1 c THE DAILY EVEN 1NG TELEGKA1U1 riIlLADELPlIlA;fTIIURSD AY, AUGUST 25; 1 870. I -. THE CHINESE QUESTJOH. Judge Kelley's Views. SMB01SaMBwMaBOMaWM.aaaaaMsaB m' A Letter to the United Ame rican ' Mechanics Elabo rate Discussion of the General Labor' ' Question. The following exhaustive discussion of the re lations 1 Chinese Immigration to the Labor Question, by the lion. William D. Kelley, will be read with interest: Philadelphia,' Angust 22, 1870'. John C.Libe, Esq., Recording Secretary of Science Council of the Order, of United American Me chanics. Dear Sir: Tour favor covering the circular which ou inform me you were instructed by your Coun cil to transmit to me, with the request that I would favor the members of the Council with my views upon the questions embodied therein," is at hand. It into be regretted that neither your note nor the circular propounds a question. The latter, however, embraces the preamble and resolutions adopted by the Council on' the 6th of July last, which have reference to a question of great public and private Interest. Having bestowed much con sideration upon the subject to which they relate, I am grateful to the members of your Council for the opportunity thus afforded me of expressing my views thereon to so numerous and intelligent a body of my fellow-cltlsens as the members of the Order of United American Mechanics. The preamble and resolutions assert that "a movement has been inaugurated in neighboring States to introduce Chinese labor on an extensive scale Into this country, and that such movement, if successful, must operate to the great disadvan tage of the American mechanic and laboring man," and that "the time has arrived" when the members of your Order should "use every exer tion and exercise all the Influence in their power to prevent the carrying out of this iniquitous and unjust measure." These propositions, I believe, involve the questions on which you request an ex pression of my views. It is proper that, "before proceeding to the con sideration of details, I should say that I believe that humanity and the true interests of all the peo ple of our broad, richly endowed, and diversified, but thinly-settled country, require us to welcome such of the people of all other countries as may, in pursuance of their own choice, come to dwell among us, adopt our language and habits, and help us develop our dormant resources and maintain our republican institutions. But this proposition, broad as it is, does not cover those who may be brought hither by force or de coyed by faUte representation, for the purpose of being used without regard to their rights or those of the people at large. For instance, it does not embrace such as may be found to have been brought as slaves were from Africa in the early days el the republic, or coolies were from India, prior to the act of February 19, 1862, entitled "An act to pro hibit the coolie trade by American citizens in Ame rican vessels," the text of which may be found on page 145 of 2d Brightly's Digest. Though but a new member at the date of its passage by the House cf Representatives, it was my privilege to co-operate with its distinguished author, the late Hon. T. Dawes Eliot, in procuring the enactment of this humane law. Nor, attain, does it apply to those who, being ignorant of our language and of the or dinary rate of wages paid for labor and the cost of living in this country, are seduced into coming here under a contract for years of labor for wages which, though in advance of those they might earn at home, are insufficient for the support of an Ame rican mechanic and the maintenance of his children while obtaining the education due to them in our common schools, Our laws should secure to the victims of such wrongs the amplest means ot re dress, and, at least enable them to return to their native land at the cost of the wrong-doer. The coolie trade was suppressed by law because it was a system of violence and robbery; and as the system by which Koopmanschoop and others are attempting to induce hordes of Chinese labor ers to come to this country under contract to work for wages upon which they cannot live as American workingmen should live, is an organized system of deception and fraud, it should be reprobated by our laws as sternly as the other has been. You will observe that my opposition to organized efforts to stimulate Chinese emigration to this country is not based on hostility to the Chinese, but that it arises from their ignorance of the value and current price of the services they contract to ren der, of the habits of our working people, and of the general cost of living in this country; and that, coming as mere sojourners, to return at the expira tion ol a contract, they will be unencumbered by the expense of a family, or civic or social duties, and can aflord to work for wages that will not en able an American citizen to maintain a home and educate his children as republican institutions re quire. The constant aim of American statesmanship should be to secure to labor such a