THE DAlLiY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDaT, JULY 15, 1870.
srx&TT or inn muss.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day Tor the Evening Telegraph. .
'MODERATE DRINKING."
Prn the K. T, Ti ibune.
The temperance discussion has .received a
new class of essayists. (Small journalists,
who have their column per week to fill, ani
whose idea of "life" is to ape the Parisian
swell at a very great distance, assanlt the
question from the standpoint of their last
bottle of hock, or hotel hop, "where young
men and maidens drink champagno and
danoe the Oerninn.'' "Do they, "triumphantly
cries one of these admirable reasoners, "get
troonk ash pigs? Am I carried insensible to
bed by my family ?" To which we can of
course only answer that we do not know.
The remainder of the column is filled
with equally powerful arguments, by
which moderate drinkers are assured
that they are engaged in as praiseworthy an
occupation as going upon a railroad journey,
and one no more likely to result in harm. We
are farther informed, and with regret, that
the "aquariaa atmosphere" of this country is
such that it prevents our knowing what
"moderate" or any other kind of drinking
really is, and are finally told that aquarianism
is proper for J. B. Gough, as he has no alter
native between total drunkenness and total
abstinence; but it is absurd for said Gough to
measure hock-drinking journalists or their
world by his standard. "Because thou art
virtuous, shall I, Sir Toby, have no more
cakes and ale?"
"We do not suppose that even the "social
class of young men and maidens who drink
champagne and dance the German" could be
seriously affected by such arguments as these.
There is, however, a tendency of late worth
attention among a really rational and earnest
class of thinkers, who are but partially in
formed on the Bubject, to react against the
vehement outcry of the temperance advo
cates. They question, not unnaturally,
whether God made anything absolutely a
curse. "Is alcohol not a necessary dietetic
agent ? Can the moderate use of it by those
to whom it is harmless be properly inveighed
against as a sin?" To which we answer that
there has probably been too much talk
of the crime of drinking. Our grandfathers,
if they happened to be English, Irish, or Ger
man, drank port, or whisky, or lager, to a
good old age with no worse perceptible effects
very likely than gout or chronic ill-temper.
But in later years, especially in America, the
effect is different; not, we think, owing so
much to a deterioration in the liquor as to
climatic influences. The first outbreak of
the temperance movement assumed the form
of an unreasoning religious crusa3e. The
wrongs of the drunkard's wife and family
blinded the reformer to the greater sufferings
of the wretched victim himself. lie was held
up to scorn and execration as the
chief of sinners; urged to repent and
hold his hand precisely as he would
from theft or any other moral delin
quency. If he reformed and afterward went
back to the accursed thing, he was mourned
without hope at death as having gone to re
ceive the punishment of damnation. Now,
in nine cases out of ten, the man should sim
ply have been placed under the care of a phy
sician, precisely as if he had been an heredi
tary victim to scrofula or consumption. It is
but of late years that the question has been
brought under scientific treatment, but it is
already removed beyond the sphere of irra
tional invective of temperance orators on one
hand, and the vaporing defense of ignorant
young men on the other. The treatise of Dr.
Elam n a "Physician's Problems," published
in London last year, is probably the
most complete essay on "Oinomania"
yet issued, though it only meets the
Bubject incidentally. " I assert," he
says, "that this disease is almost
as'well and characteristically marked, in its
physical aspects, as small-pox is in its physi
cal, that it is hereditary, and that its victims
unjustly crowd our criminal assemblies. The
instincts of ' an oinomaniao seem to be as
violent and little under control from the in
tellect or will as that of a carnivorous animal
when it tastes blood." The alcohol-poison
acts, as any careful observer must have
noted, as rapidly upon the will as upon the
blood and stomach. We urge this subject,
gloomy and distasteful as it is, upon our
readers, and shall not cease to urge
it. It cannot too soon be made a popular
conviction that alcohol is not only "liquid
damnation," but the generator of an
incurable physical disease, always in some
form transmitted to the offspring. Every au
thority upon the subjeot coincides in the
opinion that the habit of moderate drinking,
apparently harmless in the parent, manifests
itself invariably in oinomania, or in epilep
tic or insane tendencies. We ourselves
know cases where the grandfather yet lives,
a hale, hearty tipplar,and children and grand
children, in spite of moral and religious
training, have gone down the same inexo
rable path, devoured by the irresistible crav
ing for drink. "For this disease," saya Dr.
Elam, "there ia but one cure: total and en
tire restraint, so as to prevent for a long
period any possibility of indulgence in the
depraved habits." We trust the day is not
far off when chronic alcoholic poisoning will
be as fully mastered as any other disease by
our. physicians, and that the poor boy who
feels the first awful craving may have no more
shame in placing himself under medical care
than he would if threatened with any other
ailment. Let science at least do what it can
to aid him in his struggle with Death, though
we legalize a grogshop at every corner to
tempt him downward.
