2 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1870. crmiT or ran run so. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Diy for the Evening Telegraph. CLIO IN TEAKS, 'row the S. 1". World, Navigators tell us of a part of the coast of Africa where, though for seasons gentle breezes and calm seas prevail and ships ride loik usly at anchor, there is sure to come a dangerous undertow, if not a fierce gale, which strews the shore with ghastly wrecks. There is also a political Africa, where lie stranded, their ragged ribs half buried in the sand, many a boastful craft. It is a carious but impressive fact that all the leaders ofthe great anti-slavery party of this nation, those at least who held high executive station. Lave gone ashore or been shipwrecked. Mr. Lincoln escaped an old age of insignificance by a picturesque and liorrible catastrophe. Andrew Johnson is "nowhere." Seward, the "old Tenieraire," unlike the hero whom Turner painted reposing in the light of a cheerful sunset, ia hogged nnd broken-backed. Mr. Chase, washed by a sort of gigantio "bore," an accidental tidal wave, high but very dry, may never float again. Stanton was forgotten before he died. Mr. Adams best of them all rusts in retheuaont. And so it is throughout. The last ship which has gone ashore one with painted ports and very light draught of water ia the -John Lothrop Motley, of Boston rig and register; and it is on this disaster we crave leave to say a few more words. What we think of Mr. Motley and his fitness for the place to which he was raised, and from which he is now contemptuously dismissed, we have said, and shall not repeat; but when wo see radical newspapers, such as the Newark daily, asserting that the World "stern censor of the ad ministration," applauds the action of the President in the premises, we desire to be mere precise. We think General Grant right in removing Mr. Motley on the ground of in capacity, but we are far from sure it lies in the mouth of radicalism to say so; for why was Mr. Motley ever appointed, and is it creditable to executive patriotism or wisdom first to appoint a man to high office because he is Mr. ttumner's friend, and then, within a year, to turn him out for precisely the same reason ? Yet this is the exact state of the case. The reproach is justly made on the English people that they are terrible snobs when brought in contact with the aristocracy. Now, it seems to us that what titles do with them office does with us. Ex-Senator 1're linghuysen last week was a meritorious and, in no offensive sense, obscure New Jersey practitioner of law. The President makes him a minister, and he at once attracts attentiou and applause, which he well de serves, and is the rising star. Harvard, that scans the horizon close for ascending lumina ries, will doubtless make him an LL. D. Yesterday no one on the Radical canon stood so high a Mr. Motley scholar, historian, statesman "the right man in the right place." Did he not write of the Dutch Republics, and, as if anticipating Giant, of William the Silent ? Did he not "orate" at length, and with more than usual tedium, among the embalmed bulls of our Historical Society ? And yet now, who so poor to do him reverence ? In fact, his tory and literature are at a frightful dis count. Clio is in tears. Boston, like the Theban matron, is in grief and terror, for the angry god at Washington, weary of her boasts, has with one shaft stretched Motley on the earth, and is searching in his quiver for an other for Bancroft. At the very moment when the scholar-world is cheered by the news that Livy's second Decade has been recovered, it is darkened by the decapitation and danger of our great historians. Tbis, too, under circumstances of peculiar gravity. Looking back over the annals of this country, we can find but one instance, that of Mr. G. Morris, ' where a foreign minister has been recalled by the- President who appointed him, and then it was done most reluctantly by Washington, at the instance of the French Republic Mr. Gladstone has not asked Mr. Motleys recall, nor Bismarck Haacroft's. Then, too, to be dragged home 'at a great crisis of the world's history, when the map of Europe is to be torn to pieces, and Mr. Motley from his study in Portland place can safely speculate at a distance and write essays about some Prussian war-tromp in the channel. It is a perfect and wanton cruelty on poor Mr. Bancroft. It will be recollected by all who have "enjoyed" the last volume of his history that, when collecting materials for the exposure of those revolu tionary impostors Greene and Schuyler and Reed and Sullivan, he boasted not only of his lich Hessian treasures,but of his intimacy with no less a person than Von Moltke, King Wil liam's chief of staff, ne, no doubt, is now with him at headquarters, under the fire of Metz and Thionville, or collecting materials to show, from actual observation, how infe rior Ehrenbreitstein is to the post and rail fence at Breed's hill, or the defiles of the Vosges to the road to Concord. We trust, for the Baue 01 tne unembiazoned deeds of Alassa chusett a, that her Bancroft may at least be Miared. Not that he has any such claims as Motley on radical