THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1870.
GERCY1AN UNITY.
The Views of David Strauss,
A Letter from the Eminent Ger
man to Ernest Itonan A
Philosophical He
view of the
War.
David Strauss, the eminent German scho
lar, ban written the following remarkable let
ter to Ernest Kenan, the distinguished French
author:
lint who can take pleasure in a literary
labor, and especially a labor for international
peace, as my life of Voltaire was intended to
be, at a moment when the two nations to
whose union it was meant to contribute
stand in arms against one another' Rightly
do yon Bay that this war must cause the
deepest distress to all those who have striven
for the intellectual association of France and
Oermany. Rightly do you describe it as a
calamity, that now again, for a long time to
come, injustice and uncharitable judgment
will be the order of the day between the two
members of the European family whose sym
pathy is so indispensable to the work of
moral civilization. Rightly do you declare
it to be the duty of every friend of truth and
justice, at the same time that he unreservedly
fulfils his national duty, to preserve himself
free from that patriotism which is only party
spirit, which narrows the heart and perverts
the judgment. You say that yon had hoped
that the war might still be exorcised (besch
woren ). We Germans had the same hope in
every case nince 18!0 when war seemed to
threaten, yet in general we have held a war
with France, as a oonsequence of the events
of that war, to be inevitable so inevitable
that here and there one heard the question
asked with dissatisfaction: "Why did not
Prussia declare war sooner; for instance, en
occasion of the Luxemburg affair, and so
bring things to an issue ?" Not that we
wished for war ; but we knew the
French well enough to know that
they would wish for war. It U
ow as it was with the Seven Years' War, the
consequence of the Silesian conquests of
Frederick' the Great. Frederick did not
desire that war, but he knew that Maria
Theresa desired it, and would not rest till
she had found confederates. An established
ascendancy is not readily renounced either
by a monarch or a people. They will make
efforts to preserve it until it is decisively
taken from them. So was it with Austria, so
it is now with France; both of them against
Prussia, by whose side the whole of non
Austrian Germany, better instructed, is this
time standing. Since the epoch of Richelieu
and Louis XIV, France has been accustomed
to play the first role among European na
tions, and in this claim she was strengthened
by Napoleon I. The claim was based on
her strong politico-military organization, and
still more on the classical literature which, in
the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, had grown up in France, and made
her language aud her culture supreme in the
world. But the immediate condition of this
supremacy of France was the weakness of
Germany; ever against France united, unani
mous and quick to move, divided, discordant,
and unwieldy, Germany stood. Yet every
nation has its time, and, if it is of the right
sort, not one time alone. Germany had had
its time in the sixteenth century, in the age of
the Reformation. It had paid dearly for this
pre-eminence in the convulsions of a thirty
years' war, which threw it back not only into
political feebleness, but into intellectual
stagnation. Yet things were far from
having come to an end with it. it saw its
time again. It began its work on that side
where France had tixed the roots, not indeed
of its power, but of its true right to European
ascendancy. It fashioned itself in silence;
it produced a literature; it gave to the world
a succession of poets and thinkers who took
their place by the side of the French classics
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
as something more than equals. If in finish
of cosmopolitan understanding and cultiva
tion, in clearness and eloquence, they fell
short of the French, in depth of thought as
much as in strength of feeling they surpassed
them. The idea of humanity, of the harmo
nious cultivation of human nature in indi
vidual as in common life, was developed in
German literature in the last ''." years of the
eighteenth, and the first 2" years of the
present century. .
The result of this was that Germany won
the intellectual leadership of Europe, while
France still maintained its political ascen
dancy, though latterly in hard struggle with
England. But the literary outburst of Ger
many was either fruitless bloom, or it was
destined to be followed by political regenera
tion. In the time of Napoleon, France had
laid Germany prostrate before her; the yoke
was thrown off in the War of Liberation of
1813-'14. But the ground of our powerless
ness, the want of political unity, was not re
moved; on the contrary, if the German em
pire had long been anything but a shadow,
now even the shadow had vanished. Ger
many had become a motley aggregate of
greater and smaller independent states. This
independence itself may have been a mere
show, but it was yet real enough to make all
energetic action of the whole body i.npos
ible, while, on the other hand, the l tiun
ilettag," which had to represent the unity,
made its existence discernible in nothing
but the repression of all free motion
in the individual states. If France was again
taken with the humor to aggrandize itself at
oar cost, it was not Germany, but Russia
and England, that had to restrain it. That
was keenly felt in Germany; it was felt by
the men who had fought in the liberation
war; who, during the disiml year of reac
tion, saw quite another seed spring up than
that which they were conscious of having
sown; it was felt by the young men who had
grown up in the thought and the sufferings
of these wars. Thns it was that strivings
after unity during the succeeding time had
something very youthful, immature, and
romantic about them. The German idea
haunted them as a familiar as the aha low
of the old empire. That the Governments of
the time attached so great importance to the
students' clubs and democratic machinations,
as they were called, only showed how b ai
their conscience was.
