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THE FALL OF FRANCE.
f,om the A. T. Itrruld.
As the end of her present hopeless struggle
approaches we are naturally drawn freoi
France of the past to France of the futnre,
'fallen from her high estate."' The mind ac
commodates itself with difficulty to totally new
conditions which reverse the whole previous
current of history. Our eyes have been so
long rilled with the spectacle of a supreme and
dominant France that they have long refused
to see what must now be her place in the
world. Aud we have had our hearts filled so
long with the bright and hnppy thought of
civilized nations living together in progres
sive peace, that it has scarcely been possible
for lis to realize that the future of humanity,
in the Old World at least, will bo regulated
not by that ideal, but by the very different
one of the stronger, wiser, and more culti
vated peeple holding down by sheer force
those who have not reached such a height of
moral and material force. But, above all
things, we must study thing as they are;
and these shape themselves now for France
aud Europe in a why unexpected, but which
may yet prove beneficent to mankind.
The great point to be observed in forming
opinion npon the future of France, and ac
cordingly of Europe, is that her armies have
not merely been defeated in the field, but the
nation is subdued by the German nation. It
is a vanquished people, and will Boon be a
completely subjugated land; nay, it is so al
ready. That question was decided virtually
when the provisional government determined
to continue the contest with Germany after
Sedan, instead of submitting at once to the
cession of the frontier provinces. It is use
less now for the most ardent sympathizers
with France to regret what has bap-
pened. For
the splendid
it was not to be, with
traditions of the great na-
tion. that she
should have confessed her-
self nnable to
expel the Germans after
Kedan. Those who held the foremost
rank in the world do not abdicate until sheer
force compels. And, whatever be the future
of the bright people of France, they will
always be happier and more self-respecting
for having tried a last desperate effort to
save themselves after their wretched empire
went down in shame and blood. This last
noble and spirited appeal to the moral power
supposed to be latent in the name and idea of
a republic was a grand example of chivalrous
though Quixotic exaltation of mind; and
Frenchmen, while their language lasts, will
be always able to say, "Our Paris and our
France fell, but fell righting to the last with
face turned to the foe."
But the game is lost, and apparently lost,
so far as human foresight can go, forever.
The future Government of France, in the
broad and radical sense of the term, will now
be regulated according to the interests and
determination of victorious Germany. The
Germans are very thorough, very searching,
very scientific in their theory as well as their
practice; and it is not merely a king or an em
peror or a diplomatist who will have to settle
the future condition of France, but the scien
tific mind of Germany at large. Emperors
and diplomatists will but be the organ of this
vast general purpose ofjthe Teutonic people.
And we may be satisfied that the question will
be dealt with not upon any humanitarian or
cosmopolitan grounds, but the single principle
of disabling France from ever renewing her
attack again npon the united Germany which
for the first time comes into politicar exist
ence. It is not altogether the most pleasant
idea in the warld, but we may be Burn that
France will henceforward be dependent and
disarmed, and that from the vantage ground
of Metz and etrasburg the vigilant German
mind and eye and arm will henceforward keep
inexorable watch over tne defeated people,
repressing every tendency to military resur
rection, bucn government as .trance can
form now will be the creature of the necessity
of the hour, and virtually, though not for
mally, the oil spring of the conqueror s will
And he will consult, nrat ol au, ins own ne
cessity and interest, thinking enly in the
seeond place of unhappy France.
It is very difficult to forecast so dark and
uncertain a future, but at a moment when
every intelligent man is asking what is to
become of France, we cannot help trying to
peer through the gloom to see if, haply,
there may be some brighter thing beyond;
and, so striving, we can see this at all events
that the best chance for the brilliant French
is to be so watched and guarded from the
revival of the military demon within them as
to oblige them perforoe to turn their splendid
faculties and generour temper to culture and
to commerce, to science, to literature, and to
ait. But the problem is one of inordinate
difhculty, and to watch its solution will be
incomparably the most absorbingly interest'
ing object ever presented to the politioal
and social observer. For hitherto
force has been the ruling principle in French
politics, and her fanatical parties have sought
war abroad to stave off mutual extermination
at home. What will now happen when France
will have that resource cut off altogether
now that she needs must find some mode of
settling her domestio affairs without a reour
rence to the stimulant and sedative for it
has been a sedative to France, queer as the
tqing may sound of foreign war 'i How will
her five parties of Legitimists, Orleanists,
Imperialists, White Kapublicans, and lied lie
publicans live together in some form of com
mon citizenship without the intermittent
fever of bloodshed ? How will French historv
write itself now that it can no longer oscil
late between civil and foreign war 't These
are Indeed grave questions, and wise would
be the man who could answer them.
