2 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1870. 8rxn.iT or txxxi rasas. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. From the g. T. Tribune. With very little preliminary f obs and de bate, the' British Government has carried into effect a radical reform in the system of appointments to office, similar in its general features to the great change advocated in this country by Mr. Jenckes. An examination of candidates for certain civil offices has long been practiced in England; but hereafter, by an order of the Queen in Council, this rule is to be greatly extended, so as to apply to all appointments except under the Foreign Office and a very few others expressly men tioned. Anybody who wants a Government place may present himself for examination upon his physical fitness, his moral and intel lectual character, his geueral education, and his special knowledge of the duties he desires to fulfil. The candidate who appears by the leport of the examiners to be best qualified will receive the appointment on a probation of six months, during which he will bo still further tested; and at the end of that time, if the results of the trial are satisfactory, he wHl be permanently assigned to duty, subject only to removal by the chief of the depart ment to which he is attached. Jlere is a sweeping change by which poli tics as a trade ought to be revolutionized if not entirely abolished. It is not so many years since a British statesman would have thought the Constitution subverted and the country on the brink of ruin if the party which had the good luck to come in could not displaoe the appointees of the party which had the bad luck to go out, and fill the comfortable desks of Government with their own most useful supporters. How her Majesty's Government was to be carried on, Kir, unless the younger sons and poor rela tions of the great governing families could be provided for; how the indispensable adhesion of the Duke of This and my Lord That was to be secured without a judi cious distribution of places among the friends and dependants for whom those pillars of the State felt bound to provide, were problems which the Sir Leicester Dedlocks of the Whig quite as well as the Tory party felt themselves utterly unable to solve. How was a man to get into Parliament if he could not reward those who were most active in putting him there? How were ministers to command a majority in the House if they had no patronage wherewith to pay for votes? Mr. Gladstone has cut the Gordian knot of these difficulties at one blow. He has destroyed the Irish Church Establish ment. He has about destroyed the Irish Land system. He has extended the suffrage and half promised the ballot. Now he has destroyed patronage. And still the British empire stands ! The Foreign Office, to. be sure, is left, a last refuge for aristocratic good-for-nothings, a dumping ground, so to speak, for the nobility, bearing a sign to the effect that "Rubbish may be shot here," and there are certain offices also filled directly by the crown to which the competitive system does not apply; but these exceptions are too few to affect the general result, and may per haps hereafter be brought under the general rule. It is very true that a formal examination is not always the best gauge of ability. A man of nervous or excitable temperament is apt to blunder through confusion, and a man with more than his fair share of assurance is placed at an unjust advantage. Still, if the examina tion is properly conducted it will hardly fail to detect either a fool or a man of exceptional ability, and ia any case the new mode of choice must be a great improvement upon the present, in which fitness is not considered at all. A sensible competitive examination, fol lowed by the practical test of a six months' probation, ought to insure the Government able, duigont, ana well-conducted servants. The chief of a department will always have the power to discharge' those who, after all the previous tests, are still found incompe tent or idle; and as his own comfort will depend upon a good administration of his office, he may be trusted to exeroise that power whenever it becomes necessary. On the other hand he has not the power of ap pointment, and therefore will seldom be tempted to remove without cause in order to make room for his own friends. Thus, as man by the process of natural selection is supposed to have been developed from the monkey, so the breed of office-holders may be indefinitely improved by a similar opera tion of what Mr. Darwin calls the "struggle for existence and survival ol tne nttest. We are not sanguine of the immediate adoption of any such reform in the United States principally for the reason that we are so very much in want of it. The incompe tency of Government officials is a compara tively tniung evil in tnis country, but the patronage system has become such a tremen dous weapon of corruption