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T1IE DA1LT EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDA1, JULY 27, 1870.
oriRir or Tun mnss.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading J ournals
Upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegrap h.
THE SECRET TREATY.
Frem the A. T. Tribune.
A new and very serious consideration is
introduced into the European quarrel by the
publication of the points of a proposed secret
treaty between France and Prussia. For the
disclosure we are indebted to the London
Times, which Touches for the accuracy of its
statements with an earnestness that would
hardly be assumed without good reason. The
treaty, to be sure, has been rejected by Prus
sia; but it betrays so clearly the purposes of
France that all Europe will be likely to take
alarm, and we may hear at any time of
alliances which will render necessary a gene
ral war. Our despatches do not mention the
date of the proposed instrument, but it must i
have been about the close of the war of 180G,
when it is well understood that negotiations
whose purport never was divulged took
place between the Emperor Napoleon and
King William. Bj this treaty France offered
to acknowledge the title of Prussia to the
territories she had absorbed in the course of
the war, and to consent to the union of North
and South Germany, provided the German
provinces now embraced in Cisleithan Aus
tria were not included. In return for this
Prussia was to permit France to seize Luxem
burg and Belgium! Bismarck rejected the
proposal, and the rejection was aooompanied
v ith almost contemptuous nonchalance; for
France was not only refused her demands, but
was obliged to submit to those movements on
the part of Prussia for which her demands
were made as an offset. Bismarck took the
price she offered, and gave her no return
for it. We can imagine how Napoleon must
have writhed under this humiliation, and his
pwtn probably was all the,' greater as he felt
that he had deserved it. But what, after this
disclosure, are we to think of the official de
claration made by the Government last week,
that this war was undertaken strictly in self
defense against the aggressions of Prussia? that
there was no purpose of assailing any State
except the kingdom of Prussia proper? that
France had no designs against any of the
neutral powers? Here we have absolute proof
that the possession of the Rhine frontier, in
her understanding of it, includes not only the
transfer of Rhenish Prussia but the oblitera
tion of Belgium and naturally the appro
priation of all that part of Holland lying south
of the Rhine. "The Berlin Cabinet," said
the French official mouthpiece the other day,
"wished to turn to aocount the power already
acquired by displacing definitively, to the
advantage of Prussia, the international equi
librium, and has therefore shown a premedi
tated intention to refuse its guarantees,
which were indispensable to our seourity as
well as our honor." The guarantee essential
to the honor and dignity of France is, there
fore, the permission to commit political lar
ceny cf Belgium and Luxemburg; and pre
serving the international equilibrium means
that whenever a German State joins the
North German Confederation, France must
be permitted to steal another State to coun
terbalance it ! France, in a word, making
war against Prussia on the ground that Prus
sia is bent on territorial aggrandizement, is
convicted of entertaining that same purpose
herself in a vastly aggravated form; for
wherea9 the most that can be said against
Prussia is that she threatens in an honest
way to absorb the German nation, France
attempts to extend her boundaries by sheer
robbery, without other pretext than the pos
session of the necessary power. The parti
tion of the kingdom of Poland was not a
greater crime than this atrocious deed to
which Napoleon attempted to win King Wil
liam's oonsent.
We have little doubt that England in this
emergency will come to the rescue of the
Belgian monarchy, whose independence she
is bound, in common with other power3, to
guarantee, and when England has entered
the field it is hard to Bay what other allianoes
may follow. We may possibly see the greater
part of Europe arrayed against the Third
Napoleon as it was formerly arrayed against
the First. But there will be no such straggle
How as there was in the time of that splendid
military genius whoso glory the present
ruler of the Tuileries is trying to copy.
England is capable alone of dealing
France a terrible blow, for England can
cope with the French navy and open the
Prussian ports; can' nutralize any French
movement in the direction of the North Sea,
and with the co-operation of Belgium and
Holland can defeat Napoleon's purpose of
making a base of operations in Denmark.
The rumored' evaouation of Rome is equiva
lent to a rumored alliance between France
and Italy, and we presume there is already
an alliance of some kind between France and
Spain; but neither Prim nor Victor Emma
nuel is in a condition to give Napoleon much
help. As for Russia and Austria, it will be
strange if, in the face of this new disclosure,
they enter the quarrel on the French side.
AMERICAN SYMPATHY IN FOREIGN
WARS.
From the -V. 1'. World.
