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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. P1I1LA DELPHI A, FRIDAY,
JULY 8, 1870.
tjrin.iT or rnn pnass..
Editorial Opinion of the Leading JojrM.'s
upon Current Topics Compiled Cvery t
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
THE CHINESE IN THE AMERICAN LAIiOli
MARKET.
From the S Y. Timet.
Tho excitement wUicU ia exhibited ia 8uie
quarters in legarel to the ChimH3 lnUor qnos
tion proceeds from a misnpprehunsion of its
character and contingencies. War in wage 1
upon Chinamen as a rujo, on tb.3 grouuJ tuit
if they come at all it mast bo ai tha euemie.s
of American labor and civilization. The cir
cumstances nnder which thy arrive here nra
not taken into cousiiler.ili.m. It is enough
that the Chinese who arc bora work for imui
less than the Ameiicau stunJaid of waas;
that their habits of life are not agreeable to
the American taste; and that their notions
touchiog the moral laws are objectionable to
American society. Forth vith, An attack is
made upon all Chiuose ini u'gra'.i on. "Work
ing men protest that their inf.orests are jeo
pardized, and that Johu Cuimvnau must be
kept out of tho country. Politicians eleleot
in this demand a grand opponuiity for parti
san effect: republican institutions are impe
riled, they iu.qist, unless tlu p jor Ciiiua'u in
i debarred the acquisition of tho privileges
of citizenship.
Neither the workiugmeu nor tho politicians
tells us Uow the immigrant who conies from
China is to be denied the opportunity of earn- i
ing a living here. As Governor lliwley stated
the case at Woodstock how are the gates of
the continent to be open to the world and
closed against Chinamen? And, being here,
how are American families and employers to
be prevented from hiring Chiuese holp if
they prefer it? Shall a law be passed securing
to LJiddy an exclusive light to tho kitchen,
and denying to John a clnaco of service
there? Or shall planters at the South, manu
facturers at the North, and contractors every
where, be prohibited from taking any labor
they choose, even though it be Chinese? It
is easy to say that Chinese labor must bo put
down', but how is the thing to bo done? We
can conceive of valid arguments against
the adiiiigfiion of Chinese ti citizen
ship. That is another aipect of
the question, and one which, however
important theoretically, poisoses little praa
tical significance. For as yet the Chinese
who are in the country have evinced no desire
to become citizens. They know how to work
hard, and evidently want to save monoy to
carry to China when they go home again: but
they are not sufficiently civilized to take a
very lively interest in naturalization fraud 4,
primary meetings, or the mysteries of billot
box stuffing and repeating at elections. Tnero
is, therefore, no possible danger to the re
public fcom their political aspirations, aud no
(special need for the profound discussions re
lating thereto, with which grave Senators
have for some days amused themselves. Apart
from this point, what barrier can we raise to
keep out the Chinaman, which shall not also
exclude the German, the Irishman, or tho
Englishman ?
In this inquiry we havo the truo solution of
the problem. We claim the right of going to
China and trading there; and the right of tho
Chinaman to come hither,-aud to labor and
trade here, is as good as tho unchallenged
right of Europeans. But to ba entitlod to
this liberty the Chinaman must land upon
our shores as free to go where he ploase3, and
to profit by his labor, as the German or tho
Irish immigrant. That is to say, he must be
a free man. Economio laws may be relied
upon to do the rest. Onco here, with perfect
freedom of action, the market value of Chi
nese labor will soon rise to its proper level.
The law which operates upon other immi
grants will operate also upon tho Chinauiin.
The Irish laborer, who in Jiis own country
works for half a dollar a day, finds himself on
a two-dollar level from the moment of his
landing in New York. It will be the same
with John. He will get the worth of his
labor, and thus will no more contribute to
the degradation of the laboring class than an
immigrant from any other country.
Left to himself, moreover, the Chinese im
migrant will not arrive with alarming fre
quency. If he must appoar as a freo man,
bound by no covenant to others, the length
and expen8iveness of the voyage will preven
any wholesale importation. Tho lowest o
the Chinese those whoso presence might fo
some reasons be objectionable will not be
able to reach our shores. Distance and cost
wilt effectually avert that multitudinous ir
ruption which eloquent opponents of coolie
labor predict as a consequence of Chinamen
being allowed to come at all.
The only real danger, and that against
which legislative action may be proporly in
voked, arises from the application of the
principle of modified slavery which underlies
the coolie system. What that system is in
the tropical and semi-tropical colonies of
Great Britain, the world knows too well. Tho
horrors and outrages which have attended its
working have been told upon no doubtful
authority. Aud there is a prospect of its ex
tension under the guise of Chineso immigra
tion to the United States. California has
seen something of it already. Ship loads of
Chineso have been brought over under con
tract for years their labor mortgaged for a
lengthened period, at wages on which a white
man could not live, iu consideration of their
passage. These are not immigrants in the
only recognizable sense of the word. They
may be c tlltd apprentices or hired laborers
in effect they are but a few degroes removed
from slavery. They are not chattels, per
haps', and the servitude to which they are
bound lasts for years only, not for life; but
most assuredly they are not free laborers,
and therefore not an element that is justly
admiasible in the American labor market.
Against this form of the coolie system it is
the duty of Coagress to provide legislative
guards. The importation of coolies tho in
troduction of large masses of Chinese labor,
under contract for long terms should be
absolutely prohibited. If this is done, the
Chinese question will ceasa to be formidable.
