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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAFH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1870.
sriuiT or the muss.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for tho Evening Telegraph.
AFTER DICKENS, WHO ?
From the JahiUvHU Journal
A lady correspondent asks na whether An
thony Trollope, Charles lieade, or Wilkie
Collins will succeed to the place at the head
of English fiction made vacant by the death
of Charles Dickens. This is a strange qnes
tion to come from a woman, and shows our
correspondent, if she will excuse the seeming
ud gallantry of saying so, either illy read in
fictitious literature or inapprooiative in
judging its quality. No one with the least
critical insight would so much as consider the
claims of Buch, writers . as Trollope, Iteade,
and Collins in . such a connection. Trollope
is but a skilful photographer, not an artist
in any sense, lleade has no humor, 1 and
Wilkie Collins is but a first-claw police re
porter. Each in his way has his merits; but
these limits do not belong to the higher
sphere of genius. Dickens' suocessor on the
throne of English romance is a woman. The
chronicler of the midland homesteads,
the poet of the hedgerows,
4 'liberal homes of unmarketable
beauty," and the great corn-stacks in the
rick-yard, the busy scenes of the shuttle and
the wheel, of the roaring furnace, of the shaft
and the pulley" that lie "in the midst of the
large-ppaced, Blow-moving life of homesteads
and far-away cottages and oak-sheltered
parks," is the novelist of England who nill
maintain the honor of current Anglo-Saxon
letters, to say nothing of their historic pres
tige, against Sue and Hugo and Auerbach.
There is no resisting, as there is no denying,
the power of the author of "Adam Bede,"
"The Mill on , the Floss," and "Roniola."
Everybody recognizes the charm of "the
neat or handsome parsonage and grey church
set in the midst; the pleasant tinkle of the
blacksmith's - anvil, the patient cart-horses
waiting at his door; the basket-maker
peeling his willow wands in the sunshine;
the wheelwright putting the last touch to
a bluei cart with red wheels; here and
there a cottage with bright transparent
windows showing pots full of blooming bal
sams or geraniums, and little gardens in
front all double daisies or dark wall flowers;
at the well clean and comely women carrying
yoked buckets, and, towards the free school
small Britons dawdling on and handling their
marbles in the pockets of, unpatched cordu
roys adorned with brass buttons. And in
contrast with these , the dirty children and
languid mothers of the grimy towns "pious
Dissenting women, perhaps, who took life
patiently . and thought that salvation de
pended chiefly on predestination and not at
all on cleanliness. The popular notion about
the exccjleneo and brilliancy : of the style
of George Eliot's ; novels is, . that it is
simply the excellence - of a painter like
Terriers.. People talk of "Silas Marter" as
if there were nothing in it except Nancy
Lammeter and the famous meeting in the
parlor of the inn; of the "Mill on the Floss,"
as if it were only a rural chronicle of Oleigs
and Dodsons and Tullivers; of "Adam Bede,"
as if it contained no more than a photo
graphic reproduction of the life of midland
dairies and farm-houses and apple-orchards.
But besides these wonderful pictures there is
a vast well of poetry; philosophy, and human
nature, of wit and pathos, of dramatic fire
and action,' which remind us of the old mas
ters. George Eliot is the suocessor of Charles
Dickens. A woman stands to-day at the head
of English fictitious literature, the peer of
Tennyson and Mill, and greater than all
others. '
i
, BASEBALL.
From the Uarrinburg Topic.
The American people are perhaps the least
practical while the most industrious and en
terprising of all the people in the world.
We say the least practical because they are
the easiest led away in admiration of affairs
that have "nothing in them," that are meri
tricions, Billy, even foolish. We are subject
to periodical passions for foolish things, and
when a thing becomes a fashion, however
ridiculous it may.be, those, who refuse to
worship and commend it are at once ' set
down as the ignorant ones. We are led to
these remarks by tha returning base ball
fever, and its counterpart croquet. If a
number of genteel idlers organize a base ball
club, and engage with -other clubs in rival
ries which have no meaning, it is expeoted
that business should at once be suspended,
that the telegraph and the newspapers
should, yield all their facilities
to spread before the publio a result
which does not prove anything. The best
base-ball players in the world are men who
never did an honest day's labor in their
lives, yet such fellows 'will fry what little
brains they have, in the heat of a summer
solstice, competing with bat and ball for a
superiority which does not add a feature ,to
society's good, physical powers of usefulness,
or moral dignity. But it is fashionable.
That's enough. The men ort man who does
an honest day's work where genius and art
and mechanism contribute to the wealth and
glory of the land, are not made half as repu
table by the telegraph and the press as is a
base-ball ' club. .. Our city contemporaries
would not advertise the most useful invention
unless they are paid . for it, and yet daring
the season they do not hesitate to force
on their readers - columns of stuff about
base-ball contests which are a bore to
all but those who were glorified thereby.
Without being accused of harshness, a
similar reference to those, who delight
to engage in croquet , is pot out of plaoe.
