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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAFI1 PHILADELPHIA., MONDAY, JUNE C, 1870.
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Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
COKllUrTION IN NEW YORK.
From the London Xpecta'.or.
There umst be ROiuelhing rotton not only
in Ibe organization of the government of
New York, but in the pnblic opinion upoa
which that organization depends. It begins
to be evident that not only are many of the
judges and representatives of the State cor
rupt, but that the people who elect theui
either approve corruption or are entirely in
different to it, repard tho taking of bribes for
decrees to facilitate plunder as ordinary
manifestations of self-interest, to bo as much
expected, in a world like this, as any other
form of Helfishness er hardness of heart. Oar
readers will perhaps remember our account
of the great "operation" by which a "ring"
of speculators in New York hoped to make
theniBelves for a time absolute masters of the
gold market, and therefore of the whole
eommc-rcial capital of the country.
On tho break-up of that wonderful
swindle, it was believed that the Erie
ring, with whom it originated, would break
tip too; but it was found that, either through
early sales at huge profit, or through whole
sale repudiation of contract, or through a trick
which we have not space just now to explain
immense purchases made by brokers who
consented to be saorificed for a consideration
the ring had come out unhurt, its chiefs
being still masters of the Erie Railway, still
inillionaries, still owners of the opera-house
; nd its appurtenant seductions, and still more
active members of the political cliques. Ho
complete, however, had been the exposure of
that fraud, so terrible were the denunciations
heaped on its agents by the press, that the
luckless foreign stockholders in the Erie
Uailway, who pay for all this luxury and
shame, thought their hour had arrived, and
despatched an intelligent agbnt to New York
to try and recover control of their btill valuable
property. Mr. Burt arrived in New York
furnished with means, votes, money, legal
opinions, and evidonco, which in any other
Country in the world would have enabled him
at once to reorganize the railway, with
means so great, in fact, that the
members of the King, one of whom
at least must be a rnau with a genius
for administration, bestirred themselves in
earnest. According to the statements of the
American political papers, of the 1'inie' cor
respondent, himself an American, and of the
Notion, a paper quite outside the regular
New York press, Messrs. Jay Gould, risk,
and their confederates admitted two mem
bers of the dominant party in the city to their
board, and thus safe from municipal autho
rity, including city judges, proceeded to buy
up the (State. At all events the Legislature
considered, and in most cases passed, a series
of acts intended in American judgment to
deprive the plundered shareholders in "Erie"
of any redress from law. They had already
passed an act making the ring immovable for
live years, and enabling the directors to re
fuse registration to foreign shares; and they
now passed a law to prohibit any lawyer
ever consulted by the ring from taking a
brief from its opponents; a law it appears
incredible, but we quote the words
from the Nation confining the power of
bringing suits against the Erie directors to
the Attorney-General of the State, who is
tactically their own nominee, and finally a
aw making the Supreme Court of the State,
presided over by the "Erie Judge," the only
State Court which can give an eifeutive order
against them. The District Court, a Federal
institution, has, it is true, a concurrent juris
diction; but the ring, backed as they are by
the city, by the majority in the Legislature,
and, in part, by the Governor, believe that
they can raise a cry of State rights which
will compel the Supreme Court of the Union
either to delay decision for years, a power it
has frequently availed itself of to avoid politi
cal complications, or to risk a collision be
tween the State and the Central Government
on behalf of British stockholders, never a
lass likely to obtain any great popular sym
pathy, and just at this rroment especially out
of favor.
Whether this part of the project will suc
ceed we cannot guess, though we do not
share the hopes confidently expressed by the
best Americans, believing that the Govern
ment will shrink from the course to which
the Erie ring is clearly prepared to drive
them a forcible interference with "State
Bights," on the ground that the New York
Legislature, in passing laws clearly intended
to invalidate contracts, has violated a prime
article of the Constitution; but that is not
our immediate affair. Our point is not to
consider the chance English investors may
have of recovering their money, but to in
quire into the cause of the condonation
which crimes like these receive in New York
State. It is becoming quite clear that the
people do condone them. Nothing can be
more savage than the exposure which
has been made of Erie practices. A large
and powerful section of the press has ex
hausted the language in its efforts to
denounce the confederacy, has, if that were
possible, colored the truth in order to bring
it home 'to the popular mind. The charges
of corruption against judges, members, and
omcials nave been distinct, repeated, and un
refuted. Grave appeals, fiery appeals, hu-
niorouB appeals to tue consciences or the peo
pie have been made in scores by papers
which, like the Tribune, really reach the
western tarmers ana are trusted by them.
which have at least the intlu&nce the English
press possesses over the electorate. The
whole Itepublican party has a direct party in
terest in terminating the iniquity. The rich
already see that they are in danger, the poor
complain of trie excessive taxation inflicted
by the very men who are bound up with the
Erie ring. If ever an appual to the honor or
the character of a State had a fair chauoe, it
is ane like this, in which party feeling,
publioity, the hop of personal relief
from taxation, are all united on tlia side of
right; and yet the people will not un I d not
move. A hint to their renmsentative-s would
suffice, a demand for inquiry, a threat to
make a clean Bweer; but nothi'j'' is attempted,
or menaced, or so much as t.UkeJ of. The
best Americans admit themselves hopeless of
chance, except through the action of the
Central Government, which they beliova is
bey oiid purcnase. Is it po-isilili. even for
those wbo, like ourselves, believe that repub
lics may be as nonest as monarchies or em
pires, to doubt that the electorate is in this
State demoralized that it has cen.sol ta de
sire honesty in its representatives, has ceased
to bold anything sacred, except the right of
man to do as he please, without restraint
from the collective sense of the entire com-
munitv?
