4 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1870. Evening SHjcIcgtapIi SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1870. INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION. One of the healthiest signs of the times i' the independent political aotion that is mtni feited in various sections of the State. B id nominations, foroed upon parties by profes sional political managers, have been bo'.ted by leading, politicians and presses with a manliness and earnestness that are positively refreshing, after the successive years of de bauchery to which the paople have been sub jected under the party lash. The leading Republican paper of Western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburg Commercial, is supporting an entire independent Republican ticket in that County, and in accord with it is quite a number of leading Republican politicians. In Beaver there is an open Republican bolt, supported by the Argus, the old established organ, and In Erie and Crawford there is a torrent of Republican bolting on Legislative and other local tickets. In Dauphin there is a square bolt against Legislative, Treasury, and Sena torial rings, and in the neighboring Senato rial district of Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware a positive bolt is in progress. In this city every Republican paper, and every journal of Republican proclivities, has spoken out independently against improper nomina tions, and not one pretends to support the entire general and local ticket, regardless of the fitness of the candidates. On the contrary, Certain legislative candidates, publicly known as active members of the legislative "rings" and legislative junk-shops, have been pronounced by the entire press of the city as Unworthy of public confidence, and without claims upon honest voters, however or by Whomsoever nominated. We repeat that these indications proclaim a growing purpose on the part of fair-minded Citizens to disregard party ties, and defeat nominations made by trickery. Until such in dependent action becomes the rule amongst the better classes of all parties, there can oe no hope of preventing the supremacy of pro fessional managers and the continued nomi nation of incompetent and unworthy can didates. Just so long as Buch can didates can be forced through under the party lash, just so long will bad men maintain their power in political parties, and just so long will com petent and faithful men be rejected by con ventions. The true remedy is being applied this year very generally throughout the country, end the time is at hand when un worthy nominations will have no sanctity with the people. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The first great requisite of a successful re publio is that it shall be the form of govern ment preferred by a majority of the people Bubjected to its rule. If they are too igno rant, too fickle, too fearful, too closely Wedded to old despotisms, or too much preju diced against a system which nominally vests supreme power in their own hands, to cor dially endorse a republio, it cannot perma nently endure. We may forbid one man from enslaving another, but we cannot pre vent either individuals or nations from volun tarily enslaving themselves if they are deaf to the arguments of reason and blind to the attractions of rational liberty. This sort of indifference or hostility of a large portion of the people oT France to self-rule is the greatest barrier to the permanent establishment of a lonaf.de republio in that country. The men who constitute the present Provisional Govern ment hold tomporary power only by tacit consent, and if they attempt to prolong their rule, after the existing ' exigencies are sur mounted in some fashion, without obtaining explicit authority from the people for whom they presume to act, they will be usurpers despite a superabundance of liberal professions and despite the avowal of a warm attachment to republican prin ciples. Yet if they order an election it is alleged that a vast majority of the French voters, and especially of the peasantry, will favor the restoration of the Empire, notwith standing its flagrant crimes and its tragical blunders. Such folly seems as incredible as it is inexcusable, but if we take away from republicanism the doctrine that the will of the majority must prevail, what remains? And if the mass is so stupid or so stubborn as to be wedded to imperial idols, what right have the enlightened few who desire better things to impose their yoke - upon an unprepared and an ' unwilling constituency? A true government of the people for the people can only be established with their free consent and maintained by their cordial co-operation, and when a small body of men impose their rule by sheer force or fraud upon the masses, they have no right' to claim that a true republio is established by Such an unwarrantable proceeding. The radicals of Paris, however, contend that henceforth France ' must be a republio whe ther her people approve republicanism or condemn it, and some of them claim that this question should not even be submitted to a vote. Their doctrine, as proclaimed in Le Jtappel, is a political curiosity, for that journal alleges that "The republio is above universal suffrage. It is not voted; It it. The single republican suffices to con stitute the universal republio. The republio is the sovereignty of the individual himself. This sovereignty is not disoussed, is not voted upon, is not