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LIBERIA.
Tbe InRsanrnl Aririrra of Prnldnal lloye
The Prosp-rin of ..Iberia.
The following, inaugural address of Hon.
Edward James lloyft, tifth Treiident of the
Republic of Liberia, in Went Africa, wan de
livered before the legislature in joint con
vention at Monrovia, on the !ld of January,
1870. As it has never before been published
in this conntry, it will be read with interest.
Mr. lloye, who is of pure African bloo ,
was born at Newark, Ohio, Febrnary 3, 1815.
lie was educated at the Ohio University, at
Athens, Ohio, and at Oberlin Collego, Ohio,
lie . taught school in Chillicothe, Ohio, in
183fi, engaged in business at Terre tlante,
Ind., 1 833-4 4, and removed to Liberia in
1845, where he has since resided. He is esti
mated to be worth more than two hundred
thousand dollars. He has been Speaker of
the House of Representatives, a member of
the Senate, and also Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court of Liberia. He is a member of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. With en
lightened and patriotio views and purposes,
he enters upon his administration asking "an
earnest interest in the prayers" of the good
and pious of his own country and of other
lands.
Gentlemen of the Senate and Home of
JifpretentativM, Friends, and FeUote-Citizen:
Called by your suffrage to the respon
sible position of President of the Repnblio of
Liberia, I have jnst taken the oath and obli
gation which the Constitution prescribes on
the induction of the Chief Magistrate.
I have taken the oath with no mental re
servation, fully determined to discharge all
the dutieB it involves to the best of my feeble
judgment. The great constitution above all
constitutions is God, from whom cometh every
good and perfect gift: therefore before under
taking this important work, it is a privileged
Christian duty to invoke the Divine guidanoe
and blessing upon everything which we, as
legislators and Executive, shall be required
to do in behalf of Liberia and Africa. To
this end we devoutly ask an earnest interest
in the prayers not only of the good and pious
of our own country, but also of those of
other lands wheresoever Liberia and bleeding
Africa may have sincere Christian friends.
The Providence of God indicates His will.
He has assigned you scats in this honorable
body; but those seats cun be made truly
honorable only by the faithful and efficient
manner in which you discharge your duties to
your constituents and to the nation generally.
And permit me to add that you will prove true
men only according as you acquit yourselves
for the good of your race and country, and no
further. And should you not prove true, it
is my firm belief that God in some way will
remove jou to make room for others.
I believe that the object of our residence
on this coast is to bear some humble part in
bringing about the fulfilment of that cheer
ing prophecy that Ethiopia shall stretch forth
her hands unto God. Who among us will
prove recreant to a trust of such magnitude,
and involving such important consequences ?
Some of us would not consent to hold any
office within the gift of the people, if the
emolument and honors were the only induce
ment. Riches and honors heaped up for
ourselves, in the midst of poor and igno
minious manses around, whose wretched con
dition can be relieved by directing public
affairs aright, are too insignificant to admit
either of consideration or comparison in this
connection.
I am free to confess that if, under the gui
dance of Divine Providence, and with the co
operation of the Legislature and the people,
I could effect no good, no improvement in
the condition of Liberia, exerting benign in
fluences upon the tribes by which we are
surrounded, and ultimately upon Africa
generally, and maintaining a good
understanding with all nations by
fair and reciprocal comity I would
muoh prefer the retirement of private life.
For the interest of Christian foreigners in
Uods cause ot Africa s regeneration is so
great, that they will vie with us in promoting
it. But for this humble, yet pious confi
dence, I would not think of accepting an
office of such grave responsibilities in their
inevitable consequences and onerous duties
to be performed, involving the unremitting
exercise of the powers of the body and the
mind. In the exercise of the latter, I may
often err since "it is human to err;" yet it
shall not be an error of the heart, but of the
head. Over errors arising from the head, if
or when such should unfortunately occur, I
pray God to incline you to throw the veil of
Christian charity.
Neither the time, nor the manner, nor the
eircumstance in which Ethiopia is to stretch
forth her hands unto God, is declared. But
I believe that Liberia is called to engage in
the initiatory steps to bring about this
glorious result.
In substance, I have asked, if you Libenans
would not try, under God, to be the humble
but efficient initiators of this great work for
God and man. But a strong will, which is
indispensable, must precede, and have and
continue to exercise a moulding influence
npon the character, beginning, progress, and
completion of the great work sought as an
end.
The manner in which agencies are to pro
ceed is not indicated in the Bible. But it is
fair to presume that the teeming millions of
this peninsula are to be regenerated chiofly
through indigenous agencies, yet those of an
exotic kind are to have a share in furnishing,
as it were, the key and mainspring thereof.
vvnerever uoas win concerning Atnca is
known, in or out of it, and religiously felt to
be a duty, there are men or general intelli
gence and means that will respond to the call.
