THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAT 23, 1870. 2 crin.iT or xns rzissa. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journal upon Current Topic Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. DISORGANIZATION OF POLITICAL PAR TIES. From the S. T. Iltrald. Looking at the enormous wealth and won derful development of the material interests of the country on one hand and at the disor ganization of political parties and the conse quent rash for publio plunder on the other, it is evident there is going to be suoh a car nival of extravagance as we have never seen before. The war uprooted all the former ideas of the people and Government about economy and doing things on a email scale. The expenditure of sixty or Beventy millions a year by the Federal Government ten years ago was considered enormous, and this ex travagance was bitterly condemned by the "watchdogs of the Treaaury" in Congress and by a large portion of the people and press. The stupendous grants of laud and money to railroads since that time would have frightened the country and would not have been listened to in Congress. Such a grant as that to the Pacifio Railroad of Gov ernment bonds and lands, for example, could not have received ten votes in Congress. That body and the people would have stood aghast at such proposed appropriations of hundreds of millions of acres of land to rail road comprnies as are now made. The war made the people familiar with enormous ex penditures. A hundred millions of dollars were and are spoken of .as unconcernedly as a million was previously. In ten years the Eeace expenditure of the Govervment has een multiplied from sixty or seventy mil lians to three hundred and fifty millions or thereabout. In ten years the expenditure has been increased five times the amount it was previously. There never was suoh a revolution in the finanoial affairs and condi tion of a country before. No other nation on the globe could have endured such a revo lution in so short a time. Yet such are the resources and wealth of the country that our teople feel the change and the burden far ess than other nations do theirs. JVTrue, we hear something occasionally from Congress of retrenchment, of reducing the taxes or of modifying the tariff a few mil lions; but this is a bagatelle compared with the vast and now necessary expenditure, and is used merely by Congressmen for political capital in their districts at home. The truth is, the extraordinary revolution produced by the war has launched ns on a sea of extrava gance which was never dreamed ef before. Were political parties organized upon broad principles of national policy, and were they more equally balanced in Congress, we might expect reforms and a greater economy: but neither the Republican party in power nor the Democratic party nave any nxed policy. Neither presents any issue to the country. The revolution . produced by the war has not only changed oar ideas of economy and finance, but it has also buried the issues of the past. The negro is no longer available for political capital. The amend ments to the Constitution and the laws of Congress have placed him on an equal footing with the white man. isotning more ' can be done for him or made out of him. He must now find his level and olaoe in societv . in accordance with the laws of nature and his capacity. Reconstruction is about finished, and that, with all the other issues growing out of the war, will Boon be closed up. The Republican party cannot perpetuate itself . 1 1-52 11 1- - L I 1 upon mese acaa issues, tuougu it is euuea voriDR to galvanize them for that purpose. With all the great questions relating to our finances, progress, foreign affairs, the tariff, taxation, the enlargement of our commeroe and destiny of the republio, neither the Re publican nor Democratic party has shaped a policy. They are utterly without a policy with regard to the wants of the country or the future. Even the Republican party, which has an overwhelming majority in Congress, cannot agree upon any important measure, and has no co-operation or affiliation with the administration of its choice. The consequence of this state of things is that all are scrambling for publio plunder. Those representing the iron and coal interests of Pennsylvania, the manufacturing interests of New England and the land-grabbing rail , road interests of the West, are intent upon making the most for themselves and their sections, regardless of the general welfare of the republic. In the general disruption and want of principles of cohesion in political parties the members of Congress and seotional cliques are bent upon making all they can out of the Government and people. The future is uncertain; they see nothing beyond the pre sent; they will make the most of the