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Dl'K DITLOMATIO SERVICE.
from, the X. 1". World.
Two interesting pieces of intelligence con
cerning our diplomatic service ootne to us to
gether the one in the ordinary coarse of
C'oDgrefiKional events from Washington, the
other in a somewhat more extraordinary
fashion from London.
Both the British ' Parliament and the Ame
rican Congress are now discussing the diplo
matic expenditure of the two countries re
flectively. In the British Parliament this
discussion tends mainly to retrenchment and
leform. In the American Congress it seems
likely to result in exactly the opposite direc
tion. Mr. Sutnuer, whom Senator Carpenter de
scribed the other day as "the be-all and the
end-all of the Foreign Affairs Committee,"
has just asked the Senate to give him a cool
hundred thousand dollars a year more for the
"contingent expenses of foreign intercourse
and of our missions abroad," and the Senate
in the handsomest manner has agreed so to
do, by adopting an amendment to the Diplo
matic Appropriation bill which raises the
sum allowed for such expenses from $.0,C00
to $150,000 a year. At the same time this
most amiable body adopted another amend
ment providing for a consul-general in
Liberia, and still another elevating our
representative in Japan from the humble
estate of a minister resident to the com
paratively glorious position of an envoy
extraordinary. . The comparatively glorious
position we say; for? while these changes are
announced as made in Washington, we learn
from London that r for the first time in
our history we are to be favored
with the possession of a real live American
ambassador, in the blaze of whose effulgent
dignity even envoys extraordinary will sub
side into very ordinary personages indeed.
Upon all which changes and propositions
there are certain things not untimely to be
said. To Air; Sumner's proposition for
raising the titular rank, and with the titular
rank the solid salary, of our minister to
Japan, we do not know that any valid objec
tion can be made. Diplomacy still has in
Asia all the importance which it once had
in Europe, and the Asiatio relations of
the United States are yearly growing in
importance. Questions of pomp and pre
cedence are living questions still in
countries like China and Japan; and it
is a matter not of factitious but of real con
sequence that the representatives of the
United States should be enabled to maintain
at least an equal state and dignity in the eyes
of the native population with those of other
Christian nations. The cost of living, too,
in those countries, and particularly of living
after the European and American fashion, is
much greater than either in Europe or in
America. At the Chinese and Japanese sea
ports the resident foreign merchants find it
necessary to enable their clerks and subordi
nates to live in a substantial comfort and with
a sort of social display quite beyond the reach
of our consuls and other official agents, for
whom, as well as for our diplomatic servants
in thnna nnrtn of t.hn vnrl4 a mnra littoral
scale of salaries and of allowances might with
much advantage, we think, be adopted. This
might be dona, without burdening the na
tional treasury, by abolishing the greater part
of our secondary and tertiary diplomatic poets
in luirope. II it were once understood, too,
that the diplomatic service of the United
States meant work work in dealing
witn serious questions, legal and com
mercial, in ' remote countries it is
probable that ' the honors of that servioe
would come to be sought for by a better class
of men than, those who now snatch at them
as a cheap and amusing way of making
foreign tours in pleasant lands at the expense
of their country and as the reward of their
devotion to party.. But, while we approve
the elevation of our mission to Japan as a
step in the right direction, it strikes us that
the facility with which the Senate have voted
an addition of two hundred per cent. ' to the
amount of our "contingent" expenses ' in di
plomacy is more " creditable to the liberality
than to the . fidelity of that body. ,. It is a
curious trait, however, of the leaders of the
party of great moral Ideas that they make as
free with the,, purse as with the personal
. rights of their constituents.' v ., -, , - - j
If some pari of this increased allowance is
. to co towards accomplishing the purpose pf
which Lord Clarendon has for the first time
j informed us as oouchant in the governmental
breast at w ashington, we distinctly and most
emphatically call a halt. There is no reason,
either in the nature of things or in the cir
cumstances of the moment, for "raising the
mission to England to one oi the first xank:
or, in other words, for transforming our
minister at tue uourt or at. James into an
ambassador. '' This transformation could have
but one raactical effect to give our repre
sentative a slight social precedence at balls
and dinner' parties' over a certain number
of his colleagues. , It would put him into a
Eositioa practically aDsura, masmuon as am
aBsadois are - technically supposed to "pre
sent or disfigure" the very person of their
sovereigns, while an American envoy has
as yet no sovereign to disfigure or present.
If it be urged that Beveral of the greater
powers of Europe are now represented by
ambassadors at courts where the United States
appear only in the 'person of a minister, it
need only be said to be Been to be true that
the importance oi tne united Stated .is such
as to make the omoiai rang oi their represen
tative of no practical moment at all in civil
ized countries. - All the reasons which mike
it woith while for ns to magnify our legations
in China and Japan make it silly and childish
for us to do so in England . or iranoe
" Wherever MacGregor sits, there is the head
of the table." Spain has an ambassador in
London, nd has had an ambassador therefor
ages; but what Gondomar was to England
centuries ago the plain envoy of the great
republic now is the one foreign represents
tive whom it is tne especial care oi an en
lightened Englishmen to treat with courtesy,
consider tiou. andlattention. Nor is there,
indeed, any rule absolutely observed in this
matter by the great European powers in their
intercourse w ith each other. llunsia has been
quite as often represented in London by
an envoy as by an ambassador, and she
U actually at this moment represented in
Vienna by an envoy. No two countries of
Europe are more powerful, none have closer
relations with each other, than Russia and
Prussia; yet King William and IUsiuaik are
content to be represented at St. Petersburg,
aud tie Car is content to be represented at
Beilio, by an agent of no higher rank than
our own. There can be no provooUons to
such a step a Lord Clarendon fella us wa are
thieoteiitd wrlh but ot tne juwent and pi
lrietit arid moot haberdashery tort. That it
fl.ould Late been conceived between our ac.
