TUB DAILY EVENING TELEGRAM. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 18T0. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), AT TEE EVENING TELEGRAPH BUILDING, NO. 108 8. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.. The Price it three cents per copy double sheet), or eighteen cents per week, payable to the carrier by whom served. The subscription price by mail is Nine Dollars per annum, or One Dollar arid Fifty Cents for two months, invariably in advance for the time ordered. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1870. 1ST The Evening Telegraph, from its original establishment, has been in the receipt of telegraphic news from the New York Associated Press, which consists ot the Tribune, Times, Herald, World, Sun, Journal of Commerce, Evening Post, Commercial Advertiser, and Evening Ex press. The success which has attended our enterprise is, in itself, a sufficient evi dence of the freshness, fullness, and relia bility of the news which we have received from this source. Last March wc entered Into a special contract by which The Evening Telegraph has the exclusive use of the news furnished in the afternoon by the Associated Press to its own members, the North American, Inquirer, Ledger, rress, Age, Record, and German Democrat, of this city, and the leading journals of the East, North, West and South ; and hereafter The Telegraph will be the only evening paper published in this city in which the afternoon despatches of the Associated Press wiil appear. 3" The earliest regular edition of The Evening Telegraph goes to press at lj o'clock, and the subsequent regular editions at 2, 3 J, and 4. Whenever there is im portant news of the progress of the Euro pean war, extra editions will be issued after this hour, and before the regular time for the early edition. THE REP0R1ED ARMISTICE. It is reported, on apparently good authority, that an armistice has been, or shortly will be, definitely arranged between the French and Germans. There has not yet been an official announcement on either side of its final rati fication, but aocounts from all quarters agree that it is under consideration; and while one rumor states that the exchange of signatures was made yesterday, others affirm that they will be exohanged to-day. M. Thiers has evidently been assiduously endeavoring for some time to attain the end which now seems so near at hand. Trochu also desires it as a manifest necessity for beleaguered Paris. The German leaders are not unwilling to grant it, and the prinoipal opposition springs from some of the members of the Tours Government ( who seem to fear that if a new Constituent Assembly is elected they will lose power,), and from ultra lied Republicans. An armistioe, during which elections can be held throughout Franoe, has become such an obvious necessity for the common good of all concerned in this terrible struggle, that we have no faith in the patriotism or com mon sense of the Frenchmen who oppose it. There is now no real government in the country. The Provisional authorities are powerless for good purposes. They have not only failed to relieve beleaguered cities, but they have confessed their inability to supply arms to the people, and their edicts cave ceased to command obedienoe or respect. It is said that Napoleon still claims to be the true head of the nation, but even the Bonapartist pretensions are apparently divided between the imprisoned Emperor and the exiled Re gency. Fractioally, at the moment when union, concentration, and an all-powerful government are more imperatively needed than at any former period in French history, anarchy prevails. The invaders have no foe worthy of their steel, and there is no army in the field to arouse their antagonism. In Paris the citizens have prepared for a gallant defense, but they cannot struggle long against the impending danger of starvation, and since the Tours Government has totally failed to send troops to their rescue, or to reopen their communi cations with the outside world, they have every reason to fear that, in the event of a continuance of hostilities, their escape from the dangers of bombardment would be quickly followed by the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives by famine. All the horrors con nected with the protracted defense of Stras burg and Metz would be intensified a hun dred fold in the protracted defense of Paris, and it is wicked folly to impose such fearful miseries upon her citizens at a time