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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAT, MAY 31. 1870.
oriniT or ens mnos.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
GRAMMAR AND VIRTUE.
From the N. F. Tribune.
The publication of Mr. Disraeli's "Lothair"
gives a new text for those who are always
lamenting about the want of eminent! scholar,
fihip among our pnMio men. Look at Lord
Derby's translation of the "Iliad," they Bay
look at Gladstone's "Juventua Mundi" and
then oblige us by looking at "Lothair!"
What member of Congress has produca l a
work so heavy with learning or so light with
fancy as these ? To be sure, there was Mr.
Baldwin's "Pre-historio Nations," but he left
public life on its publication, and his Con
gressional career already seems a pro-historio
period. Senator lirownlow's work on Method
ism, "The Iron Wheel Examined and its
False Spokes Extracted," must be tolerably
pungent, if its title is a specimen, but can '
hardly be classed as high art. But for Mr.
Sumner, indeed, the total literary yield of
both houses of Congress would be unplea
santly near to what is called in cricketing "a
round O." It is not strange, therefore, if
this new literary exploit of Mr. Disr eli's
proves exasperating to the patriotio mind.
To be sure, the comparisons commonly
made do more than justice to the Parliaments
of our English cousins. It was a member of
Parliament who, according to Horace Wal
pole, bequeathed an estato to Sir Matthew
Decker, supposing him to be the author of
the Gospel according to the Saint of that
name. And certainly the reception in Par
liament of the once famous author, James
Harris (father of Lord Malmesbury, was by
no means encouraging to literary men. "Who
is that man ?" asked Charles Townshend of
his neighbor, as the new-comer took his seat.
"One Ilawes," said the other. "He has writ
ten a book on grammar and another on
virtue." "Then what the d 1 does he come
here for ?" said Townshend. "He will find
neither grammar nor virtue here !"
It must be sadly owned that neither gram
mar nor virtue can ba guaranteed in any
legislative body; nor will even scholarship, as
pui h, be likely to be in the majority. Per
haps it is not desirable that it should, since
the prime need is always of men of affairs,
whether they are or are not students. As it
is, many of our Representatives in Congress,
and almost a majority of our Senators, have
received a college diploma, such as it is, and
the charitable editor of the Congressional.
Director attributes to most of the remainder
"an academic education," whatever that may
mean. Let us hope that it grounds men in
the rudiments of grammar and of virtue. But
it must be owned that most of them represent
the business class rather than the studious
class. Most of them, in those Chinese lite
rary examinations of which we hear so much,
would probably have stopped short at the red
silk scarf, which shows that a candidate for
office has reached only his first degree. The
special literary and scientific culture of this
nation has not merely a slight representation
in Congress, but it can scarcely be said to
have any. This is certainly to be regretted.
Yet that this class should monopolize or even
control Congress would be almost as great an
evil on the other side.
The questions now pressing on the nation
are mainly business questions. To settle the
difficult problems of taxation and banking, a
second-rate business man is ordinarily worth
more than a first-rate professor of chemistry
or the classics. At any rate, what we chiefly
need is to have able and honest men. By what
training they got their honesty or ability is
of no more importance, after they have once
come to trial, than is the preliminary training
of an athlete. At a rowing match we look to
see the stroke; we do not care about the
beeves and loaves on which the young men
have fed. Strength is strength, though it
may have been nurtured contrary to all
the rules of training. In Congress
a man is judged by his ability;
where he got it is his own affair. To hive
abolished slavery is more than to have writ
ten "Lothair;" the fifteenth amendment is
worth more to this generation than the
twenty-four books of Homer; and to weather
a great civil war without national bankruptcy
is to exhibit a new heroio age. No learning.