tual n n ia London and our actual cjuir
man of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Senate, can only be accounted for by assum
ing the truth of Mr. Disraeli's observation
upon the case of Goldwin Smith that seden
tary men of extreme opinions have a tendency
to become social parasites.
EARL BUSSELL ON TIIE COLONIAL
TOLICY OF ENGLAND.
From the X: F. lit raid.
That old ex-Premier of England, Earl Rtu-
Bell, is much exercised about the probable
fate of the British colonies, and particularly
about those in North America. We learn
through a telegram from London, which was
Eublished in our issue of Wednesday, that he
ad moved in the House of Lords lor a com
mission to inquire into the means whereby
union between England and her colonies may
be perpetuated. In the course of his remarks
he said that the great national armaments
now on foot and the vast improvements made
in navies made the question of the relations
of Great Britain with her colonies a grave
one. lie argued in favor of maintaining; in
tact the colonial empire, and dwelt particu
larly on preserving the union with the Cana-
das. He wanted greater facilities for rein
forcing the naval and military power in
Canada in case of an emergency, and he
expressed his regret at the withdrawal of the
garrison from Quebec, an act which he con
sidered both imprudent and impolitic.
England has been the greatest colonizing
nation in the history of the world, and she
may well be proud of the results. The foun
dation or our mignty republican empire was
laid by her. The three millions of colonists
at the time ot tne revolt irom liritisn rule
has become forty millions of republican free
men. It is fair to say, too, that the princi
ples of liberty and local self-government
were instilled in the minds of these hardy
British colonists and were brought over from
the old country, though they have expanded
and become more fruitful since. The present
British-American colonies have become a
little empire, though overshadowed by the
far more rapid growth of the United States.
The foundation of another empire of English-
speaking people is laid in Australia. India,
though not a colony in the strict sense of the
term, is under colonial rule, and is a vast and
prosperous empire in itself. The settlements
in Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope, and
other parts of that ' Continent are
taking deep root and spreading. There are,
besides, other colonial possessions in different
parts of the world of considerable importance
if not so prosperous and progressive. The
only exception to British success in the colo
nies are the West Indies. These were once
very flourishing and productive, particularly
the island of Jamaica; but when slavery was
abolibhed these declined and have not yet re
covered their former prosperity. The flag of
England floats over British territory on every
continent and in every part of the globe, and
it is the proud boast of Englishmen that the
sun never sets on the dominions of the Queen.
But it was not and is not glory alone that
England looked to in establishing and spread
ing her colonial empire. Commerce has been
her great object. To multiply her products,
to find employment for her capital, to open
and extend marKets lor her manufacturers.
and to keep her vast commercial marine pro
fitably occupied, has been her chief aud con
stant aim. And she has succeeded. The cost
of maintaining the colonies has been paid
over and over again through commercial ad
vantages and profits. We are not surprised,
therefore, that British statesmen cling to this
vast colonial empire, or that Earl Russell
pleads for maintaining it intact. But apart
from the profit and glory to the nation, the
aristocracy and governing' class of England
find in the colonies profitable and honorable
positions for an army of English employes.
Of courte a great many of these are the young
men of aristocratic and influential families,
and as a consequence there is an earnest de
sire among that class to hold on to the colo
nies for the sake of the otnees. They are too
apt, consequently, to lose sight of what would
be best for tne colonies, and to study only
their own immediate interests. Still England
is advancing in a liberal colonial policy and
in accordance with the progress of the age.
She is conceding more and more self-govern
ment to tne colonists, both from necessity
and with a view of attaching more firmly the
colonies to nerseit. i ii. i. .. ..
Still Biitish pride "and the interests of a
particular governing class make England too
tenacious to hold on to soiue of her colonies
when it would be clearly to their advantage to
be independent br to change their allegianoe,
The Imted btates nave been a greater bless
ing to England and to her commerce, as well
as to the world, than they would have been had
they remained colonies. This is too apparent
to need ' argument, and there is no British
statesman, we suppose, that will not admit the
fact. It would be the same, no - doubt, with
Canada and the other American colonies if
they were free or annexed to the United States.
