2 TIIE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1870. on hit or thd run as. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. TOLITICS IN MISSOURI. From the St, Louie Republican. The pnssiye attitude in which the Demo cracy of MisBouri stands on the eve of an in teresting and possibly important State can vass ia a spectacle which, one would thiuk, ought to cauHe some serious reflection in the minds of their opponents. If one of two combatants, long engaged in strife, were sud denly to drop his weapon and stand still, un armed and defenseless, to receive the blows of his antagonist, that antagonist would first be surprised, and, next, if he .were a brave and generous foe, would want to know the reason of such strange oonduct. If told that his passive adversary refused to fight longer with one arm manacled, he would not be able to repress a feeling of shame at the reflection that he had bound his antagonist's arm, before challenging him to combat. , No such honorable feeling finds a place in the bosom of the dominant party in this State. It affects to believe that the unusual attitude of the Democracy is a party trick, the object of which is to divide the radicals into two factions, that the Democracy may at the opportune moment either put forth its own ticket or throw its auxiliary sword into the scale and decide the contest in favor of that faction it can make the best terms with. To thwart this profound strategy, the Demo crat tells its wrangling party that it must "indorse the amendment, and nominate such a ticket as to command the support of the whole party;" for, in that case, it solemnly declares, "with a Democratic ticket against lis our success would be certain, and with no ticket against us, it would be equally certain." This candid acknowledgment affords the true and only explanation of the passive atti tude of the Democracy. We have the inspira tion of absolute and foreknown certainty, of victory, Bays the Democrat. If our opponents fight, "our suocess is certain; if they do not fight, it is equally (not more) certain." ' This is a shameful truth. The registration law is a skilfully devised machine a vo to me ter, we may call it, devised by the party in power, to measure the result of elections in advance, with absolute certainty, and to make that result just what the ruling party may de sire. The lessons of two elections held under it prove tnat the radicals can always defeat their opponents by forbidding them to vote. That law was framed to disfranchise the ma jority, and to perpetuate power in the hands of the minority. Were our opponents the majority they pretend to be, they would not need to disfranchise one-third the number of those who desire to vote against them, and they would scorn to impair the value of their expected victories by unneeded advantages over a minority whom they were able to de feat in a fair contest. But they knew them selves to be a minority of the qualified voters, : and it is because they know this that they de- vised a cruel registry law to disfranchise fifty thousand of citizens whom the constitution - itself does not disfranchise.) There is not a single conspicuousmember of the ruling party that does not esteem this despot io and inde fensible enactment as the sheet-anchor of their minority domination. There is not a con spicuous member of that party from the "liberal" ex-Senator Brown to the illiberal Senator Drake or Governor McClurg, who does not approve its wholesale wrongs, and who does' not demand the continuation of these wrongs as the necessary instrument of a radical viotory .in ' November' next. How ever Mr. Brown and Governor McClurg may differ about re-enfranchising "rebels" after . the next election, both are united on the abso ' lute necessity of disenfranchising some oO.OOO qualified voters who are not "rebels," at the next election; and it is because the radicals believed they could not elect either Mr. Brown or Governor McClurg, nnder a modi fied registry law, that they refused to modify it at the last session of the Legislature. The Democracy, as we believe, intended no trick in abstaining from the nomination of the State ticket. Thev sininlv mnnn tn nmt.pat. against the cowardly despotism which decides beforehand that no sach ticket shall be elected. There never was a time when the Democracy felt more confident of carrying a lair and ovjuniB wiocuuu 111 minauuii man now. xuey could beat their opponents, with 20,000. whit men disfranchised under the constitution; they ' could beat them with 15,000 new colored votes added to their opponents' strength; they " could beat either B. Gratz Brown or Governor McClurg, on an aggregate vote, by a decisive . majority, and carry three-fifths of the coun ties in detail. But no such fair election was held in 18GC, nor in -18G8, and none will be allowed in 1870; and the Democracy have no . desire to put on harness for a fight which thirty-three registry superintendents have already decided against them. MB. BEECHER S BENDER. From the A. Y, World, . We are sure that no person who was at .the pains of perusing Mr. Beecher's lively contri bution to the Grant-Bowen entertainment of Independence Day at Woodstock can possi bly donor, ine power or tne solar ray to addle the best-balanced wits. It is said of the Duke of Wellington that he was a fearfully stupid youth until he went out to India nnder his brother, Lord Wellington. There the fierce torrid heat, the "sunbeams like swords, " smote upon his thick skull and roused the vegetating brain within to blos som and bear fruit. Out of the cabbage came forth laurels. Precisely the converse seems to have been true of the great Plymouth ex porter. Mr. Beecher in the cold shade of Brooklyn is a well-known marvel of all men for the sobriety of hia reasoning, the deco rum or nla style, tne coherence of his speech, the delicate and refined beauty of his im agery. 