THIS DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH 1'IIILADELPniA, TIIUHSDAi, NOVEMBER 17, 1870.
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srzn.iT or inn muss
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journal
upon Current Toplos Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph .
TIIE PAPEIi AGE.
From, the S. 7. Tribune.
There was an iron ftge once, and an age of
bronze, and those who dig dop amid primeval
strata tell ns also of an age of fliut, ante
dating known epochs, involved in niuali fog
and uncertainty, and not very useful to con
template. We have heard some whit of cer
tain golden ages, so called, wherein nature
seemed attuned to human needs, and wherein
iovoua Generations lived without hunger and
without toil, drinking the wine of life without
planting its vineyards or troading its press.
We don't believe much in thaso latter epochs.
It is quite likely that they were very much
like others of less smiling renown. People
strove and wrangled, and got into debt, waxed
lean and cursed their luck in those days as in
these. But we will lefcthe tradition stand for
what it is worth. We are not ho rnuoh inte
rested in the brazen or the iron or the golden
age as that wherein we live, and which un
luckily belongs to none of these metallic cate
gories but is in sad fact merely an age of
paper.
What a tremendously rich peoplo we should
be if debt were only property! How pros
perous if the written or printed promise to
pay created the wherewithal to pay ! Un
happily debt is not property, bat rather its
negation or counterfoil; and a promise to
pay, instead of being wealth, is ft confession
and certificate of present poverty. Printing
)tesses may print never so copiously solvent
ooking documents, decorated with water
falls and goddesses and fringed with flatter
ing coupons; and ft plausible president, a
suing secretary, may append signatures with
never so much diligence. But we don't
get any richer by these procedures.
Nay, we even wax poorer; paper is
wasted, and so is the time of those
who affix its inscriptions. We have
been turning ont a good deal of this orna
mental sort of paper for the last deoade; our
promises to pay of one sort or another
amount, perhaps, to more than we care
soberly to contemplate. Some of us may
nourish the delusion that these promises to
pay of themselves constitute wealth and
carry with them an inherent capacity of
solution. They don't. They are so many
mortgages on the toil of the future so
many liens on the wheat uogrown; the cotton
nn woven; the iron unsmelted. We have
got to face this not altogether enlivening
music some day, and it may be well enough
to begin now. Already there are signs that
the paper edifice which we have been build
ing, with about as much confusion of tongues
and general lack of wisdom as the builders of
Babel evinced, has got as high as it can be
carried without topping over, so that it is
fnll time to stand aloof and contemplate the
proportions and estimate the solidity of the
architecture we hav$ wrought.
If some fihrewd cypherer would take pencil
and slate and set down in due succession,
first what the nation collectively owes; then
what the States separately owe; then what
the municipalities, greater and lesser, have
respectively promised to hand over at stated
times and seasons, and add up the same, the
sum total would probably astonish him. If
he could add to this what tne counties owe
for court-houses, jails, and the like; aad the
towns for bridges, and roads, and almshouses;
the railroads for their iron, ties, and rolling
stock; the school-houses for their shingles,
and the churches for their steeples and
stained glass archangels, and, carrying
the inquiry to its final limit, what
proportion of the individuals who com
prise the nation eat to-day the meat and
wear the raiment which they hope to pay for
out of the labor of to-morrow and next day,
he would have ft glimpse of ft bog of debt to
which the Slough of Despond was a puddle
a bog in which we are all wallowing, and
from which we shall find it no holiday task
to extricate ourselves. We can't float out of
it on paper life-preservers, nor be lifted out
of it by paper balloons. Only stern, diligent
toil will avail us; sober and useful labar, long
endured; the chastisement of that irrational
desire to be rich grown of late into a disease
among us only these will lead us out upon
the solid ground of prosperity; and to these,
whether we like it or not, wo have one and
all got to come.
There is a proverb, somewhat weather
worn and out at elbows, which declares that
it is easy to go to the devil. Time continually
attests the truth of this apothegm in the cases
not only of individuals, but of peoples. The
road thither is quite apt to be paved with
debt; a slippery causeway growing ever slip
perier and steeper, and whereon the back
track is taken with pain and difficulty. Giles
borrows a hundred dollars, and goes comfort
ably in the direction of the devil while a
shilling of it remains in his pocket. A rail
road issues its bonds for ten millions, and,
while that sum lasts, it is surprising how easy
it is to open up branch lines and build new
depots where they are not wanted. It is sur-
frising how easy the bookkeeping is, and how
iberal and sanguine are presidents, boards
of direction, and so on. A State gets short
of cash. There are river-courses to be im
proved, canals to be extended, edifices to be
built, and other desirable objects to be pro
moted. The State goes into the market
with its promises to pay, get3 a part of
their nominal valae (perhaps), and is as en
terprising and progressive as you please
while a cent remains in the treasury. But
the time comes when individual and railroad
and State ind out that they have got to set
tle, and that it is much easier to spend money
than to pay it. If the Individual has spent
his money in drunkenness and debauchery,
the railroad in building opera-houses, equip
ping fancy regiments, ana Keeping harems,
and the State in corrupt jobs to enrich
favorites and oil the itching palms of legis
lators, pay-day is a bitter period, ft veri
table diet ine, the wrath whereof falls on
innooent and guilty alike. Does any
body think we are going to escape
some such day of. settlement as tins? if so,
we envy him his sanguine temperament, but
we can t censeientiously say that we envy him
his brains. We have been dancing for some
vears. and we have now trot the Diner to par.
