THE DAILY EVENING- TJ5LKGUAPII rniLADRLPIIIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1870.
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Ed'torfal Opinions of the Leading Journals
Upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
THE FALSE GLORIES OF Kt'MMEK.
From th b F. TrUnin.
Bo much song and pentiment have been
wanted upon Hammer that we yield to the
temptation of doing it justice in plain prone.
All the poets, from the apocryphal time of
Hcio's sightless bard to the days of Frowning
and Lowell not to apeak of the host of tune
ful rhymers who win neither fame nor for
tune have made the Summer an ideal ; have
hung upon' it their fairest festoona of fancy,
and their richest garlands of thought. By
some Hories of subtile causes, the Hummer
Iim come to represent whatever beauty,
sweetness and richness there may be is life.
tw leas than the fruitage and fruition of the
fondest wishes and highest aspirations. One
would Imagine, from ail this rhythmic ado and
miacellaneons mellifluence, that Hummer was a
peculiar atmospheric condition of Parnassus to
which no mortal, even though drunk with
the wine of poesy, had ever been admitted.
And 3 et the season is liberally scattered alt
over the planet too much so to enforce the
belief that it is a blessing. Go where we
will, unless to the penks of the Alps or Hima
layas, we cannot get beyond the region where
the mercury insists on altitude, and where the
heat is oppressive at some time of the year. We
associate Russia with superabundant snows;
and yet who that has been in Moscow or St.
Petersburg, duringJuly or .August, has not
found himself in melting maod ? Stockholm,
or Ofarisliania, hyperborean as they seem, are
anything but comfortable in those months;
anol Greenland itself is not incapable of pro
ducing calorific- griefs. While the dog-star
raged, we have often sought in vain for
sequestered spots wherein the thermometer
might play an unoonspicuous part. , We are
profoundly skeptical if there be any such
places on the surface of the globe: and we
have always questioned if Sir John Franklin,
amid the Arctic icebergs, did not die of sun
slxcke. Of all the season, summer has the least to
recommend it; indeed, may be said to be the
most unendurable. Spring, autumn, and
winter have their pleasures, their pleasant
nesses, and their poetry; but summer, by its
sultriness, its monotony, and its neat, makes
comfort a mockery and satisfaction a sham.
It is ail well enough to read of solstitial joys
and beauties; but when we strive to realize
them, they elude and delude us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
Sophomorical weeklies tell us of
the glory of the umbrageous woods and the
sparkle of the silver streamlets. We visit
them only to find, to our disappointment and
disgust, that the woods are full of stinging
gnats, and that the streamlets, converted
into stagnant pools, are the birthplace of
myriads of venomous musquitoes. Home
skillful sonneteer chants the charm of the
sky and the loveliness of tho field; but, to
the eye of common sense, the one is a con
cave of burning brass and the other a plain
of blasted vegetation. Correspondents write
with mingled fustian and hyperbole of the
pictaresqueness and grandeur of the moun
tains, of the delights and dissipations of
the sea-shore. We' fly to them both,
and return, mourning over the vanity of
human hope and the reality of dyspepsia.
There is no place to live on the mountains,
and in the valleys the heat is insupportable.
By the sea the breeze is from the land, and
the accommodations are a satire on the name.
We r0a.1t in town; but we broil in the country.
We stew at the springs; but we bake on the
beach. If we cannot avoid the tire of the
season, what matters our form of culinary
preparation ?
Though none of us have discovered the re
gion which is delightful in summer, it is sweet
t o believe that the region exists. Places that
hold us with a spell at other times, disenchant
us while Siriua burns. Sorrento id thought
by many to be the fairest spot on earth: and
yet who that could get away has ever spent a
summer there ? As a general rule, the more
warm weather a country has the more dis
agreeable it is. "There endless summer
reigns;" "No season but summer;" "The
summer circles all .the joyous year," are
oheap phrases of rhetorio which pass for elo
quence among those who do not understand
the use of language, or the prosaic quality
of heat. The lands of (endless summer are
shunned by all save those obliged to dwell in
them. The tropics are attractive to
the imagination and repulsive to the
senses. Nature makes them hateful
with prodigality, and shows her
opinion of them by the race she puts there.
Egypt, with all her associations of age, and
learning, and mystery, is only a plain of
burning sand, where nothing but its reputa
tion detains our wandering feet. How Cleo
patra, who stands to us for all feminine fasci
nations, could have lived in that blazing
desert, ia past all finding out. How she could
have kept the great Caius there, though
backed by all her blandishments and bewil
dering charms; how she could make him for
get ambition, which was the god of his
idolatry, in the soft twining of her rounded
arms, with the mercury above r.'O degrees in
the shade, is sot to be accounted for by any
knowledge of man's weakness, or any pene
tration of woman's art. The Goddess of Love
herself would be unlovely under such circum
stances; and the ideal beauty every poet
dreams of would repel when her only thought
was how to keep cool.