'Mr. Beecher at Woodstock "took on" in a way to make all subsequent fireworks superfluous. " Aietapnoncaily speaking, he jumped upon the platform with his sleeves rolled up, Btruck an attitude worthy of nee can confronting Bayers, ana invited the tarnal universe to come on and get walloped, Oar readers must excuse us if we fashion our speech to the tenor of that we deal with But really no man in "store clothes" and "i biled shirt" could do iostioe to the divine "bender" of. the gifted orator who occupies our admiring attention. One must write of him, so to speak, in red flannel, and with boots outside of one's pantaloons. "What do I care, snouted tne exhilarated minuter of the highest-priced pews in America, "what our fathers suffered before they licked Great Britain ? The only good of the Declaration of Independence,' he went on, "is to hear it read by a good voice-." Perhaps he might have been willing to admit that it would be better sung in chorus to the tune of "Shoo Fly, " if his friend General Bntler had caught the spirit of the occasion sufficiently to deacon out the "self-evident truths" upon that lively air. Possibly, however, "Butler might not have been in voice. Swearing ou the floor of the Ilouse of Representatives at Farnsworth may have roughened that dulcet baritone for the time. As to the late civil war, Beecher thought no more of that than of the Declaration of Independence, or squaring the circle, or "any other man." "Drat your civil war,"' he exclaimed in sub stance, "it wasn't much of a shower after all. Measure it as much as you please, make the. diameter coequal with that of the earth's, then double it, and it was the least part of all that was done in that great four years that elapsed; for while we wers fighting this coun try was enabled to unfold an example, and to make a demonstration of Government which it . never made before, and could not hive made except under some such pressure as that." ITow tiro "demonstration" aforesaid was made, our rollickiDg clergyman next went on to illustrate a Itt Dibdin, with a "yo-heave ho," and that general air of hitching up one'a waistband, snooting out one s quid of tobacoo, blnspheming one's eyes, and generally ram ming the jib-boom slap-dash through the bin nacle, wLich is characteristic of the true tar on the boards of the Bowery. "Any yacht will stand weather when it is moored in New York harbor; put it out to sea, where the tornado catches it, and then she is brought to her moorings, and she shows you how she is made and what stuff she is made of." We should rather , think so ! Stand by with the moorings when the wind chops through the windlass, my hearties, and don't give up the 6hip ! Nautically, too, did Beecher illus trate the dealings of the Almighty with this people. "The Government was saved," quoth he, "and the great line -of longitude that God put around the North and the South to hold them together was not snapped." rromwmcn it may oe interred, we suppose, that hereafter these United States will do for the destinies rind the divinities and things supernal generally to tie to." Because, as our , excursive and extraordi nary preacher went on in like manner to show,'it was "all serene with our army. As thus, lucidly: "The snow that melts on the hillsides fails not to leave a freshet; nor is it possible for the storm which bursts over the mountain not to upturn banks and undermine f ome trees; but yox are witnesses that in the disbandment of this army, in no city or county or town in these states was any com plaint made that any one suffered by the in cursion or by the misconduct of our sol diers." Which naturally brings us back to Great Britain. Beecher, you see, doesn't care about the "licking" that outrageous power got from our fathers. But he rather "spiles for a fight" with her herself, because she was "disturbed at our magnitude, and wanted to see us cut in two " and he has a mind to punch the t head of France, who "held the babe (that is, these United States) in one hand while England raised the sword to sever its "head from its body;" and punched the head of Franoe would no doubt nave been but for the winking and blinking of some lewd fellow in the mob, who suddenly "pulled up" the Brooklyn Pegasus after this wise: "I see a man carp ing there (pointing to a man in the crowd) and it puts me in peril. I will shut up. If I liDger any longer I shall give the untruth to what I said in the beginning about General Butler, and I know already by advance that he is getting impatient at this long speech of mine; and therefore, proud as I am- to be associated with General Butler on this plat form, and joyful as I should be to stand on that platform he one day expects to reach (laughter) I do not think it is fair for me, as I have got a profession already, and have got along pretty well in life, to stand in his way. I want to have a fair hearing and a good chance, and I will stop now, although the most eloquent part of my speech was that which was yet to come." " Will some one kindly discover that "carp ing" man and duck him in the