In the meantime it must not be overlooked
that some of the most advanced minds anion
the Germans are beginning to propound very
extraordinary doctrine upon ttuuse questions.
They suggest that at the present day and in
the present generation they are absolutely
incapable of solution, and that it may be that
German troops and German officials will have
to remain for a generation or two in t ranoe
to teach a new race of Frenchmen geography
and good temper, and flavor the nisuly-sea
soned French disposition with just a drop or
two of humility, so that the French of the
twentieth century may live in peace and amity
with their neighbors, these advanced Ger
man lumun declare mat t ranoe caunot now
govern Len-elf; that uhe has tried it for a ceu
tury and failed; that, in point of fact, she
ntver did form a decent government; that
her uncien reaime was one long horror of vio
lence and wickedness, and her revolutionary
fieri od has been but a succession of failures
n domestic government, marked by assaults
on her neighbors. These muc.h-br00.liu3
Geru.aiiS declare, amid the tobacco! fumes of
. hoK8 lotg pipes which seem to typify their
long-beadednesd, that it would be a sin and a
shame to leave Frenchmen any longer to
their own devices, and that they must plaoe
the whole people nnder their tutelage for a
long time, until a generation arises which ac
knowledges that Germans are not barbarians
and the old poison of egotism is expelled
from i rench veins.
All this seems extravagant enough, but the
thought is there and will tell. To suppose
that Germans will bold 1 rench territory in
definitely may seem a wild thing; but they
are at least not likely to leave until they are
paid their vast indemnity. And ever after
wards, at the very least, the German sword
will hang menacingly over the head of France.
But fche will have great compensations. Freed
from military burdens, Bhe may grow rich
with astounding rapidity. And what bounds
can be set to the intellectual victories which
her brilliant people may achieve when cul
ture of the German type is universal through
the land? At the bottom of this dreadful
Pandora's box there is hope, a bright hope,
yet.
THIEVES AND DETECTIVES.
From the N. Y. Sun.
The method upon which the municipal de
tective service is conducted in the principal
cities of this country requires a thorough
overhauling and an immediate reform; for at
present it is utterly demoralizing in its ten
dency, and in many instances atlords protec
tion and encouragement to the most hardened
thieves and transgressors. 1' roru the first in
troduction of the infamous "stool pigeon"
system the service has been going on from
bad to worse, until now its practical opera
tion has become simply intolerable. We do
not say that there are not honest and well
meaning men engnged in the vocation of de
tectives, although it is a wonder that any
such are to be found under the system now
generally in vogue.
I hose who lorm tneir idea of tne American
police detective from the Hawkihaws of the
stage, or the accomplished protean actors de
scribed in novels, know little of the actual
facts. The American detective of to-day is a
fashionably dressed gentleman with a propen
sity for diamonds, who is known to all the
thieves and on the best of terms with the
whole race of them. Philadelphia has the un
enviable reputation of supporting detectives
who are on more intimate relations with the
criminal classes than those of any other city;
but neither Boston nor New York is much
behind in this respect, and it is not an un
usual thing in either of the three named
cities to see tne detectives drinking and
associating on terms of intimacy with the
most notorious criminals. The result of
such a course must be evidont to all. The
detectives will almost inevitably become
more or less contaminated through their
social intercourse with criminals, while the
latter, finding themselves treated with fami
liarity and consideration by the official repre
sentatives of the law, grow bold and reck
less in their operations. Thus they are en
couraged to think that thieving is a pretty
respectable occupation after all, and come to
look upon robbery as a legitimate speo illation
in which they take certain chances, fully ex
pecting to lose their liberty in case of failure,
unless their friends of the detective force are
able to help them out of their difficulty in
return for money, valuable information, or
other satisfactory consideration.
