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PERILS AT.
THE CUSTOM IIOU3E AND
THE RELIEF.
From the K. Y. World.
The tariff lawa of this coantry, the circular
of the Treasury Department recently issned
and whioh we published entire last Monday,
end the practical administration of all com
bined, mate the perils of a traveller arriving
in the United (States something fearful to
encounter. . , , ,
The provision of the law of 100 which
authorizes the appointment of female inspec
ted to rummage the dresses and examine
ladies arriving in the great republio will be
especially attractive to delicate natures,.
i We explained in a recent artiole how the
Constitutional Congress of 17D'J enacted that
"the wearing apparel and other personal bag
gage of persons who arrive in the United
titates shall be free and exempted from
duty," and how it remained for a succeeding
feneration to restrict the free list of travel
ers by n Amendment which limited the
wearing apparel exempted from duty to that
in actual use." It was sufficient seventy
years ago for a traveller to declare that his
packages contained "no goods, wares, or
merchandise whatever, other than the wearing
apparel and other personal baggage, all of
which are the property" of the persons ar
riving at our shores, and not directly or indi
rectly imported for any other person or per
sons, or intended for sale." The test then was:
Does the baggage contain merchandise in
tended for sale? and does it belong to some
one other than the person arriving ? If both
questions were answered and found in the
negative, the baggage was passed at once
exempt from duty. Bat now, under modern
rale, not ell clothing belonging to the pas
senger is free, but only that actually in use as
such. Presents are liable to duty, and all
each gifts of affection and mementoes of
foreign travel. Articles of iivertun are in
terms dutiable bv Secretary Boutwell's circu
lar, as well as little artioles bought for and on
request of friends.
Every one understands that an article of
merchandise brought in for sale should, under
a tariff system, pay duty, but not small arti
cles, expensive or inexpensive, purohased as
guts or procured at the request of friends,
There is something harsh to the sensibilities
in being compelled to produce on the wharf
suoh token of friendship and 'affection for
Vulgar gaze and valuation for the assessment
or duty. ' iiut the protective monopolists do
maud it and it is law.
Let us emphasize the things which the
recent circular declares are, in the luggage
or passengers, liable to duty, and failure to
place which under the head of "dutiable
. merchandise will "render the baggage liable
' to- detention and confiscation, and subject
tna owner w otaer legal penalties:
New wearing apparel in excess of that
in general use.
; 2. Excessive amounts of jewelry.
, . 3 Extra watches.
4. Articles of verlu.
( 5. .All presents.
. C. Piece goods.
7. AU artioles purohased for other persons.
6. All artioles not essential to the personal
comfort "and convenience of tne traveller.
f It will not avail for Beoretarr Boutwell and
hii partisans to say that his ciroular in respect
to ail mese things is matter or mere form,
for it makes them substance. He compels
' every person' to make a statement in writing
What his luggage contains, distinguishing
therein between the dutiable and the not
dutiable. lie authorizes the customs official
to require an oath to the statement, and he
TisiU severe penalties on a failure to separate '
the free list from the dutiable list. To con
form to this circular and prevent overhauling
of every trunk to the bottom, the traveller
must keep ".wearing apparel in actual use" to
a reasonable amount, and articles essential
for the toilet or other necessities of the pas
senger, in trunks separate and distinct from
an 4 'unreasonable" quantity of wearing appa
rel, presents, things purchased for friends,
and from objeots of tertu!" Qreat and
?;enerous coantry ! Who shall , deliver thee
rom the body of such meanness, selfishness,
and sin ? . i . , ..
But, says another, this is only a contri
vance lo compel one to "tip" the official.
This is undoubtedly the average tone of Re
publican party ethics; but the difficulty is
that the new regulations, by their minuteness
in describing what is and what is not dutiable,
put at the outset the responsibility of a decla
ration conforming thereto on the passenger.
This is quite different from the old system.
Read the laws and the recent ciroular, and
then reflect on the consequences of a false
declaration, or tipping the inspeotor with a
-sovereign or two.