present carnival of extravagance. The only hope that remains is that in the lavish use of publio money something will be done on a large scale for the benefit of the people and the country. The Paoifio Railroad, for example, was a stu pendous iob one that has oost the country an enorAoua sum and that has made many speculators very rich; but it is, after all, a grand work which will prove of the greatest advantage to the country. Let ns have, then, in this era of reckless expenditure, something to show for the cost. There is hardly any limit to the wealth of the nation, or to the patient submission of the people, and if we must be extravagant let ns have something grand to show for it. These remarks, though intended for the Federal Government especially, will apply as well to the State of New York and to our city government. We must be taxed heavily that is inevitable; but, then, the wealth of New York is accumulating so fast that the people can bear it. Only let ns have some thing to show, as we said before, for the cost. Our new city government has almost un limited power to make improvements. The men in power now can make improvements. The men in power now can make New York a magnifioent city. If they have the grasp of thought and taste they can make this metropolis the admiration of the world. Can they not findjsome such man as Haussmann, who beautified the city of Paris some man of euch taste and grand ideas to improve our city? No city in the world is so favorably situated for the grandest improvements. Our river front all round the island can be ornamented by the laost splendid and convenient docks, wharves, and piers; we can have magnificent . t 5- A 1 eievaiea rauroaus uu iuub arcnes irom one end of the island to the other, we can have the broadest and finest avenues, noble bridges across the Kast river to connect Brooklyn and Yt Uliamsburg with this city, the best-drain ege and many other improvements. This is the glorious future that awaits the metropolis of America if the men in power here have the ability, ana understand their opportunity, Not to advance with the progress and luxu ries, tastes and habits of the times, is to fall back really, and to fight against destiny. Let the nation and the city, then, march on in the grandest works of improvement, for thit will be in accordance with the present order of things and the mighty future of our country. CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY. From tin Albany Journal We regret to see in the Troy "Whig charges of conspiracy against the friends of ex-Senator Morgan. The allegation that there wai a conspiracy to put Folger ahead at the ex pense of his associates is not warranted by the figures. As well might it be urged thit in other localities there was a conspiracy to run him behind. It is true that he runs largely ahead. But where there is abundant explanation of results without making charges against political associates, we think it would be far better to oixit bringing them. Juige Selden runs ahead of his ticket everywhere. Does that argue a conspiracy on the part of his friends to advance him at the expense of others? Judge Folger runs behind in many places. Does that argue a conspiracy on the part of the Republicans to defeat him? The scattering returns we have received show that in sections where men who are esteemed to be friends of Senator Morgan wield potential influence, the ticket runs remarkably even; and there are sections which are controlled by manipulators alleged to be inimical to him, in which the votes cast for the respective candi dates for Associate Judges show remarkable and suspicious variations, and this, too, in sec tions where no special producing causes ex isted. It is alleged on the other side that this is to be attributed to influence hostile to Sena tor Morgan. Such charges are in bad taste. It is probable that if the entire workings of the late anomalous canvass were known, it would be seen that the variations in the vote are to be attributed solely to legitimate causes, and not to political treachery. Republicans everywhere knew that they could not succeed in electing their entire ticket. Special exer tions, therefore, were made to advance the in terests of individual candidates. So openly was this done, that it became subject of comment in the Democratic press, and the consequence followed legitimately. In localities where a particular candidate was especially strong among the Democracy, he was voted for by hundreds, as it was known that it oonld be done with entire safety to the general ticket. The variations have been caused by our op ponents, and not by ourselves. And this was particularly the case in New York city. If, however, there was treachery anywhere, we are quite sure, from indications, that it was not on the part