THE DA1LT EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21,1870.
on hit or txxxi pan a a.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journal
upon Current Toplos Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
TIIE NATIONAL EDUCATION SCHEME.
I'fttm the .Vets York Sun.
The bill to establish a system of national
education, introduced into tho House of Kep
resentatives at its last session by Mr. George
Frisbio Hoar, of Massachusetts, is again up
for consideration, and its discussion is Bet
down for the third Tuesday of January. If
the'House has an adequate appreciation of
its duty to the couutry, the debate on the
bill will be brief, and its rejection over
whelming. The nuiju and substance of the project is
this: The President is to appoint for eaoh
State, by and with the advico and consent of
the Senate, a State superintendent of national
schools, at a salary of $:S0O0 per annum.
Eaoh of these superintendents is to diride
his State into as many divisions as the
State has Representatives in Congress, and
the Secretary of the Interior is to appoint an
inspector of each division at a salary of $2000
per Annum.
Each of these divisions is to bs again
divided into school districts, and the Secre
tary of the Interior is to appoint in eaoh one
a local superintendent, who is to receive $11
per day for the time actually employed in the
duties of his office. The State superinten
dent Is to direct how many schools shall be
kept in eaoh dislriot, and the local superin
tendent, with the approval of the State super
intendent, is to hire or build the Bohool
housos. There are provisions for taking pro
perty for school purposes where none suitable
can be had by voluntary contraot, and for
furnishing books gratuitously to ohildren who
are nnable to pay for them. The sum of
$50,000,000 is directed to be oollected by a
direct tax npon the several States to carry out
the provisions of the bill; but if it be proved
to the satisfaction of the President that any
State has a system of common schools which
provides reasonably for all the children there
in, the collection of the tax and the appoint
ment of officers in that State shall be sus
pended. The chief point that strikes us in this
sohe&ie is the immense patronage it proposes
to place at the disposition of the United
States Government, and the enormous ex
penditure it will involve. There are 37 States
in the Union, and nnder the new apportion
ment there will be 241 representatives in the
next Congress. Taking the population of
the United States as 38,500,000, and allowing
one school district to every 2500 inhabitants
on an average, would make 14,400 distriots.
Each district would require at least two
schools, with at least one teacher for eaoh
school, or 28,800 teachers in all. The num
ber of officers and their annual salaries would
therefore foot up something like this:
17 State Superintendents at $3000 ft 11,000
241 Division Inspectors at tioou 432,000
14,400 Local Superintendents at 13 per day
for ir0 days. .-. 6,480,000
2S.OO0 Teachers atsooo 14,4oo,ooo
43,478 OrUeers, costing $21,473,000
Besides this, there are the expenditures for
school-houses, books, stationery, fuel, and
etceteras, to be made under the direotion of
the Washington authorities. But without
taking these into account, it is apparent that
ine making of 4.5,47 appointments, and the
disposition of $21,473,000 in money, give to
the party in power an amount of influence
exceedingly dangerous to the publio in
tegrity. It will be said, of oonrse, that there is no
design to apply the act to any States but the
few which refuse to provide oommon schools
for their people. There is no guarantee of
this moderation. The whole thing is left to
the judgment of the President, and there is
nothing to prevent him from declaring that
Massachusetts and New York, for example,
do not provide 'reasonably for the ohildren
therein, and in consequence taking their sys
tems of public education into his own hands.
And even as to those States which have no
pretense of oommon schools, by what right
does Congress meddle in the matter? The
General Government was not ordained for
any such purpose, and for it to attempt it is
the grossest usurpation. Let the bill be
killed as soon as possible, and buried forever.
REPUBLICAN REORGANIZATION.
Prtm tht N. F. Timet.
