THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH rmMDELPJirA, THTJltSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1870. I THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1870. The Evening Telegraph, from hs original establishment, has been in the receipt of telegraphic news from the New York Associated Press, which consists of the Tribune, Times, Herald, World, Sun, Journal of Commerce, Evtning Tost, Commercial Advertiser, and Evening Ex press. The success which has attended our enterprise is, in itself, a sufficient evi dence of the freshness, fullness, and relia bility of the news which we have received from this source. Last March we entered Into a t special contract by which The Evening Telegraph has the exclusive use of the news furnished in the afternoon by the Associated Press to its own members, the North American, Inquirer, Ledger, Press, Age, Record, and German Democrat, of this city, and the leading journals of the East, North, West and South; and hereafter The Telegraph will be the only evening paper published in this city in which the afternoon despatches of the Associated Press will appear. THE FIRST SENATORIAL D18TRI0T. It is a matter of very great importance thut a sound llepublican fihou'd succeed to the va?arcy created by the death of Mr. Watt, for the Senate as it now stands ia a tie, and the election to take place on Dooember 20th will da! ermine whether the Republicans or the Democrats shall have the majority. In this eleotion is involved the choice of a Speak r for the Senate, and consequently the political oompltxion of the committees to be appointed by him. As the new ap portionment not only for State Senators and Representatives but for Congressmen will be made by the Legislature this winter, it is a matter of the first importanoe that Republi can influence should preponderate in the committees, if the State is not to be gerry mandered in such a manner as to give the Democrats an advantage to which they are not entitled. Besides this, there are a great number of important Ctate and looal interests at stake that ought to induoe the Republicans of the First Senatorial district to select the best man that can be obtained for their can didate, and to put forth all their strength to eleot him. The Democrat are fully alive to the importance of the oocasion, and they have oerlainly made a first-class nomination. Their oandidate is one who commands the respeot and esteem of the best men of all parties, and if the Republicans expect to defeat him they will be obliged to follow the example of their opponents and make a selection that will be certain to secure every Republican vote. In spite of the interests at Btake, it will be much better to have a Demo crat who is known to be both able and honest returned from the First Senatorial district than some mere jobbing politician who calls himself a Republican merely because he thinks it will pay to do so, and who carries his principles and his conscience in his breeches pockets. Active exertions are now being made by several of this class of men to secure the Republican nomination, and if either of them should do so a Democratic victory may be considered a certainty. One of the individuals, especially, who is work ing very energetically for the Republi can nomination, is as unfit a person to have a voice and vote in the State Senate as oould possibly be found within the limits f the city of Philadelphia. lie U a politi cal jobber of the very lowest class, and his nomination will be a disgraoe to the Republi can party, especially beside the one the Demoorata have made. It is perfectly useless to talk of party principles if such men as the one alluded to are allowed to be oome the representatives of Republicanism in the most important publio offloes. We have now mere than enough members of the Legislature of his particular stripe, and it is time that there waa a little more honesty nd decency in both the Senate and the House of Representative ven if they can only be obtained by the election of Demoorata. We do not care to make any direot personal allusions at the present time, bat we have said enough to indioate to the men inside politics who we mean, and we now give notice that if the individual in question is nominated we will oppose him from the start, and we will support the Demo, oratio oandidate