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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1870.
SriRIT Or THL rXLSSS.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
THE FREE-TRADERS MAKE A MOVE.
From the Ni Y. Tribune.
Tbe IIouso of Representatives was engaged
day ly day, from tbe 2d of February nntil
about ton days ago, in the discussion of the
Tariff bill reported by the Committee of
Ways and Means. It was talked over in
general, and it was debated in detail, over
one-half of its three hundred items, and then
postponed, in effect, indefinitely. The dis
cussion and the votes had while it was pend
ing in Committee of the Whole, notwith
standing the length of the trial, do not
exactly measure the relative strength of com
batant parties in the House; and the final
vote suspending the further consideration of
the bill is very far from indicating the force
of the protection principle which pervaded
its provisions. A multitudo of differing in
terests, felt in the numerous specialties of the
bill, influenced the votes taken upon them so
far that the aggregate force in the House
for or against the principle of protection
was not definitely tested. The failure
of a general revision of the tariff proves
nothing. That is so inconclusive that even
the parties most active in the long struggle
seem at a loss to understand the situation.
The protectionists have allowed about one
fourth of the remaining days of the session
to elapse withont a new movement. This
may not mean anything as to their nnder
standing of their strength. The tariff now
in operation is very nearly all they want, and
there is but little time left, and as little pro
bability of mending it to their mind. We
cannot draw any inferences with confidence
from their inactivity. They have but little
to gain from any practicable amendment, and
being in possession of the field they have
little or nothing to lose by an armistice.
But the free-traders, or revenue reformers,
as they prefer to call themselves, have made
a demonstration which, perhaps, indicates
their feeling of the situation after the fight.
On Monday last Mr. Judd, as their leader,
followed by every member of his party, pro
posed a bill reducing duties upon half a
dozen imports, and, with the aid of about
fifty Republicans, got a majority of eighteen
for suspending the rules, that it might be put
upon its trial; but the vote in the affirmative,
falling short of two-thirds of the House,
failed. And this again means nothing; for it
in no way measures the force of the protec
tionists. Rut the character of the proposition, it
Beenis to us, betrays the estimate which the
revenue reformers put upon their strength,
and reveals some other things beside, which
we propose to notice.
First, of the articles selected for relief
tea, coffee, sugar, salt. These are articles of
general consumption prime necessaries of
life diet of the mass of the people. Reduc
tion of duties upon these, with a view to a
reduction of their cost to the consumers, has
a flavor of democracy, and is so far a good
parly.because a popular, movement. The only
other commodities in the bill are pig iron and
scrap iron. These are raw materials. Their
importation is in conflict with the labor of
the country, which is not democratic, and is
not a good party, because not a popular,
movement. For admitting this bill to a trial
before the Honna, the ltepablioans were per
fectly safe in voting even more largely than
they did, because their vote on suspending
the rules did not commit them to the support
of the bill in the whole or in any particular.
But the revenue reformers offered it as their
policy, and as a measure which, in the cir
cumstances, they bound themselves to sup
port. Now let us look at the substanoe of the
proposed reduction upon the articles entering
into the consumption of the people.
In the calendar year 18G'J, the duties accru
ing upon the imported coffee retained for
consumption amounted to $ll,773,(i(8; upon
tea, $10,5G4,G72; together, $22,338,310. This
aggregate the bill proposed to reduce
$4,467,670, leaving them still charged with
eighteen millions of duty which, having
nothing of protection in it, is simply a tax
upon the consumer collected at the custom
houses. Next, the duties accruing upon the
brown sugar and molasses imported and re
tained for consumption, in the same year
amounted to $42,717,323, and on salt,
$133,225; together, $42,850,548. The duties
on these sugars, molasses, aud salt are no v
57 per cent, of the import price, and the bill
proposed to reduce them just one-third, leav
ing the rate at 38 per cent., and the burden
of duty at $28,507,032. The duties upon tea
and coffee were, last year, G2j per cent, upon
their aggregate import price, and the bill
Jroposed to reduce them to 50 per osnt.,
eaving them charged with $17,040,320. In
the aggregate, these articles, sugar, molasses,
salt, coffee, and tea, were last year charged
with $05,188,888 of duties, which was 00 per
cent, of their import value. The bill pro
posed to reduce the duties, on an equal im
portation, to 42 per cent., and to leave them
Bubjeot to the burden of $10,500,000 !
An average of 42 per cent, offered by these
revenue reformers, alias free-traders, upon
the food of the people! Well-a-day, the ave
rage upon all the duty-paying goods under
the tariff of 1842 was in the highest year but
33 per cent., when tea and coffee were free,
ana these revenue reformers are now pro
posing upon sugar, molasses and salt, no less
than 38 per cent.! It is hoped that after this
they will quit howling at the oppressive ave
rage rate of about 42 per cent, upon the total
foreign imports under the present tariff.