Connecticut river ? For assuredly nothing but the very improbable recombination of the Presiden tial presence with an extraordinary altitude of the mercury can ever put the locomotive intellect of the Apostle to the Pilgrims again upon this miraculous track. Meanwhile, let Superintendent Jourdan take a note of these circumstances. For if this be the effect of extreme heat in Connecticut upon bo grave and important a personage as the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, of what avail will it be to keep the liquor-shops of New York closed during the heated term against the savage Hordes of tne metropolis t THE SPANISH THRONE QUESTION. From the Hi Y, Iltrald. Our Spanish news of yesterday was more than usually interesting. It was rumored that Prim had offered the vacant throne to a Prussian prince, of the Iloken- zollern-Sigmaringen line. The name of the prince is Leopold. He is a descendant of Murat, the brother-in-law of the Fir3t Napo leon, ine uruiiant cavalry olncer and after wards the unfortunate King of Naples. His father is the chief of the house of Hohenzol- lern-Sigmaimgen. His mother, who was known as the Viscountess de Beauharnais. was an adopted daughter of the first Napo leon. The Prince Leopold is- a Catholic and was born in l&ia.. A later cable despatch states that the excitement was great iQ Mad rid, the people denouncing the Government and declaring tnat no descendant of Murat would ever wear the Spanish crown. It is added that the Government had officially denied having made any but confidential overtures to a toreign prince, whose name it was not yet proper to divulge. It would seem that at one time the excitement was almost as great in Paris as in Madrid. This news, it seems to us, is valuable onlv in eo far as it affects the very peculiar diffi culties wnicn lie in tlie way of a satisfactory settlement of this Spanish throne question. We do not doubt that overtures have been made to the Prussian prince. But we do not believe they were made with any sincerity of purpose. It is manifest at a glance that in getting up this cry about a Hohenzollern it was the object of Prim and the Spanish Gov eminent to frighten the Spanish people into a good feeling towards the Prince of the Astuiias. It would not be difficult to show good reason why such an arrangement is simply impossible. A Prussian prince on the throne ot M am would y one stroke over turn all the schemes and plans of Napoleon. while it would prove for Prussia a grander victory by far than Sadow. It would pro claim to ttll the world that Bismarck, having made himself master of Germany, had taken tne Latin races in band, and tnat he had made a bold but most successful commencement No one knows so well as Prim that so long as Napoleon is in the field nav, that so lona as the French people are what they are, a Ho- nenzoiiern on tne bpanisli throne is simply an impossibility. But Prim has his reasons for this dodge, and if his own purposes are seconded by it the Hohenzollern bugaboo win not nave ueen raised in vain. To our minds it is perfectly clear that the bpanuh throne question is settled. That it is sett ed few can doubt who have been watch ful of the progress of events in Spain. So long as Queen Isabella refused to abdicate some importance was to be attached to the various candidates. Since her resignation the question as to who is to be the next occupant of the Spanish throne is settled. There is or ought to be no doubt about it. It is clear to our mind that the Queen's abdi cation was sanctioned and encouraged, if not advised, by Napoleon. It is also clear to our mind that the Queen did not abdicate without good and satisfactory reasons. In sacrificing herself she could have no sufficient reason but one. She might have remained Queen of Spain till her dying day; and no doubt she would, had she not been assured that by abandoning her own rights she improved the chances of her son. - It is to be remembered, too, that the abdication, which took place in the presence of men who are in the confi dence of the Emperor Napoleon, was in favor of the Prince of the Astnrias. Napoleon is not the man to betray a woman in dis tress. Besides, it ought to be remembered that his consent is "absolutely essential to the nnnointruent of anv successor to Queen Isa bella. He cannot accept Montpensier, for by so doing he would strengthen the cause of the Orleanists, and that is the reason why Montpensier has not long since been pro claimed king. He cannot accept Don Carlos; for that would be to go back upon principles which made him what he is. He cannot have either an Austrian or a Pfussian prince on the Spanish throne; for that would strengthen nis natural enemies and tne Hereditary rivals of France. He will not sanction the eleotion of an Italian prince for the simple reason that be bas done quite enough for Italy already. He is indifferent to the union of the Penin sula, because he sees that union at present is impossible. But the Prince of the As turias is a young man who has a right to his mother's throne, who ought not to be held guilty of his mother's faults, who is likely to remember his benefactor, and who would be free from foreign and dynas tic entanglements; and therefore Napoleon sees in him a means of strengthening his own position and of making more secure the posi tion oi bis son. Uf course we ought not to ignore the Spanish people and their rights. Nor do we. It is our conviction that Spain would hail the proclamation of the