4 THE DAILI EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1870. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON (SUKDATS fcXCBPTBD). AT THE EVENING TELEGRAPH BUILDING, NO. 108 8. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. The Prioe it three cent per copy double sheet), or eighteen cents per uwei, payable to the carrier by tohom served. The subsci-iption price by mail ft A'ine Dollars per annum, or One Dollar and Fifty Cents for two months, invariably in mdoance for the tim ordered. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1870. " The earliest regular edition of Thk Evening Txlegbaph goes to press at lj o'olock, and the subsequent regular editions at 2 J, 3 J, and 4 J. Whenever there ia im portant news of the progress of the Eoro cean war. extra editions will be issued after this hour, and before the regular time for the early edition. TEE SURRENDER OF METZ. The surrender of-Met z makes another im portant addition to the long catalogue of triumphs achieved by the German armies in France, and this new acquisition is so valu able that it gives King William a very fair excuse for closing the war. With Strasburg and Metz in his possession he has not only the best available guarantees against a future French invasion, but he has Virtual contro of the old German territory lying west of the Chine, which the Germans have so long coveted, and he can scarcely hope to obtain from the most unqualified military success more complete indemnity for the past or more ample security for the future. It is alleged that Bazaine's surrender was not necessitated by a lack of supplies, and that he acted either in the interest of the de posed Imperial dynasty or with the more patriotic view of exacting, in return for his surrender, a promise that the German armies should be withdrawn from France. If the charges made against Bazaine by the republi cans are well founded, they furnish another fearful illustration of the worthlessness of the standing armies of France for good pur poses; and the people will be forced to realize more clearly than ever the necessity for self reliance and for destroying an organization that oppresses them in peace and disgraces them in war. The next development in this compli cated and bloody drama will be awaited with intense interest. It remains to be seen whether the war is to end now, with the fall of Metz and the virtual acquisition of Alsace and Lorraine by the victors, or whether new horrors are to flow from Bazaine's surrender. If the siege of Paris is to be continued, the German armies heretofore employed in the investment of Metz will greatly increase the number of the besiegers, and the French capital is in more serious danger now than at any former period. But it is to be hoped that peace is near at hand, and that the sur render of Metz will avert farther bloodshed instead of inciting new struggles. TEE CENSUS OF PniLADELmi A. In both branches of City Councils a disposi tion was manifested yesterday to provide for a correct census of Philadelphia by the municipal authorities, and we hope that at the next meeting a plan will be perfected whereby this important object can be accom plished. There should be no serious diffi culty in ascertaining the number of inhabit ants of the city, and intelligent policemen are probably better, qualified by their local knowledge to perform this duty faithfully than any other class of appointees. If our citizens generally would co-ope rate in mis tasK. increased accu racy would be assured. Marco Polo, in writing more than five hundred years ago of the Chinese cities, said that every house- bolder was required to put on the outer walls of his dwelling a written statement setting forth the age and name of each occupant. If such data were furnished in every instance here, census-taking would be an easy per formance. We can scarcely expect, how ever, that all Philadelphia householders would comply with a similar requirement, but there are doubtless many thousands who would fill up, ana nave reaay on any given dav that might be appointed, a blank ferm containing the requisite information in the proper shape. In the localities where this information ia not cheerfully and volua- tarily'given, the policemen would be more likely to extract the truth, and to know when the whole truth was told to them, than assis tant marshals; and a large majority of house holders, by filling up blank Btatements,would so much lighten the labors of the proposed new census-takers that they would have ample time to devote to distriots where igno ranee, prejudice, inainerenoe, or crime prompt concealment of the number and names of the inhabitants. That the national census is a fearful under estimate is proven by many facts