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A GUET MRASI'HK FOU THE COUW-
TUY-K EDUCTION OF TAXLS.
Prom the X. I. HrahL
The first thought of any sensible man of
business is to improve arl extend hi bnsi
neHS aiiil to une all the resources within his
reach for that purpose. He does not ciipple
his operations by taking up Lis notes before
ihv ant clno. Indeed, be usoi bin credit
freely within the limits of his ability to pay,
in order that he may develop his trade and
resources, lie both pays his way and becomes
richor by mich a course. Tne same principle
applies 'to the government. If it tax the
people heavily in order to pay off the public
debt rapidly, and when payumnt is not re
quired, the productive industry and trade of
the country Buffer. The money taken from
the people in exorbitant taxes paralyzes in
dustry and retards progress. Every hundred
dollars taken by the government would, if
left in the hands of the people, produce a
larger amount and make the country richer.
The hundred and fifty millions or upwards of
surplus revenue now raised for paying off the
debt would add to the national wealth a far
greater amount annuuRy if not taken from
productive industry. It is a false economy
it is the reverse of economy to overtax the
people for the purpose of saving the six por
cent, interest on the debt.
If we had reached or approached the limit
of production in the United States we might
feel anxious about the debt; but when money
is in such demand to develop our boundless
and variod resources when overy dollar ex
pended in such development soon produces
two our policy should be to increase the
national wealth rather than to burden the
people with heavy taxes in order to liquidate
tho debt in a few years. Like the merchant
who uses his credit wisely, and becomes
richer by doing so, the nation will become
wealthier and better able to pay by reducing
taxation and leaving a portionof its iudebt
ness to be paid in the future. Should the
incubus of our present enormous taxation be
taken off the national wealth would be more
than doubled in a generation, and the next
generation, consequently, would be doubly
able to ppy the debt.
We do not argne that a national debt is a
national blessing. It has, no doubt, a con
servative influence, and is useful for the in
vestment of surplus capital aud for securely
placing the funds of certain institutions; but
with us there is comparatively little surplus
capital, for there are so many ways of using
it in this country, we are m a diaerent
situation in this respect to England and other
countries of the Old World. Nor is a large
standing national debt agreeable to the ideas
of the American people or to our republican
institutions. ve snonia continue to pay
something annually, but not a hundred and
fifty millions or a hundred millions. From
twenty to thirty millions a year applied to this
object would be sufficient. A permanent sink
ing fund, beginning with this amount, might
be established, and then augment it from year
to year as the national wealth and population
may increase. I here would be no dimculty
in graduating the amount of a sinking fund
in this way. The publio would be satisfied
as long as this process of liquidation should
go on without interruption. All would look
to the future extinguishment of the debt as
certain, while the burden of taxation to ac
complish that would be light. It would be
unjust to make the present generation, which
sacrificed so much blood and treasure in the
war and which has paid already hundreds of
of millions of the debt, pay the whole cost,
Our children and the millions of those who
will come to enjoy the blessings of the
Union ought to bear a portion of the debt,
particularly as they will be far more able to
bear it. The forty millions of population
will become eighty millions in the course of
twenty years or so, and the wealth of the
nation will be trebled.
The President and Secretary of the Trea
sury should recommend Congress to reduce
taxation so as to bring the revenue down to
three hundred millions. That ought to be
ample for the current expenditures of the
Government, payment of interest on the
debt and a surplus of twenty-five millions or
so for a sinking fund. The revenue comes
in now at the ratio of fonr hundred and fifty
millions a year and upwards. To reduce it
to three hundred millions would take off a
hundred and fifty millions of taxes. What a
boon to the country this would be! How
industry would revive! Prioes would go
down; tne condition of the farmers and labor
mg people would be vastly improved;
we should be better able to com
pete with foreign producers in the
markets of the world; there would be more
production, and trade and commerce would
revive. If the object of the President and
Secretary Boutwell be to make political capi
tal by paving on tne debt so rapidly, as it
seems to be, they could accomplish that much
better and become more popular by reducing
the taxes. Let us hope they may adopt this.
policy. But if they should not Congress
ought to take the initiative, and, as General
Butler intimated in his late address at Bos
ton, should overrule the administration. Half
measures will not do. The country wants a
sweeping measure 01 nnanoiai ret or m a
measure that will reduce the taxes a hundred
and fifty millions and that will be happily
felt in every household.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
From the X. Y. Times.
