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THE DAILY iSVJ&NIHG TELEOKAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 1870.
gfxiixx or Tiin rziss3.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day tor the Evening Telegraph.
SOME CONSIDERATION'S FOR TROTE3-
TAN T CON TItO VlillSI VLIS IS.
From the N. Y. Xatwn.
The controversy about tbo Uiblo ia the
schools i rapidly Hprmfliii. Ia this State- it
promiHcs to furnish, before, very lung, one of
the moRt exciting political insuoa we hare
ever had, owing to ttio unHcrupuluusness dis
played by the Gutholics in obtaining from the
Albany Legislature largo votes of money
amounting in the present year to half a mil
lion of dollars for the snpport of their schools.
Their success in this sort of operation, too,
not unnaturally renders them loss disposed
than ever to aid thoir Protestant neighbors
in the discovery of a worfua vivendi on the
nchool question. They do not care whether
Bible-reading in the publio schools is aban
doned, and, indeed, show some signs of being
as much opposed to it as the High Trotostant
party, who consider the JJible-reading one of
the most important parts of the Bchool curri
culum. As long as the Riblo is road at the
opening of the school exercises, and is
read for the reasons assigned by Judge
Storer in the recent decision of the Superior
Court in Cincinnati, and by some Protestant
clergy, the priests have an argument in favor
of separate Catholic schools such as nothing
else could furnish them. All the good which,
according to the Protectant view, a Catholic
child gets by listening to the Scriptures is,
according to the Catholic view, so much
poison; and, the more eager Protestants show
themselves for its administration, the more
frantic aro Catholics bound to become in
escaping from it. The reason, too, is obvious
it is drawn from the very constitution of
the Catholic Church. She is, on the Catholic
theory, the sole teacher of truth. Nothing
which reaches the soul through any other
channel, however respectable, is instruction
in righteousness. She knows nothing of
morals apart from dogma. She recognizes no
man as good who is not a good Catholic The
Bible is a good book in the hands of a priest,
expounding it in the manner directed by the
Church; in the hands of a layman, and,
above all, of a heretic layman, it is nothing
but a snare and stumbling-block.
There are some Protestunts, we are sorry to
say, into whose heads it seems impossible to
hammer a proper comprehension of the Catho
lic position on this subject, and who, never
theless, as might be expected, insist on taking
a heated and active part in the pending con
troversy, and never open their lips without
making a settlement of it more difficult and
more remote. They talk of the Bible as if it
occupied the same position in Catholic that it
occupies in Protestant theology, and as if the
differences between the two churches were
simply differences of interpetration the fact
being that the Catholics do not and never
have acknowledged it as a final authority, or
as the sole basis of the claims of their
Church to the respect and obedience of
Christendom. All they draw from
it is corroborative evidence as to the cor
rectness of the Church's own account of its
origin and history. For instance, Christ's
well-known declaration to Peter, so often
cited in support of the supremacy of the
.Roman See, they treat simply as a corrobo
ration of what has "always, everywhere, and
by all" been received and acknowledged as
Catholic truth, or, in other words, of
ecclesiastical tradition. It is this dis
tinction which gives an air of positive
self-stultification to a large number of
the arguments in favor of com
pulsory Bible-reading in the schools, which
one hears both from the platform and the
bench and the press. Nobody has a right to
attack a position, or, at all events, nobody
can attack it with success, without under
standing it. It is melancholy to listen, as one
has nowadays sometimes, to a long string of
reasons for not yielding to the Catholic view,
every one of which helps to confirm the
Catholic in his view the Catholio being the
only person who needs to be convinced, or
who is giving any trouble.
The very first thing to be done by Protest
ants before engaging in the warfare which is
now apparently before them, is to strengthen
the one weak point in their own case, a' i
that is the removal from the State education
of the one feature which prevents it being
really and truly secular education simply. It
must be remembered that it is not enough
that Protestants should acknowledge that the
common-school education is simply secular;
Catholics must acknowledge it; and Catholics
eannot be expected to acknowledge it, on
the Protestants' own showing, as long as
Bible-reading forms part of it. The very
tenacity with which Protestants cling to it
they justify on the ground that it is religious
instruction, and, of course, religious instruc
tion of a Protestant complexion; without it,
Judge Storer says the children would be "left
without a God in the world;' or, in other
words, without a religious creed. The whole
system of school instruction should be such
that no sent c-.m say that it contains anything
likely to help to spread the tenets of any
other sect. It will, doubtless, still be said
that schools in which no religion is taught
are '"godless schools," but this we canuot
help; for the "godlessnoss" of schools all
sects have a ready remedy by teaching reli
gion at homo, or by clerical instrumentality
out of school hours. If a system of this kind
does not satisfy all, nothing will. No nearer
approach to a satisfactory system of state
education can ever, in the existing con
dition of the human mind, be made;
and when wo have got it into work
ing order, we have the consolation of
knowing that it cannot bo assailed by any
argument which does not touch its very exist
ence; that, in short, there is no pretence or
deception about it.
