THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1870. sriRiT or the rzmss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topios Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. 1HE DESI'AIK OF THE REPUBLIC. Pimnthr S. Y. IVilivn. The French Minister of War has Aban doned the contest with the Germans as hope leNS for the Kepnblic. To this ooncltwion, which oucht to have been reached woeka ago, tue late lauures 01 uncrot ana i nia dinos appear to have Htiddenly forced M. (Jambetta, and he is eager to shift the re sponsibility of continuing or closing the war to the aboulders of his associates or A Con stituent Assembly. The statemont which we published yesterday from London, though doubted by some and denied by other des patches, may be trusted, we think and hope, as the true exposition of the new temper which has come upon the French people and officials. M. Gambetta's perplexity is the despair of the entire Committee of the National De fense. From the first he has been the con trolling influence of the committee, and it is he who has really ruled the republic. lie brought to the Government all of its energy and vitality. Positive in thought, he com pelled tho judgment of his associates; enthu siastic in manner, he inspired faith in others, and, untiringly industrious, he impelled others to great and daring labors. Never methodical, he has yet organized the pro vinces and developed their resources to the fullest extent, and through others has armed and disciplined in two months an army of more than one hundred thousand men com petent to be trusted in battle. Ever impul sive and not always prudent, he has yet ap peared at all times the ablest worker and the clearest thinker of the committee. Certainly he was the most positive; and though his as sociates may not share his hopeless appre hensions or consent to his proposition of an armistice, it cannot be concealed that the man in whom France most reposed its confi dence surrenders her cause. The proclamation has another meaning, which, though it may be lost on infuriated Paris, w ill not be unappreciated by the astute and cool-headed statesman and soldier whose legions encircle the doomed capital. M. Gam betta left Paris after it was surrounded to organize the provinces for its relief. lie made vigorous efforts and accomplished niuuh, nud the best troops which the pro vinces could furnish gallantly sought to raise the Hioge. They failed, and are now in rapid retreat upon the temporary capital. M. Gambelta's application for an armistice is not only an acknowledgment of that failure, but a plain, unmistakable notification to Paris that it need no longer vainly depend . on the provinces for aid. In other words, the pro vinces abandon the capital to its fate. Ilia associates may not, but certainly the military situation in France does, justify the surrender of the Minister of War. Paris remains nopelessly surrounded; and Ducrot, in an official address, admits his failure in the last sorties and his abandonment of the position gained beyond the Loire. The Army of the Loire is in retreat on Tours, and tho half of the Government which was there is Hying to Bordeaux. Rouen is in the hand of the Germans, and Manteuffel, their com mander, has been fighting before Havre, which he threatens to invest and reduce. The eastern fortresses are captured, and the engineers of the Germans are already making the gates of Metz and Strasburg impregnable to the future Gaul revengefully demanding the Khine. Lyons, practically undefended, is indefensible, if the Germans deign to de mand it. In short, Paris and the provinces too are the prey of the Germans. There are few Americans who will not grieve for France in her melancholy situation. Her people have fought gallantly, borne pri vation like heroes, sacriliced everything to patriotism; but the folly of her rulers, quite as much as the strength of the enemy, has involved her in disasters suoh as no other great nation has suffered sinoe Prussia was humiliated by the first Napoleon. Im perialism insidiously drew away all her strength, and left her merely the outside show of a military organization, which crumbled to pieces at the first blow; and re publicanism if this is republicanism to which she now trusts herself has allowed her to drift, into a political anarchy almost as pitiful to contemplate as the disasters on the held or battle. Two months ago the Constituent Assembly, whiou is now to be summoned for the purpose of arranging terms of sub mission, might have been called together with dignity to discuss the oouditions of an honorable peace. Ever since the surrender of Sedan King William has been eager for the establishment of a permanent authority with wLien ne could deal wnenever the time for negotiation came; and we have no doubt that eloctious in districts overrun by the German armies would be in the main free far more so than elections ever were in the Empire of Napoleon III. But the Committee of the National Defense did not want an elec tion; they distrusted the people; and they feared that not only a monarchical sentiment but a peace sentiment