no "early advantages," can guarantee wisdom
or virtue; and that they can be won without
such advantages we see every day. The na
tion is very imperfectly governed as it is;
but does any one seriously suppose that a
committee of college presidents would govern
it better i
After all, no man can know everything, and
an intelligent man is never ridiculous except
when he claims to know something which he
does not. Let a Congressman, like a shoe
maker, stick to his last. A man may be
never so "practical," but if he begins to mis
quote Latin and mispronounce French it is
all over with him. Let him hold to English
grammar and American virtue and he may
be safe. Unhappily, it is a mulady incident
to all professions for men to wish to appear
strong when they are weak. Mr. Lilly viok,
in "Nicholas Nickleby," who objects to
the French language as "A very me
lancholy dialect, sir," because he had
only heard it spoken by prisoners in jail,
would have found it more melancholy still
as disguised in the novels of some of our
youDg ladies. And our worthy Consul at
Bradford, England, Mr. George M. Towle,
has brought all the English critics about his
ears by misquoting the very first line of
Virgil'a 'Mlneid." The critics are right; he
need not have quoted it at all, but, if he
chose to give it, he should have got the line
straight. Even in England a statesman in
not now expected to know all Horace's odes
by heart, as Fox did; but if a man will play
at that game, he must come under its laws.
The safest way is for a man to keep on
ground where it is strong. Nevertheless,
General Jackson was Jackson, though his
' only Latin phrase, according to Jack Down
ing, was "Js pluribus unum, nine qua non."
THE ASTONISHING GROWTH AND
FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES.
From the K. T. nevoid.
The progress of the United States has no
parallel in the history of nations. Nothing
has been seen comparable to it either in
material development or in moral power.
Less than a century ago there were but two
to three millions of people, then forming
remote dependencies of a monarchical and
European Power. Now the republic has a
fiopnlation of forty millions or more. For a
ui)g time even after the independence of the
country was established the settled portion of
it did Lot extend west of the Alleghany
Mountains, except through a few little bands
of pioneers, niobtly engaged in the Indian aud
fur trade. Though a few sagciom states
men Lad some scintillations e,f light as to
what the country might become in t' o
dihtant future, no one realized its rapi I
iwd wonilerfnl growth. The strut' 1
of iuin.itiaiiou Iroui liia Old World
was steady in former times, it is true; but that
was slow, and of oourse the natural increase
of population could not within so short a
time make the mighty empire we now see.
Still the American statesmen of the early
days of the republic began to lay the founda
tions of a continental republican empire.
The acquisition of Louisiana was a great
event and the first one to carry the people in
large numbers to the immense and rich valley
of the Mississippi. This was really the initial
step to our wonderful territorial expansion
and development. The ambition and national
pride of our people received a powerful
Ktininlus in that. The acquisition of Florida,
of Texas, of California, of New Mexico and
Arizona, and of Alaska, was but the neqnel of
that act and followed the natural law of our
development.
But new agencies began to work in the
course of time to increase the population of
the United States and to spread it over the
continent from the shores of the Atlantic to
the Pacific. The wonderful natural wealth,
variety of products, cheap lands, free repub
lican institutions, and a glorious future at
tracted the people of all nations from the Old
World. A vast stream of immigration poured
in and cultivated the soil, built up cities, and
made the wilderness blossom as the rose.
The redundant population of Europe, with
the poverty, tyranny, and political troubles
there, increased the volume of this immigra
tion from year to year, and it continues to
swell more and more. Here was the home of
the oppressed and poor, and here they could
find a welcome and abundance. There is not
a village or hamlet in Europe where this fact is
not known. Then came those mighty agents
of modern civilization and science the press,
steam power and the magnetic telegraph to
increase knowledge,facilitate communication,
and to inspire admiration for this great re
publican and conglomerate representative na
tion of the world. The late war startled
mankind with the wonderful power and re
sources of the republic. It revealed the fact,
of which we were hardly conscious ourselves
before, that the United States is really the
most powerful nation on the globe, and as re
gards foreign nations absolutely impregnable.
Within the course of a few years railroads
and telegraphs have covered, like network,
the vast area of the interior, and have spanned
the continent over a distance of thousands of
miles. A national debt of enormous magni
tude, created in four or five years, that would
have overwhelmed any other nation under
such circumstances, is to us comparatively a
bagatelle, and is now being paid off at the
rate of nearly a hundred millions of dollars a
yeur. Such progress, such wealth and re
sources, and such power have never been
known before.
All this, however, glorious as it is, only
foreshadows the mighty future of the repub
lic. By the natural increase of population
and the enormous stream of immigration we
shall have probably in thirty or thirty-five
years a hundred millions of people. The
augmentation of wealth will be still greater.
