THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1870. rut it or inn rnsss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journal upon Current Topics Compiled Every , Day for the Evening Telegraph OUR FARTIES AND PUBLIC MEN' THE POLITICAL HORIZON. From the Ar. r. Herald. Thking the result of the late elections, the political bearing of the President's message and the position of parties at the commence ment of the present session of Congress as a standpoint for looking at the prospect around ns, we may form some idea of the f utare. The political situation whs never more tame, flat, and devoid of excitement in this coun try. Never was there such a lack of strong public men, of leading and powerful minds, either to arouse popular fervor on questions already up or to oreate new stirring issues. It is the name with one party as with the other. The Democrats and Republicans alike are without strong leaders or popular issues. As President Grant is the head and repre sentative of the dominant Republican party and must be the candidate of that party in 1872, bis message may be regarded as a sort of platform on which the Republicans will stand. True, some new issues may be raised between tho present time and 1S72, either through the course of coming events or by the party in Congress. Rut we sea none at present. Well, what are the Republicans going to make the contest upon ? The mes sage of the President to Congress is a highly respectable State document, remarkably con servative and peaceful, but tame and nega tive. The negro is used up as a political hobby. The war issues have been exhausted. Roth the odium and the expooted bene fits of reconstructing the South have been used nearly as far as they could be by both parties. Reconstruction is virtually finished, and little more can be made out of i,t. The negroes as well as the white people" of the South will henceforth range themselves with political parties on questions affecting their material interests. As to financial questions, neither party has a comprehensive, well do fined policy. The rapid payment of the debt, which Mr. Routwell endeavors to make bo much of, through the burdensome taxes wrun from the people, cannot make much political capital for either the Secretary of the Trea sury personally or the administration. And as to revenue measures, the Republicans are divided according to the intorests of the sec tions of country they represent. It is the same, in a measure, with the Democrats, though they are more united than the Repub licans on such measures. EgOn questions of foreign policy or our rela tions with foreign countries neither the administration party nor the opposition has any policy to awaken the popular mind. The Alabama claims, the fishery question, and the navigation of the St. Lawrence, which the President has discussed pretty fully in his message, might bring up a popular issue; but we rather think General Grant will not force one, and that the British government is so intent on maintaining peace with this coun try that these matters will be smoothed over or remain in a quiescent state. The Presi dent's mind seems full of the St. Domingo annexation scheme, for it is dwelt on at great length in the message; but there is not enough in that to make any political capital. Indeed, the suspicion is generally entertained that there is a job in the scheme, and that the President, though not a party to it, is misled by those having his confidence. The annexation idea is atways a popular one with the American people, but in the case of St. Domijgo they say cui bono? or what is to come out of it? Tho island is naturally very rich, as most tropical countries are; but if there be not the population, or you oannot get the population there to develop this natu ral richness, where is the value ? The St. Domingo question cannot be made a popular one. It is different with Cuba. That island has not only as much natural wealth as St, Domingo, or more, but has all the developed wealth of a prosperous country most valu able and large productions, a large popula tion, extensive commeroe, railroads, tele graphs, great cities, nplendid ports, and all the elements of a progressive and civilized country, besides being almost within gunshot of the United States. Then there is the popular sympathy of tho American people with their neighbors struggling to shake off the yoke of European despotism ad to establish republican institutions. This would be a popular question for the President and his party; but he chooses to ignore Cuba and the Cubans. Neither one party nor the other has any striking policy on tho questions referred to, and both are drifting along lazily on the slug gish stream of used-up political questions. Sometimes the want of stirring issues is com pensated for in a measure by the towering position and influence of groat party states men or leaders. A sort of hero worship may sometimes serve party