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THE SORROWS OF PHILADELPHIA.
From the X. T. World.
It is but a few days since it was our plea
Bant duty to congratulate Chicago upon her
triumph, as it in now our paiDful duty to
condole with Philadelphia upon her dofeat,
in the matter of athletic sports. Neither
Chicago nor Philadelphia is a city from
which one would anticipate great achieve
ments in this direction. A community which
only relaxes its employment of making or
losing money to bolt indigestible viands is
not a community of Homeric heroes. But
neither is a community whicU employs its
brief intervals of wakefulness in pacing, with
measured step and hIow, between rows of i
sarcophagi in the similitude of human dwell
ings, and whose wildest diversion is to croa'd
its Academy miscalled of Music to hoar the
bodings of Anna Dickinson, as its stated dis
sipation is to read the riddleof "Occasional."
No rational Phidias would betake himself to
either town in search of a model for a winner
of the Olympian games.
Nevertheless there is a certain fitness in
the proposition that, if the scions of the first
families of Philadelphia wero to addict thein
solves to any physical pastime, it should be
to the game of cricket. . Jean Ingelow tells
ns that there are certain
"Sounds which more than silence bring;
Itself and Its Uellghtsomeness.''
Upon the same principle we may say that
if there were exercises lazier than rest, and
pleasures bitter with a bitterness beyond the
roach of grief, Philadelphia would "think on
these things." As the "lilies and languors of
virtuo" decried by Mr. Swinburne are to the
"raptures and roses of vice" celebrated by
that bard, so is the gentle and respectable
dulncHS of Philadelphian relaxation to the
fevered and disorderly hilarity of Chicago.
Far be it from us to malign the ancient and
honorable game, rather than the religious
rite, of cricket. But it in notable that not
only is Philadelphia the only American capi
tal of which the athletie citizens have not
been impatient of its languor and its length,
but that it has been the fondest boast of
Philadelphia that her indigenous cricketers
were overmatched for the imported cricketers
of New York. By so much was the stolidity
of Britain supposed to be surpassed by the
phlegm of Philadelphia.
But now the sole athletic glory of Phila
delphia has departed, and her elected eleven
Lave defiled before her saddened eyes under
the British yoke. The fact that Britons resi-.
dent for the most part in New York have
brought this Bhameful thing to pass has natu
rally ad Jed bitterness to the cup of her defeat.
But we have not the slightest disposition to
exult over that fact, and we may recommend
even to fallen Philadelphia not to mourn as
those having no hope. So much more ardent
is the national patriotism than the municipal
pride of New York that it Mill be a matter of
eenoral rejoicing within her gates that, in the
pastimes in which the old French chronicler
related the English to take their pleasures
Badly, the sadness of a veteran Englishman is
proved to be more profoundly gloomy than
the sadDess of a "Young American," even
though that young American be a partaker
of the drowsy and dreary sadness of Phila-
aeipuia.
THE PRESIDENTIAL POLICY OF GENE
RAL GRANT.
Frotn the London Spectator.
The fall elections of Congressmen in the
United States are now pending, and some
sharp contests are anticipated, for although
the people are not immediately divided on
any important questions of principle, the bit
terness of party dissensions between Republi
cans and Democrats is as keen as it ever was.
The issue that is now placed before the
American people is a personal one, and in
choosing between Democratic and Republican
candidates, the electors of the States simply
say "Ay" or "No" to the question, "Are yon
content with General Grant's administra
tion ?" At South Bend, in the State of In
diana, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, the Vice-President
of the Union, has been making
a powerful defense of the Govern
ment before a meeting of his old
constituents. Mr. Colfax does not come
forward as a candidate, and indeed,
after a publio service of twenty years, he an
nounces his intention of retiring from publio
life at the close of his term of service. Gene
ral Grant, be thinks, will be renominated
for the Presidency for 1872, and the country
will then expect to have an Eastern or South
ern Vice-President joined in the nomination
with the Western President. Mr. Colfax,
himself a Western man, waives his claim to
re-election, but before quitting the scene of
political conflict in his native State, he has
put on reoord an able defense of
the President's policy against the
charges of the electioneering Democrats.
Mr. Colfax has held the highest place in
Congress; for six years he was Speaker of
the House of Representatives, and was only
removed thence to take the chair in the
Senate as Vice-President. His statements
may be received with confidence in matters
of fact, and though English Liberals will not
find it easy to agree with some of his conclu
sions particularly in questions of fiscal
policy they will, on the whole, acknowledge
that he has made out his case and proved
"that the confidence reposed by the majority
of the people, in 180, in the election of a
Republican President and a Republican Con
gress has not been misplaced."