The wise and good of every nation invite us
to redeem our race from the untold misuries
of a protracted African night. They call us
on the one hand, boldly to undertake the
irork, and on the other we are urged to exor
uon Dy tne old calumnies against the negro.
xne low estimate at wliicu the negro hat
been rated is, in my opinion, a stron
motive power, the true incentive to
propel us on the path of duty to serve
the best interests of the people, the couu
try, the day and ceneration in which our lot
is cast. "God hath made of one blood a'l
nations of men for to dwell on all the f.ice
of the earth; from which we must infer tLu(.
if there be not one common destiny, tho fault
must be traced to dereliction or deficiency ia
the creature, as a free agent, and not to the
Creator. The very unenviable notoriety given
to the negro by those living upon the uure-
quitted fruits of his labor, who robbed him
of mental culture, of right views of himself.
in relation to his God and his fellow-men, ob
scured his prospects as to all those things
which they were interested in witnnoiuiug
from him.
It is our duty to prove that the mental and
other disabilities under which the negro labors
as a result of his servile antecedents are not
inherent, as our adversaries would say, but
that they are sololy the result of circum
stances to be altogether removed when those
circumstances are altered, or their lnfluenoe
counteracted.
Do yon need to be reminded that the re
moval of all those most odious and damaging
epithets applied to ns by our enemies natu
rally devolves upon those who are the most
injured by them? If we assiduously devote
ourselves to this work of reconstructing the
reputation of the race by successfully prose
cuting the work before us in this land, it need
not hereafter be told us, as if pointing out a
new fact, that if we remain poor in a country
rich by nature in the profusion of its produc
tions, it must be a great dishonor.
It can never be sufficient for a few to be
extraordinary exceptions to the race, for the
acquisition of the arts and soienoes, general
intelligence, wealth, or any other distinction.
But it should rather be an exception that a
few should be found who had not so distin
guished themselves.
This peninsula, as I have stated, is to be
absolved from the disabilities of past ages
mainly by those whom God has identified
with it as its original inhabitants. For this
cause, God, perhaps permitted tho cruel
slavery in foreign lands of our forefathers,
that we might return as the missionaries of a
Christian civilization.
We have been a poor people, from the
combination of a number of causes operating
against us, traceable to our inauspioious
antecedents, which bad been intensified by
sordidly human agencies during the prolongod
reign of unchecked wickedness in past times.
Still it becomes us to bear in mind that the
masses of mankind make no allowanoe for
the disabilities under which we have labored,
and still do labor more or less, and which
keep us back in a rich country. Nature,
without the assistance of art, has mode our
country an acknowledged garden spot, which
garden the exactions of the judgments of
other nations demand that, if we be not infe
rior as a race, we shall improve to a paradise
by labor, and by the application of the arts
and sciences. We must find wherewithal to
lay the foundation of an abiding negro
republic; whose perpetuity shall be
guaranteed by the general education
and intelligence of the people. For
nations, like individuals, cannot snooeed
to any great distinction, unless industry,
perseverance, and straightforwardness to
wards all with whom, without distinction,
they shall chance to deal, be permanently
established prerequisites and active prin
ciples. We must adhere to the binding require
ments of the Constitution; but such laws
should be enacted from time to time in the
progress of our development as shall encour
age and invite foreign capitalists to make in
vestments in the country.
FIN AN CHS.
A very important policy which it will be
the earnest effort of the administration to
carry out relates to the regulation of the
finances. We must guard against a recur
rence of an insufficiency of income to meet
the expenses of the State, for where this is
so frequent as to establish a large annual
average against the republic, it is certain to
lead to serious consequences. Our real
danger lies not in the actual amount of debt,
contracted as it has been thus far among our
own people, but in the rate of increase. If
there be no probability that the increase will
cease, there can be no security against ul
timate, perhaps early, bankruptcy. The cus
toms duties, our chief source of revenue, are
dependent for their augmentation npon an
increase of the consuming power of the
people. Advance in this branch of the reve
nue will depend upon the improvement of the
people, native and Liberian, and upon those
additional facilities for the interchange of
commodities in the interior of which we shall
soon speak.
We must have a sound par value currency.
Import and export duties should be paid in
the old currency and in gold and silver coin.
The old currency should be taken out of the
hands of the people, if they will consent to
take "greenbacks" for it at a par exchange,
upon the authority ot a law which you may
think proper to pass; the holders of the said
currency making known the amounts they
severally possess. The aggregate amount of
it out is supposed to be between fifty and
sixty thousand dollars. This proposition car
ried out will considerably relieve the depressed
condition of our currency. 1 have no doubt
that the sum required for the aforesaid re
demption in "greenbacks" can be se
cu.ed upon a loan of six per cent..
paying the interest in gold, and the
principal in a given time to be settled
by authority oi an act of the Legislature.
If we pray, nothing doubting, and exert our
selves, the money will come from somewhere,
either m "greenbacks or gold.
LABOR.
