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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1870.
nriaiT or txxd muss.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
"SINGLE" SUSAN.
From the ff. Y. Tribune.
As a general rule, peace, sweetness, and
order are never found in their fullness except
at conventions of the Woman's Suffrage As
aociation. In the meeting last week at Day.
ion, Ohio, there was nevertheless a painful
scene, which proved that even Miss Anthony
is not exempt from the common passions of
humanity. The usual speeches had been
made, and the usual practical business trans
acted, when somebody proposed a vote of
thanks to MiR8 Susan B. Anthony 'for her fifty
years of single blessedness, and her twenty
years' services in woman's cause." This
graceful compliment, we regret to say, Miss
Anthony "declined without thinks." We
call it graceful, for it was well-meant;
yet, after all, it was a little foolish.
In the first place it was unnecessary to
thank Miss Anthony for being fifty years
old, because she could not help it if she tried
ever so hard; and in the second place it was
absurd for a party of women to thank her for
remaining single we will not say because
the gratitude was due rather from the oppo
site sex, but because such an inordinate pro
longation of maidenhood is a very bad ex
ample. This seems to have been the
opinion of Mrs. Livermore, who, in trying
to explain the unfortunate resolution, plainly
told Miss Anthony that she ought to have
married. The excellent spinster replied
with rage, and "for half an hour denounced
man with a bitterness which indicated that
her soul was in it;" pbe "could not abide the
marriage relation," and she seemed equally
angry with the masculine sex" and wUli tile
ladies who had congratulated her upon keep
ing clear of it, and complimented her upon
a maturity of which she was supposed to be
proud. The storm was finally allayed by the
adoption of the following proclamation:
"The single ladles of the West enlisted in this
cause would like to tender Miss Susan B. Anthony
a vote of thanks for her recent celebration of her
fiftieth birthday, making single blessedness, even at
fifty, an honorable position, showing to the world
that a single woman can hare a home and an anni
versary an well as married people. It is decidedly
encouraging ty those who are compelled to remain
single 'from choice.'"
We don't see how this mends matters at
all. The objectionable allusions to Mis
Anthony's age and condition are as plain as
ever; and if these single ladies look upon it
as "decidedly encouraging" that a woman of
Miss Anthony's accomplishments can have
not "an anniversary," but forty-nine anni
versaries, without being married, we must
emphatically disagree with them. We regard
the case of Miss Anthony as one of the most
discouraging in the whole range of our ex
perience, and we don't wonder that she got
madi
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY TIG
IltON.
From the Ohio Slate Journal.
It is in no way surprising that a young,
arrogant, ignorant person, thrown untimely
into Congress by some upheaval of the sub
terraneans, should feel that our Government
stands in the relation of Divine Providence
to the people of the United States, and that
they Bhould look to it for daily food. Much
is to be forgiven in the overwhelming sense
of responsibility which disquiets the young
person in such a case. He feels us on his
xoind. He feels that sleepless vigilance is his
duty, in order that the world may be kept
wagging, and he learns slowly, if at all, that
that people is governed best which is gov
erned least.
But that men of reputation as grave and
experienced statesmen should so far mistake
the proper function of government as to sup
pose that all good citizens should pray daily
to the Ways and Means Committee, "Give us
this day our daily pig iron," is pitiable.
There is not a school boy in America whose
instruction should not enable him to correct
so absurd a misconception of the proper
sphere of government. Yet this is the
crowning grace of good statesmanship in the
eyes of some of our Congressmen of best
repute, and some of our journalists of widest
reputation.
We have a sincere and ardent regard for
Horace Greeley. If we could for a moment
permit ourselves to adopt his style and lan
guage we should Bay he is the best and most
honest wrongheaded idiot in the civilized
world. No man has a wider and higher con
ception of the capacities of journalism than
Mr. Greeley. No other man in all the caravan
of time has ever so thoroughly saturated any
journal with his own personality, and made it
ao potent an engine, as Mr. Greeley has done
with the Tribune. As a journalist we adore
Greeley. As a scientific farmer he excites
our respectful admiration. What he knows
about farming we are content to take on trust
without even reading it. liut as a political
economist the venerable woodsman Is not a
success.
