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THE DAILY EVENING, TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA,. SATURDAY,. AUGUST-20, 1870.
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Cditor(l Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph..
ALSACE AND LORRAINE.
From the A'. T. Tribune. ,
The two provinces of AUne and Lorraine,
now French, but formerly Oermtn. territory,
Lave not only become prominent daring the
last month as the battle-fiel i of one of the
bloodiest wars of modem times, but they
derive an additional interest from the wide
spread expectation that the Germans, if vic
torious, w ill demand their cession frotn France
as one of the conditions of peace. Before
the war began, it was rare to meet in the Ger
man press with any demand of this kind, and
it is cafe to say that a war for the outspoken
rmrnope of reconquering these two provinces
would have met with general opposition. But
now, when Napoleon has forced the war upon
Germany, and when a large war party, com
prising, in fact, a majority of the French
people, have made no secret of
their desire to extend the French fron
tier to the Rhine, it cannot be surpris
ing that the Germans have taken up
the gauntlet, and that a national cry has
arisen for the recovery of Alsace and Lor
raine. Iu a few weeks the question may en
gage the attention of all the great powers of
Europe. The larger portion of the provinoes
is at preRent in the hands of the Germans;
and as a cable despatch advised us a few days
ago, the King of Prussia has appointed Gene
ral Bonin Governor-General of Lorraine, and
Count Bismarck Governor-General of Alsace.
French newspapers, moreover, report that
the German authorities are appointing in
eveiy community within their lines new
municipal authorities. All this seems to in
dicate that in case Germany should dictate
the terms of peace, the cession of Alsace and
Lorraine will be one of them.
in view of such a contingency, we give on
another page a brief geographical, statistical,
and histoiical statement of the relation which
these provinces sustain to Germany on the one
Land and to France on the other. One of the
most interesting points in this statement is
the account of the comparative strength of the
German and French nationalities. As the na
tionality question has of late obtained an im
portant prominence in European politics, the
national relation of the districts has been in
vestigated with the utmost care, and official
accounts of an entirely trustworthy character
are within reach of every one who desires to
understand the subject. It appears from these
figures tL&t in the two departments of Alsace,
out of a total population of about 1,0!3,000
iuhabitabts, fully 1,007,000 belong, even to
this day, to the German nationality, either
speaking German exclusively or North Ger
man and French. In Lorraine the relation
of nationalities is not so favorable to the
Germans. This province has four depart
ments Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, and Vosges.
The first has no German population of any
amount; but the last three, with a total
population of 1,290,000, have a number of
wholly German districts with a population of
"."2,000. The three departments of Lorraine
and the two of Alsace thus have, in a total
population of 2,:!8;5,000, a German popula
tion of 1,:.7.i,0H), or more than one-half.
Germany, on the other hand, has on its
western iron tier but a few scattered French
creaking communities, with an aggregate
population of only 10,000.
If France should prove the victor in this
wa,r, the Government, with the applause of
the immense majority of the nation, would
(demand from Germany the left bank of the
.Rhine, with several millions of Germans,
who never, except for a few years, have be
longed to France. What objection, then,
can the French make, if defeated, to the re-
annexation to Germany of districts which
originally, and for centuries, belonged to
Germany, and which still are inhabited by a
German-speaking people ? The neutral pow
ers may interpose a veto from reasons based
upon the principle of a balance of powers; a
portion of the German people may desire
that no part of Franoe be annexed to Ger
many withodt a previous plebiscititm; but
France has certainly forfeited all right of
remonstrance if the victorious Germans in
sist on the cession of these two ancient Ger
man provinces.
NAPOLEON'S DIFFICULTIES AND DAN
GERSENGLAND OFFERS A CHANCE
OF ESCAPE.
From the A. T. Herald.
England has offered to the French Emperor
a way of escape from the difficulties and
dangers which threaten his overthrow and ex
pulson, and there-establishment of the repub
lic in the further prosecution of this war.
England's proposition is simply a treaty of
Eeace. Napoleon intimates through Lord
yons that he is ready to bury the hatchet,
but King William replies to the special mes
senger of Queen Victoria that if France wants
peace she must ask an armistice in the usual
ay, or leave the issue to the arbitrament of
war. This reduces Napoleon, then, to the
war or an armistice, and while by war his
empire may be lost, through an armistice
the empire and his dynasty may yet be saved.
