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TLAIN TRUTHS FOR THE NEGROES.
Frrnn the jr. r. Timet.
The colored people have been holding a
convention at Tonghkeepsie to take into
consideration the political and educational
interests of their race in three of the Con
gressional districts of this State. The Presi
dent made a very sensible speech, in which
he pointed out what the best white friends of
the colored people have pointed oat frequently
since their emancipation, that although their
participation in politic is very well as a sign
of their equality, and as a means of preserving
it, reliance on politics for their social eleva
tion is an immense mistake. He asked very
pertinently, "Have they not been howers of
wood and drawers of water long enough?
Have they not blacked their master's boots
and stood behind his chair until their
hearts were sick and sore?" To these ques
tions, we suppose, there can be but one
answer; but it is useless, as he also pointed
out, for the colored people to expect to
escape from their degradation by simply
Toting. Now that everybody votes, no man
is respected for voting, any more than for
wearing pantaloons, although inability to
vote when others did vote would, undoubt
edly, be a mark of inferiority. In order to
rise in the social scale, the colored race must
show itself capable of the acquirements and
achievements through which other races
have achieved distinction. It must furnish
a fair quota of able and successful men of
business, of learned and astute lawyers, of
v eil-trained scholars, of eloquent preachers,
of painstaking, and clear-headed, and
thorough men of science. It must, too, do a
reasonable amount for the arts of inusio and
painting, at least we are disposed in con
sideration of the multiplicity of white poets
to grant it a considerable respite in the
matter of poetry. Lastly it must furnish a
respectable quota of honorable and polished
men of culture, and women of the same sort.
It is no doubt pretty hard for a race situated
as it has been, and still is, to do all this; but
it must be done, in order to attain to any
thing approaching to social equality. Posi
tion in this world is only accorded to desert
of some kind, and all the speechifying that
could be put into fifty years of conventions
would not change the rule. Of course, no
race is expected to furnish a great number of
first class men in any department, but it has
to furnish some, and of their performances
the race gets the benefit in respect and repu
tation. But, then at the bottom of all social im
provement is improvement in character.
Without a good basis of truthful, manly,
self-reliant, upright character, there is no use
in the colored people trying to raise them
selves socially in the estimation of their
' white neighbors, and they may depend upon
it that if they are going t act on the first
resolution adopted by the convention, they
will not hasten the formation of that type of
character, or any ether type that will be of
use either to them or Jto the community at
large. That resolution was, "That this con
vention will discountenance any person or
persons who has or will continue to vote
the Democratic ticket, and that we agree to
disregard them, and will not give any place
or protection or shelter or in houses or
places of business, but consider them an
enemy to our race forever." The grammar
of this is not encouraging, though if this
were its only detect it would pass well
enough. But the colored people could hardly
hit on a better mode of keeping themselves
down, and making themselves both contemp
tible and ridiculous, than by a formal attempt
to nse their social intercourse as a means of
Eolitical proscription. Moreover, they could
ardly hit on a better mode of cultivating
meanness, deceit, and other small vices,
which sap character just as effectively as the
great ones, and the prevalence of which
has already a good deal to do with
their degradation. The lesolution, too,
stands in extraordinary contrast
with the advice of the President and the
avowed objects of the Convention, both of
which nrge reliance on self-culture, through
education and other ways, as the sole means
of regeneration. We are no friends of the
Democratic party, and we believe the colored
people, like the Irish, and indeed the poor
and ignorant of all races, have no worse
enemy than this same party; but, then, a ne
gro, who is kept from voting for it. by the
fear that he would lose his place, or be cut off
from social intercourse with his friends,
would be a contemptible fellow, and sure to
make a bad Republican. The same thing
might be said of the negroes who watched
him and persecuted him,
Of course the professional politicians on
both sides are ready enough to work the
colored people up into furies of this kind,
but the professional politicians are sorry
guides for any people which has a social
education to acquire. We see the Pough
keepsie Convention is going to take measures
to have "the strength of the oolored people
ascertained in the three? Congressional dis
tricts," which is very well as long as they
don't flatter themselves that "their strength"
lies in their numbers. Their real strength
must always be in their education, or. in other
words, in their ability to see where, in poli
tics as in other things, their real interests
lie, and to avoid falling into the hands of,
and being led blindfold by, white demago
gues. For which reason we anticipate a
great deal more good from the determination
of the convention "to build an academy,
seminary, or high school," in or near Pough
keepsie, tban from its determination to have
"the colored vote brought out" in those
cibtricts.
