THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAm PHILADELPHIA, TIIURSDAY, JULY 21, 1870. ormiT or tiitj muss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. OUR MLUCANTILE MARINE OUR RE CREANT CONGRESS. fVwn the A. F. Herald. TLo war in Europe, which finds all our in terests commercial, agricultural, and me ctwnical on the verge of a magnificent op io! trinity for advancement, find, unfortu uately, the greatest ihterost of all. the ship ping interest, utterly neglected, llo do we stand to-day with regard to the carying trade? We have not merchant vessels equal to the task of carrying the trade of our own coun try. The result of the war will be to block tip all foreign vessels except those carrying a neutral flag, and there are very few outside the merchant marine of England. Bat Eag land is determined that, unless forced by the most extraordinary circumstances, Bhe will keep Ler flag neutral in this war, and will secure the carrying trade Vm the ocean. Iler commercial interests are so immense that she must remain at peace. It would not go very hard vith her evon to forfeit her pledgod honor or to shirk her treaty obligations pro vided she could maintain her mercantile supremacy on the seas. That bhe will do this at all hazards we may be assured. Now, where do we stand, the second maritime nation in name? Bj a series of gross blun ders committed by our "patriotic" Legisla ture during the war we are left without a merchant marine. Our ships were trans ferred to foreign flags, and so ingeniously anti-American were the connivances of Con gress that we cannot get them back again. Under the present laws of tMs loyal and patriotic Congress we are prohibited from purchasing a foreign vessel. Not even the ships that we sold to foreign powers during the war, when a weak policy compellod us to put American vessels under the foreign flag of Great Britain, can we buy back again. We cannot build vessels, because the ma terials for shipbuilding are bo laden down with import duties that we cannot afford to compete ith the shipyards of England and Scotland. It is impossible for us to build iron skips or steamers, because, forsooth, the iron interests of Pennsylvania have to be protected. In fact, the largest industrial in terest in the country is cramped and crippled in order that a merely local interest may be fostered. A few years ago our shipyards re sounded with the busy hum of industry. They are silent to-day. A few years ago our flag could be met on every sea, floating over decks built in our own dockyards. To-day and for the last ten years the Stars and Stripes have been com paratively a rare sight greeting the morning sun upon the ocean or saluting him as he dipped into the waves at evening. But it is nothing to see the British flag aloft over American ships built in the dockyards of New York and Boston. They are plentv enough. What a pitiful thought 1 What a humiliating reflection for the people of a great maritime nation which haa no second in means and opportunities to be the greatest shipbuilding country in the world ! And yet by a miserable system of legislation our shipping interests have been annihilated at home, and we are left to play the part of paupers upon the ocean, begging shelter and recognition from foreign flags. All this Congress had done for us daring the war; but now an opportunity is offered by the disturbances in Europe to retrieve these blunders. The President saw the op portunity and he promptly called the atten tion of Congress to it, begging of them to remain even one day in Bession, in order to repeal the restrictive laws with regard to the purchase of foreign vessels, and thus enable as to pnt our merchant marine on an even footing with our rivals. Bat Congress would not heed the President's suggestions. Their carpet-bags were packed to go, and go they would these paltry fellows, who, having made all they could out of their Congressional service, were only too glad to let the dearest interests of their country take care of them selves. What cared they for the greatness of the nation? . What, in fact, do most of them know about it? It will not do, however, to put the whole blame upon the Republican portion of Con gress because they were in the majority; the Democratic members could have sustained the President's message if they chose. -They had strength enough, by casting a unanimous vote, to retain Congress in ses sion and give an opportunity to discuss the Presidents views. We cannot accept the flimsy excuse that the President's suggestions were set aside upon the pretext of protec tion to home industry. What industry ? Where is there any industry in a single ship yard of the country? To help native industry would be to reduce the tariff on shipbuilding materials from their present ruinous rate. To increase the bustle and healthy trade of our dockyards and piers and wharves would be to permit ns to buy back the ships we were com pelled to sell during the war. For this pur Iose the President should call an extra ses sion of Congress at once, or else