share of its pro duction as may enable each laborer to make provi sion for age or adversity. Our country is so broad, and embraces so infinite a variety of soil, climate and resources that, had we the population and skill to convert every description of our raw material ' and avail onrselves of the diversities of our toil and climate, we might supply our own wants and maintain a rate of wages independent of those of other countries. But so long as part of our work shops are beyond the seas, and we depend on foreign chops for a large part of our manufactured goods, our rates must be aflected by those of other countries. Chinese wages are, I believe, lower than those paid in any other civilized country. American wages are the highest, and the two rates cannot be maintained in the same community. The attempt on an extended scale to commingle them would be as disastrous to the capital as it would be to the labor of the country. It would unsettle prices and cause anarchy in trade. A little reflection will satisfy any experienced business man on this point, as the employer who paid Chinese wages could always undersell those in the same business who sought to enable their workmen to live by paying them our customary wages for their work. Sir Edward Sullivan, In his recent noble appeal for the working people of England, entitled "Pro-tection-to Native Industry," says: "Wages in France, Belgium, Prussia, Austria and Switzerland are from thirty to fifty per cent, lower than in England; rent, clothing, food, beer, taxes and general charges are all in the same proportion; the habits of the people are economical in the extreme; the manufacturers have as much capital, science and enterprise, and the operatives as much skill and intelligence and technical educa tion and industry, as we have; they get their raw materials very nearly at the same price as we do. The question is: Can our manufacturers, with higher wages, higher rates and taxes, higher gene ral charges, and our operatives with dearer food, dearer clothing, dearer house rent and extrava gant habits, produce as cheaply as they can?" Let us press Sir Edward's point a little further and apply it to the question under consideration. A report lust made to the Treasury Department by Mr. Edward Young, chief of the Bureau of Statis. tics, shows that English wages are as far below ours as those of continental States are below those of England. The report appears to have been com- filled trom ample data and with great care, mak ng dne allowance for the difference between gold and our currency and the number of hours 0 labor required tor a week's pay. Without detaining you with too many examples, let me say that ttwaoftloial report shows that operatives in cotton milwSn the New England and middle States, exclusive otover. were, receive 39.9 per cent more than in "England, and that in the case of overseers the excess i 74.3 ter cent. ., The comparison of the wages paid in woollen mills is made from a wider field, as this branch of industry is growing rapidly in the west; it embrace the mills of Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas, as well as those of the middle and New England States, and shows that the "average ad vance of wages paid in the United Staffs in 18t9 over those of England in 1867-64 (both in gold), was 24.36 per cent." The rates paid in American paper mills, including those to boys and females, as ascer tained from the mills of New England, Pennsylva nia, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, are 82 per cent, greater than in England. And as the last illustration drawn from Mr. Young's report with which I will detain you, workmen in iron foundries and in ma chine shops throughout New England, the middle and western States, and California receive for thsir labor 86 per cent, more than is paid In England. Thus it appears that though the average Eoglish operative receives for his woik nearly double the wages paid his continental competitor, ha gata on an average little more -than half as . mueu an he would for the same work in this country. .The, w jI. fare of our eountry, both present and ultimate, re juire the maintenance of pur scale of wage, ail it advance whenever and wherever this Is practi cable. But how is thiit to be accomplished ? Ho ran the present rates Le defended against competi tion with tii productions of the underpaid laborer of England and the continent?" I believe that a protective tariff i the only possible defence of our rate of wage. While the underpaid Uor is per- formed In foreign countries, we may defend the wages of the American mechanic againrt competi tion by imposing on It productions, when imported into thl country, duties equal to the difference be tween oar wages and the lowest rates paid in com peting conn tries. - - An adequately protective tariff Is the American workman's sole defence against rainons competi tion by the underpaid workmen Of foreign coun tries. Bnt if French, Belgian, German, Austrian, or English mechanic could work for three, five or seven years for such wages as they receive at home, how could the wages of the American workman be defended against the destructive competition? 