The meeting of the Republican Slate Com
mittee foreshadows important and, we
trust, salutary action. For years past cor
rupt associations have demoralized the Re
publican organization in New York oity, and
deprived the party of its legitimate strength
at the ballot-box. To oppose the "organ
ized conspiracy" miscalled a municipal gov
ernment, good men who werenot to be
frightened or cajoled by Tammany Sachems
and their camp-followers have made various
reforming efforts from time to time. In all
such efforts since the year when Tieman was
chosen to the Mayoralty, Republicans have
practically co-operated with honest Demo
crats against the demagogues who wilfully
betrayed every trust committed to their
charge. When tax-paying citizens in
voked a Republican Legislature to
interpose in behalf of our city,
the response to tneir appeal was
prompt and earnest. When these citizens
protested aqainst Democratic misrule, and
denounced the municipal Government as "a
conspiracy of bad men who had risen to
power by deceiving and blinding one portion
of the people, and buying another portion,"
bow oould the Republican party answer the
plea, save by assenting to the demand for the
creation of Metropolitan Commissions ? Anx
ious, moreover, to conciliate those Demo
cratic tax-payers who were so largely" re pre
Rented by the "Citizens' Association," the
Republican legislative majority ooncedad an
equal share to Democrats and Republicans in
the composition' of metropolitan boar Is
The Board of Sepervisors was reconstructed
through Democratic suggestions, under a law
which gave six members to each of the two
political parties, and in a corresponding
spirit oi lnienuea --iair piay, the authority
of commissions was originally divided
Time has demonstrated this action to hive
been a grave political error. Ktriutl v parti
san commissions in the beginuing might
have been unpopular, but they would, at
least, have been responsible. Non-partisan
boards were responsible to no one. The bars
between Demooraoy and Republicaairfui were
abruptly let down, and dishonest men in both
party organizations began to ooalesoe and
conspire for common profit. Influential lie
publicans speedily . became participants of
Democratic jobbery and its proceeds, and,
in due time, made their way into Democratic)
"twcH. lienoe the Sachems of Tammanv
were soon found mingling in social clubs
witn Republican leaders, and it was not
long hf lore the underlings of these frater
sizing chiefs had learned to imitate, in
ward and district bargains, the corrup
tions initiated by their superiors through
joint official schemes and plundering don
tracts. So. by decrees, from non-partisan
Commissions, from irresponsible Boards of
Supervisors, from New Court-house Rings,
from jobbers in market-building and street
opening, grew into strougtn tnose combina
tions and intrigues oi disnonest Kepnblioans
with dishonest Democrats, which have been
active causes of party demoralization. Year
by year the evil has grown until New York
politics are sosndalized by the spectacle of
successive legislatures bought and sold,
judges bribed or otherwise improperly in
fluenced, party leaders subsidized by their
political opponents, municipal reformers pur
chased outright with lucrative omoes, the
"Citizens' Association" itself reduced to be a
mere purveyor for the Tammany Ring, and
that ring dominant in btate and city.
From this state of things the Republican
party has suffered grievously, and up to the
last election it was almost hopoloss of relief.
Of the Republican General Committee of
18,0, no less than forty delegates were recipi
ents of Tammany money in salaries as office
holders under tht Democratic city and county
Governments; and the zeal with which they
expected to do the bidding of their Tammany
employers was measured in the late election
by the activity and pertinacity with which
they opposed all efforts to reform and reor
ganize the party. For this reason it is now
properly urged that Tammany office-holders
shall not be placed in positions where they
may, by any possibility, work harm to Re
publican interests. The honest members of
the Republican organization in the city, who
cast y.,0(M)votes for their State ticket, and
who have bo object in view but the rescue of
our State from Democratic election frauds
and violence, demand that their Republican
associations and conventions shall be pro
tected hereafter against the abuses of primary
elections. They demand that Republican
councils shall be secured from Democratic
scheming, and that Republican candidates
shall be honestly nominated and faithfully
supported on Republican 'issues only, and
elected, if dossible, by a pure ballot and a
fair return.
Concerning any question of so-called "re
gularity auecting this or that county con
vention or general committee, the State Com
mittee, if they be wise, will take no heed.
With any supposititious attitude of either
United States Senator, they will have as little
to do. The matter before thnm involves
more than "regularity;" it affects the integ
rity and efficiency of Republicanism in New
York city, and relatively in the State. This
putrid cancer of Tammany influence must be
cut from the Republican organization, or it
will eat out the strength thereof before ano
ther Presidential cauvass. Let the State
Committee direct such a reconstruction of
the local associations as will make them ele
ments of Republican strength, instead of
auxiliaries to Tammany liall.
Let their rolls, which now carry majorities
of Democratic names, or of "bogus" names
on which Democrats vote at Republican "pri
maries," be purged of such spurious mem-
uersnip. iiet ttie General Committee be no
longer controlled by Tammany delegates.
and nominating conventions be no longer
"packed in trie interest of Demooratic aspi
rants for office. Let Republican hucksterers
who provide convenient inspectors for ap
pointment by Mayor Hall, be left henceforth
to Bell themselves only, and not their party.
As for threatened divisions, there need be
no apprehension on that score. The defec
tion of the Republicans who are owned by
Tammany will be no loss to us; they had
better oppose openly than betray in secret.
The Republicans w hom Tammany cannot buy
will not be found alien to a sound party or-
gamzuuon.
SIGNS OF A PRESIDENTIAL SCRUB
RACE AND ITS TERRIBLE DANGERS
TO TIIE COUNTRY.
F,om the JS, Y. Herald.
When a great political party in the height
of its power is slain, like Ctesar, in the Senate
House, it means revolution and confusion in
all tho body politio before there can be a res
toration of order, system, and harmony. In a
political sense, General Grant and his admin
istration are menaced in the Senate with the
fate of Ca-sar. The conspirators are there
and the conspiracy is under way. Sumner,
pompous, pretentious, and consequential, is
the proper man to play the part of Brutus,
Fenton is not quite up to the calibre of "the
lean and hungry Cassius," but he has the
spirit and the will, and be will do. Carl
Schnrz, a red revolutionist by profession, of
the Luropean Jacobin school, is the very fel
low for the role of "the envious Casoa." The
faithfnl Drake, in his farewell epeeoh in the
Senate, might have said of Hohurz, in refer
ence to the late Missouri election, as Mark
Antony said over Ciesar s dead body
'See what a rent the envious Caaca made.