We can m e no way out of the conclusion,
no bolid ground of hope whatever. Gruut
that the Aujericau press has, by the use of
violent lanpnage on all otvn'.i.njs, compelled
its ii t-i, m to uihtrubt it vou it is tpoaluu
the truth, still it has never been accused of
wilful attacks upon American character. Acts
are visible things. Decrees cannot be forged.
Taxation reaches everywhere. The eleotors
all read, they hear what is going on, thoy see
what they have to pay, they feel the fall in all
shares, the distrust of American bonds, the
confusion in all business operations like that
which accompanied the Gold-Room swindle,
when no man in the State could tell what ho
was worth for an hour together, and still they
are indifferent. It may be said that
such a condition of affairs must cure
itself; but that has been said at any time this
ten years, and it has only become worse and
worse. What is to cure a whole people who,
with their eyes pen, tolerate corruption in
their own servants at their own cost; who,
with a Puritan training, boar unjust judges;
who, to take tho most favorable of conceiv
able views, believing in their judges, believ
ing in their members, believing all the
charges false, eagerly support journalists
capable of such monstrous lying? Their
self-interest will not cure them, for their
self-interest iM already on the side
of honesty. They are not repudiating
to avoid taxation, but suffering taxation
that plunderers may flourish. Their patriot
ism will not cure them, for their patriotism
never was more signally manifested than du
ring the war, and yet they are allowing the
word "American attached to any security to
depreciate it .'JO or 40 per cent. Their leaders
are not in fault, for they elect them. Their
press is not in fault, for it trios to rouse them.
I hey have no excuse of an ignorance which.
may be removed, or a delusion which may be
dispelled, or a prejudice which may disap
pear. They know the facts, and knowing
tolerate them; and their tolerance is for all
moral purposes complicity in a form of vice
which no State recorded in history has ever
tolerntcd without experiencing its inevitable
retribution anarchy ending in one way or
another in government from without.
PROTECTION IN A TASSION.
Fom the X. 1'. World.
The protectionists of Philadelphia are in a
bad way since the Schenck abortion, and,
what is worse, they are losing their tempers.
They scold like very "drabs" meaning no
poor pun on neutral-tinted garments. The
latest effusion of bilious Billingsgate that we
have seen is from Forney's 1'ras of a day or
two ago, where a writer with the suspicious
initials of II. C. B. pours out his full venom
on Mr. Bryant, because in his discourse on
Yerplanck he stated the historical truth that
his deceased friend, being a man of educa
tion and enlightened intelligence, was in a
modified form a free-trader. II. C. B. writes
thus of the author of "Thanatopsis" and the
translator of the "Iliad:" "Mr. William
Cullen Bryant, of the New York Eoe.ning
1'ont, is a very respectable old gentleman
and a very good poet, but, as might reason
ably be supposed, a very poor political econo
mist or social philosopher." This, being in
terpreted, means that Mr. Bryant not only
has not become by a regular course of study
a convert to extreme protection, but probably
never read one word of those huge volumes of
ill-digested facts and unintelligible doctrines
that are supposed to be studied in Philadel
phia. We have not the most remote idea who
11. (J. 13. is, but we take him to be some
waspish, elderly, rather dyspeptio old-line
Whig, turned radical, with a furnace out of
blast or a coal mine where there is a strike
for such are the leading protectionists of our
sister city. Judge Kelley by constant elo
cution relieves himself of niuoa pent-
up lury, and is by far the best
tempered of the party. All else are
in a state of ill-concealed chronic combustion;
and especially so is H. C. Bw lie tells us the
revenue legislation lor liSM, for which Air.
Yerplanck was to a certain extent responsible,
cost Mr. Clay his election in 1844 ! Now it
seems to us, looking back coolly on this mat
ter, that inasmuch as the tariff of 1842 a
protective measure was in full force in 1844,
it is rather illogical to search for causes of
Whig discomfiture in the free-trade or semi-
free-trade policy of eleven years before! Mr.
Ulaya defeat was due to his
course on the Texas question and to
the corrupt coalition of abolitionists
and Democrats of which Sumner was the
first fruits in the Northern and Eastern
States. It would not do for an anti-slavery
agitator of this our day a radical Republi
can, an admirer of Lincoln, and a believer
in the fifteenth amendment all of which
II. C. B. no doubt is to attribute what he
considers the great calamity of Mr. Clay's
discomfiture to its true cause. The gentle
evening of the honored life of "that very re
spectable old gentleman," Mr. Bryant, will
not, we imagine, be agitated by these effu
sions of tariff malice.