We began by wondering how they feel after
suspending the general Tariff bill, and getting
a majority vote for considering their own,
offered as a substitute. Aud now our conclu
sion, upon a survey of their project, is that
they are totally demoralized. Could they not
rake the courage to do something better for
the stump in the next canvass than retain 50
per ceut. on tea and coffee, and loaf stigir
and salt with 88? Could they do no better
for the country, and for their own party too,
than to go before the people with a manifest
pupose to burden the consumption of the
poor, that they may have the better exouse for
catting down the defense of thir industry to
a revenue standard? Ah, when the Democratic
party gave up its loyalty to the industrial in
terests of the country it lost its party instincts
also. They would make a dash at a free list
if they could avoid a revenue sufficient for
protection upon domestic products; but if
they dared to strike off fifty or sixty millions
from the receipts of the Treasury iu this way,
they could not reduce the rates on imports
which protection demands. They call protec
tive duties taxes; they assert that tbay are
and must be paid by the consumer; but there
are two answers to this doctrine. First, iui
port duties may be at the expense of the pro
ducer; they must be so to the tsxtuiit thit a
well-f ottered home indubtry competes with
foreign goods in our nim-kot. Sejoad, if ttn
charge i.o much enhanced the price to the con
sumer, he is by hU protected labor enabled
easily and profitably to meet the cost.
But what, in the name of all the free-trade
authorities, can be said in defense of taxes
laid directly and plumply upon coffee, spioos,
and other foreign goods which we cannot pro
duce, and whose price in our markets we have
no power to reduce by competing commodi
ties of our own ? We should be neither sur
prised nor distressed if CongTess accepts the
bill offered on Monday, with pkj and scrap
iron Btruck out. The principles of pro
tection require the admission of all foreign
goods free of duty which do not displace
home production. Nothing but the exi
gencies of the revenue, produced by war
or its resulting national debt, can justify
a protectionist in taxing tropical products
imported for consumption in a temperate
climate. The feeling is simply anti-American.
It has the unwisdom or wickedness of
Rebellion against the country's welfare in it.
It is neither republican, democratic, nor
even aristocratic. All these sentiments alike
repudiate it. It is only and merely anti
American. Protection looks to free trade as
its aim and end. It pursues this object by
first making home trade, through home in
dustry, free; and, securing this point, it
moves forward as fast and as far towards
universal free trade as ministers to, and com
ports with, the well-being of home. It was
the heavily protective tariff of 1828 thafc in
1832 gave us our first free coffee, and a hun
dred other commodities, especially of the
tropics, which our own soil cannot yield; and
we never shall have these goods free again
till the protective system sets them free.
THE FENIAN INVASION WAS GENERAL
O'NEILL ARRESTED AT HIS OWN
INSTANCE?
From the N. Y. Sun.
General O'Neill's attack upon Canada has
come to a sudden and an inglorious end.
The preparations were extensive; the early
stages of the movement judicions; large
forces were in the field or near it, aud rein
forcements were flocking to the frontier from
every quarter; arms and ammunition were
also at hand in abundance. Tbe demonstra
tion under O'Neill at Franklin appears to have
entirely collapsed through his arrest by Mr.
George Foster, the United States Marshal of
Vermont. It is true that the Fenians who
had crossed at Franklin remained in Canada
for Borne time after their commander had
been taken from them, and that the squads
on their way to the scene of action pressed
eagerly forward. Rut all was in vain. After
the commanding general was gone the cam
paign in that quarter naturally and iuglorionsly
came to an end. At the latest advicos the
total number of killed and wounded on both
sides was six.
The first question that arises is whether
General O'Neill was arrested at his own in
stance, and this question we hear asked by
friends of the Irish cause on every side.
There are some very singular circumstances
in the affair which necessarily excite sus
picion. It appears that before crossing the
frontier at Franklin General O'Neill, sitting
upon his war horse, addressed his followers,
some two hundred in number, assuring them
that they were "the advance guard of the
Irish army for the liberation of Ireland from
the yoke of the oppressor." "For your own
country," be continued, "you now enter that
of the enemy. The eyes of your countrymen
are upon you. Forward! March!" With this
gallant exordium the Fenian troops passod the
line, and were received with a volley by a
small body of Canadian militia lying in am
bush. We are sorry to say that the Fenians
became demoralized under the irregular fire
of the hidden militia men, and that General
O'Neill, who is said to have remained behind
on the Vermont Bide of the line, indignantly
upbraided them. "Men of Ireland," he ex
claimed, "I am ashamed of you. Rut I will
lead you, and if you will not follow I will go
with my officers and die." Thereupon
O'Neill boldly crossed the border, aud the
skirmish was renewed for an hour or more,
after which the Fenians are said to have
withdrawn out of fire for the purpose of
obtaining rest. General O'Neill, accompa
nied by a single aide-de-camp, now went
back into Vermont, and went into a brick
house upon one side of the road. Going
into the parlor, he found there Mar
shal Foster, with his deputy. The General
offered to shake hands with him, but this
courtesy the Marshal declined, and, instead
of grasping the proffered hand of the Gene
ral, took hold of his shoulder and informed
him that he was arrested. O'Neill declared
that he would resist the arrest, and that he
was armed; but the Marshal informed him
that resistance would be useless, and that he
and his deputy also had pistols, and that if
the General did not instantly get iuto the
carriage waiting at the door he would throw
him in. At this the gallant General surren
dered, entered the carriage, and was speedily
taken to St. Albans and put iu j til.