Know ye, friends, that the source of all
earthly riches is labor. When intelligently
and constantly pursued, whether by farmers,
mechanics, common laborers, dootors, law-
yers, scientific men, or men of literary or
mercantile pursuits, a proper industry will
not fail to produce a good living, if not sub
stantial fortunes.
ine dignity oi laDor, then, is the means
by which good faith in all our transactions
can be most nobly sustained; and it caanot
generally be national, unless it be com
mon in tne case ot every man,
woman, boy, ana girl able to work,
The ease and comfortable circumstances
which will speedily accrue to these laborers
in a country rich by nature like ours will soon
drive all the drones out of the national
beehive.
- m .
ii we can more muy organize, not to say
inaugurate, a system of labor, our general
prosperity must and will be sure. We shall
always have a par value currency. I have
promised that the fifty or sixty thousand did
iars of our old currency shall be, at least, on
a par with American 'greenbacks, and,
further, it maU remain o. So soon as a little
time shall have elapsed, this state of . things
can ue orougnc into oeing.
As I have remarked, the work which is to
be accomplished for the general prosperity of
the country, the virtue ot the people, aud the
honor of the race, is truly great and arduous.
And notwithstanding on my part a naturally
awakened diffidence is felt in the ability to
secure the ultimate ends had in view, yet this
diffidence is somewhat mitigated by the reool-
lection of the trite saying, which I must repeat
here, that "where there is a will there is a
way." In the exercise of this will, I am sure
you feel to join and participate; and thus
united and untiring efforts will be put forth
to give to our own countrymen aud the world
the fruits of a prosperous and happy home. I
now come to consider another very important
item in the policy of the administration upon
which we are entering. The work which we
propose may appear arduous., I believe it is;
but it is my conviction that it is practicable;
and "where there is a will there is a way.
, . .. . RAILROADS.
In a country like ours, destitute of large
navigable rivers, or panals penetrating the in
tenor, where indigenous and spontaneous
wealth covers the ground, the necessity of
railroads mut be at onee evident. I believe
that the erection of a railroad will have a
wonderful influence in the civilization and
elevation of the native tribes. The barriers
of heathenism and superstition will disappear
before the railroad and its oonoomitants, as
frost, snow, and ice dissolve before a sum
mer's sun. This la one of the most efficient
means by which God's promise made concern
ing Africa is, in my opinion, to be fulfilled.
I do not deem it necessary to demonstrate
to you the utility of railroads. We have nu
merous examples of their beneficial effects all
over the civilized world. And we should en
deavor to follow such examples as far as they
can be adopted, in our circumstances, to pro
mote intercourse between distant portions of
the country, and to facilitate the interchange
of commodities, commercial rarities, and in
digenous productions, between Liberia and
foreign countries. The surest and quickest,
as well as the most permanent and profitable
plan to evangelize and civilize Africa, is first
to invite intercourse with the inhabitants,
through their natural instincts, which are al
ways alive what is curious and profitable in
trade. The natives will readily consent to do
all the manual laber in the construction of rail
roads, for comparatively small pay, kind usage
and enough to eat. After the completion
of the roads the natives will become the
best of customers, to bring the camwood,
palm oil, ivory, Mandingo gold, cotton, conn-
try cloths, peanuts, iron ore, hides, bullocks,
sheep, goats, rice, and other things too nume
rous to mention, to the Liberian markets on
the sea board; and thus multiply indefinitely
the exportable products of the country.
I repeat that you, gentlemen or the legis
lature, are to conceive such a system of legis
lation upon the subject of railroads as shall
make it to the interest oi foreign capitalists
to furnish the money, and to build up Liberia
that her light may illuminate the neighboring
and remote portions of Africa. Scientific
men are also to be invited by the same means
to survey the shortest and most appropriate
route to the camwood and palm on forests.
and to superintend the progress of the rail
roads, until passenger and freight trains shall
have plied on them long enough to enable
them to be left in the hands of skilled man-
agers, engineers, ana employes irom among
our own
places.
people, who can substitute their
NATIONAL BANK.
The next item in the policy of the admin
istration over which I have the honor and
privilege to preside will be the establish
ment of a national banking institution, which
must be founded with great care and delibe
ration, and a clear and distinct appreciation
of the great benefits it can confer.
The Bank should be so established that its
paper can be Kept at par. 10 tnis ena, its
issues ought to be a lawful tender for every
thing, except duties on imports and exports,
and interest on the public debt.
The National Bank ought to be one ot dis
count and deposit, without its allowing in
terest on the latter. The best paper should
not be discounted at longer dates than sixty
or ninety days, with grace, according to
usage. None but honest, industrious, fair
dealing people, who can give one or more
known solvent endorsers like themselves,
should be accommodated thereat. The dis
counted notes should always be issued upon
the fixed law of the bank, to be paid in gold
or silver, or any produce which may or can
be exchanged at once for the equivalent sum
discounted in coin, because the discounted
paper on which bank bills had been paid
might become complicated in a dozen trans
actions, all growing out of this one.
