, or are W6 only
to inquire whether fighting is carried on ?
Is it not enough for this Government, when
deliberating whether it will proclaim a new
power in the dominions of a foreign nation,
to know that such power is large enough to
have sustained iUelf in arms against the
present Government for more than a year
and a half ?
Has not the Republican party in Congress
sufficient brain and nerve to decide suoh
questions? Has Grant no convictions
thereon, or, having them, can he not influence
Congress to come to a conclusion? Is he a
political eunuch? Can he neither propagate
nor disseminate his ideas in Congress? Or
has he none?
The Republican party is mistaken if it
thinks there is safety for its organization in
continuing to Bit astride the fence in respect
to this Cuban question. It will find in the
end that there is no more of safety in such
an attitude than there is of. honor. We are
aware that its leaders fancy that their present
policy of acting one way and talking another
will escape censure. Grant, it is true, has
ocoupied both sides of the Cuban isiue
From the beginning, up to the 1st of Sep
tember, bis words, and in tact nin deeds, were
of a character to satisfy the most arrant fili
buster. Since then he has gone over to the
other side, and in conversation pleads perso
nal sympathy for the Cuban cause, but sag
gests restraint, exercised by cortain members
of his Cabinet. In the meantime he is day
by day being crowded in the disagreeable
and, for a proud man, humiliating position
oi euner confessing that ne is aunty oi a a
plioity towards the revolters. or that he is
unable to control prominent party friends in
CiQDcress.
U be condition in which all this places our
country in the eyes of foreign nations is de
plorable in the extreme. The oause of the
revolt in Cuba demands the svmnathv of the
people of the United States, or it does not
demand it. The treatment of the revolt bv
Spain challenges, in like manner, the anti
pathy of the people of the United States, or
it does not challenge it. uere than that.
The situation on the island of Cuba merits
ha Intervention of the United States in be
half of those who are struggling for self -government,
or it does not merit it. The cause
of humanity vindicates its claim to the inter
position of this
his Government to stay the rude I
hand of Snain. or it does not vin licate it. I
Thincs are come to suoh a pass that there is
no longer any middle oourso for the United
States in this matter. This Uovernment must
either scrupulously abstain from interposi
tion, directly or indirectly, moral or physio,l,
in the affaits of the island, or it must inter
pose with a firm band in behalf of the true
ntorests of this country.
These questions must be dooidad by the
Republican party in Congress, and deoided
at once; longer dolay on the part of tho Re
publican leaders in that body is oruel an well
as criminal. It is unjust to the revolters and
dishonest towards Spain.
Is it possiblo that there is not, in tne ite-
publican party as represented in Congress,
sufficient sympathy for a people struggling to
pursue the paths of prosperity and happiness
under institutions similar to our own, suf
ficient respect for tho rights of a friendly
nation like Spain, sufficient appreciation of
what tbe fame and prosperity of tho United
States demand in the matter, a sufficiently
clear opinion of the moral sentiment of the
civilized world, to act, in respoct to Cuba,
and act nnderstandingly, and act at onoe?
For the good name of our own nation,
which is being daily dishonored by the un
seemly conflict between such members of the
Republican party as Sherman, Carpenter,
Morton, Howe, Banks, and Logan in the
Legislature, and members of the same party
in the Exeoutive branch of the Government,
we implore the leaders of that party in Con
gress to cease making commonplace, super
ficial, thoughtless speeches on international
law to be printed in the Congressional Globe,
but retire to the privacy of a caucus, if it
need be, and there deliberate according to
the bent judgment and patriotism they can
command, and let all the world know what
the attitude of this Government is to be .on
this important subject.
DISSOLUTION OF
THE DEMOCRACY.
From the IK Y. Herald.
The story of Sheridan's great Winchester
battle is sometimes told in this fashion:
The Rebel General Early made an attack
upon the Union army, and defeated it. Some
of the generals counselled an aavanoe wmcn
would have been destruction to the Federals.
Instead of making tho advance, the Rebels
began to plunder the Union camp, and to
quarrel for the food and raiment of their cap
tives, co the day wnicu snonid nave been a
day of victory was passed in idleness and
dissipation. They had driven the Yankees
out of their tents, and would have a good
time. Sheridan came up on that long ride of
twenty miles, reformed his defeated columns,
attacked tne frolicking and roystenng Rebels,
and sent them whirling down tho valley.
That was the end of all Rebel power in the
country of the Shenandoah. A great triumph
became an overwhelming disaster.