would influence the new representatives. They preferred to con duct the war entirely by their own judgment; the result of which is that France has lost the opportunity to negotiate, and has no alternative but to submit. Whatever favora ble condition she obtains now will be granted by the mercy of the conqueror, or extorted by the pressure of public opinion. It oannot be supposed at Tours that the terms of armistice will be any easier than those pro posed before, ana we may safely assume that Gambetta in ready in his extremity to grant all that the King demands. The whole civilized world will hope that Prussia may cive mankind on tnis occasion an example of justice and generosity worthy of her splendid military career, ana so crown tne most re markable campaign of modern times with a peace that will rank in history a? one of the greatest of ner glories. ONE OF OUK NATIONAL HUMBUGS. From the H. T. Sun. The eighth annual report of the Commis sioner of Agrioulture has been published. It is a bulky octavo volume. The most inte resting information to the taxpayer that it contains is the fact that the printing of TJio.iA'O extra copies of the work has been ordeied, of which 200,000 copies are for the UBe of members of Congress. In view of the liberal price whioh old paper commands from paper-makers, this item would be suggestive did not the high character of our national legislators preclude the suspicion that any of the volumes would be put to other than legi timate uses. The nuniberjof copies printed altogether is not given, but from another source we have the information that Hou tous of white paper are used for the whole edition. The Commissioner informs us that the year bas ben one of general fruitfulnesn and local blight of genial iiun and fruotifying rains, which is complimentary to the genial Sun also, that the loss for the want of agricultural improvements has been exceptionally large the past season, which is not complimentary to the practical results of the Agricultural Department. Borne of the Commissioner's recommendations are characterized by sound B6nse, as, for instance, where he urges farmers of limited means and moderate am bition to confine themselves to mixed agricul ture, instead of engaging in large ventures in special culture. Colonel James Flaky Jr., ex hibited equally good judgment when he ad vised the maohiniats at Port Jervis not to wear suit velvet coats and costly diamond pins, 'ine commissioner concludes nis re port by expressing the belief that general regret is manifested all over the country that larger appropriatious have not been made for the Agricultural Department, and by asking for more money hereafter. The volume includes, in addition to tne report of the Commissioner, reports from the (statistician, the Entomologist, tue Chemist, and other officials connected with the department, and a quantity of long winded papers relating directly or remotely to various agricultural subjects; but tne in telligent farmer would gain more practical information that would be of use to hita in Lis vocation from the columns of the Weekly (6'wn, or any good agricultural paper, in one year, then from all the expensive reports yet issued in Washington. The opinion is rapidly gaining ground that theAgricultnrnl Depart ment, with its enormous expenditures, is of very little value to the nation; and the annual report for 1870 is not likely to alter this view of the subject. GENE11AL SCnENCK AS MINISTER TO ENGLAND. Prom the y. T. World. After Bending the English mission on a six months' begging tour, President Grant has at last succeeded in finding a mau willing to ac cept it. We will not withhold our opinion that the appointment of General Schenck is, on the whole, a strong one; surely, in Ameri can estimation, a great improvement on Mr. Motley. General Schenck can indeed make no pretensions to Mr. Motley's literary, nor even In a social, cultivation; out, unlike Motley, he has vigorous native sense, tho roughly Ameriean sympathies, and too much robustness of character to be wheedled by social blandishments. lie is a man of rather coarse organization, good faculties, strong prejudices, narrow but clear views, with the courage, promptitude, aud decision which are among the most valuable qualities of a public man. He is genial enough so cially, but is in no danger of making social enjoyment his business instead of relaxation. Mr. Schenck was minister to Brazil under President Fillmore, when Mr. Webster whs Secretary of State. He took an active part, we believe, in negotiating two or three trea ties, acquitting himself with credit, although nearly twenty years younger than he is at present, lie bas sulucient acquaintance with diplomatic forms to be free from embarrass ment on that score, even if he lacked some thing of his known strength and self-relit, nca Lord Brougham, in discussing the qualifi cations of a judge, says that the first requisite is ability to make just decision; but next to that, and scarcely less important, ability to satisfy suitors that they have had fair treat ment. In a controversy whiou excites so much feeling