recollection; for, though Bancroft did weep piteously over Lincoln s bloody bier, and hurl all manner of vengeful defiance at the Tarqum of England and the Claudius of France, yet a veracious diarist tells us he was once disloyal, and in 18G1 actually sneered at Lincoln and his policy. Not so Motley, ne has been steady in the faith. He is of that sentimental literary school which preached abolition in season and out of season, and who, in writing the annals of the nation which boasts of Amboyna, owns Saiinam, and upheld slavery in its worst form till within the last ten years, flavored them with libels on his. own countrymen, and catered generously to the morbid New Eng land appetite for slander on the South, lie mourned less for Horn and Egmont and Baroevelt butchered than for Sumner caned. He was a pet of the sainted Lincoln. Sew ard loved and honored him. When, in lbGf, me European diplomatic corps was re modelled, with oharacteristio infelicity the panegyrist of Protestant Holland was sent to the most C&tholio court of Europe, and mere oisiiuguibueu nimseii by writing a huge budget of rhetorical despatches about the aflaira of the world in general, which beward printed and bumner praised. "Blis tered be the tongue and palsied the hand, " said he pleasantly of Mr. Gladstone, "which could utter or write each words as 'that the South was a nation. And so throughout; and, whatever we carping critics may think, tbU balderdash was a merit in the eyes of ( those who made Mr. Grant President. It was all freah when he was selected to go to tngland. Then, too, was he not a martyr on 1 be abrine of the Moloch Johnson? Was he not reported against for lc8e-mete; and not the then President inrralt him by super seding him by an obscure Philadelphia lawyer, whom, in turn. General Grant contemptuously dismissed? Such being his antecedents, aside, we repeat, from all question of fitness, the President did the most natural thing in the world when, at the instance of a dear and common friend, he sent him to England. It is true, Mr. Fish trusted him with no work, which rather enhances the injustice done him vow. He ba 1 nothing to do, and he did it thoroughly. lie mourned with Lord Muncaster. He lunched the King of the Belgians. He religiously wore a black coat at Windsor and Buckingham Talace. He escorted poor Mr. Peabody to Plymouth. He attended the Dickens obsequies. Ia short, what he had to do he did, and his reward is disgrace: and Mr. Frederick Frelinghuysen, who never wrote a book, but is a sensible, practical man, goes in his place. New Jersey supersedes New England. Massachusetts is aghast at the slaughter of her innocents: but what cares he of the silent tongue ? He punishes his enemies and is conteut 1 PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN. From the X. Y. Evening Mail. A case which forcibly illustrates the neces sity of a change in some of tho laws relating to the property of married women has just been iecided in Newark, N. J. The facts in the case appear to be as follows: Several years ago a youDg lady of many personal attractions married a person whose name it is not necessary to mention a man without means and of anything but industrious habits. The wife had accumulated a Bmall property, and was known as a woman of great business energy and tact. Tho husband, as time wore on, gradually fell into habits of entire indolence, failing to provide for himself and wife, and exhibiting an iniiilference, it is said, to her happiness which altogether alienated her affections. Finally, this condition of affairs becoming intolerable, the. wife proposed a separation, agreeing to give the husband the sum of !ji'."(0 if he would quit the home she had earned, and leave her to make her own way without incumbrance. The husband promptly accepted the offer, and the separation was effected, with the understanding that it was to be absolute and final. Thus relieved, the wife addressed herself with increased energy to the business she had established, finding a supreme satisfaction ia the thought that whatever she might earn, whether little or much, would be all her own and could not be squandered in riotous living by any per son claiming to exercise authority over her acts. The woman's hopes, however, of a peace ful and prosperous future suffered sudden blight. In the month of March last she sick ened, and, after a brief illness, died. After her death it was found that she had made a will, in which she bequeathed her property to others than her husband, the greater portion being given to her parents. The husband at once filed a caveat against the will, claiming the right to administer upon the estate. The case was elaborately argued, and recently the court gave a final opinion, setting aside the will on the ground that a married woman has no legal right to dispose of her property without the consent of her husband. This is, no doubt, New Jersey law, but we submit that it is not justice. If a woman who by her industry secures a competency in spite of the improvidence, neglect, or in dolence of her husband, cannot dispose of her own estate or protect her own children from want, after the husband has formally and absolutely abdicated all