JOHNSON'S LAST LEGACY.
from the X. Y. Tribune.
The official existence of the Special Com
missioner of the Revenue . terminates, by
limitation of the law that made him, on the
iSOth of June, 1870. When his collaborator,
deputy, and double-gauger, Delmar, late Di
rector of the Bureau of Statistics, departed,
he was snuffed out, without enough of him
left to smoke; but even in Mr. Wells' ashes
something of his wonted fire is left to smoulder
under the puffing and blowing-up that it is
getting. The puffing is being done by the
Cobden Club of London. The Atlantio Tele
graph of the 27th ult. informs ns that his
English backers are printing his last report on
the industry, trade, commerce, currency, Con
gress, and general "cussedness" of the United
States, "for universal circulation." The
blowing up is done by the Committee on
Manufactures of our own House of Repre
sentatives, in their report ef the 19th of May.
An ambiguous situation this for our national
financier, statistieian, political economist, and
Controller-General of the American system
of trade and tax legislation. The construction
at least, if not the situation, is doubtful, like
that of the ambidextrous steward mentioned
in the Gospel, who prudently made for himself
friends cf the mammon of unrighteousness,
in anticipation of his discharge from ollica.
Hit lord, it seems, commended him, and
our Steward of the Revenue, after having
also rendered his last account of his steward
ship, is strongly indorsed by the party that is
entirely satisfied with it. The policy of bo
administering the debts and resources of
one's employer as to secure an independence
of bis trust, and a snug retreat upon its with
drawal, is obvious; but that, perhaps for
want ef a clear understanding of the exem
plar in the parable, is about all we see to
admire in the imitation. We remember the
indignation with which we heard the story
of one of our West Pointers who went into
secession in 18G1, leaving the bombshells in
the arsenal under his charge filled with saw
dust. Mr. Wells has done better than that
fi-r the enemy. He has carried the bomb
shells collected for our armory, and at our
expense, in prime order over to the Coblea
(Hub in England and its auxiliaries in the
United States, and they are firing them into
our works with all the explosive force there U
in tl:tm.
Mr. Veils, Juiir-g the fir, half of hU o21-
clal term, travelled all over the Union and
Europe, had interviews with everybody, ex
amined everything, summoned experts,
ciphered incessantly, discussed all Borts of
subjects, digested an infinity of statistics,
employed a host of adepts, published volumes
of pamphlets, counselled Congress and the
country, made himself an authority, turned
Lis office into a tract society, and in the end
turned up a revenne reformer and a rene
gade; and now he leaves the service with a
budget of statistics on his back, and an array
of reasons for kicking at our confidence
which leaves us nothing to wonder at or
doubt about, when we reflect upon the trials
he has been exposed to, except the weight of
the motives which have determined him to
go over bodily to tho enemy.
We cannot help remembering now with
what an innocent hopefulness wo ajcepted
the appointment of a Revenue Commissioner,
and how patiently we had long borne our
ignorance of the industries, the resources,
end the commercial movements of the coun
try, and how full of confidence we felt when
Congress at last made provision for obtaining
official information of our home affairs, with
their relations to our foreign commerce,
which up to that time was the only thing that
we knew of the business on which our wel
fare depends, and the last report of the com
mission is the issue !
It was printed last December and pub
lished far and wide under the official frank,
and republished ami distributed by the Free
Trade League throughout the United Stites;
and again it is sent freshly upon its travels
through Europe by tho allied anti-American
propagandists of Great Britain. This history
is of itself enough to put the public of this
country on its guard. But thousauds of per
sons interested in almost cverydopartment of
our home industries early appealed to Con
gress for an authoritative exposition of its
perversions of facts, its culpable omissions,
and its mischievous recommendations of
legislative policy. The Committee on Manu
factures of the House of Representatives
have attended to this duty, and done it with
a fulness and eil'ectiveuess that challenge
our admiration. Iu tho judgment of any
qualified and candid reader of thir
report, we venture to believe, never
was man more completely demolis'uel,
and never was indictment containing so many
counts charging official malversation so fully
proved. The committee, indeed, have not
exhausted their subject. They necessarily
passed over with no notice, or slight a'lu
sions, many of the most formidable and as
sailable offenses of the document, but they
have avoided exhaustion of tho reader of their
report; and of the multitude of topics on
which they have joined issue with the Com
missioner, not one have they loft inconclusive
against him. They have taken him and terri
bly exposed him on such, and such variety of,
topics as these: The farmers' question, as it
involves prices under the existing tariff and
state of the currency. On this point they con
vict him of exaggeration and partial
presentment, and a settled pur
pose to cultivate discontent with
the manufacturing capitalists and laborers of
the country; with the additional charge of
arraying the laborer against the farmer in
his report of 18G8, and now in 1809 provok
ing the farmer against their laboring con
sumers by similar misstatements, heedless
alike of self-contradiction and of honest full
ness of facts in both instances. On wool
and woollens they meet him with the unim
peached facts and figures which the Tribune
has so frequently given in refutation of the
Commissioner's Report. On our cotton man
ufactures the Commissioner nas written with
the malignity of a partizan, and adduced sta
tistics, and indulged in estimates, with all the
prejudice of an enemy. The half-dozen pages
of the Committee devoted to him on this one
subject have more demolishing force than
anything but his official authority could pos
sibly warrant. On prices, production-cost,
and quantities of gunny bags, salt, ooal, lum
ber, the protective force of freight, the char
acter of our steel trade, and of a number of
other commodities and special subjects of
vast importance, which the Commisbioner
manipulates in the interest of foreign im
ports, and in antagonism to domestic produc
tion, a searching and conclusive investigation
overwhelms every position taken by him; and
all this so clearly and plainly that the general
reader is made competent to judge, and ex
perts are only surprised that such a mixture
of cunniBg and incompetency could be con
densed into any man in the position and
having the four years' training of the Com
missioner. WHEN WILL RECONSTRUCTION BE
COMPLETED?