We frequently see young ladies displaying
great muscular force in a game of croquet,
who would swoon at the base invitation to
eweep a parlor carpet or prepare the vegeta
bles for dinner. Herein is just where the
American people bo often render themselves
ridiculous before the world. Our amusements
are of the impracticable kind;' and when we
do engage in anything of a sportive character,
instead of making it subservient to good
sense, we outrage the latter quality and turn
our pleasures into dissipations. This base
ball fever now amounts to a ridiculous dis
play of petty vanities which claim to have a
monopoly of our attention. American jour
nalism is to blame for this cultivation of a
national tmobbUbness, and it is about, time
that the telegraph were employed in furnishing
newspapers with intelligence of a more use
ful character than that of reports of base-ball
contest?. ' '
Still another view of these lase ball con
tests is tbt which reveals their criminal fea
tures. Whenever a great game U played, the
KDortins men and gamblers make it the
means of plying their trade, until base ball
clnbt are used by gamblers to roo tne public,
one rlnb allowing the other to be victorious,
that the gamblers may be enabled to floece
tbeir victims. Fart of this money goes for
paying 11 e expenses of the clubs iu drinking
and gluttony. It is also a fact that sometimes
those who are called expert players are the
mere hirelings of rich men, who use them to
win of lose a game as their interests may
demand. ' From this, it will at once be seen
that what is called our national sport is only a
ppecies of individual degradation a game
tier's pursuit outraging athletic exercise and
insulting to the good manners of intelligent
people.
GENERAL BUTLER A FAILURE.
Fnmtht S. r. BtraWL -
We had great hopes of General Butler in
Congress after his clever management of the
impeachment prosecution against Andy John
son. We thought for some time after that
affair that Butler was the man to take ' the
place as "tho great commoner" and leader of
the. House, left vacant by "Old Thad
Stevens." After a fair trial, however, he
must, as an aspirant for this position, be pro
nounced a failure. He is a keen lawyer, he
has all the points, all the authorities, all the
precedents, and all the quirks and quibbles of
the law at his fingers' ends. He proved his
efficiency as a lawyer all through the war; and
if be was "bottled up"' as a soldier it was,
perhaps, because he undertook to mtuage his
own army and the army opposed to him in the
field according to the rules of law laid down
by Blackstone as superior to the military
ideas : of Napoleon. Butler, in short,
manoeuvred against Beauregard as a lawyer,
and bo Beauregard "bottled ' him. In Con
gress, however, where solid ability and the
tricks of the law and parliamentary strategy
and tactics carry the day, we had expected
Butler to achieve the first position. Schenck,
however, by hard labor and self-possession
hits got ahead of him; and Bingham, too,
always watching for his opportunity, is getting
ahead of "the gentleman from Massachu
setts." We have seen, over and over again,
that in a regular pitched battle in the
Honee, or in a sudden ' skirmish, with sharp
shooters blazing away all around him, Butler,
if he can only contrive to keep cool, is equal
to the emergency and a match for the best of
them. We have seen, however, from time to
time, as in the late afrair with ' Farns worth,
that Butler cannot always keep cool; that, in
fact, he is too apt to fly off the handle and
spoil his case by getting into a fit of ridicu
lous indignation, which trips him up and lays
him out fiat as a flounder.
From . this weakness we have been disap-
)ointed in our."great expectations'' of 13ut
er; yea, grievously disappointed. He fails
to come up to the mark of ."Old Thad. Ste
vens." He can't begin to do it. Waat a
tremendous old fellow was "Old Thai"' ia his
quiet way! He was competent to lead the
men around him. by the no.se, because he
knew how to govern himself.' He was a man,
too, of strong passions, and terrible iu his
wrath; but he was not the maa to get up a
tempest in a teapot, with himself in the tea
pot. . He knew how to disarm his antagonist
in the fiercest attack by turning the laugh
upon him,' as Butler himself did on one
happy occasion with his ""shoo fly."
It "seenis strange that an elderly, big-hea led
and i bald-headed Massachusetts lawyer,
like Butler, should not be' equal to this
sort of thing on all occasions. Bat he isn't.
Farnsworth catches him napping, and he
becomes on' his - dignity fiddlesticks as
fnsey and ferocious as a fire-eater, or as a
school-boy caught with a contraband water
melon. We are sorely distressed at this affair.
It placeB our champion, Butler, in the di
lemma of . General Scott, when he was
"caught with his breeches down." What are
we to do? ' "I am afraid," as honest Old Abe
is credited with saying of another man, "
am afraid that our man is not as big as our
measure, and that we must take him down a
peg or two." Accordingly, we agree that But
ler, incompetent to control himself, is, with
all his great capabilities, reduced in Congress
to the grade of an irresponsible bushwhacker,
whose only safety, as at Bermuda Hundred,
is under the wing of General Grant.
STOP SQUANDERING THE PUBLIO
LAND.
Prom the X. I'. Tribune.
The sooner this land-grant business for rail
roads is now stopped the better. The other
day the Senate wrangled for weary hours over
a proposition to give a solid block of publio
lands, fifty miles wide and two to three hun
dred niiies long, to comparatively useless
local railroads one of them running through
out almost its entire lengtn wittun ten or
twelvejmiles of the other. A Senate that can do
this can do anything. We appeal to the
House to watch for and put its foot squarely
on this bill. For the rest, we ask . that the
only remaining great through railroad to the
Pacific be generously treated, and that there
this giving away of the publio lands to cor
porations be brought to a peremptory stop.
