THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 1 9, 1870. nnn.IT or inn rnns. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. TIIE TEOrLE AND THE TAXES. From the If. V. Times. '. For my approach to relief, in the shape of reduced taxation, we are disposed to be duly grateful. So far as the session of Congress as yet gone, the odds have seemed nearlj 11 against the people. Trifling matters have been discussed with great prolixity, and measures not called for have been allowed ta absorb the time which properly belonged to important pnblic interests. Funding has occupied attention that should have been devoted to reform; the battle of the tariff has been waged in opposition to fresh de anands, ratber than in furtherance of thorough, scientific revision and amendment. There has been cause for dissatisfaction, per haps even for diRgust. The prospect of soma benefit, afforded by the almost simultaneom presentation of bills for the reduction of taxes, in the benate and House, comes, there fore, with a certain unexpectedness which may moderate if it does not disarm hostile criticism. Thankfulness for small mercies was never more befitting than now. The events of the last fewday shave shown, however, that in the present instanoe an ap preciation of benefits promised is not incom patible with a hopeful effort to make them larger. The Ways and Means Committee is not absolute master of the fiscal situation. It only proposes, the House disposes. The re volt of influential Republicans against the Attempt to waste further time upon a Tariff bill which has not the remotest chance of success, indicates the growth of an innuenoe ' favorable to the wholesome changes in any measure reported from the committee. Its judgment does not carry the impress of in f allibility scarcely of power. We may be sure, therefore, that the Tax bill brought for- 1 1 fit i f 1 11 1 . ward vy Air. BcnencK wm do ireeiy nanaiea; and in this prospect we see an assurance of changes . which will bring the measure into closer harmony with the measure prepared by the Benate Finance Committee. The most essential difference between the schemes is in the amount of relief they are calculated respectively to afford. The IIoye bill contemplates a reduction of taxes amount ing in round numbers to thirty-three mil lions; the reduction effected by the Senate bill would be some ten millions more. If there were any doubt as to the ability of the Treasury to sustain a diminution of its re sources to an extent not exceeding the larger of these amounts, there might be ex case for hesitation in determining a prefer ence. But the fact is that the forty-three millions reduction contemplated by the Senate committee is far below both the capa city of the Treasury and the expectation of the country. It is safe to say that a margin'of at least sixty millions is available for reve nue reduction, without impairing the ability of the Government to comply with the re quirements of law in regard to the sinking fund. A margin of a hundred millions might, we believe, be Bhown to be available, as a whole; and deducting from this twenty-five millions, as a contribution to the sinkinc fund, seventy-five millions would remain as the measure of the extent to which taxes might be reduced. Keeping in view possible contingencies as a result of industrial de. pre&sion or financial exigencies, we assign sixty millions as the minimum of reduotion whioh a Congress intent only on benefiting the people wouia enaeavor to realize. Evidently, then, the soheme of the Ways ana Means committee due nan performs the work that is wanted. We are entitled to sixty millions reduction, and we are promised thirty-three. The Senate bill is better by ten millions. And the latter probably consti tutes the basis upon which Ilepublicans may most usefully conduct their opposition to Sir. Schenck's proposition; for the radi cal difference between them is confined to a single point. In their general scope they agree. The dissimilarity begins when the in come tax comes in question a circumstance we consider favorable to the equable read justment of a tax which has been made spe cially odious by the oppressiveness of its rate and the unnecessary annoyance of Its administration. , The difference is not as to the oontinuauce or abrogation of the income tax. On that head the committees are united. Both wisely propose to abolish taxes which inter fere more with the operations of trade, and to continue a charge upon inoomes as a legi timate and productive source of revenue. The Senate bill contemplates the continuance of the five per cent, rate only during the present year the rate to be afterwards re duced to three per cent, and the exemption to be as now. The House bill, on the other hand, enlarges the exemption, and divests the tax of many of its inquisitorial aspects, but makes permanent the live per cent rate. Oat of this difference grow the ten millions, more or less, which indicate the degrees of relief to be afforded the tax-payers by the legislation contemplated. In other words, Mr. Sohenck would exact ten millions more through the