The attempts of the colored people to work
lueir way up nave not tnus far been very for
tunate. lhey nave by no means put their
test men into the front rank. They have sent
one or two men to tne liar here at the North.
who have been miserable failures in every
way; and though some of their leaders at the
Bouth have been good men, their politicians
nave, on tne wnole, done tneni no credit,
Their cadets, too, at West Point have cer
tainly not been selected in such a way as to
assert the principle of equality with much
honor, and one or two mistakes, such as the
election of Whittemore, have dishear ened a
good many of their friends. But they have
distinguished students now both at Yale and
Harvard, and tnere are plenty of other signs
that, with good sense and hard work, there
is nothing to hinder them from winning, if
not a place in the very front rank, still a very
respectable place.
THE MILITARY SITUATION.
JVom the X. Y. Uorald.
Our recent despatches indicate that the
Prussians are still fighting for position in
front of the southern line of works about
Pris. Dourdan, a village southwest of Ver
Milli, has been occupied by the besiegers,
and (he fortifications at Yinoennes have been
abandoned by the French. No strong effort
has been made on the northerly side of the
city, the intention being merely to present a
thin front there, strong to resist, from behind
the fortifications that the besiegers throw up
as they move, any sally on the part of the
French, but not strong enough to venture on
an assault. The positions gained thus far are
Sceaux, from which the Prussians command
Forts Montrouge, Vauvres, and Bioetre; the
fortifications at Yincennes, whence they can
bombard La Pissotte and Charenton if neces
sary, and Versailles. Outside of these
positions a railroad encircling Taris has been
completed, by which, in an hour's time, they
can concentrate their whole force npon one
Eoint. The woods which the French failed to
urn enable the Prussians to mask their
movements pretty effectually. One report
states that the French had attacked the Prus
sians in the woods on the south, and a severe
battle had ensued, in which the former had
been repulsed. Another report denies this,
but if it is true no doubt the intention of the
French was to complete, if possible, the de
struction of the woods by fire in order to un
mask the movements of the enemy. De
spatches from Tours state that inside Paris
there is a calm determination to hold out to
the bitter end. Another despatch, however,
says that all discipline is vanishing among
the troops inside, and that the mob is rapidly
becoming the dominant power.
The Prussian movement southward con
tinues with unabated activity. Detachments
have entered Fontainebleau and Blois, and
other detachments are marching on Nemours
and Orleans. There remains but little doubt
that these detached columns are Uhlans, who
merely make flying visits, levy contributions,
destroy railroads, it possible, spread false re
ports of the movements of the Prussian in
fantry, and are gone again. These movements
cripple the French severely, and serve as
an effectual mask to the actual operations of
the invading army. It may prove, however,
that the force moving on Orleans is actually
a heavy infantry force following in the rear of
the advance cavalry at Blois, and having
Tours as its present objective point. Tours
and Orleans are both to be defended and
will probably undergo a siege such as Metz
and Strasbourg and Paris are undergoing.
With the disappearance of the Army of the
Loire, which dees not seem to have attempted
any resistance whatever to tne Prussian ad
vance, the strange anomaly is presented of
1 ranee at war without an army in tne field,
every force she has raised for service so far
being cooped up in one of several towns now
in a state of siege. What a weak enemy she
has proven in open combat, and what stub
born foes her mismanaged armies have proven
in Strasbourg, Metz, and Toul I The siege of
these cities is progressing slowly with no
effectual change in the situation. Qeneral
Ulrich, it is said, is willing to surrender, but
has been deterred from it by the demands of
the soldiery. A shell is reported to have set
fire to the Strasbourg theatre, two hundred
women and children who had taken refuge
there being burned to death. At Metz
the defense holds out stubbornly against
a close blockade, the furious bombardment
having ceased, owing, it is probable, to a
partial withdrawal of the besieging force.
We may soon expect a grand assault at
Paris. King William cannot afford to sit
down patiently to the tedious operation of
starving out the garrison until he has tried
the spirit and strength of the works and their
defenders by flinging the full force of his
army against them. The quiet withdrawal of
troops from Toul and Metz indicates some
action of this kind, and it may be that it is
only delayed by the pending negotiations for
peace. Heaven grant that blessed peace
come early enough to save this century from
the sight of an army of infuriated Prussians
swooping through the streets of Pans.
AN AMERICAN "I PRACTICABLE."
From die Ntteburg Commercial.
