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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.
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No. u3 BROADWAY,
New York.
CENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS.
DATENT SHOULDER-SB AM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
. AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE,
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement at very snort notice.
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DKE3S
GOODS in full variety.
WINCHESTER CO.,
No. loo CHESNUT Street.
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WILLIAM It. LEEDS,
TENTH WARD.
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ggg- FOR REGISTER OF WILLS,
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WILLIAM M. BONN,
SIXTEENTH WARD.
Late Private Company F, T2d P. V.
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FOR SALE.
IOK SALE Olt TO I.KT,
THE STORE PROPERTY
No. 722 CHESNUT STREET,
Twenty-five feet front, one hundred and forty-five
feet deep to Bennett street. Back buildings
five stories high.
Apply on the premises between 10 and 12 A. M.
THOMAS S. FLETCHER,
18 lOtf DEL AN0O. N. J.
MAPLE LAWN.
Beautiful Country Seat at
Ilolmesburg.
ESTATE OF GEORGE W. BENNERS, Deceaaed.
Containing 8 acres ; large frontage. Part could be
cut Into building lots. Good Improvements, conve
nient to station, schools, churches, and stores.
For sale on easy terms. Apply to
r,i)wi ii. riTi.Lit,
EXECUTOR,
7 83 stnthlst No. 23 North WATER Street.
BROAD STREET PROPERTY FOR SALE.
HANDSOME BROWN-STONE RESIDENCE,
southwest corner of Broad and Thompson streets,
tnree stories, with French roof, containing all mo
dern Improvements, newly frescoed and painted
throughout.
ALSO, HANDSOME BROWN-STONE RESI
DENCE, west side of Broad, above Master street,
nearly finished ; lot 60 by 200 feet to Carlisle street
Also, Lot west Bide Broad, above Vine street, 100
by 200 feet Also, west side Broad, above Thompson
street, 150 by 209 feet Also,-east side Broad street,
100 by 523 feet to Thirteenth street
ALSO, LARGE BUILDING on Dock street known
as "Jones Hotel ;" will be rented and altered to suit
tenant R. J. DOBBINS,
8 19 thstu Ledger Building.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR
City Property, one of the finest FARMS in
the country. II 3. DOBBINS,
8 13 thstu tf Ledger Building.
Z TO RENTi
RENT THE STORED NO. 722 CHESNUT
Street Apply on the promises between 10 and 12
o'clock A. M.
817 tf
RARE CHANCE TO GET INTO BUSINESS.
HOUSES and LOTS wanted la exchange for
Merchandise at wholesale prices.
Address Immediately,
FINLEY,
'Ledger'1 Oillce.
89
TO RENT THREE-STORY DWELL
ING, with back buildings, situated ia
betwaan Front aad
uonunnaa oireei.. no,
131.
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
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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.