income tax than would be exacted by the Senate scheme. The additional relief he holds out by an increase of the income ex empted is much more than counteracted by the maintenance of the present extravagant rate upon the inoomes subject to assess ment. This is the condemnation of the Sohenck bill. We can imagine few greater mistakes than the reimposition of the existing tax, or the re-enactment of any income tax without a thorough consideration of the many points it involves. The public is long-suffering, but it will not bear with patience a tax that Is oppressive in its amount, unequal and un just in its operation, and beset with appli ances which are vexatious and unnecessary. A continuance of the income tax, then, should be resolved upon only in conjunction with a purpose to mitigate its weight and fre it from harshness and injustice. The latter object is in a large degree effected by the House bill, which abrogates the inquisi torial features of the present law. Bat both bills perpetuate the distinctive outrage of the system as it is, by ignoring the sources of income in the adjustment of burdens. Both keep alive the wrong inseparable froni the exaction of the same rate of taxation from capitalists, possessed of solid invest ments, yielding a steady and enduring in come, and from that enormous body whose incomes vary with the exigencies of trade or health, and are terminable at any mo ment. To disregard the obvious distinction which exists between these classes of in come is to inflict injustice upon the vast army of workers, and to confer npon real ized wealth an advantage to which it is not entitled. A five per cent, income tax has no justifi cation in the practice of other countries or the necessities of our own. Two per cent, levied upon all incomes derived from labor nr rc,ia nn1 thrAA ter cent, levied npon in- comes above a fixed amount say, ten thou- mm. J 1 . a At asnd dollars would meet ine wants 01 me Government, and at least approximate to iustice. As for exemptions a thousand dol- Iar8 Would Seem to uo cuuujju, lugaiuoi wim some fixed sum on account of rent. The present plan, which exempts any rent, how ever high, is absurd and unfair. These re forms are not simply possible; they are indis nenonlilA if thn injustice of the svstem now in force is to be terminated, and if the people looislntinn And nrolonced maladministration have rendered all but intolerable. THE SOUTHERN BTAPLE. From the X. V. Tribune. torn the time when so good a farmer as George Washington had a hundred cows in his yards, and yet bought butter for his table, the South has been a standing illustration of a sj stern that seems to bring wealth but in fact leads to penury. Ten years ago tne went to war, trusting mainly to the fact that she could do one thing to perfection grow clean, long-stapled upland cotton at a cost of less than ten cents a ponnu. Due naa not meu learned that national strength' depends oa doing many, things well; she is not in a way to master that lesson now, though it has been enforced with the gloomy rhetoric of the cannon. She has yet to learn the oinmpo tence of concerted action and diversified in dustry. For instance, the last decade has proved conclusively that England will put no limit on the price she is willing to pay for a certain amount of good American upland Her spindles and looms are all fitted for just such cotton as America alone can crow; and if she must pay a gold dollar for a pound of it, she will pay the dollar rather than dispense with the cotton. The scanty crops of 18G7 and 1808 reduced the supply in her factories so she has boen will ing to give 25 cents a pound. But the three million bales of 180!) have gone so far to fill the void that the price has declined, and may descend to a point at which the production of cotton by free labor becomes unprofitable, If in January and February the planters of the South could nave met in conventions, talked these matters over, and agreed to plant less cotton, and more of something else, they would nave controlled the price, and held it at a quarter of a dollar and over. As it is, the old infatuation of one crop, one style of farming, has crept back npoa the (southern mind, and with it, in many cases, an exaggerated estimate of the importance of the Southern staple to the welfare of the world. Instead of this being true, the cotton crop, as an ele ment of national and international strength, ceases at two and a half million bales. When cotton is cheap, England uses choice American for both warp and woof: now she mixes it with the short and kinky staples ot less lavored climates. When cot ton is cheap it creeps as a dull adulterant into all our fabrics, it hardens the surface and chills the warmth of our woollens, it takes the gloss from our silks, it makes our linens limp in texture, it drives richer and more lasting goods out of the general market. discouraging the wool-grower, the silk-worm feeder, and the flax-producer delaying the introduction ot ramie and of mohair, as pro fitable American staples. All this subtle mischief a great cron of cotton works in the world, while the