rather than a so-called Re publican who would disgrace any politioal party to which he might attach himself. The Republican voters of the First Sena torial district should remember that their last chance of getting upon the Registry list will be when the revision is made on next Saturday aiterneon, and if , they are not registered they should see to the matter at onoe. The election for delegates to the Re publican nominating convention will be held on Tuesday next, and we earnestly exhort all the Republican voters to attend and vote for a man that will do credit to the party and that can be elected in opposition to the U?g o&QdidftU the DsmooraU Lav put up. toning jlcgwplt FUELI8HKD EVERY AFTE (SUNDAYS KXCKPTKD), AT 1 HE EVENING TELEGRAPII BUILDING, NO. 108 8. TIIIRD STREET, VnilADELPIHA. The Price U three cents per copy double ihe(), or eightee n oent$ per to wfc, payable to the carrier by oh,m terved. The tubscription price by mail it A'ine Dollars per annum, or One Dollar and Fifty Centt for two monthn, invariably in advance for the time ordered. COLONEL ROBERT P. DECriERT. Tns Democrat of the First Senatorial dis- Irict have i o ?cn their appreciation of the importnn-") jf the politioal struggle on the 2)th instant by nominating, with great imauimity, one of their best men. Atl per sonal aspirations and factional divisions have been sunk by that party, and Colonel Robert P. Dechert has been made their standard bearer. He is a gallant soldier, and a gen tleman of ability and culture, and of blameless private character. He entered the army as Sergeant-Major of the 2!Uh Pennsylvania Regiment, under Colonel John K. Murphy, on the 1st of July, 1801, and shared the fortunes of our gallant army until July 17, 18ti5,when the regi ment was mustered out of theservioe. He parti cipated in the campaign of General Banks in the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 18(!i, and waa at Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, and all the battles in front of Washington in the disastrous campaign of Pope. He won especial distinc tion for his gallantry at Antietam, Chancel lorsville, and Gettysburg, and then was trans ferred under Hooker to Chattanooga. He became Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff of General Slocum, and with him served in. the memorable march to Atlanta, and thence to the sea. He was at intervals promoted lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel for "gallantry and other meritorious services," and after the victory over rebellion was complete, Colonel Dechert returned to his profession of the law in his native city, lie is at present an Assistant District Attorney under Mr. Sbeppard, and by the courteous and faithful discbarge of his duties, he has won the re spect and confidence of the bar and of the community generally. He is not a politician by trade, and is free from "rings" and all complications which would embarrass him as a Senator. Such is the nomination made by the Demo? crats in the close Senatorial district whose decision on the 20th instant is to decide the political power of the Senate, and it is an admonition to the Republicans that they must "do likewise" if they would wis. A Dcmocratio candidate with a brilliant record as a soldier, and unob jectionable either as to qualification or cha racter, will demand the best candidate in the Republican party to defeat him. No nominee of any ring or faction can hope to succeed against Colonel Deohert and a united end earnest party supporting him. Let the Republicans be up and doing, for they have a task of no com mon magnitude before them. They oan carry the district, but it can be done only by presenting a man who will dosorve the sup port of the entire party. The Eubopeah Steamship Line project has assumed such a practical and promising shape that we trust the proposed meeting of citi zens at the Merchants' Exchange on Saturday next will place its speedy suocess beyond all doubt or peradventure. We understand that four first-class steamships can be built here for $5CO,000 each, or $2,000,000. Nearly three-fourths of this sum can be raised on $1,500,000 of bonds to be issued by the steamship company, guaranteed by the Penn sylvania Railroad Company. That powerful corporation has also agreed to subscribe $400,000 to the capital stock, and all that our citizens are