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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1870.
Arming Sclqjtaph
published E YTllT AFTERNOON
(SUNDAYS T.i Kl-TEH),
AT TI7E F.VKN1NO TI'Xr.C.itAl'II BUILDING,
No. 108 S. THillD STREET,
i - - ' PHILADELPHIA.
Thel'rire it three ('. per cnpyUlonhle nherl);
or eiyhUen ant per irmk, payable to the carrier
by iriom tervcd. The niibneription price hi mail
in Ainu Iollar per annum, or One ItolJar uwl
Fifty Cent for two months, invariably in
advance for the time ordered.
. TUESDAY, MARCH IS, 1870.
TBE HOUSE OF COlinKCTIOXLEr
THE LEGISLATURE UNDO ICS
BABEL WORK.
When the future historian of Philadelphia
describes the action of the present generation
in reference to a House of Correction, what a
fearful picture of vacillation and incompe
tency will he present ! Sixteen years ago an
aot providing for the establishment of such
an institution was passed by the Legislature,
and the subject has been continually agitated
ever since, every day increasing the manifest
necessity for its construction. And yet the
muddle in which this projeot is involved
seems to grow deeper and deeper with eaoh
new demonstration of the importance of its
success. The underlying reason of these
difficulties is the question of location for the
contemplated structure. The trouble does
not arise from the pauoity of proposed sites
but from their superabundance, and this
t rouble is intensified by the anxiety of one
set of interested parties to prevent the House
of Correction from being erected in one
region, and the desire of another Bet
to have it built in some other
special locality. The city ovrns
an abundanoe of land, but its right to use its
own property has bean circumscribed by the
Legislature, with the apparent intent of
f oroing it to become a real estate purchaser
for the special benefit of some one of a doion
knots of speculators. When the House of
Correction was first talked of the Almshouse
farm was fixed by law as the proper looation.
But this project awakened the h ostility of
adjacent property owners, and it was (not
unwisely) defeated, first, by the reoommend i
tions of the committee which originally had
the subject in charge, and, second, by a legis
lative enactment which forbids our citizens
from using any property in the ward ia
which the Almshouse is located as a House of
Correction. After some years the grounds
adjacent to Moyamensing Prison rose into
favor, and this is, above all others, the proper
site, or, indeed, the only economical and ap
propriate one. Three acres of land are avail
able, affording ample room, with proper
architectural arrangements, for the confine
ment and employment of all our prisoners,
Vagrants, able-bodied paupers, drunkards,
and disorderly persons for years to coma.
Thousands of men can be set and kept at
work in the space therein furnished, aul
some of the largest and most thickly-populated
institutions of a kindred character do
not possess more room than the city has at
her disposal on the grounds adjacent to the
County Prison. This is the only project that
ever reoeived a hearty and thorough endorse
ment, and the only one yot presented which
should be adopted. It is recommended iu
the strongest terms by the Bo ird of Prison
Inspectors, a body of men who, above all
others, best understand this subject, ami
act from enlightened and disinterested
motives. It .was also favored, a
few years ago, by every , meuibor of
a joint committee of Councils which h-ul
thoroughly examined this whole subject. Nor
did the favorable and propitious action stop
here. Connoils authorized a loan of one hun
dred thousand dollars to erect the necessary
buildings on the site which had thus been
warmly approved; so that, as the city p j
Bessed the land and the money to erect tun
buildings was provided, the whole question
of a House of Correction was on the point o!
reaching a satisfactory solution. The only
thing needed was an act of the Legislature
authorizing our citizens to do what, after
mature consideration, competent offioials had
decided to be the best thing that could b
done in the matter. But a superlatively stu
pid and iniquitous piece of legislative
botohery was perpetrated at this wouidut.
Instead of conferring the privilege asked for
the Legislature passed a law prohibiting thj
people of Philadelphia from construct
ing a House of Correction aul
Employment in the ward in whiou
the County Prison is located, and dolaito
action en the whole subject was delayed an 1
prevented by this outrageous proceeding. If
our citizens had been represented at IlnrrU
burg by men who possessed a decent degren
of intelligence, honesty, and regard for ttniir
welfare, such an infamous law could not pos
sibly have been adopted. Its passage ' hu
already oost Philadelphia hundreds of t'a u
Bands of dollars, and it has stimulated au im
mense amount of crime and pauperism. It
it is not repealed it will cost millions of dol
lars more, and multiply tho race of bummars
until the whole city swarms with them; au l
the burdens of tax-payers will be increasol
to an incalculable extent by the
damaging commission and omission of
drivelling legislators. Councils, deprived
of the power of doing what their better j udx
ment favored, were naturally thrown bank
upon a series of expedients none of which
are satisfactory. It is time, however, that the
farce of chasing up sites should cease. Let
the Legislature heed the request ma le ia tho
last report of the Prison Inspectors, giva
them the enabling aot they ask for, auj th-m
let Councils extend tho Moyauiensing 1'rUou
buildings. The loan already authorized will
provide the necessary means. The wh'le
question ia exceedingly simple if the Legis
lature, for once, treats our citizens with jus
tice, and not as the objects of legislative
speculation. The LTarmburg Solons have only
to undo (heir own Babel work.
