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Tlifl DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH riilLADfiLPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1870.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
(SUNDAY HXOKPTBn),
iTTHE EVENING TELKURM'H BUILDING,
N:. J08 8. THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2$, 1870.
MR. DELANO'S REPORT.
On our first page this aftornooa we print a
full abstract of wbht is perhaps the most im
portant public document which the country
will be called upon to read during the en
Euing month. So mnch of our national reve
nue is derived at present from internal
sources, and the system of internal ttaation
is Buoh an anomaly in this country, that the
operations of the Bureau from the head of
which Mr. Delano recently retired are of
paramount importance. Mr. Delano's last
oflloial act as Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue was the writing of, this report, and it
consequently contains his parting recom
mendations on the subject of our internal
revenue.
The recommendations made by the retiring
Commissioner should receive the earnest
attention of Congress and the country. He
is opposed to any change whatever in the tax
on spirits, believing that such changes will be
of no benefit to the country. On the next
question of importance, the taxation of
tobaooo, Mr. Delano takes opposite ground,
and favors a change that will
make the burdens heaped upon
tobacoo uniform. Among other points
upon which ha dwells are the necessity for
radical changes in our bonded warehouse sys
tem, and a complete reviuion of the tax-bill
which was hurried through Congress at the
close of the last session, and which, as he
clearly chows, is full of inconsistencies and
mistakes. We commend ' the entire docu
ment to the oareful attention of our reader-.
THE REPORTED FRENCH VICTORY.
Cable despatches announce that a gieat ba'
tle is pending in France, aud that the French
foroes have been victorious in the prelimi
nary skirmishes. This news coaie3 from
Tours, and as we have no confirmation of it
from German sources, it should be received
with caution. The reported battle m.iy tura
out to bo an unimportant straggle bet .voeu
a comparatively small body of Germans, sent
out to feel the enemy, or it miy be that Von
Moltke is at la it making a determined effort
to gobble up Palatines' army.' The
pressure of publio sentiment from Germany
is strongly prompting the invading armies
to speedily make an imposing demonstration
of some kind, and as Paris cannot now be
prudently assaulted, the next best thing is tj
bag another French army. However glorious
the capture of the French capital may be, it
seems a lame and impotent conclusion to
follow up the victories at Weis?enburg,
Gravelotte, aDd Sedan with a wearying siege
which involves the confession that hunger
must be called in as a Germ in ally;
and if, by' any chance, Troshu
escapes the toils of the besiegers, and
Faladincs overmatches the forces sent
against hiss, there is a pjssibility that the
Germans ti-iy yet be as auxioas to got out
of Franco as they were to get into it. Sigas
of German discontent and of diversity of sen
timent among the German leaders are at last
manifested. The interviewers report that
Bismarok oomplains bitterly of Von Moltke's
determination to trust to famine for the re
daction of Paris, and of the course ef Ger
man politics, whioh is creating a mere half
hearted confederation instead of a firmly
united Fatherland. If the arm of the victors
can be weakened by these strifes at a moment
when the French, rising from the depths of
despair, are creating effective armies from
raw reoruits, the tide of battlo may yet tarn,
and the ownership of Alsace and Lorraine
still be involved in doubt.
A despatch received just as we go to
press with our early edition discredits the
reported French victory, and states that the
French forces were repulsed at several points.
CVMM1NG8 ON THE WAR TATH.