For instance, A gets his note of if 1000 dis
counted at ninety days, and receives bunk
bills for $'J40. He then buys with the money
rice at a low price; and subsequently sells
the rice he paid $940 for at an advanoe of
twenty-five per cent, on the total sum, and
trusts B, and takes his note at sixty days
A either takes this note to the bank and
gets it discounted, or pays it to C, who
gets it discounted. So the process might
be continued in a manner to break any
bank if such things be not guarded against
lor there might be easily the sum of
$10,000 or $ 12,000 growing out of a trans
action of $1000. Uence, banking must be
understood in the detail of business, to
be successful. For there would be, perhaps.
but $1000 among them all to pay the first sum
discounted.
Banks, when not conducted by men of
probity, skill, and caution, are very apt to ex
cite a spirit of speculation and gambliuc;.
They do this by furnishing speculators with
loans and discounts, by means of which they
are not enabled merely, but tempted to en-
gage in hazardous enterprises. And for t
time, or while the process is going on, every
thing wears an air of prosperity; and those
old-fashioned house, as they are called, that
carry on a legitimate business on capital of
their own, are frequently undersold and driven
from the market by the competition of ad von
turers, trading on the funds of others, ready
to encounter any risk, and living in the
greatest splendor. But at length the thing
is overdone, the bubble bursts, the worth
less machinery, fictitious bills, rediscounts.
and so forth, are exposed, and the trauic
comedy is wound up by the oner ot a com
position of some one shilling or two shillings
per Pound. Bankers and monev-dealers who
employ the money entrusted to their care in
so reckless a manner, are fitter for prison
than the situation they so unworthily fill. It
would be a great stretch of charity to suppose
that advances of the kind now alluded to con
be wholly the result of imprudence. Bankers
have peculiar means at their disposal by
which to become acquainted with the charac
ter, position, and capabilities of those who
apply to them for advances. And it is their
duty to avail themselves of those means to
distinguish between the careful and the im
provident or reckless trader between the
man who may and the man who muy not be
trusted."
. Money is required to carry on the banking
operations. The woll-being of the country,
and the cause to which this administration is
oemmitted, require your legislative authority
to borrow, on the best terms, j ust such a
sum, either in gold or "greenbacks," as ttie
Bank can use to great advantage; and no
more than can be easily paid back within a
given time, with all the essential conditions
annexed.
OKNEIUL EDUCATION.
Another very important subject to which
the attentiou of the incoming administration
will be constantly directed is that of the gen
eral education of the people. This subject
yields to none in importance. It will be my
endeavor to secure the establishment of an
efficient and practical common sohool system,
to reach in its operations beyond our settle
ments and embrace the numerous aboriginal
population under our jurisdiction.
The whole llepublio ought to be divided
into school districts, eaoh of whioh would be
compelled by law to have at least one school,
open nine months in every year. Parents
and guardians ought to be constrained to send
thereto, punctually, all children within cer
tain ages. The inhabitants of every district
ovght te be taxed such a per cent, on their
whole property as shall furnish a sum equal
to the payment of the school-master and
others required to make the plan a success.
This fund should be called the Common Sohool
Fnnd.
A distinguished American divine wrote to
me two months since, that if Liberia would
supplement the balance of pay towards pay
ing females $150 a year, he wished to fur
nish a hundred teachers, or the money to pay
them, which would be $15,000. I mention
this to show you what value the wise and good
of America put upon education, and what
interest they feel in us only aa we shoM prove
true agencies in God's hands to bring about,
to the extent of our power, the regeneration
oi Ainca.
Imagine that school-bouses and churches
occupied the sites now covered by ignorance
and superstition; that the natives and Ame-rioo-Liberians
had, in a high degree, become
civilized, enlightened, and Christianized;
that the evergreen arbors of the forest
had given place to the well-cultivated fields
of the husbandman; that the mechanics of
the various trades could find an abundance
of business and ready, good money to sell
their manufactures for to eager buyers;
that the railroad, the ship, the merchant, the
mariner, and the day laborer could be found
to harmonize with and for the interest of all
classes of societv: that peace and plenty
abounded from one end of the country to
the other what a blessing, under such cir
cumstances, would Liberia be to this con
tinent i
To brincr about these clorious results will
be the constant aim ef the administration
to produce general content and happiness in
tne conntry by improving the condition of
the masses. Let the people know that when
they labor they will reoeive proper and re
liable compensation, and there will be no lack
of industry in the land. There is no incen
tive to exertion equal to the full possession
of its rewards. Such a state of things will
produce among us better men in all the rela
tions of life better husbands and parents
and neighbors and citizens more comfort
able, more educated, more moral, and more
religious. And the disadvantages and failings
which beset us having been originated and
aggravated by our unfortunate antecedents in
America, may be seen to have been dimin
ished and removed by an enlarged, intelligent
aim virtuous ireeooni.