From the N. Y. Times.
The continued exclusion of Georgia is an
injustice to the people of that State, and a
stigma upon Republican statesmanship.
For the only open question relates to the
terms of the legislation upon which the
restoration of tho State shall be effected: and
the delay in defining these terms is the result
of a strange infirmity of purpose on the part
of the majority in Congress.
The reopening of the subject had its justi
fication in the perverse conduct of the
Georgia Democracy. Their bad faith, their
repeated manifestations of hostility to tho
fundamental features of reconstruction, and
their evident determination to acquire con
trol of the State by any me its, aud at all
hazards, were circumstauces which rendered
necessary the interposition of Federal au
thority. Congress was compelled to choose between
an ignominious surrender of its own policy,
and the vindication of that policy by en
forcing its conditions, and exacting guaran
tees for their observance. On this ground
we upheld the legislation adopted at the
outset of the session. But having dictated
terms, Congress was bound to follow compli
ance with them with the prompt admission
of the State. The precise manner of admis
sion had been settled in the casej of Virginia
and Texas; the only peculiarities in the case
of Georgia arising out of a quarrel which has
no national significance, and which only
paltry personal animosities have kept alive in
Washington.
The bill reported by tho Ieo.istraclion
Committee mot all reasonable requirements,
but the House eugrufted upon it the Bingham
amendment, whih whs directed agait r au
alleged purpose to prolong the oft? -mil exist
ence of the State Executives, and unduly to
extend the duration of the Statu Legisliture.
The amendment had its origia ia those per
sonal squabbles which Cougreod shou'd iu no
manner have recoguized, and has proved the
chief source of difficulty and delay. The
Senate, with proverbial loquacity, tilkod th
whole subject over aud over ugain, -vith all
the bitterness which marked the eariie -t de
bates on reconstruction linul'y sabsMtatioor
a measure known as the Pomeroy Milt; . y
bill. The result both in the House aid
SeDnte, was effected by a couibin it i. u of the
Democrats with a minority of Republicans.
Thus in both instances the preference of the
lUj-uVlieaa majority, to nhhh t'-d con
struction Committee had given adequate ex
pression, was overruled.
But the end, apparently, was still as far
off as ever. Once more the subject rovertod
to the Reconstruction Committee. There it
rests not, we bolieve, because of the inac
tion or indecision of that body, but because
of the obstacles to action in the House itself.
Some excuse for delay may have existed
pending the Senatorial investigation into
certain proceedings of Governor Bullock,
Against whom, however, nothing has been
shown that should sway tho decision of a
question with which by his official position he
is connected. There is no evidence that he
seeks an unfair advantage, or that his aims
are otherwise than in harmony with those of
the great body of the Georgia Republicans.
He has neither asked nor desired an exten
sion of his own term of office.
The only assigned pretext for dely having
been removed, it is not unreasonable to hope
that the committee's bill will be reported and
acted upon favorably at an early day. It
meets the requirements of the State, aud will
insure its readmission on a basis which
should be satisfactory. Tho earliest possible
attainment of that result is desirable in the
interest of the State, and as securing the final
removal from the Congressional arena of a
controversy which has too long vexed and em
barrassed tho Republican party.
THE FENIANS IN ENGLAND.
From the X. Y. World.
By way of commentary, wo suppose, on
the story that Mr. Gladstone's Irish Laud bill
is esteemed satisfactory by Ireland, wo have
news of the discovery iu Eng
land of an extensive Fenian conspiracy, hav
ing for its object the destruction of arsenals
and dockyards in divers parts of Great
Britain.
Conspiracies, at the best, are uncleanly
means to a noble end; but there are circum
stances in which conspiracy seems to be tho
only way left open for a subject people's pro
test sguinst its subjection. This was the
case with the Italians during the dark period
of Austrian domination which intervened be
tween tho peace of IS 13 and the revolu
tionary upheavals of 1818. It was by his in
domitable persistency as a Carbonaro during
this dark period that Mazzini really served
bis country and earned the great intluence
which he has since so sedulously dissipated
find thrown away
It may be doubted whether tho Irish poo-
ple are really reduced at tho present time to
such a condition as justifies them in resort-
ii.g to like measures. But one thing is cer
tain, that renianism in England is laboring
for Ireland much more fairly and much more
bravely, as well as much more practically,
than Fenianism in Canada. Fenians con
spiring iu English dockyards and arsenals
expose their lives more gallantly than Feni
huh crossing a frontier which keeps a safe
retreat always open and near behind them.