expected or asked to do is to take $300,000 of the stock of the steamship company. Considering the importance of the object to be achieved, there should be no difficulty whatever in securing the compara tively small subscription which is still re quired. If our merchants, manufacturers, real estate owners, and business men gene rally, care a stiver forthelong-talked-of steam ship line, they will, with the liberal assist ance now offered, soon have its vessels plying between Philadelphia and Europe. A Radical Hueest. The Age laments that "the principle of true representation is often forgotten in these days of radical heresies, when Mr. Senator Morton can openly decline a foreign mission, because he thus prevents the people of Indiana from electing a Sena tor who will truly represent them. The very reason," continues the Age, "that would, not many years ago, have constrained an honor able man to resign, now makes Senator Mor ton withhold his resignation." We do not remember to have read in the history of the country, especially in that of the Democratic party, that a United States Senator ever gave up his seat before the expiration of his term because the party opposed to that which elected him gained control of the legislature of his State in the meantime. If our Demo cratic neighbor is anxious to see such a high sense of political honor in Senatorial circles, it should advise the resignation of Stockton of New Jersey and Thurman of Ohio. Thx Nxw Yoik Demockact have secured control of the State Assembly. Mr. Horatio N. Twombly was the only Repmblican eleoted to that body from New York city; but when Tweed, Sweeny & Co. discovered that, if he were Buffered to take his seat, the Assembly would be a tie, the county canvassers were ordered to count him out, and count him out they did. As the result, the lower house of the Legislature will stand G5 Demoorata to G3 Republicans. This is a small margin for Tammany Hull, but it will doubtless be found to suffice. If we are to . believe the late cable tele grams the invincible Germans have reoently achieved important victories in battles with the French Army of the Loire, and at the same time beaten back a number of sortie parties who vainly endeavored to open a pathway from beleaguered Paris, These struggles indicate that the beginning of the end draws near, and that the threatened star vation of two millions of Frenchmen will coon force the Provisional Government to Uik a treaty. i NATIONAL EDUCATION. Tbi report reoently issued by the National Commissioner of Eduoation presents a strik ing and interesting view of the various school systems of the United States. It is gratifying to observe that, if the merits of the respective plans is to be tested by the amount of expenditure per head of the school popula tion, Pennsylvania is nearly at the top of the list, the liberality displays ! in onr Common wealth being only exceeded by Nevada, Mas sachusetts, California, and Conneotiout, and as the high cost per head in Nevada and California is evidently caused by sparseness of population, Pennsylvania really stands third among the States whioh can be fairly com pared. We fear, however, that the aotual condition of our schools, notwithstanding their relative high rank, is soaroely up to the point indicated by this financial comparison, as Borne of the Western States make better use of their eduoational appropriations than Pennsylvania. Despite the great advances in this Commonwealth during the last decade, the failure of the Legislature to es tablish a comprehensive system has bafllsd many vigorous efforts for reform and improve ment. If, on the other hand, we contrast the edu oational condition of Pennsylvania with that of the benighted Southern regions where Democracy and slavery have heretofore reigned, we have abundant cause for self gratulation. Kentucky, the great citadel of Democracy, spends seventy-three cents per head on the schoel population, and North Carolina spends forty-eight cents, against an expenditure in this Commonwealth of $78C. In nearly the whole South the cause of popular eduoation is on trial, and its fate will depend largely upon the result of the political contests of the day, for the triumph of the old slaveholding aristocracy of that region will, in nine cases out of ten, be fatal to liberal school appropriations. In the