2 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1870. srxniT or Ttxn run as. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. TIIE CAPITAL OP OUR UNION. From the N. Y. Tribuns. The Senate Toted oa Wednesdaj to spend B.n unnecessary million oa the present Fede ral metropolis $V0, OIK) to build a new State Department, aDd a like ruui to bay two adJi tional Rqriarea of ground eastward the C ipi tol. Of course, these'suma will not buili the edifice and buy the grounds they will simply begin to do Bo. But, even if they were not mere entering-wedges, we should BtronuoiHly object to theiu, because I. Ab the deferential boarder said to hU landlady of her bed-bugs, we "really haven't the blood to spare." The arduous and neces sary task of funding our national debt at a lower rate of interest, so as to dimmish by twenty or thirty millions its annual burden, is still before us. It can only be achieved by keeping the revenue largely in excess of the expenditures, so as to appreciate our bond by weekly purchases; and yet, almost every one seems intent on rendering this impos sible by reducing income on the one hand and increasing expenditure on the other. The ninety-seven millions of national debt which was paid during the last year did not merely reduce our total indebtedness by that amount. It virtually reduced that indebted edness another hundred millions, by so ap- Ereciating our credit that we could now orrow at five per cent, as easily as we coul 1 at six a year ago. We ought not to reduce our excess of income over current expendi ture a fraction till our whole redeemable, interest-bearing debt shall have been f undod at a rate not exceeding five per cent. How can it be that Congress should act as if insen sible to this consideration ? II. The location of the capital of our coun try is forced upon our consideration by a serioup, and formidable agitation in the Great . .Wfcst.' The question must evidently be met; and it should be considered and settled be fore new expenditures are authorized looking to the aggrandizement of Washington city. For, should the capital be removed, all th it the million just voted by the Senate will buy or produce could not be sold for $100,00;). It were improvidence atfd prodigality to dis burse a million for such objects and not kn jic that we are to get our money's worth. "First be sure you're right, then go ahead ! " is the true rule. III. We all know that the United States of 1870 is a very different country than the United States of 17!0. The latter had less than four millions of people, the former has forty milliens. The latter was bounded west ward by the Mississippi and southward by the Altamaha, covering an area of less than one million square miles. The former extends to the Gulf of Mexico and the mouth of the Rio Grande del Norte, to the Pacific, to Puget's Sound, and to Behring's Straits, and is obviously destined to still further enlarge ment at an early day.' If, therefore, it were unquestioned that Washington City were the best possible location for our capital seventy or eighty years ago, it by no means follows that it remains so. On the contrary, tho presumption Is irreRtntible that accessions of territory which have at least trebled the area of our Union demand a reconsider .tion of that point. IV. We do not consider the geographical centre of this or any other country neces sarily the fittest location for its capital. If it were, London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, and most other great capitals are deplorably misplaced. Other things being equal, the geographical centre has obvious advantages; but other things are never, or very rarely, equal. The capital of , a great nation snouia ne a great, intelligent, wealthy city. It should have such resources inde pendent of Government as to support an able, independent, powerful press. It should proffer ample and attractive accom modations to visitors and sojourners, aud not require them to pay for three months' rise the cost of nine months' waiting. It should have ready and cheap access to inex haustible supplies of food, building mate rials, etc., etc. It should proffer cheap and swift transportation to every part of the country. Above all, it should have a busi ness and industry so vast that the patronage of the Government should be a flea-bite in comparison, so as not to train up its popula tion to the one pursuit of boring gimlet-holes into the Treasury for the supply of their per sonal wants, and then seeking to enlarge them to auger-holes as rapidly as possible. V. Capitals arbitrarily located, and thence often named after their founder, have always proved mistakes. Witness Coustantinople, St. Petersburg, -Washington. A Government should accept the national metropolis, ani never attempt to create one. VI. Our judgment that New York is the natural and proper capital of the Union is based on general and permanent considera