There is no laok of statistics to prove the
effect of "harmless moderate drinking" upon
the next generation, ihe spirit duty was re.
moved in Norway in 1825. In the next gene
ration the inorease of insanity was above 50
percent, advance on the previous proportion;
the increase of congenital idiocy 150 percent.
In Sweden, in the same time, Magnus IIuss
testifies that "for this cause the whole phy
eique of tLe people is degenerating; insanity,
suicide, and crime are fnchtfullv on the in
crease; new and aggravated diseases have in
vaded all classes of society, and congenital
imbecility and idiocy are in fearful propor
tion to tne numuers Dorn. .moderate drink
ing, says an eminent authority on diseases of
the brain, sometimes produces in one or more
rt (Via rhildren of tha nfirsnn thna iadnlrrinn
only simple neuropathy, or a vicious an3
defective organization, but these, when due to
such an origin, are capable to giving rise in the
next or third generation to affections of the
mind of the gravest possible significance.
' For the hereditary victims of this disease
there is but one treatment watchfulness
from the very hour of birth, and untiring
patience. They are born to a .heritage of
ima than the bitterness of death in their
lives, and whether they oonquer or fall, de
orvA nnl v heln and compassion. Neither for
the "nioaerate drinker," who,' for the mere
pleasure of tickling his palate, has entailed
tbis curse upon its victim, have we any word
of reprobation. God will judge him.
OUR CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.
From thf A'. F. Timet.
Although the vexed question . of Chinese
immigration is at present attracting much
attemion, there appears to be a marked ten
dency on the part of both writers and speak
ers to ignore its consideration from that point
of view which must, after all, be the one
which can alone affect our official action in
the matter. The Government of the United
States has solemnly recognized China as a
treaty power, firstly by the treaty of the 18th
June, 188, and more recently by tue "Addi
tional Articles," signed by Mr. Burlingameon
behalf of the Chinese Jbraperor, in July,
1 and promulgated by the United States
Charge d'Aff aires at Pekin in November last.
While, therefore, the pressure of
public opinion may effect the modification
or abrogation of agreements which tend to
the injury of American interests, we are
bound, so long as they remain in force, to
act up to their provisions. Muoh useless
declamation haa been expeaded in the at
tempt to prove that Chinese immigration
should be rebisled on tne score of certain ae-
praved characteristics of the cooho. But
these do not in tue least an ect ms political
status, guaranteed as it is, under certain con
ditions, by treaty agreement. As regards the
allegations put forth, it' would rather soeni
that the balance of proof lies in favor of the
much-abused immigrant. He is reported by
those who have had the opportunity of ob
serving ms class in Cnma, to be sober, hard
working, and fully up to the average of
laboring populations in other countries as
regards morality and freedom from the com
mission ot violent crimes; wnile lie has
proved, in this country, a docile and
peaceable resident, 'Ihe primary question
at issue, apart from that of wages, is, there
fore, how far the laws of the United States,
as affected by our agreements with the
Chinese Government, compel us to receive
the Chinaman among us as a resident or citi
zen. Upon this point a few remarks may tend
to clear up a wide-spread misund irstunding.
Ihe fifth article ot the Burlingame con
vention explicitly recognizes the right of
both Chinese and Americans to change their
homes and allegiance, and also the "mutual
advantage of the free migration of their
subjects and citizens from tUe one country to
the other." The contracting parties repro
bate "any other than an entirely voluntary
emigration," and make it a penal olfeuse for
an American citizen "to take Chinese sa!
jects to the United States or to any other
loreign country, without their nee ami voluu
tary consent." No provision whatever is made
regarding contracts or engagements. Our
law does not recognize any contract made in
(.hina, and that probably was ueld t-i be
sufficient. But, on the other baud, t,hre is
nothing to prohibit such contracts being
signed; ana all residents in unina are awara
that, owing to the poculiar social orgini.aious
of the people, the emigrant coolie will bold
himself bound by these agreements.
To engage "contract coolies is, therefore,
neither absolutely nor constructively illegal,
and provided they leave China with their
own "free and voluntary consent," we are
bound, by the article quoted, to admit them
as residents in the United States. The suc
ceeding article of the convention, however,
contains a clause which, if enforced, may be
used to forbid Chinese immigration alto
gether, or to deny them the rights of citizen
ship. It is therein provided that "citizens
of the United States in Uhina snail enjoy tha
same privileges, immunities, or exemptions
in respect to travel or residence as may there
be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects ot tue
most favored nation." Now it is notorious
in China that while Americans and British
subjects are stringently prohibited from
residing in the interior, a large number ot
Russian traders reside not merely at Kaigon,
on the great highway between China and
Russia, but at inland cities in the vicinity of
the Upper Yangtzu river. The well-known
fear entertained by China of Russian aggres
sion is, of course, the reason which insures
them this privilege, though the British Min
ister recently endeavored to show that Ame
ricans or British subjects were as much at
liberty to reside there as were the Russians.