Majob-Genebal Alexakdeb CuaiiiiNGs, in
bis paper this morning, waxes indignant over
certain allusions which we made on Saturday
to the military title of our Chief of Police,
ex-Brigadier General, &o., St. Clair A. Mul
holland. We are willing to admit, for the
sake of argument at least, that the war record
of General Mulholland is wholly unim
peachable, but how about the war record of
Lieutenant-General Cummings? This is a
subject in which the publio is really in
terested, and it affords material for numerous
spicy editorials in the columns of the
sheet which Colonel Cummings is now
engaged in publishing. While General
Mulholland was righting for his country, com
mon report has it that Captain Cummings
was up to his arm-pits among the greenbacks
of the Treasury, and that the capital used
for starting the daily sheet which he
now edits was obtained from various con
tracts, in which straw hats, linen trowsers,
and red herring figure with considerable
prominence. Indeed, the war record of
Colonel Cummings appears to be largely made
up of such items as tstraw hats, linen trowsers,
and red herring, and we have yettoleira
that be appeared near the front with any wea
pons in his bands. It is true that he was
the oolonel of a cavalry regiment, and
theaeby hangs a tale. Most civilians whj
know nothing of the art of war were content
to be attached to infantry regiments, but
nothing but the cavalry would do for the
valiant Cnmmicgs, for the very suuliient
reason that purchases of steeds to bear, the
arave delete rs of their country were to be
raado aud vith proper management the
profits in the shape of commissions anl other
perquisite uld be made to mount up to
hupoMir.f fir res. When the regiment was
, fully organized and mounted Colonel Cum-
' mings, if we remember rightly, did not ac
company it to the field of glory, probably
because he was afraid to risk his pre
cions neck by mounting any one of Vh
broken-down hacks with whioh he halpro
vided his regiment, but being wise in his
day and generation, he'remained at home to
interest himself in fresh contracts. It U not
well for those who live in glass houses to
throw stones, and when the bold Cummings
undertakes to talk about the military records
of other people he should remember that he
has one of his own that it would bo interest
ing to have ventilated. If Genoral Cum
mings desires us to inform the publio exactly
what he did for his country during the war
hejhas only to say so, and we will undertake
to give some of the more important item of
his war record in detail. What we have said
above is enough for one d;y, but we may re
turn to the subject again, in case Major
General Cummings declines to do so, as is
one that presents plenty of excellent material
for a series of articles that will bo of consider
able interest to our readers.
THE KINO OF ITALY AND THE ROPE.
The Pope not being able to keep the King of
Italy out of Rome by the aid of temporal
weapons, has resorted to some of the great
guns of his spiritual armory, and has pro
nounced against him and all his aiders aud
abettors the major excommunication. The
King, we believe, has been excammunicated
several times before, but has managed to bear
up pretty well under the infliction, and was
not deterred from annexing the Papal terri
tory to his dominions. The last thunderbolt
of the Church seems to have disturbed 'his
equanimity somewhat, however, and he has
given vent to his irritated feelings in a
rather foolish manner by suppressing several
newspapers that published the Pope's bull.
Victor Emanuel could do much better than
this by fighting the Pope with his own wea
pons, for while he will gain but little credit
in attempting to bridle the press, he could
scarcely fail to make an impression of a most
decided character upon -the Pope and his
counsello rs if he were to encourage a num
ber of anti-papal preachers to hold popular
religious services under the very shadow of
the Vatican. In the old times, when excom
munication really meant something, even
such obstinate king as John of
England could be brought to terms
by the stoppage of all religious
services and by the personal odium that
attached even to royalty when it fell under
the ban of the Church. King John had the
disposition to fight the Pope to the last, and
he had many able supporters, but when all
religious ordinances ceased throughout his
kingdom, he had the nation as well as the
Church against him, and he was obliged to
succumb. In like manner other potent
monarchs were brought to terms and com
pelled to acknowledge themselves vassels of
the See of Rome, but things have changed
since those days, and it is difficult to imagine
what the practical effect of the excommuni
cation of the King of Italy and his sup
porters ought to be according to the ideas
that prevail in the Vatican. According to
precedent it ought to pue a stop to all reli
gious services of the Catholic Church through
out Italy, but it can scarcely be imigined
that the Pope would porpetrate such a piece
of folly as this when the King is, or ought to
be, able to command a weapon of equal
potency. Whatever the effect of the excom
munication may be, however, it gives the
King more than a reasonable excuse for re
sorting to a measure that will excito tho
greatest alarm in the Papal councils, for it
will strike at the very root of the supremacy
of the Roman Church. There are now in
Italy many liberal eeclesiastios men of the
Father Hyacinthe stamp, who, while they
are scarcely prepared to acknowledge
themselves Protestants, are bitterly
opposed to tho policy that refuses to acknowl
edge the civilization of the ago, and who
would, under proper encouragement, readily
undertake to preach and pray in the streets
of Rome, or in improvised meeting-houses,
and there are thousauds of non-ecclesiastics
who would eagerly engage in the same work.