the splendid opportunity offered by the warlike status in Europe to restore our mercantile marine to its former vigorous condition will be- lost, fchamefnlly lost. WHAT CAN PRUSSIA DO ? from the K. r. Time. It must be very evident to those who have watched Europe during the past few years, that both parties in the present war have been carefully preparing for the possible con tingency of a gigantio Btruggle. No traveller can have failed to notioe the immense prepa rations made in the fortresses of Rhenisn Prussia, and the incessant manoeuvring and marching of Prussian soldiers across the very region now to be fought over. Never was the old martinet drill, for which the Hoaen zollerna have been notorious, so kept np in the royal armies as during the last three years. Railroad connections have been improved. and there is now no part of Prussia from which vast bodies of men cannot in a few houia be concentrated at Cologne or on the Upper Rhine. Nor has Bismarck neglected the essential thing the sinews of war. An important portion of the Prussian debt has been funded; the publio credit is excellent, and, in financial respects, Prussia stands well prepared for the struggle. The numerous little kingdoms, principalities, and free cities wmcn sne nas aoaorbecl now fur nish her men and means ; and all South Ger many, in a struggle for the Rhine, will soon be in her service or an ally. The Prussian Government in one respect, it is true, has not kept pace with her great opponent. Having but recently become a maritime power, her fleet is comparatively inferior ; a fact which. aa her commerce ia now, we believe, third in importance in the world, will be very disss trous to her. Yet the naval authorities have furchased one iron-clad frigate built in Inglandwhich is aaid to be more powerful than any single snip in tne react navy. They have also provided several small "moni tors ' for harbor defense. - France has been equally diligent in her preparations. "The Line" has been increased in number, and, since Sadowa, the great body of the army have beea armed with the Cun sepot tifle a weapon pronounced by our offi cers to be far superior to the clumsy neoile gun of the Prusmirnn. Her naval prepara tions have been immense, and the French navy Is now the second in the world. The French officers are no doubt thoroughly familiar with every inch of the Rhine pro vinces and every feature of the fortresses where the struggle is to be. In a financial point of view, however, we doubt if Franoe can be considered so well prepared aa Prussia. Her debt is enormous, and a short harvest is crippling her means. In the passions aroused, and the moral forces in arms, the two opponents do not seem to us equal. In the French population the love of glory, the hatred of the German, and the ambition of seeing France again at the head of Europe, are doubtless fully awakened. Still, to the French peasantry, who make the bulk of the army, these cannot be vital mat ters. France, in its Integrity, is not threat ened, and the French mind of latter years is more greedy of money thau glory. But in the Germans, even in the poorest Ifaner, the strong passion of nationality is aroused by this sudden attack. Their country is threat ened. The Rhine is to them a symbol of nationality. All the old German enthusiasm, which has broken the power of France on so many battle-fields, will be kindled again. We shall see some modern fiery Blucher leading the young men once more in vehement assaults on the French invader. Germany will be in the position of a man defending his home. Such forces as these, though of not much ac count in modern warfare against superior armies, are or immense importance where the contending powers aro in other respects equal. If modern education be of much import ance, the great body of the Prussian army ought to be superior to the French. Terhaps with the rank and file this is not of much consequence. Yet, in respect to the whole body of inferior officers, and in connection with all the mechanical labors of an army and the power of comprehending a manoeuvre, supeiior intelligence and education must give an advantage. It was plain that Prussian intelligence gave the army the victory over Austrian stupidity. Hay it not over French drill? SOUTHERN SOCIETY. From the X. 1". Tribune. One of our leading magazines for August gives the first place in its pages to a dolorous lamentation from a Southerner over the pre sent state of society in the land of "fair women and brave men." The subject was a pregnant one, and, with its actual tragic facts, might have satisfied the most ambi tious magazine writer. The curse of sudden poverty, the bitterness of defeat falling upon the dominant class, and the equally abrupt elevation 01 a race 01 sens to a political level with their masters, suggests countless dra matic combinations, not only full of food for thought for the philosopher or statesman, but which might well have served as the text for a few of those sensible, friendly words whose healing power are so much needed and welcome