THE DAILY E V KNING TELEG R A TH PHILADELPHIA , MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1870. srin.iT or inn muss. Editorial Opinion f th I.rndln Jani-anl liion Current Toplra Compiled Evrry Vaw for the Earning Ttlrrnpli. THE SCHEME OF POSTAL TELEGRAPHY. JFVom the If. Y. Time. Mr. Orkon's clear, strong, aud logical state ment to tbe Sennte Committee on Tout Oflices, ought to give a quietim to the mis chievous project which that commit tee has lately entertained for throwing upon the Government the buHinos of telegraphy. European powers have always been ac CUHtomod to do many things through govern mental machinery which our political sys tem has left to private enterprise. The cen tralization of power in those States, and the custom of their people to look to official authorities for commercial schemes which we here leave to the community, renders all analogies of this sort suspicious at the cutset. When, in addition, the matter inquired about pivots on a question of distance, the folly of comparing what can be done in Bel gium, Switzerland, or even in Great Britain, with what must be done in the vast area of onr Union, is manifest. The countries cited to the committee in order to persuade our Government to embark on a kind of business It has never yet attempted are the most thickly settled in Europe. The amount of telegraphic business possible for every mile of wire Bet up is exceedingly great; bat to compare this with tbe waste places over Which our lines are in great part run thou sands of miles to East, West, North, and ftouth is preposterous. And then, besides the difference in population and in quantity of trade to the square mile, the difference in actual area between a little country that would hardly make a good-sized American (State, and which coold be covered with a network of telegraphs at small expense, and our continent washed by two oceans, and stretching from the Lakes to the Gulf, should liar such hostile comparisons. The lavish outlays of the existing compa nies have been disingenuously cited against them. The truth is that for a vast area like our country the only hope of competing in Eublic works with older powers is to stimu tte enterprise with the hope of reward, and make capital prompt to endure unusual expenses. To snatch away the possibility of toward when the work is done is to kill all enterprise. Again, in this deceptive and fanciful anal ogy, the rates in this country are represented as being higher than in Europe. Mr. Orton's statistics absolutely disprove this assertion. "The rates are not higher in the United States, according to distance, than in any European country, and are lower than in several. " The average rate between New Jork and thirty-seven principal cities, is one and one-tenth mills per mile; that between London and thirty-two principal cities in Great Britain is two and one-tenth mills per mile under governmental telegraphy. Be tween the principal cities in Baden, the rate averages four mills per mile; in Belgium, it is two and five-tenths mills; in Holland, three and nine-tenths. In Paris, they approach nearer onr rates, the average being one and two-tenths mills per mile; and the population of France is almost identical with ours, namely, forty millions, though much more concentrated. Besides all this, the night rates in this country are just about one-half the average rates for like distances charged In any .European country. The most cogent and important part of Mr. Orton's statement, however, is that referring to the difference of rates depending on the quantity of business in the region. It should seem hardly necessary to show to any mer chant who knows how a very large order for any article can be filled at a lower rate than a tall order, why this discrepancy exists. But . Orton's reply was that the Post Offioe jlf annually receives $3,000,000 over its ISpenses in the Eastern and Middle States, Biile the Southern division shows a deficit of fc, 400,000, and tbe Western a deficit of 01,000,000 more; and he appeals to the Gov ernment whether a private corporation could be expected to perform telegraphic service at the same rate there, where even letter ser vice shows a deficit, at the same rates as at the East. The Government, in undertaking it at a lower rate, would have the same deficit. In fine, Mr. Orton declares that, if the same privilege be conceded to his company that is to