THE DAILf EYE3N1NG TELEORArn rHILADELrniA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10; 1870. FUBLI8HED EVERT AFTERNO ON (aUWDATi KCBPTBD), AT THE EVENING TELEGRAPH BUILDING, , No. 108 8. TniRD BTREET, PHILADELPHIA. The rrice it three cent per copy (double sheet); or eighteen cents per week, payable to the carrier by whom served. The subscription price by mail t Nine Dollar per annum, or One Dollar ami Fifty Cents for two months, invariably in advance for Vie time ordered. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1870. es: , REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. Tub Ilouse of Representatives hnn at last taken decisive action upon the question of the apportionment of representation under the census of 1870, by passing a bill fixing the number of Representatives henceforth at 275, exclusive of those from States hereafter to be admitted. This is a compromise be tween the two factions, one of which advo cated the reduction of the number of mem bers, at present 243, to 233, while the other demanded that the number should be in creased to 300, in order that the rapidly growing States of the West might seoure their proper quota without a loss being sus tained by any of the States which fail to main tain a corresponding increase in population. The following figures show the status of the House of Representatives as fixed by law after the taking of eaoh decennial census Since the establishment of the present form of government: Ymr. No. of State. No. of .VmW. 1 im 16 1S10 IS'20 ls:io 1H40 iHftO littiO . IT .... ,. 19 .... .. S4 .... ,. 88 .... .. 88 .... .. Rl .... .. 84 .... 142 1S3 213 42 223 234 241 Since the census of 1800 West Virginia has been created a separate State, and Nevada and Nebraska admitted to the Union, with one member only allotted to each, there being thus an increase of but two in the membership of the Ilouse, although the num ber of States has been increased by three. The bill which passed the Ilouse yesterday by a vote of 8G to 83, and which will doubt less meet with the concurrence of the Senate and the approval of the President, fixes the number of Representatives at 275, after March 3, 1871, with the proviso that if any new States are admitted after that date, their Representatives shall be additional to the above number, and further "that if tho num ber of Representatives of any State shall be reduced by such apportionment, such reduc tion shall not take effect in the Forty-second Congress, but such State shall have the same number of Representatives in the Forty second Congress to whioh it is entitled in the Forty-first, and that if the representation from any State shall be increased by such ap portionment, the additional Representatives for the Forty-first Congress shall be chosen by the State at large." The basis of repre sentation is to be ascertained by the Secre tary of the Interior from the preliminary census report, which will doubtless be ready in time for the fall eloctions, although not in time for the redistricting of the States, a diffi culty which, an will be seen, is remedied by postponing the decrease in the representa tion of the Eastern States until 1873, and the election of the additional members in the other States on a general ticket by the State at large. Some time since we published a carefully prepared estimate of the population of the different States at the present time, which is doubtless accurate enough to show the proba ble standing of each State in the Ilouse of Representatives nnder the proposed new ap portionment. Acoording to this estimate the entire population of the Union is 40,800,000, that of the Territories and District of Colum bia being 600,000, and of the States entitled to representation in Congress 40,200,000. This will give, in round numbers, one Repre sentative to 1 15,000 inhabitants, and the ap portionment will stand as follows, as com pared with the present representation: New Appor. Old Apjtor liunnunt. tionmmt. Gain. Lost. Alabama 7 e 1 Arkansas 4 3 1 California 4 g 1 Connecticut 4 4 1 eluware 11 .... Florida 1 1 Georgia 8 T 1 Illinois 18 14 4 Indiana 12 11 1 Iowa 8 a Kaunas 8 1 1 Kentucky 9.9 Louisiana 8 0 1 Maine D B .. ,. Maryland 0 5 ,1 MatiHMliusetU 10 10 :. Michigan 9 6 3 Minnesota. 