The second thing ProtestantjThnve to do, if
they mean to bring this controversy to a rea
sonable and satisfactory settlement within
the lifetime of the present generation, is to
avoid talking of und treating Catholics as
nece.isarily enemies of free government, and
their religion as incompatible with true alle
giance to tbo State in which they livj. One
hears a good deal of this just now from the
pulpit os well as from the platform, and it is
both misleading and inexpedient. Nothing
can be more absurd, for instance, as well as
unfair, than Mr. J iep worth's performance
in citing the Pope's Encycli
cal and the appended Syllabus
by way of proving that Catholics are not
likely to be good citizens, or aro likely to
Lear divided allegiance, or, in case or a con-
ilict of authority, to side with the Pope
rather than with the American Government.
All that tho Encyclical proves, in the eyes of
the best observers, is what the proceedings at
the (Ecumenical Council are proving every
day, that the Pope is a very simple-minded
and somewhat fanatical old monk, in the
hands of very bad advisofs, composed, in the
main, of Koman Jesuits. The anxiety the
wobt enlightened Catholics fool about his
compels due rot to thoir fear that be will I
reduce the Catholic world to slavery, but to I
their fear that he will alienate the Catholio
world from religion itself. Nothing can be
more preposterous than the assumption that
any government is afraid that tho Syllabus
will weaken its authority, though many Ca
tholio governments do fear that it may com
plicate their rolatious with tho Catholio
clergy, already mado very troublosomo by the
process of secularization through which even
the most bigoted Catholic States are passing
before eur eyes. In no countries is the Papal
authority so weak at this moment as in Ca
tholic countries countries which the Pops
has had for ages at his feet. If the Syl
labus be a laughing-stock in Prance
and Austria and Bavaria, and even
in Spain, and the greatest Catholio theolo
gians of the European continent make light
of Papal pretensions, it is a little too bad to
have it usod as a red rag in American pulpits
to rouse the Protestant bull into fury. Tho
Cutholic laity have never in any country, or
in any age, accepted the ecclesiastical mea
sure either of the province of tho church or of
the dues of the state, and they are not likely
to make a beginning in the United States.
But there is one striking example in history
perhaps the most awful of all the lessons his
tory has to offer of the folly of treating
Catholics as if they did believe all the worst
and wildest doctrines that could be dug out
by controversialists from the ponderous tomes
of Catholio theologians and canonists, and
that is Ireland. Ireland is what sho is to-day
becauso Protestant England has persisted
for two centuries in legislating for her on
the hypothesis that everything tho Pope
said, I rub. Catholics believed, and that
any order he chose to issuo they would
surely execute. We all see the result;
pleasant and successful, is it not ?
Ve do not believe that a true and satisfac
tory reconciliation of the Catholic Church,
as its doctors define it, with modern society
will ever be effected. This reconciliation is
a dream in which many great Catholics of
recent times, from Lammeuais to Montalem
bertand Father I lyacinthe.have sought refuge
from distressing internal doubts and cju
flicts; but one has only to read even a mode
rate statemont of tho church's claims, and
take even an imperfect view of the condition
of modern States, to feel that a dream it
must forever remain. Tho relations of the
Catholic clergy to the state must always be,
as they are now, marked by hostility and
aggressiveness on the one side and suspicion
on the other; but this furnishes no excusa
for attempts to drive the Catholic laity into
thoir arms, by pretending to re
card them as beiug in all things
the humble and submissive sheop tho priests
would like to have thorn The wuy tho
Catholic Church gets along in modern Booiety
is by letting tho laymen manage politics
pretty much as they please; and the only
true and statesmanlike course for American
Protestants to adopt in dealing with the
Catholic laymen is to treat them us men like
ourselves, permeated like ns by tho modern
spirit, treading the solid ground of utility in
dealing with secular affairs, ready to argue
and open to conviction, and not as a parcel
of devotees, led by the hand by the monks.