now-a-days, between South and North. ' The cause which induces this modern Jere miah, however, to take up his tale of woe is a far different one. Slavery is the Holy of Holies over whose desecration he weeps. He portrays her laid waste, trampled under the feet of mudsills and carpet-baggers, with such extremity 01 unction tnat, like the prophet, his soul is vexed within him, his eyes do fail with tears, his bowels are troubled for the destruction of this daughter of his people. It is not either the bald, ugly fact of slavery as popularly known that he delineates, but that ideal patriarchal instiiution whose infinitely sweet and tender relations were wont to be urged upon us in poem and novel by gushing oouiuuru lauien. me imug oeing nnaiiy and incontestably dead, we vainly hoped that our Southern friends would be content to bury its unwholesome corpse and be done with it. What is our dismay, therefore, to find them raising an Irish "Keen" such as this over the dead body, and threatening to oome again and again with fresh ardor to unending fune rals. But this is not the only mistake we have made, it seems. Popular opinion held that there were two classes of whites in the slave- holding States before the war, whose dividing lines were tolerably sharply drawn the wealthy and cultured order, and the clay eaters, "the poor trash" on whom even the negroes looked down. Our friend, however. represents a state, on the contrary, of entire and Diissnu-democracy, "lne wife of a wealthy man was the friend of a poor semp stress; and the principal of a children s scnooj, ne adds, breathless, with uplifted hands, "once entertained at her table the highest in the land! From this Aoadian sim plicity the war has dragged them; large for tunes have been made as well as lost; envy and jealousy for the first time find entrance to their bosoms. "They murmur not, and re vile not," he informs us sadly; but how terri ble is the disintegration that thus tears apart the sempstress, the President, and the school teacher, and casts them upon paths so differ ent. The picture he draws is pathetio enough. The Yankee new-comers "have strange habits and outlandish ways, the servants are hire lings, the skeleton peeps from the cupboard at every convivial meeting, and Atra Oura sets behind every horseman.' Atra Cura is a very unpleasant companion in any shape; but are we to understand that she appears to our Southern compatriots as a hen ? It is for fallen slavery, however, that he ends, as he begins, his wail; and really so strongly does he put the case, that we are surprised at the obstinaoy of our colored friends in remaining free if they could pos sibly vote themselves again into the flowery chains of such pleasant bondage. "They feel in their hearts," "he tella us, that they were in the hands of friends who did what could be done for their welfare and happiness. The slave remained for life a devoted friend of the master, and was ever greeted with beaming eye and cordial joy. The serving race received more than the ruling race, and the freedmen therefore will feel the loss grievously in com fort and happiness,' After pausing to weep (so lavish is he of tears,) over the bunded freedman thus rushing on his own da struction of liberty, be reaches the culminating point of Bentiment&l pathos, the height of mischance wrought by the war, whioh will probably Burorise most of our readers.' 'Thousands of Southern men and women in the South in every generation had boon brought up by oolored wet-nurses. White nurses are now introduced wherever thev cam be procured." He then enters into a disquisition on the subtle change this will produce on the next generation, bemoaning the loss of the influence of the colored nurse on the white foster child. Acadian simpli city we are willing to credit cir Southern friends with,' and their desire, Red Repub licanism, if they will; but this longing for agraiinnism of "feature, physique, and quali ties" is too deep for ns. We cannot under stand it. There are points in their history with which it is difficult to reconcile it. Jesting apart, we cannot but deplore the publication of such articles as these. Oar publishers, from motives of friendliness and policy, are willing to do much to "conciliate the South;" but such puerile whining as this only provokes derision here; does not con ciliate the South, and certainly doei not represent it any more than the bitter squibs and taunts of certain petty journals repre sent the present generous, manly temper of the Northern people. Th? white una at the South who does not see (hat the abolition of slavery was as healthful a political change for his own race as for the black should at least learn to submit to the inevitable, and remain silent until Go.1 has sent him clearer sight and better judgment. While grove and earnest men of both sides are hopefully striving to bring back the stir and healthful business and brotherhxil of life above the barrier of graves that stretches across the country, why should the public ear be disturbed with such caterwauling