tnat few politi cians are willing to give it up, and few party leaders have the courage to pledge a hearty support to the movement for reforming it out of existence. While office is bartered and sold as it is now, and votes are given not for Eoutical principles but for a petty custom ouse clerkship, it is only by rare and fortu nate accident that we can get the best men into positions of trust and power, or secure a majority in Congress with the nerve and discrimination to apply the remedy to this threatening disorder of our political system. Congressmen Lave come to look upon office-brokerage as one of the chief of their legitimate duties, Candidates have learned to buy their eleo tions, not indeed by the petty bribery of in. dividual voters, but by an explicit or implied promise of office to influential wire-pullers, btump-speakers, and local politicians in other words, by buying extensive vote-deal ers at wholesale. And it is an evidenoe of the injurious effect of this corrupt system upon the whole tone of publio life that so many of our respectable statesmen do not see or vill not acknowledge tnat tne bribery of patronage, whether for personal aims or "the good of the party," is a dangerous assault upon the fundamental theory of the republic, namely, that a free expression of the popular will should dictate the policy of the State. DROWNING AS A FINE ART. From the K. V. Time. In Victor Hugos romance of "Notre Dame," there occurs a thrilling description of a scene that ensues alter (uasimolo has Lurled Claude Frollo from the summit of the great tower. The miserable priest has caught hold of some projection a few feet from the top. He can by no possibility draw himself rip, and his fall is therefore only a question of time. An abyss of a hundred and fifty feet deep yawns below him, while above, leaning over tne parapet ana gazing uu ui vicmu vim nupasMve niaiiguiiy, m me avdngiu, Hunchback. By stretching forth his hand he could save his enemy from his impending fate; but Quasimodo calmly rests his chin on his palms, and, with eyes fastened on Claude Frollo a despairing face, waits for him to be come exhausted, and then fall. The situation is one of the most awful and impressive that can be imagined, and the reader willingly believes that only in fiction can such an inci dent be possible. And yet a very similar soene oocurred in real life, near Boston, on Monday last the difference consisting in the circumstance that whereas the implacable Hunchback is depict ed as revenging the wrongs of the being dearest to him on earth, bis iioston imitator seems to have had no motive for his crime except sheer cruelty. Further investigation may modify this aspect of the, affair, but as at present related no incentive whatever is appa rent save that which might be derived from a brutal disposition. It seems that as the City Marshal of Charlestown was crossing City roint Bridge, accompanied by a patrolman, he was accosted by some boys, who saif that a friend of theirs had just been drowned. The officers procured grappling irons, dragged the water in the spot pointed out, and soon succeeded in recovering the body of a vontn eleven years of ace, named Eastman, the only son of one of the officials of the State Trison. The body was quite inanimate when found, and while efforts were being made to restore me, tne com panions of the dead child narrated the cir cumstances of his death. They declared that n man whom they pointed out, and who, while they were telling their story, was quietly stacking lumber on an adjoining nharf in full view, had seized and thrown young Eastman into tne water, borne of their number appealed to him piteously to save the boy, as he could not swim; but the inhuman wretch, deaf to their entreaties, coolly watched the struggling child until he had sunk for the third time, and then, saying it was too late to save him, returned calmly to his work. We recollect in the annals of crime scarcely any parallel to this. Plunder, vengeance, sudden and furious passion, have furnished occasion for homicides innumera ble; but the deliberate drowning of a fellow- creature by way of diversion, or for purposes of mere speculative curiosity, has had, we be lieve, unless it be in Dahomey, or some simi lar community, no recorded precedent. As it stands, the tragedy furnishes a sur prising realization of a well-known fantastic essay of De Quincy's. The opium-eater in that essay gives an illustrative example of murder considered as a fine art, treating the subject in a vein ot exquisitely humorous gravity, the enjoyment of which is unalloyed by the faintest suspicion of the possibility of the incident described. It seems, however, that such things really can be. In the Boston case there are two circumstances that compli cate the problem in its psychological aspects. When the companions of the drowning boy saw that his assailant would really make no effort