tions. This city is more readily and cheaply reached from all parts of our country than any other point on that country's surface. If all the men likely ever to be sent to Con gress were separately asked, "In case you should be required to spend a winter away from home, where would you prefer that it should be?" three-fourths of them would answer, "In New York." So would nlue tenths of the ambassadors sent hither from Europe. Every variety of entertainment is to be had here in greater abundance and of better average quality than elsewhere on this continent. Our theatres, musio-halls, parks, drives, clubs, etc., are better and ampler than any other. Almost every element of refined, elegant, luxurious living is to be had here in greater abundance than elsewhere, and at prices generally cheaper. VII. New York does not aspire to be the capital. She never put forth exertions to that end. We believe no Congress has met in this city since 1787. But since the West has initiated an agitation for removal, we suggest that the whole question is opened, and that it is a very broad one. Let it be thoroughly considered and definitively settled. And no w is the accepted time. VIII. A grand committee of Congress should be constituted by joint action of the two houses, to which this subject should be referred, and ample time given for its careful consideration. Let every locality have a patient hearing, and let every element that should enter into the calculation be accorded its due weight. If national economy and general convenience may be subserved by removing the capital to St. Louis, or to any other point, thither let it go, on condition that such locality provide the Government with publio grounds and edifices equal in capacity, utility and value to those it now possesses at Washington, taking these in ex change for them. But, until the subject of location shall have been duly considered and settled, we protest against any further expen diture of publio money in the purchase of ad tion&l grounds or the erection of new Gov ernment structures ia the city of Washington. TIIE DARIEN SHIP CANAL PROJECT. Frrnn the Jf. Y. BfraUL We have had various unfavorable reports from the United States Surveying Expedition of the explorations of the Isthmus of Darien in search of a route for a ship canal between the two oceans, but we have still entertained a hope that a feasible route in that quarter would be discovered. It Appears, however, that Captain Selfridge in a recent despatch sayn: "We have finished surveying the Darieu and found it impracticable for a ship canal. I am now at work on the line from ti e Gulf of Kan Bias, about eighty miles east of Afpinwall, with better prospects of suc cess. I expect to get through ho that tho ex pedition can return to the United States about the middle of June." This may be considered as settling the question against the isthmus route of Darien proper, and we are not very sanguine that a route will be found in the neighborhood of San Bias more feasible than that of the Aspin wall and Panama Railroad. The little Gulf.of San Bias is about eighty miles down the Atlantic coast from Aspinwall, and between that gulf and the great Bay of Panama on the Pacific we have the narrowest part of the isthmus (about thirty-six miles across), which divides North from South America. Several small streams from the backbone of the Continent descend into the Gulf of San Bins, and it maybe that some one of them interlocks with the river Chepo, which flows in the opposite direction from the dividing ridge into Panama Bay. This river Chepo is a considerable stream, and is at several points within fifteen miles of the Atlantic coast, so that it is pro bable that some stream may be found on this side which opens a way, with a very little cutting, through to the Chepo, and by its channels to the Pacific, llenoe, we presume Captain Self ridge's prospects of suc cess in this quarter. We are, however, pre pared for adverse report, even from San Bias, because the mouth of the river Chepo is so convenient to the old city of Panama that we think if, by following the course of that river, an easy outlet might be fouud through to tho Gulf of San Bias, the early Spanish settlers of Panama would have found it. In any event this exploring expedition of Captain Selfridge will be very valuable to the civilized world in settling all geographical doubts as to tho feasibility or impracticability of a ship canal at any point on the Darien Isthmus between the month of the Atrato river and Aspinwall, a distance along the At lantic coast of some three hundred miles. We think it possible that a feasible canal route will be discovered from the Gulf of San Bias; but we apprehend, from the reason suggested, that the backbone of the Conti nent in this narrow isthmus will be found not to present anywhere the required depres sion for a through ticket by steamship with out such a labor