Let as lay it to heart, and, above all, remem
ber that it is raitbful and diligent work alone
whioh pays debts, not gambling upon the
Exckango, nor speculating in corner lots, nor
issuing new paper in place of old. Away, you
melancholy groups of curb-stone brokers; clos-
tenns:, hungry, and loie at Hie receipt of ous-
tom. Get you to useful employments. The
games la whioh vou have borne a part are
played out, like yesterday's backgammon;
nor will they be revived again for some de
cades. We shall be none the poorer because
of the dispersal of some hundreds or thou
sands of f ancj operators uot by tUa collame
of ft boflt of worthies sohemes which Bach ft
period we hava paaaod throngh never f Ails
to generate. '
SYSTEMATIC USE OF TIIE REGULAR
AltMY TO INFIiUENCE ELECTIONS.
F or the N. Y. World.
lhe Republican party has syate natized the
employment of our regular army, or, in
European phrase, our standing army, to regu
late and influence elections. If there be
honor in the act, the honor has been faith
fully earned; if there be dishonor, that party
must, in like manner, bear the stigma. And
it makes no difference in the responsibility
whether officers and soldiers, who have made
military pursuits a professiou or occupation,
and thus to that extent isolated themselves
from the general mass of citizens,
are employed either by virtue of
Congressional legislation covering a
special state of facts, or of assumed execu
tive prerogative under the Constitution, to
control the exercise of political power by the
people. In either case it is tho Republican
party, as ft party, which has, in violation of
the methods and taaxiins of civil liberty, or
ganized, developed, matured, and put into
practical operation the idea of Federal inter
ference by a starting army in the exeroise of
the elective franchise lv the people of the seve
ral States. Now that the emotions stirred by
our recent election have measurably subsided,
there is not an intelligent and self-respecting
citizen in this State, no matter what his po
litical creed, who will deny that the evidence
of armed Federal intervention, North, South,
East, and West, is sufficient to warrant the
desertion which we make of a systematic and
digested plan. It will be borne in miud that
the use so popular with tho Republican party
is not of tke militia of the respective States
they who are citizens in thought, habit,
interest, and daily association but of the
standing army of the nation; a forco
recruited, organized, paid, and sat apart iu
earrison and camp lor tne business ol war
and death death, not to our own people,
but, according to tho primitive idea of its
formation, of a foreign invader and aggressor,
The people of the several States, North as
W6ll as South, pay their proportion of
Federal taxation to maintain the Military
Academy at West Point, for example, not for
the purpose of educating officers to control
the working of the civil institutions of the
different members of the great republic, but
chiefly to ward off and keep at bay an out
side foe. To that end tho rauk and file
of the regular army are supported bv
popular taxation. To man, protect, and
preserve, to occupy and possess forts, and
fortresses is, in time of peace, the primary
and main business of a stanum" army
Our whole system of liberties reposes on the
idea that civil an airs are t bo administered
by civilians, designated and commissioned
for that purpose by the proper civil authority
of the land. Great emergencies clearly
rising to the proportion of insurrection or
rebellion, palpably beyond the control of the
civil arm, may constitute an exception ; but
even in such exceptional cases it is the
citizen militia of the States which is to be
first called upon, and not tho standing army,
The device of throwing regular troops as dis
tinsuished from tne nnutia, mercenaries
instead of volunteers, into a locality no as to
be at hand to be employed as a part of the
posse comitatus, and yet subject to the direc
tion of the military authority, is, in its syste
matio application, a measure born, we repeat,
out of the loins oi the Republican party. Is
this birth ft thing of honor, or of dishonor ?
Let us look to the great fountain-head of
civil liberty, personal liberty, and political
liberty the English revolution of 1GS8 and
see what lessons and maxims we find there to
guide us in this crisis! Melitus vttcre fontes,
quam, sectari rivulot. Then it was that the
English people, and we as their inheritors,
obtained the full benefit of those rights and
liberties for which good men toiled, suffered,
and passed to their great reward. The linea
ments of that struggle are impressed upon
our Federal Constitution in lines so deep that
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and their
co-workers fondly hoped they would endure
and control forever, in the framiag of our
laws, the conduct of our executive and the
administration of justice by our judicial
tribunals.
The history of England daring the last two
hundred years is filled with other similar and
most convincing examples of the vigilance
with which thoughtful and patriotic men in
that birth-land of civil and religious liberty
have hemmed ia the military power and con
fined it within its legitimate limits. We
could quote pages to the same effoot from
parliamentary enactments, royal orders, jud
ments of the Privy Council, and opinions of
orown lawyers.