to rescue him, they tried to render him assistance. One brave Iad,'named Hunter, was indeed almost successful in his attempt, having reached Young Eastman, and nearly got him to the snore, but becoming exhausted, was obliged to let him go. The speculative artist on the wharf appears to have made no resistance to this, although it threatened seriously to interrupt his entertainment. Now, unless we accept the hypothesis that he hoped, by remaining passive, to have the pleasure of seeing two people drown instead of one, bis course in this respect is not quite intelligible. Again, on being taken into cus tody, he expressed not the slightest concern for what he had done, but accepted the situ ation with the same philosophic equanimity which had marked his behavior from the first. There is no statement that he had ever shown signs of insanity, nor, unless the pre sent achievement is reckoned a proof of such a thing, is he now supposed to be mentally irresponsible. It is said, indeed, that he has on previous occasions thrown other boys into the water, and as in each instance they wore tafely pulled out before he could have the crowning felicity of seeing them drown, his counsel Mill doubtless urge these former bitter disappointments as extenuating his pref ent indiscretion. Hanging fpr murder is not, we believe, "played out" as yet in Boston, but the pen alty of the scaffold by way of atonement for drowning as a fine art, or for a summer day's amusement, may possibly be deprecated in that transcendental city. In any event, let us hope that some rational check may be put upon a pastime which, however original and ingenious, is conceived a trifle too much in the interest of certain tneories of Mr. Mal- thus to be either expedient or agreeable. The spectacle of a heart-broken mother mourning in a desplated home over her hrst-born is not a good companion picture to that of the cal- ious muruerer sitting gnmiy on tne wnarr, i t .Ml!.. . 1 ' A . i and gloating as his unhappy victim chokes in his death agony; and if neither the rope nor the Massachusetts State Prison is adjudged to furnish resources of suitable application to the case, the lunatio asylum assuredly ought to be called into requisition. THE EXCLUSION OF WIIITTEMORE. trom the A. Y. World. The decision of the nouse in Whittemore's case was technically wrong, but substantially right; and although disapproved by many lawyers, it will be indorsed by the moral sense of the people. Whittemore's claim to a seat was'denied.and his credentials returned, by a vote of 124 to 21) a majority of more than four to one. Mr. Logan's argument against the claim was lame and inconclusive so far as it pro ceeded on merely legal and parliamentary grounds. The precedents all go to show that w hen an expelled member is re-elected by his constituents, the House is precluded from ar raigning him a second time for the same of fense. But Mr. fjogan contended tnat Whit- temore'a case is taken out of the scope of such precedents, by an indictable offense, whereas no member of the House who had ever been expelled and re-elected had vio lated a penal statute. He quoted the law which makes the selling of cadet- ships a felony, and declares the perpe trator infamous and incapable of holding If Whittemore had been convicted and sen tenced for his offense, and the President had pardoned him, every lawyer knows that the pardon would restore his eligibility to office. When the sentence is merely parliamentary. and not judicial, there is still a pardoning authority; but in this case it is lodged with the constituency of the member. They can condone his offense, and a pardon by them should receive the same respect from the House that would be given to an executive pardon after conviction by a court of justice, In this view the offending member should be treated as a pardoned criminal liable to no further punishment unless he committed a new onense. The decision to exclude Whittemore after his constituents had condoned his offense by a re-election, is a signal declaration of con- tenmt for his constituency. No doubt this coi.tempt is richly deserved. The heavy ma- jui it j ol tiLt thuUoauJ uejjro voted by which this broker of cadetships, this venal aoamp, this unconvicted felon, waa re-elected as their Representative, demonstrates the utter un fitness of the Southern negro for the political functions thrust upon them by the Recon struction acts. By their fruits shall ye know them. The re-election of this disgraced felon and thief is an instructive commentary on the wisdom of negro reconstruction. It is no longer President Johnson's vetoes or Demo cratic denunciations that bear witness against that insane experiment, but a solemn, delibe rate, and almost unanimous vote of the Radical Congress itself. It is a Republican House of any office of trust or profit under the United States. But by that statute the disability ensues only as the