The King, therefore, could organize an ef
ficient spiritual opposition to the Pope with
out calling in the aid of any outsiders; and if
be were to place himself at the head of a
great religious reform movement, as did
Henry VIII of England, the Pope's bull of
excommunication would not only beoome a
dead letter, but it would be turned into an
efficient weapon against him who issued it.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
Tee Eastern question remains unsettled, and
it is still an unsolved problem whether the
Russian demands will provoke a war. Eng
land has been placed in a peouliar, if not a
ridiculous, position by the precipitate action
of Granville, and the anomalies of the British
constitution have been illustrated in a remark
able manner. Nobody but a bull-headed
British Cabinet Minister would have
ventured to send off a belligerent despatch to
a foreign nation without consulting either his
ministerial colleagues or his sovereign. Gran
ville was in honor bound to do both, and by
his cavalier behavior he has outraged at once
his associates and mild Queen Vio. While
she is willing to be treated as a mere
figure-head in all ordinary matters, she can
illy brook the idea of being totally
ignored in affairs which may in
volve an expensive foreign war. As
matrimonial ties alto new closely connect
the royal houses of England, Prussia, and
Russia, the maternal instincts as well as the
Queenly pride of the British sovereign have
been shocked, and we do not wonder at her
reported declaration that bhe "would not hear
of war under any circumstances." This
disposition of the Queen, combined with the
ill-feeling generated among the dominant
English politicians by Granville's precipitate
action, greatly diminish the probabilities of
a war between Russia and England. If there is
any fighting to be done the Turks will have
to bear the brunt of it, with a slight chance
of help from Austria; but as Boon as this fact
becomes clearly apparent, we presume that a
J peaceful solution of the question will be
ound in a tacit, if not a formal,
abrogation of the provisions of the treaty
of which are most obnoxious to Russia.
STATUES OF PIULADEL PHI A N3 IN
THE PARK.
A movement has been inaugurated for plac
ing in the park the statures of the late Samuel
V. Merrick and Matthew W. Baldwin, two
citizens of Philadelphia who were for many
years well-known for their publio spirit and
for their devotion to the industrial interests
of the city. This idea is an excellent one,
and it is to be hoped that it will be carried
out and extended so as to include the effigies
of other distinguished Philadelphians who
have done honor to the city. Both here and
in New York propositions have been made,
and in some instances put into execution, for
the embellishment of our parks with the
busts and statues of Shakespeare, Schil
ler, Goethe, Humboldt, and other distin
guished men who are the world's herons.
Our German fellow-citizens, who naturaHy
feel a special interest in the three last-named
worthies, are entitled to the credit for
this, while the native Americans have done
little or nothing towards embellishing our
parks with effigies in bronze and marble of
the men whose greatness was distinctively
Amerioan. We do not wish to disparage in
the least the p'ans that have been arranged
for erecting memorials of Sohiller, Hum
boldt, and other great men whose works be
long to no age or country, but it would cer
tainly be much more appropriate to com
mence the work of ornamenting our park
with statues in honor of the emi
nent citizens who during their lifetime
were especially identified with Philadelphia
iqterests. Mr. Merrick and Mr. Baldwin,
during long lives of usefulness, in which
only the magnitude of the enterprises in
which they were engaged made them,
in the common acceptation of the
term, publio men, performed a
great work in building up industries
which have made Philadelphia famous, which
have furnished employment to thousands of
working men, and which are largely identi
fied with the most important elements of the
city's prosperity. Without making themselves
prominent in publio affairs, or seeking to
control political offices, they were publio spi
rited in the best senses of tho term, and they
were in every way more valaable members of
the community than many of the dabblers in
politics who, because thoir names are con
stantly kept boforo the publio, are presumed
to be our representative publio men. The
erection of statues of Messrs. Merrick and
Baldwin will set a good example, and it ought
to lead to the embellishment of the park by
memorials of other eminent Philadelphians.