of locks and dams as to render the canal too costly and tedious to pay. Assuming that such will be the result of the explorations of Captain Selfridge's competent engineers, we shall be compelled to come northward to the Nicaragua route for our interoceanic ship canal. Nor do we think that a route exists for a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific that has a fifth part of the advantages of this route, and especially for the United States. From New York to San Francisco it will be the saving over a ship canal at the Darien isthmus of over a thou sand miles; and to sailing vessels, from the calms and baffling winds which prevail about Panama, it will be the saving of at least a month in the voyage. We have heretofore had occasion to quote from the book of Commander Bedford Pim, of the British Navy, on "The Gate of the Pacific," some of his opinions and estimates of a ship canal by the Nicaragua route, and in the hope of drawing the attention of our Government to this route we will draw again upon this English explorer. He estimates the cost of a ship canal from oooan to ocean, one hundred and ninety-one miles, by the Nicaragua route, substantially as follows: From the Atlantic, by canal along the river San Juan to the Luke Nicaragua. ..2,500,000 From the. wtet side of the Lake and to the end of a tunnel or cut on the Pacific Bide 1,500,000 Descent to the PaclUc OCO.OUO Total : 4,500,000 or twenty-two millions, five hundred thou sand dollars. The level of Lake Nicaragua above the ocean on either side is about three hundred feet, which will have to be overcome by locks; but unless a lower depression is found between San Bias and Panama Bay than three hundred feet or two hundred, this elevation of Lake Nicaragua, taken into the estimate, will not disturb the great advan tages of this route over any other one. The present Emperor Napoleon, in a pam phlet on this Nicaragua route for a ship canal, written in 1847, says of it: "There exists in the Now World a State as admirably adapted as Constantinople, and, we must say, up to the present time as uselessly occupied (for the control of the world's commerce, he means). We nllude to the State of Nicaragua. As Constantinople is the centre of the ancient world, bo is the town of Leon, or rather Massaya (in Nicaragua) the centre of the new; ar.d if the tongue of land (fifteen miles) which separates its two lakes from the Pacifio Ocean were cut through (he means that the San Juan river, up into Lake Nica ragua, as it is, would answer for the time being), sie would command, by her central position, the entire coast of North and South America. Like Constantinople, Massiya is situated between two extensive natural har bors (the two lakes) capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The State of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople, the necessary route for the great commerce of the world," and much more to the same effect. In the event, then, of the failure to dis cover any available route at the Darien isth mus for a ship canal, we would urge upon General Grant an active movement in behalf of a canal over the Nicaragua route as the only available interoceanic canal route on the Continent, and as the route whish, from its geographical position, is the best of all routes for the United States. TIIE SCniSM OF SUFFRAGE. From the If. Y. M'urlJ. It is not a very high compliment to the Bpeech which Mr. Beecher made on assuming the presidential trook over his division of tho female fold that it was by far the most pertinent as well as tho most entertaining of the addresses to which either of the rival associations was subjected. It did not, in deed, adduce any new arguments, but it put the old ones in a striking light, as the char acteristic merit and practice of its author is. Why there should have been two associa tions and two conventions at all, or upon what point of principle or policy the two con ventions differed, ere questions upon which we have no more light than upon those im memorial conundrums of what song the fcirens sung and by what name Ulysses went among the women; and, indeed, they are even more hoDeless. filTlCd Kir Thiania I Browne assures us that the latter, though he admit them to be puzzling questions, are not beyond conjecture; and it is doubtful if even Miss Anthony, on the one hand, or Mrs. Lucy Stone BWckwoll en the other, could give an in elligible ac count of how the house of suffrage came to bo divided against itself, or what was the origin of the war which now rages so flerooly between the female factions. Not that we wish to invite either of those excellent la lias to such a disclosure. On the contrary, it is deeply to be deprecated, in the interest of humanity at large. We only suggest it to show that mere human newspaper writers may hesitate to rush in where such angol fear to tread, and that the grounds of quarrel which the participants