of the friends of Senator Morgan. And we do not believe that there was any such feeling on the other side if there is any other Bide. We submit to the Republicans of the State that it is time all such suspicions and allega tions were abandoned. We have enough to do to whip the enemy without beating our selves. That duty is before us, and it can be triumphantly discharged. But it can only be done by cordial unity and entire harmony Individuals are nothing the party and the principles it represents are all in all. That party must be restored to power in this State those principles must be given enduring vitality and effective expression in this Com monwealth. And it can only be done by concession and extraordinary exertion in con cord. We believe the right spirit prevail general! j, and we take the liberty of calling attention to the first cropping-out ot a con trarv feeling, not because we believe it ex tensive or represents a deep-rooted sentiment in any locality, but for the simple purpose o: checking its tendency and urging the entire abandonment of all disputes about indivi duals. We need success, as a party, before we will have any occasion to give practical expression to our personal preferences. And if we wrangle over individuals, we will find that our quarrels have really been carried on over the grave of the Republican party. THE REFORM OF THE BAR. From the H. T. Tribune. The organization of a reform association by the members of the legal profession in this city was a sufficient acknowledgment of the corruption of the New York bar, were no other evidence at band. Unfortunately, the profession is not in good repute. It is true we hear more frequently of corrupt judges than of knavish counselors, but this is rather the result of the greater responsibility and consequent notoriety of the former. Judges and lawyers are parts of the machinery of law. While the judge guides and directs, the lawyer supplies the motive power, and the uarmomouH acuou oi doiu is necessary to insure practical legal success. Judges can act only on the cases brought before them; and 'as no dishonest practititioner can hope to have his action approved by an honest judge, bo the most honest counselor can see all his labors rendered useless by the de cision of some corrupt justice. But no judge can from month to month and from year to year, defy all law, all justice, unless sus tained by some equally corrupt practitioner below him. .There is a power in right which can only be subdued by the willing conni vance of those'in whose hands it lies. An elec tive judiciary elevates the demagogue to the bench whenever party is stronger than prin ciple; but if the bench be unworthily filled the purity of the bar can prevent at least open corruption. The legal profession of this city comprises all dosses, from the faithful advocate of sim ple justice to the Tombs 'shyster" who divides a greenback with the first unfortu nate panel thief. The quack physician may succeed for a time; the hypocritical divine finds a short-lived protection under his sur plice; but the dishonest lawyer, cloaked with a little rhetoric, gilded with a little brass, and puffed up with a smattering of law, may give employment to a rascally judge all his days. Our legal machinery is more complicated than the uninitiated will believe. One practitioner, for instance, boldly advertises that he will procure divorces on the most aooommodating terms, which means that he will set up the grounds of complaint, as ciroumstances shall dictate; that he will write out the evidence which is to substantiate those grounds, and subpoena the witnesses who will swear to it. For we have in our midst professional wit nesses who ean be hired to give, under oath, any testimony laid out for them. Another practitioner, whose gilded sign may adorn the front ef any marble palace of a business Btreet, acts as his own detective, and, mixing with business men, hears of some assignment, gets the names of certain creditors, and a case of involuntary bankruptcy follows. These, it is true, are the dregs of the profession, but the upward grade is a very gradual one. An association of the members of the profession banded together to purify their calling can and will effect much good; but prevention is better than cure, and we must look, there fore, to a more guarded door of entrance if we expect a real reform. To-dav anv man with ready wit, a glib tongue, and a raonth's studv can be enrolled: and with Droner "in nuence even inese quaiiacatious may be dispensed with. Columbia College Law School is allowed to give diplomas, admitting to the bar, to those only who have pursued its course of ttudy, under a learned professor, for two years. Yet these same students can, and year alter year do, gain admittance through the examining