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JUDGES IN PHILADELPHIA,
"rem the '. 1", Tiiim.
At tbe recent election in Philadelphia there
were three jndgesbipH to lo filled. Two of
the successful candidates were elected by do
cided majorities. The third, though of the
name party, catae pretty near being defeated,
for the reason that he wax const lored by
many people to be not exactly a tit man for
the position. How far this opinion wm cor
rect we are nnable to nay, and the greater
part of our readers would ore very little to
know. The point to which wo are calling
Attention in, that the opinion existed, and
that it produced tho effect we have Rtated.
And the case is still more worthy of notice
from the circumstance that what diiuiuiHuei
the vote for the individual in question wa
not the idea that he was grossly unfit for the
judgeship. Tbe feeling was not that he
would be bribed if elected, or that he would
disgrace Jhe Bench by notorious incompe
tency. All the difficulty was that some of tho
voters thought whether justly or unjustly is
not now to the purpose that his abilities
and previous history did not fully come up to
the mark of what ought to be demanded in
the caso of a candidate for tho judiciary.
The inhabitants of the Quaker City, if they
kave not of late years sent a reasonable pro
portion of rascals to the State Legislature,
and been burdened with a respectable num
ber of plunderers in their municipal offices,
have most certainly been making a remarka
ble fuss about nothing. As the population
of that locality are generally of a tranquil
disposition, and by no means fond of creating
a disturbance, we.have no doubt that their
complaints are not without a good deal of
reason. But, however this may be, there is
one department which the Philadelphians
have never given np to political rings. To
whatever degree dishonest and unprincipled
individuals may have worked themselves into
other positions, the judiciary is unscathod,
and there is a quiet determination among the
people to keep it so, which even the con
trollers of party nominations do not dare to
defy.
There is occasionally considerable grum
bling in Philadelphia by Democrats at lie
publican judges, or by Republicans at Demo
cratic judges, on the ground of alleged
leaning towards one side or the other in ques
tions connected with elections or other po
litical affairs. That such charges Bhould be
made is natural enough; and that Home of
them might be true, even with judges of the
very highest character, would be in no way
improbable. Bat, apart from cases involving
political questions, tho character of the judi
ciary of Philadelphia is unimpeachod and
unimpeachable. The idea of suspooting a
judge of corruption, or of being under the
influence of any speculating clique or com
bination, is one which never on any occasion
enters the head of a Philadelphian. To his
inexperience and innocence tho very
suggestion of tho thought would be shock
ing. In the peaceful and happy city of mar
ile. door-steps and white window-shutters,
where he and his father and grandfather were
born, he has no recollection of any such
charges ever having been made against a
judge, and he is certain that if made and ex
tensively believed, an investigation would
take place which would either result in the
J udge's acquittal of the accusations, or in his
being obliged to vacate his seat on the bench.
Indeed, he is pretty sure though he remem
bers no instance in point that the Judge
hi rune, f would either demaDd Buch an investi
gation, or else at once resiga. To him, the
word "Judge" is as suggestive of honesty
and impartiality as tho mtntiou of Fairmount
is of hydrant water.
There is one thing about this subject of
judges in Philadelphia which is rather puz
zling. It is the question why the people
there, seeing that they are so particular
about having good men for the judiciary,
and so successful in obtaining them, have
not carried out the principle more effec
tively into other things. Why, in other
words, do they so uniformly elect suit
able men to the bench, and so frequently
choose notoriously ivnfit individuals for
the Legislature and the city offices? There
is an apparent inconsistency in thia which
we are at a loss to explain. A teacher of
long experience once remarked that he
had often noticed that if he got rid of the
lazy boys in his school, some of the indus
trious ones became lazy. The measures, he
mid, which were used to urge the indolent
pupils forward, were found to have operated
as a needful incitement in keeping a portion
of the more studious up to their work. If, on
a similar principle, the Philadelphians have
an idea that the hammering at dishonest and
incompetent officials in other departments is
a useful stimulus in preventing the present
high character of their judges from being
impaired, perhaps there may be
something like philosophy in it. Human
nature is weak in the beet of men. and a little
stirring up of the ' conscience
once in a while is very well,, even in the case
of men in whom there is no apparent reason
for it. But whatever may be the cause of
the phenomenon we have mentioned, we must
sincerely congratulate the Philadelphians
upon the fact that they have kept their Judi
ciary pure. However much may depend upon
the character of men in other public situa
tions, there are probably no positions in our
Government which, all things considered, so
intimately affect the interests and the welfare
of all classes, rich and poor, as those held by
the Judges.
THE LATE ELECTIONS AND THE OUT
LOOK FOlt THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
t orn Uu N. T. Herald.
