THE DAILf EYE3N1NG TELEORArn rHILADELrniA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10; 1870.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1870.
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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.
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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.