These circumstances cannot fail to excite
suspicion, and this feeling has beendecided'y
expressed to us by many persons, some of
whom were Fenians. Why, they say, if
General O'Neill intended to lead a serious at
tack upon Canada, did he pause after ha
began to fight, when only a handful of Cana
dian militia were opposed to him, and when
his total loss was only two men killed and one
wounded? Why did be not charge the Cana
dians and drive them from their position?
Such a deed would have given new spirit and
courage to his followers, and would have been
widely published abroad as the first victory
of the Irish republic It appears also that
some of the offioers urged him to take this
course, but that he rejected their advice, and
instead of ordering a charge, ordered a re
treat in order that his men, who had only
been fighting an hour, might recruit their
diminished strength. Such an instance of
prudence on the part of a commanding gen
eral who undertakes the gigantic enterprisa
of assailing the British Empire may be cre
ditable to his humanity, but it cannot ad 1
anything to his military renown. When a
battle is begun it is a safe rule to push things
witn desperation until it is gained; but this
rule General u IS em appears not to have ap
preciated. But while his men were reouperatiug tlnir
strength at a safe distance from the enemy,
why should General O'Neill deem it neoe-.stry
to return to Vermont ? And why, hnvinur re
turned to that noble State, should he walk
into precisely the house where the Mdrshd
and his deputy were waiting for him? Aui
why, entering that house, should he make his
way into the very parlor where those h'mila
officers were? And after they had rejected
bis courteous salutation with an insult, au i
declared him in arrest, why did he not heroi
cally defend himself, as he had threatened to
do ? Why did he not call his men, wuo
must have been within reach of Lis voice ?
Why did he allow himself to be tumbled iut
a hack aud driven off to at. Allmus jut,
without even giving a yell, or oli'eiiuj anv
other resistance whatever ? We must confess
that the buspieion of bad faith ou the ptrt of
General O'Neill, which thoH3 eveuu aui
sttioim have produced, is not altogether nn
lcubciiuble; and tLut utiles ho otu clj-uly
disprove and set aside the imputation which
theyseem to establish against his courage
and his good faith, he will remain one of the
most unenviable ienians n the world.
THE PEACE-MAKERS.
From the Ai T. World.
It is to be reckoned among the foremost
and most grievous of metropolitan miseries
that the citizens of a chief city have to
undergo the presence and the eloquence of
all the orators of tbe human species, from
the Dan of Philadelphia to the Becrsheba of
Boston. We have scarcely recovered from
tbe fchock of the "Christian Reformers" of
Boston, whose advice to us, by way of holp
ing us to emerge from our present depraved
and unsightly moral condition, was in general
to cultivate and emulate the arts by which
JJoRton Mas risen to uer present pinnacle of
virtue and wisdom, and iu particular, accord
ing to Mr. Weudell Phillips, to demolish Mr.
A. T. Stewart's new house on the Fifth ave
nue, and according to Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
to "have more Unitarian churches," and
thereby meet that "waut of centrality," what
ever that want may be, which made itself so
painfully palpable to the spiritual sense of
Airs, lfuwe.
The remembrance of these admonitions is
still vivid in our memories, and the horrors of
onniversary week have scarcely lifted their
swarthy shndow from the minds qf metro
politan men, when a squad of 1'hiladelphian
Quakers appears big with another mission to
ameliorate the woes aud allhct the ears of
mankind. It is only due to them to Bay that
they are much less turbulent tnan our Bos
tonian castigators, aud that they do not ap
pear to resort to New York because New
York is cursed above cities iu the vice of
bloodshed which they corporately exist to
suppress, but only because New York, in their
f ond imagination, offers to lend them more
numerous and more favorable ears than their
domiciliary abode of brotherly love. In this
expectation they have assuredly reckoned
without their New York hosts; for when they
came to assemble themselves it
appeared there were only eleveu auditors,
and subsequent proceedings prove that even
this exiguous gathering came not to listen,
but to exhort, and that there was not a single
possible convert among the number of those
who were all eager to make conversions to
the cause of peace.