Although the people of the United States
are devoted to money-fretting, there is no
people whose enthusiasm is more easily stirred
or who take a more spontaneous interest in a
cause whose success can bring them no ad
vantage. Our citizens have always been
more prone to headlong, uncalculating sym-
?athy than to guarded, sellish prudence,
he French Revolution broke out in the same
year that our Federal government was orga
nized; and for the ensuing ten years our
domestic politics were colored by the con
flicting views of our citizens on that mighty
convulsion. The Democratic party then in
process of formation under Jefferson were
zealous partisans of the French Revolu
tion, Hamilton and the Federalists taking
the other side. Its heated French par
tisanship was of no real advantage to
the Democratic party, its ultimate tri
umph depending mainly on its opposition
to the alien and sedition laws a purely do
mestic question. Before Jefferson became
President, Napoleon had risen to supreme
power on the ruins of the French republic,
and in Jeff erson's inaugural address he took
the same position that had always ieen held
by Washington "peace, commerce, and
honest friendship with all nations entang
ling alliances with none." The Democratic
party never afterwards professed any strong
sympathy with the cause of Franoe in the
wars which she continued to wage with her
adversaries. The original sympathy was pre
mature and misapplied, and brought no ad
vantage to the political party which espoused
the French Revolution.
The next foreign war which engaged the
f yirpatby of our people was the contest of
the 8pauish South American colonies for
their ludependence. There were no party
differences on that question, our whole peo
ple giving their unanimous good wishes to
the Spanish colonies, although our Govern
ment preserved its neutrality. But none, of
the new republics, from Ilexioo southward,
have given us any reason to be proud of our
foresight. They have been independent for
half a century, and during this long period
they have all been in a state of chronic
anarchy.
The Greek revolution was the next foreign
contest which deeply stirred public feeling in
this country. It occasioned some of the
finest coruscations of eloquence in our Con
gressional debates; but the subsequent his
tory of Greece has showa that we over-estimated
the importance of the cause and the
capacity and virtues of the Greek people.
That hallucination quickly passed; and there
is at present no people of Europe who awaken
less admiration than that pestiferous rest of
brigands, the modern Greeks.
After the Greek revolution, there ensued
in Europe a long period of peace, which was
not seriously broken until the republican up
rising of 1818. The most remarkable of
those movement? was the overthrow of Louis
Philippe and the setting up of a new French
republic. Ihe sympathy of our people went
of course with the French republicans. A
resolution was offered in the American Senate
congratulating the French people on the
chaDge; and on that occasion Mr. Calhoun
made a terse, cautious speech deprecating the
passage of the resolution as premature until
it was seen whether the new republican insti
tutions were likely to be permanent. Mr.
Calhoun's wariness was fully justified by the
event.
The second French republic, like the first.
was a short-lived, unsatisfactory experiment,
terminating in imperial despotism. The
American sympathy lavished on other parts
of the revolutionary movements of 18 (8 was
equally premature and unreflecting. We
went wild over the cause of Hungary, and
made a treat hero of Kossuth. When we
look back upon that enthusiasm it seems like
a transient frenzy. Kossuth sneaked out of
this country under an assumed name, and
led an obscure life in London; and the
Hungarian cause collapsed and soon be
came as fiat as uncorked soda-water. Mr.
Webster, who had written his celebrated
Hulsemann letter as a magnificent bid for
the popularity which attended the Hungarian
cause, received but a small fraction of the
votes of the Whig Convention, and furnished
a new demonstration that no political capital
can be made in this country by floating on
transient popular sympathy with a foreign
belligerent. That kind of enthusiasm is so
flashy, and is so apt to be put out of counte
nance by practical results over which Ameri
cans can exert no control, that a wary politi
cian will be shy of placing any reliance on it.
American sympathy with the Roman revo
lution in 1818 was ill bestowed, as nobody
now doubts that it retarded and put back the
progress of liberal ideas in the Papal domi
nions. The lesson of all these examples is,
that while such sympathy may be excusable,
it cannot be turned to political account in
our party struggles. In the Crimean war,
our sympathies were on the side of Russia,
but in the end Russia got badly whipped.
Politioal parties in this country have never
gained anything by taking stock in foreign
quarrels.
The foolish attempt of the Republican
party to utilize the present outburst of Ger
man patriotism will prove no exception to the
uniform rule. Our German citizens see
through and despise it. Their enthusiasm is
spontaneous and genuine, and therefore re
spectable; but the attempt to raise a Repub
lican chorus is sheer demagogism. The
Germans are not absurd enough to expect our
Government to aid Prussia; and they see as
clearly as we do that the question cannot
enter into American politics. The grounds
and probable results of the war are a proper
enough subject for individual opinion, but
not for political action. Whether pro-Prussian
or pro-French sympathy is well bestowed
depends upon whether free and wise govern
ment will be promoted in the country to
which we give our good wishes a question
which nobody can answer at this early stage
of the quarrel.