Those whose business it is to organize Chi
nese labor, and import it, base their expec
tations of profit upon protracted servitude.
Make this calculation impossible and the
coolie system will come to au end, and with
it will terminate the contingencies incident
to Chinese labor which are made tho pretexts
for popular agitation in this country.
FRANCE DRAWS IIEli SWORD'."""""
From thaX. Y. World.
Napoleon at last has turned the tables upon
Prussia. The Duke of Gramont onWednesday
announced in the Legislative Body at Paris
that the throne of Spain had indeed been
offered by Prim to Prince Leopold of llohea
7. oiler n; that it had been accepted by the
Prince; and that France would never suffer
the acceptance to take effect. There was a
ring of battle in the words of the Foreign
Minister not pleasing, doubtless, to ears
financial, but sure of an echo in the popular
heart of France. "Franco," said the Duke,
"will never permit a Germnn prince to take
bis sent tipon the throne of Charles the Fifth."
Behind those words stands the Emperor with
his majority of nearly seven millions of votes
on the pit bine ile of 170; an. 1 behind tha Em
peror Vtand.s the army of France, leorgwized
tlitoupli all its departments in the four years
v Licit have pnsped since tho electrifying day
of Sadowa. The opportunity whioh BiRiuark
allowed to slip out of his baud in l-i(ii,
destiny has now extended to his imperial rival.
Hid Niipultou has seized it with a decision
which is it.-elf substantial victory.
It is not, of course, beyond the limits of
possibility that Prussia may refuse to accept
the moral defeat inflicted upon her by this
attitude of France. But, though this bo pos
sible, wo rej'jico. in the interest of the peace
of tho world, to believe it eminently impro
bable. Even for a strictly Gorman question
it would be harder for Prussia to g' to war
with France in 1S7 than it would havo been
for her to do so iu 18(1!'). During tho past
four years she has hist rather than gained in
point both of prestige abroad and of power at
home. Her financial position is worse than
it wns iu 1W; her people are more discon
tented; her newly uiinexed provinces eveu
me more hostile to her supremacy than they
then were. The glory of her military achieve
ments has lost something of its dazzling bril
liancy ns those achievements have come to be
patiently analyzed by cold-blooded critics,
i'rnssjal.as lets confidence in herself aul iu
her gieat minister thuu sho had four .years
ago. Her position relatively to the rest of
Europe Lns been still more impaired.
Austria has grrnlly recovered from the
Flunk which prostrated her four years ago;
tho South German States have drawn nearer
together and further nay from their over
shadowing Northern bister. France has not
only reconstructed her gigantic army, as we
have siiid, in all its departments: she his ac
corded to the Emperor a now lease of popular
sympathy and of popular Bupport. AU these
things would be important even in a war
begun by France for the possession of the
Rhine. They would be decisive in a war
provoked by Prussia for a, dynastic advantage
beyond the Pyrenees. Who shall rill the
Spanish throne is a question in which Ger
many canuot possibly sec auy German in
te rest strong enough to justify the Bhedding
of German blood. To call Germany to war
for the sake of filling that throne with a
member of tho royal family of Prussia would
have seemed quite in the natural order of
things a century ago. Attempted now, it
would do more to shako tho position of King
William at home than to confirm the po itioa
of his kinsman at Madrid.
For Spain herself, an a'tompt to make a
Ilohenzollern her kiug in tho teeth of France
would bo an act of madness equally without
mot ive and without measure. It is scarcely con
ceivable that such a project can bo seriously
entertained by any intelligent Spaniard. The
luost rational explanation, perhaps, that cau
bo suggested of the share taken by Prim in the
transaction is that he hopes through pressing
it to reconcile all parties ia Spain to the elec
tion of the Princo of tho Asturias. Tho most
obstinate enemy of the IIouso of Bourbon in
Madrid might well prefer a boy of Spanish
birth, even though a Bourbon, with peace on
tho Pyrenees, to a now civil wnr aggravatod
by the armed intervention, not of tho Fronch
government only, but of the whole people of
France.
But, whatever form the matter may take, it
is plain that in permitting it to be brought
forward Prussia has committed a terrible
blunder, and conferred upon Napoloon au
immense benefit. If the issue bo war, it will
be a war in which Prussia will appear as tho
figgressor, and as an aggressor inspired, not
by any noble zeal for the national aggrandize
ment of Germany, but by an antiquated and
anti-social impulse of mere dynastic ambi
tion. It will bo, so far a3 Prussia is con
cerned, not a w ar of tho people, but a war of
the palace.
If the issue, on the other hand, be peace,
preserved by the sacrifice of the pretensions
of Prince Leopold, Prussia will have sus
tained a diplomatic defeat, amounting almost
to a diplomatic humiliation, on a question
utterly toreign alike to the interests of Prus
sia and to the hopes of Germany.
In either event, all that Bismark has
thrown away Napoleon wins. The chanoes
of war and the certainties of peace alike have
been newly put at the service of his dynasty
uy tne very power wmcn seemed but the
other day to have shaken that elynasty to its
lounetations.
PRONUNCIAMIENTO OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY.