But what are the facts ? Passports granting
permission of residence have' invariably been
refused by both our own and the British re
presentatives, notably on the ground that the
Chinese authorities would refuse to vise
them. It cannot, therefore, be held that
China performs her part of the reciprocal
agreement, and the United States Govern
ment is, consequently, at liberty to exercise
a similar discretion in withholding troni
Chinese immigrants a certain portion of
the rights or immunities granted to other
aliens.
This being the case, it becomes a grave
question as to how far this power, conferred
upon us by Chinese bad faith, should be ex
ercised. To oppose free immigration would
be as futile as ungenerous. But there are
some points which demand consideration.
The two great issues raised by Chinese immi
gration are: the danger of the immigrants
acquiring political influence which they are
incompetent to wiold with discretion, and
their eflect upon the labor market, it is
much easier to deal with the former than
the latter question. But it must be remem
bered that similar questions have already
arisen, and have settled themselves accord
ing to the inevitable laws which regu
late demand and supply. When Irish
immigration became a grand fact, much
grumbling arose on the part of native-born
artisans and laborers, who saw in the influx a
certain reduction of their wages. In like
manner the Irish workmen opposed the tide
of German immigration less vigorously, it
is true, than they now oppose the Chinese,
because the new-comers were able to take
care of themselves but none the less cor
dially and yet there is room for more. The
alarm with regarl to an overwhelming influx
of Chinese is wholly unnecessary, and we
very much doubt whether native American
workiag-men are taking any part in the
present outcry.
MILITARY RECIPROCITIES THE NEW
ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
From the N. 7. UtraUL
Yesterday morning, bright and early, the 7 th
Regiment, Colonel Emmons Clark command-
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lng, Degan tneir pieasaiit jaunt to rtuia
delphia and Cape May. Should the weather
Drove as brilliant as it hes been Bince Mon
day last, this military trip will be a most
dashing and delightful all air, as agreeable,
no doubt, to the Philadelphians as to our gal
lant 7th. Their manly bearing and martial
proficiency, the aereeable associations of
former days in peace and war, the superb
music that will accompany them and the ex
uberant spirits and gentlemanly grace that
distinguish "the boys ' at the bivouao as on
the battle field, in the boudoir as oa the
march, will all contribute to honor the cour
tastes which the refinement of the Quaker
City and of "the Cape may offer them.
This handsome affair will be spoedily fol
lowed by another of similar nature, but sur
rounded with special interest because of the
noble opportunity it affords to show how
completely brave men forget all rancor when
honorable conflict is over, and hail as com
raclf s and friends in time of peace the adver
saries who bad been worthy of their steel in
time of war. The famous 5th Maryland Regi
ment, Ceuerftl Herbert commanding, of Bal-
tnnoie. will also vi--it Philadelphia on the 2lst
instant, and there be roceived and enter
tained by tho 8th Pennsylvania, Colonel
Grev. The 5th Maryland served with dis
tinction in the advance of Johnston's corps
in tLe Valley of Virginia, and was of tho
flower and pride of btonewaU Jackson s re-
nowLf-d brigade. Its officers aud mon are
alike eminent for their soldierly and gentle
manly qualities, and they to-day march lightly
and lhmly to the music of the Union with the
national Hag of Stars and Stripes at the head
of the column. They, too, will extend their
journey to Cape May, and there camp out in
pood old service style, with a round of re
views and festivities to mark their stay.
It is with unfeigned satisfaction that we
bail these agreeable evidences of a return to
the era of good feeling bctwoen fellow-
countrymen. It was but the other day that
Feme New Orleans guests were publicly en
tertained in this city, and from our exchanges
w e lenrn that similar "merry meetings" are
everywhere replacing the "stern alarums" of
n few years gone. This is as it should be,
among men v ho have been tried in the fire
and have learned to know their new associ
ates whose hands they clasp on the occasions
by seeing them "rush past w ith the light of
battle on their faces."
But why should not the 5th Maryland be
invited to our city ? What say our National
Guard ? Here is a golden chance for a worthy
anil chivalric net. The great metropolis which
poured out her blood and treasure in such
unbounded fulness to maintain the I nion and
the flag mny here set a proud example. Our
people would make the reception a gala day
of hearty enjoyment to one and all, and the
youth of the nation, as in after years they
recall the scene, would be none the less de
voted, none tho less sincere in their country s
cause for having learned, by practice as well
us by precept, that courtesy is the very crown
of kniuhtly honor and that the bravest are
btill the gentlest when the fray is past.
THE CONNECTICUT MARRIAGE LAWS.
F rem the X. Y. M'orUU
The present state of tho marriage and
divorce laws formed tho text of a somewhat
lively discussion in the Connecticut House
cn Tuesday. In a debate on the "Married
Women's Property bill," which seeks to
assimilate the laws under that head to those
in force in New York, its opponents took
stmng ground upon the civil nature of
the mnriiage contract which, under Con
necticut law, confers upon a hwsband the
income of his wife's personal estate, and
makes him trustee of her real property, with
a life iutcrest after her death Mr. Seymour
proposed an amendment making the bill apply
only to future marriages, which was carried,
whereupon one of its supporters, Mr. Eaton,
moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed,
on the ground lhat if the Legislature were
not ready to do right he would give up the
bill. This was carried by a majority who are
ready to retain upon their statute book a law
which even in conservative England is op
posed by a large section, if not a majority,
of the intelligent classes, and will, it is be
lieved, be speedily repealed.