curse of a one-sided and exhausting tillage rests over all the cotton fields. The planter will float corn a thousand miles down Western rivers, and then haul it fifty miles over muddy and narrow roads, that he may clng with a closer and more ruinous devotion to his single staple. His cattle are small and bony. They pick a scanty living in the canebrake, ticks worry them, musquitoes torment them, anl poachers kill them; so he learns to depend oa Kentucky for his beef. His hogs are wild and restless all summer, gaining no flesh and but little bone. His corn is insufficient for his plow-horses, and he learns to depend on Cincinnati for his pork. He needs artisans of all sorts near him wagon-makers, tanners, shoemakers, rope walks, plow-makers, and cotton-weavers. But these persons find that while wages are a little higher, food is a good deal dearer; that the roads are narrow and dusty when not muddy; that the streams keep all who are not well mounted weather-bound for a day after every rain; that the undrained swamps breed myriads of mosquitoes, and that where the lands are rich they abound in malaria. - Argu ments like these must continue to drive the mechanio from the Cotton States, certainly while, in addition, he is made to feel that neither James Watts, nor George Stephenson, nor Robert Fulton, if landless, would be as much honored as the wild owner of a thou sand wild acres. We are aware that the South has suffered from the struggle and starvation of a long war. We admit that the proclamation and the surrender destroyed a vast amouat whioh, by the Constitution, as it then read, was pro perty. Far be it from us, who justly prize the thrift, the enterprise, the invention, and the progress of the Northern character, to draw invidious distinctions or fan a sectional pride. But we wish to show the South how tshe is cheated by that insane loyalty to old, tyrannous, and now uncrowned King Cotton. She wants bread and he gives her a stone; she asks a fish and gets a scorpion. Cotton gives her gold, but for all important ends of national power that gold is dross. It buys nothing of that which makes nations great and keeps them so. It has little power to fell ' forests, to drain swamps, to bridge steams, rill school-houses, and change villages into cities. The funda mental mischief in that sunny and for the most part fertile land, is not the negro, nor the bureau, nor the bayonet, nor the army worm; but a political economy false in its first principles and ruinous in its working. The South spends so much on factors and shipping merchants; she keeps on the road such long trains of wagons; she supports such an army of steamboat hands and sailors and clerks and brokers and insurance agents in short, she pays so large a share of what she earns in order to get a chance to buy what she wants, that she must continue to live in log cabins and ride in bridle-paths. What she most needs is a statesman, far-seeing and sagacious, as able as Calhoun was, to mark out the path of national greatness and draw her feet into it. FREE LOVE IN THE SOROSIS. From the N. Y. Sun. The club of women known as the Sorosis had the McFarland case up for consideration, as might Lave been expected, at their meet ing last Monday evening. Resolutions were unanimously adopted by the club, amid a storm of applause, denouncing Mr. McFarland and the course taken on his trial by his coun sel, and approving in the warmest terms the conduct of Mrs. McFarland, Mr. Richardson, Mrs. Calhoun,' and Mrs. Sinclair. Mrs. "Richardson," as Mrs. McFarland is called, in defiance of the fact that her pretended marriage with Mr. ltichardson was an entire nullity, is pronounced by one of the resolu tions to be "an innocent and deeply injured woman, whose greatest fault was an error of judgment in remaining no long with a man who had forfeited every claim to her respeot, and outraged every instinct of her womanly nature;" while another declares that "the late Albert D. Richardson, m offering honorable marriage to Mrs. McFarland in her distress and misfortune, instead of the insulting 'pro tection' too common in snoh cases, acted in a courageous, noble, and generous manner, and is deserving of the esteem and admiration of every true woman." Now, we have no wish to find fault either with the judgment or the taste, of the women of the Sorosis. We must protest, however, against the illogical reason which they give for their encomiums of the guilfcy pair. They undertake to assert that McFarland's trial illustrated the assumption by a husband of the ownership of his wife, and they denounce it accordingly as "a shame to manhood, an insult to womanhood, and a aeep aisgraoe npon our civilization." With all due respect to the Sorosis, the McFarland trial illustrated no fiuch thing. What it proved was the set tled conviction of the public that marriage is a sacramental compact, indissoluble for any cause except that admitted in the Scrip tures. ' Mrs. McFarland in the course of this trial appeared to be guilty, not of separating from a brutal and abusive husband, but for betrothing herself to a lover, and