claim over her as his wife, it is certainly high time some thing should be done to invest her with that authority. Under the New Jersey law a married woman has no incentive, not even the slightest, to loftiness and consecration of purpose in the marital relation, no stimulus whatever to providence and industry; she is the mere slave of a taskmaster, against whom, however brutal or inhuman, she has no means of redress or defense. In the case under consideration the wife is said to have remarked to her physician, a day or so before her decease, that she would rather see her estate scattered to tne winds than that the man who had so wronged her and so wrecked her life should receive a single penny of the fruits of her toil. But under the law, invoked by the husband instantly upon her decease, the dominant and supreme desire of the woman is wholly ignored, and every dollar of the estate she had accumulated goes directly into the possession of the person who, of all men in the world, had the least right, in common justice, to receive it. barely New Jersey lias need to change lier laws in respect to the rights of married women, if she would keep abreast of the civilization of the age. THE NEUTRALITY OF ENGLAND. Voi the X. Y. Berald. Yes, let England remain neutral, or other wise let her look out. It is a familiar fable that tells of the nobler beasts engaged in a combat which satisfies their natures, and of a meaner beast that satisfies its nature in quite another style by sneaking off .with what should be the spoil of victory; getting by pitiful theft what it could not gain in the more daring way. And even a commercial age an age that looks upon tricksy traders as great men, and exalts small thrift above all the virtues even such an age cannot con template the figures in this old story without a natural sentiment of contempt tor the one that is an incarnation of its own spirit. The conduct of the jackalin the fable, or whatever meaner beast may be put in his place, is to have its latest exemplification apparently in the attitude of England with war all around her; and this conduct is so thoroughly in ac cerdance with the character of recent English politics that we cannot doubt but this jackal spirit will still control, until that shall be done which would force even a jackal to ngnt 'England is neutral !" How often England herself, through all her channels of expres sion, assured us of this fact during the war for the Union ! She was neutral; but she sent out, supplied with everything but her nag, tne ships that destroyed our commerce, and her commerce profited by the result. Was this anything but the neutrality of the jackal ? When the war came her shopksep era spirit naturally carried her to the side of the Southern people; for of them could be made customers, and twelve miltions of strictly agricultural population are a startling vision of temptation to the manufacturer and trader, and siding with them in war she might have gained them and destroyed the Union. But that would be to gain things as the lion does, or the tiger, or any other wild beast that has some generous points of char acter. She preferred the part of the jackal, Are the davs of the lion gone forever? Has England seen the last of herself as bead and front of Europe in its great contests and the supreme arbiter of every dispute ? Were Pitt and Palmerston only deluded drivellers enthusiastio blunderers, who wasted the vitality of England for flimsy fanoies, and gained less with all their glory than this age ehall gain by a knowing application of the doctrines of neutrality and trade ? It seem i so. England cannot see her way clear to keep out of this fight without stretching what she calls her honor. Let it strtt sh then. "What is honor but a word ?'' It is only , thin air. But there is some substance in neutrality wdl mnnipulaled. England is pledged to guaran tee the independence and integrity of Bel gium, and it is not within human possibility that the case should fail to occur in this war in which she has promised to take up arms. But when she gave that promise she did not suppof-e that all the commerce of Europe might be in tho scale : and now that it is she will do her utmost to fail in her pledge to withheld the fulfilment of her promise. She is allied to Prussia. too, by direct relations in the families of the sovereigns, and by general sympathy with the North German hostility to France. But then she had a similar sentiment of sym pathy once before with ths Northern people who loucht lor iree government, ana agaiusi that vile institution of slavery for which Eng land lias such a magnificent olhcial abhor rence: but this sympathy did not blind ner eyes to the whereabouts of her customers. Neither will her sympathy with Prussia blind her to the trade of Europe, to be had at such a cheap rate as merely Ptanding still: for she has the eyes of the jackal for any perfectly safe and easy advantage. Neutrality is her great game in the world her specialty among the nations. It pats wonderfully: and when Mr. Disraeli attributes all greatness to the domination of Hebrew thought this is, perhaps, what he means. Greatness is something that pays. Just now, moreover, there