It is probable, too, that with very little urg
ing on the part of her Brit anio Majesty the
Emperor will be persuaded even to an ar
mistice. Why not ? Excepting a suspension of hos
tilities with a treaty of peace, what alterna
tive of safety is offered toNapoleon 't With
the presence of the Prussian invading army in
front of Paris "the republic" is threatened,
and from present appearances this invading
army will not he arrested till in front of the
walls of Paris. Stout old King William, over
the most formidable obstacles of the most
difficult line of approach from her eastern
frontier, has passed into the heart of France.
Through a network of fortiiieJ cities and
towns, over mountain ranges and difficult
rivers, fighting and routing at every
btep the flower of the French army, its
best generals and its best soldiers, the
massive columns of the German Con
federation have maintained their resistless
advance towards the French capital. Com
pared with the natural and artificial obstruc
tions they have passed, the obstacles which lie
between them and Paris are comparatively in
significant. They have shown that against an
invading army, powerful enough to protect
itself in the open field, front, flanks, and
rear, detached fortified towns and cities,
- mountain defiles and river crossings, are no
impediments: that all such obstructions may
i swallowed up in the general advance. It
ollows, then, that, having driven the French
army from the strongest defensive lines
which lie between the French Rhine border
and Paris, there is nothing that can arrest
t he advancing German columns except a more
tubborn and effective resistance in the open
field than any resistance they luv j far oa
countered. The icvading army of the Gonuana is re-
Eorted as exceeding in numbers half a mii
on of mon; that each of the powerful and
expansive wings of the Crown Trinoe and
Prince Frederick Charles numbers two hun
dred and fifty thousand men, and that the
veteran Sleinmetz, who appears to be a seoond
edition of Blucher, holds in the centre a
chosen body of nearly a hundred thousand
men. Nor is this all; for it further appears
that a second German army, one hundred
and fifty thousand strong, in following King
William's to protect his rear and his commu
nications, Ac. This German campaign,
therefore, in France dwarfs the most imposing
campaigns of the First Napoleon; for even
the mighty army with which he marched into
Russia, French and Germans, hardly num
bered, all told, four hundred thousand men.
In half a dozen or more of the recent bat
tles, from Woertb to the line of the Moselle,
it would appear from the reports received
that the Prussian foroe alone has exceeded in
numbers the strength of all the three armies
encaged in the battle of Waterloo.
The great mistake of Napoleon, men, it
would appear, in entering upon this war was
in his calculations concerning the German
armv he would have to meet in tho field. He
evidently supposed that a fighting French
force of two hundred ana ntty tnousana men
would be sufficient for all the requirements
of a short triumphant campaign to Berlin;
and under this erroneous calculation he ad
vanced to the Prussian frontier and opened
the ball in the little deceptive affair of Saar-
bruck. e say deceptive, for only a few
days after it the rejoicings of Parit were
changed into a panic witn tne news of tue
defeat of MacMahon by the overwhelming
forces of the enemy. By one-half Napo
leon's estimates have fallen short of the
actual German armv to be overcome. Can he
now repair this blunder ' Can he even re
pair his losses with his new levies of raw
troops? 1 be odds are heavily against him.
He can hardly recover his Btrength short of a
retreat with his disabled army to Paris. In
the stubbornness of despair the tide of bat
tle may, perhaps, be turned; but this alter
native involves all the hazards of a crushing
defeat.
The only perfectly safe alternative of Napo
leon in the crisis, as it appears to us, is the
armistice suggested by Kiog William and a
treaty of peace, lhis will give the Emperor
tke strong hand over Paris, through his still
powerful and loyal army, and then, through
a conference of the great powers, which
Prussia can hardly deny, looking to the gene
ral interests of peace. France, under the
empire, may be regularly acknowledged by
oil the great powers, and still be maintained
intact. England, Russia and Austria have
only to unite in saying that there must be
peace, and there will be peace; for has not
Prussia already amply vindicated her rights
and the rights of the "German Fatherlaud,"
and has not Napoleon had enough of war to
satisfy him that ' the empire is peace."
FRELINGIIUYSEN, GRANT, AND MOT
LEY.
From, the N. Y. World.