purposes. Look at the influence General Jackson and Hanry Clay had over the people. Such men cau in spire enthusiasm in the masses. Rut at pre sent the countiy has no such leaders. We are without great men as well as groat mea sures. The most prominent figure atnoi" the group of our leading publio men -is Genaral Grant. His glorious war reeor.1 gave him that position aud made him Presi dent. Though he makes a respectable and safe President, he does not show as much ability in politics and statesmanship as in the command of armies. He fails to initiate a policy that would touch the popular heart. Yet he stands like a Go liath above the other prominent men and Presidential aspirants of the Republican party. There are Colfax, Sumner, Routwell, Rutler, and others who aspire to be leaders and statesmen, and who have their eyes fixed on the White House; but is there oae of them that merits this distinction? Colfax is simply a local, smooth politician, whose strength lies in a fluent tongue. There is nothing great about him. Su.nntr is a man of one idea and a theorist a mere rhetori cian, and has neither the grasp of mind for a statesmen nor the qualities for the chief and leader of a party. Routwell is a respectable country lawyer and looal politician, who be came a finance minister by accident, who has had nothing to do but to haul in the ener tuous revenue imposed by Congress upon the people, and who has snon no remarkable ability either in the Treasury or in the House of Representatives. Rutler h-ts more talent and vigor than any of them, but bo is reok loss, unscrupulous in politiial affairs, aud would be unreliable, if not dangerous, at the helm of State. So we might go on to analyze the character and pretentions of other so called leaders of the Republican party, and we should find none equal to the political ne cessities of the time. Now, then, with regard to the opposition or Democratic party, what great measures or great men do we find in that t Looking over the whole field we see the withering blight of the dead past no fresh issues or new life nothing to arouse publio sentiment. There has appeared to be lately, and particularly in the late elections, some returning life to this once vigorous and powerful party, but its comparative successes arise from a nega tive and not a positive pause. The dissatis faction with the Republican party and its growing unpopularity helped the Democrats, and not any positive popularity of their own. They have not presented any policy or issue to stir the popular heart, and Beern to have none to offer. Nor have they any towering leaders to arouse the enthusiasm of the people or to organize and consolidate the party. Governor Hoff man, who will be, probably, the Presidential candidate of Tammany, and who is already nominated in different parts of the country, is a safe, prudent, conservative and very re Fpectable man. For negative virtues, if we may call them so, no man could be more un exceptionable. Rut what is there in the character, history or reputation of the Gov ernor to arouse popular sentiment? Outside of New York who knows anything about him? His public career has been confined to this State, and though he has made a good Gov ernor, the people of jother States or sections know little concerning him. Pendleton, of Ohio, is a brilliant man, but out of the ques tion. His antecedents and political and financial theories make him objectionable to a large number of the people. Hsniricks, of Indiana, has had a good deal of experience in Congress, and has proved a solid and safe publio servant, but there is nothing in him to awaken the enthusiasm of the people. So on to the end of the list of Democratic leaders. With sterility in policy and mediocrity in its leading men what can the Democratic party do ? General Grant, then, is the foremost man, and the Republicans have the best chance with him of holding power, bnt if by chance the Democrats should gain the next Presidential election it will be through the mistakes and unpopularity of the Republi cans, and not from any positive merits of their own. What tho country really wants are live issues and strong publio men. THE FISHERIES QUESTION. From the X. Y, Times. The Canadian authorities will commit a grievous blunder if they act upon the sup position that the fisheries question will for the time be terminated by the stoppage of the bonding facilities hitherto enjoyed by the provinces, or by the exclusion of their vessels from United States waters. These are retaliatory measures which the Cana dians, Bneer at them as they may, will wince under whenever they are put into operation. The privilege of transporting goods in bond through this country may not be essential to the commercial existence of Ontario, but without it the merchants of that province will be at the mercy of their rivals in Quebec. The Toronto Leader does not magnify the effect of the measure upon the convenience and fortunes of