THE DAILY EVKNING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 1VW. THE 31AKCII MAGAZINES. "HARPER." T. B. relernon A lire, send nn Uarper't JlWAy for Mat Jfc, which boa the following bfltof wticlcs: Trots," Trof. Scheie tie Varo, with ten llnntration"; "Frederick the Great, iv. The Marriage of (he Crown Trince, with five illns rations; Shadow," Alice Cary; "Nature's Oomrnon Carrier,'' Lyman Abbott, with nix teen illustrations; "JWien Munic;" "South Coast Ranntorings in England" (Isle of Wight, art li), Monoure D. Conway, with twelve Ulnatrationn; "A New Jndgtuent of rrin," Justin McCarthy; "Civil Service Reform," A. B, MacDonongh; "Miss Ellington's Niece," Annie Thomas; "A Brave Iady," by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman, with wo illustrations; "Onr Relations with Eng land," Colonel Adam Jladeau; "Jessie," Rosa mond Dale Owen; "Bolivar, Liberator of (South America," Engene Lawrence; "On a Photograph of Athens," II. T. Tnokerman; Editor's Easy Chair;" "Editor's Literary Record;" "Editor's Scientific Record;" "Edi tor's Historical Record;" "Editor's Drawer." Frem the article entitled "Pussy," by Fro lossor Scheie de Vere, we quote the follow ing paragraphs: i "It is, perhaps, due to the prominent posi tion in which cats appear in Northern my thology that they were subsequently con sidered as the favorite companions of evil doers. The Germans portrayed their beauti ful goddess Frouwa, whose smiles charmed through her overflowing tears, as drawn by white oats in her airy car. When these deities were subsequently excommunicated by zealous Christian priestB, all such companions and pets fell into bad repute. Fussy seems to have suffered in this respect more than other animals; bhe became, as it were, the Devil's own, arid St. Dominick never preached of the Evil One with- j out presenting him to his listeners under 1 the form of a cat. It must be confessed that her thoughtful quietness, as if brooding over some deep scheme, her wicked green eyes, with their fiery sheen by night, her ten dency to give out sparks when her fur is rubbed, and her cruel temper, all combined to impress ignorant and credulous people with a sense of fear and horror; so they tor mented and persecuted her, and on St. John's Day, the day of witches, when popular belief had it that they all left town and village to accompany their fearful mistresses to the great witches' Sabbath, they burned a goodly number for their delight. Such was the custom in France for many a generation, while in Flanders they were wont to throw them from chnrch-steeple and tower. History tells us how Louis XIII, when a child, once begged of his father the livos of all that were to be thrown into the fire; but no chronicler reports whether the nine lives providentially granted to oats . ever saved them from cruel martyrdom. In the town of Ypres, at all events, this does not seem to have been the case, for there the barbarous custom continued till the year 1818 ! Since witches have gone out of fashion, cats have somewhat recovered their good reputation; perhaps this is to be ascribed to the fact that the French have given Fussy as a pet to the patron saint of lawyers, St. Ives, although Rabelais already interprets the association as by no means peculiarly creditable to the bar. The clever French missionary Hue, who, with his companion Cabet,first gave us an intelligent aooount of life in the interior of the Flowery Kingdom, was not a little surprised, and quite incredulous at first, whon his Chinese friends told him that cats were their watches, and enabled them to tell, with unerring accuracy, the hour of the day. He learned, however, by careful observation, that this was really bo; for he noticed that the pupil of every cat he saw, though wide open in the early morning, would gradually contract as the sun rose; at noon a perpendicular line of extreme delicacy would be all that was left to be seen, and then the pupil would dilate again, to return to its natural size by sunset. And when poor Fussy has served her time as a dial, Bhe is served up herself not in disguise, as in French restau rants, but boldly and boastingly. In many a lowly house in town, and in almost every farm house in the country, a number of cats are seen fastened to chains for the purpose of fattening them; and in the market-houses they hang in low rows, exhibiting their enowy whiteness, and with heads and tails carefully left untouched, to testify