when no good national object can thereby be achieved. The Tours Government is so nearly a non entity that it matters little whether it con sents to the armistice or not. The chief importance of its acquiescence would arise from its assistance in ordering elections throughout Franoe and in increasing the general disposition to abide peacefully ia their result. If it persistently refuses, how ever, to give the people an opportunity to decide for themselves the questions in which they are so vitally interested, at a time when its inability to protect them is so painfully apparent, it will soon lose all the little influ ence it now possesses and vanish into abso lute nothingness at the first onset of a more Vigorous administration. From the armistice and the elections of a Constituent Assembly will probably spring peaoe between Franoe and Germany. As this peace, however, will inevitably be repulsive to the national instincts, it is quite likely that all who are identified with it will become ob jects of popular odium, and it is not impro bable that the controversies growing out of this subject will, in conjunction with the intense partisan antagonisms now prevailing, load to a civil war. ThoRO who feel that in surrendering to the inevitable they have done the best for their country that circum stances permitted, will not be disposed to submit tamely to unmerited obloquy, while those who consider that no circumstanoes can justify the sur render of a foot of French soil will heap in famy upon the prospective treaty-makers. If these gerraB of civil war bear no fruit, France may speedily regain a "powerful position, in spite of the loss of a few of her provinoes, but if the withdrawal of the Germans is to be followed by bloody internecine struggles, the chapter of French miseries, instead of being about to close, is only fairly beginning. COUNCILS AND THE FIREMEN, Yesterday a desperate effort was made in Councils to restore to active service, with the loss of but two months' pay, the Good Will Hose and Independence Fire Companies, who were suspended for rioting last July. In spite of the indignation which the scandalous con duct of a portion of the volunteer firemen has of late excited, and which has caused a move ment of the most decided character in favor of a Paid Department, the disposition of many Counoilmen to display a most culpable leniency towards the perpetrators of such offenses as the members of the two compa nies named were guilty of, was shown in a striking manner by the aotion of Common Council in consenting to the above men tioned proposition. In the Seleot branch, however, a commendable firmness was manifested, and the offending firemen were unable to procure sufficient votes to carry their measure through. The reasons given for the reinstatement upon the active list of the Good Will and Indepen dence Companies was that they had entered upon an agreement by whioh hostile collisions would be avoided in the future. This agree ment, which exists only under the signature of the presidents of the companies, with whom there is no assurance that the majority of the members they propose to represent have joined, is that if, in proceeding to a fire, one company wishes to pass the other, it must turn off to another street to do so, and that a hose carriage shall always give the track to a steam engine. This plan looks very well on paper, but the public are interested in knowing how much power the officers of the companies have to enforce it. The men who profess to bo the represen tative volunteer firemen of Philadelphia are always eager to lay the blame of rioting upon bummers and hangers-on, who do not pro perly belong to the Fire Department, but there is no doubt that much of the outrageous performances that have lately disgusted all respectable citizens with the volunteer sys tem were participated in almost entirely by the regularly enrolled members of the offending companies. The respectable fire men have shown themselves totally unable either to restrain their ruffianly comrades or to rid the engine-houses of the outsiders who do not belong there, and who are made responsible for all the sins of the legitimate members of the Fire Department. They cannot, there fore, expect that the public will believe in the power of the presidents of the Good Will and Independence Companies to pre vent rioting in the future by any such agree ment as that whioh they entered into for the purpose of inducing Councils to reinstate