The Democracy of Now lork, in all times
and under every depression the triumphant
Democracy, took possession of Albany and
the whole State Government at the beginning
of the year. Its leaders were those men of
New York city who had marshalled it in
defeat, disciplined its columns, sustained it
through disaster, and extorted victory from
the most disheartening events. It had fought
every radical contrivance for the suppression
and elimination of its power. It had seen the
principles of free government destroyed,
solemn pledges broken, and sacred constitu
tional guarantees overridden in the offort for
its overthrow. I he great city of the Western
World the queen of this vast continent
within itself a splendor far surpassing Tyre and
Sidon, with its enterprise, its wealth, its great
renown, bad been dragged at the feet of com
missions and boards, stripped and robbed in
the effort to deprive it of freedom and com
pel its people to bend to the republican ascen
dancy. With all those obstacles with the
great fame of Grant leading a party flushed
with power it triumphed. His triumph was
the beginning of what seemed to be an un
avoidable reaction.' The Democraoyof the
country called upon the Democracy of New
York to make good its pledges to restore to
the stripped and bruised metropolis its stolon
franchises, to remove the fetters that had
been placed upon municipal liberty, and
establish a government "of the people, by
tbe people and for the people."
Never had party so noble a misaion nor so
many incentives for its prompt performance.
The new administration made many blunders.
The President gained unpopularity in a sur
prising and spontaneous manner. He stum
bled against the old party precedents and
trampled upon the ambition and cupidity of
the greedy and exacting men who placed him
in power. Republicanism was confronted
with a record of finanoial imbecility, misman
agement, venality, and the invasion of the
constitutional prerogatives of the South. Im
peachment had rent it with a fissure as deep
as that the poet saw between Roland and Sir
Leoline. The Fessenden and Sumner, the
Bingham and Butler factions were irrevoca
ble in their hostility.
"They stood aloof the scars rematDlDir
Like ( IIITs which had bean rent asander.
A drear; sea now flows between."
Tbe victory was complete in itself, and the
beginning of a victry which would have
swept the country in 1872, and given the De
mocracy a triumphant reign for many, many
veors: for the conservative Rennblicans. like
Bincham and Trumbull, would have gladly
welcomed an alliance with a prudent and vic
torious Democracy. What do we see? J nst
what the Rebels tell us was seen on the
morning ef Jubal Enrly's "victory" at Win
chebtcr. The camp followers, the sutlers, the
greedy retinue of the army have broken into
the Republican tents and gorged themsolves
with tho plunder. Instead of wisely and
earnestly setting about reform, and giving us
a charter and restoring to New York its privi
leges, the whole country is callod upon to
hearken to the quarrels of Hairy Genet and
Mike Norton, of Tom Creamer and Jimmy
O'Brien. Behind them, we are assured, Mr.
Tildun is standing, respectfully apart, gloved
and anointed, but giving the mutineers his
blessing. Behind Mr. Tilden we see the re
cognized organ of the roughs and thieves of
this city, edited by a radical outoast, who sold
himself and his sheet to Messrs. Tilden & Co.
not many years ago. They pretend to lead
the Democracy. Ills newspaper is simply a
spy and pretender.
So, while treachery and disappointed ambi
tion have left this triumphant Democracy no
more power and influence than a pack of
howling wolves while at Albany all is chaos,
anger, greed, strife, necessary legislation is
arrested, and the Republicans hold the situa
tion and remain its masters by cheering on
the combatants we look to Washington and
see the President gaining ground every day.
His administration gathers around it renewed
popular confidence. The blunders of his civil
career are like the blunders of his military
career. : As a General he had Belmont and
Donelson; but be also had Vioksburg
and Richmond. ' As a President he is
rapidly making himself as strong as
Jackson. Instead of being controlled by the
politicians, be is gradually controlling them.
Representing the common sense, the patience,
and the honesty of the people, which grew
around him every day, he holds in hw bands
the snooossion. The Domooracy might have
taken advantage of his early st unbling an 1
inexperience; but when the nation looks upon
tho Domooracy it seos nothing but an old-time
Tammany mob wrangling about soma city
office. Let thorn wrangle. The hour wai
theirs, but it has gone. They bad victory in
their hands, but thev took to dissipation and
bad temper, and it hta flod. New York will
continue In its fotters. Tbe great Norton
Genet burlesquo combination will be the
winter's amusement on Capitol Hill. In sixty
days it will only be remembered as a vain and
foolish failure.- Tho country will oontinne to
sustain the President, notwithstanding his
mistakes and associations, and his victory in
1872 will be as decisive as that of Sheridan in
1804, when he rode Early's victorious army
into the dust.
THE UNITED STATES AND SAN DO-
' MINGO.
From the London Saturday Review.