attempting, under cover of a secret and fraudulent divorce, to marry him in defiance of the laws of Christianity and of this State. She says herself in her confes sion that the very next evening after she fled from her home, she not only allowed Mr. EicbardBon to speak to her of love, but that when he spoke all her heart went out to him as freely as the river flowed towards the se$, This passion could not have sprang jnto ex istence in a single day. It must have been growing during all the period of her acquaint ance with Richardson, and she could not but have known it. Whether they were actually guilty of adultery or not, they were morally guilty of it; and this is what makes their con duct so criminal in the estimation of all right thinking people. A subsequent resolution of the Sorosis, passed at this same meeting, declares that marriage is "a holy and God-ordained insti tution, based upon the equal interests, equal affections, and equal rights of the contract ing parlies." Mr. McFarland, therefore, had some rights, and these rights Mr. Richardson invaded. It is' not a violation of ownership with which he is charged, but a corruption of the marriage bond, .and making love to a woman and engaging her to marry him while she was still another man's wife. If the case had been reversed, if Mrs. McFarland ha.4 been an intolerable shrew and torment, and some attractive woman bad sought to win her husband from her, does the Sorosis protend that she would have hal no right to resist and resent the seduction ? We are assured that some of the prominent members of the Sorosis make no secret of their approval of free-love practices as well as principles. One of the speakers last Mon day, we are informed, has borne the relation of wifo to two men who are still in the flesh, and has eaten at the table and lodged in the bouse of her first husband, or companion, as she calls them, during her connection with ber second "companion. We will not be so unjust as to suppose that the whole cluo is composed of persons of this character; but respectable women will do well to be careful how they commit themselves to declarations which are really, if not apparently, nothing but statements of the broadest free-love the ones. A BAD START. From the If. Y. World. Some days since a radical State convention was held in Raleigh, .North Carolina, osten sibly to nominate a candidate for Attorney General, but really in the interest of Mr Grant. . As the programme was originally prepared, there was to be an immense out pouring of enthusiasm for Mr. Grant, a wholesale indorsement of his administration not forgetting a good word for the San Domingo job and a glorious nomination for re-election in 1872. Unfortunately for the success of this scheme, the brethren do not dwell in unity in the old North State, and, though the fires have heretofore been smould ering, the convention fanned them into a light blaze. It was apparent immediately on the assemblage of the delegates that there were two factions: the Grant wing, headed by a yellow negro preacher from the North somewhere, and the anti-Grant wing, led by Holden, the reconstructed Governor of the State. Subsidiary to these oham pions were the so-called United States Senators Pool. the native Senator. bocking Holden, and Abbott, the carpet bagger from Mew llamsphire, swear ing by ,lbig yaller," as Mr. Grant's tawny advocate is termed in nnregenerate North Carolina parlance. On proceeding to organize the convention the trouble began. Holden entered Fool for presiding officer, and the negro nominated the carpet-bagger. The temporary chairman, one of Holden s hench men, decided that Tool had it. Then ' big yaller rose resplendent, lie objected to dis. "He had the Bible and the Constitution to hack him and a revolver in his pocket, and he'd be d d if he didn't mean to have his rights." In vain the chairman rapped to order; In vain a little creature known as "Jay bird" Jones, a warm friend of Grant's, and anxious for harmony, pointed appealingly to iViA I annr T e ma Viqtta rtan na at a Itnrna " some bunting in the hall; "big yaller" was not to be appeased. Under the flow of his fiery eloquence, clubs, sticks, and pistols began to make their appearance. Holden felt for his hat and fled; Fool sent for the police; and Abbott cheered "big yaller" on. Finally the police came and carried Grant's friend off to the watch-house, and Fool assumed the chair. Next day "big yaller," who had gotten out of limbo, appeared in the convention again, but only to find his wing utterly squelched, and no chance left to get in a resolution commendatory of Mr. Grant. The Fool-IIolden victory was so complete that there was not even the faintest move made in that direction, and the great, outpouring, enthusiastic North Carolina Radical State Convention adjourned without a mention of hia name. The moral is obvious. The man Holden is as shrewd and tricky a politician as the South contains. He has been on all sides, and has a most wonderful faculty of scenting out success. He was once a strong seces sionist, just before secession rose in its might and glory in 1801, and