Wendell Phillips is fulminating in a Victor
Hugoish style against Bismarck, whom he de
nounces as "the willing tool of a bigot king,"
and against Prussia because the tierjuan
armies were not set immediately on the home
ward march after Sedan. Those who remem
ber the extravagancies perpetrated by Phillips
during our civil war, and his assaults against
Grant after the close of the war, will receive
with some reserve his unmeasured tirales
against the attitude of Prussia. It is possible
to entertain a hearty good feeling towards the
new uovernment of Prance, and to wish the
republican experiment in that country abun
dant success, without so stultifying ourselves
as to suppose that the surrender of Napo
leon ought legitimately to have ended the
war. Vie must be just in this matter. After
Sedan, the French repudiated Napoleon,
but they did not repudiate the war.
Instead of so doing they pledged them
selves to wage it so long as a German
soldier was on their soil. They solemnly
declared they would make no peace until the
enemy was driven from the country. With
such a challenge hurled at them, what were
the German leaders to dot They could do
nothing else but accept it. lhey had no alter
native but to Beek their foes and again refer
the settlement to the issue of battle. It
could not matter to them that new names
were introduced into the conflict. Napoleon
had been eliminated from the strife, not by
France but by their own victorious arms.
The self-established government which had
repudiated him in his misfortune had held
out no olive branch. Its voice was loudly
and boldly for war. Yet Wendell Phil
lip) endeavors to create a hostile senti
ment in the United States acrainst
the Germans because they accepted facts
just as they round them after Sedan,
and nave since tried to press those facts to
their natural conclusion. Is any man to be
accused of a want of sympathy with demo
cratio institutions because he rejects such
logic as this? There has been something
said in the journals of a turning round of
American sentiment towards the French
since the attempt at the establishment of a
republican government in that country. We
do not understand that this change of senti
ment goes any further than towiih the ex
periment a happy and prosperous issue. It
is not bo weak as to buddoso that, being de
feated in a manifestly aggressive war, the
French will not have to settle the bill. We
aro tolerably familiar with the expressions
of our press on this subject, and the
general opinion is that the Germ ins
have fairly conquered the richt to
demand Metz and Strasburg as an indemnity
for the past and a security for the future.
Such a demand is not grasping, or cruel, or
oppressive. It is less than the Frenou would
have consented to take if they had marched
to Berlin, and less than this outsiders have
no right to insist that the Germans should be
satisfied with. When the French authorities
make up their minds to yield these conces
sions, they can end the war by apprising Bis
marck of the fact. J ulea Favre can close the
war if he has the courage to risk the brief
indignation of his countrymen and offer for
them what they have sot the practical judg-
1 men, to oner lor tueuelTts.
PRUSSIA AND HER TERMS OF PEACE.
From t)a S. T. Tribune.
Count Bismarok has written a circular to
the German ambassadors at the various Eu
ropean Courts, in whioh he announces in of
ncial terms, so plain and positive that they
cannot be doubted, the principal oondition of
peace which Germany will insist upon. She
may demand other and greater guarantees;
certain it is, however, that she will not be
content with the dismantling of Metz and
Strasburg, as M. Jules Favre has suggested;
but means to take and to keep both.
This condition was resolved on long ago;
it was, indeed, duly considered and deter
mined upon Boon after the war began, and
was announced unofficially soon after the bat
tle of Gravelotte. On August 28 a correspon
dent of the Tribune held a long conversation
with Count Bismarck upon the subject of the
conditions of peace to be demanded. This
conversation was reported in full in the Tri
bune of September . After declaims that
he opposed the organization of Alsace and
Lorraine into a neutral State like Luxem
burg or Belgium, and did not desire to hold
them as unwilling members or conquered
provinces of the German nation, Count Bis
marck said:
There remains to us, then, as a third course, to
take Metz and Strasburg and to keep them. This
Is what we Bliall do. lUrasburg particularly is abso
lutely needful for the protection of Mouth (Jermanv.
which Is at the mercy of a French army. Ho long
as France possesses Strasbifrg there Is nothing to
stop a French Invading army. Now, It would be
very unfair if we were to leave our Bouth Uerman
brethren unprotected, after they have fought so
bravely and well by our side la this camnatga. Then,
again, by holding Strasburg we cou'd a'wavi prevent
any movement mi the Kii'ne. We should be able
not only to march an army by the valley of the Main
on Paris, but to take a French army marching on
Mavence or C'oblentz in flank and rear. So we have
besieged S'rasburg vigorously, and when we have
got the old Herman town back again we shall make
a Gibraltar of it."
The circular of Count Bi3marck now pub
lished simply reiterates these statements, and
gives additional arguments by which he seeks
to establish the justice of the demand to be
made. The right of the Germans, as the vic
tors in the struggle, to insist upon these
terms no one will deny, and no neutral
nation is likely to dispute, though it would
seem from the nature of the circular that
Count Bismarck fears as much. Its avowed
purpose is to thwart the efforts making by
M. Thiers to influence the neutral powers to
intervene, and it cannot but have a powerful
effect in restraining them, if any restraint be
needed.