Prinoe as the best of tidings, and would welcome him back to the , palace of his ancestors as the English people welcomed back Charles the Second. It has always been our opinion that if Prim did not succeed in playing the part of Cromwell he would,, at least, attempt the role of Monk. Events seem to justify our opinion. As Spain is manifestly not yet ripe for a republican form of government, a resto ration of the monarchy in the person of the Prince of the Astuiias seems of all things the most desirable as well as of all things the most likely. TARANTULA-BITTEN. From tht A. Y. Tribune. Whut is the matter with British wives and mothers? There is a certain spider in the East the bite of which not only kills the victim, but makes him ridiculous in his last moments by causing him to gyrate and dance as furiously as a whirling dervish. Can it be possible that this diabolical insect has made its way into England." ine late inexplicable beha vior of our female cousins over the water has quickened our charity to suggest some ra tional excuse for them. We would accept the spider gladly. The case is this: For centuries the British woman has contentedly dwelt in decenoies; in fact, what with her solid shoulders, red cheeks, thick-soled shoes. her immaculate virtue and housekeeping, her church and king, she was decency itself: her American sister quailed before her, guiltily conscious oi tmn bones and aching back, of a daily mushroom crop of ideas, and a head perpetually suffering from a mild form of cerebral congestion, irom the days of Chaucer to Dickens, the English girl had but one type set before her to imitate a low voiced woman, chaste, devout, disoreet, whose husband was her lord, her king, her governor, whose home was the kingdom where she reigned a queen, and to which she offered all that her Maker had given hor of gift or grace. Forever "Unfledged, Slie never wings from view o' the nest, and knows not What air's from home." 4 This type of woman is obsolete everywhere now, of course: posted as maudlin and silly long ago. We laugh with the rest at it. Yet "when Christian remembered the messengers that led him so far on his way to the heavenly city, the water stood in his eyes." About ten r twelve years ago, the British woman found herself frequently in need of bread and butter: a demand became urgent for new work and careers. Now, judging from all human analogy, one would suppose that into these new careers she would have fone as driven by hard necessity, carrying er old self unimpaired as far as possible, clinging desperately to the . chastity, the modesty, the sweet and tender graces that gave her individuality. Viola, ruffling it for sore necessity in. hose and doublet, yet swore by nothing but her youth and inno cence. On the contrary, the question of work is suddenly dropped out of sight. Into the field of politics, law, religion, the British maids and matrons rushed, quarrelling, strug gling, greedy, more like a troop of wild Bacchantes than reasonable human beings. There is not a vexed and foul subject which men have toiled over for generations, which they have not dragged to light and set about the straitghening with the brains and fingers so long devoted solely to crochet and tattling. Men follow breathless, crying, "All right, ' as the fair invaders mount ros trum and pulpit, or seize ballot and pill-box. But at one point men stand appalled: Why need women throw away their personal modesty? Why drag off every rag and vestige of decency as well as their abhorred shackles? Men have been physicians, and have made laws, and yet preserved the seemly outward decorum necessary to public welfare; but how is it with their - wives? The fashionable women imitate the demi-monde, and the re formers, with Spartan heroism, deny them selves inflexibly a single blush. In Edinburgh the female medical students, smiling, unwink ing, and complacent, persisted in attending mixed clinics until the professors protested against them in the name of decency, and procured the division of the classes, which a word from the women would have accom plished at first. Next the fair creatures seized upon the act for the prevention of contagious diseases, a subject unfit for the handling of any but the wisest and most sin cere of legislators, so great was its social im port, and so foul and prurient were the ideas to which it gave rise. For the last six months women have fought to take it out of the hands of Parliament. Not only matrons, but young girls, have lectured and written about it, have run hither and thither over the country chattering and petitioning on a mat ter which they could have no part in de ciding, and should have blushed to name. We do not hear that the other great social Eroblems before the nation were honored y a word from them. The Hindoos beg gared by England, the protesting millions of China thrust by her to a drunken death, her own paupers crying within her cates for escape from tho country that is . stifling and starving them like a Black Hole of Calcutta, win no attention from these delicate virgins and wives, busy with gossiping over a foul disease and its foul remedy. - When the. bill came before Parliament, so great was the dis gust felt at their immodesty, that for the first time in a decade tne galleries were cleared, and the crowds of itching-eared women turned into the street. Every mail brings us fresh news of this social can-can to which the young and old daughters of John Bull have abandoned