2 THE DAILY EVENING TELEQKAPIf PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMRER 2, 18T0. crmiT or ran run as. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Toplca Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. THE KEUTBAL POWEU8. Ftn the A'. F. Tribune. The attitude of tho great European powers, with regard to the French-German war. has from the beginning been canvassed with in tense interest. During the progress of the war this interest was somewhat eclipsed by the brilliancy of the German victories, but now it revives with the pronpest of a speedy peace. As each of the belligerent powers is Tery cautious to publish, concerning this point, only such facts and rumors as are favorable to its own side, the cablo despatches are naturally more adapted to misguide than to enlighten public opinion. We know, how ever, enough of the disposition of tho great neutral powers to ascertain, with a high de gree of probability, what course they are likely to pursue. It may bo regarded as self evident that the great victories of the Ger mans are not calculated to create or to strengthen friendly feelings between Prussia and the Governments of the other European jiowers. AmoDg the peoples the idea of a settlement of all international feuds, on the basis of a mutual recognition of the nation ality principle, may gain ground. The sove reigns are still guided by considerations based on tho old views of a balance of power in Europe. No Government would probably have seen with satisfaction the extension of France to the Rhine, though the silence and even the alliance of Austria and Italy might Lave been purchased by the promise of French aid for the attainment of their own purposes. The other Governments are no less opposed to the aggrandizement of Ger many, and the more extraordinary the dis tinction is which the Germans have won during the present campaign, and by which they have astonished the world, the greater is the jealousy at this new modification of the map of Europe which tho other Governments are likely to feel. The French Government has obviously made the strongest appeals to the well-known sensibilities of the other powers with regard to the balance of power in Europe, to secure their joist interposition or even intervention, in case Germany should insist en the restora tion of Alsace and Lorraine, or impose other conditions too revolting to the still unbroken pride of the nation. The special missions of Prince Napoleon to Florence, and Prince Mu r&t to London, have undoubtodly been caused by these views. Of the results of these mis sions we aro but imperfectly informed. A significant declaration is, however, published by tho ofticial organ of tho llns-siau Govern ment, which denies that its Government has committed itself to a protest against the dis memberment of France, though it admits that it would not favorably regard any schemes of that kind. The Emperor Alex ander is known as a docided partisan of a lasting alliance with Prussia; but he finds it nevertheless necessary to express in advance a dissatisfaction with the growth of Germany at the expense of France. The German pro vinces of llnssia on the Baltic, in w hich the feeling of the German nationality has of late begun to assert itself in a very marked man ner, are a constant irritation of the Slavi against the German nation, and a check to any alliance into which the personal feeling of the present Emperor might lead him to enter. The heir to the throne is reported to be a violent Panslavist, who, with his party, is fully convinced that a great war is inevitable between the Germanic and Slavonic nations for the purpose of consolidating the whole Slavic race into one empire under the rule of Russia; and his party, the Panslavists, are parading in their principal organs the most violent opposition ngainst Prussia. Fortu natoly for the Germans, the enthusiasm of the Poles for the French strongly counteracts ii- A r a 1. T, 1 a:ii i r mis iiiuveiueui, 101 iuu j. oies suu nope ior a restoration of their empire, and would proba- 1 l 1 L 1.1 1 - 1 1 1 : I viy not uerniaie iu wui'tii uruunu ilho ua alli ance with Prussia, in case it afforded a better prospect for the fulfilment of their patriotic yearnings. The Government of Italy does not conceal its wish to be a faithful vassal of France in " case the latter power is willing to withdraw Ler opposition to its annexation of Home; but the feeling among the educated and liberal classes is so strongly in favor of Ger many, that tho Government shrinks from taking any decisive step. Tho English Government studiously conceals any show of feeling for either side; it only insists with great earnestness on tho neutrality of Belgium being respected by either bellige rent, for England wants to prevent, if possible, the sea-coast of Belgium from be coming German or French property. As to Alsace or Lorraine, nothing official has been expressed; such a chango of the frontier would probably not find mach sympathy; but no one expects that En gland would ever think of engaging in a continental war on account of a frontier question. The intentions of the court of Austria appear to be very warlike. The heads of the army are burning with the desire to take revenge on Prussia for the year lt(!. But they have found this tobe impossible, in view of the threatening attitude of the Ger man population, which demands either abso lute neutrality or an alliance