We do not care to argue the question with
which the Senate dawdled away the day,
about tne legal claim of tne Central Branch
Kansas Pacifio Railway to Government bonds
beyond the amount already issued. We do
not believe it has such a claim, either legal
or equitable; and the Senate, more than onoe
or .twice, ' nas formally recorded tne same
opinion. But if it has, we are utterly and
unalterably opposed to so costly a mode of
extinguishing it. Let every tub stand on its
own bottom. Let the railaoad enforce its
claim to the bonds. If it can make the claim
good it will get them. We can better afford
to pay the bonds thrice over than consent to
the threatened alternative. .
For it is nothing less than the overthrow of
the whole judicious system on which grants
of lands for publio improvements have
hitherto been made, that id threatened. We
have consistently and most heartily favored
the great grants , hitherto liberally awarded.
We believe that every one of them has added
as much to the available area of our publio
lands as it has taken away. It is a case where
giving has not impoverished where the half
that remained was better than the original
whole. ' The railroads built by this means
have opened vast regions to travel and trade,
have made settlements possible, and brought
the market to the pioneer's door. Every
acre of publio land within a huudrel
miles of the Union Pacific, between
Omaha and Promontory, was doubled
in value to the Government by the wise gift
tha t made the railroad possible. Bat the
whole system depends for its virtue, for its
very essence, upon the rigid reservation of the
alternate sections. Abandon that, and you
convert it from a beneficent civilizer, dot
ting the prairie with villages and covering
the plains with waving grain, to a monstrous
incubus, m monopoly of land in speculators'
hands, a wall that will turn aside settlements
more effectually than ever tne Chinese wall
repelled the advancing Tartars. That thins
the Senate has consented to do in the case
of a local road of insignificant importance.
We prav the House to stop this bill: but.
above all, we pray House and Senate to put a
peremptory baa upon the baneful principle
L - A J 4 - 1 . T t L
ll promises it) lauuuuie. xi wo i-uuuui pre
serve alternate sections for actual settlers,
let us preserve all. Better be without rail
roads fur tbe accommodation of settlers than
witLoiit stttlera within twenty-five miles of
the railroads. We can afford to dispense
with these local roads for the present; we
cannot afford to dispense with the lands for
our pioneers. The policy of the Senate is
fatal; we entreat the House to resist it at the
outset.' i v '
FIREWORKS IN THE SENATE.
From the S. T. Timet,
The Senate has joined In the general pas
time of letting off fire-crackers. It has just
prepared five for the especial benefit of the
insurgents in Cuba. Like other composi
tions of the same kind, they will splutter
and "fizz" for a brief space, and then be no
more seen or heard. Mr. Sumner can be
almost as skilful as Mr. Banks in the manu
facture of these noisy but useless articles,
when he is in the mind. His hand is very
plainly to be seen, in the new Cuban
resolutions reported from the Committee
on Foreign Relations. The rhetorio of
the resolutions is striking, although the
grammar is defective a fault which may
perhaps be ascribed to the heat of the
weather. Jaded Senators are apt to fly in the
face of Lindley Murray when the dog-days
are close upon them.
The principal objection to these new reso
lutions is that they commit Congress to an
interposition in foreign affairs which would
be utterly without purpose or effect. The
voice of the United States ought never to be
raised in vain. If Congress is to interfere,
let it interfere in a manner worthy of the
nation which it assumes to represent. - The
system of "meddling and muddling" only
tends to weaken our influence abroad, and
connequently cannot possibly help any cause
in which we may happen to be interested.
Mr. Sumner's resolutions amount to nothing
more than a protest which may instantly be
shelved by the power to which it is addressed.
This is frittering away the influence right
fully possessed by Congress. If we cannot
give any assistance to the . cause of Cuban
independence, we need not go out of our
way to weaken those with whom we profess to
sympathise. ...'
The didactic tone of the resolutions is very
nearly enough to kill them. "In the name
of humanity they (the people of the United
States) solemnly ' insist that these things
shall cease." "Instead of terminating this
pretension at once, the Spanish Government
propose to protect it for an indefinite period
by an impossible system of gradualism."
Tbe lost sentence may well puzzle all the
wise men of Spain. What is the use of ad
dressing a remonstrance to a foreign power
couched in the tone of a stump speech ? The
sentiment which is at the bottom of. . the
resolutions is admirable. But .Mr. Sumner
might have put in ten lines all that he hi
spun out into a hundred. This stvl j
"preaching" at Spain is worse than nonsen
sical. Congress ought to do more than pass
windy resolutions, or else do nothing at all.
W hile the subject is thus being trifled with,
we learn that the Spanish authorities in
Cuba have been suddenly seized with a great
anxiety to keep clear of awkward complica
tions with American citizens. 1 They have not
arrived at that frame of mind a day too soon.
We had submitted to as much abuse of their
power as we could well bear. Henceforth a
severe reparation will be exacted for every
outrage committed upon men who can law
fully claim the protection of our flag.
TERRIBLE ' SWEEP OF THE FOUR-
, TEENTH AMENDMENT.
From the N, Y. Bun.
Judge Bradley of the United States Su
preme Court made a very remarkable appli
cation of some of tne provisions of tne four
teenth amendment, while recently holding
the Circuit Court in New Orleans.
About a year ago the Legislature of Louisi
ana passed an act forbidding the slaughtering
of animals in and around New Orleans, except
at specified points and under certain regula
tions. The same act created a corporation,
called "The Crescent City Live Stock Landing
and Slaughter House Company," and con
ferred upon it the exclusive privilege of
carrying on the business of slaughtering cattle
within tbe prescribed , limits, though it was
made the duty of the company to slaughter
cattle for any person on the payment of a
small fee. . , . , . ' . , .