On this account we hope that the idea sug
gested will be carried out.
At-SAC and Lokrainb, which are demanded by
Germany from France, as a rectlilcaslonof the fron
tier, comprise the following departments, the area,
population and laad revenue of each of which are
also given:
tWINQ MACHINE.
A Hafr
Upper Rhine
Lower Ktilne
Menrthe
Mcuse
Moselle
Vots
A Tea.
(Ari.)
.1,138,000
.1,020,000
, 1,522.000
.1,607,000
.1,342.0111)
. 1,520,000
Pop.
(tSil.)
677,000
510,000
429,001)
805,000
44 J, 000
415,0011
(1S51.)
$2,870,001)
2,150,00'J
2,350,000
8,355,000
S.SOT.OOU
1,85:1,001)
Total 8,108,000 2,098,000 $13,510,000
The whole of
France 134,000,000 3T,500,009 $210,000,000
These six departments comprise, therefore, about
six per cent, of tho surface, seven per cent, of the
population, and seven per cent, of the land revenue
of die whole of France, and, calculating the laud
revenue at 33 years' purchase at three per cent., the
capitalized value of Alsace and Lorraine may be put
down at $450,000, Quo.
NOTICES.
Overcoats, Ovekcoats,
ovkkcoats, ovekl'oats,
OVKKC0AT8, OVEltCOATS. '
Men's Wintek
Melton Ovkkcoats,
all wool,
FOK
EiflUT Dollars, $$; $?, Eight Dollars.
A good servieealle article selling much below their
valve.
... 1 Bennett A Co..
u' ) No. 518 Market street.
Fifth and Sixth
No. 47. EurnoNK. All who want the elegant
EiTiioKK-soi.o-STor, resonant ase, MaaonA Ilamlln
Cabinet Organ, No. 47, for Christmas presents, will
please leave their orders with Oould & Fischer,
No. S23 chesnut street, at once. The demand is
great and supply short. Call and hear them.
A. Barlow, No. 45 South Second street, in order
to reduce his Immense stock ef Furniture, wul offer
great Inducements for the next thirty days.
Nickel Plating does not rust, will net corrode,
and is admirably adapted for cemetery lota, for rail
ings, chains, and plates.
See advertisement of Atmore's Mince Meat on
F.lghth Page.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE,
THE WASHINGTON BUILDING,
1HIRD BELOW WALNUT,
to feet front by 180 feet deep to Binjuara's Ceirt,
CONSTRUCTED FOR OFFICES, BUr
Adapted for Manufac
turing Purposes,
OR FOR AN
.Ai'tifcmii JOuilclingf.
11 It 8w
TO RENT.
rpO RENT TUB STORE NO. V12 UUESNOT
Street. ApplJ on the premises between 10 and IS
o'clock A. M.
SlTtf
TO LET. FROM JANUARY 1, 1971
Five-story Store. No. 420 MARKET Street.
piily to LEWIS T. BROWN, No. Me MARSHALL
Street. 11 25 4t
BOARDING.
WHEELER & WILSON
SmVlIVU MACHINE,
For Bale on Earn Termt.
HO. 814 CHESNUT STREET.
mwit PHILADELPHIA.
OLOTHINQi
GREAT
Bargains In WiDter Overcoats.
BargniDS In Winter Business Coats.
Bargains In Winter Waistcoats.