against the hereditary foe of the German nation. Only a few organs of the ultramontane party and the aristocracy seemed to waver; but now even these have joined the general opinion, and express a hope that the enemy of Ger many may be thoroughly punished. A war of Austria against Germany would be suicidal. So strong, indeed, is the current of public opinion among the Germans of Austria that they may be expected to demand soon a long and organic union with the remainder of Germany. Wa regard it, therefore, as improbable that any of the four great neutral powers will be in duced to take hostile steps against Germany. We may have a conference which will cast its combined influence into the scale of France; bat we believe that none will be willing to go beyond it; and if France wants an advan tageous peace she will have to conquer it her self alone. THE TAX-PAVEKS AND THE REPUBLI CAN l'AUTY. From, the A". F. Time. Democratic journals pay a poor compli ment to the intelligence of the country when they deny or depreciate the economi cal excellence of the administration, and the extent to which the Republican party has afforded relief to the tax-payers. Facts con stitute a record which the most ingenious Democrat cannot shake. Whatever its faults, the administration has do? its duty in the" collection of revenue and the diijiAU-dtiuibnt of appropriations. Every branch ol' the fiscal servioe has exhibited a marked increase. A certain degree of growth we look for as the result of national recupe ration from the embarrassment producod by war; but this procosa cannot account for the improvement of the revenue which imme diately followed the retirement of Andrew Johnson, and baa contiaued since. The sudden and continuous gain to the Treasury has b?en due to the greater efficiency of the revenue service under President Grant the great energy imparted to it, and the fidelity with which its working has been watched. More than forty millions of increase in the fiscal year 1807-70, as compared with the re ceipts of the previous year, is a fact that attests the honesty with which a great duty has been performed. And there has been honesty in the "appli cation of the large surplus which taxation and thrift placed at the disposal of the ad ministration. The expenditures have been kept below the appropriations. Forty mil lions tell the tale of the first year of Grant s economy in comparison with the outlay which prevailed in tho last year of Johnson; and for tho current year the saving nas been nearly doubled. That is the rate at which tho work of retrenchment proceeds. What the full measure of the country's gain has been, a reduction of the debt to an amount exceeding one Hundred and sixty millions, since the commencement of the administra tion, sufficiently proves. A large surplus has been realized, and this has been tho manner of its npplication. The taxes, toe-, aro all tho time being cut down. The reduction effected during tho recent session amounts to eighty millions or more, three-fonrths of which takes effect in the present fiscal year. Tho Democrats assail the reform as exceptional, as something not known before, and not likely to be heard of again after the elections. The truth is, however, that the Republican majority in Congress have year after year lightened tho people's burdens. They began soon after the restoration of peace, and nave steadily con tinued the work. Contrasting tho taxation as it will be v hen the recent changes come into force, with the taxation as it was when the war ended, we have ns the product of Re publican effort a total reduction of not less than two hundred and fifty millions. Tho reduction of eighty millions or more, which has just been effected, is, then, only a well- established feature of tue Kepnbncan policy. And so the party should proclaim it. All the siting point to another large sur plus in the current year. Several of the taxes which are soon to cease are yet in force, and will swell the amount in tho Treasury. Tho general productiveness of tho revenue will leave a handsome margin. Tho monthly operations of the Secretary in the bond market indicate the possession of large means in excess of tho wants of tho Government. The party is, therefore, brought to this issue shall even the reduced rate of taxa tion be imposed if it yield a surplus of ninety or a hundred millions, or shall a further re duction take placo to the extent of sixty or seventy millions? We know Mr. Boutwoll's views and the views of the tax-payers, and wo know that there is a gulf between thorn. Ino party must side with ono or the other. To be consistent, to justify its professions, and to satisfy the people, it must decide against the Secretary and in favor of the continued diminution of taxes. The attempt of the Democrats to show that the relief already anorded benents some States and some classes more than others, is simply puerile. To make any just compari son of class interests as affected by reform, the five years' work of the Republicans in Congress should be taken into consideration. Two hundred and fifty millions cannot bo lifted off tho people's shoulders without bene fiting the whole conLtry. Wo may not ap prove of every detail of the changes mado this year, but in regard even to them it is evident that eighty millions redaction is a reform whose benefits will not be confined to any section or any class. Tho West and South will share with tho East the