be conceded by the new bill to Mr. Hub Lard's company, namely, freedom from Gov ernment taxes, he will at once reduce all the present rates by one-seventh, which repre sents the tax. Again, give the present com panies the free right of way along railways in all the States, which Mr. Hubbard's bill proposes for the new company, and one seventh more will be taken from the rates. And, when this is done, Congress is welcome to arrange for the reduction of rates after paying ten per cent, to the stockholders, llnjust and contrary to the spirit of our Government as it would be to interfere, the Binoeritv of this proposition will serve to strip Some of the sophisms from the scheme of postal telegraphy. RECEPTION OF SEWARD. From the r. T. World. A sourrilous morning sheet in this city which, amid its vulgar ribaldry upon good men, deifies Stanton as a political saint, and would have had Fitz John Porter hung, for no other reason than that the Linooln admin istration needed a politioal victim to divert attention from its crime of removing JMcClellan from command of the army and elevating Pope was touter for a public recep tion to Air. beward by tne city authorities. t talked in this style: Now, let the people prepare to do their part; anil kv people we do not rattan the wealthy classes alone. ut the great mass tha industrious and honest tayriutlg, the genuine democracy or the metropolis. tr. Seward comes here crowned with years, ripe In experience, a thorouirh democrat, and, auove all. an American, let us remember his services to the country and his sufferlnKS in her cause ; lat us call to our mind his long straggles In favor of freedom and eoual rictus: let us Inspire ourselves with the recol lection of nil noble, philosophic eloquence, and hall Ms corning among us as that of a man whom men or au parties ana oreeus giau.y coinoine to nonor. It may suit the purposes of the ring, for Whose enlargement so as to take in Republican politicians in Albany and in this oity the irablio is laraelv indebted to leaders of the (Seward wing of the radicals, to laud the politi cal deeds of the returning traveller from Alaska; but "the genuine democracy" will be likely to reflect a little. The eohoes of the "little bell" have not craite died away. There are those in this city who have not Jet forgotten the rude insolence with which r. Seward with purpose aforethought, as is capable of proof, to thrust in Fort Warren as a political prisoner an ex-President of the United States, lately deceased, whose name and memory are fondly cherished by the Democratic masses onargea x ranitun l ioroe, on the pretext of an anonymous letter, with Leing a member of a seoret league, the pur pose of which was to destroy this Union, and in the end, when the aocused, defying his I partisan malice, dared him to the worst, slunk back like a whipped cur into the re cesses of the Mate Department, under cover of its then congenial chief clork. There are Democrats who remember how that Sownrd endeavored to make Stanton "divine." sanctioned all his deeds of infamy, nnd endorsed to the utmost all his dogmas in refpect to the authority of the Federal Gov ernment, under the war power, to strip away from a civilian, troublosome to the adminis tration in a political sense, all the guarantees of the Constitution in respect to individual rights, wrest him from his home, deprive him of his property, and cast him into dun geons so fetid and filthy that those of Venice under ground were airy palaces in com parison.! If there be any Democrat who has ceased to be mindful of what Seward and Stanton together did in that hour of woe, let him turn to the Bureau of Military Jus tioe for deoisions of that pliant tool of both, Judge Advocate General Holt, and read how a civil court in a loyal State had no jurisdiction, in time of war, to try a soldier for murder, burglary, or larceny; that persons acoused of inter ference with voting by soldiers could be tried by a military court; that trial by jury in Indiana must give way to the war power; that the authority of the administration to suppress by force a Democratic newspapor in New York rested on as solid foundations as the right to bombard the enemy's fort at Richmond; that a military commission was useful in civil causes, be cause of "the extended reach" and "wide scope" it could cover, and could make "the most complete and reliable disclosure of the inner life of