General Grant was elected upon certain
professions of political faith Raich Mr. Col
fax enumerates. The more important are:
"Equal civil and political rights for all under
our national authority;" "the condemnation
of all forms and plans of direct or indirect
repudiation of the debt &3 a national crime;"
"the equalization and reduction of taxation;"
"the reduction of the rate of interest on the
public debt as soon as refunding became
honestly possible;" and "administrative re
trenchment." Besides these important and
practical pledges, there were others of a more
sentimental character; "peace" and sympa
thy with oppressed peoples," "amnesty to
all who co-operate in restoring con
cord in the South," and "the
European doctrine of 'once a subject always
a subject' to be resisted at every hazard,"
"foreign emigration to be fostered," and
"pensions to be ever considered as sasred
obligations." These were the promises that
General Grant made to the people when he
obtained power. The Democrats who .now
assail his administration offered a determined
opposition to the performance of several of
these pledges, they still challenge the policy
of others; and with respect to the rest, they
insist that the President and Lis advisers have
not kept faith with the nation. Mr. Colfax
traverses all the points of the Republican
programme, and proves by facta how tho
roughly it has been carried out.
The great struggle for seouring "equal
civil and political rights to all'' has at last
been brought to an end by enactment of the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitution.
Like the thirteenth amendment, which wiped
out the Btain of slavery, end the fourteenth
amendment, which gave the negro civil
equality before the law, the fifteenth amend
ment, which forbids that race or color should
anywhere be made a ground of political disa
bility, was carried in tha teeth of a violent
Democratic opposition. The diQlculties,
however, were overcome, and the assurance
of the Republican programme in lsi;s, "we
will make the Declaration of Independence a
living reality on every inch of American
soil, was Dobly accomplished. Against this
part of President Grant's work it is vain for
the Democrats to protest now, ho they pass
it by in silence. But it is nevertheless a
pledge redeemed, and one of the greatest.
Next in importance is the question of the
debt. The Domocratie policy has generally
favored repudiation either in its naked form,
or in the shape of proposals to "tax the
bonds" or to pay thein off in greenbacks.
Every scheme of the kind the administration
of General Grant has resisted as "a national
crime," and Mr. Colfax does what may be
needful in Indiana, but it is not necessary in
this country, when he shows by argument the
impolicy as well as injustice of these plans.
Lest it should bo said that the Democrats
have ceased to entertain their plans of repu
diation, Mr. Colfax quotes a resolution pa3sed
only three months ago by a Democratic con
vention in Ohio, which affirms "That
the bo-called war debt is a fraud and a swin
dle, and was created under false pretences,
and in violation of the Constitution; we are,
therefore, uncompromisingly in favor of
repudiating the whole of the bonded war
debt of the United States." Such audacious
declarations as these cannot fail, as Mr. Col
fax observes, to weigh down American se
curities in the Bourses of the world, and
they have succeeded too well in retarding the
natural enhancement of American credit. In
this way they have delayed the accomplish
ment of another of General Grant's pledgos,
the refunding of the debt at a lower rato of
interest. But in spite of their efforts to de
feat the result, Congress was able to pass in its
last session a Funding Bill, which would
gradually sell off the existing C per
cent, bonds, and issue new securities at ", 4 A,
and 4 per cent. "By the more faithful col
lection of our revenues," says Mr. Colfax,
"our retrenched expenditure, and the conse
quent monthly reduction of our debt, the
premium on gold had dwindled down to about
10 per cent., and our (! per cent, bonds had
become 'worth their face' in the recognized
currency of the world." Unfortunately, the
outbreak of the European war and the conse
quent disorganization of the money markets
have advanced the premium on gold, and
weakened the prices of tho bonds of all
nations. In consequence, the refunding
scheme has for the present been postponed,
but that it can ,and will be carried out is not
to be questioned. While making this effort
to reduce the permanently accruing charge
for interest on the debt, the administration
of President Grant have also been laboring
to diminish the capital amount. During Mr.
Johnson's last year of office none of the debt
was paid off; in the first eighteen months of
the Grant administration nearly one hundred
and seventy million dollars were cleared off,
and the nation was thus relieved of an an
nual charge for interest of about nine mil
lion dollars, or almost one million and three
quarters sterling.