The storm of your July revolution cleired
our atmosphere to some degree, without carry
ing ns essentially forward. There was no w
too much observation of a dwsimilnriy ooi
stituted nation; for ; eyery., people firit.of ull
mutt look to its own work, to its own nature
tad history. In the Chambers of our smaller
Hutes there was hfe enough, many robust
fortes were arousedbut the narrow range of
their activity made their horizon equally nar
row. As PmsRia and Austria remained close 1
to constitutional life, and held together in
opposing its spread in the smaller States, in
these latter hostility to the "Ittindet'ng," the
pitiful remnant of German unity, passed for
patriotism. Indeed, it could not long
be concealed that nothing conll
come of spirited speeches in the am ill
States, so long as their Governments could fall
baek upon the "Bundestag," that in, upon
the two obsolete leading States. Thoughts
of a representation of the people in the Bund
were floating; in Prussia a hopeful, if impsr
f ect step was being taken in the meeting of
the United "Llanderstag;" when, for the
second time, an impulse from your country
the February revolution struck into the
cause of German development. These French
influences were dangerous for ns only so
long as they found us weak; in proportion as
we gained internal strength, they became
more and more desirable, so that this last,
which was thought to be most unfortunate
fornsis to-day bringing to our view more
auspicious consequences than all earlier
ones. The impulse of 1848 came upon
ns at a moment when' in each
of the German States men hn i co ne to be
convinced of the frnitlerM-ss of all separate
strivings for freedom and popular well-being,
and at one stroke it forced the idea of Ger
man unity to the surface. Ia the German
Parliament, elected by the general vote, this
thought gained for the first time apolitical
organ, before whose moral authority all ex
isting individual powers had for some time to
fall into the back ground. Bat if during the
twenty years of reaction the idea of German
unity bad had its life principally among our
students, so he who would deride might say
that in 1848 it had passed to
the professors, and so far at least
with truth as in every educated German, ac
cording to the common expression, there was
something of a professor. Enough; the thing
was very thoroughly in theory, but also very
impracticably, set going. In fencing princi
ples of right, and debating over paragraphs
of the Constitution, invaluable time was list,
till, unobserved, the actual powers had re
gained their strength, and the ideal fabrio of
new Germany dissolved like a castle in the
clouds. From such airy heights the German
imperial throne had been off ered to a prince
who, although in other respects the man of
the people, bad yet so much true insight
that he could
neither believe himself
to be the right
the crown itself
man for
to be a
the crown, nor
possibility. The
made to appro-
attempts which
he then
priate some part of what
had been offered
to him ended even more pitifully than ths
attempt of the Gorman people to constitute
itself anew. In the conrse of these struggles
the dualism of Austria aud Prussia had more
and more brought itself before men's eyes a
the essential misfortnne of Germany. During
Metternich's time, Prussia had been kept in
tow by Austria, and this had been thought
the guarantee of all order aud security. Its
fresent attempts, each more earnest than the
ast, to have its own will and to carry out its
own proper aims, were not less disagreeable
than novel to Austrian policy. Whatever,
therefore, from this time onward, was under
taken or promoted in Germany by
Prussia, beginning with the Zoll
verein, was both secretly and openly opposed
by Austria. Germany fell into the
condition of a wagon with one horse before
and another of equal strength pulling be
hind, with no hope of moving. But the
times educate their men, provided that
among the joung growth there are charac
ters of the right stuff, and that these find
themselves in their right plaoes. Ilerr von
Bismarck was a man of such stuff, and in his
position in the "Bundestag" in Frankfort he
was in the right place for penetrating into
the inmost Beat of Germany's weakness. It
was indeed his Prussian pride which swore re
venge upon Austria for the humiliations which
she had destined for Prussia; but in this
he was not unconscious that, with
Prussia, Germany also would be helped for
ward. On occasion of the war in Schleswig
Holstein, the phenomenon was for a moment
seen of the two horses pulling side by side;
yet the end was hardly attained before the
old opposition began again. Now was the
time to cut the traces which fastened the
back-pulling horse to the wagon; so would it
be an easy tass for the other to move it for
ward. A true Columbus egg, this thought. It
would have seemed that every one must have
shared it, yet there was but one man if the
thought was not his alone who conceived
the true means to carry it into effect.