in it fail to recall are neither discoverable by extraneous persons nor of interest to them. And even if the ex citing cause of the Cleveland convention could be made known, the case lias since been so hopelessly muddled by the interposition and attempted mediation of a third party that nobody can declare to which of the conven tions which have now ceased to vex the ears and newspapers of men was confided, either by right or by authority, the care of the cause which both professed to promote. But, remitting the origin and the ethics of the dispute to the region of the unknowable, it is permitted us to point out that the con vention over which Mr. Tilton presided, aud which appropriately assembled itself in Apollo nail, presents itself to us as the representa tive of New York, and that the hostile camp commanded by Mr. Beechor was, whether or not exclusively a Boston body, animated by a purely Bostonian spirit. Whereas the first was under the control of those im memorial champions of the cause, Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony, the latter worshipped strango Bostonian gods and went off into irrelevant Bostonian lhapsodios, par taking rather of the nature of a transcen dental torch-dance than of those sober aud judicious ntterances to which our own apos tles of female suffrage have accustomed us. This difference ought alone to conciliate our regards for the indigenous product, aud to stimulate us to the "protection" of that "home industry" which has succeeded in building np a Jlecolutioa, in preference to that foreign labor which has hitherto only been adequate to the production of a Wo man's Journal. The practical results of the two organiza tions are what we might have anticipated from their origin and their conduct. New York is the undisputed commercial capital of tne country. Boston claims for herself to be its literary capital. Accordingly, the agita tion of the former results in cash; the agita tion of the latter in language. It is a sad dening commentary upon the practicality of the Bostonian agitators that during the final day of their deliberations the news arrived of their entire discomfiture in Vermont, where the single vote transmitted to us, which is stated to be a fair sample of the whole voting, announces that the candidate in favor of female suffrage received 39 votes, and the candidate against it 172. TIIE PARTY OF PROGRESS. From the Jf. Y. Timet. The whole civilized world is making marked progress in political affairs so marked, that our era will be a memorable one in history for the popular reforms which have been and are still being wrought out. Within the lost twenty years, Europe has been stirred to the acceptance of radical changes in almost every quarter; while in our own country, and within a decade, we have moved in that direc tion with a rapidity which is astonishing to all observers. We can only ascribe this pro gress, in a few words, to' the wholesome growth and activity of publio opinion, which has been able to overcome the resistance of conservatism and intrenched prescription. In England, again, a constant struggle has been going on by progressive men in behalf of reforms for half a century; but it is only re cently that substantial success has been achieved. In our own country, the struggle has been going on longer, and has but just culminated. Both nations are in the very midst of their reform achievements, and both rely for success upon progressive men. With us, those men constitute the Republi can party, and render it the party of true progress. We do not mean to allude to wild theories, which are the fruit of mere im pulse, or as it has been defined, "ignorance inflamed by prejudice;" we refer to a thought ful and cautious acceptance of well-proved necessities. The past record of our party brief as it has been has afforded a marked illustration of steady growth of ideas and purposes. The standards of policy which it adopted in 1856 were feeble and uncertain compared with those which were asserted in the campaign of 18G0. When we recall the platform upon which Lincoln was first elected, the sentiments of conciliation ex pressed by him in his inaugural, and the subsequent timid .action of the Republican majority in Congress we find a marked con trast with the declared policy of the party in 18G4, as well as with the temper of the whole people of the North. The party had grown not only in purpose but in power, and had reached a point when it dared avow its pur pose and call its power into exeroise. The campaign of 18C8 found tne party occupying a still more advanced position. It had a broader mission and a more aftirmative policy than before, and could hardly be rooognizod as the some which carried the campaign of 18C0. The same growth and development whioh have hitherto marked the brief life of the Republican party, will attend it iu the future. The idea that such a party, composed of