Indeed, exoepting General Cameron, Gene
ral Wilson, and one or two others, we are not
certain General Grant has any supporters in
the Senate who are honestly working for his
success as the mainstay of the Republican
party and the National Treasury. Some of
the Senatorial body want a new party, as
Calhoun wanted a new party when he found
that General Jackson was too mnth for him:
some have their petty personal revenges to
satisfy, Bucn as A enton; some, disappointed
in the spoils, have ceased to care a button
whether Grant goes np or down; and some,
intent only npon the enormous plunder of
railway land jobs and whisky rings, would
like to get General Grant out of the way, as
an obstruction to their schemes. These are
among the numerous signs of a general
break-up of the Republican party, and of a
disastrous scrub-race to the country for the
Presidential succession. In this sorub-raoe
we may look for three or four candidates
from the dthria of the Republican party, and
over three from the drifting materials of the
Democratio party an Eastern candidate, say
lionman; a Western candidate, iiendricKS,
most likely; and a Southern candidate, pro
bably Andy Johnson or Wade Hampton, and
possibly Jen. Davis.
In this month of December, 170, the con
dition of the Republican party, though not so
sharply defined, may be compared to that of
the Democratio party in December. IS.j'.L
Then the signs of an impending Daoaojratio
dissolution stood out in bold relief ia both
houses of Coneress: now the si ens of a Re
publican break-up are only partially visible
in the Senate. . Then the Southern oligarchy
were with the President and ho was with
them; now the Northern bolters and malcon
tents are against the President, and so far
they have not fatally crippled him. But the
grand result of the fight among the Demo
cratic politicians of 185D-00 is promised from
these Republican bolters and disaffected
leaders of 1870 the dissolution of the party
and a Presidential sorub race from its sepi
rated factions and sections. - i
. What then? We shall ' not have the easy
reconstruction of parties which followed the
scrub race of 11424, nor the bloody resulU of
a terrible civil war such as followed the L$
mocrstio dissolution and sontb race of 18".0;
but chaos will come again. In 1824, when the
old Republican party was finallvdissolved, and
Jackson, Adams, Crawford, and Clay were run
lor tne presidency, eaon upon bis personal
merits, there were no delicate and dangerous
questions to beanected by the election or
any one of them over the others. In the end,
there being no choice by the people, when
the election was determined by the House of
Representatives in favor of Adams, the re
construction of parties which followed (crys
tallizing eventually into the Demooratio and
Whig parties) was more upon personal issues,
such as the battle of New Orleans of 1815,
raised between Jackson and Adams, than
npon anything else. . In 1800, on the other
hand, the Democratio scrub race was delibe
rately contrived by the bouthern slaveholding
oligarchy as an opening for an armed Rebel
lion and an independent Southern Confede
racy by force of arms. It was a fenceless and
suicidal war on the part of Jeff Davis and
the South, as the war against Germany has
proved to be to Napoleon and France; but
do we not see in both cases that asDirins
and desperate demagogues are reckless of
consequences.'
Assuminc. then, that we are to have a
Presidential scrub race in 1872, the Republi
can party being broken up, it will make no
material difference whether the election is
made by the Electoral College or turned over
to the new House of Representatives chosen
in this year's elections. With the Republican
party out of the way the party lines will dis
appear, even iu congress, ana me meuiuors
of the House, if called -to choose a President,
will be controlled by the spoils and plunder.
Therefore in 1872, whether we get a Presi
dent from the people or the House (the Re
publican party being broken up, and the
Demooratic party too, on different candi
dates, and General Grant being thrown out),
a Bciub race will be followed by a political
revolution in the Government itself. The
political elements which for twelve years have
been kept in the background will, as the most
active and united forces, come to tho front;
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution will be de
clared irregular, spurious, and void; the sove
reign rights of the States eaoh to control its
social institutions and political elections will
be reaffirmed, and the national debt resulting
from the war againBt the Confederate South
ern states will be abated and repudiated, as
a monstrous insult to the South and as an
oppressive burden saddled upon the country
by an unconstitutional despotism.
btrong as our national bondholders feel in
their secimties, we can tell them that their
only reliable security is General Grant. He
is pledged to the faithful redemption of the
debt, and we all know that he is safe and
sound on this great question. We are sure
so far, but no further. Break up the party
identified with Grant's administration, out off
Grant, and give us a scrub-race candidate for
our next President, and we shall have a scrub
administration, a scrub Congress, and a con
dition of political and financial chaos worse
than that of I ranee under Gainbetta. Take
away General Grant, and you can carry even
the negro vote of tho South to-day for repu
diation, and you may carry the vote of the
West in the same direction to-morrow. The
success of Carl Schnrz in Missouri i? a revo
lutionary sign in that quarter of bad omen;
for Schnrz is aptly defined in Bismarck's ex
pressive allusion to those revolu
tionary gang cuhttfH of France
as "thoso gentlemen of the pavement."