Suits for violating the corporate privileges
of this company finally reached the United
Slates Court, and a bill in equity was there
filed to restrain the company from exercising
its privileges under the act,, on the ground
that it was unconstitutional. Judge Bradley
overruled the decision of the State Courts
w bich bad sustained the validity of the act,
and he held that it conflicted with those pro
visions of the fourteenth amendment which
declare that no State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any persons, of
life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law; nor. deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,
He also held that the Civil Rights bill gave
the Federal Courts the authority to enforce
those provisions of the amendment. ' And
therefore he pronounced the Louisiana law
unconstitutional, and issued an injunction
against the company.
The question i" whether this novel decision
can stand fire. It has produoed great com
motion in New Orleans, Judge Dibble, of one
of the j local court, declaring that if it is'
sound law, then "Wendell Phillips' construc
tion of the Government is true, and the
States are reduoed to mere counties.". At all
events, if it is affirmed,' then doubtless a
good deal of the legislation of the States,
and many of the ordinances of our cities, .
will come within the range of the fourteenth
amendment.
Let monopolists of all grades hasten to
make their peace with Judge Bradley by aban
doning their exclusive privileges. Big Six is
especially in danger. What if we could get
an injunction to deprive . Tammany of power
to rob the people of this city ? ; x . j,
; POLITICAL QUIET. '
From the London baturdat Review. ' '
Jn agitated times everything is agitated,
and in quiet times everything is quiet. Why
this Is no one can exactly say, but the truth
of it is apparent to everyone. Things are
very quiet just now. Causes of rupture do
sot lead to ruptures, and insurrections do not
create much terrror, nor disappointments
much regret. If a little wild effort is made
here and there, it is snuffed out as if it were
the mere explosion of a cigar-light. In Canada,
a general goaded into action by the reproaches
of maid-servants led his Fenians to the fight,
until he was whipped off the scene by a hum
ble American official, who, with the aid of a
couple of followers, swept him away in a
fly. In Italy, a most incomprehensible person,-
of the name of Nathan, appears to have
descended - from Switzerland, and led for
ward a fiery band of wild people, exactly as
if they , were the chorus in an opera,
to the overthrow of the Italian Goverumei
but finding that the Italian Government de
clined to be overthrown, he gave his chorus
ten francs a head, and sent them home again.
In Portugal there really has been a revolu
tion, and a successful one; but then it was
all got over before breakfast, and the chief
anxiety of the King appears to have been that
the revolution should not wake , the Queen
before she was ready to get up. A revolution
so contrived as not to wake a Queen, in, if
possible, something more quiet than no revo
lution at alL In Spain, an indefinite inter
regnum, ordinarily the worst and most dan
gerous of political states, appears todo.no
harm, and to be compatible with a cnrioui
amount vof lazy, quiet, and gentle politioal
excitement. In France, the Emperor has
within the last few months thwarted, en
couraged, obeved. and baffled Imnerin.1 Libe
ralism, according to his guesses at what would
suit him best, and yet no one is very much
set against him by his conduct or very much
drawn towards him. At Rome the Pope is
going to invent a new dogma said to in
volve awful consequences and the vast ma
jority of Europeans look on with wonder and
good-natured contempt. Lastly, here at
home, the Upper House, an assembly com
posed almost entirely of great landowners, is
about to discuss a measure until lately pro
nounced to be subversive of the best and
holiest rights of property, and the only ques
tion ia whether any of them will think it
worth while ' to oppose tbe second reading.
Certainly we have fallen on quiet times, and
nothing seems able to break the quiet; and
yet how short a time is it since everwhere
great shocks of . change had begun or were
expected, since the sun of England was an
nounced ns positively going to set in gore,
and since Germany, France, and Italy were
supposed to be trembling on the verge of
war, and Air. Beales and his friends were
tearing down our railings.
What are the reasons of this reign of peace
through almost the whole of the civilized
world ? Probably it is only a momentary
reign, but still its existence, even if acci
dental and temporary, is remarkable. The
obvious' reply is, that material interests not
only bind nations together every year more
end more,' but that they occupy a larger share
of the time and attention of persons of every
rank, and calling in each nation. Political
power tends constantly to fall into the hands
of busy men, and busy men wish politics so
to go on that their business shall, if possible.
not be interrupted. Of all nations France
has been the most changed by the absorption
of its activity in industrial and commercial
enterprise; and it is. true, to an extent of
which . frenchmen are' proud, that when
France is content Europe is at rest.
Tbe French can do so very much mischief
if they are in a mischievous mood, that it ia
of primary importance that they should have
innocent work provided for their idle hands
to do. 1 The revolutionary classes are also
getting more discredited as common people
begin to understand better what misery their
success would cause, and as the better of
their members become interested in the
working' and maintenance of that which
exists by the wider diffusion of political life.
The recent plebiscite in France shows tho
frantic zeal of ordinary Frenchmen for any
man and any political system that simply
oners them safety. And the number of per
sons who dread war and revolution, not only
in their own country, but in the world in
general, is continually increasing. The enor
mous and incessant creation of foreign loans,
for example, which excites and attracts the
speculative publio, binds over a new number
of persons from ween to ween to watch, over
the peace of the world. Within the last few
days Englishmen have been invited with great
success to stake considerable sums on the
continuance of peace, good government, and
prosperity in Spam, lioumania. and Peru.