fed on legends, and requiring to be followed
to the polls by a spiritual diroctor.
e say this on the supposition that no
Trotestant gentleman has ns yet discovered
any short and speedy method of getting rid
of the Catholics, and that we have to live
with and make the best of about x, 000,000 of
them, who, if not educated or attached to the
Government somehow, are pretty certain to
furnish a considerable supply of robbers and
murderers, and a disturbing element in our
politics of no mean power. But, if anybody
has hit on any plan of rooting them out be
fore the next Presidential election, of course
we are willing to see it tried, provided it be
not too inhuman or treacherous, or does not
involve tho slaughter of young children.
These can, of course, be saved and brought
up in the common schools as indomitable
Protestants.
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
From the rail Mall Gazette.
The only part of tho Irish Peace Preserva
tion bill which has met with general disfavor,
even from Irish members, is the part which
gives the Government summary powers to
suppress seditious newspapers; and the stric
tures on this provision are the only hostile
criticisms which are at all likely to command
assent even from the most advanced section
of English Liberals. They are bo far from
commanding any such assent from us that we
believe that without this power the Irish
executive would be totally unable to cope
with so enormous an evil as the seditious
journalism of Ireland; but there is an air of
plausibility about the considerations opposed
to restraining the Irish press which make it
worth while to state with some detail why we
attach no weight to them.
Mr. Maguire laid some stress on the argu
ment supposed to be derivable from the
analogy of France. It is true that the
French Government, even before the late
changes, deliberately divested thomsolves
of a power similar to that with which tho
Irish Government now ask Parliament to in
vest them. But Mr. Maguire left out the
important fact that the now discarded system
was bv no means a temporary one. Tho
French Government did not suppress papers
as an avowed act of self-preservation. Had
they done nothing more than this, and had
they been able to prove that no measure
short of this would answer the end, tho
course they took would so far have
been justified. But there must be
something radically wrong in a constitution
which can only be kept alive by the habitual
use of such extremely strong medicines, and
the great vice of the French press law was
that it had nothing to mark that it was not
designed to be permanent. A second differ
ence between the powers entrusted to tho
Executive in the two cases consists in the
absence from the French system of any
proper definition of the offenses against which
it was directed. No doubt it is not easy,
even in England, to give an off-hand descrip
tion of the crime of treason. But in prac
tice the line between political criticism and
sedition is drawn with sulUcicut distinctness,
whereas in France, until lately, it was not
drawn at all. Articles which in England
would be classed among attacks moro or less
pungent upon tho members of the Cabinet,
counted in France as attempts to bring tho
Government into hatred und contempt. Tho
law of which the Cuurrier da J)imauche,
for example, was the victim, was as differ
ent from that now proposed for Irelaud as tho
articles in tho Irishman J.ire from the writings
ofM Prevost-Poradol. And oven if thejl ronuh
law had been exclusively applicable to c:isos
of treason or sedition tho limitation would
have been worthless, for tho simple reason
that there would have been no meuus of vin
dicating it when it was transgressed. There
is nothing in France answering to the right
of action for daniBges which is given by the
Peace bill to every aggrieved newspaper pro
prietor. There is no ground for doubting that
this provibiou will constitute a purfoctly
adequate protection for all such journalists
as deserve to be protected. Treasonable
writing is in practice very easily soparablo
from the strongest writing that is not trea
sonable. It nisy not bo bo in oonntries whioh
are not under constitutional povernment.
becauso in these to attack the system of rule
is to attack tho person of the ruler.
But among ourselves there in a perfeotly
appreciable difference between attacking this
or that law, or agitating for this or that
chnnge, and advocating treason. The sedi
tious press of Ireland has never attempted to
keep within any well-drawn line. It has
scorned the idea of caution and accustomed
its readers from the beginning to the very
strongest possible meats. Exhortations to
throw off the English yoke and easy lessons
in Insurrectionary wanare have been its
staple teaching all along. That tho clause
which gives its proprietary a right of action
by way of redress for annihilation will remain
a dead letter is likely enough; but it will
remain so, not because there is any difficulty
in getting damages when the Government
has made a mistake, but because the charac
ter of the condemned journals will bo bo un
mistakable that nooffroutery will be equal to
tho task of establishing thoir loyalty.