witnesses. Much of all of this was swept away by the Supreme Court in Millignn's case; but it still lives to show what ideas of civil liberty Seward and Stanton each had. Let those who sanction such doo trines moke haste to fall down in adoration before their co-originator, co-administrator, and, for all the public knows, their vindicator ever since the Supreme Court has stamped them out. In respect to Mr. Seward's eminent ser vices to his country while Secretary of State, in what great acts do they consist? That his writings in the Department of State were great in quantity we admit. But in what else? Certainly not in literary merit. In all the voluminous despatches which he addressed to his diplomatic agents abroad, touching the origin and effect of the great Rebellion, there is not one which, in precision, clear ness, directness, earnestness, and elevated patriotism, compares with that from Secre rary Black, dated February 28, 1801, in which he calls the attention of our foreign minis ters to the great social and political convul sion then felt to be imminent, and prescribed their duty. In the early part of Mr. Seward's labors as Secretary of State there were two objects desirable to be attained by this coun try: one was to prevent the recognition of the seceded States as belligerents, and the other to effect a complete prohibition of privateer ing, with immunity of private property on the high seas. In both of these Mr. Seward pitiably failed. For Mr. Seward's conduct in the matter of the Trent, we are at a loss to see how Demo crats are to render to him distinguished honor. The seizure of the Rebel commis sioners was formally approved at the time by Edward Everett, Lewis Cass, and Caleb dish ing. Moreover, Secretary Welles congratu lated Captain Wilkes (November 30. 18(51 ). by a public order, for the great publio service which he had rendered in "the capture of the Rebel emissaries." This order could not have been issued without advice of the then Attorney-General. But yet Mr. Seward, when the peremptory demand came from England to apologize or adopt the act within teten days, our Secretary of State backed down upon the lawyer's dodge that Wilkes did not bring in tne steamer for adjudication. in tne management of the Alabama claims his conduct could not command the approba tion of even one of his Republican fnends in the Senate. Indeed, but one Senator of any political party undertook to vindicate it. Certainly that anords not much claim to cmo Do our fellow-citizens of Irish extraction find anything to applaud in his treatment of Fenian prisoners in Great Britain ? or do law-respecting citizens, of any race, intend to sing plaudits to the kidnapping extradition of Argueues As for tbe brutal injuries Mr. Seward re ceived in Washington by an assassin's hand. we would hasten to express our denunciation of tbe crime and sympathy for the victim. But that has been already done in no half way manner, and is an affair quite different from Democratic approval of Mr. Seward's political acts as becretary of btate and as benator. THE STATE OF PARTIES TOE DEMO CRATIC CHANCE. From the N. T. Herald. The Democrats are in power now in this btate for tne hrst time in manv years. The election of Seymour during the war was a sposmodio declaration of dissatisfaction with the way in which the great contest was oarried on, and that single term must be looked upon as an accidental lapse in an exclusion that dates far beyond it. Considering the rapidity with which events follow one another in this age, the experience that is crowded in a little time, and the readiness with whioh, in our political system, the people can express their appreciation of party conduct by a complete change of administration, it must be con ceded, first, that the long exclusion of the Democracy from power indicated a deep dis like of tne conduct of that party and distrust of its promises ; and seoond, that the final acceptance of a Democratic administration. despite that deep dislike and distrust, shows the existence of the highest degree of popu lar aisgust witn ine otner party, we nnd, therefore, that we are, politically, at a state of dead low water. The people have small laitn in eitner parly, utterly disgusted witn the Republicans, extending a very timid con fidence to the Democrats, they have trusted the latter in the hope that a long period for penitence and reflection may have shown them the necessity of acting on their good ebkavior. It is very plain what should be the primary 1 . 