profits of the policy with which the Republican party has been for nve years identihed. SYMPATHY IN THE PAST AND PRESENT. Frum the if. r. World. One minor good results from the deplorable conflict bv which estern Europe is agonized, It has stimulated our radical friends to a mimite study of history, especially our own The record of the "Revolution," once so sacied and so familiar, had become blurred and mouldy, or a sort of palimpsest on which recent rubbish has been stamped, and no one cared about it unless when Bancroft tried to disturb and pollute the calm and once translucent spring. When, however, France and Germany grappled each other in deadly strife, and politicians sought to stir up unreal sympathy, so as to make out of it party capital, some old-fashioned students of the pat-t bethought them of an dent memories, and ventured to refer to days when France and Frenchmen were our friends, and Germany, its rulers and Jts people, very much the reverse. It w as, perhaps, an obsolete thought, a piece of antique sentimentalism, to thrak or talk of historical sympathies or antipathies. "The times that tried men's souls" were no great things after all. The brave days of old were as nothing to ours such as, in the District of Columbia, when Stonewall Jackson was supposed to be coming down the valley, a Pope was pauopiug back to Centreville. What were Washington's anxieties at Valley Forge, or West Point, when told of Arnold's treason, to Lincoln s after I redencksburg, when our florid friend General Cochrane rubbed into his council chamber and told him Burnside could not be trusted ? It was a petty, poor business, this of the old Revo lution ! Still, stale as it was, it would never do for our radical friends to give up the past without a struggle, or to admit our infant coun try owed gratitude to none but Frenchmen It has been pretty hard work so hard that we feel disposed to give our assistance to so desperate a search. The French partisan has relatively little trouble, f rom the day when Beaumarchais began to write till Gimat led the assaulting column at Yorktown, the kind words and brave deeds of French sympa thizers glisten in every line of our story; and his must be a cold heart indeed who reads without emotion Washington's order of the cth of May, 1778 the darkest hour before his dawn in whieh he bids his ragged, starving soldiers "thankthe Almighty Ruler of the universe for raising up among the princes and people of the earth a power ful friend to aid tnem. ine rrench roll of honor in America is a rich and full one. De sirous as we are, if not to aid, at least not to embarrass, our friends in their search for Teutonic auxiliaries, we pass by all reference to the aggregation of Hessians end Brans wickers arrayed against us, and look for actual friends. We find Poles, like Pulaski and Kosciusko; and Polish Russians, such as the strange adventurer, Bieniwoski, whose claims on Washington, so says his letter, rested on the fact that "he had served against the King of Prussia;" but of Germans or Prussians not one claiming to be such, and but three of any sort. I)eKalb, who came at the bt-ht-Bt of Choiheul; and Steuben, whom his mat-Ur would not allow to come, but who, moved by St. Germain, enlisted as it were in Pans; and a certain V on Wordtke, if not un known to fame, thus far undiscovered by our radical inquirers into history, who also came under French influence, and died in the early part of '76. This, we regret to say, ii all. We wish there were more with all our hearts. Vain is further nearch. Mr. Car- Ijlo and Miss Louisa Mnhlbach have been rmnninged in vain for some evidence that "Old Fritz, whose figure in colonial days adorned our sign-posts, and after whom towns and taverns were named, in any way befriended us. We know that in June, 17H1, the Empress of Russia and Joseph the Second of Austria offered their good offices, but we can find no trace of especial friendliness from the great rrederic. His Majesty had bad too many subsidies from Great Britain to dare to quarrel with her; and, although ne did not altogether like to let his own people go on foreign service, he grumbled gently, aud they went, lie scowled on Arthur Lee at rotsaam, and rather enjoyed the joke wheu Sir Joseph loike stole, or caused to be stolen, the rebel archives at Berlin; and it is of him the Great Frederic that Washington, a few months before tho warrior-tyrant died, wrote to Lafayette, in 17H, a remarkable letter, which has been preserved, iu which he says: "That ono man like hiiu should be willing to tyrannize over millions is a deopshade on his character." There was no strong Prin Scan sympathy, because there was no love of military sway, m n.sbmgton s groat heart. Hut, say our radical apoligists, what of the past the remote, mouldy past; look at the present and see what Prussia did in aiding us to suppress "rebellion," extirpate slavery, and maintain the Union, and with what a noble, pure, ethereal impulse her children rallied rour.d our ting and bought our bonds. lhe Hessians and Brunswickers of old came because they were Bold and bid to come. Not so the Prussian of to-day." Hero again are we getting into the tangled field of disputed history, Knd here agaiu radical New England, in the present ns in the past, plays a loading and characteristic part. In the spring of 177H, after the surrender of Bur- oojne, with whom was a large German con tingent, most of the prisoners