The treaty by which San Domingo is to be
annexed as a territory to the United States
has yet to be ratified by the Senate and ap
proved by the House of Representatives,
which must provide the purchase money; and
it is even said to be doubtful whether Con
gress will confirm an arrangement which is
represented as unnecessarily anticipating the
inevitable course of events. In any case the
sanction of the legislature must depend rather
on the popularity of the arrangement than on
the influence of the administration; for al
though the President has generally acted in
harmony with the Senate, bis influence has not
been sufficient to procure the ratification of
his appointment of the present Attorney-General
to a seat in the Supreme Court. It is true
that Mr. Hoar had given general, and just
offense by his opposition to party jobs, and by
his perverse habit of preferring competont
persons in the distribution of his patronage.
It was also alleged that if his appointment
had been confirmed, Massachusetts would
have had more than its due proportion of seats
in the Supreme Court, and that a judge who
was to act on a Southern circuit ought to be
selected from the Southern States; vet both
the reasons and the pretexts of his rejec
tion would have been overruled if General
Grant' had commanded the deference
which was formerly paid by tbe
Senate to his predecessors. The attacks
on Mr. Andrew Johnson, in which General
Grant himself shared, have for the present,
if not permanently, diminished tho power of
tbe President. It was probably the intention
of the framers of the Constitution that the
refusal of the Senate to ratify appointments
should be confined to rare and exceptional
cases. As interpreted by practice, the con
trol of the same body over treaties involved a
virtual right of interference. Although the
purchase of St. Thomas has not yet been
completed, it is probable that the acquisition
of the rich country of Dominica, with its
valuable harbors, will be generally popular,
especially as the eastern part of tho island,
now possessod by the Republic of Hayti, will
sooner or later inevitably share the same fate.
The example of a military adventurer who can
exebaoge his precarious supremacy for a round
sum ot money is certain to be followed by the
first semi-barbarous negro chief who con hold
power in Hayti long enough to acquire a sala
ble title. ByaBiarlir proeoss the United
States might buy up half the Spanish repub
lics on the mainland; nor can it be said that
the bargain which has been concluded with
President Baez of Dominie t is unduly
onerous. Tho disinterested patriot has agreed
to transfer the Bay of Saniuna for 30,000,
which is to be increased to 1)00,000 when
tbe whole republio is annexed. After the
contract was concluded Baez ingeniously ob
tained the first instalment of a loan whioh
had been negotiated in London on the under
standing that nan Domingo was an indepen
dent State. The creditors probably will not
regret the assignment of the debt to a more
solvent government; but they will not be well
advised in advancing any further sum to an
outgoing republio. Tho island, whioh is
divided between the Spanish mulattos of
Dominica and the French negroes of Hayti,
is the largest and richest of the West Indies,
with the exception of Cuba. The Bay of
Samana would in time of war be a valuable
naval station, and the natural resources of
the country will be for the first time turned
to account by American enterprise. Every
citizen of the United States anticipates the
ultimate annexation of Cuba, and perhaps
the rest of the West Indies; indeed the Chair
man of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in
the House of Representatives not long since
proposed a resolution for appropriating to
tbe united btatos all the islands, including
Ireland, which were separated only' by sea
from the North American continent.
The territorial ambition of a great and
growing power has many historical prece
dents; nor can it be pretended that, whatever
may be the character of Baez, the annexa
tion of Dominica would involve any serious
violation of right. Eight or ten years ago
some predecessor of Baez effected a similar
transfer of sovereignty to Spain during the
administration of O'Donnoll; but the Spanish
functionaries, lay and clerical, soon made
themselves unpopular by monopolizing plaoos
and salaries, and the natives began to
threaten a rebellion wuicu it was
not worth while to suppress by force.
Narvacz, who in other instances
had disapproved of O'Donnoll's policy of
aggrandizement, agreed to relinquish the
sovereignty of Dominica; and accordingly the
country reverted to its inhabitants, and to
tho chiefs who conld from time to time get
possession of the Government. The popula
tion of a territory which would amply support
twenty or perhaps fifty times the number is
said to be only 150,000. The worst Gover
nor who could bo appointed by tbe President
of the United States would be probably pre
ferable ta any indigenous ruler; and if there
are any industrious or intelligent Dominicans,
their prospects would be greatly improved by
their admission to American oitizenship.
"HANGING 18 PLAYED OUT."
From the N; Y. Tribune.
The conviction of Reynolds of murder in
the first degree was a foregone conclusion.