His whole theory of political economy is
directed to requiring of Lrovernment a despe
rate attempt to make foreign manufactures
cost as much as our own to the consumer.
This is to be accomplished by forcing him to
pay the difference, and a trifle over, into the
ockets of a few capitalists. And Mr. Gree
ey thinks the whole power of the Govern
xnent, in all its branches, should be energized
in this direction. Congress should make
foreign pig iron cost as much as ours, or die
in the attempt. If any lunatio should embark
all his capital In an enterprise to produce na
tive bar steel out of costly cutlery, at ten
times the cost of imported bar steel, Gree
ley would demand that a tariff of ten times
the cost of the foreign article be laid upon
imported bar steel, in order that the native
lunatio mignt be protected from loss.
Some scientific farmer has recently demon
strated that a lair article of tea can be grown
in uaiuorma, ai a cost 01 ijsiu or $50 a pound
Greeley s theory will require of us that a
tariff be laid presently upon all foreign teas.
sufficient to "protect" this Californian in the
growth of tea, provided he cares to continue
the business. It is a merciful thing that
home production by less scientific native
farmers has been successful in giving the
American people s very fair squash at low
rates, or we should have had Mr. Greeley de
rounding g protection 01 two aouurs ana a
half on squashes, in order that he might keep
up his scientific farming without loss. ,
We forget, however, for the moment. Pro
tection is not for farmers. A farmer who is
opening up a new farm, and who finds it hard
to make expenses the first few years, while
his busirjf bs is in its infancy, does not expect
''protection, ana would not cet it if he did.
Protection is for the Yankee capitalist, who
is starting a new manufactory of some sort.
Tbe farmer, my friend, takes for his share
the privil ge of paying for protection not
of being J rotected. Let him buy any article
produced by our Yankee friend, and he will
tuitl vtLvi thv "proUvtivu vomcs in.
Tbe whole duty of Congressional man, ac
cording to the theory of Mr. Greeley and his
disciples in Congress, is, to constantly jigger
and adjust a protective tariff upon the con
flicting and varying class interests of capi
talists who have been so unwise as to adopt
pursuits requiring contribution from the
publie in order to enable them to continue
without loss. The duty of a statesman is to
Ascertain the amount of these little pecuniary
testimonials proper to be paid by the con
sumer of any given article to the short
sighted being who baa entered upon the bu
siness of producing it at a higher cost than
that for which it was already produced by
another man over the water.
GALVANIZING DEMOCRACY.
From the If. Y. Times.
The proposition of a few progressive lead
ers of the Democratic party to accept the
political results of the last decade, and to re
organize upon the basis of wider issues, is all
very well in theory, but, unfortunately for
themselves and the country, it is impossible
in practice. The ancient animus of the party
still controls it, and it is to-day as essentially
in antagonism to all that has been accom
plished since IMiO, as it was t all that had
been done previous to that year. There is
no question of this, and the very best evi
dence of it is to be found in the fact that
leaders and organs who have the courage to
counsel progress are at once denounced and
ostracized by the party. Independence of
thought or action is always sure to bring
those who exercise it to grief. Democracy
will not tolerate it, and experience has almost
invariably shown that malcontents are either
speedily brought into subjection, or that they
ultimately drift away from the party alto
gether, as was the case with the Barn-burners
and Free-Boilers.
The old party has been through a trying
ordeal, which many have thought would
jrove fatal to it. But it possesses a large
share of obstinate assertion and vitality.