, If under oath, and one fails to declare,
after reading the circular, a present for a
friend elsewhere than under the head of
'dutiable articles," perjury stares him in the
face. And if not under oath, then loss of
self-respect confronts him. Ponder, too, on
the punishment of fine or imprisonment
which is, by the law of 103, suspended
over the' passenger who gives a customs
officer so much as a cigar, or the official who
takes it.
'llelief: Labor and vote for free trade !
Beat back and down the monopolists of the
2Yibune school ! Remove the barbarous in
spection and espionage of persons and their
luggage which now repels from his home
very returning American !
TIIE ST. DOMINGO SWINDLE.
From tke S. Y. Sun.
The meeting at Cooper Institute on Thurs
day evening was called for the purpose of
promoting the ratification of the "pending
treaty for acquiring the right to occupy and
hold the Bay of Samana in the island of St.
Domingo;" but the resolutions of the meeting
and all the speeches that were delivered re
lated, not to the question of Samana, but to
the annexation of the entire republio. As
Mr. Moses H. Grinnell expressed it,' it was
'a movement for the acquisition of the noble
island of St. Domingo.'" This being the case,
who did not the authors of the demonstration
frankly state its real object in their call?
Was any false pretense necessary to attract
the public to the meeting?
Tho resolutions set forth various generali
ties respecting the value of the island as a
part of the American geographical system,
the Tariety of its products, its isagaiftoent
harbors, its capacity for commerce, and so
on; bat neither in these resolutions nor in
the speeches of the orators do we find any
xplanation of the delicate questions involved
in wis treaty. jo one of them assured the
publio that the Government with which the
treaty was made is likely to be permanent,
No- one presented any evidence that the
people of fit, Domingo are really and
honestly in faver of annexation. No one
uoinioa to reiuio me mea mat u we
should lake possession of the island it would
be at the expense of engaging in a difficult,
costly, and uncertain civil war. Both Gene
ral Banks and Mr. Fitch, who were the prin
cipal speakers of the oooasion, carefully
avoided all those points, confining them
selves to interesting phrases respecting the
progress of humanity, tne Amerioan eagle,
and the manifest . destiny of the United
States. As for doing anything to bring the
publio mind to the support of the Dominican
treaty, this meetins was a total failure.
In the year 1861 Spain undertook the ex
periment to which we are now invited. She
annexed ht. Domingo, lne people oi tne
country gave their consent with greater ap
parent unanimity than they have now given
it to annexation to the United States. There
was then no civil war in the republic, all
apparently acquiescing in the Government
of President Santana. The annexation being
completed, an army of twenty thousand
Spanish soldiers was sent to maintain order
in the new possession. This army was re
inforced from time to time. It contended
with obstinacy against the civil war which
soon broke out, and which it was found im
possible to put down. Finally, in 1805, the
Spanish forces were withdrawn, leaving
twenty-five thousand soldiers buried in Do
minican soil. The whole operation entailed
UDon the Spanish Government an addition to
their publio debt of more than twenty-five
millions of dollars.
Is there any reason to suppose that the
United States will be more fortunate in St.
Domingo than Spain was ? Spain took there
laws et-sentially the snmeas those of the re
public: the lancunce of her soldiers and oivi
liens was that of the country; her social habits
and usages were the same: her religion wai
the same. We differ from the Dominicans
in all these respects. We shall carry to the
island forms and modes of law to which the
people are entirely strange. Our language is
alien to their ears; our manners and customs
are unlike any to which they have been habit
uated. In religion we tolerate everything
except that enforced uniformity to which they
nave been wonted, in addition to tins, we
find there a long established civil war,
already on the point of overthrowing and ex
pelling from the country the Government
with which they have undertaken to treat. Is
it probable that under such circumstances we
shall be able to hold the istand after we have
annexed it?
With thirty thousand soldiers in St. Do
mingo, Spain had to suffer the humiliation of
abandoning it. How large au army will it
require to protect us against such a disgraca ?