committee before their course ia half over. The argument that by admitting all appli cants we secure the worthy and only have to wait for the others to starve out, is a faulty one. For men, especially lawyers, die hard; and it is this gasping for professional life, this struggle for the neoeisary legal bread, which compels many to degrade themselves and their profession. True, the ignorant are not the only blights of the profession; but as an amended Constitation will purify for ns the benoh, so an amended code will help to c levate the bar. BLUNDERING LEGISLATION. From the N. Y. Time. It is undoubtedly necessary to give effeot by legislation to the fifteenth amendment, but a grave blunder will be perpetrated if this purpose be made a pretext for creating fresh disabilities, or for enacting penalties more harsh and vexatious than the ciroum stances of the case require. The equality of political rights now guaranteod by the Con stitution may surely be seoured in practioe, without casting imputations upon a large proportion of the Southern people, or con tributing to the alienation of races in the Southern States. The South itself has a better appreciation of its needs tban Senator Morton lately evinced when he sought to revive the passions which should be buried with rebellion, and to in fuse into the legislation of to-day the spirit we associate with the agitated counsels of the reconstruction crisis. Events are no longer favorable to partisan intolerance, j You cannot read a man out of the Republi can paity because he advocates amnesty; you cannot coll for his excommunication because he protests against the continuance and mul tiplication of political disabilities. The de claration of the convention which nominated Grant forbids any such violent methods. The acts and the recommendations of those through whose agency reconstruction was achieved, constitute a protest against further proscription in any form. The Republicans of the South have honored themselves in nothing more than in the mode ration a moderation in some instances amounting to magnanimity with which they exercised the power conferred upon them by law. Tbey had the opportunity, in the for mation of the Stale Constitutions, and in the measures which legislative majorities subse quently enabled them to pass, of imposing tests and qualifications that would have pro duced extensive disfranchisement. The con ditions under which they met for the per formance of their duties were calculated to develop the bitterest temper. But wise and generous instincts triumphed. Those whom Congress 'had suddenly invested with great power used it in the interest of peace. They sought to protect themselves in the exercise of their rights, but they made no assaults upon the rights of others. The result was that, with scarcely an exception, the new Constitutions are models of fairness and moderation. Even where colored votes were all-powerful, as in South Carolina, the organic law is free from proscriptive taint. The Republicans of the State were content with equal rights they have not sought power at the expense of their neighbors; and one of their exponents at Washington, Senator Sawyer, is the zealous and consistent champion of a policy of am nesty and peace. The Mississippi Republi cans are not behind in the good work. The harsh provisions of their new Constitution they expunged at the polls; they have formally appealed to Congress for the removal of the disabilities which it imposed; and their Sena tor, Revels, with the cruel wrongs of his race fresh in his memory, demands amnesty for his own State, where, as he testifies, the people are "harmonious and prosperous." l acts of this nature should shame into silence the spirit that would not only keep alive the limited proscription .which still exists, but would seek in the enforcement of the newly-ratified amendment an occasion for other penalties. If this were the only method of maintaining peace we should hesitate to condemn it; for the sake even of amnesty we would not jeopardize security. We are per suaded, however, that the harmonious and prosperous condition of Mississippi is in no email degree attributable to the generosity of the course pursued by the party that tri umphed in Governor Alcorn's election; and in the experience of Mississippi we discern the forerunner of the genuine reconstruction which will be developed in other Southern States, when counsels like those of Senator Morton lose their influence in the Republican party. WILL GENERAL GRANT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF LAST TUESDAY'S ELECTION ? From the A. F. Sun. The national interests and the national honor, backed by publio opinion, call for an immediate change in the State Department. The Cabinet needs reconstruction otherwise. but in ether