How have these immense operations been
possible? Mr. Colfax answers, in part by the
unparalleled recuperative power and progres
sive force of the nation, but in part also by
administrative efficiency and honesty. 'I he
Democrats assert that the Government of a.
Democratic President and Congress would
fall far more lightly on the people. Mr,
Colfax takes two instances; the Democratic
administration of President Buchanan before
the war, and the existing Democratic Govern
ment of the city of New York. He calculates
that under Buchanan the expenses of Govern
ment amounted to two and a quarter dollars
per head of the population in gold, be it re
membered, and at the low prices ruling be
fore the war; while under Grant the average
is but two dollars a head, in paper,
and at present high prices. Again,
the Democratlo rulers of the
city of New York spend nearly 24 millions of
dollars a year on the government of one mil
lion of inhabitants which rate of expendi
ture, if they were to govern tho United
States, with a population of forty millions,
would demand a revenue of !GO,000,000 of
dollars. Comparing the last eighteen months
of Mr. Johnson's Presidency with the first
eighteen months of General Grants, we find
that the expenditure, not including interest
on debt, ot the former was :!28,OOO,O00, and
of the latter $21.",000,000. In the same
periods the interest on the debt was respec
tively 211,000,000 and $U:?, 000,000; showing
a total decrease in tne pubuo charge during
the year and a half of the Grant' ad
ministration amounting to more than
100,000,000. These splendid results the
Democrats cannot well impugn, and tnoy are
driven to strange straits in attacking the
financial success of the Government. One
critic compares the taxes levied in the last
year of Mr. Johnson's term with those Uvied
in the first year of the ,new presidency, and
finds a balance of incomings for the latter of
nearly 2S,0(M.),(K)0 of dollars. He adds, "This
is a reduction of taxation with a vengeance !"
It happens that in the two years precisely the
same taxes were in force, and if the revenue
from them was so much larger under General
Grant than under Mr. Johnson, the reason
was, not that the people were more heavily
burdened, but that the collection
vas. made more faithfully and
stringently, the excise aroused to
activity, and the scandalous power of the
"whiskey ring" broken. All through the
finance of the States the same improvement
was manifest. On the receipt i from internal
revenue, customs, and land sales, there was
an increase of 87,000,000 of dollars during
the first eighteen months of Grant's rule,
compared with the last eighteen months of
Mr. Johnson's. And in tha last session Con-
grefs felt the financial position to be so sure
that it proceeded permanently to reduce taxa
tion at the rate of sJ.W.OOO.OOa per annum
internal taxes, and i2.,ooo,ooo on the tariff
and so to perform another of the great
pieugeB oi tne itepuulican programme.
It is unnecessary to follow the minor oues
tions on which General Grant has ctrried
out the promises of his party; tha libera!
treatment of pensioners claiming recompense
for their meritorious conduct in the war; the
final triumph of the Republican policy ot
the Homestead acts over the corrupt Ddmo
cratic practice of Ljnd grants to railways
and other corporations; the revision of tht
naturalization laws, which secure to
very foreigner naturalized as an American
citizen the full privileges of that status.
whether at home or a V) road. These
are, no doubt, success for which the Unite!
States ehonld be grateful to her Republican
administration and Congress; but after all,
they are insignificant compared with the great
financial prooiems which General Grant and
his advisers seem to be in a fair way to solve.
Until the Democrats can show a record of
more magnificent success in administration
and fiscal reform, until they learn to respect
common honesty and decency in their publio
declarations, they need not expect to sup
plant the Republican party in the confidence
of the nation.
TI1E NEW POLITICAL POWER THE
PARTIES OF THE FUTURE.
From the K. F. llcrald.
Change and progressive development in the
political world are as much the result of fixed
laws as changes in the material world. All
really great statesmen recognize this fact and
chape their policy accordingly. Tho failure
to recognize it has proved more mischievous
to nations and more fatal to public men thau
any other course. History is full of exam
ples to show the truth of this. One may be
mentioned as particularly striking to the
.iiucaiuu jieujjiei, uccause it comes nouie to
all of us. We refer to the dogged and foolish
conservatism of the old States' richts and
pro-slavery party of the South. That party
lived always in the past, and clung to old
idtas, even to the point of rebellion, when
these ideas and the system founded on them
were undermined by the development and pro
gress of the country and public opinion. We
have seen the consequence in a great civil
war nna in tne destruction of both the ex
treme States' rights theory and African
slavery, which was the corner-stone of it.