were sent to Massachusetts, then, as ' ever, out of the reach of all danger. James Bow doin, an able and patriotic man, like all of bis name, was Governor, and to him Washington, in bitterness of spirit, wrote these words and aro the not printed by Sparks:1 "it gives me inexpressible con cern to have repeated information from the best authority that tho committees of tho diff erent towns and districts in your State hire deserters from General Burgoyno's army and employ them as substitutes to excuse the personal service of the inhabitants. I need not enlarge upon tho danger of substituting as soldiers men who have given a glaring proof of a treacherous disposition, and who aro bound to us by no motives of attachment, inbtead of citizens in whom the ties of conn- try, kindred, and someti nes property, aro so many securities for fidelity. General Bur goyne could hardly, if he wero consulted, suggest a more effectual plin of plun dering us of so much money and re inforcing General Howe than this." Tans for the past. Now for the present. On the 14th December, 18r."i, the acting consul at Boston of Oldenburg and Nassau, not then absorbed in Prussia, revealed to his superior lor a copy or Ms letter is bofore us at this moment a state of facts alike illustrative of Prussian sympathy and of Boston patriotism. He tells ot a commercial adventure by which under false pretenc es recruits for the Federal army were to be bought abroad, the profits being the difference between the pittance ta be paid to them one hundred dollars and twelve dollars a month and the substitute price five or six hundred dollars. An agent, whose name is given, a sort of Koopman- schoop, was sent to Germany to make tbe ar rangement, ihey were mere contracts for la bor, not for military service, and no one of the poor fellows who signed them dreamed of war or its dangers. More than one ship-load arrived at Boston. The human freight was dumped down in some outlying islands in the bay. The sick were turned off as worthless, and those who passed the sanitary scrutiny were hurried to the front to fight and die. All the details are set forth in the Consul's letter; and if it be true, as we firmly believe it is, then wo trust that neither as to the pre sent nor the past Bhall wo hear much of Prus sian sympathy. It is an insult to the right mindedness and intelligence of our large German population to pretend it. THE STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES. Fmn lhe .V. 1". Herald. While the governments of the great Euro pean nations can hardly make both ends meet, even in time of peace, this country has an overflowing treasury, and is paying the na tional debt off at the rate of over a hundred millions of dollars a year. The stupendous sum raised and expended during the four years of our war was unparalleled in the his tory of the world, and all without a foreign loan or aid from foreign capitalists. There never was a war that cost as much within the same time; for not only were the forces raised enormous, but the pay and equip ment of the men and the cost of everything used wero much greater than they are in any other country. The cost of the Prussian and French armies in pay, clothing, provisions, arms, and everything else for war purposes is less than a third, probably, of what the same number of men and amount of materials was here. Then look at the enormous bounties paid from five hundred to a thousand dollars a man an amount that would equip and support a French or German soldier for several years. Besides, the general extravagance and plun der of the treasury were frightful, and would have bankruptedany other ration. No country in the w orld could raise such sums as we did. Yet five years after the war not only has all the vast floating debt been discharged but we have paid off several hundred millions ' of tbe organized debt. At the present rate of liquidation we could extinguish the whole, which is a little more than two thousand mil lions, within fifteen years. It is not surprising, therefore, that our credit remains good during the terrible con flict of aims that is convulsing Europe. At first, of course, United States securities felt the shock, as all others did, from that natural sympathy which the finances of one great civilized country have with those of other countries. But afterwards, when people and capitalists began to reason more clearly the resources of the United States and the supe rior value and security of our bonds, they clung to them as the best investment they could have. Hence there have been few of oar bonds sent home from Europe. Nor is it likely there would be any serious depreciation if even the war should spread over Europe. Our supe rior and well-paying securities would be hell and be sought for by the people no matter what strain there might be upon the Govern ments and capitalists for money. There is no reason, iudooJ, why our b juJi ah il I n t gradually rise to their true value under any events that may occur in Europe. If wa bare been able to ' accomplish so much in raising money for a gigautio war and in rapidly paying off the debt in the past, what can we not do in the near future when our population will be doubled and the wealth of the country quadrupled ? THE TROSrECT OF GERMAN UNITY. From the l'all Mall Gazette. For Germany there is now only one ques tion that of unity. The unity of Germauy the dream of her wisest, the longiug of her