That a middle-aged person, afflicted with the
name of Love, which seems to bind him to
go about in tbe hollow mockery of the presi
dency of a peace society and in the futile en
deavor to inject sweetness and light into his
fellow-creatures, should, in pursuance of
those objects of his desire, address the un
hearing walls of "Dod worth Hall" and some
half score of unheeding fellow creatures, in
whose peaceful bosoms he only stirred up
the malice and uncharitableness which his
mission is to allay by usurping tlie gushes of
good-will which each of thorn considers he
can much more effectively exude, may be a
lamentable, but ought not to be a ludicrous,
phenomenon. Even a
"True Love turned round on fixed poles"
of the Peace Society is an sbject of sympathy
rather than of the derision which we foresee
he will be much more apt to encounter. It is
not, indeed, to be supposed that the poten
tates of the world will refuse to learn war any
more, or will even beat their existing chasse
pots into ploughshares and their "zundja
delgewehr" into pruniug-hooks at the sug
gestion of the charmers of the "Universal
Peace Union," charm they never so wisely;
nor even that the amiable Sherman and the
philanthropic Sheridan will even be moved to
"further a thoroughly pacific policy towards
the Indians," as the peacemakers specifically
enjoin upon them. But "to purify and hold
sacred human life," "to vindicate human
rights," and "to emancipate mankind from
the slavery of the sword power," are not so
unimportant or so undesirable consumma
tions that we can afford to bestow sneers
alone upon persons who go about to obtain
them even in as wild a way as by preposte
rously "proposing to all the nations of the
earth immediate disarmament." Let us
respect I he motives, even while we expose
the futility, of the U. P. U.
The truth is that while the sentimental
classes are talking the scientific and indus
trial classes are unconsciously aud effectively
workiDg towards a deliverance of civilization
from what has been, upon the whole, the
greatest obstacle to its progress and the most
effectual satire upon its pretensions. It has
often been said that the invention of gun
powder did more to diminish both the fre
quency and the injuries of war than any
other hingle cause. But it is also true that
the increasing ramification aud classification
of modern industries have made the
"big wars" that made ambition a me
dieval virtue forever impossible. When
once the discipline of society had gone
so far that a producer could not be
spared from his productive industry to be
a soldier as well, and the erection of a sepa
rate military class was necessitated, the
period whs put to the chronic condition of
warfare in which the ancient nations lived.
Every subsequent step in civilization has
been tow urds the same goal. War is simply
a trial of strength. If a decisive trial cannot
be had in a day, the struggle is spread over
weeks, or months, or years. When every
thing can be set upon the hazard of a single
die, there need not be a seoond throw. Our
modern means of communication and of
transit tend to facilitate the convergence of
the power of a nation upon a single point.
When the powers cun be fairly pitted against
each other upon a single field, a single battle
ends the war. The Crimean war lasted for
two years, simply because the scene of it was
too remote from the contending parties to
mass their whole strength upon it at once.
The vast area of the Southern States and the
unfavorable character of the couutry for a
great pitched battle alone prolonged the war
of the Rebellion to a duration of four years.
Inamoie populous region and with greater
facilities of transport it would have been
ended much sooner. The struggle for the
mastery of Germany in the seventeenth cen
tury lasted for thirty years; in the eighteenth
for seven years; and in our own time it was
decided in a fortnight.
Tbe inventors, then, and the men of busi
ness, and not such amiable and speculative
persons as constitute the Universal Peaoe
L'nioi , are the real apostles of peace.
CARDINAL ANTONELLI'S SPECIAL EX
POSITION TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
FrviH tit A'. )'. llrraUL
His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli accorded
au interview to one of our special correspon
dents in Rome a few day s since. The narrative
is prefaced by a biographical sketch of the
eniimut churcbruHii a wun who has played
such a ptoiiiitH-ut mul distinguished part iu
both the ini,kir'i and writing of the history
of the poniifitvittt during the past twenty
yeais. Iln (j.irinai Seen tary of State is a
woikerin the woill attentive, continuous,
md Hose. H h is Mudied mankind, and
although he la p.K-e.l the greater portion of
Vi h i Lin h whIIm of the Vatican he
La, 'nt'(.: in hi.-, t-x:etiivt, va.t means of
information and in the keen and practised
eye and ear of an able propagandist seen,
as it were, the world, "which is a curious
sight, and not at all as some good people
write it."
Progressive in idea beyond the rule of hia
school, Cardinal Antonelli pays groat atten
tion to American affairs. He has studied the
broad transatlantic field of the future, and is
evidently happy to glean information from
the laborers on its soil. He anticipates the
democratic asylum of the tiara, the home of
the Topedoin, when the Old World centre of
unity shall have crumbled to the dust and tho
mighty builders of the West be called upon
to complete the grand Christian edifice the
foundations of which were so securely laid
and consecrated by the men of the East.