Does any student of .bugliuh constitutional
and parliamentary history suppose that either
the Duke of Wellington or Liord ruluierstun
would in their day, upon any pretext, have
sanctioned or tolerated such military domina
tion as tbete orders disclose over the free
exercise of the rights of a British voter ? At
an election in London for members of Far
linment, would tho newspaper press of that
rity have upheld for an hour a ministry
employing the standing army as the
Republican party has done .' Coald
a British magistrate be found whj
would consent to administer justice (as did
certain commissioners of Judge Woodruff's
court) between the crown and the subject in
a warehouse loft, surrounded by military ofli
cers instructed not to obey implicitly the
civil magistrates in preserving the public
peace, but to consider the purposes which
the crown bad in view? France, in the worst
days of the Seoond Empire, might have
afforded a spectacle like that presented in
this city on the Mh instant, but not Eugland
for the last VM0 years. Indeed we daub!
if Prussia the most despotic, aristocratic,
and military power of civilized Europe
would have permitted such military inter
ference with the t-lective franchise. Count
Bismarck could refuse to permit any election
at all, as he did in respect to the people
of bohleswig-iioutein. in violation of solemn
treaty stipulations; but if the electors were
once allowed to vote, we dare predict he
would have sanctioned no such military do
mination. In European countries where
the separation between civil and military
agents is not as distinctly mailed as ia Great'
Britain and in the United States, and whre
police duty is chiefly done by the latter fores,
such use of the military arm is not so shock
ing in its effects; but with us, where it is uni
versally understood that to the Sheriff's -puse
or the municipal police ia committed the
function of preserving public order, the sys
tematic and frequent use of the regular army
in time of profound peace to regulate the
conduct of the citizen betokens a mind either
profoundly nninstructed in the maxims and
traditions of free governments or fatally bent
on mischief.
PROSPECTS OF TIIE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
From A.V. Y. lfmN,
Nothing could be more absurd than the
Uttep'pts ' Ike Democratic press to repre
sent local and accidental reverses In the
recent eleotions as a formal condemnatiom of
the Republican party. The disintegration of
the party is paraded as an accomplished fact,
and dissolution is represented as approaching
aad inevitable. Two years hence, we are
told, a Democratic President will take posses
sion of the Vr hite House, and the Republican
party will pass into the lumber-room of his
tory. If these imaginative efforts afford any
consolation to the opposition, we may expect
them to be oontinned. The Democracy nave
suffered so long the mortification of defeat
that they may, perhaps, be exonsed for try
ing to make themselves believe that victory
will some day be possible. But they must
not suppose that people generally can be so
deceived. The truth is too palpable to be
blotted out of existence by the inventions of
heated brains.
In the first place the elections have not
turned upon national issues. The national
policy of either party has not been on trial.
In this oity, politics, in the ordinary sense,
were not discussed at all, and everywhere
in the State local and personal considerations
were paramount. Lven here it ciunot
be said that the Republican polioy has been
condemned; all that can be truly a Tinned,
is that a local organization, of which re
grettable Democrats everywhere are
ashamed, has triumphed by the use of means
peculiar to itself. Whatever disasters have
occurred in Illinois proceeded from strictly
local causes; and the Missouri contast,
vhich has transferred to the Democracy
divers local advantages, had no reference
wbstever to the record or aims of the party
to which McClurg and Gratz Brown both
professedly belong. Further South, as in
Alabama and Florida, there has been a slight
modification of the polit'cal results growing
out iff reconstruction. Some change in this
respect must, however, be looked for sooner
or later in these States. The black vote will
not (always remain a unit; many who once
were slaves ill vote for former masters who
1 opren to be eudeared to them by re
njembranccs of personal kindness. Hut
a few Democratic gains in that section are
tot a set-off to tho substantial strength
ol which tne Jiopublicau organiza
tion has proved itself possessed. It
has curried Aikansas and Louisiana and
South Carolina; it has divided Alabatui,
acd has secured neatly half of the Cjncrres
sioiJttl representation in Virginia. It ha?
made ndvunots in Kentucky, and has passed
creditably through its first genuine campaign
jn ftlnniand and Delaware. JJesidas, the
Dni.ocrats in tbe reconstructed States hiva
bun e cabled to do what they have done
polidy because they acquiesce, or pretend to
rrquKsce, in what rjeontriiction n is ejected
llity bavtt disclaimed partisan Democracy,
ktd have urged their claims with spociil re
ftrence to materiul interests. They have, iu
fact, come partly upon our ground, and have
thus avoided a crushing defeat.
