THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THUK3DA., SEPTEMP.EPv 1, 1870. srxzixv or cno rzmss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals Upon Current Topic Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. THE DIFFERENCE. From the If. Y. Bun. The declining fortunes of France offer n fresh illustration of the ever-shifting fate of cations. France, like England, has been for many centuries at the head of civilization, and, like Greece and Home of old, they seemed to be destined to rule the universe for all time to come. But, again like the great empires of antiquity, both France and England seem to have run their race, and to have taken a secondary place among the nations of the earth. America, Russia, and Germany are the new great powers which begin to overshadow the fame and the prestige of Franco and Great Britain. Italy, too, with her capital transferred to Rome, will make good her claim to a prominent place in the new galaxy of ruling nations. No doubt Eastern Europe must be profoundly affected, if not convulsed, by these momentous changes. Like Greece and Home, France will forever live in the memory of the world for her re nown in letters, art, science, and political and military history; but henceforth she will find it hard to compete with the preponde rance of Germany and the United States. AVhile the masses of Germany have been filled with education and culture, those of France have been left to vegetate in igno rance and superstition; and nations are des tined to rise or to fall, not according to their nominal political institutions, but in har mony with the degree of moral and mental culture among the masses of the people. Both in France and in England the masses are in almost as miserable and benighted a condition as they were im the days of the Stuarts and the Capets. Indeed, whatever may have been the degree of factitious splen dor which has hovered round the military im perialism of Bonapartized France, or what ever may be the seeming power of the ruling landed and monetary oligarchy of England, both these nations are decidedly inferior to Germany, for the reason that the people of the latter country are in a much higher de gree civilized, and to that extent more capa ble of self-government. To us the lesson comes home in this, that all the pretensions of our sporting, fashion able, shoddy, corrupt, and criminal classes are symptoms of national decadence; and that our only claim to a high place among civilized nations rests upon the enlighten ment of the masses of the American people, upon the independence and moral principle of our working classes, and upon the steady pro gress of education and moral and intellectual culture. All else here, as in France, is a snare a delusion fitting the people to be come slaves and tools of such scoundrels as Louis Napoleon, and unfitting them both for self-government and for the protection of their country in the hour of danger. Super ficial observers may ascribe the achievements of Germany to the superior craft of Bismarck over that of Napoleon; but the Prussian's craft rests upon the selid structure of a highly civilized and truly religious nation, while that of Napoleon, depending only upon a benighted peasantry, demoralized middle classes, and rotten aristocracy of money and fashion, rested upon sand, and is swept away at the first mutterings of the storm. GERMAN UNITY AND AMERICAN SYM PATHY. From the N. T. World. It is a little difficult to aee precisely on what grounds Americans are invited to bestow their "sympathies" specially on the Germans in the present European war. The German race has so many and such solid claims on the respect and e-yen on the affec tion of mankind, it has done so much to en- lien ton, to adorn, and to smooth human life, that he could hardly be a friend of his kind or an intelligent believer in the principles of civilization who should wish barm to come to Germai y, and desire to Bee either her terri tories parcelled out among strangers or her arms trailed in the oust, iiut between cor dial hopes for the preservation of the national life of Germany and ardent longings for the triumph of the German standards over France there is a weighty difference. That the common people of Germany should believe a German victory over France to be essential to the maintenance of German independence is natural enough. France under Louis XIV and France under Napoleon I impressed this belief in blood and fire upon the German popular heart. The sins of the fathers here also are visited upon the chil dren. The ravages of Louvois, and what proud Queen Bess would .have called the "foul scorn" ungenerously lavished by the victor of Jena upon the lovely Louisa of Prussia, have left their traces deep on the hearts of the German people. But the more enlightened classes of Germany know, what is perfectly evident to the enlightened classes of all other countries, that there has never been the slightest real danger of any at tempt at repeating these exploits on the part of the actual uovernment 01 trance. The loudest organs of Count Bismarck in the present war do not pretend that Germany went to war to prevent Napoleon III from annexing Baden or the Palatinate by force to France. They protess that the wrong suf- fered