to their genuineness. Hence the fondness of the Chinese to introduce them in their illustra tions of happy indoor life; while their strange neighbors, the Japanese, show here also their superiority, being fond of caricaturing the poor creatures, and making fun of them after their own manner. . After the days of persecution were over in Europe, cats ceased to appear in history, ex cept on sorrowful occasions, when they were nsed to amuse men, and to exhibit man's in credible meanness. Thus, we are told by grave historians that Fhilip II of Spain laughed heartily only once in his life. It was when, in the year 1049, he made his solemn entry into Brussels. Among other ingenious contrivances to amuse him, he was met by a wagon on which a bear stood before what seemed to be a large organ; but in reality it was a box containing twenty cats, whose tails were tied up to meet the keys of the instru ment. When the bear was stirred up he would smite the keys, the keys would pull the tails, and the poor cats would cry piteonsly, while monkeys danced merrily to the sad, miserable music. And the king laughed! The same savage cruelty has been repeatedly shown to poor Funny, and even this century has witnessed a similar cat concert, which was civen in London. Pussv finds ample compensation, it is to be hoped, in the almost universal tenderness and affection with which she is treated by women, and the fondness with which she has even insnired the greatest of men. Who does not know Tasso's charming Bonnet to his cat? one of the brightest among his smaller gems; and Petrarch is said to have loved his cat only less than his Laura; bo that what he could not do for the latter he did for his pet he had her embalmed and kept her as long as he lived. Cardinal Wolsey never sat on his almost regal throne, when he officiated as Chancellor, without having one or two of his favorite cats by his Bide; and Kioheueu a grim humor required the constant presence of a number of kittens, whose merry gambols ' alone could elicit a smile and soothe his temper. Chateaubriand was so passionately fond of cats that t he Pope, to whom he went as ambassador, couli not find a more suitable and acceptable present for the devout son of the Church than hie predecessor's favorite cat; and when the great author was growing old he fancied he was also growing like his pets, from bis close intimacy and great fondness. Nor have other authors disdained to sing the praise of Pussy Canning, and Gray, and Cowper have left their tribute to their affectionate friends Hoffmann intradural them into all his quaint and fantMtio tales, of which "Kater Murr" is not the least attractive; Edgnr" Foe bore cheerful witness to their grace and strange attractions; and Victor fin go rarely in seen without his magnifioent Angora. Books on cats abound in almost every language, and only quite recently a French writer Of some distinction, Champflenry has published quite a superb work on the subject, from which we derive some of the illustrations on these pnges. A writer inChambert' Journal not long ago gave a happy explanation of the mysterious term "caterwauling," Suppose, he says, you very much desired to visit a friend, a female friend, a lovely creoture to whom you were paying your addresses; only an immense wall which yon could not blow down like the Clerkenwell wall, because you had not the Fenian carelessness of results intervened between you and the beloved object. . Well, that is exactly the case with these poor ma ligned pussies. "Come over the waur" (fe line for wall, just as it is Scotch for worse), "the waur, the waur," cries the imprisoned pnss. "Why don't you come over the waur?" "SpikeR, spikes, spikes," cries Tom, explain ing the nature of the obstruction, whereas we call it "swearing." We may add that when the obstacle is happily overcome, and Tom and Fussy meet at lost at their favorite trysting-place, the lover begins to adjure his beloved in such strains of energetic, irrepressible love that his voice is apt. to rise above the subdued tone of a well-bred gentleman, and there is not yet an end to what we contemptuously call caterwauling. Be it modesty, be it fear, the two lovers remain at some distance from each other, watching every gesture, every turn of the tail, and looking at each other with the greenest eyes. At last they lift up their voices and sing a duo which lasts for hours. After they have told each other all they must know before