Certainly not less Inau mty tuousand men,
Nor can fifty men-of-war avail to blockade the
coast, and keep out those who would attempt
to rurnisn arms and materials of war to our
enemies in the interior. The expense of au
nexing St. Domingo, and of holding it for a
single year by means of such a military an 1
naval force, cannot be less than $2()0,0t)(),0;)0.
Nor at the end of the year, or of any period
that can be estimated .beforehand, Bliall we
be relieved from the necessity of maintain
ing our hold upon the island by aa army and
a neet.
These are points upon which it would have
been agreeable to receive some positive in
formation from so aoute and clear-headed a
statesman as General Banks, or from so elo
quent an adocate of progress as Mr. Fitch
It would even have been better than nothing
to have had an attempt made to cast light on
them by Mr. Grinnell, Mr. Russell, General
Cochrane, Judge ,1'ittuan, or any of the lesser
lights of the meeting. , They might, perhaps.
have made clear to the publio the advantages
of annexing a civil war in St. Domingo, with
the certainty of being called upon to spend
several hundreds of millions in putting it
down. But as no one has made any attempt
to elucidate these questions it must bo as
sumed that all are unable to deal with them,
and that the annexation scheme is no thins
but an immense swindle which no practical
man can' attempt to justify in a practical
manner. . . ...
- FOOT-WASHING.
From th y. Y. Tribune.
The ancient ceremony of foot-washing, the
Eastern Budget tells us, was performed at
Vienna this Easter. Twelve of the most
hopelessly poor old men and women that
could be procured were brought out of their
rags and dirt, properly bathed' and attired ia
suitably piotnresque old German costumes,
and then placed in the throne-room in "the
presence of the royal family of Hanover and
the principal court dignitaries,' together with
an immense crowd of visitors," invited, let
ns hope, for the moral effect of the spectacle,
rather than from any consideration of rank.
The twelve impersonations of poverty were
then seated to a cold collation which was
placed before them by the Emperor and Em
press; they were not, however, allowed to eat
anything, the dishes being immediately re
moved and placed in wooden vessels. The
feet of the women were then washed by the
Court Chamberlain, the Empress 'teuching
them with a laced towel, Princo Hohenlohe
and the Emperor performing the same office
for the men. The Emperor and Empress
Rafter washing their hands) then hung round
the neck of each a bag containing thirty
pieoes of silver, and the poor old wretches
were sent back to the squalor in which they
had spent their lives in Court carriages, eaoh
with a bottle of wine and his dinner, while
the imperial party, let us hope, betook them
selves to their accustomed routine, secure of
"approving conscience and a smiling heaven,"
with the sweet consciousness, of having dis
charged their duties to poverty for another
year, and vindicated their claim to be faithful
disciples of the meek and lowly Saviour.
The ceremony does not seem to us so
unique as some would have as believe. There
is a great deal of foot-washing going on in
the world. Poverty manifests itself to Napo
leon just now in a less ideal form than the
"twelve old men in anoient German cos
tume" of his Viennese brother. He offers
it, therefore, the bonne bouche of a vote
instead of a cold dinner in a wooden pail;
but the one gift has about as much meaning
and is as lasting and effective as the other.
There are certain prelates in Catholio and
Protestant churches who live in palaces
and draw princely inoomes solely on the
strength of a triennial sermon, in which
they declare themselves the humble followers
of Him who had not where to lay His head.
This is one of the most profitable and remark
able feats of foot-washing known, and has
long been the envy of the naoonseorated
world. For the truth is, we are all of as ad
dicted more or less to foot-washing; wa have
all of as some favorite short and easily
scrawled note of hand with whioh to pay our
enormous debt to right cr to virtue. And it
is curious to observe how very small an
amount of cash the world will aooept as a
rayment for that debt, and how long we can
eep oar credit up with boldly written due
bilU.