by Germany from France was an insult offered by a French Ambassador to the Prus sian King. A well-considered correspond ence from Berlin, just published ina leading radical journal of Massachusetts, formally denies that any such insult was ever offered bv Count Benedetti to King William, and charges the whole story as a malignant and deliberate fabrication to tne rrussiau rremier. But if it were true, bow contemptible a pre text would such a matter offer in the middle of the nineteenth century for so awful an unsealing of the vials of wrath as now makes desolate the fair plains of Lorraine and the hilly woodlands of Champagne ! It is cer tainly abking too much of Americans to re quest that they shall interest themselves deeply in behalf of a people which is ready to sacrifice itself, its neighbors, and the interests of humanity on such an issue. If ever there was a case for settlement by arbi- tration, this case thus stated would be one. That the average radical politician, as ready to flatter the Teuton as the negro, and the coolie as either, where any hope of votes exists, should be ready to toss up his hat over the glorious slaughter of thousands of bis fellow-creatures in such a struggle, might be expected. Not so the statesman, the patriot, the philanthropist, or the Christian. Nor is it much more satisfactory to be told that we must go with Germany in all her hot emotions in this crisis of her fate because her unity is at stake, and her unity is the hope of Continental progress. It is simply not true that German uaity could not have been esta 1411 ed without such a wwr as tin, nor is it yet demonstrated by any means that this war will finally accomplish German unity. German unity, so far as it has become even approximative a fact in our times, has been fostered and developed, not by war, but by peace not by noisy alliances for bat tle, but by the unobserved influences of the Zollverein. The "force of events" and the progress of liberal ideas in Germany during the past ten years were working steadily and rapidly enough towards the ideal unity of Germany, when this great storm was conjured up over the laud by the astute and unscrupulous master of the desti nies of Prussia. Unity thus reached, of course, would have meant liberty. But if this fact may have exoused Count Bismarck, who hates liberty, for suddenly arresting the peaceful to substitute for it the warlike pro cess of unification, that is no reason, surely, why Americnus should applaud Count Bis marck's policy. As to its ultimate success, it is surely rather premature to make that a cause for the casting up of caps and the crying aloud of hosannas. For without dwelling on the chances of war, which are always disconcerting the ablest combinations, there are many other things which may seriously affect this result. Now that the South German States have proved loyal to their engagements with Prussia and the North, they may easily make that very loyalty an argument against the necessity of any new engagements to bind them more closely with their allies. As the existing treaties have enabled Germany to act in the field as one empire, why should new treaties be required? Such considerations as these, making it by no means plain that the present war is sure to bring about the best form of German unity in the best way, may well cause reflecting foreigners to hesitate at enlisting their feel ings very warmly in its support. But, set ting these considerations apart, how can Americans be expected to sympathize with that ideal of German unity which is of all its ideals the most loudly hailed just now, and which consists in the gather ing together about one throne of all who speak the German tongue? Nothing can be more absurd, as Dr. Arnold has so admi rably shown, than the notion that language alone is a sufficient bond of nationality. Lan guage, taken in connection with religion, with social institutions, with commercial interests, is indeed an enduring basis of nationality. but without these it is quite as likely to breed a bitter hostility as a kindlier sympathy be tween different communities of men. If all who speak German are to be compelled into political union with Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Esthonia, Courland, and Livo nia, must be dealt with as Alsace is now threatened to be dealt with. To announce such a principle of national policy and such a national hope is to proclaim a new century of European wars. TnE FAILURE OF DESPOTISM. F romXhe If. Y. Tribune. There has been the greatest possible ac tivity in raising troops throughout the dif ferent Departments of France daring the last few weeks. The orders issued bv the Military Directory at Paris require the local authorities to forward all arms-bearing meu to the capital with the utmost celerity. We have had accounts of bodies of these hastilv- raised levies moving from the southern and central parts of France to enter the ranks of the active army; and large numbers of them were sent from Paris to Uacalahon at Cha lons, before the evacuation of that place. But, after all, it if. remarkable how slowly and unwillingly the people of France respond to the urgent calls of the Government to come forward in defense of the country agaimt the invading German armies. The population of France is forty millions, and the French have always been accounted the most martial people in Europe. ho far as we can judge, there have not been more than ;(.