Another objection alleged against this part
of the bill is that it ruins tho innocent
printers and lets the guilty writers escape.
But in political offenses, even more than in
any others, the primary end of punish
ment is the safety of tho community.
We have never very much respect for the
thin-end-of-the-wedge style of argument, and
in this case it seems to be more than ordi
narily destitute of force. If the press were a
declining power in this country, with eneinios
and rivuls rising up around it and threatening
to supersede its influence, there might be
some excuse for such fears. But, instead of
this, the press is daily arrogating to itsolf
more and more the functions which were
formerly discharged by Parliament, by the
Church, and by tho law courts. Newspapers
have become a necessary of modern life, and
those who provide them have all the strength
which belongs to tho exclusive possessors of
a commodity in universal demand. But if
there nre any timid souls ivho still look on
a free press as a precarious blessing that may
be snatched from them at any mo
ment, we commend two considera
tions to their notice. Tho worst enomy
of journalism is the man who would
substitute insurrection for discussion. Amid
the din of civil strife newspapers as well as
laws are necessarily silent. If the Govern
ment cherished a secret desire to p'lt a bridle
upon English journalism, their true policy
would be to let n certain socliou of Irish
journulism have its own way, and bring
about the end for which it labors.
Further, it must be re-.aembered that the
seditious press of Ireland differs from most
of its predecessors in that or auy other coun
try, in beiDg a preacher of murder, not of
rebellion of murder which cannot even be
dignified with the name of political
assassination. By common consent a
newspaper which attacks private charac
ter loses the immunities with which
it is invested so long as it restricts itself to the
region of public aff airs. The lives of indivi
duals are, to say the least, not less sacred
than their characters: and even the fanatics
who maintain that the tyrannicide should go
unpunished will hardly assert the same
liberty for the preachers of agrarian massacre.
Peruana the best argument tor the press
clauses of the Peace Preservation bill is that
tho journalists who will suffer under them
have already forsaken their colling to become
the panders of private revenge.
A WAIL OF GENUINE AGONY.
I'mm ths Lexington (Jb.) Caucasian.
Down! Down!! Down!!! During the whole
nine years ot radical rule: lhe proudest,
freest, most enlightened, prosperous, and
hnppy nation on the globe in 1300. The low
est, basest, poorost, most utterly brutalized
and enslaved in 1870! Cotton-field niggers
legislating for the descendants of the Wash
ington, Randolphs, Hamptons, and Lees! A
Pennsylvania nigger befouling the seat of
Piokensand Pinckney, on the Supreme Bench
of South Carolina! A niggor barber scrawling
his boorish X mark to the legislative enact
ments of Louisiana, as Lieutenant Governor,
and President of the State Senate! A nigger
cabin boy signing the commissions of Con
gressmen, Sheriff's, and Circuit Judges, as
Secretary of State of Mississippi! And a
thievish nigger preacher grinning and comb
ing his lousy wool in the place once filled by
the hero, statesman, and patriot, Jefferson
Davis, in the United States Sonate,-so called,
whilst a leprous, ulcer-eaten Senator and ex
Governor congratulates his associate black
guards and the country on the change!
God of the ruined and the desolate ! Was
ever a people so fallen before ? Men of the
North! Men of tho South! Americans!
Countrymen ! Fellow slaves ! Awake !
Arise ! Shuke off' your lethargy, and face
tho Truth ! Givo the hellions who've
wrought tho horrid change a little longer
lease of power, ond no Gabriel in all the
wide universe, though ho should split his
mighty tooter, can ever sound a blast power
ful enough to rescue us from the tenfold
politicul death and damnation to which we're
doomed ! Cease your dastardly truckling
and yielding to the death-doserviug conspira
tors who have usurped the Government !
Cease your infamous temporizing, your cring
ing and your fawning ! Set your face, like
stubborn steel, jigaiiisi them and all thoir ac
cursed silu rues!
Remeiuber that they nre your enemies
the enemies of the republic enemies of the
Constitution sworn foes of liberty foes of
God, and of common humanity! Encourag
ing them, "conciliating" them, is tampering
with your own destruction! They must be
overthrown, annihilated, or you, we, and our
country are eternally undone !
CLOSE THE BOOKS!