The inclination shown by shippers of tea
from China to New York to avail themselves
of the new route by way of Suez, renders
any prospect of improvement in the canal a
matter of interest. Despite the undoubted
grandeur of the achievement, there were at
the time of its opening certain drawbaoks in
the insufficient depth of water, the narrow
ness of the channel, and the too great sharp
ness of the turns. The perseverance dis
played, botn by the company and the
Egyptian Government, ia highly- creditable
to them, and will, it may be hoped, eventu-
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flliy jusure iuu luipiuvemcui wuicmne CAQOl
needs.
A correspondent of a foreign paper who
recently passed toTough the canal in a steamer
drawing VJ feet of water, 30 feet long, and
of 1414 tons burden, writes in satisfactory
terms of its present condition, while admit
ting that much remains to be accomplished
before it can be considered as a completed
highway between the Mediterranean and lied
Seas. The vessel in which he took passage
from Suez was detained six hours at the
entrance to permit the downward exit of two
steamers from Alexandria, and this at onoe
suggests the absolute necessity of frequent
"hidings," so as to , obviate the necessity of
similar delays ia future. Although the
published charts - indicate places
where these are supposed to exist, no sidings
whatever are to be found between Suea and
Ismailn, while the curves of this portion of
the work render the passage unusually diffi
cult. The correspondent to whom we have
referred also complains of the defective pilot
organization. Few, if any, of the men
taking charge of vessels passing through
understand one word of English. The
writer's recommendation that the entire
channel be widened, bo as to allow steamers
to pass each other at any point, is not likely
to find acceptance for a considerable time,
the enormous expense it would involve ren
dering it , at present impracticable.
One of the narrowest portions of the work
is just beyond Suez, where the canal leaves
the bay. and dredges are still busy in deepen
ing and widening the channel. From Chalouf
to tho Uitter JLakes, however, it may De con
sidered as complete, in tho sense of a "single
track" canal. Throughout its entire length
the course is well marked off, and nn accident
need be apprehended from a want of neces
sary buoys and landmarks. Tho minimum
depth at any point in the canal proper is
stated to be twenty two leet, mat in ijaice
TiniRfth at twenty-one feet, and the banks are
described as firm and showing no signs of
drift. A tug is, however, deemed necessary,
even when the vessel in transit is a steamer,
and this is a decided disadvantage. The
total cost of passing through the eighty-six
miles and a half of canal is, to vessels of lit
teen hundrtd tons, about 4700 sterling, or
some !if3L'0t.
And this suggests the question of income,
It will be remembered that in June last the
directors of the company declared their in
ability to pay up the interest of the coupon
bonds due about that date, and it does not,
unfortunately, seem that their financial pros
pects have since improved. The total capi
tal is put down at l;,r00,000, of which t
considerable portion is held by the Viceroy
of Eevpt. But to pay the interest due to
outside shareholders alone, an annual income
must accrue of 810,000, while the cost of
maintenance, dredging, eto. , is roundly esti
mated at 100,000 for the same period. There
must, therefore, be a total annual income of
1,000,000, or about $ I, 800, 000, to make the
canal a bare sucoess, quite irrespective of
any profit to the Egyptian Government; and
to furnish this, at the rate of ten francs a
ton, will require the daily transit of (W'.O
tons. The maximum trathc as yet reached
has never exceeded, though frequently fall
ing short of, two thousand tons. Many
causes have doubtless conspired to decrease
the revenue of the canal during the past six
months. The war now raging has had
most injurious e fleet. Bat despite all this,
it cannot be hoped that tho busy season now
commencing in India will so greatly add to
the traffic as to furnish a sufficient
quantity of tonnage to defray expenses,
Should it be found that this is the case for
reasonable period after the declaration of
peace, a grave question will arrive as to the
manner in which the canal is to be main
tained. The tariff of tonnage dues cannot be
increased, as that would render them prohi
bitory; and yet a water-way requiring such
constant dredging and banking cannot be
maintained by any company at a dead loss
Government aid must step in, or the labor
of years and expenditure of millions
will be thrown away ; but no
one power will permit another to assume
the preponderating influence which a sole
charge of the canal would insure to those
exercising it. The English capitalists may
turn out to nave been correct in tneir pre
diction that it would never pay in a business
sense. That it will ever be abandoned is,
after the enormous effort used in its con
struction, unlikely. Its ultimate fate will,
however, possess greater interest for our
mercantile community than was at first
deemed possible, as there was an inclination
to doubt whether it would be worth the while
of vessels bound from China to New York to
avail themselves of the short cut it offered.