1 1 . 1 1 . ... . - . . . - wougui witn me party mat nas attained power in such ciroumstanoes. It has the future to a great degree in its hands. Party expediency itself must, then, suggest the necessity of governing well; for if it then makes wise use of its opportunity it will regain the popular favor, and may keep it indefi nitely. This seems to have been perceived by the Tammany leaders in the late entranoe to power of the party in this State. They were nrermred to do all that the corrupt state of their party would permit toward a healthy reorganization of our oity government. They saw that as misrule was most evident here as the results of bad legislation were most flagrant in tbe enormous villany with whioh we were governed tnat an honest recon si ruction of our municipal government was a good starting point. Hence, their proposed new Charter. As we understand it, they offered that to the party ns a proposition, and wore disposed to lot party wisdom and spirit act upon it, looking upon no one point as essential save the great point ot Democratic principle tnat gave the gov ernment of the city into the hands of the people of the city. With this laid down as a corner-stone they seemed fairly at the foun dation of their structure. But discord ouno among the builders, and where there i not harmony in such labor there is but little pro gress. Tbe same marplot that sought to destroy the Democratic unity for Hoyruonr on tbe eve of the Presidential election adopted a not dissimilar course with regard to the pre sent eiiorts ot tne party loaders, and lor pri vate feud or spite sought to distract and pre vent the attempts of the recognized leaders to do what they deemed wise for the good of the party. Its efforts in this way have evidently failed and come to naught, and its astonish ing endeavors to make a sensation end in contemptible disaster, sinoe it is pretty clear that tne dinerences between members of the Legislature from which it caught its hint are reconciled. It is to be hoped that the Democracy, from such an incidont, may see the necessity for circumspection, and will be the more cautious and conciliatory in view or sucti evidence, tnat lree lances oi every sort tne"unscruDu- lous Bohemians of politics generally will lose no opportunity to make capital out of their little dinerences. iney nave no dis tance to give if they expect to make their success in New York the basis of an attempt to secure the country in 1872. There is, it is true, souie sign of division amoug the Re publicans, but it is not to be forgotten that this party has a rallying point in General Grant. It is a great piece of political capital for any party to possess a national man. Grant Has not (shown nimself much of a politician so for; neither did he for a long whilo much overtop the average of men as a soldier. He has the better part of his term before him. He has his war history, and he may have a magnificent financial story to lay before the country ere his time runs out. With these points in favor of the Republicans, the Demo cracy must make a wonderfully good use of its control of tbe Liupire btate to give its national contest much promise. WORKING WOMEN THEIR WAGES AND HOMES. From the H. T. Tribune. The contributor who tells our readers something of woikingwoiuen and their wages. has made so careful a study of her subject and taken such wise means to inform herself upon it, that her statements, much as they differ from the staple assumptions of the newspapers, must be received with respectful consideration. The distress of working women is not to be relieved by taking for granted that they are uniformly underpaid, and demanding that their wages shall be raised. If it is true that while the capable and industrious cau earn as much as their labor is worth, and with due care can live decently upon their earnings; if it is true that women are sorely wanted in respectable avo cations which a false pride bars t hem from en tering; if it is true that the effort to provide them with cheap and comfortable homes is partially a failure because after the homes are built the women will not live in them, then for the relief of the present dis tress we must try means far different from those we have been trying. Observe, our contributor does not question that misery enougn