The present summer, which, thank Heaven!
has breathed its last, has made the season
hateful in all climes, and under all conditions.
They who believed themselves salamanders
longed, during the torrid weeks, for Spitz
bergen and the ever-frozen sea. There is no
comfort or consolation in the sweltering
period, which, for human satisfaction, should
be banished from the year. With all its let
ters of recommendation, summer is an im
postor and a cheat. It corroborates the
theories of Cabanis respecting the relations
between the physical and ethical, and goes
far to show that the keeping of the com
mandments and the observation of the laws
in a thing of temperature and atmosphere.
Hi.ima.er is a remunerative evil to crops and
watering-places, but to humanity and civili
zation it is a perennial affliction. Ho much.
at least, we may exclaim in the heat of our
mamoryj and having said it, we feel better as
we 1'suibh the late season and all its torrid
recollections.
'JIIE DEFEAT OF MACMAHON THE
GOVERNMENT OF PARIS THE
FUTURE,
fi-titn the S. r. Herald.
We still wait for details of the fight of Taea
day and Wednesday between MacMahon and
the Crown Prince at feeauiiont. The latest
telegraphic details indicate that MacMahon
haa escaped from his hardy pursuer and is
striking at the other Royal Prince, who debar
Lj j i !( bub.4,ttju.i until we
fuller details we must not allow ourselves to
speak with too much confidence. - -
It is undeniable that the forces of Napo
leon, having failed hitherto to check the
onward march of the German hosts, have
made it their object to hinder as much
as possible the attack on Pans. An if
the only hope of salvation lay in Paris. Mac
Mahon and Bazaine have eaoh been doing all
that could be done to give Paris time to pre
pare for an attack, if not to make an attack
impossible. For the last three weeks Mac
Mahon and Baxnine have been endeavoring to
unite their forces. During this same period
of time the brain which has controlled the
movements of the German forces has been
doing its utmost to make such union
impossible. Considering the line
of march of the Prussians, considering
that the occupation of Paris has
been and still is their object, considering at
the same time that France has been putting
forth all her strength to defeat these purposes,
it has not unnaturally been concluded that
out of this double purpose would emerge the
conflict which would prove decisive and final.
In other words, it has generally been ad
mitted that if MacMahon and Bazaine cannot
effect a junction the game is up so far as
France is concerned. On the other baud, it
has been just as generally admitted that if
Prussia was not able to render this junction
impossible the tide of battle might be turned,
and the too confident armies of Prussia sent
homewards demoralized.
Whatever be the actual facts regarding this
battle of Beaumont, it is riot' to be denied
that Prussia cannot be easily driven from the
position which she hns so nobly won. There
are those who think that France is yet strong
enough to repel the invader. We do not say
that she is not. But we do Bay that for her
own interest, not to 6ay glory, she has been
too Blow to reveal her strength. It was said
by the first Napoleon that he never knew the
meaning of resistance until he crossed the
Rhine. In Italy conquest was easy. The
bright skies and the soft climate of tho south
made men shrink from the bayonet. Directly,
however, the victorious legions of tho republic
crossed the Rhine it was felt that the bayonet
was no longer an object of terror. On the
northern tide of that river men were encoun
tered who with stronger arms could wield the
deadly weapon, and with broader breasts
could receive the attack. The Germans have
not deteriorated, but improved, since the
days of the first Napoleon. Physically they
are what they ever have been far more than
a match for their southern rivals: but to phy
sical superiority they have added the results
of superior intellect, the mighty appliances
of modern science. Since the days when the
( ioths, the Vandals, and ths Huns camo pour
ing destructively down on the civilization of
the south, no such revelation of
northern energy has been given to
the world. On this continent we know the
value of the Northern races. All that is good
and great in these United States is traceable
to a Northern origin. The surplus energies
which were wont to let themselves loose upon
the happier regions of Southern Europe have
been finding for many years past a more
agreeable outlet to the New World across the
seas. We mention this circumstance to show
the superiority of the Germans, physically
considered, as compared with the French.
In our judgment, whatever be the result of
this fight, the centre of European civilization
will not in the future be sought in Franoe,
but in Germany.
This war has already done much. It has
made Germany a unit. It has been the
great aim of all the leading French statesmeu
of modern times to prevent this union. To
make this union . impossible M. Thiers and
M. Guizot have exerted themselves quite as
much as has done Louis Napoleon. To pre
vent this union the present Emperor of the
French has persistently, but not wisely,
labored during the last eighteen years. To
prevent this union Napoleon commenced the
present war. But the means have
defeated themselves. The war which
was meant to destroy German unity
has actually built it up. Hanoverians and
Saxons, Wurtemburgers, and Bavarians are
all Prussians in this contest. Result the
fighting as it may, the unity already accom
plished and sanctified by so much precious
blood can never be undone. Ibis, however,
is not the only result. The Bonaparte dynasty
is doomed, and, through the Bonaparte dy
nasty, the whole fanciful fabric of Latin unity
has crumbled to pieces. I or at least another
generation the Bonapartes must retire into
private life, nor are we likely for many years
to come to hear much of the unity of the
Latin races.