TOE DISCIPLINE OF PAULS.
Prom Um N. V. Tribune.
There may be, after all, a silver lining to
the cloud which hangs over Paris. The life
of this beautiful city has been for eighteen
years one of the most singular examples ever
peen of an unbroken tide of material success.
It has inoreased vastly in extent, in riches, in
population, and in every department of luxury
and art there has been an improvement with
out parallel in recent times. It has been
fashionable for those tourists who imagine
that with the aid of their Fetridge aad their
courier they have mastered all the social and
political problems of Europe, to build upon
this fact a theory of the omniscient wisdom
and sagacity ef the Emperor. But in fact
there are two powers which, working together,
have made the modern Paris. One of these
is the railroad system of France, which has
performed there the marvels we are familiar
with in New York and Chicago, and the other
ia the genius of Haussmann, the Prefect of
the Seine. It is he who has combined and
organized the abundant resources whioh the
recent developments of trade in France placed
in bis hands, and who has accomplished the
practical miracle of tearing down and rebuild
ing, without a moment's check or pause in its
daily life, a city of two million inhabitants.
It is true this sucoess was only apparent
and superficial. The city which rose from
the ruins wrought by the hammer of the
municipal king was a marvellously beautiful
and harmonious one. No vested rights, no
historical memories, were allowed to stand in
the way of the despotic Alsacian's passion for
uniformity, lie grew at last well-nigh mono
maniac in this respect, and pushed his fan
like system of streets which diverged from
the Grand Opera through oostly blocks of
stores and palaces almost entirely new. Of
course, such an annihilation of positive
values could not but entail disastrous con
sequences. There was a factitious com
pensation in the enhanced prices of
the new structures. But gradually, as a con
seqnenoeof this mad sacrifice of everything to
considerations of mere taste, the cost of living
rose to an unendurable point, and the whole
laboring population was exiled to the suburbs.
It was a vicious circle from which there
seemed no escaping. The publio works at
traded laborers, and made at the same time
wages higher and subsistence dearer. Taxes
rose like a rising tide, and the necessity of
employing the clamorous bands of workmen
made it impossible to discontinue or retrench
expenses. AH t&e magio of the Empire could
not lay the spirit it nad raised.
with the enormous development given by
the empire to reckless speculation came an
increase of luxury and extravagance, whioh
always accompanies a period of irregular
gains, and which was well described by the
venerable iupm, m nis startling speech in
the Senate, in liHio, on the luxury of women.
Never in history was seen snoh a splendor of
toueis ana oi equipages, v ice shared in the
general plenty, and the establishments of the
leaders of the half -world rivalled the palaoes
of princes. The dangerous example of the
great and powerful ran like wildfire among a
corrupt and languid youth. Who would
choobe to live by honest official or profes
sional endeavor, when a dexterous theft or
embezzlement might put one in position to
snare tne sooiety and friendship of rieury
and Moray? . Although an aristocraoy is
powerless for reform, it is practically omnipo
tent lor miscniei.
Borne on this easy tide of suooess whioh
the great industrial enterprises of the conti
nent were supplying, it seemed as if Paris
bad lost all sense of responsibility Tho
city government went en, robbing Teter to
pay Paul, taking no thought of the day after
to-morrow, satisfied with keeping its hundred
thousand laborers quiet with useless and
beautiful work, and cooking its frightful
deficits barely enough to justify the
apathy of the Council of State. The
Opposition was little better. lhe load
ers, such as Favre, Pelletan, Clarnier-Pages
and their associates, were men of the
best and truest llepnblican fibre, who care
fully studied the problems of the future, and
accepted in the main the American theories
of the correlation of rights aud duties. But
the ardent working politicians of the clubs
and secret societies "went on with their sap
ping and mining, apparently without carim;
whether the building they were seeking to de
stroy fell on their own heads or not. Like
the improvident artisan in Hogarth's picture,
they kept sawing energetically at the very
branch they sat on. They seemed to think
that the same old dissolute, easy life would
go on forever, no matter what they did.
The people of Paris most clearly indicated
this utter lack of forethought in the manner
in which they welcomed tho Emperor's de
claration of war. They were not shocked at
its utter wickedness and criminality. They
never thought of the possible consequences.