It is ereditable to Mr. Frelinghuysen's
sense of what is due to public opinion that he
should have promptly responded to the com
ments of the World upon the awkward and
unpatriotio attitude in which his apparent
vacillation over his appointment as Minister
to England has placed him, by the publication
of a letter intended fully to explain his course
m tins matter.
This letter appeared recently in the lead
ing journal of the city in which Mr. Ireline-
buysen resides; and if we could agree with
the Newark Advertiser that "the letter ex
plains itself sufficiently," we should gladly
suffer it to relieve us from any further notioe
of the subject. But this we cannot do. Mr.
Frelinghuysen is not the only person con
cerned in this affair. The President also has
played in it a part which requires explanation
at least as much as the conduct of Mr. Fre
linghuysen, and a part which, remaining unex
plained, beclouds Mr. Frelinghuysen's own
statement of his own course in the matter
with suspicions not to be lightly borne, we
should say, by so sensitive and so right-
minded a person.
Air. relinguuysen 8 nomination, as we
need not remind our readers, was coupled
with the removal ot Mr. Motley. The re
moval of Mr. Motley, of course, commanded
the approbation of a vast majority of Con
gress and of the country. The nomination
of Mr. Frelinghuysen was received with
satisfaction. But this was upon the faith of
Mr. i relinghuysen s intention to accept the
office and undertake at once its duties. No
body expected or approved the nomination
merely as a compliment to Mr. 1- relinghuysen,
of whom it is neither unjutt nor uncivil to
Bay that no one would ever have dreamed
of his being named to the post hid
not the nomination been actually made.
Now Mr. Frelinghuysen tells us that
he had no sooner heard a rumor of his nomi
nation than he at once telegraphed his deter
mination to decline the appointment. This
telegram he followed up with another to the
Eame effect upon receiving the news that he
had actually been nominated. He does not
say to whom be telegraphed, but he does say
that neither of his telegrams "reached its
destination." Of course, he probably tele
graphed to the President; and it is cer
tainly a very curious circumstance that
two telegrams upon such a subject,
sent to me neau oi me uovernment on
two successive days, should both have
failed to arrive. A curious circumstance, and,
so lar as Mr. rreiingnuysen is concerned, a
most unfortunate circumstance. For by his
failure to prevent a month ago the appoint
ment he now vacates, Mr. 1- rblingnuysen (of
course unconsciously) was made in fact to
Berve the President's purpose by displacing
with the least possible difficulty an envoy
whom the President longed but feared to re
move. In briefer and plainer terms, Mr. Fre
linghnysen's obvious and apparent part in this
odd diplomatic backstairs comedy was that of
a New Jersey peg used to drive out a Massa
chusetts peg withal.
That tbe very journal which publishes Mr.
Frelinghuysen s letter of July 27 to the Pre
sident perceives this obvious and apparent
part to have been played by My. Frelinghuy
sen is clear from the fact that nothing cau
wen ue less clear man tne allusions which it
makes to that gentleman's conduct at the
time of his confirmation. It tells us that
Mr. Frelinghuysen sought to withdraw' his
name, not, as he himself no tells us, be
cause his "domestio relations and duties''
made it imperative upon him so to do. but
because he desired "to relieve the President,
the Senate, and himself of all complications."
Now, what were these "complications" to
avoid which Mr. Frelinghuysen desired to
"withdraw his name"? And hjw is their
existence to be reconciled with the further
fact asserted by the same journal, that the
"rapidly approaching close of the session of
'Congress' forbade Mr. Frqlingbjiysea to
'avoid these complications" except "at the
cost of much embarrassment to the Senate":'
Aid, above ail, what ie we to undjrsUutl by
the extraordinary final statement that Mr.
FrtliiighDyseD, caught between unexplained
i ; ;
"complications" and an unaccountable, or
at least an unaccounted for, "embarrass
ment," was given to believe that "if he saw
proper Lis declination at a - later day
would avoid many causes or confu
sion." If : the true - diplomatic nse
of language be to conceal thought, the New
ark Advei titer is a master of diplomatic com
position. And if it be writing in the interest
and for the sake of protecting the reputation
of the President, it is possibly taking the
shortest, if not the fairest, way to its end.