In the life of nations as of individuals
there are times when that which we have long
wisned and striven for presents itself in bo
strange a shape that we recognize it not, and
even turn away from it in displeasure and
resentment. So was it with the Austrian
war of 180(i and its consequences. It brought
to us Germans what we had so long wished
for, but it brought it not in the manner that
we had wished, and therefore a great part of
the Herman nation thrust it away from them,
We had hoped to work at the unity of Ger
many from the popular idea, from the popu
lar desire, from the thoughts of its best
men. Now it was by the action of the
de facto powers, by blood and iron, that we
saw the road cut out. We had hoped so wide
and so high had been the range of the idea
to include in one constitution the entire Ger
man race. Now, as the result of actually
present relations, not only the Germans in
Austria, but the intermediary South German
States, remained exoluded. It needed time to
reconcile German Idealism, and perhaps Ger
man obstinacy, with the fact which it found
before it; but the might, nay, the reasonable
ness of this faot, was so irresistible that in
the shortest time the better view had made a
most happy progress.
That which in no small measure contri
buted to throw a light even upon the most
blinded was the attitude which France took
up toward these events. France had let it be
seen that she hoped to strengtnen her pre
eminence by means of the internal conflicts
of her neighbor; when she found herself de
ceived in this hope, she could not disguise
her vexation, irom this time onward we
Germans could regulate the value we at
tached to our political relations by the French
estimate of them; for their value was exactly
the reverse to the one and the other people
jne sour iooks wmcn rranoe cast on
Prussia and the Northern Confederation
taught us 'that in these two lav
x it 1 : . ... -
our saievy. nor ogiings witn the ua-
coo federated South taught us that in the
latter lay our greatest weakness. Every
movement wmcn x russia maae, not to force
the South German States to join it but
merely to keep the door open to them, was
suspected by i ranee, and made an oooasion
of intervention. , Even in a question so en
tirely non-political as the subvention of the
JJout St. Gothard Railway, the Gallio cook
eroweq martially., bjuce the f all ot. Jsapoleoo,
France has three times altered its Loustitu
lion; on none of these occasions did Ger
many think of interfering; it has always re
cognized the right of its neighbor to remode.
the inside of his house aooording to his
need or conscience, even according to
his caprice. Were our German transac
tions of 18;; and subsequently a different
matter? Did the panels with which we lined
our hitherto notoriously uninhabitable house,
the rafters that we strengtnened, the walls
that we carried np, shake our neighbor's
house? Did they threaten to intercept , its
light or air? Did they expose it to danger
from fire? No such thing. It was simply
that our house appeared to him too noble.'
This neighbor of ours, he wished to possess
the finest and highest house in. the whole
street, and above all must ourt not be too
strong. We must not have the means of
making it fast; he must never be deprived of
the power to do what he had already done
several times, of taking possession of a few
of our rooms whenever it suited him, and
throwing them into his own house. Yet in
remodeling our house we had made no claim
whatever to those portions oi it wmcn our
violent neighbor had appropriated . in bygone
days, but had left them to him, and given
him the right of prescription. But now, in
deed, since he has appealed to the sword,
these old questions rise up again.
France will not give up its European
primacy. Only, if it has a right to this, has
it a right to interfere with our internal ques
tions? But on what is this pretended right
to the primacy based? In cultivation, Ger
many has long placed itself on a level with
France. The equal rank of our literature has
long been recognized by the representatives
of that of Franoe.' The- just proportioa in
which, thanks to a well-devised school educa
tion,' moral and intellectual training has
penetrated every class of our people, is en
vied by the best men among the French
The exclusion of the Reformation
from l ranee, greatly as it con
tributed to strengthen its political
power, had an equally groat effect in destroy
ing its intellectual and moral well-being.