Bargains in Winter Pantalojns.
Bargains In Winter Suits.
From the lowest priced grades of goods to the
most costly, we have every variety and style. We
can sell cheaper than any other house, if cheap suits
are tho object of your desires. We can fit you out
like a prince, If you desire what will cost you more
money. We are fully prepared for the winter, to do
things up
BROWN
To the entire fatlsfactlon of our customers '
And the public generally,
Our Custom Department
is In full biast
dully turning out
vast quantities
of the moBt
Beautiful
Clothes.
Our
HALL
Was never better stocked than now,
With every desirable description
Of Fashionably made garments
Of Finest material,
Of Choicest style, ,
At Lowest .Trice.
Come to
603 and 605 CHESNUT Street,
And see our stock cf Boys' Suits, Men's Snlts, Coach
men's Coats, Dress Coats, Evening Coats,
Wedding Coats, Sunday Coats, Busi
ness Coats, Home Fuits, Street
Suits, Waiting Suits,
Beautiful Salts
Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest.
1 ' 1
flOl GIRARD STREET, BETWEKN KLE
1 1 1 veuth and Twelfth and Chesnut and Mar
ket streets. Vacancies for Families and Single (lea
tlemen. Also, a suit of rooms on the second floor,
furnished or unfurnished, with urgt-clasi board.
Also, table board. 10 iltf
aitEAT BROWN HAM-,
803 and G05 CHESNUT STREET.
HINDER THE
- n u 1 Li.
PHILADELPHIA: PA.
Overcoats. Pants.
Suits
Military Uniforms Naval.
IVXercbant Tailoring1
AND
Heady-made Clothing.
FINE
READY-MADE
CLOTHING,
Combining Style, Durability, and Excellence of
Workmanship.
JONES'
One- ! 1 i c o
ESTABLISH M E N T,
No. 604 MARKET STREET.
CEO. W. NIEMANN.
Eandsome Garments made to order at the short
est notice. 10 8 tfrp
VE8TON & BROTHER,
TAILORS,
S. W. Cornsr NINTH and ABCH Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA.
A fall assort mert of ne most approved styles for
FALL AND WINTER WEAK,
JUST RECEIVED.
' A SUPERIOR GAJiMENT AT A REASONABLE
PRICE. 9 14 3mrp
DREXEL & CO.,
No. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
Aiurlcan and Foreign Hankers,
DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIN
CIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE.
DEALERS IN
Government and Railroad Securities,
Vn-rt l, Winthrop CQ.,Drptel, Barjet Co.,
. fo. is Wajl fcireet, .. i.3 tio. a Ruo Scribe,
Kew Vort. : I . Farla.
BLACK SILKS.
8oon after the commencement of the war the entire
ttock of Black Silks in Lyons was sold to English and
American buyers to remove them from danger. Dhia
etock comprised all qualities more bad than good
goods made to feel heavy, but, though sightly, composed
of poor material, which will affoct the wear and beauty
of the silk. Large quantities are in this country and are
being sold extensively. We, with onr old connections
and knowledge of the best manufacturers, have been
able to supply ourselves with the VERY BEST
MAKES KNOWN and TRIED for Twenty
Years, and offer thorn to our customers at prices less
than last year's, and less than we have reason to believe
they will be after the present season.
5 AL,.
We take pleasure in calling attention to one case of
these beautiful goods, in tfll tho new dark shades, which
we shall open on Monday, November 14. Among the
novelties in our importation of DRESS GOODS
this season this fabric, for Walking Costume, has de
servedly taken a high place in the estimation of our
customers, and we would solicit an early inspection. We
may remark that while there is a probability of a super
abundance in common textures this soaaon, of really
new and choice French goods the market will soon be
bare.
KOMER, COLLADAY & CO.,
1412 AND 1414 CHESNUT STKEET.
JEWELRY ETC.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
J. E. CALDWELL & CO.,
No. 902 CHESNUT Street,
Now oiler their entire importation of
EUROPEAN NOVELTIES
For the Holidays.