The best security of the petty personal and
political intrigues in which the President
stems to delight is to be found in their com
plexity and unintelligibility. But the obscure
innuendoes oi lue xxewara. paper certainty
put Mr. Frelinghuysen in the light of a party
to one of these Presidential intrigues; and
this is a light, we would say, in which Mr.
Frelinghuysen cannot desire or deserve to
f land. It certainly is a light in which no
public man can safely afford to stand.
ENGLISH NEUTRALITY.
From the A'. T. Timet,
Naturally enouch, both Prussia and Frmce
are dissatisfied with the course which i being
pursued by British merchants under the Ne;i
trality laws. Each declares that the other is
the most favored, and both indulge in open
denunciation. Prussia asserts that England
practically allows her territory to become the
French base of naval operations against the
coasts of North Germany, by supplying
French ships with coaL She also asserts that
England is a magazine from which France
can draw any amount of war material.
France, on the other hand, complains that
English merchants are supplying Prussia
freely with everything she needs, and that
both tbe English Government and people
Bjmpathize with that country to an extent
which impairs their neutrality. Between the
two, England is in a fair way to get the ill
will of both belligerents, jnst as she did in
the Rebellion in this country, and yet it is
said by her government that she is strictly
fulfilling the duties of a neutral under the
law of nations.
The accepted rule now is that neutral ships
may carry what they choose to either belliger
ent, excepting "contraband of war." and to
any port which is not blockaded. All goods
are declared to be contraband which are
specially required for war purposes, such as
aims and ammunition, and even such goods
may be supplied without offense, subject
ouly to the risk of capture. Under these
rules it will be readily seen that in case one
of the belligerent powers has a strong war
marine, and the other a weak one, the former
possesses a great advantage. This was the
case with the North and South durinsr our
war, and it is the case now with France as
agoinst Prussia. France has a strong navy,
and is able to keep a sharp watch, and almost
entirely prevent the supply of contraband
goods to Prussia, while there is no impedi
ment to trade with France.
So long as the law remains as it is, a com
mercial people like the English will be prettv
sure to take advantage of it, and the result
will be that they will have the il'-will of the
belligerent which suffers most, and very
hely of both. Nations, like individuals, are
f3re to resent hostile interference when they
are engaged in a contest, even though that
interference may not be prompted by sym
pathy. English dealers supply the French
lleet with coal, and send large numbers of
horses to France, and Prussia very naturally
complains, although it is clear that she does
so upon insufficient legal grounds. Still the
fact exists that a serious ill-feeling towards
England prevails in Prussia, while England
is lavishing all its sympathy and "moral sup
port" upon Prussia.
Considerable discussion is taking place in
England on the subject, and much regret is
expressed that the cordial feeling between
Prussia and Great Britain has been disturbed.
The remedy which is proposed and it seems
to be the only one that can be applied is
to amend the existing neutrality laws so as
to prohibit the sale of contraband goods to
belligerent powers, and to define more fully
what are contraband. It has also been sug
gested that the Queen be empowered, by
order in Council, to prohibit, temporarily,
the supply of such as are not strictly contra
band, but which may beoome essential to a
belligerent, as is the case with coal just at
present.
It is argued that perfect neutrality is in the
interests of humanity, inasmuch as it would
tend to shorten wars, and that this considera
tion ought to be sufficient to overrule the
objection that it would cripple commerce.
Most wars would doubtless be brought to a
speedier determination if the belligerents
were confined strictly to their own resources,
and in many instances we do not doubt that
hostilities would be prevented by the general
adoption of a policy of perfect neutrality.
But aside from that consideration, we believe
that, in the long run, even so commercial a
country as England would not lose by reso
lutely repressing trade with belligerents, and
especially in contraband goods. The good
will of other nations is of greater importance
to that country than to almost any ether, sim
ply because it is so extensively engaged in
commerce and
better afford
than to hazard
trade.
manufacturing, and it can far
to forego temporary gains
the permanent loss of future
But Great Britain ought to be controlled
by a higher consideration than that of mere
pecuniary interest. It should be impartial
and fair, and so define the laws as that both
belligerents may know what to rely upon.
There bhould be no technical evasion, no
quibbling, but an honest, straightforward
neutrality, which would win the respect and
preserve the good will of all nations which
may be so unfortunate as to be involved in
war. From the tone of the English press
upon this subject, we judge that the general
feeling is in favor of such a polity, and the
indications are that it will be adopted per
haps not soon enough to prevent a misunder
standing with Prussia, but in time for any
fresh hostilities which may oocur.