Despite all these consideration the gene
ral apathy on political questions, tho presence
of local difficulties in several of the States,
and the no-party character of some of the
successes which the Democrats parade as
gains f he supremacy of Republicans in the
councils of the country is still complete. Tho
nt xt Congress will as assuredly be Republi
can as thu present one. The figures already
accepted on all 'sides demonstrate that fact
beyond cavil. The Democracy, with all their
boasting, are yet a defeated party. They can
ne-itber embarrass the administration nor
mould the policy of Congress. Both are as
much beyond their control as they were
twelve months ago, or at any period during
the war. In New York they may be absolute.
In the nation they are powerless.
Not only has the Republican party not suf
fered in any manner that could justify appre
hension as to its future, but in almost all
the States it has proved tho strength of its
hold upon the popular heart. If Republican
candidates have not suffered more severely,
hero and there, it has not been because of
the superior excellence of the nominations
or the superior wisdom of local management,
but because their attachment to the party
prompted voters to overlook local or personal
drawbacks. The greater part of whatever
vitality appeared in the campaign whioh tem
porarily closed on the, Hh instant was the
product of popular devotion to the party that
is uppermost in Congress, and has the Presi
dent for its standard-bearer.
To develop this vitality to its full extent it
is only necehsary to bring before the country
the respective claims of the two parties
their records, and the purposes with which
they are respectively identified. The apathy
which prevailed in recent contests, and the
local divisions which were too frequently per
mitted to paralyze effort, will disappear as
soon as the Democratic and Republican
parties are brought face to face, and the
country is called upon to pronounce judg
ment between them. This iu one of the cer
tainties of politics. Democratic writers may
cherish the delusion that there is hope for
them in the next Presidential struggle; but
no intelligent and candid observer can
doubt that public opinion is over
whelmingly in favor of the Republican
arty and its achievements. While the
)emocratic party appears loaded down with
odium, and with a platform composed of ne
gations, the Republican party retains untar
nished the patriotic glories of the war, and
tangible evidence of the reforms it has ac
complished since tbe return of peace. The
reconstruction measures had faults, bat ia
the main they are vindicated by the result.
And the various financial measures, while not
perfect in detail, have commended them
reives to the country, which realizes the
'profitableness of an improved public
credit, and a reduction of taxa
tion amounting in a single year
to eighty millions. The introduction of
fidelity and efficiency into the revenne ser
vice, and of vigorous economy into the ex
penditures of the Government, are other con
sequences of Republican administration
which tell directly upon the pockets of tho
people, and command a confidence that
neither the fancies nor the falsehoods of the
Democracy can overcome. When issues like
these are brought up, there will be no hesi
tation in rendering a verdict; and these
belong to the class of issues which will arise
when the national campaign is entered npon.
What has been done in the past atlords the
best possible reason for relyiug npon the pa
triotism of the Republicans, while it should
also encourage us to grapple with the new
qiieblious as they aiise in a spirit at once
firm, moderate, and statesmanlike.
TIIE
WAR SITUATION A TRVP
FOR
THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE.
I nm the S. Y. Herald.
General Von Moltke is said to have per
fected another trap, by which he proposes
this time to capture General Paladinea and
the army of the Ioire. General von Der
Tann withdraws cautiously before the army
now stationed abont Orleans, and Paladinea,
elated by his successes, follows confidently. In
the meantime Prince Frederick Charles, with
one hundred thousand men, moves southward
from C'Lalons to TiyeH, apparently with tha
intention of continuing the general move
ment against Lyons, but suddenly his ad
vance appears at Sens, a city of some im
portance on the River xonne, about sixty
miles from Orleans. Thence be can maron
in leas than five days to Orleans, and compel
a change of front on the part of the
Army of the Loire, a retreat or a battle, in
which the German troops, thus heavily rein
forced, would overwhelm their adversary ant
drive him back upon Tours. The situation
of Puladines, it will thus be seen, is some
thing like that of Lee when Sherman came
striding across Georgia to the sea, although
it is not nearly so desperate. Palominos can,
at least, fall back and fortify without any im
nediate prospect of a close siege, and he can
also move forward rapidly, strike his enemy
vigorously and defeat him before Prince
Frederick Charles can reach him; but this
requires veteran experience on the part of
bis soldiers and full confidence in thaio.
Even then it is dangerous.
The starvation process is evidently having
its effect inside Paris. A deserter sUtes that
the poor are suffering dreadfully, and that
another outbreak is imminent at any mo
ment. The previous riots were put down by
the stern hand of the military, the utmost
severity being nsed, and the people's dread of
the soldiery is all that restrains them now
from a most bloody uprising.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Ivjy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AM
application will be nia'le at the next meeting
of the Oeneral Assembly ot the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for tin- Incorporation of a lUnk, in ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE ANTHRACITE BAM u, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of live hundred thn
snnil dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
two million dollars.
tf?r THE IMPERISHABLE PERFUME J AS A
rule, the perfumes now In use have no perma
nency. An hour or two after their use there is no
trace of rerfftue left. How dlnVreut is the result
succeeding the nse of MURRAY A LA N.MAN'S
HA.'R1DA WATER 1 Days after ita application the
handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate,
and agreeable fragrance 8JL tuths
2Y" M)TrCErs 11ERERY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Oeneial Assembly of the Commonwealth of
PeiiDsylania for the Incorporation of a Hunk, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE 11; ON IUNK, to be located at Phi
ladelphia, with a capital of one hundred thousand
dollars, with the right to Increase the same to one
million doliat
jgy TREGO'S TSAUUREY TOOT II WASH,
It Is the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant. Warranted free from Injurious Ingredients.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth 1
Invigorates and Soothes the Gums!