them, and the whole proceeding is marked by that puerile spirit that is as characteristic of, as it is discreditable to, the volunteer Fire Department. There is no doubt that Coun cils have been in a great measure responsible for the bad behavior 'of the firemen, by the readiness with which they have almost invariably interfered to reinstate companies suspended for bad conduct; and we are glad to record that enough members were found yesterday with sufficient pluck and de termination to protect the publio peace and to give the firemen a lesson by refusing to grant the petition for placing the Good Will and Independence Companies again upon the active list. THE CENSUS. A resolution for the appointment of a committee, to consist of the Mayor, the Pre sidents of Counoils, and five citizens, to pro ceed to Washington and request of the Pre sident that the census of Philadelphia be re taken, was offered in Seleot Council yester day, and after some discussion was postponed until next week, as was also a motion to re take the census of one war! in order to de monstrate th unreliability of the count made by Marshal Gregory and his assistants, with the view of founding a substantial claim for having the whole work performed over again at the expense of the United States. The re sponsibility for the palpable incorreotness of the census returns rests almost exclusively with Congress, which not only adopted a plan bad in itself, but did a great injustice to the great cities by ordering the count to be taken in the middle of the summer, when a large portion of the population are away from home. The census returns are qf no value whatever so long as there is a doubt about their being within a reasonable degree of accuracy; and in such cities as Philadelphia and New York it is of the highest importance that the actual population should be known with as much defiuitenees as it is possible to command. As the returns made by Marshal Gregory can be proved to be a very long way from correctness, it is the duty of the Government to order a recount, and we hope sincerely that Councils will push the matter with the proper amount of vigor. If the Government will not retake the censns, we must do it our selves, but it is obviously the business of those who made the mistakes to correct them, and as the President has ordered a recount to be made in New York, the least he can do is to perform a similar act of justice for Philadelphia. OniTIIAKV. Chnlie Prtm, ComntlM. Tills popular actor.whose death ts reported to have occurred yesterday in New York, was born In Birmingham, England, April is, 1825. He came to the United States tn the fall or 1849, and made his first engagement In New York at Nlblo's Garden in 1350, under Brougham A Chippendale's management, no was then engaged at the "Old Federal Street," Bos ton. After a travelling tonr through the West he appeared at Wallace's, New fork, In ISM. Daring this season he married Ellr.a, second daughter of Jt hn Nlckenson, the eccentric actor and manager. After continuing several Reasons at Wallaok'a, Mr. rcters was engaged by Laura Keene for her great theatrical enterprise in New York, and afterwards travelled with Miss Keene throughout the country. In 1864 he was engaged by Montgomery Field, of the Boston Museum, In plaoe of William Warren, who was then starring. He became great favorite in Boston, and is regarded to this day by the llubbltes as having been only second to Warren himself. A few years ago Mr. Peters was run over by a New York Third avenue car, and was so severely injured that his temporary retirement from the stage be came necessary. Ho was the reclpiont of a benefit at the New York Academy of Music which yielded $4000, an altogether unprecedented result, and which showed the esteem la which tho genial actor was held. After his recovery from this accident, he resumed his piofesslon, and at the time of his death was engaged at Booth's Theatre. His last appear ance was as the "Graved iggor" in Hamlet. Mr. Peters was an actor of the Barton school, broad and unctuous, but never descending to buffoonery. Like Burton, he was a man or literary tastes, with a general and liberal education. lie was a huge favorite with his associates, no less than with the public. Ilerr Carl Threaten. Carl Twcsten, one or the principal founders of the Fortschrltt party of Germany, died recently iu Prus sia. This party had severe contentions with Bismarck and the Junkers between the years 1S52 and 1865. The