We have finished the work of a great revolu
Hon, but now the reaction is upon us. Andy
Johnson, in his last annual message to Con
gress, in plumply proposing repudiation, had
a glimmering of this, only he was a little too
fast. But he picked out the arrow which
may still strike the vulnerable heel of Achilles.
If the administration party, pledged to the
public debt, is broken up, the elements
pledged among themselves to repudiation
will take its place. This is the simple logio
of the question. . Then, indued, shall we have
something like the blessed bankruptcy,
anarchy and universal demoralization of Mexi
oo in full blast. Look at it. Twenty-five
hundred millions of debt is a heavy burden;
but it may be wiped out with a sponge,
There is the danger the sponge. Schurz
has none of these national bonds, they
Bay, to look after, and bo the oourse is dear
for him against Grant; but Fenton and bum
ner are among the bloated bondholders, and
their folly is amazing. But, oh! it may be
said, these horrid foreshadowings are absurd.
So it was thought of the warnings of the late
Rebellion. We are sure of nothing in this
age of startling events, and nothing revolu-
lionarv is impossible. We venture, there
fore, another prediction. Let these mutinous
leaders of the Republican party continue
their mischievous work against the adminis
tration, bo as to make in 1871 General
Grant's retirement from the Presidential field
or bis defeat a foregone conclusion, and by
tho year 1872 such distrust and fear will come
upon our national securities aad such depre
ciation that repudiation will become the ruling
condition of the Presidential election.
HONORS TO YOUNG MR. COLFAX.
fruit Ike Sete Oiitans Time.
The American mania for presenting parties
in office with silver slop-bowls and ornamen
tal tea-kettles has just touched the climax
of its absurdity at Washington, where our
solemn Solons of the Senate have stamped
1 1 . i 1 i j ' . i i
wim ma seal oi approbation img custom, bo
extensively practiced heretofore by needy
custom-house subalterns and syoophantio
policemen. The victim of the testimonial
mania in this instance is the amiable owl who
fills the second office in the nation the
Honorable Smiler Colfax; but, in order to rob
it as far as possible of the fish-like smell of
fawning adulation, they have struck, as Bru
tns did at Rome, through the bosom of her
greatest son. Schuyler Colfax, Jr., aged
about a half a dozen months, bound in swad
dling clothes, still muling and puking in his
nurse's arms, is the object of this weighty
compliment from the "Senators of the XLI
Congress, valued at $1000. In Taftany s
window at New Xork city it is exhibited daily
to gaping multitudes, and is described in an
ecstacy of enthusiasm by the iournalistio
bairey Gamps who nave examined It.
"Fretted gold," "tuberoses," "purple silk,"
"morninggtories'monograms, vsatfnwood,''
"flower wreaths," "lions' heads," "wheat
stalks," etc, and all under the direction of
Senator Anthony, who has played the metal
lic accoucheur to this splendid ornament of
the nursery. It is to be hoped that some
other Senator will enhance the value of the
gift by mixing the "young gentleman's" pap
in the silver service. Senator Wilson, being
a family man, could doubtless do so to per.
fection, while Chandler iield the baby, and
Morton chucked "goo, goo I'' to it. As for
Sumner, Lis unfortunate lack of experience
in such matters wonlJ perhaps debar a Par
ticipation in this national tribute to. inno
cence; he xuigbt still, however, maintain his
standing in Sohujlor's estimation, by for
warding from his scphomorio study a portion
of infantile outfit, strangely neglected iu thin
tefctimoniul; we refer to a hilver piu, of curi
ous construction but Important use, thtt too
might be made of fretted silver, elegantlr
carved with flowers, in whioh the "bachelor's
button" and "sweet pea" oonld be appropri-
ateiy entwined. We cIl Charles attention to
the omission, satisfied that we are doing him
an inestimable service, as well as the ex
ceedingly young gentleman ao strangely
honored.
A ROW IN THE KITCIIES.
From tht Barrinbitrf Patriot,
The rumor that Mr. Forney has again be
come the victim of a Pre ridential ingrate is
fully confirmed. He announocs his determi
nation to dispose of the organ in Washington,
and devote himself henceforth to his beloved
Pbilndelpbians in the Press. When the groat
patriot became convinoed twelve years or so
ago ot tne ingratitude of Buchanan in refus
ing to give him a Cabinet position, he rushed
from the White Ilousa breathing vengeful
quotations from Byron's "Mazeppa," and
started a newspaper. Under a keen sense of
like injury at the hands of the present occu
pant of that mansion, his first impulse is to
Bell a newspaper. Then wrath and revenge
impelled him to write. He now expresses
his resolve to withdraw from the editorial
service whioh has brought curses instead of
rewards. The duodeoennial which has wrought
such changes on all else has had its effect on
the Philadelphia patriot.