Like the Ultra-Tory party of England, it re
sists all progress, and refuses to accept any
new ideas or enter upon any new line of ac
tion. It neither learns nor forgets. During
the war it contended for its ancient doctrine
as steadily as ever, and was only beaten back
from it step by Btep and by unceasing effort
by the Republican party. The very moment
the war ended it resumed its old position,
and finally became the avowed champion of
obstruction and reversal of all progressive ad
justment. People who cling to the traditions
of the Democratic party, and would fain reor
ganize it on the basis of progress, are only
deceiving themselves to no purpose. It is
growing more and more evident every
day that a new struggle is being organized
by the party, and particularly by the
Southern wing of it, which will settle the
complexion of the canvass of 1872, and af
ford a justification of the Republican policy
oi jmxvuvuiug iiavii vcumu constitutional
defenses.
Leading papers in various parts of the
South are openly discussing the validity of
the several Constitutional amendments which
have been adopted since the Rebellion broke
out, and boldly assert their purpose of resist
ance to them, lney declare that the issues
upon which the Democratic party was formed
are by no means obsolete, and that it is bad
policy to abandon the old organization, or to
meke any new alliances. The Constitution,
they argue, is a dead letter, and the only
supreme law is the will of Congress. The
checks and balances adopted by the founders
of the Government for the preservation of
our political equilibrium are all destroyed,
according to their interpretation, and the
only hope of restoring them is by the defeat
of the Republican party and the undoing of
all its work for the past ten years. We be
lieve that this is to be the attitude of the
Democratic party in the next national can
vass. The indications are conclusive to our
mind that the policy foreshadowed by Frank
Blair's Brodhead letter will be again adopted
and boldly adhered to.
We have little fear of the result of such a
contest, provided only the Republican party
will be true to itself and to its great trust.
The only danger is that the leaders will not
appreciate the impending crisis in time, and
conform to its requirements in the way of
preparation for resistance. The party must
be nationalized in policy and organization;
we must adopt a broader action and effect a
fuller accomplishment of our principles. If
we do not and that speedily the result may
be disastrous. The interval of time for all
this is short, but, if properly improved, it is
sufficient. The chief danger of delay lies in
the fact thct it may be accepted as an indica
tion of weakness or incapacity, and this
should be carefully avoided. Meanwhile,
the responsibility rests with Congress. If
it acts vigorously and wisely, the contest
of 1872 may be substantially decided in
advance.
TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Our English exchanges cornel to ns filled
with indignant attacks upon the present
system of treatment in use in their insane
asylums. Two keepers of the county mad
house at .Lancaster nave jnst Deen sentenced
to seven years' penal servitude for the murder
of one William Wilson, who was admitted to
the asylum on December 17, and In less than
a week was pummelled and kneaded to death,
bis ribs being literally broken into bits under
the knees of his attendants. The Larl of
Shaftesbury, head of the Board of Commis
sioners in Lunacy, calls attention to this, and
to "the frequent cases of like cruelty and
neglect," in the Timest but without suggest
ing any effectual remedy. In fact, as the
Lnohsh journals acknowledge, there is no
remedy so long as helpless idiots and lunatics
are massed togetner in large asylums, Tinier
the absolute control of keepers over whom
the surveillance of the law is slight, and
acainst whose cruelty in such cases as this
there is ordinarily no evidence but that of
the crazed patients, whom fear will keep
silent. A Btrong feeling is growing up, both
in England and this country, against these
enormous madhouses,' where, as says the
Examiner, human beings are aggregated to
gether to be treated like wild beasts, or,
under the mildest treatment, to foster and
breed insanity by mere contact. The Lancet
is foremost in denouncing, on medical grounds,
tbe modern monster asylums. The treatment
now practised in Scotland and Belgium is
Btrongly recommended. In this, "the patient
is boarded in the country, where he is fur
nished with light employment and surrounded
by sune people; the fever of his blood has
here a chance to cool, and ploanis of the lost
light of reason to gladden his troubled brain."
This system, we believe, has been used for
many years with great euccess in Germany.