The return of the Orleans princes to power
is no longer a mere possibility. Their return
is one of the necessities of the situatiou.
Orleanist contentment, not Bonapartist am
bition, is what France henceforward will
imperatively need. In some future age, but
not now, Gallic acquisitiveness may take a
new point of departure. Would it be won
deiful if, while another Bonaparte goes into
involuntary exile, and while the dome of St.
Peter's fades away from the eyes of the last
of the Roman Pontiffs, the dream of M.
Guizot should become a reality and the de
cendants of Louis, Philippe should reign at
once in Paris and Madrid? The whirligig of
time works wondrous changes.
OFFICIAL INFLUENCE IN POLITICS.
From the X. V. Timet.
The exaotion of pecuniary contributions
from clerks in the Government departments
is bad, but it is not worse than the interfer
ence of Federal office-holders in the choice of
delegates to conventions, or in the nomina
tions which the conventions are required to
make. Both are evils. From one the char
acter and efficiency of the civil service suffer;
the other imparts to cliques a power to regu
late the action of party in a manner fatal to
its integrity. If ail Secretaries entertained
the just ideas of Mr. Cox, and had his firm
ness in enforcing them, the black-mailing
system which partisanship has sanctioned
and systematized would soon come to an end.
The meddling of office-holders in local elec
tions may not be so easily prevented, but it
must be done, if party management is to be
purified, and really good men are to occupy
onicial positions.
No probable reform of the civil service
will speedily reach the lucrative offices out
side of the departments. These will con
tinue among the rewards which the victorious
Earty will have at its disposal: and while
uman nature is as it is, we may be sure that
their distribution will be more or less regu
lated by an expectation of gain accruing to
the party. But there are two ways of help
ing a party by the use of patronage. Tae
ordinary method is gross and demoralizing,
Men are appointed because of their sup
posed value at election times. xney are
relied upon to make their olfices the pivotal
points of local organization, and so to exert
their influence that the nomination of some
men shall be prevented and the nomination
of others secured. The working of this
ulan mav be seen all around us. The wiser
and more honorable method is that which
t would aid a party by the piiiat:uut tj
office of those in whose fitness the commu
nity at large baa confidence, and whose per
formance of duty would indicate the high
standard of the appointing power. We
need hardly observe that this better plan is
not one with which either party is too
familiar.
But we do not rest the case on high moral
grounds. Expediency is the most acceptable
working basis among politicians. Is, then,
the interference of office-holders in elections
expedient? We think not. There are com
plaints of its effect from various quarters.
Little "rings" are formed to further the
schemes of intriguers. Patronage belonging
to a party is used for the benefit of a faotion.
.Candidates are nominated in advance of
conventions, and official influence is exer
cised to construct the conventions accord
ingly. Good, able men who refuse to play
into the hands of cliques are proscribed;
their nomination is frustrated, or they are
driven into retirement in disgust. One re
sult is. a growing disinclination on the part
of first-class men to figure in the list of can
didates: nnother. an ever-increasing tendency
on the part of officials to become arrogaut
in tone and all-pervading in taotics they as
sume too much, and would fain manipulate
the party which they should be content to
serve. Thee manifestations are- uot desira
ble, because they are not profitable. Some
ambitious candidate may chant their praises,
and some pliant cobwention may pay tribute
to their power. But if a general balance be
fairly struck, it will be found that from this
source the party losses exceed its gains.
DANGERS AHEAD.
rm the l'a Mall OaxeUe.
Now that it has become more than evident
that the chances of success are overwhelm
ingly in favor of one belligerent, the English
press has begun to discuss the probability of
Prussia becoming the preponderant power of
the continent in that optimist spirit which it
always displays when the affairs of any coun
try but England are in question. The rea
sons for congratulating ourselves on the
prospect appear to vary from the simple re
flection that Prussia is a Protestant and France
a Catholio power to the weightier considera
tion that the Germans have never shown
themselves to be possessed by the conquering
and aggressive ambition hitherto peculiar to
the French. Both propositions are of course
substantially true, but each of them requires
nevertheless very considerable qualification.
It may be doubted whether King William is
not leading into France more Roman Catho
lic than Protestant soldiers, and it is quite
certain that vastly more men in. the German
armies go voluntarily to mass and confession
than there are men given to these practices
in the French. And id may be added that if
France has kept the Italian out of Rome,
there is no power on whose, possibly con
temptuous, toleration of its vagaries the Holy
See so systematically relies as Prussia.