4 freely admit that I cannot see how it might be done. Can yon or any member of your council show me? No tariff or other law can protect wages against home competition, and I am, therefore, opposed to permitting the Importation of men who have con tracted to work in our mtdt for a term of years at such wages as are paid in China, Austria, Belgium, Germany or England. The prevalence of such a system would, as your resolutions asnert, "greatly reduce the pay for skilled labor, and thereby lessen the family comforts of the great body of the Ameri can people." "Buy where you ean buy cheapest," Is a cardinal maxim of free traders ana revenue reformers. It is plausible, but delusive. ' If applied to labor, it would bring Chinese workmen to us by the million. Yet the free trade agitators, both in and out of Congress, when vindicating this maxim, awert that the tariff which protects his wages and his chance for steady work, injures the worklngman by in creasing the price ot the commodities he consumes. They also say that in addition to cheapening what be consumes, the laborer's market wml 1 be in creased by a reduction of his wag, wa oould then increase our commerce and 'hip onr goods to foreign countries in competition with European manufacturers. To the thoughtless and inexperi enced this is all very plausible. But with your experience and observation, you must peroeive that to reduce the price of onr goods low enough to accomplish this would require us to reduce our wages below the English standard, as the cheaper labor of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Austria are restricting her exports and driving the productions of England out of common mar kets. "Buy where you can buy the cheapest," the only doctrine by which the employment of coolie labor in this country can be Justified, Is not only ruining the working people of England, but np rootinc manv of her Industries which were be lieved to be established on impregnable i'oanda- tions, and is thus involving the laborer and capital ist in a common ruin. To attain cheapness she repealed, not only the duties imposed on food, but those which protected ber labor against the com petition of the lower wages of the continent. She entered enthusiastically upon the experiment of free trade, and has persisted in it for about a quar ter of a century. What has been the result of this race for cheap labor and cheap goods? Its conse quences have been such as I hope onr country may long escape. British exports are not only sta tionary, but declining, and poverty and pauperism have increased so rapidly that the people of Great Britain are no longer able to consume their own productions ae freely as they formerly could, and the demand for labor falls off under the double in fluence of declining export trade and home con sumption. In his recent work, entitled "Home' Politics, or the Growth of Trade Considered in its Relation to Labor, Pauperism and Emigration," Mr. Daniel Grant demonstrates the correctness of these asser tions by presenting from the highest official sources the number of England's paupers, and the value of her exports for the three latest years for which the figures had been compiled. They are as fol lows: Paupers. Exports. 1866, ' - - 920,344 X 188,917 ,53d 1867s - - - 958,824 181,183,971 1868, - - - 1,004,823 179,463,611 After commenting upon the fact that more than one thousand paupers are each week added to the already terrible list, he says: "Even this largo increase does not Indicate the exact extent of poverty It points to the still wider field of misery that exists among the classes from which pauperism is fed. Let any one think what 1 the state of destitution through which a man passes before he is willing! to accept relief and allow himself to be branded as a pauper. Those who know the working classes best know the pro found abhorrence they entertain of the workhouse. Any privation, any sorrow, any destitution rather than that; and the natural inference is that the pressure of want is not only severe, but has been long enough sustained to have swept away all articles of clothing, as well as all household goods, Deiore tne sunerers Dena to ineir rate." Thus deplorable has been the effect on the labor ing classes of England of the determination of her people to accept tne guttering lanacies 01 tne iree trade school or economists, and bay labor and its products where they can buy them cheapest. Let us now glance for a moment at the effect it has had nnon capital invested in special industries. It was soon discovered that the surface ores of the copper mines of Peru, which are dug by peons another name for slaves were cheaper than those of the deep mines of Cornwall and Devonshire. These, with all their machinery, have consequently been abandoned, and such of the miners employed in them as had saved sufficient to pay their passage have emigrated, and the balance