Morally and intellectually they seemed inca
pable of a serious view either of the ethics
or the probabilities of the situation. The
city that bad rejected the Emperor in
tho plebiscitum went wild with delight
over bis greatest crime aud his greatest
folly. The Republican and Liberal jour
nals let it be remembered as an offset to
subsequent mistakes were almost unani
mous against the war. But they were over
borne by the general voice. The people of
Paiis danced to the piping of the dull despat
they had so often denounced by their votes.
When tho defeat came, they turned upon the
false power that hud deceived and mislod
them. Thevo was a certain instinct of justice
in this. Bunaparte was the sole came of the
war, and justly fell in it. But the idea of
their complicity in his final error never seemed
to enter into the minds of those who, being
bis accessories, madp themselves his accusers
and judges.
It is impossible that in those two mouth's
of siego and misery the Parisians should not
have acquired some sense of their own re
sponsibility. They have certainly lost that
overweening self-confidence which led them
to their ruin. They have seen on what a
frail foundation was built that airy structure
of apparent prosperity, which for many years
has dazzled and deceived tho world. They
have been living for eighteen years in a
feverish dream. Now it is broken, and the
work-a-day life will como heavily upon them.
Their conduct during, this siege has been
such as to prove that the lessons of this hard
experience are not lost. With an enemy at
their gates so strong and persistent that it
seems like the iron baud of necessity slowly
tightening upon the throat of the Queen City,
with a government deriving its sole sanction
from popular consent, the condition of Paris
has buen as free from tumult and disorder as
during the best days of the Empire. The
armed people have -vindicated the authority
of law against disturbers of the peace. The
unconquerable Latin pride, which refuses to
listen to reason when a fancied honor for
bids, prevents them still from giving up the
hopeless struggle. But when the end comes,
we expect to see in the Paris of future years
the good fruits of the terrible discipline
through which this glorious city which more
nearly than any other represents the beat
ing heart of the world has passed and is
passing.
A SUGGESTION ABOUT THE NAVY.
From the S. T. Sun.
A few years ago it was the custom of the
British Admiralty to prepare and present to
Parliament carefully collected statistics in
regard to the discipline on English ships of
war. That practice has, it seems, now been
abandoned, and this fact has subjected the
Admiralty to severe criticisms from the Eng
lish journals.
It appears that these statistics brought out
rather strongly the contrast between ships of
good discipline and ships of bad discipline;
rather too strongly indeed for the pleasure
and comfort of some officers even among the
higher grades of the service. So the dis
agreeable publication was stopped. The
British press think it ought to be continued;
and, as far as we can judge for others, so do
we. But the discussion on the subject fur
nishes us in this country with 4 valuable sug
gestion for ourselves. Would not a similar
system of statistics concerning the vessels of
the United States Navy be beneficial in aiding
to remove some of the evils which certainly
exist?
The English reports were so arranged as to
show the state of discipline on each particu
lar ship, and in such a way that accurate
comparisons of the results as to the respec
tive vessels could readily be made. It was
found, for instance, that while on the best
ships thejratio of punishments, per 1000 of
mean strength, for insubordination, theft,
and drunkenness, was indicated by a cipher,
the ratio on the worst ships for those three
offenses respectively was 417,,J1, i8'U, and
oS2'o.. What a contrast !
The compiler of these statistics well says
that "there is, perhaps, no part of the train
ing of a young naval officer of more import
ance to the future well-being of the service
than that which teaches him how best to
command and manage large bodies of men
with the least amount of punishment." Let
ns see how such reports, if intelligently acted
upon, could assist the authorities of our own
navy in securing such officers.
Tbey would soon indicate that these de
sirable characteristics were wanting in the
personnel of some ships, and largely pre
dominant on others. Where the discipline
was ascertained to be very poor, the defeot
in the officers would be found to extend to a
majority of them; and the desirable qualities
would distinguish most of those serving upon
a ship remarkable for its good discipline and
the consequent iufrequency of punishment.
From the latter class it would be advisable to
select the instructors at the Naval Aoademy,
and the commanders and officers of the sohool
ships. Those of the other class, whom ex
perience proved incompetent to maintain
any but the poorest discipline, could be de
tailed on duty where their authority over
others would be comparatively limited; while
by a judicious arrangement of a ship's offi
cers, in which a few poor disciplinarians were
placed in company with a majority of thor
oughly competent men, inefficiency in the
matter of discipline would eventually be
weeded oat.
MILITARY
niESTIOE IN
AMERICAN
POLITICS.
From the X. Y. Wm lii.