IMMIGRATION.
The measures which shall thus increase the
happiness and exalt the character of
Liberians will render our country attractive
vv uo wuuiHuiun ji negroes uuw in exile, wno
are looking for some permanent home;
and a healthy immigration into our country
of men who will bo useful and efficient co
operators in our work will be stimulated.
We all admit the pressing need of civilized and
Christian immigrants from abroad. For,
however much tho negroes in America may
have been hated, and despised, and oppressed;
however much their manhood may have been
crusned, tney nave, for the most part, been
trained under the industrial influence ef an
energetic example, wmcn their oppressors
could not withhold from them. We need the
benefit of that training, of that energy and
industry, in this country. And if duty to
tneir race aoes not suggest their ex
odus from the house of bondage
to tne land of their forefathers.
we mnht bring to bear upon them the incen
tive of self-interest. It shall be the constant
endeavor of the administration thus to Btimu.
late immigration.
There was a time when we could sympathize
with the intelligent colored people of the
United States, in overlooking the claims of
Africa upon them, on the ground that they
ought, under whatever obloquy or persecu
tion, to remain in that country in the hope of
aiding their enslaved brethren. But slavery
is abolished; and the cries of Africa for their
assistance are as loud, if not louder, than
ever. It is not for me to mark out a course
for the intelligent leaders of the colored
people in Awerica; and yet I cannot but think
that by no possible means could they so enec
tually gain a position of respectability for the
entire race as by hastening to these shores,
and teaching Christianity, energy, and in
dustry to the millions of their benighted re
latives.
NATIVE TRIBES.
Another leading object, in conclusion, with
the administration, will be the improvement
and incorporation of the native tribes con
tiguous to us, and the formation of friendly
alliances with distant and powerful tribes,
who, we learn, are anxious for intercourse
and amicable relations. The aborigines are
our brethren, and should be entwined with
our o Sections, and form, as soon as possible,
an active part of our nationality. In fact,
we cannot have a permanent and efficient
nationality without them.
THE FBTUBE OF LIBERIA.
Fellow-citizens, I regard the Liberian na
tion, as sacred. God has planted us here
and through all the vicissitudes of our exist
ence His hand has been plainly visibly direct
ing our affairs. God has set Liberia, &i it
were, upon a hill, on this continent. He
has put His temple in the midst of her. He
has subdued, over and over, our powerful
foes. He has supplied our deficiencies, and
enlightened our ignorances, lie has in
thousand ways upheld us. And are we to
suppose ne has done all this for naught? Has
He not put us here for a purpose ? Is there
not a career before us of civilization, of re
lieion. and of humanity burelv. We are
here to take our native brethren by the hand
and teach them how to live, until there shall
grow up on this continent a negro community
prosptrouR, educated, civilized, and Christian,
whose voice shall be heard and respected in
Eurore, Asia, and America
And that this time will come I hold to be
no vain prophecy, foolish as it may appear to
those who are accustomed to thins dispara
finely of the negro. I have faith in it, be
cause the promise stands recorded in Holy
Writ; I have faith in it, because I see already
foresbadowint's of its fulfilment in the pro
giess thus far made in Liberia, in spite of
occasional loiterings and backward steps.
For my own part, I must beg to be allowed
to sny here that I do not expect immunity
from the criticisms of our opponents, nor do
I ask for it; but I shall endeavor to act for
the good of the people, that while
allowing our opponents, in accordance
with our free institutions, the utmost
latitude in their criticisms of the ad'
minibtration. while allowing them the great
est freedom to assail us in hostile speeches,
they shall not be able to shake our stability
by their votes. While I repudiate all inten
tion or desire to perpetuate the administrative
strength f the government by patronage, it
will be my aim so to act as that I shall be able
to appeal with confidence to '.the gratitude
and moral instincts of tne peopie.
Liberia, fellow-citizens, must advance. She
is marching on, with a providential history
behind her, and a benefioent destiny before
her; and wo to the man who shall seek to
check her course ! Edward J. liora.
Monrovia, Jan. 3, 1870.
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FURNITURE WAREROOftlS,
No. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
EAST SLDR, ABOVE OHR8NUT,
U8U PHILADELPHIA.
JOHN 1 FOBE1UIJUII Ac NO.v,
Furniture Warerooms,
No. 40 South KI.COIYI) Street,
a 281m Wert SideJhiladelnbi.
WANT8.
pared to fnrnisb all classes with constant ampler
ment at home, the whole of the time or for tho spare
momenta. Business new, hunt, and profitable. Persona
of either sex easily earn from 600. to o oar avanln. nri .
proportional sum bj doToting their whole time to the
Dasiness. ooys una jrir e earn neari aa moon as men.