The notion widely . prevails, , and is in the
main well grounded, that it is better to trust
governments than any private companies,
and experience shows that men who will dis
appoint every other hope with the most ready
carelessness shrink: to the last extremity be
fore the terrors of national repudiation. Bat
.the peace that now prevails everywhere rests
also on something more creditable to man
kind than the speculations and anxieties of
private peceniary interests. The chief coun
tries of the world are quiet because they
have all, with scarcely any exception,
got i recently , something that they
wanted. Their - desires for change have
been satsified. They can repose with some
sort of dignity and satisfaction to themselves.
Germany and Italy have made themselves,
and recoil from anything that would tend to
unmake them. , Spain, manages its affairs in
a very eccentric way, but at any rate it has
managed to give the Bourbons and the priests
a very severe lesson., , The United States may
well pride themselves on' the courage and
pertinacity with which they fought oat their
great fight, on the vast resources they dis
played, and on the enlightened patience of
taxation which they have manifested. In
England we have had a Reform bill, and we
cave done away with the Irish Uhurch.
The , first has contributed to political
peace, partly by. stopping" the agita
tion of reformers, but still more by
placing the nation in harmony with its repre
sentative assembly, ine wcarv time of com
plete Parliamentary ineptitude, when scarcely
anything could be proposed, and very little
of that which was proposed could be carried,
is over; and tbe nation finds once more in
the House of Commons an instrument of
effective and bold legislation. The disesta
blishment of the Irish Church has taken
away from Englishmen that barrier between
themselves and justice to Ireland which
made all salutary legislation for Ireland im-
possible. Great things have been done; and
if.it is natural to feel satisfied that they have
been done, and if there is a calm now in
which English statesmen may rejoice, it cer
tainly has been attained alter very arduous
efforts, and in spite of the gravest difficulties.
' SPECIAL. NOTICES.
C3? OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
AND READING RAILROAD CO., No 837 South
FOURTH Street. Ma,n '
Philadelphia, June 33, 1870.
NOTICE. In accordance with the terms of the lease
and contract between the East Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co., dated
Mf 18, 18W, the Philadelphia and Kerning jieiiroaa uo.
wtRpayat their office, No. 237 South FOURTH t., Phila-.
deluhia, on and after tbe 19th day of JULY, 1870, a divi
dend of $l'W per share, clear ot all taxes, to the stock
holders of tha East Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as they
shall stand registered on the books of tbe said Kast Penn
sylvania Railroad Co. on the 1st day of July, 1870.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
t"npe4- 8. BRADFORD.
Treasurer,
Note. The transfer books of tbo Bast Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. will be closed on July 1 and reopened on
July 11, 1870.
HENRY O. JONES.
8 221m
Treasurer East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.
ffig- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM-
PAaYi laaAOUAAao jjc.ran.jjii!. .
PhjXADXLPHIA, Pa., May , 1870,
1 NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a semi
annual Dividend of FIVE PER CKNT. on the Capital
Stavk of the Company, elear of National and State Taxes,
payable in eaah on and after May 8U, WTO. .
Blank powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends can
be had at tbe Oftwe of the Company, No. 238 South Third
atretic
The Offioe will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at I
P. M. from Way SO to. luneS. for the rtayment of Dividends,
and after that date irom a. m.ior. .
TUOMAo T. tTRTH.
1 4 tut '. '1 raasursr.
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B 80 tf ftp. 118 MARKET St., General Agent.
t TREGO'S TEABERRT TOOTH WASH.
Tt la the most Dleaaank. nhunMt anil kai lanifr4a
extant. W'arranted free from ininrioas ingredients.
i rrmvrvea ana niteas ids I eotul
Inviirorats nod Sootbes the Uamsl - '
Puriiles snd Perfams lbs Brth'. .
Prevents Accumnlslton of Tarturt
Olenoiwi ami Parities Artttlcial Tenth!
In hunerior Artiole for3biWrl . . ' '.
Sold by aU drnrvtntu and dent.iete.
I i 10m Oor. NINTH AND FTI.Bk.KT U Philadelphia.
NOTICE. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that a mentinff o4 tho patties interested in tbe
UNION AMI TMUKVII.I K RAILHOAIJ will he held
St the Mi'HKNRY HOU8K, in the city of Meadville. ott.
U 11 ftDlA V T..1..A k !,-, A. n 1 J l a II A. tiaian
i urns i uuiy i, 'oii't Bt v v unn a. m. w nawv
UANIK Mid RftilroAd Company, and forth transaction
of such other baaineu m mr h QMrawl neoMs&ry.
Union Mills, Jane 14. 170. 14s3t
MrST DIVIDEND CORNPLANTER OIL
wurani, i an firecwim pits awmrou meir
regnlsr WuarUrl Dividend of SIX VKR UK. NT. on the
cupitnl stack of this Uompaey, payable at their office. Mo.