This intimate association of detectives and
criminals leads, and is expected to lead, to
mutual confidences; and the former, anxious
to handlo liberal rewards and achieve a repu
tation for smartness in their profession, f re
quently enter into agreements with the latter
through whioh adroit and skilful scoundrels
are guaranteed immunity in their nefarious
pursuits, in consideration of information
given in relation to the misdeeds of other
and perhaps less dangerous rogues. Worse
than this, it is not an unusual occurrence for
innocent parties to be seduced into the com
mission of crime for the express purpose of
being betrayed into the hands of the polioe;
while the experienced criminals who lay the
plans and tempt the victims escape scot free,
with full liberty to plunder the public with
out fear of molestation. It is known to all
familiar with police matters that it is not an
unusual occurrence for thieves to divide their
eybils regularly with deteetive officers in con
sideration of being allowed to pursue thetr
occupation unmolested; while as a rub it is
the detective who acts as. go-between in the
werk of compounding felony in cases of bond
robberies and other depredations where thieves
come into possession of property which they
cannot safely convert into money. - It will at
once be seen that with such a state of things
the honest detective who seeks only to do his
duty stands no chanoe beside the corrupt
officer who, while stuffing his purse with the
spoils of erime, by his double dealing aud
cunning contrives to be brought continually
before the publio as a zealous and efficient
officer in consequence of the frequent arrests
that he makes.
Thorough reform is imperatively demanded,
and the sooner it is done the better for all
concerned. No deteotive, known aa such,
should be allowed to associate with criminals
on terms of equality; and the fact of a detee
tive being guilty of such association should
be considered a sufficient proof of a corrupt
complicity, and should entail bis immediate
dismissal. The employment of known crimi
Hals to entrap others of their own class
should be entirely prohibited. When the exi
gencies of a case require that the confidence
of suBnected or known criminals should be
gained, outside parties should be employed
to do the work under tne supervision 01 ex
perienced detectives, unless the circumstances
are such that a regular deteotive can accom
plish the matter himself without exposin
bis identity. And under no ciroumstances
whatever should a detective or other police
official be allowed to have any part or lot in
the recovery of propsrty by compounding
felony.
The detective service, properly conduoted,
would command the respect of all and be of
inestimable benefit to the community. With
a continued toleration of the abuses which
Lave become engrafted upon it, the thieves
alone will have any great interest in its per
petuation.
THE NEW PAllTi'.
From the H. T. Tribune.
Nearly a year ago, there was a gathering of
"revenue reformers" in Washington, culmi
nating in a dinner with fluid modifications,
wherewith certain sympathizing editors aud
correspondents rejoicingly refreshed them
selves. Having safely found their way henoe
to their respective lodgings, these enlighten-
era of the public proceeded to indite letters
to their several journals, revealing so much
as was judged prudent and proper of the
plans of campaign which had been matured
and adopted by their field-marshals. The
more conspicuous protectionists in Congress
were ilepublicans, or court e; and the re
formers proposed to inaugurate their crusade
by reforming those out of their seats and
Bending reformers in their htead Republi
cans, if the KennbUcans could be eajolod or
LulLed into nominating that sort; if not,
then Democrats. We prompt '.y oopied and
called attention to these bulletins of yiotories
yet unwon.
The programme thus agreed on na since
been oarried out, to the extent of the plan-(
eers ability. iney nave, by tne distran
chisenient of the crippled soldiers in the
National Asylum near Dayton, returned Lew.
Campbell in place of General ocuencK;
they have exulted over the defeat of Messrs.
Morrell and McCarthy by other protection
ists; they have given ovet Missouri to
the Democrats, beaten three or four Republi
can Congressmen ia Illinois; and
would have beaten Messrs. Kelley of Pa.,
Bingham of Ohio, Ketcham of N. Y., and
several other Republican protectionists if
Ihey could but have polled enough votes. On
ice whole, they nave reduced the i;epublican
strength in the next House by ten or a dozen
votes, and have a joyful hope of beating
two or three more Republicans by Democrats
in the Mates wnicn nave yet to choose their
Representatives. This is not, bad for a be
ginning. Tae moment the November elections were
over a more ambitious programme was put
forth. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed, in
effect, that old parties and old issues were
dead; and that a new organization was des
tined to sweep the country. A free trade
Republican was to be chosen Speaker of the
next House by the votes of all the Democrats
combined with the revenue reformers, upon
au understanding that the Democrats should
bave their say about the committees. The
averting list, at. Louis Democrat, and
chorus, assailed General Grant's administra
tion more openly and virulently than before
the l'ont exulting over the increased Demo
cratic (mostly Rebel) vote at the South, as
proof of the unpopularity of the President.