THE L KCl A li-1 Kyn er wcuistox.
A f'.nr.AT doal of puerile critioism has ap
parrd in tho papers on the redout logil
touiler decision by tho Supreme Court of the
Uiiifml Stiffs, nud tho most nmazing conse
quences nro predicted as snro to follow from
it. Not the least ridiculous of the ideas held
by some of these wiseacres is that one which
implies that transactions passed and gone
may be liable to be dragged out again, and
that even a rooeipt in full is a mat tor of
dreadful tmcertainty. The legal-tender deci
sion applies, of coiirso, only to contracts
made before February, 1802, and only to such
of those as $UU remain in force. Any one
who chose to take greenbacks and sign a re
ceipt in full, cannot now claim that ho should
have had gold. This, we apprehend, applies
to interest paid on mortgages, to ground
rents, and interest paid on corporation
bonds, etc Interest, according to the well
known rule of law, follows the principal, and
if the principal is payable in gold the interest
will be also, and accruing interest and unpaid
arrears may be so collected. We wish, how
ever, to assure our readers that if they have
paid off a gold mortgage, or other debt, or
interest on it, in greenbacks, and that pay
ment has been accepted by the parties, they
can sleep in peace, and have no fears of boing
called on for "the difference."' Where sums
have been received expressly under protest,
such cases may form exceptions to the rule
according to the phraseology of each case,
though even there we very much doubt
whether the only available "protest" may not
be held to be a refusal to accept. In ninety
nine out of every hundred cases, however,
payment was made and accepted without any
thought on either side of any "protest," or of
any decision suoh as the court has made. In
all such cases the question is closed.
Afteb all, commend us to a New York
Deputy Sheriff for a display of peouliar fit
ness for office. The papers of our neigh
boring city narrate at longth the adventure!
of one such during a journey from New York
to Sing Sing in charge of four convicts whose
united sentences spanned seventeen years.
The deputy was crazy drunk so crazy drunk
that justice was within an ace of being
cheated out of seventeen years of hard labor
by way of recompense for outraged law.
This model deputy was not content with get
ting drunk himself, but marched his prisoners
into a saloon and set their wits afloat in
whisky, as well as his own; and then, for fear
that either himself or some one of his maua
cled companions might by chance draw a sober
breath before the end of the journey was
reached, filled a pocket flask, and the tedium
of travel was relieved by its frequent eleva
tion all around. When the party arrived at
Sing Sing, the deputy had sunk into such a
drunken stupor that he could be arousod only
by a vigorous rubbing of his ears, which goes
far towards proving that what little sense he
had left was located in those organs. That
the four convicts did not make good their
escape was in consequence of the fact that
they were too drunk to appreciate their
opportunity, and were moreover under the
watchful eyes of a policeman and a friend of
the deputy throughout the journey.
Captain Williams, the heroic man who
commanded the ill-fated Oneida, gave utter
ance to a sentence which is destined to rank
forever with the most notable in naval history.
Mr. Crowninshield, the captain s clerk, who
has written a thrilling narrative of his own
almost miraculous escape, states that when
one of the officers urged him to take to the
boats, he replied "I go down with my ship!"
and that, in response to an appeal from still
another of his subordinates, he exolaiined,
No; this is my place, and here I remain!"
If the serviceable boats of the Oneida had
been of sufficient capacity to accommodate
the whole ship's company, suoh conduct on
the part of the commander would have been
unpardonable bravado; but as it was, the
noble sailor only showed that he was fit to
tread the quarter-deck of the grandest vessel
that ever was launohed. The loss of a man
with such a spirit is one that no service could
well afford to sustain, and the country will
lament it with as much feeling as if Captain
Eyre, of the Bombay, were a red-handed
pirate in name as well as in act.
Poor Feobia! To-day the people of
Peoria are to be forced to listen to harangues
from Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, and Miss Anna E. Dickinson.
Now Peoria is situate a thousand miles, more
or less, from Philadelphia, and it may be that
the full enormity of its iniquities has not yet
reached us by report. But we should think
that there could have been found within its
limits at least one sensible, sober-minded, satis
fied woman, whose simple presence ought to
be sufficient to save the town from the triple
infliction which has fallen upon it.