But a little while ago all was serene. The
air was filled with pleasing rumors that
Pennsylvania was again to have a place in
the Cabinet of President Grant, and that
Forney was to be the man. It was believed
that the President was anxious to get rid of
Postmaster-General Creswell, who'Uad shown
no political power in Maryland. Some peo
ple of course there were who affected to be
lieve that the telegraph wires from Washing
ton had been skillfully attuned by Mr. Forney
himself. All the while the Chronicle was
working most vigorously for the administra
tion. Inspired by Cabinet expectations, the
faculties of the editor seemed to expand.
andf resh tales of Ku-klux barbarity were daily
served np to his patron in the White House,
In the very excess of his adulation, he lavished
his praises on that clumsy mosaic, the Presi
dent's message.
All is changed now. Forney realizes that
he has been deceived. Creswell is not going
out of the Cabinet, and if any of Grant's ad
visers withdraw, the editor of the Chronicle
will not take bis place. A special Washing
ton correspondent of the Patriot has given
some of the details of this second of Mr.
x orney s l residential quarrels. it seems
that Grant insisted that the editor should
"pitch into" Sumner and fcxhurz. This he
refused to do, giving the excuse that they
were his friend?, and that he had done enough
of that Bort of work without receiving any
substantial recognition of his services. Graut
was probably asking too much of I orney in
requiring that he should abuse Sumner, but
it must be remembered that he witnessed
the abuse which the Chronidc had
poured out on Fessenden, Trumbull, and
other Senators because they were honest and
fearless enough to discharge their duties in
the impeachment trial, in "ae fiance o& party
clamor. Grant has his own views of the rela
tions between the head of an administration
and its organ, and they seem to be quite cor
rect. Forney was entirely willing to perform
the services required of him, but Grant did
not show any disposition to reoiprocate. For
in the position of Postmaster-General, he
would have made war on Sumner, Hohurz,
and any other political friends with the same
facility which he evinced in reconciling him
self with Senator Cameron. In oonsequenoe
of Grant's obtuseness, Mr. Forney withdraws
from the organ, and Sumner will have the in
finite satisfaction of retaining his friend.
When Forney is gone, who will invent those
Ku-Klux tales which filled the souls of the
faithful with horror and furnished the ready
pretext for military interference in Southern
elections? Who will( interview the "intelli
gent gentleman who has just arrived from
Texas," or the "devoted loyalist who gives a
thrilling picture of the outrages committed on
our colored fellow-oitizens in Alabama."
Grant will yet realize the extent of his loss in
the defection of Colonel Forney. There is
no one to fill his plaoe.
city rrisra.
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Oca Conclusion. As far as we are able to Judge
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can lave money. .
Fum.iH8 tkavelmno may secure elegant suits
of roon-s, by telegraph, at the American House,
Boston, wlih every convenience for comfort or
luxury. Messrs. Itlce have won an enviable reputa
tion as landlords. .
Bkddino, best in the city, lowest price, and gua
ranteed, by Albkrtson k Co., No. 1439 Oliesnut
street.
Bvbnbtt's Kalustow The best cosmetic.
SPECIAL JOJIOE.
CHRISTMAS DINNKR FOR TflK TOOK.
A Dinner will be given to the OHlrtren of the
Pabbath nnd Day Schools of the BEDFORD STKKB r
M188ION, on (JIIKISTMAS DAY (Monetary at 11
o'clock, at the Mission-house, No. 619 liKDFoUl)
Street.
Donations tn Money, Poultry, Provisions, and
Clotlili'K thankfully received by the undersigned.
Donations twaria the erection of a Building on
the Sooth street front of Lot arnetly sotu ilM from
our Benevolent ChlKens.
All friends of the Cense cordially Invited.
Edmund 8. V akd. No. S9 Spruce street.
Jamks L. Bisi'Ham, No. 710 H. Second street.
Jacob H. Burdsall, No. 1121 e:hesnnt street.
Ukohok Mu.i.iKKN, No. 828 Arch street.
Charles M-KNCER, No. T Bank street.
(Ikokuk I'BBkiNPiNR, No. 66 N. Fourth street.
Edmi'ND A. Johns, No. 410 Arch street.
W. II. Ukislbk, Seventh National Bonk, Fourth
and Market streets. 1 12 17swt.lif 4t
Rev. John D. Lono, No. 619 Bedford street.
jgy- CAMBRIA IKON CJMPANV.-T1IE AN-
nual Meeting of the stockholders of the Cambria
Iron Company will be held at their offlce. No. 813
South FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, on TUESDAY,
the l'th day of January next, at 4 o'clock P. M.,
when an election will be held for seven directors to
serve for the ensuing year.