The matter deserves attention here as much
as in England. We have been so wont to re
gard the great piles of cut stone in which the
insane are imprisoned for cure as one of the
great humanitarian triumphs of the age, that
we trouble ourselves very little about what
goes on inside of them. So glaring has been
tbe public negligence that it is only lately we
have wkbuu the fact that they couU be
and were used as convenient prisons for sane
people. The Pennsylvania Legislature passed
a law regulating the method of admission into
madhouses last year, and from one of her
most respectable asylums eleven sane men
were disgorged in a week, whose relatives had
supposed they were comfortably Btowed away
for life. No such law has been introduced in
New York. In the very highest of these pri
vate asylums, the tortures of the shower-bath,
straight-jacket, and saddle are still used; but
worse than these (for these are only pre
scribed by the superintendents) is the fact
that the patients are under the almost abso
lute control of keepers who are almost inva
riably selected from the lowest and most
uneducated classes. In the male wards
strength is, perhapB necessarily, the principal
requisite in the attendants, who are ordinarily
low, stolid immigrants. Few women of re
finement and tenderness, unfortunately, are
willing to accept the place of keeper in a
madhouse. The fact is, therefore, perhaps
unavoidable, that the men and women ' thus
thrown in contact with the poor creatures
who are hurt in soul and not in body, are
those least fitted to understand their needs
and most apt to abuse by cruelty the power
entrusted to them. Of all helpless creatures,
the one who most strongly calls for our pro
tection and skill and patience is he upon
whose most vital part, the very life of his
life, darkness has fallen. If his leg were
broken we would give him careful nursing,
pure air, ease and comfort; but when it is
only his brain that is diseased, we give him
for a companion and keeper a man whom he
probably would not employ as a servant, and
mug nim witn nis own peculiar mania into
the company of four or five hundred other
maniacs, that they may teach each other more
reasonable views of life.
It needs only a visit to the best of our
asylums, and a cool, unbiassed examination of
it, according to the light of ordinary common
sense, to make us doubt the efficacy of all
overgrown routine reforms. Men (and much
ess women) will not be made sane by pla
toons, according to one vague, indiscriminate
system. What is yet doubt with ns is cer
tainty in England. Tbe call for a change to
the Scotch mode is loud and imperative. We
should profit by their example so far at least
as to place our public and private asylums
under strict -legal surveillance. The latter
have long since ceased to be charities, and
are joint stock concerns, which yield heavy
dividends to their corporators. Whether they
are efficient or not in their mode of cure per
haps concerns those only who make use of
them; but it is the duty of the public to make
such atrocities as that of Lancaster impossible
in them. They are not impossible now.
GOVERNOR GEARY AS AN ORATOR.
From the Jlarrisburg Patriot.
If there be one quality for which Governor
Geary will be more distinguished than
another: it is the excellence and brilliancy of
his oratory. As a soldier and a statesman he
has won unlading laurels, but tne intoxicating
rewards of the orator are most dearly coveted
by his Excellency. Nothing so delightful to
him as to see the crowd swayed to and fro by
his masterly eloquence. One of the pecu
liarities of tne oratory of the Governor is the
skill with which he can address himself to the
hearts of the particular audience with which
he has to deal. There are several anecdotes
which illustrate this quality, but we need not
now refer to them. An instanco of his
wonderful versatility and skill is his recent
address to the negroes in the Capitol grounds,
on the occasion of the celebration of the fif
teenth amendment. He appeared before his
audience altogether unprepared. And here it
may be remarked that his Excellency never
is, and never will be prepared. The sudden
ness of the emergency brings into immediate
play all his oratorial powers. All that is re
quired is tne audience, bet tne uovernor
before it and the eloquence gushes from him
as from an Italian improvisatore. Prepara
tion we fear would mar his best efforts.
In the address to the negroes he at once
gained their sympathy by declaring that he
had been an abolitionist from the sixteenth
year of his age. He saw a gang of slaves
once, one hundred and fifty in number, hand
cuffed to a log chain, and march away to town
to be sold. He said: "I yearned in my heart
for them, and from that day became a con
firmed abolitionist. Then skillfully chang
ing the theme the Governor told his audience
of a remarkable negro whom he onee met in
Mexico. Exclaimed the orator: "The best
mathematician I ever knew was as black as
the ace of spades, the collector at Vera Cruz.