with their fami lies have gone to the woranouse. The manufacture of silk had made prosperous towns oi Coyentry and Macclesfield, but Lyons and Kouen could undersell them, and regardlessjof the interests of their tolling countrymen, "the nobility and gentry" of England, looking only to the Inter ests of the consumer, bought where they could buy cheapest, ana tne sua mills or Coventry ana Mao clesneld, with their expensive machinery, became worthless, and many of the people who had found employment in them went to the workhouse also. 1 couia reier to scores or sucn instances, Dut they will occur to your own mind, and I will proceed to an illustration of a more general character. Having heard that the home consumptionof Brit ish cottons had, within a few years fallen off thirty five per cent, I wrote to a friend who has resided in England for some year to learn whether this abate ment was based on a mere estimate or was an as certained fact. I could not credit the assertion. My correspondent, however, sent me copies of elab orate tables from a paper prepared by Mr. Elijah Helms, and read before the Manchester Statistical Society, and which was printed by the society. By comparing the home consumptionof British cottons during the years 1806-7-8 with that during 1859-60-61, Mr. Helms shows that the decrease in that brief period had been equal to 211,933,000 pounds of raw cotton, or thirty-five iter cent. I have also before me an able pamphlet, by a cotton manufacturer, entitled "An Inquiry into the Causes of the long continued Depression in the Cotton Trade," which was published in London and Manchester In the latter part of last year, in whloh the fact is again proven. After spreading before his readers a large array oi official figures the author says: . "The case stands as follows: Our entire exports of cotton goods to all countries have Increased six per cent.; to India they have decreased thirteen per cent.: to the four principal continental countries they nave Increased forty-tlve per cent.; whilst the imports from these four countries have fallen off two and a half per cent. At the same time our home trade, which ihould have been our principal iup port, has fallen off thirty-five per cent.'' The facts I have thus hastily thrown together ad dress themselves not only to the artisan and laborer, but to the farmer and to him whose ample capital, is employed In any branch of productive industry. Whateach wants Is a steady and remunerative mar ket for that which he has to sell, and this cannot be had when that great mass of consumers who live by toil are compelled, as they are in other countries, to labor for .the least amount of compen sation that will serve to keef soul and body to gether without an aspiration or a hope that is to be realized this side of the grave. No amount of foreign commerce would compensate the farmers and manufacturers of the United States for the curtailment of their home market that would In evitably follow the reduction of our wages even to the English standard. To whose industry, enterprise, or capital can the more than one million English paupers give profit able employment? Or, who can sell his goods to that more numerous class from which Mr. Grant says "pauperism is fed," and who are selling "all articles of clothing as well as all household goods" in the vain hope ot escaping the workhouse? Do you think that they know much about the color and quality of American wheat, or even of the flavor of the beef or mutton of "Merrie England," or are liberal patrons of any branch of industry? The apostles of free trade regard the value of nation's exports as the test of iu prosperity. They, worship foreign trade and commerce. From this test 1 dissent. That nation i roo.-t truly prosperous which has fewest paupers, the freeut domestic trade, and whose people are able to enjoy most largely the com torts and luxuries of Ufa a the rewards of their labor, even though it has no foreign commerce. To promote foreign commerce free traders would cheapen goods, although It is appar ent that to cheapen them sufficiently to enable us to take her customers from England, and so in crease our comineroe, we must red ace our wage to a point below those she pays, for we must underbid her in order to induce them to buy from us. Re garding protective duties a an obstruction to com merce, they reelst their enactment and strive t repealor reduce them, although to effect either their repeal or reduction would inevitably compel a general reduction of the rate of wages; for were wa to repeal the duties which now defend and protect the wages of the American mechanic, and secure to him our generous borne market for his labor, our stores and warehouse would soon be orgel with the cheaper productions of the ill-paid labor of Europe, and the proprietor of our mines, mills, factories and workshop would bo forced, by the want of ft market for tLtir higher-priced goods, to discharge their Lands and close their estabutn- metta. Nothing ean be Hearer than thla. And In three year, from