JOHN T. KILLE, Secretary.
Philadelphia, December IT, 1370. 12 17 nn
ttfW-T NOTICB 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at tne next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac
cordance with tne laws or tne commonwealth, to ue
entitled TUB GEUMANIA BANK, to be located at
Phlltidelphla, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase tne same to
one million dollars.
OFFICE UNION MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, N. K. corner THIRD and WAL-
ri 11 Mrsets.
Philadelphia, Deo. 17, 1T0.
The Annual Meetlnir of the Stock a ml Serin'
holders of the Company, and the Annual Election
for Directors, will be hebl at the oillce or tne Com
pany at 12 o'clock M., on MONDAY, Jamiiiry 9, 1SI1.
1817 J9 JOHN MOSS, S icretary.
fiv NOTICB IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the eeneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
PeimsylvanlH for the Incorporation of a Bank, In ac
cordance with Hip lawn of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE BULL'S HEMt BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou-
shuiI dollars, witn tne rignt to increase tne same to
five hundred thousand dollars-
nv- NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. A DTVI
"w DENDof FIFTY UK NTS PER SHAKE will
he paid bvthe HESTONVILLE, MAN I'll A, AND
FA1RMO.UNT PASSENGER RAILWAY COM
PANY, free of State tax, on and alter December
S'th rext, at the oillce of the Company, No. 112
South FRONT Street.
Transfer books will be closed December 15th and
reopen December 81st.
CHARLES P. HASTINGS,
12 10 smwtf Treasurer.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bauk, In
a .is.s-if. I. rw a avlfti (ha likora f tha Pnninirinivnalrh
to be entiUed THE SOUTUVVAKK BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia with a
capital or one hundred thousand dollars, witn tue
right to increase tne same to one minion uouars.
iW- TUKNEKS UNIVKKS!. IlKUH ALII I A
""" PILL Is an UNFA1LINO REMEDY for Neu
ralgia Facial ia No f onn of Nervous Disease falls
to yield to Its wonderful power. Even In the severest
enses or uiironic rnraigia its use lor a lew days
atlords the most astonishing relief, and rarely falls
to produce a complete and iermanent cure, it con
tains no materials In the slightest degree injurious.
It has the nnnuauuea approval or tne nest pnym
clans. Thousands, in every part of tho country.
gratefully acknowledge Its power to soothe the tor-
ilirecl nerves auo restore tne iaiiiogHtrcnpiu.
It is sold by all dealers In drugs aud medicines.
TURNER c:o., "Proprietors,
jm mwf? No. 180 TKEMONT St, Boston, Mass.
tgy OFFICE OF CLERK OF BOARD OF
- ALDERMEN,
No. 322 North SIXTH Street.
Philadelphia. Dec. 17. 1ST0.
The Return Judges of the First Senatorial District
are hereby notitied that by resolution they redl
recteu to meet at
O'NEILL'S HALL, LOMBARD STREET,
East of Broad, on
THURSDAY, Dec. 22. 1870,
at 10 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of performing
tne mines required uv law.
12 19 3t JAMES W. POWELL, t:erk
Xf OFFICE PHILADELPHIA AND THE
TON RAILROAD COMPANY.
PHILA I k lph i a, Dec. 19. 1370.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders oft this
Company will be held at their oiliee, No. VS4 South
DELAWARE Avenue. Philadelphia, on MONDAY.
the 9th day of January, 1871, at 1 o'clock P. M., when
an election will be held for twelve Llrectors to serve
for the ensuing ear. FLOYD 11. WHITE,
19 19 U9 Assistant Secretary,
sy- NOTICE IS HSRBBY GIVEN TH4.T AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bnk. In a
cordaBce with the laws of the Commonwealth, to be
entitled TUE BKIDESBL'K BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
Ove hundred thousand uouars.
y- FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' NA
w TIONAL BANK,
Philadelphia, December 8, 1870,
The annual election for Directors of tins lUok
will beheld at the Banking House onWKDNKS
DAY, the Uth day of January next, between the
nours or 11 o ciock a. m. ana z o ciock r.
12 8 tjll W. RL'SHTON, Jr., Cashier,
-TNOTICK IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
w application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly ol the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In a;
oordanee with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE JEFFERSON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the same
to live hundred thousand dollars.
BATCH ELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS SPLEN-
did Hair Dve U the best In the world, the only
true and perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable Instau
Uiiieous no disappointment no ridiculous tints
"Doe not tuntain Ltad nor any Y italic Potion to im
jvrt th Hair or &ittin." Invigorates the IX air aud
leaves It soft and beautiful ; Black or Brown.