8 9 1 Mississippi. 6 6 1 Missouri. 11 9 9 'Nebraska. 1 1 Kevarta ... 1 1 ew Hampshire 9 1 Hew Jersey. 7 6 9 Hew York 82 81 1 Horth Carolina. 8 T 1 Ohio 20 19 1 Oregon 1 1 .. .. Pennsylvania 21 84 3 lihode Island 1 9 .. 1 gouth Carolina 6 4 1 Tennessee 8 8 Texas 6 4 8 Vermont 9 8 .. 1 Virginia 9 8 1 West Virginia 8 8 Wisconsin 8 6 9 If this estimate should prove to be correot, it will be seen that but three of the States, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, will lose one Representative each, eleven States will retain their present number, and the new members, thirty-two in number, with the three taken away from the three New England States a total of thirty-five will be distributed among the remaining twenty. three States. Repbebentattvz JtruAK, of Indiana, saw fit to introduce in the House a female suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution, and straightway bis constituents rose in arms against him, selecting another man to head the Republican tioket in bis district. Repre sentative Burdeit, of Missouri, does not appear to have been much profited by this lesson, but rushes into the arena with another amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting grants to sectarian schools. Evidently Mr, Rurdett is tired of representing the Republi can voters of the Fifth distriot of Missouri. VENTILATING THE CAPITOL. Tex Joint Special Committee of Congress on Ventilation has nnder consideration a plan for supplying the National Capitol with pure air, and yesterday they passed two hours of their valuable time in examining a profes sional "ventilatist," who undertakes to per form the job in a satisfactory manner by re moving the mephitio vapors from the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives, and by furnishing the members of Congress with a proper supply of oxygen. It is to be hoped that when the Capitol is purged of its foul air the moral as well as the physical health of those who do business there will be bene fited. It is one thing to purify the Congres sional halls and corridors and another to re move the taint of moral corruption that sends its offensive odors to the remotest bounds of the nation. Hitherto Congressmen Lave not shown themselves either anxious or willing to proceed with the work of moral ventilation, but perhaps this is owing to the bad air they breatho, and an improvement may be expected when the proposed air-shafts are put in operation. As it is, the iniquities of the franking privilege are allowed to con tinue in spite of the protests of tho people; the Indian "ring" is backed up by the votes of Senators and Representatives, and every effort of good men to bring about an im provement in the management of our Indian affairs is foiled by the votes and influence of those who are supposed to represent the wishes of the nation; and a thousand other outrages are pefpetrated that never reach the ear of the public, to cover with infamy their shameless perpetrators. There was an attempt made a short time ago to ventilate one spe cies of iniquity, the sale of cadotships; but the Ilouse of Representatives, after making a great noise and palaver over the affair, ended it by excusing its own members, and expending its virtuous indignation on a single naval officer, who was accused of having paid a sum of money for an appointment for his son when it was demanded of him by a Con gressman who had a cadetship for sale. The people of the country are not satisfied with this crooked way of doing business, and the manner in which the really important into ests of the country has been delayed from day to day and week to week, until the end of the session is near at hand, and scarcely anything to show for it but long winded speeches about nothing and schemes innumerable for depleting the trea sury and continuing the oppressive taxes that are weighing down the industry of the nation. It is certainly time that some pure air was admitted into the Capitol; and if the "venti