Cardinal Antonelli has consequently informed
himself as to the materialistic condition of
America our wars, our debt, our system of
finance and diplomacy. The climate of the
American continent has also been considered
in all its varying phases of temperature, and
storms, and solstice heats by the divine
a fact which gives us additional reason to be
lieve that tho members of the Sacred College
have been reflecting seriously, perhaps de
bating, the original assertion of the Herald,
uttered many years since, to the effect that
the seat of the Popedom would eventually be
transferred to American soil. The Cardinal,
who was evidently in a genial mood towards
our special writer, may also have been con
sidering how appropriate and kind at the time
was our first tender of American hospitality
to the first emigrant Head of the Church and
our offer to make his Holiness as comfortable
as possible after his first landing. When we
then wrote the Italian element controlled the
College of the Propaganda to a very great ex
tent. We alluded, consequents, at the time,
to a stranger. The aspect of the question of
the succession has altered considerably since.
The American Episcopal element has become
a great power in Rome. The tiara may thus
come to us. This does not by any means alter
the intent of our original feeling towards the
bearer of the Seal of the Fisherman indi
vidually. Should, however, the ballot of the
Conclave settle the call of the Holy Spirit,
the "ascending and descending," the Anabi
naintos and Kutabnnointoa of the Holy Scrip
ture on the head of Cardinal Giacomo Anto
nelli, none shall rejoice more sincerely than
ourselves. The utterances of his Eminence
to our special correspondent prove that he is
progressive, and will consequently be the
"right man" in the place, if chosen, at least
for a period, and to tide time still onward
towards the day when the universal Church
shall be reconsecrated in accordance with the
inspiration of the Sermon on the Mount.
THE EIGIIT-IIOUR MOVEMENT.
From the N. Y. Times.
Mr. Wendell Phillips has the instinct of au
experienced agitator. He sees already that
the great contest of the future in this country,
and other countries, will not be on tho ques
tions which divide parties even as to different
forms of government, but will be the strug
gle between labor and capital, of which the
eight-hour discussion is only an outlying
picket-skirmish. He has noted, too, with
more philosophical acuteness than the world
has given him credit for, the two great advan
tages of the laboring class in their struggle in
this country namely, the superfluous quan
tity of arable land, and the inventive faculties
of our native working class. Both form a
protection and a refuge for the laborer in his
struggle with capital in the United States.
Neither are especially on the side of the
working class in Europe.
In the speech we reported the other day,
Mr. Phillips unquestionably expressed the
unspoken instincts of the vast masses of the
laboring class throughout the civilized world.
They look back on the past centuries, and see
that in the great enterprises which have filled
the world with wealth, they have done most
of the work, while the capitalists have reaped
tne nonors ana tne rewards. In most strug
gles with employers, or the ruling class, the
laborers have gone to the wall. In ancient
times, they have been trampled to the ground,
and their blood and sweat have furnished the
luxuries and comforts which the powerful
have enjoyed. In modern times the profits
of production through Europe have mainly
gone to the capitalist class. The laborer now
in Belgium, and many'parts of the continent,
hag barely sufficient to keep his family from
absolute want. In Great Britain he can accu
mulate nothing, and his children grow up in
ignorance, and often in destitution. Even if
he do save from his wages, hia gains are
nothing compared to those of the employers.
The comforts and luxuries of life all belong
to the capitalists, not to the laborers.
The laboring class, in their blind way, have
been long feeling this inequality in Europe,
and are determined to redress it. They have
been told that the effort to increase wages
was opposed to "the law of political econo
my," and must fail. They reply that they
will make their own political economy. Aud
now, under the ingenious demonstration of
Thornton, it would seem that the instinct of
the masses was right, that there is no "wages
fund in existence," and that the relative pro
portion of wages to capital will depend on
many more elements than the number of
laborers or quantity of capital and one of
these elements unquestionably is the united
determination of the laboring class t o gain a
larger share of profit.
We look upon the eight-hour movement as
mainly an effort of the working class to get
twenty-five percent, more wages for the same
work. There may be an element in it, as
Mr. Phillips thinks, of desire for mental im
provement, but this is subordinate to the
I principal motive. Can it succeed here ? It
ias unquestionably the advantage here, that
labor is not driven to the wall in competi
tion with itself, but can always be drawn to
profitable employment in Western agricul
ture. But when once diverted thither, there
is no further question of eight hours, for not
the wildest reformer demands eight hours in
farm labor. This unceasing outlet for unem
ployed hand labor will always aid the work
ing class in a struggle with capital. Then,
again, the superior brain of the American
artisan or laborer gives him another pro
tection; he can alwuys turn his faculties to
some other branch if capital opposes him in
one. These are the favorable circum
stances in the struggle; but against these
are numerous and almost inexpugnable ad
vantages on the side of capital in America.