Their growth is slow, comparatively. Immi
gration instead of going there , to any great
extent actually leaves tor tne more tree, pros
perous and progressive States on the border,
and these colonies, so long as tney remain
such,' must be overshadowed by this republic
It would be greatly to their interest to be
annexea to tne unuea Duties, xuax, maeea,
must be their destiny iu the end, and states
men who only look to the welfare of the
people ought to prepare the way at once for
that inevitable event. Earl liussell is short
sighted in this matter. It would be better
for those colonies that are full grown, like the
Canadas, if they were free, and better also
f6r England. Great Britain should turn her
attention to Asia as a colonial power, and
leave her distant English-speaking popula
tions to govern themselves. She is already a
great Asiatic power, uu may ueeuuio iuuvu
creator. Her colonial mission henceforth is
there. The British colonists, both in America
and elsewhere, will, in the end, follow the
example of the United States and become in
dependent.
FINANCIAL; POSSIBILITIES.
Fkw the X. T. Timet. . .
What is meant when Congress is asked to
mature "a financial policy?'' The connection
in which the demand is sometimes urged sug.
pests a confusion of ideas, and an erroneous
estimate of the power of legislation on the
part of those who urge it. The expansionists
who compelled Mr. (jaraeld to change his
course are of this number. They are among
the quacks of the day. They oonfound cur
rency with prosperity, and imagine that the
multiplication r uanKing facilities makes
certain the growtn oi individual wealth. The
financial policy which these men would esta
blish would be an unmixed evil. The strength
with which combination has enabled them to
invebt it in the House converts it into a
darocer which we raly on the Senate to avert.
It is in the power of Senators at least to pre
vent inflation, II tne alternative ue no iui-
mediate redistribution of national bank cur
rency, the leagued Representatives from the
Went end South must suner. iseuer mat tnau
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the Ions and uiUthief iuseparabla from tin.
warranted expansion. But their obstiaacy
LJt cary ti.ia t? Uirt poiat. Wiwa
they fail to . get all they want they will
accept all they can get, and that should be
the currency bill as originally passed by the
Senate, or something akin to it in its esisntial
features.
By enacting such a measure Congress will
supply the first element of a judicious policy.
litve me neither poverty nor riches, wa the
prayer of the wise man. "Give me neither
contraction nor expansion," is the request
which the country may properly address to
its law-makers. If it is not possible to create
prosperity by the manufacture of paper
money, it is not desirable to hasten specie
psjtuents by lessening the volume of cur
rency to which the community has adapted
itself. We shall gain much by the passage of
a bill which, while avoiding these opposite
extremes, removes the not unreasonable dis
content of the Southern States and the newer
States and Territories in the West. To this
extent we may have the assurance, on the one
hand, that speculation shall not be unduly
fostered and values disturbed, and, on the
other hand, that commerce and business en
terprise Bhall not be crippled or injured by
an arbitrary diminution oi money facilities.
So far, one requirement in regard to n finan
cial policy promises to be satisfied.
1 he funding schemes indicate a want of
another sort, and one which will probably re
main for a time unsatisfied.- The desirable
ness of some plan by which the bonded debt
shall be simplified, and its annual cost re
duced, is nowhere denied. ' The Republican
party ingrafted this proposition on the Chi
cago platform, and a Republican administra
tion will in time give it effect. But it will be
one of the results of increased prosperity and
restored conhdence not the cause of either.
Mere legislation will not hasten it. An
attempt to Las ten it, it uusuccessiui, would
do more harm than good. For failure to fund
the debt after the mode of funding is pre
scribed, and the power to fund has been con
ferred, will reflect unfavorably upon the
credit of the Government. It will be tanta
mount to a declaration that the confidence
professed by the Government is not shared
by the people or by European nations. For
this reason mere Bhouid be no nurry. More
important far are measures fitted to benefit
the people by lessening their burdens and
promoting their prosperity. The new Tax
bill, with its expected reduction of seventy
five millions, is the best possible preliminary.
W e take the lax bill to be a protest against
the policy that would retain fiscal burdens in
order to pay on debt prematurely, rne credi
tors of the Government are content to await
the maturity of the obligations they hold, and
with that fact the country may also be satis
fied. Its immediate care should be to relieve
the people to arrest the drain which is ex
hausting industry, and impairing their coin
foit and independence. The bill now before
the Senate is the answer of Congress to an
urgent and just demand, and on the whole it
is a satisiactory answer, li is, iu iaci, a pari
of the financial policy, and its operation will
be favorable to the conditions on which the
public credit most depends. For though re
duction of the revenue implies reduction of
the surplus which superficial observers have
regarded as essential to the credit of the
Government, it is certain that that will be
best promoted when the Government draws
its income from sources that are strong and
healthy, rather than as the result oj a pres-
... i .1 - - - a i i
sure wnicn crusnes me energies nun e&uausts
the means of the producing classes.
- But the reduction of taxation, as a feature
of our financial policy, is not enough. The
effort to lighten burdens must be toiiowed
by an equally energetio effort to cut down
expenditure. Here is the point" at which
Concress is most likely to fail. How ear
nestly the administration has labored and still
labors to save money, tne statement ot Mr.
Dawes to the House, on Tuesday, plainly
shows. Judged by the expenditures of its
predecessors, tne Grant administration has
earned credit by systematic retrenchment.
Nor are there wanting tokens of improve
ment in the appropriation bills, which would be
better still had Mr. Dawes more imitators and
supporters. But there is need of more
thorough sifting than has yet been practised.