From the X. 0. Republican,
The last public declaration of the Demo
cratic party, signed by members of Congress,
is a most extraordinary one, all things con
sidered. In the first place it is extraordinary
becauBeit i3 addressed' 'to our fellow-citizens
of the United States, friends of constitutional,
economical and honest government." This is
very remarkable, inasmuch as the history of
the Democratic party for tho last ten years
has been in opposition to the best interests of
"our fellow-citizens of the United States who
desire a constitutional, economical, and
honest government. That tins is the case,
and that "our fellow-citizens of the United
States have so regarded the acts of the Do
mocratic party, is most clearly demonstrated
by the fact that that party lias been shorn
of all political power by the people sinco
the memorable year of 18o'0, when it allowed
the enemies of constitutional, economical,
and honest government to plot and attempt
its destruction. Though the Democrats were
then in power, we will not now attempt to deny
that up to the time of Mr. Lincoln's first elec
tion to the Presidency we had a constitutional,
economical, and honest Government; nor elo
we believe the Democrats will be disposed to
gainsay this, though now,, by implication,
they deny it and assert that we have a "re
volutionary, extravagant, and wasteful parti
san rule. And why do they say this?
Simply because important elections take
place this year that will determine the com
plexion of tho next Congress, and their ob
ject is to get possession of that branch of the
Government and pave the way to possession
of the entire Government in the next Presi
dential election.
Considering what this country has passed
through during the last ten years to preserve
its integrity and the liberties of the people,
the epiestion of who shall control tho Gay.
ernment is still a most importaut one. There
is nothing in the history of tho Democratio
party the past ten years that has received the
sanction of the people of this country; on the
contrary, its course has been antagonistic to
the popular will and interest in allmittera
of legislation growing out of tha lat3 war,
and if it has a policy it is one that it tlare not
yet give utterance to, as it is undoubtedly in
opposition to all of those gcoat maasaros and
principles of government adopted by the
people since the termination of the war, and
held by them to be permanently settled. As
the Democratic party opposed the pro locution
of the war to a successful termination oa
the part of the Government, so it now op
poses all of those measures that have b ion
adopted by the Government and people
t t-elul and legitimate results of the war.
Therefore, when the Democrat io party says
"upon the coming elections,then,depeu Is the
question of whether the Democratic and con
servative (dement for the Senate shall be in
( i eased, and whether that element shall have
n liiHjority iu the House of Representatives:
Mid, as a consequence, whether we shall have
a corstitutiunul, economical, and honest gov
ernment, or a continuance of revolutionary,
c xtravngBiit, and wasteful pa;tisan rule," what
does it L-ean? Why, it simply means oppa
sition to bll of those great principles involved
in the war, and which were supposed to have
been Fettled by its successful termination
principles that have since been engrafted ia
the Constitution of the United States, aud
nre regarded by the pooplo as tb.9 la v of tlu
Isnd. The adoption of these great princi
ples tho "conservative Domooratic party, no
doubt, considers as "unconstitutional," par
tiul, and unjust class legislation;" aud for the
purpose of undoing til that has been djne
by tLo Republican party since tho close of
tie war, and that, too, with the sanction of
(he people, this conservative Democratic
party now asks our "fellow-citizens of tha
l i.iteel Slates" to trust them who sympathize 1
with their enemies in timo of war, and dis
card those who stood by the Union, the Con
stitution, and the laws through that long
siee of strife and blood, and are still true to
the fcrent principles of butnau liberty. As these
1 rinciples should be considered establishjd un
der our Government, the people of this country
could admire a conservatism that would assist
iu preserving them; but as "conservative"
evidently means the reverse of this when
used by tho Democrats as a part of their party
name that is, they havo not changed their
polities wo believe they are still opposed to
all that has been dono by the Republicans
sjnee power v as conferred upon them by tha
people. It certainly eloes not speak well for
any party whose success is made to eiepend
on claps pre judice, and should tho Democva'io
party onco succeed in this way, it might bo
at the peril of that liberty and equality before
tho law that every honest Democrat and Re
publican is willing to concede as right. We
have too much faith in the American people
to believe they will plaen the Democratic
party ik pow er at the risk of all that has boen
achieved within tho past ten years.
TliE MINING TONS ON CO HE AG VI X.
from tlu X. Y. Tiibune.
History repeats itself evoa in tiia most tri
vial details in tho Pennsylvania coal-fields.
The miners' strike in Schuylkill county hav
ing failed, as always before, to produce an
advance in prices, it is to bo followed, as in
previous years, by a forced suspension of
labor throughout tho anthracito regions. The
real objects of these strikes is invariably to
enhance prices in New York: but other pre
tenses are always found, and this year it is
ostenpibly in behalf of the eight-hour system
tbat the General Council of the Miners'
Union has ordered a general suspension to
beiu on the lHth instant, and we presume
has prepared, as usual, to enforce tho ordar
wherever it may be resisted. Although nearly
all of tho :0,0(K) anthracito miners are nieux-
beis of the Union, tho decrees of the leaders
are sometimes disputed by those who instinc
tively know that the General Counoil is the
natural ally of the Schuylkill operators, to
whom a natural market is fatal, because of
the extortionate tolls of the Reading Railroad.
Having no other outlet, they have.no re
course but to force consumers to pay theso
tolls by a depletion of supply, as a conse
quence of the suspension of production
brought about by the ready agency of tha
Miners' Union.