. The question of the comparative aggres
siveness of France or Prussia as a leading
military power is more interesting; but it is
very difficult ' to have a confident opinion
upon it. France is an example of a nation
farmed on the principle of purely political
boundaries; and her superiority to other
countries has consisted in the completeness
with which she has effaced all traces of the
interior divisions which the system of mere
Eolitical demarcation superseded. So far as
er ambition may be attributed to the prin
ciple which governs her national organiza
tion, it arises from there being no reason why
her boundaries should line on one parti
cular geographical line more than on
another. When the present war began a
swarm of pamphlets made their appearance
in Paris reiterating the claims of France to
the frontier of the Rhine, but (putting aside
some audacious historical statements) the ar
gument consisted in little more than asking
tne question wny tue power wnicn neld Al
sace and Lorraine should not have the Pala
tinate also. On the other hand, when the
new German Empire is constituted it will be
as far as possible removed from a mere politi
cal aggregation; it will be an empire formed
on the principle of nationality. The concep
tion of nationality is at present in the highest
degree vague. It apparently implies a theory
ol common descent tounaed on community
of language: but the definition of
a common language is as elastic as
possible, and nobody can exactly say how far
the claims extend which can be advanced on
the ground of identity of race. The only
example which we have of a State constructed
on the new principle is very far from encour
aging; and yet Russia is not nearly as perfect
an embodiment of the Slavonic as will be a
Prussian Germany of the Teutonic nationality.
The insignificant exception of Fosen does not
create difficulties which can be distantly com
pared with the disturbance of Russian na
tional theories occasioned by the German
provinces on the Baltic and by the irrecon
cilable hostility of Poland. We are as far
as possible from predicting the aggresive
ness of the new Germany when it
has ascended to the first place among military
powers. The future will alone settle the
point. But it is clearly rash te take for granted
that unambitious quiescence will be the per
manent condition of a great military State
constructed on a principle which gives it a
theoretical right to include part ot France,
part of Austria, part of Russia, and even
part of Italy. The enthusiasm of the Ger
mans for the forcible severance of Sleswick
Holstein from Denmark an enthusiasm as
genuine and universal as ever took possession
of a people eught by itself to be a warning
against hasty assumptions as to the future
character of German national passions.
It is not our own opinion that much com
fort or instruction can be got out of specula
tions on the national genius of particular
communities, and on the course which it will
dictate to tbem if they are elevated to the
primacy of the continent. Unhappily, mili
tary success never fails to transform na
tional genius, and not seldom to deprave it.
There is only one result which peace can
bring that seems to us likely to serve as a
real and solid guarantee agaiust that curse of
recurrent war which so fearfully afflicts the
Becond half of the nineteenth century. This
result which we do not regard as at best
more than probable is an understanding
among nations about the Bcale of their future
armaments. All inferences from supposed
national Characteristics are as uncertain
as possible, but this is at any rate
certain, that if States do not keep up
great armies, they will not go to war so
often. The existence of great armaments
brings about war far oftener than the fear of
war produces great armaments. If nothing
is done to eff ect such an understanding at
the peace, the burden of great armies will
S ratably become absolutely crushing. We
o not think it worth while discussing
whether the French or the German military
svstem is the more oppressive to industry and
tLe arts. No doubt, abstractly, war is
cheapest and least burdensome when con
ducted by a mercenary army specially trained
and paid for its work. But the fact is, the
French and German systems Lave for a lonar
tifice p&t LvtU ftpprvuuuUujg to ou ftuvUwi.
The long struggle of King William in the
early part of his reign with the Prussian
Chamber and the liberal stat. nmen which it
followed had for its object the extension of
that part of his army which corresponded to
the permanent armies of England,
France, and Austria. On the
other hand, the ' French system,
always in some degree removed from one of
purely meroenary organization by the con
scription, has been brought much nearer to
the Prussian arrangements by the augmented
importance of the Garde Mobile. What
Europe is in danger of is the establishment
in every continental country of a combina
tion of the two systems. Every man, from
youth to old age, will be under a liability to
military service; all labor, skilled and un
skilled, will be liable to interruption at the
most critical epochs, and the sources of
plenty, ease, and comfort will thus from
time to time be suddenly dried up. But this
will not save continental populations from
having large amounts of capital subtracted
and labor withdrawn to keep up armies in no
respect substantially different from merce
nary armies, and equally at the disposal
of gambling statesmen and intriguing
monarchs.
When Count Bismarck declined the English
proposal to disarm, he stated that, owing to
the difference between the French and Ger
man military systems, the process of parallel
disarmament would be very difficult to regu
late. Knowing what Count Bismarok knew,
it is hard to conceive his giving any answer
which did not convey a refusal; but, as a mat
ter of fact, the two systems are not nearly so
incommensurable as they once were. It is
the transformation of a part of the Prussian
army into something not very unlike other
, continental armies which has made it as for
midable for attack as, before the present
King's reign, it was intended to be for de
fense. The argument, at all events, is not
one that ought to prevent the most strenuous
exertions on the part of the statesmen who
will have to settle the terms of peace. If
those terms include no securities against the
multiplication of vast armies, Testing univer
sally on armed populations, the wisdom of
diplomacy is indeed foolishness, ani Europe
has never had a darker future before it.