Singularly enough this discussion, which
resulted in delaying a needed reform tending
to better the condition ot married woman,
w as followed by another which in like manner
prevented the repeal of a most objeotionable
clause in the divorce law. A substitute bill
was introduced repealing tha provision that
cause for divorce might consist in "such con
tluct as permanently destroys the happiness
of the petitioner and defeats the purposes of
the marriage relation" a clause under which,
we need hardly observe, imbecility resulting
from disease or accident subsequent to mar
riage might find an unquestioned place. Mr.
Brewster, who spoke with much energy in
favor of repeal, admitted, indeed, that ' 'Con
necticut was called the Indiana of New Eng
land;" but 77 out of 130 were indifferent
to the taunt, and tho wives of Con
necticut may still be put away on easy
grounds. A practical illustration of the
working of this clause was, in fact, afforded
during a recent afternoon session. A gen
tleman named Preston, whose wife had be
come insane on the death of her child, desired
a divorce, and the resolution to that effect
was reported on favorably. A member, with
more bluntness than consideration for the
feelings of the husband who had so delicately
insinuated the views he takes of the marital
contract, observed "that if his wife became
insane because of the birth of his child, and
he should ask for a divorce, he should expect
the curse of God to follow him to the end of
the earth." But that member doubtless be
longs to a persuasion whose marriage service
is of that old-fashioned class which is so un
adapted to modern progress that it presumes
a promise of love and protection to the wile
for a lifetime. Mr. Preston, of course, does
not; but it will, we fear, be a source of an
noyance to him that two out of every three
people he meets will be sure to belong to the
old-fashioned class of Benedicts.
LAW VERSUS JUSTICE.
From the X. Y. World.
In the case of Dr. Paul Schoeppe, the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania has refused the
writ of error applied for, and affirmed the
judgment of the court below, and ordered
the death sentence to be enforced; and this
for what reason, think you ? Why, simply,
because of forty-eight hours delay in the pas
sage of an act of the Legislature avowedly
intended to provide for a revision of this very
case. By former s"tute the Supreme Court
could reopen the judgment of an inferior
criminal tribunal only for errors of law,
without power to investigate facts. To meet
the obvious hardship of this rule as applied
to Dr. Schoeppe's position, the Legislature
passed an act that in all cases of murder
"now pending" or in the future to be ad
duced on writ of error before the Supreme
Court both the law and the evidence should
be reviewed. This act was vetoed by Gover
nor Geary, and re-enacted over bis veto on
the 15th of February last. But two days
before its final passage a writ had been denied
by the Supreme Court under the old law, so
that when the legislative decree actually came
in force the Schoeppe case was no longer
"pending." And it ia on this quibble that
the same court now refuses to entertain a
second motion brought under the existing
law, -of which Judge Agnew, its appointed
administrator, complains that "it has changed
the whole doctrine of the criminal law as
to the speed and certainty of punishment."
Now, the act may be a very bad act in its
general application, and may deserve imme
diate repeal, but there can be no manner of
doubt that in the case in question its opera
tion would be an affair of simple iustice.
Condemned in the face of the strongest excul-
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patory testimony, the trial of Dr. Schoeppe haa
since been more widely and more thoroughly
reviewed probably than any similar one that
ever occurred. Commissions of experts have
been appointed by ecientifio associations
throughout the country to investigate and re
port upon its every detail; lawyers and physi
cians have weighed it in all of its bearings;
and the verdict has been unanimous that not
a scintilla of evidence exists to justify the
conviction of murder.
By this action of the court the fate of tha
unfortunate prisoner is left in Governor
Geaiy'h 1 pi.dn, Bd it is to Ve hopod that his
Excclleiicy's rescnlineut ng.int the Legisla
ture for Laving disregarded his veto will not
prevent Lin exercising that "ulemoucy" which
in the present instance would seem little nioro
than bare jug ice. -
HOW THE WEST 1 TAXED.
From On Ci-iM-jo T.en iiif) Tost.
TLe action of the Senate and the TInisi is
conclusive as to what the income sax thatl bo.
But in p.ito of the fact that tne rate pir omi
is low, mid that the exemptions are too large,
the organs of the bondholders are loud in
their expression of disgust and dissatisfaction.
Their growling will chaDge nothing. Tho in
come tax is as just and righteous a tax as was
ever imposed; and in the case of our own
countiy it affords, as we have again and again
explained, the onlv method of reaching thou
sands of men of large wealth who otherwise
would pay nothing whatever to the Govern
ment to which they owe everything.