proclaimed; above all votes, beyond all votes, before as well as after all Votes, the republio was, is, and shall be." Few Americana would venture upon the ad vocacy of this sweeping principle. With all our love for republicanism, we- cannot see how it is to be established without the con sent of the governed. ' .The first great step is to secure this, and if the liberal orators and writers of France cannot make the bone and inew of the land prefer light to darkness, and liberty lo tyranny, there is but a.pojr prospect for. the permanent establishment of a genuine republio. Another obstacle to the success of the pre sent experiment is the disposition manifested in some quarters to confound liberty with license. The Paris correspondents tell of one man who thought that the establishment of a republio gave him the right to murder his wife, of others who thought that the change in the government necessarily brought with it exorbitant wages, and of others who claimed the privilege of eating the food and drinking the wine of the cafes without going through the formality of paying the proprietors. Some of these demonstrations were no doubt mere momentary excesses, but agrarianism in some of its most odious forms is openly advocated by an influential school of French republicans, and the true men of the nation are compelled to combat those who favor these excesses on the one hand, while they are struggling against the ignorance, prejudice, and intrigues of the weak and the wicked devotees of old tyrannies on the other. To evolve out of such discordant and dangerous elements, at a time when foreign invasion intensifies all other evils, a great and firm republio is one of the mightiest tasks ever attempted; and if the present effort suc ceeds, too much praise cannot be given to the men who ensure its success. A despatch from Washington states that the Treasury Department has prepared rules and regulations for putting in force the new act of Congress providing for the transporta tion of imported goods from the original port of entry to the port of destination before the ascertainment and liquidation of duties. The act is not in all respects as favorable to the interior cities as it should be, but it will nevertheless furnish a good basis for the re form which has so long been needed; and if the opportunities it offers are properly im proved by Philadelphia merchants, it will render great service in developing and ex panding the commercial interests of this city. We have little doubt that amendments to the present law will be made from time to time as they are shown to be necessary, and that eventually the importations of the nation, instead of being concentrated, will be fairly divided among the cities to whieh they legitimately belong, and under this system the imports of Philadelphia will be but a trifle smaller than those of New York. We are afraid that the great battle near Paris, in which the army of the Crown Prince is reported, in a special despatch to. the New York World, to have been defeated, will turn out very much like the Saarbruok affair, with whizh the French opened the campaign. The army of defense in Paris consists of the demoralized fragments of MacMahon's and other divisions which have managed to escape from the Prussians, with hastily armed citizens, who may make a gal lant defense from behind the fortifications, but who are scarcely likely to achieve a de cided success in the open field, even if Gene ral Trochu should be bo imprudent as to hazard a battle. The rumor of the great French victory should therefore be received cum grano salts until more definite informa tion is sent over the cable with regard to it. TnK Takiff of Enp.land, say9 the Chicago Bureau, yields XJl.002,414 sterling, or 1109,000,000. Of this sum, over $54,000,000, or more than one-half, Is raised from the tariir on tobacco and spirits, viz. : 132,718,300 on tobacco and bruit, and t2t,CG7,.v on spirits. Both these taxes discriminate heavily against American producers of tobacco and grtln, the latter being the raw material of spirits. Wire the revenue which England now raises on spirits and tobacco raised on French and Prussian manu factures instead, much American corn, rye, ami po tatoes that are now excluded from English markets n their raw form by their bulk, and in their manu factured form by the duty, would enter them at a profit to the American farmer. Tobacco is almost exclusively an American product, and spirits are the natural export and first manufacture of an agricultural country. In the main, therefore, the 154,000,000 of revenue ra'sed by England from these two staples la a discriminating tax on American productions. Our tobacco producers take a price for their tobacco which is largely dlmlnlihed by the duty, and our grain raisers and distillers are shut out of the English market, so far as the trale In the grain for distilling is concerned. This Is the way England gives us free trade on our exports. The remainder of the English tariff la levied on tea. coffee, cocoa, sugar, molasses, and chicory, all tropical or oriental products. The dlscrlminatloi of the English tariff is mainly against American agricultural products. For, these English taxes in. crease the price In England of the American arti cles on which they rest by the amount of the tax, and, as Dr. Wajland. remans In his 'Political Economy," page 137: "As the price or the article is Increased, the demand for the article Is diminished ; there will therefore be less of the article produced, because less of It Is wanted. By all this diminution is the demand for labor diminished, the price of labor must therefore fall, and the stimulus to labor be, by so much, diminished." CHOICE CIGARS. Already la store, for sale, a complete assortment of The Finest Imported ADD DOMESTIC CIGARS, Which we offer by the box as low as possible. E. BRADFORD CLARKE, SUCCESSOR TO SIMON COLTON & CLARKE, 8. W. Comer BROAD and WALNUT, 81thBtutf4p PHILADELPHIA. DRV GOODS. DREXEL & CO., No. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET, American and Foreign Hankers. Issue Letters of Credit for Travellers, entitling the holders to draw on LONDON, PARIS or BAbLE, Switzerland. Also, available throughout the United States. Draw at sigh an1 by telegraph on BATHER & CO., Ban Franclpco. Deal in Gold and Government and other Securities. Receive Oold and Currency deposits subject to draft at elyht. Vrezel, Wwthrop & Co.ADreiel, Uarjes Co. No. 18 Wall Street, No. Hub tJcriue, New lork. Paris. Le Boutillier Brothers, IMPORTERS OF DRY GOODS, No. 012 CHE8NUT Street. Alterations Completed. GOOD STRONG LIGHT IN EVERY TART OF THE STORE. FULL ASSORTMENT OF DRKSS GOODS, HOSIERV, GLOVE3, IACK3, EMMIOIDERIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, RIB BONS, CLOTHS, WATER-PROOFS. OoR DUROYS, VELVETEENS, SILKS, SATIKS, VELVETS. SHAWLS, READY-MADK SUITS, WATER-PROOF SACQUE3 AND CLOAKS. Special purchase of BLACK SILKS and FANCY COLORED SILKS, bought by a member of the Arm la Lyons during the panic there. Superior quality of ENGLISH BLACK SILKS, made to our order. The finest exhibition of SASH RIBBONS Ever offeied In Philadelphia. A. NEW XJCA.TURE! Manufacturing Department. LE BOUT1LLER BROTHERS have purchased the WHEELER A WILSON SEWING ROOM, and are now prepared to continue the business esta blUhed by Messrs. Peterson A Carpenter. sruciAL. GENTS' SCARFS AND NECKTIES made by us from tifty varieties of Rich Silks imported for the purpose. All new styles retailing at less than whole sale prices. into cm: Ht'iurs, Hand-made, of the beat Pans Borderlngs, from 4 to 22 inches wide. OtR GOODS ARE ALL NEW. PLACED IN STOlK AT VBRY LOW PRICES, AND WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT KEiiARD TO ANY.' POSSIBLE ADVANCE OK SOAhUlll. LE BOUTILLIER BROTHERS Nj. 912 CftESNUT STREET, It PHILADELPHIA. JOHN W. THOMAS, 405 and 407 N. SECOND St., Das now la store full lines of PIM BROS' FIRST QUALITY IRISH POPLINS. FRENCH SILK AND WOOL POPLINS. PLAID SERGES. PLAID CLOTHS FOR LADIES' SUITS. PLAIDS FOR MISSES AND CHILDREN. Etc Etc. Etc. Alio this season's importations, and will be sold at low prices. 9 84 8tuth4p3m OLOTHINQi ANNIVERSARY OCCASION. The 1st Day of October, 1870, Brings the Great Clothing House of ROCKHILL & WILSON to its Hit birthday. IN TnE YEAR 1SW, on the 1st of October, the Tailoring and Clothing business of this honse was commenced In a small room In an obscure locality. rrvfTTAT its business was done In a room twelve by fifteen. "VTTf It fills the magnificent structure AJ v known as the Great Brown HilL rp J-J J" 11 was m an ont-Mne-way Place. " rrv"iT it Is in the best part of the most JLi J Y fashionable thoroughfare in the city. rpTTT? XT R bad only a few friends and a very llilXN limited credit Its cash capital was exactly $115. VT''W it bas pecuniary force enough to XN J 1 V drive the heaviest Custom and Ready-made Engine In the city. Its credit is unlimited on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. few cloth rpTTT7"J 11 depended on a very X Xllld i bouses for its supplies. TVTi WT tne mll,s f tnls country and of Eu J V rope clamor for Its custom. rpTTT? XT its business amounted to a few hun X -L-lXy 1 dred dollars a year. XTQY It amounts to MILLIONS. AND NOW you gentlemen of the present age have a fine opportunity to select from an ixvxxvxxjnsx: STOCIt of the finest aid most beautiful of FALIi XLAXXVXBtfT at the lowest prices. " COME AND SELECT. GREAT BROWN 1IALI, 603 and 605 CHESNTJT STREET. iTBAWBKIBGE & CLOT CLOTH BEPABTMEMT. Our FALL SXCCZC is now fully open, and compris)s all the Staple Goods and Novelties of the day. VELVETEENS! VELVETEENS! VELVETEENS! ZLcse popnlar goodsso difficult to procure in the right shades, have teen selected by us this season with great care out of the best makes imported, and we now confidently invite inspection . The finer grades can scarcely be distinguished from LYONS VELVETS. WHITE CORDUROYS! WHITE CORDUROYS! In every style and fabric. Blue Corduroys, Brown Corduroys. Fancy Cloths in every color. Black, Ocarlet, White, Maroon, Blue, Brown, Creen, Dahlia. WE HAVE WHITE CLOTHS For Opera purposes and Children's wear, in great variety. XVXanv of ike above goods are of French manufacture, and csnnot be duplicate!. WATER PR00E CLOAKING. Our Stock comprises about twenty different makes, in as many qtalitics, rangin? from 88c. to 0200 per yard in Domestic Goo Is up to $350 In Foreign. Selling large quantities of these goods, we can offer Inducement! to purchasers not found elsewhere. We offer, at present;: finely QSSorted Stock HOT SURPASSED by any retai i onse in the United States. 5 he principal colors are Black and White, Cold Mixed, Creen. Blue, Brown, IN WINTER CLOAKIIMCS We shall, in a few days, ofer our owa importations, ordered early last spring, and much below present prices. STRAWBRIBGE & CLOTHIER N. W. CORNER EIGHTH AND MARKET STREETS,
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