departments the demand is not bo pressing. The President cannot longer an or a to turn a deal ear to this demand, lie has already made up a record on this one subject which will render it necessary for the Republican party to repudiate him, and that in a very decisive manner, unless he at once 6ends adrift the men whom he has appointed to manage the State Department. If he keeps Hamilton Fish and Bancroft Davis, he cannot Eossibly keep a place in the publio respect for imself. The United States have within the lost eight or nine years won a leading position among the great powers of the globe. We are, by a long distance, the foremost nation in the western hemisphere. And yet, under the administration of General Grant, we have E emitted ourselves to be bullied and brow eaten, over and over again, by Spain, the weakest monarchy in Europe, and that, too, in regard to affairs upon the American conti nent, with which Spain ought not to be allowed to interfere. We have gone further than this: we have not only been made to cringe before the threats of this crumbling despotism, but have built gunboats at her bidding, and furnished her with warlike munitions, . wherewith she might crush the struggling patriots of Cuba, who have simply emulated our example by Betting up republican institutions and abolishing negro slavery. We have bent even lower still; for we have looked on with closed mouths, and hands hanging listlessly at our sides, while the myr midons of Spain have shot and garroted Ame rican citizens, who were guilty of no crime but loving liberty and desiring the indepen dence of an island lying right by our shores. And all this has been done, and been per mitted to be done, by General Grant and his Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, without the utterance of one word of manly protest. Does the President suppose that he can play this disgraceful part much longer without arousing the indignation, as he has already provoked the hisues, of the great body of the American people ? Are not the returns of last Tuesday's election enough to wake him from Li3 cpatby ? For a century and a half England has maintained her place among the leading powers of Europe chiefly by the spirit she has shown in vindicating the rights even of her humblest subjects when violated by foreign States. However perilous the cir cumstances which confronted her, she has been ready, at whatever cost of treasure and blood, to stand by her people whenever and by whomsoever their libortiee were put in jeopardy. In the light of her history how mean appears the record of the conduct of General Grant's administration toward Spain, in view of its treatment of our citizens in Cuba, and especially the crowning infamy of the murder of the patriot Goioouria ! The moat eminent Americans have gene rally held the seals of the State Department, as witness Jefferson, Adams, Clay, Webster, Marcy, and Seward. By the side of such names, hew contemptible seems that of the feeble Fish! Let the Republican party insist upon his prompt removal from an office in which his blundering imbecility and cowardly cringing have becme so conspicuous. Can leading Republicans tolerate him any longer in this high position, after the people of New York have so decisively visited that party with their displeasure, as they did on Tues day last? THE SORROWS OF INTESTACY. from the JV. Y. World. The addition to the sum of human misery, and much more to the general stock of human malice and all uncharitableness, which has been effected under color of those devices by which the law attempts to secure to a man the right to the disposition of the worldly goods which the bcripture and our senses assure ns he cannot carry away with him, has been so grievous as to some minds to appear to be much more of a nuisance than a benefit, and to cause sundry cynics to wish for a remission of sooiety in this respect to a state of nature; or, in other words "The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they Bhould keep who can." That pleasing Celtio tenure which left pro perty to be ostensibly scrambled for, at the expiration of its possessor s earthly lncum bency of it, by all his immediate and remote kindred indiscriminately, and which has had the effect to propagate that countless horde of the heirs-male of ancient kings whom we encounter in our twilight rambles through the murmurous groves of the Sixth ward or other Celtio settlements of this metropolis, has seemed to such observers more consonant to reason and to justice than the modern system of devisol which, while it does not diminish the frequency or the scandal of such scrambles, necessitates such scram bles to be pursued under the forms of law, and substitutes spitefulness of spirit and uncleanneBS of conscience tor the broken heads of an