For a time the cabal having eaten another
and still better dinner in company fancied
that the world lay meekly at their feet.
Of late, a change has come o er the spirit
of their dream. No ten Republicans elected
to next House can be named who do not
scout the suggestion that they can ever be
induced to vote with the Democrats to or
ganize the House adversely to thi great body
of the Republicans. Nay, more: not half the
Democrats are ready to vote for any man as
bpeaker who is not an avowed Democrat.
And it is well understood that, should a ma
jority of the Democrats undertake to plough
with any strange, heifer under the fla of
revenue reform, a very strong minority, in
cluding nearly all the Pennsylvanians, will
stubbornly refuse to be drawn into such a
questionable alliance. It is probable that
there are at this moment aa many "pig-iron
Democrats" as Republican free-traders elected
to the next House.
Hence we note prodigal assurances that
the new party is indefinitely postponed that
the revenue reformers purpose to fight their
battle inside tho Republican lines that they
never intended to be other than Republicans,
etc. etc. And, whatever they may have in
tended months ago, it is plain that most of
the reformers now mean to call themselves
Republicans for the present.
But, gentlemen, we submit, your notions of
vthat adherence to a party implies are pecu
liar. The recent partial successes of the De
mocratic party are mainly your work. You
handed over Missouri to the Demoorats; your
organs exulted over the defeat of Schenck.
Morrell, etc., by .Democrats; you have taught
your disciples to detest the great majority of
the Republicans in Congress as monopolists
and plunderers; aud those disoiples therefore
vote tne Democratic ticket, lour nominal
adherence to the Republican party can do it
no good so long as you tell tho people that
most Republicans are intent on subjecting
them to extortion and robbery. We are used
to such imputations from our open adversa
ries, and are little harmed by them; but, from
men professing our political faith, they are
more damaging and onensive.
W e think you should decide either to come
into the Republican party or stay out of it.
You are not in it while you are plotting the
defeat of its foremost representatives who
are also its regular candidates for re-election.
When you talk of them as yon have talked
this year of General bebenok, Messrs. Mor
rell, Aeiiey, etc., tnose wno believe in you
will vote against tnem, even though not ex
pressly urged by you to do so. Better stand
somewhere.
The Republican party has suffered quite
enough from those who wear its uniform in
order to fire more effectively into its ranks.
If you cannot support men of undoubted
ability and good character who are its candi
dates, your hearts are elsewhere, and your
legs should follow them. Choose your future
position for yourselves, but let it be on one
side or the other.
POLITICAL BLACK-MAIL.
From the X. Y. 2'mtea.
Senator Wilson has brought in a bill to
prevent the levying of assessments on office
holders for politial purposes. It is credit
able to tne senators intentions; but we
ought to call his attention in the strongest
manner to the inexpediency of touching this
abuse at all without going to the root of the
matter. A law against assessments, like the
laws against bribery and usury, and many
other laws whion can only be proved to
have been broken by the very persons who
have broken them, must virtually be a dead
letter, ihe person wno pays tne assess
ment, like the person who takes the bribe.
has, of course, every possible motive not to
reveal the transaction to any one; and yet
without his informing and giving proof of
ibe commission 01 the offense, no convic
tion for it can be obtained. The result
of the passage of Senator Wilson's bill will
therefore be, that while the country will have
received fresh prooi of the need of some kind
of civil service reform, the statute-book will
be burdened with one more inoperative law;
and the publio, or a portion of it, will, per-
baps, be deceived into the belief that some
thing has been done to remove the evils of
the present system, when in reality nothing
naB been done, xnis remark applies in an
equal degree to the bill brought in by Sena
tor xrnmbuii last session, making it a mis
demeanor for any Senator or Representa
tive to engage in office-seeking at any of
the departments, or recommending candi-
dates tor places, unless his opinion was
asked by the Executive. No such act could
be enforced. Heads of Departments would
not prosecute. They could not anord to
make bitter and determined enemies in Con
greb8; witnesses would not testify, and the
law would remain inoperative. Nobody sup-
poseB, 01 course, that the two senators are
not sincere in desiring reform, and that their
bills are not meant to bring it about; but it
may not be amiss to remind them that the in
troduction of just such impracticable mea
sures as theirs is one of the moans to which
those who want to defeat a reform most fre
quently resort. There is no way bo effectual
of throwing its friends off their guard, and
blunting the edge of criticism.