Purines and Perfumes the Hreatu I
Prevents Accumulation nf Tartar !
Cleanses and Purines Artificial Teeth!
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Scld by all druggists and dentists.
A. M. WILSON, Druggist, Proprietor,
S 2 lorn Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT StA, Philada.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AS'
application will be made at the next meeting
of the eieucral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania lor tne incorporation or a u.iuk, in
eccoidunee with the laws of the Coiumonwea'.th, to
be entitled THE NATIONAL BANK, to be located
ot Philadelphia, with a cupital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase tho same to
one million dollars.
BY3? NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsvlvuuia for tho Incorporation of a Bank, In
ncconiiiiice with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE KE STONE STATE BASK, to be
located at Philadelphia, with a capital of two hun
dred and liny thousand dollars, with tho right
to Increase the same to live hundred thousand
dollars.
ggjp THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY O? PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extlngulbher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGS,
6 80 U No. 118 MARK.1T St., General Agent
NOTICE ISIIEREBY- (UVEN THAT AN
w application will be made at tho 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
bo entitled THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital
of five hundred thousand dollars), with the right to
ncreate the same to ten mlllllon dollar.
VST
J A M' K
S M.
LAWYER.
s c o v
E L,
CAMDEN, N. J,
10 2T lm
THAT AN
SV- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
w application will be inade at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, iu ac
cordance with the laws of the Common wealth, to
be eutitled THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK,
to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with the right
to increase the same to cue million dollars.
EDUCATIONAL.
TTALLOWELL SELECT
HIGn SCHOOL FOR
11 Young Men ard
Boys, which has been re
moved from No. lit) N. Tenth street, will be opened
on tfepteniber 12 In the new and more commodious
buildings Nob. lis and 114 N. NINTH Street. Neither
effort nor expense has been fcpared In fitting up the
rooms, te moke this a Urst-claas school of the highest
grade,
A lrepartory Department la connected with the
school. Parents and students are invitca to can
and examine the rooms and consult the Principals
from A. M. to a p. m. alter August 10.
GEORGE EAST BURN, A B.,
JOHN G. MOORE, 11. S.,
6 i"tf Principals.
TT LAIJDKHIIACII'H
AJ.. ACADEMY, ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS,
No. 10S bouth TENTH Street
A Primary, Elementary, and Finishing School for
boys und young men. Persons interested In educa
tion are Invited to call and witness the method of
teaching and discipline practised. Circulars at Mr,
WarburU'n's, No. 430 Chesuut street, or at the
Academy. Open for visitors from A. M. to 4
P. M. 8 0
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MEKtllAXTVILLB, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
Next session begins MONDAY, October S.
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TOWER CLOCKS.
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SAILING EVERT TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AM
SATURDAY.
RATES TEN CENTS 1'KU 10fl POUNRS, POTIB
UKNlfc 1'ER CFBIC FOOT, ONE CENT PER
GALLON, HIIIP-S OPTION.
INSURANCE UY THIS LINE ONE-EIGHTH OF
ONE PER CENT.
Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, eta
No receipt or bill of lading signed for loss thai,
fifty crnts.
Oooda forwarded to all points free of commission.
Thronfth blliaof lading given to Wilmington, N. jl
oy the steamers of this line leaving New York tri
weekly. or farther particulars apply ti
JOHN P. OUK
TIER UNOrtTH WHARVES.
N. R The rognlar shippers by this Hue will be
charged t he above rates all winter.
Winter rates commence December 15. SM
rrUlB REGULAR BTBAMSniPS ON THE Pill
1 LaDELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
fHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to Issue througl
bills of ladi i g to Interior points South and West u
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
Vice-President 8o. C. RR. Co,
PHILADELPHIA AND BOUTHICRN
Srf-MAIL STKAUSUIP COMPANY'S RKOV
I.AK bKMl-MOIUULY LINE TO NKW OK
LI" A KS, I
lh YAZOO will uil for Nbw CtIojuu, Tin RnYn,
ot Tlmr1f, lWfnihw 1. t 8 A. M.
Toe J CM ATA will Mil from MawOrlwuis, via LUrana,
on . November .
'I ll ROUGH BILLS OF LADING at M low rut, a h.
any Uim- rout given to Mobile, irnlrenton, IND14N
Ol.A, BOOK PORT. LA VAUUA, and BR ,OS,and to all
pointa en tha Mi-wiseippl rivet between New Orieana and
M. I onia. HmS River freight reatuppad at New Orieana
without oharga of oommiaaiooa, -
WKKKLY IJRK TOMB A YARN AH, OA.