publication of a political pamphlet written by htm In 1861 led to a duel between him and General Manteuffel, in which Twesteu received a severe wound. He became a member of Parliament in 1862 and was prosecuted for a speech there delivered In 18C6. He was also a founder of the national liberal party. He was In li ia tirty-flrst year at the Mine of his death, being born on the 22 d of April, 1820. Rev. Bernard C. Wolff. A distinguished divine of the German Reformed Church, Rev. Bernard C. Wolff, died on Taesday last at his home in Lancaster, Pa. He was then la his 76th year, and was born at Martlnsburg, Virginia. He was educated at Charabersburg, but up to his 36th year was engaged In business. At that advanced age he began to study for the ministry, and la 1832 received a call to Easton. After remaining nine years he left that town to accept a professor's chair in the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg. This professorship he resigned iu 1804, on account of fall lug health, lie has since been living in retirement at Lancaster. NOTICES. Men's Entire Suits, Ah low ai 10. Better than are sold cltewhcre at $12 to tie. Others at $12, $13, $16, $16, $18, $20. Call and . lla'f-vav between f BNTWT $, Fifth and Sixth greets. o. 818 Mabkbt sraWr FUKNI I UKfc. HOVER'S PATENT SOFA BED. All eld and young bachelors, as well as ladles who keep old maid's hall, are now buying HOVER'S CELEBRATED PATENT SOFA BED. This Is the only Eofa Bed that can be taken apart to cleanse It the same as a bedstead. All others are unsafe and liable to get oat of repair. To be had only of the manufacturer and owner, II. I HOVER, No. 230 SOUTH SECOND STREET. 21 tufem PHILADELPHIA. BUY YOUR FURNITURE OF GOULD & CO., Nob. 37 and 39 N. SECOND Street AND N. E. Corner NINTH and MARKET. 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THE YOllNQ POTATO ROASTERS. By the au thor ot Dick and his Donkey. Illustrated. ISmo, 26 cents. Those who have read "Dick," will want its com panion. Just published and for sale by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 11SS4 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 11 2 wfmct v GROCERIES. ETO. g HOT WELL'S SWEET CIDER, Made expressly for our sates. The first Invoice of this CELEBRATED CIDER just received. ALBERT O. ROBERTS, Dealer in Fine Groceries, UT Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Sta. OOLONG TEA IN BASKETS, VIA "OVER LAND ROUTE," just rscelved at Agency, No. 109 CUHSNUT Street. 11 Ot, QLOTHINQ. SUITS $10 SUITS $12 Do you wants Salt t the chilly Fall? We hftVB it r.hpnn Gti K Whether thin or stent, JJ I O Or short or tall. We fit ron well At the Great Brown & i A Halt $1U At the Great Brown Hall. $12 $15 GREAT BROWN HALL. $10 $12 LOW PRICES. FINE GOODS. NEAT FITS. 1 ft FALL SUITS. ALL PATTERNS. FASHIONABLE. CHOICE STYLES. - $10 NOBBY. CHEAP. SPLENDID CUT, $12 $15 003 and 605 CHESHTJT STREET. 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The Fidelity Insurance, Trust, and Safe Deposit Company, OF PHILADELPHIA, IN THIIK New Marble Fire-proof Building, Nos. 329-331 CHE8NUT Street. Capital subscribed, H.ooo.ooO; paid, 500,000. COUPON BONDS, STOCK8, SECURITIES. FAMILY PLATE, COIN, DEEDS, and VALUABLES of every description received for safe-keeping, under guarantee, at very moderate rates. The Company also rent SAFES INSIDE THEIR BUKGLAK-PIiOO? VAULTS, at prices varying irom 115 to t6 a j ear, according to size. Au extra size for Corporal ions aud Bankers. Rooms and desks adjoining vaults provided for Safe Renters. DEPOSITS OF MONEY RECEIVED ON INTE REST at three per cent., payable by check, without notice, aud at four per ecu'., payable by check, on ten days' notice. TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT furnished available iu all parts of Europe. INCOME COLLECTED and remitted for one per cent The Company act as EXECUTORS, ADMINIS TRATORS, and GUARDIANS, and RECEIVE and EXECUTE TRUSTS of every description, from the Courts, Corporations, and Individuals. N. B. BROWNE, President. C. H CLARE, Vice-President. ROBERT PATXRBSON, Secretary and Treasurer. VIKKUTUKB. N. B. Browne, Alexander Henry. Clarence H. Clar, John Welsh, Charles Macalester, Stephen A. Caldwell, George F. Tyler, Henrr C. Gibson. to warn w. i;iarx, J. GUlingham Fell. Henry Pratt McSean, IB 13 fmwt A GENTLEMAN THOROUGHLY ACQUAINTED with the CUBA AND WEST INDIA BUSI NESS AND GENERAL COUNTINQ-HOUSE WORE, after aa experience of eleven years In this city, possessing the Spanish and English Lan guages, aud who, with numerous friends In Cuba, can influence considerable business, la open for en gagement as a Working Partner, or etherwlae, in same or other business. Best references as to character and capacity. Ad dress "Business," at this office. 