The insane theory of the defense was followed
by a ridiculous argument and appeal, in
which the prisoner's counsel asked the jury
not to condemn this criminal because dozens
of other more notorious, but more wealthy
and influential villains, hod esoaped their
just punishment. The facts were very clear;
the defense was very lame; the charge of the
judge as to the law very explicit, and the ver
dict in accordance with it. This is perhaps
a vindication of the law, and, so long as the
law is as it is, may be proper enough. But
the trial of Reynolds was not conoluded with
out scenes indeoorous in themselves, and
strongly suggestive of a necessity for a
change in the law itself. Twice the jury re
turned for instructions. On the first ooqasion
one of the jurors desired to know if they were
at liberty to find a verdict for the lesser degrees
of homicide, and was answered by a repetition
of the part of the oharge defining murder in
tbe second degree. The juror eagerly asked,
"What's the punishment t" to which Judge
Ingrabam made the fitting reply that the
penalties of crime were beyond the provinoe
of the jury.' On the second occasion another
juror wished to know whether there was any
evidence that Reynolds was insane at the
time of the commission of the crime, and
being told that there was no evidence that he
was ever other than sane, asked, argnmenta
tively, "But is it not possible that he was
insane ?" It is evident that here were at least
two jurors convinced that the prisoner had
committed a heinous offense for whioh he was
accountable, but, unconsciously to them
s'.lves, seeking quibbles by whioh to avoid
the painful alternative of inflicting the pun
ixbment proscribed by the statute Yet they
joined in tho vordict, and thus did gross vio
once to themsolves.
Experience constantly augments the proof
that law is powerful in proportion to the cer
tainty rather than to the severity of its pen
alties. ' It is constantly beooming more dif
ficult to enforce' the punishment prescribed
for murder in the first degree, because the
humanity of the age instinctively shrinks
from the gallows. The assassin Reynolds
brutally expressed the sentiment of civiliza
tion when he exclaimed, with the blood of his
victim yet damp upon him, "Hanging is
ployed out." Because of the fact that society
revolts from it, and our law-makers
have not the sense and nerve to ab
rogate the death penalty, we are in oonstant
peril of being overrun by assassins. While the
law decrees a penalty whioh, practically, it is
impossible to enforce, criminals will sneer at
it. Give us one that will not be inoperative
because this advanoed civilization has given
birth to a higher sentiment, whioh objects to
the creature assuming the functions of the
Creator, and the law will get the upper hand
of the assassins. As we look at the subject,
the death penalty has for years past been the
incentive to rather than the preventive of
homicide. How many of our murderers are
haiiged ? How many escape on quibbles that
tbe ingenuity ef counsel would not be taxed
to invent were not the gallows looming up
before their clients ? Upon this point Dis
trict Attorney Garvin gave valuable testi
mony in explaining why so many
murderers remain in the xombs unpunished,
It was not his fault, but due to the accused
taking advantage of the delays afforded by
the law.
Some cases were appealed to the highest
courts; in others, commissions were demanded
to take testimony in distant lands. Every
possible technicality is used to postpone final
judgment to the last moment. "All that a
men hath will he give for his life," is a solemn
truth every day illustrated in our courts, at
the cost of society and to the profit of the
lawless.
We do not urge the vital legal reform of
an abrogation of capital punishment at this
moment from any sympathy with this most
dastardly assassin, but because we deteot in
his trial incidents which strengthen our belief
that it must be effected before crime can be
repressed by a certain and speedy infliction
of the law s penalty.
THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF BOSTON.
From the JK Y. Times.
Tbe fate of this fine vessel of the Inman
line is still in suspense. She left New York
on tbe 2.rth of January, and three days after
wards she passed Halifax, since which time
nothing bas been heard from her. She was
due in Liverpool on the Gth instant, and is,
therefore, nineteen days late. Ail the great
transntlantio lines have their own tracks
as distinctly charted down and separated
as if they were rival railways. The Inman
track, alter leaving Gape Race, curves con
siderably towards the North, and runs in
higher latitude than any other of the main
sea-tracks, except that of the Glasgow steam
ers. The City of Boston, if disabled, whether
by accident to her machinery, or by a gale,
would be in a part of the Atlantio whenoe
escape must be very slow. At this season of
the year the Gulf Stream, as is well known,
crosses the ocean at a lower parallel of lati
tude than in summer! its northern edge
being, according to Maury and othors, five
hundred miles south of the Inman track.
The disabled ship, therefore, would probably
be in a part of the sea where she would find
but little if any current to drift her either
towards the Irish coast or towards the Azores
The winds of the North Atlantio are sharply
to the west, south of the Inman track; and if
the City of Boston were on the Brest or
Bremen line route, under ordinary ciroum
stances, with neither steam, sail, nor helm,
she might, in a few weeks, float safely to the
Azores. In consequence of the high latitude
followed by her master, she is now probably
out of tbe drift or eastward recurvation of
the Gulf Stream washing these Western
islands. The indications, both in Europe and
here, are stronclv in support of the belief
that the usually westerly winds have been
considerably modified during the past winter,
and the steamship thus subjected to still
greater delay.