But even in political capacity we have now
fully come up to the French, though slowly.
Ihe Revolution of 178:) appeared to give
them an immense advantage over us. We
have to thank it for loosening us from many
chains, which otherwise would have weighed
upon us far into the future; what we have seen
in France since the Revolution has not been
of a character to frighten us out of our com
petition. Limited governments appear to
have come into being only to be undermined.
to sink into anarchy, as this in its turn luto
despotism. whether constitutional mon
archy, in which you, no less than myself,
recognize the only durable form of govern
ment for Lnrope (exceptional conditions put
aside), can over strike its roots deep in France,
appears to be doubtful to yourself in your
aamiraDie essay on me suojeci; at least jt is
your wish rather than your hope. That I am
not blind to the many good qualities of the
French nation; that l recognize in it an
essential and indispensable member of the
European national family, a beneficent leaven
in their mingling, it is as little necessary that
I should assure you, as that you should assure
me of the like unperverted estimation of the
German people and their merits, on your
side. But nations as well as individuals
have, as the reverse side of their merits, not
less conspicuous faults, and in relation to
these faults our two nations have for centu
ries enjoyed a very different, nay, totally op
posite ' training. We Germans, in the hard
school of calamity and dishonor, in which
your countrymen in great measure were our
relentless schoolmasters and chasteners, have
learned to recognize our essential and here
ditary faults under their true form our
visionanness, our slowness, and, above all,
our want of unity, as the hindrances
of all national success. We have taken our
selves to task, we have striven against these
failings, and sought more and more to rid
ourselves of them. On the other hand, the
national faults of the French, pampered by
a succession of French monarohs. were for
a long ti ne intensified by success, and not
cured even by misfortune. The craving for
glitter and fame; the tendency to grasp at
these rather by sounding adventurous achieve
ments without than by silent efforts within;
the pretension to stand at the head of na
tions, and the thirst to patronize and plunder
them all; all these faults which lie in the
Gallio nature, as those above named do in
the German, were fostered to suoh an extent
by Louis XIV, by the first, and by (let us hope)
the last Napoleon, that the national character
has sunered the deepest injury. Glory in
particular, which one of your ministers has
recently called the first word in the French
language, is rather its worst and most perm
cious one which it would do well to strike
out of its dictionary for a long time to oome.
It is the golden calf round which the nation
has for centuries kept up its danoe; it is the
Moloch at whose altar it has sacrificed and is
even now again sacrificing its own sons, and
the sons of neighboring nations; it is the
ignis fatuua which has lured it from fields
of prosperous labor into the wilderness and
often to the brink of the precipice. And
while those . earlier mouarchs, Napo
leon I especially, were themselves
possessed by this national demon,
and therefore went even into their
unjust wars with something of sincerity, with
ning desire to lead the nation astray into
aims of self-seeking, to draw their attention
away from their moral and political destitu
tton within; that is, by ever and ever stirring
np the national passion for gutter, tame, and
depredation. Against Kussia in the Crimea,
against Austria in Italy, he was sucoesbf ul. In
Mexico he met with sensible disaster. Against
Prussia he let the right moment slip. At the
beginning of this year the world could for a
moment believe that he was in good faith
leaving this path and turning to that of inter
nal reform, in the sense of rational freedom and
administrative amendment, till his backward
spring to the plebiscitum convinced all the
world that he was still his old self. From
that time, too, Germany had everything to
fear, rather should I say, everything to hope
That unity which he desired to frustrate is
ours. The unheard-of claim which lay in his
demand on the King of Prussia was as com
prehensible and intolerable to the poorest
peasant in the march as to the kings and
dukes south of the Main. The spirit of
1813-14 swept like a storm tnrougn- every
German land, and already the first events of
the war have given us a pledge that a nation
who fights only for that which it
feels both the right and the
power in itself, cannot fall of its end. . This
end for which we struggle is simply the equal
recognition of the European peoples, the
security that for the future a restless neigh
bor shall no more at his pleasure disturb ns
iu the works of peace, and rob us of the
fruits of our labor For this we desire a
guarantee, and only when this is given can
we speak of a friendly understanding, of a
harmonious combination , of the two neigh
boring peoples in all the labors of civiliza
tion and humanity; but not till that time
when the French people shall find its false
road closed to it, will it be able to open its
ear to voices like your own, which for long
time past have called it to the true road, J he
road of honest effort,' of self-control, and
morality.