From the X. Y. Tribune.
Yesterday, the colored men of our city cele
brate, by a procession, followed by a publio
meeting, the completion of the good work of
their emancipation by the ratification of the
fifteenth amendment to the Federal Consti
tution. Ve ardently trust that All may unite in
the fervent hope that tho rights won for tho
black race may be so exercuod as to benefit
not themselves onjy, but our whole people.
To-day, the American Anti-Slavery
Society which has fought tho battle of uni
versal freedom bravely, if not always wisely,
fur the last forty years meets to disband its
orgnnizntion, in testimony that its warfare is
accomplished. Seldom has so small a body
contended so persistently, unflinchingly, for
so great a truth; seldom has a cause which,
ut the outset, seemed to ordinary vision so
hopeless, achieved such unqualified triumph
in the lifetime of its first apostles.
1 hat triumph is of moment not alone ia
our country. It tolls the knell of human
bondage throughout tho civilized world. For
the second time the truth is to be established,
and enforced thut a Christian can neither
originate nor prolong the hereditary eusluVe
u:eut of any race of men. It way take a few
moro years to banish the last vestigos of
human chattelhood from tropical A mortal;
but t he end is no longer doubtful nor remote.
Tho'fiawn of the next century will irradiate no
slave-hut in Christendom.
For what has been achieved, as also for its
fruits not yet realized, lot universal thanks
givings ascend to God. The Millennium is
not here, and not likely soon to bo. Injustice,
oppression, and tyranny fraud, prolligacy,
ond misery still darken the earth. Sensu d
ity aud iniquity abound. Corruption and
prodigality profane the high places of the
land. Abject poverty and brutal ignorance
aro still the lot of millions, even in this
boasted land of freedom and opportunity.
Yet it is very much to have established firmly
the principle that the law is no good man's
enemy, but the friend of every .virtuous
eff ort. If the State is yet uniblo to lift all
men up, it no longer holds any down. The
child born to-morrow in the most squalid
hovel may yet become Presidont of the United
States.
And now is the time to seal our great tri
umph by enacting and proclaiming universal
amnesty. Our civil war virtually closed with
Lee's surrender five years ago. No armed
force has marched or fired a shot under the
flag of the Southern Confederacy since May,
W". There are bad men who still commit
outrages; there is not, and for years has not
been, any open, embodied resistance to the
Federal authority and laws. It is high time
that every one were officially assured that no
penalty still imponds over him for anything
done or threatened in the interest and under
the flag of the Rebellion.
We ought for our own sakes to idontify
universal amnesty with impartial suffrage.
We ought to make one the complement of the
other, so that they should henceforth have a
common vitality, a common longevity. We
ought to bo able to say, "The edifice is
crowned; the work is complete; henceforth,
woe to him who recklessly disturbs and im
perils it !
There aro still heart-burnings at the South,
There are men who lament the fall of the
Confederacy, and do not lovo the flag of tho
Union. Proscription aud disfranchisement
ore the aliment whereon their morbid feel
ings subsist. They are (in effect) patents of
nobility in the eyes of a class respectable in
numbers and strong in social position. To say
of a bouthron, "lie canuot vote: he is for
bidden to hold office," is to invest him with
a peculiar and often envied distinction. His
children tako up tho quarrel which a mis
taken policy fastens .upon him; they are
trained to hate the Government which brands
him as unworthy the rights of a citizen, nnd
to detest the race with whose enfranchise
ment his proscription is in their minds idea
tined. we can never nave genuine peace
while we still hold many thousands as virtual
prisoners of war.
Let us close tho contest! Let those who
are grandly triumphant be wisely magnani
mous. Let us shut the temple of Janus, and
proclaim to all mankind that we have for
gotten that we were lately enemies and
remember only that we' were formerly
brethren. Lot us fill the ranks of loyalty by
etlacing all pretext tor lurther disloyalty,
Let the world rejoicingly note that, as the
blood of no prostrate foe stains our triumph,
no vindictive feeling lingers in our hearts
that we conquered, not for a party, a caste, a
section, but for all humanity. Let us have
Peace !
A TILT AT TILTON.
From the X. Y. World.