That all who see this notice nu sanif thnir ,Htru
teat the business, we make this nnparallelnd offer: To
win M . ou wen Hauimou, wv will I3U(1 $ I to t)HT for
pitwmn, a .ainamo earn-
?le, whioh will do to oommenoe work on, and a oopy of
'he Atopic1 LUerory Companion one of the lara-est and
best family newspapers published all sent free by mail.
iwuBr.u wuu wiub iivnuw.ob, prouiaDiewora. aoarea
K.O.AIXF.N4UO.. AnuU. Make, lH8nT
ROOFING.
READY ROOFIN G.
This Roofing Is adapted to all buildings, it oaa be
applied to
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-balf the expense of tin. It is readily pat on old
ttbinvlo Roofs without remoTimr the shinnies, thus avoid
intf the dumaciiiK of ceilings and furniture while under.
foing repairs. (No Kravel UBed.)
'RESERVE YOUK TIN ROOFS WITH WEl.TOH'S
ELASTIC PAINT. "
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short
notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the barrel or gallon,
the best and cheapest in the market. .
W. A. WELTON,
I 178 Wo. 711 ft. NINTH BtreeU above Ooatea.
TO OWNERS. ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS.
X AND KOOtERS. Roofs! Yea, yes. Every sixe and
kind, old or new. At Na 643 N. THIRD Street, the AM ft
KIOAN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOb" COMPANY
are selling tbeir celebrated paint tor TIN ROOFS, and
for preserving all wood and metals. Also, their solid oom
plex roof covering, the best ever offered to the publio, with
brushes, cans, buckets, eto., lor the work, Ajiti-vermin,
Fire, and Water-proof ; Light, Tight. Durable. No oraok
lng, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or heat. Good
for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work'
men supplied. Care, promptness, certainty! One pried
Oalll Examine! Jndgel
Amenta wanted for in terior ooon Uee.
4&tf JOSEPH LEEDS, Principal,
LEGAL NOTIOES.
T7 STATE OF FRANCIS KINO, DECEASED.
J i Letters Testamentary on the Katate of FRANCIS
KINO, deceated, having been granted to "The Pennsyl
vania Company for Insurance on Livea and Granting
A nnuities, all persons indebted to said estate are '
quested to make payment, and those having claims againtt
tho limn to present thera without aelay, at the Office ot
the said Ompany, No. :M WALNUT Ktreet.
allfmHt CHARLES DUTILH. President.
"IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOli
X THE CITY AND COUNTY UK PHILADELPHIA,.
Estate of KZKK1KL LlNOuLN. a l unatio.
The A uditiir appointed by the Court to aud it. sxttlo nn 1
adjust the first and linul accoont ot ALKXANDKRF.
uHEKEHROUUli and i)UARLK H. ALOKN. commu
tes of tue estate o. " .KKUU. LINCOLN, a. luontlc, aud
to report distribution ol the balance ia toe bauds of toe
accountants, will meet the piir'io in'ereateJ tor ttie pur
pose ot bis appointment, on TUi'HIAl', April r. I m in, st
4 o'clock P. M ,at hiaocnoo, No. 1U1 South I'll' I'll Street,
In tbeoity of Philadelphia. a 21 niwfiit
MEDICAL.
TVEW DISCOVERY. ELIXIK J. F. BK.K-
1 NAItD TONI BfHENIylJK. ANTI-DY8PKPTI0.
1 be siiveral observations made by the best physicians of
the Faculte do Paris have proved that the sioknesaes
arising from impoverishment of the blood or nerv.us ex
haustion, viz. : Amenia, Chlorosis, Nympathisme,
Phthisic. Diabetes, Alhuuiinerin, Soorbut, etc., etc., are
radically cured with the ELIXIR J. F. BKRNARD.
CeneralDepot-A. BKRNARD, No. 81 OKDAR Street.
'2d tloor. Fw aale by all respectable druggists. 8 1 tuthsi
PAPER HANGINGS.
I OOK I LOOK 1 1 LOOK 1 1 1 WALL PA PKKA
l-J and Linen Window B hades Manniaotored, the
ebeapest In the city, at JOHNSTON'S Depot, No. IUU
Kl'KlNO GARDEN Street, below Eleventh, a ranch, No.
tin KKDKBAL Street. Oamdan. Mew Jerse. fcaH
PIANOS.
ALBRECHT,
RIEKKB BOHMIDT,
BfANurauTututna vr
FIRST-CLASH PIANO-FORTES.
Full guarantee and moderate prices.
' " WAREROOMS. No. 610 AROH Street.
w
I R C
WORK.
GALVANIZED And painted WIHB GUARDS, '
tore front and window, for factory and waronon.
windows, for ohnrchea and cellar windows,
IKON and WIRB RAJ LINOS, for baloonlea, office,
cemetery and garden fence.
Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Bullden
and Carpenters. All order filled wltn promptnei
ana work guaranteed.