NovtLerein the world does labor receive so
large a share in the profits of production as
here, as is shown by the wonderfully fortun
ate condition of the American laboring class,
the amount of their savings, the average of
their weges, ail the comforts enjoyed by
their families. Each laborer is continually
becoming a capitalist. Will suoh a class fiud
it for their interest to wage a bitter warfare
nith capital, and reduce production for the
fake of a small increase of wages Moreover,
capital itself, owing to the burdens of the
tariff and the inequalities of the currency, is
just now in this country in a most unsettled
condition, and its very weakness gives it
strength for this struggle. Vast numbers of
manufacturers and employers are all reuiy to
withdraw capitnl entirely from certain
bronchos of business, If the laborers press
them any more closely. It only needed iu
tbe last three years the eight-hour movement
and the strikes of the shipwrights, added to
tne crushing effect of the tariff, to withdraw
capital from ship-building in New York, and
close all our ship-yards. The Novelty aud
Morgan Iron-works, and soores of empty
chip-yards, are a terriblo warning to the
eigut-nour party of what they can aocom-
ljsh in the war with capital. The tariff has
eft other interests in a similar precarious
condition. An addition of twenty-five per
cent, to wages, or an equal reduction in pro
duction, would bring many of them to the
cround, and send capital to more profitable
fields. For the last thirty years there has not
been bo unfavorable a juncture in this coun
try for labor to enter the life-and-death
struggle with capital. If it ruin tho employ
ing class, it only brings disaster on itself. It
may gnin something in socuring a little larger
proportion of tne pronts of production, but
in tho disturbance this effort will bring to all
business it will lose more. That it will gain
an hour for mental improvement or recrea
tion in a land where such rewards are offered
for a full day's work, wo do not believe. The
lonptation to labor will always be croater
than the temptation to rest.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
IN HONOR OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CUURCn.
HANDEL'S GRAND ORATORIO Off
"THE BIESfclAH,"
AT Til If
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 81,
Performed by th HANDKL AND HAYDN SOCIETY,
assisted by the following eminent solo talent:
JHIfSH. M. ALKXANDEU, honrauo.
MISS ANTOINETTE: STB It LINO, Contralto (of
Kew York. Pupil of Madame Vlardot Garcia).
MIL .TACOU UKAF, Tenor.
MIL II. li. ltAKNllt'KSr, Basso.
MK. W. W. GILCHRIST, Basso.
ANLAKGED CHOKUS!
FULL ORCHESTRA!
CONIUCTOn PKOF. L. ENUELKE.
dmiFsinn, 60 cents.
Reserved seats in Parquot, Parquet Circle and Baloony,
$1 ; KeFeryed Heats in Family Circle, 50 cents ; Ampniths
nt re, 5 cents. Tickets for sale at J. K. Gould's No
Vt3 t-HKSNUT Btreet. 53tS3t
ly STEINWAT & SONS'
GRAND SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS.
CHARLES BLASIUS,
SOLE AGENT FOR TBS SALK OF TUB
WORLD-RENOWNED PIANOS,
AT THE OLD WAREROOMS,
4 lotNp
No. 100G CnESNUT STREET.
jgy- PIANOS ! PIANOS 1 1 PIANOS ! ! !
Preparatory to tearing out and enlarging hia roonu,
100 PIANOS,
new and old, will be sold astonishingly low for one month.
J. E. GOULD,
No. 923 CUESNUT Street.
STF.CK i OO.'S, HAINES BROS,'
and other PIANOS
ONLY AT GOULD'S.
MASON HAMLIN ORGANS
world-renowned,
ONLY AT GOULD'S. 6 5 thsto Smrp
jgy PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 1370.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Tho Board of Directors hare tbis day declared a semi
annual Dividend of FIVE PER GENT, on the Capital
Stock of the Company, clear of National and State Taxes,
payable in cash on and after May 80, 1670.
Blank Powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends oan
bo had at the Office of the Company, No. 238 South Third
street.
The Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 3
P. M. from May 30 to June 3, for the payment of Dividends,
and after that date from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.
THOMAS T. FIRTH.
64 60t Treasurer.
NOTICE. A SPECIAL MEETING OF
theStockloldersof tbe PHILADELPHIA. OER
MANTOWN, AND NORRISTOWN RAILROAD COM
PANY will be held in Room No. 24, PHILADELPHIA
EXCHANGE .on THURSDAY, the 9th day of Jane 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, Gorman
town, and Noiristown Railroad Company to inorease its
Capital Stock," approved the 39ta day of March, 1870.
By ordor of tbe Board of Managers.