are additional reasons over the reasons that spply in every other case why England should be neutral. If she ventures into the. war she w ill have trouble at home, and instead of profiting by the ruin of others in lier commerce she will not have a limber left on the sea outside her navv. One of the reasons is seen in the position taken by the Irish; the other in the history of the Alabama. If Eng land puts a soldier in Belgium or inside the l'russiun lines she takes the field against l'raiice: and one hundred thousand Irishmen paraded in Dublin on Tuesday to declare thoir h that 1 ranee might triumph over all her foes. Iu the House of Commons it wa de clared the other night that England, with all ker show of force on pnper, could not pnt fifty thousand men in the held: and her military impotence was seen even in the Crimea. She woulo,in lte, therefore, disaster that she hardly has power to resist. And once at war shall we not retort on her the example of the Ala bama ? Yea, and we will better the example. She has not paid for her depredations on our trade, and still holds all that she did as law ful and right. Very well: we will accept in stead of indemnity that view of the law, and apply it to her case as she applied it to ours; and as she judges things by a mercantile standard, let her decide in the end whether it is not cheaper for nations to be just. THE GOVERNMENT AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE. From the rail Mall Gazette. It may be right or wrong that women should have votes. Possibly it will make little practical difference whether the votes are given or denied to the comparatively small number of women who would be en franchised by Mr. Jacob Bright's proposal. But one thing may be said with, some confi dence, namely, that it cannot be a matter of indifference whether tho principles upon which Mr. Bright's supporters proceed should or fchouid not receive the sanction of Parliament. For good or for evil, it is difficult to imagine a change more vitally affecting the welfare of society than that which they propose. Such changes as the more fanatical reformers advocate would be of far greater importance than the alteration in land laws or educational systems which occupy so large a part ot our legislative energy. If women are to have votes, to be members of Parliament, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and merchants, and marriage is to be nothing but a voluntary and temporary contract, the result may possibly be that society will be regenerated, but at least the morals and the legislation of the country will be profoundly atlected. Upon this truth all parties will be probably agreed; the advocates as well as the opponents of the change are equally emphatio in asserting it; ' and therefore we cannot reward without won der the way in which the question is being practically dealt with. Of Mr. Mill and Mr. Jacob Bnght, indeed, we have nothing to say. I hey have made up their minds for right or for wrong, and they are fighting the battle with a single and intelligible purpose. But it is strange that their opponents should treat the matter with such serene indifference. It is significant that, as we are told, this is not a party question, and that many staunch Conservatives should advocate the change side by side with the most thoroughgoing Democrats. Nothing could illustrate more forcibly the confusion into which old party lines are falling. It appears that the two great parties in whose struggles all political activity is supposed to be concentrated are not at it-.sue upon one of the most important topics of the day. If half the Conservatives were in favor of an extension of the suffrage to a lower class, and half the Radicals were opposed to it, we should find it hard to dis cover satisfactory definitions for Conserva tism and Radicalism. Yet, when it is pro posed to extend the suffrage to persons dif fering not in fortune but in sex from the present holders, it seems that politicians in general have no distinct views upon the subject. If tho ideas which animate the two parties have no application to so vital a question, it becomes difficult to understand how they can have any ideas worth mention ing. And if this is surprising, it is equally strange that Government should openly de elare that it has not made np its mind on the matter. There are, of course, many topics on vthich Government cannot be supposed to have made up its mind. It may not quite have decided what to do about Epping Forest or the constitution of the governing body of Rugby. But it surely might have some opinion as to whether women should have the political duties and privileges of men, and whether the Legislature should in any case take account of difference of sex. And if it had any decided opinions on such matters, it conld surely find some doctrines applicable to the question of female suffrage. The consequences of its equanimity on such topics are far from creditable. If women are to have votes, the concession should be made after full consideration. They should not, as it were, creep into the polling booths because nobody quite knows whether they had better be tolerated or dismissed. Yet this seems to be