I thought, np to the time I met him, that I
knew something of mathematics, but after a
short conversation with him I slunk away
conquered." The fame of the great Arago,
of Hutton, of Legendre, or .Napier, and otner
learned mathematicians, must hereafter grow
dim before that of the nameless negro whom
Governor Geary met in Mexico. It must hare
been an inspiring sight to witness Geary and
this negro in Vera Cruz doing sums. It is
the first time our hero was ever defeated
ciphering with a darkey in Mexico.
Turning back again to his youthful career
as an abolitionist, the orator, with well
assumed humanity, said: "I do not and
never did consider it disgraceful to say I was
an abolitionist, although I was sixteen years
of age before I arrived at that point. And
now hew grateful to my heart is it that,
during my life from sixteen years of age to
the present time, I have never hesitated to
give my voice and right hand," eto. We
must refer the reader to the printed report
for the remainder of this remarkable ad
dress. It has been 6aid that successful ora
tors are all deceivers, and it is quite evi
dent that Governor Geary is no exception.
The crowd loves to be deceived, and he who
would gain their good will must indulge
larelv in invention. Governor Geary was
addressing himself to an audience consisting
mainly of negroes, not one of whom could
challenge his assertions; and in this, we re
peat, consists his skill as an orator. Had he
been addressing a: audience of white men
in Westmoreland or Cambria, he would have
been extremely careful not to make tne asser
tion that he had been a "confirmed abolition
ist" from his sixteenth vear. To them he
would have boasted of his ancient and un
adulterated Democracy.
When John W. Geary was sixteen years of
see. we are carried back nearly to the time
when Lloyd Garrison and other agitators
began their abolition movement. We venture
to say that none of the original Abolitionists
ever heard of him. lie was a Democratic
office-holder as soon as he could get a posi
tiou after attaining his majority, and it is not
iikelv that he ever communicated to the
most intimate friend the dangerous aad de
testable opinions which he held. To have
done so would have lost him his office, and
the good will of his neighbors, Whigs and
Democrats alike; and John W. Geary never
was the man to make such sacrifices for a
principle. There was not, in the early days te
which be alludes, a solitary Abolitionist in the
counties of Cambria and Westmoreland
Not one. So far from rendering any assist
ance to their denpised cause, it i safe to say
Umt the Hfum of John. W, Geary c&saot !
found on any subscription list of the aboli
tionists. Not a stray number of the Anti-
klarery Standard ever stuck out of his coat-
pocket, and he carries his opinions so closely
about him that no man ever found them out.
He voted for David R. Porter, a good Demo
crat, when he might have supported Lemoyne,
had he been a confirmed abolitionist He
supported a slaveholder in the person of
James K. Polk, while the abolitionists voted
for James G. Birney. About those times he
was distributing Democratic newspapers
ameng the laborers on the Portage Railroad,
and charging the subscription price
on the check rolls, and these papers con
stantly denounced the abolitionists as
seditious and treasonable in their conduct
end speeches. He could not have held office
one hour had his abolitionism been known.
He could not have been elected colonel of a
regiment during the Mexican War. Presi
dent Tolk never would, in response to his
mrortunities, have sent him as postmaster to
San Francisco, and the people would never
afterwards have chosen him Alcaldo had they
suspected him of abolitionism.
Ueary voted for Mr. Buchanan in 18rG.
Had he been an Abolitionist he would
have preferred Fremont. Because he
pretended to be a Democrat he was sent
to Kansas as Governor. We have care
fully read Dr. Gihon'B interesting boo'i
containing all of Governor Geary's soeeches.
including the Gardiner one, but there is not
a Dream oi abolitionism in the whole of them.
He kept his principles carefully hid about
him until a week ago. when ho declared to
his negro auditors that he had been an aboli
tionist from his sixteenth year! This is the
most remarkable instance of life-long success
in concealing real opinions on the Dart of &
politician that has ever come under the obser
vation of the public. Most persons would be
inclined in their indignation to apply some
other term concerning Geary's avowal of abo-
A m . -
nuonism 10 tne negroes, but we put it down
as an example of his most striking and most
familiar characteristic as an orator and a man.