11 ltf DRAP DE NICE. We flatter ourselves, by the introduction of this NEW MATERIAL to the Ladies of Philadelphia, we have suc ceeded in offering the most beautiful drapery imported this season. Being composed entirely of the FINEST ME" R I NO WOOL the manufacturer has been able to produoe the most exquisite dark shades, whioh conld not be approachod with inferior materials. Our entire assortment of these goods is now on exhibition, and we respectfully invite an early in spection. 5SOMER. COLLADAY & CO., 1412 AND 1414 CIIESNUT STREET. HOYT 1k BRO., IN GREAT VARIETY READY-MADE. A LARGE STOCK OP CLOTHS, OASSIMERE3 AND COATING FOR MEN'S ORDER WORK. ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS, TENTH .AJr CHESNUT. Ladies' Riding Habits DRY QOODS. SILK 8. EXAMINE GEORGE FRYER'S STOCK OF Black and Fancy Silks Before Purchasing. No. 91C CIIESNUT STREET, 8 83 2m PHILADELPHIA. PIAN08. GEORGE STECK & CO.'S PIANOS, Grand, Square and Upright. ALSO, HAINES BROS.' PIANOS. Only place In Philadelphia for sale of Mason & Hamlin' World-Renowned Cabinet Organs. For sale or rent, or to rent with view to purchase, and part of rental apply. 16 tf GUIJLII & FISCHER. J. E. GOULD, No. 923 CIIESNUT 8t. WM. G. FISCHER, No. 1018 ARCH 8t. tfS STEINWAY & SONS' ifia Grand Square and Upright Pianos. Special attention la called to their new Patent Upright Pianos, With Double Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tubular Metal Frame Action, etc.. which are matchless In Tone and Touch, and unrivalled In durability. CIIARLEB IHUASIUS, WAREROOMS, No. 1000 CIIESNUT STREET, 0 13 tfrp PHILADELPHIA. CUIOKCHINQ SONS WORLD-RENOWNED GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGHT PIANOS Attention la invited to the celebrated PATENT GRAND UPRIGHT AND TUB NEW SCALE GKAND SQUARE PIANOS Great Reductions. Fixed Prices. BUTTON '8 PIANO ROOMS, Nos. U2Sand 1123 CHESNLT Street. 10 81 lmp W. H. DLTTON. 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MARVIN'S CHROME IRON SPHERICAL I3ixi-prla,i Safe Will resist all BURGLAR'S IMPLEMENTS for any length of time. Please send for catalogue. MARVIN & CO.. IV o. 721 CHESPIXTT Street, (MASONIC HALL,) PHILADELPHIA. 2CC Broadway, N. T. 109 Bank st, Cleveland, Ohio. A number of Second-hand Safes, of different makes and sizes, for sale V&H LOW. Kafes, Machinery, etc.; moved aud hoisted promptly and careiully, at reasonable rates. " io T fmvvoia i COMMISSION. CIRARD MERCANTILE COMPANY. OP PHILADELPHIA. Chartered by Special Act of Legislature, March 16, 1870. Organized for the Purpose of transacting a WOOL AND COTTON COMMISSION BUSINESS, No. 84 S. FRONT Strand 88 LET1TIA St, Phllada. J. IL LIVINGSTON, President. OFFICERS OF THE G1RARD MERCANTILE CO' Presldtnt, J. II. LIVINGSTON, late resident Partner of Taussig, Livingston & Co. DIKHCTOKS. JAMES M. PHE6TON, of Preston fc Irwin, Woollen aBd Cotton Goods Manufacturers, Manayunk. JOSE1U D. McKEE, Penn KnlttlDg Miila, city. JOHN MAXfeON, Ja., Woollen and Cotton Goods Manufacturer, Mannyunk. W. w. KURTZ, of Metsrs. Kurtz A Howard. Bant crs city. TUOS. liEOWN, of Messrs. McFetrlch k Brown, JOHN. G. HOWARD, Ircas. J. A. B AYBOLD, Sec CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. CHARGES RE A SONABLE. LIBEUAL ADVANCES MADE. Consignors promptly advised of any changes be Markets by mall or telegraph, when? quested. 10 81 smwrp UPHOL3 TERY QOODS, ETO. 1870. 1870. STEVENSON & SCHWEMMER. Rich Eioche Figured Cotelinei FOR PARLORS AND RECEPTION ROOMS. HEAVY TAMBOURED LACES TO CORRESPOND. Wbv are their prices over twenty per cent, lower j than elsewhere for the same GoodsT t uut eecauae inj uuy tor uiu ana reams heavy discounts, 1 heae they transfer to purchasers. Second BUug practical aud experienced in ail branches of the DECORATING aud UPHOLSTER? bu.li ess, they save by persoual attention and super vision at leant fifteen per cent. In their expanses, of wMiii their customers shall also have the full benefit. 'J his makes a total of twenty. cue per oeuC saved ly every cubtomer placing orders iu their charge, besides having their work executed la the flue'. Uiwuner and with the utmost despatch. 1113 CHKSNUT STREET. II) 12 WlUliiUUp 1113 V
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