as the Alabama question, it is important, first, that it be settled on a just basis, and almost equally important that the national feeling on both sides shall recognize its justice. In this latter view, the sale-s- 1 ion of General bouenck is judicious. No body will suspect him of yielding anything from complaisanoe; it is not in his dowaright and thoroughly American nature to court the approbation or live npon the plaudits of the English nobility and ruling classes. If he succeeds in negotiating a treaty it will be judged with candor on this side of tho Atlantic, encountering no prejudice from profuse complimentary speech-making, like Kevcrdy Johnson a, nor from sosial parasitism, like Mr. Motley's. We hope General Schenck may succeed in concluding a satisfactory treaty. We shall indulge in no captious critioism on any part of his negotiations, it concerns the pubuo interest that the Alabama controversy shall not go into the Presidential election. If our political,parties)undertake to outbid eaoh other in demands on Great Jintaia. the successful party, whichever it may be, will come into power pledged to some demagogic extrava gance, and the two countries may drift into a war which tho good sense of neither ap proves. We should be glad to have all our party differences "cease at the water's eige," and to see the country unanimous on ques tions which concern the national honor abroad. We deprecate the introduction of such questions into party politics. e would fain persuade ourselves that the appointment of General Sohenck is the pre cursor of an early settlement of the Alabama claims. We have confidence in the patriot ism and moderation of Secretary Fish, and trust that, in the altered circumstanoes, he bas relinquished his desire to have the nego tiations transferred to Washington. There were crood reasons for this preference while Mr. Motley was Minister, for even if a fair treaty were negotiated by a man bo sub servient to the Eaglish aristocracy, the country would have no confidence In it. Moreover, there is no longer an opportu nity for the American Secretary of State to gather the kind of laurels he would natu rally seek in the settlement of this ques tion. If he bad at one time a laudable atnbi tion to turn this occasion to profit by im proving the code of International law respect ing neutral obligations, he must peroeive that the tide bas receded and stranded such hopes. England, by the new neutrality law p issed this year, has done, o7 tier own free motion, all that we could demand of ner on tow bead. Mr. Fish can no longer expect to conneot his name with important ameliorations in the central code; and now that Mr. Motley is re placed by an able minister, there seems no sufficient reason for transferring the negotia tions to Washington. We interpret the appointment of General Schenck as a surrender of that preference. We do not believe that a publio man of his standing and tastes would consent to take the mission merely to perforin routine duties when a great controversy is pending. Being no cipher at home, he would refuse to be a cipher abroad. He has bo such love of glit ter as to court the position for social disphy; and even if be had that weak taste he haa no fortune to support the expense of it; the salary being barely sufficient to maintain the decencies of the position. We do not believe that General ScLenck would have acoep'ed the position unless he had satUflsd himslf that he could settle the controversy. We suppose, therefore, that he must have an un derstanding wit n the toduiiniitratioa respect ing the general tenor of his instructions, and that his knowledge of the Senate leads tutu to think that be oan negotiate a treaty that will be ratified. It is not probable that the publio will have any knowledge of Mr. Schenok's instruction until after the treaty has been acted on by the Senate. We infer from General Grant's recent message that the main substance of the claim will be simple indemnity for the depredations of the Rebel cruisers. The flut ter into which the administration is thrown by the proposal of the sufferers to seek redress directly from the British Government, is an acknowledgment that our State Department cannot make out a case without these private claims as its chief basis. This is aoorrect judg ment; for, apart from the damages intlioted by the Alabama and similar vessels, we have no complaint whioh does not equally lie against France, Spain, and the other powers which recognized tne Confederates as bellige rents. We have no controversy with them, but only with Great Britain, although their conduct was similar to ners except the build ing and escape of vessels to ravage our com merce. It is because we should have no case if the Alabama claims were separately set tled, tbat tne administration nas been so disconcerted by the proposal of the claimants to seek redress from Great Britain without the intervention of our Government. It was to bead off this scheme of redress that Gen. Grant in his message recommended the im mediate payment of the claims by our Gov ernment, "so that the Government shall