We have, unfortunately, in this country no
p'cturesque tLrone-rooms or medieval cos
tuue in which to discharge our obligations
to our poor brother, lie thrusts himself
iefoio usa drunken Irishman, a negro ask
ing for work, or a Ftagaa woman with the
soldief at .her throat with uncompromising
pre-Itnphaelitism of detail. Whereupon wa
dance at our caiioo bail, and nana over too
bef rilled gowns; we eat creams at the straw
berry festivals, or mine the prizes at tbe
fancy bazaar, and thereafter glow with
righteous virtue, we nave stood on tne
same plane with poverty for one day in the
year, cave neipea wipe its soiled feet witn
our laced napkin. Wa are worthy to be
His children who said, "Inasmuch as ye did
it to the lea it of these, ye did it unto me."
If Heaven has given as children for whose
well-being of body and soul we shall be held
accountable some day, we are apt," if we
make a pursuit of business or fashion, to deal
with the little burdens after tbe Imperial
fashion of Vienna. We are careful that their
costume shall be picturesque, medieval or
otherwise; we pay for having them taught to
dance, fence, use the dumb: bells, speak
French, and chatter of a dozen half-understood
sciences; if we are very conscientious,
we Bend them to a Sunday-school or church
to be taught religion, and then we tie thirty
pieces of silver about their necks and send
them out into the world, washing our hands
and saying, "I am innocent of the blood of
this roan.
Religion has long been fashionable, and
penitence classically severe may be Baid to
have become the ruling style in vogue of
late. Eugenie ordered Passion Week to be
observed in the chapel of the Tuileries.
"without boBnets, the heavy Spanish man
tilla expressing humiliation better, to which
some of the more devout court ladies, we are
told, added bovflante trains of black tulle
Pearls and, diamonds were worn, but no
colored jewelry." We also, in our humbler
fashion, keep the fasts. No balls or weddings
are admissible during Lent in circles whioh
desire to be correct in the mode. We have
all of us, too, our favorite, preacher of charity,
whose cause we defend a Voulrance against
all assailants. We bewail ourselves of our
Bins in concert on Sunday, and during the
week feel free to devote ourselves to the de
tails of the last murder trial and decide upon
the sins of our neighbors. There ia an old
story of a woman who was a sinner, but who
out of her great love washed the Saviour's
feet with her tears and did wipe them with
the hair of her head. But other times, other
manners. That was not the same foot-washing
as ours.
IMPERILLING 1 HE PUBLIC CREDIT.
f'OM the N. Y. Times.
The unexpected strength of the opposition
to land grants, as an adjunct in the construc
tion of Western railroads; is leading to a
modification of tactics on the part of other
applicants for Congressional assistance. Pro
jectors of steamship lines, who went to
Washington as petitioners for large donations
of publio land, now modestly ask for money
subsidies; while others, more diffident than
their fellows, suggest that a Governmental
indorsement of their bonds will be accepted
in lieu of all gifts. There are telegraph enter
prises, too, whose promoters, foiled in an at
tempt to obtain a large slice of the national
domain, are encouraged by committee-men to
hope for an issue of Government bonds in
their behalf.
We cannot believe that any of these varied
forms of the subsidy question can command
the requisite support in the House of Repre
sentatives. The Senate, judged by its readi
ness to afford extravagant help to railway and
other enterprises,' may be induoed to go still
further. But events have shown that ele
ments are at work in the House which the
cunning of lobbyists may be unable to con
trol. Representatives realize more accu
rately than Senators the feeling prevalent
among the people, and are more intent upon
holding in check schemes whioh have no just
title to the bounty that is contemplated in
their behalf. It is not easy, however, to
measure the precise force of coalesced inte
rests, united only in their designs upon the
Government; and henoe the neoessity for
closely watching the changing aspects which
the great subsidy question from time to time
assumes. ' '
If aid were to he rendered at all, it is
probable that land grants are the form whioh
national generosity might most safely take.