Whatever difficulties we may labor under at
present with regard to the development of
our mercantile marine, commerce, and naval
power, we have such resources, such a geo
graphical position and such harbors find vast
(seaboard that we must beeome the first mari
time and commercial nation. Nothing can
prevent this. And what is thirty years in
the life of a nation or in history ? Other
nations may and perhaps will advance under
the new and progressive dispensation of
modern science; but relatively they
have not the resources and means that we
have. Already we see the moral infiaence
of American ideas and institutions upon Eu
rope and the rest of the world, and the time
is not distant when this country will eontrol
indirectly, if not directly, the destinies of
mankind. There is but one thing we need,
And that is, statesmen who can comprehend
the position we occupy and the glorious future
before us. Instead of being bound by the
precedents cf the Old World or of the
past, we should strike out a policy for
ourselves in consonance with our destiny.
We should throw off the swaddling clothes
that Europe has placed upon us and assert
our manhood. It is our destiny to give the
law to nations, for the people everywhere are
with us, and there is no use of resistance, if
we be wise, to the moral and political power
we may exercise. As to the affairs and in
terests of the American continent, this re
public can do as it wishes, and no one will
presume to interfere. Do the people realize
their power and destiny ? Does the Govern
ment at Washington comprehend the neces
sities of our situation and the glory of the re
public ? These are important questions as
regards the present and the parties concerned,
but whatever incapacity may be shown by
those who are in power, the grand future of
our country is inevitable.
CONSOLIDATION OF INTERNAL REVE
NUE DISTRICTS,
front the N. Y. Times.
A bill before the Senate embodies two sug
gestions which have, been steadily ad vooated
in the columns of the 1 tines. One of these
is the proposition to out down the depart
mental estimate for expenses of internal
revenue administration over a million of dol
lars. The other is to provide for the con
solidation of the assessment and collection
districts w herever necessary.
Properly speaking, one of these provisions
involves the other. If several districts are
united under one general head, wherever that
is practicable and it is practicable in all our
larger cities the saving of this large amount
of money will follow easily and inevitably,
Indeed, without this consolidation, it will be
difhcnlt, perhaps not possible, for the Com
dssioner to carry on the work of revenue
administration with vigor, if his estimates are
so considerably reduced.
It may be that the number of subordinate
officials can be yet further reduced, and this
the Commissioner is empowered to do, in his
discretion, without any new enactment. But
no such reduction can be safely made in that
force s will compensate for the amount pro
posed to be struck out of the estimates. So
that Congress must act specifically in the
matter if this million is to be saved. There
is no project of retrenchment more feasible.
or les disturbing to the interests of the Gov
ernment and people, than this uniting of
revenue districts.
In our own city alone, for instance, there
are fourteen principal, independent heads of
revenue districts that is, seven Collectors
and as many Assessors so that, although
tuxation has been reduoed over a hundred
per cent., and the labor of collection lessened
7 i j i . .-ii -
in uq equal uegrce, we uave nere buu main,
tained the same costly system that was estab
lii-Led when the law was new, receipts heavy,
the labor great, and the tax-payer to be edu
cated to properly meet his obligations. We
rihk nothing in saying that, so far as the
public good is concerned, -this organization
is no longer necessary. There is no doubt
that two intelligent, zealous, responsible
men, with little if auy larger force of subor
dii!fit8 than are employed at present, would
cclJeit iLe tux aud enforce the laws quite as
closely as that business is now done. Were
this plan put 'into operation, its effeit in
New York alone would be to leave i a the
pockets of tar-payers a very considerable
f onion of the million it is proposed to save,
t is the cost of these higher offices that runs
up the bill.
We trust tne pnraseoiogy of the bill relat
ing to consolidation should it beoomo a law
will be made positive and unequivocal.
I he dispatch ret erred to makes the Senate
measure read, that consolidation is to be car
ried out "icncn necessary." That clause
needs strengthening, in a matter of this
nature as little room as possible should be
left open for contingencies. Any change in
the law that will lighten the public burden to
the extent of a million of dollars is necessary,
if practicable. The only vital question perti
nent to its consideration is, can it be done;
and, if it can be, it should be done. That this
is feasible, that it can be carried out, if
enacted, without difficulty, or perceptible
disturbance to even established forms and
methods, admits of little honest doubt. There
should, consequently, be no looseness, ambi
guity, or indecision in the language of the
statute designed to enect it.