fought it out on that line till he saw the end coming; then he became instant and furious for the Union, did no little to distract and weaken the Confederacy, and built up so loil a reputation that Andrew Johnson made him provisional Governor of North Caro lina under the Lincoln-Johnson restoration plan. When that began to topple, he turned from it instanter, bowed humbly before Con gress, accepted the reconstruction policy in all its parts and particles, and once more rode into success as the reconstructed Gov ernor of his State. Now we see him prepar ing for a new departure; silencing Graat'a friends in a State convention; and signifying by silence that Grant is too heavy a load for a prudent politician to carry. Coming from so shrewd and successful a man, this opinion gives Mr. Grant'B renomination a MM start. RATTIER ROUGH ON TIIE THEATRES. From the If. r. Herald. Mr. Schenck, in his ambition to reduce the internal tax some thirty millions a mere drop in the buoket, by the way seems in clined to accomplish that purpose on the principle of "robbing Feter to pay Faul." He allows public readings like those of Charles Dickens, for example to go soot free, while Dickens pockets a hundred thousand or so, leaves our shores and snaps his fingers at our country, without leaving a dollar as a tax in the Government Treasury. On the other band, the Revenue bill just introduced piles on the tax on regular places of publio amuse ment a hundred per cent, above what it was before. In other words, the license tax on first-class places has heretofore been one hun dred dollar.-). It is proposed now to make it two hundred. The present tax on gross re ceipts has heretofore been two per cent. It is now proposed to raise it to three per oent. Now, it may be all very well to tax amuse ments as a luxury, which some people think may be done away with altogether; but we question the propriety of augmenting the tax to such a degree as to prohibit first-class public entertainments entirely. It is like killing the goose that lays the golden egg. A tax on gross receipts when the manager may not have realized a dollar npon a per formance and the higher the class of enter tainment the more expense is there attending its production seems unjust and unwise. It were better to tax the net income above ex penses threefold than to tax gross receipts from which the manager does not realize a dime. Even the present rate of taxation on theatres enoourages the production of sensa tional and immoral pieces, calculated to de moralize the old and pollute the young. But the managers have to resort to this mode of attracting audiences in order that their re ceipts may so far. overcome their expenses that they may be able to pay the Government tax without encroaching upon the returns for their actual outlay. There are many sensa tional performances in lecture-rooms that should be held liable to Government taxation as well as theatres, and Congress would be doing a good thing if it should impose a tax upon these lecturing harlequins and travel ling knights of gabble, and ease up a little on the now overtaxed first-class places of public. amusement, INSANITY AND MURDER. From the Baltimore Sun. We have heretofore notioed that Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, has sent a special message to the State Legislature in regard to the plea of insanity in trials for murder, man slaughter, and assaults with intent to kill. He recommends that in all cases in which that plea is interposed the question .shall be tried in equity, the prisoner to be held in custody meanwhile, without bail, to await the decree. If the decree shall be that the pri soner it sane, he shall be tried as such for the crime committed; that if he shall be found to be insane, the court shall order him to be confined in a lunatio asylum, and in that portion thereof designated for the "dangerous insane." In the case of assault with intent to kill, this confinement shall be for the term of one year, in a case of manslaughter for the term of three years, and in case of murder for a period of five years. In Maryland it is re quired by the code that when any person in dicted for crime or misdemeanor snail allege insanity or lunacy in his defense, the jury em panelled to try him shall find by their verdict whether he was at the time of committing the offense, or still is, insane, and if the jury find that he then was and still is insane, the court may send him to an almshouse, hospital, or some place better suited to his condition, there to be confined until he shall have re covered his reason and be discharged by due course of law. If such a provision as this is adhered to in good faith, the anomaly so often witnessed of turning loose murderers who claim to have acted under an uncontrol lable impulse of insanity, and giving them an opportunity to perpetrate similar acts, will be avoided. It is well known by those acquainted 'with cases of undoubted homicidal mania, that patients, aware of their condition, have themselves begged to be secured, so as to be saved from the act which they felt impelled to perpetrate. It