the manner id which the question is being at present -decided. First, women get municipal votes because nobody cares very much whether they have them or not. This concession is made a sufficient ground for giving them voes in the election of members of Parliament whenever they have the qnauncaiion required irom men The next point will be q alter the qnali fi cation, so as to admit women, to a larger share of the electoral privilege;' and so, by a gradual advance, we shall move on quietly from point to point of the whole woman's rights programme. As a rule, we have not much respect for the argument named after the thin end of the wedge. It generally amounts to saying that we shonld not pay a debt which we do owe for fear of being after wards called upon to pay something that we do not owe. Stronger grounds are made for resisting unjust demands by satisfying fully and frankly all demands which :can be well made out. But in this instance the case is somewhat different. We are not objecting to a concession of a harmless privilege because it may possibly lead to an increase of demands already put forward, but we do object most de cidedly to a mode of meeting a demand, or rather of permitting it by evasion, which seems to imply that no principles are involved in the mRtter. We allow women gradually to occupy new positions without explicitly dis cussing the question whether it is a good thing lor tbem and for society at large, and indeed without even making up our minds on the subject. Whether the effect of the change cow in contemplation be great or small, it raises the same issnses as the much more cTecisive changes which will be demanded heieafter: and if nobody cares to form an opinion upon them now, there seems to be little reason why we should ever care to con sider them at all. If we go on in our present frame of mind, we shall wake up some morn ing and find that a social change of the high est importance has taken place, and that we have looked on as quietly as if it were simply a change from one fashion to another, and bad no more significance than the adoption of chignons or the abandonment of crinoline. OPIUM. From the Li)idon Satiinlfj Review. It is not often that an abstract proposition started by a man with a hobby has any useful result in the House of Commons. It is gene rally a pure waste of time to inquire whether he is right or wrong. But the debate on the Indian opium trade was, in its way, of consi derable use, although its issue was easily foreseen, and although it could have no im mediate effect. If there could be an Indian subject named on which the House of Com mons might profitably and properly spend an hour's talk, it is the revenue derived from the traffic in opium. The people of England feel that in some dim and almost unintelligible manner they are the governors of, India and responsible lor its management. They do not interfere much with the details of the Government, for they know nothing about tlit iu, and they have the sense to see that they would do a great deal of harm if they interfered. But they believe that on all very great points the virtual con trol of Indian government rests with the English House of Commons. They are ordi narily invited to be very proud of the pos session of India, to look on India as a mar vellous field for English science, courage, and energy, and to hope that they are doing great moral and even religious work bv carrying out there what, they believe to be wise and just maxims of policy. But there is very often represented to be one blot on our Indian government, and that is the sanc tion and encouragement given by it to the consumption of opium in China, it is com monly said that we do what we know to be very wrong in order that we may get money, it is difficult to see how a more important question regarding India could be brought before (he House of Commons. If the popular impression is true, then the English nation may reasonably ask that it shall be relieved as soon as possible from using the immense power it possesses in order to sanction what it knows to be wrong. It would sooner or later have a most pernicious eff ect on the tone of public morals here, if men were secretly persuaded that they were responsible for a system of government in Asia which supported itself by means that were generally supposed here to be unquestionably wrong. If the popular impression is wrong if, as a matter of fact, the Indian Government does not sanction or encourage the traffic in opium, or if the traffic in opium is not a traffic which it is wrong to sanction or encourage then it is surely most desirable that the truth should be known in England, and that the national conscience should be relieved from a depressing burden. The Government speakers, with Mr. Grant Duff at their head, took the bull fairly by the horns, and avowed their conviction that the opium traffic was not wrong at all. The use of opium was, acobrdingto them, like the use of tobacco or of wine, sometimes useful, sometimes neither good nor bad, sometimes positively pernicious. Opium, they say, may be taken in too great quantities, so may to bacco or claret or ginger-beer. Rash people smoke till they are sick, or drink