A word on one other point, lhe compen
sation of the chief officers of the consolidated
districts Bhould be fixed by express terms of
law. The practice now is to allow collectors,
in addition to a small salary, a liberal com
mission upon their total collections. Asses
sors are paid in the same way, but a limit is
set to the amount they can legally receive
annually for their services. No such restric
tion applies to the compensation of collec
tors. It will be seen, therefore, that, in
order to render consolidation effective as a
measure of economy, the payment of the new
officers should be settled at, or up to, some
definite point, otherwise the change would be
simply putting into the pockets of a few offi
cials the emoluments which at present are
found to be liberal for a much larger number;
and, however much it might benefit the lucky
occupants of the places created under it, such
change would be of no pecuniary advantage
to the people.
THE LAST WORD OF WINNIPEG.
From tht N, Y. Sun.
The act of the Dominion Parliament esta
blishing the province of Manitoba does not
appear to bo satisfactory to the people of
Winnipeg, lbey still insist, in addition to
what that act guarantees, that their country
shall be called Assimbome, and not Manitoba;
that before becoming a part of the Dominion,
the new province shall receive an amount of
money equal to the share of the publia debt
for which as a member of the Dominion it
will become liable; that for five years the
people of the province shall not bo subject to
any direct taxation but their own; that the
Legislature of the province shall determine
the qualifications of its own members and of
its representatives in the Dominion Parlia
ment; that the sale of the province by
the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada
be annulled so for as it affects the
rights of Assiniboine and its relations to
Canada; that the provincial Legislature
bhall control the public lands of the
province and ratify all treaties with the In
dians; that the Dominion shall appoint a com
mission to explore the mineral wealth of the
province aud report thereon to the Legisla
ture; that an ' uninterrupted communication
shall be completed within five years between
Fort Garry and Lake Superior; that all publio
buildings, bridges, roads, and other publio
works snail be at the cost of the Dominion;
that English and French alike shall be used
in legislative, executive, and judicial pro
ceedings; that the Dominion shall pay all
debts contracted by Kiel's provisional govern
ment in consequence of the illegal and incon
siderate measures adopted by Canadian
officials to bring a civil war upon the terri
tory; and that no member or agent of the
provisional government shall be held respon
sible for his actions as such.
All this is in addition to the payment every
year by the Dominion Treasury of $80,000 to
the Legislature of the province, with a fur
ther payment of eighty cents a head to the
same Legislature for each person of the pro
vincial population until the same shall have
increased to (i00,000 souls. That is to say,
if the population is 500,000 souls, the Do
minion Treasury will be bound to pay to the
province $400,000 a year, and so on, besides
a specific payment of $80,000 a year irre
spective of the number of the population.
This, it will be remembered, is not to cover
the cost of publio buildings or publio works,
for they are provided for in a separate stipu
lation. It is simply a tribute which the Do
minion is required to furnish in considera
tion of the benefit of counting Assiniboine
among its members.
The Assiniboinians profess to have private
information that these demands will be com
plied with by the Dominion Government;
but it is not probable. What is more likely
is that, under cover of the pending truce,
Canadian forces will get safoly into their
country, and that after that the Winnipeggers
will have to abandon all idea of dictating
terms, and submit patiently to those which
their masters may see fit to impose.
MURDER AS A SOCIAL TONIC.
From the X. Y. World.
The lions of Libya have a bad name for
voracity, but their hunger can by no means
be so unappeasable as that of the lion
hunters of London. Our last sooial intelli
gence from the British capital is that the
"nobility and gentry," headed by the heir
to the throne, are "lionizing" Lord Muncas
ter, the young nobleman who fell recently in
Greece into the hands ef brigands, in com
pany with the unfortunate travellers whoso
brutal murder by their captors has shocked
the civilized world. Lord Muncaster escaped
a similar fate only because he was selected to
act as the negotiator between the brigands
and the friends of their victims; and he was
thus selected at the urgent entreaty of his
fellow-prisoners, and particularly of young
Mr. Frederick Vyner, who gallantly and gen
erously insisted that, for his wife's sake, he
should go.