There is one general principle which is ap
plicable to all abuses, for which individual
legislation is responsible, and it is that in
fclead of trying to punish people for doing
wrng, we must take away from them the
power of doing it. It is now generally re
cognized that the only way to cure the cor
ruption arising out of speoial legislation is to
take a ray from Legislatures the power or pass
ing special Iswb "with' money '. in them."
There is no use in forbidding bribery as long"
as we leave it worth anybody's while to bribe.
Ihe way to prevent the Rale or abuse ot the
power of nominating cadets at West Foint, is
to take it away from Congressmen altogether:
everylnxly.is now of that opinion. We can
not frighten the Whittemores and Butler by
the threat of expulsion; they will always be
ready to take the risk for the sake of the
money.
So, also, with regard to assessments on
office-holders, and all the other abuses and
corruptions attendant on the present system
of office-seeking. The remedy for them is
to relieve the office-holder from his obliga
tions to the party for his office. If he gets
his place not by influence but by merit, and
is sure of retaining it as long as he behaves
himself well, there will be no inducement for
him to pay anybody for getting it for him, or
for the privilege of retaining it, and he will
laugh at anybody who attempts to "assoss"
him for political purposes. Of courso,
if he is an ardent politician, he
can subscribe to campaign ex
penses, if he pleases; but if he does
not care lor these things, and has other uses
for bis money, he will decline, and thus all
necessity for prosecuting anybody, and fining
or imprisoning anybody on account of assess
ments, will be avoided. Very few Govern
ment clerks would give any money for politi
cal purposes if they could help it. Their
salaries are very small, generally too small; in
the case of men with families dependent on
them,wrtetchedly small. The reason why they
pay assessments is either that they regard
them as part of the price for which they ob
tained their offices, or fear that if they re
fused to pay assessments they would lose their
omces.
Change the mode of getting and keeping
places in the public service, and we reach the
root of the difficulty, but it cannot be reached
in any other way. The best members of
Congress are almost as much disgusted with
the present state of things as the oihee.
holders and the public. To the men who are
really occupied with the work of legislation,
the whole business of finding places for party
adherents is a dreadful bore and nuisance.
The pathetic appeal for deliverance from it
which Mr. Kelley, of Philadelphia, put forth
last winter, expressed the feeling of nearly
every man in both houses whom the country
is really inerested in keeping there. A mem
ber who has hisniind occupied as every mem
ber ought to have his mind occupied with the
tariff and the currenoy, and the internal
revenue, and the land grants, and the banks,
and the Indian question, has neither time nor
attention to spare for the work of getting the
Browns into the Treasury or the Smiths into
the Custom House. If this class of legisla
tors could be allowed to settle the matter,
there would be a speedy end to the whole
nuisance. But the difficulty is that the num
ber of those who owe their seats in Congress
to persons whom they have undertaken to
reward, and whoso minds are constantly occu
pied with the readiest means of retaining
them, is very great, and they are suffi
ciently opposed to any change to make
change impossible, till it is demanded by a
stronger pressure of publio opinion than now
exists. There is, however, hardly a Congres
sional district in which evidences of deep
feeling on this subject do not begin to ap
pear, and every year is sure to make it deeper.
The great body of the voters do not want
offices, either for themselves or their friends,
and do not care who gets them, provided the
work of the Government is properly done.
But they do want the time of their members
of Congress to be devoted to the publio busi
ness, and they are beginning to understand
very rapidly that until some change is made
not over half of it, and in too many cases
none of it, will be available for this purpose.
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on AVednesday, the 14th; of December next, and re
opened on Tuesday, the 10th of January, 1871.
A dividend of FIVE PEIt CENT, lias been de
clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear
of State tax, payable in cash on the 27th of Dccem-
bcr.next to the nolders 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 onlce.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
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furnished during the year 1370, are requested to
present them for payment on or before the 15th day
of December, in order that they may receive the
proper attention of the Committee on Highways.
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
semi-annual dividend or FIVE PES CENT, 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 office of the company.
The office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at
8 P. M., from November 80 to December 3, for the
payment of dividends, and after that date from 9 A.
M. to 3 P. M. THOMAS T. jTIhTH,
11 1 sm Treasurer.