CONCERNING SCHOOL TEiCHELH.
I'rvvi tkt Chu-wjo J'ont.
St. Louis, in one thing, is taking the lead
of Chicago; but theji, as she is behind in
everything else, we do not hesitate to con
cede it. The concession will delight that
village; and it may stimulate this city to look
to its laurels in a direction where sluginh
neFS is barbarism.
The St. Louis School Board has been for
some months discussing the propriety of
making the salaries of the principals of first
class schools uniform that is, of paying the
women principals as much as tke men. The
proposition has met with vigorous resistance,
but it was so plainly just that it prevailed,
and last week the vote was passed command
ing uniformity according to the new policy
adopted. The member of the board who was
the mouth-piece of the "noes" so to speak
rejoices in the gaudy patronymio of Peacock.
His arguments were earnest, but not convinc
ing tt least, not convincing on his aide:
"He cootftuUHl that If the au!nrtea were made
uuihnu, it would duturb the ejui.u-o;utn oi tiwiiu
f -
School. Teachers of thfl lower grades, and lady
principals of the second clan. wuld want hiO
salaries. It would be a perfect shame to disturb th?
present equilibrium." .
But they resolved to dfsturb the equili
brium eleven to eight even at the fearful
risk of being by and by compelled to pay
fair wages to the "lady principals of the
second class.' " . . . .
At no point in the contact between the
sexes does the conduct of man appear so
dishonorable as at that which involves the
question of women's wages. All over this
land it ia a shameful reoord to MAke
women teachers are paid about one-half as
much as men teachers for doing the same
work and doing it just as well.
A single instance that comes within our
personal knowledge: A year ago a man re
signed his situation as a professor in one of
the Chicago schools. Ilia salary was $2200.
Five youDg men and one young woman ap
plied for the vacancy. After a severe exami
nation in all tbe branches involved, the
woman was found to be the most completely
qualified, and won the place over all her com
petitors. She stands in her predecessor's
Elnce to-day, doing his work as acceptably as
e did; and she receives a salary of 1000
$1200 less than he! Either of the men whom
she distanced In the examination would have
received $2200 salary, and one of them would
have gained the place if she had not been a
canuii'ii'e. And the Board deliberately says
to her, "litre! You are better qualified than
eHhtr of these young men; but we will pay
you $1200 less." She is a lady of culture,
taste, atd ability; of manifold and unusual
acquirements; and she knows how to com
mand order, and how to convey instruction.
This is only one of scores of cases in the
city and tens cf thousands in the country.
The revelation of such injustice is enough to
make every white man blush. What reason
is there, nay, what excuse is there, for the
unmanly discrimination ? How can a mem
ber of a School Board hold up his head in the
community while robbing a woman of a
thousand dollars because she is weak, and
giving it to a man because he is strong ?
It is argued by some that women teachers
do not do as much as men. This is a paltry
evasion. In many cases they do quite as
much, and do it as well; nay, in some cases,
they do more, and do it better and they al
ways receive less pay for doing it. Every
member of the Chicago School Board knows
this perfectly well. It will not be denied by
anybody familiar with the facts.
"Well, but," 8ay3 a conservative, "a man
ovght to have more than a woman for doing
the same work, because he is compelled to
support a family, and she is unmarried,
The reply is, first, how does anybody know
this which is so oracularly stated? The fact
is that some of the women teachers are
mothers, while many of the men are bache
lors. But, secondly, the pretence is a subter
fuge. Nowhere in the world of work are men
paid according to the families they have to
support. Does any carpenter, tailor, banker,
ask bis journeyman or clerk now many chil
dren he has, as a basis for wages to be paid!
Is it a fact that a tax is deliberately laid on
celibacy and a large premium offered per
capita for children
Excuses for such an abomination are hol
low. Defense is impossible. Justification is
roguery. It is about the meanest form of the
oppression of the one sex by tbe other that
has appeared since our cowardly progenitor
tried to make his wife responsible for his own
transgressions. It is undisguised, unblush
ing, unpardonable piracy, and there ought to
be manliness enough left in Chicago to
abolish it.