(,000 troops engaged in the active operations under Bazaine and Mao Mahon, and the forces defending Paris, with the troops stationed at other points, are estimated as numbering less than 200,000 men. This is certainly a poor display for a military country like France. Why has there not within the last thirty days been a great patriotic enlistment of at least a million Frenchmen for the defense of their imperilled country? Why are not such scenes witnessed in France as we became familiar with in this country during our own great war a few years ago ? We had no reputation as a military people. We had the most ciumsy and inemcient ma chinery for raising troops. We had a large party in the North which sympathized with the .Rebellion, let how rapidly President .Lincoln s nrst requisition tor troops was filled up! How quickly, during subsequent periods of the war, when our military sys teni was better organized, we raised hundreds of thousands of men in the Eastern and Western States, and forwarded them to the points of danger, where they were at once incorporated with the armies already in the field! lhe crisis in this country was scarcely less terrible than the present crisis in France; and yet how different the spectacle presented in one country from that which was displayed in the other: TLe Government of France, as it has ex isted for nearly twenty years under the despo tism of Louis Napoleon, has been wholly dependent upon the military power for its existence. But it was a great army, and not a martial people, that the Emperor required or desired. He has done all in his power to re nress the ideas and practices which at this time would have given France a dozen patri otic armies for its defense. Under the Em pire the growth of an intelligent patriotism has been impossible, and the general use or possession of firearms has been forbidden. The Emperor of France has been at war with the intelligence and the conscience of France ever since he mounted the throne. He has not only destroyed the liberties of the coun try, but has debauched its politics and crushed its Dublio SDirit. It was not patriot ism, but a slavish homage to his person and dynasty, that he demanded. Instead of civ ing lhe people those governmental institu uons wnica wouia nave secured tneir aevo tion, he has given them a debased Ciesarism which was detested by all liberal-minded Frenchmen. We now see the results of his system in the lowest condition of publio spirit that ever was shown by a great nation in the supreme moment of its existence. The results of his prohibition of the use of arms are also painfully visible. The levies which have been hastily raised are utterly in capable of handling the guns which have been given to them. It is just as well that they have only old muskets, for they can learn to use these more quickly than the chassepots. But what value are either shot-guns or chasse pots in the hands of people who know nothing whatever of them, and who certainly canuot now make them of any avail against the tri umphant armies of Germany? During the war of the Rebellion, our American citizens quickly became soldiers beoause the great mass of them had been accustomed to the use of arms as luilitia-men or in one way or another. But the throne of the Emperor would have been endangered if the people of France had been allowed to possess or use arms; and now Frence is paying the penalty of having an Emperor whose strength was dependent on the country's weakness, When public spirit and political vitality are crushed, it is not in a day (hat they can be revived; nor is it pos sible for a people unaccustomed to arms to learn their use when an enemy is at their throat. The despotism of Napoleon the Third has been a failure, because it has ruined France. VICTORIA AS AN OBSTRUCTIVE. From, the A'. Y. Timet. The European war seems likely to prove a severe trial of British court etiquette in re gard to publio business. According to that etiquette, the sovereign is not only the head of the State politically, but is the centre around which all the machinery of Govsrn ment revolves. Hence the personal sanction, by signature, of the Queen must be given to all public acts, or they must be ratified by her presence. Does a new Cabinet require to be sworn in, the gentlemen on whom that distinction is te be conferred must proceed to the royal residence for the purpose. Are diplomatic despatches to pass between her Minister of Foreign Affairs and another Gov ernment, i-he must of necessity be personally consulted. In short, the theory of the Con stitution being that, wherever the sovereign happens to be, there is the executive centre of the ration, no important State action can have legal force without consultation with her, and her sanction. And yet this process is, after all, in very many cases a mere for mality. She signs innumerable documents, the contents of which she does not even care to know. The actions of the Ministry are shaped with reference to public necessity, and their conception oi the duty of the hour. They are her "advisers," which means that they inform her of