as this over lost slavery and black wet-nurses? No matter how weak and piping is the cry, it has yet its small power of harm. Triihs like these "I.Ike rats, oft bite the holy conls atwaia Which, are too iutnnse r uulome." THE DRIFT OF AMERICAN SYMPATHY. From the Baltimore America. The sympathy of the American people, it is already very clearly indicated, will be strongly on the side of Prussia duriDg the pending war, ana, it the struggle should be a pro longed one, we have no doubt that this sym pathy will be demonstrated in every way short of actual interference in the conflict. The prevailing sentimeut of this country will, in fact, be as unanimously in favor of Prussia as was that of England in favor of the Confederacy dining tho Rebellion; but we shall not, like England, permit our ports to be used for the fitting out of piratical cruisers to prey upon the commerce of either of the combatants. There ere several reasons far this drift of American sympathy altogether towards the Prussians in a war which has neither in its origin nor its avowed end any question of principle, but is altogether in the interest of the perpetuation of a dynasty and the ag grandizement of au empire. The first of the reasons is the general conviction of all intel ligent minds that Napoleon is the aggressor; that he has throughout sought cause of quar rel; mat ne haa maae up his mind tor war. and that the candidature of Prince Leopold for the Sanish throne was the mere pretext adopted for the carrying out of a prede termined purpose. Had there been no va cant throne in Spain, and no Prince Leopold aspiring to fill it, the war would still have come. The result of the l'lebitcite settled that, and there has perhaps been no moment since the people of France thus confirmed the Napoleonic dynasty that the Emperor has not been resolved to imitate the elder Napoleon in becoming the bullv of Europe. Tho avidity with which he seized upon the selection of Prince Leopold as King of Spain, and the tenacity with which he has refused to be appeased when that German prince was withdrawn, proves this as clearly as anything can be proved that depends merely upon the caprice or policy of an autocratical sovereigu. Against such pre tensions as the Emperor has setup of making war, not because Germany desired to give a King to Spain, but because ' the King of frussia refused in advance to pledge himself that no German prince shall hereafter be come a candidate for that vacant throne, the civilized sentiment of the world, and espe cially of Americans, must protest. Another influence that will most potentially effect our sympathies is the presence among us of a large and influential German element a people assimilating most heartily with our institutions, and receiving all the im pressions of American progress with readi ness, and in their turn exercising a powerful and almost everywhere present direction over the popular mind. This German element, though true in its fealty to this country, naturally sympathizes, and is already showing it, with the Fatherland in its hour of trial ; and Americans will not fail, to respond to that sympathy, and will join heartily in the demonstrations through which it is made manifest. The position of Prussia towards this country during the rebellion will also not fail to be remem bered. Throughout that time, both at home and abroad,' the weight of a German sentiment was on the side of national unity and the Government. At Berlin our repre sentatives met a ready sympathy and a cour teous treatment that was extended to them in no other European capital save St. Peters burg. At home German naturalized citizens reinforced our armies, and gave to the Gov ernment the moral aid of their vote. Franoe was at that time our most open foe, and Eng land our most insidious enemy. England shut her eyes whilst cruisers were fitted out in her dock-yards and sent to sea to destroy our commerce. France negotiated for the recognition of the independence of the Confederacy, and, had she been successsul, would have brought us into collision with foreign nations, and added the terrors of a foreign war to the already almost unbearable burthen of a disas trous civil war. These are things that cannot be easily forgotten, and even were Prussia less in the ri-ht than she incontestably is, would impress us most warmly in her favor. As it is, she will have in the straggle that now awaits her the open, avowed sympathies of the American people, and if she ooines out of it triumphant and successful, the rejoicing throughout our land will be scarcely less earnest and enthusiastic than that along the banks of the Rhine and in the cities and vil lages of Germany. GRANT AND SHERIDAN. From (As If. T. World. It is possible that President Grant may really have meant to pay General Sheridau a compliment by removing him from the very serious, immediate, and important duty of pacifying and protecting our Western borders, threatened now by a formidable Indian war, and sending him off to wander over Europe on a tour of inspection through