themselves. Even the young girls, wont to amuse themselves with croquet in their own lawn, have rushed before the publio pele mclr, mallets and betting-books in hand, pledging themselves to go in and win at a grand tournament, which, we are told, is attended by thousands. Have the gods made mad the old domestic woman, in order to de stroy her altogether ? Is there no hope ? We beseech our English sisters to turn their eyes on this side of the water, and take example by our reformers. Here, too, work is needed for women; it is a matter of life and death to them. Observe how closely the leaders among them confine themselves to that main issue; with what modest dignity they appear in pub lic; how they ignore personal notoriety; how weighty are their arguments; how temperate, gracious, and just their words. It is only. Englishwomen who are performing unseemly can-cans before the astounded public: the Tarantula has never reached these shores. A SUGGESTION TO OUR COLLEGES. From the tf. Y. Bun. At the commencement of Columbia College in this city last week, the' degree of Engineer of Mines was conferred upon eight graduates of tne hcliool of Alines connected with that institution. The standard Of scholarship at this school is not surpassed, and probably not equalled, by tnat at any other professional school in the country; hence (he diploma, being difficult to obtain, is proportionately valued, and is in reality worth something as an evidence of professional attainment. The successful establishment of this, the first in stitution of its kind in the United States, and the maintenance of so high a character of scholarship, are interesting facts in them selves, and furnish suggestive commentaries on the administration of many of our colleges and professional scnoois. The School of Mines, by the employment of the best professors and instructors, by procuring the best aids of instruction in its museum and cabinets, and by the expend! ture of no small sums of money for these and other purposes, bas placed itself at the head of the mining schools in the country. The number of students in attendance during the past year has been about eighty. The course of study and the degree of excellence de manded in it are such that only good engi neers can graduate; in fact, the difficulties of . graduation are such that a large proportion of those who enter the school never complete tbe course, mere can scarcely be better evidence than this of the thoroughness and extent of tne knowledge required of the sta dents who obtain the diploma. Now there are hundreds of small colleges throughout the country which in wealth, popularity, attendance, and extent of infln ence can never equal Harvard, Yale, and per haps the half-dozen other institutions which are destined to grow up into great universi ties and centres of literature and learning, These smaller colleges, by adhering to standard of scholarship somewhat inferior to that of their greater Bisters, and lacking for the most part that academic influence which makes itself so much felt at Cambridge and New Haven, creep along in their existence without doing half the good within their power. Let them raise tne standard of re quired scholastic attainment until it shall be proportionately as high as that at the School of Mines, or even higher. The number of students may thus be for a time diminished, but not permanently; and endowed institu tions will not suffer much from such a cause. wnat is lost in attendance win ne made up in scholarship and the reputation which the college will gain for it. At the great English Universities of Uxford and Cambridge, the smaller colleges sustain themselves against their greater rivals by such a method as we have suggested; and it is surprising how many of the university henors are annually carried off by tbe men of tbe smaller colleges. We ere fully convinced that the colloges throughout tbe land could take no other step so advantageous to the cause of higher educa tion as for each and every ono of them to adopt a standard of scholarship as high, course of study as difficult, and requirements for admission as extensive as those at liar vard or Yale. The diplomas which they annually bestow would then be as honorable to the recipients as were those bestowed by tbe bebool of Mines last ween. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN FRANCE, from the If. Y. Timet. A writer in the Opinion Natiorutle gives an interesting account of an election of a Conn cillor Ueneral at which be bad assisted, in one of the rural cantons of France. When it is remembered that two-thirds of the en tire number of French voters belong to the peasantry, and that the future history of the Second Empire, and through it of Europe generally, must depend upon the mode in which they exercise the prerogatives of citi zenship, it will be perceived that the subject possesses considerable importance. The want of education among the adults was the first characteristic that struck the Parisian visi tor. Very few of them knew their alphabet, and in spite of many attempts at evening classes, there seemed to be little prospect of an increase of intelligence. He also re marked that the parceling out of large estates had benefited chiefly the tradespeople of neighboring towns, and various classes xt professional men. Metayage that is, a sort of co-operative compact between proprietor and cultivator was the prevailing character of the interest of the peasant in the soil. Frcm this it