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THE DAILY EVEKING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1870.
felting Mqwyh
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
(SUNDaTS EXCEPTED),
AT THE EVENING TELEGRAPH BUILDING,
No. 108 S. THIRD STREET,
t rniLADELPniA.
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1870.
SELF-GOVERNMENT IN NEW YORK.
Democracy ia New York has passed from
under the oload which so long obscured the
sunlight. The city was. for years so hope
lessly Democratic that the Republican party,
by virtue of its ascendancy in the rural dis
tricts, stripped the overwhelming majority
in Gotham of nearly every semblance of
power, leaving it only the disposition pf some
$18,000,000 per year through the agenoyof
the Common Council and the Board of Super
visors. But at last even Tammany Hall grew
tired of the monotony, and by a master-stroke
of fraud elevated John T. Hoffman to
the gubernatorial chair. With this foothold
at Albany once secured, the control of both
branches of the State Legislature speedily
followed, . and the year 1870 opened with
Tammany in supreme command of the State.
But just at this stage, when the nnterrified
were anticipating a restoration of the coveted
privilege of self-government, there were mani
festations of insubordination in the ranks of
the country members, and the first charter
which Tammany presented to the Legislature
was slaughtered in the house of its whilom
friends.' The New York World led the coun
try phalanx, yolept the 4,Young Democracy,"
with John Morrissey and Sheriff O'Brien as
Its lieutenants, and for a time carried things
with a high hand. A compromise charter,
patched up in a fashion it is difficult to under
stand even at this short distance from the
scene of conflict, shared the same fate,
bat when William M. Tweed went inte
the charter business on his own personal
responsibility and in his own name, he suc
ceeded in framing suoh a measure as com
manded the almost universal approval of both
houses of the Legislature, the opposition
votes in the Senate numbering but two, and
in the lower branch only five.
To one unacquainted with the peculiarities
of metropolitan politics, it seemed as if New
York city had suddenly beoome the most
virtuous and amiable community on the face
of the earth. The lion and the lamb laid
down together, the lamb apparently outside
of the lion instead of inside, as is usually the
ease when these two traditional antagonists
agree upon a truce. Theoretically, the new
charter is as perfect a model of a charter as
is our own. The people of New York have
again beoome the fountain of authority and
the souxoe of power. The people elect the
CounoiL the Mayor, and two or three of the
heads of departments in addition, while all
other offloials with executive powers are ap
pointed by the ' Mayor, as the mouthpiece of
the sovereign voters whose behest he is sup
posed to have been eleoted to obey,
t For the time being, this cumulative patron
Age is in the hands of A. Oakey Hall, Esq., an
elegant young man who fills up his spare mo
ments by 8eratohing off prologues for burles
ques and turning an honest penny in the
courts. Yesterday Mayor Hall reconstructed
New York city in wholesale fashion, and an
nounced his appointments under the new
charter. And A. Oakey Hall, Esq., proved
himself, in so doing, to be one of the most
honorable and generous of public rulers. In
Ids pronunciamento accompanying the an
nouncement of the new city government, he
declared that "he would be politically justi
fied by the numerical reoord of votes upon the
legislation which bestowed this responsibility,
should he confer every one of the thirty-two
appointments solely upon Democrats. But,"
he continued, "the extraordinary unanimity
by which the power was agreed upon appears
to oreate an honorable obligation to respect
the political minority of his constituents, so
far, at least, as to reappoint a few of his po
litical opponents whose past services to the
public additionally deserve the recognition."