ASSESSMENT OF COLORED VOTERS.
Front the llarrMxirg Patriot.
The Pottsville Miners' Journal says that in
some Democratic counties the assessors have
refused to perform the duty of registering
the colored voters, and that for this reason
Governor Geary "issued his proclamation
calling upon the commissioners of tho several
counties to sec the law enforced." Now we
distinctly repeat that there has been no dis
position to refuse registry to the negroes in
any Democratic county of this State. Frau
dulent as the fifteenth amendment is, the
Democrats and conservative Republicans
mean to obey it, but at the same time punish
its authors at the polls. Governor Geary has
no evidence in the executive department
which justifies his silly proclamation, and the
Miners' Journal cannot make good what it so
recklessly asserts.
The simple story of Geary's proclamation
is soon told. The Warrior is a rival of Came
ron for the Senate of the United States. He
has an exceedingly small political capital to
carry on business against so powerful and
wily a rival. Fearing that the people were
forgetting him, Geary thought he would star
tle them with another proclamation. There
was nothing left him for a subject but the
fifteenth amendment. It was little to him
that the conservative, moderate .and law
abiding people of Pennsylvania, everywhere,
render obedience to the amendment, and the
laws passed to enforce its execution. He
could not forego the keen pleasure of spread
ing himself on paper even though he should
libel his fellow-citizens in an official docu
ment. By his proclamation he meant to convey
to the country the. false impression that a
portion of the people of the State which has
the misfortune to have him for chief magis
trate were conspiring to disobey the laws.
For the sake of making a little poor political
capital and gratifying his disgusting vanity,
he did not hesitate to issue a false and
libelous proclamation. Not another radical
governor in the United States will have the
meanness to conceive and execute a work of
such vile and contemptible partisanship. All
that he gels for his pains is the con
tempt and scorn of the radicals them
selves, who do not fail to see through
the motives that have dictated this proclama
tion. The Miners' Journal will struggle in
vain to impart dignity to this document of
Geary, or suggest a high and honorable pur
pose in the issuing of it. Governor Geary is
as great on proclamations as the Dutch Gov
ernor of New Amsterdam. The Miners'
Journal has not forgotten that "supple
mentary proclamation' which was issued for
the purpose of defrauding nenry D. Foster
of his seat in Congress, on the pretense that
new evidence of illegal voting had been re
ceived in the Executive Department.
DR. GIIION.
Front the Jlarritbtirtj TopU:
Certain newspapers have chosen to draw an
inference or two from the appointment by
the Governor of Dr. John 11. Gihon as
Quarantine Master for the Port of Philadel
phia. They have various pleasantries to
repeat, as they think, at the Doctor's expense.
In bis absence it may not be inappropriate to
say a word or two for him.
On the 10th of March last Dr. Gihon started
the Topic y which he has run successfully and
satisfactorily ever since. When the yellow
fever broke out in quarantine and Dr. Thomp
son, the Lazaretto physician, fell by the hand
of Providence in the faithful discharge of his
duties, Dr. Gihon, knowing the nature of the
disease, having suffered from it himself in
the hospitals of New Orleans, and having had
great and valuable experience in its treat
ment, at once tendered his services
to the Governor. This was at a time
when the deaths from yellow fever in
the Philadelphia quarantine were at
the rate of seventy-five per cent. an unusual
proportion and when it was natural to ex
pect men, even old physicians, to hesitate
about aocepting such a position. Dr. Tay
lor, however, also tendered his services and
the Governor appointed the latter. Then
came the death of Mr. Robert Gartside, the
Quarantine MesUr, of the aaue disease. The
situation of Master of Quarantine was then
at a discount. There were no applicants for
the post of danger. Dr. Gihon again ten
dered his services. If there was anybody in
the State whom John W, Geary had rea
son to bay he knew thoroughly it was Dr.
Gihon. The Governor was perfectly
aware of the Doctor's services, suffer
ings and experience in hospitals where yel
low fever, cholera, and small-pox prevailed to
a great extent. Some appointment to fill the
post at the Lazaretto was absolutely acces
sary. It was at a time when a man was
reeded immediately to supply the place of
the brave Gartside. How could there be
any hesitancy, then, about tho selection of
Dr. Gihon? The offer made by this
genUeia&A wM a ptr;o',:g oue, ca&aj
rather for the approval of his fellow
citizens and brother editors than for their
speculations as to his ceasing, for a time at
Iesst, his connection with the Topis, as its
editor, manager, or publisher. Indeed, we
can conceive of no more praiseworthy aot on
the part of any man. Those who have so
much twaddle to repeat in this connection
might have tendered their names for the La
zaretto appointment but they did not.