its people when it declares that all their "fortitude" will be required "to support the (Dominion) Government in the olicy it may determine to pursue." How ong colonial obstinacy and bluster can be re lied upon to withstand a pressure which will to some extent erush their material interests, time Mill determine. For the moment, the Dominion officials assume an air of defiance. They "have no idea of abandoning their present line of policy," an Ottawa despatch informs us. We are" quite prepared to be lieve that they are foolish enough to cling to pretensions which the United States repu diate, and which President Grant avows his purpose to resist. It is for this aspect of the question that wo advise our Canadian neighbors to prepare. They are at liberty to be friendly or un friendly in their general treatment of Ameri can fishermen, and to pursue a generous policy, or a dog-in-the-manger policy, in re gard to the navigation of the St. Lawrence. These are small matters in comparison with the vital point at stake in the controversy. Their interpretation of the Convention of 1818, so far as it defines the limit within which American fishermen shall not pursue their calling, is an interpretation to which this country will not submit, Neither Great Rritain nor the Dominion should delude itself with the idea that a doctrine invented by Nova Scotia pettifoggers, long after the convention had been agreed upon, and by the application of which the most valuable fishing grounds are monopolized by the provincials, ever was or ever will be acquiesced in by tho United States. Its assertion in 1332 brought the two countries to the verge of war; its re assertion in 1870 brings us face to face with tho same contingency. For some years tho Reciprocity treaty averted the discussion, but its real character has undergone no change in the interval. The provincial claim, as now asserted, rests altogether upon the rendering of stipulations which were not intended, and cannot be allowed, to convert waters that belong as much to ourselves as to the provinces into the exclu sive property of the latter. We reject that claim as unsound in law, as at variance with the rights of mankind and of nations, and as too absurd and unjust to be tolerated. The time has come when it must be met and dis posed of forever. No reciprocity treaty is available to conceal it now. The provinces must practically abanbou it, or the Govern ment of this country will be compelled to vindicate its right, aud protect an important class of its citizens, who are now sufferers from provincial injustice and rapacity... The off ensive legislation of the Domiuion, to which the President adverts in his mes sage, all turns upon tae Rritish version of of the Convention of 1818. The seizures and foifeilures continually reported are legiti mate consequences of the provincial preten sion to the exclusive ownership of the wteri that are profitable to fishermen. There ha been a needless offeusiveness in the manner in which Rritish officials have conducted themselves. They have seized vessels with out warning. They have forfeited vessel, and stores, and cargoes without regard for equity, and with a sovereign contempt for rights which this country never relinquished. Tbey have at length enforced the most odious provisions of their law, By seizing a Massachusetts schooner, on tin pretext, as alleged in Congress, "that she bad on board too much provisions for a tv months' fishing voyage." Tho intent of these proceedings it is not difficult to under stand. The Dominion Government hoped, by harassing American fishermen, to exto'. from this country commercial concessions that are essentail to the prosperity of the maritime provinces. The effect has been exactly opposite. Even those who were ori ginally friendly to reciprocity refuse to eu tertain it under circumstances which imply a recognition of Canada's preposterous claim. Our people are heartily with the President in the position he has assumed. They will not only sustain him in the exercise of the power which Congress is asked to confer, but they will require of him a bold assertion of the American interpretation of right, as oppose I to tLe iuterpu Ution upheld by the Dominion. We should bave little hope of a purine set tlement ef this question if the Dominion Government were allowed by Great Rritian to have its own way. Colonial authorities rely so constantly upon the backing of the parent State that they sometimes forget to calculate consequences. With the Rritish Government the case is different. Its sense ef responsibility leads it to be oautious, and we shall not be surprised if Earl Kimberly rebuke the Ottawa politicians for reviving a quarrel which England is ill prepared to meet. Her rulers and people have too many important matters in hand to waste time or temper over the provincial claim to fish. It is, however, the duty of President Grant, in communicating with the Rritish Government, to