So it is with similar great revolutions in other
parts of the world. It is this obstinate adhe
sion to the pastand resistance to progress
which are shaking the moaachies and aristo
cracies of Europe to their foundations, aud
which have beent ho causa of many revolu
tions there dnnng the last century.
These mutations in the political world,
which rofcult from a change in the condition
or growth of nations, give rise to new parties
or to a modification of tho policy of old ones;
for, as we said, those which do not march
with the times become extinct or powerless.
In this age, too, we see greater and more
rapid changes than wero seen in preceding
ages. The quickening influence of the modern
agents of civilization of the telegraph, rail
roads, tho public press, and tho surprising
discoveries in science and mechanical art
makes one year of tho present equal to a cen
tury of the past. We are bounding forward
with wonderful celerity. The material pro
gress of the age operates powerfully upon
political aff airs. Hence we see political par
ties drifting into an alliance with these new
powers of material dovelopuent. This is
more apparent in the United States than else
where at present, because we keep up with
the times more than any other people,
although the same effect will be produced in
all civilized countries sooner or later.
The railroad interests of this country, for
example, begin to exercise a powerful in
fluence with and through political parties,
and in both the National and State Legisla
tures. In fact, they are nearly supreme. In
many cases they are irresistible. The capital
invested in our railroads approaches the
amount of the national debt, and the gross
income from them swells up to hundrods of
millions annually. The power this vast sum
gives, if concentrated, is greater than that
of the Federal Government itself. Talk of
the power of the old United States Bank,
or even of the existing national banks,
powerful as they are, that is small in com
parison. Then look at the thousands upon
thousands of employes, contractors and
agents of these railroads, together with those
pecuniarily interested in them, and it will
be seen at once what an influence they
have in elections and over legislation. We
know, indeed, that nearly all the State Legis
latures can be controlled by them; and that
they can do pretty much as thoy please with
Congress. Besides the power which their
enormous capital and control over the voters
give these railroads, there is, perhaps, a ma
jority of the members in both the National
end States Legislatures directly interested in
them. The telegraph system, too, though
wielding less capital, and less powerful, is
fast becoming another great power in the
land. The magnates who control that, as
well as those more influential ones who con
trol the railroads, begin to form an alliance
with political parties. The sagacious leaders
of these political parties see at the same time
the value of such a combination, and are
woiking to effect that.
Our Tammany leaders, with their usual
tact, are in advance in this new movement.
They have captured already the two groat
lines of railroad which centre at this city
the Erie and New York Central. Jay Gould,
l'ibk, and Vanderbilt find it to their interest
to be in the same boat with Tweed, Sweeny,
Hall, and the other Tammany magnates, and
these latter gladly accept the powerful aid of
the railroad kings for political ends. While
the Republicans are floundering about in
uncertainty, having nothing to look to for
the future but the personal popularity of
General Grant, and while they are spending
their strength in abuse of Tammany, the
Democratic leaders are quietly grasping a
power the railroad power which will seoure
to them the State, with all its spoils, and lay
the foundation for a more extended influ
ence in the republic. Nor will such a combi
nation of railroad chiefs and interests with
political parties be limited to New York. It
will extend throughout the country. But New
York being tho centre of railroad concentra
tion and wealth, and the two great trunk
lines of Erie and the Central being already in
alliance with the Tammany leaders hero, the
Democrats have the best prospect of securing
this new and mighty power throughout the
greater part of the country for their asoend
ancy hereafter.
We have the kf-y here to the probable future
of political parlies in this country. Old issues
are worn out. The Democrats, always more
vigorous than their opponents whwn they
have a platform to stand upon, had a long
base of power up to the split in 18G0, and
election of Lincoln. The States rights' doc
trine, which received its vitality from slavery
in the South, was their platform up to 180fe).
But the war swept that away. The revolution
was complete. With the extinction of
slavery and the amendments to the con
stitution it is impossible to go back to the
past. The Republicans, however, have in
their partisan zeal and centralizing
theories carried the revolution to a
limit distasteful to the Amerioan people.
They have used up the negro issue, the
war feeling, and every other available poli
tical resource, and know not where to stop
now in their revolutionary tendencies. Had
it not been for the issues of the war and
the p ersonal popularity of General Grant,
tbey would hardly have main'ained their
power so long. It is possible General Grant
may c&rry the party through tha next Presi
dential election; but, judging from all the
signs of the times, that will be the end of it.