Fenian blows struck at England's fleets and
armies are levelled at the real machinery by
which Jrelaud is kept in subjection to the
imperial authority; while Fenian invasions
of provinces divided from Britain by leagues
of ocean and divorced of all share in the con
trol of Irish affairs could do England but
little damage even if successful.
OUR MISSION TO TURKEY.
from the X. Y. World.
With hiB usual good sen so and fine regard
to the public service, President Grant has
selected the moment when an American Min
ister in Constantinople might possibly be
useful to tho cause of humanity to show his
contempt for the office by giving it away, as
he might a match-box or a pair of sleeve
buttoLS, to the Bon-in-law of the Pennsyl
vania Donator witn whom he goes trout
fishing in the Alleghenies.
We already have a minister in Constanti
nople Mr. Morris, of Pennsylvania, an edu
cated aLd accomplished man, and a Republi
can, originally appointed by President Lin
coln, whose residence of nine years in the
Ottompn c.pital has given him opportunities
for acquiring a certain degree of that per
sonal influence which is the only real means
of usefulness in the countries of the East'.
Mr. Morris is respected and liked by the lead
ing personages of the Sublime Porte. He has
been in Turkey long enough to know what
things can be and what things
cannot be achieved by an American diplo
matist near the person of the Sultan.
Although Turkey is in nowise responsible for
any excesses which may have been com
mitted by fanatical rayahs in Roumania
upon the Jews of that country, and although
it is quite certain that whatever authority
the Torte retains in her half-emancipated
provinces will have been exerted long ere
this for the protection of its Hebrew
subjects, it is very probable that good
mignt be done by such calm and well-considered
representations as might be made
to ihe Government of Stamboul by a well
known and respected American envoy. In
stead of instructing Mr. Morris to make such
representations, President Grant avails him
self of the first vague rumors of trouble on
the Danube to remove this capable envoy,
and to slip iuto his place an untried man, of
whom nothing is known but that he is a
rural lawyer from Pennsylvania, and that he
has married the daughter of Mr. Simon
Cameron.
THE SEVENTH REGIMENT SET RIGHT
IN BROTHERLY LOVE.
Frm. ihe A. Y. Herald.
The gentlemen of Philadelphia, repre
sented by some of the leading merchants,
bankers, literati, military men, professors,
and editors of the Quaker City, have doue
tttict-elves justice, aud ignored the paltry
parsimony and discourtesy of a clique of the
local authorities there by inviting our noble
"Seventh" to tarry withther. for twenty-four
hours on their trip to Cape May in the second
week of July.
Shaftetbury once wrote that "the taste for
beauty and the relish for whutis decent, just,
and amiable perfects the character of the
gentleman and the philosopher; andthestu iy
of such a taste or relish will ever be the great
employment and concern of him who covets
us well to bo vied and good as agreeable and
polite." Pat that in your pipes and whiff it
gently, oh ! enrmudgeous who voted against
the publio receptiou of our New York boys
in grey, .vita tLe banner of red, white, and
blue. When you see their forms and faces
find hear the manly cadence of their step as
they inarch through Chesnut street to the
"mubio of the Union," performed Vy the
finest band in the world, you will feel that
t?Hm WelrV "double million magnifier"
miscroscope w ould not adequately measure
the littleness of your rt cent record. But to
tVe good men and true who have redeemed
the title of "Brotherly Love" by their grace
ful an l well timed compliment, New York
sends festive, hearty greeting. "Were't the
labt drop in the well," etc, etc.
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NOTICE TO STOCK UOLDKR8.
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annual Dividend of HVK PK.R OKNT. on the Capital
fetnek of the Company, clear of National and State Taxes,
payable in cash on and after May 9i, VB70.
Blank Powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends can
be bad at the Office of the Company, No. 233 South Third
street.
The Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at t
P. M. from May 3D to June 3, for the payment of Dividends,
and after that date from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
THOMAS T. FIRTH,
6 4 6ot Treasurer.
T NOTICE. A SPECIAL MEETING OF
the Stockholders of the PHILADELPHIA. OICR
MANTOWN, AMD NORR1STOWN RAILROAD COM
PANY will be held in Boom No. 24, PHILADKLPIIIA
KXCH ANCB on TUUKSDAY, the 9th day of Jane nxt,
at 13 o'clock M.,for tho consideration of an act of the
General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
entitled "An act to authorize the Philadelphia, Uerm.in-.
town, aud Norriutown Kailtoad Company to increase its
Capital Stock," approved the 2!'t J day of March, 1871).
l'r order of the Board of Managers.