The publio lands are, indeed, rapidly dimin
ishing under a policy whioh has assigned ter
ritories large enough for kingdoms to a few
favored corporations. . A continuance of the
policy, on the scale sought by some of the
schemes now before Congress, would speedily
place the vast migratory population which
drifts everlastingly westward at the mercy of
organizations devoid of sympathy, and
utterly indifferent to ordinary publio criti
cism. But under the land-grant system, the
country suffers the worst. It has alienated a
vast source of wealth, and has laid the foun
dation of an influence which will, in due
time, make itself felt in our politics. But
the business and credit of the country re
main untouched. Not so when subsidies
take the shape of gifts or loans, whether of
money direct, or under the guise of bond
Indorsements. These affect every tax-payer,
and give rise to contingencies and complica
tions from which business and the Treasury
may both Buffer. The public credit is, in
fact, imperilled by the policy which Congress,
disgusted with the land-grabbers, ia now
asked to adopt. Let ns hope that there are
members enough in tbe House to expose and
defeat the devices of the army of subsidizers
by whom they are beset.
THE PROJECTS OF PRUSSIA.
From the S, Y. Herald.
Not long before the great events of 18GG
Count Uisiuarck, who had just returned from
a pleasant trip to the south of France, said to
one of the leaders of the opposition in the
Parliament at Berlin: "Here is an olive
branch which I have brought with me from
my journey. I offer it to you in token of
friendship and peace. Unite your efforts with
mine." The opposition was short-sighted
enough to refuse. "Well," said Bismark
again, "I had wished to make the country
great with you; I will make it great without
you. Your friends refuse. So be it."
Such was the attitude of the great German
statesman when his own colleagues bad not
calibre enough to appreciate his exalted views.
Such is now the attitude of Prussia as com
pared with the rest of the Germanic States.
Prussia meditates the building up of a grand
Teutonic empire to hold the balance of power
in Europe between belligerent and restless
France on the one hand and overshadowing
Russia on the other. But some of the smaller
States hold back, considering their diminu
tive autonomies of more dignity and value
than participation in the life of one vast
united power that would command the re
spect of the world. Prussia, then, deter,
ruined to make Germany .great, and, eager
to have done aa by the aid of her Teutonic
neighbors, will now do so without them. The
Zoll Parliament has transacted its business
harmoniously and has adjourned. King
William is exchanging courtesies with the
King of Bavaria; the Emperor of Russia pro
mbes an early visit to Berlin, and, mean-,
while, the moot vigorous prepaiatious, naval
and military, are poing forward by night and
by day, as in anticipation of some compre
hensive and yet, perilous movement. The
Prussian journals, so the Austrian deolare,
have commenced a systematic attack upon
Francis Joseph and his empire in all respects
like the general onslaught made just before
the quarrel that led to the Sadowa campaign.
The Federal . Parliament and the Zoll Parlia
ment, devised by the craft of Bismarck,
were but features of a temporary arrange
ment. At the last session of the former
as many as two hundred and eight
members were missing, and the prospect for
another sitting is dim. At the recent Zoll
Parliament, although matters went off, a? we
have intimated, smoothly enough, there was
a notable absence of representatives from the
South. In fine, it is felt that Prussia, in
order to accomplish the maiestio programme
which her master mind had sketched out for
her, must act with decision and act soon.
Thus we see her at work on all her coasts and
on all her arsenals. Fortifications are pushed
forward with haste; iron-clad fleets are
equipped and sent forth to cruise in the Ger
man Ocean; omcers are recalled from leave
of absence, and special drill reviews are con
stantly held.
This peculiar activity has riveted the atten
tion of France, but the latter is still enveloped
in the dust and smoke of the plrbLicitum, and
before she can get time to interfere the l'rus-
sians may have made such a move southward
as to place the lower States of Germany at her
mercy. Then both her great neighbors would
be reduced to the necessity of acquiescence
or forced to make war a contingency of ex
treme risk to either of thorn at this moment.