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the State of Pennsylvania, and all other States, to
contribute In girts or money towards our Bazaar In
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did Hair Dve li the bat in the world, the only
true and perfect Dye. Harmless ReliableInstan
tnneoua no disappointment no rldlcnloua tints
"Do not tontain Lrai nnr any V italic fvUon to in
jure the Hair or S jKtem." Invigorates the Hair and
leavca It soft and beautiful ; Black or Brown.
Sold by all Dnunrlst and dealers. Applied at the
Factory, No. 1 BOND Stxeet, New York. 4 ST m wf
NOTICK 18 HEUEBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the Ouueral AssPiuUly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE tiKKMANIA BANK, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand ilollnrs. with the right to Increase the same to
oue million dollars.
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THEUOS TEABERRY TOOTHWASH.
ffold by all Druggists.
A. M. WILRON. Proprietor,
NINTH AND FILBERT Sta., Phllada.
8 2inm
NOIKK IS H HUBBY GIVEN THAT AN
"w application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for tho Incorporation of a Bank, In ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled TUB BKIDESBUKi BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
five hundred thousand dollars.
gigr TI1K UNION FIRK EXTINGU1S1IER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA '
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAUB,
D 30 tf No. 118 MARKET St, General Agent.
ftf- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next nweting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth,
to lie entitled THE SOUTIIWAUK BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital of one hundred thousand dollars, with the
right to increase the same to one million dollars.
So?- drTf. r. tiTom as7no. sit W alniTtst7,
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms,
devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with
out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide ga9. 11 17
- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly ol the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, in ac
cordance witn tne laws or tne commouweaitn, to
be entitled THE JEFFJJUSON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, with the right to increase the same
to five hundred thousand dollars.
gig?" JOUVINS
KID GI.OVB CLEANER
cloves equal to new. For sale
by nil druggists and fancy goods dealers. Price 25
cents per bottle. 11 23mwO
irntuicn dwhlu
WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETC
Tewis ladomus & ch
'DIAMONiO DEALERS A JEWELKIiS.it
WATCHKS, JEWEUtr SII.VEU WAKK. .
.WATCHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED.
4ggChetnnt St.. PhiA1.
Would Invite attention to their large stock of
Ladles' and Cents' Watcho3
Of American and foreign makers.
DIAMONDS In the newest stylos of Settintrs,
LADIES' and GENTS' CHAINS, sets of JEWELRY
of the latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN
BRACELETS, Etc. Etc.
Our stock has been largely Increased for tho ap
proachlng holidays, and new goods received dally.
Sliver Ware of the latest designs In great variety,
for wedding presents.
Repairing done in the best manner and guaran
teed, s 11 fmwi
TOWER CLOCKS.
. W. UIJHSUJLL.,
Wo. 22 NOllTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontolr Graham Escapement, striking
Hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by malL 5 as
WILLIAM B. WARNE & CO..
VV llUlBBOlO 111
WATCHES, JEWELRY, AND
iiilyl SILVER WARE,
Second floor of No. 632 CHESNUT Street,
8. B. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
ST OVES, RANGES, ETO.
rpilE AMERICAN STOVE AND HOLLO WWAK1
JL COMfAAX, I'UlLJUJU.Li'Ul.V,
IIION FOUNDERS,
(Successors to Narth, Chase A North, Sharpe d
Thomson, and Edgar L. Thomson,)
Manufacturers of STOVES, HEATERS, TIIOM
SON'S LONDON KITCHENER, TINNED, ENA
MELTED, AND TON HOLLOWWARE.
FOUNDRY, Second and Mifflin Streets,
OFFICE, 209 North Second Street.
FRANKLIN LAWRENCE, Superintendent.
EDMUND B. SMITH, Treasurer.
JNO. EDGAli THOMSON,
President. JAMES IIOEY,
6 27mwfm General Manager
EDUCATIONAL.
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G E H 1 L L SCHOOL
MEHOHANTVILLE, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
Next session begins MONDAY, January 9, 1371.
For circulars apply to
8 81ly
Rev. T. W. C ATT ELL.
CH EGA RAY INSTITUTE, Nos. 1527 AND
152H SFRL'CK Street, FhihuUlphia, will reopen oo
TUftbDAY. Kepteoiher 10. Krenoh ii the language of tin
family, and constantly ipoaen in toe inauiuie.
li wfujtiin L. Xl'HKRVILLY, Principal
o
LD
OAKS
CEMETERY
COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
This Company Is prepared to sell lots, clear of all
encunibranct s, on reasonable term. Purchasers can
see plans at the office of the Company,
NO. CIS WALNUT STREET,
Or at the Cemetery, where all information needed
will be cheerfully given.