If one thousand millions of Federal bonds
ore held abroad, the remainder are held here;
and except the five to six hundred millions
used by banks, insurance, and trust compa
nies, all are in the hands mainly of rich
men, many of whom bought them at a figure
less than half their nominal value. Nearly
all the bonds of the country have passed out
of the hands of the original subscribers, many
of whom in buying them were animated by
truly patriotic motives. Not less than eight
hundred to a thousand millions are owned
by Croesus, Mammon & Co., and the cause of
the outcry of this great firm is the simple
fact that the Government wants a small por
tion of what they ought to yield for its sup
port; and their owners squeal as if it were
really statesmanship and good political eco
nomy to throw all the cost of maintaining
peace and order upon the day laborer, the
miner, and the farmer, to the complete ex
emption of the bondholders who can be
reached in no way except that which Congress
has adopted. We deny the justice of their
complaint, and we demand thut the tax shall
be maintained!
Gentlemen of tho manufacturing and com
mercial States in which nearly all the Federal
bonds are held .' i he West is not content to be
classed, for its opposition to the repeal of this
tax, with the carpet-baggers of the South,
Upon the agriculture and the gold and silver
mining ot the country the great burden of
taxation falls. Agriculture is the bed-rock in
our economy; and everything in the way of
taxation goes aown to it. ihe flippant senb
biers in the East who write editorials for pro
tected manufacturers, for monopolists in paper
money, for railroad plunderers, for the hordes
of salaried men, for city and village land
lords, and especially for bondholders, do not
seem to know that, in the present ordering
oi inings oy ejongress, tneir readers nave
the power to shove their burdens off upon
somebody else ; and that they invariably do
6o the load falling upon one, and another
and another as it descends, until it rests at
last upon the labor of the men who work
mines and till the soil. The miners whose
gold and silver are fixed by an unvarying
standard of value which no legislation, not
concurred in by the rest ot the world, can
materially change; and the other men whose
wheat, corn, meats, cotton, tobacco, and
petroleum have their prices regulated in the
supply and demand therefor at Liverpool,
have nobody upon w hom their load can be
shoved off. Manufacturers who have pro
tection averaging . nearly . fifty per cent.,
bankers who have the monopoly of drawing
interest on what they owe, raiiroad consoli
dationists and plunderers all these have the
great producing classes beneath them, to
which classes the taxes are nearly all con
signed by the skilfully regulated machinery
of trade. In all commercial and financial
pursuits, the taxes are charged to expense
account, and the profits are to that extent
increased. Railroads replace their taxes by
larger rates of freight and fare.
Among salaried men and all others down to
ihe miner and the tiller of the soil this pro
cess goes on: ana on these last the heavy
load rests they are the substratum, and there
is nobody beneath them. The gold and
silver miners' products are affected in price
by nothing whatever. The prices of farm
products are fixed at Liverpool, and no mat
ter what the state of affairs here, rates are
unchangeable until Liverpool consents. Bat
the prices of whatever, they buy are fixed by
causes operating here at home; and thus, as they
are the great consumers of manufactures as
they are the great producers of raw material,
their candle is burned by taxes at each end.
Selling in one market, and buying in another,
they are the victims of plunderers who use
their power without mercy. Is it any won
der, Buch being the case, that the West
should stand for an income tax ? Will it b6 a
wonder, by and by, when it can safely do so
in justice to existing interests that bad law
has built up, if it demands as an act of jus
tice an amendment of the Constitution and a
direct tax ?
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
5?- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Til IT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a bank. In ac
cordance with the laws of tbe Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE BR1DESBUR4 BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to
live hundred thousand dollars.
gs AN IMPORTANT NOTICE.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
The following named persons, If they were on the
Balk ARCHIBALD URAUIE, which left Ban Fran
clsco, California, in 1SS5, or their next of ktn, will
find It to their advantage to address or call upon
ROBERT 8. LEAUUE &. COMPANY, No. 134 South
SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia.. Immediate atten
tion to this la requested, and any one knowing their
present whereabouts will oblige by communicating
fts fthnvft.
A. M. Snencer.
i J antes J. Nichols,
Jabez M. Tipton,
O. K. Myers,
Henry Adler,
Lewis Scarce,
Samuel B. Plngrey,
Martin Hart,
William Douglas,
William Chauiberlin,
Daniel K. Colby,
Walter Smith,
Samuel It. Wilcox,
William F. Willis,
Henry Lovell,
John Dockendorff,
David Lozen,
J. II. Keller,
William Davis,
William Ferry,
Charles Nodlne,
A. b. Young,
fcanford Crocks,
e nanes urown,
Absalom Cryers,
John Baker,
William Roberts,
K. S. Wilson,
G. W. Hopkins & San,
L. B. Dresser,
William ltafferty,
J. 11. Painter,
M. Barnes.
H. J. Black,
R. Blair,
Mark Ferrlll.
John Anderson,
John N. Walden,
William Scrioner,
William Callahan,
Jonn H. Joues,
John H. Anxes,
A, U. WUttner.
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WARD ALE O. MCALLISTER,
Attorney and (Jonnsaiiw at Law,
t Yeik,
8PEOIAL NOTICES.
gy- OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
AND READING RAILROAD OO., N 887 Sooth
FOURTH Street.