such elements, can have already completed its mission is preposterous. Changed as the political situation of 1872 will be, the party will easily conform itself to it, as it re sponded to similar requirements in the past. The process is already going on. We are clearing away the debris of the Rebellion, and letting it drift from us. The fact that old issues have been decided does not neces sarily affect the vitality of the party. New issues are supplying their places, and new ideas and new measures are urging us for ward. We have faith that the party will adapt itself to the requirements of the time, and develop a policy which will be productive of harmony in its ranks. We cannot cling to the past, but must move on in obedience to our destiny, and to the spirit of progress which controls our age. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AND WO MAN'S SUFFRAGE IN 1872. From the If. Y. Bun. About two years ago the Legislature of Kansas submitted to the people the question of woman's suffrage. After a sharp struggle, the advocates of this measure obtained at the polls rather more than one-third of the votes cast on the subject. Within the present week the same question has been indireotly submitted to the people of Vermont iu the form of an election of delegates to a con vention to revise their constitution; and it would seem from the returns that the advo cates of woman's suffrage have made but a meagre Bhow. The cause of the very marked difference in the result in Kansas and in Vermont is seen at a glance. In Kansas the campaign was con ducted under the personal supervision of that cTaiiDg genius and dashing orator, George Francis Train, while in Vermont it was managed by Mr. Ilenry B. Blackwell. It was a grand mistake that the Vermont ladies did not call Mr. Train lo their aid, and intrust their banner to his enthusiastic and audaoious bearing. In this city two associations in favor of woman's suffrage are now in full blast, the one headed by the Rev. Ilenry Ward Beecher, and the other by the Rev. Theodore Tilton; and the mind of this metropolis is distracted by the effort to decide which is the real Simon Pure. The true mode of solving this puzzling problem is plain to disinterested ob servers. Let these eminent diviaes vacate their respective positions, consolidate their forces, and place the entire movement under the control of Mr. Train, a man of brains, original ideas, and brilliant impetuosity. He will at any rate make woman's suffrage a leading issue in Lis canvass for the Presi dency in 1872 which is more than either Beecher or Tilton has proposed, neither of those gentlemen having yet announoed him self as a candidate for the White House and give success to the movement for woman's suffrage, if any human being can; and he should be put at the head of the united and harmonized party. ( SPECIAL NOTIOES. jQr PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM PANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT. Pbiladklphia, Pa., May 3, 1870. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. Tho Board of Directors bave this day decUrsd a semi annual rividend of FIVE PER CENT, on the Capital Stock of the Company, clear of National and State Taxes, payable in cash on and after May 80, 1870. Ultck Powers of Attorney for collection Dividends can be bad at the Office of the Company, No. 23a South Third street. Tbo Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 8 P. M. f rem May 80 to June 3, for the payment of Dividends, and a'ter that date from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. THOMAS T. FIRTH, 6 4 60t Treasurer. jjgy- BRANCH OFFICE, CONTINENTAL IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. PlTTsnuBO, April 30, 1870. A meeting of the Stockholders of the Continental Im provement Company ill be hold in the Branch Office of the Company, in the city of Pittsburrff corner of PKNN and TENTH btroets), on TUESDAY, May 17, at 13 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors to servo for the ourrent year, and until their tucoessors are duly elected and qualified. And also for the purpose of considering and acting upon the provi sions of the Supplement to the Charter of said Company, approved Twenty-fourth day of March, 1870. W. R, BHELBY, 6 2 14t Secretary. t!Sy NATATORIUM AND PHYSICAL IN BT1TUTE, BROAD Street, below Walnut. SfflMMINO 8(JHO()L FOR BOTH bKXKS AND ALL AGES. Open from 6 A. M. till 10 P. M. W ater changing constantly. An even and comfortable temperature maintained by UBe oLtteam boilers. Polfte and competent Instructor always in attendance. Pernors taught to swim in from six to ten lessons. NOTICE. Ihe Gymnastio Department is reopened, the damages by the late storm havibs been fully reoaired. hot terms, private lessons, etc, etc., send or address lor a uircuiar. 