Tm Increase of tuk Kevknuk of the General
Government la a gratifying sign. Commissioner
Delano estimated the revenue fur the current ducal
year at f HS.OOO.OOO, to meet which prophecy
required a gain of 110,000,000 ovpr last year. Nine
teen millions have already ben gained; but, Inas
much as nine millions of tax were obtained In the
last quarter of the last fiscal year from whUky which
was forced out of bond by operation of law, it Is ex
pected that the remaining months of the current
fiscal year will show a slight comparative deorease,
and that the net gain for the year will about equal
the estimate made by Commissioner Delano. Iu the
following la given a comparison of the aggregate
collections of Internal revenue during the years
endlDg June SO, 1809, and January 81, 1870, showing
how the amount reoeived from each son roe Is being
gradually swollen:
Year XwUng ' Year Ending
. Jun. IBtitt. Januaru. 1870.
spirits U3,oe,4ua totf.fos.in
1 ouaeco ii3,43O.T0S 811,827,008
i eruieuted liquors o,ut,880 8,084,574
j3uuKsanu uuiiKera S.naft.olT B,MJ,!J8
Grusa receipts , e.BlHl.WM) o,641,Ti6
"Hies 8,0tt,ba 8,7uo,BlS
Special tuxes not elsewhere
enumerated 8,801,455 9,823,90
Income, Including salaries. 84, iQl.BMI 87,614,311
Jeguclia 1,2-U.KST " 1,694,484
huccesidims LlSU.Tftu 1,8TT,87
Articles lu Schedule A 8S8.8H1 B2,6a
1'absportu Blt,4o8 3,775
J,"- ' 8,11,006 8,213,639
livsiduu of collections from
tuxt-s removed 1,284.979 403,846
Penalties 877.08 S8,B4
hut receipts from stamps.. 18,508 4U3 15,923,05
Totals. $1B,124.12T $174,839,928
I he Ueciease lu the third Item from the end of the
list Is In the case nf tntrrf wntch havr, i,en r"nvvv 1,
Willie nil the collee. Ions from tlinna source. ir:il!ii
Hie taxes In question were in force wero nof. yet
palil in. Th! decreii. e in tho receipt from pen il
ti. s Is occuKioiii'fl b.r tli.i fact that t!io 1d; irimnt
now mure uniformly prosecutes mil'.s to a conclu
sion, thus reclnctiijT tlie nii'Mocr of compromises,
In rein pennlt.il s are pnid in lieu of taxes. Alto
gether, the ex''liilt 1.4 a very wit ; fnct M-y one to tax
payer, and shows lioiv riwliy the lutilslt'jr!:il In
Pome tax can be dispensed with.
I JIk. Lkkciikr, having set before tho wnrll tho
new code regulaliiig thu niaritnl relations, follows
It lip with a prouuucUinento upon p iruut.il respon
sibility. Hear hlni, jo lathers and mothers, and
take heed "The -wayward children' aro not so
nmch to blame, it seems, a.1 the parents. A bad hoy
snatches his sister's doll and plump It Into the lire;
that's his mother s fault! BUI runs off with his
J linger brother's sled, and when tho defrauded
ui chin cries after it, he gets 'rubbed' in the snor
and kicked; and that's his father's fadlt! A thiev
ish boy eat up all the doughnuts set apart for sup
per, and then denies that he tonched them, and puts
It off on a poor bound servant-girl, and gets her
Into disgrace, and suborns his younger brother to
Jolninthedooelt; and all this U ike fault of his
parents 1"
! Tin Dbvastation op War Is something torrlble
to contemplate in the aggregate. Mr. Loray-Beau-lleu,
a diaclplo of the peuce-at-auy-prlce party, who
argues that all the wars between 1853 and 1809 might
have been avoided If those engaged In thera had so
chosen, thus summarizes the expenditure In men
and money during the period of thirteen years:
. Millinr.U
Urn ftfjranrt
War killrd, ejtnti.
Crimean.... 784,991 8,50i)
Italian.... ,im)) l.s"l
Danish .&'
American (North) 2S1 000
American (South) 619,000 lt.so-)
Austro-PruHsian 45,0 fl i,v
Various 65,000 l.O'O
Total.
.1,743,491
47,830
Alexandre Dumas, according to a rumor current
In Paris, has had a lit of apoplexy. Figaro siys that
It cannot vouch for the attack, hopes the story la a
mistake, and only mentluns it to have the pie li.ire
of contradicting it iu the vent of Its not beinr true.
We suppose that, In case the rumor hhould provj
true, h'ujaro will g:orify Itself on having been iu the
field so early with the announcement.
The most primitive moans of conveyance
are not uecesearily tree from fatal daubers. A
Mr. Dority, near Alertou, Wisconsin! :wm driv
ing a team attached to a pair oCiJjobslellis
currying a sawiog. ai nis invitation a .nr.
ll..l,..ii wtilLrtiitr hv thu rii'irlMirln ulimr.fmlf n. riiln
u . k 1 1 w.n... J v.w . ....... ....... -
on the log. fcuortly afterwards the log slipped
from the ninu bot, ana, turning over tue ior
ward bob. struck Dalton ou the temple, causliir
instaut death, and rolling upon Dority fasiuned
111 in ou the prouud, where no wus auiwst tro.un
bclore aid arrived. Tue fatal accideuU of
travel where horses draw the vehicles are more
numerous, though less noticed, tuau those where
steam is the motive power.