Count Bismarck also announces that with
the domestio affairs of France Germany will
have nothing whatever to do. 11a will treat
with any responsible Government authorized
and strong enough to carry out the treaty
which it makes. But in the matter of the
future security of Germany from invasion he
evidently does not intend to rely on parch
ment promises. To the occupation of Metz
and btrasburg by Germany, I ranee will
eventually be forced to submit, for upon that
depends the security of Germany and, as
Bismarck strongly and rightly insists in his
circular, the peace of Europe.
THE FALL OF THE EMPEROR.
From the London Saturday Review.
The first impression made upon untravelled
experience by a tropical landscape of pre
eminent beauty, such as the harbor of Rio,
is, How picture-like! how unnatural! The
conditions of judgment are in like manner
reversed when we survey as a whole some
strange life or some exceptional and startling
chapter of history. A work or character of
fiction is credited with merit as being lifelike,
that is, when it fits into our ordinary expe
rience; but a man's life and career is judged
to be especially valuable or instructive if we
can only say of it that it has all the elements
of romance, that it is full of dramatic interest,
and presents the most picturesque surprises,
contrasts, or coincidences, or that it con
veys a moral, or points what we
eall some great lesson, or brings out
the award of a righteous Nemesis in the way
of retaliation or compensation. No doubt
the fall of the French Emperor will suggest,
or is suggesting, all sorts of parallels, moral
lessons, analogies, political sermons, and the
rest of it. Nor can it be denied that a good
deal may be fairly said in this direction, and
that the life of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is
a very illustrative one. But in analysing the
character of the man we may on either side
make many mistakes. We may attribute too
much of the recent history of Europe to him
personally; but it would be a great error to
take the other extreme, and find out all of a
sudden that we bad for all these years and
years been laboring under a mistake, and
that the great mystery-man and deep con
spirator and dark subtle intriguer was after
all a mere windbag and delusion. If nothing
is so succf ssf ul as success, nothing is so dis
astrous, in estimating character, as failure
The judgment is paralyzed equally by a
superhuman triumph or a superhuman break'
down. The dethroned Emperor is neither
the swmd.'er and adventurer of Mr. Kinglake,
nor the realization of Machiavelli's Prince;
and probably, when his history can be fairly
written, he will neither stand so high nor bo
low in the world's annals as his contempo
raries have plased him.
As far as his moral nature is concerned,
Louis Napoleon must be credited with a con
stitutional strength of will and a definite,
though not dignified, self-reliance. Under
other conditions, and with another sort of
education, Louis Napoleon might have been
a fanatic; and in a sense hewas a fanatio
that is, he had those elements of character
which, with superior gifts, go to the making
of a Cromwell or a Mahomet or a Napoleon
the Great. He believed in something deep
and abiding which presented itself as a btar,
or a Mission, or a Fate, or a Destiny, or
something which it was ordained for him to
do. . Constitutionally cold, morose, and per
haps timorous, he lacked what alone can en
noble fatalism, the fiie of fanaticism. He
believed in bis star, but he did not sur
render himself to the enthusiasm which car
ries the fanatio through. He was destined
to do something; but he chose for himself
the path of cunning, intrigue, conspiracy,
and double-dealing. It may be that his last
campaign was the true reflection of his life
long character, lie really believed thaj, it
was his mission to humble Germany, and
that war was his policy; he thoroughly be
lieved in this, but then some constitutional
weakness, some secret terror and mistrust.
kept him back from action at the supreme
moment of fate. Most likely his early life
was against him. His youth was that of a
dreamer of dreams. His first book was enti
tied Reveries J'olitiqueg&a it was some
Years before he got to his Jdees Napo
leeniennes ; and it was not till
after these maunderings and speculations
that he took up the active part of life in bis
Boulogne expedition of 1810. What made
the Second Empire was not the personal aud
individual energy, not the persevering am bl
tion, not the keen-sighted, far-reaching,
subtle policy of Louis Napoleon, but circum
stances over which he personally exercised
little control, and to the existence of which
he contributed nothing, but whioh be bad
sufficient cunning to turn to his own pur
pose. Louis Napoleon contributed nothing
to the . mismanagement of the Bourbon
restoration. : He certainly misappre
hended French feeling under the Citizen
King when he planned the Strasburg
cm cut, and when, undeterred by this
ridiculous blunder, he repeated it with exag
gerations on the shore of Boulogne in 1810.
The Revolution of 1848 owed nothing to the
heir of the Empire; neither its immediate
success nor its subsequent breakdown waa
manipulated by the man who is sometimes
sainted as the Arch-Conspirator of Europe.