consequence of conviction by a court of justice. But Whittemore has never been convicted, nor even tried. If a court had found him guilty and passed sen tence upon him, Mr. Logan's argument would have been conclusive. He attempted to strengthen it in its weak point by contending that the former action of the House in con demnation of Whittemore was equivalent to a judicial conviction. This fetch is too flimsy to bear a moment's examination. If Whitte more should be chosen a Grant Presidential elector in 1872, the difference between the legal eff ect of a judiciul sentence nnd of a parlimentary censure would be quite appa rent. After a judicial conviction his vote as a Presidential elector could not be counted; but the censure of the House would not operato as a bar. Representatives that has impugned the char acter of a negro constituency, and declared its unfitness for political duties. It is not Whittemore alone that is condemned, but the black voters who sent back this exposed rascal to represent them in Congress. The condemnation involved in the vote of Tues day extends beyond Whittemore to the negro constituency, and beyond the constituency to the Congress and the political party that created it. It used t be said of slavery that it degraded labor by the contempt it caused for those who performed labor. With equal truth it may be said that negro voting de grades the elective franchise by the contempt it causes for those who exercise the franchise. The practical working of negro reconstruction is such that its very authors pronounce its re sults disgraceful. It has foisted into Congress a set of scalawags and carpet-baggers of whom this venal Whittemore is a sample; and Con gress finds no way to protect itself against the disgrace but by denying the right of the people to select their representatives, and to exercise their prerogative of condoning their offenses and giving them a new trial. The reconstruction system is a blow at representa tive government. It has created a set of constituencies so notoriously unfit to exercise the rights of electors, that Congress is com pelled to protect itself against disgraceful associations by denying the competency of constituents to choose their representatives. The judgment in Whittemore's case is sub stantially right; but the principle on whioh it rests ought to have been applied at an earlier stage of the experiment and have pre vented this revolting degradation of Congres sional constituencies. THE NORTH-GERMAN EMPIRE. From the London Spectator. The processes of digestion are not per formed in public, and we do not wonder, therefore, that the success of the Hohenzol lerns in assimilating their new acquisitions attracts comparatively little attention. .It is, however, very noteworthy, more especially as regards the tougher morsels the States which must be absorbed without any vuible crunching. That Schloswig-llolstein,- Han over, Nassau, Frankfort, and the rest should by degrees acquiesce in their destiny, and leave Jacobitism to respectable but diuiimsh ing coteries, was to be expected. Men do not rise against a government so powerful as that of Prussia without grave provocation, aud grave provocation has not been received, except by a body ot men too lew to make resistance anything but a dream. The Danish inhabitants of Schleswig are no doubt oppressed, as they obtained permission by treaty to choose be tween Denmark and Germany, and have, nevertheless, been refused their choice. Whether they would use it if they had it, would, that is, sacrifice a magnificent future for the sake of avoiding present discomfort, is another matter, but certainly they have been deprived of a guaranteed right. But to the Hanoverian, or irankforter, or German Schleswig-Holsteiner the provocation to re volt is very small indeed. He has lost a cer tain power of self-government, which was pleasant; a certain relation to his own special prince, which was gratifying; a certain sepa- rateness of civilization, which was enjoyable; and a good deal of freedom, which was most important; but he has gained in return a pos sibility of great careers, a share in the gov- vernment of one of the greatest btates in the world, and a rule which is for protective pur poses peruaps the most efficient in Europe. If he pays more taxes, he has his money's worth in national dignity, safety, and, it soon may be, Bway; for if the Hohenzollerns last, they will yet have ships, colonies, and commerce. The new Government, moreover, is not of the kind which people of its own blood, lan guage, and creed can either hate or despise. It is very stern, but it works through laws; it is too military, but it wins victo ries; and if it governs its people too much governs them through themselves, and in a style which they themselves declare to be highly efficient. There is probably no coun try in the world where life is so safe as in Prussia always provided you