the hostile camps arraying and to be ar rayed on the continent. This is possible, we say; for the ways of President Grant are often past finding out, and bis curious infelicity in accepting favors is only equalled by his equally carious infe licity in conferring them. But, upon the face of the matter, no sharper rebuke oould be given to an officer than General Sheridan has received in this roving commission. It removes him from a position of grave re sponsibility quite commensurate with his rank in the army, and from active duties mre to attract the attention, and, if well per foimed, to secure the gratitude,of the country. It sends him on an errand most fit lo be in trusted to an aspiring voung o!fi:er of recog nised intelligence and ambition, i but quite beneath the dignity of the second personagi in a great national army. , We have already received information that from one at least of the armies about to come into collision in Europe, foreign officers of all rauks will be carefully excluded; aud it is extremely pro bable that the exclusion will be eitend J t j both. Should it not be so, any American officer permitted to visit the PrnssUa camps aud positions will receive that permis sion, not as an officer but as an Americiu, not for military but for political reasons, as a sop to the sentiment of the Germans ia the United States and not as a tribute to his zeal and his value as a soldier. A gallant and devoted officer of subordinate rank might accept such favors or run the risk of such re buffs without derogation, in the discharge of his duty and the pursuit of knowledga likely to increase his usefulness to his country. Not so the- Lieutenant-General of the armies of the United States. But even if the functions now imposed upon General Sheridan were as becoming as they are unbecoming his hierarchical position in the service, it may well be doubted whether he would be the best man who could be se lected to discharge them. General Sheridan is a cavalry officer. Ho has won his distinc tion in that arm of the military service in regard to which we have least to learn, for the simple reason that there is less to be learned about it than about any other single branch of the military profession. The war now beginning in Europe will be eminently a war of engineers avd of tho artillery. The infantry of Prussia and of France, of course, will play a great part in it; but their part in it will be subordinated to that of the higher Rnd more scieutifio arms with which there is no reason to suppose that General Sheridan is at all conspicuously familiar. Among the graduates at West Point in our army there are many men, whose names it would be as invidious as useless for U3 now to point out, who might have been selected for the really interesting work thus thrust upon the hard-riding salreur of the Shenan doah and the Piegans, wilh advantage both to themselves immediately and ultimately to the nation. All these President Grant has passed over to send off the immediate lieuteuant of the General of the Armies upon a promenade which might be very agreeable for a private citizen, but which looks unpleasantly like a enstigatory relief from duty for a soldier actually filling a most important public trust. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEtf Til AT AN application (fill be made at ttio next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwe'iUh of Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a IJanlc, la accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE (Jl'AKER CITY BANK, to bv locateil ut Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun dred thousand dollars, with the r'ght to Increase the same to live hundred thousand dollars. gy OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA J AND READING RAILROAD CO., No 227 Soath FOURTH Street. Philadklphia, Jane 22, 1870. NOTICE. In accordance with the terms of the lease and contract but woe a the East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo. and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Oo., dated May 19, 1809, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tJo. will pay at their office. No. S27 South FOURTH at., Phila delphia, on and after the I'.'th day of JULY, 137'), a divi dend of $1'E0 per ahare, cloar ot all tales, to the stock holders of the East Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as they shall stand registered on the books of the said East Penn sylvania Railroad Oo. on the 1st day of July, 1870. All orders for dividends niuat be witnessed and statu ped. S BRADFORD, Treasurer. Note. The trinsfer books of the East Pennsylvania Railroad f'o. will be closed on July 1 and reopened on July 11,1870. HENRY 0. JONES. 6 221m Treasurer East Pennsylvania Railroad Oo. PjXf NOTICE 18 HEHEBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for th Incorporation of a Bank, In accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE 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 () hundred thousand dollars. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL w ROAD COMPANY, Offlce No. S2I S. FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, June 29, 1810. DIVIDEND NOTICE. The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on the 7th of July next aLd reopened on Wednes day, July 20. A Dividend of FIVE PER GENT, has been de clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National and State taxes, payable in cash on and after the 22d of July next to the holders thereof as they stand registered on the books of the Company at the close of business on the 7tU July next. All payable at this oillce. All orders for dividends must be witnessed and Stamped. . , S. BRADFORD, 6 a lm Treasurer. 13V NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of tho 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 GERMAN TOWN BANKING COM PAN Y, to be located at Philadelphlh, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, with the right to increase the same to ave hundred thousand dollars. j- THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire 'Extinguisher. Always Reliable. D. T. GAGS, P 30 tf No. 113 MARKET St,, General Agent. 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HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING Teetn ntn ireaa nuroasuxiae uu ADsoiately "O pain. Dr. V. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the Colt Deatal Kootua. devotee his entire practice to the painieef aiUMMa i DUML Isrig OENT.'B FURNISHINO COOD8. p ATE NT WIO ULD ER-815AM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE. PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS made from measurement at very short notice. All other article of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS in full variety, WINCHESTER fc CO., 11 . Ho. 700CHESNUT Street, PROPOSALS. IJKOPOSAIS FOR MATERIAI TO BE SUP TL1KD TO THE NAVY YARDS UNDER TUB COGNIZANCE OF THE BUREAU OF CONSTRUC TION AND REPAIR. NaVT DKr-ARTMSKT,) BtrnsatJ of Construction and Repair, V Washington, D. U, July 14, WO. J SEALED PROPOSALS to Inrntsh Timber and other nintertals for the Navy for the fiscal vear end ing June 80, ImII, will be received at this Bureau until 12 o'clock M. of the lfvh of August next, at which time the proposals wilt bs opened. The proposals must be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy De partment, Washington, and must be indorsed "Pro posals for Timber, etc , for the Navv," that they may be dlptirignlshed from other bnsinens letters. Printed schedules for such classes as parties deal In and Intend to bid for, together with instructions to bidf era. giving the forms of proposals of guarantee, andof certiticateof guarantors, with printed forms of otter, will be furnished to such persons as desire to bid, on snplicatlon to the Commandants of the respective Navy Yards, and those of all the yards on application to the Bureau. The CommRndftot of each Navy Yard and tho pur chasing paymaster for each station will have a copy of the schedules of the other yards, lor examination only, In rider that persons who intend to led m;iy Judge whether it is desirable to make application for an? of the claws of those yards. The proposuls must bo for the whole of a class, and all applications for Information or for the examiiii tlon of samples must be made to the commandants of the respective yards. The proposal must be accompanied bv a certtflciti from the Collector of Internal lieveuue for the dli ti let In which the bidder restdes.that he has a licence to deal in the articles for which he proposes; bp direction of the Department bid" or ofera will be received only from parties who are bona tide dta'cr i i, or titnnvacturert of, the articles they ofer to furninti The guarantors must be certiiied by the Assessor of Internal lieveuue for the district in which they re side. The contract will be awarded to the person who makes the lowest bid and gives the guarantee re quired by law, the Navy Department, however, re serving the right to reject the lowest bid, or any which It may deem exorbitant. Sureties lu the full amount will be required to 3 ga the contract, and their responsibility must be certi iied to the satisfaction of the Navy D partment. As additional security twenty per centum will be withheld from the amount of the bills until the sou tracts shall have been completed, and eighty per centum of the amount of each bill, approved in tri plicate by the Coinmaudant ol tnn respective yards, whl be paid by the Paymaster ot the stutlon desig nated in the contract within ten days alter the war rant for the same shall have been passed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The classes of this Bureau are numbered and de signated as follows: No. 1, White Oak Logs ; No. 8, White Oak Curved Timbcr;No. 4, White Oak Plank; No. 7, Yellow Pine Logs ; No. 8, ellow Pine Beams : No. 9, Yellow Pine Mast Timber; No. 11, White Pine Logs; No. 12, White Tine Mast Timber: No. 1, White Pine Plaak, Boards; No. 16, White Ash, ilm. Beech; No. 10, While Ash Oars; No. II, Htckory; No. 19, Black Walnut, Mahogany, Maple, Cherry; No. 20, Locust