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of the tieneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
entitled THE PETROLEUM BANK, to he located
at Ptiitauelpiiia. with a iaullai of oaduauiiod t.iou
aaud Ooli', with the rilit to Increase the saiuo to
live t) hundred tuoudaad dollar.
MNANOIAL,
jh excellent INVESTMENT! I
10 Yer Cent. First BXortgage
Land Grant Bonds
........ otTnM .
Port agt Lake tnd Lak Superior Ship
Canal Company,
At OS and Accrued Interest.
Coupons payable January and July at Ocean Bank.
New York. . f
Secured by mortgage of the CANAL, tta tolls.
franchises, and EQUIPMENTS, and 00,000 A.CRB9
of very valuable and carefully selected
IEON, COPPSR, PINK, AND OTHKR TIMBER
LANDS,
Worth at the lo west estimate Ave to eight times the
amount of toe mortgage.
IV hole Issue $500,000,
Of which a balance of only 160,000 remains nasold.
This Ship Canal after Ove years labor and an ex
penditure of nearly a million of dollars, besides
nearly half a minion more for machinery and equip
mentsla nearly finished, and will be entirely com
pleted the present season.
The tolls on the present commerce of Lake Sipe-
rlor would not only pay the Interest on these bonds,
but large dividends also to the Stockholders. This
trade will be Increased Immensely next season when
the grain from the great wheat-prodaclng regions
of Minnesota shall pass by this route (as It neces
sarily must) to the seaboard, by way of the railroad
from St. raul to Duluth, now just completed.
Send for maps and circulars.
For sale at 95 and accrued Interest by
B. K. JAMISON & CO., Bankers,
COR. THIRD AND CIIESNUT ST3.
86tt PHILADELPHIA.
LAKE SHORE
AND
MICHIGAN SOUTHERN
RAILWAY COMPANY
snvnrc pnn cdnt.
Consolidated Mortgage Sinkin
Fund Bonds.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Company, for the purpose of providing for the nav.
ment of Its several mortgage debts aa they become
due, has executed a mortgage to the Union Trust
Company, of New York, as Trustee, upon the whole
of Its Railroad and branches, payable on the first day
vuii'uin Miuiuo vi jira eacn wui De issued,
I10UO. IA0O0, and IIO.OOO each, without couDons. with
Interest at Seven per centum per annum, payable
quarterly, on the llrst day of January, April, July,
and Octoler, In each year, principal and Interest
Bay able at the onlce of the Union Trust Company la
lew York.
We call the attention of Investors especially to this
class of REGISTERED BONDS, which, on account
of the SECURITY AFFORDED AGAINST LOSS BY
ROBBERY. FIRE, OR OTHERWISE, AND THE
PAYMENT OF QUARTERLY INTEREST, Offer an
investment peculiarly uemruoie.
A limited amount of these bonds can be purchased
at i ana accrued interest, upon application to
ROBINSON, CHASE & CO..
NO. 18 BROAD STREET,
NEW YORK. 8 8 lm
Application may be made to
Messrs. GLEND1NNING, DAVIS A CO.,
Philadelphia.
QEVEN PER CENT. BONDS
At 75, Interest Regularly Paid.
WE OFFER FOR SALE
$00,000 SOUTH MOUNTAIN
IRON AND RAILROAD CO.
fcEVlirX 11?R COT. llOAUg,
xAt 75 and Accrued Interest,
SECURED BY IT MILES OF RAILROAD,
Finished and doing good business, and about 23,000
acres of coal and Irorf ore land situated In Camber
land Valley, Pa,
B. K. JAMISON & CO.,
N. W. Cor. THIRD and CIIESNUT Streets,
T 8T tf Philadelphia, Pa.
TOR SALE,
Six Per Cent. Loan of the City of
Williamiport, Pennsylvania,
FREE OF ALL TAXES,
At 85, and Accrued Interest.
These Bonds are made absolutely secure by act of
Legislature compelling the city to levysufflclent tax
to pay Interest and principal.
P. 8. PETERSON & CO.,
No. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
U PHILADELPHIA.
B. K. JAMISON & CO..
SUCCESSORS TO.