6 13 2t J. A. PAYNE BRO. NOTICE A SPECIAL MEETING OF the Stockholders of the PHILADELPHIA, GER. MANTOWN. AND NORRI8TOWN RAILROAD COM PANY will ha hoM In Room No. 84, PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE, onl'UmxB.v.u ... j-. - j at 13 o'clock M., for the consideration of an act of tho General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to authorise the Philadelphia, German town, and Norriatown Railroad Company to inorease its Capital Stock," approved the 29ta day of Maroh, 1870. By Older of the Board of Managers. 6 216 9 A. E. DOUGHERTY, Seoretary. jgf NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN accordance with the provisions of the existing aots of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named in an act entitled "An Aot to Incorporate the PROTEC TION IKK INSURANCE COMPANY, to be located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th day of April, A. D. 1&9, and ti e supplement thereto, approved the 26th day of April, A. D. 1870, will be held at 1 oVlock P. M. oa the loth ray of June, A. D. 1870, at No. 133 S. bK VENTll Htreet, Pbiladolphia, when the books for subscription to the capital stock wiil be opened and tbe other action taken requisite to complete the organization. 6 13 lm j- NOTICE IS IIEREBY GIVEN, IN accordance with the provisions of the existing aots of Aisembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named in an act entitled! "An Act to Incorporate the MUVA MBfclNG MHE INSURANCE COMPANY, to be located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th day of April, A. D. 1H50, and the supplement thereto, ap proved the 26th day of April, A. D. 1870, will De held at 13 o'clock M. on the 16th day of Jnne, 1870, atlNo. 133 8. SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia, when the books or sub scription to the capital stock will be opened and the ether action taken requisite to oomplete the organisat ion. 6131m mcF NOTICE. Office or Ouxs and Ohio Oanal, ) Annapolis, May 8, 1870. J 1 he annual meeting of the Stockholders of this Com pany will be held iu ANNAPOLIS .on MONDAY, Jan tt, 1870, at i o'clock P. M. BENJAMIN FAWOEPT, 6 5 tee Secretary to Stockholders. OFFICE CATAWIS8A RAILROAD COM PANY, No. 424 WALNUT Street. Philadelphia, May 6, 1870. The Board of Directors of this Company have this dty declared a dividend of THREE AND A HALF PER CEN'I'., on acconnt of the dividends to be paid the pre ferred stockholders, payable on and alter the 23d inst., to those persons in whose names the stock stands at the close Of the transfer books The trarsfor books of the preferred stock will be closed on tbe 14 h and reopened on the 23d inst. 6 latlis4t W. L. OIL HOY, Treasurer. VoT OFFICE MAPLE SHADE OIL COM PANY, No. 624 WALNUT Street. April 28 1870 The annual meeting of stockholders of this Company will be held at their office on THURSDAY, May 1H, 1870, at 13 o'clock, noon, to e eot a Board of five Directors and a Secretary and Treasurer to serve for the ensuing year. 1 rausler books to close 12th of May and reopen May 20. 11 IK AM BROWKR, 4 30 sw6t Secretary and Treasurer. rgr MASONS, KNIGHTS, RED MEN, OR OTHER ORGANIZ VTlONd. 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SABINE, AIJ.KN A DULLES, Agents, 8J FIFTH and WALNUT Streets. WARDALE G. MCALLISTER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Ko. 2r 1 BROADWAY. Mew Vera. FINANOIAL. SCVCn PER CENT. First Mortgage Bonds or THI DnnTlIle, Ilnxleton, and Wilkes barre Itallroad Company, At 02 and Accrued Interest TO BE ADVANCED TO 85, May 15, Clear of all Tai INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER. Persona wishing to make Investment- are lnrlted to examine the nierltt of theite BONDS. Pamphlets "applied and loll Information given by Sterling & Wildman. FINANCIAL AGENTS, No. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 4 19 U PHILADELPHIA. Government Bonds and other Securities taken In x change for the above at best market rates. WE OFFER FOR SALE i TIIE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF TEB SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY. These Bonds run THIRTY YEARS, and pay 8BVKH PBR CENT. Interest ia sold, dear of ail taxes, payable at the First Rational Bank la Philadelphia. Tbe amount of Bonds issued ia 8643,000, and are secured by a First Mortcacs oa real estate, railroad, and franchises of the Company tho former of which ooet two hundred thousand dollars, whioh baa been paid for from Btock subscriptions, and after the railroad U finished, so that the produota of the mines oan be bronchi to market. It is estimated to be worth 8 1,000,000. Ihe Railroad oonnecta with tho Cumberland Valley Railroad about four miles below Chambersburc, and ran thronfeh a section of the most fsrtils part of tho Cumber land Valley. Wo sell them at 03 and aoeraed Interest from Maroh L For farther particulars apply to C. T. YERKE8, Jr., A CO., BANKERS, rO 9 SOUTH THIRD .STREET, PHILADELPHIA. JayCooke&Cp. dwtt.at)KUHIA. NEW YORK, AND WASHINGTON, BAN K E It S AND Dealers in Government Securities. Special attention given to the Purchase and Sale 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 SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD. RELIABLE RAILROAD BONDS FOR INVEST MENT. Pamphlets and foil Information given at oar office, No. 1 14 S.TIIIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA. 418m E LLIOTT O U WW, BANKERS No. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET, DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURI TIES, GOLD BILLS, ETC DRAW BILLS 07 EXCHANGE AND ISSUE COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ON THE UNION BANK OF LONDON. ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT ON LONDON AND PARIS, available throughout Europe, Will collect all Coupons and Interest free of charge for parties making their financial arrangements with us. s get QaLimrvNirvc!, wavis &. co., No. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GlENDINNING, OAYIS I AMORY, No. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK, 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, BONDS and GOLD, in either city. Direct telegraph communlcaUon from Philadelphia house to New York. 1 p O R SALE, Williamsport City 6 Per Cent Bonds, FREE OF ALL TAXES. y ALSO, Philadelphia and Paxby Eailroad 7 Per Cent Bonds, Coupons payable by the Cheinut and Walnut Streets Railway Company. These Bonds will be sold at a price which wll make them a very desirable luvestuieuu P. 8. PETERSON & CO., No. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 1 Hi PHILADELPHIA. FINANOIAL.. Wilmington and Reading RAILROAD Seven Per Cent. Bonds. FREE OP TAXES. We ore offering 300.000 of the Second nortgage Ilondsot tills Company AT 82 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. Foa the convenience of Investors these Bonds are Issued In denominations of lOOOs, 6500s, and 100s. The money Is required for the purchase of addi tional Rolling Stock and the full equipment of the Road. The receipts of the Company on the one-half of the Road now being operated from CoatesviUe to Wil mington are about TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS per month, which will be more than DOUBLED with the opening of the other half, over which the large Coa Trade of the Road must come. Only SIX MILES are now required to complete the Road to Blrdsboro, which will be finished by the middle of the month. WM, PAINTER & CO., BANKERS, No. 36 South THIRD Street, PB PHILADELPHIA. LEHIGH CONVEttTIIJLE 6 Per Cent. First Mortgage Gold Loan, Free from nil Taxes. We offer for sale t.1.750,000 of the Lehlh Goal and Hab itation Companj's new Kirst Mortgage Six Per Oent Gold Bonds, free Mom all taxes, Interest due Maroh and Sep tember, at rJINET-E" (90) And interest in curreno added to data of purchase. These bonds are of a mortgage loaa of $2,000,000, dated October 6, IH69. They have twenty fire (25 J rears to ran, and are convertible into stock at par until 1879. Prinoipal and interest payable in sold. They are secured by first mortgage on 6600 aoree of coal lands In the Wyoming Valley, near Wilkesbarre, at present producing at the rate of 800,000 tons of coal per annum, with works in progress whioh contemplate large inorease at an early period, and also upon Taluable Real Estate ia this city. A sinking fund of tea cents per ton npoa all ooal taken from the mines for fire years, and of fifteen oents per ton thereafter, ia aetablisbed, and The Fidelity Jntoranoe, Trust and Bafe Deposit ( ompany, the Trustees under th. mortgage, collect these sums and invest them ia thee. Bonds, agreeably to the provisions of the Trust. For full particulars, copies of the mortgage, eto., apply to O.sE BORIS, W- H. NEW BOLD. SON A AERTSKN JAT COOKE A 00.. DREXEL A CO., E. W. OLARK A CO. ( 11 lm SILVER On harm unu roR SALE In amounts and sizes to SUIT. DE HA YEN & BEO., No. 40 South THIRD Street, im B. K. JAMISON & CO.. SUCCESSORS TO P. IP. KELLY te CO, BANKERS AND DEALERS Dt Gold, Silver and Government Bondi At Closest Slarket Hates, 5. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESNTJT St. Special attention gWen to COMMISSION ORDERS In New York and Philadelphia Stock Boards, eto, eta gat S I JZ V E X FOB SALE. C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.. BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 20 South THIRD Street, iti PHILADELPHIA. D. C. WHARTON SMITH S CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 121 SOUTH THIRD BTREET. Baooeesors to Bmith, B ndolph A Oa. STary branch at the business will hare prompt attoatioa as heretofore. Quotations of Btocka, GovanuaanU, and Gold ooxW tantly leoeiTed from New York brrrUaU ware, frota ooi Iriends. Edmnnd I Randolph A Oo 3 LEXANDER O. C A T TELL & CO. l'UOUl'OK ()OM MISSION MKKUUANTS. Ho. aUHOltTH WUAKVJUi iND Wo. S7 NORTH WATFR STREET. PHILADELPHIA. 1x9 AUXaKDSa Oai-ixu. Eluas Oattkij.
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