In the long run events played themselves into
his hands, and he became Deputy, President,
Dictator, Emperor. But all along he made
use of the events, he did but little, and that
not boldly, to create them. No doubt he
doggedly kept in view one, and a de
finite, object that is, the reaggraudizement
of Bonapartism; and he clung to this per
sistently, obstinately, doggedly, but with very
little poiiey. He was one of the Italian car
bonari; the chivalrous imitator of the Eng
lish Pretender, the defender of order, aud
the author of the coup d'etat of 1851. But he
tried all these things by turn, tentatively and
experimentally, because the situation created
them, and he availed himself of the situation
and worked it. The situation he never cre
ated. He meant to restore Napoleon
ism : but in a haphazard wav he
availed himself of chances, more
often faihnes than successes, which
might perhaps tend to this same end. But
this is not a supreme mind; the supreme
mind is not only to have one great endand
in a sense that one end Louis Napoleon had
but also to know the means to acquire that
end. Ihe great man Is he who never blun
ders. Louis Napoleon has repeatedly blun
dered, and of course, at last, once too often.
Although such considerations detract very
considerably from greatness of character,
they at the same time account for, and in a
sense extenuate, the worst features of the
late Emperor's career. The most serious
consideration urged against the second em
pire is that it has demoralized France; aad
the accusation is quite true. But then it
must be remembered that Jt ranee has always
been demoralized. Louis XIV and old feu
dalism demoralized France, under the Revo
lution, because it destroyed but did not
create, 1 ranee was submitted to another
stage of demoralization; the first
empire most fatally demoralized France,
so did the Kestoration; so did the
Citizen King and M. Guizot; and we have yet
to learn the services to political and national
morality rendered by Ledru llollin and his
colleagues of the Kevolution of 1848. What
Louis Napoleon did was to accept French de
moralization and turn it to bis own pnrp m
and to increase it; to add one sort of domo
ralization to another, and to turn the existing
situation to his own purpose. He lived from
hand to mouth, and undoubtedly it was his
own mouth. Cavaignao was very likely an
honest man, and Lamartine a feather-brained
enthusiast; but Louis Napoleon did not set
up for being more than fated to restore Na
poleonic Casarism; and as he had no good
elements to work with, he worked with bad
ones, and so long as he gained his purpose
he never scrupled to make them worse. His
worst crime, that of the coup d'etat, was proba
bly judged accurately by Lord Palmerstou,
who remarked that as the co-existence of the
President and the Assembly was an impossi
bility, it would be better that of the t o the
President should prevail. The solid objection
to the second empire is that it did not regene
rate A rench politioal life; it may be feared
that the sad answer is that French political
life is incapable of anything worth calling
regeneration; Louis Napoleon s excuse is that
he did not undertake the impossible, and
only did what he could under the circum
stances, which were no creation of his. It
may, and must, be answered that the mission
of a great man is to give the political life of
his country those elements of stability, truth,
and morality in which it is deficient; but our
contention is that the Emperor was not a great
man nor an honest man, and did not pretend
to be a great man or even an honest one. In
stead of reforming French publio life, he
played into and used for his own ends its worst
characteristics. What he found was an in
tense, absorbing love of glory and aggran
dizement in publio and social life, and cor
ruption and intrigue and jobbery in political
life. These were the legacies of the First
Empire and to some extent of the Citizen
King. This is what he found, this is what he
used; and certainly the fall of the empire will
not clear away these black clouds. The new
Republio, if it may be called a Government
at all, has at present but one profession and
one principle, that is, to carry on the war,
which is, in other words, to carry on the prin
ciple upon whioh imperialism anchored itself
the passionate love of military glory and
the claim to European sovereignty. No
words can be too strong ip condemn the evils
of imperialism; but it may be fairly con
sidered whether imperialism latent, but real
did not quite as much create the late Em-
eror as Louis Napoleon created imperialism.
Ie worked it, and worked it only as it can
be worked, to evil; but he did not create the
evil, or perhaps the necessity for it.