earlier and sim pier administration. It is not a pleasing spectacle to see the members of a man's own household attempting to prove him of unsound mind, for no better reason than that his opinion of their relative or their absolute deserts does not coincide with their own, by adducing evidence that he took excessive amounts of sugar in his tea, or was given to objurgation when his dinner was cold. By tnese and sucn as tnese devices it is attempted. whenever the parties to a family quarrel have a sufficient cause of grievanoo or an insula cient sense of shame, to upset a testator's own disposition of his own property, and to reduce the freedom of the will in practice to the nullity to which the newest sect of philosophers have sought to abridge it in theory. That a man by no means escapes these posthumous outrages, however, by abstaining from making any will at all, is made plain by the investigation now in progress into the pecuniary affairs of the late Captain Alex ander. That lamented person derived his title from a nautical career, in the course of which be bad accumulated much money, and acquired an eccentricity of temper whioh in duced him, among other things, to insist upon carrying the evidences of his posses sions slung about bis neck in "two bags." Those who consider, with Dr. Johnson, that the adoption of a maritime life is itself a supremely insane performance, will not wonder at any lesser and corollary eccen tricities which it may entail. The late Com modore Meade was adjudged insane for ad dressing to his family upon shore those im passioned imprecations whioh are con sidered essential to the proper navigation of a vessel at sea. One of Mr. Charles Reade's nautical heroes went mad from parting it . i a A T wun one Dag oi uarus notes wmcn he guarded in the manner which Captain Alexander adopted to preserve his two. And it is no special marvel that the habits of the sea induced the latter person t o continue them on shore, and to practise the precautions which he had found effectual against the perils of the sea as a security against the penis of the boarding-house in liarlem in which his later lines were cast, in this re mote and tranquil spot he passed his declin ing years, and finally expired. Just before this latter event, it is admitted that his land lady out away a bag from his chest containing a few thousands of dollars, which she asserts, and the altogether disinterested members of her family join her in asserting, was all the money found upon him, and which they all, with equal positiveness and equal disinter, estedness, assert it bad long been his inten tion to bestow upon them as a token, it is to be supposed, of his gratitude for having been allowed to receive and remunerate food and lodging for so many years. The daughter of the late Mr. Alexander interposes at this point with proof that, within a short time of his death, her father had been in possession of an amount five or six times graater than the amount his late landlady ad mits to have taken from him, which it was his habit to carry in two receptacles, instead of the one she admits having taken from him! and that, being notified soon after his death that his daughter was a claimant for his estate, his late landlady refused to deposit with any responsible third person the amount then in her hands, pending a decision upon her right to it. Against this evidence the happy family of admittedly aggrandized Gardiners have only to swear, which they all consentiently do, that the eccentrio and intestate Alexander had declared his intention of "making them comfortable;" and that when, in the artiole of his death, Mrs. Gardiner "looked and out away the bag" which held his money, he "fell back with a most heavenly smile, as if he was fully satisfied that it had gono where he wanted it to go." It may be observed upon this that, grant ing the Gardiners to be the most "fit and desartless" persons to judge and testify of the meaning to be attached to this smile, a man who was capable, in his last moment1, of expressing so elaborate a sentiment in bo un mistakable a way by bo simple a contortion, was an irreparable loss to the comio stage. One would think that a "heavenly smile" was Dot the exact expression with which a dying man would greet a person who refused to wait for Lis death to despoil Liin. This par ticular "heavenly emile" must, therefore, have meant either that the ttmiler was anxious to pay a second time, and at an exorbitant rate, for several years of a Harlem boarding house, or else that the mere sight of the land lady of his boarding-house sufficed to call up that celestial expression. Either of which is inconceivable. - TIIE TRIUMrn OF LAY DELEGATION. From the Mttho4iL After eight years of unceasing effort, the Methodist has the satisfaction of