do not quarrel with an officer and none where property ia so effectually protected. There is no petty persecution, except for Danes; no affectation ef scorn, no attempt to treat any. new sub jects in ways in which old subjects are not treated. The Hanoverian who fought for King George is complimented for fidelity. The strangely successful system of political adoption by which France has turned Strasburgers and Savoyards into Frenchmen has been attempted by Prussia also, and will, so far as men can perceive, be equally successful. The absorption of the subordinate but not subject States was a much more difficult matter, and is being effected with much more tact: with a foresight, indeed, which the world had hardly expected from Count von Bismarck. His policy, and tnat of bis master, has clearly been to eff ace differences of civil ization before effacing boundaries, if indeed they are to be effaced at all. Nothing tends to solidify a nation like similarity of habits, of language, institutions, administration, and, above all, of those laws which, in their gradual operation, either confirm or croate national views of right and wrong. Una ex ample there is in this world of perfect unity not federation, but unity existingbetweeu two States with dissimilar legal systems; but it is the only one, and one which trot: exceptional cirenmbtanees cannot be reliad ou as a pre cedent. It would take a long history to explain why Scotlaud can trust Knglaad, aud 1 Ujjaiul Scotland, yet preserve their uiiler iLces of law, r:li;j:.ia, aud a Juiiais'.rativa organization; and the historian would proba bly confess in the end that he cohild no more account for perfect national sympathy under such conditions, than he could aocount for the marriages of his friends. It is safer, if the organization is to be strong, to melt away such differences, and it is upon this policy the Govern ment of North Germany has evidently re solved. All military differences.' to begin with, have disappeared, and the King-President, perhaps the most efficient martinet in Europe, a man who quarrelled with his peo ple for years rather than surrender his mili tary ideal, pronounces the German army pre cisely what he desires. Of the difficulties of detail which must have been obviated before that result could be attained, the dissimilari ties of discipline, of system, of tradition whioh must have been removed, of the personal jealousies whioh must have been conciliated a dozen kings, fer example, being reduced to general officers it is needless to speak, the greater point being that every North German lor the three most impressionable years of his life must pass through the same training, under the frame officers, and with the same tradition of duty and its rewards. The his tory of an army is the external history of a nation, that portion of the general tradition which most surely creates national feeling: and henceforward North Germany has in that sense but one history, is bound together with the bond of common danger, common triumph, or common defeat. That bond alone is insufficient, as proved by the Austrian in stance; but when it exists among people of the same language, creed, and civilization, it is almost too strong to break, quite too strong, we should say, but for the American example. This immense change was carried out by the executive alone, and from above; and in civil affairs it was necessary to consult and conciliate the people, and their aid was sought through a device which seemed at first too able to succeed. By boldly ap pealing to universal suffrage to elect the common Parliament, Count von Bismarck risked the return of men devoted to "particu larihinus" or provincial independence, but he secured a majority of faithful Prussians. His plan, adopted, we fancy, from a rather vulgar motive, a desire to retain tne lead tor his own kingdom, as a bit of tactics rather than of statesmanship, has proved unexpectedly successful, and the King-l'resident has se cured in the Lower House a most powerful solvent of provincialisms, ihe 1'arliament has shown from the first that almost inexplicable courage in innovation which belongs to re presentative bodies alone, and has never been displayed by any other kind of governing committee. Customs as old as the race were swept away in a day to make way for a com mon commercial code, which will slowly bat certainly create common ideas as to right and wrong in commerce, as well as a common system of transacting business. A common law of marriage was established, and the most radical and fatal mistake of the few committed by the framers of the American Constitution wa3 avoided. Courts of every kind of jurisdiction were compelled to submit to a common appellate tribunal, thus laving a foundation for a common code of proce dure; and finally, through a bold appeal by the Chancellor to the idea of unity as above ideas even ot morality, the dispute about the