The discovery that the Bounty bill which
passed the House, and is now pending in the
Senate, will absorb at least one nunarea
millions, instead of nineteen millions, as was
at first understood, reveals the carelessness
and imperfections with which measures in
volving large expenditures are prepared.
One blunder like this will virtually undo, for
the next year, the good effected by the re
duction of taxes. ;:1 - ',
The publio credit requires yet another ser
vice. mere mu6t pe a aoggea resistance to
the many subsidy schemes which ' are pre
sented for Congressional favor. j. Their rejec
tion is imperatively demanded, not less by
the neonle. out of whose pockets the subsidy-
mongers would draw the last accessible dol
lar, but in the name ot tne government wnose
credit the system of subsidies would impair.
If preparation for funding is ever to be
made, it must be made here in the avoid
ance of grants or loans designed to further
private interests. Subsidies amount to this
and cotmng more, uau tnem wuat you
will, they are devices for transferring the
money of the tax-payers, who have none
to spare, to the purposes of individuals
or corporations, whose cemmand of lobby
influences enables them to control legis
lation. The virtue which reduces taxes
must eschew subsidies if it would be ap
preciated. , .
A COURT OF CRITICISM. ....
From tht X. T. Tribune
We hear so much from publio reformers
aow-a-days about venal praises and malicious
assaults in the newspapers, that it is inex
pressibly pleasant to come across a musical
criticism which has all the sanction of a for
mal judicial decision. This rare combination
of aesthetics and law Has lately emanated from
the Sixth District Court of New Orleans,
Cooley. J., before which august tribunal the
claims of a certain Miss Blanche Ellerman to
pecuniary compensation- and the merits of
the Richards-Bernard Opera Company, judged
from a high-art standpoint, have been siniul-
taneoajsly determined. VI tne rignts oi Miss
Ellerman'a case we are happily ignorant. For
present purposes it is enough to know that
Sirs. Richings-Bernard engaged the lady as
assistant prima-donna, and afterward refuted
to pay her on the ground that she did not
know how to sing. Hence the New Orleans
suit, which hinged upon the question wnetner
Miss Ellerman has the voice and culture re
quisite for an assistant prima-donna.- The
members of the RichinifS troupe testified
almost unanimously that she had not; while
on the other hand "Professor Curto spoke or
her vocalization as indicative of both natural
capacity and artistic culture," aud "Professor
Seward confirmed the estimate of , Professor
Curto." In this conflict of evidence we won
per that his Honor, who has a taste for tunes,
did not send for a few fiddles and things and
let Miss Ellerman show on the spots what she
was good for. instead of that he proceeded
to analyze the testimony aud to give the
Richinga coiupany one of the most slashing
cuUcuEis we tenieui';er eyer t j have read.
"Their opinion of the capacity of Miss Blanche
Ellerman," said he, "is seriously affected by
the overweening vanity which they exhibited
in estimating their own talents." According
to them, the troupe was composed entirely of
"A No. 1 first-class artists," with the single
exception of Miss Ellerman. Their preten
sions were "supremely ridiculous.'! Their
impudence and conceit made it entirely im
possible to accept their testimony upon musi
cal matters., ,, One of them in particular,
named Drayton, to the audacity of rating
Caroline Ricbings on a par w ith Adelina Patli,
added the still more hideous effrontery of
"styling himself a first-class baritone." With
a fine touch of sarcasm. Judge Cooley adds:
"There may be grave cause to doubt whether
the musical talents of the witness, Drayton,
are such that his name will be handed down
to posterity as a musical prodigy; but there
certainly can be no doubt that, through the
i'udicial archives of this State, he will be
Down by succeeding ages as one possessing
those peculiar mental traits which entitle per
sons to compulsory and oftentimes protrauted
residence in lunatic asylums." Of course, after
this Miss Ellerman got her money.