Treenails; No. 22, Cypress, Cedar; No. 23, Black Spruce; No. S4, White Oak Staves and Headings; No. 25, LtgDiimvitse; No. 30, Ingot Copper; No. 32, Wrought Iron, round and square; No. 33, Wrought Iron, Hat; No. 34, Iron, plate; No. 35, Steel; No. ill, Iron Spikes; No. 3s, Iron Wrought Nlls; No. 89, Iron Cut Nails; No. 42, Lead, pipe, sheet; No. 43, Zinc; No. 44, Tin; Nj. 4ft, Solder; No. 48, Locks, Hinges, Hulls, of brass and Iron; No. 49, Screws, or brass and Iron ; No. 50, Files; No. 61, Augers; No. 62, Tools lor ship fctores; No. 53, Tools for use la yard and shops; No. 64, Hardware; N?. 56, White Lead; No. 57, Zinc Paints; No 53, Colored Paints, dryers; No. fc9, Linseed Oil ; No. (50, Varnish, Spirits Turpen tine; No. 63, Sperm aud Lard Oil; No. 64, Tallow, Soap; No. 68, Glass; No. 69, Brushes; No. 70, Dry Goods lor upholstering; No. 71, Stationery ; No. 73, Ship Chandlery; No. 74, Acids; No. 75, Resin, Pitch, Crude Turpentine; No. 7;, Belting, Packing; No.73, Leather, pump riggiug, laciug; No. SO, Junk; No. 33, Charcoal. The following are the classes, by the numbers, re QUlred at the respective navy-vards: KI1TERY. NOS. 8, 13, 16, 10, 17, 18, 22, 82, 33, 35, 39, 44, 43, 49. 60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 5?. CD, 63, 63. 69, 71, H, 74, 73, 83. CHARLESTOWN. Nob. 7, 13, IS, 16, 13. 22, 24, 25, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 33, 89, 42, 43, 44, 43, 49, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 83, 69, 60, C3, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 77, 73, 83. BROOKLYN. NOS. 1, 7, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, IS, 23, 24, 25, P2, 83, 34, 37, B, 4!4, 44, 4, 4P, OU, Ol, OS, 03, 04, OU, 81, 53, 59, 00, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 77, 60, S3. PHILADELPHIA. NOB. 4, 7, 9, 13, 15, 18, 32, 83, 43. 71. WASHINGTON. NOB. 1. 3. 7. It. 12. 13. 17. 13. 20. 2J. 23. 30. 32. 33. 84. 85, 87, 89, 42, 44, 45, 43, 49, 60, 81, 63, 84, 67, 83, 89, 60, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74. 77, 73, 83. . KOlt trOL.lv. NOS. 1, 13, 15, 13, 2, 25, 82, 83, 89, 42, 44, 43, 49, SO, 53, 64, 07, C3, 69, 60, 63. 64, 69, 70, 71, 73, 77, 73. MAKii IbLAMI. NOB. 15, 13, 82. S3, 84. 85. 33. 89. 42, 43, 44, 43. 49. 50. 61, 63, 64, 56, 87, 6360, 64, 63, 69, 70, 71. 73, 74, 77, 83,89. 714 1aw4w 1 PROPOSALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STEAM PROPfiLLER FOtt TUB REVENUE MARINE. Treasury Departmknt. "Washington, d. C, July l, 1870. The bids for the construction of an Iron steim Propeller of 50 tons, opened in this Department June 80, being considered exorbitant, separate sealed proposals will be received at this department until 12 o'clock on FRIDAY, 89th July, 1970, for the construction or a Steam Propeller of wood, of 360 tons. - General plans, conditions, and sped Heat ton can be obtained from the Collectors of Customs at Port laud, Me., Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Renewed proposals are also Invited for the same steamer of ikon, upon the same plans, conditions, and specifications as were Issued Juue L No bids will be considered except from parties regularly en gaged lnshlp-bulldiDg. .., The Department reserves the right to reject any and all bids. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, 7 71114 18 21 26 23 Secretary of the Treasury. COVERNMENT SALES. PEREMPTORY SALE OK TUB IRON STEAMSHIP VIRGIN, WASHINGTON NAVY YARD. On WEDNESDAY, t:th instant, at 12 M. This vessel Is well known. Description already given in recent advertisements. The Virgin will be sold peremptorily to the highest bidder for cash. One-fourth of the purchase money must be paid on day of sale, the remainder ou removal of vessel from the Navy Yard. The vessel can be examined any time during the day. hi order of the Secretary of the Treasury. E. C. BAN FIELD, Solicitor. KILBOURN & LATTA, 718mthintu4t Auctioneers. ROOFING. PHILADELPHIA Tainting and Roofing Co. TIN ROOFS REPAIRED. All leakages In Roofs warranted to be made per fectly tight. SfBNCER'S GOTTA-PERCHA PAINT Will preserve Tin Roofs from Rusting and Leaking, and warranted to stand ten years without repaint ing. 'l h!s ts the only Paint that will not crack or peel off. It is flastic Paint; It expands and contracts with the tin, and leaves no cracks or seams open for water to get through. IRON FENCsS PAINTED WITH SPENCER'S PATENT IRON PAINT, made expressly for iron Horn, warranted not to crack or peel oil; wul retain Its beautiful gloss for nve years. AU work warranted. All orders promptly attended to. Address PHILADELPHIA PAINTING AND ROOFING COMPANY, 1 14 8m No. S3 N. SIXTH St., Philadelphia. TI E A D Y ROOFIX G XV This Roofing is adapted to all building. It can be appuen to STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily put on old bblugle Roofs without removing the alilngles, thus avoiding the damaging of ceilings aud furniture while undergoing repairs, ino gravel used.) PRJtS.kRX YcUU TIN ROOFS WITH TON'S ELASTIC PAINT. WEL I am always prepared to Repair aud Paint Roofs at snort notice, awo, raiMT