At all events we again behold the astute
ness of Count Bismarck, whose recent illness,
it will be Been, was no idle symptom, availing
itself of the perplexities of his rivals. France
with the settlement of her new system to
complete, and Austria, harassed by the dis
content of her Cisleithan provinoes, will
hardly dare to check the great southward
move which the Prussian chess-king is evi
dentlv meditating. They are watchful and
uneasy, but he advances with caution as well
as with steady intent, and leaves no step un
covered. The game as it stands is one of
profound interest to the eye of the statesman;
for it, in a high degree, affects the future of
en Europe.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 1970.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this dajr declared a semi
annual Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, on the Capital
Stock of tbe Company, clear of National and State Taxes,
payable in cash on and after May 30, 1870.
Blank Powers of Attorney for oolloctina; Dividends can
be bad at the Office of tbe Company, No. 238 South Third
street.
The Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 3
P. M. from Mny 30 to June 3, for the payment of Dividends,
and after that date from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.
THOMAS T. FIRTH,
660t Treasurer.
BRANCH OFFICE, CONTINENTAL
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
PlTTSBDBO, April 30, 1870.
A meeting of the Stockholders of the Continental Im
provement Company will be held in the Branch Utfioe of
the Company, in the city of PittsburgKoorner of PENN
and TENTH btreets), on TUESDAY, May 17, at li
o'clock,' noon, for tbe purpose of electing a Board of
Directors to serve for the onrrent year, and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified. And also for
the purpose of considering and acting upon the provi
sions of tbe Supplement to the Charter of said Company,
approved Twenty-fourth day of March, 1870.
i - W. HftHELBT.
8 8 Mt , .... Secretary.
NOTICE. A SPECIAL MEETING OF
the Stockholders of the PHILADELPHIA. GER
MANTOWN. AND NORRISTOWN RAILROAD COM
PANY will be held tn Room No U, PHILADELPHIA
KXOHANGK, on THURSDAY, the Mb day of Jon next,
at 13 o'clock. M., for tbe consideration of an act of the
General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
entitled "An act to authorize the Philadelphia, German
town, and Norristown Railroad Company to inoroaaa its
Capital Stock," approved the S9t j day of March, 1870.
By order of the Board of Managers.
6 a 1 6 , A. K. DOUGHERTY. Secretary.
tg?" M NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
accordance with tbe provisions of the existing acts
of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named
in an act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the PRO r i0
TION DIRK INSURANCE f OMPANY, to be located
in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th day of April,
A. D. 186S, and ti e supplement thereto, approved the 26th
day of April, A. D. 18.0, will be held at 1 o'clock P. M. on
the lath ray of June, A. D. 1870, at No. 132 8. HKVENTU
Street, Philadelphia, when the books for sabsoriptton to
the capital stock will be opened and tbe other aotion
taken requisite to complete the organisation. 6 13 lm
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
accordance with tbe provisions of the existing acts
of Assembly, that a meeting of the ooramiaaioneis named
in an act entitlndl "An Act to Incorporate the MOVA
MKNBING FIKH INKURANCK COMPANY, to be
located in tbe city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th
day of April, A. D, 1859, and tbe supplement thereto, ap
proved the 26tb day of April, A. D. 187U, will be held at 13
o'clock M. on the 15th day of Jane, 1870. atlNo. 133 8.
SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia, when the books lor sub
scription to the capital stock will be opened and the ether
action taken requisite to complete the organ! sat ion. 6 131m
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Tbe annual meeting of tbe (stockholders of this Com
pany will be held iu ANNAPOLIS .on MONDAY. Jane
o. 1870. at i o'clock P.M.
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WARDALB O. MCALLISTER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. -
, No. SWl BROAD WAV... , .
New Verk.
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
4QAR8TAIR8 A r.lcCALL.
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti,
IM POUTERS Of
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olire Oil, Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IM
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TA1 PAID. IM
WILLIAM ANDERSON A CO., DEALERS
' " la Vina Wkiaaiea.
tig. 148 North 6KOOND B trees.
rmuusuiui
EDUCATIONAL.
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MXBOUAWTVILLB. N. J.
TOUR MILKS tKOM PHILADELPHIA.