exists among the workingwomen. There are the feeble, the naturally incapable, tne widows burdened with young children, the girls upon whom disabled parents depend for support, and there are finally hundreds of that unfortunate class, found among both sexes, who with all the will and the fitness to work, are invariably pushed to the wall in the scramble for place. How to relieve these poor creatures is always a problem, but it is one which does not belong to tne woman question alone, for there are thou sands of men in distress through the same or analogous causes. We know moreover that there is a world of misery which lies hidden from the light; there is starvation in dismal hovels which the step of tne social economist never approaches, and the Song of the Shirt is droned from weary week to week in garrets which few of us know anything about. D or all this it is true, as the writer of our article asserts, that thou sands of families are ready to give easy work with good wages to respectable women, and tne respectable women will starve on six pence a day rather than take it. It is true that a great deal of the misery of the female working class is mowing to an absurd feeling that douiestio labor is degrading, and that "social position is one of the first necessities of life, bo while some departments of indus try are overcrowded others are in absolute want of workers. Whether anything can be done to disabuse poor American women of these erroneous ideas we are by no means certain. At any rate tne evil is likely to be exaggerated by eloquent reformers who decry tne drudgery of house hold lubor, and believe that woman is never so much a slave as when she is looking after the kitchen and the nursery. But while they are doing mischief in one way, we can per haps do some good in another. The problem of cheap homes for workingwomen is not solved yet. The causes which have disturbed the few experiments thus far made cau be ascertained, and the difficulties can doubtless be remedied. 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(m Jr--T FOR LIVERPOOL AND j UJi" hteamsrs are appointed to sail a ioL fci i.'iatju lows: Oitf of A ntwerp, Hatnrdar, Maroh I, I A. M. City of New York, via Halifax, TueMar. March 8.10 A. M. Oil of Iindnn, Ratnrdar, March la, la Noun. City of WanhitiKton.ttaturday, March If, at I P. M. And each snooeedin Baturdaf and alternate Tuesday, from Pier 4a, North Itiver. KATKH Or rAHSAOH. P,T T MAIT' 8TKajxa aaiLUHi evt.rt sATmtrur. Favanle in Jnln p.n)l. i - - KIRKf CABIN $100 I 8TRKRAUK . Y.M To lnrton. 1 , To London , w To Pari 116 To Paris 43 raMMna nr Tim tchudaj (TEAi.it, via HAi.rrax. riHBT CABIN. RTMCnAHIt. PavftM In fLilH t..l. I- Halifax au Halifax 5 St. John's, R.F., ( St. John1, N. K. i Z. nyoranooDt earner.... I - hy Branch Rtmer... .1 Paenenirers also forwarded to Ham, Hamburg. Bremen. ate., at reduced rate. Tickets can be bonsht her at moderate rate by parson wishing to send for their friend. rvwm or fiirtaw particular apply at th Company's Office JOHN O. DALK, Agen Nn IK Hm.J. K Or to 41 O'PONNFLL A FAULK. AnnU. No. toil CHK8NUTBUt, Philadelphia. iHEAbhU FACULTIES AND RKOUOKD RATES Rlmmn l .,9.'' J?- t i'l V i. everj w F.U1I P.HMA YSn1 SATURDAY. KFT rUr? noon' trom FIRST WHARF abor. MAR- FHmi vtfiN?' J,e.?7I,OHMOND TOKSDAY8 and TV KJ AYtS. NORFOLK WEDNESDAYS and 8A- No Hill at nt 1 mAl-.-. I A a . . . dayi. ""4,M -"-.a uur is o oiooKon Miling TMPnirnn t a two a . . . ww point in Morto and Month tranafer" t0 oommimioa' d ravage, or any upeas of Uteamsnipa insur at lowest rate. KretRht received daily. Btate Room accommodations for nasaenirera. no. r. m&Lx&&ttyigVte. ONLT DIRECT LINE to FRANCE COMPANY'S Ma tY".' iSiiVJ TftTafNTvitw viw w i v-r 1i :W?iV"r.2 BRK8T. "ln.,1UAI ThesDlendldnewreseel on this fsrorit ront forth ardl?. 601 KrU riT". "KT i ... PRI? OF PAS8AGH In rold (Inoladin wine), . TO BRK8T OR HAVRE, First Cabin $140 1 Beoond Cabin .. DM , TO PARIS, " Ino'ndins railway tickete, famished on board.) First Cabin $146 Seoond Cabin These steamers do not carry steerage passenger. Medical attendance free of oharire. American travellers going to or retaining from th eoa. tinentof Kurope, by taking tbe steamers of this line avoid unnecessary risk from transit by Knglish railway and crossing th ohannel, besides saving time, trouble, and ex Pease. GEOROK MAOKKNZIK. Agent, vr . No. 58 BROADWAY, New York. For passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams Kipres Company, to H. U LKAF. liVi No. 830 CHESNUT Street. NORTn GERM V LLOYD I1ISA?18E?;W.K?N VT-YORK AND . owu uiAmr i ul. m Tub Hcukw Btxamxub or TBI NORTH w.u.j. .