The phrase "services to the public' is
one of sinister import in these degenerate
days, and so the people of New York have
discovered. Tweed's charter, which went
through the Legislature with as much ease
and airiness as an avalanohe glides down an
Alpine slope, has developed into as perfect
and beautiful a specimen of "bargain and
sale" as has ever been witnessed in the poli
tical history of the country. "Every citizen,"
says oily Mr. Hall, "ought to feel that the
polioeman, or the fireman, or the health physi
cian, who protects his life or his property,
should be freed from party bias and have no
political duty to discharge." So the patriotic
and public-spirited Mayor reappoints the old
Albany "Police Board, which stands two and
two, "but with the understanding that there
is to be a new Democratic executive head as
Superintendent." King Kennedy goes out
gracefully, before the avalanche reaches the
bottom of the valley, and New York awaits
the spectaole of an efficient non-partisan
police, with a "Democratic executive head"
we have such in this city and a Board
of Commissioners behind him equally di
vided to give him full swing. The new Fire
Department stands three Democrats to two
Republicans, and the new Health Depart
ment five Democrats to three Republican,
and everything is lovely and Democratic so
far. So, likewise, is the Department of
Charities and Corrections, with three Demo
crats and two Republicans at its head. "The
other three departments," says Mr. Mayor
Hall, "are entirely Democratic" And for
this reason "there are some departments,
traoh as the Department of Publio Works and
of Excise, which require at the Mayor's hands
entire respect to party considerations, inas
much as the one involves large patronage, and
the other represents a system almost entirely
by one political party" that is to say,- the
men who do the heavy Democratic work at
Abe poll) must be provided for, without Re
publican interference; and the men who do
t9 oTr PemogrVJ Twk; la fiout of tiu
drinking bars must not be molested nor
made afraid while at their potations.
And so New York city is once more its
own master, and Democratic from top to bot
tom. 'And Mr. Senator Tweed, who brought
about this little game, and brought it about
so neatly, settles down as sole and solitary
head of the Department of Public Works,
which, as Mr. Mayor Hall intimates, "in
volvas large patronage;" while Mr. Teter B.
Sweeny, the grand mogul of the whole De
mocratic tribe, has the graoe to vacate volun
tarily the office of City Chamberlain, worth
$80,000 per year, to aocept the "Presidency of
the Board of "Publio Parks, "perhaps," as the
New York World pointedly says, "the most
valuable office in the city to a man of Mr.
Sweeny's wealth, who can take advantage of
the rise of property in the localities to be
benefited by the action of that important
department. " And, neatest and Bliokest devioe
of all, the functions of City Chamberlain,
with $80,000 in annual pickings, fall to the
lot of one Bradley, a brother-in-law of
Sweeny. Putting it altogether, we fear that
those Republican legislators who gave a help
ing hand to Mr. Tweed's avalanche will in the
end discover that they have sold themselves
to the individual who bought up Dr. Faustus,
soul as well as body.
CRUELTY TO SEAMEN.
Wx yesterday published an interesting and
important general order that had just been
issued by the Secretary of the Navy, revoking
the sentence of a court-martial in the case of
an ordinary seaman named Joseph King,
serving on board the United States ship
Portsmouth. Secretary Robeson has alluded
in forcible terms to the difficulty of obtaining
good men for the navy, and to the great im
portance of making the naval service popular
with seamen. He has also shown himself in
this and other instances disposed to use
his authority to protect the enlisted men
from the oppression of their officers, and by
bo doing he has taken one of the first steps
towards making the service popular. . It will
certainly add to the efficiency of the navy if
the enlisted men can be made to feel that
their rights will receive from the Secrotary
proper consideration, and that any attempt at
cruelty or illegal punishment on the part of
those in authority over them will be promptly
cheeked. In the court-martial case referred
to the sentence imposed upon King was re
mitted by the Secretary, because previous to
bis trial be had been severely and adequately
punished, but in an irregular and cruel man
ner, and it is intimated plainly that the
officers concerned in the matter will be made
to feel in a decided manner the displeasure
of the head of the department.
