THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH I'HILADELPIILY, THUUSDAi, DECEMBER 22,1870.
irxziXT or inn runna.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Oat for the Evening Telegraph.
A PROTECTIONIST 8riDF.ll CAUGHT
IN
Ills OWN WEI.
From the S. r. World.
"There is no reason on earth for assuming tht a
glren amount of labor would not, upon like ma
chinery, produce cotton fabrics In Minnesota Mt leat
' equal In quantity and intrinsic value to the product
of as much labor In the mills of British Manchester.
We all know that It would. And tne goods so pro
riuced in Minnesota would Had markets, throughout
the entire area of our Union, without being obliged
to undersell Manchester.' They would oe dearer
than those of Manchester only bucauso labor Is be ter
paid In Alinneaot tnau In Manchesw, and to the
extent of such difference, less the cost of sending
the cotton to England and bringing back the faorlcs.
In short though we have never argued tht the
betielltsof protection con id only accrue to Minne
sota through the production of ftibrlos on her precise
area we have no doubt that such protection would
Increase her population and wealth, and elevate the
condition of labor generally. A?. V. Tribune.
We know of no process so well oaloalated
to abridge the tedionsness of debate as to
refute an opponent from his own admissions.
, This method saves all the labor of establish
ing premises, and leaves nothing to be done
but to draw easy conclusions.
"The Tribune affirms (whether truly we
stop not to inquire) that cotton cloth can
be manufactured in Minnesota with as little
labor as in Manchester. If this be so, the
manufacturer obviously needs no more pro
tection in one plaoe than in the other. Dis
tance and the cost of transportation are an
effectual protection for both. If the Minne
sota manufacturer should send his cotton
goods to England, he could not sell them
there, because, with equal cost in the factory,,
they are burdened witn tne expense of freight.
"It is no farther from your house to mine
' than it is from mine to yours." And so, vice
wrw, the Manchester goods would be de
livered in St. Paul at an equal original cost
(in labor) of the Minnesota fabrics, plus
charges, profits, and five thousand miles'
transportation. Why then (the original cost
of the goods being equal) does one need pro
tection more than the other?
Only, says the Tribune, because wages are
higher in Minnesota. But for this there are
several compensations. First (and chief),
cloth is manufactured by machinery, and so
' far as wages is an element of its cost, the
difference between a yard of cloth manufac
tured in Manchester and at the Falls of St.
Anthony would be infinitesimal. Secondly,
the Minnesota manufacturer oould use water
power, and save the expense of coal to run
his machinery. Thirdly, the grounds on
which his factories and warehouses are
erected cost comparatively nothing. Fourth-
' ly, his personal expenses for food, rent, etc,
are a bagatelle. Why then, with five thou
sand miles of costly transportation between
them, does Minnesota need to be proteoted
against Manchester, any more than Manches
ter against Minnesota? The cost of pro
ducing the goods in the two plaoes being as
sumed equal, the thing is just as long as it is
broad. '
It must be apparent to every reader of
, common sense that a great fallacy lurks some
where in the Tribune's reasoning.
To make the absurdity still more glaring,
let us apply to grain the self -same reasoning
which the Tribune employs about cotton
cloth. The soil and climate of England are
well adapted to . grain, the average crop per
acre being as great as in the United States.
We will assume, therefore, that wheat is pro
duced in England with the same amount of
labor as, in America. Now, American labor
being a great deal dearer, and mere muscle
without machinery being more largely em
ployed in the production of grain than of
cloth, why . does not the American grain
grower, as well as the American weaver,
need to be proteoted against
"the pauper labor of Europe?" The
ready answer is that distance, the cost of
transportation, and cheaper land afford super
fluous protection. If land were equally high
in this country as in England, and labor
equally low, distance and transportation
would still afford adequate protection. When
the octet of production is equal, any other
protection than distance is needless; and in
all other cases i. is mischievous, as prevent
ing producers from profiting by their natural
advantages. If Minnesota grain plus trans-
' portation is oheaper in England than English
grain, it is an advantage to the English oon-
. sumer to buy it. And so, on the other hand,
if Manchester shirtings plus transportation
are cheaper in Minnesota than cloth made in
St. Paul, the wearers of the Minnesota che
mises (of which the Tribune modestly sus
pectt the existence) would be wronged if they
were not permitted to buy it.
When cloth can be produced as cheaply in
Minnesota as in Manchester, the manufacture
of it will inevitably be established there
without any other protection than the cost of
freight and the profits of importers. If labor
is too expensive to permit it now, it is be
cause labor finds more profitable employ
meat. Why are wages higher in Minnesota
than in England? For no other reason than
because there is greater profit in raising wheat
for exportation in Minnesota, than in manu
facturing goods for exportation to England.