I have written in greater detail than pleases
me individually, and, indeed, than is becom
ing; but our German affairs and aspirations
easily rise before the foreigner as a mere
mist, and to make them a little clear some
minuteness is unavoidable. Yon will, per
haps, think it even less becoming that these
lines come to you in print, not in writing.
In ordinary times I would certainly have
asked your consent to their publication; but
as things are now the right moment would
have passed before my request could reach
you and your answer come to my hands; and
I think that it is not ill done if, in this crisis,
two men of the two nations, each in his own
nation independent, and far from political
matters, free'y; though without passion, ad
dress one another, on the causes and the
meaning of the war. For my utterance will
seem to me only then to have its true worth,
if it gives you occasion to express yourself in
like manner from your own point of view.
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Olamlly Boaroing-acnowi ror boys, win reopen ept.
12. 1870. t or circulars aooresa j. 11. wn mauum
A. M., Principal. South Amboy, N. J. 8 gtuths26t'
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ISS CLEVELAND'S SCHOOL FOR YOUNG
1H lAdies will reopen on MONDAY, September
19. at No. 21K3 DELANCEY Place. 9 6 I8t
I I it fir o iii'i.'j iui iuuuk ixiuicn auu uuuuicu at
No. 1914 PINE Street, on MONDAY, Sept. a. 93 12t
I 1 fH Vaiiiim T aJUn a n 4 fit. 1 .4 n.1 n a
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. H. D. GREGORY, A.
M., will reopen his classical and Engllah School
No. 1108 MA KM KT Street, on September & 8 22 lm
siro
Jersey.
A YEAR, BOARD AND TIMTION, AT
Episcopal Academy. BERLIN, New
9 I X0f
THE CLAS6ICAL INSTITUTE, DEAN STREET,
above Spruc,wul be re-opened September Bin.
8 22 2m J W. FA IRES, D. P., prn.clpaL
1()I'RTLAND SAUNDERS COLLEGE. FOR
J Young Men, Youth, and Small Bojs, Phlla. 4 tot
PIANIST FOR MUSICAL ENTERTAINM KT8
or Dancing Soirees, No. 110 a ELEVENTH
Street. (8 311m
Reference Mr. Boner, No. 1103 Coesoat street.
PROPOSALS.
1
MPHOV EjMiCN T OF.tftK SCHUYLKILL
RIVER. '
UHITT RTATHS F.NOIWlrKH Okfick,)
Na 80s S. Fifth Strfrt.
PmLADKI.FHIA, Fa., Sept 8. 1S70. )
Sealed Proposals, in doDllca'e. with a copy of this
advrrtmemeDt attached to each, will be reflelred at
this Omce until 12 o'clock M of MONDAY, the Kith
daj of Octoler, 1870, for clearing the channel of thd
ftcnuyimu river at it month, at uibson's Point, and
above to the Chesnut Street Hridgo. .
i ne rnannei ia to be dredged at the piacefvnamed to
obtain a width of one huridred and fifty (160) feet, and
a depth of eighteen (IS) feet at mean lew water. The
material to be removed ia mostly sand. It must b
disposed of In conformity with the regulations of the
Board of Port Wardens.
The amount to be excavated Is about 40.000 cable
ysrda. iTOposals will state the price per cubic yard
mraaured in me acows, and the time of commencing
ana wimpiriing me worn.
A deduction of ten (10) per centum on partial nav-
menta will be made until the completion of the
work.
No contract will be entered Into for worklmr after
the Both of June. 187L
Blank forma for proposals will be furnished bv tlila
Office, and any other information practicable to
give.
i ne rigm is reserved to reject any and an mas.
Proposals must lc addressed to the undersigned.
and endorsed on the envelope "Proposala for Dredg
ing the Schuylkill Kiver."