ROBERT WOOD & CO.,
tntMiB Wa 11M 1MPQB ATenna Phils,
JOHN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MERa
ehaate and Munfaotmrer of Conaatoga Ticking eto,
Ko, ijfuiDL&HVT Street. IilaiWalujk slwtMi
n
J
SHIPPING.
LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP
..'. una FOB
UaKaeibJi
NEW YOBK
re now receiving freight at
A ettBt per 100 pohbiU,
3 cent per loot, er t-'t rent per aralla. .hint.
Rxti rate on small package Iron, metaje, eto,
Ko receipt or bill of lading slimed for lees thaa 10 eeatav
The Una wnnlrf esll sttantinn nt mh.... ... .
-n.vM.uM Rvwrtiir w
the fact that hereafter the retrular shippers by this tin
w.u M vuTKra oniy iv vraie per 1W ids., or 4 ante Bar
. I . I
vwv, u,nn sue winter iiswine.
or further parucniara apply to
JOHIT . OTtL,
PIEtl 19, WORTH WHARVES.
FOR MTIRPnlT l un
w It m, V AJ A II II
mtfMVMJlf tows;
tna, via Halifax, Tneaday. March M.I0 1 U
Otty of Hrnsaela, Ratnr.la7'7aroh T6 I IP i
City of Brook lyn, rUtnrdS. Aprt j ViT
Ottyof New York, via Hallax.TnailarAnHI as a ar
Oit, of Antwarjs Ratordv. SlffCtc' K '
RATES OF PARBAOIL
iT"T atatt ajEaiiMi aaiLiNn xvray ATtnuM
XBDAX TAMJI, Tlx HAUVasl
FTnilT P.AIlTIf . , . "
Payable in Uold.
Liverpool. Mn I
Halifax an
Halifax... -" " ' .S
St. John's f V M
Bt. John's, . P., )
by Branob Steamer. ...I
by Branch Steams.. I
to . at riducd te. "
Ticket ean be boaaht her at moderate rata h
wishing to send for their friends. "i-oa
For further particulars apply at the Company's Offloas.
Or to . CDONXFI,?. rAuTTJ. jrV
4 ( Ho. 409 UHK8NUT Stri-t pK AEESfi.
n sru u.v.'A link to
ffASED , TcIILTIeS1 AND RKonnirn a " I
H( . KOK IH7TI.
KKT Ptreet. ' OM 'T WHARF above MAR.
TUKDAYB. nuttKOLK. TUESDAYS and BA-
No Bill, of Ladin, signed after 13 o'clock oa aallin.
THROUGH RATES to all points In Ktt. .
Carolina, vi Seaboard Air Line RaSrth "d.8oo"
Portsmouth and to Iohbu VaT Twl2neot,2
West, via Vi'rgmia end Tennessee Ait- TT,,"d
and Danville Railroad. Al Line and Riolunend
fe'bt H ANDLKD BUTOrTOH v. .
RATES THAN ANY OTHER fits LOWEB
tr?n.fehrar,,lor draper an, oxpmu. of
Steamships insnr at lowest ret aa.
Freight received daily.
State Room aoeommodatlone for jHMsenrera.
ONLT DIRECT LINE to FRANCK
seiRT .wuayB1,UaLUhu.1,
The splendid new vessels on this favorite . ,.
CntinjntwiU sail from P,.r ft- MJ
i- . PRI? Ot PA88AGH
in cold (lnclndln wine),
TO BREST OR HAVRE.
First Cabin 14U I Second Cabin eu
,t , a. TO PARIS, " M
(Inolndln railway tickets, furnished on board.)
First Cabin $146 I Second Cabin .T'
J bese st eamers do not carry steerae Daaaenaera." "
Medical attendance free of chara-e? """"aera.
American travellers roin to or returning from themi
tinentof Eunpe. by takina the steamers ot thisline."l.
unnecessary risks from transit by English raiiwamV,;
crossing the ebanneV besides saving timS. troubleTaod lK
penso. GEORGE MACKENZIE, &t!
w w 830 OHF"mrriLa.
NfYRTTT .faiPOvr a vt w
$3 ?X,KAM BETWEEN NEW YORK Aim
OiotM an LLOYD ran regularly between N--VV. VF
men. and Southamnton. crr.V.?S-,1?.6w,V.ork.
lish, and Continental msiia. " ow-
FROM BRFMEN EVERY SATTTRnAW
FROM SOUTH A M PTON EVERY TIIB-sraa?
FROM NEW YORK .....7
ttie tf rom A, rork to itr,1TO, SStoTi
,., . , . and Southampton.- '
First Cabin, $!); Second Cabin, $72; Steerage ) 0om
. n ... Bremen t. A. l or.- ' U0I1'
First Cabin, lau; Heonnd Cablbj $72; Steerage i0 3ol4.
These vessel! i take Freight to LondoTiSd HulL for
which through bills of lading are signed ,or
A n experienced surgeon ia attached to each vessel
All letters most pass through the Poet Office.