For wage are paid, in both cases, out of the
prices received for the exported products, and
if the Minnesota labor did not yield larger
returns, it would not be possible for its em
ployers to pay higher wages.
Bat why compare Minnesota with Man
chester? Why not take Lowell instead, and
free the question from one element of com
plication ? If the same amount of labor will
produce as muoh cloth in Minnesota as in
Maaohebler, it will also produce as muoh in
Minnesota as in Lowell. But the Lowell
manufacturers pay American wages; so that
in this respect the competition is equal.
Why then have not Massachusetts capital
ists built new mills in the Mississippi valley
and saved the cost of transportation ? When
the J 'ribvn shall have given a solid answer
to this question, it will have laid bare the
fundamental fallacy of its whole reasoning,
We leave it to make the attempt, when we
mau nave a tuxtner word to say.
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Vw the H. r. Timet. ,
. Whether the somewhat summary aotion of
the Superintendent of the New York Insu
rance Department, respecting the Great
Western Life Company, is to end with this
single demonstration, or is to mark the begin
ning of a stringent exercise of that official's
prerogatives, becomes a question of rather
serious import. That it is worse than useless
to have an insurance department unless it can
proteot the publio from scheming promoters
on tke one nana, ana irom organized nnan
eiftl dahliitv on the other, muut be aDDarent
to every one. It would be too much to ask
that the State should actually guarantee the
solvency' of our cnartered companies; bur
virtually, the existence of au insurance de
part men t, with supervisory powers, promises
so muoh protection to policy-holders as may
be Included in restraining weak, effete, or
decayed institutions from preying too long
upon publio confidence.
That Superintendent Miller has done whit
he deemed to be immediately in the line of
his duty we cannot doubt. And that he pur
poses to show no partiality in his investiga
tion, we must also bctieve. There is, never
theless, a peonliar mortification likely to be
felt by the earliest victims of such a depart
mental scrutiny ns we presume has been
begun. It is not surprising, perhaps, that
the gentlemen interested in the Great Western
Company oppose the Attorney-General's mo
tion, which aims at dissolving thttir organiza
tion and winding up its at! airs, mving
seemed a Btay of proceedings for a period of
ten days, they have undertaken to Bet their
house in order by way of proving that the
superintendent is in error, and that their
assets justify their continuance in the busi
ness of promising to pay money to their
policy-holders in the far future.
But if they do not suoceed, what then?
Are we to have an "Albert" panio here, such
as not long ago shook the whole fabrio of
life insurance in England? Over there, the
discovery, one fine day, that the "Albert"
Company had done such an unlimited busi
ness as to have no proportionate amount of
funds to match, preoipitated a panio tnrough
out the kingdom. Nobody who held a life
policy felt that he was insured, and there was
no legal provision for satisfying a pardonable
curiosity in tnat direction, it toot a year
to quiet down these thousands of
startled nerves, and, as the practical
effect of the scare, a law was enacted by
Parliament compelling the companies to
make annual returns A their financial condi
tion. This innovation was so distasteful to
many of the companies whose operation
had previously been shaded by habitual reti
cence that they lent very little aid toward
the passage of the law. But the world
moved for all that, and it took them along
with it. How many more "Alberts" will be
unearthed and dragged into unwelcome sun
shine, under the iuflaenoe of the English
Life Assurance act, will soon be known, for
the first annual statements are due in Jan
nary.
nl this State, however, and in Masiaclm.
settp, insurance companies of every kind have
for years been tne subjects of olhoial inquiry,
and their status has been made dependent
upon the sworn statements returned every
year to tne departments, and widely oircn
lated in reports and by the press. It may be
deemed almost certain that no company can
continue to do business in either of these
States many months after rendering a state
ment at all suggestive of depleted assets or
demoralized administration. We may, there
fore, feel a reasonable degree of confidence
that nothing like a widespread distrust in our
life companies need be anticipated from the
action taken in this particular case, and three
quarters of a million policy-holders (whohave
an aggregate stake of $2,01)0,000,000 at risk
in the American life companies) will cordially
agree with ns in the hope that this confidence
may not be mistaken.
But the occurrence to which we have ad
verted is full of warning. The Superintend
ent has very clearly defined a remark made
in his late report to the effect that he pur
posed giving less attention than his prede
cessor to figures, and more attention to facts,
11 is prooess of reducing figures down from
their swollen proportions to very hard facts,
may as well be taken to heart by tho compa
nies. Let officers study eoonomy, prudence,
and careful selection of lives, and thus pre
serve their companies from a sudden blow at
Mr. Miller's hands. But if they will not dq
this, they will sooner or later find the oppor
tunity for study taken from them. The
whole subject is one that cannot be allowed
to sleep.
PENNSYLVANIA IN THE CABINET.