Now Lord Muncaster, alive and well, is an
nounced to be dining with the Prince of
Wales while the corpses of his slaughtered
companions are on their way homewards to
the bereaved friends who wait with aohing
hearts to pay them the last sad rites of afi'eo
tion. Grand dinners are proverlially stupid,
and among grand dinners the dinners of
princes; so that something, we suppose, must
be pardoned to the princely host who seeks
to relieve the magnificent monotony of his
hospitable board by any sensation what
soever. But it certainly seems to us a little
difficult to establish any practioal distinction
between the London taste which finds a zest
in the piquant chat of a gentleman rescued
from a horrible doath which has just over
taken his friends and companions, and the
Parisian taste which led out companies of
dashing French ladies, both of the whole and
of the half world, to partake of lively
luncheons above the ghastly pit into which
Troppmann hod huddled the bodies of the
n-Lidued family of the Kiucka. The press
both of Paris and of London are very fond of
dwelling upon the morbid appetite of Ameri
can society for dreadful excitement, and upon
the lack of social refinement in the New
World. , But really we do not remember to
have heard that even in Philadelphia picnics
were gotten up on the farm where Probst
perpetrated his crimes; and we should quite
despair of ever seeing an American diuner
table adorned with relishes a l i Muncaster
were it not that the banquet of the Prince of
Wales was attended, as the reporters assure
us, by the American Minister. It is not,
however, stated whether ho did or did not on
this occasion wear the "mourning garments"
in which he had appeared a day or two
before at the debate in the Lords on the mur
der of Lord Muncaster's friends.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
"PANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 1870.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a semi
annual Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, ou the Capital
Stock of the Company, clear of National and Slate Taxes,
payable in cash on and after May 3, 1870.
Blank Powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends can
be 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 80to June 3, for the payment of Dividends,
and after that date from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.
THOMAS T. FIRTU,
6 4 60t . Treasurer.
S&T NOTICE. A SPECIAL MEETING OF
the Stockholders of the PHILADELPHIA, GKR
MANTOWN. AND NORRISTOWN RAILUO A D COM
PANY will be bold in Heom No 21, PHILADELPHIA
EXOIIANUK on THURSDAY, the 9th day of Jane next,
at 13 o'clock M., for the consideration of an act of the
General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
entitled "An act to authorize the Philadelphia, German
town, and Norristown Railroad Company to incroase its
Capital Stock," approved the 29tu day of March, 1870.
liy order of the Board of Managers.
6 a to 9 A. K. DOUUUERTY, Socretary.
tgy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IS
accordance with the provisions of the existing acts
of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named
in nn act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the PROi'KU
TiON HHK INSURANCE COMPANY, 10 be located
in tho city of Philadelphia," approved the loth day of April,
A. D. li-fiH, and tl e supplement thereto, approved the -Hth
day of April, A. D. 1870, will be held at 1 o'clock 1. M. on
the loth rny of June, A. D. 170, at No. liii M. SEVENTH
street, t'nuadelpuia, when the books fur subscription to
the capital stock will be ODened and tbe other action
taken requisite to complete the organization. 6 13 Im
lg NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
accordance with the provisions of the existing acts
of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners named
In an act entitiodl "An Act to incorporate ttio AlUVA
MKKSING FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY, to bo
located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th
dav of April. A. D. lWi!'. and the suimleinoiit thereto, an.
proved the 26tb day of April, A. 1. 1870, will oe hold at 13
o'clock M. on the 15th day of June, 1S70, at No. 13 J S.
SEVhNTU Street. Philadelphia, when the books jor sub-
scription to the capital Block will be opened and the other
action taken requisite to complete the organiza! ion. 5 l:dm
Kay NOTICE.
ANNAl'OMB, May 8, In7').(
Tho annual meeting of the Stockholders of t his n,m
nanvwtll be held iu ANNAPOLIS cn MONO A V. .Inm
o, ioiu, at j o ciocit i'. m.
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Stroot.
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day of June, 1870, at 11 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of
considering a proposition to lease the works, franchises,
and property ot the Schuylkill Navigation Company to the
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Huihiinif a Public Kciiooi-iiouae in the First Ward.
will ba received by the undersigned, at the oitlce,
Boutheaht corner of SIXTH ami ADKLPill Streets,
until TUESDAY. Way 31, W0, at twelve o'ctoolc
1., for building a public scliool-liouse on a lot of
ground situate on the corner of the Seventh, and
Dickerson tareets, in the First ward.