punishment ot death was removed, and a common penal code established for all North Germany. Everv act everywhere was criminal or innocent, and every crime visited everywhere by the same penalty, perhaps of all bonds of unity the most effective. It re mains only to perfect a common civil code. and although this will be a difficult task, still its completion will in no long time be visibly imperative, lhe istates are too clasely Inter- laved to allow of the difference which still exists between the civil law of England and Scotland, nor will it long be convenient to allow separate assemblies to pass laws which must every now and then infringe on the com mon criminal and the common commercial law. The Central Parliament has proved docile, it is cordially approved by the people, who see in it the visible symbol of the unity they have made such sacrifices to gain, and we expect speedily to see the movement al ready started to merge all Parliaments in one gather strength and volume. Its success has been greatly facilitated by the split between the Court of Prussia and the feudalists, and t-hould the King and his councillor resolve on the change, we question if the old Upper Houses will not be finally swept away. The Federal Council, with kings only for its mem bers that is, in fact, composed of all the premiers of the North will bo a far better and far more man ageable chamber of revision. It represents, too, a fact, the regard of the dif ferent States for the great ruling families which have so long been identified with their interests, families which, with all their faults, have rarely been hostile to the people. With a common Parliament, a common law, a com mon language, and a common army, North Germany is certain sooner or later to ac knowledge formally what her people already acknowledge in fact that they are citizens of a new empire, with the Hohenzollern for its head an empire which, if it can but neu tralize the South Germans, let alone absorb them, must speedily be beyond any attack by any combination ot tne continental powers. INDEPENDENCE AND ANNEXATION. From the A. T. Bun. A society has been organized in Canada, under the title of the Union League, for the- purpose of bringing about the annexation of British North America to the Lmted States. This society has its headquarters in Mon treal, but affiliated associations are to be formed in all parts of the Dominion. Con siderable sums of money are said to have been pledged for the purpose of agitating the subject through the Provinces, and the owners of real estate are especially called upon to contribute, on the ground that the incorpo ration of the Dominion with the United States would add at least one-half to the pre sent value of land both in the cities and in the country. The object for which the managers of the Union League intend first to strike is the in dependence of the Dominion. They under stand that the British Government cannot consent to the direct annexation of their colonies to another country, and accordingly they design first to secure their independence, and then to bring about the annexation as toon afterward as possible. This feature of the new movement is not unreasonable ; but it may well be doubted whether the move ment for independence can be much ad vanced by a society which confesses at the outset that it has not a sincere interest in that object. The statesmen of the Dominion and we must assume that there are statesmen there must Boon earnestly take hold of the problem that is before them. A longer continuance of the colonial relation is evidently impracti cable. Great Britain cannot afford to throw awav tLe large nutu of money which the proinees are now costing her,- and for winch she receives no tangible return. The ji dicious solution of the problem indeed, the only solution is independence; , but it must be a real, and not a sham independence; not a device to iacuitate annexation, but an honest endeavor to render the . united pro vinces powerful and prosperous as a nation by themselves. If that experiment should fail, after having been wisely and faithfully tried, the Canadian people may then, very naturally, be led to consider the question of annexation to the United States. But this question oannot with propriety be foroed upon them; it must be left to the operation of natural growth and development. 