Sold by all Druggists aud dealers. Applied at the
Factory, No. 16 BUNDSueet, New York. 14 27 inwij
SOUTUWARK NATIONAL BANK.
PHILADBLPHIA, Deo. 10, 1MI0.
The annual election for Directors will be t eld at
the BanklLg-hOuse on TUESDAY, Jsuos v 10, H7l
between the hour of 10 oclock A. M. au 1 12
o'clock 1M
1212 mvCf tj 10 . P. LAMB, Cashier.
viy APPLICATION WILL BS MADE TO THE
Directors for miewul of certificate nl a Mm-e
Of Stock la the MERCANTILE LIUttARY COM
PANY, Ko. 89i8 standing in my uume, tne original
bavlug been lost or miiilsid.
12 16 f m wut n. rs. i hom Ah. 3
T. T.
T. T. T.
I T. T. T,
! T. T. T.
. T. T. T.
T. T. T.
T. T. T.
TREGO'S TEAUERRT TOOTHWASB.
Sold by all Diuggifti.
A. M. WILSON, Proprietor,
Stinm MNTH AND FILBt'KTSts., Phi'ada.
JT"j.iUVINS KID . AJLOVB CLEAN R
J restores soiled gloves equal to new. For sal
by n ftiugtiisis aud Uuty good dealer. Price 25
ctuw pet boiUc. lUfjiwIi
6PEOIAL NOTIOE8. -
PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
KOADCOMFANI.OniceNO. ttl 8. FOURTH
Street.
Prtn.APEI.PHIA, Not.'m, 18T9.
DIVIDEND NOTICH.
The Transfer Books of this Company will be clos
on Wednesday, the 14th of December next, and r
opened on Tuesday, tha loth of January, 187L
A dividend of FIVE PER CENT, has been de
clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear
of State tax, payable In cash on the 97th of Decem
ber next to the holders thereof, as they shall sua
registered on the books of the Company at the close
of business on the 14th of December. All payable
at this office.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
Stamped. S. BRADFORD,
12 1 6w Treasurer.
jgy- OFFICE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA '
KAlLItOAU COMPANY.
Philadelphia, November 1, 13T0.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
semi-annnal dividend of FIVB PER CENT, on the
Capital Stock of the Company, clear of National and
State taxes, payable In cash, on or after November
80, 187U.
Blank powers of attorney for collecting dividends
can be had at the office of tha company.
The office will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at
8 P. M., from November SO to Decomber 8, .for the
payment of dividends, and after that date from 9 A.
M. to 8 P. M. THOMAS T. FIRTH,
lllm Treasurer.
FRENCH BAZAAR
FOR TUB BENEFIT OF THE VICTIMS OP-
THE WAR IN FRANCE.
To be held at CONCERT HALT., from December
the 14th to December the 24th, CHRISTMAS EVE.
An anneal Is respectfully made to Philadelphia.
the State of Pennsylvania, and all other States, to
contribute In girts or money towards our Kaz.aar In
nenair oi tne sufferers in Franco. The ladles la
charge of tables will gratefully receive auy dona
tions made In favor of the conntry or Lafayette and
Kochambeau. ADRI.E PI Ctrl', President.
12 9 tf C. JACOB, Secretory. ,
ay- PHILADELPHIA AND READING) RAIL
"w ROAD COMPANY, Oillce, No. 227 S. FOURTH
Street.
PHILADELPHIA, Deo. W. 1870.
Notice Is hereby sIVen to the tttockholders of this
Company that the annual meeting an ! election for
I resident, six Managers, Treasurer, and .secretary
will take place on the second MONDAY (9th) of
January next, at 12 M. WM. II. WEBB,
12 in tjan v t ecreury.
OFFICE BUCK MOUNTAIN COAL COM
PANY, NO. 820 WALNUT Street.
rnn.ADKi.rniA,- uoo. 14. isto.
The Board of Directors have declared a Dividend
of THREE PER CENT., clear of Slate tax, payable
on the 7th Inst.
Transfer Books will close on the 20th Inst, and
reopen on Uie2th. F. II. TROTTER,
12 14 wfmtit Treasurer.
TIIE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Mannfacinreand sell the .Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGK,
B 80 tf No. 118 MARKET St., General Agent.
B,Y- FAIR OF CHRISTMAS GOODS IN AID OF
P. K. CHURCH OF ST. MATTHIAS, Decem
ber 20, 21, and 22, afternoon and evening, at north
east corner of BROAD and SPRING Oardkk
Streets. 1217 61
DR. F. 1L THOMAS, No. 914 WALNUT ST.,
w formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms,
devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with
out pain, with fresh nitrons oxHe gas. 11 17
KEAL ESTATE AT AUOTION.
"VtOTICE. BY VIRTUE AND IN EXECUTIO
1 of the powers contained in a Mortgage exe
cuted by
HIE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY COM.