most devoted sons, the object of as earnest and disinterested prayers as ever were poured forth for any purpose of this world is now at Land. It is more than at hand it is at the door. Difficulties, intrigues, jealousies, have vanished like dreams of the night be fore the resolution of a people stirred up, happily for itself, by foreign aggression. The great step forward has been taken; and that step cannot be retraced. French victory might retard the mcchauical operation of the change, by imposing terms of peace incom patible with political union, but it could not destroy the national union once effected, and the national uuion, after some further pe riod of probation, must bring ahoit tLe politicr.l. To those who cherish aspira tions like these, controversies about the rela tive morality of Napoleon and Bismarck, or the meaning of the treaty of Prague, or de clarations about Prussian ambition, aro really altogether out of place. They are bo-f-ide tbe mark by currents, swallowod up in the mighty flood which is now setting in one direction with concentrated and irresistible energy. We may call this tho language of enthusiasts, if wo please. But enthusiasts such as these have Lave shaped tho course of European events more than once; in 1780, and again in 181 1; and it has been one great misfortune of statesmen especially, per haps, of English statesman that they could raiely comprehend the force of popular en thusiasm, or tho control of public affairs by any stronger springs than those of dyuaslic intrioues or calculations of expediency. If we British are rendered a little dull in divining tbe tendencies of things, partly from phlegmatic habits aud partly from unreadi ness to enter fully into the mind of foreign nations, tho judgment of French observers is far more distorted by their own antipathies and prejudices. The spirit of German unity is a thing they cannot understand, because they are determined not to understand it, And the consequence is that their best politi cal writing on the great European question of the day seems antiquated as soon as it is pub lished. They are months, or years, behiud the clock. M. ictor Cherbuhez, a "pnbh- cist," of repute, has published a series of able articles on "La Prvisse et l'Allemagne" in the Heme (hs Deux Monde; and this is a point of knowledge at which M. Cherbuliez has arrived (with all a Frenchman's certitude) no longer ago than last April: "iurope may be reassured !y the fact that the 'n terests of Germany are la accordance with he" a, Jf the Southern States, in a b'lnd US of cUfaiiiftneiit, had consented to surrender themselves to transit without tomlitW ns. it wa9 all over with Germany. And, supposing that a majority iu Wurterabcrg and Riivuru had gone so far us to solicit the accession of these "states to the confederation of the North, the oppof iiiar minority would still Da so numerous and formidable that Prussia, la order to hold the South, would have to hold it for half a century under the dominion of the saire a sad result for German v, for Kurope, and for Prussia herself. Would Hurime reully train bo much if a stroke of tho pen vnre to surpass, together with Duden, Wurtem- berg, and Bavaria, Belgium, uouaai, Denmark, and Switzerland. If M. Cherbuliez were to maintain that the decline af provincial cities and their practical absorption by Paris is an evil, probably some might agree with him. JJut if, disliking the tendency, he were to deny its existence, he would be looked on as a very paradoxical trifler. And yet the absorption of small States by large ones is as undoubted a ten dencv of the age as that of small cities and email industries, most of all when these small States are really only such in statistical de scription, but in truth only fractions of one great community with common language and laws. Local jealousies in Germany were rapidly tending to extinction before tho pro sent crisis ; tho war now commenced will crush out such vitality as they have left, and perhaps more enectuauy through defeat, should such be the upshot, than through vie torv. There is no centrifugal cause of any im portance at work in Germany except difference i , .v:i. 1 T 1 1 j oi religion, Miaou iuo l lnuixiouffuuea aro, oi course, endeavoring to make the most of. But even this is of less magnitude than at first sight might appear. Germany, it is commonly said, is divided between Catholics and Protestants in nearly equal numbers. But this calculation includes among Germans all the Slavonic subjects of Aastria whose countries formed part of the old German Empire. Of Germans by race a considerable majority are Protestants; and the Catholics are scattered, preponderating in widely dis tant localities at the extremities of the coun try on the Rhine and under the shadow of the Bavarian and Austrian Alps. But, what is more important, religious feeling in Ger many is too strongly impregnated with Libe ralism to set it sell in en ecu ve opposition to the oenerol desire for political unity. There are several lessons which European history very distinctly teaches on this great subject. One is, that a number of small States inhabited by people of the same race and language have never failed of accomplish ing consolidation u seriously determined on it. Another, that the opposition of foreign powers has always tended in the long ran to promote, and not to prevent, mu consnmma tion. And another, that, notwithstanding all the regrets of an over-rehned sohool of politi cians over the suppression of small reiluas and little dynasties attached to them, union has always promoted the strength and pros perity, not only of the whole, but of the component parts. It was the groat object of our Plantaganet sovereigns, for a cen tury, to prevent the consolidation of the feudal quasi -sovereignties whicu were then established on French soil. And the popular instinct of the English people was as adverse to that consolidation as that of the French has been in our time to the unity of Italy and of Germany. But English opposition only roused the French spirit. Crecy and . a - i : A . l - 1.