Opium has been raised with success In Ver
mont. The yield would appear to have been
100 pounds of juice to the acre, merely requiring
drying to become a marketable opium which
brought from $8 to 410 per pouud, as It con
tained more than six per cent, of morphia. If
this tbiuir enn be accomplished in so cold iv cli
mate, would not still better sucues-i attend It-i
culture iu California? It may yet bo no object
to Chinese smugglers to brio); opium iuto 8 in
raticisco plugged up into the Inside of granite
building-blocks, or sandwiched betweeu the
iuner and outer soles of their shoe. The next
'opium war may find us the rival of the East
India company in supplying mo drug to China.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
Fbr additional Special o(icM Mo (A Intid Fanat.
AD INTERIM!
For the brief space between now and the opening
of our New Spring Importations, we will dispose of
the remainder of our Winter Stock (much of which
Is not Inappropriate for Spring Wear) at moderate
prices.
joiin wanamaker',
Noa. 818 and 620 C1IESNUT Street.
8- ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS,
BO. 1025 OHE3NTJT STREET.
SHERIDAN'S RIDE,
LIFE-SIZE PAINTING PIT TUE POET ARTIST,
T. BUCHANAN KKAD.
THIRD WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION.
GALLERIES THRONGED DAY AND EVENING!.
OVER 20,000 VISITORS.
"With foam and with dust .ha black char or was groy ;
hj tbo Uaob ot his y, ami tti ru noNtnla' play,
He geetnud to the wuule (treat army to aay :
M have hrouuht yuu thenilii all tuo way
From Winchester down to save tie day!' "
OHBOMOS of the above, in size 30i3S inches, now m1y.
Price, 10. 3 7
AomiuBion 25 oents.
includiuK tue entire collection of the Academy.
Open from 9 A. M. to 6 P. Al and from 7t to IU P. M.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIJ.-
faiAD a r rnvi ii.dh
IN AID OF "i'HK UAPTINT HOMK."
O A ntTin TV A V 111 UlllI Ilk lorn . a U If
The GRAND (JIIORUcS, composed of the Buutint Sun
day Bcnoois. win 00 oonancten iy
Mr. O. 11. SNVDER,
And socompanied by foar icrand ltnnos and two Organs.
Climnart Ln rninn liv an Overture for four Planus.
TIl'VTTH (Adult! ?08nt
M HJuildien, nnder twelve years so
Tlt'ketaoan be nrneurad at the American Baptist Pub
lication Society's Uuouia, No. 630 AUUHStraet, or at the
Acaaemy on tue any 01 ine uoncen.
Doore open at 2 o'olock. " Ht
BfST AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
"HOW TO bAV THINGS,"
a Lecture by
PROFESSOR J. W. SHOEMAKER.
the Popular Uloeuttouiat. ,
At tho request of many friends Profewor Shoemaker
wili deliver the above instructive, entertaiuiog, and
humorous lecture at tho Aoadxinyof Music,
On FRIDAY KVKMN'G, March 18.
Tickota, 50 oents. JUaervod Boats iu Parquet, Parquet
Circi auU Balcony, 74 cents. Revived se:its in hauiuy
Uircle. bo oeula. Tickets tor sale St Gould's Piano Rooms,
No. fJ3 Ghesnat street. l ' it
lioors open at 7 o'clock. Ltcture to commence al 8
tQr PILGRIM 11ENKFIT8.
Tuesday Ni;ht Moriiiufc fcitar pivMnn. H. rf V,
'Wednesday, 2'SO and Evening --Banan Baptist llmroa..
T: ursdny Kvening-Contrnl PrcBli)t:riau CUuroh.
Friday Kveuiw larin M. K. i;liurou.
Saluiday S &i P. M. and B Kveninic.
All hocietiea make money by beuetita.
OtHce hours, 11 to 1 P. M. . , . .
8 16 lit J. W. BAIN, Proprietor.
tjZr NOTICE.-A FREE LECTURE WILL
bedelirered b RAOHHL W. M. TOWN8END. in
the hall of the MKROANTJ1.K LIBRARY, os I'KM
Hireet, abore Olieanut, on FOURl'H (WKUNK.S.
UAV) KVKNING, Ibtli instant, al 8 o'olock, to which the
eitixena generally are invited. , , . ,, ,.
Kuliject-tttale ut Bociety la Washington Oityt iU
Oateuutloaand Ieradatlou. It
SPECIAL NOTIOES.
jptf- TO TIIF, STOOKIIOLnr.liS OF TUK
W KROA NTII.K MBRARY (iOMPANY.