our abandobmentof the protective syrtrm the workingmen of the country would suffer again the agonies endured in 1837 and 1857, and British etateemen wonld bo able, as they then were, to comment ' upon the de pression of American labor, and show that poverty and pauperism were increasing as rapidly in the industrial centres of the United State as in those of England. Indeed, such action on our part would be an unspeakable blessing to England. It would revive ber commerce and some of the lead ing branche of her languishing industry, she hae natural advantages, which counterbalance the lower wages of the continent in the production of many articles, among which I may name salt, coal, pig and bar iron, rails, both of Iron and Bes semer steel, cast steel, and iron steamships, with allot which she would supply our market in the abf ence of protective dutie and the venerable law which prohibits the granting of an American regis ter to a foreign-built vessel. . Bnt yon may ask what has all this to do with the qnestion npon which Science Council directed me to request an expression of your, views? A moment' re flection will show you its pertinence. The dan ger you would ward off is the competition of under paid labor; and If it be true that low wage, even In distant countries, against which a protective tariff can defend you, may in its absence overwhelm and destroy yon, how much more endurlngly destruc tive would be the effect of the importation of the hordes of men bonnd by contract to work in your midst at Chinese, French, Belgian, German, Aus trian or English wages? If once established in your midst, no law oould protect yon against their competition; and I assure yon and the members of your council that I have' too Just ft sense of the rights and dignity of labor, and have toiled too long and bard to secure compensation even to the slave for his work In the shop, or cotton, sugar, or rice field, to permit me to approve of such an arrange ment, let it promise what incidental advantages it may. In conclusion, permit me to say again that lam' not opposed to the voluntary emigration of the peo ple of China to this country. If left to their own impulses, and to pay the cost of the voyage, those only will come who are of the better class and have by energy and thrift been able to accumulate a sum sufficient to bring them here and start them in their new home; but under a system by which each man's passage Is paid and bis subsistence while here assured, we will probably get the most abject and possibly only the most degraded denizens of the po- fiulous cities of China. Those who come voluntar ly and at their own cost will take an interest in their adopted country and its institutions, acquire our language, and adopt our habits. Such an immi gration would, like that from, other countries, sti mulate onr general industries while increasing our productive power; it wonld, by peopling our vast territories that now lie waste and unproductive, enhance the demand for labor by increasing our home market and the carrying trade in which so much of our capital and so many of oar people are engaged. s But - It may be more than this. It is in the power of the Chinese to estab lish among us 'many new and profitable in dustries. Let me mention, two, the introduction of whioh wonld injure none and benefit all of us. I allude to tea and silk. For tea we send abroad about $10,000,000 annually, and for silk about S20, 000,000. We produce no tea, and are but experi menting in the production of raw silk, of which wo import about 92,500,000 per annum for the use of our infant silk manufactories at Paterson, Hartford and Philadelphia, in some of which, I may remark, machinery Is now nsed that was once profitably em ployed in Coventry and Macclesfield. We have Immense natural fields for the cultiva tion of both tea and silk, beside those of California and Arkansas, and the Chinese, the earliest and most successful cultivators of both, would benefit ns immensely by transferring their experience and patient Industry to our country. I would not, there fore, excludo them by any general denunciation. But to protect the right even of foreigners to fair wages for work done in this country, and to avert the dangers threatened to American mechanics by the importation of hordes of coolies, I would pro vide by statute that any contract made in a foreign country by which a person proposing to emigrate to any State or territory within the United States shall bind himself to labor for any term of years or months, at a rate of wages specified therein, shall be null and void. Believing that a law embodying these provisions will be enacted by Congress at its next session, I remain, Yours, very truly, Wm, D. Kbxlky. THE GREAT FIRE Itf CANADA.. Immense Forest Swept Away llonseo and Farm Destroyed Thousands of Families Homeless Narrow Escape of Ottowa The Ottawa Times of Aug. 19 Bays: . Last evening the grand culminating point was reached; clouds of aeb.ee began to come into the city, and the smoke got hotter and more blind