announcing the triumph of lay delegation. The East Maine Conference, the last in the United States to declare its opinion, has given a vote of 44 for to 14 against. This, with the surplus available, secures the necessary three-fourths, even though the vote of the Germany Con ference Bhould be unanimously against. Bat sucn a vote in Uermany is not supposable; on the contrary, all our advices leave us to expect that the vote of our brethren in Europe will be unanimously for us. By a singular coincidence, the Uerman Conference meets this year in one of the cities of the Palatinate. the ancestral home of the founders of Ameri can Methodism. The circle completes itself in tke spot whence the Palatines set forth first for Ireland, and thence in the persons of 1 1 jl J 1 1 1 ; uieir uesueuunuis 10 America. And bo the great debate of fifty years comes to a peacetui conclusion. The move ment, suppressed in 182S, reappears in 1851. is pronounced inexpedient by the General Conference of lr2, offers its modest peti tion in 1 .)(, and meets with sufficient favor from the General Conference of 18G0 to ob tain a reference to the vote of the ministry and people. The Church is not yet ripe for lay delegation; the people and the itinerant ministers vote it down. Undismayed by de feats, its friends begin again, and rest not till they win the Church over to entire acqui escence in their opinions. Beginning with the John street meeting, in March, 1803, and irom thence to the St. Pauls convention in New York; thence to the convention of 1804. the first ever held simultaneously with a meeting of a General Conference, and the first also to present a direct address to that body; from thence to the sessions of the Annual Conferences immediately following, which were successfully appealed to to ratify the pledge given by the (ieneral Conference; and thence to the Convention of 18G8, also meeting simultaneously with the General Conference, and presenting to it a second direct appeal, and finding its appeal welcomed; and thence to the recent popular and ministerial votes the movement has found an ever-growing acceptance of its prin ciples and purposes by the Church. Its array of friends has increased; its line has become longer and stronger; they who hastily cried "faction" have been effectually silenced. Here is no faction, but a great Church, whose stations are found in both the old world and the new, ratifying and incorpo rating into its polity a fundamental pnnoiple of Protestant Christianity. It is to the honor of the laity that, while engaged in promoting this change in our ecclesiastical polity, they have sustained with entire fidelity the institutions of Methodism, Since the defeat of 1861-2, and the inception' of the last and successful effort, they have entered into the church debt-paying move ment, and have contributed for its purposes untold thousands; they . have brought the missionary contributions of our connection to their present unprecedented amount; by their liberality they have made the Centenary of American Methodism a memorable fact in modern Church history, and they have in creased their individual benefactions to the cause of education, both in numbers and amount. First and last, they have been for the Church; were they defeated to-day, they would still be for the Church. In all their weary waiting, they have had faith in their brethren; they have had faith in God. We will not mar the happiness of such a time as this by speaking at length of the opposition which lay delegation has encoun tered. It was natural that the motives of the friends of our cause should be misunderstood, and they have been misunderstood. It was natural that there should be harsh criticism of their proceedings, and harsh critioism there has been. But we can point to the fact of a fundamental change in the polity of the Church, eff ected without convulsion, without special party organization, and without the manifestation on the part of its advocates of party passions. They have laid restraint upon themselves that they might win their cause and they have won it fairly, honorably, and Christianly. We have reason for rejoicing too that the travelling ministers have fulfilled the pledges given by them to the people. Despite the efforts made to mislead them they have not been misled. They have kept faith, and have swerved not from their steadfast integrity. The future historian ef the Church will dwell upon the fact of the cheerful assent by a com pact and powerful corporate body to the claim of the people to shore the government with them. It will be proof that in at least one instance of Church history the long and undisputed possession of power has not dark ened the sense of justice. As we always said they would, the Methodist ministry have shown themselves equal