-u." run reRuiariy Detween flaw York, Br, men, and Southampton, carrying th United Btate. Eng. Imh.and Continental mails. FROM BRFMKN EVERY 8ATTTRDAT FROM SOUTHAMPTON EVKRY TUKSBAY FROM NKW YORK EVERY 8ATlRD AY Pria of ItMagt from few York to Bremm, London. Hamr. and Southampton: First Cabin, $190 ; Beoond Oabln, 7 ; Steerage. OoU. Vom Bremen lo A.v. l or.- ' First Oabln, $120 ; Beoond Cab ih 872 ; Steerage, ,.Oold. Iese vessels take Freight to London and UiilL lot which through bills of lading are signed. An eiperionoed surgeon is attached to each vessel. All letters mast pass through the Post Otfioe. No Bills of Ladin but those of the Company will b signed. Bills of Lading will positively not be dollvsred be) ore goods are cleared at the Custom House. Specie taken to Havre. Southampton, and Rrsmenat the lowest rate. For freight or passage apply to OKLRlJHS A CO.. H7t No. 68 BROAD Street, N.Y. FROM CHARLESTON TO FIX)RIDA, VIA SAVANNAH. TBI. WEKK.LY LINK. Th foilowios stesmera will leave OisnrltMtoii for lorida. via Rinnnah. thm. ftlmaj, a waaIt after arrival of the New York steamships and th North, astern Railroad train: PILOT BOY (Inland Route), every SUNDAY MORS TNG at 8 o'clock. DIOTATOR. very TUESDAY EVENING at 8 o'oloek. OITY POINT, every FRIDAY EVENING at 8 o'olook7 Through tickets to be had of all Charleston and Savao. nab Bt mship Lin Agenoie in New York. J. D. AIKEN A CO., A gents at Charleston, L. J. GUILMAKTLN A CO., ll Agent at Savannah. v SOUTH CAROLINA, THK riOUTU, SOUTHWEST. AND FLORIDA PORTS. Th Steamship PROMETHEUS, will leave Pier IT, below Spruce street. On THURSDAY, Maroh 8, at A. M. Comfortable accommodations for Panengers. Through Passage Tickete and Bills of Lading leaned in connection with the South Carolina Railroad to all point South and Southwest, and with steamers to Florida port. Insurance by this Line ONK-HALF PER CENT. Goods forwsrded free of commission. Bills -f Lading furnished aud signed at th offioe. For freight or passage, apply to K. A. SOTJDER A CO., 88 Doc It hueet Wharf. NEW EXPRESS LINE TO Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D. 0.. via GhesADeske snd Delaware Canal, arith oounections at Alexandria froso the most direot rout foe Linchburz. Bristol. Knox villa. Maahvilla. Daltoo. anil tha Booth west. Steamer leave regularly every Saturday at Boon front the first wharf above Market street. Fr-ght William p. olydh a 00. No. 14 North and South wharve. HYDE A TYLER, Agent, at Georgetown t M. ELDRIDGB A CO., AgenU at Alexandria. 61ft FOR ST. THOMAS AND BRA- ZIL. UNITED 8TATK8 AND BRAZIL MAIL BTf-AMoHlr UUMrAHV. Rastiiajp Mail Btaamar on tha kid ol every month : WKRKIMAOf, Captain Wier. ... SOUTH AMKRIOA, UapUin K. L. Tinklepangn. NOR'l HAM KRIOA, Captain O. B. Slooum. These splendid steamers sail on schedule time, and oall at St. Thomas, Para, Pernembuoe, Balua, and Uio d Janeiro, going and returning. For ngamnta of freight or passnge apply to r or eumiuieui oi OARKIsON. Agent, H No. I BOWL1NO URKKN. New York. mf FOK NEW UKLKANS OIREUT. ZT2Jlk.tZ" Steamships of this Lin will leave Pier k. lrV No. , North Kiver, at I o'olook If. M. oa , KORrS WASHINGTON, Gager. ' MARIPOSA, Kemble. Freight taken for St. Louis, Mobil, and Galveston at through rate. Cabin passage, $61). For pasaag (first and second class) or freight apply U. B. CKOMWKLL A CO.. 14 No. 88 WEST Street. Jt!n. U. 8. MAIL TO HAVANA ATLANTIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.. Ji ailing reguUrly EVERY THURSDAY a- at 8 o'clock P.M preuiaely, from Pier ho, 4 North River. MOKO CASTLE, Captain R. Adam. COLUMBIA, Captain K. Van Bio. KAGLK, Captain M. R. Green. For fr.ht or jB 14 No. I BOWL1NO URKKN, New York. NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK. VIA I Delaware and Raritan Canal. RWIKTrrt JRSI I TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DlthV FaI'CU AND SWIFl'SURE LINE. 1 be husmes ol tnes unes wiu Ie rnmea on tss srw th 8th of March. in. fer fright, wbioa will be ( aooommorialing Uraia, apply to, W. M. BAIRD A CO.. Ha. m Swath Wnarve. 189 . PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, tPTS11 "OKFOI.K 8TKAM8UIP LIN If I 1 t
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