These Goods, freshly arrived from LONDON,
PARI8, VIENNA. and ROME, many of them en
tirely new to this city, have been expressly made for
their retail sales, In every form of Ornament and
Use that Art and Taste can devise, In
ICromr. marble. Crystal, lorce
lain, (aold, Silver. JLeatlier,
Ivor j. Tortoise Shell,
ETC. Em,
And are now ready for the Inspection of all who
will favor with a visit their
Marble Store,
No. 02 CHESNUT St.
J&S. E. CALDWELL & CO.
11 S3 tf4p
FURS.
runs ! jues ! fues j
The undersigned respectfully Informs his friends
and the publio In general, as he is about giving up
buslr ess, that he will c1ob out his entire stock of
VANCY FUKS at greatly reduced prices, such as
the best
Siberian 6qulrrel8eta from... fSOOtofS-oo
Astracjan sou from 6 00 to 9 00
Ermine seta from S 00 to 8 00
Best Roval Erniine sets from 16-00 t 25 00
Mink Sable sets from la oo to 80 00
Hudson liav feable sets from 40 00 to 75-00
Russian Sable sets f com 75 00 upwards
aud every description of Forsat Reduced t rices.
I'ersous deuixoiu of purchasing will do well by call
ing at
JOHN DAVIS',
No. 51 NOltTII (SECOND STREET.
11 SS wfmlinrp ' Above Mirket.
GLASS AND QUEENSW ARE.
Gay's China Palace,
No. IOI2 CHESNUT Street,
Wishing to reduce stock, are offering the'r goods at
the following unpreeedentedly low prices
White T rencti China Dining Sets, ir0 pieces. . .f.to-oo
" " " " " 1H " ... 81-5!)
" " " Tea " 44 ... TOO
tt u ' 40 " ... 8 00
" u " Cups and Saucers, 12 pieces,
cups with handles l-oo
Stone China Dining (lets, 96 plsces 9 so
Stone China Tea Sets (cups with handles), 41
f pieces 3-sj
Stone China Tea Sets (cups with bundled) 40
plecen 4-00
Stone Chamber Sets a s t
" " ' Cups and Saucers, per set,
19 piece.- 6')
" " Dining Plates, per dozen i on
Table Tumblers, per dozen 59
Table Goblets 75
Glass Tea Sets (4 articles) -75
Bohemian Cologne Sets, 8 bottles and puu box 90
Bohemian 1 lquor Sets, 6 glasses, waiter and
bottle 91)
An endless variety of Fancy Ooods, suitable for
Holiday Fiesents, at an lmmensd reduction from
former prices.
Goods to go out of the city will be packed and de
livered to transportation cilice frte or charge, and
itnured against breakage to destination.
Show Room open till 9 o'clock at night.
11 Stisniwloirp
UPHOLS TERY GOODS, ETO.
1870.
Airru mw.
1870.
STEVENSON SCHWEMMER.
Rich Eroche - Figured Cotelines
j FOR PARLORS AND RECEPl'ION ROOMS.
HEAVY TAMBOURED LA.0E3
TO CORRESPOND.
Why are their puces over twenty per cent, lower
thau elsewhere for the same Goous?
tint Because they buy for CASH and reolve
heavy discounts. '1 ht Be they transfer to purchasers.
Stcund tielng practical aud experienced la al
blanches of the DECORATING and UPHOLSTaKy
business, they save by persoual attention and super
vision st least til'teeu per ceut. In their exnu4es, of
which their customers itiall also have the full beneht.
This ruakfs a total of teuty one per cent, save'!
I j tvry cuntomr placing orders In their charge,
U sides haviDsr tfic.lr worn executed tu tho Uuest
iLULUur and wUu the utmost tk'bp.ucii.
1H CHFKNUT HTUEET,
11J.') lc i wfUitutp