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IN BOND AND TAX PAID. - 5 28 2p4 WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS V f In Vina WhiaUe, Mb, 148 North SECOND Street, roiiadaipMa. THE FINE AftTS. O O K I N C-C LASSES, Every Novelty in style, at very low prices. OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, OHROMOS, ETO. ETO. A large selection. PICTURE FRAMES, a prominent Department, reviaed very low prices. RUsTIO FRAMES, EASELS, PORCELAINS. ROGERS' GROUPS, Sole Agenoy. GALLERY OF PAINTINGS, free to the publio. JAMES 8 EABLE & BOSS, No. 816 CHKSNUT STKEKT, 13 PHILADELPHIA HAIR CURLERS. n II 11 Y I 12 It I O A L HiVIXl CURLERS, AN INDISPENSABLE ARTICLE FOR THE LADIES (Patented July 9, 1867.) This Curler ia the most perfect invention aver offered to the publio. It is easily operated, neat in appearance and will not injure the hair, as there ia no heat required, nor any metallic substance used to rust er break the hair Manufactured only, and for sale wholesale and retail, by McMIL.L.A, JL CO., 23 6m No. 63 North FRONT Street, Philadelphia, - Sold at all Dry Goods, Trimming and Notion Stores. GOVERNMENT SALES. T?OR SALE. THE STKMSIIIP VIRGIN AT X1 public auction at Washlugton Navy Yard, WEDNESDAY, July 13, at U o'clock M. AVU1 be sold at public auction, at the Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, the 13th July next, at 12 M.. tne staunch and fast iron aide-wheel steamship VlrglD,' built on the Clyde, 1864. Lengtn, SMI) leet; breauto, w ieei ; aepui, i carries aliout four hundred (400) tons, measurement gooJs; has two oscillating engines, 4nxti0, In good order: revolving buckets on wheels, aud two tubu lar boilers, built of iron, in fair order. 1 he boil eri were subjected to a hydrostatic pressure of 45 lbs. previous to the vessel leaving New York for Washington, last January, and louud to be strong and tight. Draft of water, loaded, 8 feet. The anchors, chains, boats, and all material on board will be sold with the vessel. Terms une-fourth cash on day of sale, and remainder on removal ot vessel Irom the navy yard. 1 he vessel can be exuwlued at any time during tlleday' E. C. BAN FIELD, 6 13 mth9t Solicitor of the Treasury. a T.KXANDER G. CATTELL A CO. No..! NORTH WHARVES Ho. 87 KORTU WATER STREET, PHILADELPHIA. AXXXA.KD11 G. Oitliil. EU7A8 OxTTfLU CORDAGE, ETO. WEAVER & CO., AND SHIP CIIAilL12R8, No. S North WATER Street and No. 28 Nortn WIIARVES, Phlladelph ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NBW PHICES. 41 CORDAGE. Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Cordaee At Lowest New York Prices and Freight. EDWIN II. FITLKR dc CO Factory, TENTH St. And GERMAN TOWN Avsjiwa. Store, Wo. S3 V. WATER St and 13 N. DRLAWAR A venn. SHIPPING. rffT LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LINE FOR NEW YOIIK Art now receiving freight At S cents per 100 panada. 9 cent per foot, or 1-3 rent per arnlloa. ehla option. INSURANCE X OF 1 PER CENT. Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, etc. No reoeipt or bill of lading signed for lees than 60 oenta. The Line would oall attention of merchants cenenllv the fact that hereafter the regular ahinnera h thu lin will be charged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or 4 oenta per foot, during the winter seasons. cor farther particulars apply to rna, JOHN F. OITL, 1? PIER 19. NORTH WHARVES. mm PHILADELPHIA AND SOTITnirnM itjJUrasMAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S REOII. H SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO NEW Or! LAI ur.aOt a ma. T If 1 l?Q V The YAZOO Will sail for N Orleans direct, on Thursday. June . at 8 a. M. me will sail frem New Orleans, via Havana vu tiuii THROUGH BILLS OF LADINO at aa n.r,t.. k. any other route given to Mobile, Ualventon, Indianola. La- vacca.anci tirazos. ana to an points on the M iwissippi river between New Orleans and St. Louis. Ked Kiver freight reshipped at New Orleans without charge of commissions. WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH. OA. The day, June 25. ntW A. M WKUMIHU will sail for Savannin nn fUtnr. The TON AWANDA. will sail from Savannah on Bator. any, June 25. TrJHOUUH BILLS OF T. A DTNO mv.n n .11 cipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, MiasissiDDi. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection with the Central Railroad d otUeorgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail- road, and Florida steamers, at aa low rates as by competing SEMI MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON. N. O The PIO N F Kit will sail for Wiluiimrron nn July 2, at 6 P. M. Rotuining, will leave Wilmington Uatur day, June 2uth. Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat Com pany, the Wilmimton and Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior points. rreicntstoruoiomma, . u., ana AngUHta, Oa., taken via Wilmington, at aalow rates as by any other route. Insurance effected when reanested bv iihinnai- Rill. of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or before day of sailing. w iixL.la.iu ii. iiamra, general Agent. 