entering upon wedlock, they crawl and creep most cautiously towards each other; but no sooner does Tom come near his flame than Bhe runs and races and skips and vaults to excite the envy of the best of gymnasts. He follows, and being the stronger and swifter, overtakes her soon; but, alas ! his re -arcl is nothing but blows and fierce scratches, and thus they keep up the dangerous and yet delightful game of hide and seek. When pour Tom comes home his nose is bleeding, his ears are torn, his fur dishevelled, and his whole aspect is piteous in the extreme. But such is man ! lie is happy in spite of his ill treatment, and the fierce coquette is perfectly sure she will see him return ere long to receive his reward. But we must not judge hastily, and fancy that caterwauling is poor Pussy's only vocal performance. So far from it, cat's voices are very peculiar, and so unusually flexible that many notes approach the tones of the human voice mysterious 'sounds which made the cat an object of superstitious veneration in olden times. From the article on "Our Civil Service," by A. R. Macdonough, we make this ex tract: One hundred millions of dollars, one fourth the revenue to be raised by our tax and tariff laws, vanishes before it reaches the Treasury. One-fourth of the impost laid for the support of Government upon the labor of the working classes and the ability and capi tal of those who do not live by wages goes to maintain idlers and cheats in the public offices. One-fourth the price paid by toil for its protection by law feeds the worthless lives of those who creep into place to corrupt or break law. It has come to this, that the Gov ernment founded for the greatest good of the greatest number manages its pecuniary affairs for the benefit of the worst few at the cost of the many. In the customs department, it is estimated by the highest authority that from negligence and connivance, which defects in the law assist, the Government does not re ceive more than one-half the duties it is enti tled to. At the port of New York alone there is a yearly loss to the revenue of over thirty millions. The tax on spirits foils by tens of millions to yield its due fruit. The journals teem with accounts of frauds and de falcations in the public service, in which the successful scoundrel scorns to swoop at less than a fortune. These operations vary in their methods; being conducted sometimes with the secrecy of collusion, and sometimes with the boldness of defiance. The scent of such corruption attracts from afar clouds of obscene birds who settle upon our coasts as fraudulent importers, thrive by the aid of venal accomplices, and return home with their spoil to defame republican institutions. The gibbet, that melancholy sign of civili zation which greeted the voyager to a strange shore, should rise beside our light houses to punish that combined breach of hospitality and Honesty committed by these nessians ol trade. Other plunderers along our extended frontier, uniting skill with daring, elude the payment of duties by smuggling, to the ruin of honorable merchants as well as to the injury of the Government. Still more outrageously, illicit distillers, trusting the supineness and disdaining the safe purchase of oflicial friends, intrenoh themselves in the heart of cities, and wage a littlo war against the troops sent to dislodge them. And others still, boldly steaming into the large ports, buy or watch the opportunity of landing ports of their cargoes in fraud, and pay from the plunder lor tne desperate services ren dered in some cases oy tneir villainous tooia in maiming and murdering the faithtul offi. cials Bet to watch them. No wonder that, with decency discouraged by suoh associa tions, and honesty deterred by sucn dangers, the civil service sinks steadily into deeper dis credit. No wonder, when Congress rejects an enlightened plan for its reform, that on the very day that plan was defeated, a fraud by a Treasury clerk should have been detected to an amount that would have paid for the expense of establishing it. Thus, instead of creating schools for training young men in the various branches of the civil service, as other governments have done, we convert our public ollices into seminaries where every art of fraud is taught, and pay our pupils for learning to cheat us more Hhrewdly. The United States indeed "builded worse than thev knew" in erecting on the island of Man. hattan that stately pile which