familiar to every intelligent Philadelphia!!, and the truth Should be established not only for her vindi cation abroad, but for many local purposes. Councils themselves, to legislate intelligently, ahould know the true, population of the re spective wards, and it is important, from every point of view, that they should provide at once for a thorough municipal census. TEE COST OF A FIREMAN'S R10J. The importance of a radical change in the Fire Department was shown yesterday by the presentation of a claim for damages to pro perty by fire, growing out of the firemen's riot on the morning of October 9. This claim amounts only to the small sum of f 300, aai the claimant almost apologizes for being obliged to make it. He says: "I ask nothing more than the actual cost of replacing , the property destroyed, which is about $300. The loss is a small one, but let me assure you it is a very serious one to mo at this time. Z'resoming this claim to be a just on and e bars ao reason to believe anything to the contrary the city is clearly responsible, and if a - enit was to be brought a much laiger sura than $300 could in all probability be recovered. The city is bound to make good the loss in this case, as it is in every case of property de stroyed by riot, but there is a double respon sibility inasmuch as this partiou'ar loss was occasioned by a vicious system that exltfs by authority of the city. Whatever might have been the advantages of the volunteer Fire Department in times past, it is very evident that Philadelphia has now outgrown them, and that we need a more perfeot organization that will be under the Control of the muni cipal authorities in a manner that the pre sent department never can be. Councils have shown a commendable desire to give this subject the attention it deserves, and to or ganize a paid Fire Department upon a proper basis at as early a day as possible. If anything were needed to quicken their action and to de monstrate the necessity for a change it would be such a demand as that made in the com munication referred to. If the city is obliged to pay a bill of damages whenever the volun teer firemen choose to amuse themselves with a riot, those who are opposed to a change in the system of extinguishing fires, or are indif ferent to it, will very shortly be inclined to other opinions. With regard to the bill for damages for the riot of October !th, we are only thankful that it is no larger than it is, for from the manner in whioa some of the vo lunteer firemen have been acting of late, it is remarkable that claims of the most extensive character against the city have not been pre sented. THE MODERN NEWSPAPER. One of the essays read before the Social Science Association was the production of Hon. George A. Yeaman, of Kentucky, the present Minister of the United States at Copenhagen, who chose for his theme "The Press: Its Relations and Influences." This essay is conceived in the spirit of Dr. Hush's condemnation of the "disjointed thinking" of the daily newspapers, and its author dis plays a remarkable degree of ignorance of the subject he is discussing, as well as a total lack of comprehension of what the press is and what it does. lie alleges that "minds . of the highest cu'ture de rive no benefits from, and seldom occupy themselves with, newspaper reading," and as he probably fancies that he is a dis tinguished representative of this exalted class, we presume that he rarely condescends to read the news of the day, or to learn the true character of the journals which he con demns. We cannot easily acoount in any other way for his assertions that all newspaper writers chain themselves to a mediocre level, and that editorial thinking is almost invari ably superficial or false. Mr. Yeaman is unable to comprehend that the modern news paper is a thing of the day and for the day, giving on current topics information and reflections a thousand times more accu rate, extensive, and correct than those placed within the reach of the masses of the people before newspapers were established. The hading idea of his essay, so far as it em bodies any idea whatever, is that tho press deserves condemnation because it does not, in addition to the great duty of keeping the public well apprised of all events of general interest, instruct them in ancient lore and tell them many other things in which sage students only are interested. He has no right to expect that a corps ef writers who are numbered by the thousand, and who have no time to elaborate their productions, shall equal in talent the masters of literature who can be counted, through a course of centuries, by the dozen, and who devoted years of per sistent effort to their best works. It is silly to denounce the press for its inability