In one respeot, the election of General
Grant to the Presidency is a great public
benefit. It has disenchanted tho worshippers
of military heroes, and nnllifiod military in
fluence in our politics. There is a tendeucy
in human nature to admire military achieve
ments above any other exertion of mental
energy; and in this country we have buen so
fortunate in our great soldiers, that the na
tural tendency has been considerably strength
ened. Our first military hero was Washing
ton; the second, Jackson; aud at a later period,
Taylor aud Scott. The two first were among
the most illustrious of our political chiefs;
Taj lor made a fair President, aud Scott a
respectable candidate for that office.
Gratitude bus combined with admira
tion in elevating great generals to the
Presidency. Washington, so far from receiv
ing presents, took no py for his servioos,
either as General or President. A grateful
people were therefore doubly willing to
acquit their obligations to that illustrious
man, by conferring and continuing the
highest honors of the republic. Jackson, too,
received no gifts of houses, money, libraries,
horses, or plate, and was even compelled to
pay a fine for the efficiency of his military
niensures in Now Orleans. An appreciating
people were therefore eager to do him justice.
Washington and Jackson proved so eminent
in civil life as to confirm tho popular impres
sion that a great general may be also a great
statesman.
It has been reserved to General Grant to
reverse the popular judgment on this point,
and cure the people of their too ready ad
miration for military glare. The antidote
bus come chiefly through his intellectual, but
partly also from his niorul, defects. Had he
possessed capacity as a statesman, the country
might have remained for twenty years under
illusions which he has completely dispelled
in kss than twenty months. We were in
imminent clanger of being dominated by
military men for a whole generation; and
General Grant has relieved ns as complotely
as if we had not just gone through a great
and successful war. General Washington was
first elected President six years after the
close of the Revolutionary War, aud after
serving eight years he might have been again
re-elected if he nad not chosen to set the pro
cedent which limits Presidential service to
tw o terms. General Jackson was first eloctad
President fourteen years after his great vio
tory at New Orleans, and the anniversary of
that victory continued to be celebrated in his
honor for a whole generation after he m re
tired from the Presidency. Grant will not
be re-elected, and no anniversary will ever be
celebrated in his honor.
How has General Grant contrived so soon
to wear out the lustre of military success,
and to nullify military prepossi?83ion3 in our
politics within a few years after the close of
our greatest war? The poverty of his narrow
intellect does not suffice to explain tho whole
effect. It is true that he possesses no one of
the epialifications by which a mere citizen
rises to political distinction... He has neither
information, nor ideas, nor eloquence, nor
personal dignity, nor popular manners, nor
even that active interest in publio affairs
which brings a man into sympathy with
political life. There is no man in
tee country wno, as a private citizen, was a
more absolute political cipher. But he might
have been respectable, in spite of these intel
lectual deficiencies, if nehau possessed the
right moral tone. The simple tastes and
manly contempt for wealth of Garibaldi
would have commanded the moral reverence
of people who cannot respect his intellect,
But General Grant has evinced an ingrained
vulgarity of nature. His personal tastes and
choice of amusements are very like those of
Jim Fisk, with whom he was at one time on
terms of intimate association. Morally he is
a phlegmatic Jim Fisk; the same dough
without the fermenting yeast. With as
little taste for books and doouinents, and less
application to labor, he has Fisk's love of
money, horses, jauntings, and all sorts of fast
life and merely animal recreations. Surely,
these are not the qualities of the hero. The
degrading gifts he has accepted, and the fla.
grant nepotism he has practised, have caused
the country to rate him as a very ignoble
mortal. The public sense of gratitude feels
acquitted of all obligations to a man who so
obviously values glory only as an instrument
of pelf. Certain it is that he has prevented
himself, and every other general who served
m the late war, from deriving any future po
litical advantage lrom ms military record
Perhaps there is nothing so remarkable in
our political history as this early blight and
mildew which have fallen on military laurels
They can no longer make a single vote for
any candidate for office, as quick-sighted
politicians some time ago discovered. In the
elections of this year, it is surprising how few
military candidates have been run, either for
State offices or for Congress. Woodford for
Governor of this State is almost the only one
that can be mentioned, and he has merely
ill ast rated tne ntter decay of mill
tary prepossessions. He was General
Grant's pet candidate, and was nomi
nated at Saratoga by a convention of soldiers
before be received the Republican nomina
tion. lie probably did not get a single addi
tional vote in consequence of the soldiers'
support. Nor will any candidate, in any
election hereafter, make any capital out of a
military record. Thanks to General Grant,
military prestige in our politics is "played
out." It has fallen into as irretrievable con
tempt as the practice of ostracism among
the ancient Greeks, after a low demagogue
had been ostracized. We shall aocordingly
find, in the next Presidential eleotion, that
each candidate will stand on bis civil qualili
cations and personal popularity, without any
adventitious aid from his participation in the
late war.