MRS. LINCOLN'S PENSION.
From Vie S. Y. World.
There is an unseemliness in the abortive
attempts to procure a pension for the widow
of Abraham Lincoln. We suppose few people
care much whether she has a moderate pen
sion or not; but it belittles Congress and dis
parages her to have the subject come up every
' A . m f "11 a - .
session in tne iorm oi a ma wmcn tana to
pass. If pensions of that kind are inadmis
sible on grounds of economy, or constitution
ality, or any other valid public grounds, the
application ought to nave been referred to a
respectable committee, and a report made
setting forth the reasons of a refusal, which
could not then be construed as a reflection on
her personal character. She would then be
no longer tantalized with vain hopes of Gov
ernment assistance, and something might be
done for her relief by private liberality. If
the reasons for refusal are not public but per
sonal, it would have seemed discreet and
delicate for her friends to have ascertained
from the members of both houses, by private
consultation, whether they would vote for a
pension, and if a majority could not be pro
cured let the subject quietly drop. If given
at all it should be given with a graceful
appearance of liberality; if refused, no noise
should be made about it.
It is natural that Mrs. Lincoln should think
sho has claims on the nation. The unbounded
eulogies which have been lavished on her
husband as the great martyr of a great cause.
and the chief among all the recent benefac
tors of his country, contrast singularly
enough with the fact that hia widow is an un
successful beggar for a modest pension to
save her from want. Lven if the Govern
ment ought not to relieve her, it would seem
strange that she should be left in destitution.
Mr. Stanton ranked far below Mr. Lincoln
in Republican estimation; but hia family
was promptly and amply provided for.
Nobody thought of applying to Congress for
a pension, but a hundred thousand dollars
was immediately raised by subscription.
A sum half as large was raised in
the same way for Mrs. Rawlins, although her
husband had never been very conspicuous
except as a member of General Grant's staff.
General Grant himself , and Ueneral Sherman,
have received heavy donations; and the pri
vate liberality of admirers seems a more fit
ting way of attesting appreciation and grati
tude than the bestowal of money from the
Treasury, by a stretch of constitutional au
thority or the charitable notion of classing
deceased civilians with men who fell in
battle. If the bill granting a pension to Mrs.
Lincoln fails to pass the Senate, we hope no
more attempts of the kind will be made. It
ought to be easy to do for Airs. Lincoln what
has beeh done for the family of Mr. Stanton,
by tbe same method of private subscription,
if there is any sincerity in the abounding
praise which it is the habit of all Republicans
to bestow upon ner nusband.
THE WHITE DAMON AND BLACK
PYTHIAS.
From the S. Y. Standard.
The PaU Mall Gazette said the other day
"it would be impossible to find now a man in
America who would admit that he had ever
denied the right of the negro to vote." No
thing could be more truthful than this asser
tion, which shows a knowledge of American
politics almost incredible in an inglishman.
The ratification of the fifteenth amendment
worked miracles in politics; it suddenly trans
formed the nigger into a colored man, and
African baboons into intelligent citizens. The
most ardent apologists for slavery are now
the most uncompromising advocates of im
partial suff rage. Wendell Phillips' occupation
is gone. Nothing is more touching than the
generosity with which the editor of the New
iork Jtxpre admits mat ne nas been wrong
all his life, and that the negro is not only
his equal, but may even be his su
perior. Those eloquent articles which
have lately appeared in that paper appealing
to Democrats to forget their prejudices, to
say no more about monkeys of African
descent, to accept the negro as their peer,
have been welcomed with a burst of en
thusiasm by the party. The readers of the
Erprem now declare that they prefer the
Biiiell of the negro to the perfume of the
roses of Cashmere, and that a flat nose is a
type of higher beauty than the Grecian.