6 Si tti 9 A. E. DO UGHERTY. Sooretary.
jT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
accordance with the provisions of the existing aots
of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named
in an act entitled "An Aot to Incorporate the I'KOl'KU
TION FIKK IMSUKANUK COMPANY, lo be located
in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th day of April,
A . D. 1K69, and ti e supplement thereto, approved the 2oth
day of April, A. D. lB0, will be beld at 1 o'clock P. M. on
the lutbrayof Jane, A. D. 1670, at No. 132 S. bKVKNTU
htreet, Philadelphia, when the books for subsoription to
tbo capital stock will be opened and tbe other action
taken requisite to complete the organization. 6 13 Ira
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. IN
accordance with the provisions of the existing acts
of Assombly, that a meeting of the commissioners named
in unset entitled! "An Act to Incorporate the MOVA
MHNS1NG UKK INSURANCE COMPANY, to be
located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th
day of April, A. D. 18.09, and the supplement thereto, ap
proved tbe Sititb day of April, A. D. Io70, will Oe beld at 12
o'clock M. on tbe 15th day of June, 1870, at No. 132 8.
bKVKNTU btreet, Philadelphia, when the bjoks )or sub
scription to tbe capital stock will be openei and hhe other
act u n taken requisite to oomplete the orgauiz&i ion. 6 131 iu
if NOTICE.
OWICK Or CHE AND OHIO OaKAL, )
ANNAPOLIS, May V, 187'). )
The annual meeting of tbe Mockuolders of ttiis Com
pany will be held iu ANNAPOLIS on MONDAY, Jane
6, lbTD, at 2 o'clock P. M.
' BENJAMIN KAWOKrT.
1 5 16 6 Secretary to Stockholders.
r3 OFFICE OF THE SCHUYLKILL
NAVIGATION COMPANY, No. 417 WALNUT
Street.
Philadelphia, Msy 25. 1870.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a hpociul General
Meeting of the (Stockholders and Loanhulders of this
t'ompauy will be held at this office on MONU aY.the 30th
day of June, l87, at 11 o'clock A. M., for tbe purpose of
considering a proposition to lease tb works, franchises,
and pmpuriy oi the bcliuylkill Navigation Company to the
Philadelphia and Heading Uailroad Company.
order of the Managers.
t i6 tlistu td
F. ERA LEY, President.
TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTHWA3H.
It is the most pleasant, eheapest and best dentifrioe
extau t. Warranted tree from injurious ingredient.
It Preserves und Whitens the Teeth!
Invinnates and Soothes tneGnmsl
Purines and Perfumes the Breathl
Prevents Accumulation of Tartar!
Cleanses and Purities Artincial Teeth)
Is a Superior Article for Cbildrenl
Bold by all druvgixts and dentista.
A.M. WILSON. Druggist. Proprietor,
8 2 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Bis.. Philadelphia.
NO CURE, NO PAY.-FORREST'S
JUNIPER TAR Tor Coughs, Croup, Whoopiu
Oongh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Bore Throat, Spitting o
Blood, and Lung Diseases. Immediate relief and posi
tive cure, or price refunded. Sold by FRENCH, RICH
ARDS A CO., TENTH and M 4RKET, and A.M. WIL.
SON, NINTH and FILBERT Streets. 4 2atuth35t
t&r HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
Teeth with fresh Nitrous-Oxide lias. Absolutely
no paiu. l'r. K. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the
Colt on Dental Rooms, devotes his entire practice to the
raiulese extraction of teeth. Omoe, No. kit WALNUT
Street. 3
tS- QUEEN FIHE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LGNDON AND LIVERPOOL.
CAPITAL. X-J,Xi.mi0.
SABINE, ALLEN A DULLES, AgenU,
ft FIFTH and WALNUT SireeU.
tg-. WARDALE G. Mo ALLI8TER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Ko.3 BKOADWAY,
Wow Yoik.
SPECIAL NOTIOES.
UT MEMORIAL DAT.
nrArHjuARTrni Post No. J. 1
DFTAHTMF.NT of Pf.nkrti.vakia, . A. R.,
Philadelphia, May S7, 1874.)
GENERAL ORDERS, No 22 EX TRACT.
VI. Tbe following General Committee of Arrangements
is hereby announced, to wnom contributions of flower
and evergreens may be sent at Room No. I, No. 413 OHE9
NUT Btreet, prior to P o'clock A. M. on Monday, the 30th
Inst., at which time and place the Post will rendeivou.
vfn.
Coir.rsrles Robert L. Orr, Fobert L. Tto-line, F. A. Os
bourn, J. W. n Witt, M. !., T. W. Merrihow. D. Newlia
Fell, II. A. Widdefield, John L. Burtt, M. I., J. W. Hcott.
Ellis P. Philips, J Spencer Smith, R. Dunonn Oonmbs, B.
. Pans, William R. Peddle, L. H. Martin, Kdwin Pahnnr.
J. Thomas Elliott, William H. Myers, William M. Smith.
j-nwara fiarsnaii, Daniel V. l.add. Kmroett Mo :ar er.