present the issue in its broadest aspect. Russia objects to the operation of a treaty concerning whose construction there is no doubt. The United States owe to themselves a distinct declaration that they discard as untenable the Rritish version of the conven tion respecting the fisheries, and that they are not willing to tolerate the enforcement of that version by Dominion officials. We look to London, not Ottawa, for an answer. REPUBLICAN CRITICISM OF THE AD MINISTRATION. From Harper's Weekly. The free Republican criticisms of the ad ministration have had one signal effect. They have demonstrated the hearty hold of the administration upon the pi blic mind. Not one of those critics, except the Chicago Tri Jjiint, is disposed to look for reform beyond the Republican organization, and none of them expect it of the Demooratio party. There are always orators and writers enough to glorify the situation, and we are therefore very much obliged to those other observers Vtho show us what remains to be done. There are two kinds of travellers: those who prefer to eit around the camp-fire, and to tell the brave 6tory of the journey; and those who look to see how the camp moy be made more secure, and where to-morrow's path must be. Roth dispositions are equally observable in publio affairs; and nobody should be moro heartily welcomed by a party than the critic, and even the grumbler. The old king had a skull laid beside his plate at the banquet. If the old Democratic parly had encouraged criticism instead of servility, it would have been much wiser, aud of a much longer life. It is a great mistake to try to imitate the Democratic method in tho Republican orga nization. There are a thousand reasons why it could not be done. There is one all-sufficient reason why it should not be done. It would destroy the party. Since the election, which has shown, despite every degree of jealousy, discontent, and se rious diff erence, that the Republican ascend ency is virtually unshaken, two things be come clearer. First, a general Jeeling that the President will be renominated by the party; and second, that harmony upon "every essential point is not impracticable. Entire harmony there cannot, of course, be. We, for instance, who advocate a civil service re form do not expect that Congress will at once pass a law which will wholly satisfy all our wishes. Rut we do expect to see the senti ment of the party more and more definitely declared for that reform, and we certainly do not expect it from any other pos sible party. So the protectionists and the free-traders, or revenue reformers, will not expect to have all their views embodied in the policy of the party; but each may justly expect a concession from the other. The World says that free trade is a motto nailed to the Democratic mast, and the party will go into the campaign of 1872 with that cry. We cannot, of course, regard the World as the best authority for the Democratio policy; but any party which, in the present condition of the country, de clares for free trade and direct taxation will not elect a President in 1872. Undoubtedly the Democratic party will put into its next Presidential platform some fine phrases about free trade. Rut its orators upon the Penn sylvania stump, for instance, will not enlarge upon that plank. We expect that the course of the adminis tration and of Congress during the winter will tend to a rapid union of all Republican differences. We have a right to believe that the months since the adjournment will have shown Congress that the country wishes, first of all, peace at home and abroad; then financial relief; and; as a security of that and of the general honesty and economy of ad ministration, a weakening of the system of patronage which now holds and abuses the civil service. In the State of New York there is, and has been for some time, a deplorable difference in the Republican party. It is in every way humiliating and harmful. Bat it cannot be healed until its cause is removed. And that cause is not a person but a system. It is patronage which is responsible for the discord of the party. If the Senators and Representatives of New York could truly say with Mr. Mundella that they had not the slightest personal influence in the appoint ment of the least officer in the civil service, and the same were true of local and State Representatives, the party would be entirely harmonious; and we might say of any of our various departments as Mr. Mundalla said of the Post Office in England, that it was the most efficient and economical institution in tho cotintry. Ihe New York difference can be reconciled if Congress will thus lead the way. Financial relief can be, and we have no doubt will be, found in a policy of reducing intertal taxation to a few luxuries, and in adjusting the tariff to a revenue standard, while the burden of the debt is removed from this generation. That this is the settled wish of the country there