1b Hoard of liitertnia havine: tailed to carry out lbs
rriw.iulion instruouna: them tnpn Ins Library on Sun
da,, vrniuh awd by a larir majority at. (Ho niett
0 tbo l.onu any b.ld i , binary ia. all otorkboblora. wio
tber In Invor ot Minrlay op. nut er not. who hold that I 'i !
I'iri'cn.ts nre bound to obey tho luxtrnxtiona a-iven t mm
at tbe nu etinua or the (Jompany, are Invited to meet, .
01 I Ilmlt,til,u,il ,,, ,v (( ,r,T HKOMIand H A 1. VII f
'' ".."" '' '''' nminii, I1V1 imi , n S o'. ..rA, to exurms
thoir nirawimbatlnn o( tho couran ntirauni by the Ui.r.l,
and t (i lake such action in tue premises aa taey mty dnein
exfi1ient.
V i. In. in V. Mrllnih
(1. Morran KldridRS,
B. M Andot-on,
A Ibrrt U. Frland,
John I., rtodner,
tlotin V (iraiijzer.
1. K. Hart,
8. (WtniT, .Ir.,
8aniuHl W. l'ennypaoker,
K.lward J. Tiel,
Joseph K. Pulte,
'I hoiiiaa Hockley,
.lolin H. Kuultor,
H. K. Kairarneve,
It K. lHllnin,
R. l'nncan ('oombs,
J. Wemer Knox,
(J. W. McMillan.
Edward H. Tyson,
.1. K. F. Xoh.
B. T. Milhaan,
A. W'pssotl,
Hteption Kaejnn,
An 1 others. 1 lOthatunt
TIioiiiiib I', h akeiuore,
Bnn I). Hunter,
A. J (a.lairi er,
C'barlo- .1. Rainey,
kl. Paxrnn.
Cbarlra P. Bicknnll
I A. K. Wonirt'h,
I John Nc.l lo,
1 John A. Mionn,
Tbomaa ir-ham.
rriioaru i. tveioerill,
Clinrics A. Inr;,n,
J. Mi A Hi.ydt r,
F K. Won-.mth,
lesti'h IIfHipr.
Rictianl W Pulte,
Jonn lb aklna,
Churles Henry Honoy,
J. Hurry i inert ale,
C'liar Hoakins,
l.r uis hliaw,
Tliomaa Alcllwne,
lyjT PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Ol'FICE
7 OK ;ENF.RAL FREIGHT AGENT, No. 130J
MARKET Htreet.
Pnn.TiRLPHlA, Maroh 14, 1870.
NOT I OK,.
The rates for the Transportation of Oas Coal, to take
efToct M arch lo, 18?0, can be obtsinod on aoplioatinn at
this oHlce. 8. 11 KINGSTON.
I It General FreiRht Agent.
OROOERIE8. ETO.
1 w o.
11UY TIliE BEST.
BUCK'8 FRKSII TOMATO FS.
WINSLOW'S OREKN 8UAR CORN.
MEKCIER GREEN FRBNCII PEAS.
ASPARAGUS, LIMA BEANS, UK SEN GAGES,
FRENCH AND ITALIAN PRUNES.
New Crop Green and Black Teas,
At greatly reduced prices. Families supplied la
quarter and half chests at wholesale price.
EXTRA WHITE WHEAT FAMILY FLOUR,
Always on hand.
HAMS! HAMS!! HAMS!!!
NEWBOLD'S JBR8EY HAMS.
8TOKE3 JERSEY HAMS.
MARYLAND HAMS.
f. DAVIS' CINCINNATI HAMS.
JOWA hams.
' Families dealrlDg Newbold's and Stokes' Jersey
Hams cau leave their orders, as they will be In la a
few days.
CRIPPEM & MADDOCK,
No. 115 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
BELOW CHESNUT,
Dealers and Importers in Fine Groceries of every
description. S 15 tuth2t4p
1809.
yy" A It 11 A N T E D GENUINE OLD
Government Java Coffee,
ICoufcted every day. at 40 cents
per pound, at
COUSTYS East End Grocery,
No. 118 South SECOND St.,
S17thstn5
BELOW OHK8NTJT STREET.
OLOTHINQ.
THE BEST ISJHE CHEAPEST.
There Is no poorer economy In the world than to
buy poor clothing.
BOCEHILL & WILSON
COO EL- FINE CLOTHING
DUO AT VERY LOW PRICES.
There Is no place In Philadelphia wnere yon can
receive better attention than at
ROCKHILL A WILSON'S, Who
nurl SELL FINE CLOTHING
Q II U AT VER Y LOW PRICES.