It is just possible that there may be a dim
balf-conscious sense of this truth in the
French mind at this moment. Paris, and we
suppose France too, is execrating the fallen
Emperor; but after a few fitful and disas
trous experiments with republicanism it will,
unless Prussia can give France a new mind
or character, be just as Imperial au fond as
before. Even so-called Constitutionalists,
such as Thiers and Guizot and, for the
matter of that, MM. Favre and Gambetta
are, as regards the duty and necessity
of carrying on the war, at one with
Rouher and the Duke of Gramont. France
has been a menace to Europe for many a
long year, but the French people would have
it so; and in exhausting our indignation on
the empire, let us not forget what made the
empire and Ciesarism. In many respects the
Emperor personally is deserving of commise
ration. Shattered in body and mind, and de
prived of the men of genius who all along
have bad more to do with the success of the
empire than the Emperor himself, the De
Mornys, Walewskis, and Tbouvenels of
his palmy days deserted and reviled by
those, the millions of France, to whose evU
passions it was his worst fault that he pan
dered although we must judge the Emperor
harshly, it is only fair to interpose the cau
tious hint that after all at his worst he was
but an instrument of France. And Franca
as yet shows no signs of being better, or of
learning wisdom even by the stern sohooling
of adversity and of military disasters which
have no parallel in history. The monkey fit
is now on Paris. Like spiteful children they
are breaking their toys, and with a total lack
of dignity they exhibit a most deplorable de
ficiency of common cause. It is easy to break
the Emperor's busts, to scratch oat the impe
rial cipher, and to trample on the eagles, but
it would be more to the purpose to pluok out
the imperialism, whether impersonated in
Louis Napoleon or in the Provisional Govern
ment, which is festering aad eating out the
heart of the nation.
special' notices.
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.CITY.
RECEIVER OF TAXES:
ROBERT H. BEATTY.
city commissioner:
CAPTAIN JAMES BAIN.
CONGRESSIONAL.
1st District BENJAMIN HUCKEL.
Sd
8d
4th
Cth
HON. CHARLES O'NEILL.
HON. LEONARD MYERS.
DON. WILLIAM D. KELLEY.
ALFRED C. HARMER.
senator third district:
BENJAMIN W. THOMAS.
ASSEMBLY.
1st District SAMUEL P. THOMSON
2d " WILLIAM H. STEVENSON.
3d WILLIAM KELLEY.
4th " WILLIAM ELLIOTT.
5th WILLIAM DUFFY.
6th ' COL. CBARLES KLECKNER.
7th " ROLERT JOHNSON.
8th WILLIAM L. MARSHALL,
9th " WILLIAM H. PORTER.
10th " JOHN E. REYBURN.
11th " SAMUEL M. HA.QER.
12th " JOHN LAMON.
13th " JOHN DUMB ELK
14th " JOHN CLOUD.
15th " ADAM ALBRIGHT.
16th " WILLIAM F. SMITH.
17th " WATSON COMLY.
18th JAMES MILLER.
By order of the City Executive Committee.
JOHN L. HILL, President.
k ??S) Secretaries.
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gs- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Utneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation or a Bank, In ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled 1 HE CIIESNUT STREET BANK, to be
located at raiiaaeipnia, wan a capital or one nun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to increase the
same to nve hundred thousand dollars
gy- OFFICE OF THE FRANKLIN FIRE IN-
SURANCE COMPANY, Philadelphia, Sept.
17,1870.
An election for Ten Directors, to serve during the
ensuing year, will be held, agreeably to charter, at
the ortlce of the Company, on MONDAY, October 8,
1870, between the hours of 11 A. M. and 9 P. M.
9 19 13t J. W. MCALLISTER, Secretary.
gy 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 ef a Bank, in
accordance with the laws or the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
five hundred thousand dollars.
gjp NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AP
plication will be made to the Treasurer of the
City of Philadelphia for the Issue of a new certlQ
cate of City Loan In the place of one whioh has
been lost or mislaid, viz., No. 15,169 (Bounty Loan,
No. S) for Five Hundred Dollars, lu the name of
Susanna Orr, Executrix. JAMES W. PAUL,
8 24 6w Attorney of Susanna Orr.
gy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania tor the Incorporation of a Bank, in
accordance with the laws or the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CUESNUT HILL SAVINGS AND
LOAN HANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital or one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to
tao hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
tgy T . W . B A I L Y b
MW Old-established WATCH AND JEWELRY
Store, No. 6ii MARKET Street, six doors below
Seventh street. Amertcan and Imported Watches,
Diamonds, and fine Gold Jewelry and Silver Ware,
in every variety, at reasonaole prices, and warranted.
N. B. Please call and examine our stock. No
trouble to show goods. 9 81m
gy- NOTlCEIS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
or the General Assembly or the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank-, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwe lth, to
be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKING
COMPANY, to be locate at Philadelphia, with a
capital of one million dtllara, with the right to lu
ciease the same to five million dollars.
TREGO'S TEABERRT TOOTH WASH.
It is the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant. Warranted free from Injurious ingredients.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth 1
Invigorates and Soothes the Gums I
Purines and Perfumes the Breath !