the manner in which they propose to meet partioular exigencies. Their responsibility is practically to Parlia ment not to the sovereign. But they are the Queen's Ministers, and what they do in regard to national or international affairs is by a kind of legal fiction done by her. It might be supposed, then, that the court would remain sometimes at London, so as to occasionally facilitate official labors, arduous at the best. The Queen, however, has not resided in London for several years. The Minister who waits upon her on business must go to Windsor double the distance that Versailles is from Paris or to Osborne, or the Isle of Wight, or Balmoral, in the wilds of Scotland, and twenty miles from railroad communication. The labor and de lay of this going to and fro are of coarso re garded as a grievance, even at times when no very momentous events are taking place. But now that a tremendous war is raging between two great nations, and the diplo matic relations of Europe are watched with intense anxiety, the Queen has retired to Balmoral with as little hesitation, as if she were in a merely private station, or a mere cypher in public affairs. No wonder the British publio are asking disagreeable ques tions, and contrasting the tedious ceremonial to which their servants are subjected with the facilities to which they are entitled and which they are accorded elsewhere. DECLINE OF POLITICAL LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES. From the Missouri (SU Louis) Republican.. In alluding to the many symptoms which indicate a weakening of political life in the United States, we have in view some manifest tendencies which do not allow of any mis understanding. By centralizing the powers of the various States and of the people them selves into what is usually called a strong government, a large element in political life was lost. Of the two great currents in Ameri can politics, one was stopped entirely, and a vast amount of debatable matter was taken out of the domain of publio discussion. So long as almost all the power emanated directly from the people, the form m which it was to be moulded was the great topic of publio discussion. The larger the portion became which was wrested from the'people and treated as an integrant, indis putable attribute of the Federal Government, the more insignificant became the programmes of partisans, suppose we were to make half a dozen additional amendments to the present Constitution, .whereby doubtful or growing questions concerning, for instance, the com petency of the Supreme Court, or, in general, the relation of the judiciary to the two other branches of the Government would be per- mamently settled, the politioal life of the people would be greatly reduced in quality as well as in quantity of debatable matter. With a complete and an infallible constitu tion a republio becomes a despotism, just as a monarchy, wherein everything is on princi- file taken out of the hands of the people and et t to the arbitration of a power which can not err, because there is no tribunal above it. Every day establishes a new example of the diminishing importance of partisan issues. During the epoch of the great American statesmen, and of a vigorous political life in the country, neither the folly of creating a national temperance party nor that of origi nating a national labor party was possible. Evidently these have not much vitality now, but even as late as fifteen years ago they would not have dared to show themselves on the public arena. The one being based upon the appreciation of individual desires, vir tues or weaknesses, which are entirely out side of the action of the State, would have looked for a solution of the difficulties to the school room, to the propagation of sound moral ideas, and in the establishmsnt of popular amusements of a more elevated char acter. The others, believing themselves to be the privileged expounders of certain princi ples of national economy, would have been taught at once by the other classes of the people, that they were also entitled to hold certain theories of their own, and the forum of Bcience would have been the natural tri bunal for the decision between the various dogmas. Neither a book like Mr. Kellogg's nor whims like Wendell Phillips', in those times could have been used as the basis for a national party. Only when one of the con stituent powers of the Government bad usurped every prerogative of the nation in regard to the great currents of public activity, did classes dare to raise their pecu liar pretenses to the standard of national questions. Then, too, whims and fanciful theories were lauuobed upon the nation with the hope of making them gain by universal discussion what they never possessed in uni versal significance. It is not our purpose for the present to show the weakening of political life even in the professions of faith of the two great par ties which have during the last ten years struggled against each other, nor do we in tend to discuss the question whether or not it is a symptom of intrinsic and self-conscious life of our political parties, that in the dis cussion created by the war between France and Germany almost every Democratic paper took sides with France, whilst almost every If adical paper favored the cause of Germany but this we do assert, without foar of con tradiction from thoughtful readers, that tha negro question consumed more white brains than most of the fanatics on either side hud to spare. The amount of statesmanship an I political energy which remained after the negro ceased to give trouble to our statosuien, would not be sufficient to give body to any of Henry Clay's or Daniel Webster's speeches. SPEOIAL NOTICES. 