PHrLAnrxrmA, Jane 23, 1970.
fiOTICK. In accordance with the terms of tbe lease
and contract between tbe Kast PennKyWania Railroad Oo.
and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co., dated
Msy 19, 1H69, tbe Philadelphia end Rpadinff Railroad Oo.
will pay at their offloe, No. 827 South FOURTH et., Phila
delphia, on and after the 19th day of JULY, 187U, a divi
dend of $l'5Uper share, clear oi all taies, to the stock
holder! of the East Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as they
stall stand registered on the books of the said Raat Penn
sylvania Railroad (Jo. on the lft day of July, 1870.
All orders for dividends mast be witnessed and
stamped.
S BRADFORD.
Treiwurer.
Note. The trrsfer books of tho Kast Pennsylvania
Railroad Oo. will be closed on Jnly 1 and reopened on
July II, i;o.
HKNRY O.JON US,
6 2:t1ra Treasurer East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
" application will be made at the next meeting
'f the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, la ac
tiTciauce with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
eillHedTHE BULL'S UEAO BANK, to be located
nt Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred ttion
f:uhI dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
i : hundred thousand doHars.
Vcyr PHILADELPHIA AND RF.ADINTRaT
ROAD COMPANY, OUUe No. SKT S. FOURrtl
Street, Philadelphia, June 29, 1S70.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed
on the 7th of July next aril reopeued oa Wednes
day, Julv 20.
A Dividend of FIVE PER CUNT, has been de
clared on Ihe Preferred and Common Stock, clear of
National Hnd State taxes, pavable In caih on and
alter the 22d of July next to the holders thereof as
they statu! registered on the books ot the Company
at the close of business on the Till July next. All
payable at this oillce.
Ail orders for dividends must be witnessed and
stamped. 8. BRADFORD.
6 y lni Treasurer.
v2y NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN T II AT AX
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a B.tnk, la ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK,
to be located nt Philadelphia, with a capital of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with the right
to increase the same to one million dollars.
je- THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUI3IIER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extisgulbher. Always Reliable.
D. T. OAQS,
BSOtf No. 119 MARKTIT St., General Ageut
gt2? TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTIIWASH.
It is tbe most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrioa
estan t. Warranted tree trom injurious ingredients.
It Preserves and bitens toe Teeth!
Inviiorates and Soothes the Gnmsl
Purities and Perfumes the Breathl
Prevents Aoonmulationof Tartar!
Cleanses and Purities Artificial Teeth'
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Bold by all drmrgixts and dentists.
8 3 lorn
A.m. HiLiiun, urnKKisi, i-ronneior.
Dor. MJNTH AND ULllKK I
' hta Philadelphia.
rhV NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
"" application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth or
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER BANK, to
be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to increase
tue same to uve nunureu tnousana aoiiars.
teg" BATCIIELOR'S HAIR DYE THIS
splendid Hair Dyei s the best in the wo-dd. Harm
less, reliuble, instantaneous, doea not contain lead, nor
any vitalie poison to produce paralysis or death. Avoid
the vaunted and delusive preparations boasting virtues
toey ao not possess, lne genuine w. A. uatcnoior s tiair
lye nas naa tnirty years untarnisnea reputation to op
hold its integrity as the only Perfect Hair Dye Black or
Brown. Sold by all DrnsKista. Applied at No. It) BOND
Street. New York i27inwf
ewjy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT. AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of tbe General Assembly of tbe Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In
accoiclunce with the laws of the Coramonwea'.th, to
be entitled THE NATIONAL BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand aoiiars, witn tne rigut to increase tae same to
one million dollars
tKADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
no nain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at tha
Oolton Dental Rooma. devotee his entire Draotioe to the
painless extraction of teeth. Offloe, No, 011 WALNUT
Street. 1 8t
ST QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
j a ill a-if 9 ,ww. ww.
SABLNE, ALLKN A DUI.LKS. Agents,
FIFTH and WALNUT Streets.
UA rli A Lu Atl.UUU.UUU.
85
cordage:, etc
WEAVER & CO.,
ROPE UtAItlTFACTUKHIlrl
AND
siui" ciiaiim:iis.
No. 29 North WATER Street and
No. 29 North wnARVES, Philadelphia.
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK
PRICES. 4 1
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Cordage
At Lowest New York Prices and Freight.
EDWIN II. FITLKIl cV CO.,
Factory. TENTH Bt. and GKBMANTOWB Avenue.
Store, Ko. 23 V. WATER Bt and itt N. DELAWARE
Avenue.
SHIPPING.
LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LINE
FOB
NEW YORK
SAILING EVERY TUESDAY. THURSDAY. AND
BAT I KD AY,
are now receiving freight at
5 cents) per 100 pounds,
3 cent per toot, ar 1-5 cent per gallon, enta
option.
INSURANCE K OF 1 PER OENT.
Extra ratei on small packages iron, metals, etc.