6 a tb A. K. DOUUHKRTY. Secretary.
jjy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
accordance with the provisionsof the existing aots
of Afpcnilily, that n meeting of the cointnisKionors n nund
in nn act entit led "An Act to Incorporate the PKOI'KU
TK IN rll(K IVSLKANUK COMPANY, lo be located
in t lie city of Philadelphia," approved tho 1.1th dity of April,
A. D. lew, and ti e supplement thereto, approvod the "Jrith
day ot April, A. D. 1870, will he hold at 1 o;olock P. M. on
the loth ray of Juno, A. D. 1870. at No. 133 h. oHVKNTIi
Mrcot, Philadelphia, when the book for subscription to
the cupitni stock will be opened and the o'.unr action
taken reiuiite to complete the orirsnization. 5 13 1m
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
accordance with the provisions of the existing acts
of Assembly, that a meeting of the commissioners namod
in unset entitln! "An Act to Incorporate thoMOYA
MRr.hINi MKK INl!BANCK COMPANY, to bo
located in the city of Philadelphia," approved the 13th
day of A pril, A. D. loi, and t he supplement thereto, ap
proved the SCth day cf April, A. D. Ui, will De held at 13
o'clock M. on the 15th day of June, 170, at No. 13J 8.
KKVKNTII Street, I hilndeipliia, when tho books for sub
scription to the capital stock will he opened and the other
action taken requisite to oomplote theorganizai ion. 6 I3lm
t&r tiusgos-teXberry TOOTH WASH.
It in the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extaD t. Warranted free from injurious ingredients.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth!
Invigorates and Soothes the Onm!
Purifies and Purfumes the Breath!
Prevents Aecumuiution of Tartar!
Cleanses and Purities Artificial Tooth!
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Bold by all druggists and dentists.
A. M. W ILSON, Druggist, Proorietcr,
8 2 10m Oor. NINTH AM) HLBKRTBts,, Philadelphia.
BATCIIELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS
splendid Hair Dyei s the best in the wo-Ud. 1 tunn
ies', reliable, instantaneous, does not centain load, nor
any vitalic poison to produce paralysis or death. Avoid
the vaunted and delusive preparations boasting virtues
they do not possess. The genuine W. A. Batchelor's Hair
Dye has bad thirty years untarnished reputation to up
hold its integrity as the only Perfect Hair Pye Black or
Brown, hold by all Druggists. Applied at No. Irt H )ND
Street. New York 4 27m wf
fixr headquarters for extracting
Teeth with fresh Nitrous-Oxide Oas. Absolutely
no pnin. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the
Colton Dental Booms, devote his entire practice to the
nainlots extraction of teeth. Office, No. Vll WALNUT
Street I jjd
jijy A TOILET NECESSITY". AFTER
nearly thirty years' experience, it js now gonnrlly
admitted that MURRAY & LANAIAN'4 FLORIDA
WAiKIt is the moat rolresliing and agreeable of all
toilet perfumes. It iB entirely different from Cologne
Water, and should nevor be confounded with it: the per
fume of the Cologne disappearing in a fow moments after
Its application, whilst that of tho Florida Water lasts for
many days. 8 I
Igs- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
" LONDON AND LIVF.RPOOL.
C A PITA L, Xa.UOO.UCHJ.
SAB1NB, A LLF.N A DULLKS. Agents,
2 FltTH and WALNUT Streets.
WARD ALE G. MoALLISTER,
AkW uti fuu wuuusrnur Si LlWt
No.33 BROADWAY.
New York.
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts,,
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. S 38 3pt
"WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS
v v u mm wBiaaiea,
Mo. 1M North SECOND Street,
Philadelphia.
DRUGS, PAINT8, ETO.
J01II2ItT SlIOimAKISK & CO,,
N. E. Corner FOURTH and RACE Sts
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
Importers and Manufacturers of
WHITE LEAD AND COLORED PAINTS, PUTTY,
. VARMSHES, ETC.
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH
ZINC PAINTS.
Eealers and consumer! supplied at lowest prices
for cash. 124
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF BAFI
trv, .t. wATsnv Knw
mm iKfi
1 Kfl 1UJ Of the lata firm of EVANS A WATSON, J 101
FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF
No. 53 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
3 31 A few doors above Oheinnt St., PhiUda,
STOVES. RANGES, ETO.
77 D G A R L. THOMSON,
X-i Successor to Hhsrpe A Thomson,
IKON 1 UUNDKB.
BTOVES,
TINNED,
FNAMELLED, and
HEAVY HOLLOW WARE.
OFFICE, No. 2i N. 8KOOND Street,
FOUNDRY, bouth SECOND and MIFFLIN Streets,
Philadelphia. 1 wfiiiot
LECAL NOTICES.
1
? STATE OF ALEXANDER BENSON,
J Deceased.
Lett m a of Administration having been crsntnd tn
tho buiiK-riben upon the estate of ALEXANDER
lihNON, deceased, all persons having claims or do
niunds aKsinat the euatej of said deuedeut will nuke
kuuwu the same to ua without delay
tiUSTAVUS 8 BENSON,
EDW IN NORTH,
Administrators, No. ti 8. THIRD 8'reet,
Or to their At toner, (IM)K(IK JL'NKIN. Esq..
Souihosst corner SIXTH and WALNUT Streets.
Pbilatleliih'a, May 18, 17U. 6 if miit
1111? iiA4iti.i:u on,.