Brick Pomeroy, too, in the Democrat daily
advocates universal sympathy, and offers his
paper for one year free to any person who
will marry a colored lady, stipulating that
be shall be pure African. This magnificent
bribe chows his perfect sincerity. As for
the World, it is wild on the subject of negro
superiority, and three or four genuine freed
men are now employed upon its editorial
etaff , especially engaged to write upon South
ern politics. Honorable John Morrissey
would knock any man down who should dare
to dny that Senator Revels is not the equal
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OI OCUSIUI DttUlBUUrj, tUlU OUU.HUUIJI UlUianu
demands that the fifteenth amendment shall
be enforced in Delaware. In Congress Mr.
James Brooks rises and insists that the oero
representatives shall be admitted f torn LouiaL.
muu Xa (kMt'lfc iHwu HS
starts a colored brother in the whisky busi
ness, and urges all good Democrats to patron
ize bis bar. Every day in Broadway we see
white and black men embracing, and if,
sometimes, there is a mistake made in the
sex.it only shows that the millennium of good
feeling is carried to an affecting extreme.
From all these facte it will be seen that the
PaU Mall Gatttte is right, and that all preju
dice against the colored race is forever ended
in America.
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PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken In
xchange for the above at best market rates.
WE OFFER FOR SALE
THE FIKST MORTGAGE BONDS
OF TBI
SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA IRON
ADD
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Thee Bonds ran THIRTY TEARS, and par SEVEN
PBR CENT, interest in sold, clear of all taxes, parable
at the First national Bank in Philadelphia.
Tbe amount of Bonds loaned is $t43,000, and are
secured ij a First Mortgage on real estate, railroad, and
franchises of the Company the former of which coat two
hundred thousand dollars, whioh has been paid for from
Btock subscriptions, and after the railroad is finished, so
that the products of the mines ean be brought to market.
It is estimated to bo worth 81,000,000.
Ihe Railroad oonnects with the Cumberland Valley
Railroad about four miles below Ohambersbarft, and runs
through a section of the most fertile part of the Comber
land Valley.
We sell them at Oil and accrued interest from Maroh L
For further particulars apply to
C. T. YERKE8, Jr., CO.,
BANKERS,
HO 3 BOUTH THIRD .STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
JayCooke&G).
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND
WASHINGTON,
BANKERS
Dealers in Government Securities.
Epeclal attention given to the Purchase and Bale of
Bonds and Stocks on Commission, at the Board of
Brokers In this and other cities.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS.
GOLD AND 8ILYER BOUGHT AND SOLD.
RELIABLE RAILROAD BONDS FOR INVEST
MENT. Pamphlets and full Information given at our office,
No. 1 14 S.TIIIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
418m
JLLIOTT
BANKERS
D V It If,
Wo. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURI
TLBS, GOLD BILLS, ETC
DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND ISSUE
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ON THE
UNION BANK OF LONDON.
ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTBR8 OF CREDIT
ON LONDON AND PARIS, available throaghoat
Europe.
Will collect all Coupons and Interest free of oaarge
for parties making their financial arrangements
with na,
AVI fc CO.,
No. 48 SOUTn THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDIKNING, DAVIS & AMOHY,
No. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YOKE,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Receive deposits subject to check, allow Interest
on standing and temporary balances, and execute
orders promptly for the purchase and sale of
STOCKS, BONUS and GOLD, In either city.
Direct telegraph communication from Philadelphia
house to New fort 11
STEAMBOAT LINES.
tr-f FOR CHESTER, HOOK. AND
1VV? WILMINGTON -The steamer H. M. KKT,
JiJsTON leaves CUKKMUTb I B KKT WUikf
at lo A, M. and 8 hO V, M: ; leaves WILMINU TON at s i0
A.kLaad 11 M P.M. Vara te WUmuurtoa It eeaw.
KxcBjraWa"uteia,ft6 eeata. GbArM H U?v ;
FINANCIAL.
A RELIABLE HOME INVESTMENT.
$1,000,000 First Mortgage Sinking
Fund 7 Per Cent.
GOLD BONDS
OF THI
Frederickiburg and Oordoniville Bail
road Company, of Virginia,
Principal ana Intercut Payable
In Coin,
Free of U. S. Government Tax.