This operation hss been repeated so often
that it is beginning to bo thoroughly under
stood. The strikes invariably result in bene
fit to the operators struggling against this
rapacious railroad, and in disaster to the
miners in w hose behalf they purport to be
undertaken. Mining should be tho most re
munerative of industrial pursuits, because of
tho fact that it can be pursued at all seasons;
but as a consequence of these strikes the
miners are generally behindhand with the
w orld. Travellers in the coal counties are
astounded and pained by the squalor of the
laboring classes everywhere, and, ignorant of
the peculiar trouble which afflicts the region,
are apt to consider them the most improvi
dent of people.' The truth is, ho? ver,
that they are not wasteful nor und y in
clined to idleness; but, owing to the natu
ral clannishness of labor as against capi
tal, they are the ready instruments of the
Schuylkill operators in their' hopeless
struggle with the Lackawanna companies,
which own their lines of transportation.
When depression comes, Schuylkill, which
pays unreasonable tolls for transportation,
produces only at an enormous loss on every
tor, and must stop; the natural sympathies
of labor then make a general suspension
inevitable.
There is but one way to avoid those con
stantly recurring strikes which cause so much
sufl'erirg not only to the miners but to
millions of coal consumers. The Schuylkill
region must be released fronj, its present
tbraldomby the completion of the new coal
railroad, the construction of which we do
not now advocate for the first time. No pub
lic work is more imperatively demanded by
the public needs, and none, as we have had
occasion to show, is wore feasible or more
certain to return a large interest upon the
cost of construction. The building of the
new outlet has been long thwarted by the
Reading Railroad, but with the. impetus
which will be given the enterprise by another
general suspension, we hope that its com
pletion caEnot be much longer delayed. .
THE DESTINY OF CANADA.
Form the X. T. Herald.
The very interesting and exhaustive article
w e published on Wednesday, in the form of a
communication from our correspondent at
Montreal, on the subject of Canadian independ
ence and annexation, points out the inevita
ble destiny of Canada, as well as of all the
colonial possessions of Great Britain on this
continent. It appears that, in addition to
other agencies and movements which have
been at work more or less for half a century
to annex Canada to the United States, and the
fires of which are still burning silently, a new
movement has been organized, with the appro
priate title of the "Union League," that may
exercise a powerful influence on the question.
From the details of this organization, as far as
they are given, we think the "Union League"
ii; ay become the most compact as well as the
most extensive political bedy that ever existed
in the colonies. The Canadians understand
working in this way. The great movement
for independence in Canada, with a view to
anne-xation afterwards, tnirty years ago, when
Papineau was the prominent leader, and w hen
so many Americans as well as Canadians were
convicted and transported to the penal settle
ments in Australia, was intimately connected
with a similar secret political organization on
both sides of the border. This, however, ap
pears to be discreetly worked up for the pur
pose of bringing about the independence and
unnexntiou of Canada by moral power or In
fluence, and to-avoid any conflict with tho "
English Government.; , '
Whether the time is ripe enough or not for
the success of the annexation movement re
mains to be seen. Up to tho breaking out of
the Southern Rebellion, .and our great oivil
war there was no period, perhaps, for fifty
years back, that the Canadians did not dciire
annexation and that they Jwonld not have
voted by a Urge majority for it, could tho
question have been fairly submitted to them.
But a change came over them with that war.
They sympathized more with the Southerners
than with the North. This arose from several
causes. British feeling and influence and tha
sentiment of the Government and people of
England controlled them in a groat measure.
TLen, thev did not understand the issue well,
ns, indeed, very many Americaus did not.
Besides; the sympathies of parties not imme
diately engnged or concerned in such a oa-.
fiict are very apt to be with the weakest side,
and with those who are fighting on tho tlef en
sive against great odds, independent of the
merits of the question at issue. But the Cana
dians are getting over all that. They see now
the mighty power and future of this republic,
and begin to be desirous again to uuito their
destiny with ours. A great change has taken
place within the last year or two. It will not
take many years to show the colonists that
unless they be annexed they will sink into
insignificance under the overshadowing power
and prosperity of the United States. Eng
land is shaking them off; she will
not have any longer the expeuso and
responsibility of governing, protecting,
anel leading them as children. She knows
well, too, that in case of any trouble w ith tho
United States Canada would be wrested from
her. She is looking forward to future con
tingencies, and does not want tho expense
and trouble of governing colonies on the
American border. As to independence, what
sort of a figure would the British colonies cut
by the side of this great republic if even thoy
were independent? Politically, commerciallv.
end in every way they would' be completely
overshadowed. In all probability thev would
decline positively as well as relatively under
such circumstances.
The Canadians, no doubt, are thinking of
these things, and are preparing the way for
the destiny that awaits them. Events are
fast ripening to that end. When annexed tho
colonists will have no more fear of Fenians,
no more trouble about commercial treaties
and their trade across the border, and their
country will prosper under the quickening
influence of American enterprise and institu
tions. England, too, would gain by this
transfer of allegiance, just as she has gained
in her commerce by the independence of
these United States, which were also colonies
formerly. The statesmen of that country
begin to realize this fact. If tho colonists
move now in earnest the mother country will
not, probably, place any serious obstacles in
the way of annexation, and we may settle the
Alabftma.claims and all our difficulties with
the British Government bv the transfer of
its possessions in America to ns. The destiny
of the United States is to be a continental
empire, and the sooner the British colonists
realize that fact the better for themselves and
the better for the world.