to this great test. And so the new era hopefully begins. WHISKY, WINE. ETC. QAR8TAIR8 & IVIcCALL, No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite SU., IMPORTURS OF Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil. Etc., WHOLESALE DKALKH8 III PURE RYE WHISKIES. IN BOND AMD TAJ PAID. H8 ivi WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS la Vina Whiskies, DRUGS, PAINTS, BTO. JOllEUT gUOEMAUlSK A; CO., N. E. Corner FOURTH and RACE SU., PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Importers and Manufacturers of WHITS LEAD AND COLORED PAINTS, PUTTY, VARNISHES, ETC. AGENTS FOR TUB CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at lowest prloee for cash. H OROOERIE8. ETO. j-ONDON BROWN BTOUT AND SCOTCH ALE, In (tone and glass, by the cask or dosen. ALBEUT C. ROBERTS, Dealers In Fine Grocerios, 1 11 75 Corner ELKVKNrU and VINE Street. DRY GOODS. LIKEN STORE, No. 020 ARCH STREET.1 AND No. 1128 CHESNUT Street Spring Importations. IMMENSE STOCK OF LINEN GOODS, WHITE GOODS, and HOUSE-FURNISHINO GOODS. PRICES DOWN 8mwl . TO PRESENT GOLD RATE. GEORGE lIYESn, No. 010 CIII:mIJX Street, Invites attention to hli ELEGANT STOCK OF Black and Fancy Silks, UNSURPASSED BY ANY IN THE CITY, AND SELLING AT LOW PRICES. 49m xii r, Biissug McVAUCH & DUNCAN. NO. 114 SOUTH ELEVENTH STREET Hate opened their Spring Stock of EMBROIDERIES AND WHITE GOODS AV THE LOWEST CA3H PRICES. KRF.NOH BRKAKFA8T CAPS. PiyUK.8 IN KVKRV VAR1KTY. PLAID. FIGURED AND KIRIPED NAINSOOKS. VICTORIA LAWN, OAMHRIO AND jAOUHlil LAWN AND SWISS PUFKK.O MUSLIN. FRHNOH NAINSOOK AND ORGANDIES. . REAL AND IMITATION LACKS. LADIRS', GENTS' AND CHILDREN'S UANDKER QHl Kr H. LINRN AND LACK COLLARS AND OUFFS. NOVELTIES AND FANCY ARTICLES. ..PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO MAKING LP INFANTS' WARD-ROBKS. BHainwimrp LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS . , Staple and Fancf. Fringe, Gimps, and Button. Pearl Buttons, a good assortment. Embroidered Slippera and Cushions. American Zephyr. Berlin Zephyr sold, fall weight. 4HstuthSm RAPSON'S, 4 8 Bit . W. cor, of EIGHTH and CHERRY Streets. REMOVAL. MRS. E. HENRY, MANUFAO tnrer of Ladle' Cloaks and Mantillas, finding he late looatien. No. 16 North Eighth street, inadequate for her largely increased business, has removed to the ELEGANT AND SPAOIOUS WARRROOM, at I he Southeast corner of NINTH and ARCH Streets, where she now offers, In addition to her stock of Cloaks and Mantillas, a choice inroioe of Paisley Shawls, Laoe Point and Sacqnea. 129 8m jyj R S- K, DILLON. NOS. 823 AND 881 SOUTH BTREET. Ladles and Mimes Crape, Gimp, Hair Pamela and Straw Ronnd and Pyramid Hats ; Ribbons, Satins, Silks, Velvets and Velveteens, Crapes, Feathers, Fjowsrs. Frames, Saab Ribbons, Ornaments, Mourning Millinery, Praps Veils, eta 1 REFRIGERATORS. REFRIGERATORS. FOR T?E CHEAPEST AND BE3T GO TO THE MAN UT ACTOR Y Of P. P. KEARN8, No. 39 NORTH NINTH STREET, 4 SSsmwSmrp BELOW ARCH, EAST BIDE. p E F ft I C E It A TOR8. 13. S. FARSON & CO., Self-Veatilatin; Refrigerator, 1 be cheapest and most reliable in' the market, and Will keep MEATS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, MILK, and BUTTER LONGER, DRIER, and COLDER, WITH LESS ICE, Tban any other Refrigerators In use. Wholesale and Retail, at the Old Stand, U 80 lmrp ' No. 320 DOCK Street, Belew Walnat. s AVERY'S PATENT COMBINED PINiNG ROOM WATER-COOLER AND RE FRIGERATOR. Tt being made of cast-Iron, porcelain lined, In wal nut cases, does not impart unpleasant taste or smell to provisions, fruit, etc. Please call and examine. JACOB F. RAND, Jr., Beta I Depot, 6 mwramrp No. 620 MARKET Street lOfc.. " i srro. 1 87o. KNICKERBOCKER ICE GO. ESTABLISHED 1S32. INCORPORATED 1364. OFFICE, No. 435 WABUT fit, Philadelphia. OFFICES AND BRANCH DEPOTS: NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD and MAS TER Btreet RIDGE ROAD and WILLOW Street. WILLOW BTREET WHARF, Delaware Arenae. TWENTr-SECOND and HAMILTON Streets. NINTH Btreet and WASHINGTON Avenue. PINE BTREET WHARF, BchnjlkUL No. 1863 MAIN Street, Germantown, No. 81 North SECOND Street, Camden, N. J., ana CAPE MAT, Ne w Jersey. Wholesale and Retail Dealers In and Shippers of Eastern Ice. bend jour orders to any of the above omcea. "For prices, see cards." . 6 8 lm DENN ICE COMPANY OV PHILADELPHIA. Inoorporated OKFIOKS. B. W. Corner FOURTH and LIBRARY, fVo. f! North TWENTY-FIRST Street. Shippins Depot, SFRUCK STRUCT WUAUV, Sokayl- kill River. OH AS. J. WOLBKRT, President. I80 60trp Oil as. B. RKKa. Bnperintendonl CHILDREN'S OARRIACE3. ' j GAUUIAUE8. i THE HANDROMK8T, BEST MADE, AND LOW. KbT PRICKS IH TiiJC Oil V. : s N. B. Carriages made to order. Repairinc promptly ' S done. 4 5 burp : o. SSI UOCK8TRUUT, WE DKFY ALL COMPETITION. IBI
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