latist" who exhibited his plans yesterday could also devise some means of making Con gressmen honest and attentive to the inte rests of their constituents, instead of passing their time in making buncombe speeches and in wrangling about matters that interest no body but rings of corrupt speculators, he will be doing a service for which the American people will hold him forever in grateful re membrance. THE WAR ON THE WINNIPEG GERS. A ltuMoit was set afloat some time ago that the Canadian Government intended to enlist the Indians in their service to carry on the war against the Winnipeggers; and although such a course would be in full accordance with established British precedents, it was hoped that, for the sake of civilization and humanity, the report was unfounded. It seems now, however, that an infamous propo sition has actually been made by an indi vidual named Denny for the employment of one hundred Chippewas for service in the northwest. The patriotio Denny undertakes to clothe and equip the savages and to be responsible for their conduct during the ex pedition. Every person conversant with the history of Indian warfare knows exactly what the latter part of this proposition means, and that the employment of the Indians against the rebellious inhabitants of the Winnipeg country will be nothing more nor less than a general premium for white as well as red savages to murder, ravish, rob, and burn at their plea sure. It would surprise no one to hear that this infamous proposition has been accepted, and that the Indians, nnder the leadership of Denny, are started off on a career of slaugh ter. If the British and Canadian Govern ments combined cannot subdue an insignifi cant rebellion like that inaugurated by the Winnipeggers without calling in the assist ance of the Indians, they ought, for the sake of decency at least, to refrain from adding another stain to the bloody annals of British warfare by inaugurating the policy they have been talking about so much of late years, and let the people of Winnipeg withdraw from their allegiance if they choose, and set up for them selves. If these Indians are put in the field, as is proposed, the Government and people of the United States should enter an ener getio protest that will give the cowardly Kanucks who have been quaking for the last week or two at the sight of General O'Neill's epaulettes some reasonable cause for fear. And now comes Mr. Edmunds with a reso lution directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether attempts have been made to corruptly influence the votes of Senators on the Georgia bill. And the Senate is so im pressed with the necessity for removing this imputation of corruption that it not only au thorizes the committee to look into the matter, but empowers it to send for persons and papers. If the Senate had had the grace to dispose of the Georgia bill without such a needless waste of time and breath, there would have been no necessity for this investi gation; SOAP. 1 T. BABBITT'S NEW YORK CITY BOAP, Union and bwt Hoapa. for aal. b all fTOoera. YVbolooal aaeuuj at HENRY O. KKLLOOO k OO.'H. 4 18 if) BouthwMt our. WATKK and OUKitNUl' tU. 8PEOIAU NOTICES. w&MtlcmaiK)pflatboHrm thM Itw, tST ACADEMY OF FINK ARTS, J ITO. 1091 OHKSmjT BTRKKT. ' THK FA8HI0II ABLK RESORT. SHERIDAN'S RIDE STILL THK ATTRACTION I GREAT LIFE 8IZK PAINTING. BT THK POKT-ARTIST, ! T. BUCHANAN HEAD, EIGHTH WEEK OK TUB EXHIBITION. OVER 70,000 VISITORS. TUB POEM RECITED TWIOK A DAT. at 4 P. M. and 9 P. M., bj MR. J. B. ROBERTS, tho amlnnnt Traircdlan and Klncutiontat. (JHKOMOH ot the abor oalabratad Paintinjr, In sir. 9nra tnohaa, prioe 10. U is tf AdmiMloo oonUI lnoiadina- the ratlra valuable collection of tha Academy, Open from A. M. to 4 P. M.. and from 1 to 10 P. M. jjgf OFFICE OF THE LEEIIGU COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANT. PHtr.ADII.PHIA, April 18, 1879. The ftated Annual Meeting of the Stockholder of the LEHIGH GOAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY will be held at tba Room of tha Board of Trade, CHKHNUT, abor Fifth etraet, north aide, on TUESDAY, the M dajr of