Said school-house to be built In accordance with,
the plana of L. II. Kslcr, Superintendent of School
Buildings, to be seen at the oillce of the Controllers
of Public Schools.
No bldB will be considered unless accompanied by
a certificate irom the Uity Solicitor that the provl
Bions of an ordinance approved May 5, lseo, have
been compiled with. The contract will be awarded
only to known master builders.
By order of the Uoiumlttee on Property,
11. 11A.LLI WULL,
B 1S81S4 28 SI Secretajy
riX CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS?
X SEALED PROPOSALS, lndorsrd '-Proposals for
building a public school-house In the Tweuty-tlrst
ward," will be received by the undersigned at the
otllce, 8. E corner of SIXTH and ADKLPUI Streets,
until TUESDAY. May 31, 1810, at U o'clock M for
building a public school-house ou a lot of ground
Situate In Roxborough, In the Twebty-tlrst ward.
Said school-house to be built In accordance with
the plans of L. II. Ealer. Superintendent of School
BulldiuRs, to be seen at the oillce of the Controllers
of Public Schools.
No bids w ill be considered unless accompanied by
a certificate from the City Solicitor that the pro
visions of an ordinance approved May k, 1-o0, have
been compiled wun.
The contract will be awarded uly to known uiis
ter buiiiiers.
By order of the Committee on Property.
II. W. UALL1 WELL,
13 SI 24 2S 81 Secretary,
FINANOIAU.
SEVEN PER CENT.
First Mortgage Bonds
of mi
InnvIUo, Hazleton, nntl WHUes-
barre Ilnilrond Company,
At 85 and Accrued Interest
Clear of all Taxes,
INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER.
Persona wishing to make Investments are Invited
to examine the merits of these BONDS.
Pamphlets supplied and full Information given by
Sterling & Wildman,
FINANCIAL AGENTS,
No. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
4 IS U PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken In
xclitiDge for the above at best market rates.
WE OFFER FOR SALE
THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
or rni
SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA IRON
AKD
RAILROAD COMPANY.
These Bonds ran THIRTY YEARS, and pay 8TCVEN
PBR CENT, interest in irold, ole&r of all tuxes, p&jsbls
at the First national Bank in Philadelphia.
Tbe amount of Bonds issued is &U43,000, and are
seenred by a First Mortgage on real estate, railroad, and
franchises of the Oompanv the former of which oost two
hundred thousand dollars, whioh has been paid for from
Stock subscriptions, and after the railroad is finished, so
that tbe products of the mines oan be brought to market.
it Is estimated to be worth 1,000,000.
lhe Railroad connects with the Cumberland Valley
Railroad about fonr miles below Uhambersbaric, and rans
tbroaRh a section of tbe most fertile part of the Cumber
land Valley.
VTe sell them at 113 and accrued Interest from Maroh 1.
For farther partienl&rs apply to
C. T. YERKE8, Jr., A CO.,
BANKERS,
KO 2 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Wilmington and Reading
RAILROAD
Seven Per Cent. Bonds.
FREE OF TAXES.
We are offering; 200,000 or the
Second. Mortgage lionets ot
tills Company
AT 82J AND ACCRUED INTEREST.
Foa the convenience of Investors these Bonds are
Issued In denominations of
$10008, $500s, and 100s.
The money Is required for the purchase of addi
tional Rolling Stock and the full equipment of the
Road.
The receipts of the Company on the one-half of
the Road now being operated from Coatesvllle to Wil
mington are abont TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS per
month, which will be more than DOUBLED with the
opening of the other half, over which the large Coa
Trade of tho Road must come.
Only SIX MILES are now required to complete
the Road to Blrdaboro, which will be finished by
the middle of the month.
WM. PAINTER & CO.,
BANKERS,
No. 36 South THIRD Street,
66
PHILADELPHIA.
JAyC00KE3;Q).
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND
WASHINGTON,
BANKERS
AND
Dealers in Government Securities.
Special attention given to the Purchase and Sale of
Bonds and Stocks on Commission, at the Board of
Brokers in this and other cities.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS.
GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD.