The late elections East, West, and South
have established several important facts in
reference to the next Presidency. They settle
the conflict for the next Congress for the
Republicans, with the balance of power in
the President's veto; they show in their re
Bults that on the platform of General Grant's
administration the Republican party still
substantially holds its ground; that it has
aecured, through General Grant liberal
policy towards the black race, the mass of the
even hundred and fifty thousand ooloral
voters of the country a powerful element;
that the great political reaction expected by
over confident Democratic arithmeticians has
not yet begun, and that the Republicans, with
Grant as their candidate, have still the io3ide
track and a good headway for the Presidential
succession. On the other hand, it will bo
perceived from these elections that the De
mocracy everywhere are organized, aotive.
and hopeful; that, under the management of
Tammany Hall, they are too strona to be dis
placed in New York, city or Statefthat they
are quick to avail themsel?e of diaafl'eotlo in
THE DA 1L F EVENING TELEGRAPH TRIPLE SUEM
end discords in the Republican camp, and
that they arc vigorously working for IK 72.
The most important point, however, gained
by Tammany on Tuesday last lies in her de
cisive victory in this city under all the new
safeguards applied for an honest election.
She thus stands before .the country relieved
of the odium so widely charged against her
f winning her victories by fraudulent votes
and false returns. She has also gained a
gTetft moral advantage over her accusers in
co-operatiDg with the United States authori
ties in the maintenance of law and order. In
thus gracefully recognizing the sovereigu
authority of the United States she sUnd
clear of any charges of a seditious character.
At the same time the President has displayed
the soundest judgment in his quiet and con
ciliatory arrangements for the enforcement
of the laws, and in the appointment of th tt
cool, experienced, and clear-headed diplomat,
Caleb Gushing, as the legal adviser of the
belligerent Marshal Sharpe and his collea
gues. Thus the triumph of Tammany is
glorified in the triumph of law, and she
Btands before the country now a great, posi
tive, and undisputed centre of political pjwer
as the "head centre, ' in short, of the De
mocratic party of the Union.
Governor Hoffman is her candidate for the
Presidential succession, and his popularity
throughout the Empire State rests upon the
solid foundation of a good publio record and
approved abilities at a politician and ns a
statesman. The Republican candidate for
1872 is General Grant, and there is no danger
in his case of any contesting Republican
aspirant, ne stands to-day the accepted
champion of his party against all comers, and
he stands upon the acceptable platform of a
careful, money-saving, retrenching, tax-reducing
and debt-paying administration.
Against him, from the facts of the late elec
tions before us, the Democracy in 1872 will
have but a slim chance of success. There
is no telling, however, what changes in the
political issues of the day may bo brought
about within a single year in these eventful
times. Before the formal opening of the
Presidential canvass, the Cuban question, the
St. Domingo question, the Mexican question,
or the Alabama claims, involving the Cana
dian annexation question, may be brought
upon the carpet in such a shape as for a time
to supersede all other questions among the
politicians. All these issues are in the hands
of the President, and upon a bold stroke for
Cuba, St. Domingo, Mexico, or for the acqui
sition of the great river and Gulf of St. Lau
rence as an outlet for tho rapidly accumu
lating products of the Northwest, General
Grant may make a popular hit which will re
peat, in his great Buccess, the second election
of Jackson or the second lection of Lincoln.
Meantime the Tammany Democracy have a
great task before them iu putting the party
for 1872 upon some new platform on the
living issues of the day, after cutting it loose
from the dead issues of the time of Buchanan..
But first and foremost, the duty devolves
upon Tammany of giving this city some
satisfactory and substantial equivalents for
the tax levy something more than the
Bhadows of city improvements, including im
proved communications from end to end of
Manhattan Island, and with the islands aud
mainland on both Bides. If the taxes of the
National Government were on the scale of
our corporation assessments Secretary Bout
well would have the disbursement of a thou
sand millions a year. General Grant has
more, much more, to show for his money col
lected than the Tammany government.
Taxes speaking of taxes we can do nothing
without taxes; but give us, O Sachems ! a
fair equivalent for our taxes collected, and
you may hold on in tho city for twenty years.
Next, with regard to the State. Protect the
people against the grasping schemes of rail
way and other leagues of powerful corpora
tions, and you may hold the State for twenty
years and avoid the intervention of Con
gress. Having all become millionaires, O
most potent sachems ! now is your time to
act largely and liberally for the city and tho
State.