ing, and eoon it was known that the fierce gale bad fanned the fires into frightful proportions, and at that moment were travelling through the country at the rate of five 1 miles an hour, and spreading in every direction. At a late hoar it was learned that a district of ten miles in the township of Gloucester was in a blaze. Then consternation seized many, and in dread, the nervous demanded again and again to be told was there any danger of the flames getting into the city. The scene in the city at 8 o'clock was inde scribable. The fierce gale was at its height, the dust and ashes hissed down the street, while the smoke came rolling in. hot, yellow, and still more blinding. At 8 o'clock not a soul was on the streets, nor had there been for an honr. At 11 o'clock a man came in from Gloucester and stated that the fire was only a mile from the city, making Its way in by the railway track. Upon inquiry it was found that no danger was imminent from any quarter. However, arrange ments -were made iu case of emergency, and men were put to watch. Indeed the city is sur rounded by a belt of fire, and the smoke as we write is getting again thick and blinding. Heavy rains are the only thin? that can better the present dreadful state of affairs. At Gloucester throughout the whole night people were on tne move in search tor a place oi safety or shelter; some were on foot conducting their children and picking their steps among the burning patches of ground, while others, both to save themselves and their horses, got on horseback and galloped at full speed over fields of fire. The scene was a dreadfully romantic one. Cattle ran madly in every direction, vainly endeavoring to find one place affording more shelter or comfort than another.' Their con tinuous bellowing added much to the prevailing confusion and .alarm. A howling hurricane crashing forests, smoky and stiff ocating gloom, on nvDrhaniytnu naninlv if lnt.hnlnt fl-mA ,1,a very ear'h in a blaze, general dismay and de vastation u.acie up tne awiui panorama. Ironside village, comprising over fifty houses ot tne employes at toe iron mines, was in a blaze. The whole village was destroyed, the smelting house among the other Imildings. The smelting house was valued at 1 50, 000. But all this destruction of property sinks Into insigni ficance before the dreadful Item of loss of life The flames came rushing into the village from a southwesterly direction, and so terribly rapid was their progress through it that many persons were unable to escape ana were burned to death. The towcshiD is a dismal waste. . 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Direct telegraph communlcaUos trom P&Lade'pols fcoue to New jerk, IS PINANOIAU QEVEN PER CENT. First Mortgage Bonds - 0 TBM PaaTllle, Ilaaleton, and Willces tarre Rallrtad Company, At 05 and Accrued Interest Clear of all Taxes. ! T INTEREST PAY. ABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER. Persons wishing to make investments are lnvlt A examine the merits of these BONDS. Pamphlets ropplled and f nil information given by Sterling & , Wildman.. FINANCIAL AGENTS, ' No. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 19 tf PHILADELPHIA. Government Bonds and other Secorttles taken is exchange for the above at best market rates. p O R 8 A L E, 8ix Per Cent Loan of the City ol WWiamsport, Pennsylvania, FREE OF ALL TAXES, - At 85, and Accrued Interest These Bonds are made absolutely secure by act of Legislature compelling the city to levyaufflcieat tax to pay Interest and principal. P. Oo PETERSON A CO., No. 39 SOUTH THIRD BTREET, '' " v PHILADELPHIA. B. E. J AIIISOII & CO.. SUCCESSORS TO , jr. IELXVXT ate CO, BANEERS AND DEALERS IN . Gold, Silver and Government Bonds At Closest Blarket Bates, N. W. Cor. THIRL and CHESNUT Bts. . Special attention given to cOJnssiON orders In New York and PhKadaiphla Btook Boards, etc, eto. ; - - - w ' F OB S A LE . . C. T. YERKES, Jr., I CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. SO South THIRD Street. M PTtTT. A nTTTPTTT A f CORDAGE, ETO. WEAVER & CO., UOl'K MA.'VUFACTUKItS urn '- ship ciia:iili:us, . No, 29 North WATER Street and - No. 88 North WHARVES, Philadelphia. ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK PRICES. 4i CORDACE. H anilla, Sisal and Tarred , Cordage At Lonoot Raw York Prioe and Freight. EDWIN EL FITLKR de CO., Factory, TEHTB Bt, and GERMANTOWH Avaaao. BtorcRo. S3 WATER Bt and 23 N DELAWARE) Avonao. ' ' - . SHIPPING tfTK FOR LIVERPOOL AND QTJEEVS. S-LLiiTOWN. lnman Line of Royal Mall btutuiera are appointed to sail as follows: City of Baltimore (via Halifax), Tuesday, August 23, at 1 P. M. , City of Washington, Saturday, August 27, at 2 P. M. City of Paris, Saturday, September 3, at 12 M. City of Antwerp (vis Halifax), Tuesday, Septem ber 6, at 1 P. M. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues day, from pier No. 4ii North river. RATES OF PASSAGE. Payable In gold. Payable In currency. First Cabin f78 Steerage 3ii To London KO To London 85 To Paris 80 To Paris . . 