can be no doubt. Nor is there any question that a tranquil and ellicirr.t sissiou devoted to easing the publio bun'ens, raiher than to Buncombe eloquenoo. would be most advantageous to the party, The difficulty with the last session was that Congress st-emed to have no perception of the national wishes, and went feeling and talking along iu a rather resultless way. It can no longer say that it dot-s not know what the countiy wisLes. Plainly it wishes Re publican ascendency, v.ith economical aud eifici-Lt administration. It expects a tariff, and it also expects Ihe abolition of the income tux und the reduction of other taxation to a very coi'sidersble amount. There are entire confidence mid tbe most general industrial activity throughout the country, and we hope that tha party leaders will speak plainly, not fearing to rtcomuiend positive measures of rt folio, and trusting to the general intelli gence of the people. The criticism of which we have spoken has been of undoubted service. Yet the Presi dent would do the country and the criticising Republican prei-s injustice if he supposed that it proceeded from serious distrust of him. It is long since there has been so pure an administration as that of General Graut, or one mere sincerely ai'd unostentatiously do oted to the publio welfare. THE FOLLY OF PHILADELPHIA. t'l urn the X. V. H ut Id. fcirce tho Cun9rd company withdrew its bttaujtrs from Boston, that city has boon vainly disquieting Itself to get them baok, again. All the seductive arts of which the Beaton mind was capable, from erotic ogling to direct solioitati6n, have been brought to bear upon the obdurate British breast. Bat the British ear has remained deaf to the voice of the charmer; and the British breast, ' full of sad experience," declines to move "slowly" or otherwise "to the stillness of its rest" in Boston. "It is found by sad experience that a city whioh neither received nor issued any freight, to which no European ever wished to go, and from whioh the small and rational minority who wished to get away invariably fled to New York as a preliminary to future preregrinations, was not a desirable city to run a line of steamships to. Wherefore Boston mourns for her steamers and refuses to be comforted. And now it seems that a similar frenzy has 'ruffled the placid bosom of commercial Phila delphia, and that a "meeting of merchants" has been held to conjure owners of steam ships to see their own interests and confer upon the Old World the unspeakable boon of a direct communication with Philadelphia. But we grieve to see that Philadelphia is not wholly unBfclfish in her desires. She wishes, it is true, to confer upon strangers to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and aliens to tke covenant of Penn" the happiness of knowing that she exists. But, also and alas, she yearns to work up her own pig-iron into monarhs of the main, and to employ her shipwrights in the constrnotion of vessels upon a Philadelphian modification of the Noachian pattern. But let the Philadelphians pause in their mad career and consider before they waste their substance for that which, although it be oast upon the waters, will protty certainly not be bread. Let them reflect that steam ships are sailed not for glory only, but also for base lucre. The men who manage steamers, being instigatod thereto by the devil, manage them partly for their own sakes, and not exclusively for the sake of ministering to the mind diseased of envious towns. As all good Americans when they die go to Paris, all good Philadelphians when tbey can come to New York. It is not fit that they should be plunged from the gloom of their own sepulchral city to the glorias of European capitals without the intermediate and preparatory probation which is afforded them by this metropolis. It is necessary for them to buy raiment which bears some simili tude to the habit of European men, and to acquire manners which will cause them to be regarded as members of a civilized commu nity. No wise capitalist would project for profit a line of steamersj plying to Memphis and old Thebes, to the ruins of Bailbeo or the desert of Palmyra. Much less would any rational person adventure his substance in trading to Necropolis and the garden of the souls. If any man should undertake to start a line of steamers to a cemotory, it is easy to predict a speedy separation between that un wise man and his money. While we commend the piety of these Philadelphians, therefore, we are forced to question their perspioacity, and to counsel them to expend their monoy in embellishing the Sparta they were born to, and not to waste it in profane and vaiu at tempts to establish lines of steamers, or in otherwise converting their sedate, respecta ble, but lethargio abode into a carioature of the activities, the ambitions, and the great ness of New York. Let them ponder the proverb w hich assures them that no man is to be called happy until he