From the Mtaburg Commercial.
One would suppose from reading the Wash
ington reports that the Republicans of Penn
sylvania, from one end of the State to the
other, were in arms because they are not re-
resented in the Cabinet, and that they are
eaving their factories, mills, workshops, and
fields to reinforoe their Senators and Repre
sentatives in Washington in demanding in
stant compliance with their wishes. Now
the f act is, they have very little feeling on
the subject. Outside of the leaders and
cliques it is scarcely talked about, except
to comment on the fuss which cliiue leaders
are making over the matter. We undertake
to say that the Republicans of Pennsylvania
fail to perceive how a Cabinet offioer from this
State is of such great political importance either
to them or the country. They are quite content
to allow General Grant to have his own way.
While they would feel complimented with an
appointment from this State, they at the same
time realize that, considering how matters
are, were one to be made it would be a marvel
if it did not dissatisfy as many as it pleased.
What they desire most is, that General Grant
may proceed with perfect independence of the
cliques and interested leaders who have raised
this clamor and who have some special object
to Berve, political or financial. Notmng assails
the general health of the party so much as
the contests in which the leaders are con
tinually involving it about oflioe and patron
age, which cost infinitely more than they are
wortn -in fact, we believe it is the de
liberate verdict of nine out of ten of all
who are best prepared to render an impartial
one, that the offices are the greatest burden
the party has to carry, and that as a
party measure, thoroughly carried out, civil
servioe reform that would rid it of this en
cumbrance would, in this light, prove a great
advantage to tne republican party, not only
here, but everywhere. . We have no Appre
hension that General Grant will be deceived
by the clamor about a Pennsylvanian in
the Cabinet. If in case of a vacancy a va
cancy not forced but oocurring in the natu
ral way he should find e Pennsylvanian
who in his judgment is specially adapted to
a Cabinet position, without particular re
ference to any clique, combination, or inte
rest, we undertake to say that he could count
on the support of the party in making the
selection. But the future ascendancy of the
Earty by no means depends on Pennsylvania
aving a Cabinet oflioe, but very materially
does it depend on the State not having a
Cabinet officer seleoted in obedience to a
clamor raised by some particular clique,
combination or interest. If the Republican
of this State have any desire to express, it is
that General Grant make no such appoint
ment; and if there has existed any feeling
on the subject, or any now exists, it is lout
he should be persuaded to make an appoint
ment of such a character. As a rule, we
thiDk we are able to say that the great body
of the Republicans of Pennsylvania will be
content with General Grant himself ax their
representative in the Cabinet.
A LADY IN THE CASE.
Fro the A'. V, Tribune.
"God was cruel when be made women,"
says one of George Eliot's characters, in pas
sionate protest against her lot. The average
American jury has apparently adopted some
thing of the same impious dootrine, ana
thinks itself called to right this wrong of
creation in every possible way. The ladies
vl Alio Mwuv u twn Aiiivfui ua uiv
never get their rights at the hands of the
men, and we heartily agree with this state
ment so far as jurors are oonoerned.
Almost every week there is some scandalous
case of breaoh of promise, where a woman
brings a brazen forehead and a package of
love-letters into court, and her lawyer cajoles
a jury into punishing a man by the confis
cation of half his substance, for having
found out that the woman he was engaged
to was not the sort of person he wanted
for a wife. If the man be old and ugly,
and the woman young and pretty, the un
fortunate wretch is lncky if the jury leaves
him a cent to pay his funeral expenses. In
that disgraceful case in Illinois, there is no
doubt that poor Spragne's bad spelling cost
him an additional fifty thousand dollars.
There were no damages high enough to com
pensate a charming young' woman for the
cruel wrong of being jilted by a gray-headed
miscreant wno spelt tne name of nis its
doemer with a g. On several oocasions in
recent years indiscreet young ladies iave
shot their acquaintances whom they could
not persuade into matrimony, and have been
held blameless by tearful juries amid the
snuffling of sympathetic bystanders.
It is not the a sthctio sense that is appealed
to in moat of these instances. We cannot
help making great allowances for those sensi
tive and beauty-loving Greeks who were daz
zled out of judicial calm by the unveiled per
fection of l'hyrne. But most of our criminal
women to-day have nothing but sex to plead
for them, and that is usually all-sufficient.
If any of our fair renders contemplate mur
der, let them take heart and courage from the
proceedings on Monday in the Court of
General Sessions. Miss Margaret Duun,
called for her heroic stature Big M-ig, was on
trial for the killing of William Davis one night
last summer. Davis was a familiar acquaint
ance of hers, and she had, on tne evening iu
question, invited him to visit her. lie went
to her room in n state of intoxication, and,
not finding her there, fell asleep on her bed.