resulted, that the laborers were under a direct dependence on the land-owners. The control of the elections had slipped from the grasp of tbe imperial offioials, only to be taken up by the local aristocracy. There appeared to be some danger that the emi nently democratic principle of universal suff rage would degenerate into a species of political feudalism. On the occasion of the election in question the really democratic candidate, qualified by long residence and continuous publio services, for a seat in the Council-General, was left practically out of the contest by the candida ture of two young members of two of the richest families in the neighborhood. A very amusing account is given of the devices resorted to by the rival patricians to secure the votes of the rural democracy. Secrecy of voting and publicity of canvassing seem to have been alike disregarded under such auspices, as the local authorities did not dare to enforce the law in the presence of wealth and nobility. The consequence was, that the election wan throughout a mere exercise of personal influence, that candidate getting most votes who could single" out the greatest number of electors afraid to disregard his wishes. . - Discouraging as was the result, it did not shake the f Aith of the observer in universal suffrage. The principle needed no restraint only tbe mode or tbe exercise required to be modified. - The emancipation of the pea sant from territorial influence would neces sarily be a slow one, but from the operation of equal .laws and individual industry some aid might be expected towards such a result. lhe true solution or the dillicnlty lay, bow ever, in the educational elevation of the peasantry. This would tend at once to the improvement of their industrial condition, and to the acquisition of proper views re lating to the exercise of the .first duty of citizenship. rt , SPECIAL. NOTIOES. wgy- AN IMPORTANT NOTICE. The following named DOTnona. if Nipt wen on tho. Dark ARCHIBALD GUAUIK, which left San Fran cisco, California, in ism, or tueir next or kin, will find It to their advantage to address or call upon HUBERT S. LKAOt'K & COMPANY, No. 185 South SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia. Immediate atten tion to tins is requested, and any one Knowing their present whereabouts will oblige by communicating BS Huove, A. M. Pnencer, I James J. Nichols, , , Charles Browu, I Absalom Cryers, John Baker, William Kolert8, !E.S Wilson, t4. w. Hopkins & Son, iL. B. Dresser, William KatTerty, J. II. Painter, M. Barnes. K. J. Black, It. Blair, Mark Ferr'.ll. Jabez M. Tipton, O. F. Myers, Henry Adler, Lewis Scarce, Samuel B. Plngrey, . Martin Hart, William Douglas, William Chanibcrlin, Daniel K. Colby, Walter Smith, Samuel B. Wilcox, William F. Willis, Henry Lovell, John'DockendortT, David Lozen, J. 11. Keller, William Davis, William Ferry, Charles Nodine, A. 8. Young, Sanford Crocks, John Anderson, John W. Waideu, William Scrioner, William. Callahan, Joun B. Joues, John H. Anxes, A. II. Whltner. 1 6 8T t NOTICK IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN onnltrorinn will ha mnAa at ttia n o v t montlnfvnf the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE O RUMANIA BAN K, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to one million dollars. jgy- PENNSYLVANIA , RAILROAD COM PANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT. . ' Philadelphia, p., Mar 8, 1870. - NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. Tbe Board of Directors bare this day declared a semi 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 80, 1870. ' Blank Powers of Attorney for oollectinir Dividends ean be had at the Office of the Company, No. 833 South Third street. The Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and elosed at 3 P. M. from May 3D to JuneS, for the payment of Dividends, and alter that date from 9 A. M. to P. M. THOMAS T. FIRTH, 8 4 60t - Treasurer. gy NOTICE IS HEREBY. GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at tho next meeting of the Ueneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE WEST END BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to five hundred thousand dollars. tjSf OFTICE OF TIIE PIIILADELPIILV AND READING RAILROAD CO., No 827 Sonth FOURTH Street. Philadelphia, Jane 22, 1870. NOTICE. In accordance with the terms of the lease and contract between the East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo. and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Oo., dated May 19, 1863, the Philadelphia and Road in Railroad Oo. will pay at their offloe, No. 827 South FOURTH St.. Phila delphia, on and after the lth day of JULY, 1870, a divi dend of $l'50per share, clear of all taxes, to the stock holders of the East Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as they , shall stand registered oo the books of the said East Penn ' sylvania Railroad Co. on the 1st day of July, 1870. All ordeis for dividends must be witnessed and stamped. v .8 BRADFORD, Treasurer. Note. The trinsfer books of tho East Pennsylvania Railroad (Jo. will be closed on July 1 and reopened on July 11, 1870. HENRY O. JONES, 6 221m - Treasurer East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo. egy- NOTICE Irf HEREBY GIVEN -THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for tbe incorporation of a Bank, In accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled TBE PETROLEUM BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to five (5) hundred thousand dollars. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL ROAD COMPANY, Office No. 82T S. FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, June 29, 1870: DIVIDEND NOTICE. The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on the 7th of July next and reopened on Wednes day, July 20. . ' A Dividend of FIVB PER CENT, has been de clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National and State taxes, payable in cash on and after the22dof July next to the holders thereof as they stand registered on the books of the Company at the close of business on the 1th July next. All payable at this office. All orders lor dividends mast be witnessed and Stamped. S. BRADFORD, 6 29lm ' Treasurer. ,g5? NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN w application will be made at the next' meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE QUAKER CITY BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun dred thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to five hundred thousand dollars. tfg- TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTH WASH. It is tbe most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice extan t. Warrant ad tree from injurious ingredients. It Preserves and Whitens tbe Teeth I Invieorates and Soothes the Gums! Parities and Perfumes the Breath! Prevents Accumulation of Tartar! Cleanses and Purities Artihoial Teeth! I Is a Superior Artiole for Children! Sold by ail druggist and dentist. A. M. W 1LKON, Druririst, Proprietor. 8 8 lorn Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Bu Philadelphia. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of lhe General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, tn ac cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE GERMANTOWN BANKING COM PANY, to be located at Philadelphia with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, with the right to increase the same to five hundred thousand dollars. 1ST A TOILET NECE8SITY.- AFTER nearly thirty years' experience, it is now generally admitted that A1UKKAY A LANMAN'tf FLUKIDA W A'l KK i the moat refreshing and agreeable ef all toilet perfumes. It is entirely different from Cologne Water, and should never be confounded with it : the per fume of the Cologne disappearing in a few moments after iu application, whilst that of the Florida Water laats for many oays. 3 U egy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation f a Bank, in accordance with the laws of the Common wealth, to be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be looated at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou sand dollar, with the right to increase the same to Ave hundred thousand dollars. 1- JJEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING Teeih with fresh Nitrous-Oxide Gas. Absolutely no pain. Dr. K. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms, devote his entire practice to the painless extraction of teeth. Office, No. U WALNUT Street. . 1 SHIPPING. 7 y-9 fc NEW EXPRESS LINE TO Lf Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, afn.iiM in D. O, via Chesapeaae and Delaware Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, NaahviUe, Del ton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon front tbe hrst wharf above Market street. reightrveddaiWTJAM P. CLYDK A OO., No. 14 North and South WHAKVKS. HYDK TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M. ELD1UDGK 4 CO., Ag-Oeat Alexandria. el OOROAQE, ETC. WEAVER & CO., IlOI'L' MANUFACTURERS AVD gllir ClIACtftLERS, j No, 29 North "WATER Street ftni No. 23 NortU WHARVES, Phlladelpa ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW PRICES. 41 CORDAGE. . j j , Manilla, filial and -Tarred Cordagt At Lowest Kew York Prices and Freight, j EDWIN II. Flfi.KK 4c CO Factory. THHTH Rt. tad OIRMANTOWTf Avenue. Store, Ko. S3 M. WATBft8t. and U N. DELevtAA Avenue. SHIPPING. ffjrgf IX)RILLARI);3 8TEAM3HLPXtNK" ' FOB 'NEW Y O It It are now receiving freight at . 9t .100 panaU, 4 cents per teot, er 1-1 rent per gallen, ehla option. INSURANCE X OF 1 PER CENT. . ; Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, ete." No reoeipt or bill of lading signed for lees than to eenU. The Line wonld oaU attention of Merchants generally to tbe fact that hereafter the regular shippers by this Una rill be eharged only It) cents por 1W lbs., or i oeots of foot, daring the winter seasons. - i ' For farther pertloaiars apply to . ..at John r. onx, " taj) PIER 19. FfOKTU WHARVES. PHII.AmCI.PTfTA IKn aniwnrat. .MAIL CTlr.UDUiD . V T , A R KK MLMnlfTIHV 1" I " Lr ano, ijl. " WnesteSyJ,!11 "U ew Or.eau. dir.' . That ViTOn onrils MnB T . ' - . . . i jua X U JHtLW lK. on F.idrjui;i: v- "" T1 THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rates as he any other route given to Motiile, Galveston, Indianola. La. vacca, and Brazos, snd to all points on the Al imiwippi Tiver "'"" "u , "mis. riea Kiver freurbta reshippsd at New Orleans without charge of commissions. WKKKLY LINK TO 8AVANNAH ni ' fflSW " ". --GoV tu, daThJuT9 wiU trom snoul Bator- aTHR JuGH BILLS OF L ADIRo given to all the prin cipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection with the Central Railroad of Georgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail fcnes. wrida steamers, at as low rates as by oompeting S7ML'&9.K&Lr MNR TO WILMINGTON. If." O. The PIONEKR will sail for W.lm.ngton on hieaday, dwf July ith7 Betu,ninK' wiU Wilmington Hntui ' Connects with the Cape Fear Biver