RELIABLE RAILROAD BONDS POR INVEST
MENT. Pamphlets and full information given at our office,
No. 1 14 S.TIIIItX Street,
PHILADELPHIA. 4 1 3m
D. C. WHARTON SMITH & CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 121 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
aooeaaort to Smith. B ndolpb A Oo,
Every branoh of the business will hare prompt Mteutioa
as heretofore.
QaoUtiona of Stocks, QoTsmmsole, and Gold eon
Untlf received bom Hew York brvfoxe wirs, bom em
Irieads, Edmo&d D lUndoluh 4 Ou.
FINANOIAU
LEIIltill CONYEKTIISLE
6 Per Cent. Firit Mortgage Gold loan,
Free from nil Taxes.
We offer tnr ul. l 75i mm nt thm Thl.t. rwi m .
nation Company's new First Mortmee Hii Per Oent. Gold
Bonds, free Mom all taxes, Interest doe March sad Sep
tember, at ,
rJxxraTir (90)
And interest In currency added to date ef purchase.
Tbeee bonrla art nt m. mjwt..B. in.M f an mw m.. j . . a
October 6, IN. They bars twenty lire (26) years to ran,
snrtsre convertible into stook at per nntU lbTS. Prisoipel
snd Interest payable In gold.
Tbrj are secured by a Brst mortgage on fifiOi) acres of
coal lands In tbe Wyoming Valley, near Wiikeabarre, at
present producing at the rate of 9w,to tons of ooal pet
uuum, witn woras progrees niott contemplate a Urge
Increaso at sn early period, snd also upon valuable Koal
Kstalein tbis city.
A sinking fund of ten cente per ton upon all ooal taken
from the mines for five years, end of fifteen eents p-rton
tbereafter, is rtabliahed. end Tbe Fidelity Inmrmoe.
Trust and Safe Deposit ompany, tbe Trustees under the
mortgage, collect these sums snd invest them la these
Bonds, agreeably to tbe provisions of the Trust.
For full particulars, oopies of the mortgage, etc., apply
to
O. A H. BORIS,
W- H. NRWBOLD. BOX t AERTSKN
JAY COOKE OO..
DREXF.L A 00.,
K. W. OLARK A OO. 5 n lm
CITY WARRANTS
Of LARGE AMOUNTS
Taken Very Cheap.
DE HAVEN & IiliO
Ko. 40 South THIRD Qtreot.
B. K. JAMISON & CO..
SUCCESSORS TO
I?. J?. KELLY & CO.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN
Gold, Silver and Government Bondi
At Closest market Kate,
H. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESNUT SU.
Special attention given to COMMISSION OKUKRs
In New York and Philadelphia Stock BoardB, eto
et 85
SILVER
FOE SALE.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 20 South THIRD Street.
" PHILADELPHIA.
QaLEItUINNIXtt, DAVIS fc CoT,
No. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GlENDiNNING, DAVIS S AMOR),
No. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKKRS.
Receive deposit subject to check, allow interest
on standing and temporary balances, and execute
orders promptly for the purchase and sale of
8TOCK8, BONDS and GOLD, la either city.
Direct telegraph communication from Philadelphia
house to New York. 1
F O R SALE
Williamsport City 6 Per Cent Bonds,
FREE OF ALL TAXES.
ALSO,
Philadelphia and Dai by Railroad 7
Per Cent Bonds,
Coupons payable by the Chesnat and Walnut Streets
Railway Company.
These Bonds will be sold at a price which will
make them a very deBlrabie Investment.
P. 8. PETERSON & CO.,
No. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
26J PHILADELPHIA
E
LLIOTT
I U If I
BANKERS
No. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT 8ECT7UI.
TIES, OOLD BILLS, ETC
DRAW BILLS OF EI (HANGS AND ISSUE
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ON THB
UNION BANK OF LONDON
ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OY OREOIT
ON LONDON AND PARIS. avallablA throuffhnnt
Europe.
Will collect all Coupons and Interest free of oaarg
for parties making their financial arrangement
with ub. set
HIANOS.
ALBRECHT,
BIKRR8 A bOHMIDT,
MAHVWA.VTVMMUM ur
ITRST-ULAS8 PIAHiO-ITOBTBB,
Fell suareuU. and moderate Drioea.
Ssg W ARUUOOMS, Nu. 610 A BOH Btreefc