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l'ennsvivania for the incorporation of a Hank. In
accordance with the laws of tho Commonwealth, to
be entitled THIS STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
DANK.to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital
of five hundred thousand dollars, with the right to
ncrease U;e same to ton mlllllon dollars.
DR. F. R. THOM AS, No. 9U WALNUT ST.,
devotes his entire practice to extracting testh witiil
out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gas 11 17
r,s KOTle-E. NUll ;K IS HlilvKli U1VJS.N
that application will be made to the Legisla
ture ot Pennsylvania, at its nxt session, for the
incorporation or a uaiiK, according to the laws of
the Commonwealth, to be entitled ATLANTIC
BANK, and to be located in Philadelphia, with a
capital of one hundred thousand dollars, with the
rip rit to increase tae Bame 10 uve nunureu tnousana
dollars. jy 1.4dm
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, lu ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE AMER1C1N EXCHANGE B.VNK,
to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of two
hundred and lirty thousand oouars, with the right
to Increase the same to one million dollars.
WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETO.
0a
1 1 IJUfimt KIULK.KN A, . K'.Vr". KU
1)
11 PITCHES. JEWIIMIY SII.TK!l W.Gih.
W4.TCHESand JEWELRY REPAIllED.
Hzy no grant ptJt; 'Aitrgj
Would Invite attention to tholr large stock of
Ladles' and Cents' Watches
er American and foreign makers.
DIAMONDS In tho newest styles of Settings.
LADIES' and GENTS' CHAINS, Sets Of JEWELRY
of the latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN
BRACELETS, Etc. E c.
Cnr stock has been largely increased for the ap
proaching holidays, and new goods received dally.
Silver Ware of the latest designs In great variety,
for wedding presents.
Repairing done In the best manner and guaran
teed. 6 11 fmw
TOWER CLOCKS.
No. 22 NOIITH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontoir & Graham Escapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on fall chime.
Estimates famished on application either person
ally or by man. s 20
WILLIAM B. WARNS & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
WATCHES. JEWELRY. AND
saiyl SILVER WARE,
Second Door of No. 638 CUESNUT Street,
8. E. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
LOOKING CLASSES. ETO.
LOOKING CLASSES,
Strictly our own manufacture, and of warranted
workmanship, at the lowest prices.
ALL TUB NEW CHROMOS of Europe and America,
SWISS RUSTIC GOODS, Invoices opened to-day.
Sole Agency for the ROGERS GROUPS.
GALLERY OF PAINTINGS, open, free at all times.
JAMES S. EARLE & SONS.
No. 816 CHESNUT STREET.
CLOTHS, OASSIMERES, ETO.
QLOTH HOUSE.
JAMES & HUBER.
Ifo. 11 North SI2COIl Street,
Sign of the Golden Lamb,
Are w receiving a large and splendid assortment
of new styles of
FANCY OASSIMERES
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS and
COATINGS, 3 33 D1WI
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
OOAL.
ANTHRACITE COAL,
Per Ton of 22 10 L.lg., Delivered.
LEHIGH Furnace, 7 50; Stove, T-75; Nut, S no.
SCHUYLKILL Furnace, $(l 50; Stove, ia-75; Nut,
t&-2S.
811 AMOKIN Grate, f6-75; Stove, ST; Nat, fa.
EASTWICK & BROTHER,
Yard corner TWENTY-SECOND Street and WASH
IN G TON Avenue. 18 so rptf
Office, IVo. 928 IOCI Street.
-nOTIlBltiniSL. Sc MANftlAa,
LEUItm AND SCHUYLKILL COAL,
Depot N. E. Corner NINTH and MASTER,
Offices. 43 South THIKD Street,
1 IU SANSOM " lontf
Aitnr; FOR A LONG TON OF NUT COAL,
3&4 lO at EASTWICK BROTHER'S Coal
Yard, TWEJSTY-SKCOND Street and WASHING
TON Avenue. - 8 rP" '
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
gJARSTAIRS HcCALL
ffo: 128 Walnut and 31 Granite ti
IMPOBTKR8 Of
Brandlea, Winea, Gin, 0Ut Oil, Etc.