J. D. H.UKTA,
9 9 6t Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineer.
pOMMANDANT'8 OFFICE, UNITED STATES
JNAVAL. STATION,
Lkaock Isi.anp. Sept. 6. 1870.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed "Proposals for
repairs and embankment," and addressed to the
undersigned, for repairing and strengthening about
MiO lineal rods of the embankment at Lcaguelnland,
will be received at this oftloe till 12 o'clock noon, on
WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of September, 1ST0, at
wmcn time dios wui do opened and bidders are in
vited to be presor t.
Plana and specifications for this work can be seen
and further information had, upon application to the
Civil Engineer at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.'
Bidders will be particular to state the price per
lineal rod at which they will contract to do this work
In accordance with the specifications, and also at
what time the work would be completed.
No additional allowance will be made for any extra
work caused ny floods or otner casualties that may
affect the work.
(Signed) J. MADrSON FRAILEY,
9 8thsta3t - Commandant.
ENGINE. MACHINERY. ETO.
CHINI8TS, BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS,
and FOUNDERS, having for many years been in
successfdl operation, and been exclusively engaged
in building and repairing marine ana Kiver Knginea,
hlsh and low pressure. Iron Boilers. Water Tanks.
Propellers, etc. etc, respectfully offer their serviees
to the publio as being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all slzesa, Marine, River, aud Stationary ;
having sets of patterns of dltfeient siisea, are pre
pared to execute orders with quick despatch. Everj
description of pattern-making made at tno shortest
notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular and
Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal
iron, f orcings oi an size and kuxis. iron and
uaea fTaBt infra nf All riparrlnHnna Weil 1 Tnmtn,,
iicrew Cutting, and all other work connected
with the above business.
Drawing and specifications for all work done
the establishment free of charge, and work gua-
The subscribers have ample wharf doek-roora foi
repairs of boats, where they can lie In perfect
safety, and are provided with aneara, blocks, fall
etc. etc., for raising heavy or light weight.
. JACOB C. NEAFTB,
JOHN P. LEVY,
3 16 BEACH and PALMER Streets.
-IRABD TUBE WORKS AND IRON CO.,
JOHN H. MTJRPnY, President,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
MANUFACTURE WROUGHT-IRON PIPE!
and Sundries for Plumbers, Gas and Steam Flttera
WORKS, TWENTY-THIRD and FILBERT Streets.
Office and Warehouse,
4 1 No. 43 N. FIFTH Street
WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETC
TOWER CLOCKS.
O. W. RUSSELL
Ho. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontoir & Graham Esoaptment, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail. 528
WILLIAM a WARNE A CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
s. E. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
8 251 Second floor, and late of No. 86 S. THIRD St.
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF 8AFI
J. WATSON & SON,
Of th UU firm of EVANS A WATSON.
FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF
S A F STORE,
No. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
8U
A fw doors abov. Obacnat it., Fhilfcd.
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
QAR&TAIR8 A McCALL,
No. 128 Walnut and 21 Granite Stt
IMPORTERS OF
Brandiei, Winet, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLK8ALR DKAXJCKS IU
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
IH BONP AND TAJ PAHX MM
YI7ILIJAM ANDERbON A CO., DEALERS IN
V V Fine Whiakiea,
No. 1M North SECOND Street,
Philadelphia.
OORDAOE, ETO.
WEAVER & CO.,
ROPC MAItUFACTUULUS
AUD
Sllir CIIANDLIUlg,
No, 89 North WATER Street and
No. 88 North WHARVES, Philadelphia.
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YOWf
PRICES. 41
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Siaal and Tarred Cordage
At Lowwt Hw York PrioM and WtMthU.
EDWIN IL FITLKK CO
raatotf , TEHTH St. and eXBMAKTOWH A win,
Stor No. 83 , WATER Si. and 83 H DKLAWABS
8HIPPINU.
LORILLARD STEAMSHIP OOMPANH
FOR NEW YOKU,
SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ANE
SATURDAY,
are now i ecelvtng freight at
FIVE CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, TWO CENTS
PER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON,
SHIP'S OPTION.
INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF QNB PES CENT
Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, eta
No receipt or bill of lading signed for leaa taan
fifty ceDta.
NOTICE. On and after September IB rates by thla
company will be 10 cents per loo pounda or cents
per foot, ahip'a option ; and regular nhippera by this
line will only be charged the above rate all winter.
W inter rates commencing December 16. Fur f arthei
particulars appiy to JOHN F. OUL,
SM TIER 19NOtTH WHARVES.