The selection of Dr. Gihon is approved
by the best citizens of the State and by all who
know the man. It has long been felt that
not only ought the Lazaretto physician be
a doctor f medicine, but also the Quarantine
Master. The late appointment, therefore,
was a most meritorious one in more points
than one.
These newspapers are oracles in their way,
especially those in Philadelphia. that arrogate
to themselves a monopoly of Uarrisburg
news, gossip and comment. They generally
manage to know what nobody else knows,
and have repeatedly astonished the natives
of the capital city and the officials here by
their smart announcements, which nobody
here believes. In this matter they have un
doubtedly "put their foot in it." They
reckon without their host. Let these gen
tlemen think twice before they speak, and
they will not be guilty of maligning or ridi
culing a man who patriotically offers his ser
vices at the post of danger where, perhaps,
they themselves have never thought of going.
WOlITIOAl.
FOR 8 a a a I ? 7,
WILLIAM K LEEDS,
TKNTU WARD.
T U tf
FOR BBOI8TBU OP WILLS,
WILLIAM M. BOSS,
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SIXTEENTH WARD
Late Private Company F, TM P. V. 7 ll tf
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
tfrjf OFFICE OK THE SCHUYLKILL NAVIOA
TION COMPANY, NO. 411 WALNUT
STREET.
PniLADKi.pni, August S9, 18T0.
NOTICE: IToirters of Certificates of this (Join
pany's Loans of 1979, laSi, and Boat and Car loans
of 1S63 and 1 s?fi4, are requested to present them on
and alter September 1. 1870, at this oillee, in order to
receive in commutation therefor the new OertiU
rates as guaranteed by the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company.
Receipts will be Riven for old Certificates, and the
new ones will be delivered as soon a they can be
signed by the oillccrs of the two companies.
F. FKALEY,
8 SO Bt President.
gy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at tlie next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation or a Bank, in ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE MARKET BANK, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of firtv thousand
dollars, with the right to Increase the same to live
hundred thousand dollars. 7 s 6m
NOTICE.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY. Acoust 88, 1S70.
The Annual Meetinir of the Stockholders of the
Pennsylvania Fire Irtfiiranee Company will be held
at their offlce on MONDAY, the Bth day of Septem
ber next, at 10 o'clock' A. M., when an election will
be held for nine Directors, to serve for the ensuing
year.
snow WIL1I.1AJU u. unuvycLL, secretary.
gy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
nnnlfpjtrinn will hi rr.nrlA fit th npvt mottncr
bf the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Batik, in ac
cordance witn tne laws or tne commonwealth, to be
entitled THE MANAYUNK. BANK, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of two hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the sime to
two hundred and iiity tnouBund dollars. 7 a s6in
tfitf HARPER'S HAIR DYE. THE UNLY
harmless and reliable Dye known. This splen
did Hair Dye Is perfect. Changes red, rusty, or grey
hair, whiskers, or nidUstuche Instantly to a glossy
block or natural brown, without Injuring the hair or
staining the skin, leaving the hair sort and beauti
ful. Only 60 cents for a large box. CALLENDKR,
THIRD and WALNUT: JOHNSON, HOLLOW Ax
A COWDEN, No. 80S ARCH Street; TRENWITH,
No. 614 CHESNUT Street ;YARNELL, FIFTEENTH
and MARKET Streets: BROWN, FIFTH and
tutsjx ut careers, ana an uruggists. 0 si ti4p
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Central Assembly of the Common wealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE PETROLEUM BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
nvo (0) hundred thousand aoiiara.
jgy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Ap
plication wui oe maae 10 xae, .t reasurer 01 ma
City of Philadelphia for the lsaue of a new certifi
cate of City Loan In the place of one wrKcti has
been loBt or mislaid, viz., No. 18,169 (Bounty Loan,
No. 8) for Five Hundred Dollars, ia the name of
Susanna Orr, Executrix. JAMES W. PAUL,
8 84 6w Attorney of Susanna Orr.
im NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN TILVPAX AP
jplicatiou will be made at the next meetlng.of
the General Assembly of tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation, la accordance
with the laws of the Commonwealth, of the
SAVINGS AND DEPOSIT BANK OK MANA-
YUNK, to be located In the Twenty-third ward of
Philadelphia, with a capital of fifty thousand dol
lars, with the right to Increase the same to one hun
dred thousand dollars. 1 s 8Hm
Q- THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
ExtiBguiaaer. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGE,
8 30 No. 118 MARKET fit. General Agent.
NOTICE IS HEREBY" GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, la ac
cordance with tne laws 01 the commonwealth, to be
entitled THE WBhT END BANK, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one huudred thou
sand dollars, witn the right to Increase the same to
five Hundred thousand dollars.
gw- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY",
LO-NDON AND LIVERPOOL.
CAPITAL, i.a.000.000.
SABINE, ALLEN it DULLES, Agents,
FIFTH and WALNUT Streets.