Mar next, at KH o'olock A. M ; after which an election will be bald for President and Board of Manager to eerra for the enaulna rear. The nolle will oloee at 1 o'clock P. M, 4l2ia26dtmi3 K. W. CLARK, President. gy- "PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE." A Lecture on the above anbjeet, by Bev. H. M. O AL LAH KB, l'astor of tbe Kirat Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., at tha TABKRNAOLK BAPTIST CHUROrl, ( HKSNUT Street, want of Eighteenth, on MONDAY EVENING, April S5, 1H70, at 8 o'clock, in aid of tha mis aionworkof the yonng people of the church. Tioksta, M cent, at the Piano Room of J. K. Gould, No. 923 (Jbennnt treat, and at No. 630 Arch etreot. 4 It 7t ly SOCIAL SCIENCE. DR. McILVAINE will deliver the last LKUTURK of his Course on thl snbjwt in the WALL oflHK HNrVKRSITTOF PENNSYLVANIA, NINTH Mreet, above Chesnut, ibis r.vMiinu. At 8 o'clock. Admission free. It May- MERCANTILE LIBRARY VOTES ON the question of keeping the Library open as a Read int Room on Hunclav will be received unt il 10 o'clookon HATUKDAY NIGHT. If anyof the members have not leoeived the ballots aent to them they can prooare them VlhH u'thSt'7' T. MORRIS PEROT, President. Hfiy- ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, 17TII '' Inst., the SPRUCE AND PINK STREETS PAS SENGER RAILWAY COMPANY will run their cam tD rough from the Exchange to i'airmount Park for ons fare. 4 161m OLOTMINQi UKEAT BK0WN HALL, 603 and 605 CHESNUT Street. Re & W Selling; Spring Suits from our i Stupendous Stock. Superior to all others in Style. Superior te all others In Economy. Superior to all others in Beauty. Superior to all others in M atonal. Superior to all others in Desiirn. Buperior to all others in Durability. Superior to all others in Oomfork Clothing Crowds of Customers with Choicest Clothes, Commended foe Kxoellenoe of Fit Commended for Chaapnew of Prion. Commended for Permanence of Color. Commended for Neatness of Adorn ment. Commended for Tastefulneas of Pat tern. Commended for Variety of Execution. Commended for General Desirability. Ready Raiment Regulated to the Requirements of all Reasonable R. & W Re & W, Headers. Ready to put on at onoe. Ready to give Entire Satisfaction. Ready to outwear any other. Ready at a moment's notioe. Ready for any Emergency. Ready for the Rush of Customers. Beady at Reduced Rates! till!! Come and see the Immense stock ot READY BAI M KN T on tha ground floor. Come and see out Incomparable CUSTOM DEPART MENT on the second floor. WESTON & BROTHER. TAILORS, 8 W. Corner NINTH and ARCH Sts PHILADELPHIA. A fall assortment of the moat approved styles for SPRING AND SUMMER WEAK, NOW IN STORE. A SUPERIOR GARMENT AT A REASONABLE PRICK. 418mrp DRY GOODS. SILK AND WOOL BLACK HEENANIS EDWIN HALL & CO., No. 28 SOUTH SECOND STREET, Opened this morning another lot or SILK and WOOL BLACK. UKKNAN13 8-4 SILK AND WOOL BERNANI8. 8-4 flLK AND WOOL HEKNANid, 8-4 WOOL GRENADINES. 8-4 WOOL ORHNADINKS. K1CH FIGURED GRENADINES. DLACK MOUAIRS, Light Textures. BLACK ALPACAS, Best Maken. BOMBAZINES, TAM1SK CLOTH P, Bto. U4p sixties: bilich: EDWIN HALL & CO., No. 28 SOUTH SECOND STREET, ARE SELLING BLACK SILKS CHEAPER THAN THEY HAVE iTOR TEAKS. GOOD BLACK SILK 8, flTX, 1. IWB and 12. BKHT GRADES OK BLACK SILKB. bTRIPB blLK8, l '50 and 11-75. CHECK BILK8, 8TMC, 1, $1-25, tltSO and U TS, GREY AND BLACK 8TKIPKS aad CHECKS, l-25. SOLID COtORM BILK8, Cheap. lup EDWIN HALL & CO., No. 28 SOUTH SECOND STREET, Invite the attention of friends and others to their stock of Plain and Neat Styles of DRESS GOODS AND SILKS. PLAIN STYLES 07 BILKS, tl-So. NEAT CHECK SILKS, $1125. NEAT STYLES STRIPES, $1-S8. PLAIN JAPANESE SILKS. PLAIN BILK POPLINKTTS. PLAIN NORWICH POPLINS. PLAIN SILK POPLINS. PLAIN STYLES WASH POPLIN8. PLAIN STYLES TAKO CLOTHS. MOHAIRS AND SERGES. PLAIN STYLES OF LAWNS. PLAIN STYLES OF DRESS GOODS la great Ta rlety, from 85 cents a yard up. 4 19 9t4p THE FINE ARTS. C. F. HA8ELTINE, No. 1125 CHESNUT STREET. FOR THIRTY DAY8 FROM DATE I WILL SELL MY IMMENSE STOCK AT A LARGE REDUCTION. A treat oppor canity to obtain choice goods In the FINE ARTS line at low prices. 