There is no necessity for nay hurry in
pushing the claims of Governor Hoffman for
the nomination of the next National Demo
cratic Convention. The past Presidential
conventions of the party are full of instruc
tions upon this subject. Never since the
time of Jackson has there been any certainty
as to the candidate of these juggling conven
tions, and the aspirants first in the held have
always been the firBt to bo knocked in the
head. No, we must except Buchanan , in
He was first in the field that time, as
he was many times before, but that time he
succeeded. But what a time they made of it
with him, and what a mess he made of it! He
was the Louis the Sixteenth of to old Bour
bons, lacking the guillotine. So now, not
forgetting the keep-in-the-dark dodge of Hora
tia Seymour, whereby he cut out Pendleton in
18C8, we have our misgivings of this prema
ture trotting out of Governor Hoffman. It is e.
different case; but it reminds ns that John
Van Buren in 18G.1 trotted out Andy Johnson
for the Democracy, which was the ruia of
Johnson, and the ruin of the Democracy, too.
Again the Western Democrats have not for
gotten Seymour, and they still have an eye
on Pendleton. These old Presidential soras
are hard to cure, and disappointed and badly
treated aspirants are apt to seek their
revenges. Look at Calhoun, Tyler, Martin
Van Buren, Fillmore, Seward, and Johuson.
Let Tammany, then, for the present, be as
modest as Hoffman in reference to his claims
to the next Presidency. If Seymour ha 1 not
spoiled the trick we Bhould recommend a posi
tive withdrawal of tbe Governor from the
field. As it is, let him be held by Tammany
as subject to eventualities and not as an
ultimatum; and thus he may escape those
rival cliques and factions in the convention
so fatal to any favorite under the two-thirds
rule.
Briefly, let Tammany do the best she can,
with the aid of the Governor, for the city and
the State, and she will do the best ahe can to
make Hoffman President, if not ia 1872, in
187(1. And thu9, O greatly exalted sachems !
since these late instruoiive elections, thus
endeth our firbt lesson.
FIGS FROM THISTLES.
From the If. Y, Tribune.
A journal which, under a thia varnish of
independence, colored by an occasional eo
certricity, has done more than any other to
Bnbject afresh our city and State to the ten
der mercies of the Tammany ring, mildly
suggests that, as the master-spirits are all
rich and have a fresh lease of power, thoy
should now stop btealing and give us the
benefits of honest and frugal rule.
The suggestion is preposterous. Men who
are Bucoeabfcl in an evil course rarely or
never forsake it. Not till thoy eno muter
their Gravelotte and Sedan are they able to
realize that honesty is wiser and better thtu
policy. Their Austerlitz and Jena only serve
to lore them on to their Madrid aud M jsaow.
Messrs. Tweed fc Company are ambitious
of playing their parts on a national stage.
They think the machinery, appliances, aa4
tactios which have made Hoff'mtn Mayor
and Governor, will serve to make him Presi
dent, and thus give them control of the
Federal treasury and patronage. We do not
believe they can succeed even in the nomi
nation; but Vny naturally take a different
view, and will spend as much money in
securing delegates to the next Democratic
National Convention as they usually spend
on a Legislature say a million. And whence
shall they obtain this sum save from- our
conquered tax-payers? Can you imagine
them capable of taking it out of their own
peckets 'i
The suggestion that they might judiciously
surprise the publio by suddenly presenting
themselves in the role of reformers and eco
nomists ignores the very elements of their
power. It is oblivious of the truth so tersely
summed up by Mr. Calhoun in the sentence,
"The cohesive power of publio plunder."
The Tammany Ring is a power, simply
because it governs for itself and its sup
porters not for the goneral good. Thou
sands hasten to do its bidding, because thoy
know its service pays. It selects men of char
acter for the three seats it had to fill afresh
in CongreRs this year, because their respecta
bility would improve its reputation, and it
had no job "set up" at Washington: it sends
to the Asscmby, for the most part, mere char
acterless, conscienceless tools, because it
needs unquestioning instruments at Albany,
and knows that these will receive just as
many votes as the best. In short, it adapts
its means to its ends, in full view of the truth
that
'Crowns got by Mood must be by blood main
tained." Suppose the ring should to-morrow for
swear profligacy, and resolve thenceforth to
govern honestly and virtuously, how could
it ever again poll bo many legal votes as it
has ju6t given to Hoffman? At least half
those votes were cast by men who do not
desire virtuous, frugal rule, but the contrary.
They are blacklegs, keepers of dens of in
famy, liquor dealers who sell on Sunday in
defiance of law, with stipendiaries and job
bers who either have already secured, or hope
soon to secure, personal gain from the sway
they uphold. Do you suppose Mr. John
Glcnnon, drawing two salaries from the city
treasury, with the approval of some of our
great capitalists and financiers, while render
ing no service whatever in return, wants
frugal and honest rule? If we have it, how
is he to live? And his case is that of at least
ten thousand of Tammany's most active and
efficient electioneered. They want either pay
for doing nothing or impunity in doing
wrong; and they secure it by upholding Tam
many's power. She will lose her hold on
them from the hour that she makes the public
good her controlling aim. Fernando Wood,
when first chosen Mayor, gave a fair trial to
the experiment of governing so as to secure
the approbation of the wise and good, and
only abandoned it when he had become satis
fied that it was alienating all his old friends
and not fully replacing them by new.