JOHN CHINAMAN AND WOMAN'S
WAGES.
.From the Woman' Journat.
The injustice of woman's disfranchisement
is forcibly illustrated in the Chinese, question
as it now presents itself. "An ounce of ex
ample is worth a pound of precept." Take
the following instance:
Among the new avenues recently opened
to woman's labor, one of considerable im
portance is found in steam laundries. A
number of these establishments are already
in successful operation in and near New York.
Mr. R. C. Browning, the enterprising pro
prietor of "Doty's Washing-macLine"' and the
"Universal Clothes-wringer," who has done
60 much, by the successful introduction of
these invaluable household machines, to re
lieve the women of America from domestio
drudgery, has recently erected one of these
laundries in Orange, New Jersey. In this
large establishment he employs some two
hundred women. These women work alto
gether by the piece. With the aid of power
ful steam machinery, shirts are starched and
ironed at eight cents a piece. At these prices
the women earn from a dollar and a half to
three dollars per day, according to their
strength and skill.
A few days ago we called, in company with
Mr. Browning, upon one of his heaviest cus
tomers, Mr. U., an extensive manufacturer
of shirts. In the course of conversation,
the difficulty of getting faithful and indus
trious working-women being considered, Mr.
C. urged Mr. Browning to import Chinamen
to take the place of women in his laundry,
Chinamen can be hired at seventy-five cents
per day in gold by the year. They are steady,
stroncr. docile, patient, industrious, and per
severing. With a little practice, they will do
more work for seventy-five cents than the
women now do for three times that sum.
Mr. Browning admitted the facts, acknow
ledged the greater convenience and larger
proht, but to his honor be it spoken-
expressed his unwillingness to supplant the
labor of w omen by importing men to fill their
places.
Y'et how few keen, shrewd business men
would share this chivalrous feeling! How
long will it be ere working-women will find
their scanty wages still further reduced by the
competition 01 these laborious Asiatio human
machines?
And vet while working-men have the mat
ter under their own control, and can in
fluence legislation in their own favor by their
votes as they may deem wise and expedient
tens of thousands of working-women are pro
hibited by law from expressing an authorita
tive opinion in regard to a matter of vital
interest to themselves. The very bread may
be taken from their mouths by the importa
tion andubstitution of aervile'laborers. And
these servile laborers are legally constituted
their political superiors, and are authorized
to make laws, public opiuion, and social
usnges, to which these disfranchised Ameri
can women must helplessly conform.
Without expressing any opinion as to the
wisdom of admitting or excluding their Chi
nese competitors, we demand the ballot for
these working-women as their natural right.
It is for them to say whether thin immigra
tion shall be permitted or prohibited. No
other class of citizens have an exclusive right
to settle a question in which these women
hare so vital an interest.
What would any class of working-men say
if they were thus excluded? What would the
Crispins Fay if they were disfranchised when
the rights of the laborer are in question, be
cause tiny ore Critpin? Or the lawyers, if
they were disfranohised when laws are to be
enacted, because they are lawyers? Or the
liquor -sellers, if they were prohibited from
voting on the question of licenses, because
they are liquor-sellers? What a cry of injus
tice would be raised, and what sympathy
would be awakened!
Shame on our code of political ethics! It
is respectable to be a Crispin, or a lawyer, or
a liquor-soller.' It is a crime to be a wotmn.
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.
From the X. 1. Htra'ul.
A retrospect of the last session of Congress
reveals the somewhat curious fact that while
there was no apparent conflict of opinion
between C'ongiess and the Executive, there
was at tLe same time very little harmony of
action between these two branches of the
Government, and that while President Grant
has retained, if not increased, his popularity,
Congress has decidedly lost ground in public
favor. It is not surprising that this should
be so. There were uinny important matters
in regard to v Inch it was expected that proper
actioii would be taken by Congress; but
weeks and months wore by, and lioally the
session closed and the expectations of the
people were disappointed. Prominent among
these subjects was the restoration of Ameri
can commerce, to which the President called
attention in his annual message, in a special
supplementary message, and finally in an ear
nest remonstrance against adjournment until
the necessary legislation was had on the
subject. But all in vain. Congress either
had not the will or had not the ability to
grepple with the question and to resolve upon
the only practical method of restoring to
Americun ships their share of the carrying
trade of the world.