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Seoood, rith all the modern improyementa. ply to AARON HTJRi'.RY. No. 29 8. SEVENTH Street M WANTED TO RENT A FIRST-CLASS House, between Broad and Twentieth, Pine and Vine streets. 1623, Phlla- delphla. 8 29 3t ART EXHIBITION. ON FREE EXHIBITION AT CHAS. F. HASELTINE S GALLERY, No. 1125 CHESNUT STREET, BRAUN'S FAMOUS PANORAMIC VIEWS Of Berlin. Potsdam. Charlottenburg, Coblenta. Heldel. here. Jena. Weimar. Erfurt, Ems. Baden-Baden. Weisbaaen, Brussels, Amsieraain, vv aienoo, ,iege Ypres, Rotterdam, Utrecht etc. etc. A complete set of the Berlin Museums, and interior views of all the rooma In the various royal palaces of Prussia. Particular attention is arawn to me iaci mat in a few davs 100 views on the Rhine and its fortiflea turns, as never before seen, will be exhibited. 11 10 THE FINE ARTS. COLLEGE OF ST. E0RE0ME0. NEW mOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF 8T. BORRO- MKO COLLE3E, For the stereoscope 29 cents each Also, Larger, Mouuted 23 cents each THE BEST MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR IN EUROPE. $10 EACH. DICKENS' LAST PORTRAIT. JAMES & EARLE & SONS, Looklng-Glass Warerooms and Gallery of Paintings, No. 816 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. WHISKY, WINE, ETQ. QAR8TA1R8 & McCALL, No. 126 Walnut &nd 21 Granite SU. IMPORTERS OF Brandies, Winei, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc, WHOLESALE DEALERS IM PURE RYE WHI8KIE8. IN BOND ASP TAX PAID. 18 lot -IA7ILT.1AM ANDERSON Jt CO., DEALERS IM Y Fine Whiskies, No. 1W North SECOND Street, Philadelphia ohTppinu. 2r FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS. wt FJLlTt,WTJ. innian Line of Royal Mall bieameis are appointed to sail as follows: City of Limerick, Tuesday, August 30, at 8 P. M. City of Paris, Saturday, September 3, at It M. City of Cork (via Halifax), Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 1 P.M. City of Antwerp, Thursday, Sept. 8, at 1 P. M. City of London, Saturday, September 10, at t P. M. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues day, from pier Ho. 45 North river, uujr, nim. v iwes OF PASSAGE. Payable In goid. Payable In currency. First Cabin 75 Steerage 30 To London S0 To London 83 To Paris 90 To Paris 83 To Halifax 80' To Halifax 15 Passengers aiso forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, BremeD, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by persons wlshiug to send for tnelr friends. For further information apply at the company's 0ttJOlIN G. DALE, Agent. No. 15 Broadway, N. V. Or too DO.NNKI.L & KAUI.K, Ag"iiU. 4 6 Nu. 40 CHKNUT Street. puiiaJelpfcia SMIPPINC. PORTKXAS PORTS. THK 8TKAM Sliip ACHILLKS will sad for NawOrlpana Oireci on 1 1 umiav, .September 6, at 8 A. M. Through bills of lading given, In connection with Morgan's Lines from Nw Orleans to Mobile, Gal veston. Indianola, Lavacca, and Brazos, at as low rates as by any other route. ThrouRh bills of lading also given to all noiau on the Mississippi river between Nw Orleans and St. Louis, In connection with the HU Louis and New Orleans racket Company. For further information applv to WM. L. JAMES, General Aeent, J131 it No. HO S. THIRD Street. ''fffti, LORILLARD STEAMSHIP COMPANl roil ii:n yoru, SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ANE SATURDAY, are now t eceiving freight at FIVE CENTS FER 100 PO JNDS. TWO CENTS PER FC"T, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON, SHIP'S OPTION. INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, etc. No recent or bill of lailinir alcrnwl inr i-.ua ., fifty cents. XM Til '15! On an ft ftor fianfam h.. IK . h- Company will be H cents per 100 pounds or cents per foot, ship's option ; and regular shippers by this line will only be charged the above raw all winter Wuittr rates commencing December la. For furthet particulars apply to JOHN F. OHL, rrHE RFOTTLAR STEAMSHIPS 0 TITTt Prrr. 1 LaDKLPHIA AND CHARLESTON HTKAM. SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to Issue throujrfc l.i 1 ' a iT loilfi-cr In HttiaHnr nnlnta Unnth a.., ii . connection with South Carolina Railroad Company AT lULMl T m' T .V.. " Vlce-PreMdeut So. C. RR. Co, frFf PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON .yr-frL STEAMSHIP LINE. This line Is now composed of the following first class Steamships, sailing from PIKIt n. below Spruce street, on tlUDAk of each week ta: 3 A.M.:- l Ashland, tons, captain crowell. J. W. EVERMAN, 692 tous, Captain Hiackler SALVOR, 600 tons, Captain Aghcroft. SEPTEMBER, 1ST0. J. W. Evertuau, Friday, Sept. 8. Salvor, Frldav, Sept. 9. J. W. Everman, Friday, 8ept. lft. Salvor, Friday, Sept. Ji3. J. W. Everman, Friday, Sept. 30. Throng)! bills of ladtnff siven to doinmhfa s n the Interior of Georgia, and all points Souia'ani Southwest. Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch Rates as low as by any other route. Insurance one-half percent., effected at the omce In first-class companies. No freight received nor bills of ladlno- sltrniot nn day of sailing. culucu AjjAws, Agents, No. 8 Dock Street. Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A co!. No. 12 S. WHARVES. WILLIAM A COURTENAY, Agent la Charles ton. o TJTTTT A TWT TITTT 1 a 1.1. r munwaiji jua any OUUTUIIRX Alt, KTKAMKHIP nnilDi Mnu nr.,... a KH MI. MONTH I.V LIMIT. Tf. n5ijV;K' LKANST La. irw. A rill I T.T. ITS aritl ull fn. K. n.l -. Tuesday heptember . at 8 A. M. w " Tha YAZOO will aail from New Orleans, DjTana. On , September . " IHROUtiHtiibiaur iiauinuat aa low rates a by any other route given to Mobile, Ualventon, Indianola, La vacca, and Brazoa.and to all point on the Mississippi rirei between New Orleans and St. Lonia. Red Hirer froiirhta reahippad at New Orleana without etiarga of oonxmiaaiona. WEFKXY LINK TO 8ATANNAH. OA. Tbe WYOMING will aail for Sarannaa on Bator day. September 8, at 8 A. M. '1 he 1 ON AW A N DA will sail from SavannaB on Satur day, (September U. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING riven to all theprin. oipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louiaiaua, Arkaaaas, and Tennessee in connection wttb the Central Railroad of Georgia, Atlantio and Galf Rail road, anil Florida steamers, at aa low rates u by oompotinx line. BKMI-MOBTHLT LINK TO WILMINGTON, N. O Tbe PIONKK.K will aail for Wilmington on Wednesday. August 81, at 8 A. M. Returning, will leare Wilmington Wednesday, Soptmbor 7. Connects with tba Oape Fear River Steamboat Com. pany, tbe Wilminton and Weldon and North Carolina Kailroads, and tbe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior points. Freights for Columbia, 8. O., and Augusta, Ga., taken via Wilmington, at aalow rates aa by any other route. Insurance etlnoted when requested by shippers, Billa of lading signed at (jueen street wharf on or before day of sailing. w1LUaM ju JAMK8, General Agent 6 1 No. 130 South THIRD Street. PHILADELPHIA, X TfTi vrr xtt Zand Norfolk stramship hmm TH RoUli H FREIGHT A IB LINK TO TliK SOUTH WCRkYbkD FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES FOR lfJ70. Steamers leave every WKDN KSD ATand SATURDAY at Vi o'olock noon, from FIRST WHARF abore HiR. KFT Street. RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUKSDAYS aad SA'- 1 No Bills of Lading signed after U o'clock oa tailing HROUGH RATES to all points In North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynohburg, Va., Tennessee, and the West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line anal Richmond MFeightH AN DLEDBUTONOE, and taken at LOW KB RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINK. " No charge for commission, drayage, or any expense of "teamahipe insure at lowest rates. Kreiiiht received daily. f ...2 Room accommodations for passenger. State Kmocou"" WILLI AM P. CLYDE OO.. No. 12 8. WHARVHSand Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W P. POK'I ER, Agent at Richmond and Uity Point. T.'p. CRUWELLA CO.. Agenta at Norfolk. eU mm w NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN t JLM-fldrla, Georgetown, and Washington, JSasaUkD. C, via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle, Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon 'rom the nrst wharf above Market street. Freight received dally. - WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE & TV LEU, Agents at Georgetown; H. ELDR1DGE & CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1 " FOR NEW Y O R ', f mJt-Jt via Delaware and Rarltan Canal. EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. The Steam Propellers of tbe line will commence loading on the 8th instant, leaving daily as usual. THKOL'GH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOUHS. Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne York, North, East, or West, free of couiuilsaloa. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents, No. 12 8. DELAWAKB Avenue. JAMES nAND, Agent, No. 11 WALL Street, New York. S 4 FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE and Karltan CanaL SW1FTSUHB TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DESPATCH AND 8WIPTSCRB LINES, Leaving dally at IS M. and 5 P.M. The steam propeirers of this company will com nience 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 A CO., Agents,. 4 No. 138 South DELAWARE Avenue. DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE STEAM TOWBOAT COMPANY. I) . iai VAnrAiil httt iVAOtl Ph 1 1 i Al nil tV Baltimore, Uavre-de-Grace, Delaware city, ana m termedlace points. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents. Captain JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent. OMce. No. 18 South Wlaxvea VWadelphla. 1U OORDAOE, ETO. BKHksBWsBjgMsV I'CU livnV'4 a w aa uuwuvii'uiaa WEAVER & CO., AKD SHIP ClIANDLUUS. No, North WATEB. Street and. No. S8 North WHARVES, Philadelphia, ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK PRICES. 1 . CORDAGE. Manilla, glial and Tarred Cordaga At Lowest New York Prices sod Freight KDYVIN IL riTLEU V CO- raetftrr.THKTHSt. Sad GHKMeVTOWB Arena .tore. r. 43 WATER Bt an J 21 H DlfLAWkHnl Avteaia.
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