The TONAWAND will sail tor HavaanaJl on Batnr
day, Nevrml or lit atS A. M.
ibe PAN I' UK It will aad from Savannaa on 8a tot dir.
November l!.
TiiHOl'UH PILI 8 OF LADING riven to all theprin.
oial town! in Georgia, Alabama, Kloridn, Miaaxnippi,
Iniiniia, Arkaama, and Tennessee in connection witb
theOentrkl HAilrond of Georgia, Atiant4oand Gnlf Rail
road, and Florida iteamera, at aa low rate aj bj oompetinj
line.
BKMI-MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. N. O.
Tbe PIONKKK will sail for Wilmington on 8rnrri.
NoVfDibtr 26. at HA. M. Ketnining. will laava Wiln,n.
ton iSaordy, December .1.
Uotinecta witn tbe Oape Fear Kiver Stoambqat Com
pany, tbe V ilmint ton and Welrion and north Uarolioi
Railroad n, and tbe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
te all interior point.
PreigbtaforOolnmbia, B. O., and Angnita, O., taken
via V. ilinington, at as low ratea aa by any other ronte.
Inanrance eHVcted when reqaeeted by shippera. BilU
of lading tinned at Oneen street wharf on or before da
of sailing. . .
VTXJUUiAm i iiAnp.ii, mineral Agent.
1 1 No. LA) bonth TH lRDfitreet.
j:.icw
FOR LIVERPOOL AND UUEKNS
fStlnXTOWN Inman Line of Royal Mai!
bUHii.er are appointed to sail as follows:
i I'jty of London, Saturday, Nov. 19, at 2 P. M.
City of Brooklyn, fcnturday, Nov. so. atS A. M.
City of Limerick, via Hullfax, Tuesday, Nov, 28,
Bill A. it.
City of Hntssels. Saturdav, Dec. 3, at 3 A. M.
and eeeh succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 4(5 North river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payable in gold. Payablo in currency.
First I'alilD TB Steerage 3
To Londtm 80' To London 3f.
To Purs 90: To Paris 33
To Halifax 20 To Ilnlifax 16
PaKsengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg,
Bremen, etc., at reduced rates.
Tickets can he bought here at moderate rates by
persons wiHhinir to send for tnelr friends.
For further information apply at tho company's
oflice.
JOHN G. DALE, Agent, No. IB Broadway, N. V. 1
Or to O DONNELL i FAULK, Agents,
4 S No. 402 CliESNUT Street. Fmladclphia,
viitt A liTrr pti I A innirifo m
il4!fD NORFOLK BTKAVSHIP LINK
THKOl'jm FREIOUT AIR LINK TO THE SOUTli
A N O W KST
INCREASED FAOILITIF8 AND REDUCED RATES
FOK 17U.
Steamers leave every W KD.N KSDAY and SATURDAY,
at Uo'oloek noun, from FIRST WHARF above MAR
KKT Street.
RKTl'UNING, leave RICHMOND 1HONIMY8 and
TLtUKKOAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA
TURD AYS. .
No BilU of Lading signed after 13 o'clock on aailinj
d"iKOUGH RATES to all points In North and SooU)
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Hailmad, oonneotinjc at
Portsmouth, and to Lynohburar, Va., Tennessee, arfd the
West, via Virginia and Tenneanee Air Line and Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
r roiKht HANDLED BUTONOE, and taken at LOWKH
BATKH THAN AN V OTUKR LINK.
No charge for oonuniaaien, dxayece, or any expense o
ranafer. . ,
bteumshlp lnsnre at lowest rates.
Freight, reoeived daiW.
fct&tu Itoom aocommdtlons ror paeeem'en.
btate AMJomauBu v LLlAM P. Ol.YDR A CO..
No. 12 8. WHARVKSandPierlN. WHARVFJl
W. P. POIM F.R, Agent at Richmond and City Point
T. P. OROWKLL CO., AgenU at Norfolk. tf li
yFLbJhdrla, Georgetown, and Waahlnjrton,
NKW RTPIIRJS T.I'B TO AT.TTYATM
via uneaapeaKe ana ueiaware
Canal, wHh connections at Alexandria from the
most direct route ror Lynenourjf, uristoi, Knoxvllle,
Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noop
torn the first wharf above Market stroet.
Freight received dally.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO..
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
nYDB fc TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M
K1J1 1 DUK fc CO., Agents at Alexandria. 8 1
t-V FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
t JCC and Rarltan CanaL
ef'----'" W1FTSURB TRANSPORTATION
OOM PA NY.
DESPATCH AND BW1KTSUHB LINES,
Leaving dally at 12 M. and 6 P. M.
The steam propeirers of this company will coin
mence loading on the 6th of March.
Through in twenty-four hours.
Goods lor warded to any point free of commission
Freights taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO., Agents,
No. 132 South DKLAWAKK Avenue.