WHOLBSALI PKALCB4 IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
U SOXtV ARD TAX f AI0, Ovi
PROPOSALS,
ROP08ALS FOR LIVJS OAS.
N 4 VT DrARTMRNT,
in it ninK-inunum and KKPAll
Washington. 1). V... Novemhorv 1
pair, y
6, 1S70.)
SEALED PROPOSALS for the delivery of !0;s,0O
coble feet of Live-oak Timber, of the best quality, In
e sch of the NBvy.YflrdB at Charlestown, Mass.. and
jtrooitiyn, JN. 1., will be received at this Bureau
until the sixth (nth) day of December nxt
These proposnls must be endorsed "Proposals for
Live Oak," that they may be distinguished from
other business letters.
The oireis may be for one or both yards, bnt must
be lor the whole qnnntity In each yard, and, aire-
quired by law, must be accompanied by a guar,
antee.
turctlcs In the full estimated amount will be re
quired to stun the contract, and. as additional and
collateral security, twenty-live (2fi) per centum will j
be withheld on the amount of each delivery until I
the contract is satisfactorily completed. j
In all the deliveries of the timber there must be I
a due proportion of the most difficult aud crooked )
pieces; otherwise there will be withheld such
further amount In addition to the 85 per centum aa
rony be Judged expedient to secure the public ln
tcicst until such dilllcilt portions be delivered.
The remaining 75 per centum, or other proportion
of each bill, when approve! In triplicate by the
Commandant of the yard, will bo paid by suih
pnrehnstng paymaster as the contractor may desig
nate vnihin thirty (30) days after its presentatlor,
to him.
U, will be stipulated In the contract that if I if 1 1
oe made by the pnrties of the first part tnd jllvertuv
all or any of the timber named, of tho quality -na
at the time and place provided, theu, and lu at
esse, the contractor, and his sureties, will f -rfelt aad
pay to the I'tiitcd States a snm of tuoiif y not execed
Itg twice the total amount therein agreed upon as
the price to be pntd in case of the actual delivery
thereof, which may bo recovered according to the
Act of Congress In that case provided, approved x
March 3, 184-t. '
The wa.oto cubic feet to bo delivered In each yard
will be lu the following proportions: Say 33,0tK
cubic feet of pieces suitable for stems, sternposts,
deadwoods, aprons, stern post knees, keelsons, ami
hooks, all siding from 11 to v!0 Inches, and the tnoks
siding 14 and It! inches. These pieces to bo In the
proportions iu which they enter into the construc
tion of a ship or wsr; conforming substantially In
shape, length, and character with those heretcifore
received, with frames 01 corresponding siding, the
moulds of which can be seen at any navy yard;
L'.o.Oi'O cubic feet of the siding of 13 and 15 inches, in
about equal quantities of each, and li),i)00 cnbic feet
of a siding of l:i inches; ull these pieces being in
length frrm 18 to IT fect, with a natural and fair
enrve of fiom 12 to 80 Inches or more 111 that length,
and one-half the number oT pieces to have from the
mean to the greatest crook. Also St'.imo cublo feet
ol timber siding 4a aud 15 Inches, In length from 17
to 20 feet.
All to be sided Rtralghtand fair, and rongh-hewed
the moulding wny to show a face of not less than
two-thirds the sifting, the wane being deducted la
the measurement
The timber to be cut from trees growing within
!to nti'.e-s of the sea, ot which satisfactory evidence
will be required, aud to be' delivered la the respec
tive yards at the risk and expense of the contractor,
subject to the usual Inspection, and to the enure ap
proval of the Commandant of the yard.
The whole quantity to be delivered within two
years from the date of the contracts
Satisfactory evidence must bo presented with each
proposal that the parties ettr?r fiftve the timber or
616 acquainted with tho subject, aud have the
facility to procure It.
Iu addition to the above, separate "Sealed Pro-
pcsal8''wlll be received at the same time, on the
same terms and conditions and similarly endorsed,
from persons having the timber on hand already
cut, for tho dellve-ry In each of the navy yards at
Charlestown and Brooklyn, or rrom 8 to 60.000
cubic feet of Live-oak, the principal pieces siding
14 to 17 inches, the remaining portion 18 aud 13
Inches; the principal pieces giinil crooked timber
being in the same proportion to the quantity oilered
as that specified In the llrst case, with tho same
lengths and crooks.