615 No. 130 South THIRD Street. PHILADELPIIIA-AND CHARLES TON STEAMSHIP LINE. This line is now composed of the following flrst cUsa Steamships, sailing irora PIEK 17, below Spraoe street on FRIO A Y of each week At 8 A. M. : AbHLAND, 800 tons, Oapt Crowell. J. W. EVKRMAN, 6H3 tons, Oapt. Hinckley PROMETHEUS, 600 tons, Capk Gray. JUNE, 1870. Prometheus, Friday. Jane 8. J. W. Everman, Friday, June 10. Prometheus, Friday, June 17. J. W. Everman, Friday, Jane SI. ' Through bills of lading given to Colombia, 8. O., too la. teriorot Georgia, and all points South and Southwest. , Freights forwarded with promptness And despatch. Rates as low as by any other route. Insurance one half per cent., e&eoted At th offics in first-class companies. No freight received nor bills of lading signed After I P M. on day of sailing. MlUDER Os ADAMS, Agents, No. I DOOk Street, Or to WILLIAM P. CLYDE OO. No. 13 S. WHARVES. V7M. A. OOURTRNAY, Agent in Charleston. titf SftfU FOK LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS sVff u iTOWN. lnman line of Mail Steamers Are an. pointed to sail aa follows: City of London, Saturday, June 25, 1 P. M. Etna, via Halilax, Tuesday, June 88, 1 P, M. City of Paris, Saturday, July 2,8 A.M. City of Brooklyn, Saturday, Jnly D, 1 P. M. And each succeeding Saturday And alternate Tnaedaf from Pier 45, North River. RATES OF PA88AGH. BY TBI af AH, UTIimi SAXUNQ EVEBY AA TUSH A I. Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency. FIRST CABIN $100 I 8TEERAGK To I-ondoo 106 To London 40 To Paris 116 I To Paris . f aASAua BY TBI TUKADAY IIKAMXH, VIA HALIFAX. yiRHT CABIN. BTKERAOB. Payabls in Gold. ' Payabls in Currency. ' Liverpool, ..tW I Liverpool ......IN Halilai U0 I Halifax U St. John's, N. F., St. John's, N. F., ( by Branch Steamer. I by Branch Steamer... .Is" Passengera also forwarded to Han-s, Hamburg, Bremen, to., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bonght here At moderate rates by persons. Wishing to send for their friends. For farther particulars apply at the Company Offloe JOHN G. DALE, Agent, No. IK Hrauim. N V Or to CDONNFLL A FAULK, Agents. No. 401 CUESNUT Street. Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, AN1 NOHd'Oi.K KTK1MKIIIP I lluu 'ItiKOUt.H FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE ROHTl A IS at) WaK&T INCREASED FA0IUTIE8 AND REDUCED RATES Steamers leave every WE UN KSD AY and SATURDAY at 12 o'oiock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR KET Street. RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS And SA TURDAYS. , No Bills of Lading signed After 12 o'clock on sailinc "ti ROUGH RATES to all points in North and Sonth Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tonneaaee, and the West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Liu and Richmond and Dauville Railroad. Freight H AN DLKD BUTONOE, and taken At LOWER RATE THAN ANY OTHER LINK. No charge for commission, drayage, or any expense of transfer. . , Steamships insure at lowest rates. Freight received daily. fctate Room accommodations for passengers. " WILLIAM P. UIYDK A CO., No. 12 8. WTIARVKSand Pier 1 N. VVHARVItS. W. P. POR'I ER. Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. QUO WELL A CO.. Agents at Norlolk. 6 U FOR NEW YORK, A 1L . and Harita.il Canal. cfeKXPKESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. i lie Steam Propellers of the line will oommeno ingen the 8th instant, leaving daily as nsual. THkOUGH lW TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines goincoutof New York North, East, or W eat, free of ooaunussion. Freights received at low rates. " WILLIAM P. CLYDE A Co., Agents, No. 12 South DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent. No. 119 WALL Street, New York. FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELA- ware and Raritan Canal. SWTFToUKrt TRANSPORTATION OOM PANY. DESPATCH AND 8 WIFTSURE LINES, Leaving daily at 12 M. and A P. M. The steam propellers of this company will oommsnos) oading on the 8th of March. 'J b rough in twenty-four hours. Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions. Freights taken on Acoommodating terms. Apply to wlLUAM M. BAIRD A OO., Agents, 4 No. 132 South DELAWARE Avenes. DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE STEAM TOWBOAT COM PANY. Barge I towed between Philadelphia, Baltimorav lavru ae Grace. Delaware City, and intormediats point. WILLIAM I. UliVliK OO., Agents. Captain JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent. Office. No. 12 South Wharves, Philadelphia. 4 US NEW EXPRESS LINE TO 'Alexandria, Georgetown, and Waahlnirtnn. if) II.. via ChMMj.1 imh L m an1 Iholaiv.Mk 41UHK1 wuh connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvillo, Nashville, Dai ton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon front the first wharf above Market etreet. Freight received daTIXIAM p. CLYDE A CO., No. 14 North and South WUARVES. HYDE A TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M. ELDR1DGK A OO., Ac.Uat Alexandria. I COTTON BAIL DUCK I ) a! all nanhan aavd brands. AND CANVAS, Tent, Awning, Traak and Wunn-uovar Dock. Also, Fainar -ana w,i Drier Felts, from thirty to Asvsuty-slt X. liu aciaina. Kail Tarina. te. aiaautaotar JOHN W. XVKRMAH. H. 13 OUUfcim Sue tOau bums
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