would hence be a blessing to the insane murderers, as well as a safe guard to society, to shut up murderers found by juries to be insane in lunatio asylumns, where others, suffering from madness, though not murderers, are confined. The increase of insanity of late, as deve loped by the criminal proceedings ia courts of justice, would seem almost to justify the saying of the transcendental Emerson, thaf'there is a crack in everything human." The rogues and manslayers of former days may well oomplain of their unlucky fate in being born before this ingenious device for cheating the enda of justice was invented. We have now what is called ''moral insanity," being an alienation or perversion of the moral faculties, unaccom panied by any marked perversion of the in tellect, once considered by the dootors a characteristic, to a greater or less degree, of the whole of fallen humanity. There is no doubt a confusion of ideas, to some extent, among all criminals, such as was defined by afa mous Irish barrister as "a confusion of the head arising from a corruption of the heart." It has been reserved to this day, however, to afford juries a pretext for aoquittal in emo tional madness, moral idiocy, and the like, to an extent that calls for some such legislative provisions in other States as is found in our own code or is recommended by the Governor of Mississippi. In the meantime it is impos sible not to admire the courage which gen tlemen of the bar exhibit in sitting for days and weeks, through a protracted trial, in close proximity to a homicidaljmadman, with out the precaution of having him ironed, when at any moment, and especially under the exciting influence of the soenes in court, he might take it into his head to give the jury a practical illustration of his condition by making a murderous assault upon hia counsel. y H E VATICAN, No. 1010 CHESHUT Street. Garden Vum, alaasioal designs. Garden VuMtl all prices. Garden Vim at W. Garden Vase at $i Uu. Garden Vases at 4 Uu. Garden Vases at 6 00. Garden Vases at Kti 00. Garden Vaaeaat 47 00. Garden Vaaee at fw. Garden Vaaee at I0 00. Garden Statuary, Flower Pot, and HanKiiK Vaaee in great variety. F.0 decoration adde to the natural beauties or ton carded or lawn and at so litUn iieu- .n,ltmi with tloaerum plants. au Un COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, of all numbers and brands. Tent, Awnlnf , Trmnk and Wauon-ooer Knck. Alao. Paper Manafaoturere' Krior telta, frem thirtf to aTealrU inubea. wits Paulina, itftin,. Sal. T-u... Jte. w KVKBMA.N. No. 10 OtiUUUUQUeeUOilI btoxei. SPECIAL NOTICES. $r- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM T1ST, TREASURER'S 1 RPA RTM KrTT. pHTbADBi,FHTA, Pa., May S, 1870. NOTICB TO STOCKHOLDERS. The Hoard of Directors bsve thte daf declared semi-, annual Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, on the Capital Stock of the Company, clear of National and State Taxoe, payable In cash on and after May 30, 1870. Blank Powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends oaa, be bad at the Office oi the Company. No. 838 South Third street. The Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 8 P. M. from May 80 to J una 8, for the payments Dividends, and after that date from A. M. to 8 P. M. THOMAS T. FIRTH. 84 gut J J Treasurer. IS?- OFFICE CATAWIS8A RAILROAD COM- PANY, So. 434 WALNUT Street. PhtlapkU-hia, May , 170. The Board of Directors of this Chmpany hnve this diy derl.red a dividend of THKRR ANL) A HALF PER CKNT.. on arcnunt of the dividends to bo raid the pre ferred stockholders, payable on and alter the I'M int., to those peraous in whose names the itock stands at the olusa of the traasfer books '1 lie transfer hooks of the nreforrel stock will be closed on the 14th and reopened on the S8d inst. NOTICE A SPECIAL MEETING OF the Stockholders of the PHILADELPHIA. ORR MANTOWN, AND NORRISTOWN RAILROAD COM PANY will be held in Room No. 94, PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE, on THURSDAY, the 9th day of June next, at 13 o'clock M., for the consideration ot an not of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to authorise the Philadelphia, German town, snd Norristown Railioad Company to increase its Capital Stock," approved the 29 1 a day of March, 1S70. By order of the Board of Managers. 6 il tti 9 A. E. DOUGH BRTY, SeoreUrv. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN accordance with the provisions of the etistmn sots Of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named in an act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the PKOTKO TION FIKK INSURANCE COMPANY, 10 be located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the ISthdayof April, A. D. 1HM, snd tl e supplement thereto, approved theiWtb day of April, A. D. 1870, will be held at 1 o'clock P. M. on the 15th Cay of June, A. D. 1870, at No. 13a S. SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia, when the books for subscription to the capital stock will be opened and the othor action taken requisite to complete the organisation. 