THE REIGN OF SMALL MEN, AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES.
From the X. Y. Sun.
Franklin Pierce was a statesman of very
moderate dimensions. One of his New
Hampshire supporters said, in the early
stages ot tne Presidential campaign of 1.2
in reply to an inquiry of a Southwestern
Democrat, "We think a good deal of Perse
up here, but w hen you come to hammer hina
out all over the Union, he will be awful
thin."
But Pierce was not so small as to be afraid
to call distinguished men to his councils. He
summoned to his Cabinet four statesmen
either of whom was vastly his superior,
namely: Wiiliam Li. filarcy, James Guthrie,
Jefferson Davis, and Caleb Cushing His
subordinate appointments, too, were to t
large extent of the same type. When dis
tracted by the competition for the various
offices in this city, he cut the knot by sending
to the Senate this list: For Colleotor, Daniel
b. Dickinson; for IS aval Oihcer, Ileman J
Redfield; for Sub-Treasurer, John A. Dix; for
District Attorney, Charles O'Conor. Though
tne programme was disarranged by the de
clension of some of these gentlemen, their
selection showed that the President appre
ciated tne necessity ot tilling important
places with men of undoubted capacity and
etaracter.-
General Harrison was a feeble President.
but he was not ashamed to call around him a
Cabinet so strong that under its shadow he
dwindled into insignificant proportions; and
so he made ebster Secretary of State,
Ewing Secretary of the Treasury, Badger
c . ii. . v- j n:n. i .
oecreiary oi me iavy, auu vrutenuen Attorney-General.
When, by a fortuitous concurrence of cir
eu instances, an inferior man happens to find
himself subjected to the pressuie of heavy
responsibilities, which involve the well-being
of a . great nation, he can give no higher
proof of his littleness than by persistently
refusing to call to his aid statesmen whose
superior endowments will enable him to
master the exigencies of his position.
Either from ignorance, or caprice, or con
tempt of publio opinion, or extreme narrow
ness of soul, or from all these combined,
General Grant, from the very outset of his
civil career, has seemed to prefer for his con
fidential advisers a class of men who, with
scarcely an exception, were uninfluential
with their party, and had no hold upon the
country, while his selections for other im-
Eortant positions at home and abroad have
een of the same type. He has already made
six changes in his Cabinet. Washburn o gave
way to Fish, Stewart to Bout welL Borie paled
before Robeson, and Hoar made room for
Akeiman. borne of these men were so ob
scure that leading politicians of theii own
States bad never heard of them, and well
informed journalists could not oorrectly spell
their names, while the whole Republican
party stood amazed at their selection. And
as vacancies occurred or were created, - the
President, instead of seizing the opportunity
to fill them with a higher grade of statesmen,
has reached lower and lower to find his bene
ficiaries. By what rule is General Grant goyerned in
thus conducting this branch of the publio
service ? Does be not know any better ? Or
is he afraid to call the superior statesmen of
the Republican party to his 6ide, lest the
contrast should more clearly disolose his own
inferiority ? Or does he mean that the men
whom he selects for first-class positions shall
feel that they owe tieir elevation solely to
him, and not at all to their own merits, and
thereby rivet their future political fortunes
closely to his own ?
In either view, does General Grant dream
that this is the true method for building up
and strengthening a party ? Or is he wholly
indifferent to this, and does he look solely to
his owu individual advancement? Rather
should he know that the line of policy he is
pmsuiDg tn this regard is admirably adapted
to break down the Republican party, and is
absolutely certain to end in ruining himself,
and making his renomination au utter im
possibility. SPECIAL NOTIOES.
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tion to this Is requested, anil any one knowing tliolr
present whereabouts will oblige by communicating
B8 nbove.
A. M. Spenrrr, ; James J. Nichols,
JnbeK M. Tipton, -Charles llrown.
O. V. Mjers. Absalom Cryers,
Henry Adler, i.lohn Buker,
Lewis Scarce, . William Koberts,
Snmuel 11. Tiiigrcv, E. S Wilson,
IMnrtln Hart, (1. W. Hopkins Son,
WilHum Dodgla?, L. II. Dresser,
William Chninherlfn, William Hailerty,
Hann i K. Colby, J. H. Painter,
Waller Smith, M. Harnea.
Snmuel 15. Wi'.cox, H. .T. Illack,
Willlnm F. Willis, li. lllnir,
Henry I.ovcl!, ,Mark Ferril!,
.Iplni HoeKeuilorir, .lohn Audeison,
David I.ozen, ! John W. Walrten,
.). 11. Keller, William Seriouer,
William Davis, ; William Callahan,
William Kerry, jjoim II. Jones,
diaries Nodl'iic, l.tohn H. Anxes,
S. Youiifr, A. II. Whltucr.
Sanford Crocks, I 6 2T t
tdT NOTICE Is HEKEBY ;l"ENr THAT AN
application will lie made at the next meeting
of Hie tieiietal Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ao
conini ce with t lie laws of the Commonwealth, to bo
entitled THE M aNAYI'NK HANKING COMPANY,
to lie local ed at Philadelphia, with a capital of one
hundred thousand dollars, with the richt to Increase
the Bame to five hundred thousand dollars.
jjnPENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY, TUKABUEKR'S DEPARTMENT.