The senson is somewhat early for icebergs,
but the abnormal tropical blasts we have had
until lately, and which have been traced on
tbe American coast beyond the Canadas, may
have becun the work of dislodging the ioe
masKes on the southern coasts of Greenland
The incidents of the loss of the San Fran
cisco, a few years aco. are perhaps fresh in
the publio mind. That vessel, after founder
ing on Christmas da v. was so lost sight of by
the ship Three Bells which faithfully stood
by her that not a fragment of the wreck was
visible to tell where she had drifted, until
ihn 4th of .Tanuarv following, when her
spars and rigging were found not over five
hundred miles east from the scene of the
disaster. At this rate of motion, in
thn vorv axis of the Gulf Stream where
th Sun Francisco went down, supposing the
now missing steamer to be helpless, she may
hn nut Tt fortv davs before she can reach
the coasts of Europe, and nearly as long in
drift in a to the Azores. If we remember
riuhtly, it was the Atlantio, of the Collins line,
that, a lew years ago, ou u my." guuu.
becoming disabled anu uuouumvuhuw oy aooi
dent when a few days out from Newfound-
land, i was nearly sixty days in drifting to
these islands. Fortunatoly tho City of Bobton
ha nn lonrl over eighty duys' provisions. It
is deemed not improbable that she is moving
towards the Bav of Biscay; ana n may not De
too late for the Inman Company to telegraph
for vessels to be dispatched in search of her
there and elsewhere.
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AND
SEWING MACHINE
Is now admitted to be for snpeiior to all others as a
Family Machine. The HlMPLIOITi", BASK and
CKUTAINTY with which it operates, as well a the
uniform exo Hence of ita work, throughout the en
ure range of sewing, in
SfltrlilnR, Ilemnilnir, Fell In K,
TiM-hiitff Oordlujf, llraldiner
(Milling-, (Jntlierlng and.
Mewing on, (Kerieumlne,
lvinbrolderlngf on the
Iodise, and Itw Ilcautirul
JIutton-lIole anil Ilye
lei Hole Work,
Place It unquestionably far' In advance of any other
similar Invention.
This la the only new family machine that embodloi
any Substantial Improvement upon the many old
machines In the market.
It Certainly has no Equal.
It Is also admirably adapted to manufacturing pur
poses on all kinds of fabrics.
Call and see it operate and get samples or me
work.
We have also for sale our "PLAIN AMIRICAN,"
a beautiful family machine, at a Keduoed Price.
Tills machine docs all that is done on the Comhina-
tlon except the Overseainlng and Button-hole work.
Office and. Salesrooms,
S. W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnut,
1 tT thstuSmrp
PHILADELPHIA.
THE NEW PARHAM
IS UNDOUBTEDLY
THE STRONGEST AND LIGHTEST,
The Best and Host Perfect Finished.
Its movements as Speedy and as Light as any other
Machine.
It uses a Straight Needle,
Making a tight Lock-8tttch
Tkat cannot be Unravelled.
Perfeotly fair upon both sides
t has tbe new Needle-holder.
No springing or bending of the Needle
In changing from coarse to One,
Thereby avoiding all dropped or
missed Stitches.
It upps the celebrated Shuttle Carrier.
No Bace or Groove employed.
No Soiling or Oiling of the Thread.
No Friction or Wearing of the Shuttl e
THE LARGEST PIECE OF WORK WILL PA S
UNDEK IT.
IT WILL SEW TOE FINEST AND MOST DELI-
OATE FABHIO WITHOUT TILS UBE OF PAP EH
UNDERNEATH.
IT WILL PEW THE HEAVTE8T BEAVER CLOTH
OK LINEN DUCK WITH LINEN TURK AD, MAR
SEILLES, PTQUB AND ENGLISH LAST.INQ9, PASS
OVER SEAMS OR TURN CORNERS PERFECTLY
IT WILL HEM, FELL, BRAID, CORD, QUILT
TUCK AND GATHER.
THE PARHAM COMPANY'S
HEW
Family Sewing Machine
IS FULLY WARRANTED IN EVERY PARTICULAR
SOLD ON EAST TEEMS.
Office and Salesroom,
No. 704 CIIESNTJT St.,
is
PHILADELPHIA
WINES AND LIQUORS.
HER MAJESTY
CHAMPAGNE.
EUKTON & LTJQSOri.
215 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
TEE ATTENTION OF TITE TRADE IS
elicited to th followiDff vary Oboio Win as, (to.,
I or iiue vr
vun iun i.uobuh,
tl5 BOUTH FRONT HTRKKT.