6 13 lin 1- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN accordance with the provisions of the existing acts of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named in sn act entitled! "An Act to Incorporate the MOYA MENSINU 1 IRK INSURANCE COMPANY, to bo located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13tU day of April, A. 1). 1S59, and the supplement thereto, so proved the 2fith day of April, A. D. 1870, will be held at 13 o'clock M. on the lfith day of June, 1H70, at No. 132 8. SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia, when the books lor sub scription to the capital stock will be openoi and the ether action taken requisite to oomplete the organir.at ion. 6 131m sr NOTICE, Officx of Ohbs and Ohio Oauki, ) Annapolis, Mi a, 187. The annual meeting of the Stockholders oi this Oom snvwlll be held iu ANNAPOLIS .oa MO'iUAY. .Inn. panywill be held iu ANNAPOLIS .03 MO. o, ioiu,at i o cicca Mr. jm. BENJAMIN FA WOE IT, Secretary to Stockholders. 6St68 jggr A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE finiSaOS,v0li,0,wth,!i ?"0SKLL TRACT COAL COM PANY will be beld in Iuiiadelrhia. at No. 615 WALN.'oTetreet. Room No. 7. on SATURDAY. 2Ut lUstlnt, at 4 o'clock P. At., for the nurpose of considering an act pasaed bj the legislature of Pennsylvania affecting the company, and such other business as may be brought before it. 6 4 wthtit t THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Stockholders of the CLARION RIVER AND SPRING CKKEK OIL COMPANY will be held at HORTICULTURAL HALL, BROAD Street, on WED NHBDAY EVENING, the 85th inst at 8 o'clock. 5 li I2t TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTH WASH. It Is the most pleasant, cheapest snd beat dentifrios ztan t. Warranted free from injurious ingredient. It Preserves and Whitens the Teethl Invigorates snd Soothes the Onmsl Pontics and Perfumes the Breathl , . Prevents Accumulation of Tartar! Cleanses and Purifies Artificial Teetht Is a Superior Article for Children! . Bold bl all druggist a and dentists. A. W. WILSON. Druggist, Proprietor, 8 8 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Bts,, Philadelphia. t- NO CURE, NO PAY. FORREST'S JUNIPER TAR For Coughs, Croup, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Spitting o Blood, and Lnng Diseases. Immediate reliof and posi tive cure, or price refunded. 1 Sold by FRENCH, RIOH. ARDS A CO., TENTH and MARKET, and A. M. WIL SON, NINTH and FILBERT Streets. 4Sstuth35t ft- HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING Teeth with fresh Nitrous-Oxide Oas. Absolutely no psin. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the Oolton Dental Rooms, devotes his entire praotioe to the E sinless extraction oi teeth. Oifioe, No. WU WALNUT treet. 186 i QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. CAPITAL, 3,000,000. SABINE, ALLEN A DULLES, Agents, 28 FIFTH and WALNUT Streets. WARD ALE G. MCALLISTER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, No. 2rtl BROADWAY, New Yera. ROOFING. READY ROOFIN G. This Roofing ia adapted to all buildings, It can be Applied to STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily put on old Bhingle Roofs without removing the shingles, thus avoid ing the damaging of ceilings and furniture while under ni repairs. inojrra'Bi ubwi.jp CsiLK VK YUUK TIN Ktruro WITH WKlTOXT kjuabtio rajn r. I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at she notice. Also. PAINT FOR SALE by ths barrel or gallon the best and oheapest ia the market, . W. A. WELTON, 1 178 We. 711 W. NINTH Street Above Coatee TO BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS We are prepared to furnish English imported -ASPHALTIO ROOFiMO FELT in quantities to suit. This roofing was used to cover the Paris Exhibition in 1867. . MERCHANT A CO., J 131m No. 817 aud MINOR Street. DRUQ8, PAINTS, BTO. THOUGHT gllOCiriAKatiR 6c CO,, N. E. Corner FOT7KTH and RACE Sts., PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Importers and Manufacturers of WHITE LEAD AND COLORED PAINTS,' PUTTY, . VARNISHES, ETC AGENTS FOB THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC FAINTS. Dealer! and consumers supplied at lowest prices for cash. H si QENT.'S FURNISHING OOOD3. pATENT SHOULDER-BEAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWEES Dade from measurement at very short notice. All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS in full Tarlety. WINCHESTER A CO., 11 No. TPS CHKSNUT Street, FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFat sanst t nriTunw Jk HOW 3ofthaUUflmnKVANSAWATSOn.r? FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF BATE 8 T O XI 13 NO. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, I sit A few doors above Onaenot st, Phi la J. T. KABTOM. J. M'MAHON. 