Si
, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at toe next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, la ac
cordance witn me laws or tne commonwealth, to be
entitled THE GERMANIA BAN K. to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
one million aoiiara.
1ST J A
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B 8 M.
LAWYER.
8 C O V E L,
No. 113 PLUM STREET. CAMDEN. N. J.
Collections made anywhere Inside of New Jer
Bey. s is sot
w&f NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a bank, la
accordance wun iae laws 01 tne common weaitn,
to be entitled THE QUAKER CITY BANK, to b
located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the
same to nve hundred thousand dollar.
ffg- HEADQUARTERS FOR. EXTRACTING
AO pLu. Dr. V. R. 1UOMAS. tunjwlf ointor M tti
Goltoa Dttti Rooau. dutota bia wun pmoc:o to tarn
mQf THR IMPERISHABLE PERFUME !-Afl A
rule, the perfumes now in use have no perma
nency. Ad hour or two after their dm there is do
trace of perfume left. How different Is the rennit
Mieoeeding the use Of MURRAY A LAN MAN T
FLORIDA WATER I Days after its application ttx
Handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate,
and agreeable fragrance. 8 1 tathsi
tfW- NOTICE M HEREBY GIVKN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of tho CommonwealflT of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, in ac
cordance With the laws Of the CiunmnnirMllh tn Ht
entitled THE GERMANTOWN RANKING OOlH-1
PAN Y, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capiUi I
of one hundred thousand dollars, with the right to
lucrviuM; ui name o nve nunurea thousand dollars.
jrpaJ"" TREGO'S TEABERRT TOOTHWA'Sli.
At Is the most pleasant, cheapest and best denttfrtcn
(fcun. Warranteid free from Injurious ingredient.
it rresfrTei sua w aiicai ine 'i eeiB 1
Invigorates and Soothes the Gumn
Purities and Perfumes the Breath t
Prevent Accumulation of Tartar 1
Cleanses and Purifies Artificial Teettit x
Is a Snperior Article for Children I
Sold ht All dniffriRtJi and flpnt inta.
a. m. wilson, Dmggtst, proprietor, 1 I
Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT 8t&, PhlladikJ
8 810m
fgg- WARD ALE O. McALLIHTHR,
No. 803 BROADWAY",
New Y'orl.
EDUCATIONAL.
JUUIIY A C A I 12 HI V
FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS,
. No. 14U5 LOOUST Street. .
EDWARD CLARENCE SMITH. A M, PrindpAL
This Select School will enter upon tu sixth vear
completely reoiganlzed.
Kooms unproved, and refitted with handsome fur
nituro.
l. Puptta rrepared for business lire. Thoronti
couroe ia me jbng'isn ttrancnes ana Mathematics. ,1
8. I'upus prepared for nigh standing In UoUeire. v
3. Special Instructors in French. German. Draw.
lng, Penmanship, Elocution, Book-keeping, Natural
Science.
4. A carefully organized Primary Department
6. Special leatures an unsurcansed locality.
spacious and well-ventilated rooms, with high ceil
ings, a retired play ground.
Next session tn-gins September 13. ciremars ft
No. 1415 LOO U ST St Applications received daily
Testimonial fsom Hon. William Strong, 0. 8- Su
preme Court.
rmwsinn, June m, 1870.
During the last two years my son hai been an at
tendant of the frchool of Mr. Edward Uiarence Smith,
known as Rugby Academy. I can unaualiiiedlv
commend Mr. fcml'h to those who have sons to bt
educated, as a superior instructor, devoted to his
wonc, kind and nrm in nis management or hlspnpila,
and tn all respects qoaialed for aaocesa in his pro,
tension. .
BIS - W. STRONG.-
HY. I.Al'DERll ACII'S
ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS-
ASSEMBLY' BUILDINGS,
No. 108 South TENTH Street.
A Primary, Elementary, and Finishing SchooL
Thorough preparation for Business or College.
Srxlal attention cU'en to Commercial Arittimotti!
and all kinds of Business Calculations.
Jrrencn and German. Linear and PoMtvpctivn
Drawing, Elocution, Engliali Composition, Natural
Science.
FIELD PRACTICE In Surveying and CIvU Engi
neering, with the use of all requiuitc iiiHtrameaxs,
is glveu to the higher clashes in Mathematics.
A unt-eiass rrimary Department.
The best ventilated, most lofty and spacious Class
rooms in the city.
Open for the reception of applicants dally from 10
A. M. to 4 U. M. is 140
Fall term will begin September 12.
Circulars at Mr. Warburton's, No. 430 Chesnut at.
I7DGEHILL, MERCHANTVILLE, N. J., WILL B3
opened for SUMMER BOARDERS from July t to
September IB, 1370.
The House Is new and pleasantly located, witn
plenty of shade. Rooms large and airy, a number
of them communicating, and witi flrst-claiM
board.
A few families cau be accommodated by applying
early. ...