Andrew J ouug, J. 11. R. Story, Harry L. Carpenter,
Joshoa 1 , Owen.
I!y command of
SAM. R. WYLIK MITCHELL, P.O.
Ohart.f.s H. GBKF.NF., Post Adjutant. It
CiaST ARTISTS' FUND GALLERIES
(Opposite U. 8. Mint).
BHERIDAN'S RIDE.
Great Life-size Painting, by th Poet-Artist,
T. BUCHANAN READ,
ON EXHIBITION
at the above nrCTiFFL oallfrihs for a short time, in
conjunction with a collection of Paintings by the same
Artist (the property of private citizens;, and other choice
Works of ArU
MR. J. B. ROBERTS
will give a full description of the incident, and read the
I'ocm at 12 M. and 4 and 9 P. M., daily.
Admission , 95 cent
Open f mm 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. 21 71
THERE VILL BE AN EXHIBITION
of the improved FIRE EXTINGUISHER on MONDAY,
May 30, 8 80 P.M., at TWENTI-FIRsT aad BROWN
Streets, near Fairmonat Park.
The fire will be in the open air, and the Materia), Rosia
and Tar Barrets, Shavings and Petroleum.
UNION FIRK EXTINGUIHHER COMPANY,
6 83 tf No. 118 M ARRET Street.
THE PILGKIM-CLOSES SATURDAY
NIGHT IN CONCERT HA1 L Regular Pnoes.
IiOYS' AND UIRLS' BENEFIT.
3000 Tickets now for sale; 10 cents under 14 years, and
25 cents all over that age. Good for SA 1'URDAY at 2 30
P. M. 5 27 2t
8EWINQ MACHINES.
THE AMERICAN
Combination Button-Hole
AND
SEWING MACHINE
Ib now admitted to be far superior to all others aa a
Family Machine. The SIMPLICITY, EASE aud
CERTAINTY with which It operates, aa weU aa tho
uniform excellence of Its work, throughout the en
tire range of sewing, In
Ntllchlnpr J lemming'. Felling,
TucKlug:, Cording;, Xtraldin,
Quilling: (slathering; and
Sewing; on, Overseanilng,
Embroidering; on the
Edg;e, and its lleautlful
ISutton-lIole and Uye
let Hole Work,
Place It unquestionably far in advance of any other
similar Invention.
This Is the only new family machine that embodies
any Substantial Improvement npon the many old
machines In the market.
It Certainly has no Equal.
It Is also admirably adapted to manufacturing pur
poses on all kinds of fabrics.
Call and see It operate and get samples of the
work.
Wo have also for sale our "PLAIN AMERICAN
a beautiful family machine, at a Reduced Prloe,
This machine does all that Is done on the Comblna
Hon except the Overaeamlrg and Button-hole work
Office and Salesrooms,
ISTo. 1318 CIIE8NUT ST.,
4 53 thstu3mrp
PHILADELPHIA.
FURNITURE.
GREAT SALE OF FURNITURE
AT
IIENKELS',
THIRTEENTH and CHESNUT Sts.
$100,000 WORTH
AT
AUCTION PRICES.
All Warranted as First-class Goods.
CEO. J. HENKEL8.
6 14 stnthlmrp
RICHMOND & CO..
FIRST-CLASS
FURNITURE WAREROOMS
Wo. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
EAST SIDS. A BO VII OHKSNIJT.
PHILADELPHIA
116
ILLIAltf FARSO N'8
Improved Patent Sofa Bed
Makes a hsndsoms Bofs and comfortable Bed, with
tiering &1attreta attacked. Those wiahing to oonotuiza
room sboul J call and examine them at the extensive arst
class t uruilore Wareroomsof
FAltKOl ek SOX,
No. 'JtS H. NKCOMI ftireet.
Also. WILLIAM FAESON'8 PATENT EXTENSION.
T A It I It fcAaTKNIMl. Ktery table should have then
on. Tbr bold the leaves ttrmlj Uwesuer when pulled
about the room. g lamw8m
pURNITURE
Selling; at Cost.
No. 101 MAItltrT Htreet.
4 IS 8m Q, R. NORTH.
PAPER HANGINGS , E I O.
1 OOK! LOOK!! LOOK!!! WALL PAPERS
XJ SDd Linen Window Bhndes Manufactured, tbe
cbeai rst B tbe cut, at JOUNHi ON'S Deoot. No. l'H
hU INU (iAkHKN Street, below Eleventh, lireaoh. No.
8u7 1KDEHAL Street. Camden. New Jersttf.
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAJS,
of all numbers and brands. Tent, Awninc. Trank
end Waffon-oover Duck. Alao. Fater Manufacturers
Mn telle, from tbirtf to eveuta-ei Inofaee. with
PsuUn. -.Su..to.H) w fVTCRMAH.
Na.lt) OVUKOUItartCOitff Kami