88 To Halifax.... so! To Haitrax is Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, BremeD, eto., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by persons wishing to send for tneir friends. For further information apply at the company's office. . JOHN O. DALE, Agent, No. IS Broadway, N. Y. : Or to O'DONNKLL & FAULK, Agents, 4 5 ' No. 408 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia. puir iniPt PTm a wn ariTiri dd JZMAIL NTKAM&U1P COMPANY'S Sltnir. R hKMl-MUaittL.X LANK, iO NKW OR. TUe AC 111LLKB will tall for New Orlaans direct, on Tuetdar teiteiuber i, at 8 A. M. lb, YA 'OO will sail (rum JJew Orleans, via Havana, on . Bepteniber . THROUUU BILLS OF LADING at a low rate a br any other rout. ? to Mobile, Galveston, ladutmola, La vaeca, and liraioe, and to all point on the Mitvuaeippi river between New Orleans and St. Ixoia. lied Hirer freight rwiuppad at N.w Orleans without obar. of ooinmiiona, WEEKLY USE TO 8AYANNAH, GA. To TON A WANDA will sail for Savannah oa Bator day, August 27. To WYOMING will sail from Savannaa oa Satar. dliKn0UUH 'BILLS OF LADING fiv.n to all th prin. oisal towns in Georgia. Alabama, Florida, Alisaiawppi, Louialana, Arkaaaae, and Tennessee in connection with the Central Railroad of OeorRia, Atlantio and Golf Rait, road, and Florida steamers, at as low rales ao bj ooinp.tuuj knea. KEMI MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON, 1. O. The PIONEKR will sail (of Wlmintonn JVednsadaf, August ill, at oA. M. . Ketujnin-, UlleavoSViliainaTtoa Wednesday, September 7. Coonuois with tne Capo Fear River Steamboat Oora. cany lbs Wilruiniton and Weldon and North Carolina (jailroaus, and ins, Wilmington and Manchester Railroad ta all interior pointa. . reii?bta (or Columbia. 8. O., and Angusta, Ga., taken via W ilniinftton, at allow rate a by any oibfcr route. Insurance ejected when requested by shipper. Bills of lading aicned at Queea street wharf on or before day Of sailing. WIxjJAli L. JAM KM, General Arena. IU No. 130 fcouthJTiilRi) Street. i , ' ' F O R N B W Y O Rt f JF'CJI via rMawire and Rarltan Canal. ir IJL EXPKEhB bTK AM KOAT COMPANY, ' The bieam Propellers of tfte line will commence load.ng on the 6th lDstaut, leaving daily as usual. TUKOLOU IS TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods f orwaroed by all the Hue going- out of Ne York, North, Fast, or Wear, Irea of coiuuUanioo. iie.vtiu rwivtii at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYUB CO., Agents, No. 13 B. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Ajrent, , No. 1.9 WALL tu-i N York. 8 49 SMIPPINO. fCflR?. LOR1LLARD STEAMSHIP COM PAN I FOR mCW YORK, BAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY, are now i ecelvlDg freight at FIVE CENTS PER 100 TOUNDS, TWO CENTS PER FOOT, OR llALF CENT TER GALLON, , SHIP'S OPTION. INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE TEH CENT. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc. 1 No receipt or bill of lading signed for less tnan fifty cents. NoriCE,-On and after September 18 rate by this Company will be 10 cents per 100 pounds or 4 cents per loot, ship's option ; and regular shippers by this line will only be charged the above rate all winter. Winttr rates commencing December is. For furthei particulars apply to JOHN F. OHO, 88 riER 1BN0KT11 WHARVES. THE REGULAR BTEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI. LAPELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM. SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to Issue through bills of ladiig to Interior points South and West in connection with South Carolina Railroad Company. ALFRED L, TYLErtT . ' Vice-President So. C. RR. Co. rniLADELPniA AND CHARLESTON STEAMSHIP LINE. Thialine Is now com nosed of the fnllow'nir class Steamships, sailing from TIER n, below Spruce Btreet, on FRIDAY of each week jat 8 ASHLAND, 900 tons, Captain CrowelL J. W. EVERMAN, 699 tons, Captain lllncklev SALVOR, 600 tons, Captain AsHcroft. - - A L'GVST, 1870. 3. W. E verm an, Friday, August C Sa!vor. Friday, Animst 13. J. W. Everman, Friday, August 19. Salvor, Friday, August 86. Through bills of lading given to Columbia, S. C . the Interior of Georgia, and all pointa South and Southwest. Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch Rates as low as by any other route. InHurance one-half per cent., effected at the offloe In flrst-class companies. No freight received por bills of lading signed oa day of sailing. SOUDER 3t ADAMS, Agents, No. 8 DoCK Street. Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDK A CXxT ' No. 18 8. WHARVES. WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, Agent in Charles ton, g g -rffWa. PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND. slalti tag AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LI NHL THKOUOH tRXIUUT AIR LINK TO THE SOuia AN D 'W FBT w INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES rOR 1870. Stsamers leave avery WKDNKBDAYand S A TURD A V at Uo'oloek noon, from FIRST WHARF abov ALAR. KKT Street. RETURNING, leav. RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and 8A. No Bill of Lading sis-nod after 13 o'clock on sailing UROUGH RATES to all point In North and Sooth Carolina, via Seaboard Air Lins Railroad, oonneotln. at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tenneaeee, and the West, via Virginia and lennessea Air Lin. and Richmond and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUTONOIt, and taken at LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINK. No charge for commission, drayags, or any eipecss of Steamship Insure at lowest rate. Freight received daily. 