91 C 91 A. 11 O N, ? A H A On SBTPPiyO A HD COMltrSSIOr tIMRCBAh TS. Vo, i OOKNTIKH SLIP, New York, No. IS SOUTH WUAftVKS, Philadelphia, We are prepared to ship every description ef Freight to Philadelphia, New York, Wilmington, and intermediate points with promptness and despatch. (Janal iioat aus Steam-tuga furnished at the shorten notice) no. so rv. rm ri street, Baltimore. I HAVE ABANDONED TIIE OLD method of packing bodies in ioe, and bavins a i PATENT OORPSE-PRESEBVINQ CASKET, which is entirely now, and which has proven a perfeot success, I deaiis to call the attention of the publio to the same. guaraMe that ail todic will be kept in a dry and perfeot eute of preservation for an lndsnnifce period 4 901m JOSEPH A? MARKLK, Undertaker, B. W. corner SIVIMU and BUTTON WOOD Sts n REFRIGERATORS. Rcrnic en at o n s. E. B. FAltSON S& CO., Belf-Ventilating" HeOrlfcrators, lh cheapr-Rt and most reliable in the market, and Will keep MEATS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, MILK, and SUITES LONGER, OKI Eli, and COLDER, ' WITH I.EMM ICE, Than any ether Refrlprerators In use. Wholesale and Retail, at the Old Stand, H 80 tmrp IS: 2i0 HO UK Ktrer-t. Helavv Wnlnwt. "V" T -ALL REFRIGERATORS ALWAYS RELIABLE. The subscriber guarantees the make and finish of his SUPERIOR REFRIGERATOR equal in every respect to his former makes. The thousands sold and now ia sue testify to their superior qnaUfioatione. For sale wholesale ana retail at the Manufactory, No. 806 OUKRrlY Street, abov Third. Also, W.F. NICKEL'S Pstent Combination ale, beer, and liquor cooler and refrigerator. 1 84tbsto3t OKOHGK W. NICKELS. IQfc.. 1 870. 1 870. KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO. ESTABLISHED 1S3J. INCORPORATED 1904. OFFICE, No. 435 WALNUT St., Philadelphia. OFFICES AND BRANCH DEPOTS: NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD and MAS TER Street. RIDGE ROAD and WILLOW Street. WILLOW STREET WHARF, Delaware Avenuft, TWENTI-8ECOND and HAMILTON Streets. NINTH Street and WASHINGTON Avenue. PINE STREET WHARF, SunujlkilL No. I8S3 MAIN Street, Germntown. No. SI North SECOND Street, Camden, N. J., and CAPE MAY, Ne w Jersey. Wholesale and Retail Dealers In and Shlpp"- of Fostern Ice. Send our orders to any 01 Hi)0ve ofllceg. "For prloen, see cards " 6 8 lm CARPENTER. COMPANY. ft?. 717 lVIL.aL.OW Street. GOOD BOSTON ICE AT 9IAKUGT RATI2S , WHOLESALE AND 11ETAIL. CHAS. 8. CARPENTER, JOHN GLESDENINQ JOS. M. TRUMAN, Jr., 6 T Btnthlm JOHN R. CARPENTER, WM. E. FRAZSR pENN ICE COMPANY OP PHILADELPHIA. Incorporated 1868. orriOES, & W. Corner FOURTH and LIBRARY, No. 408 North TWENTY-FIRST Street. Shipping Depot, SFRUOR STREET WHARF, Schuyl kill River. CHAS. J. WOLBERT, President, ' 880 60trp ' CHAS. B. RE E8, Superintendent. WHISKY, WINE, ETC. QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL, No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts., IMPORTERS OF Brandies, Winei, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES. IN BOND AND TAX PAID. IKlpi WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS In Fine Whiskies, No. 146 North SECOND Street. Philadelphia. GROCERIES. ETOi 1809. -T ARB AN TED GENUINE OLD Government Java Coffee Roasted every day. at 40 cents per pound, at COUSTYS East End Grocery' If o. 118 South gECONU St., I17thstn BELOW OHE8NUT fJTRKET J JONDON BROWN STOUT AND SCOTCH ALE, In stone and by the cask or dozen. "Tl ALBERT O. ROBERTS, Dealers in Fine Grooeries, 1175 Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Street. FURNITURE, ETO. RICHMOND & CO.. FIRST-CLASS ' FURNITURE WAREROOMS Ho. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET, HAST 8IDK. ABOYR OHESNUT. Ill PHILADELPHIA f?URNITURE Selling at Cost, No. 1010 MARKET Street. 4 13 8m G. a NORTH. MEDICAL. NEW DISCOVERY. ELIXIR J. F. BER NARD TONI STHENIQUK. ANTI DYSPEPTIO. The aeveral observationa made by the best physioiana of the r aoulta de Paris have proved that the siokneeaea ariains; from impoverishment of the blood or nervoas ex. haustion, via. : Antenia, Chlorosis, Sympathisme, radical!, oared with the ELIXIR J. V. BERNARD. General Depotr-A. BERNARD, No. il CEDAR Street, M oor. For sale by all respectable drucKista. 1 1 tntha mtluiiio. Diauetee. AJbuininerta. tsoorout. ate., eta., km PIANOS. IFrF3 ALBRECHT, RTKHES SCHMIDT, aiAnuraoTuitaiia or FIRST-CLASS PIANO-FORTUS. Fnu raarantee ana moderate prions. J 8 5 W ABKKOOMS. No. 610 AHOHtrs rpo ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS. PLANS X and gpeclUcatlons for the construction of a rOLICK STATION HOUSE, to b erected upon the site of the present Station House in the Fifth Polir District, on Fifteenth street, above Locust street, la the city of Philadelphia, are hereby requested and Invited from some competent architects, to be sub mitted to the Committee on Police of Councils oa or before MONDAY, May 83, loTO. The several plaua and specifications will be duly considered by said committee, and If any one of the nunrter shall be selected and adopted by the said committee, and approved by Councils, it will be paid for, but for those not selected no compensation La to be given. Any Information as to dimensions or particulars will be furnished upon application to ST. CLAIR A. M I'LHOLLAND, Chief oi Police, at the olUce of the Mayor. Such plans and specifications may be left wita, or mailed to, tue umtcrefgued at his oillce, Ne. l DCC'K Street. HENRY Hl'ON, , Chairman Committee ou Police. I'biladcliiula, May li, ls70. e li tmtu
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