tvu ualu it toe barrel or gallon ; the best aud cheapest In the mantei. W A. W ELTON till No. Ul N.N INT US U above Coates, lklTMBRELLA8 CnEAPE3T INTtii CITY J DIXON'S. No. St 8. EIGHTH 8UtU IC li tntU) TO SUMMER TOURISTS. J till 11 COAL. jfc WAV. l'4. i " ItAllMlOAJS. : pleasure"tuavellkb3 I For the Valleys ef WYOMING and LE3IGH, ftr th CATAWTSA RAILROAD, and for the SWITCH BACK RAILROAD, celebrated for Its magulflcent views, should take the ' ' ' 1 ; ' 45 A. M. EXPRESS TRAIN from the NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD DEPOT, Cornet of BERKS and AMERICAN Sts., Philada., Or by taking the 8-20 P. M. train from the saras depot, can goto Mauch Chunk, remain thereover night, pass over the SWITCU-BACK. ia the morn ing; and continue their journey that afternoon. - Those wishing to visit MAUCH C3UNK and the SWITCH-BACK, can take tho 9 45 A. M. train, and return to Philadelphia the same evening. . . Large and well-kept Hotels at Mauctt ' Chunk, Wllllamsport, Wllkesbarre, and Scrautnn. Passengers to Wllllamsport by the 9 45 train reach there in nearly two hours shorter time thau by any other route. Be sure to call for your ticket over the LEHIGH AND SUSOUKHANNA RAILROAD,- and see that you get them over that road. Tickets for sale at No. 811 Chesnut street, No. 10S South Fifth street, and at North Pennsylvania Rail road Depot k. a. uvriimAflf, Master ot Transportation. JUIEN A. IINIllrt 7 S lmrp General Ticket Agent. fiORTH PENNSYLVANIA RHIR01D. ' NEW AND ATTRACTIVE ROUTE FOR SUMMER TOURISTS T3 Northern Pennsylvania, Interior New York, Buffalo Rochester, Niagara Falls, Watktns' Glen, the Great Lakes, and the West. Also to Wl.liamsport, WUkesbarre, Scranton, Schoo ley's Mountain, Allentown, Manch Chunk, and all points In the Lehigh, Wy. omln aud eusquehanaa Valleys. Novelty, Comfort, Speed and Fine Scenery are tha attractions of this route. The attention of Summer Tourists Is a iked to thU new and attractive route, passing through the varied scenery of the Lehigh, Wyoming and Susquehanna Valleys, oiiering Comfortable Cars, Excellent Hotels and Rapid Transit to the numerous points of Interest named above. FIVE DAILY TTI ROUGH TRAINS At 7 85 A. M., 9-45 A. M., 145 P. M., 80 P. M. and 6 tw P. M. (Sundays excepted), FROM PHILADELPHIA PASSENGER STATION, Corner oi BERKS and AMERICAN Streets. Tickets for BUFFALO, ROCUESTEH, NIAGARA, FAILS and the WEST may be obtained at Oince, No. Sll CHESNUT Street. ELLIS CL1RE, General Agent. Tickets sold and Baggage checked through rrlncl pal points at MANN'S North PESNSYLVA N1A BAGGAGE EXPRESS OFFICE, No. 105 Soat FIFTH Street. 711m ART EXHIBITION. C. F. HASELTINE'S GALLERIES, t . ; No. 1125 CHESNUT STREET. LOOKING-GLASSBS, PICTURE FRAMES, ENGRAVINGS, AUTOTYPES, SWISS PANORAMAS, CHI'OMOS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTISTS' MATERIALS, lllOrp , . ,-' ' ETC. ETC. THE FINE ARTS. HBW VIEWS IN 7 HE PARK. Purvtaoce's Stereoscopic Views In the Park, ts cents each, 12 50 per dozen. New Chronio, portrait of Dickens, tht laot Uken for which he sat, mounted, 9x11 Inches, SO cents each. Hailed to any address. , , , NEW CHROMotf, after Birket Foster. W&fF ENGRAVINGS. LOOKING-GLASSES still at reduced prices. JAMES & EARLE & SONS, No. 816 CHESNUT STREET, " ' ' ' ' PHILADELPHIA. ' ' FURNACES. Established in 1835. Invariably tbs greatest (access over all competition wheuever and wherever exhibited or used in ths UMTK1 STATES. CHARLES WILLIAMS' - i Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces, Acknowledged by tbe leading Architect sad Builders to be the most powerful and durable Furnaces edered, and Ibe most prompt, systematic, and Urteet house ia this line of business. BEAVY REDUCTION IK PRICES, and only first-class work turned euU No. 1132 and 113. MARKET Street, ' PHILADELPHIA. N. B 8FND FOB BOOK OF FAOT8 ON HKAT AND VENTILATION.- S3 4i TO RENT. TO LET THE 8TORJJ PROPKRTI NO. ra Oheannt street, twenty flvs feet front, ens haa dred aa.4 fort Br feet deep to Beaaett street. Baek buildings (ls stories biah. Posssssipo Hf 1, 1570. At dress TBOMASa. rtETOHKB. U l J Pel o, H. J. TO RENT TIIREE-8TORY i P WELL ING, with back buildinss, strutted lu l' ' UUaUttlW DSHIlS.. ui, a ' " betweea trout eed fceeoad, ,,, apSSS' m0d,rU """""'""aIROM HURLEY. t6 . Ho. s). i VfcK I H btieet. TO LET THREE STORY iof?DLE II07SB, No. :-o Hpruce street. Finest neighborhood la Un.t Philadelphia. All the latest convenience a. Lot. iuo by 11 feet, hbada and fruit irons. Apply at No. UI S. TMKi) Street. i 8t HAIR OURLERS. rpiIIS U YPGDIOn XXAIIl OTJTILE1TS, AH IHDIsr KnSAB UK UTtULE I UK TUX fclDISS (PaWuWd Jalf , U87.) This Outer Is thsmoet necfect inveotloa srer offered to tbe publio. Itiaeaailf operated. aesA ia appear in o sad will sx4 injure toe fceix, as these is no beet required, aoraajr nsetaiUe suheUnoo seed te met ec steak theuaic Hannfuqr ured ealj , sad fas sale wholesale sad mUU, bf fflcmLlXLAN Sc CO., I V. act K S & fONT Street, ruiladelpeis. bold tt all T M90ds Trusmlsc tad KUyS Store.
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