SHIPPINQ.
FOR TEXAS PORTO.
The Ntcniiiahip Ilerculeai
WILL SAIL FOR NRW ORLEANS DIRE3T ON
SATURDAY, 8EPTEM8ER 17, at 8 A. M.
Through bills of lading given in connection with
Morgan's llnea from New Orleans to MOBILE, GAL-
VE8TON, IND1ANOLA, LAVACOA, and BRAZOS
at aa low rates aa by any other route.
Through bills of lading also given to all points on
the Mississippi river between New Orleans and St.
Iu Is, in connection wlrh the St. Louis and New Or
leans Packet Com r any.
For farther Information apply to
WILLIAM L. JAMES,
' , General Agent,
9 10 6t No. 130 South TBIRD Street.
eRPJL FOR LIVERPOOL
AND QUEEVS.
of Roval Mai
StofiJBiiiTOWN. Inman Line
Swanjera are appointed to sail aa follows:
til y of Cork (via Halifax), Tuesday, Sept. 6, atl P.M.
Ulty of Antwerp, Thursday, 8ept 8, at 1 P. M.
City of Liondou, Saturday, September 10, at 8 P. M.
City of Urooklyn, Saturday, Sept. 17, at 10 A. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier Na 4ft North river.
RATES OF PA88AGE.
Payable In gold. Payable in currency.
First Cabin .......75 Steerage
To London sol To London ss
To Tana 90 To Paris 88
To Halifax... : 20' To Halifax 15
Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg,
Bremen, etc, at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persona wishing to send for tnelr friends.
For further information apply at the company's
ofllce.
JOHN O. DALB, Agent. No. IB Broadway, N. Y. :
Or to O'DONN KLL & FAULK, Affenta,
4 8 No. 402 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia.
TI1R REGULAR 8TEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI
LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM.
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to issne through
bills of ladtrg to Ulterior points South and West la
connection with South Carolina Railroad (Company.
ALFRED L. TYLKR
Vice-Prealdcnt So. C. RR. Co.
ffff, PHILADELPHIA "AND CHARLESTON
gtamjg STEAMSHIP LINE.
Mum Hue la now composed of the following first
claaa Steamships, Bailing from PIER 17, below
Spruce street, on FRIDAY of each week lat 8
A. M. :
ASnLAND. 800 tons, Captain Crowell.
J. W. EVER MAN, 92 tons, Captain Hinckley
SALVOR, 600 tons. Captain Ashcrort.
SEPTEMBER, 1870.
'! J. W. Kverman, Friday, Sept. 2.
Salvor, Friday, Sept. 9.
J. W. Everman, Friday, Sept. 16.
r Salvor, Friday, Sept. 23.
J. W. Everman, Friday, Sept. 3d.
Through bllla of ladlug given to Columbia, S. C,
the Interior of Georgia, aud all points South ana
Southwest. .
Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch.
Ilates aa low aa by any other route.
Insurance one-half per cenf., effected at the office
In flrBt-claaa companies.
No freight received nor bills of lading slgnod 00
day of sailing.
BOUDER & ADAMS, Agents,
No. 3 Dock street,
Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 12 8. WHARVES.
WILLIARl A. COURTENAY, Agent In Charles
ton 6 24
tWU PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
,mM' " STKAMS11IP COM PAN V8 REUU.
Lak bkmi-montuly usa to kbjw oh.
LKAWd lift-
Tb a'uUILLRS will ull for New Orletos d treat, 0
TaeMiBJ September 0, at H A. M.
Tb YAZOO will .ail from New Orleans, via Havana
on TumwIht, September 6.
TlllKlUull UlLLti OK LADING at as low rates aa by
anf other route Riven to Mobile, Ualveston, Indianola, La
tuca, and Brazoa, and to all point on the Minaimippi rive
between New Orleana and 8w Lonia. Red Hirer freight,
reabippad at New Orleana without charge of oommisatona,
WF.KKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH. OA.
The TON AW A N D A will sail for Savannah on Sattv
day, September 10. at 8 A. M.
Tne WYOMING will tail from Savannal) on Sato,
day, September 10. I
TtJhOUGH BILLS OF l A DINQ riven to all theprhr.
eipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Miaaiearppi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection witk
the Central Railroad 'of Georgia, Atlantio and Golf Rail
road, and Florida steamers, at aa low rates aa bf oompetinf
lines,
SEMI MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. N. O.