The man King appears to have been a good-for-nothing
scoundrel, one of a class of men
who enlist in the army or navy in preference
to taking their chances of the penitentiary or
gallows on shore. His offenses were suoh as
could not be overlooked or allowed to pass
without severe punishment unless by doing
away altogether with discipline; and if he
had been punished in a proper and legal
manner, there would have been few to find
fault with the sentenoe, no matter how severe
it might have been. But the prinoiple that a
man may be punished two or three times for
the same offense, and at the discretion of
angry officers who have been the objoota of his
personal abuse, cannot be countenanced in the
navy or anywhere else under a free govern
ment. King it seems applied the most abusive
and foul-mouthed epithets to the captain,
executive officer and others on several occa
sions; he tried to desert, and when arrested
in the act of desertion he brandished a boat
hook and threatened the officers who arrested
him.
All this, however, offers no excuse for the
officers of the Portsmouth, who took the law
in their own hands, in the first place, by con
fining him in double irons on bread and
water for thirty days, with loss of pay for
three months and extra police duty for three
months; by confining him in the launch of
the Portsmouth with his feet ironed to a ring
bolt, his hands in irons, exposed to the burn
ing rays of the sun, he being forced to re
main in that position without food or drink
for a number of hours, after whioh he was
gagged and placed in a sweat-box until his
health was so affected that medical treatment
was necessary.
The laws of Congress for the better govern
ment of the navy, and the regulations issued
by the Secretary under those laws, prohibit
in express terms nearly every mode of punish
ment adopted in this case; and the officers
who perpetrated the outrage have done much
more than the miserable wretoh who was in
their power to impair the discipline and effi
ciency of the naval service. They are sup
posed to be intelligent and enlightened gen
tlemen, and they have no exouse whatever
for violating the laws; and it is to be hoped
that Secretary Robeson will take measures to
have them punished as they deserve. The
sentence of the court-martial in the case of
Lieutenant-Commander Seely, to which we
had occasion to allude not many weeks ago,
shows that there is an indisposition in naval
courts-martial to do exact justice when offi
cers are aocused of cruelty to the men under
their command; and the Secretary owes it to
the service and to the country to exert all his
power to have an example made ia this case
that will serve as a perpetual warning to offi
cers who are disposed to transgress the laws.
Thk Lkgihlatvre of Virginia, with a view
of intimidating the colored voprs and to ob
struct them in their rights at the ballot-box,
recently passed a bill providing that the name
of every voter shall be printed on his ballot.
This is an outrageous violation of the first
principle of our system of voting by ballot,
by which the right of every citizen to keep
his vote a secret is secured to him; and as it
was passed by the Virginia Legislature for no
other purpose than to deprive the negroes of
their rights, and to bring them as much as
possible under the domination of their former
masters, we are glad to see that Mr. Lawrence,
of4 Qltfp, yesterday introduced, a bill ia the
National House of Representatives to put a
stop to such performances by providing that
no citizen of the United States shall be re
quired to write, print, or place his name on
any ballot, or to do anything whereby the
identity or name of any person casting
the ballot may be known; and fur
ther, making the ' printing or writing
of a voter's name on the outside of the ballot
a crime, punishable by a fine of $1000 and
one month's imprisonment. This is a proper
measure, and it ought to be promptly passed
by both houses of Congress. The Democrats
are certainly in a tight place when they are
obliged to descend to such contemptible prac
tices as this, and 'they will do themselves
more credit and their party more service by
promptly acoepting the fifteenth amendment
and its consequences than by trying to ob
struct its operations by such mean
tricks, whioh will not avail them in the least,
and which will only have the effect of making
the negroes cast their votes with a greater
unanimity than ever against them.
8PEOIAL NOTIOE8.
jqj- OUR 8PRINO TRADE
U MOW
FULLY OPKNKD,
asd we aa orrcama
A HIOHKR ORA.DK
or
READY MADE
OLOTHINO
than can nr. rouxo nc akt oiheb kstadlisbubnt ra
PHILADELPHIA.
JOHN WANAMAKKR,
Ho. 818 and 820 OHESNUT Street.
Gentlemen who still prefer Clothing made to order Are
invited to oar Custom ;Deprtmenl, where they will find
U the newest Spring Fabrics end Fashions, and cutters
of nnrarpassod skill to eieente their orders.