6Ut. Rocommodatfor Penu No. 13 S. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. CROWELL A OO,., A gente at Norfolk . t IS FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE and Raritan CanaL SWIFTSURE TRANSPORTATION JOBirAIX I. DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURE LINES, Leaving dally at 13 M. and 8 P.M. The steam propellers of this company wlU com mence loading on the 8th of March. Through In twenty-four hours. Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions. Freights taken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD At CO., Agents, 4 No. 133 South DELAWARE Avenue. NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN. idria, Georgetown, and Washington. iD. C, via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoivllle, Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon 'rom the first wharf above Market street. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE A TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M. ELDRIDQE & CO., Agents at Alexandria. 4 1 DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE STEAM TOWBOAT COMPANY. Bartres towed between Philadelphia. .Baltimore, uavre-ae-urace, Delaware city, ana in termediate points. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents. Captain JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent. Office, No.' 13 South Wl arves Philadelphia. 4 11 PROPOSALS. CHIEF MEDICAL PURVEYOR'S OFFICE, No. 12 WOOSTER Street, New York. August is, 1670. PROPOSALS will be received at .this office until 10 o'clock on THURSDAY, the 13th day of Septem ber, 1870, for the sale, on the part of the United States to the highest bidder, of the following articles of hospital bedding and clothing, viz. : Bedsackf, 15,000; Blankets, 10,000 ; Counterpanes, 15,000; Gutta Percha Bed-covers, 1000; Mattresses, hair, 800: Musquito Bars, 20,000; Hair Pillows, 6000; Pillow-cases, .whjte, 80,000; Pillow-ticks, 80,000; Sheets, 80,000; Drawers, 80,000; Dressing-gowns, 15,000; Cotton Shirts, 30,000; Slippers, 10,000; Wool len SockB, 50,000; Towels, hand, 7000 dozes ; Rollers, 800 dozen. The above-mentioned goods are new, have never been used, and are believed to be In good condition, and will be sold as they now stand. The Government will reserve the right to reject bids deemed either unreasonable, or from irrespon sible parties. No bid will be considered for less of any one article than the amount advertised. Sam ples will be 'shown and any information given at the office, No. 126 WOOSTER Street, near Prince. Terms cash. A fair length of time will be al lowed to purchasers to remove their goods. Pro posals to be Indorsed "For the Purchase of Hosplta Bedding and Clothing." CHARLES SUTHERLAND, Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting vhlef Medical Par . veyor, United States Army. 8 18 6t P "Proposals for trees and shrub ICR NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETKRIiS. " I e -a QrARTBRMASTKB-GlNERAL'S OFKICB, WAfHlKOTON, D. C, 17th AUgUSt, 1810. Proposals for supplying Trees and Surubs for ornamental planting of the National Cemeteries are invited from nurseries and gardeners In good btandlng. The trees and shrubs should be securely packed and delivered at the railroad station most conve nient to the garden or nursery. Bills and tills of lading, properly addressed, to be fur nished. The freight will be paid by the United States, and the bills will be settled upon receipt of the trees and shrubs at the places to which they may be con signed. ... The orders will be given by the officer In charge of national cemeteries In this office upon estimates or requisitions from local officers. It is suggested that the most convenient form of proposal wiil be a printed catalogue, with such discount on the whole or on auy classes or kinds of plants as the proprietor may be willing to oiler. Purchases will be made wherever moBt advan tageous to the United States upon the basis of the prr.poEals thus received. , There are about eighty (80) national military ceme teries scattered over the whole United States; and tome planting will probably be needed In each of iliem. Proposals should be sealed and addressed to the QuarterniasteMieneral's Office, marked 'Proposals for Trees and shrubs;" and they will be opened at Loon on the 19th of September, 170. M. C. MEIGS, QuHrtermaste'-lierjeral, ' 8 19 Ct Brevet Majjr -Genera., U. S. A. CteU Uis efviW oavU ccktf" vc
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