('24 WALNUT Street, on and after July 1. IM70, clear of
Hate tax. rransfer Boiks oIors on the Rtil lnt . and re-
open HO jmy. HIKAM liK'lW KK,
6 21 tot,hn6t i - ; ' .. Treasurer,
fST A TOILET NECESSITY. AFTER
MMvlfthlrff MI,fnM4MIM t .......II.
admitted that MllRKAY A i.ANMANM IT.. tUMlA
WAiKK is the most refreshing and agreeable of all
toilet perfumes. It is entirely dillereat from Cologne
Water, and should never be confounded with it: the dot.
fame of the Cologne disappearing in a few moments after
its application, wntiet mat of tne r lortds water lasts tor
many a ays. , . . ; . ;. . i .- . SI
j- HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
jeein wita irea 1 1 ruu-wiu uu. Aoaoiutoiy.
no nain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerl onarator at tha
Colton Dental Rooms, devotee his entire DracticSto tbe
painless extraction of teeth, Oaoe, No. kll WALNUT
Streak - I iw
lr QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY..
V A PIT A L, ijm,m. ,
! SAB IKE, ALLEN A DULLES. Agei
FIFTH and WALNUT 8ti
iota.
i treat.
ttaS- WARDALE G MO ALLISTEK,
abMli UVf OUU A7UUnt7nm Ha lalW,
, Nc'S BROADWAY,
Hew Vera. . , . '
: . i'j .if" . '
WHISKY, WINE, ETC.
KEYSTONE
PURE WHEAT;, WHISKY,
Distilled from the Grain
i. ,,.. i ....
T. J. MARTIN & CO.
KEYSTONE DISTILLERY,
NORTIIWE8T CORNER OF , .
TWELFTH and; WASHINGTON Sts.
STORE, .
No. 150 North FRONT Street.'-
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
To whom it may concern.
All tbe leading medical authorities recegnize the value
of diffusive stimulants. Numerous eminent physicians
and surgeons might be named who have advocated their
employment in the treatment of a large class of disorders.
No Dispensary is considered complete without them.
.They are preecribod In all public and private hospitals,
and administered by all bedside practitioners.
But the difficulty has been to obtain '
Alcoholic Liquors Pure.
The pungent aroma of the fusel oil and biting acids pre
sent in all of them oan be scented as the glass i raised to
the lips. The nauseous flavor of these active poisons is
perceptible to the palate, and a burning sensation in the
stomach attests their existenoe when the noxious draught
has gone down. Paraiysis. idiocy, insanity and death are
the pernicious fruits of suoh potations.
Medical scienoe asks lor a pure stimulant to use as a
Speciiio, which, while it diffuses itself through the system
more rapidly than any other known agent, is brought into
direct and active contact with the seat of disease. It is
tbe property of the stimulant to diffuse, and by the aid of
its peculiar nutritious component parts to invigorate.
regulate, counteract and restore, and it is by the happy
union of the principle of activity with the principle of in-
vigoration and restoration that enables
To accomplish beneficial results.
Having great experience in the distilling of Whiskies,
and the largest and best equipped establishment of its
kind in the country, supplied with the latent improve
ments in apparatus for cleansing Whisky of fusel oil and
other impurities, snd by strict personal supervision, the
proprietors of , it.
Keystone Wheat Whisky
Are enabled to offer a
, Pure Whisky .
Distilled from WHEAT, and, being made from the grain.
possesses all its . !
Nutrltlou,! finalities.
Andean be relied upon to be strictly as represented,
having been examined thoroughly by the leading analyti
cal chemists of this city, whose certificates of its purity
and fitness for medical purposes are appended.
, We invite examination, and of any who would convince
themselves we ask a rigid analysis.'
,-...' T.J. MARTIN A OO.
N. B. Notice that the caps and corks are branded with
our name to prevent counterfeiting. .
For sale by all respectable Druggists.
Price per bottle, S 1(0.
Orders sent to No. 150 N. FRONT Street will recoive
prompt attention. .'.''
; CHEMICAL LavobaIOBY, Nos. 108 and 112 Arch it.,
Philadelphia, March 19, lb70.
M'trt. T. J. Martin it Co., Philadelphia, ..
Gentlemen : I have made a careful examination of the
Keystone Pure Wheat Whisky, and found it to be a per
fectly pure article, and entirely free from fosel oil and
other injurious substances. Its purity and its pleasant
and agreeable flavor render it particularly valuable for
medicinal purposes.
Yours truly, j F. A.UENTH.
C'HIMICAL LabokaTQy, No. 133 Walnut street.
.. Philadelphia, March 17, 1870,
ileturi. T. J. Martin A Cu., 1'kiladtljihia, Pa,:-
Gentlemen : The sample of Keystone Pure Wheat
Whitky submitted to me for analysis I find to be pura
and, as such, I highly recommend it for medicinal pur
poses.
Respectfully, etc.,. WM. H. BRUCKNKR.
' Analyt. and Consult. Chemist.
Cbxvical Laboratory, No. 417 Walnut street,
Philadelphia, April 5, 187U,
iltttrt. T. J. Martin it Co., Philadelphia, Pa,:-.
Gentlemen : I have made an analysis of the sample of
Keystone Pure Wheat Whisky sent by you for examina
tion, and find it entirely free from fusel pil or any other
deleterious matters, and I consider it applicable to any
use for wbioh jurc whisky may be desired. It 18 s tf
Respsctfully, CHAS. M. CRKSSON.
Keld Wholesale by FRENCH, ItlClt AltU &
Co.,M.W. corner TKMTH and .UAltKKT Mte.