For the choicest materials, made Into the most
fashionable Btyles of garments, yon will find that
ROCKHILL 4 WILSON
Pnr SELL FINE CLOTHING
DUO AT VJtRY LOW PRICES.
To please the boys, to give satisfaction to the men,
to rejoice the hearts of the wives and mothers of
America,
ROCKHILL 4 WILSON
rtiornut SELL FINE CLOTHING
LllCSnill AT VERY LOW PRICES.
The great army of customers constantly dealing at
tue GREAT BROWN HALL cheerally testify to the
.act that
ROCKHILL 4 WILSON
Ctrent SDLh FINE CLOTHING
Oil CClt AT VERY LOiV PRICES.
GREAT BROWN HALL,
603 and 605 CHESNUT Street,
ROCKHILL & WILSON.
BARGAINS IN
CLOTHirJC.
GOOD BUSINESS SUITS 114, were 118
" " 1 30
". . " " 118 " tn
OVERCOATS 18 " fie
EVANS & LEACH.
No. 628 MARKET STREET,
18 80 amrrj PHILADELPHIA.
HATS.
$8'00. II ATS. $600.
WARBURTON'S
NEW SHAPES TOR SPRING.
Easily Fitting and Ventilating (Fatented).
In consideration of the kind compliance of my
numerous patrons (during the past season; with my
new rule of business, CASH! I now make a reduc
tion In prices as above. Said reduction Is greater
ttan la warranted by the recent decline In gold or
existing rates of wages for labor the latter never
having been so high as now, nor so little disposed to
foilow the turn of gold. Further reductions will be
made when feasible ; in the meautlme the prices for
Pitbs Silk Hats will be 18-00 for fine and ts-oo for
extra One. a tery rare superfine quality, fio-oo.
1 W. F. WARBURTON, Hatter,
No. 430 CHESNUT Street.
81B8Up, Kext door to Post Office.
EYRE U LARtDELL,
: POTT'S r.r I JL nud AKOII SMv(its,
AUK OIVMNO Tw D.VY b'OH Sl'HI.VO KALI S,
PrLBMlD IliENCH riUN'jZhH. JNKW STOCK OV PL .MS HII.HS.
PEKCALE ROBK8, TFIHEE FLOUNCFS. BEST BLACK MILKS MACE.
RICH SPRING PERCALI.S. PAISLEY LONG AN O oyliAIlrf bllAWLS.
ORGANDY LAWN ROBES. L.XMa POISTS AND JACKKM.
JAPANESE FIGURED SILKS. MAK1K ANT JINET IK AND V1CI1U8.
JAPANESE PLAIN bILbS. 40 0 YAHL8 PLalD SPRING hILKS, 81.
NEAT STRIPE AND FIOUKED BILKS. PoPLtNS, NEW SfniNG STOCK. S U 3t
DRY QOODS.
CARD.
8HEPPARD,
VAN HARLINCEN
& ARRI80N.
Wo. lOOS CIIKSIJT Street,
Will continue the sale of their LARGE STOCK 0?
FINE GOOLS, at
EXTEAOELINAEILY LOW PEICES
Making a difference of about 8Sx PER CENT, from
former prices, being more than equal to the
GEEAT DECLINE IN GOLD.
Our old stock we are selling rapidly, and NEW
GOODS are BEING RECEIVED DAILY, so that our
Store shall continue to present to buyers the
GBEATKST POSSIBLE ATTRACTIONS AND
BARGAINS, in all descriptions of
Skirting nd Fronting Linens.
Table Cloths, Table Linens, Napkin,
Doylies,
Of entirely new and elegant patterns.
Towels and Tcwellings of every de
scription, ,,
Marseilles Quilts,
; AND ALL VARIETIES OF
Zlouse-furnishing Dry Goods.
FURNITURE COVERINGS, CRETONNES, AND
CHINTZES.
TABLE AND PIANO COVES 8.
REAL LACE AND NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS.
CURTAIN MATERIALS AND UPHOLSTERY
GOJDS.
ALSO,
An unusually large and attractive stock of FIUaT
CLASS WHITE GOODS, PIQUES, TIOIES, HDKF3.
and STAPLE EMBROIDERIES.
No. 1008 CHESNUT Street,
' 8 9 wthstulOtrp PHILADELPHIA.
JESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT.
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT.
The Entire Stock Marked Down to Gold
at Par.
Specie 4iven In Change.
GREAT BARGAINS IN
Black Silks! Black Silks!
The Cheapest! or Ten Years.
WILL OPEN TO-D4.Y FROM NEW YORK,
. I lot 26 inch Cro Grain, S1W, ch.ap for $3.
1 lot 26 inch Groa Grain, (176, cheap for (3 2S.
1 lot 96 inoh Oro Grain, i'J, oheap for $2'60.
1 lot axtra heavy oord. $3'15, oheap for $275. -Black
Silk, $2-26, $2 50, $2 75, $3, 3 W, and $4.