But "The celebrated Cooke's Favorite Tomato."
g? ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS,
HO. 1026 OHESNUT STREET.
SHERIDAN'S RIDE,
GREAT LIFE SIZE PAHTTIHQ,
BY THE POET-ARTIST,
T. BUCHANAN BEAD,
SEVENTH WEEK OF TUB EXHIBITION.
THE INTEREST INCREASING.
TBE POEM READ TWICE A DAY.
M. JOBEPHINR WARREN reoitss aaoh day. at 4
4 P. M. and 9 P. M., in front of the oanras, the poem of
"SHERIDAN' RIDE." 4 lltf
OHROMOS of the Painting (90x96 inches), 910.
Admission .St eenta
Including the entire valuable eoUeotion of the Academy.
Open from A. M. to P. M.. and from 1 to 10 P. M.
f7""BiiT "The celebrated Cooke's Favorite Tomato.',
jpSf AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
THE STAR COURSE OF LECTURES.
SUPPLEMENTARY LECTURE
BY HISS OLIVE LOGAN,
On SATURDAY AFTERNOON, April 16.
Subject (by request) "GIRLS."
Little Girls, Big Girls, Ugly Girls, Pretty Girls, Yankee
UixU, Western Girls, the Girl of the Period, with a
glance at the Coming GirL
Admission 60 eenta.
Beeened Seats 96 oente extra.
Ticket for sal at Gould's Piano Rooms, No. 933 OHK3
NUT b tract.
Doors open at 9 o'clock P. M. Lecture at 8 P. M.
CARL BKNTZ'8 PARLOR OKOHK8TRA
will perform choice musical selections previous to the
Lecture. ; 4116t
gSf SENATOR REVELS
AT HORTICULTURAL HALL,
On THURSDAY EVENING. April 14.
Subjeot-"THB PRESS."
Admission
Reserved Seats.
60 cents.
. .50 cents eatra.
Tickets for sale at
GOULD'S PIANO ROOMS,
NO. 923 OHESNUT Street,
From 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Doors open at T.V i Lecture at 8. 4 11 4t
rr- Buy "The celebrated Cooke's Favorite Tomato."
mv- NEWSBOYS' HOME. ON EA8TER
MONDAY EVENING, .oril IK, there will be an
Exhibition of the PILtlRIM at CONCERT HALL, in aid
of the N K.W8BOY8' HOME. 411 Bt
OLOTHINO.
GIIEAT BltOWN HALL,
603 and 605 CUES NUT Street.
RP, "7 Soiling Sprlnsr Suits from our
a Of Me Stupendous Htoek.
- Superior to all others in rtyle.
Superior to all otliors In Economy,
huperior to all others in Beauty.
Superior to all others in Material.
Huperior to all others in Design.
Superior to all others in Durability.
Superior to all others in Comfort.
II P, T Clothing Crowds of Customers
Ve Ov V with Choicest Clothes,
Commended for Kxcellenoe of Fit.
Commended for Cheapness of Prio.
Commended for Permanenoe of Color.
Commended for Neatness of Adorn
ment. Commended for Tastefulness of Pat
tern. Commended for Variety of Kxecntion.
Commended tor General Desirability.
It & V Read Raiment Regulated to
Requirements of all Reasonable
Headers.
Ready (o put on at once.
Heady to give K nil re Satisfaction.
Heady to outwear any other
Heady at a moment's notice.
Heady for any Kmerncy.
Ready for the Rush o( (Juotomers.
Ready at Reduoed Rates! !!!!! !
Come sod see the Immense stock of READY BAL
M K.N 1' on the ground floor.
Come and see out Incomparable CUSTOM DEPART
V KN 1' on the second tic or.
WESTON & BROTHER,
TAILORS,
S W. Corner NINTH and ARCH Sta.,
PHILADELPHIA.
A full assortment of the most approved styles for
SPUING AND SUMMER WEAR,
NOW IN STORE.