There may be some excuse for the princi
ple of protection where the market is under
the exclusive control of the Government, and
people resorting to that system for the pur
pose of developing home industry; but where
no such exclusivenesi can exist, as on the
ocean, which is free to all, there the principle
of protection is the stupidest absurdity, and
can only result in utter failure. How could an
American shipping merchant, whose ship cost
him from twenty-five to forty per cent, more
than the 6ame vessel would coat an English
man, a Frenchman, or a German, and whose
sailing expenses were bIho much heavier, ex
pect to maintain competition with such odds
against him? He could not do it, and conse
quently there is no longer any American
foreign commerce. The remedy was plain.
Keep up, if Buch be the policy, the
protective system at home; but when
you have to compete with free trade on the
ocean, do it under free trade principles. Let
the American merchant buy his ships where
he can get them cheapest and best. Let
everything used on board his ships be free
from tax and duty. And at the same time,
to keep up shipbuilding at home, let all mate
rials used in the trade be also free from tax
and duty of all kinds. By these means, and
by these alone, could our foreign commerce
have been regained. The President knew
this, as the people knew it, and he three
times brought the matter to the attention of
Congress. But, distracted by a variety of
other subjects, by tax and tariff bills, by land
grant jobs, by disgraceful eleotion contests,
and by the thousand and one trifling matters
that occupied every day of the session, Con
gress found but little time to give to this
most important question; and when it did
find time to consider it, the opposition of the
protectionists defeated any measure that
could have brought relief. On this question,
thorefore, President Grant stands fully exo
nerated, and it is on Congress that all the re
sponsibility rests.
On other questions besides this there was
an absence of accord manifested between the
President and Congress. Notwithstanding
the urgent desire of the President to have
done with the reconstruction tinkering of
Georgia, it was only in the closing days of
the session that a bill for that purpose
passed both houses; and even that was inten
tionally left open to opposite constructions,
so that it can hardly be deemed a finality.
The action of Congress, too, in regard to
Cuba, St. Domingo, the tariff, the income
tax and other matters has not tended to en
hance its reputation or make it popular with
the people.
" e have seen,too, how leading Republicans
in both houses set themselves up against the
Executive. There was Mr. Dawes, of Massa
chusetts, the chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations in the House, who made a
famous onslaught upon the President and his
administration on the score of extravagance
in public expenditures; but he subsequently
reconsidered his position, virtually retracted
his charges and gave a certificate of economy
to the administration. Then there were
Senators Sumner and Wilson, of the same
State, who remonstrated against the removal
of Mr. Motley as Minister to London, aud
Senator Fenton of this State, who made a
similarly fruitless outcry over the New York
Custom House changes. But all these mani
festations of opposition were powerless, and
only served to strengthen President Grant
and to exhibit the weakness of those who
would set themselves up against him.
The upshot of the whole thing is that the
Republican party has, chiefly through the
unpopularity of Congress, weakened so con
siderably throughout the country that some
of its most observant leaders expect a large
accession to the Democratic ranks in the
next Congress; while, on the other hand,
President Grant, unaffected jy the wilting
out of the Republican party, stands before
the people with a popularity undiminished,
but rather increased, by the events of the last
eight months. Let him enjoy his relaxation
at Long Branch, buoyed up by the reflection
that although his party may have fallen in
public estimation, the people recognize the
fact that he has done his whole duty and
honor him accordingly.
RAILWAYS AND THE PUBLIC.
From the A7 Y. Timet.
Little more than forty years ago the first
Ameiican railroad was opened. To-day we
have over fifty thousand miles of road busily
engaged, besides many thousands of miles
projected or being, built. From the very
first we seem to have recognized the railroad
as an important aid in the work of material
development, and have steadily made it a
pioneer agency. In so doing we adopted
precisely tLe opposite course from that pur
buto iu Europe. There the railroad was the
result of over-crowded civilization; it was
built by capital as a venture, not only to
secure dividends, but to increase the value of
property in old settlements With us, rail
roads have beon built chiefly as a means of
enabling the pioneer to reaoh the markets of
the country with his producer- -
For many years the tide of emigration was
confined to the channels of water communi
cation. The basin of the great lakes, and
the beds of navigable rivers, were first occu
pied by the settlers, but these very soon be
came filled, and then the living stream was
forced back into the interior in order to reach
the choice lands. In due time came the de
mand for railroads to accommodate this latter
class, and for many years the resources of
the country were severely taxed to meet it.
Meanwhile, the East was engaged in a similar
work of local development. While the West
was struggling toJjuild railroads to take its
grain to market, the East was building them
as a means of developing its mines, its manu
factures, and its internal traffic. Having
first built short lines between important
points, they were converted, by means of
consolidation, into great lines under one
management, with vast combinations of busi
ness interests.