to summon a Socrates and a Homer into every sanctum, or to expect that hurried comments will be characterized by the profundity that is born of prolonged thought and careful study. Besides, Mr. Yeaman is apparently unconscious of the marked improvement, in many respects, of modern journalism; andwhile he complains that the masses fall under inferior leadership, be should contrast the opportunities for en lightenment now possessed by the average newspaper reader with those placed within the reach of men who are dependent for their knowledge of politics to peripatetic stump speakers, and for their familiarity with the news of the day to vagae rumors or dis jointed oral communications. MILITARY INTERFERENCE AT ELECTIONS, The Democrats of New York are in a terri ble state of wrathful excitement over the now assured fact that there will- be a large force of United States soldiers in readiness on election day for the purpose of preserv ing order and of protecting every citizen, without regard to color, race, or party, in the free exercise of his right of suffrage. The interference of the marines, by order of Marshal Uregory, at our own election, a few weeks ago, was so sudden and unexpected that, with the exception of the silly and ira potent protest of the Mayor, who had proved himself either unwilling or incompetent to protect the negro . voters in the Fifth ward, the Democracy did not have a chance to give voice to its indignation until the whole affair was over. Since then, however, the Age has been lamenting over the prospect of our liberties being overturned by a military President, and its lamentations and those of the New York World andjother organs of the "unterrified" have been changed to shouts of wrath at the absolute certainty that the same experiment will be tried upon a much larger scale in New York on the 8th of November next, in case the Democrats undertake to re sort to their usual methods of securing the political control in that city by fraudulent voting and driving their opponents from the polls. As ws said with reference to the appear ance of the marines ia the Fifth ward on our own election day, we deprecate any military interference on an oh an occasion as much as any one can, but there are few fair-minded men of either political party who will under take to deny that there was good reason for the action of the United States authorities on that oocasion, and that in the case of New York the presence of a large military foroe will do more to secure a fairer election in that city than has been held for years than any course that could be adopted. The law passed by Congress at the last session made it the duty of the President to do all in his power to protect every voter in his right of suffrage, and to insure a fair election wherever United States officers were to voted for; and it needs no argument to prove that the only way the President can do this in New York is by adopting exactly the course that he ha. The Demoorats know as well as we do that the military will not interfere to prevent any voter of their party from ap proaching the polls and depositing his ballot in a quiet and orderly manner; and if- they can win the election by fair means they will be permitted to reap all the fruits of it without opposition. It ia because the Democrats fear to trust a fair election, lest they should be overthrown, that they clamor against the action of the President in providing a military force for the purpose of preventing the usual scenes of fraud and violence; and even if the President were not fortified by a positive law of Congress, the law-abiding citizens of the country would thank him for stretching his authority to aid the decent people of New York to free themselves from the Democratic outlaws who have made the government of that city one of the greatest scandals of the age. Desperate diseases re quire desperate a remedies, and the govern ment of New York has been reduced to that condition that the ruffianly class have com pletely obtained the upper hand, so that the presence of a military force of sufficient strength to prevent riot and to enable the election to be really an expression of the will of the people, is a thing that respectable people have occasion to be thankful for. We object to seeing a military force in attendance upon election day, because it is humiliating to think that there should be a necessity for it, and because it sets a bad pre cedent; but it is simply laughable for the Democrats to pretend to believe that because the President has taken the course he has for the execution of the laws and for the protec tion of citizens in their most sacred rights, he has sinister dosigm upon the liber ties of the country, and that these are