11 10rp PIANOS. GRAND OPENING. RARE CHANCE. WILLIAM BLAQIUS Now Piano Store (Next door to my former place,) tFf 1008 frS CHESNUT STREET. FOR A SHORT TIMK ONLY, AT "VVliolesalo Irices, THE "DECICER BROS' " UNRIVALLED PIANOS, (Superior to Stelnway's). KRANICH, BACH & C0MPANTS, (Eqnal to 8teinway's), and M S lm SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS CHEAPER. CHARLES BLASIUS, SOLE AGENT FOR THE SALE OF STEHSTCAY Ci SOUS' frtJ World-Renowned Piano. ft-J (Agent for Steinway A Bona sinoe 1856.) AT THE OLD WAREROOM8, No. lOOG CHESNUT Street, 4 15 tf4p PHILADELPHIA. EIKKK8 AICIHMWr, 1"t? MAMCrAOTUBKHS OF FTRST-OLASS PIANO-FORTES. Fall gnu-ante and modarata prioe. S 2 WARKHOOMS. Mo. 810 ABOH Btr t. HOSIERY. COOK & BROTHER, RETAILERS OF HOSIERY GOODS, Exclusively of their own Importation, No. 63 North EIGHTH Street. ENGLISH, a J ,io8ieryoods' In all desirable qualities of SILK, "I BALBRIGQAN, WbKiNO, VlIOSIEIKY GOODS. COTTON, THREAD, J Messrs CAB. oiler their entire RETAIL STOCK at a reduction of SO PER CENT, npon their prices lor I8e. 413tas3m4p PERKINS & CO., 0 South niTJTIX Street, HAVE EVERY VARIETY OF HOSIERY MERINO WEAR, AT THE LOWEST PRICES. N. B Jouvln's best make of KID GLOVES, a tl 15; other mattes at tl and tl'50. S 17 thstu3m4p CLOTHS, OASSIMERES, ETO. LOWEST PRICES FOB FEWEST FABHXC3 IN Scotch Bannockburns. English Cassimeres. French Coatings. French Cassimeres. Paris Vestings. White Corduroys. Wm. T. Snodgrass & Co., No. 34 South SECOND Street, 829 tuthslm4p PHILADELPHIA. REAL ESTATE AGENT. DANIEL M. FOX & SON, Conveyancers and Real Estate Agents, No. 540 N. FIFTH ST., Philadelphia. Principal At:nov for Cottage and Lota at CAPE HAY and A'l LAWTIO PITY. 4U iu4b FRED. SYLVESTER. SEAL ESTATE BROKER, If o. SOS Soutk FOURTH Street, 1 8 8rp PHILADELPHIA, SUMMER RESORTS. GAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, Ucw Stockton ZXotcl, OPENS JUNE 25, 1870. TERM H .''M PKB DAT. Booms Can b eng a-sd upon application to m, it the OONTUi&NTAIt HOTAL. CHARLES DUFFY", PROPRIETOR. QOLONNAOC HOTEL, ' FIFTEENTH AND CHESNUT STS., ENTIRELY HEW AND HANDSOMELY FOB NlSliBD, is now ready for pnnanet or transient mast Mo. UM of HOTEL FKONT 8TOUB TO LET r.r ow to a rpoBslbl party. it GRAND INAUGURATION OF LOW PRICES. EES, 00LLA0AV & -AJRJE NOW OFFJSRING Tlio Avliolo of tlieir MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF DRESS GOODS, SILKS, ETC, Replete with all the CHOICEST NOVELTIES of this season, together with IAEGE IN VOICES of desirable goods pur chased in this market for Cash at ASTONISHINGLY LOW RATES. H., C. & CO. conclude that it is only necessary to qnot a few of their offerings as an Index of the prices at which this SUPERB STOCK will be disposed of, to Insure an early call. ZXandsome Double Width Chene , Iftohairs, 37 Cents. Double-fold Foulard ErXohairs, 45 Cents. Double-fold Norwich Poplins, in the new light shades, 56 Cents. Hoyle's "STard-wide English Prints, 25 Cents. Printed Satin Cloth, a new arti ; cle for the house or Walking Costume, 35 cents. One case of tho Finest Organdies Imported, 40 Cents. Real Scotch Ginghams, in all colors, 25 Cents. SCOTT'S ART GALLERY, No. 1117 CHESNUT Street, Girard Eow. HIGH The Sale of Mr. J. jyHUYVETTER'S of Antwerp) sale of Paintings takes place TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY EFEJV1JVOS, ' April 19 and 20. Finest collection ever offered in this city. To le sold without reserve. For list of artists look in auction column. 4 IB 6U GO 2 cases of French Foulard 2VXo hairs, now being sold bj the piece for 65 Cents, will be of fered at 56 Cents. Black Lyons Oros Orains an Drap de Lyon, of the best makes, from $150 to $800 per yard. Chene Silks of the latest designs of the Paris market, and extra quality, sold last Spring at $325, $250. Striped Silks from CI '50 to S2'00. Slack Canvas Bareges, extra su perb Quality, 62 Cents. Po. do. 76 Cents. Do. do. all widths and qualities, up to $600. Walking Suits, Lace Shawls, Lace Points, etc.. all at tha TSTOXX7 HATES, 4 is statu at ART. the Season. 33. SCOTT, JV.
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