CHAMPAISNl'S. Atenta for hsr MW. Dno da
Mouttibatln, Carte Bleun, 0)art hlancba, and Uharle
ramsaGruod Vin Kuaenia. ana Via Imperial. M. K lee-
ma n A Uu, of ilajr.no, buarkliax Aloeelle and ttHiNil
v ix tin.
M ADKIHAB. Old Uland. Bontn Hide Keeena. '
SUKKRM.8. F. fcuuuliihe, Amontillado. Topaju VaL
leiie. I me ana uoiutm oar. uiows, eto.
CLAKKT8. I'romie Aine A Cie.. AloatletTaad and Bofw
I'llll l w. Vinbo Veuio Keul. vauette. ana urown.
deani, (Jlareta aud hautern Win
lilN. "Alttriur hwiD."
BR ANDliUS. Hennessey, OUrd, Dnpoj A OVl Tarlooa
Vintages. it
flABDlAIUS & MoOALL,
s . . .
No. l'Je VYAiiHUi ana xi uuuiiiH Bireeta.
Importer of
BRANDIKS. WINKS, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETC,
AMD
' COMMISSION MERCHANTS
1 Forth sale of
PURR OLD RYE, WHKAT, AND BOURBON WHtS-
jwiito. email
PAP STAIRS' OLIVE OIL-AN INVOICE
of to ftbov loc aai or .
1 38 Spa No. 136 WALNUT and U GRANITE Hu
WILLIAM
ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS
VT , in Fine Whiskies,
6V
Ata 146 North SECOND Street,
Philadeluhl.
I DNEINO AND SOOURINQ.
T O 8 E 1 II HI O T T E T,
rj KI.KVK DK PA KIN, .
VPWtrriH RT-V A M IWKINfl A Mi RDOITRINO.
On any kind of Wearing ADuaiel. for Ladies, Ueute. and
Children. Patent sppsistoA for Stratuluiig Pant from
on 10 ur inoiiee. . .
M PhiUiislphia.
NIL sun BL nils in ovum.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
TiniLOgOPHY OF MARRIAGE..
X A Nsw Course of Leotnres, as delivered st the Nee
York Museum of AnaUdny, embracing the ubjeoU.
fin-, in 1 . -u . .. wk.t t. 1 i fur : Youth, maturity. aju
tA A,. M.nK.ui (Jananllv Reviewed i Th Cause ol
Indigestion 1 Flstolenee ana wervoue isinvesee aooonntea
Indigestion 1 Flstolenee and Nerve
Pocket volume containing thee Lector will b for.
1 ssamag t niiosouuior viu. .uu.
rsrded, post paid, on receipt 01 cent. Dy snarentng W .
A. LKARY, Jh., S. K. eomATtw tlMU. sad WALNUT
eli
itrvMS. PbiladaUihis.
1st
SHIPPINq.
LORILLARD - . STEAMSHIP .
itivje-fcWA lana run
A.JD
N 14 W Y O It IC.
RUNNlMUBKrttiLARf.Y FVK71V TITRSDAY.THUB
DAY, Anu BATUKDAY, AT NOON, would
eU attention of uiper total
BPRCIAL KOTIOK.
(iSrrnt Iterinrtion of ICnt-.
On opninc of rlprlnc Navigation th steamer
line w. II iqd DAILY, at lcnt per liW lb., I oeoU
foot, or )t oent per gallon, hip' option.
JOHN F. OHL,
No. 19 NORTH WUARVFJI.
IT. B. Fjrtra rate on small paokaceelroa. neUl. ate.
to. IM
-a irnu T T lfU U Dn r t . -
i'ifr,t':t?UltRN8TOW!,--,n,na Line of Mail
5ffi4iTr lowir r DDoint' to il lot-
Cityot 'ork.vta Halifax, Tnreday, Feb. 91, 10 A. M.
City of Brooklyn, Saturday, Fob art, at 1 P. H.
uuy or Antwerp, naturdnr. Mnrcn n, 8 A. M.
City of New York, yia Mallffii.Tuewlny, March 8,10 A. St.
City of I.on1cn, (tatnrday, Mnrch 13, 11 Itwi.
And eacb anuoemllnit tiatnrriu and alLmta Taiu
from Pier 46, North K'.r-r.
MATK.N Of rAMNAUH,
HT THC Bf An, STKaJUCJI SAIUNtt KVFJIY tUTTmOAT.
Farabln in (Void. Pavatile In Unrnmn
FITthT CABIN flOO I 8TRKHAUK gM
lo lyondon..... I( To lmlon 41
To Tan IIS I To Pari u
tkHMiin nx th xvfcftDAl ITuatR, via tiAt.rvAX.
nimT CAiim. btkkhaoh.