Philadelphia, P., Vay 3, 1S70,
NOTICK TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The P.sfird of I'iiottois Lave this daj declared a semi
annual Dividend of FIVE PER CKN'T. on toe Oupital
b'tfcck of the Company, clear of National and State Taxes,
linkable in cash on and after Mar 80, 1870.
liluiik Powers of Attorney for collecting Dlvidonds on
he had at the Office of the Company, No. S3'! South Tuucl
street.
Too Office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at 3
P. M. from May 30 toduue 3, for the pnynient of Dividend,
and after that c!te frpru P A, M. to 3 P. M.
1HOMA.S T. FIRTH,
6 4 60t Traa8nrr.
fVft- NOTICE IS HEREDY GIVEN THAT AN
r.pp'lcntion will be made at the next mooting
Ot the Oi ueral Assembly of the Commonwealth or
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a U -nk, ia ac
cordance w ith the laws of the Commonwealth. 1 1
beeniltlcd'JHECHESNUT 8TREST DANK, to ba
located at 1 hlladelplila, with a capital of one nun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the
same, to five hundred thousand dollars.
OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
AND READING RAILROAD CO., No 227 South
FOURTH Streot.
Philadelphia, Jane 23, 1870.
NOTICE. In nocordunco with the terms of tho loaso
and contract between the East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.
and the Philadulphia and Ruadiog Railroad Oo., dittoil
Slay 19, IStiP, the Philadelphia and Roading Railroad Oo.
will pay at their office, No. 227 South FOURTH st., Phila
delphia, on and after the IPth day of JULY, 1370, a divi
dend of $1'60 per share, cloar of all tales, to the stock
holders of the East Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as thoy
shall stand registered oa the books of the s&id East Penn
sylvania Railroad Co. on the lab day of July, 1370.
All ordors for dividends must be witnossod and
stamped.
S BRADFORD, .
'Procurer.
Note. The trirsfor books of tho East Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. will bo closed on July 1 aad reopuaod on
July 11, 1S70.
HENRY O. JONES,
6 221m Treasurer East I'eoneylvania, Railroad Oo.
pgy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TIIAT AN
application will be made at the next meeiliijr
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth or
Pennsylvania for the incorporation ot a Rank, la
accordance with the laws of tho Commonwe ilth, to
bo entitled THE UNITED STATES HANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital of one million dollars, with the right to lu
ciease the same to live million dollars.
re:-?- PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
w ROAD COMPANY, Ollice No. HI S. FOUHf it
Street, PliilaUe'lphla, June 2i, 1870.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books of this Company will bn closed
on the 7th of July next acd reopened oil Wednes
day, Jnlv 20.
A Dividend of FIVE PETt CENT, has been de
clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of
National and State taxes, payable In cart on and
alter the 22d of July next to the holders thereof as
they stand registered on the books ot the Company
at the close of business on the Tth July next. AU
payable at this ollice.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
Stamped. ti. BRADFORD,
OStflm Treasurer.
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 of a Rank, in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CHESNUT HILL S iVIXQS AND
LOAN BANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
to hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
I- TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTHWASH.
It is tha most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
xtao . Warranted free from injurious ingredients.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth!
Invieorates and Soothes the Cnmsl
Purities and Perfumes the Breath!
Prevents Accumulation of Tartar!
Cleanses and Purines Artiaoial Teeth!
Is a Superior Article for Cbildrsn! '
Sold by all druggists snd dentists.
A. !. W1IJSON. Druggist, Proprietor.
8 1 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Bta Fhiiadolphia.
y NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AST
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly ol the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, ia ac
cordance with the taws of the Comrnoi wealth, to
be entitled THE JEFFERdJN BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars', with the right to increase toe same
to live hundred thousand dollars.
'gay a t o iITe tecessTty. AFTER
nearly thirty years experience, it is now cener illy
admitted that MURRAY A LANMAN'o FLORIDA
WA'lEU is the most refreshing and agreeable of ail
toilet perfumes. It is entirely ditferont from Cologne
Water, and should nevor be confounded with it : the per
fume of the Cologne disappearing in a few moments after
Its application, wbilrt that of the ilorida Water lusts for
many aays. 8 li
BATCIIELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS
splendid Hair Dyei s the beet in ths woJld. Harm
less, reliable, instantaneous, does not ventatn lead, nor
nny viialie poison to produoe paralysis or doaxh. Avoid
the vaunted and deloxive preparations boasting virtues
t hey do not possess. 'Tne genuine W. A. Batooelor's Hair
uye oas naa in irty years untarnioneos reputation io up
hold its integrity as the only Perfect Hair Dye Elack or
Brown. Sold by ail Druuiikta. Applied at lio. It! UOSO
Btxeet. New York
stfmwfS
THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COM
PANY has declared a quarterly Dividend of
TWO AND A HALF PER CENT., payable at the
Otilce, No. 8U3 WALNUT street (upstairs), on aud
after Friday, July 15, 1-iTO.
29 wrmut L. CHAMBERLAIN, Treasurer.
gy HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTOACTING
Teeth with fresh Nitrous-Oxide Gas. Abboluuriy
no pain. Dr. F. &. TUOMAK, formerly operator at tbe
Colt on Dental Rooms, devotea his entire practice to the
am less extraction oi teeth. Offioa, No. fell WALNUT
IreeL 1 iai
OENT.'S FURNISHING QOOD8.
pAXENT UlIOULDEU'ShAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND. GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement at very short notice.