-1 u Aginoourt gave uuiu tu c icutu ju.tnonsLu. Fiance was not France until England taught her to become bo. And the result was the establishment of the most powerful of Euro pean monarchies in the place of a dozen quarrelsome principalities, me union ot tho crowns of Castile and Aragon followed in the next age. In the middle of the fifteenth centurv Spain was a geographical expression for the aggregate of four or five independent kingdoms. By the middle of the sixteenth, as Mr. Buckle points out with great foroe, united Spain was bidding high for abso lute mastery over the west of Europe Our own times bave seen the latest, and in some respects the most remarkable, of these examples of the erection of Urge -nnwfera nut of the extinction of small ones. No axiom wfs more universally reoeived an'ouc European statesmen than that the urity t f Italy wa icipoanible. It wxs imp j- sible because foreign powers would not allow It i because Italian local jealousies would for ever prevent it; be causethe geographical ob stacles to nuch unity were insuperable, lhe first XSnpoleon, whose penetrating mind per cf ived the futility of the first two reasons, yielded to tbe force of the third. In a very remarkable chapter of bis Hemainshe explains why Italy, from her configuration and posi tion, cannot become one. But it was not given even to his sagacity to foresee the operation of steam and the telegraph. As soon as the time arrived, the apparently hope h ss problem was solved at once. One man of genius set himself to accomplish it by force of statesmanship. 1 wo or three dreamers of dreams, anathematize! by the ruling classes of society, prepared the way for him by sowing the seed of Italian patriotism far and wide on soil Jiitherto oc cupied by the rank growth of provincial pas sions and intrigues. Aud the work was achieved, and an Italy created, almost before old -fashioned diplomacy had had time to turn round in its bed and prepare to greet the new phenomenon in official costume. One more chapter in history remains to be completed. German nationality has to be added to Eng lish, French, Spanish, Italian. Tho map of v estern Lurope will then be filled up. Whether that great uuion. first announced by German cannon at Woissenburg, is to be pro claimed by tho same stern heralds at Paris, or whether its formal accomplishment is again to b delayed by defeat, the event, im mediate or not, is on all human calculation certain. And it is equally certain that, when ever it takes place, it will be almost as great a hlesHng to Europe in general, and to jealous France herself, as to the future Ger many. THE MOTLEY VACANCY. From the A. r. World. The Evening rost, true to its instincts. social and literary, continues to mourn over Mr. Motley s recall, and says : "As a pood many contradictory storle? have been tuld in the pres about the manner of Mr. Motley's removal, it may ue useiui to state the racts, whtc-h weiret from the best sources, that Mr. Motlev was asked to resign In a letter from tho State Depart ment, wnicn lnionnea mm mat his resignation would be accepted. This letter he received only the day before lhe telegraph reported that Mr. FrelinRhuv Ben's name had been sent to tho Senate. Mr. Motley telegraphed that his resignation under such circum stances w ould be equivalent to n dismissal, and de clined to dismiss hiniNclf. Mr. Motlev had iil'vavs. he malntattiH, obeyed instructions without any qiiall- ucauou wuaiever. This is probably true, and a more awkward, ungentlemanlike way of doing the right thin could not have well been devised. The whole thing is simple, perverse gavehcrie. Two months ago the President, in a fit of ill-tem per and solely because he had a quarrel with somebody else, dismisses Motley and nomi nates Mr. r reliDghnysen. That gentleman faintly declines by, telegram first, and then positively by word of month. The President, for his own personal comfort and that he may have a good time of it, asks that this may be kept a secret, and Mr. 1 rehnghuysen very weakly acquiesces in the masquerade. "All the world wondered, as at Balaklava, and, as at Balaklava, "some one had blun dered." The clientele of Essex county and of a larger circuit did not know what to expect At last, unable to reconcile bis attitude to a gentlemanly instinct and goaded by the norui, he rushed to a newspaper oflioe and published "a card. Sinco that all has been at sea our English diplomacy has been in commission, Moran, Badeau, at London, and, it may be, Dudley, at Liver pool, administering it, and the incongruous names ot irumbnii, trreeley, and Sherman floating around. Many are called, but no one is taken. Now, it occurs to us that if at this t'uncture Mr., or as gossip (wo hope truly, for ie deserves all honor) says, Sir Edward Thornton