QAR8TAIR8 . & r.lcCALL,
No. 126 WalnnV and 21 Granite 'Bui,
,'" IMPORTERS OF .
Brandies, Winet, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WliOLXSALK DEALERS I3t
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
' 1W BOJD AWD TAB PAID. p
WILLIAM ANDERSON CO., DEALERS
SHIPPING.
ay-9 NEW EXPRESS LINE .TO
jsfi-J Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington,
af il.. D qw) vi Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,
.u.nn..iiAtii at Alexandria from tha mutt diranS
rente for Lynchburg, Bristol, knoxviUe, Nashville, bal
lon, and tne swmmwea.
bieainors leave raglriy every Saturday at Boon from
ths urat wharf above fjaw siren,
kraight received dailfo , M ; CLTpK . oai
No 14 Norm and tfoulh WltiKVtS.
HTPI A Ty i t H, Ageota at Georgetown; M.
ELDhlDCh. A CO., AgAeat Alexandria. 1
CORDAGE, ETC.
WEAVER & CO., j
ROPE f nANIlACTUnGRS
t t ' !
. - AKD ' - -
snip ciiAtvni,iit.q,
No. North WATER Street and ... .
1 No. 83 North WIIARVKS, Thlladelph
. ropb at lowest boston and new -.
PRICKH. . ' 41 -
CORDAGE.
Manilla,' 8ial and .Tarred Cordage '
At Lowest New York Prioee asd freights,
, ft D WIN II. FITLRR Sc. CO-
Factory, TRKTH St. and OKRMAKTOwH Avsnae. '
Store, Vo. S3 WATKR 8s. aad 88 H. DEL A WAR
avawia
SHIPPING.
LORILLARD'3 STEAMSHIP LINE
FOB
IV E W - Y O R E
re now receiving freight at
n .
3 crate per teot, er 1-f nent per call., ehf
ptlosi.
INSURANCE X OF 1 PER CENT.
Extra rates on email packages Iron', tsetala, etc.
No receint or bill of l.rlin d.ni n i .. u
The Use woold call attention aT sunhiHfa 1 1
the fact that hereafter the regular shippers by this line
will be charged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or 4 eenU sea
foot, during the winter seasons, i . . ... i.
rot farther particulars apply to
' "i ' 1 ' ' JOHn F. OHL, '
J FIKR 1. NORTH WHARVES.
afm, PHILADELPHIA ANdIsOUThIcRN
"to."?. MAFl .PTE AMSH IP OOMPANVH RKiiir.
lkabs i LUK " ' TO kwob
Tha Tl'lVl tlt ..II - . ' .
TburWyrj.8A.M7 " "naM air,ot'
The YAZOO will Bail from Haw Orl..n. .!. n
vu ., UIIV i
' THROUGH BILLS OF LADING st as low rates as bv
any other ronte given to Mobile, Ualveeton, India oola. La-
wmtsfm AnH Kaai at4 sill i .
"m
Y. . k - a 1 l K IO. T .
cw,iDuiriw,lna w ii point on tbe MimiMippi river
reehippad at New Orleans without charge of oommissieua.
Hirer rreurhts
WtrirvT.V T
ds7 June 267 at 8 A. M w n- '
The TON AW 4 IS D A will Sail from Savannah onSat nr
flay, Jnnnvfi.
TrjKOUOH BILLS OF LA DIRO given to all the prin
clpal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
T. i .i n "i 5 .uu iww in connection witn
the Centra) Railroad of Georgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail-
ana wnue steamers, at as low rates as by competing ,
via -til i. "V, " iwr " ujningMin on Batnraay,
July 8. at o P. M. Reluming, will leave Wilmington Satur
uay, iiune goto.
Connects with the Oape Fear River Steamboat Com.
rany, the Wilmington and Weldon and North Carolina
Railroads, and tbe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
tA all I n t in. nninl.
Freights for Oolombis, 8. O., and Angusta, Ga., taken
via Yi llmingtnn, at aslow rates as by any other route.
luniiini;, vumjuiu HUVH raquvRtwi oy Snippers. XSlUS
of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or before day
of sailing. .
nti.i.iAM 1 jam Kb, tieneral Agent.
H No. 130 South THIRD btreet.
THE REGULAR 8TEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI
LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized, to Issue through
bills of lading to Interior points Sooth and West In
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
a g nii nr mn-a- .....
aLiiiLU u I HliK,
ice-President So. C. Kit. Co. '
PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON 1
MTKAMSHIP LINE.
lliuiliiie 1b now composed of tbe following first.
class Steamships, sailing; from PIER IT. below
Spruce street, on FRIDAY of each week at s
A. M. t-t-
A8HLAND, 8io tns, captain Crowell.
J. W. EVERMAN. o2 tons. Captain Hinckley.
PROMETHEUS, C00 tons. Captain Qrav.
JULY, 1870.
Prometheus, Friday, July 1.
J. W. E verm an, Friday, 'July .
Prometheus, Friday, July la.
J. W. Evermno, Friday, JulV 28.
Proroetbeos, Friday, July M.
Thrnnoh hills nf larlincr ffivon te PninmLia u
the interior of Ueorgla, and all points South ami
Southwest.
Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch.
Rates as low as by any other route.
Inmirance one-half per cent, tffected at the nm
In first-class companies.