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
GOODS in lull variety.
ii a
No. TOO CI1ESNI' I' Street.
SHIPPING.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington,
D. (J., vim ChaAAiiMMka m.nA I luiumr,. r.. lnMl
mu connections at "exanuria iroiu toe most diruut
rente for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, Nashville, Dal
tuo, and tbe Bouthwest.
Steamers leave reKularl every Saturday t noon from
the brat wharf above Market street.
Freight received Alf p 0LYDR 4 (JO.,
No. 14 North and South W 11 A K YES.
11TDF A TVI.KU, Agents at tlnorgetewn; M.
ELDIUDGK A GO., Ac Ut Alexandria, til
- . . , '
OORDAQE, ETC.
17EAVER-& CO.,
ix o rr :RiAiurAVTViRs
AND
sun ic Aai.;ns,
No. 9 North WATER Ftreci and -
No. 23 North WHARVES, Phlladeipn
i - M
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW t.
FiGCES. 41 -J
CORDAGE.
J
Tttnillft, Sisal and Tarred Cordafj
At lowest New York Prices and Frolfchu.
1 EDWIN U. Kltl.Klt p TO.,
Faotory, TFKT11 St. and GKRMANTOWW Arenas.
Store, No. 3 . WATKR St and Sa N. 1) EL 4. WAR
Avenua - -
SHIPPING.
WH. - I " TTI T r T0 a 1 .
msMesrte
FOB
IV M W V O 18, K
SAILING F.VF.RY TUI'SBAY THURSDAY, AND
are now receiving freight at
5 frnts prr 100 pounds,
'4 rt-nta prr loot, or l-vi rent vr .ii!1ob, ahls
001)0,,,
lfi&URANCK X OF 1 PK CKNT.
Fxira rates on email packages iron, metals, etc
No reipt or bill of hiding signed for Iws than SO eante.
Ihe Line would call attention of merchants generally to
the fact that hereafter the rrcular sbippoi by this Una
Bill be chared en'y 10 uccts per No lba., or 4 oant per
foot, t'uriug the w:ntrr seasons.
Vor furlhw parMoulare apply t
,.,, iTOH.j p. our.
Ff PHILADELPHIA AN)) SOUTH "TrN
1. LiSa. M A ! I t: I'll1 a Hii'iim . ......
I.AK bKMl-MOJiTHLY L1.K
Ti NEW OR-
cndy11 M" fr New O1"" . on
on JwJuW I"'" Sail frm NeW rle"" Ti
'illHOUeill U1LLS OF HDIJfG at as lowraloa. h.
any other route given to Moliilo, Galveston. IudinnnlaT iJi
yarca.nnd Rrazos. and to all points on the Ali issippi river
bit wceuf.ew Orleans and t-t. 1-ouis. Ked Kivor Ireigbte
reshippid at New Orleans without char of commissions?
T. S'fXlUJJ1!? TO8AVANNAII, G.
di?yhJn'kpNAWAliU W'U Sa" h0m SaTnnnah " Satur
TiihOUGIl BILLS CF LADING c-iren to all theprin
cipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Kiorid.i, Mississippi.
I ouirinna, Arkansas, and Tet,nossoe in conned ion with
tho Centrnl I Railroad of Georgia, Atlantic and Uulf Rail
bues. lurlda oteouiers, at as low rates as by competing
N. O.
T.?iS1.1.-Vi.Rw'tl Bail f'Y'lmin,on on Tuosdiy.
d"y July Pth Returning, will leave Wilmington Satur
Connects with the Cnpe Fear River Stearaboit Oota.
rrnny, the Wilmington rnd Weldon and North Ourolini
Railroads, and the llmiuKton and Manchester Railroad
to nil mte'ior points.
Freights for Columbia, S. O., and Angnsta, Oj,, taken
via W ilrtiini:tn, at as low rates as by any other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Billn
of lading signed at tjuecn struet wharf on or before day
of Bailing.
WILLIAM L. JAMKS, General Agent.
6 15 Wo.iao South T1.HR D btroot.
rTMJE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI-
jl LrturuiiiA A1J CllAKLKSl'ON STEAM
SHIP LINK are A LO.NK authorized to Usue tltroujra
bills of ladirjjr to Interior points South and West In
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
ALk-REO L. TYLER. .
lce-Pretldent So. C. RR, Co. "
fff ""-ATbELPHIA'AND CHARLESTON
SfcLki STEAMSHIP LINE.
'1 his line Is now composed of tho following first
clnss steamships, sntiinp; from PIEU 17, boiow
Npnice street, on FRIDAY of each wet'k at 8
A, M. :
ASHLAND, 800 tns, Captain Crowell.
J. W. EVERMAN, fii)2 tons. Captain Hincklev
PROMETHEUS, oo tons, Captain Ora " T'
JULY, 1670.
Prometheus, Friday, July 1.
J. W. Everruan, Friday, July 9.
Prometheus, Friday, Jul v is.
J. W. Evennai, Friday, July 22.
Prometheus, Friday, July ..
Through bills of lading given to Columbia, S. C .
LoutlnvcHt!1' f Georgla' auJ 011 Pmts Soulu
Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch.
Rates as low us by any oilier route.
Insurance one-half percent. lU'cctcd at the offloa
in first-class companies.