Pavahle in (Jold. PavaliU In i Ih-k-hm
Mrfrpool. t0 1 Untrpooi "fa)
St. John'W'lf.', ( as St- John'V. N.'f"
h? tlranen riteamer....) I hy Branch HtAamwr... .(
1'aanerurer aim forwarded to Hstts. Uambnr. Bma.
etc., at redneed rates.
Tirket can be boairht tiers st mod n rate rate b mkm
winning to send for tbeir friend.
For fnruier psrUoalar apply atths Company' Office
JOHN O. 1ALK, Aent.
No. lit Itrni1..
Or to O'DONWFI,?. A FAULK, Ant,
41 Ho. 0l Oil Kb NUT btreet. PhiladeluhU.
PHILADELPHIA. RirnMnwn"
i"it2AM NOMFOLK HTKAMRHIP I.tW
"liii THROUGH FRKIOHT AIR LiSU TO
SjrfTfcTHK SOUTH ANI1 WRMT
CitKASKl) FAOIIL 1 1 F.H AND RKOUORD B.ATR8
Di , FOR1K70.
meftraer leave ever. Wh I iVL uni V 1 a 1 mrmn . v
t IJ o clock noon, from Ifi ilkt wii a uu . v u . u
KF'I Htret.
KF.TUKNINn. T? mnunvn imunm -
No Billa til rarilna . Id .,.1
-- Mime - v viuva on vailing
THROUGH RATES to all nl.t. l. ru. m
Carolina, vis Beabosrd Air l ine Kailreed.eonneottn at
5,r .17 .7 , "ui-imiir, v a., 1 ennaa.ee. snd tne
Went, vis Virsinis snd Tann..... A .. n.. riiL..I
And Lianvills Bailroad. Ti-nru
Fre-.bt H ANUl.FD BUTOIfOK. snd taken At LOWES
RATFH THAN ANY OTIIRR LIN It .
No charge for oomm lesion, drsyare, or Any in,n ot
transfer.
Utoamshlp man re st lowest rate.
Freieht received daily.
Stat Room accommodations for nsMen(rera.
WILLIAM P. OLYDK A OO.
Ho.HR. vVHARVKS and Pierl N. WI1ARVR8.
W. P. PORT F.H- Agent st K.ohmond snd Olty Point.
T. P. GROW KLL A OO, Aent st Norfolk. 11
. ONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCE
Tt32" TBR OKNKRAT. TRA A TT. A wnm
fcti&'?400MPANY,H MAIL 8TKAMSHIPH
irSTW hiifi NEW YORK AND HAVRK. OAXAJNa AT
BRK8T.
The solendid new vessel on this fnvorita rente for th
Continent will sail from Fiur No. (0, Norta river, stm
Saturday.
PRIOR OF PAMAnai
in irold (Inclndlnr wine).
IU ISAUCni' UK IIAV KR,
First Osbln 1) Second Cabin Mm
TO PARI8,
f Inolndina; railway tickets, furnished on board.)
First Cabin. $146 I Second Cabin MS
1 boee ateamers do not carry steerage passenger.
Medical attendance free of oh&rt-e.
American travellor coin to or retnrnlnsr from thsane.
tlnent of Kurope, by taking tbe steamer of this line avoid
nnneeeMary risks from transit by Kuglldh railway and
croeetu; tbe ohannel. besides saving time, tronble, snd '
pens, GHOROK M AUKKNZIK, Agent,
No. W HKOAUWAY.New York.
For DansM in PhiladalnhiA. annlv at Adam. tinM
Company, to H. L. LRAF,
lA.a no, sju uuuaNUT btreet. .
15 NORTH GERMAN LLOYD
on"", VIA OUUIUAH rlOlt.
TH faCHKW Ktk.mkua m T. NnMa
bfcUMAM LLoyn run regularlv hetwnan IV.-. vk u.
men, and Southampton, carrying the United Ststes. Kn
linta, and Continental mails.
FKOM bkmim KVKBY HATTTRDAT
FROM bOUTH AMPTON RVRRY TURHDAY
FROM NKW YORK KVKRY SATURDAY
'k. V tmmmmjTym iwm i arm to Jfronen, LAJHdOA, JHovr.
First Cabin, $120 ; Second Cabin, $72 ; Steerage, $30, Ooid.
First Cabin, .)); Recond Cabih, $73 ; Steerage. $40, Ooid.
1 bese vessels take Freight to London snd llolL for
wbicb through bills of lading are signod.
A n experienced surgeon is attached to each vessel.
All letter must pasa through tbe Poet otto.
No Bills of Lading but those of the Company will b
signed. Bills of Lading will positively not be delivered.