The PIONKKR will sail for Wilmington en Friday,
September is, at ti A. M. Returning, will leave Wilming
ton Wednesday, September .
Oonneots with the Uape Fear River Steamboat Oonv
S any, the Wilmington and Weidon and Nortn Carolina
lailroads, and the Wilmington and Manonester Railroad
te all interior points.
Freights for Columbia, 8. O., and Augusta, Ga., takes
via W llmington, at as low rates as by any other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills)
of lading signed at Queen street wharf on er before daa
of sailing. WIIXLi3I L. JAMKS, General Agent.
618 No. 13U Month THIRD Street,
tHf, PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND,
ISJslnr" AWr NORFOLK 8THA MtSHIP LIN Ull
THKOl'UH FREIGHT AIR LINK TO THE SOUTH
LNGRBASKD FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES
Steamers leave every WK1N KHDATand SATURDAY
at 12 o'olock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAB.
KHT Street. ,
RF.TL KNING. leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS. d NORFOLK TUESDAY'S and SA
TLRDAY8. . M. , .....
Ne Bills of Lading signed after IS o'clock on seilimg
A'H ROUGH RATES to all points in North and South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at
Portsmouth, and te Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the
West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and RtehaMHsd
and Danville Railroad.
Freight H ANDLKD BUTONOK, and taken at LOWER
KATliS THAN ANY OTUKH LIN HI wvfa
No charge for commission, drayage, or anf expense tf
"teameblps Insure at lowest rates.
Freight reoeived daily,
ii.i. Hoom accommodations for passengers.
No. 12 8. WHARVKSand Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W P. POR'I KR, Agent at Richmond and Oily Point.
T. P. CROW KLL COL, Agents at Norlolk. tlj
"aV-9 rfcTNEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN.
ifn.Cfc dria, Georgetown, and Washington,
iSi C., vl Chesapeake and Delaware
Cuuai, with connections at Alexandria from the
nioat direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, KnoxvUle,
Nashville, Da) ton, and the Southwest.
bteamera leave regularly every Saturday at noon
'rom the ffrst wharf above Market street.
Freight received dally.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO.,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
nYDK &. TYLER, Agenta at Georgetown; M.
ELDR1DGB A CO., Agenta at Alexandria. 61
. FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
Let.v and Raritan CanaL
t --SWIFT SURE TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND BW1KTSURB LINES,
Leaving daily at 12 M. and 8 P. M.
The steam propellers of thla company will CO ta
me nee loading on the 8th of March.
Through In twenty-four hours.
Goods lorwarded to any point free of commissions.
Freight taken on accommodating terms.
ApplJ to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD fc CO., Agent,
4 No. 132 Booth DELAWARE Avenue.
FOR NEW YOR
via. TiU1nn7urte an1 Puritan rankl
TTi ' .s www mu ! Usui VCwLACUe
fJt EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The bteam Propellers of the line will commenoei
loading on the 8th Instant, leaving dally aa usual,
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the llnea going out of N4
York, North, East, or West, free of couuniaaloo.
Freights received at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDB A CO., Agenta
No. 12 g. DELAWARE Avenue.
JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. 112 WALL Street, New York. 8 4
DELAWARE AND CnNlPVivs
STEAM TOWBOAT COMPAnVT
K&rffea tawed hAtwMn Phti.i .k,.
caiuuiuio, iiavre-ae-crrace, ueiaware City, an 1 in
termediate points. u
WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., Areata.
Captain JOHN LA UGH LIN, Superintendent
Office. Na 12 South Wlarveg V'tUadel phla. 4 11
ROOFINQ.
S A D Y R O O F I N a
This Rooting li adapted to all buildings, it
can be applied to
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half the expense of tin. It la readily pat oc
old Shingle Roofs without removing the shingle,
thua avoiding the damaging of ceilings and ftuiutaxe''
while undergoing repairs. (No gravel used.)
PRESERVE Ycl'R TIN ROOFS WITH WEL
TON'S ELASTIC PAINT.
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofa
at abort notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by th
barrel or gallon; the beat and cheapest in tag.
market.
W. A. W ELTON,
1 175 No. m N. NINTH St., above Coated!
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