This process has gone on for years, and
with the most startling results. The "con
solidating process" is one peculiar to this
country, and if pursued for a few years
longer it will create some of the most gigantic
monopolies ever known in the world. In
illustration of our meaning, it may be stated
that the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
owns or controls Ly lease over 2700 miles of
track, with a property of $100,000,000; the
New York Central practically controls over
f.000 miles of track, with a property of $1500,
000,000, while the Erie Railway, the Chicago
and Rock Island, and several other lines, are
continually making new combinations, for
the purpose of securing the rapidly develop
ing business of the great West, and of the
Pacific slope.
With this process of accretion constantly
going on, the result must be the speedy
crention of a power which oannot be without
influence beyond its legitimate sphere of ope
ration. The records of legislation at Albany,
Ilarrisburg, and Madison, during the last
twenty years, contain some of the largest
railroad jobs ever witnessed ameng civilized
peoples, and most of them were accomplished
by unfair means. Within the last ten years
at least three hundred millions of acres of
our public domain have also been given away
by Congress to railroad speculators, and new
schemes are presented at every session.
What the country has to fear is that, ulti
mately, the railroad interest will, through
consolidation, become so strong that it will
be beyond legislative control. Already the
various companies do pretty much as "they
like. How will it be a quarter of a century
hence?
THE ONEIDA AND MR. EYRE.
From the raU Mall Gazette.
The question which has been raised as to
the conduct of Captain Eyre of the Bombay
in the collision between that ship and the
Oneida is important, not merely on account
of the terrible consequences of that disaster,
but of the interpretation which is in the
future to be attached to Lord Kingsdown's
clause in the Merchant Shipping act. The
main facts of the case are doubtless fresh in
the recollection of our readers. The finding
of the court of inquiry at Yokohama, with
the sentence it passed, conveyed heavy cen
sure on Captain Eyre. It decided that he
was in no apprehension as to his own ship,
that he suspected the Oneida had sustained
serious injury, that notwithstanding
he hurried with extreme haste from
the scene of disaster, having given
no orders as to keeping a look out
for signals of distress. Accordingly the court
pronounced him guilty of a breach of that
section 01 the Merchant Shipping act which
prescribes the obligations of commanders in
similar circumstances, and suspended his
certificate for six months. Mr. Eyre's oon
duct was thus formally condemned by a com
petent British court, and, as may be easily
supposed, the language and the finding bat
faintly reflected the violence of American
feeling. The Secretary of the American navy
writes to the Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives: "There can hardly be any ques
tion as to the conduct of the responsible
commander of the Bombay after the collision
took place, and. on this subject the depart
ment is constrained to reply that it appears
to have been the result of a reok
less disregard of human life and of the
common obligations of humanity." Under
these circumstances Captain Eyre appealed
to the Board of Trade. The reply of the
Board of Trade left him in a position con
siderably worse than before. It pronounced
him guiity of a "gross" breach of the section
of the Merchant Shipping act we alluded to
before.' It declared its opinion that the sen
tence he remonstrated against had been too
lenient, and "it desired to point out that he
had been guilty not only of an offense created
by statute, but of a disregard of the natural
duties which circumstances of danger, such
as that of the Oneida, impose on those who
have been the unwilling cause of the danger."
It is impossible to deny that as thus stated
the offense of which Captain Eyre was found
guilty was one of the gravest kind, and we
must say we agree with Mr. Lefevre that for
such an offense six months' suspension is an
altogether inadequate penalty. At the same
time we must acquit Captain Eyre of delibe
rate and intentional inhumanity. Short of
that, his behavior was as bad as possible. He
was careless and indifferent under circum
stances when carelessness and indiff erence
became positively criminal, and with a haunt
ing suspicion on his own mind that the con
dition of the Oneida might be very desperate,
refrained from taking any steps to ascertain
what were the aotual circumstances of that
vessel. Certainly there was no positive evi
dence before him that the Oneida was in
serious danger. This does not rest solely on
his own asseveration. It is corroborated by
other testimony on board the Bombay. The
chief officer calls the collision "just a
touch, a bound, and. a graze." The pilot
says: "The shock was very light, and
the vessels came into collision in a glancing
way." The carpenter: "The shock was so
light I hardly felt it." The chief engineer:
"The shock had no e fleet on me at all did
not even stagger me." The second engineer
did sot know it was a collision till they
stopped; the bed-room steward did not feel
it at all. So says Watson, a passenger,
while the doctor swears the ladies in the
cabin resumed the backgammon it had inter
rupted for a moment. The pilot, who chances
to be an American, says, "I do not believe
that Captain Eyre bad any idea of the extent
of the injury sustained by the Oneida from
the way he spoke." The chief offioer heard
the captain ask the pilot, "Do you think she
is much damaged?" to which the man replied,
"No; you can go back if you like, but I do
not see that there is any oooasion for it."