The cause of woman suffrage is not likely
to Butter tor want of champions, i irst there
was the original "Equal Rights Association,
sanctified by the membership of Miss An
thony and Mrs. Stanton. Then some bilious
and blighted women of Boston and New Jer
sey, being envious, it would appear, of the
just pre-eminence of these two champions,
held a convention to moke a now association
at Cloveland far, as they fondly dreamed,
from the malign influence of Miss Anthony
and the too-persuasive lips of Mrs. Stan
ton. But, alas, at a critical conjunc
ture entered to them, thus tranquilly
laying snares for nor authority, busan,
aud proclaimed her love for them
and her irrepressible intention of adhoring
to them for better, for worse, one would
never, never desert Mr. Micawber. But tho
convention passed her by and elected Mr,
Beecher to preside over their separate coun
cils. This aroused the anger, it would ap
pear, of Mr. Theodore Tilton, whose paper,
the Jitdijioidcnt, used formerly to be floated
by its reports of tho sermons of Mr. Beecher,
which were all at once withdrawn from it,
and it has since picked up a precarious exist
ence by "illustrations" awful to regard,
which have converted it into a sort of reli
gious flush paper, having all the pi
quancy without the impiety of the secular
article. But Mr. Beecher has never been be
loved by the Independent since he withdrew
his eloquence from it, and it was naturally
objectiouublo to its editor that Mr. Beecher
should come- in at the eleventh hour and
overshadow him, who had borne the bur
den and heat of the day in the female suffrage
field. The tmouldering discontent of Mr.
Tilton has broken out into, first a call, next
a convention, and now, finally, an association
of which tho excellent projector is at last
the President, having subordinate offices with
out number. Tho laborers, truly, are plen
teous, tint the harvest is "few."
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No. M3 CUES NUT Rtreit,
jj- ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS,
SO. 1026 OHK8NUT STREET.
SHERIDAN'S RIDE,
GREAT LIKE SIZE PAINTING.
BY THE TOET-ARTIST.
T. BUCHANAN READ,
SIXTH WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION.
READING OF THE POEM TWIOK A DAY.
M. JOSEPHINE WARREN will recite each day, at
4 P. M. and A P. M., In front of the canvas, the poem of
'SHERIDAN' RIDE." 14 4tf
(JHHOMOS of the Paintinfr (30x36 inches), 810.
Admission 25 cents
Including t he entire valuable collection of tho Aoadmny.
upen irom a. jn. toer, m ana iroru y;$ to iu r. m.
jy- OFFICE OF THE FRANKLIN FIRE IN-
PHII.ADEI.PniA. AdHI 4. 187(1.
At a meeting of the Board o' DlrnctorB of this (Join-
pnny. held this day, a ftorui annnnl dividend of MX PKti
( H NT. and an extra dividend of TEN PS. II CENT, wore
declared on the CHintal stock, payable to the stoukholdnra
or their legal representatives on and after the 14th inst.,
Clear or ail taxes.
4 4 lot .T. W. MCALLISTER, Secretary.
ngy NOTICE IS HEREBY (ilVEN TO THE
subscribers to the Capital Stock of "THE PICK.
PLK'S BANK" that a meeting will be held at No. 144
S. SIXTH Street, on THURSDAY, tlie Mil day of May
next, at iu o clock A. m.. lor me purpose o organizing
saiu UftDK IDU U1QCHHK oincero mm uirecitirn,
I), ii. McGINLEY,
CHARLES A. MILLER,
R. I. HAROLtY,
4 2t M5 J. B. WALKER.
fgvr TREGO'S TEA13ERRY TOOTHWASII
It is tho most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant, warraniea troe rrom ipjunous ingredient.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth!
Invigorates and Soothes the Gams!
Purities and Perfumes the Hreatbl
Prevent a Accumulation of Tartar!
Cleanses and Purities Artincial Teeth'
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Bold by all druggists and dentists.
A. M WILSON. Dniuirist. Proprietor.
8 3 IPm Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT bts., Philadelphia,
jfp2r '0 CURE, NO PAY. FORREST'S
JUNIPER TAR For Coughs. Croup, Whooping
Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Slitting of
Blood, and Lung Diseases. Immediate relief and posi
tive cure.or price refunded. Sold by FRENCH, RICH
ARDS 4 CO., TENTH and M ARKET, and A.M. WIL
SON NINTH and FIL B E RT8 treets. 4 2stnth:)5t
egy WAR D A LE O. MCALLISTER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
No.2il BROADWAY,
New York.
HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
Toeih with fresh Nitrous-Oxide Gas. Absolutely
no pain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at tbe
Colton Dental Rooms, devotes his entire practice to the
painless extraction of teeth. Olfice, No. UU WALNUT
Street. 1 263
y- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
London and Liverpool.
CAPITAL, t,WU,m).
SABINE, ALLEN A DULLFS. Agents,
25 FIFTH and WALNUT btreots.
CLOTHINQ.
OPENING EXERCISES.
G
Igantlc Stock of Spring Garments : !
G
II
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A
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J)alment for April In Every Variety!!
Jvery style of Fashionable Spring Ciottilng! !
Ybundant opportunity to buy cheap ! !
fJVll all yonr friends of the
omrjzrjG
Jny of opening our Hplendid fcprtng Stock.
Ample store of Piece Goods In the Custom A
Department. iV.
ou are Invited to the Opening,
AT THE
tSREAT 1SK0WN HALL,
WHICH IS WILE OPEN, and
Ol'ZS ALL DAY, AT
603 ax1 605 CUESNUT Street.
WESTON & BROTHER,
TAILORS,
S W. Ccmer NINTH and ASCII Sts.,
rtitLADELPIJIA.
A full aBsoTtnieut of the most approved styles for
HTKING AND SUMMER WEAK,
NOW IN S7CIIK.
A elTiTJtll UAIJMKNT AT A REASONABLE
VUU-ff. 4 1 .liurp
MANTLES AND SHAWLS.
irJD.A SMAV7LG.
Io. E1G :SB:v3'T Street,
Will Open S'hsrsflay looming,
A LOT OP
IKDBA SHAWLS
AT MUCn LOWER TRICES THAN FORMERLY,
AND LESS THAN GOLD COST, T4 C 2iu
FURNITURE, ETC
FIRST-CLASS
FURNITURE YAR ERO ORIS
. No. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
KA6T BLUE. ABO VIE OHESNUT.
UfU PHILADELPHIA.
Illiiiliisii
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE
THE LAST GREAT FIRE
IX 44AI.VIJRTOX.
Icri-lnK'A Ha fen All Right In
Uvcry In til nee.
FULL P A II T I C U L A It S.
NUMBER ONE.
Galvf.kton. Texas, March 1,
Messrs. IlfrtniNfl, Farhf.i. A Rhkrman. Now Yorx:-
Iear Sirs: - It gives us pleasure to srfj our testimonial as
to the Fire-proof qualities of your Safes to tho man
which yon have already.
OUR PATENT CHAMPION SAFE, which wo nor.
chased from yon thtrteon years ago, was opened on tho
morning after the fire (which ocourrod on tho nig at of
February Sit, destroying some of our finest briok build
ings), to OUR ENTIRE SATISFACTION, our hooks an
papers oelng in almost as good condition as when they
were placed therein, notwithstanding the Intense heat to
which the Safo bad been subjected.
Tbe locks answered readily to tho keys.
Respectfully, etc,
SHACKELFORD, BROWN A CO.
NUMBER TWO.
(Sai.vfhton, Texas, March 1, 1ST.
Messrs. Hr.nniNfi, Fakiif.l 4 Shkiimas, New York:
Dear Sirs: Tbe lire which occurred during tho night of
Uio 2:id ultimo destroyed the brick building in which wo
kad our office.
The Safe In onr use was one of yonr PATENT CHAM.
PIONS, so justly celebrated ; it fell from the second story
on its face, among Coal Oil and Turpentine which was
still bnrning when we ondortook to open it THIRTY SIX
HOURS after the Ore ; It had. therefore, during that time
been subjected to a most INTENSE HEAT; mach to our
surprise, we opened it with the key and found onr books,
papers, etc., in REMARKABLY GOOD ORDER.
We arc satisfied from tho test to whioh our Safo was pit
tlistYOUR PATENT SAFES ARE PREFER ABLR
TO ALL OTHERS for resisting the action of Fire.
Respectfully yours, BURNETT WALL.
NUMBE'l TTIKEK.
Gai.vf.hton, Texss, March 1, 1870.
Messrs. Ukiihino, Fadhel A Shkrma.v. New York:
Gentltmen: Another very largo and destructive lire
visited our Island Oily on Wednesday night, February 2.1,
reducing to asiies several of our largest business houses.