Prevents Accumulation of Tartar!
Cleanses and Purities Artificial Teeth I
Is a Superior Article for Children 1
bold by ail druggists ana aenusm.
M. WILSON. DrHBfirist. Proprietor.
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Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT St, Phtlada,
aga- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly ol the Commoawealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation or a Bank, in ac
cordance with the laws or the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE JEFFERSON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the same
to five hundred thousand dollars.
B ATCn ELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS SPLEN
did Hair live is the best In the world, the only
true and perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable Instan
taneous no disappointment no rldiculoua tints
"Does not contain Lead nor any Vitalio i'oinon to in
jure the Uair or Sortem." Invigorates the Hair and
leaves It soft and beautiful ; Black or Brown.
Sold by all Druggists and dealers. Applied at the
Factory, No. 16 BOND Street, New York, uaiinwft
j- THE UNION FIRS EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. . Always Reliable,
D. T. GAGS,
0 80 tf No. 118 MARKET St., General Agent.
QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
co LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.
CAPITAL. Jtt.000,000.
SABINE, ALLEN fc DULLES, Agents,
vi ii . vat a i v i w n bi.UI1t
85
FIFTH and WALNliP Streets.
tW- MUSIO SCHOOL MRS. ANNIE E. SIMP.
PON will open lier Music School at No. 117 N.
TWENTY-FIRST Street (corner of Tower) on SEP
TKMliEli 170. Instruction on Piano and Caii.
net Organ aud la Shiguig ad Uariuonr. ti lui
6PEOIAL, NOTIOE8.
ty- LAW. DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OP
w PIKIIIlTI ViKIl A farm will luln am
MONDAY, October 8. Introductory Lotare by
Hon. J. I. ULAKK UAKU at 8 o'clock 1L t H St
gy- WARDALR O. M 0 A L L I 8 TB fi,
A (tnrnn a nrl llminin'lnr At Taar
No. $03 BROADWAY,
New York,
ter HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
m wmia witu inmu itrvu-viiui vwa. uwihvw
no Mia. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, foraiorlr aomtor t iha
Oolton Dwatal Rooma, darotaa bi aatira praotioa to tba
ritniaaa attraction of toato. OfBoa. No. tU WALNUT
Btraat. IW
HOUITIOAL..
gQf FOR SHERIFF)
WILLIAM U. LEEDS,
TENTH WARD.
T 11 tf
g FOR REGISTER OF WILLS,
1370,
WILLIAM M. BURR,
SIXTEENTH WARD.
Late Private Company F,
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EDUCATIONAL..
CARL OAERTNER'S NATIONAL CONSERVA
TORY OF MUSIC, 8. E. corner TENTH and
WALNUT Streets, is now open lor the Fourth Sea
son ror the reception or pupils. Instruction Is gtven
by a stait or the best Professors In the city In the
following branches:
Vocal Music, Piano, Violin, Viola, Violoncello,
Contra Bass, Theory of Harmony, (1 rand Organ (or
Church Organ), Cabinet Organ, Melodeon, Flute,
Clarionet, Oboe, Bassoon, Horn, Cornet, Trombone,
Harp, Uuitar, etc., etc., and in the Italian, Ueruiau,
French, and Spanish Languages.
For particulars see circulars to be had at the Office
of the Conservatory and in the Music Stores.
The Director or the Conservatory takes this oppor
tunity to express his sincere gratification at the suc
cors which has attended his efforts to establish this
Institution in Philadelphia on a permanent basis and
with the prospect or continued prosperity.
He would likewise declare his gratitude to the
many kind friends among the students and else
where, whose Interest In the cause of thorough in
struction in the art and science of music has as
sisted so materially in bringing the Conservatory to
Its present state of usefulness.
He can only promise in return that his devotion to
the object of raising the Institution under his care
to a high place among the great Music Schools or
the world shall be as it has been the controlling
influence at the Conservatory.
CARL GAERTNER,
9 121m Director and Proprietor.
nlf. I.AUIi:iKIE A4JIIH
ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS,
ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS,
No. lOd South TENTH Street.
A Primary, Elementary, and Finishing School.
Thorough preparation for Business or College.
Special attention given to Commercial Arithmetic
and all kinds of Business Calculations.
French and German, Linear and Perspective
Drawing, Elocution, English Composition, Natural
Science.
FIELD PRACTICE In Surveying and Civil Engl,
neerlng, with the use of all requisite Instruments,
Is given to the higher classes in Mathematics.
A first-alass Primary 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 P. M. 3 80
Fall term will begin September 12.
Circulars at Mr. warburton's, No. 430 Cheannt st.