No receipt or bill of lading signed for leas than 60 cents.
Tho Lino wonld call attention of merchant generally to
the faot that hereafter the regular shippers by tbis line
will bo charged only lu cents per 100 lb., or 4 cents psi
foot, daring tho winter seasons.
For farther partloatars apply to
JOHN F. OHL.
ft. PIER 19. NORTH WHARVES
FOR TEXAS PORTS.
THE STEAMSHIP YAZOO
WILL SAIL FOR NEW ORLEANS DIRECT,
Cn WEDNESDAY, July 20, at S A. 21.
Through bills of lading given In connection with
Morgan's lines from New Orleans to Mobile, Galves
ton, indianola, Lavacua, and iirazoa, at as low rates
as by any other route.
Through bills or lading also given to all points on
the MiBBlBSippl river, between New Orleans and St.
Louis, in connection with the St. Louis and New
Orleans Packet Company.
lor furtner mioriuuuuu avvi3
WILLIAM L. JAMES,
General Agent,
No. J30 S. THIRD Street.
7116t
FOR NEW YORK,
via Delaware and Raritan Oanal.
EXPKKSS hlKAMBOAT OOMPANY.
'l lie btan propellers of the line will ooiumenoo
load-
Vhkouou Tin twknty.fouu hours.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of New York
North, Kast, or Went, free of commission.
Vraichta received at low rates.
wreignisreiUJJAM p ULyDH 4 Agent.
No. M South DELAWARE A wane.
TAMES HAND, Agent. .
No . 1 1 W ALL Street, New York. 144
at- DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
f,r STEAM TOW BOAT OOMPANY. Barges
fmmmmmM towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Havre -de Uroco, Delaware Oity, and intermediate point.
U u. UlLUAM P. OLYDK A Ot) . Agent.
Captain JOHN Al;ualJN1JaiH.riauae,
Ko. U trWU WUrrt. PWlii'kh t US
SHIPPING...
PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTH ICR rt
MAIL, 8TKAM81UP OOMPANY'R RROIt.
1jK BK Ml MONTHLY . LIHK. IO.. SEW- OH
Tha YAZOO vtU aail t or 4nw (Vt...'rti.t
Wednesday, Jol S. . : if, "
Tbe YAZtrO will sail from New Orleans, via Havana
on Ktldar Jnly I. . .
TliROUUU BlbLHUf LAUIIMUat aelowrateeaa hw
any other route given to Mohile, Ualveeton, Indianola. La
aoca.and Hrazos aad to all points on the Mmrinippt river
between New Orlesae and St. 1-oois. Red Hirer treighM
reebipped at New Orleans without oaarge of oonuniaaieoav
WFFKI.Y LINK TO SATANNATI. OA. ' i
day, July lit, at H A. M.
Tbe WYUMINU will sail from Savannah oa Satnr-
u7, uuiy in. ,
'1 x. . , i . - TI tin 1 B nv t A ntn -i .. . . .
.unv,i. iiiuim it uinu Riven to an am pnn
cipal towns in Oeorgia, Alabama, Florida, Mimnseippl,
- -. , lu UUIIUCTUlf1ini wild
the Central Railroad of Ueorgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail,
road, and Florida ateamera, at as low rates as by oompetina!
lines.
SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON. N. O. ,
July 19. at eP.M. Reluming, will leave Wilmington Hatur
ds, Jul) Pth.
Connects with tbe Cape Fear River Steamboat Oom
psny, the Wilminiton and Weldon and North Onrohne
Failroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
to all inte-ior points.
Freight tor Colombia, 8. O., and Angnsta, Oa., taken
via W ilimngton, at as low rates as hy any other route.
Insurance offootod when requested by shippers. Bill
of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or before day
of saikug.
WILLIAM U JAMES, General Agent.
Jl l? No. ISO South THIRD Street.
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE P1UU
1 LADKLPHIA AM) CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LINK are AI.OJ.E authorized to issne through
bills of lading to Interior points South and West in
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
ALFIiKD L. TYLER,
Vlce-PreMdent So. C. RR. Co.
KSfD CHARLESTON
line Hue Is tiow composed of the following irat-
clafs StraniHhlps, sailing from PIER 17, below
Spruce street, on FRIDAY of each week t 8
ASHLAND, sno tons, Captain Crowell.
,T. w. K HUMAN, 62 tons. Captain Hlncklev.
PROMETHEUS, GOO tons, Captain Orav.
JULY, 1870.
Prometheus, Friday, July 1.
J. W. Everman, Friday, July S.
lTortetheus, Friday. July IB.
J. W. Everman, Friday, July 22.
Prometheus, Friday, July 2i.
Through btlis of lading given to Columbia. S. C ,
the Interior of Georgia, and all points South and
Southwest.
Freights forwarded with promptness aud despatch.
Hates as low as by any other route.
Insurance one-half per cent,, t fleeted at the Ofllce
In flrnt-clnns companies.
Ko freight received nor bills of lading signed after
8 P. M. on day of sailing.
SOLDER & ADAMS, Agents,
No. 3 DoCK Street.