Onoof your PATENT CHAMPION SAFES, containing
onr books, papers, and other valuables. Including a Gold
Watch, remained in the ruins until yesterday afternoon,
FIVE DAYS ASTER THE 1 IRK, before wo bod it
opened. We found the contents in EXCELLENT CON
DITION. The (Treat beat to which your Safes have boon
subjected, and their wonderful victories over t!ie fiery
fiend in both of these late very largo fires, fully entitle
them to tho confidence of tho business publio as SURE
AND PERFECT PROTECTION for the preservation of
books and valuables in any tire. Truly yours.
COOK i WOODYILLK.
Also, within the past thirty days, at the
GREAT FIliES IN NEWARK, N. J., (JALKSBI RCJ,
ILL., TO WAN DA, PA., AND RACINE, WIS,
HERRING S SAFES HAVK TRIUMPHED
Where others have failed.
FARREL, HERRING A- CO., Philadelphia.
HERRING CO., Chicago. 14 9 sth2l.
FARRKL. HERRING .V CO., New Orleans.
HERRING, FARREL A SHERMAN, No. r.l
BROADWAY, corner of Murray street, New York.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
I3ARTLETT,
No. 33 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
Ever thankful for the patronage extended
heretofore, and desirous of lurther favors, bega
announce his SPRING STYLES OF 1300 XS and
SHOES for Gents' and Boys' wear.
A large assortment of CUSTOM-MADS GOODS,
made on his improved Lasts, which are unrivalled
for comfort and beauty, enables him to furnish a
ready fit at all times. 1 13 thstuD3l
pm C H A 8. E l C H E L,
Fashionable Boot and Shoo
MANUFACTURER,
Io. SOl'ortU UKiiHTII Htreet,
Jl 19 linrpFltSlujeaboT Philada.
GROCERIES, ETC.
1609. "
AREAKTED GENUINE OLD
Government Java Coffee,
Koatcl every day. at 40 cents
per pountl, at
COUSTY'S East End Grocery,
No. 118 South KtCO.Mr
817thsta
BKLOW OHKSNUT 8TRKKT.
REFRIGERATORS.
YJ -ALL REFRIGERATORS
ALWAYS RELIABLE.
The suhscrihar guarantees the make and finish of his
SUPERIOR REFRIGKRATOK equal in ever rospoct
to his former makes. The thousands sold and now ia
nse testify to their superior qualifications. For sila
whoksalo an retail at the Manufactory, No. KU5 C11ERR Y
htreot, aliov Third.
Alto, W. F. NICKEL'S Patent Combination ala, boor,
and liquor cooler and refrigerator.
8 21thtuWt GKORGK W. NICKELS.
FKurrvAL k. iiKu.. hkwiion NKarni
l'LKl.VAL i:. ie:l,l, fc CO.,
DKAtEoa iit
Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal,
UK POT: No. U28 North NINTH Street,
I 71 West Elite, below Master.
l!rsnch OfHce. No. W RICHMOND Street.
pUKE LEHIGH AM) SCHUYLKILL
FAM ILY, FACTORY. AND BITUMINOUS OOALS.
Large Block always on band.
Bontbeust corner TUIRTEKNTII and WfLLOWStreeU
U lH4m W. W. A O. D. HAINK8.
HATS AND CAPS.
f?T WARBliRTON'S IMPROVED VEKTI-
iTfl latort and esny-fittinR Dress Hats (patented), la (
ll. e improved fkxhiousof thesoawui. CUvUT Ktrnel
Bart (Icm tn t.ha Fnst OfSna U lk rot
STEAMBOAT LINES.
STEAMER S. If. KKLTON, FOR
T-r,"n iL.uiaijiu, uni'MVil, and HODh..
rr.I eiininirneinir luu.inat, r:l 11, Ituvinic
I initial' hi i'i!f whart at ll) A. M. aud :t fill 1'. M. Kcturn
inir, h aving Vt'iliiiiim tun at 6'50 A. M. and lH'ni) 1'. AI.
l'r to Wilmington, o.nts; to Choutor or lln.ik. It
ci'uts. 4 8 n
'pii (iKeatT wedding rc.:u) diot.
TJcwStylo
Wedding- Irrvitatioii
LOW PRICKS.
R. KOSKINS & CO
Stationers, Bogravera, Steam Power miitera,
DlWi
H. 1 Allt'll Htreet.
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