At present, our city is governed upon a
clear comprehension of the fact that virtue is
Blow in perception and inefficient in action,
while vice is alert, apprehensive, and intent
on the main chance. Ten blacklegs afraid
that their craft is in danger will get more
votes into the ballot-boxes at least, will
count more out of them than forty deacons.
Our rulers know right well that the voters
who pay no taxes into the city treasury greatly
outnumber those who have a direct, palpable,
recognized interest in frugal, honest rule
and are, as a class, keener politicians. Two
millions of dollars added to our annual tax
levy will not swell it very materially, while
that sum skilfully expended in ward politics
will make a good many thousand votes. It
will give $1000 each to two thousand ward
politicians, who must be poor sticks if they
cannot, by an outlay of ten per cent, of their
allowance, in addition to their own time,
each bring twenty to fifty voters to the polls.
If the master-spirits of the ring were mainly
intent on purifying their reputations or sav
ing their souls, it would doubless be advisa
ble that they give us better and cheaper rule;
but, considering the purposes they really have
at heart, we cannot realize that the counsel
volunteered them, that they reform and live
cleanly, is pertinent or likely to be heeded.
THE "ALABAMA" CASE AND THE CA
NADIANS. From the K. Y. Kation.
The Alabama case is now in a somewhat
curious phase. Our readers may remember
that the treaty Rigned by Mr. Roverdy John
Bon was rejected for two reasons; one was
that the machinery which it provided for tho ad
justment of the Alabamas claim was defective;
the other was, that the satifaction proffered
under it for the wrong done to the United
States was insufficient. In other words, the
mode of choosing the arbitrators was bad,
and the work given the arbitrators to do did
not cover the ground in dispute. The posi
tion taken up by the present Administration
has been, indeed, one which all impartial
observers, at home and abroad, concede to be
sound, namely, that Great Britain owes not
only full pecuniary satisfaction for the losses
Bustuined by the operations of Confederate
cruisers built or equipped and suffered to
escape from her ports, but something more.
Now, what is this "something more?" The
failure of our Government to say frankly
what this is, is what, at this moment, arrests
the negotiations, and, possibly, the settle
ment of the whole question, for it may be
that, on learning what it is, the British Gov
ernment would concede it. It has been very
curious to see how steadily everybody who
has touched on the subject has refused to
clear up this point, or do more than vaguely,
and indeed darkly, hint at it. The claim that
England must pay "consequential damages"
on the ground that by her concession of
belligereut rights to the Confederacy or,
in other wordB, her declaration to her own
subjects that a state of war existed between
the United States and the Rebel Confederacy
bhe worked all the subsequent miichief,
has, of course, not been seriously maintained
by any respectable authority, and the only
result of its publio production has been to give
a Blightly comio aspect, in the eyes of foreign
jurists, to the American case. But it is,
nevertheless, admitted on all hands that the
mere cash payment of the Alabama claims,
which we believe England is quite ready to
make, cannot and ought not to settle the con
troversy; but the thing which, over and above
this, England ought to do, the present ad
ministration, no less than the last, steadily
refuses to state, and, until it is stated by
somebody, England announces that Bhe will
make no further move. Nay, the delay has,
if we are to believe the PaU Mali Gazette,
produced in English opinion Borne symptoms
of a withdrawal from the advanced
ground which she occupied on this
Bubject a year ago, the doctrine
having begun to find favor "that the rule
sought to be enforced against them us was
a very modern and very doubtful innovation
on international law; that the law of nations,
regarded in its integrity, did not in any way
impose on the British Government the duty
of preventing ships of war, constructed by
private traders, from getting to sea; that the
general and publio obligation which that law
- - PHILADELPHIA, SATUKPAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1870J
created was the duty of submitting, without
complaint, to the capture and confiscation of
such vessels by the ships of the Unitod
States." Whenever an American politician
takes up the question now, however, it is
generally for the mere purpose of going once
more over the old allegations and proofs, with
which ten years of discussion and iteration
have made the publio so familiar.