NEXT SESSION BEGINS APRIL A
For Circulars apply to ' ' ' " '
Si U T. W. OATTELL.
FINANCIAL
QCVEfl PER CENT.
First Mortgage Bonds
OF TBI
Ianwille, llaxleton, a tad Wilkes
larr Railroad Cempaaf,
At 85 and Accrued Interest
Clear or all Taxes.
INTEREST PAYABLX APRIL AND OCTOBER.
Persona wishing to make Investment are Invited
to examine tbe merits of these BONDS.
Pamphlets euppUed and full Information given by
Sterling & Wildman,
FINANCIAL AGENTS,
No. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
.4 13 tf PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken in
xchange for the above at best market rates.
WE OFFER FOR SALE
THE FIRST M0KT0AGE BONDS
OF THJI
SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA IRON
AND
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Thsse Bonds ran THIRTY YEARS, and pa 8KVKN
PBR CENT, interest in gold, dear of all taxes, parable
at the First National Bank in Philadelphia.
Tbe amount of Bonds issued is 8045,000, and are
secured bf a First Mortgage on real estate, railroad, and
franchises of the Company the former of whioh eost 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 oan be brought to market,
it is estimated to be worth 8 1,000,000.
1 he Railroad connects with the Cumberland Taller
Railroad about four miles below Ohambersburg, and runs
through a section of the most fertile part of the Cumber
land Vallej.
We sell them at 93 and accrued interest from March I.
For further particulars apply to
C. T. YERKE8, Jr., 41 GO.,
BANKERS,
F.V UIO 4.Ai4IA OilHiJUij
(' . PHILADELPHIA.
jAYC00KE5;(p.
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND
WASHINGTON,, ,
BAN ICE I S
AVS
Dealeri In Government Securities.
Special attention given to the Purchase and Bale of
Bonds and Stocks on Commission, at tne Board of
Brokers la this and other cities.
INTEREST ALLOWED ONDEFOSITS.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS.
GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AND 80LD.
RELIABLE RAILROAD BONDS FOR INVEST
MENT. Pampnleta and fall Information given at oar office,
Wo. 1 14 S.TIHRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
14 I 8m
E
LLIOTT
D V If If,
BANKERS
Ho. 109 SOUTH THIRD 8TREET,
DEALERS IM ALL GOVERNMENT SfiCOKl
TIES, UOLD BILLS, ETO.
DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND ISSUE
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ON THE
UNION BANS 07 LONDON.
ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTERS 07 CREDIT
ON LONDON AND PARIS, available througaoat
Europe.
Will collect all Coupons and Interest free of charge
for parties making their financial arrangements
with us. M
QLJQIVllIIflVIIVta. IAY1S fc CO.,
No. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNING, DAVIS & AMORT,
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 communication from Philadelphia
house to New York. 1 a
R
S
E,
Williamiport City 6 Per Cent Bands,
FREE OF ALL TAXES.
ALSO,
Philadelphia and Dai by Bailroad 7
Per Cent Bonds,
Coupons payable by the Cheanut and Walnut Streets
Ball way Company.
These Bonds will be sold at a price which wll
make them a very desirable Investmout. m
P. 8. PETERSON & CO.,
No. 39 SOUTn THIRD STREET,
8CI ' b PHILADELPHIA. ,
FINANCIAL.
Wilnjington and Reading
HAXLHOAD
Seven Per Cent. Bonds.
, , FREE OF TAXES. T-
We are oflVrlnK $200,000 of the
Second Itlortgnge Itonds ot
tltls (Jompasy
AT 821 AND ACGiUJED INTEREST.
Foa the convenience or invntnra thnu rtnnita
Issued In denominations of
1000, ftSOOs, and lOOs. ' "
Tbe money Is required ioi the purchase of addi
tional Rolling Stock and the full equipment of to
Boad.