is dead. Let them solace themselves with meditating how very nearly dead, and thorefore how com paratively happy, they already are, and how much more intolerable would be thoir condi tion if they succeeded in galvanizing them selves into an illusory and burdensome vitality. MEMORIAL CHAPEL TO STONEWALL JACKSON AT THE VIRGINIA MILI TARY INSTITUTE. From the Iliehmoiul Whig. The design of erecting a memorial chanel at the Virginia Military Institute, dedicated to the memory of Stonewall Jackson, has met the approval of the public, and the able and indefatigable superintendent, General F. H. Smith, has commenced the work with charac teristic energy. The interruption to transpor tation caused by the flood will necessarily do lay the completion of the work till the canal is restored, but, in the meantime, the bricks have been made and much of the preliminary work prepared for active operations in the spring. The structure will be imposing, and, in addition to the sacred purpose to which it will be dedicated, will add largely to the beauty of the Institute buildings. The foundations will be laid of granite, for which the Richmond Granite Company have donated tbe matoriul. This publio-spirited compauy have, by their liberal aud praiseworthy action, entitled themselves to the gratitude and respect of our en tire population. The company' is composed of Pennsylvania capitalists, who purchased granite quarries on the canal, just above Richmond, in 18G7, and have conducted the business ever since on a large scale, filling contracts for the material at St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, and other places. Mr. L. P. Ashmead, one of the company, has spent much time in Virginia since the enter prise was put on foot, aud by his excellent bearing and liberal views has made many friends for himself and those he represents. SPECIAL. NOTIOES. 3- FARMEK8' AND MECHANICS' NA- TIO.NAL HANK, Philadelphia, December 8, 1870. The annual election for Directors of tnls lUnk will beheld at the Banking House on WEDNES DAY, the 11th day of January next, between the hours of 11 o'clock A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M. 12 6 tjll w. RUSHToN, Jr., Cashier, BATCHELORS IIAIR DYE. THIS SPLEN- did llalr Dve la the best In the world, the only true and perfect Dye. 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TnE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER COMPANY OP PHlLADELPHli iyiannfactnre and sell the-Improved, Portable Fire EAtu-yutfctier. Always Reliable. D. T. MAUk, 6 80 U HQ. lis MAKE. ST St., UcueraJ Auu SPECIAL. NOTIOES. grP PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL ROAD COMPANY, Ofllce No. S2T S. FOURTH Street. Philadelphia, Nov. 80, 1370. DIVIDEND NOTICfc. The Transfer Rooks of this Company will be closed on Wednesday, the 14th of December next, and re opened on Tuesday, the 10th of January, 1871. A dividend or FIVE PER CENT, has been de clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of Statojax, payable In cash on the 27th of Decem ber next to the holders thereof, as they shall stand registered on the books of the Company at the close of business on the 14th of December. All payable at this ofllce. All orders for dividends must bo witnessed and stamped. s. BRADFORD, 181 Treasurer. NOTICF. IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting or the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER BANK to be located at Philadelphia, with acapltal of one hun dred thousand dollars, with the rltrlit to Increase the same to live hundred thousand dollars. fQ- DEPART MEN tT0 FH IUU WA Y S. OFFICE NO. 104 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. rniL APELriii a, Dec. 1, 1870. NOTICE. All persons having claims against the Department of Highways, for labor done or material furnished during the year 1670, are requested to present them for payment on or before the 15th day of December, lu order that they may receive the proper attention of the Committee on Highways. MAHLON II. DICKINSON, 12 8 Ht Chief Commissioner of Highways. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the Utm-ral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bins, in ac cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled 1 HE UHE8NUT STREET BANK, to bo located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun dred thousand dollars, with the right to lnerease the same to li ve hundred thousand dollars. gy- OFFICE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. Philadelphia, November 1, 1870. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. The Board of Directors have this day declared a semi-annual dividend of FIVE PER CKN P. on the Capital Stock of the Company, clear of National and State taxes, payable in cash, -on or after November 80, 1870. Blank powers of attorney for collecting dividends can be had at the ofllce of the company. The ofllce will be opcned.at 8 A. M. and closed at 8 T. M., from November 30 to December 3, ror the payment of dividends, and after that date from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. THOMAS T. FIKTH, II 12m Treasurer. jteY- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN appllcatiftn will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealths to be entitled THE CHESNUT HILL SWINGS AND LOAN BANKING COMPANY, to ba located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou sand dollsrs. with the right to Increase the same to tvo hundred and llfty thousand dollars. F R K N C II BAZAAR w FOR TUB BENEFIT OF THE VICTIMS OF TDK WAR IN FRANCE. To be held at CONCERT HALT,, from December the 14th to December the 21th, CHRISTMAS EVE. An appeal Is respectfully made to Philadelphia, the Mute of Pennsylvania, and all other States, to contribute in gifts or money towards our Uazaur In Ix htilf of thtt Suilercrs in France. The ladies lu chnrge of tables will gratefully receive any dona tions made in favor of the country of Lafayetto and Rochambeau. ADELE PI COT, President. la 2 if C. JACOB, Secretary. &f NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN " application will be made at the next meeting or the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bunk, in accordance with the laws of the Common wealth, to be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of oue hundred thou sand dollars, with tho right to increase tho aame to five hundred thousand dollars. jjf' DRTf! r. THOMAS, No79irWALNl?FST' formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms, devotes his entire practice to extracting tenth with out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gas. 11 n PROPOSALS. "OROPOSAI.S FOR THE ERECTION OFPUl J LIC BUILDING Omi'K OK TUB COMMISSIONERS Ff) TUB 1 EUKCTION OK TUB PUBLIC Ht'ILDINOS, PUILAOKLl-UIA, NOV. 3, 1S70. Proposals will be received at the ODk'o of tin President of the Commission. No. 129 S. SKV'EN'Th Street, until December 31, 1S70, for the following niaterislft und labor: 1. For excavations for cellars, drains, duets, foun dations, etc., per cubic yard. 8. For concrete fouudtions, per cubic foot. 8. For foundation stoue, several kinds, laid per perch of twenty-live feet, measured In the walls. 4. For hard bricks per thousand, delivered at Broad and Market street durlug the year 1S71. 6. For undressed grauite per cubic foot, specify lug the kind. . For undressed marble per cub'.o fo jt, specify lng the kind. 7. For rolled Iron beams (several sizes), pjr lineal yard of given weight. The Commissioners reserve to themselves tha right to reject any or all of the proposals. Further iuformatiou can be ootained bv applying to tbe President of the Board, or t. the Archil) v., lohn McArthur, Jr., at nis oillce, No. 205 s. SIXTH Street. Proposals must be sealed, and will be received until 8 o'clock of the day mentioned, but will not be opened until alter the decision of tho Court on the petition for an Injunction now pending. By order of the CommisHion. JOHN RICE, President. CnAS. R. Roberts, Secretary. 116 OT7tKEALKDPKOPtSAl7s7nNI)6RSED X " Proposals lor furnishing Supplies to the B ard of Publio .Education." will bu received at the Olllco, S. E. corner of SIXTH aud ALKLPHl Streets, ad-cirt-cco'l to the undersigned, until TUESDAY, De cunber 13th, 1870, at l'l o'clock M., for tha supply of all BOOKS and STATIONERY to be used iu the Public Schools of Philadelphia during the year 1871. The proponali must state the price and quality of the Books and articles of Stationery proposed to be lurulMhed, and Mccoiupmiled by a sample of each Item. The Committee reserve tbe right to reject a 1 supplies not lu accordance with sampla. A list of books, etc.. as authorized by the Board can bo seen at the Secretary's Oillce. By order of the Committer on Supplies. N. J. HOFFMAN, 111029 D 13 Chairman. NOTICESEALED PROPOSALS" INDORSED "Proposal for Supplying Blauka to the limrj of Public Education" win ins received at me oittce, ooutheast corner of SIXTH and ADELPHI Street, addressed to the undersigned, until December 1J, at 12 o'clock M ., for the supply of all Blank required for the Public Sctif oU for tho year 1S71. A sample of the Blsnks authorized by the Board can be Keen at the Secretary's otlice. By order of the Committee on Supplies. .N. J. HOFFMAN, 11 IS, 29, 30, D 12 Chair uan. LOOKING CLASSES, ETC LOOKINC CLASSES, Strictly our own manufacture, and of wamnte 1 workmanship, at tbe lowest pi lees. ALL THE NEW CHR0MO8 of Europe and Amork-a. SWIS RUSTIC GOODS, Invoices opened to-d iy. Cole Agency for the ROGERS GROUPS. GALLERY OF PAINTINGS, opeu, free at all times. JAUES 8. EAELE & SON 3. No. 816 CHKSNUT STI11SKT. B RICKMAKEIiS' CLAY-SPADES AND TOOLS, Miller s make. No. Sua S.KT 11 Street, lilt liu' i) S I'iiU KaIVES op' FINE Cast, bti el. No. 8"U 8. FIFTH SJ. TOHN FARNUM A CO., COMMISSION ME1IJ II chnu and Mnotctorr of OooMtovaftckiDi, U. to. fc uliUUT ktiMttlbOadaltfUa. mlu : SAFE DEPOSIT QOMPANIES. gECUlUTY