At the same time, it is perfeotly clear that
Captain Eyre was not easy in his own mind
on the subject. His questions to the pilot
prove as much; and Lieutenant Clements
states that when he went on board the Bom
bay, immediately on its arrival at Yokohama,
Captain Eyre informed him that he had out
off the quarter of 1. Yankee frigate, adding,
"Serve her right; she crossed bur bows with
a starboard helm.1 It is impossible to con
ceive how Captain Eyre could suppose that
he had cut off the quarter of a Yankee frigate
and yet not know that she was in con
siderable danger. Moreover, a mo
ment's reflection should have shown
him, as Admiral Bedford- remarks, that
if a vessel which gave the other her bow and
stern could be injured, muoh more must that
vessel have been damaged which received the
blow abaft the mizzen chains and at such an
angle of incidence. With regard to the look
ing out for signals of distress, Mr. Eyre
swears he was on the watch for them for a
quarter of an hour, and remarks, plausibly
enough, that he relied on seeing a blue light
if not hearing a gun; for in all well-ordered
ships light signals are kept ready for kindling
at a moment's notice, as they were in his
own. As it happened, and most unfortu
nately, by the confession of the Americans,
their blue lights were stowed away where no
one knew to look for them in an emergency.
On the other hand, the evidence is conclusive
that the Bombay did not wait for more than
five minutes, as was proved by the engineer,
who kept a reckoning of the time on his
slate. As to Captain Eyre's idea of risk to
bis own ship, we do not. believe
he could seriously have appre
hended any. The chief officer indeed told him
she was making water forward, and the car
penter "could not say with what a force the
water was coming in." But if he believed
there really was danger, it would, as Mr.
Lefevre observed in the debate, have been
better to have remained where he was, olose
by the Taratogu Spit, where the Bombay
could have been safely run ashore, than to
run twelve miles to Yokohama; and just in
proportion as there was fear for the Bombay,
there was reason for greater fear for the
Oneida, which received on her quarter the
blow. Even holding as those on board the
Bombay did that the collision was a slight
one, it became Captain Eyre's duty to stand
by and exhaust all ordinary means to assure
himself of the condition of the other ship.
The amount of injury he suspected in his
own ship ought to have suggested the possi
bility of grave damage to the other, nor
should he have satisfied himself lightly with
negative assurances to the contrary.
Under such circumstances as these, to
whitewash Captain Eyre would be, it seems
to us, practically to 'abrogate, or at least
greatly to diminish the value of, Lord Kings
down's clause requiring assistance to be given
in coses of collision. We have no desire to
bear hardly on Captain Eyre, whose fault was
rather one of judgment than intention, but
it is most important it should be understood
that the duty of commanders at such times
is not to speculate on the possibility of the
vessel struck not having been seriously in
jured, but to ascertain positively what is her
condition, and render any assistance that may
be needful.
SPECIAL. NOTIOES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Common wealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, in ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CHESNUT STREET BANK, to be
located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to increase the
same to live hundred thousand dollars.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY, OlHce No. 827 B. FOURTH
Street, Philadelphia, June 29, 1870.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed
on the 7th of July next and reopened on Wednes
day, Julv so.
A Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, 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 7th July next. All
payable at this oillce.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
stamped. S. BRADFORD,
6291m Treasurer.
fy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CHESNUT HILL SWINGS AND
LOAN- BANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital or one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to
two hundred and llfty thousand dollars. .
tjjy THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OP PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and aell the Improved, Portable Fire
ExtlBgulsher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGE,
B 30 tf No. 118 MARKET St, General Agent.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
w application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly 01 the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, in ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE JEFFERSON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollar, with the riifhtto increase the same
to live hundred thousand dollars.
jgj- TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTIIWAS1I.
Jt is the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant. Warranted free from injurious Ingredients.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth !
Invigorates and Soothes the Gums!
Purities and Perfumes the Breath'.
Prevents Accumulation of Tartar !
Cleanses and Purifies Artificial Teeth !
Is a Superior Article for Children
Sold bj all druggists and dentists.
A. M. WILSON, Druggist, Proprietor,
3 2 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Sts., I'liilada.
-v- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Gentral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation ef a Bank, in
acconlauee with th laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollar, with the riirht to increase the same to
Ave hundred thousand dollars.
BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. THI8
splendid Hair Dyei the bait in the wcMld. Uarm-
leat, reliable, inetantaneoua, doea Dot oantain load, nor
in Kitalic poison to produca paralysis or death. Avoid
Ui vaunted and delusive preparationa boasting virtue
they do not posaeei. The genuine W. A. Batuhalor'a Hair
Dye has bad thirty yeara untarnished reputation to up
hold iti integrity at t ha only Perfect liair ! Black or
Brown. Sold by all Druggist. Applied at No. 16 HOSU
Street. New York 17mwi
gy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GlEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incoiporation of a Bank, in
accordance with the laws or the Commonwe ith, to
be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital of one million dollars, with the riy;ut to iu
cieaae the same to live million dollars.
t&F HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
Teeth with fresh Nitrous Oxide Oat. Absolutely
no pain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at tbe
Colton Dental Rooms, devote bit entire practice to the
cainleea axuaeuoa of Mela. Office. No. HI WALMJf
Street.
CENT.'S FURNISHING OOOD8.
pATENT SHOULDEK-SKAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement at very short notice.
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
GOODS in lull variety.
WINCHESTER fc CO.,
1H No. 706 CH KSNL'T btreet.
TOHN FARNUM & c6Tc6mMI8Si6n MER-
I ohanta andM anuf aoturera of OoneatoTiokinjr, eta.
fee. M UliiUB&Ui tote. rtuUdeJKiu. IwlbaJ
SUMMER RESORTS.
B E L M O tt T H A L Lt
f6CiIOOLErs MOUNTAIN, N. J.,
- j IS KOW OPEN. '
This favorite resort lias been greatly fcnpreved
and enlarged, and offers superior Inducement tt)
those seeking a healthy, quiet, and fasMonabie re
treat for the summer at reduced prices.
T Jl lm ' ' D. A. CROWELL, Proprietor.
LAKE GEORGE LAKE HOUSE, CALD-
ell. N. Y. Best of accommodation for Umiliaa
and irentlemaD.
i Board per day, iS'SO: from June I to July I, fit per
week; for the season, $14 to $17"60, according to room; toe
the months of July and August, $17 '60; August, $3Lfe
Open from Jun 1 to October at). Address "
6m H. J. KOOKWgttfc
CHITTENANGO.
WHITR 8TJLPHRR SPRINGS.
Madison conn t jr. N. Y,
F1nrt -class Hotel, with entry requisite,
Drawinc-room and eleepina;-cara from New Yorkotty,
via Hudson Hirer Railroad at 8 A. M. and P. M , wiUj.
out change. Send for circular. 6 8 ana
"IJEESI.EY'S TOINT HOTEL, CArE MAY CO.,
j., la now open for the reception of vinton
Hi
. i. v uou,
C 30 lm - Proprietor.
CAPE II A r.
Q ONCRE88 HALL,
CAPE MAY, N. J.,
Opens June 1. Closes October 1
Mark and Simon Hassler't Orchestra, and foU
Military Hand, of 120 pieces.
TERMS IS-60 per day June and September. 14 to
per day July and August.
The new wing la now completed.
Applications for Rooms, address
41S63t
J. F. OAKF. Proprietor
HMIK PHILADELPHIA HOUSE,
vara igbtnu.n.ii,.
IS NOW rtPtr.N.
The honso been ereatlT anlaraad and imnrorad. irnt
.flora superior inducements to those eeekina; a quiet aul
pleasant home by tba sea-side at a moderate price.
Address, K. GRIFFITHS, No. luu UHKbNUT Street,
or (Jape May Sldim
OCEAN HOUSE, CAPE MAY, N. J. -THE BEST
table on Cape Island. Numerous home-liko
comforts, location within fifty yards of the bes
bathing on the beach, are the principal advantages
possessed bv this tirst-clam family hotel. No bar on
the premises. 'KS I E Jt SAWYER,
6 30 lm' Proprietora.
TREMONT HOUSE, CAPE MAY, N. J.
This House is now open for the reception of rnima.
Booms can be engaged at No. 1908 MOUNT VERNON
Street, until July 1.
816 am MRS. B. PARKINSON JOSKS.
McMAKINS ATLANTIC HOTEL.
CAPE MAY, N.J.
Tbe new Atlantic is now open. '
6 86 wfm 3m JOHN McMAKIW. Proprietor.
SV. CLOUD'S COTTAGE FOR BOARDERS
... e FRANKLIN, opposite Uugaos street, Cane
Island. 7 81m
ATLAKTICCITY.
yNITED STATES HOTEL,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,
IS NOW OPEN.