By giving notice at the office, carriages will meet
persona desirous ot purchasing lots at Tioga Station1
on the Germantown Railroad, and convey them to
the Cemetery and return, free of charge.
ALFRED C. HARMER, President.
MARTIN LANDENBERGEIt, Treas.
MICHAEL NISBET, Sec'y. 10 5wfm8m
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RICKMAKERS' CI. AY-SPADES AND TOOLS,
Miller s make. No. 8e9 8. FIFTH Street. 12 V lur
OYSTER
KMXES OF FINE
No. S. FIFTH St.
' Cast St tel.
KEAL ESTATE AT AUOTION.
-VTOTIC1C. BY VIRTUE AND IN EXKCUriO'
A of the powers coutatned In a Mortgage exe
cnted by
IHE CENTRAL FASSENOEU RAILWAY COM
PANV. of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date of eigh
teenth of April, lsos, and recorded in the office for
recording deeds and mortgages for the city and
county of Philadelphia, in Mortgage Bonk A. C 11..
No. M, page 45, etc., the undersigned Trustees
named In nld Mortgage
wii.i. sell at rrr.Mc AUCTION-,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city of
Philadelphia, by
MESSRS. THOMAS .v SONS, AUCTIONEEKS,
at 18 o'clock SI., on TL EMJAY, the fourteenth day
of Felruary, A. D. 1S7I, the property described in
and conveyed by the said Mortgage, to wit:
No. 1. All those two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with the buildings and Improvement
thereon erected, situate on the east side of l)roat
street, In the city of Philadelphia, oue of them be- y
IcuiuiUK nt i lie uiniHiu: ui uuifrci'ii ii't't nHvtru iiiuurn
and five-eight! southward from the southeast cor
ner of the said Broad and Coates streets; thence
extending eastward at rlirlit onirics with said Hro;id
Street eighty-eight feet one Inch and a half to ground
now or inie or Samuel Miller: thence southward
along said ground, and at right augies Willi said
oalt'8 Btreet, seventy-two feet to the northeast
corner of an alley, two feet six Inches In width,
leading southward into Penn street; thence west
ward, crossing said alley and along the lot of ground
ereinaiter described una at rigm.angies wun said
Broad street, seventy-nine feet to the east side of
the said Broad street: and thence northward along
he east line of said Broad street seventy-two feet
to the ptnre of beginning. Subject to a ground-rcut
of $2so; silver money.
ino. if. i ne other or tnem situate at tne normeasi
comer of the" said Broad street and Penn street,
com and n g tn front tr breadth ou the said Broad
street eighteen feet, and to length or depth eastward
along the north line of sMd Poun street seventy-four
feet and two inches, ami on the line of said lot paral
lel with said Penn Btreet, sevct.ty-slx feet Ove Inches
and three-fourths of an Inch to snld two feet six
lnchc s wide alley. Subject to ground rent of $72, sil
ver money.
No. 3. All that certain .ot or piece of ground be
ginning at the southeast corner of Contes street and
Broad street, thence extenning southward along
the said Broad street nineteen feet seven Inches and
tlve-elghths of an inch: thence eastward eighty feet
one inch and one-half of an Inch; thence north
ward, at right angles with said Coates street, nine
ieii to ine Bouiu siite or cohics street, and thence
westward along the south side of said Coates street
ninety feet to the place of beginning.
iso. r. i ne wnoie roan, pmuk rou and railway oi
thernid The Central l'sshcnger Railway Company
of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not
Included in Nos, 1, 2 and , roadway, railway, rails,
rlnlit of wT. fltnt.loriR. toll-lioime ami other snner-
Rtructurea, depots, depot grounds and other real
estate, buildings and improvements whatsoever,
and all and singulnr the corporate privileges and
franchises connected with said company and plank
mud and railway and relating thereto, aud all the
tolls, Income Issues and prollta to accrue from tho
same or any part thereof belonging to said company,
and generally ail the tenements, hereditaments and
franciiiM-s of tne tarn company. And also all tne
cars of every kind (not Included In No. 4,machinery,
tools, Implements and materials connected with the
proper eatilnment, operating and conducting of said
roud, plank road and railway; and all the personal 1
property or every kind and description belonging to.
the said company.