F. XT. lIia.LY Ac CO.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS UH
Gold, Silver and Government Bonds
At Cloe friarkef Uatea,
W. Cor. THIEi) and CHESNUT gti.
Upeclai attention given to commission ordkri
in New York and PhUadhla Stock Boards, etc.
eta
E
LLIOTV
D U tf IX
BANKERS
Ho. 109 SOUTH THIRD BTKEKr,
DEALERS III ALL UOVERNMENT SECURI
TIES, GOLD BILLS, ETC,
DRAW BILLS OT EXCHANGE AND 138 IB
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OT CREDIT ON THE
UNION BANK OF LONDON.
ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT
ON LONDON AND PARIS, available throughout
Europe.
WUl collect all Coapona and Interest free of okarga
(or partlot maklcf tttelr financial arraagemaav
ytuca, Mi
PMNANOIAL.
Wilmington and RGadinrj
- niTT.noAa -
r - -. r r
Gcven : Per Ccntl D oriels'. -
FREE OF TAXK3.
We are fterlngr $900,000 ( tn "
Second Mortgraffe Itontfi ot '
' till Company 4
AT 82J AND ACCRUED I1?TEEE3T.
For the convenience of Investors ttese Bonds ara
Issued In denomlaatlons of
1000s, aOO, and 100..
Tne money la required for the purchase of addi
tional Rolling Stock and the fall equipment of ia
Road. " " '
The road Is now finished, and doln a bnatneoa
largely In excess ot the anticipations of Its offleera.
The trade offering necessitates a large additional
outlay for rolling stock, to afford fall faculties for tta
prompt transaction, the present tolling' stock not
being sufficient to accommodate the trade, - -
WM. PAINTER & CO.,
BANKERS,
No. 36 South: THIRD Street.
60
PHILADSLFHLa,
QEVEN PER CENT.
First mortgage Bonds
or Tin
Danville. Ilasleton, and Wlllce.
barre Railroad Company,
At 05 and Accrued Interest
Clear or all Taxes.
INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL ARD OCTOBSB.
Persona wishing to make Investments are Invtt
jo examine the merits of these BONDS.
Pamphlet, supplied and full information given by
Sterling & Wildman,
FINANCIAL AGENTS,
Ho. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
4 II tt PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken la
exchange for the above at best market rates.
FOR SALE.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CD.,
BANKERS AND BR0KER3.
No. 20 South THIRD Street.
M
PHILADELPHIA:
QLENUIIVIVINa.DAYIS Sc CO..
No. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
PITTT.AnitT.pFT,,
GlENDINNtNG, OAVIS S AMORT.
No. 17 WALL STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Receive deposits subject to check, allow Interest
on standing and temporary balances, and execute
orders promptly for the purchase and sale of
8TOCKS, BONDS and GOLD, In either city.
Direct telegraph communication from Philadelphia
house to New York. It
WHISKY. WINE, ETO.
QAR8TAIR8 ft McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts.
IMPORTERS OE
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc,
WHOLESALE DEALERS M
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. ' Hip
AY
7ILUAM ANDERbON A CO., DEALERS IN
i Fine Whiskies,
No. 140 North sbwm) street,
. Philadelphia.
FURNACES.
Established in 1835.
Invariably th. cratMt mccM or.r all eompatitkm
tth.nev.r and wbarerar .zhibitad or and in th.
UNITED STATES.
CHARLES WILLIAMS'
Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces,
Acknowledged by tb. leading Architect, and Builder to
be tbe most powerful and durable Furnace, offerwd, and
tbe moat pron.pt, ay.tentatio, and largeat boua. ia this
bo. of buaineaa,
HEAVY REDUCTION IN PRICES,
and only nrat-claa. work turned oat.
No. 1132 and 1131 MARKET Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
tt. B.-8FND FOR BOOK Of ilUf 3 ON HEAT
AND VENTILATION. 3sua
QLOTH8, OAS8IMERE8, ETO.
QLOTH HOUSE.
JAMES ft HUDBR.
No. 11 Worth NL'CO"Yl Street,
Sign of the Golden Lamb,
Ate w receiving a large aad apleadld assortment
Of new styles of
FANCY OAS8IMEHE3
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS and
COATINGS, (t S3 Bffl
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
ET 'GOODS. NBWKST STYLES, DIXON'S, N
al & LIOUTU Street. 10 l aw