3
FOR NBW YOR
via Delaware and Rarltan Canal.
EXPRESS STB AM BOAT COMPANY.
i lie steam Propellers of the line will commence
loading on the 8th instant, leaving dally as usnal.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne
York, North, East, or West, free of coininl&slon.
Freights received at low ratoa.
WILLIAM P. CLYDB A CO., Agents,
No. 12 a DELAWARE Avenue.
JAMES n AND, Agent,
No. ll WALL Street, New York. 41
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TO W BO AT COMPANY
iBarges towed between Philadelphia.
Baltimore, liavre-de-cracc, Delaware City, and a
termedlate points.
V1LUAM P. CLYDE A CO., AgenUL
Cantatn JOHN LA UGH LIN. Superintendent.
OIIIca. No. is South Wkarvea Vitiladelphia. ellf
OORDACE, ETC.
WEAVER & CO.,
IIO 112 NANVFACTIIUUH
AND
sisip ciiAii.i;iis,
No. 29 North WATER Street and
No. 88 North WHARVE8, Philadelphia
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORV
PRICKS. 4 1
CORDAGE.
Kaoilla, Siial aad Tarred Cordage
At Lowsit New York Pilot and Freisr.ta,
KDW1N 1L MIXER CO..
Victory, TRUTH 84. and GKKHAOTOW Avsnaa.
8 tore. No. 28 . WATER Bt and 22 H DKLAWAB
Avenue,
PHILADELPHIA)
41212m
SAXON GREEK
NEVER FADES.
8 iem
A LBYANDBH G. CATTBLL A CO.
f. PRODUCE COMMISSION MRROHANT8,
No. 2 NORTH WHARVES
AMD
No. T NORTH WAT BR STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
AxJXiMPIB Q. Can li tUJAq CATTBLI4
PROPOSALS.
T)KOrOSAL9 FOR LI T B OAK.
NaVT DRTARTMltlfT.
- f
S78.1
BrwKATJ ok CoNfrrnurrioH and KsrAia,
W tunta-niriAal 1 f 1 VnAmk a
SEALED PROPOSALS for the delivery of 20X000
cnblt) feet ef Live-oak Timber, of the best e,ual ty, in
each of the Navy-Yards at Charlestown, Maaa., and
Brooklyn, N. T., will be received at this Buret
nntli the nixth (6th) day of December next.
These proposals must be endorsed "Proposals for
Live Oak,' that they may be distinguished from '
other business letters.
The oilVrs may be for one or both yards, bat mnst
be for the whole quantity In each yard, and, an re
quired by law, must be accompaniei by a gaar
ante. burettes In the full estimated amount will bs re
quired to sign the contract, and. as addlti nal and
collateral security, twenty-live (2.) per centum will
be withheld on the amount of each delivery until
Uie contract is satisfactorily completed.
in all the deliveries of the timber there must be
a due proportion of the most dimcult and croofcod
pUces; otherwise there will be withheld such
further amount In addition to the SB per centum as
may be judged expedient to secure the public lu
tt trst n Mil such difllcilt portions be delivered.
The rtmainlnir 7B per centum, or other proportion
uf each bill, when approve I In triplicate by the
Commandant of the yard, will ho paid by su ih
purchasing pavmaater as the contractor may dcslg
n ate within thirty (3o) days after Its presentation
to him.
it will be stipulated In the contract that if default
oe made by the parties of the II rut part In delivering
all or any of the timber named, of the qutltry and
at the time and place provided, then, and In that
case, the contractor, and his sureties, will forfeit and
psy to the I'nliel States a sum of money not exceed
ing twice the total amonut therein agreed upon as
the price to he paid In case of the actual delivery
thereof, which may be recovered according to the
Act of Congress iu that case provided, approved
March 3, 1343.
The sus.ooo cubic feet to be delivered in each yard
will be In the following proportions: Say 33.UU0
cubic feet of pieces suitaiile for stems, sternpsts,
deadwoods, aproiis, su-rnpost knees, keelsons, ami
hooks, all siding from IT to 20 inches, and the h ioks
siding 14 and 10 inches. These pieces to be In the
proportions In which they enter into the construc
tion of a ship of war; conforming substantially in
shape, length, and character with those heretofore
received, with frames ol corresponding siding, tho
moulds of which can be seen at any navy yard;
l:K),Ci;0 cubic feet of the Kidlng of H an'i 1ft inches, in
about enual quattfftlea of each, and 1(1,000 ciblo feet
of asidingof 12 inches; all these pieces being In
length from 13 to II feet, with a natural aud "fair
curve or rtom 12 to u incuts or more in that length,
and one-half the nnmlier of pieces to have from tho
mean to the greatest crook. Also sn.ooo outilo feet
of timber siding 43 and 15 Inches, in length from IT
to vo reer.
All to lie sided straight and fair, and rough-hewed
the moulding way to sliow a face of not lesathan
two-thirds the slillng, the wane being deducted In
the measurement.