Daily Opening New Silks.
Being determined to maintain oar reputation for selling
the oheapest Black Sirka, wo have marked our entire atoolc
down to Gold at par.
JU8T OPRRRD
10,000 Yards of Japanese Silks,
Pla n, Btrrpea, and in Robea. These gooda are the beat
quality, aoprior lustre and finish.
' Irish Poplina in grant, Tariety fur Spring Suite.
A full line ol beaotiful Dreaa Goods ltw. than bankrupt
prices.
lilaok Tamlae Mohair for Suits, a bargain. .
ALL THE ABUVE AT
CEO. D. WISHAM'S
ONE-PRICK SrOBE,
IVo. 7 north IIUIITII Street,
S12tuat PHILADELPHIA.
1853 17th ABNIVEK8AEY, 187Q
1 HURSDAY, MARCH 10.
(8eveBtecn Years on Spring Garden Street)
Dry Goods Unprecedented Chsap.
VTHORNLEY'S,"
Cor. EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN
We have now a most complete stoek ot Seasonable
and Desirable Goods, bought cheap and selling
cheap.
SUPERLATIVE BLACK SILKS.
. BEAUTIFUL SILK VOPLINS.
EXCEEDINGLY RICH FRENCH CHINTZES.
BAKNSI.BY AN1I POWER-LOOM TABLE
LINENS, WHITE PIQUES, PLAIO MUSLINS,
BEbT BID GLOVES, CASS1MERES, VLKNUSLS,
MARSEILLES QUILTS, Eta EiO.
If ladles desire to shop pleasantly and economi
cally, they will come direct to our store.
If from a distance, they can ride to the door, and
will sar car hire In the smallest purchase.
. All goods, delivered freo of charge, promptly and
carefully.
JOSEPH H. THORN LEY,
N. E. CORNER OP
EIGHTH and SPUING GARDEN its,
S S Uistui PHILADELPHIA.
PARIS.
AU PETIT ST. THOMAS,
BUB DK BAO, Noa. S7. 2tt, VI. 83. 85,
No. 8 RUK KB L'UNIV RSITK.
Thin house, established npnard. of Hity years, is nniTer
slly kuown aud famed as one of the first establishments
in Paris, in which thorouirn eonfldenoe may be I iaoed. Ia
its immense premises, whioh ad foreigners shuuld visit,,
will be found, at the lowest prioea, the must oeinplete as
soi tm tint of
SILKS. EIRST NOVRI.TIK8
INDIA INu FRKNUH OA8HMKKK SHAWLS,
WOOLLENS, LAUK, LINUKBIK,
READY MA LK ARTIOLKS FOR LADIES,
MANTLES, OMAK, FURS.
, corr-m and thrkad btukks. uoirry,
GLOVES, RIHBON8, THfMMINOS, OABPKT8,
Ak'I'IOLKB OK FURNITURE, WEDDING OUTKITS.
ENGLISH A8SI1-TANT8. . FIXKO PRICEU.
May. U. iC Ap. 11, 16, SU, May J, , 18, and 26.
R 8, R. DILLON,
NOS. 821 AND 8S1 SOUTH STREET,
has a Urr. assortment of FINE MILLINERY for Ladies
and Misses, Ribbons, Satins, Bilks, Velvets and Vel.
veteens. Crapes, Feathers. Flowers, Frames, Saab
Ribbons, Ornaments, Mourning Millinery, Orape
Veils, sto.
DRY GOODS.
No. 43 North EIGHTH Street,
Ol'ESKD TITI3 DA.V,
I 0 pieces Nainsook Cneck Muslins. 28,28, and 8I0.
. 1K doiea lare sire A ll-liuen Towels, , oents,
' 17 doz.n Ladies' Uemstitohed Uuen Hdkia., 12" and
lSeenls.
j Plaid Nainsooks, oheapest eer oRurad. '
I 100 pieces A Rleant Frenoh Mot'lna, 44 and SOeenta.
eost76centairli.
; Fine Freuoh OiKanr'y, 81 and 37! ounts.
I DKMUNA1 RATIO IN PLAID MU.Sl.lNrf.
LIAEN GOODS A ftPKUl 4LTY. '
j 1000 yards Table Daroaaks. slUhily sithwl.
Beaty hand-loom Table Dainuk, So cents.
TABLE DAMASKS AND NAPKINH, (JRKAT RK.
, . DUOTION.
Hambnrs; Kdnings and Insertions. -
10,(JO yarda Hsroburg Embroideries, extra t'.ieap
t bales Russia Crash, 1J,( and 15a.
1 100 dozen Lace Collars, bow styles, 85, 31, Bn.l 8'o.
x.inen uollnrs ana UulIs-noTeltles.