Ko freight received nor bills of lading signed after
8 P. M. on day of sailing.
. . to Limit & adams, Agents,
-: No. 8 DoCK Street,
Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A CO.,
' No. 18 8. WHARVES.
WILLIAM A. COURTENAY. Asent in CharlM.
ton. . a 94
f FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS
aSBkiTOWN. Inman Una of Mail fitaamava ara an.
pointed to sail as follows:
jt.tna, via oaurax, i uesasy, jane s, I r. 01.
Oity of Paris. Saturday, July 3, 8 A.M.
Oityof Brooklyn. baturday, JnlyD, 1 P.M.
Oity of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, J uly 18, 1 P. M.
And eaah snooeedlna Batnrdas and altarnalsi Tnaaitu
Irom Pier it. North River.
aaj ur rauua
BY TBI MAIL 8UMU tlUJHa EVKBI SATUSJUV.
Parable in UolA. Pavable in (Jarrami-
FIRttf CABIN ...tlOO I ST&KRAUB ...gfj
To i-ondon.,. .......... l I To 1-ondon 40
To Paris..... 116 I To Paris..... 4
rillMT CABIN.
Parable in Oold.
Payable la Oorrenoy.
Liverpool...... gM
Halifax.. , if
St. John's, N. F., ( u
h Rpannh Rlunav 1 Sa
Liverpool.
Halifax j
Bt. John'e, N. F.,
Dy tiranon steamer....)
Paesena-ers also forwarded to Havre. Uambau. Brajman.
etc, at reduoed rates...
Tickets oan be bought here at moderate rates by persona
wuuung so saua ror meir n i.uu.
For farther parUouhu-s apply the Opanrt Offleaa
, , . . i. . vnn u. iiaiifi, Agent.
1 - Na IS Hrt. M V
Broadway,
Orto
41
Ho, 4U8 OHESNUT Street, PhUadVlphia,
w iAjii iirioi m Agents.
uiijaiujjl uia, ll VI I JiU.i I',
La AND NORFOL.K 8TRAMSHIP' LINK. ' '
PTITT ITlTTt TTir I oinnimurf i V
TriHUUttH t HEIUUT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTH
a&KI) WKhT r
INCREASED FACLUTIK8 AND REDUOED RATES
FOR 187U. - -
Bteamers leave every WF DNKSDAYand 8ATURDAT '
at 11 o'olock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR-
KKT hvreet. ,
RKTUKNINO, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and ,
TtlL'RBDAVB, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA
TUKDAV8. ....
NoBUlaof Lading signed after 13 o'clock on aaiilng '
TUROUOH RATFJ3 to all points in North and Sooth'
Carolina, via 8eaboard Air Una Railroad, eonnecting at .
Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va. , Tennessee, and tne
11 .. . . Vi. mi. l.H li. I.!.. ..1 Rinhmn. ''
and lianville Railroad. - ''
r rf uot H A n ui.r.u s u i vnuA ira isna si uv n as i i
RATiCl THAN AM OTHER LINE.
No charge for commission, drayage, or any expense of . .
trfteam'shlps insme at lowest rate. ' ' ' '
Freiabt received daily. . ' ' '
but. R,rL1LrAM'OT'S: a oo
No. 19 S. WHARVFBsnd Pier 1 N. WlUKVKo. .
W P. POK'l FR. Agent at Richmond and Oity Point.
T. P. ORuVYKLLA CO.. Agents at Norfolk. 1 ' '
If OK NEW. YORK,
via Delaware and Raritan OanaL
.ITTPKKSa tt'lKAMRDAT flOMPANV. . .
'Afiebtaam riwi",,,w" w ny, ww uuuiuwuue lueia' l .
Inn an the tth inataDt, leaving daily as usual. i.
' TUJtOCUH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. '
Goods forwatded by all the lines going out of New York '
North. East, or W est, free ot commission. '
Freights received at low rates. i.- ti
i W1LUAM P. CLYDP A Co.. Agents, -
I - No. 18 South DELAWARE Aveaoa. .
JAMES HAND, Agent. . ... ,
No. lit! WALL Street, New York. 84'
. FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELA-
ex.. U art I lain ail
xCoaaaatani
dJk bVU.'j-SURK TRANSPORT ATIOM COM.
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURR LINES,
Leaving daily at 18 M. and S P. M.
Tbe steam propallsrs of this eeuipasy will oommenoe
oadiug on theeth of March.
1 trough in taeniy-four boure. , ,
Good, forwarded to any point free of joommiaslona.
FreiahU taken on ooommodaung terma.
Apply to wlLUAM M- BAIRD OO., Agents,
i4 ojonth DELA WAREA venae.
Z DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
' I TCJ! STEAM TOW BOAT OOM PAN Y.-Bargae .
i ria tawed between Philadelohia. BalUinora.
da-Grace, Delaware City, and intertuodiate point.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., Agent.,
Cftntain JOPN LAl'iiHLIN, Saporii.tndat,
. . vi In l: at. Uu L. Dk.lM.lal,nia
VIIDVVt "w UDWW ww UaM ytfttt At MtlelWvliytig
4115
COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
of all nam bars and brands. Tent, Awning. Trans,
sod Wagoc-eover Dnok. Also, Paper Manofaotorars'
Uriar telle, from thirty Va aeveatreu liMhea, srU
P..U sU b-i XI-. J.. J1( w m9M
U 0UUfc0U8ireU0u km4, .