No Bills of Lading but those of the Company wil h,
signed. Bills of Iodine: will positively not be delivered
beiore goods are cleared at the Custom House u
hpecie taken to Havre, Southampton, and Bremtnor
the lowest rate. For freight or passage apply to
lis r -&.KXRI"b8 AGO..
JLiZl Wo. 88 BROAD Street, N. t.
'UTri CAROLINA.
TrOT'Jf HWE8T.
s2ESJeS4i
The Steamship
PROMETHEUS,
will leave Pier 17, below Bpruoe street,
n. O" THURSDAY, March 81, at 4 P. M.
Comfortable accommodations for Passenger.
Thrown Passage Tickds and Bills of Lading Issued in
Sm,'h0atnd,r,,.hl,thBoa, c" ma & aWnS
South and 6uthwest, and with steamers to Florida nortja
fe?0 h' !! ONE-HALF FEB oSSiT.
good l0" of commission
Bills of lading furnished and signed t the office,
lor freight or paamge, apply to
o E. A. BOUDER A CO..
, Dock street W :urf.
FRhw nmnTviiiint n
wHPSEf aSft SAVANNAH. TBI.
Charleston for
, "toamers will leave
'l,""t ti DB.annsn. three times a auk
after arrive of the New York ieajneffln(1 Th!
aotern Railroad train : na Wort
TGL.?To&(I,llndROnte),e,, BUNbAT MORI
DICTATOR, every TUESDAY IVENINQ etwi,v.
CITY POINT, every FRIDAY EVENING at 8 ouwSr"
Through tioketa to be had of all Caarleaton and Savu.
nab Steamship Line Agenoiea in New York.
T I A iriDIl . rm
A IT lit fa . f 'k . .1
L. J.
GUILii i K'l'IN A CO.,
Ageita at Itavannab.
14
v 1 1 it ar it Tir
RK,
via Delaware and Rarifsn ri.n.i
TXPRWrS sTKAMUUirnnup'iffT
'1 lie h t.t'M m Propellers of the Line will n...
ins on t lie tun inst., leaving Daily aa usual.
THROUGH IN TVVKNTi-KOUR HOTTRS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going outof New York
North, East, or West, free of oomruitsion.
F'reighta received ut low ratee
WILLIAM P. "LVDK A CO, Agents.
JAMES HAND, nl i""'
No. Ill) WALL Street, New York. 3 4
FOR NEW trinr
r"T? vi Delaware and Raritan Cinal. '
mbbZmAl SWIFTSURE tr ANSPORfA tioa
UUJM r A T .
DE8PATOH ANjj BWIKTSURE LINES
Leaving daily at 12 M. and t P. M.
The Steam Piopellers of this company will eomiaene
loading on the 8th ot March.
Threngh in twenty-four hours.
Goods forwardod to auy point free of commissions. 1
Frc ia hts taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD A OO.. Agents.
4 No. lifl South DELAWARE Avenue.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Waahl
,;ii..ij 1 1 Di.ihu.iu.l....ri.i , 1 1 . .
Ijnclilinrg, Bristol, KnoxTiUo, NaahviUe, Dai ton, and the
Southwest.
Steamer leave regnlarl every btnrdar at boob Irani
the nrt wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. OLYDK CO.,
m . No. 14 North and Sontb wharves.
HYDE A TYLER. AgenU, at Georgetown; BdL
ELDR1DGK A CO., AgenU at Alaxandma. i 1 1
e,j-. FOR ST. THOMAS AKT. RR.
"L.-IJKITKD STATES AND BRAZIL
L iU.ir At AIL STEAMhH IP (MBM PA NV
tZ!i&Mll4l'V Keirular Msdl Nla.ni.Ni M.tlin. am dia
SUd ot evrry month:
M K H ri 1 Al A C It. Captain Wier.
KOI "Hi AMKKIUA. Captain K. L. Tinklepaugh.
MOltJ II AMERICA, Captain G. B. Bloomu.
These splendid steamers sail on schedule time, and eatl
at St. 'I unman. Para, Pernambnoe, Bahia, and Rio do
Janeiro, going and returning,
i'or engagements of freight or passage apply to
WM. R. GARRISON, Agent,
No. 5 BOWLING GREKN. Nw York.
U. 8. MAIL TO ITAVANA.
TluTi' aailiug regularly EVERY 'MURSDAi
rV.lV AntT A WT 1 Mill alT wm a mj u a w rm
itjM.rlu-rW at 8 o'clock P. M., precisely, from Pie
Mu, 4 North River. '
VORO CASTLE, Captain R. Adam.
COLUMBIA, Captain K. Vaa Sioo.
l.AGLK, Captain M. U. Greene.
For freight or paauge apply to '
H. G. WHKKLRR, J., President.
14 o. 6 BOWLING MHKK.V, New York.