Unfortunately the jurisdiction of the Sixth
District Court of New Orleans in matters of
criticism does not existend to New York, and per
sonally we do not look for much relief under
the important precedent established by Judge
Cooley s decision. It would be a great com
fort to the bewildered journalist, and a boon
to the perplexed public, if a court like Judge
Cooley s could be established at the City Hall
or the Tombs, for the instant trial and sen
tence of musicians and actors and the author
itative solution of all manner of lyrio and
dramatic difficulties. What dignity would be
added to the art of criticism when it thus be
came something in the nature of chancery
practice we need not stop to point out. The
public, which sometimes declines to accept
the opinions of the journalists, especially
when they disagree, would not fail to be im
pressed with the judgment of a regular
court, formally recorded by the clerk
and stamped with the official seal. And then
think how many nuisances we should be rid
of 1 The critic of a sociable turn, who writes
his "notices" with the aid of the manager's
brandy and cigars, and sometimes comes to
grief (as he often did last week at the Rink
Jubilee) by trusting the promises of the pro
gramme without witnessing the facts of the
performance; the confidence reporter, with a
voracious appetite for passes; the musical
agent, who haunts editorial-rooms with en
treaties for preliminary puffs, and thinks it
so hard if we won't copy the flaming folly of
some infatuated critic for the country press;
Captain Costigan, who wants you to write up
his daughter, Miss Fotheringay, and is disa
greeably cordial in his invitation to come out
and take a drink with him all these afflic
tions of the editorial profession would be
swept away forever. Dangers, too, we might
avoid. Think what we might have
been saved if the Boston Jubilee, for
instance, could have been judged by a
regular court, instead of a defenseless
person like tne musical critic ot tne
Jnbune! Shall we ever forget how that un
fortunate man was scorched with the scorn
of Boston and prodded with a thousand pens
because he laughed a little at the sacred shed
on the Back Bay? Did n't we tremble at our
own Jubilee, when we saw twenty-five venge
ful Boston reporters taking notes with such
vicious energy? And shan t we catch it some
time or other, when they have leisure to do
fnll justice to the occasion! The charming
young lady who sent us such a pretty note
the other day, and called us a "contemptible
miscreant" because we omitted to mention her
pet society; the ferocious Hebrew who pro
posed to skin everybody in the building be
cause we did not like nis sister s singing an,
if all this wrath could be turned upon a con
stituted court, with plenty of policemen to
protect the bench, and fines, aud imprison
ment and all that for any victim wno made
a fuss, how much happier we should be, and
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wuat peace wouia reicn in xrmuuiz xiouse
Square ! . Then, again, criticism would be so
much more effectual. An artist who disre
garded the strictures of the bench could be
committed for contempt of court. Against a
tenor who sang habitually flat, we should have
the remedy of an injunction, and when a
prima donna lost her voice she could be ruled
out nnder the statute ot limitations, xne
selection of a suitable judge might be attended
with some difficulty; but perhaps it would not
cost a great deal to import Cooley. .-
TURKEY IN THE WINNEBAGO
TRIBE,
From the Wanhingtm Pa.) Reporter. . '
The appointment of, Yayne Mcyeipra ; as
Minister to Turkey is certainly one of tjie
most unlooked-for aad extraordinary things
that General Grant has done, aince he became
President, and if it lias been his purpose to
startle the publio by the outre character of his
selections he has undoubtedly succeeded most
admirably; . That ' a young and third-rate
country lawyer should be fixed upon as the
representative of the American nation at an
important - foreign court is undoubtedly
without a parallel in the history of diplomatio
appointments. Mr. McVeigh ii to be sure, a
very decent young gentleman, and, so far as wa
know, bears an irreproachable private charac
ter. It is also true, according to tne best in
formation we can obtain, that he is in poor
health and needs the Bofter and balmier
breezes of a more genial climate; but we fail
to see that these are irresistible reasons why
he should be sent abroad at the expense of
the United Btates Government, adorned with
a rank and an honor which have heretofore
been conferred only upon those who merited
them by distinguished services rendered to
the nation. There are a vast number of
young lawyers in Pennsylvania, possessed of
just as much talent as Mr. Wayne MO eigh,
and equally meritorious in every other regard,
to whom the breezes of the ' iiosphorus are
quite as necessary in an invigorating point
of view, and would, doubtless, be every
whit as pleasant in a recreative sense. Any
one of these might with perfect propriety ask
why he, too, Bhouid not be sent abroad as a
first-clasa diplomatist, or question the motives
which induced the selection of the Chester
county attorney from a large list of names, all to
the full as honorable and certainly quite as de
serving. The general publio of Pennsylvania
will likewise ponder the problem witn very
considerable curiosity and anxiety, and doubt
less lose themselves in mazes of confusion in
the vain endeavor to discover the particular
attraction which caused the political lightning
to strike in that especial place.
Vie are decidedly under the impression.
notwithstanding the indignant protests of
certain organs, that there is a reason for this
appointment lj ing far back of any. that has
been publicly assigned, and that it haa a
political significance deeper than aught that
appears on the surface. We are satiaried be
yond a peradventure that if the newly-made
minuter had been simply Mr. Wayne McVeigh
v. ithout the addendum of Bimon Cameron's
fon-iu-law, ha vould have languished long
tor the airs of the Orient before he would
have been- accredited as Plenipoten
tinry to the Sublime Porte. Mr. McVeigh
, u ivht haye been, aji ornament 'i Ui
bar of Chester county, a ripe scholar, an
astute politician, and possessed of all the
other eminent virtues which certain persons
and journals now ascribe to him, and yet,
even with all these gorgeous qualities, he
sever would have been thought of as an
American envoy had it not been for that
lucky matrimonial alliance effected in such a
masterly manner in 18G7. It is all folly to
say that auxiliaries and connections don't
count in this world. They change a man's
value sometimes in the most extraordinary
degree, and not ucfrequently invest him in
an liour with rare virtues to which his whole
previous life had been an utter stranger.