The road Is sixty two miles Ion, connecting t rederlcka
pure;, via Orange Oourt House, with Uherlo: imti lie, which
is the point of junction of the (jh.ape. k and Ohio Kail,
road to the Ohio river, and the extension of the Oranjra
and Alexsndna Kailroad to Lynchburg. H forms the
yhottfmt eonaertiDfr link in the sy.tom of roads loading to
the entire booth, Southwest, and Wert, to the PaoiSe
c?fB :i pfsw? tbr?Kb ch section of the Khenandoaa
alley, the local traffic of which alone will snpport the
road, and it must command an abundant share of throns-h
trade, from the fact of it beinr a SHORT OTJT T
Tinc'WATRR o THK "oTOMiO AT ' THB
KAKTHF8T INI.AlfD POINT WHKRR PKHP
WATER rOR HEAVY BHIPPING CAR PK FOlJNr.
ON WHOLK LRNOTH OK THB ATLANTIC COAST
Krorn CharlpttenTille to tidewater by tin. mnte the disl
tance is40 miles 1am than via Alnxanrlria; miles lea
than ia Richmond and West Point; IM miles leas thaa
Tia Norfolk.
The mort race Is limited to $16,000 per mile of eotnpleted
snd equipped road (the estimated eost of the road to the
Company, furnished and equipped, will eicoed $:,MX p.r
miln, thu. gifinn the bondholders ao nnn.nal margin, the
rwnd.d debt of the othnr Virginia roads being from 20 uuo
to $:w,0u0 per milo)-and Is turned to
rilJI' l AKMcKS' LOAN ANI TRU8T COMPANY
OF HEW TORK, AS TRUSTKKS FOK
THK BONDHOLDERS,
and the security i firstrclaas in every respeot.
A MNKINU FUND is alo proTidml, which will redao
the principal of the debt TWO THIRDS of its entire
amount in advanoe of the maturity of the ben da
We have investigated tbe advantages of this Rallroael
and the merit, of the enterprise, and confidently recom
mend these bonds to onr cnatomnrs and tbe nnhlio.
DKAKK BROTHERS, Bankers,
. . No. 16 Broad street. New Vork.
A limited Bomber of the Bond(iue0 in denomination
of $500 and $ hJUU) are offered at MX and Interest from
?r.T.pmt.M 'Jn ehrreney, snd at this prite are the
OHKAPKST GOLD INTKRK8T It K A RING 8ECTJKI-
T1K.8 IN THK MARK.KT.
Maps and Pamphlet, which explain satisfactorily aver
question that can possibly be raised by a party seeking a
safe and profitable Investment, will be furnished on appli
cation. SAMUEL WORK,
BANKER,
No, 35 South TIIIRI Street.
PHILADELPHIA. SHmth
SILVER
On hand and FOR SALE lr
amounts and sizes to
SUIT.
DE HA YEN & mo.
No. 40 South THIRD Street.
I Hi
pm 8. PETERSON & CO.,
No. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
GOVERNMENT AND STATE LOANS, RAIL
ROAD STOCKS AND BONDS, bought and sold 00
commission.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSIT, subject to
check at sight.
LOANS on collateral promptly negotiated. 1 Ml
B. K. JAMISON & CO..
SUCCESSORS TO
P. IT. KELLY St COM
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN
Gold, Silver and Government Bond
At Closest Market Kates,
N. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESBfTJT Stv
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS.
In New York; and Philadelphia Stock Boards, eto,
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FOR SALE.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. SO South THIRD Street,
M PHILADELPHIA.'
D. C. WHARTON SMITH t CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
Ho. 121 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
flnooeesors to Bmith, B ndolph Oa
Xvary braaao of tha kaslneaa will bars prompt attoaUoa
as heretofore.
Quotations, of Blocks, Governments, and Gold eon.
stantlf received from New York brf9 b boa oof
friends. E4mnnd D Randolph A CM
JET GOODS. NEWEST STXLEd DIXON'S
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