claret till they are drunk, or imbibe ginger-beer till they burst, but it is quite right to let mode rate people smoke and drink as much as they think fit. Mr. Grant Duff assured his hearers that, so far as he could make out, the Chinese took, as a rule, about the right quantity of opium. They smoked themselves quiet, but not stupid: and- then, as he thought 'Bhould be specially noticed, even if they did smoke too much opium sometimes, it was the peculiar merit of opium that it makes those who take too much of it not noisy, but very quiet. If a certain amount of excess must be looked for in every country, it was, as the Indian Under Secretary suggested, very kind in the Indian Government to supply the Chinese with a drng which, if they will take too much of it, prevents them from being nuisances to their neighbors. It is at least something that a man who takes more opium than is good for him does not sing comio songs and wrench off knockers. But this is not all. The use of opium may be put on a much higher foot ing than this. It may, as was urged, be looked on as the destined and natural cor rective of tea. The Chinese are a tea-drinking people in fact, a very tea-drinking people'. To drink tea is looked on in Eng land as something virtuous in itself, because experience shows that men who will Btick to tea and to nothing else for any length of time are of a gentle and mild turn of mind, and love to live with thesort of women who adore the placid virtues. Bat in China the virtue is too common to be a virtue. Tea is drunk by every one freely; but then tea is a stimulant, and although it does not cloud the brain, it shakes the nerves. Nature, however, assisted by the Indian Government, supplies the remedy, and the remedy is opium. It is by the use of this salutary drag that the Chinese are enabled to still the irri tation and tranquillize the febrile excitement which their tea would produce. Iu the same way, it is said, the coffee-drinking nations smoke tobacco to keep their nerves quiet; and thus opium and tobacco equally fulul a most excellent purpose, for, although coffee - i 1 : i t if I unnKllig Das never, iulo lea unn&iug, ueeu raised to the dignity, of a positive virtue, there ia generally allowed to be something dicnified. Oriental, and patriarchal in drinkin coff ee, especially if it fa badly made and has no milk in it. lhe tables are thus completely turned on Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and the Indian Government is rapidly elevated, almost before it can know where it is, to the proud position of being the benefactor of nearly the third part of the human race. It is true that the Chinese Government has done all it can to forbid and discourage the introduction of opium into its territories, on the express ground that its use is most mischievous; but this was simply because it did not understand the necessity of having opium as an antidote to tea. That this necessity was, however, deeply felt by the Chinese people is perhaps shown by the rapidity with which, in spite of every discouragement, the growth and use of opium has made its way in China; bo ' much so that Mr. Grant Duff, with a more than official enthusiasm, did not hesitate to com pare the assured complacency of its trium phant supporters with that of the Christian Church when fully established in the Roman Empire. Whether this most pleasant and comforting view of opium, and the traffic in opium, and the revenue from opium, is fully supported by the little we know of Chinese current history is not altogether certain ; but Mr. Grant Duff was able to say, without the fear of any one venturing to corroborate or contradict him, that the Chinese people are just as strong, just as clever, and just as energetic since they took to opium as they were before. We in England know nothing about opium taken in moderation and as a corrective to tea. We only knoiv of it as taken in excess. But stories of the Bradford babies, such as Mr. Fowler off ered, and the sad records of the lives of Coleridge and De Quincey, may really show no more as to opium than tales of wild tribes killed off by the firewater of the whites show as to gin or whisky. 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NOTICE lf IlERElil Gl EN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bauk, la accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred rhoa saud dollars, with the right to increase the same to nve hundred thousand dollars. BATCHELOR'8 HAIR DYE. THIS Ism, reliable, inntantaneoua, doei not eentain lead, nor an; v italic poieun to produce paralysis or death. Aoid tbe vaunted and delusive preparations boasting virtue tbey do Dot posaess. The genuine W. A. Batchetor'a Uaat Dye bas bad thirty years untarnished reputation to up hold its inteirritf as the only Perfect Hair Dye Black or Brown. Bold by all Druggist. Applied at No. 16 BONO Street. New Vork 4i7mwf Diendld Hair Dvel the bast in tne woJld. Harm- tffl- HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING Teeth with fresh Nitrous-Oxide Gas. Absolutely no pain. Dr. . R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the Ooll on Deatal Kooma, devote his entire practice to the painless extraction