the first steps towards a military despotism with Grant as dictator. Oar liberties are in far more danger from thi demoralization of our party politics that enables the worst men in such communities as Philadelphia and New York to obtain the most important offices of trust and honor than they are from all the soldiers that Grant or any other President oan command, and ia New York, especially, it is high time a fair election was held, even if it has to be done under the guardianship of the bayonets of United States troops. NOTICES. Fai l Ovkrc0ts. LfAt and Medium WevjM, jut the thing or cout morntniis and eeeninijx; uUo for moCerati'lu cool vmther all winter. More useful, in fart, than a kwiry Overcoat, ami much lower in price. let aiHortment tt the euj, ana oa at loucxt price. Fifth and Sixth Urtet. Na m Markkt Strkkt. TABLE AND PIANO COVERS. NEW IMPORTATIONS Just Opened, Direct from the Manufac turers, a large assortment of EMBROIDERED CLOTH Table and Piano Covers, IN New and Elegant Patterns. 8HEPPARD, VAN HARLINCEN & ARRISON, No. 1008 CHESNUT STREET, 1028 fniws4trp PHILADKLf IIIA. FINANCIAL.. DREXEL & CO., No. 34 SOUTH THIUD STREET, American and Foreign Hankers, DRAWS EX CHANGS ON LONDON AND PRIN CIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE. DEALERS IN Government and Railroad Securities, Drerel, Wiuthrop fc Co.,Drezel, Barjes A Co., ro. it wait bueei, ao. s itue HcriM. New York. 1 Parla. COPARTNERSHIPS. TI1E COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX tating between ADOLPH WINKLER an1 OUR. NELIL'S O. HOPPER, aa WINKLER A HOPPKK. . ' WV VWMWVUW U 14 KVI - llus C. Hopper, No, 840 S Second street, Philadelphia, ia alone authorized to act aa liquidating- partner, to whom all debu due said firm will be paid, and all AIX)LPU WINKLER. CURSEUU8 C. HOPPER. October 86, ITO. io sj at' CLOTHING. 0! 0! 0 vfcnc:oA.T.si VKKOOATHJ VEHCOATS1 Overcoats, Overcoats, Overcoats, Cvercoats, Overcoats, Overcoats, Overcoats, Overcoats, Overcoats, $6. $8. sin. Light Coats For Fall. Heavy Coats $12.1 For Winter. jjtj Qtout Coats For Storms $20. $35. $45. $60. Glengarry and Cape Cloaks, $15 to $35. Customers from 6 years old to 60 MAGNIFICENTLY FITTED WITH Overcoats from $6 to 60. We hare an endless variety of styles of OER COATS, adapted to any size, shape, age, or season, together with full salts of every grade, from f 10 up ward. Tours truly 603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET. k'KSTNUTST. PHILADELPHIA: PA, O Heavy, Heavy, V 15 Heavy, Heavy E $15 All-wool, All-wool, R $15 All-wool, All-wool C $15 Melton, Melton, O $15 Melton, Melton A $15 "Winter Overcoats. T $15 Winter Overooats. S $15 Winter Overcoats. These Coats are a very superior article, and we particularly desire the attention of the public to be called to them. FINE READ Y-M A. 1 K CLOTHING, Combining Style, Durability, and Excellence of Workmanship. JONEO' O n e - I? rice ESTABLISHMENT, No. 604 MARKET STREET. GEO. W. NIEMANN. Handsome Garments made to order at the short est notice. 10 3 tf rp WESTON & BROTHER, TAILORS, S. W. Cornsr NINTH and AECH Sts. PHILADELPHIA. A full assortmctt of ne most approved styles for FALL AND WINTER WEAR, JUST RECEIVED. A SUPERIOR GARMENT AT A REASONABLE PRICE. 9163mrp OPTICIANS. SPECTACLES, Slicroscopea, Telescopes, Thermometers, Mathe matical, Surveying, Philosophical and Drawing la ammenu, at reduced prices. JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., ISo, 991 ClIESIVUT Street, BO mwfUp PHILADELPHIA. GROCERIES. ETO. V5W CHOP H13V OKLGAIVS 9IOL.ASSE. The first of the season, by rati from New Orleans, for sale by BEEVES Jt PARVIN. WHOLESALE GROCERS, 10 8S gtrp' No. 45 North WATER 8treeU FEATHERS! PEATHERS! FEATHERS ! Great Bargains In OSTRICH AND FANCY FEATHERS. Mast be Bold, Wboleule or Retail, at J. & BOKO ENS K I S FRENCH ARTIFICIAL FLOWER STORE, No. it North NINTH Street, 10 S wfuist Above Market street. PtANOS. GEORGE STECK I COS PIAK08, tirand, Square Bad Upright. ALSO, HAINES BROS.' PIANOS. Only place In Philadelphia for sale of Raton & Hamlin's World-Uenownea Cabinet Organs. For gale or rent, or to rent irtth vt'ett to iurehant. ant) part of rental apply. OL'LD Ac FISCHER. J. E. GOULD, No. 9iS3 CHESNUT 8t. WM. G. FISCHER, No. 1018 ARCH 8t. GZtt STEINWAY & SONS' tfSSi Grand Square and Upright Pianos. Special attention Is called to their new Patent Upright Pianos. With Donble Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tubular Metal Frame Action, etc., whleh are matchless In Tone and Touch, and nnrlvallod in durability. CIIAIiL.ES HL.A81I WAREROOMS, No. 1000 CHESNUT STREET, f 13 tfrp PHILADELPHIA. CUIOKERING & SONS' WORLD-RENOWNED GRAND, SQUARE,, AND UPRIGHT PIANOS. Attention w invited to tne celebrated PATENT GRAND UPRIGHT AND THK