FROM LOS3 BY BURGLARY ROBBERT, FIRE, OR ACCIDENT. The Fidelity Insurance, Trust. .4 Safe Deposit Company OF PHILADELPHIA, IN THEIR New Marble Fire-proof Building, Nob. 829-881 CHE8NUT Street . Capital aubaenbed, ll.oou.ooo; paid, 600,ooo. COUPON BONDS, STOCKS, SECURITIES. FAMILY PLATE, COIN, DEEDS, and VALUABLE of every description received for safe-keeping, under guarantee, at very moderate rates. . The Company also rent's A FB8 INStDE TnEIlt BCKOLAR-PROO F VAULTS, at prices varying "rom $15 to $76 a year, according to ante. An etra ilr.e for Corporal Ions and Bankers. Rooms and deaka adjoining vaults provided for Safe Renters. . DEPOSITS OF MONEY RECEIVED ON INTE REST at three per cent., payable by check, without notice, and at four percent., payable by check, oa ten duy 8' notice. TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT furnished available In all parts of Europe. INCOMJi COLLECTED and remitted for one per cent r The Corrpany act as EXECUTORS. ADMINIS TRATORS, and GUARDIANS, and RECEIVE and EXECUTE TRUSTS of every description, from the Courts, Corporations, and Individuals. N. B. BROWNE, President, C. U CLARK, Vice-President. ROBERT PATIKRhon, Secretary and Treasurer. N. B. Browne. U1UW1UU3. Alexander llenrv. Clarence II. Clark, John Welsh, Chur'eB Macalpster, Stephen A. Caldwell, George F. Tyler, Henry C. Ulbson. i-uwaru w, .;mrK, J. Gllllngham FelL Henry Pratt McKean. IB I3lmwl FIRE AND BURQLAR PROOF 8AFE MAllVIN'S SAFES." The Best Quality! The Lowest Prices! The Largest Assortment! Fire-proof. Burglar-oroof. MARVIN'S CHROME IRON BrUEllICAL 13 ur ai tei a fo Will resist all BURGLAR'S IMPLEMENTS ror any length of time. Please send for catalogue, MARVIN & CO., rJo. 721 CIIESXiJUT Street, (MASONIC HALL,) PHILADELPHIA. 2C5 Broadway, N. Y. 103 Ban st., Cleveland, Ohio A number of Second-hand Safes, of dlfferen makes and sizes, for sale VflH V Low. bares, Machinery, etc, moved aad hoisted prompt! . and carefully, at reasonable rates. it) 7 fmwein NEW PUBLIOATION8. NEW PUBLICATIONS. WHAT CHANG HD GUY DENNIS; or, Life at School. lUino, 80 cents. DAIS AT MILLOATK; or, Lame Johnnie's Hoil dy. ISmo, ascents. "Story of a pleasant sum mer vacation spent on the banks of the Clyde." GREAT TUINUS DONE BV LITTLE PEOPLE, lbmo, 40 cents. "A valuable book for children, pivlnjf an account ol 'Little Heroes,' 'Clever Little People,' 'iliiislouary Children,' 'Littlo Martyrs,' etc." ALONE IN LONDON. lSmo, 198 pafres, CO cents. Just published and for sale by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 1123 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 11 80 wimct STOVES, RANGES, ETO. THE AMERICAN STOVE AND HOLLOWWARl COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, ICON FOUNDERS, (Successors to Narth, Chase A North, Sharpe a Thomson, and Edgar L. Thomson,) Manufacturers of STOVES, HEATERS, THOM SON'S LONDON KITCHENER, TINNED, ENA MEltED, AND TON IIOLLOWWARK. FOUNDRY, Second and Mlilltn Streets. OFFICE, 209 North Second Street. FRANKLIN LAWRENCE, Superintendent. EDMUND B. SMITH. Treasurer. JKO. EDGAR' THOMSON, President. JAMES 1TOEY, 8 27 mwf em Genenal Manager ART EXHIBITION. OH FREE EXHIBITION AT CHAS. F. HASELTINE'S GALLERY No. 1125 CHESNUT STRKET, BRAUN'S FAMOLb PANORAMIC VIEWS OC Berlin, Potsdam. Charlottcnburg, Coblenta, HeldeU berg, Jena, Weimar, Erfurt, Ems, Baden-Baden, Welsboflen, Brussels, Amsterdam, Waterloo, Liege Yprea, Rotterdam, Utrecht, etc. etc A complete set of the Berlin Museums, and Interior views of all the rooms in the various royal palaces of Prussia. Particular attention la drawn to the fact that In a few da j s loo vlewa on the Rhine an J its rortl a ca tions, as never before seen, will be exhibited, ill LEGAL NOTICES. IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. , Ehtateof WILLIAM 4JAUL. deceased. Ti e Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle, and adjust the Urst account of SARAH 011. ft al., executors William Gaul, deceased,, and to report distribution of tie balance lu the hands of the accountants, will meet the parties ia terested for the purpose of his appolutmeut on MONDAY, December 19, 1870, at 4 o'clock P. M., at bis office, No. 131 8. FIFTH Street, la the citv of Philadelphia, mnittfat oeorgE m. CONARROS, Auditor. EDUCATIONAL.. pDGEHILL SCHOOL MERCHANTVILLE, N. J., Four Miles from Philadelphia. Next session begins MONDAY, January 9, 1871. For circulars apply to 8 21 ly Rev. T. W. CATTELL. CIIEGARAY INSTITUTE, Nos. 1527 AND 15 SPNUCK Str.at, Philadelphia, will raop.ii oa ll'l fcDAY, bepteiubrr 10. Krenoh la tha lanjnuK.of U.a .il, and la eunauntlj awoken in tba lubtuui.. 15 Willi ion U 1XUKKV1LLV. Prinoip!. WHISKY, WINE, ETO. QARSTAIRO fit EtfcCALL, Ko. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite ft IMFOHTKKa CV Brandies, Wines, Gin, Oilvt Oil. Ei.. WUOLKSALB UK A LRUS IN PUKE RYE WHISKIES. Ifl SOSU AKP TAX fAU. K tpi 1 1
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