were to present himself at the De partment and say: "Mr. Secretary, her Maiestv's covernment. out of resnnct ta yours, has always maintained a full mission at Washington, occasionally on emergency varying it by a baron aud an earl. e have, therefore, a right to look for simi lar courtesy from you, and I bear to notify you that we cannot any longer put up with a charge or a consul. it this, or any thing like this, put into diplomatic phrase. were to be said k Mr. Fish, Lis placid soul would be sorely tried, and his kindly face would wear a look of greater perplexity than ever. And yet this may happen at any mo ment. Failing all other means, we respect fully suggest to tho I'resident to advertise, and, if we may presume, we venture to sug- mm -1 i 1 1 gesi a iorm hko me ionowing: "Wanted A respectable man willing to be Minister to England. He must bo over 21 years of ago, and smoke. He must be either temperate or a reformed inebriate the latter preferred and must never dine out, and if he gives dinners use only American wines. He must not part his hair in the middle, or ever Lave written a book. A Protestant is preferred, one opposed to the G2cumenioal Council and in favor of the Evangelical Alli ance. He must have contributed to the savior of the republic either a house, a farm. a cottage, a fpan of fast horses, or a pair of studs (for the shirt;. 2o Irish nor French need apply. A Prussian, without South Ger man connections, preferred. References ixchanged. Apply to anj body but Colonel James Fisk, Jr., Long Branch, Monmouth county, N. J. WHISKY, WINE, ETQ. QAR8TAIRS & McCALL, Ho. 128 T7alnut and 21 Granite Sti. IMPOKTERB OW Brandies, Wines, Oin, Olive Oil, Etc., WHOLESALE DEALEjRS IK PURE RYE WHISKIES. IU BOND AND TAX PAID. Klpf AY T ILL! AM ANDEK&O.X & CO., DEALERS IS t ine tuskies, Ho. 1M North SECOND Street, 1-ulladelphia. SHIPPINU. ffflpj. FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEEVS. pv L'r o V N Inman Line of Royal Mail si. aiutiH are appointed to sail as follows: City of I lnierlck, Tuesday, August 30, at 8 P. M. City or 1 arm, Daiuruaj, oepieiuoer a, at li fli. City of Cork (via lialllax), Tuesday, 8cpL6, at 1 P. Citv of Antwerp, Thursday, Sept. 8. at 1 P. M. M. Cltv of London, Saturday, "September lO, at 2 P. M. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues day, from pier ro. 43 norni river. RATES OF PASSAGE. Payable In gold. Payable in currency. First Cabin 75 Steerage m To Louden bo To London 85 To Par's 80 To Paris 83 To Halifax 0 To Halifax 15 Pasbengers aiso forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought Jiere at moderate rates by persons wibhicg to scud for tneir friends. For further luformatiun apply at the company's ofllce. JOHN G. DALE, Ajrent. No. 15 Broadway, N. Y. : Or to O'DONNEI.L & FAULK, Agents, 4 5 No. 408 CUESXUT Street. Philadelphia. DEL WARE AND CHESAPEAKE STEAM TOW BO IT. COMPANY liurttes towed betweon Philadelphia. Baltimore, ltavre-de-Orace, Delaware City, aud In termediate points. Vll.l.IAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents. Optaln JOI'N LWtiHLIN, S'ipcrintHndeiiL Ott'ce, No. la South V.' mvcs V'-tiadelph'a. 4 11! SHIPPING. Pf. FOttTKXAS POUTS. Til K 8'PRAM r n-1rl -i fhlp AC II 1 1,1,1-S will sail for New Orleaa dm t on Tl'tSl'AY. Keitrtiiler 6, at 9 A. M. Through bills of lading (riven, In connection wit Morgan's Lines from New Orleans to Mobile, Ual. vrfton, Indlanola, I.avacca, aud lirazos, at a low rati as by any other route. Through bills of lading also given to all nointi on the MlKHlRgippI river between Nw Orleans and 8t. bonis, In connection with the St. Louis aud New Oilcans racket Company. For further information apply to VM. L. JAMES, Oeneral Agwnt, 8 316t Ko. T3(l S. THIRD Street. LORILLARD 8TKAMSHIP COM.PAN1 Kilt ii;w YOICK, SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ANt SATURDAY, are nov. lecclyintr freight at FIVE CENTS PER 100 TOUNDS, TWO CENTS PER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON, Ml IP'S OPTION. INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE TER CENT F.xtra rntes on small packages Iron, metals, etc. No receipt or bill of lading signed for leas tna.i fifty cents. NOTICE On and after September Urates by tU '9 Company will be 10 cents per loo pounds or 4 cents er loot, snip option; sua regular shippers by this Ine will only be charged the above rate nil winter AVlnttr rates commencing December IB. For furtiiet psrtlculars apply to John F. onrs ) r 113-It lUINUCliU WHARVES. THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI. LaDFLPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM. o j 1 11- j.ia 11, bic n -v n c nuktii'i mru issue tnrou'Tt hilla rt loill t tr In AtitpHftf hiilnta MAnth n .1 ir.. v ....... p, .w .v..--. fw.uia ...vu.u SUU V Ca-l IK conuectlou With South Carolina Railroad Company Vice-Pret-ident So. C. RR. Co. PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAMSHIP LINK. '1 his line Is now composed of the following flrs-. elaes Steamships, sailing from PIER k, belw Spruce street, on FRIDAY of eacU week kai j A.m.: ASH lam', s'w tonH, vaptam i rowell. J. W". K ERMAN, 602 tons, Captain Hiuckter SALVOR, GOO tons, Captain Aslicrof:. SEPTEM l'.KR, 1S70. 3. W. Everman, Friday, Sept. S. Salvor, Friday, Sept. 9. J. W. Kvermau, Fndav, 8ept. 18. Salvor, Friday, Sept. ii. J. V. Kvermnn, Fridav. Sept. so. Through bills of lading given to Columbia, S C tbe Interior of Georgia, and all points Souiii aai Southwest. Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch Rates as low as by any other route. Insurance one-half per cent., effected at the o31ce in flrsUclass companies. No freight received nor bills of lading signed oa day of sailing. SOUDER ADAMS, Agents, No. 3 DoCK Street. Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A CO , No. 12 a WHARVES. WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, Agent in Charles, ton. 24 -fit. PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTIIICRV MAIL KTKAMSH1P COMPANY'S RKUTJ LAU bKMl-MOM'ULY OH. T&e AUUiijijr.o win sail ior now Urleanj direct, oa Tuesday tSei'l ember ti. at b A. M. ' OB Tbu YAZOO will sail from New Orleans, via Havana on .September. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at aa low rates u b any other route given to Mobilo, Oalveston, Iudiannla, Lc,. vaoca.and Brazos, and to all points on the Mississippi rivet between New Orleans and ht. Louis. Red River freignu reshipptd at New Orleans withont charge of caauniaaiooa, "WFF.KLY LINK TO SAVANNAH. G4. The WYOMING will nail for Savannab oa Batur. day, September 3, at 8 A. M. Tbe'lONAWANDA will sail from Savannsa on Satur day, rieptenit er3. TbhOCGU BILLS OF LADING given to all theprin. otpal towns in -Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Lonimana, Arkaasas, and 1'onneuee in conneolion wit I; the Ueutral Railroad of Ueoria, Atlantic and Gulf Kail, road, and Florida atoamers, at as low rates aj b oompetiuc lines. BUM I MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. N. O The PIONKUR will sail for Wilmington on Wednesday, August id, at t A. M. Reluiniuff, will leave VYiiniiagtoo Wednesday, September 7. Connects with the Uape Fear River Steamboat Com. pany, the W iliuim ton and WoMon and North Carolina Kaiiroads, and the Wilmington and JUauohester Railroai te all iutoHor points. Freights for Columbia, S. O., and Augusta, Ga taken via W ilminKton, at aslow rates as by any other route. Insurance uttocted when requested by shippers. Bills of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or bofore dar of sailing. WILJjAM L. JAMKS, General Agent. 818 No. Uu South 1 UIKU Street. ffZ PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND. 22LmAi1aND NOKKOi.K 8TK A MSIHP LINBL THROliOH FREIGHT AIR LINK TO TUK SOUTll INORFSKD FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES fUK lo7t). Steamers leave every W F ON K.S P AT and SATURDAY at 12 o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAti-Kl'-T Ktreet. . . . RKTl'KNINGt leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA TURDAYB. ,. . . Ke Bills of Lading signed after 13 o'clock on aaitlag dHROUOU RATES to all points in North and Sooth Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the West, via Virginia aud Tennessee Air Line and Rioiunond and Danville Raiirod. Freight HAN DLKD BUTOAOK. and taken at LOW KB RATK8 THAN AMf.OI'UKR LIMi.. No charge for commission, drayage, or any eipeuas of 'hteamshlpsinsute at lowest rates. Freight received oaily. Roomammod Noi 13 8. WHARVFHand Pier 1 N. WIlARVKS. W P. FOR I KR, Agent at Richmond and City Point. X.'p. CROWKLLA CO., Agents at Norfolk. U r....,o . NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXIN 'diia, Georgetown, aud Washington, iD. C. via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, w:ih connections at Alexandria from the ni06t direct route ior i.yncnourg, unstoi, a.noxvuie, Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon 'roin the first wharf above Market street. Freight received daily. 6 WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO., No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYPTS fc TYLER, Apents at Georgetown; M, ELLKII GE & CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1 FOR NEW Y O R via Delaware and Rarltan Canal. EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. li e Mcnm rropeners 01 tne nue wui commence loading on the 8th Instant, leaving dally as usual. THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne York, North, East, or West, free of commission. Freights received at low rateB. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents, No. 12 S. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES nAND, Agent, No. 119 WALL Street, New York. 8 4 r fc. FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE. 1 JTH'V? and Rarltan Canal. ff;M2, SWIFTS U RE TRANSPORTATION OO M PA We DESPATCTI AND 8WIFTSURB LINES, Leaving daily at 12 M. aud 5 P. M. The steam propellers or this company will com nience loading on the 6th of March. Through In twenty-four hours. Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions. Freights takeu on accommodating terma. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD fc CO., Agent. 4; No, 132 Sonth DELAWARE Avenue. CORDAGE, ETC. WEAVER & CO., UOI' Tl A. "Ml FACT II It I ItS AND ii- iia:tii.i:h, NO. W North WATER Street and No. M North WHARVES, Polladelpbla. ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NBV7 YORK PRICES, 41 CORDAGE. Manilla, Eiial and Tarred Cordage At Lowest New York Prices and Freights. Ejm iN H. V 1TI.KK .V CO Factory, TE9TH St. sad GKRMANTOWB Avenoa. Store, No. 23 V. WATKR Bt and 23 N DELAWABH Aveoue. sHQ LKXANPER O. OATTELL CO., l PRODUCE COMMISSION MKHCHANTS, No. S NORTH WHARVES AND No. ST NORTH VVATPR STREET, FH1LADHLPHIA. AUXAMUt Q. CATrrKL El.MaH CiTTSI.L.
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