invites tenants worthy of the edifices of Blackwell's, shelters inmates whom tne hospital and the bridewell would welcome home, and promotes its candi dates from the pot-house through publio ser vice to the penitentiary. Pity that so few exchange official pap for the more wholesome black bread and broth ol oing oing. Yet this dilapidation of our finances, and the consequent strain upon our resources, crave as these mischiefs are, do not complete the view of the serious evils inflicted by the wretched condition of our civil service. These conspicuous samples of negligence permitted and wroncr tolerated by the supreme power deprave general morality, and loosen the strictness of integrity in private affairs. It s a grievous evil that dishonest officials tempt and inim weir mthucituco, iwiui unu- I ! cer that every four years nw hordes of un principled men, despising work, are cast out from the public offices to get their living at the expense of the community; but thin in fluence is far less subtle and corrupting than is the idea thus implanted in the publio mind that the State dors not need or cure for virtue in its civil servants. 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The library is one of the most oorcplote in the Unted States, snd in some departments nneqnalled ; it now com prises about lti.UUI volumes, andadcitiona are constantly being made. The fees are 950 per term, and $25 for one-half or any mailer fraction of a term. No ej tra charges. i'or admission to the school, catalogues, circulars, or any information, address J. A. L. WUl'iTlKR, 8 9 Registrar. AMBBICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, No. 1024 WALNUT and No. 66 North BROAD St. Books are now oDen for the reception of new students for the Spring Quarter. Karly application will secure choice of hours, 8 11 lm MISS SUSAN GALTON BEGSTO AN nounce that she will give instruction in rJIKUlNU AAU flaNU. Term beginning March 1. Address, care W. U. Boner A Co., No, 1103 CHKBNUT Btreet. 12Mw PIANOS. EEj? STEIN WAY & SONS' PIANOS. IILASITJ8 11 It O S., No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET, S 18 ' PHILADELPHIA. ALBRECHTl" riekk8 a schmidt, manuvactubkrs of FIRST-CLASS PIANO-VORTES. Tnll guarantee and moderate prices. WARKROOMS. No. 610 ARCH Street. rpo ALL WANTING FARMS IN A LOCAL lty Exempt from Fevers, and Lang Complaints.-. To Farmers, Horticulturists, Mechanics, Capi talists, Gentlemen of Leisure, Invalids, and all wanting a homestead In a- climate of un surpassed salubrity, exempt from the rigors of a Northern winter, and In close connec tion with the commercial centres of the South. Few If any sections offer such a combination of Induce ments as the town of Aiken, 8. C, and Its vicinity for a desirable and permanent home. 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, corn, vegetables, etc., Including extracts from letters of distinguished visitors, correspondents, action of town councils Inviting emigrants, etc , to which is added a descriptive list of property for sale, Including Improved farms, orchards, vineyards, water powers, kaolin deposits, unimproved lands, and town residences. For sale by E. J. C. WOOD, Real Estate Agent, Aiken, 8. C. The book will be sent by mall on receipt of price, to cents. Address J. c DERBY, Publisher, P. O. Box No. 1439, New York, , until 1st of February, after that date a ' Aiken, 8. a ' llT8m j M BRICK A BOMS BOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, ! Ha 430 WASHINGTON AVENUE, Philadelphia. ' WILLIAM WRIGHT'S PATENT VARIABLE CUT-OFF STEAK ENGINE, Regulated by the Governor. MERRICK'S SAFETY HOISTING MACHINE, Patented Jane, 1861 DAVID JOY'S PATENT VALVELE88 STEAM HAMMER D. M. WESTON . -PATENT BRUT-CENTERING, 8 ELF-BALA NCTNG CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MACHINE. and I HYDRO EXTRACTOR. For Cotton or Woolen Manufacturers, 1 10 rawf , vinnRil muuuez. w 1 1. Lis av " jojrjl si Cora. EXCHAX40B c o a n BAG MArJTJFACrrOBT, JOHN T. BA1LB. JOB" ' "."T.J1 vwn . , BE. corn sr of MAKKari aoo nL.li ,r"&riihaU of Lime, Boa Grata. Flour. Halt. HZjmT PROPOSALS. IVKOIfiSAI fl FOR STAMPED ENVELOPES AND WRAPPERS. Post Ornc Dkpastwsitt, : Jannarv 10, IflTO. t rV-nkvl Proposal Wl'l be ivoelved null! I P. M. on them 1av of MARCH, 1870, for furnlHhlnr all the "Htnmped Envelope" and "Newspaper Wrap pers" which this Department may require daring a period of four years, commencing 1st of July. 1870, via. HTAmrKl KIVttiOl'EH. No, L Note sums. Ti lv 4M Inches, of whit paper. xho. m. urmnsry lotwr ois, 8 MS try BS Inches, of white, huff, canary, or cream colored paper, or m such nroDortionof either as? my be required. No. 8. Fall letter slse fnntrnmmed on flan, for circulars). 