The receipts of the Company on the ODe-hsJf of
the Road now being operated from Coatcsvllle lo Wil
mington are about TUN TB.OCSAN0 DOLLARS per
month, w hich will be more than DOUBLED wlta the
opening of the other half, over which the large Ooa
Trade of the Road must come. ' ' J '
Only SIX MILES are notr required to oomoleta
the Foad to Blrdsiwro, which will be finished by
the middle of the month.
WE PAINTER & CO.,
BANKEltS,
No. 36 South THIRD Street,
OB
PHILADELPHIA.
LEHIGH CONVERTIBLE
6 Per Cent Fir.t Mortgage Gold Loin,
Free from nil Taxes.
A m aITa fn. a.I . 1 Ann a! 1. T -V. I U n-l . J w I
ration Uompanjr's new First Mortae Six Per Cent, Gold
Itonds, free from all tues, interest da. March and Bes
tember, at , .
NINETY (90)
And interest in enrrenev added to date of purohase. "
These bonds ar. of a mortage loan of $2,000,000, dated
October 6, 1S69. They have tentj-tive (25) rear, to ran,
and are convertible into stock at par until lb79. Prinoipal
and interest payable in gold. ...
They are secured by a first mortgage on 6600 acres of
coal lands in th. Wyoming Valley, near Wilkeabarrav aa
present producing st th. rate of 800,000 tons ot ooei par
annum, with works in progress which contemplate a large)
increase at an early period, and also upon valuable Boa 1.
Estate in this city. .
A sinking fond of ten cents per ton upon all eoal taken
fron the mines for five years, and of firteeu cents per ton
thereafter, Is established, and Tbe Fidelity Istvoraaos),
Trust and Safe Deposit ompanv, th. Trustee under th.
mortgage, colleot these sums and invest them ia these
Bonds, agreeably to th. provisions of th. Trust.
For fall particulars, copies of th. mortgage, eto., apply
to
0,AH, BQIVIB.
VT. IL nEWBOLD. SON A AERTSEA
JAT OOOKE A OO..
DREXEL A OO., . ' ,
E. W. CLARK 4 CO. U lm
SILVER
On hand and FOR SALE In
amounts and sizes to
SUIT.
DE HAVEN & BJKOs,
No. 40 South THIRD Gtreet.
HI
B. E. JALIISOIT & CO..
SUCCESSORS TO
P. IT". KELLY & CO,
BANKERS AND DEALERS 1ST . ,
Gold, Silver and Government Bond
At Closest Ularket Bates,
K. W. Cor. THIED and CHZ3NUT 8tt.
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS
In New York and Philadelphia Btock Boards, eto,
etc. . t. .-,' i- .tat
I T V 13. MX
FOR SALE.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., CO.,
BANKERS AND CHOKERS,
No. 20 South THIRD Street,
M PHILADELPHIA.
D. C. WHARTON SMITH & CO.,
; i . ; : ,-'' i t'-.i - .
BANKERS AND BROKERS, ' ' '
do. 121 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
i
SaooMsors to Smith, B ndolpb A Os. .
Every branch of the STUln.es will have prompt attsntloa
as heretofore
QooUtioas of Stocks, Ootsmmerits. and Gold sew.
Btaotly reoeived frost Hew Tor briw.us rln, boss snr
friends. Edmund D Randolph A O
J H E VATICAN,
IYo. 1010 CIIEN.KIJT Street.
Gardes Vaeea, alaavioal dixigna
Uardea Vase, at ail prices. -
Garden Vaeea at SUM.
Gardes Vases at 1)3 UU.
Gardes V aaes at t On.
Gardes Vsmm at 00. .
Gardes Vaaae at f 6 UU.
Garden Vaaee at 7 00.
Gardes Vaeea at H U).
Gardus Vaaseat aioisl.
Garden Stalaarv, Mower rots, sad
llanxio Vum in (Tea variety.
R deooratioa adds to the statural beaaliee of tee gardes
Or Uwn and at so litU sapae M a few Vaea nUed
with floeeria. plaatJL j lua
TOnk FARNUM fe CO., COMMI38IONMER
tf clisutsand Msnnfacturereof "rnnstog. 1'iukisw. eta
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