In the meantime, however, the men who
lost their ships during the war, and to whom
the Alabama case has, therefore, a personal
as well as political interest, are getting old or
beginning te die off, and, having been
thoroughly familiarized by orators and news
papers with the nature and extent of their
losses, and with the obligation which rests
on England to make them good, and being
constantly reminded that it is now the busi
ness of England to come forward at onos
with "the cash," and learning that England
is ready to pay "the catih," some of them
are not unnaturally anxious to get "the cash"
in. But here the very newspapers which are
most clamorous for "the cash" step
in and say the sufferers ought
not to receive it except through the Gov
ernment, and by virtue of an agreement with
tbe Government. In this they are undoubt
edly right. The owners of vessels destroyed
by the Alabama have no direct claim on the
British Government, and the losses they have
suffered were also offenses against the United
States, the atonement for which it belongs to
the United States to exact. But then there
reBts on the United States Government an
obligation of the strongest kind, either to ad
just and pay their claims at once itself, and
then take its own time to exact reimburse
ment from Great Britain, or to push the set
tlement of their claims now with all conve
nient speed. It has no right to use the
claims merely as weapons of offense, and,
while making the world ring with accounts of
the destruction of our commercial navy by
English cruisers, treat the complaints of the
owners of the navy as of no consequence.
No prospect of advantage to the country at
large through intentional delay in the nogo
tiations will justify total indifference to the
demands of the individuals whose losses
really give our case most of its woight;
for it is the extent of our losses
which makes it worth while to hold England
to a strict account. If the Alabama had
Bailed just as Bhe did, but had afterwards done
American commerce no injury, her sailing
would certainly never have been made the
Bnbject of complaint against England.
Now, what are the causes of this unwil.
licgneES on the part of the administration
and of a portion of the press to define the
satisfaction which Great Britain must give in
order to close the Alabama controversy?
They are two in number: one, which proba
bly only actuates a comparatively small num
ber of persons, is the desire of revenge.
They expect that England will some day 'get
involved in a European war, and that "then
the United States will have an opportunity of
paying her off in her own coin; and we can
tell the Fall MaU Gazette that nothing could
please thia class better, or serve its purposes
better, than that fine old rule of international
law, which it Bays is being revived in Eng
land, that the only obligation which rests on
a neutral power with regard to the starting
of war vessels from its ports, for the
service of belligerents, is the obligation of
submitting to their capture without
complaint. If any power in the world has
an interest in preventing the revival of any
euch rule, it is certainly England. With this
class, however, there is little use in arguing.
The impolicy of revenge, and the useless
ness of nourishing revengeful feelings, and
the essential barbarism of introducing re
venge as a force into politics in our day, is
too well known, and has been too often dwelt
on, to leave any ground for the belief that
those who take this view of the Alabama case
do bo through ignorance. We who believe
that there are such things as principles in
politics, and that they are not limited in
their application to one country or one conti
nent, have only one thing to say to these
gentlemen, and that is to request them to
refrain, for decency's sake, from openly
preaching magnanimity and moderation and
general utilitarianism to Bismarck and Kins
William. 6
The second class consists of persons who
hope that by holding out we Bhall get Canada
eventually in Batisfaction of the Alabama
claims. In this class we believe we may in
clude Harper's Weekly and Senator Trum
bull. In mentioning these, we mention pro
bably the two ablest and most respectable
supporters of the scheme. Senator Trum
bull has, in a recent speech in Chicago, set
forth the undeniable advantages, political and
economical, both to the United States and to
Canada, of the annexation of the latter. In
fact, it is something which anybody who
knows anything of the circumstances of the
two countries must wish to see brought about;
but it is precisely because we wish to see it
brought about, and that speedily, that we
deprecate all advocacy of it on this Bide of the
line in connection with, and especially as a pen
alty levied on England on account of, the Ala
bama case. It ought not to be necessary to
point out to any man who has any familiarity
v. it h history, and has occupied himself with
politics, that the cession of territory is re
garded by all modern nations as a sign of
defeat and humiliation. It is something to
which no first-class power ever submits, ex
cept in exchange for something else, or as a
tenible necessity imposed by irretrievable
disaster in war. In the frantio resistance
offered to it by the French, even in the
throes of despair, we have a striking illustra
tion of the horror with which it is regarded
by the leading nations of Europe. With the
feelings of the French about it, everybody
who is capable of putting himself in
other people's places and anybody who
is not ought to let politics, anil es
pecially foreign politics, alone must
sympathize. Now, Great Britain has not
been defeated in war; Bhe is, therefore, though
willing enough to pay damages for the Ala
bama depredations, not prepared to submit
to the payment of a penalty, and especially of
a penalty bo exceedingly humiliating as the
surrender of territory. If Canada, therefore,
be asked for as a penalty that is, as some
thing to appease an angry enemy without any
reference to its pecuniary relation to the
wrong for which it is expected to atone it
will of course at once bring into play the
national pride and divers other worse pas
sions, and then we may bid farewell for an
indefinite period to ail hope of a settlement
of any kind.