8 V by by inrbes, of the same colors as No. , and under a like condition as to the propor- No. 4. Knll letter sly.e. BW hv Bv Inrhea. of aamn colors as No. t, and nudur a like condition as to the proportion oi eacn. No. ft. Extra letter Slse fumrummnd on flan, for circulars), BX bv 6.V Inchea, of same colors as No. 9, and under a like condition as to the proportion of each. No. . Extra letter sls, 8 v by 6V Inches, of same colors as No. S, and under a like condition as to th proportion of each. No. T. Olnclal slse, f bv V Inches, of same colors as No. 9, and under a like conoJUon as to the proportion of each. No. 8. Extra oillclal size. Hi by inches, ot same colors sa No. a, and under a like condition as to the proportion of each. NKW8PAPKR WRAPPER8, X t7 V Inches, of bun or mantlla papr. ' All the above enveloa and wiappers to be 4 boased with postuse stamps of such denoinluotlocf, styles, and colors, aDd to bear such printing on s fara, and to be mado In the moat tlioroncti manner, of paper of approved quality, manufactured specialty for the purpose, with such water marks or other de vices to prevent Imitation as the Postmaster-General may direct. The envelopes to he thoroughly and perfectly gummed, the gumming on the flap of each (except for circulars) to I put on not leas than half an inch In width the entire length. The wrappers to bo gammed not less than three-fourths of an Inch In width across the end. All envelopes and wrappers must be banded In parcels of twenty-five, and packed In strong pasteboard or straw boxes, each to contain not leas than two hundred and fifty of the letter or extra letter sire, and one buudred each of the offi cial or extra oflicial size, separately. The news paper wrappers to be packed In boxes to oontain not less than two hundred and fifty each. The boxes are to be wrapped and sealed, or securely fastened in strong manilla paper, so as to safely liear transportation by mall for delivery to postmasters. When two thousand or more enve lopes are required to nil the order of a postmaster, the straw or pasteboard boxes containing the same must be packed In strong wooden canes, well strapped with boop-lron, and addressed; but when less than two thousand are reqnlred, proper labels of direction, to be furnished by an agent of the Department, must be placed upon each package by the contractor. Wooden cases, con taming envelopes or wrappers to be transported by water routes, roust be provided with suitable water-proofing. The whole to be done under the Inspection and direction of an agent of the Department. The envelopes and wrappers mnst be furnished and delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete In all respects, ready for use, and in such quantlties H8 may be required to All the daHy orders of post masters ; the deliveries to be made either at the Post Otllce Department, Washington, D. C, or at the ofUce of an agent duly authorized to Inspect and re ceive the same ; the place of delivery to be at the option of the Postmaster-Ooneral, and the cost of delivering as well as all expense of packing, ad dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be paid by the contractor. Bidders are notified that the Department will re quire, as a condition of the contract ,that the en velopes sud wrappers shall be manufactured and stored In such manner as to ensure security against loss by tire or theft. The manufactory must at all times he subject to the inspection of an agent of the Department, who will require the stipulations of the contract to be faithfully observed. The dies for embossing the postage scamps on the envelopes and wrappers are to be executed to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, In the best style, and tbey are to be provided, renewed, and' kept In order at the expense of the contractor. The department reBervcB the right of requiring new dles for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not now used, and any changes of ales or colors shall be made without extra charge. bpeclmens of the stamped envelopes and wrap pers now in use msy be seen at any of the principal, post ollices. but these specimens are not to be re garded as the style aud quality