A SUPERIOR aARXJEKT AT A BJEABONABLB
FIUC& 1 3vrf
NEW PUBLICATION S
MRS. SOUTHWORTH'S NEW BOOKS
Mrs. F.MM D. K. N. BotTHwomu's Wonss. Messrs.
T. B. Pel Si son A Brothers, No. 406 Ohesnat street, Phila
delphia, have Just Issned an entire new, complete, and
uniform edition of all the celebrated Norels written by
Mrs. Emms D. B. R. Bouthworth. The whole of her work
are comprised In thirty large duodecimo Tolumes, and
taoh volume Is oomplrte in Itself. They are all printed
on the fiatst paper, and bound in uniform style, In oloth,
gilt back, and sold at the low pries of till eaeh, in cloth ;
or an edition In paper eorer la sold at (I'M each. The fol
lowing are the names of the thirty volumes:
The Maiden Widow.
The Loet Heirem.
The Deserted Wife.
The Gipsy's Prophecy.
The Two Sisters.
The Three Beauties.
ViTia ; Secret of Power.
Lady of She Isle.
The Missing Bride.
The Haunted Homestead.
The Wife's Victory.
The Mother in-Law.
Retribution.
India ; of Pearl Rtrer.
1'be Duma of Clifton.
The Family Utnm.
ThePtinoeof Darkness.
The Bride's Fate.
The Changed Brides.
How He Won Her.
Fair Play.
Fallen Ihride.
The Widow's Son.
Bride of Llewellyn.
The Fortune Seeker.
A 11 worth Abbey.
The Bridal Eve.
I' The Fetal Marriage.
iots s Jjsdot won.
The Discarded Daughter.
A bore Books are for sale by the Publishers and by all
Booksellers. Copies of either or all of the shore works by
Mrs. Inuna D. K. N. Bouthworth, will be sent post-paid,
to any ene, to any place, on receipt of the price of the ones
wanted, by the publishers,
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,
IMp 30 CWBHNUT Ht.. Phllndelphlii, Psw
FOR "I HE LADIES.
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
No. 28 SOUTH' SECOND STREET,
Will offer to-day the best f 9 BLACK SILKS they hare
yet offered.
BLACK SILKS, 9150.
BLACK MILKS of ths beet grades.
STRIPK SILKS.
OUKOK SILKS, repents end St.
SOLID COLOR BIL.K8.
SILK POPLINS AND BERGKS.
A great variety of Drees Goods for Suits, of the Newest
Styles, from it cent to (1 per yard.
EDWIN HALL Ac CO.,
lt No. 88 South SECOND Street.
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
No. 25 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
Will open to-day, f( and H (single and double width)
Black Silk and Wool Heraanies.
These goods are reoommended for their oolor as well as
quality. Also, will be opened to day, a case of the FINKST
QUALITY OF
Steel Color Silk Poplinetts.
Japanese Silks at $1 Per Yard.
EDWIN HALL Of CO.,
ltfp No. 88 Booth SECOND Street.
OLOTHS, OA88IMERE8, ETO.
LOWEST PRICES
FOB
ZISWSST FABRICS
Scotch Bannockburns.
English Cassimeres.
French Coatings.
French Cassimeres.
Paris Vestings.
White Corduroys.
Vim. T. Snodgrass & Co.,
No. 34 South SECOND Street,
829 tuthBlm4
PHILADELPHIA.
HOSIERY, ETO.
PERKINS & CO.,
9 South NINTH Street,
HAVE EVERT VARIETY OP
I I O S I E Tt Y
AND
JVlEIfcllVO "WEAJR,,
AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
N. a Jonvln's beat make of KID OLOVE9, aX
$1 -75 ; other matea at l and $1-50. IT thatn3m4p
FINANCIAL.
EVEN PER CENT.
First Mortgage Bonds
OF THE
Danville, Ilnzleton, ami Wilkes
l.arre Railroad Company,
At 82 and Accrued Interest.