The whole amount contracted for In this case
must be delivered on or before the 1st February,
1871.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
and all bids for any timber under this ad vertiseruout
If considered not to the InU rest of the Government
to accept them, and to require satisfactory evidence
that bids are buna fide in all respects, ana are made
by responsible persons
FORM Ob- OFFER,
( Which, if from a frm, rnitnt be signed by all the mem
ben.) I (or we), of , in the 8tate of .
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 of the Bureau of
Construction and Repair of the date of November
5, 1870, viz. :
cubic feet, suitable for principal
pieces, at t per foot f
cable feet, curved timber, at
S per foot
cubic feet timber, at g per ft.
Total quantity. Total value.
(The. total value to be likewise written infulL)
Should lay (or our) offer be accepted, (or we)re
oueittobe addressed at , and the contract
scut to the Purchasing Paymaster of tne Naval Sta
tion at for signature and ccrtliicate.
Date .
Signature, A. B.
C. D.
Witness :
FORM OF GUARANTEE.
The undersigned -.of , In
the State ol , ami , of
, In the State of , hereby
guarantee that, in case the foregoing bid of
is accepted, he (or ttey) will, within
ten das after the receipt or the contract at the post
oillce named, or by the Paymaster of the Naval
Station desig.-ated, execute the contract for the
same with good aud sufficient sureties; and la case
mi id shall fall to enter into contract as
aforesaid, we pnarant.ee to make good the diirer
ence bet ween the oner of the said aud
that which may be accepted.
Date .
Signatures
C. I).
E. F.
Witness:
Each of the guarantors must be certified by the
Asscescr of Internal Revenue for the district la
which the parties are assessed. 11 7 law4w
1)HOPOSAL8 FOR THE ERECTION OF PUl
LIC HLILD1NGS.
OFFICE OF TUB COMMISSIONERS FOB THB
EllkCTlON OF THE PUBLIC Bi y-UIKG3, S
PlIlLADBLrniA, NOV. 3, 1870. J
Proposals will be received at the Otrice of tlx
President of the Commission, No. 129 S. SEVENTH
Street, until November 80, 1S70, for items one, two,
and three, and until December 81, 1S70, for the
balance of the schedule, for the following materials
and labor:
l. For carefully removing the iron ratlings and
stone base from the four inclosures at Broad and
Market streets, and depositing the same In order
upou such portions of the adjacent grounds as the
Commissioners may select.
9. for removing the trees and clearing the ground.
3. For the lumber and labor for the erection of a
board fence twelve (1') feet in height, with gates to
Inclose the space occupied by Peun Squares, per
lineal foot, complete.
4. For excavations for cellars, drains, ducts, foun
dations, etc., per cubic yard.
5. For concrete foundtions, per cublo foot.
6. For foundation stone, several kinds, laid per
perch of twenty-live feet, measured in the walls.
7. For hard bricks per thousand delivered at
Droad and Market street during the year 187L
8. For undressed grauite per cubic foot, specify
lug the kind.
9. For undressed marble per cubic foot, specify
ins the kind.
is. For rolled Iron beams (several sizes), per
lineal yard of given weight.
The Conimttwioners reserve to themselves the
rljrht to reject any or all of the proposals.
Further Information can be obtained by applying
to the President of the Board, or to the Architect,
John McArthur, Jr., at nla oillce, No. 2u5 . SIXTH
Street.
By order ol the Commission.
3 JOHN RICJE, President.
CHA8. R. R0BKRT8, Secretary. 11 5
"TOTICE. SEALED PROPOSALS INDORSED
i "Proposals for Supplying Blanks to the Board
of Public Education" will be received at the eitlce,
southeast corner Of SIXTH and ADELPHI Btreets,
addressed to the undersigned, natd December 13,
at VI o'clock M., for the supply of all Blanks required
for the Public ScWcols for the year 1871.
A sample of the Blanks authorized by the Board
can be seen at the Secretary's oinee.
By order ol the Committee on Supplies.
' H. J. HOFFMAN,
jUt, 3, 30, D 13 Chalnnaa.
WATI AND OAPf.
W WABBCRTON'8 IMPROVED VENTILATED
and easy-lUttug DRESS HATS (patented), in u
the lmnroved fashions of the season.
CHESNUI
Street, next door to the Past Oiuoa.
TV
TOHN FARNUMI CO., COMMISSION MER-
I eh&nta andMsoafbOtarni of OaUMtota llekiux, te.
ft M QUJUAUX ftbMt, fbUadaWU. ! -