Reduction of Twenty Per Cent, in tin
Price of Board.
Music nnder the direction of Professor M. F. A!edc
Terms, 830 per week.
Persona desiring to engage, rooms will address.
BROWN A WOELPPEB, Proprietors,
No. 827 RICHMOND Street. PhiladelptiU.
K thrtalm 6 86 dtm 7 26 thttnlm
SURF HOUSE. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,
is now open for tbe! season. Beside the ad
Tantage of location this house enjoys, and the hoa
bathing contiguous to tt, a railroad has been constructed
since laat season to convey guesta from the hotel to tit
beach. The house has been overhauled and refitted
throughout, and no pains will be spared to make it, in
every particular,
A HKST OLASS ESTABLISHMENT.
611 2m J. FKKAS. Proprietor.
JIQUTnOUSE COTTAGE,
Located between United State Hotel and the bsnoX
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
BOARD REDUCED.
Open f rom Jun 1 to October 1.
6-1-2B1 JONAH WOOTTON, Proprietor,
rpHE WILSON COTTAGE.
J. ATLANTIC CITY.
A new and well-furnished Boarding-house on
NORTH CAROLINA Avenue, near the Depot.
Terms to suit.
7 61m' ROBERT L. FUREY, Proprietor.
BEACH COTTAGE, ATLANTIC CITY. NOW
open. A first-class Family Boarding House,
MICHIGAN Avenue, near the Beach. NO BAR.
Terms to suit all. Apply to J. B. DOYLE, Proprie
tor, or E. F. PARROTT, No. 88 N. EIGHTH Street,
coruer of Filbert. - 71lm
ATLANTIC CITY. ROSEDALE COTTAGE,
VIRGINIA between Atlantic and Pacific ave-
niief", MRS. E. LUNGREN, formerly or THIR- :
TEENTU and ARCH, Proprietress. Board from 1 10
to ji5 per week. 7 11 mwstt
NEPTUNE COTTAGE (LATE MANN'S ,
COTTAGE), PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, tirst ho is
below the Mansion House, Atlantio Uity, is NOW OPEN
to receive Guest. All old friends heartily welcome, and
new ones also. WKJS. JUU oMlUK.,
61lihn Proprietress,
MACY HOUSE, MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE,
Atlantic City, la open the entire year. Situ
ated near the best bathing. Has large airy rooma,
with spring beds. Terms $16 per week.
6 25tjw GEORGE H. MACY, Proprietor.
CENTRAL , H O U 8 E,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J
ia NOW OPEN for tbe reception of guests.
611w LAWI.OR fc TKILLV, Proprietor.
rpilE 'CIIALFONTE," ATLANTIC CITY, N
-a- J., i now open. Kauroaa irora the House to
beach. ELiaHA KOHKKTa.
6' 11 3ra Proprietor,
INSTRUOl ION.
I7DGEHILL, MERCHANTVILLE, N. J., WILL BE
-'opened for SUMMER BOARDERS from July 1 to
September 15, 1670.
The House Is new and pleasantly located, with
plenty of shade. Rooms large and airy, a number
of them communicating, and wltli nrat-claas
board.
A few families can be accommodated by applying;
early.
For particulars call on or address
REV. T. W. C ATT ELL,
7 i Merchantvllle, N. J.
rTlVEUVIEW MILITARY AcTdEMyTpOIGH
t KEEPSIE, N. Y.
OTIS B1SBEE, A. M., Principal and Proprietor.
A wide-awake, thorough-going School for boyg
wishing to Jbe trained for Business, for Col
lege, or for West Point or tho Naval Aca
demy. 7 16 stuthlm
CHEGARAY INSTITUTE, Nos. 1527 AND
lbS SPRUCE Street, Philadelphia, will reopen oa
TVlbDAY, September ID. Krench is the laniruage of ta
lamily. and is sunstantly spoken in the institute.
b wi'm "m 1- D'HKKVILLV. PrinclpaL
H.
Y. LaUDERBACII'S ACADEMY, ASSEMBLY
HI "1LDINGS. NO. 10S 8. TENTH Street.
Anniicants for the Fall Term will be received on
nil, after August 10. Circulars at Mr. Warburton's,
No. 430 C'hesuut street. 6S0tf
WHISKY, WINE. ETC
QAR8TAIRS A McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sta.,
IMPORTERS Or
Brandies, Winet, Gin, Olive Oil. Eta,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES-
IN BOND AND TAI PAID. Wirt I
TX7ILLIAM ANDERSON A CO., DXALX&S