ALLOWELL SELECT HIGH SCHOOL FOR
Young Men and Boys, which has been re
moved from No. 110 N. Tenth street, will be opened
on September 12 in the new and more commodious
buildings Nob. 112 and 114 N. NINTH Street. Neither
effort nor expense has been fcpared In fitting up the
rooms, to make this a first-class school of the highest
graae.
A Preparatory Department la connected with the
school. Parents and students are Invited to call
and examine the rooms and consult the Principals
from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. after August 16.
GEORGE EAisTBURN, A. B.,
JOHN G. MOORE, M. S.t
817tf Principals.
HAMILTON INSTI TUTE FOR YOUNG LADIES,
No. 3810 CIIESNUT Street, West Philadel
pliia. Day and Boarding School. This institution,
having successfully completed its fourth ycr, has
become one of the established schools or our city.
Its course or study includes a thorough English and
Classical Education, embracing Mental, Moral, and
Physical culture.
Its ninth session will open on MONDAY, Septem
ber 12. For terms, etc, apply at the school.
8 29tr PHILIP A. CREOAR, Principal.
rpiIE DRAWING- SCHOOL OF THE FRANK
JL LIN INSTITUTE Will open on MONDAY,
September 26, and continue on MONDAY,
WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY EVENINGS, from
7 to 9 o'clock, for twenty-four weeks, under the
superintendence of Prof. JOHN KERN.
TERMS Five dollars per quarter. Puoils under
21 years of age can attend the lectures of the Insti
tute on the payment of one dollar.
For tickets apply at the Hail, No. 18 South SE
VENTH Street. WILLIAM HAMILTON,
9 20 6t Actuary.
IMLDON SEMINARY. MISS CARR'S SELECT
j Boarding School for Young Ladles will HO
OPEN SEPTEMBER 14, 1870.
It is situated at the York Road Station of the
North Pennsylvania Railroad, seven miles from
Philadelphia.
The Principal may be consulted personally at her
residence during the summer, or by letter addressed
to Shoemakertown Post Oifice, Montgomery county,
Pa. Circulars can be obtained also at the office of
JAY COOKE & OO.,
8 8 Bankers, Philadelphia,
"p-D G E II I L L SCH O O'L,
MERCHANTVILLE, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
Next session begins MONDAY, October 3.
For circulars apply to
3 21 ly
Rev. T. W. CAT TELL.
VOUNG MEN AND BOYS' ENGLISH CLASSI
1 CAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE, No.
1908 MOUNT VERNON Street, reopens September
6 Thorough preparation for BubImus or College.
Has a Preparatory Department for small Boys.
8 87 lm Rev. J. G. SH1NN, A. M., Principal.
CH EGA KAY INSTITUTE, Nos. 1527 AND
SPRUCE Strast, Philadelphia, will raopan on
TU&&DAY. Baptoiuber 10. Eraoob i tba Ungoaga of tb
ln.i)v anri la Min.lArt.l, aDnkan in tha inatituLa.
i lb mtva 6m
J'
ANE M. HARPER WILL) REOPEN HER
School for Bovs and Girls, N. W. corner of
EIGHTEENTH and CUESNUT Streets, on the 14th
of vth month (September), 1870. Ages 6 to 13. 9 8 lm
MISS '3 FN N I E TTB ECICT E ACHE R0 F THE
PIANO-FORTE, No. 746 FLORIDA Street,
will resume her duties September 1. 9 IB lm
nnUE CLASSICAL INSTITUTE. DEAN STREET.
above Spruce, will be re-opened September 6LU.
1 2m J W. FA IRKS, D. D., PrtnctpaL
822
fir A A YEAR HOARD AND TUITION AT
IOU THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY, BERLIN,
J. f
C OURTLAND SAUNDERS COLLEOE, FOR
Young Men, Youth, and Small Boys, Phlia. 6 23t
PIANIST FOR MUSICAL ENTERTAINMET8
or Dancing Soirees, No. 110 S. ELEVENTH
Street. 13 81 lm
Reference Mr. Boner. No. 1102 Cheannt atreet.
WHISKY. WINE, ETC
QAR8TAII10 A McCALL,
Ko. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Cti.
IMPORTERS OV
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc,
WHOLKSALB DEALERS U
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
UIBOWI AMP TAJ PAtP. tM
ViriLUAM ANDERbON A CO., DEALERS IM
v v ine w nisKiea,
No, 146 North SECOND Street,
Philadelphia,
JOHN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MEB-
tf chtDtt apdiManofaotarara of Oanaataaa Ttokma. f.
a. aJ yUk.AU'.' aa PtU-laivUa. lata