Ko freight received nor bills of lading signed after
3 P. W. on day of snlilng. L1all'or
SOLDER A- ADAMS, Agontt,
No. 3 D ;CK Street.
. Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE & CO..
WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, AgeaYVnCharlos
3n. 6 24
fif. F0U LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS
sT ' ,it 1 rl-TOWN.-lnman line of Mail Steamets are ap.
pointed to sail aafollows:
Oity of lirooklyn. haturdsy, July 9, 1 P.M.
City ot Baltimore, via Haliiaxrnosriay, July 13, 1 P. M.
City of Brussels. Satnrdny, July Iti, 8 A. M.
City of Wasbi: gtn, 8sturlv, July H, 1 P.M.
And each succeeding baturclay and alternate Tnesdci
from Pier i5. North Hirer.
RATKtS OF PASSAGE.
K THE IfAIX. 8TllB SAILING VM .iTTI8M.
Payr.ble in Gold. Payable ia OuiTeno.
FIRST OALJN ;.$1C0 I 8TKKRAGB .ZV'tM
To linden. 105 To Ionlou
To Pans H5 T0 Paris 47
IfA&SA GK BY TUB TCTEuU. fTBAVt-K, Vli HALIFAX.
FIKbT CABIN, STEKKAUK.
Payable in Gold. Payable in (Jurreuot.
Liverpool 80 Liverpool 9,,
Htihfsi 20 I lUlilax ;.......!
bfc. John's, M. F., I St. John's, N. F., J
by Rrancn Steamer.. ..( ""I . by Branch Steamer... .f u
Passengers also forwarded to LUvre, Hamburg, H reman,
to , at reduced ratos.
Tickets can be booht here at moderate rates by persona
wishing to tend for their friends.
For fbr particulars aypy fttha Company's Offleet
ii-tii j. Agent,
Or to
41
No. In ltr,if!ri N V
O'DONNFILA FAULK, AktaU.
J? i!u:!slj' Philadelphia,
WH riilLAUELFHIA, RICHMOND,
W 'fT-r aiND NORrOnK 8TKANHfP Ll NF
'lithoWiH REIGUT AIR LINE TO TUlC SOUTil
lLliHAbEi) FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES
FOR 1T0.
bt earners leave every W FDNF.riDAYand SATURDAY
i '"'olock noon, iroiu I IRST WHARF above A1A&-
at
KKT Street.
iifcTL'KM.NO, leave
ve HICHMilNIi MONniva ..
THUpDAYH, and NORFOLK 'iUitbLAVS and BA
No Bills of Lading aimed after la o'clock on sailing
THROUGH RATF.3 to all points in North and South
Carolina, v:a Seaboard Air Line Riii. road, couuectin ,
'irtbiiiOulb,and l Lynchburg, Va., Tenneseoe, end tbe
Wtibt.via Virginia and 1 t-riusre Air Line axia Aiicbmond
and Danville Kailrund.
Freight UAJ.Di.KD BUTO CK, snd taken atLOWRK
RATi-.S TUAS A O'lUUt LiAlt. " "
No charge for cowniUsioc, drayace, or au; expense ot
lauwtr.
hteanishipa insure at lowest rates.
Freight rectived iuul.
btate Room accommodation, f or pa.senr
No. 12 8. WUAR t-oand PiarlN. WilaKVKS.
W. p. Pti; I FR, Afc-ett at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROW KLL ,1 CO.. Agents at Nun oik. l&
j fc F O R NEW Y
O R K,
Canal.
(r ia Delaware snd Rarltan Ca
gl'mr " pit.iMDUAi uuarAay,
ii.uMti.iii Propellers of the line will communes load
ing 6n the 8th instant, leaviu daily as usual.
lUhOUuil LN TWKWTVFOUR HOUHS.
Goods forwaided by all the lines goinerutof New York
North, K&rX, or W est-, tree of commission.
Freights received at low rutts.
WILLIAM P. CLYDK A Co., Agents,
No. South DELAWARE Avenue.'
JAMKS HAND, Agent.
Ko. lit WALL Street. New ork, . 8 ti
--9 w FOR NEW YORK. VIA DELA-
tf ware and Raritan Canal.
,y. bWIFTSURK TRANSPORTATION COM-
PANV.
DESPATCH AND 8WIFTSURK LINKS.
Leaving daily at 12 M. and P. M. .
The stetm propellers of this company will eommenoa
oading on tbe 8th ot March.
'1 hiuUKb in twenty-tour honr. -Goods
forwarded to any point free ot oommiMiona.
Freights taken oa accommodating terms.
Apply to wiTjUaM m. BAIRD A CO., Agents,
4 No. 132 South DkLAWAREvenna
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TOW BO AT CO VJPAN Y.-Baivee
towed between Philadeluhia. Baltimore.
iavru-tie-Urece, I'Oianir. luy, anu muinuvuMii. pifiuui,
HILI.1AN f. L l.llllt A UU., Agents.
. .. ; V .IWILil IU W ....l.nH u. .
Otnoe, tio. 12 South Wharves, Pniladelpbifc
411
COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
of all numbers and brands. Tent. Awning, Trans:
and Waion-eover Dock. Also, Taoer Uanufaotawa'
Diier Belts, from thirty to seventy six taebea. wltfe
Paulina. UeWtWl . w EVKRMAM.
Ho. 10 OttUbOU Street (Oil blare