For particulars call on or address
REV. T. W. CATTELL,
Tl Merchantvtile, N. J.
HALLO WELL SELECT HIGH SCHOOL FOR
Young Men ard.Boys, which has been re
moved from No. 110 N. Tenth street, will be opened
on September 12 In the new and mora commodious
buildings Noa. 112 and 114 N. NINTH Street. Neither
eilort nor expense has been tp.ired in fitting up thtt
rooms, to make this a lirst-ciasa school of the highest
grade.
A Preparatory Department la connected with the
school. Parents and students are invited to call
and examine the rooms and consult the Principal
f rom 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. after August 16.
GEORGE EAhTBURN, A B.,
JOUN G. MOORE, M. S.,
8 lTtf Principals.
HAMILTON INSTI TUTE FOR YOUNG LADIES,
No. 3810 CHESNUT Street, West Philadel
phla. Day and Bourdlng School. This institution,
having BueceHBfully completed its fourth year, has
become one of the established Bchoola of our city.
Its course of study includes a thorough English ami
Classical Education, embracing Mental, Moral, and
Physical culture.
Its ntnth session will open on MONDAY, Septem
ber 12. For terms, etc., apply at the school.
8 29tf PHILIP A. CREUAR, PrlnctpaL
17ILDON SEMINARY. MISS CARR'S SELECT
U Boarding School for Young Ladles wtU RE
OPEN SEPTEMBER 14. 1870.
It la situated at the York Road Station of tha
North Pennsylvania Railroad, seven uiUea from J
rnnadeipnia.
The principal may be consulted personally at her
resideLce during the summer, or by letter aMdressed
to shoemakertown Post OiUce, Montgomery county.
Pa. Circulars can be obtained also at the otHce of
JAY COO KB & CO.,
8 9 Buukijrs, Phlladelpula
TPS SIXTEENTH ACAliKMIC YEAR OF
spring garden academy, n. e. comeftt
EIGHTH and BL'TTuNWOjUD Streets, begins Tues
day, September 6. Thorough preparation for Bust
ntba or College. Applications received on ao9 after
Monday, August 82.
CHARLES A. WALTERS. A M.,
8 18 u Principal.
C CENTRAL INSTITUTE, N. W. CORNER OF
J TENTH and SPRING GARDEN Streebj, wii
reopen MNDaY, September 8. Parents are Invited
to call alter August '.. Boys nrepured for busmeiM
or for Allege. JOHN P. LAMBERTON, A M.,
8 22Jm i Principal.
VOUNG MEN AND BOYS' ENGLISH CLASS!
1 CAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE, No.
lyt'8 Mol'NT VEhMON Street, reopens September
6 Thorough preparation for Business or College.
Has a Preparatory Department for small Boys.
8 T lm RevJ. G. SHINN, A. M., Principal
7EST PENN KtlUAWE SEMINARY" FOR
YOUNG LADIES, No. 5 South MERRICK
Htreet former:y Mrs. M. E. MiteheTs.) The Kali
Term of this school will b-gin on THURSDAY'. Sep.
Umber 18. MISS AGNES 1R WIN,
asitsic Principal.
SCHOOL OF DESIGN FOR- WOMEN, NORTH
WEST PENN SilARE. The school year for
1h,o and lsii wui commence on mu.iAi. ine i2tu
Of September. T. W. BRAID WOOD,
8 31121 Principal.
"VOUNG LADIES' INSTITUTE, No. Is2 MOUNT
X VERNON Street, sixth Herat-Annual Term
begins on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16.
Call or send for circular. .8 8w
OAKLAND FEMALE INSTITUTE NORRIS
TOWN, Pa., will commence its Twenty-slxtJ
Year September L Terms, M. For circulars ad
dress. J. GRIEK RALSTON. 8 6 lm
'TEVEN6DALB INSTITUTE,
SELECT
family Boarding-school for boys, will reopen Sept.
10. For Circulars address J. H. WITU1NGTON,
M., Principal, soutn Amboy, N. J. 8 uths26t
rpWENTY-SlXTH 1 BAR. -II. D. HHKUUKI, A.
1 M.. wai reDpen his Classical and English School,
No. 1108 MARKET Street. on September 6. 8 221m
WE CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, D4AN STREET,
atKJVe Spruce. W1U be re-opmeu nepwmuer om
I 2m J W. FA IRES, D. P., Principal.
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MUSICAL INSTRUCTION.
A
iLTATLOR'S SINGING ACADEMY', NO. 81H
pupr.son MONDAY. Sept. e. Hours from 11 t
A. M. and. 4 to T P. M. daily. 9 U
AKl'll Street, wn: viku ut mr iirvrpoiuu ui
;6f
HOTELS.
QOLONNADC HOTEL,
FIFTEENTH AND CHESNUT STS..
ENTIRELY NEW AND HANDSOMELY FOR
nihhrd, 'sucw ready for permaneut or tnuHt'n.