The Democratic paity, learning wisdom from
the past and modifying its policy to acooiu-
Elished facts and the exigencies of the times,
as a future before it. Using the new powers
of the age we have referred to, and sUnling
upon a conservative platform, it is to arrest
the revolutionary tendencies of the Republi
cans and preserve the harmony of local State
Government with Federal authority, the De
mocrats may again attain the ascendancy and
have another long lease of power.
A TALE OF MODERN LIFE.
From the X. Y. Tivien,
The celebrated cause of "Flynt vs. Cool
idge" will doubtless be long remembered in
Boston. It engaged the attention of judges
and juries, on and off, for nearly fourteen
months. Some very fine exhibitions of foren
sic eloquence were elicitedjin the course of
the trials. The plaintiff is none of your
common dress-makers. She is a person of a
"high grade," as her counsel informed the
Court "one of those who do not work for
the crowd." ' People who employed this
illustrious female were obliged to present
themselves humbly before her with a certifi
cate of "gf utility" in their hands. It is said
f f a certain English tailor that he will never
make clothes for a man unless he is properly
introduced by a member of tho peerage. 1 he
incomparable Mrs. Flynt borrowed a quill
trom this worthy tailors goose. Moreover,
she provided elegant 8partiuents for her cus
tomers, where they ran no risk of meeting
other customers. It was strictly a piivato
establishment. All this is very in
teresting. There are few people who wiil
not turn aside now and then from the graver
cares of life to be instructed iu the art, or
science, or whatever the thing is to be called,
by which the fair sex are enabled to make so
striking a figure in the world. But the op
portunity very seldom comes. We only see
the vast and admirable result, and aro left
to guess by what agencies it is accomplished.
"Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell ?"
asks poor "King Lear." How much less can
we explain how a fashionable lady prepares
her gorgeous raiment. But Mrs. Flynt has
drawn aside the curtain. Perhaps some of
the romance is gone, but we have at least in
creased our stock of information. It is like
the case of a young lady who has all sorts of
sentimental fancies about the moon, until
one day she learns that the object which looks
so interesting is a melancholy chaotic mass
of extinct volcanoes, without light, atmo
sphere, or anything else which can be called
its own.
Mrs. Flynt, whose name wo mention with
the deepest awe, had exercised her un
equalled skill for the benefit of a lady of Bos
ton, whom it is sufficient to describe as the
defendant. We cannot pretend to giver a
full account of the great creature's bill. The
document is rather technical, and the
evidence taken at the trial did not go far to
elucidate it. It consisted largely of testi
mony concerning basting and pinking, and
scollops, seersucker, hernani, and other mys
teries which only the initiated can explain.
But one.feature in tho account at once ar
rests attention it is that, probably, which
struck the husband of the defendant with
consternation. The heavy charges were not
for making the dresses, or even for the ma
terial thereof, bnt for "trimmings." In fact,
a lady seems made of trimmings. In this
case they cost from three to four times as
much as the dress. This is quite aocord
ing to the principles of modern art, but
perhaps Mrs. Flynt rather overdid it. Her
bill was nearly all "trimmings" an intoler
able deal of sack to a very little bread.
"Ever j body could not afford that style," the
counsel explained to the jury. Perhaps most
husbands would rather not afford it, if they
had any voice in the matter. But foremost
among the inalienable rights of woman is the
light to choose her own trimmings. She
appears to care more for that than about good
government, or honest judges, or any silly
questions of that kind. Mrs. Flynt managed
to run her bill up to close upon $2000 on the
strength of these ornaments. We do not see
muh else in her account except some "pads,
shot, and bones," which are probably not
very expensive. Shot and bones are plentiful
enough in these days, though bow many
pounds of each go to form a fashionable lady,
Mrs. Flynt, that pink of elegance, has not
told us.
The husband, as we said, objected to this
bill husbands always are Btupid and unrea
sonable on these subjects, being born abso
lutely without the capacity to comprehend
the great question of trimmings. So a groat
many witnesses were called to prove that Mrs.