South, as in many portions of the North, Demooracy and ignorance are twin brothers, and it will be the oonstant aim of a few highly eduoated Democratic leaders to keep the masses deeply enshrouded in ignorance. NOTICES. Yoc Cak Dot Clothing IiETTKR AND CllB ATER OK Efmneit Co., Towkr Hali, No. CIS Makkkt Strert, 1HLF WAV BETWEEN FIFTH AND BIXTU STREETS, TnAN ANVWOKKH Sl.SK. Tukv Wnx Not bu Undersold Undkk Any Cibcumstancxs. It is well to get clear of a Cold the first week, but it Is much safer to rid yourself or It the first forty eight hours the proper remedy for the purpose belDg Dr. Jayne's Expoctoraut. Sold by all Druggists. TnK Groveb & Baker Se wini Machine Company are selling both their Elastlc-Stltch and Improved Lock-Stitch Sewing Machines on very easy terms. Having both stitches, the privilege of exchange la offered if not Bulted with flrat choice, Office No. T30 Chesnat street. No. 47. Ec phone. All who want .the elegant EumoKK-soLO-STor, resonant case, Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ, No. 4T, for Christmas presents, will please leave their orders with Oould A Fisciikk, No. 923 Chesnut street, at once. The demand is great and supply short. Call and hear them. NiCKKL-ri.ATiD Siatbs will be all the rage this winter. The Pabkinson Caramel Depot, No. 1409 Ches nut street. Sorg not by Bok'er. The Emperor Nap Was a terrible chap To govern the "Beautiful Nation!" Poor Paris he sold, And out In the cold Ee left all the rest of oreatlont The belles and the beaux Must wear their new clothes Usgardleas of "modes it ParU," And Santa Clans, too I Why I what will U do For the bon-bom he once used to carry But never despair, For PARKINSON'S here t tall on him often and toon! Only lay down the pelf, 11 29 3trp What he cau't make himself He'll Import yon, express, by Balloon 1 JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE. NOW OPENING, English Plated Wares, Vienna Fancy Goods, In Great Variety, At Low Iiices. BOBBINS, CLARK & BIDDLE, No. I 124 CHESNUT Street, It PBlLaDBL?HIA. OROOERIE8, ETO. ALMEEIA GRAPES In the finest order, ta cents per pound, or t pounds for $1-00. Also, a large assortment or the finest quality of Fruitf , Nuts, etc E. BRADFORD CLARKE, SUCCESSOR TO SIMON COLTON A CLARKE, B. W. Corner BROAD and WALNUT, 1 1 thstntf4p PHILADELPHIA. OLOTHINQ. ALL THE WAY FROM BAFFIN'S BAY As far as the ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, It la now generally admitted that there are NO CLOTHES Furnished for the use of mankind for every climate and In all seasons, which are HALF AO GOOD As tae substantial and elegant garments made at the EREAT REAT BROWN R O W N The combination of every desirable feature in these Clothes commends them to every male citizen of whatsoever nationality or persuasion. If you want good olothes. CHEAP, Come and look at the Winter Stock of 6HEAT BItOWN UALI, 603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET. CHESTNUT ST, HOTEL PHILADELPHIA: PA. $10 Overcoats, $15 Overcoats $20 Overcoat, $25 Overcoats. Our $15 Suits are more stylish and better cut and trimmed than any of fered elsewhere. READY-MADE CLOTHING, Combining Style, Durability, and Excellence of Workmanship. JONES' Ono-P rico ESTABLISHMENT, No. 604 MARKET STREET. GEO. W. N I EM A N N. Handsome Garments made to order at the short est notice. io 8 tf rp WESTON & BROTHER, TAILORS, S. W. Corner NINTH and AKCH Sts., PHILADELPHIA. Afullassortmertof ne most approved styles for FALL AND WINTER WEAR, JU8T RECEIVED. . A SUPERIOR GABMENT AT A REASONABLE PRICE. SJSSinrp TODOER8 fc WOt.TENHOLM'8 POCKET IV Ktilvs, Kairchllds' Olebjuted Gold fens, Pocket-books, etv In great varwi.y. W.M. SI. tmKlSTY, Stationer, 11 22 tl 1 So. 121 S. TUUID at, UiliW CUciiJ' IR ALL uu ALL OP ROCKHILL & WILSON. J(J ko 7)o IfiWINQ MAOHINESi II IS "WHEELER & WILSON BI3WINU MACHINE, For Bale on Eary Term: NO. 914 OUESNUT STREET. I mw4 PHILADELPHIA. JEWELRY ETO. HOLIDAY GOODS. J. E. CALDWELL & CO., No. 002 CHESNUT Street, Now offer their entire Importation of EUROPEAN NOVELTIES For the Holidays. These Goods, freshly arrived from LONDON, IAKI8, 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 oan devise, In Rrontfi fflarble. Crystal, lorce lain, Cold, Silver. leather, lTory, Tortoise Shell, etc. Era, And are now ready for the inspection of all who will favor with a visit their Marble Store, No. 902 CHE8NUT Gt. M. E. CALDWELL & CO. 11 !2tf4p PIANOS. GEORGE STICK & COS PIANOS, tirand, Square and Upright. AI.80, HAINES BKOS.' PIANOS. Only place In Philadelphia for sale of Kaion & Hamlin's World-Eenownen Cabinet Organs. - For naif or rent, or to rent with vieu to purcha, and part of rental apply. 