have the ownership of the private claims as well as the responsible control of all the demands against Great Britain." Except as a means of gaiDirg time by forestalling 'the proposed action of the American claimants, this seems a weak device. If they are encouraged to expect payment from their own Government, they will not be likely to seek it from Great Biitain; and we presume the sole purpose of flinging out this bait was to keep the claim ants quiet while the Government should un dertake to settle the controversy. It aocords neither with usage nor good sense to audit individual claims against Great Britain with out giving her au opportunity to scrutinize them. After a basis of settlement is agreed upon, tne natural and usual mode of pro cedure would be the appointment of a joint commission of both nations to pass upon in dividual demends. The recommendation in the annual message is absurd except as a de vice for bending off a direct settlement be- tween the claimants and the British Govern ment. But it is instructive, as showing how entirely our Government feels that it must rest on the private claims to make out a case; and in this view it may throw some li"ht on the probable nature of General Sohenck's in structions. GENERAL GRANT AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND AS HEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. From the A'. Y. tierdld. General Grant, in the White Houso, has two important paits to play that of states man and that of politician; that of President of the United States and that of head of the Republican party. In other words, he is charged with the duties of the Queeu of Eng. land and tne labors and responsibilities of her Prime Minister. He is the head of the State, and the head of the party in power. His tenure of oliioe, too, as head of the State depends materially upon his course as head of the party responsible for his adminis tration. Jiilected for one term of four years, and a candidate for another term, as the re prestntative of the Republican party, it is his policy, and is clearly bis purpose, bo to eon duct his administration as to maintain the ascendency of his party in order to secure his re-election. As President of the United States, General Grant has proved himself, to the satisfaction of the country, a careful, thoughtful, honest, and conscientious publio servant. Ills last annunl message amply illustrates his desires and his purpose to give in every department of his great office a good account of his stewatdship. We see that he has fixed his mind upon reform in the collection of the revenues, upon retrenchment in the expendi tures of the Treasury, upon the reduction of our heavy taxation as fast and as far as pos Bible, consistently with an encouraging re demption of the publio debt; and we see, too, that while not insensible (St. Domingo) to the universal American idea of "manifest destiny," he wishes to maintain peace with all foreign nations, in order that with the largest development of our abounding resources or wealth and prosperity the puU lie burdens may be lightened and the publio confidence in our national credit, faith, and capabilities strengthened from a still enlarging surplus revenue upon buu diminishing taxes This is General Grant's policy, clearly de nned in his late message as President of the United States; and, as the policy of the chief executive othcer and guardian of all the States and all the people, it is very good. In a word, the country is satisfied from the in trinpic evidence of the message that in Gene ral Grant we have a good, careful, and honest President, zealously devoting himself to the interests, the honor, and the peaoe and pros perity oi tne country. As the head, the embodiment and standard bearer for 1872 of the Republican party, we have oaly, then, to consider the aawriti and deficiencies of General Grant. In the outset it was apparent that he had resolved to try the experiment of "runniag the maohine" without the aid of the politicians; but the experiment soon proved a failure. With the failure these important facts appeared that the President must be the organ in his office of the party electing him; that the party electing him it controlled by numerous local leaders; and that they, in the distribution of the spoils and honors of the Government, must be harinoaized, or that the party machine must soon get out of gear aud break into pieoes. With thfse discoveries General Grant began to consider the claims of his party politicians, Degan me active apprenuoesnip nuuseii of a politician, and, of course, as a new beginner, ne nas maae many mistases. ine negro question being settled in tue fifteenth amend went, there is no great issue or great idea to bold the IUpublioan parly together. The offices, too, are distributed so that "the cohe sive power of the publio plunder with the outsiders has lost its foree. The disappointed local party leaders, therefore, are breaking away; and wrangling cliques and factions upon side issues aud personal imefs are spreading disorders aud demoralization throughout the party cauip. Where lieB the remedy ? In a general re construction of the party machine, beginning with tho Cubinet. Sinae Jackson we have had no President fully equal to the management of his party. Vau Buren was a master politi cian, but be failed because he was only a po litician: Harrison ftll a martyr te the rash of the hungry Whig party for offices; Tyler, in attempting a third party, fell between the tw stools to the ground; Polk was brought in aud went out as a temporary expedient; Taj lor was a military availability, but Taylor, iu leaning npon tie strong men of his party, promised to do wtll when he was cntolr. r ill more, like Tj hr, ILo lucky Tyler, aspired high in aspiring to be his own successor, and failed; Tierce, brought in with a rush upon Henry Clay's slavery compromises, was swamped, and nearly swamped his party at once, in the violation of his pledges; Bucha nan was altogether too weak and wishy-washy i or tne terrible crisis or an organized Mouth- era Rebellion; Lincoln was borne into the White House a second time, not as the leader of his party, but as the follower of the will and wishes of the mighty North in the war for the Union; Johnson was Tyler No. 3; Grant, elected as the victorious champion of the Union cause in the war, and elected to finish the work of Southern reconstruction adopted by CongTeBS and approved by the peoplo, has now, as statesman aud politician, to depend upon bis administration as the candidate of the Republican party for a re election. The example of Jackson, then, is th3 ex ample for Grant. Jackson, eleoted first upon what at that day was the unparalleled victory of JNew Orleans, had to make bis capital and consolidate his party for his second election. He in good time raised a good popular issue against the United States Bank; but he did something more. He found that he had a set of old grannies or scheming oonspirators in bis Cabinet, and from his backwoods training as soldier and politician he had learned the value of decisive measures. He promptly, then, turned this rickety Cabinet adrift and gathered about him new men and vigorous and active politicians, up stairs aud down stairs in the kitchen, and right nud left he made the fur fly from tho backs of hts party mutineers. He so fully learned the value of active, devoted, and skilful party politicians in this work that he made Martin Van Buren his Bismarck and his successor, aud the tren chant Frank Blatr, of the Washington (ilobe, the Von Moltke of the thoroughly disciplined Democracy. General Grant, then, should try tho role of Old Hickory, for if he will he cau fill it. Let him try it and begin with his Cabinet. A clean sweep, as a political sensation, would wake up the sleepy hoads throughout the country; but even a partial reoouhtruolion with some new pieces of timber of the Old Hickory quality would be a great hit. 1 or example, John W. Forney, backed by that skilful veteran politician, General Cameron, is spoken of for Postmaster-General. Why not? Is not lorney, lookicg to the neoessi ties of Grant and his party, the verv man for the time and the place ? Was it not Forney who saved the Democratic party in 18-V5, by saving Buchanan in the Pennsylvania October election of that year ? It was; aud how did he save Buchanan? By a judicious applica tion of Borne two hundrGd thousand dollars, more or less, raised in New York in the buy ing up certain hungry Fillmore journals and cliques in the Keystone State. Those jour nals and cliques were in the market, and if Greeley bad been as smart as Forney in seen ring that Pennsylvania Fillmore balance of power by a larger bid than Forney's, Fremont might have been elected. Who knows r Forney, as an active party engineer, at all events, would be at this time to General Grant worth a dozen Greeleys in the Post Office Department. Greeley has always been, is, and always will be too crotchety and too full of what he knows about farming for a party manager. Lincoln smoked him and joked him in that Niagara Falls diplomacy and in other things to his hearts content; and everybody was delighted with "Old Abe's" hearty jokes, and Lincoln's was the true conception of Greolev. Even Thurlow Weed, with all his reminiscences and all his now b aimless egotisms, has been a bungling political manager compared with Forney, and a very small potato compared with Cameron. And vho is John Covode, who insists that Cameron is not the man for the confidence of Grant? Covode, we believejis the lexicographer who origi nally spelled Congress with a K, and is an old worL-out political fossil, defeated for Con- gicss in the late Pennsylvania election. Aud can any one supposo that with the Republi can reinforcement of thirty thousand negro votes in the late Maryland election Forney, as Postmaster-General, would have been as unlucky as Creswell? No; for Forney would have carried the Slate. We know, from what we know of Tammany Hall, how the thing would have been done, and Forney, a graduate of Tammany, knows how to do it. Ihere is no use in bemg tain sKinned in dealing with the rhinoceroses of party poli tics. A party, like an army, must have a dis ciplinarian