nxed by the depart ment as a stamiard for the new contract; bidders) are therefore Invited to submit samples of other and different qualities and styles, Including the paper proposed as well as the manufactured, en velopes, wrappers, and boxes, and make their bids accordingly. . The contract will be awarded to- the bidder whoso proposal, although It be not the lowest, is con sidered most advantageous to the Department, taking Into account the prices, quality of the sam ples, workmanship, and the surtlciency and ability of the bidder to manufacture and deliver the envelopes and wrapiiers In accordance with tho terms of this advertisement: and no proposal will he considered unless accompanied by a sutllcient and satisfactory guarantee. The Postmaster-General also reserves the right to reject any and all bids, If In his judgment the interests of the Government require It. Before closing a contract the successful bidder may be required to prepare new oVes, and submit impressions thereof. Tuc cbb ov ths rassjuiT Dixa MAT OK MAY NOT B8 CONT1NCKO. Bonds, with approved and sufficient sureties, tn the sum of $200,ooo, will be required for the faithful performance of the contract, as required by the seventeenth section of the act of Congress, approved the With or August, 1842, and payments under said contract will be made quarterly, after proper ad justment of accounts. ' The Postmaster-General reserves to himself the right to annul the contract whenever the same, or any part thereof, is olfered for sale for the purpose of speculation ; and under no circumstances will a transfer of the contract be allowed or sanctioned to any party who shall be. In the opinion of the postmaster-General, less able to fulfill the condi tions thereof than the original contractor. The right Is also reserved to annul the contract for a failure to perform faithfully any of Its stipulations. The number of envelopes of different sizes, and of wrappers issued to Postmasters during the fiscal yer ended June 80, I860, was as follows, via, I No, 1. Note size 1,114,000. No. a. ordinary letter size; (not heretofore used). No. a. Full letter size, (nngummed, for olroalars) 4,160,000. No. 4. Full letter slzc-7,867,60a No. C Extra letter size, (uogummed, for elrcularaj 84S,bO0. No. s. Extra letter size 4,804,500. No. 7. Official size 04,600. No. 8. Extra official size 1700. Wrappers 8,686,800. Bios should be securely enveloped and sealed, marked "Proposals for Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers," and addressed to the Third Asslstanl Postmaster-General, Post Omoe Department, Wash lngton, D. C. JoniJ x CRKSWELL, 1 11 eodtMl Postmaster General WANTS. TO THE WORKING CLA8K.-We are now pre pared to furnish all claawte with constant emptor inent at home, the whole of the time or for the spare moments. Business new. liht, and y-rotitahle. Persons of either sex essily earn from Wo. to $4 per evening, end a proportional sum by devotioc their whole tune to the tmsuTese. Boys and irir a asm nearl as much aa men. That all who see this notice may send their address, and test the boslnese, we mske this unparalleled etlor :-To nctau sre not well eetiaed. we will send l to nay for the trouble of writins. partioulare, a valnaftie earn- pie, wDJun win An to comma a oe work on. and a aoov nf ..i : i. j-t. wjimtv Comvavm one or tne Urvea and best family newspsp puDUsnea all soot free by m if Reader, if too want permanent, profitable work, address M. ft? ALLKW A OO- Augusta. Maine. 1 lit ten OROOER I ES AND PRO VIS ION3. M IOHAEL MEAGHER & CO., No. 828 South SIXTEENTH Etreet. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in PROVISIONS, OYBTKF8 AND TERRAPINS Btahler's Kitra Canned OOKN. " " " PKAS. www PKAU1IE& Maryland Canned TOM ATOK1J, Katra Panned ASPAKAOUtt. SSS STOVES, RANQE8, ETO. THOMSON'S LONDON KITCHEN EJ 0 KUROPKAN NOR, for families, hotels, puhlio Institutions, la TWENTY DIFa.KK5r fclZKH. Also.PkiUdallihia Ranaea. Hot Air fc a naces. Portable Heaters, Low-down Urates, Vireboarw fitovea, Bath Boilers, Htew-hoic Piatea, Boilers, (Joukm Btcvee, etc, wholesale and retail, by the maoatactorers, .4 bllARPB A THOMSON? tl I7s to Jic m N. BEOOliD Btreci. R. M. KLINE CAN CUKE CUTANEOUS Eruptions, Marks on the Skin, Ulcers in the Throat, Month, and Nose, bore Legs, and Korea of every ooaosiva. ble character. Otttoe, No. I a JUJfVKNTU, between Clheanut and Market streets. t
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