Or WILLIAM. F. CLYDE A CO.,
tr, 12 8. WHARVES.
WILLIAM A, COURTED ' geut In Charles
ton. 6 24
am
) PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND,
ha AND NORKOl.lC RTKAMKIIIP lluir'
THKOHIi H FREIGHT AIR LINK TO THE SOUTli
AND WEST.
INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES
r-OR 1870.
Steamors leave every WEDN KSDAYand SATURDAY
at 12 o'clock noon, from FIRST WHAKF above MAR
KET btreet.
RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and 8A-
No Bills oi Lading signed after 13 o'clock on sailing
uROUGH RATES to ail points in North and South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, eonneoting at
Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the
West, via Virginia and Tennoasee Air Line and Richmond
and Danville Ruilroad.
Freight HANDLED BUTONOE, and taken at LOWER
RATEH THAN ANY OTHER LINE.
No charge for commission, drayage, or any oipenso of
ransier. ...
tteamahips insure at lowest rates.
Freight received daily. ...
fctate Room accommodations for passengers.
C WILLIAM P. OLYDK A OO.,
No. 12 S. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. POR'I ER, Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROWELL A CO., Agonta at Norlolk. 6U
sgfrFt. FOR LIVERPOOL AND Ql'EEVS-
EJUaaiTOWN lumun Line of Royal Mail
MtameiH are appointed to sail as follows:
City of Washington, Saturday, July 23, at 8 P. M.
City of Antwerp (via Halifax), Tuesday, July 20,
at 1 P. M.
City of Paris, Saturday, Jaly 30, at 7 A. M.
City of London, Saturday, August , at 2 P. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 45 North river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payable In gold. Payable In currency.
First Cabin t"5 Steerage fso
To Loudon 801 To London 85
To Pars 00 To Paris 83
To Halifax 201 To Halifax 15
Passengers aiso forwarded to Havre, Hamburg,
Bre men, etc., at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persons wishing to send for tneir friends.
For further Information apply at the company's
ofllce.
JOHN O. DALE, Agent, No. 15 Broadway, N. Y. ;
Or to O'DONNELL & FAULK, Agents.
4 5 No. 402 CH ESN UT Street, Philadelphia. .
f&ffib ONLYDIRECI
ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE.
'Hit: (.KNERAL TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY'S
MAIL STEAMSHIPS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND
HAVRE. CALLING AT BREST. .
The splendid new vessels on this favorite loots forth
Continent will sailf rom Pier No. 50, North river, every
Saturday. miOE OF PASSAGE -
in gold in'"T0 OR HAVRE.
FirstOabin TOAKlBnd 0b'n 886
(Including railway tickets, furnished on board). "
First Cabin $145 I Second Cabin $84
1 hese ateamera do not carry steerage passengers.
Medical attendance free of charge.
American travellers going to or returning from the con
tinent of Knrope, by taking tbe steamers of this line avoid
unnsoessary risks from transit by English railways and
crossing the channel, besides saving tima, trouble, and
expense. GEORGE MACKENZIE, Agent,
v Ne. 68 BROADWAY, New York.
For passage in Philadelphia apply at Adams Kin res
Company, to H. L. LEAF,
1 27 1 No. 330 OHESNUT Street.
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELA-
Ware and Raritan Canal.
SWIFTSUKE TRANSPORTATION OOM-
DESPATCH AND 8WIFT8URR LINES,
4 Leaving daily at 19 M. and 6 P. M.
To steam propellers of this oompaay will common;
oading on tbe Sth of March,
'ibiough in twenty-four hours.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions.
Freight taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to ypjujAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents,
U No. Iaa South DELAWARE Arena.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington.
L. (1.. via CheeaDeaka and Delawara OuuL
with connection at Alexandria from the most direct
route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvill, Nashville, Dai
ton, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon front
the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received d'IIXiAM p. 0LTDK 00 ,
No. 14 North aad South WHARVES.
HYDE TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M.
ELDR1DGK A CO.. Ag-JU at Alexandria. 81
WHISKY, WINE, ETQi
QAR8TAIR8 A McCALL,
Ko. 126 Walnut, and 21 Granite Sti.,
IMPORTERS OV
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
IN BOND AND TAX PAID.
I8 2p
T71LUAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS
VV U,FtBWkiklltf0O
WATER PU R I F I ER S.
PARSON'S
New Patent Water Filter and
Purilier
Will effectually cleans from all IMPURITIES, and ro
mov all foul taste or smell from water passed through it.
In operation and for sal at too MANUFACTORY, No.
220 DOCK Street, and sold by Uouae furnishing Store
generally.
aitf
Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory
JOHN T. BAILEY,
N. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET Sti
HOPE AND TW1WB. BAGS and BAGSINQ, for
Flour. Salt, Bnper-Phoephatoof Ii;o. oos Dust, Et.
Lia mil tuukii uUf bAt4S constantly 0 tkaaU.