While we cannot conscientiously admire
Mr. McVeigh's appointment onrseUes.or even
tacitly join in the extravagant praises which
are beiiig neaped upon him by journals
which have all at once discovered him to be
the classic scholar, the astute politician, and
the man, par excellence, for the Turkish
mission, we are compelled involuntarily to
admire the unequalled cunning of the head of
the House of Cameron. When we remember
that little more than a year has elapsed since
Simon Cameron was snubbed publicly at the
White House by General Grant, aud noti
fied in the most positive man
ner that his presence was not
desired there, and the new admin
istration wanted nothing of his counsel or
assistance, we cannot but feel a glow of some.
tniDg ate entnusiasm over the remarkable
shrewdness and strategy which in so brief a
period not only overcame the scruples of the
President but actually turned the dislike and
suspicion into regard and confidence. To
think that the same Cameron who was virtual
ly kicked from the Executive Mansion in isct
should now, thus early in 1870, be installed
in its most private room as an esteemed and
trusted visitor, admitted to the close counsels
of the President, advising him, receiving im
portant favors at his hands, carrying him in
triumph to his home in Pennsylvania and upon
piscatory excursions along his manorial
streams, is certainly a victory of Scottish
shrewdness which must awaken the admira
tion of every unprejudiced man in the coun
try. Wbat a pity it is that Cameron cannot
be the father-in-law of us-all ! lhere are so
many who have pinings Tor the bright skies
and sofl'airs of other lands, and whose phy
sical natures stand in dire need of the genial
influence of foreign travel, who have yet not
the proportion of stamps necessary for the
indulgence of such a luxury, and upon whose
heads no rain of official honors seems likely jto
fall. To such the bosom of the "Lochiel"
would indeed prove an earthly heaven, and it
is sad to think there are no more daughters
of that noble house to marry.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGE,
B 80 tt No. 119 MARKET St, General Agent.
Bgy OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
amis nx.AAiHU oaiunua is v., nw mai cjvutu
FOURTH Street. ... .. , .-. ....
Philadelphia, Jane 22, 1870.
NOTICE. In accordance with the teYraa of the lease
and contract between the East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.
and the Philadelphia and Reading- Railroad Oo., dated
May 19, 18t, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Oo.
will par at their office, No. 837 South FOURTH st., Phila
delphia, on and after the lith day of JULY, 1870, a divi
dend of $160 per ahare, olear ot all taxes, U the stock
holders of the East Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as they
shall stand registered on the books of the said East Penn
sylvania Railroad Co. on the 1st day of July, 1870.
AU orders for dividonda must -be witnessed and
lamped.
B. BRADFORD,
Treasurer.
Note. The transfer books of tho East Pennsylvania
Railroad Oo. will be closed on July 1 and reopened on
July 11, 1870. '
HENRY O. JONES,
8 331m Treasurer Fast Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.
jg5T PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY, TKKAoUkEK B jjefahtment.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 1870.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a aemi-
annual Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, on the Capital
Stock of the Company, clear of National and State Taxes,
payable in cash on and after May 30, 1870.
Blank rowers of Attorney for collecting Dividends can
be had at the Office of the Company, No. 333 South Third
street. ....- . .
The Office wilt be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 3
P. M. from May 30 to June 8, for the payment of Dividends,
and after that date from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M, '
- THOMAS T. FIRTH, t :
I4 60t i! - Treasurer. !
yep- TREGO'S TEABERRZ TOOTH WASH.
It la the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
ixtan t- Warranted free from injurious iiurredianta.
It Preserves and Whitens UteTeethl ,.,. .,
Purines and Perfumes the Breath! ' ' '
iKuamtien aaaiu djjuaubs1 bun uuuani
Prevents Accumulation of Tartar! 1
.. Cleanses and Purities Artinoiai Teeth! . .
Ia a Kuoerior Article for OhUdreal
Bold by ail arujTgiste ana dentist.
y all drujTgtste and dentist.
A . il YVII.MIN. Drnvrlat. Pronrtetor.
8 S lorn
Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT rhs Philadelphia,
BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS
Dlendid Hair Drel the beet in the woUd. Harm
lass, reliable, instantaneous, does not centain lead, nor
mi vttaiu Dtuann to Droduce paralysis or aeatn. avoio.
the vaunted and delusive preparations boasttnc virtue
they do not possess. The genuine W. A. Batuhalor s Half
lye naa bad tnirty years nntarmsneo reputation to np.
ooia tie tnterriiy as tne oniy reneot xiair ito-duciot
Brown.
bold py au AiruaAnata, Applied, at no. in uunu
Street, New York
iZlmwti
HW- A TOILET NECESSITY. AFTER
uvanr tuin 7 jcaxo vauci ivuud. it in uvw iBuoraiu
admitted that MUKKAY A LANMAN'o FLORIDA
v A'lkK ia the most refreshing
and agreeable of all
toilet perfumes. It ia entirely ditferen
itferent from Cologne
Water, and abouid never be oontounaea witn it: tne per
fume of the Cologne disappearing in a few momenta alter
Its application, whilst that of the Florid Water lasts for
many days. u
JgS- IiEADtiUAUTKKS FUK EX.T.KAUT1JNU
no Dain. Dr. F. E- THOMAS, formerly ODerator at the
Colton Dental Kooms, devote bis entire praotioeto the
painless AtraotioD or testa, umos, no, yu waIiNUT
Btreeu iix
ttCT- QUEEN EIRE INSURANCE COMPANY",
CAPITAL, XS ,000,000.
8ABLNK, ALUCN A liULLFS, Agent.
M FIFTH and WALNUT Sireeta.
jgs- WARDALE O. MCALLISTER,
No.' BHOAUWAY,
New Yerk. '
WHISKY, WINE, ETC..
QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite St.,
' ' ' IMPOfeTKRS OF
Brandies, Winet, Oin, 01iv Oil, Etc,
WHODtSALK DEALKBS IN
PURE. RYE WHISKIES.
in BOND AND TAJ PAID. Itot
tUTILLIAM
ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS
VT la jriss Waiakis.
3, lis North BEOOND Street.
a-iiuaaauiMBa
WINDOW FASTENER.
rrHK UNRIVALLED NEVER-FAILING.
JL fcKLF LOCKING WINDOW FAhT.-Tne best, most
complete, perfect, and durable article tor securing
iDUow either witn or wiltiout w.iguts tUat Has ever
been offered to the publio. Demgued lor toe use of dwea
I... tt.,r. factories, eteambuata. street and steam rail
i-mm: secuiebi locks the window iu auy desired
notifies, and cau eaaily be Applied to old and new
W iituowf .
Al uuiaetured by the Boston and Mfridea Manufactar
lug CouipiDy, No. 612 CoMMiKUn bireot, aal
w-ld by all the iru ciual Uarawaie hoa.- iu . fie
tuj, lv;ai I a
OORDAOE, ETC.
WEAVER & CO.,
RO 112 MANHFACTli III. Zt
AND
ship ciia(il.i:k3,
No. S3 North WATER Street end
No. ss Norto WHAP.VE3. PiUaJalpa
HOPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NSW
P8 ICES. 4t
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Siial and Tarred Cordas
At Lowest New York Prices and Freiht
EDWIN 1L PITLKR 4c CO
Faotory, TENTH St. aad GERMANTOWR Aveaa.
Store, No. 3 . WATER 8k and S3 N. DF.Li.WAJi
Aveaua.
SHIPPING.
LORILLARD'S BTEAM3HLP LINK
FOB
NEW YORK
are now receiving freight at
5 eenta per 100 pstind.
'J croc per toot, r rent per (alios, eto
option.
INSURANCE X OF 1 PF.B CENT.
Kxtra rates on small packages Iron, tnsta., ts.
No receipt or bill of Uding signed for le than eent.
The Lin would call attention of merchants generally tj
the fact that hereafter the regular shippers bythulia
wtU be charged only 10 cents per 100 lb., or 4 M3u per
foot, during the winter seasons.
For further paxtioalars apply te
JOHN V. oar.
tM PIER 19, NORTH WHARVES.
PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
LEANS I E TO NEW OB-
Thda JrAf0' ew Orleans dirsct. o.
The YAZOO will sail from New Orleans, vU Havana
on , ,lun
THROUGH BILL8 OF LADING at as low rates as by
any other route given to Monile, Oalveton, Indiaoola La
vacoa, and Braiios. and to all points on the MiMissipai river
between ISewOrlosns and ht. Louis. Red Kiver freight
r - - -,,o wi cuuuoisgieaa.
d.yTjunilsTVtS A.M." vnM 0a aatur-
Ths TONAWANDA will sail from Bavannah on Satnr-
bv, Jnne2o.
n-fc. ij, tr Titr T a nc t . f,,vr, . .....
ds
i" i . i uiu i i,uinUmra to au. tne prin
cipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi.
Louisiana. Arkaaaaa. anrl T.nr.,.aQ i ., , ' . l
. " aiwuiHIina villi AtAlU
roadand llorida ateamers, at as low rates as by competing
v -- -, win wall IVI IIUIIUKIUU QQ OsViarQA?
J u ly 2. at 6 P. M. Kelui ning, will leave Wilmington Hat ur
day, June tn. , ,
uoonectswitn tns uepa rear River Steamboat Com
any, the Wilmintton and Weldon and North Carolina
laiiroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
s all interior points.
Freights for Columbia, S. C, and Angusta, Ca'., takea
ia W ilmington, at as low rates as by any ot her route.
Insurance effnoted-when requested by shippers. Bills
f lading signed at Queen street wharf on or Wore day
f sailing,
WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent. '
6U ' No. W South THIRDtttreet.
rf PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLE3-
' TON STEAMSHIP LINK,
t
This line is now composed of ths follntrin n. t...
Bteamahipe, sailing from PIF.R 17, below Spruoe streit
on FRIDAY of each week st 8 A. M. : "lrM
AbHliAN u.wu tons, Uapt. CrowelL
J. W. EVF.RMAN, 652 tons.Oapt. Hinokla
PROMETHEUS, 600 tons. Oapt. Gray.
JUNE, 1OTU. vmT.
Prometheus, Friday. Jnne 3.
J. W. Kverman, Friday, June 10.
Prometheus, Friday? June 17.
, . u. W. Kverman, Friday. June ti.
Through bills of Lading .iian in rkilnmhij.. t CI . fh- i.
terior ot Georgia, and ail points South and Southwest.
rn""w lorwaraeu witn promptness ana deepateo.
Rates as low a by any other route.
Insurance one half nu e.nl fTctaf tth.fillln.i.
test-class companies.
oo ireignt received nor Dill or lading signed after 8 F
M. on day of sailing.
BUtur.it ac AUAiTin, Agent,
No. S DOCK Street.
Or to WILLIAM P. CLYDE OoT
No. 13 S. WHARVES.
WM. A. OOTJRTBNAY. Agent in Charleston. Bit?
FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS
TOWN. Inman Una nf Mail .
pumteti tosail asfollows:
City of London, Saturday, June 85, 1 P. M
Etna, via Ualitai, Tuesday, June I P. M.
Cit y of Paris, Saturday, July i. A. M.
City of Brooklyn. Saturday, July 9,1 P. M.
And each snoeeeding Saturday and sitsraats TaasdAi
from Pier 44, North River.
RATKS OF PABSAGB.
BY TH at ATX, STAVAsro tAOJUU sTVKST SATtTsOAf.
Parable in Gold. Payabls iu Oorrsaof.
FIRST CABIN...- H I STEERAOK... $m
lo London. 105 I To London si
To Pans... ms To Paris................ g
rASaaoa BY THK TtTBaSAX ttKAatKB, VIA wir rg, t ,
FIRST CABIN, , , STfcERAUg.
Pavahla in tialii. Pavabla in Clarrana.
Liverpool. ....0101 Liverpool. ......t. ...... ATM
Hlifa... , 80 1 Haiitas.v 1
St. John's. N. F
St. John's, N. F.,
I-
by Branch Steamer.
oy uranon nteamer..
- Passengers also fe
ed to Havre, Hamburg. Rramea.
SttA.. at MtinMll MtM.
Ticket oan be bosght bars at modsraU rats by person
wiamng to send lor tneir iraom,
For farther particulars Apply the Company's Oflcsg
.: ,TT i t , JOHN O. DALE, Agent
Or to
41
- 0DONW.T.T. AVilll V i.V.
no. is Broadway. . Y.
Ro. 40i OUESNUT Street. PhJUa4eiohiAV
PHILADELPHIA, J RICHMOND'.
AND NORFOi.K BTFAtaSHtP MNW
1HKOUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO TUB SOUT2
AND WEST.
INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATE3
FOR 1H7U. .
Steamers leave every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY
at hi o'olock noon, from FIRST WHAR above MAR
KET Street. -
RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS aul
THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAY and SA
TURDAYS, . Mt .
No Bill of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on sailing
HROCGH RATES to all points In North and Soata
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Una Railroad, connecting ac
Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and ta
Want, via Virainia and Tennessee Air Line and FUchmoaJ
and Danville Railioad.
Freight HAN DLED BUTONOB, and takea at LOWE3
BATES THAN ANY OTHER LINK.
No charge for oonuaisaion, drayags, or any expense of
transfer. ,
Steamships Insure at lowest rate.:
Freight reoeived daily. ., . ,
SLata Room accommodations for paesengen. '
ctaie WILLIAM P. OLYDif CO.,
No. 13 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WUaRV'KS,
. W, P. POR'I ER. Agent at Richmond and City Pome.
T. P. OROWELL A CO., Agents at Nortoik. L
,..., . . i
FOR NEW YORK,
via Delaware and Raritan Canal.
ITXPRFKS STEAMBOAT COM PANT.
iiiebiaam Propellers of the line will commence load
ing en the bth iutiUot. leaving daily a usual
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by ail ths lines goin out oi New York
North, East, or Yi est, free of conimiaaiou.
Freights received at low rat.
w WILLIAM P, CLYDE Co.. Agent.
t a uvo rr a icri A nL.
no. i. iwuui 1u-i.anaaa av.aza
Mo. hi. WALL Street, New York.
44
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELA-
ware and Raritan Oanal .
feYIIFTSURE TRANSPORTATION COM
PANV. DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURR LINES.
Leaving daily at 1 M. and 6 P. M. ' (
The stesm propellers of this eiwiipsny wui eommenoo
ceding on the th ot March. ,.
'J tinman in twenty-lour hours. ' ' '
Guoda tor warded to any point fro Of conunissionj, :
Freights taken oa acoommodaUng term. ,
Apply to
WltLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents,
4 ' ' tio.m Sooth DELAWARE Avon.
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TOWBOAT COMPANY. Barges
towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore,
lavre de-Grace, Delaware City, and intermediate point.
vtiLLiARi r. uiiiu m uu., Agents.
Captain JOB N LAUGHLIN, Superintendent.
f tfhee. No. i South Wharves, Philadelphia. 4 118
NEW
EXPRESS LINE- TO
Georgetown, and Washington.
D. C. via Ch,
aviaxauuria, c
ah connectiona at Alexandria from the most diraot
route for Lynchburg, Bristol, KnoivUl. Neakviils, Del
ton, and the southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon (root
tb hrt wharf above Market street.
Freight reived daUyIIJJAM p 0YDE ft
No. 14 North and South WHAR Ed
HYDE A TYLER, Agents at Georgetown: M.
ELDRlDGE A OO.. Ag-.U at Alexaadn. 41
peake and Uelaware Uaoai,
lOOTTON 8 AIL DUCK
AND CANVAS,
Tent. Awning. Frank
J of all somber and braada,
and WacvjA-otfver Duck. Also,
Also. Paper Maaaiaotarer'
Drier ti't. from tuirty to eevairui
Paa'la. belting, bail I wine. r- ,.w.
V'jnn VTe A rcxbirs ,
ft U OVXntJU Sroot vUuy to