of teeU. Office, No. U WALNUT Street. lUi NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVSN THAT AX application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the iucotporatlon of a Bank, In accordance with the laws of the Coramonwe ltii, to be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKING COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one million dollars, with the right to in ciease the same to Ave million dollars. ' PATENTS. T TKITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, WASH INGTON, D. C, July 1, is;. On the petition of CYRl S CHAMBERS, Jr., Of Philadelphia, Pa., praying for the extension ot a patent granted to him on the Tth day of October, 1&C0, for an improvement In Machine for Folding Paper, it Is ordered that the testimony in the case be closed on the tith day of September next, th it the time for tiling arguments and the Examiner's report be limited to the 16th day of September next, and that said petition be heard ou the 21st day tf Sep tember next. Any person mav oppose this extension. SAMIEL'S. FISHER, T 8 J3t Commissioner of Patents. STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. 8TATE Rights of a valuable Invention just patented, and for the hl.lOlNO. HUTTING, and OilffPl PUo( dried bet, cabbaa. etc.. are hereby offered for sale. It is an artiol of great value to proprietors of hotels and restaurant surants. KTATK ana it snouia be in traduced Into every family, HHJH'I 8 for sale. Model oan be leea at TK KOBAPU OF 1UH. OOOrER'b POIM . N. v aJUNDY HOFFMAN. FIRE AND BUROLAR PROOF SVF J. WATSON A SO 8, ffl M Of th lat firm of KVANS WATSON, FIltK AND BURGLAR-PROOF A F E H T O Xt IT, No. 53 SOUTH FOURTH 8TREET, A few doors abor hesnat St., Philada. Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory JOHN T. BAILEY. XT. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET Sti HOPE AND TWIrTK, BAGS and BAGGING, for klour, Kalt.Super-Phoauhate of Lia, Bone Dut, Et. lrgcauilsiDAUGL'NNY BAGS ooxiUaw 01 tual, Ira PROPOSALS. 1)i;oroS A 1. 8 FOR CLOTHLNU MAT lilt IALB. . AM) ILOTULNJ N4vr DrRmir, p.iao of rrovHiom ko ct.oTwi. y Ju y i. lsro. SraTM PropoasV, ln-iomd Trorwvw: (or Cloth ing," will be received at this Bureau until t o'cioca: P. M, on the ;m day of July, i;o, for the repp j ot the following rtirifa.'v'f..: ro.W'O yard Isrk lime Flaaa:. I0.(ioo arin !Uu Nack'n. 10,(0 yard Mnrnaiey hlieet'.nj . IB.OeO pairs W ooiion Sxk.t. a.000 pair alf haopa. 4,ooo pa ra Kip hi. The atiove-rnrntionM articlea m aKiwfii at th Navyard, Mew ork. w;tt.in n:nrty dayi from the date of contra t, and muat conform to nav standard, and lx cqval tn a 1 repe ta to the mp4 at the at vera'. Navy arda, and muat paM thf cum lD"pe'','0,'. The Flannel nr;t all wool, tw:i:M. aolwo. dred with pure tnd'go, and must be ta pieces of aioiit fifty yards In length, twenty-aven tn he wide, weighing Ave and one-half ouni e per foi. nd to liBve a Tiat on each edge of four wh:t woo.ieo threads woven Intlierho'e length of tae piece ; tao pieces t Ik? rolled Separately without iloia Itoanbi. and no piece to hae ieM average we'jjiit than dvi and four-tentha ounces per yard. Tlie quality aa l color of tte tianne': to be equal to the samp c a, ue several inopeettons. The Nank;n roust also be pure ln l.go-ded. The Hieeting must be free from cotton, e.gMy Inches In width, weighlna twelve ounren an t thirty one one-hundredth per yard, texture by 4 to l-ia inch. The t-hces must le delivered in toes made of reasoned white pine, pinned and Dna iwi an I grooved; sides, tcp, and bottom Ove-eighth tnc!r thick, and the etuis one inch thick; the sides to be nailed to the ttottom, otid the top to be secured by iiot less than ten one and three-fourth Inch screw, one screw at each end of the box, to be counter sunk one quarter inch by one and one-quarter tac a in diameter. The sizes of the Socs and Shoes must conform t. the schedule to be supplied bv the inspector at New York. Bonds, with approved seenrtty, wi'.l be reioi'ed La OTie-qr.arter the estimated amount of the contrac.. and twenty per cent, iu addition will in? withheld fioni the amount of each payment as collateral security for the due performance of the contract, which reservation will not be paid u:.tu the coutract is fully complied with. Ever offer must be accompanied t a writtea guaiaiitce. signed by one or more responsible per sons, that the bidder or bidders will, if his or thetr bid be accepted, enter into on obligation within flv days, with good and suillctent surtt.es, to furajji the articles proposed. No proposals will be considered unless accompa nied by puch guarantee, nor com a.i.v partir vhn are mi ioiiatte tnanirfaetrer of cr rt-puiar d'alrr in the article' rrtrr tn fvmii-k, in conformity with the becoud pe tion of the joint re.uUoa ap pioved March 8, !S. The Department reserves the right to reject aay propocal unless the responsibility of the guarantors is certified to bv the Assessor of Internal Revenue fortlie district in which they reside; and unless the 'license required by act of Congress la rural ied with the proposal, as well as to reject any prooosa. not considered advantagaous to the Government. E. T. DUNN, 7 2 frust f ihief of Bureau. DEPARTMENT OF PI BI.IC HIGHWAYS. Offk e. No. 104 S. FirTH Stekbt, I Philadelphia, July si, 13;i). ) NOTICE ToToNTR ACTORS. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at tie Oflicc of the Chief Commissioner of Hlizuvavs until 11 o'clock A. M. on MONDAY, 25th inst., for tbe construction of a sewer on the line of Amber street, from the bouthwest curb-line of Settcrly street, to connect with the sewer in Sergeant street. And on the northwest aide of Girnrd avenue, from Vienna street to the south west curb-line o Montgomery avenue. Said sewers to be constructed with b'rick, circular In shape, with a clear inside diameter of three feet, 1 with such manholes as may be directed by the Chief Enelaeer and Surveyor. The under- , standing to ' be that the 6ewers herein adver tised are to be completed on or before the IMtu day of September, 1870. And the contractor shall take bills prepared against the property fronting on said sewer to the amount of oae dollar and fifty cents for each lineal foot of front on each feide of the street as so much. cash paid: the balance, as limited by ordi nance, to be paid by the city; and the contractor will be required to keep the street and aewer in good order for three years after the sewer ia finished. When the street is occupied by a city passen ger railroad track, the sewer shall be constructed alongside of said track in such manner as not ta obstruct or interfere with the safe passage of the cars thereon; and no claim for remuneration shall be paid the contractor by the company ufcing said track, as specified in Act of Assembly approved May 8. ISM. Each proposal will be accompanied by a cer tificate that a bond has been filed in the Law Department, as directed bv ordinance of May 20th, 1800. If the lowest bidder shall not cxe oute a contract within five davs after the work is awarded, he will be deemed as declining, aud will be held liable on his bond for the differ ence between his bid and the nest lowest bid der. Specifications may be had at the De partment of Surveys, which will be strictly adhered to. The Department of Highways re serves the rieht to reject all bids not deemed satisfactory. Jxll U1UUBIP uia uv intrcui ut luc nuir aui place of opening the said proposals. No al lowance will be made for rock excavation , except bv special contract. " MAIILON H. DICKINSON. 7 21 St Chief Commissioner of Highways. CITY ORDINANCES COMMON COUNCIL OF' PHILADELPHIA, Clerk's Office, Philadelphia, July 8, 1870. f In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Common Council of the city of Philadelphia on Thursday, the 7th day of July, 1870, the annexed bill, entitled "An Ordinance to Create a Loan for a House of Correction," Is here'ov publisted for public Information. John- Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. A N iV To ORDINANCE To Create a Loan for a House of Correction. Section 1. Tbe Select and Common Councils of the CUv of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Mayor of" Philadelphia be and he Is hereby authorized to borrow, at not less than par, on the credit of the city, from time to time, for a House of Correction, five hundred thousand dollars, for which interest, not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per aunum, shall be paid half vearly on the first days of January and July, "at the oflice of tbe City Treasurer. The principal of said loan shail be payable and paid at tbe expiration of thirty years from the date of the same, and not before, without the consent of tbe holders thereof: and the certificates therefor, in tbe usual form of the certificates of citv loan, shall be Issued in such amounts as the lenders may require, but not for auy fractional part of one hundred dollars, or, If required, in amounts of five hundred or one thousand dollars: and it shall be expressed In said certifi cates that the loan therein mentioned and the iutere-t thereof are payable free from all taxes. Section 2. Whenever any loan shall be made by virtue thereof, there ahall be. by force of this ordinance, annually appropriated out of the.ia come of the corporate estates and from the sum raised by taxation o sum sufficient to pay the Interest on said certificates; and the further sum of three-tenths of one per centum on the. par value of 6tith certificates so issued, shall be appropriated quarterly out of said income and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund and its ac cumulations are' hereby especially pledged for the redemption aud payment of said certii cates. RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOAN V BILL. Resolved. That the Clerk of Common Conn cil be authorized to publish in two daily news wo daily news- Tj our weeks, tb iimon Council 1 tied "An ordi- use of Correc 1 narers of this city oaur for lour ordinance presented to the Common on Tlmrsdav. July 7. 1870. entlt nance to create a loan for a House tion;" and the said Clerk, at the stated meeting of Councils after the expiration of four weeks from the first day of said publication, suail pre- seat to taii Council one o each of said news- a per tor every uiy lawulcli tlie s.t me shult n U c if I 7 - fl 1 A
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