Dei ore goods are cleared st the Custom House,
v Specie takon to Havre, Southampton, and Bremen at .
th lowest rate. For freight or passage apply to
OKLRICI18 A OO..
117t No. 88 BROAO Street, N.Y.
FOR HIARLBSTOIV.
iovuin vnnuiiiiiA,
lr THR SOUTH. 8OUTTIWF.ST.
- orilTq-u - . ni.r ,m . V ,
AND FLORIDA PORTS.
Tne Steamship
ZODIAC.
will leave Pier IT, below Spruce street.
On FRIDAY, February Sft, st 6 A. M .
Comfortable accommodations for Passengers.
Tbrougb Passage Tickets and Bills of Iji.lin. Innail I
connection with the South Carolina Railroad to all points
Sooth and Southwest, snd with steamers to Florida DortA.
Insurance by this Lin ONK-HALF' PER GKAT.
Goods forwarded free of commission.
Bill of lading furnished and signed st th offioe.
For freight or passage, apply to
K. A. HOTJDRR A CO.,
185 Pook Street Wharf.
f. FROM CHARLESTON TO
tiW? W K KK LY LINK. ANNAH.-TRI.
friJTili The following steamer will leave
t-Lariesuin lor Florida, via Bavannnh. three times a week.
after arrival of the New York teaniahip and th North
eastern Railroad train :
t iui-i mii (inland Rout;, every cu.tuil UURJI.
IN (J at 8 o'olock.
DICTATOR, every TUKoUAY KVKITIWa st 8 o'oloek.
CITY POINT, every FRIDAY RVKNINU skgo'oloot
Through tiokcts to be had of all Charleston and K.n.
nah bteemsuip Lin Agencies in New York.
J. It. A In. n. II m UU.,
Agents at Chariestoo,
L. J. GUILMARTIN A CO.,
1 4 Agent st Savannah.
'"ft 01. jnuJlAB ArlU liltA
WtS ZIL. UNITRDSTATKH ANDHRAKIT.
TP f T an ffiTTAir an w - .
it,iAr AIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
li-r-K-iW Regular Alail Steamers sailing
Ifaki ot every month :
sailing oa th
SOUTH AMFlflOA. Captsin K. L. Tlnklensmrh.
AlIKKlB!AUK.IH!Utn wier.
KOK'lH AMkRKlA. CanLnin 11. 11 Hl.inti,
These splendid steamers sail on schedule time, snd oAft
st St. Thomas, Pars, Pernambuoe, Hahis, and am
Janeiro, going and returning.
For engagement of freight or passage apply to
WM. R. OARHISONj Agent,
14 1 No. I BOWLING GRKKAf, New York.
FOR NEW 0RLEAN8 DIRECT.
THR OKOMWKLL LINK.
sriSTTiS No- forth River, st o'olock AC o
. . ,-i .. nuwuiu m m nil. Liine W 111 lun IM
ukokuk wAnHinuiua. wsger,
MARIPOSA, Keml.le.
Freight taken for St. Louis, Mobil, god Galveston, st
through rate. Csbin passage, $60.
cor passage uut ana secona class; or rreignt apply to
H. b. cromwkll a
14 I
No. 86 WKST Street.
; u.,
U. S. MAIL TO HAVANA
y A fur A VTIM If . tl f,mn .......
tijn,St.l sailing regularlv KVKRV THUHRn a it
MORO CA8TLR, OspUIn R. Adam.
COLUMBIA, Captein K. Van SioeT
XAGLR, Captain M. R. (irooue.
For freight or pas sage spp ly to
STU. WlfKKrjCR, .Tn., Preeident.
14 Ho. t BOW LLNU URKKAjNew York.
NKW EXPRESS TWIT. TTk
AleiandrU, Oeorgotown, and Washington. IX
t O.. via Oheaaoeaka and IVu-.m ri 1
oouoectloua at Alexandris from th moat direct route far
utweeu' nMU1' KwnU NsshviiU, Dslton. and thm
..btlime '" lr'r wvwry Saturday at noon from
the hret wharf sbov Market street.
Freight roivd daily.
VIXI.IAM P. OI.YDK A OO
' . No. 14 North and Booth wharvag.
KLIJRilKj K A Vo&Tfa
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA
?TRANSP()RTVl'ioN OO M PAN Y .1) Kli.
PA'ICU AND BWlFTbURK LINK.
.uT8J"1fi.n.e ?' U,a tinea-ill be n
the St h of March. For freightA, whio
resumed on and after
fyueoin oi niaroa. or ireightA,
SMommodsting tenb, apply to
t, whioh will be takes, oa
W. M. BAtRD A OO
Ho. US SouUt WharrM.
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