NEW SCALK GRAND SQUARE PIANOS. Great Reductions. Fixed Prices. DUTTON'8 PIANO ROOMS, Nos. 1120 and 1123 CHESNUT Street. V) 21 lm4p W. H. DUTTON. OARPETINOS, ETC. CARPETINOS. NEW . JDesigris, H EW ColoringH. OIL CLOTHS. Art ELEC3A!T AISORTJIEXT It. L. KNIGHT & SON, 1222 CHESNUT STREET, 9 9 fmwSm PHILADELPHIA. CARPETINGS. McCALLUM, CREASE SLOAN Ho. 509 CHESNUT Street French Moquetteo, French Axmlnstors, , Crossley's 6-4 Velvets, English Brussels, Crossley's Tapestries, Hall and Stair Carpetlngs CARPETINGS OP EVERY DESCRIPTION. LOWEST FRICSS. McCALLUM, CREASE i SLOAN, Wo. 609 CIIEglJUT Street, 8 n wfm3m rp Opposite Independence Hall. CARPETINGS. Axminstor, Velvets, Brussels, Tapestries, Three-ply Ingrains, Oil Cloths, Etc. LEED0M, SHAW & STEWART, No. C35 MARKET STREET, 9 80 fmwsmrp PHILADELPHIA. 1870. Al l U JIA. 1870. STEVENSON & SCHWEMMER. Rich Broche Figured Cotelinei FOR PABLORS AND RECEPTION ROOMS. HEAVY TAMBOURED LACES TO CORRESPOND. Wby are tnelr prices over twenty per cent. lower tban elsewbere for tne same Goods? Virt Because they buy for CASH and receive heavy discounts. 1 nese they transfer to purchasers. tseound Being practical and experienced In ail branches of the DECORATING and UPHOLSTERY business, they save by personal attention and super vision at least fifteen per cent. In their expenses, of which their customers shall also hare the fall beneat. This makes a total of twenty-one per cent, saved by every customer placing orders in their charge, besides having their woi E executed In the naest manner and with the utmost despatch. 1113 CHESNUT STREET. 10 13 wfru3mjp WINDOW BUNDS AND SHADES. LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND LOWEST PRICES AT No. 16 North SIXTH Street. STORI SHAD IS, REPAIRING, ETC. U fmwamrp B. J WILLIAMS SON. DRY OOOOS. Bargains! Bargains!! HOOD, BOIIBRJGHT & CO., No. 62d MARKET Street No. 52G COM MERCS Street, PHILADELPHIA, Have just secured an Immense Job Lot OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH DRESS GOODS, IN GREAT VARIETY AND BEAUTY OF DESIGN, BOUGHT AT A SACRIFICE TO CLOSE A LATE IMPORTATION. WHICH THEY OFFEIt THE TRADE AS THE BEST BARGAINS OF THE ' SEASON. 10 tTStrp JBj JbC JLu Jb EC, No. 43 North EIGHTH Street, Opened this day Lyons Cloaking Velvets. Cloaking Velvets, finest Imported. Cloaking Velvets cheaper than any house In the city. Illack Silks. Beat makes Black Hiks In the marke'. Kid CSloves, Eld Gloves a specialty. Jouvlu and Bajon Genuine Kid Glove. Illack Silkst From 11-75 to ts ; elegant goods. Real Laces. Polnte and Polnte Applique Collars. ' Polnte Ildkfs. and Barbes. Lyons Velvets Jlelovr Market Prices. Drnggets at half prices. Dress Hoods. Dress Uoods Re duced. Closing; oat Dress Goods. 9000 yards Stripe Poplins, 25c.t cost over 49c. Dress CJoods Marked Down to Close. Lace Curtains. STS pairs Nottingham Lace Curtains from austlon, cheap. Handsome Illack Velveteens. Purchasing exclusively for cash, we are enabled and determined to sell lower than the lowest. Underwear! Underwear! A full assortment. A demonstration In Gloves. DRESS GOODS Must be closed out 10 23 3trp SILK S. EXAMINE GEORGE FRYER'S STOCK OF Black and Fancy Silks Before Purchasing. No. 916 CHESNUT STREET, 9 83 8m PHILADELPHIA. CLOVES. ETO. HARTLEY'S" I D 4J I. O V 12 Black, Whlto, Colors, Opera, Green. Blue, Wine, Fourchette, Manrhette, 8 Button, LADIES AND i CUTS' 500 DOZEN Now in stock, selling at 38 00 per pair. TWENTY PBU CENT, less than other parties sell a first-class glove. Alsc every pair guaranteed ;if they rip or tear another pair will be given In exchange. We also oner 860 dozen Genuine "Bajoa" Kid Gloves at f'J-oo per pair. Also, our unparalleled "La Belle" Glove at $ 1-26. Best 81-85 Glove In America, at the GREAT KID GLOVE EMPORIUM OF A. & J. D. BARTHOLOMEW, No. 23 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, 1028 fstu PHILADELPHIA. FURNlTuKh.. HOVER'S PARENT SOFA BED. All old and yonng bachelors, as well as ladles who keep old mail's hall, are now buying HOVER'S CELEBRATED PATENT SOFA BBO. This U the only'Sofa Bed that can be taken apart to cleanse It the same as a bedstead. All others are nasafe and liable to get out of repair. To tje had only of the ' manufacturer and owner, II. F. 1IO VCR, No. 230 SOUTH SECOND STREET. 81 tufeni PHILADELPHIA. DUY YOUR FURNITURE OF GOULD & CO., Nos. 37 and 39 N. SECOND Street ' AMD N. E. Corner NINTH and MARKET. LARGEST, eilEAPEST, AND BEST STOCK IN THE WORLD. 1 6 wfmSmrr T H E GREAT AMERICAN, 1 MARKET STREET, 1 HI LAD A., 1801 Is the leading Furniture and Bedding House, having the l argest, bent, and Cheapest sutcc WALNUT WORK A Hfi-C'l AI.Tr". Fp'enaid Parlor, Ckaaiber, and Dining-room Suits. ! U niwupaux ,
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