Flynt had overcharged. But the defendant's
counsel bitterly denounced them as "cob
blers" and "attic stitchers," and we can
imagine Mrs. Flynt turning up her aristocratic
nose at the whole set. When the husband
called upon her to see if she would notreduoe
the amount of her bill, she flung him from
her presence with all the contempt beooming
a dress-maker of "high-grade," and called him
a "miserable sinner and so no doubt he was,
very miserable. As it is always pleasant to
record the triumph of virtue, we are glad to
Bay that Mrs. Flynt won her action. But the
jury lopped off rather more than 800 from
her bill, which we are afraid may have caused
some distress to a woman of her tender sus
ceptibilities. However, there are other ladies
who require basting and pinking, bones,
I 1 4 5 11 3 Al Ml 1 111 -
snot, ana scoiiop, uuu mey win uououess
rush to Mrs. Flynt to get these indispensable
adjuncts to beauty. Such is the story. Some
may say that there is not much in it but in
days when ladies think it a matter of no mo
ment that a great and intelligent community
should be deprived of all its liberties by a
gang of political adventurers, when they can
look with complacency on the degradation of
social life, and think it troublesome to have
their attention called to the fact that their
husbands are robbed, their sons demoralized,
their daughters insulted, hy the gang which
rules in New York in such days, we say,
perhaps the exciting narrative we have laid
before them may be found quite to their
taste.
WILL THERE BE A RIOT?
From the X. Y. Sun.
Many people suppose there will be a terri
ble riot on' election day. They expect that
the supervisors of eleotion and the deputy
marshals appointed under the act of Con
gress will come into collision with the police
and people of this city; that United States
troops of whom it is said that several thou
sands are being assembled at Governor's
It-land will be called in, and that extensive
bloodshed will follow. We don't believe a
word of it.
In the first plaoe, the object for which the
law was passed by Congress, and the inspec
tors and marshals appointed, is right and
laudable. It is to prevent frauduleut voting
and counting, to secure honesty in the elec
tion. There is no crime more dangerous to
the community than false voting and false
counting. It nullifies the will of the people,
makes free institutions a fraud, and sets up
the meanest kind of tyranny the despotism
of cheating in the place of democratic gov
ernment. It must be put down, and the
honest men of all parties ought to be grate,
ful to Congress for attempting to put it
down. The law may have imperfections;
tbat can be determined only by experience;
but its purpose is good, and goad men
should earnestly desire that in its workings
it may prove perfectly successful. No op
position to it can come from any upright
citizen of any party. So far as this class
of men are concerned, there is no danger
of a riot.
Neither is there any danger from the
roughs and repeaters w ho do the bidding of
the Tammany Ring. A riot would work
more injury to Tammany than to any other
set of politicians. This city is the strong
hold of the Tammany party, and a riot on
election day, reducing their majorities,
vitiating the returns from this part of the
State, and finally resulting in the rejection
of candidates who would otherwise be de
clared elected, is something that Tammany
will take particular care to avoid. Therefore
let those who are frightened beforehand by
tho bugbear of a riot dismiss all thoir ter
rors. There is no reason to fear any unusual
disturbance at tho election. Every qualified
voter will have full liberty to deposit his bal
lot; and we trust that the result will be an
1 onest as well as a peaceful election.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
MTH;E is hereby given that an
application will be made at the next meeting
of the lieiural Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK,
to be located nt Philadelphia, with a capital of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with the right
to increase the same to one million dollars.
THE IMPERISHABLE PERFUME I AS A
rule, the perfumes now In use have no perma
nency. An hour or two after their use there is no
trace of perfume left. How different Is tho result
succeeding the nse of MURRAY LAN MAN'S
FLORIDA WATER t Days after its ariPlloatiou the
handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate,
uuu aieeuoiB iiagriiue. 3 1 luulsj
ry- NOTICE IS" HEREBY HIVEN TIIAT AN
application will bo made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of Hie Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, la ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE BULL'S HEAD BANK, to ho located
nt Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to
live hundred thousand dollars.
5- THE UNION" FlRK15XTIFuiIlER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. QAQB,
B 80 tf No. 118 MARKET St, General Agent.
IrSST NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE NATIONAL BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the Bame to
one million dollars.
TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTHWASIL
It la the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant. Warranted free from Injurious Ingredients,
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth 1
Invigorates and Soothes the Gumsl
Purines and Perfumes the Breath !
Prevents Accumulation ef Tartar!
Cleanses and rarities Artificial Teeth I
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Sold by all druggists and dentists.
A. M. WILSON, Druggist, Proprietor,
8 8 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Sta., Phllada.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, lu
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER BANK, to
be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to Increase
the same to Ave hundred thousand dollars.
ffcfi- HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
Teeth with freeh Nitrons-Oxide Qas. Absolutely
no pain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the
Oolton Dental Rooms, devotes hie entire practice to the
painlea extraction of teeth. Office, No. till WALNUT
fetr t. I Mi
Sy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the Geueral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE BRIDESBUR i 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.
WATOHE8. JEWELRY, ETO.