SteamboatConl. oanv, theWilminiton and Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and tbe V ilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior points. Freights for Columbia, 8. O., and Augusta, G., taken via Wilmington, at as low ratee aa by any other route. Insurance effected when requested by shippers, Bills of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or before day of sailing. ...... ,7" WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent. 6U No. lap South TUIRU Street. HE REGULAR 8TEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI LADELPMIA ANO CHARLESTON STEAM SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to Issue through bills of lading to interior points South and West in connection with South Carolina Railroad Company. . . . . . ALFRED L. TYLER. Vice-President So. c. Rlt. Co. 'wfiPffff rniLADELPHIAAKD CHARLESTON aB-J-g. STEAMSHIP LINE. Y '1 his line is now composed of the following first class Steamships, sailing from PIER 17. below Spruce street, on FRIDAY of each week at 8 A. M. : . - ... .. ASHLAND, 600 tana, Captain CrowelL J. W. EVERMAN, 692 tons. Captain HlnoUey. PROMETHEUS, 600 tons, Captain Qrav. JULY, 1870. . " v Prometheus, Friday, July 1. ' J. W. Everman, Friday, July 8. - -Promethens, Friday. July IB, j, . J, W. Everman, Friday, July 2J. .. Prometheus, Friday, July 89. , , Through bills of lading given to Columbia, S. C . the Interior of Georgia, and all points South and Southwest. . r ... . . Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch. Rates aa low as by any other route. . i Insurance one-half per cent, effected at the office in first-class companies. No freight received nor bills of lading signed after 3 P. 11. on day of sailing. SOUDER & ADAMS, Agents, No. 8 DuCK Street, Or WILLIAM. P; CLYDE A CO., No 19 S WHA.RVJCS WILLIAM. A. CO URTEN A Y, Agent in Charles 10D . .-i -,. 6 24 $ff TOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS rtJTMhn TOWN.-Inman lino of Mail Steamers are ap. pointed to sail as follows.- City of Brooklyn, Saturday, Jaly 9, 1 P. M. Oily of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, J uly 13. 1 P. M. City of Brussels, Saturday, July 16. 8 A. M. - -City of WashlcgtMii, Saturday, July 23, 1 P. M. And each suooeeding batwdaj and alternate Tuesday from Pier ia. North River. . . RATK8 OF PASSAGH. ' t v, BY TOT af ATI, BTXaatU AalUNa IVBU1 SartnatM. Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency. FIRST CABIN 1 8TKKRAU8 , , gsi . To London.., , 106 I . To London...., o To Paris ll I To Paris 41 raSBAOl BT TBI TCSSDAT TZAMX8, VIA HALIFAX. Payable In Gold. ' Liverpool.. ,,....30 Halifax ; ) St. John's, N. F., - ( by Branch Steamer I FIRST mniM Payable tax Ourrenof. ' Ha'Sfa'-r-r-fS 8t. John's, W. F., . ( " 1 be Branch H.aaaar..- .f ITECKAUl Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, etc , at reduced ratee. xiecets ean be bougn nere oooerete rates by persons wishing to send for their friends, ' Orf ' ' O'DONNHLL FAUl,gsnU it Ho. toa CHHSNUT Street. Philadelphia. 3FfWw PHILADELPHIA, .RICHMOND) fa -'r ins. .ND NORFOLK BT1CAMHHIP LINK, andvkbt 1 AIft UiK' T? 5UK 80T,'f" INCREASED FAOILITIK8 AND REDUCED RATES . For ik7j. -.. Steamers leave every WKDN KSDAYand SATURDAY at ia o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR KK1 Street. RKTURNINO, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS. And NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA- No Bill of Lading signed After 1 o'clock, on aaitlng 'HROUGH RATES to all points in North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the West, via Virainia and Tcnnes.ee Air Line and Richmonai and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUTOKCF, and taken at LOWER BATES THAN AN OTHER Lf NK.' " No charge for commission, dray age, ot any expense of ransfer. . , ' t ;,f r Meamshlps insure at lowest rate. L F'reight reoeived dally. - - ' ' fcUte Room odjgo-. forf ar No. 12 8. WHARVES and Pier I N. WHARVR3. W. P. POR I KK, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. CROWELL A CO.. Agents at Nonuik. a U FOR NEW: YORK, via Delaware and RaHtan Dunn I EXPRESS STEAMBOAT GOMPABTV. '1 li hteain Prouellere of the line will oommena Wd. Ing on tbe bth instant, leaving daily aa uaual. THROUGH IN TWENTY! OUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the linea going out ef New York North, East, or W est, free ot commission. Freights received at low rates. ' . WILLIAM P. OLYDR A Co., Agents, Mo. U South D&LAWARJk Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent. . , , No. lia WALL Street. New York. 84S . x .tun 11 tuua, ,1 1. k SWIFTSURK TRANSPORTATION COM- DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURK LINKS, Leaving daily at U M. and a P. M. Tbe steam proiellers of this company will oommenoa oading on the 8th of March. Through in twenty-four aours. Goods! orwarded to any point free or commissions. Freittbte taken on accommodating terms. Apply to .LLIAM M. BAIRD OO Agents. M Wo. lai South DELAWARE Avanao. - DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE I," STEAM TOWBOAT OOMPANy.-Barges af towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore, liavre-de-Uraoe. Delaware City, and intermediate points. " WILLIAM P. CLYDE A OO., Agents. Captain JOHN LA U ti HLIN, Superintendent. Office, No. li South Wharves. Philadelphia. 411 COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, of all numbers and brands. Tent. Awning. 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