The tinilH-r to be cut from trees growing within
So ml.es of the sea, ol which satisfactory evidence
v.111 bo required, and to be delivered in the reaneo-
tivc yards at the risk ami expense of the contractor,
suoject to tne usual inspection, ana to tne entire ap
proval of the Commandant of the yard.
The whole quantity to be delivered within two
jents from the date of the contract.
sausiaciury cviucnuc ihiim, ue pr buihuu wim cttcn
proposal that the panics either have the timber or
lire acquainted with the subject, and have the
facility to procure it.
in addition to the anove, separate "sealed pro-
pca)8" will be received at the same time, on the
came terms ami conditions and similarly endorsed,
from persons having the timber on hand already
cut, for tho dt'livery In each of the navy yards at
Chariestown and uroomyn, or rrom a to Booou
cubic fiet of Live-oak, the principal pieces siding
11 to 17 Inches, the remaining portion 11 and 13
Inches; the principal pieces Bind crooked timber
being In the same proportion to the quantity otiered
s that speciUed in the first case, with the same
lengths and crooks.
The whole amount contracted for in this case
must be delivered on or before the 1st February,
1S71.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
and all bids for any timber under this a Ivertiaement
If considered not to the int rest of the Government
to accept them, and to require satisfactory evidence
that bins are buna nae in au respects, ana are made
by responsible persona.
FORM OF OFFER,
( Which, if from a Jirm, mint be signed by all the mem
ber .)
hereby agree to furnish and deliver In the United
States Navy Yard at ,
thousand cubic feet of Live-oak timber, in con
formity with the advertisement or the Bureau of
Construction and Repair of the date of November
B, 1S70, viz. :
cudio leer, smraoie ror principal
pieces, at I per foot f
cubic feet, curved timber, at
8 per foot
cubic feet timber, at t per ft.
Total quantity. Total value.
(The. total value to be likewine written in full.)
Should wy (or our) oiler be accepted, (or w)re
iU( it to be addressed at , and the c jntraot
sent to the Purchasing Paymaster of tnn Naval Sta
tion at lor signature and certificate.
Dute .
Signature,
A. R.
C. D.
Witness
FORM OF GUARANTEE.
The undersigned , of , In
tho State ol , and , of
, in the State of , hereby
guarantee that, in case the foregoing bid of
la accepted, he (or they) will, within
ten days after the receipt of the contract at the pom
otl'.ce named, or by the Paymaster of the Naval
Station desig.-.ated, execute the contract for tbe
same with good and suttlclert sureties; and in case
said shall fall to enter iuto contract aa
aforesaid, we guarantee to make good the differ
ence between the oiler of the said and
that which may be accepted.
Date .
Signatims
C. D.
E. F.
Witness :
Each of the guarantors must be certified by the
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district in
which the parties are assessed. 11 7 law4
PROPOSALS FOR THE ERECTION OF PUB
1 I.IC BUILDINGS.
oincK ok TiiK Commissioners fob tub
Ehkction ov tub Public buildings,
' 1'UILADKLrUIA, NOV. 8, IS
"
S70. )
Proposals will be received at the Oittee of the
President of the Commission, No. 1'2'J S. SEVENTH
Street, until November 80, ls70, for items one, tw;
and three, and until December 81, 1870, for tha
balance of the schedule, for the following materials
and labor:
1. For carefully removing the iron railings and
stone base from the four lnclosures at Broad and
Market streets, and depositing the same in order
npon such portions of the adjacent grounds as tha
Commissioners may select.
2. for removing the trees and cleartng the ground.
3. For the lumber aud labor for theereotionof a
board fence twelve (12) feet in height, with gates to
Inclose the space occupied by Peun Squares, per
lintel foot, complete.
4. For excavations for cellars, drains, ducts, foun
dations, etc., per cubic yard.
6. For concrete fouudtioua, per cubic foot.
6. For foundation stone, several kinds, laid per
perch of twenty-dve feet, measured in the walls.
7. For hard bricks per thousand, delivered at
Broad and Market street during the year 187L
8. For undressed granite per cubic loot, specify
ing the kind.
. For undressed marble per cubic foot, specify
ing tbe kind.
lu. For rolled Iron beams (several Blzes), per
lineal yard of given weight.
The Commissioners reserve to themselves tha
right to reject any or all of the proposals.
Further information can be obtained by applying
John McArthur, Jr., at als oiilce, No. 205 ti. SIXTH
btreet. n , ,
By order of the Commission.
1 JOHN RICE, President.
ChaS. R. Roberts, Secretary. lis
CROOERIE8, ETO.
ftJCVV BETHLEHEM
1$ u C It W II 13 ,V T,
In small casks.
ALBERT O. ROBERTS,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
Corner ELEVENTH and VINJS Sts,
11 7
TORN FARNUM A CO., COMMISSION MEK
rl e hints aniMannfaotQrrs of UoMrto4 Tlskins,
& 14 yiUaaUl' fcut. rAUa4aVUaa ua u