HOSIERY! HOSIERY! HOSIKUY! '
1C0 dozen GenU' Superfine English H ilf llw, ji0
11U dosen Genu' Fine Reirular Half Hose, tfc, a j b
ladles' Enarlish Lonir Hose. fin. a.,, a .
from Mo. " .
Ladies' Full Regular Fine Hose, 28 and 31o.
, Boys' and Misses' Hose.
( Black Silks, leas than gold oost.
1 Black Silks, Ql 58 and $1 61.
' Black Bilks, cheapest in the market.
; BUok Silk, 82 and C3 45, speoial bargains.
; Sew Spring Poplina.
, 8 Pisces double width Colored Mohairs, 31 0.
100 pieoes Dress Goods, 19o., reduoed from tio.
Blaok Alpaoas, reduced.
' Special Bargains in Black Alpacas.
Ladies' Undergarments, Night Dresses, eto., noTeltiea,
tery oheap.
i The Ooutills J. B. P. Freuoh Corsot, best fitting Corset
In the market. Also,
The Genuine Robert Werley Corset, reduced.
Whalobone "Meehanio Corset," 9&o.
Fans reduced. Hdkfs. bargains.
Gloves closing out. Gents' Back. ,
Ladies' Jouvin Castor O lores.
Nottingham Lace Curtains, from auction. 8 14 St
Second Special Anncuncenot.
J. W. PROCTOR & CO.,
No. 920 CHESNUT STREET.
Caving been successful In disposing of a large
portion of the stock to the public at an Immense
sacrifice of the
ORIGINAL COST,
We are now determined to sell tho balance at a
still greater reduction.
BALANCE OP "PROCTOR" STOCK MUST BE
SOLD.
Some of the leading kinds of goods In this Itoclt
now on hand are as follows :
KID GLOVES,
FURS IS SETS OK SEPARATE.
HOSIERY.
DRESS AND CLOAK. TRIMMINGS.
CORSETS,
WHITE, SCARLET, ANI BLUE CLOTHS,
BLACK CLOTHrt,
GOOD SIDE-BAN O CASSI MERES, 62tfo.
' ENGLISH 4-4 WATEUPKOOFS, 2k;o.
6-4 WATERPROOFS, 7fia
' PURE MOIIAIK BLACK ALPACAS, .
AKaBS AT $0.
WHITE VELVET CORALS,
DOLAN'H PLAID CLOAK INGS, $4-80.
BOYS' LINEN WEAK, .
BLACK 11EKNANIS, iifto. ,
STRIPED GKENADI iSES, Wo.
BLACK SILKS AT ONE-THIRD THEIR COST, '
FANCY SILKS AT YOUR OWN PRICE,
REMNANTS OF DRESS GOODS NEARLY ALL
GONE.
LONG AND SQUARE BROCHE SHAWLS.
BALANCE OF TIIE BLANKETS CLOSING OUT
CHEAP, ONLY A FEW OF THE CHOICE FRENCH
PIOUES LEFT. WHITE LACK POINTS, itO
TUNDES, AND SACQUES. BLACK LACE DO. DO.
PROCTORS,
816tuths8t5 No. 920 CHESNUT Street '
yE GUARANTEE TO SELL
The Cheapest Slack Silks
IN PHILADELPHIA. '
WE ARE WELL AWARP OVTHR RESPONSIBILITY
OF THE ABOVE STATEMENT, BUT ARM
PREPARED TO PROVE IT TO
ALL WHO WILL GIVE U8
THE OPPORTUNITY.
10 Pieces mors heavieet "GOLD EDGE" BLAOK
G ROB GRAIN, 82 65, worth (4
5 Pieces heavy "OOL.D EDGE" BLAOK GR03
GRAIN, (3, worth S3.
6 Pieces "WHITE JlDGE" GROS OR AIN, $1-75.
The above silks are Tery slightly in perfeot on the sel
vage, but the damage ia so trilling that it can soarooly bs
deteoted.
Having made arrangements with the importers to take
II the above goods they get, buyers will find it greatly to
their interest to examine them before purchasing eUe
whero. X Case heavy square mesh BLAOK HERNANI, at 85o.,
great bargain.
N. 8PERINC & SON,
SUCCESSORS TO JAMES DENNY ft SON,
S.E. COR. ELEVENTH AND LOMBARD.
SISstuSt PHILADELPHIA.
"YTE HAVE RECEIVED AN INVOICE
OP OUR CELEBRATED
BOMBAZINE FINISH ALPACAS.
The lame make of goods is not kept by any other
house.
PERKINS & CO.,
9 South rilTJTIZ Street,
a IT thstu8mp PHILADELPHIA.
OIOARS.
JUST RECEIVED, SMALL LOT CHOICE
HAVANA CIGARS,
.FOR SALE BY
V.VC.in.O,CAL.L,A.IIsVIVAcCO.v
' 10 Ctrp No. 206 WALNUT Street.