9 ia tf OOIJSuO Ac risciiF.it. J. E. GOULD, No. 923 CHESNUT St. VM. G. FISCHER, No. 1018 ARC II St. STEINWAY & SONS' tf Grand Square and Upright Pianos. Special attention la called to their new 1'afeut lljrle;lit Pianos, With Double Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tubnlar Metal Frutne Action, etc., which are matohleag In Tone and Touch, and unrivalled in durability. WAKEROOMS, No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET, 13 tfrp PHILADELPHIA. PLATED WARE. S I 00,000 WORTH OF SILVElt-PL AT E D WARE, FOB GWstmas aii ffeiiis Presents. The Largest, Varied and Most Elegant Stock ever offered in this Country. MEAD & ROBBINS, N. E. Cor. NINTH and CHESNUT, ! S BtuthSm PHILADELPHIA. CLOTHS, OA68IMERE8, ETO. KEIM & BIDDLE, CLOTH IIOTJteE, If, W. Corner SECOND and KlAllUUT Streets. Cloths, lOrercoatlnss, IoekIn?, Fancy Coating, Causlnieres, Telreteens, Yetlus, '.Corduroys. ILEUM & 23ZDDXJ2f . . VT. Corner SECOND ao.d MARKET Streets, 10 1 itnth2'n4p PHILADELPHIA DREXEL & CO.," No. 34 SOUTH TJJIUD STREET, American and Foreign Hankers, DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIN CIPAL CITIES OV EUROPE. DEALERS IN Government and Railroad Sdcuritiea, Drtxel, W'inthrop t Co., Drexel, Barjea t Co., DRY QOODS. LYONS BLACK GILEC VELVETS 28 INCIT, FftOM 10 TO 18, 32-INCIT, FROM IC TO 29. Black Velvets for Trimming. JOIIN W. THOMAS, 405 and 407 N. SECOND St., 14 BtnthlpSnt PHILADELPHIA. BLACK SILKS, AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT NOW OPEN AT THE LOWEST TRICES. PERKINS & CO., 9 South NINTH Street II tuths3m4p PHILADELPHIA. GEORGE D. WiSHAfV, No. 7 Horth EIGHTH Street, Ii now prepared to offer one of the largest and beat selected stocks of Dre?s. Goods To be found In the city, and will be sold at the LOWEST CASH PRIOE3. NEW GOODS OPENING DAILY. Eighth Street Emporium for Slack Silks! Black Silks! BLACK TAFFETA. KLAl'K (JWOS UKalf. hfayy, tl'JW, 11 TO, . 1SLACK. OltOS OltAiN, wldo. $4 BLACK OKOS UKALN.IlOh, Sa-86, Jfi9. t-T5, 13. 18 60. 14, 4 BO, 5. 1 A sriUSDID ASSORTMENT OP IRISH POPL1N3. For Bargains call at UEORGB D. WISIIAM'S ONE PRICE STORE, 9 n ths No. T North EIGHTH Street. Onr Motto Small IoMa otul Quick Sale. 1 S Y o. fc6-A.t Tliornle,y9 EVER SINCE 1853 We have been on Spring Garden Street And In ail the years of the past we have kept steadily iu tich me miuruat oi our customers in lu furulslilag mem Good Goods at Low Prices. We hare now a splendid stock of Paisley hawls, Sroche Shawls, Blanket Shawls, Superb Black Bilks, Rich Fashionable Dress Goods, Hid Gloves, Hdltfs., SLirts, Etc. Onr stock Is very largo and splendidly assorted, and we have put every article down to the very lowest possible point. JOSEPH H. TH0RBXETS Centrally Located Dry Goods Esta blishment NORTHEAST CORNER OP EIGHTH aad SPRING GARDES SU, 1 1 tbstn PHILADELPHIA. 1012 CHESNUT STREET. 1012 Great Closing Out Sale, COMMENCING MONDAY, NOV. 23, J. EI. HAFLEIGH'S ENTIRE STOCK OP I R, Y Gr o o r EMBRACING Silks, Drew Uoodi, Lluens, Uoalerj-, CiloTew, Wblte Goods, Iwiceat and Embroideries, ALSO, Ladies' Suits, Sacques and Shawls, WILL BE SOLD "Witlioixt Reserve, AT GREAT SACRIFICE FUK CASH, To Close up his Present Business. 11 89 6trp 2?7 SOUTH S T K'K E T .VELVETEENS. ) I Black Velveteens, bl? bargains, Wo. to I'i'SO. hcarlt Velveteens, splendid quality, cheap, lilue Velveteens, all shades, very cheap, ft row n Velveteens, all shades, from Auction. Ureen Velveteens, and all other shades the ladlea may desire, for making up or trimming. MAKKLAND'S, No. 83T SOUTH Street. LADIES' HATS. I HAVE BOUGHTAT Zt) ' . recent auction sales, so cases ladies' Hats, which we will oflVr you a bargain. li IthgmHt MAKKLANU S. Krt MT SOUTH t. rtM7 -BAKOAINS IN SASU IUU BUNS, ALL colors, iust received from New York auction yalea. No. 887 SOUTH Street. );ir SILK VELVETS, ALL SHADES, CUT TO .) suit our customers, ut low prices. PLAIN WALL PAPERS THAT OAN BE WASHED. JOHN H. LONGSTRCTH, ho. 12 NORTH THIRD STREET, 12 Ut SOLE 1GHNT,
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