'l naptner wiin ail tne streets, whys, n evn. nas.
sages, waters, water-courses, easements, fran-".
J ' . I mJ
chines, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments,
and appurtenances wnatsoever, unto any of the
above-mentioned premises and estates belonging1!
and appertaining, ana ino reversions and remain
ders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the
pHlnte. rU'lir. title. Interest, nronertv. claim, and dn-
mnnd of every nature and kind whatsoever of thef
said company, as wen at law as in equity or, in, ana
to the same aud every parr and parcel thereof.
TERMS Or' SALE.
The properties will be sold in parcels as num
bered. On each bid there shall be paid at the tlmej
the property Is struck off On No. 1, f3H); No. 2,4
No. 3, $3tH) ; No. n, $100, unlesi the price issj
less man mat sum, wueu tne wuoie sum uiu suan
be paid.
. i ri mat ran, lTr,..t.
w. w. lokqstr ETH, f rushes.
M. THOMAS HONS, Auctioneers,
12 5 fiot Nos. 189 aud 141 S. FOURTH Street.
LOOKING CLASSES, ETC.
LOOKING CLASSES,
Strictly our own manufacture, and of warranted
workmanship, at the lowest prices.
ALL THE NEW CUROMOS 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)
JAKES S. EARLE & SOUS.
No. 816 CHESNUT STREET.
ART EXHIBITION.
ON FREE EXHIBITION
AT
CHAS. F. HASELTIXE'S GALLERY
No. 1125 CHESNUT STREET.
BRAUN'8 FAMOUS PANORAMIC VIEWS U
Berlin, Potsdam Charlottenburg, Coblentz, Belt'
berg, Jena, Weimar, Erfnrt, Ems, Baden-Bad,
V elabaden, Brussels, Amsterdam, Waterloo, Li
Ypres, Kotterdain, Utrecht, etc. etc
A complete set ot the Berlin Museums, and Inter:
views of ail the rooms In the various royal palaJ
of Prussia.
Particular attention Is drawn to the fact that lm
few days 100 views on the Rhine and lta fortiDd
tlona. as never before seen, will be exhibited. 11
OLOTHS, OASSIMERES, ETO
QLOTH HOUS
JAMES & HUBE
Ro. 11 Worth SSiC'OWI StreetJ
Sign of the Golden Lama,
Are w receiving a large and splendid aasortrad
of new styles of
FANCY OASSIMERES
And atandard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS
COATINGS, 3 83 raw
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
PROPOSALS.
DltOPOSALS FOR THE ERECTION OF Pli
1.1C BUILDINGS.
Ol'FK'B OK TUB C0IUISSI0NEKS FOK THK
KKElTION OK THK Pl'BMG Bl'lLDIKOS,
PllILADKLFHIA, Nov. 3, 1ST0.
Proposals will be received at the Oitlce of
President of the Commission, No. 1M S. SEVEN
Street, until December 31, 1870, tor the folio
materials and labor :
1. For excavations for cellars, drains, ducts, fo
dationa, etc., per cubic yard.
2. For concrete fouudtions, per cubic- foot.
8. For foundation stoue, several kinds, laid
perch of twenty-five feet, measured In the walls.
4. For hard bricks per thousaud. delivered
Broad and Market street during the year 137L
5. For undressed granite per cubic foot, spec
lug the kind.
. For undressed marble per cubic foot, spec
lng the kind.
T. For rolled Iron beams (several sizes),
lineal yard of Riven weight.
The Commissioner reserve to themselves
rtffht to reiect anv or all ol the proposals.
Further Information can be obtained by appl
to the President of the Board, or to theArcliii
John Mc Arthur, Jr., at nis onlce, No. 203 S. Si
Street. i
Proposals must be sealed, and will be recti
until 8 o'clock of the day mentioned, but will n
opened until after the decision of the Court ou
petition for au injunction now pending.
By orderof the Ctminisslon.
JOHN RICE, Preside
Cms. R. Roberts, Secretary. 1
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
ftARSTAIRS V McCAL
Ko. 123 Walnut end 21 Granite
IMPOATBKJS O?
Brandies, Winei, Gin, Olivi Oil,
WHOLESALE DK ALKES IN
PURE RYE WHI5KI
M BONO AND TAX PAID.
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