There is one way in which the annexation
of Canada to the United States might be
made acceptable to England, and might be
brought under that wise and just rule which
Jlurptr's Weekly applies to the cession of
Alsace and Lorraine, but apparently does not
see the force of on this continent, and that is,
its being demanded by tbe Canadians them
selves. We have not a particle of doubt that
if the Canadians called for a severance of the
few remaining bonds which unite them to
Great Britain," their application would be re
ceived by nine-tenths of the English publio
with open or secret rejoicing, and at once be
acceded to. Bntitis jnst as safe to any that
annexation against which the Canadians pro
tested, men of all parties in England, and
more particularly the English Radicals, would
feel bound in honor to resist to the death.
What the Canadian feeling is on the sub
ject we do not pretend to be able to npoak
of with certainty. We know of no trust
worthy evidence that any considerable portion
of the people aa yet desire annexation,
though we believe there is plenty of evidenoe
that the feeling in its favor is growing, and
that, if politicians on this Hide of the line will
only behave with discretion, ff will yet bear
fruit. But it would be difficult to contrive a
better mode of making annexation hateful to
tbe Canadian people than for us to talk of it
as a punishment for the commission, by Eng
land, of wrongs with which the Canadians
bad absolutely nothing to do, and for which
they are no more responsible than we here are
for tho condition of Ireland. Annexation, on
such grounds and under suoh ciroumstanoes,
would not only violate all the rules
which some of its advocates are now, with
curious inconsistency, urging against Bis
marck with regard to Alsace and Lorraine,
but of several others of which Alsace and
Lorraine cannot claim the benefit, and the
breach of which would bring the Canadians
more Burely to the level of cattle, or, reonr
ring to tbe original application of tho term,
to that of "blackmail," than any people in
modern times have ever been brought.
Canada is not part of England in the sense
that Alsace and Lorraine are parts of Franon,
and a more monstrous violation of right could
hardly be contrived than would be involved in
fastening on her the responsibility for de
fects in English foreign policy. ,
The delay in framing and producing dis
tinct grounds of settlement in this contro
versy, and urging them persistently on Eng
land, becomes more and more discreditable
to the Government and the public the longer
it lasts; and what a proper regard to the in
terests of individual sufferers, to the dignity
of the United States, and the interests, of
civilization aud justice, calls for, has been,
we think, well Bet forth by Dr. Bluntschli, in
the article of which we gave a summary a
few weeks ago, namely, compensation for all
damage done by crnisers Hailing from English
ports, and the issue of such a joint declara
tion touching neutral duties as Bhall not only
attest the illegality of the past course of
Great Britain in this war, but settle the law
for the future.
SHIPPINO.
gPECIAL NOTICE TO SIlIPrEKi
VIA 8AVANNAII, GA.
2fetS .
x?iMif ai 0 usnai despatch to ail points
on the WESTERN AND ATLANTA, MEMPHIS
AND CHARLESTON, ALABAMA AND CHAT
TANOOGA, ROME, 8ELMA, ROME AND DAL
TON, SELMA AND MERIDIAN, VICKSBURO
AND MERIDIAN, MOBILE AND OHIO, NEW
ORLEANS, JACKSON AND GREAT NORTH
ERN RAILROADS, all Landings on tbe COOiA
RIVER.
Through Bills of Lading: given, and rates guaran
tied to all points In the South and Southwest.
WILLIAM L. JAMES,
General Ageut,
10 17 tf No. 130 South THIRD Street.
jtTjfjTgfc LORILLARD STEAMSHIP OOAU'ANI
FOlt NEW TOKK,
SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AN I
SATURDAY. '
RATES TEN CENTS PER 100 POTJNrS, FOUR
CENTb PER CUBIC FOOT, ONE CENT PER
GALLON. Kill P S OPTION.
INSURANCE BY THIS LINE ONE-EIGHTH OP
ONE PER CENT.
Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc.
No receipt or bill of lading signed lor less than
Cfty ceots.
Goods forwarded to all points free of coram f salons.
Through bills of laUng given to Wilmington, N. O .
dv the steamers of this Hue leaving New York tri
weekly. For further particulars apply to
JOHN P. onr,,
PIER 19 NOrlTH WHARVES.
N. B. The regular shippers by this line will be
charged the above rates all winter.
Winter rates commence December IB. s g ,
TUB REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI.
LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to lusue throuer
bills of ladlrg to Interior points South and West U
connection with South Carolina Railroad Comnanv
ALFRED L. TYLErT'
Vice-President 80. C. RR. Co.
4fffiU PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTH KRN
SwfrTMAIL STKAMSHIP COMPANY'S RKGII
LAKbKMI-MONTHLY LINK TO NKW OR.
Ths JUNIATA will Mil few Nsw Orleans, via Havaaa.
or Tueadav. roveraber 16. at 8 A. M. ttavama,
Th YAZOO will Mil from Mew Orleans, via Havana
On November .
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low ratm as h,
any oilier route given to MotiIe, Galveston, INDIAN.