TOWER CLOCKS.
. IV. UUSSJEUL.,
No. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Bemontolr &. Graham Escapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by maiL 6 iA
WILLIAM B. WARNS & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
f- v--. VTfllUllM Aau ocvy curi I,
si B. corner SEVENTH and CRESNUT Streets.
8 1 Second floor, and late of No. 85 S. THIRD St.
DYE AND PRINT WORKS.
1819 "MWDLIWBD l819
New York Dyeing: and Printing1
Eetabllshmenti
STAT EN ISLAND.
No. 40 North EIGHTH Street,
West Side, Philadelphia.
8S DUANE St. and J58 BROADWAY, New York.
166 and 168 PIERREPONT St., Brooklyn.
This old and well-known company, now in the
beeond hatcentury of Its existence, is prepared, as
usual, to Lhie, Cleanne and 'inih every variety of
laaltB', gentlemen's, and children's garments, and
piece Goods in their ukual sapertor manner.
Notb These are our only oolces. 9 20 tutha3ra
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
Q&RSTAIRS & McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Winei, Ola, Olive Oil, Etc,
Vr WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PUKE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX rAID. tStvi
OOAL.
COAL PR TON OF 2240 LBS. DELIVERED,
I.KHKiH, Furnace, $7'75; Stove, fs-WJ; Nut,
7C0; Sl'HI VI.K ILL, Furnace, (5 -75; Stove, 7-t0;
Nut, I5-7&; SI1AMOK1N', Urate, 17-25; fcitove, 7f0;
NUt, 0 20.
EASTWICK &, BROTHER,
Yrd, No. 2200 WASHINGTON Avenue, oihce, No.
928 HOCK Street. 8 0rp tf
JJOTIIfcKJlUI. At MAN I a a ,
I.EI1IUII AND 8CI11 YI.KILI. VOAU
Depot N. E. Corner NINTH and MASTER,
Office,' 43 South TIIIRD Street-
Hi SANSOM " 10 12 tf
3WI88 CARVINGS.
JAMBS S. EAULTJ dt SONS
Have Just received a large Importation of
SWISS IIUSTIO OAIiVED GOODS,
And propose to add this branch to their business,
aBd keep always a One assortment. Their preaeut
selection ooubUits of Jewel, Work, and Cigar K.jxes,
Penknives, small Desks, Bouquet-hulders aud Vaeca,
Clifsr Htauda, Inkstands, Card Receiver. B.xk
Rtsts, Tobacco Boxes, Mutch Stands, Uaud Mirror,
etc AH at very tow and Inviting prices. ( 10 1 siutb
EARLE3 GALLERIES, No. 816 CUESNUT ST.
FOR SALfe.
FOK SALE It J. DOBBISS, BUILDER,
OFFI0E, LEDGER BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA,
OFFERS FOR BALE
THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES, Viz.:
Handsome three-story brown-tone Residence, with
French roof, situated southwest corner Broad aud
Thompson streets; contains all modern improve
ments, and is newly frescoed and painted through
out. Lot 25x160 feet.
Also, handsome new brown-stone Residence, west
side Brsad, above Muster street, nearly finished;
with side yard. Lot fGx200 feet. i
Also, beautiful fonr-story brown-stone Residence,
north side chesnut street, west of Nineteenth, with
handsome side yard.
AIro, Building Lots, west side Broad, above Vine
street, 73x188 feet deep, and six Lots west side
Broad, above Thompson, Wx2i)0 feet deep. 10 20tf
FOR SALE A VERY VALUABLE HOUSE
and LOT at the N. W. corner of Fortv-second
airect and KlnpseBsinn avenue.
House built or brow n stone, three stories, contain
log 10 rooms, and finished In the best and most sub
stantial manner, with all the modern Improvement
one of the most desirable houses in West Phila
delphia. Property 'should bo seen to be appreciated.
Persons lahing to know tho terms and examine ttie
property run do bo by calling on J AMES M. 8EL
LEHS, until 3,V P. M., at No. 144 S. SIXTH Street,
and In the evening at No. 500 S. FORTY-SECX)ND
Ktrcet- 9 10U
g FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR
&i City Tropcrty, one of the finest FARMS In Jk.
the country. R. J. DOBBIN3,
8 13 thstu U Ledger BuHdlng.
fSS FOR 8A t.E OR TO LET Nos. 2106, 21 OS, ano)
Lj: 2127 and lira WALNUT Street. Prices ranprtni?
from 122,000 to 55,000, or will be rented. Address,
by note, S. C. IX'NTINQ, Jr.,
30 24f No. 8isx Walnut street.