PANY
of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date of elgH
teenth of April, 1S63, and recorded in the ornoe for
recording deeds aud mortgages for the city and
county of Philadelphia, m Mortgage Rook A. C. 11.,
No. Mi, page 466, etc., the undersigned Trustees
named iu said Mortgage
WILL 8KI.L AT PUBLIO AUCTION,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, In the city of
Philadelphia, by
MESSRS. THOMAS SONS, AUCTIONEERS,
at 12 o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the fourteenth day
of February, A. D. 1871, the property described lu
aud conveyed by the said Mortgage, to wit:
No. 1. All those two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with the buildings and Improvements
thereon erected, situate on the east side of Broad
street, in the city of Philadelphia, one of them be
ginning at the distance of nineteen feet seven inches
and five-eights southward from the southeast cor
ner of the said Broad and Coates streets; thence
extending eastward at right angles with said Broad
street elghty-eight feet onelpch ai d a half to ground
now or late of Samuel Miller; thence southward
along said ground, and at right angles wUn said
Coates street, seventy-two feet to the northeast
corner of an alley, two feet six Inches la width,
leading southward Into Penn street; thence west
ward, crossing said alley and along the lot of ground
hereinafter described and at right angles witn said ,
Broad street, seventy-nine feet to the east side of
the said Broad street: and thenee northward along
the esst Hue of said Broad street seventy-two feet
to the place of beginning. Subject to a ground-rent
of I28U, silver money.
No. 2. The other of them situate at the northeast
corner of the said Broad street and Penn street,
containing lu front er breadth on the said Broad
street eighteen feet, and In length or depth eastward
along the north line of said Penn street seventy-four
feetund two inches, and on the line of said lot paral
lel with mid Penn street, seventy-six feet five lnohes
and three-fourths of an Inch to said two feet six
inches w lde alley. Subject to ground rent of S72, sil
ver money.
No. a. All that certain lot or piece of ground be
ginning at the southeast corner of Coates street aud
Broad street, thence extending southward along
the said Broad street nineteen feel seven inches and
nvccighllis of an inch: thence east ward eighty feet
one inch and one-half of ua inch ; tlince nortn
ward, at right angles with said Coates street, nine
feet to the soutii side of Coates street, and thence ,
westward along the south side of said Coato street .
ninety leet to the place or beginning.
No. 6. The whole road, plauk roac and railway of
the aid The Central Passenger Railway Company
of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not
Included In Nos. 1, 2 aud ), roadway, railway, rails,
right of way, stations, toll-houses aim other super
structures, depots, depot grounds and other real
estate, buildings and improvements whatsoever,
and all and singular the corpora to privileges ana
franchises connected with said com pa uy aud plank
mad snd railway and relating thereto, and all the
lolls, income Issues aud prouts to accrue from the
ssme or any part thereof belonging to Mild company,
and generally all the teuemeuts, hereditaments and
franchises of the said company. And also all tha
ears of every kind (not included In No. 4,tnachineryt
tools, Implements aud materials connected with tha
proper equipment, operating and oouductlug of sakt
road, plauk road snd i all way; and all tne personal
piopeity of overy kind and description belonging ta
the t-aid company.
Together with all the streets, wsys, alleys, pas
sages, waters, water-courses, ease in outs, fran
chises, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments,
and appurteuances whatsoever, unto any of tha
sbove mentioned premises and estates lelougiiiK
aud appertaining, and the revcrslous and rwualu
itt is, rents, Issues, and profits thereof, au all the
Maie, right, title, interest, property, claim, anl de
mand of tvciy nature and kind whatsoever of the
kiI company, as well at law as In equity of, in, and
to the same aud every part and par el thereof.
TERMS OF SALE
The. properties will be s'lld in par vols as nana- ,
lu red. eu each bid there shall be pist at the time
t he propcrtv Isstruck on" on No. 1, 8300; No. 9,
No. 8, 30u: No. B, tlOO, unless lto price Is
li ts than lhat sum, when the whol sum bidshaU
be paid.
W. I. SCHAFFER. TruatMUL
W. V. LorUSI KETIIJ rU8lees
M. THOMAS SONS, Auctioneers, - '
II 6 C0t Nos. 139 and Ut S. FOURTH Street - '
. . .WHISKY. WINE, ETCU - -
(2AR8TAIR0 & McCALL.
Ho. 126 Walnut and 31 Granite Bta
DaPOHTKHA O .
Brandies, Winea, Gin, OlWt 0U,
. WUOULSAli DXAUTB6 131 . '
PURE RYE WHISKIGO.
Ul BOND AMD TA-l FA1D. M
, , UOttSK fOVEKS,' BUFFALO ROBiS,
' Fancy liol.es. Lap Rugs. Fur (llovea and
CiiIIhis. Larue Mock of all grade goods at lowest
price. MoV Klt'S Humes, Saldlcri aud Trunk
fciurc, No, fclAiUi tl tiirvet, a 12 11 Imrp