at the head of it, or it will beoome demoralized and an easy prey to a disciplined enemy. Look at the Prussians and then at the French. Look at Tammany flail and then at the Republican party of New York. General Grant, then, can do nothing better than to imitate the party policy of General Jaokson, beginning with bis Cabinet, ilia programme as a statesman is sate enougn, uui u nas neither the sound of the trumpet nor the roll of the drum. As a politician, therefore, General Grant must look to the discipline of his party and call his best generals around him, or in his next advance to the Rhine he may fall, like Napoleon, with all his troop of the line and all his African legions. ROTHERMEL'S PAINTING. rem the Barrineurg Patriot. In 18U0 the Legislature of Pennsylvania made an appropriation of twenty-five thou sand dollars for a historical painting. The event to be commemorated was the battle of Gettysburg. A joint committee was ap- Jointed which made a contract with Mr. totbtrmel, the artist, for that sum. This painting is finished, and those who have seen which it commemorates, as well as oi the cenius of the distinguished artist. It was in tended by the legislature inai ine pioture hhould be placed in the Capitol of the State where all her citizens might have an opportu nity of seeing it. After loavmg the easel of the artist, nothing eiae was to ue aone out to transfer it to the State authorities. Like everything else that passes through the Legislature, even this painting has bees tainted with jobbing, in the first place, the committee of the Legislature, amoag whom were Senators Connll aud MeCooauhy, and Allen, of the House, now a member of the Senate, charged one thousand dollars for making the contract with Mr. Rothermel, Thet-e patriotic publio servants could net re frain from turning a penny out of this paint. ine cf a great event in the history ef their State. It now appears that the picture is to furnibh another job. Somo enterprising rptculator bas obtained the permis sion of this committee to place it on exhibition in Philadelphia, charging a fee for admission. This committee, however, had no control over the picture. After they had concluded the contrast with Jlr. Kother- wd their work was done, and the artist lin nothing now to do with the picture but to de liver it to the Governor of the Comiuou- wealth. It is said that the object of this speculation is to increase the compensation of Mr. Rothermel. This is the first ihti natioa ttat he is dissatisfied with the price hich hisbten raid hiui. Twenty-five thonsiud dvlhus aie a mvut liberal pcsxihir; r-ic.'S nition of art. Mr. Rothermel nor no one else should be permitted to peddle around this picture for which be dm been fully paid by the tax payers of the State. If placed on exhi bition in Philadelphia all the citizens should be permitted to see it. and there is no doubt tbat a hall could be readily found in that city where it might be placed on free exhibition. There is no doubt that Governor Geary could make an arrangements for tbat, if there is not enough liberality and publio spirit in Philadelphia. The humblest inhabitant cf that city should not be excluded for the want of an admission fee for some greedy specu lator. Most of the membors of this com mittee are out of the Legislature, and have no official existence. It was impertinent in them, to say the least, to turn it over to some speculator that he may act the part of a small Barnum with it. It is to be hoped that the proper authorities will claim this property of the Commonwealth, that it may be placed in the Capitol, where it belongs. SPECIAL NOTICES. IgKrillLAREl.riHA AND KB API Nil HAIL KOAD COMPANY, Ortlce No. S2T S. FOUKTU Street. Pini.AnitT.rniA, Nov. 30, 1970. DIVIDEND NOT-IC&. The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on Wednesday, the 14th.of December next, aaJ re opened on Tuesday, the 10th of January, 1311. A dividend of FIVE PEIt CENT, has been de clared on tne Preferred and Common Stock, clear of Slate tax, payable In cash on the 87th of Decem ber next to the holders thereof, as they shall stand registered on the books or the Company at the close of business on the 14th of December. All payable at this oilice. . All orders for dividends mast bo witnessed and stamped. S. BRADFORD, 1 1 6w Treasurer. giLjy DEPARTMENT OF II I O II W.V Y S. OFFICE NO. 104 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. Philadelphia, Dec. 1, 1370. NOTICE. All persons having claims against the Department of Highways, for labor done or materlrfl furnished during the year 1970, are requested to present them for payment on or before the lMh day of December, la order that they may receive the proper attention of the Committee on Highways. MAHI.ON H. 