10,000 BOTTLES BOTTLES 10,1)00
For sale by SAMUEL RPANtJ, No. 148 North THIRD
btrttt, Philadelphia. Tim only Importer sua bole Aeut
in the l olled htates for the lust liny years.
This Oil will cure colds, ooui-'lis, and pains in the limbs;
eftectionsof the kidneys and bladder, aud will p tsitively
ix pel gravel; relieves incontinence of urine, aud checks
the fcauie il too Irequent. ...
For dyspepsia or loss of appetite there is nothing better.
or new-born babes, wuo are subject to colic, one Dkop
will at once relieve them.
It will cure t fTS, bUUlBES, tetteb, ITCH, or ant jther
CU'sneous disease. ...... . , .
tor Kbeuuiatinni or Gout it is now recommended by all
eminent phjioiaus. ..... , .
In short, lor man or s east it is a soveroigu remsdy.
Thy it, and be satisfied.
Price (WO. per bottle. ...
LiiiHiat. uibCoi'NT TO DnrooiHTs and others, who are
Waived, and allied to se'l a counterfeit article CAtXKU
ceiei . HAARLEM OIL. 35wfiu-jt
T. EASTOH. I J. M'MAHO!.""
A H T O A Ac W c M A It O ,
snrrris'0 ani commission hehcbasts.
No. 8 OOF N't IKS 8L1P, New Vork.
No. 18 SOUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia,
No. 46 W. PR A VI' Street, Raltiiuore.
We are prepared to ship every description ef Freight to
Philaiielphia, New Yotk, WilmiuKUin, and intermediate
po uts with prompt Dess and dopal h. Canal boats and
bleam-tua's luruiahudal the shortest notio
CORDAGE, ETC.
WEAVER & CO.,
iioii; 9iAiirAt;Ti;iti:Rg
AND
iiaii,i:us.
No. M North WATEK Street and
No. 23 North WHARVES, Philadelphia.
ROrE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK
PRICES. 4 1
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Siial and Tarred Cordage
At lowest New York Price and Freight.
EDWIN H. FITI.KR Jk CO
Factory, TENTH Bt. and GERMANTOWH Arena,
Store. Vo. S3 . WATER St. and 83 N. DRLAWABB
AT,aua
SHIPPINO.
ffj LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LINE
FOB
NEW .YOItK
ar now receiving freight at
5 crnts prr 100 pouude,
M rents prr toot, or l-M rent -gnltoo, ship,
option. ,
INSURANCE OF 1 PER CENT.
F.ztra rates on small packages iron, metals, eU
No receipt or bill of lading sinned for less than 50 cent.
The Line wonld call attention of merchants generally to
the fact that hereafter the regular shippers bythislin
will be charged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or t cents per
foot, during the winter seasons.
For further particulars apply to
1 JOHN F. OHU
. gS PIER lit. NORTH WHARVES.
-Tf ifTN PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
Till' V anMAll. STEAMSHIP OO.MPANV'8 REMIT
LRKsSKMIMONTliLY LINE TO NEW UR-
The YAV.OO will sail for New Orleans direct, on
Thursday, ,)nne Iri, at 8 A. M.
The ACHILLES will sail from New Orleans, via Havana,
on .inns
THROUGH BILLS OK L VDINO at ns low rates as by
any other route given to Alolnle, ulve;iton, Indianoin, La.
vaccs.and Brazen and to all points on the .Mi3iMippi river
between New irleans and Kt. Louis. Red River freights
reshipptd at New Orleans without charge of commissions.
WEEKLY LINE TO SATANNAH. OA.
The WYOMING will sail for Savannah on Satur
day, June 11, t 8 A. M.
'J be TONAWaNDA will aall from Savannah on Satur
day, June 11.
TbhOCGH BILLS CF L A DING givon to all the prin
cipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkoaras, and Tennessee in connection with
the Central Railroad ofGoorgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road, andjt lorida st earners, at as low rates as by competing
lines.
SEMI MONTHLY LINeTo WILMINGTON, N. O.
The PIONEER will sail forWilmington on Saturday,
June lxth. Returning, will leave Wilmington Saturday,
June S.rth.
Connects with the Cape Fear River Stenmbont Com.
nany, the Wilmintton and Weldon and North Carolina
Railroads, and the Wilmington aud Manchester Railroad
to nil interior points.
Freights for Columbia, 8. O., and Angtista, Gs., taken
via W ilmington, at aslow rates as by any other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills
of luding signed at tjuoen street wharf on or before day
of sailing.
WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent.
61 No. 130 South THIRD Street,
(ffts PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLE3-
TON STEAMSHIP LINK.
This line i now composed of th following first class
Stesmships, sailing Irom PIER 17, below Spruce street
on FRIDAY of each week at 8 A. M. :
ASHLAND, 8U1 tons. Capt. Crowell.
.1. W. EVKRMAN, tons. Capt. Hinckley.
PROMETHEUS, m tons. Capt. Gray.
JUNE, 187U.
Prometheus, Friday, June 8.
J. W. Everiuan, Friday, June 10.
Prometheus, Friday, June 17.
J. W. Everuian. Friday. June 21.
Through bills of lading given to Columbia, H. O., tb in
terior ot Georgia, and all point South and Southwest.