Clear of all Taxes.
INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER.
Persons wishing to make Investments are Invited
to examine the merits of these BONDS.
Pamphlets supplied and full information given by
Sterling & Wildman,
FINANCIAL AGENTS,
No. 110 SOUTII TIHRD ST11KET,
12tf PHILADELPHIA.
Covernment Bonds and other Securities taken In
exchange for the above at best market rates.
R, R. THOMAS" &Cb7,
EBALKBS IK
Doors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters,
WINDCW FRAMES, ETC.,
M. W. COHNBB OV
EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets,
i IS SM I'XlLADBLruU.
SIIEPPARD, VAN HARLIIIGEH & ARRISOII,
, No. 1008 CUES NUT STREET.
TUB SUBSCRIBERS RESPECTFULLY
TO ANOTHER
Extraordinary Sale of 200 Pieces, 10,000 Yards,
BARN8LBY APfl) FBENCU
LINEN SHEETINGS AND TABLE LINENS,
At Prices Lower than ever before known.
HEAVY LINEN SHEETINGS,
I YARDS, n INCHES WIDE, AT 6S CENTS. ttf YARDS, 90 INCHES WIDE, AT TBc np to II M
V YARDS, 61 INCHES WIDE, AT 63c. np to Sic- 9' YARDS, 100 INCHES WIDE, AT 85c op U Is.
K PIECES MORE OF 1M FINE FRENCH LINEN 8 HURTING 8 AT tl' 1 PES YARD. These are
a FINER NUMBER than the previous lot, and all the Manufacturer has.
THE BAR N8LEY TADLE LINENS
ARE OF EXTRA HEAVY MAKE, and f yards wld. beirtnnlnr at 63 cenUper yard, and apt BEST
SPLENDID DOUBLE DAMASK.
All these Goods are warranted perfect In every respect, and we believe 80 per cent, below any others la
tbe market of same widths and qualities. 4 stuthst
Curtains, Linens, House -furnishing Dry Goods,
SHEPPARD. VAN HARLIIIGEH & ARRISOII.
GRAND INAUGURATION
LOW PRICES,
HOHER.
ARE NOW OIJLTJERIIYG
Tlie wh oe of tlieit
Til A C IM I Fl CENT STOCK
OF
....
DRESS GOODS, SILKS, ETC ,
Replete with all the CHOICEST NOVELTIES of
this season, together with LAEGE IN
VOICES of desirable goods pur
chased in this market for
Cash at
ASTONISHINGLY LOW RATES.
H.f C. &1 CO. conclude that it is only necessary to quote
a few of their offerings as an index of the cricesat which
this SUPERB STOCK will be disposed of, to insure an
early call.
Handsome Double Width Chene
Mohairs, 37 Cents.
Double-fold Foulard lYIohairs, 45
Cents.
Double-fold Norwich Poplins, in
the new light shades, 56 Cents.
XXoyle's ITard-wide English Frints,
25 Cents.
Frintcd Satin Cloth, a new arti
cle for the house or Walking
Costume, 35 cents.
One case of the Fittest Organdies
Imported, 40 Cents.
Real Scotch Ginghams, iu ait.
colors, 5 Cents.
INVITE THE ATTENTION OF BUYERS
OF
COLLADAV k
GO.
H cases of French Foulard Z&o
hairs, now being sold by the
piece for 65 Cents, will be of
fered at 56 Cents.
Black Lyons tiros Grains and
Drap de, Lyon, of the best makes,
from $1'50 to 8'00 per yard.
Chene Silks of the latest designs
of the Paris market, and extra
quality, sold last Spx ing at $325 ,
$250.
Striped Silks from I"50 to WOO.
Slack Canvas Bareges, extra su
peib Quality, 62 Cents.
To.
do.
Id Cents.
Do. do. all widths and
qualities, up to SS'90.
Walking Suits, Laco Shawls, Lace
Vnlnta 'l n thA TUTITST
n a.vS
tatutK