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WILSON, Proprietor, S 2 10m NINTH AND FILBERT Uta., Phllada. as- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TnAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, la ac cordance with the laws of the Common wealth, to be entitled THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with the right to increase the iame to one million dollars. THE UNION FIRK EXTINGUISHER COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire ExtlDguUner. Always Reliable. a T. GAGS, 6 30 u No. 118 MARKET St., Genoral Agent. b NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of peDtiBvlTBDia for the Incorporation of a .bank, in ac cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE ANTHRACITE BANE, to be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of live hundred thoa sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to two million dollar. THE IMPERISHABLE PERFUME ! AS A rule, the perfumes now In use have no perma nency. An hour or two alter their use there is no trace of perfume left. How dinerent Is the result kutcecdiug the use Of MURRAY & LANMAN'S FLORIDA WATER I Days alter its application tho handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate, and agreeable fragrance. 3 1 tQthat gy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made at the next meetiug of the (itinera! Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, la accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE NATIONAL BANK, to be located t Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou sand dollars, with the right to increase the same to one million dollar. vy- THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH TriV lit-'lf in ttiA hest article for clvaumnir Rinl nreservinir the teeth. For sale by all Draxgistj. Price 25 and CO cents per bottle. 11 20 stutnly isv NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEY THAT AN will be made at the next meeting application of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, la accordance with the laws oi the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE KEJSTONE STATE BANK, to be located at Philadelphia. ith a capital of two hun dred and fifty thousand dollars, with the right to increase the same to five hundred thousand dollars. JZyPH. F. It. THOMAS, No. till WALNUT ST. formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms, devotes his entire practice to extracting teth with out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gas. 11 171 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN w application will be made at the next meetiug of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, In accordance with the lwws of the Commonwealth, to be entitled THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA BANK, to be located at Philadelphia, with a cauttai of live hundred thousand d ilUrS, with tho rlUt to ncrease the same to ten mlllllon dollars. 05 DOLLAR GOODS FOR 95 CENTS U lU 1Q2'3 Ko. 21 3, JtiiUU iuit. KEAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. NOTICE. BT VIRTUE AND IN EXEOUflON of the powers contained in a Mortgage exe cuted by 1HE CENTRAL TASSKNGER RAILWAY COM PAN if of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date of eigh teenth of April. 1 sea, and recorded in the oillcefor recording deeds and mort granes for the city and county of Philadelphia, In MortKKe BooK A. O. H., No. m, paire 4n, etc., the undersigned Trustees named In taid Mortsaire will hki.l at rrm.ic auction, at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city of Philadelphia, by MKSSRS. THOMAS A RONS, AUCTIONEERS, at 12 o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the fourteenth day of February, A. D. 1871, the property desorlbed iu and conveyed by tho said Mortgage, to wit: No. 1. AH those two contiguous lots or pieces of ground, with the buildings and Improvements thereon erected, situate on the east side of llroal street, in the city of Philadelphia, one of them be ginning at the distance of nineteen feet seven Inches and tlvelght8 southward from the southeast cor ner of the said Dread and Coates streats : thence extending eastward at right angles with said Broad street eighty-eight feet one ipcn and a half to ground now or mie oi t-auiuei Aimer: inenoe southward along snld ground, and at right angles wl',n said Coates atreet, seventy-two feet to the northeast corner of an alley, two feet six inches in width, leading southward Into Penn street; thence west ward, cropsii'ff said alley and along the lot of ground liereinaltrr described and at right. angles wltn said liroad street, Bcventy-nlne feet to tho east silo of the Bald liroad street: and thence northward along the east line of said Droad Btreet seventy-two feet to the place of beginning. Subject to a ground-rent of 2so, Bilver money. No. 2. The other of them situate at the northeast corner of the said Broad street ami Penn street, containing In front cr breadth on the said Broad street eighteen feet, and In length or depth eastward along the north line of said Peuu street seventy-four feet and two inches, nnd on the line of said lot paral lel with ald Penn street, Bevei.ty-slx feet Ave tnohes and three-fourths of an inch to said two feet six Inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent of VI, sil ver money. No. 8. All that certain lot. or piece of gronnd b- ? Inning at the southeast corner of Co.iteg street and irOad street, thence extending southward along