OLA, HOOtvPORT. LA VAUU A, an t HKOS,nd to ill
r ninti 00 tbe Missieaippi rivei between Mew Orleans and
t. Louis. Red Kiver iri;bu reabipped at New Orleans
without charge of csmmisaiona.
WKFKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH. GA.
The PAN TH KR will Mil tor Bavannah on Bator
d. November 12 at 8 A. M.
ine TONAWAf DA will sail from 8avannan on Bat. or
dT, Novomber Id.
TfahOUUU blLLS OF LADING given to all thsprin.
olpal towns in Georgia, Alabama, ilonda. Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection witb
tbe Ueatral Railroad of (ieonria, Atlantioand Gulf Rait
road, and Florida team era, at as low rata as by oompotina
lines.
SFMI-MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON, 1. O
Tbe FIOKKKR will sail for Wilmington on 8 loardny.
November 13. at A. M. Returning, willleave Wilmina
ton Baiurday, Novumber 19.
Connects with tbe (Jape Fear Kiver Steamboat Com.
pany, tbe Wi'min ton and Weidon and North Carolina
Railroads, and tbe Vi ihnington and Manoheater Railroad
te all interior points.
Freights for Columbia, 8. O., and Augusta, Ga., taken
Via Vt ilmington, at aslow rates as by any other route.
Insuranoe effected when requested by abippera. Bills
of lading signed at Quean street wharf on or before day
of Milinif.
WILLIAM U J A MRS, General Arenfc
t 1 o-J30 Sooth THIRD btreek.
PHILADELPHIA. RICFTVfO ND
1 AND NOKKOi.K HTKtUKHIP nun
THROUGH FREIGHT ALU LINK TO TUJf SOUTH
INUREASKD FACIUTIRSAND REDUCED RATES
Steamers leave ovary vVKDNKHDAYand SATURDAY
at U o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR-'
tiV l Street.
RKTl kNJNG. leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURbDAYS, and iiORFOLK TUESDAYS and 8A?
TURDAY8. B
Ne Bills of Ladini aigned after tf o'clock on aailinc
rJROUGH RATES toall points In North and South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, oonneotina at
Portsmontb.and te Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the
West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air line and Rioomond
and Danville liai broad.
Freight HANDLKD BUTONOB, and taken at LOWER
RATKS THAN AN V OTUF.R Lisn. "'"
No charge for oonunisaion, dray age, or any xpenso Of
ransfer. .
hie am ships insure at lowest rate.
Freight received daily.
6UU Room acvdatfor ,
No. 19 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. POKI ER, Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. OttO WfcLL A CO.. Agents at Noriolk. U
mm NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXAN
fJvTClrla, Georgetown, and Wellington,
&iah2iu4D. C., via Chesapeake aud Delaware
Cuual, with connections at Alexandria from the
most direct route for Lynohburg, Bristol, KnoxvtUe,
Nuthvllle, Dalton, and the Southwest.
bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
torn the Unit wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North aud South WHARVES.
FIYDB A. TYLER, Ageuts at Georgetown: M.
EldRIDGE i CO., Agent at Alexandria. 1
. . usLawAtis ad CHESAPEAKE
TfaJSTKAM TOW BO AT COMPANY
1 i svuttTKca vowea ttetween Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Uavre-de-Grace. Delaware city, and in
termediate points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO., Agent.
Captain JOBN LAUGHUN, Superintendent.
Oilice,No.ISbouUi YYlArvea VifcUadelliaUL tilt
SHIPPINU.
FOR LIVKRPOm. nn -iri ct?vtu
ctK-Biiirie ii'imii wu tu anil as iuuowa:
r City of London, Saturday, Nov. 1, at S P. M.
I City of Brooklvri, HRtnrttay, Nov. s. t8 A. M.
CtVofLlraerick, via HuUfax, Tuesday, Nov. 8,
Olty of BmRAelK. Paturdav, Dec. 8, at 8 A. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 45 North river,
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payable In gold. Payable lu currency.
First t aoiD T8 Steerage .
To Louden
80
To Ixindon.
To Paria
88
88
0
To Parla
To Halifax
- sesaee.s.. aw a C lldlimA If
t'aHHel.ffprn aln fr.rwnrr1orV t Uou-va n
SO
To Halifax.
10
Bremen, etc., at reduced rates.
Tickets can be ttonnht heraat moderate rates by
persons wishing to send for their friends.
For further Information apply at tbe company's
00) ee,
JOHN G. PALE, Agent. No. 18 Broadway. N. Y I
Or to O lMiNNKt.T. a vaiti u 1 :.. 1
4 B No- CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia.
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DEIAwXEsT
sfrfS and llHritan CanaL
i-hSWIFTSURK TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURR LINES.
Leaving dally at 18 M. and 8 P. M.