Freight forwarded with promptness and despatch.
Kates as low as by any other route.
Insurance one half per cent., effected at the office in
first-class companies
No freight received nor bill of lading signed after S P
M. on day of tailing.
(HOl'DER fc Agent.
No. S DOCK Street,
OrtoWILUAM P. CLYDE A CO.
No. 13 8. WHARVES.
WM. A. OOURTKN AY. Agent in Charleston. biii
FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS
TOWN. Inman line of Mail Staamara are an.
pointed to sail as follows;
City of Brussels, Saturday, Jnne 11, at 1 P. M
City of Antwery, via Halifax, Tuesday, Jrme 14, 1 P. H.
City of Washington, Saturday, June 18, A.M.
Cay of London, Saturday, June ib, I P. M.
And each saoceerilng Saturday and alternate) Tnaada
from Pier 46, North River. OD .
KATES OF PA88AOB.
BT TH VaXL STKaliXB SaH-lNO trul ATtmDal .
Parable in Gold, Payable in Onrrenor.
FIRST CABIN $100 I STEKRAUE $31
To Ixndon. 106 I To London 40
To Pari 116 I To Pari i
FaaSAUI BT TIH TOTJUIAX ITUUCB, TLA HALIFAX.
riHST CAHlN. TKBAQB.
Favabla in (tald. Parable in Onmno.
Liverpool. 080 1 Liverpool $n
tiauiaz jw
St. John', N. F., 1 tf
bv Branch Staamsr. . . .( w
Hahlax If
St. John', N. F., (
hv RruiAh KlAaiiuir.. (
Passenger also forwarded to Havre. Hamburg. Bremen.
etc., at reduced rate.
Ticket can be bought here at moderate rate by person
wishing to end for their friend.
For fnrthr particular apply Oompne Offloea
JOHN U. DALE, Agent.
No. IS Broadway. N. T.
Of to O'DONNETJj A FAULK, Agent.
6 Ho, 408 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND
tun Niiuvrtiir uririukaiD rmv
THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTH
INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES
FOR 1870.
Steamer leave every WEDN FSDAY and SATURDAY
t 12o'olock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR
KET Street.
RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA
TURDAYS. Ne Bill of Lading signed after 13 o'clock on sailing
data.
THROUGH RATES to all point in North and South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Una Railroad, connecting at
Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and ttie
West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond
and Danville Ruiiioad.
Freight HANDLED BUTONOK and taken at LOWER
RATES Tb AN AN V OTHER LINE.
No charge for commission, drayage, or any expense of
transfer.
bteamship insure at lowest rate.
Freight received daily.
tUte Room accommodations for passenger.
W 11.L1AM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 12 8. WHARVKSand Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. POR'I ER. Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROW ELL A CO.. Agents at Norlolk. 0 L)
FOR NEW YORK,
via lielawsre and Raritan Oannl.
jaijn 'in is r r ai iuuu ... v...... , . ,
ibe Steam Propeller of tne line will commence load
ing on the nth inxtaDt, leaving daily as nsual.
THttOUGH IN TWKNIYFul'R HOURS.
Goods forwaided by all the lines goinoui of New York
North, Kant, ur N est, tree of commission.
Freight received at low ratts.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A Co., Agents,
No. 13 South DELAWARX Aveune.
-JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. 11 WALL Street. New York. 3 4
"T"foRNEV YORK, VIA DELA-
f f't "T"'-, wsre and Rarilan Caual.
rfrL-.JLJ. bVYIFJSUHK TRANSPORTATION COM
PAN Y
DESPATCH AND bWIFTSURK LINES,
Leaving daily at VI M. and 6 P. M.
ThesteMu propellers of this ooinpany will commence
oadiu on the 8th ot March.
'1 bronch in twenty-four honr.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commission.
F reichls taken on accou.uiod.1Uu4 terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BA1KD A CO., Agent.
4 No. 13a South DELA WAREAvene.
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TOWBOVr OOMPANY.-Barget
towed between Philadelphia. Baltim,..
Havre-cje-Grace. Delaware City, aud intermediate point.
W1LI I A M P. CLYDE A CO., Ageut.
Contain JOHN LA I'd h I I S, Superintendent.
Office, No. 12 bouth W harves, Philadelphia. 4 115
. f7 m NEW EXPRKS3 LINE TO
l-fti vS 1 Alexundria, Georgetown, and Washington,
sAna-.-?r D. C, via Chesapeake aud Delaware Caual,
wiih connections at Alexandria from the most direct
route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, Niisuville. Dai
ton, and the Kouthwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from
the lirbt wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily
WILLIAM P CLYDE A CO.,
No 14 North and South WHARVES.
HYDE ft TYLFR. Agents at Georgetown; M.
El DH1DGE A CO.. Ag-.a. st Alexandria. 61
COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
of all nomber and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk
aud Wagon-cover Dock. Also, Paper Manufacturers
liner Fe:ta, from thirty to seventy -six Innh, wit)
Pan ha. Helling, bail Twine, .
JOHH W. EVFRM4R.
No. 10 OWUROSl Street (Oil buret.