the said liroad street nineteen feet seven Inches and ovc-t'lgliths of an Inch : thence eastward eighty feet one Inch and one-half of an inch; thenue north ward, at right angles with said Coates Btreet, nine feet to the south side of Coates street, aiufihence westward along the south side of sald.Coates Btreet ninety feet to the place of beginning. No. ft. The whole road, plans roa aud railway of the raid The Central Pashenger Railway Company' of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not included Hi Nob. 1, 8 and 3), roadway, railway, rails, right of way, BtatioiiB, toll-houses ana other super structures, depots, depot grounds nnd other real relate, builditigM and Improvements whatsoever, and all and singular the corporate privileges and franchises connected with said company and plnnk road and railway and relating thereto, and all the tolls, lnccmc issues and pro (Us to accrue from the same or auy part thereof belonging to said company, and generally all the tenements, herclitameuts and franehlsea of the said company. And also all the cars of every kind (not included In No. 4,niachinery, tools, Implements and materials connected with the proper equipment, operating and conducting of Bald road, plank road andiallway: and all the personal property of every kind and description belonging to the Bald company. Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas sages, waters, water-courses, easements, fran chises, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever, unto any of the above-mentioned premises aud estates belonging and appertaining, and tho reversions and remain ders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, Interest, property, claim, and de mnnd of every nature and kind whatsoever of thi suld company, as well at law as In equity of, In, and to the same and every part and parcel thereof. TERMS OK SALE. The properties will be sold In parcels as num bered. On each hid there shall be paid at the time theprcpertv la "struck oil On No. 1, $300; No. 2, 2iHJ; No. 3, 300; No. 6, $100, unless tho prloe Is less than that sum, when the whole sum bid shall be paid. W. I, SC1IAFFKR, ) TruatMM. W. W. LOKGSTRETn.f l"8 M. THOMAS A HONS, Auctioneers. 12 C COt Nos. 189 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. LOOKING CLASSES, ETO. LOGECiriC CLASSES, Strictly our own manufacture, and of warranted workmanship, at the lowest prices. ALL THE NEW CHROMOS of Europe and America. SWISS RUSTIC GOODS, Invoices opened to-day. Bole Agency for the ROGERS GROUPS. GALLERY OF PAINTINGS, open, free at all times. JAMES S. EARLE & 30X3. No. 816 CIIESNUT STUB EST. ART EXHIBITION. ON FREE EXHICSTIOFI AT CHAS. F. HA8ELTINE8 GALLERY No. 1125 CIIESNUT ST11EET, BRAUN'S FAMOUS PANORAMIC VIEWS oi Berlin, Potfadara. Charlottenburg, Coblenta, Heldeu berg, Jena, Weimar, Erfurt, Ems, Baden-Baden, Weisbaden, Brussels, Amsterdam, Waterloo, Liege Ypres, Rotterdam, Utrecht, etc. eto, A complete set of the Berlin Museums, and Interior views of all the rooms in the various royal palace of Prussia. Particular attention la drawn to the fact that in a few days loo views on the Rhine and its fortihea tlons, aa never before seen, will be exhibited, lit PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR THE ERECTI'JN OFPU1 L1C BUILDINGS. Okkicb ok thb commissiokkks for tub 1 Ekkction op thb I'l bi.io Uuildinos, S PUlLADKl.rillA, Nov. 8, 1870. J Proposals will be received at th;? Oilice of th President of the Commission, No. 1'2U S. SEVENTH Street, until December 31, 1S70, for the following materials and labor: 1. For excavations for cellars, drains, ducts, foun dations, etc., per cubio yard. it For concrete foundtions, per cubln foot. 8. For foundation stone, several kinds, laid per perch of twenty-five feet, measured in the walla. 4. For hard bricks per thounaud, delivered at Broad and Market street during the year 1871. B. For undressed grauite per cubic foot, specify ing the kind. . For undressed marble per cublo foot, specify ing the kind. 7. For rolled iron beams (several slues), per lineal yard of given weight. The Commissioners reserve to themselves the right 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 nis office, No. i6 S. SIXTH Street. proposals must be sealed, and will be received until i o'clock of the day mentioned, bat will not be opened until after the decision of the Court on the petition for an injunction now pending. By order of the commission. 1 JOHN RICE, President. Cnis. R. Roberts, Saeretaryj U 5 WHISKY, WINE, ETO. gAR6TAIR8 ft McCALL. Ho. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Cti IM POUTERS OP Brandies, Wine, Gin, Olive Oil, Eta. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES. IH BOND AMD TAX PAID. tsipl STEAMED OYSTERS! HALF PECK FOR 28 CENTS. Large Stews and Panned m cents badole Bock Roast 60 " 0 ho t lntst Quality of Fait and Freau Oysters In the shell. TRIPE AND OYSTERS. LKOiLED OYSTERS, KKIRD OYSTERS Especial attention given to STEAMED OYSTERS J. 1.. 1M2ACII, OYfcTEH PLANTE3 AND DEALER, N. E. Corner NINTH and CIIESNUT Streets. 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