The steam propellers of this company will com
tnence loading on the 8th of March.
Throngh In twenty-four hours.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commission
Freights taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO.. Agents,
J No. 138 South DELAWARE Avenua.
W n u w n vu v r u
N
"'rVj iininjinnnioBlliI nitnun canal,
.1 ifWii ETPHMRTItiMnill'lwtiUDiuv
' 11cm vi me uugwiucommenw
loading on the 8th instant, leaving dally as usual.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR UOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of No
York, North, East, or West, free of commission.
Freights received at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.. Agent,
t a tvrirn tt . t N0, I2 DELAWA.RB Avenua.
JAMES ITANP, Agent,
No.jli9WALL Street, New Yorfc. 8 4
OORDAOE, ETOi '
'l ht hinfltn Hiwmll.M r h 11 11, '
WEAVER & CO.,
ROPE MANVFAVTirBGnB
AMD
- BIIIP CIIArVDUBKS.
No, B9 North WATER Street and
No. 88 North. WHARVES, Philadelphia
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK
PRICKS. 41
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Gordagt
At Lowest New York Prices and Freights.
KDVVI1N II. FITLjEK ofe CO
Factory . TKNTH 8 1. and GHRMANTOWH AvootM
8 bore, No. 83 , WATER Bk and 23 N DKLAWAS i
Avanna,
HHm . PHILADELPHIA,
LUMHtR.
1870
8PRUCB JOIST.
SPRUCE JOIST.
HEMLOCK. -HEMLOCK.
1870.
1 C7ft SEASONED CLEAR PINR.
XJ I V BBAtUISJiH Cl.KAK FINE.
fiitis-D DimnL-tiw n r . . s V
SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS.
RED CEDAR.
1 QTA FLORIDA FLOORING.
10 I V FLORIDA FLOORING.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA 8TEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
1870
1870
WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK.-. Q rj
WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK, 1 0 T 7
WALNUT BOARDS.
WALNUT PLANK.
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, -t QiTA
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 10 I U
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINE.
1870
1870
SEASONED POPLAR. 1Qni'
SEASONED CHERRY. 10 I U
ASH,
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
1 ft 7 rt CIGAR BOX MAKERS' i Q ha
10 t U CIGAR BOX MaKKRB' lOlU
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS.
FOR SALE LOW.
IU'711 vAxiOUINA DCANTLING. -IOTA
IO I U CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. lOiU
NORWAY SCANTLING.
1870
CEDAR SHINGLES. -f Opt A
CYPRK88 SHINGLES. 10 fl
MAULE, BROTHER At CO.,
No. 8000 SOUTH Street
1JANEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES
1 COMMON BOARDS.
1 and 9 side FE CE BOARDS.
WHITE PINE FLOORING BOAR MS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, IV tad
iX spruce joist, all sizes. '
HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES.
PLAKTKU1NG LATH A SPECIALTY.
Together with a general assortment of Batldiiur.
Lumber for sale low for cash. T. W. 8MALTZ,
681 6m No. 1T1B RIDGE Avenue, north of Poplar St.
United States Builders' Mill,
FIFTEENTH Street, Eelow Market.
EGLER & BROTHER,
PROPRIETORS.
Wood MouldVngs, Brackets and General Turning
Work, Band-rail balusters and Newel Posts. ' 1 8m
A LARGE ArSOR I'M B NT ALWAYS ON HAND.
BUILDING MATERIALS.
II. E. THOMAS & CO.,
MALiaS IK
Doors, Eiinds, Sash. Shutters'
WINDOW FRAMES, ETC.,
M. W. COBNBK Of
EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Btreeti
; .
CUTLERY, ETO.
fT ODGER8 A WOSTEN HOLM'S POCKET
1KNIVES, Pearl and Stag bandies, and
beautiful nuibb; Rodgeis', and Wade fc
Butcher's Razors, and the celebrated Le
ooultre Razor; Ladles' Scissors, In cases,
of tbe finest quality ; Rodgers Table Cutlery, Carvera
and Forks, Razor Strops, Cork Screws, etc Ear In
struments, to anslst the bearing, of the most ap
proved const ruction, at . P. MADEIRA'S,
No 118 TENTH Street, below CbesnnU
SAXON GREEN
NEVER FADES.
8 lflm
J. T. a-AHTON. kt'sUilC.
SBJPPISO A ND COMMISSION XKRCILIXTSL
No. 8 COKNTIKS SLIP. New York,
No. 18 MJUTU WHARVES, Philadelphia.
No. 45 W. PRATT STREET, Baltimore
We are prepared to ship every description of
Freight to Philadelphia. New York, Wuiulbgtoa, and
Intermediate points with promptness and despatch.
Canal Boats and Steam-tags f urulMbod at the ahorttaft
notice. '