TO RENT.
rQ RENT THE STORE NO. Vii (JHESNUT
Street. Arply on the premises between 10 and IS
o'clock A. M.
8 IT tf
EDUCATIONAL.
HALLO WELL SELECT HIGH SCHOOL FOR
Young Men ard Boys, which has been re
moved from No. 110 N. Tenth street, will be opened
on September 12 In the new and. more commodious
buildings nob. 112 and 114 N. kijntii street. Neither
effort nor expense has been spared In fitting up the
rooitia, to moke this a orst-class school of the highest
A Preparatory Department 1b connected with the
school. Parents and students are invited to call
and examine the rooms and consult the Principals
from 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. after August 16.
GEORGE EAhTBURN, A. B.,
JOHN G. MOORE, M. S.,
81Ttf Principals.
ACADEMY, ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS,
No. 109 South TENTH Street.
A Primary, Elementary, and Finishing School for
boys and young men. Persons interested In educa
tion are Invited to call and witness the method of
teaching and discipline practised. Circulars at Mr.
Warburton's, No. 430 Chesnut street, or at the
Academy. Open for Visitors from 9 A. M. to 4
r. m. , s 20
JDQEHILL SCHOOL
MERCHANTVILLE, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
Next session begins MONDAY, October 3.
For circulars apply to
3 21 ly Rev. T. W. CATTELL.
"rOUNG MEN'S AND BOYS' ENGLISH, CLASSI
1 CAL AND COMMEHCIAL INSTITUTE, No.
11HJ8 MOUNT VERNON Street. Preparation for
Business or College. Has a Preparatory Department.
Rev. J. G.SHINN, A. M., Principal. 19 1 smtu2m
HENRY G. THUNDER'S MUSICAL ACADK
my, No. 102s PINE Street, is now open for the
reception of pupils. See circulars at Muslo Stores.
Oitlce hours 8 to 9 A. M. and 1 to 3 P. JNI. 10 11 lm
FURNACES.
Established in 1835.
Invariably ths createst snoceM ovsr all competition
whenever and wherever exhibited or tued in tna
UNITED STATES.
CHARLES WILLIAMS'
Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces,
Acknowledged by the leading Architect and Builder
be the moat powerful and durable Furnauoa offered, and
the moat prompt, systematic, sad largest house in
line of boainea.
HEAVY REDUCTION IN PRICES,
and only flnt-olas work turned oat.
Nob. 1132 and 1134 MARKET Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
N. B.-BFND FOR BOOK OF FACTS Oil HKA1
AND VENTILATION. 622 4m
HOWSOIN'S
OIFICK3 FOB PROCURING
United States and Foreign
PATENTS,
Forrest Hulldlns;),
No. 119 SOUTH FOUItTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
ANi MARBLE BUILDINGS,
No. C05 SEVENTH STREET,
WASniNQTOS, D. C.
IL HOWBON, I C. HOWSON,
Solicitor of Patents. I Attorney at Larr.
Communications should be addressed to the Prin
cipal unices, Philadelphia. 10 4 tuthsiiq
STEAMED OY 8 TEltSI
HALF PECK FOR 25 CENTS.
LargeSiews and Panned 25 cents
Saddle Rock Roast 50
The Finebt Quality of Salt and Fresh Oysters in the
ehell.
TRIPE AND OYSTERS.
UROILED OYSTERS,
KH1KD OY8TBR3.
Especial attention glrento STEAMED OYSTfiUUt
J. 1, I.ISACII.
OYSTER PLASTER AND DEALER,
N. E. Corner NINTH and CUES NUT Streets.
EatlsjE bar supplied with all the delicacies of the
season. 22 thstutf
SAXON GREEN
NEVER FADES.
8 1 6m
J. T. BARTON.
H'lSLHON.
SBTPPIXO AXD COSTSriSSTOX MERCHASTSt
No. 9 COENT1ES SLIP, New York,
No. 18 SOUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia,
No. 45 W. PRATT STREET, Baltimore.
We are prepared to ship every description ot
Freight to Philadelphia, New York, Wtlmlrgfum, and
lutevmedltite poiuu with promptness and despatch.
Canal Boats and Steam-tugs furnished at the shortest
lotice.
o
NE DOLLAR GOODS FOR 95 CENTS
10 U I tAl DIXON'S No. M 8. KlUUTH buee. .