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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. The
Union League may possibly be a useful
agency in enlightening the Canadian people.
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sylvania Railroad Oo. on the 1st day of July, 1370.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
lamped.
S. BRADFORD,
Treasurer.
Note. The transfer books of tlio East Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. will be closed on July 1 and reopened on
July 11, 1370.
HENRY O. JONKS,
3 231m Treasurer Fast Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.
jgf PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT.
PHn.ADM.rHiA, Pa., May 8, 1370.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a semi
annual Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, on the Capital
Steck of the Company, clear of National and Stat Taxes,
payable in cash on and after May 30, 1870.
Blank Powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends can
be had at the Offioe of the Company, No. 233 South Third
street.
The Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 8
P. M. from May 30 to June 3, for the payment of Dividends,
and after that date from A. M. to 8 P. M.
THOMAS T. FIRTH,
6 4 60t Treasurer.
f- TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTHWASH.
It ia the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
ex tan t. Warranted tree from injurious ingredients.
it Preserves and W bitens the Teeth
Invigorates and Soothes the Unmsl
Parities and Perfumes the Breath!
Prevents Accumulation of Tartar!
Cleanses and Puriliea Artificial Teeth!
Is a Superior Article for Children! ,
Sold by all druggists and dentists.
A. M. WILSON. DruirirlBt. Proprietor.
8 3 lUm Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Sts Philadelphia.
A TOILET NECESSITY. AFTER
uea-ny tuirry years experience, id is now generally
admitted that MURRAY A LANMAN'd FLORIDA
wATKK is the most refreshing and agreeable of all
toilet perfumes. It is entirely different from Cologne
Water, and Bbould never be confounded with it: the dot-
fume of the Cologne disappearing in a few moments after
Its application, whilst that of the Florida Water lasts for
manyaays. Hi)
DIVIDEND CORNrLANTER OIL
COMPANY. The Directors have declared their
regular Quarterly Dividend of SIX PER CENT, on the
capital stock of this Company, payable at their office, No.
624 WALNUT Street, on and after July 1. 1870, olear of
State tax. Transfer Books close on the 23d inst.. and re
open 2d July. UIRAM BROWKR,
b al tutnsiit Treasurer,
HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
aeeiu ffiiu irvou nil luuo-v.mB ?M. AUBUiUMHy
no tiain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the
Uoiton uental Kooms, devotes nis enure practice to the
painless extraction ot teeth. Omoe, No. Vll WALNUT
(Street. 1 20
QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
iiUflliULi Alii; uivr.nruuu
OA P1TAL, '1,000,000.
SABINE, ALLEN 4 DULLES, Agents,
FIFTH and WALNUT Street!
WARD ALE G. MCALLISTER,
. . . , -t 1 1 . .
Attorney luu vwuneetior at law.
No. 33 BROADWAY,
Mew York.
WHISKY, WINE, ETC.
CARSTAIRS & McCALL,
No. 126 WalnuV and 21 Granite Sts.,
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
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