This amiable dove, returning to her nest,
was so incensed at the liberty her friend had
taken, that she mashed his skull "with a
broken whiflietrec," and then threw him out
in the lobby to die. Being tried for this
crime, the gallant jurymen found her guilty
only of manslaughter in the second degree.
Recorder Hackett sontanced her to a short
teim of imprisonment, as the extreme pen
alty possible under such a verdict; and we
may expect to see a lachrymose petition for
pardon circulating before long, that this gen
tle being may be restored again to the bosom
of society. If she could be married to the
jury, it would be every way desirable, and
thedeodand whilHctree should begiveu as a
dowry. .
It is, of course, unnecessary for us to re
peat our conviction that the hanging of men
and women is not a good or wholesome thing
forsociety. It is altogether likely that with
the abolition of the death penalty we would
see the end of these ghastly farces where
women are concerned. No one wishes to
bang a woman, and therefore it is that men
bring in these illogical verdicts. But while
bad laws exint they should be executed, and
thus the sooner amended. A jury has no
right to consider the sex of a criminal in de
termining the degree of crime. But for these
aberrations the publio sentiment is more
blameworthy than the irresponsible men who
sit on juries. It requires a great deal of
moral courage to pronounce a woman guilty
of the crime of murder. The very people
who believe in the ju3tice of your verdict
will denounce you for it some day when occa
sion offers. General Butler is a good enough
lawyer to know that Mrs. Surratt was proven
guilty of treason and murder, and yet he
could not resist the temptation of saying in
his smart way that Mr. Bingham had her in
nocent blood on his soul.
It is a fact not without significance that
this sentimentality in courts of justice in
regard to female criminals has rather in
creased than diminished in reoent days. Amid
all the changes of law and custom that ' have
resulted in giving a larger freedom to women,
both of person and property, there is no
symptom that they are to be held to a strioter
accountability as moral beings. Our ancestors
used to haBg a thief or burn a witch indiffe
rent to the accident of short hose or farthin
gale. Perhaps, after all, this may indicate
that in the broader and more humane civili
zation of the future woman is to find her
condition improved by the general advanoe
of the race, which will give to her all needful
rights and safeguards, without the accom
panying responsibilities inseparable from a
severe and unprotected equality.
A REAL DEMOCRAT.
From the Hartford roet.
The MoCreerys are not so bad a lot after
all. We like their frankness. The Kentucky
Senator has done a service to the country.
He is a Democrat of the first water, dyed-in-the'-wool,
true blue. He believes in Demo
cracy. Believes in the whole of it, the old
fashioned kind; not in your diluted New York
HVrW stuff; but in the real genuine pro-
fclaverj, pro-Ilobel, anti-negro, Bourbon De
mocracy. And he believes the logical result
of Democratic success throughout the country
will be to restore to tne late itebels every
thing they have forfeited, from their right to
vote and hold ortlcej down to reparation for
the damages done them by the war and com
pensation for emancipated slaves. He believes
that nothing should stand in the way of this
act of justice to a brave and unfortunate
people, not even the graves of the misguided
soldiers wno uied defending the uovernment.
Mr. McC'reery had a logical mind, lie fol
lows the cause to its sequence with unerring
certainty. And we like him for it ever and
ever so much. . For look ye, if we had said
in the course of a political campaign that
Democratic success would lead to any nuoh
thing, or the proposition of any such thing,
as the restoration oi the confiscated estates
of General Lee, and the removal for that pur
pose oi me uoaieu oi uie union soldiers in
Arlington. cemetery, we snouia nave bad no
end of denunciation from our Democratic
friends as slanderer, libeller, vilifler, and
other sui-b. We are uoder obligations to
McCrtery for unbosoming himself. We like
thefie f Hows who have lost their front teeth
and cunt keep noything back. MoOreery
may have hurt his party we observe that
there is great anxiety lest the party shill be
Held ret-pouMOle but let mm oonsole him
self: he has served his oountiy. HU resolu
tion has opened the eyes of the people to tire
real tendency of the Uemooratio party.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
tt-.y- PEOPLES BANK Of PHILADELPHIA
PHii.AHEi.rHu, December b. 1819.
The Annual Election for Preidnt and Director
to -rve for the eumtiog year will be held at lUa
Hank on 1 LESDAY, January 10, l7l. between the
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WM. II . TAB Kit,
18 MhM , . .. Uliltr.
8PEOIAL NOTICES.
gQy PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD COMPANY, Office No. S27 S. FOURTH
Street.
Pnit.APKt.rniA, Nov. 3 19.0.
DIVIDEND NOTlCX.
The Transfer Books of this Company will be clos
on Wednesday, the 14th of December next, and r
opened on Tuesday, the loth of January, 1ST!.
A dividend of F1VK TETt CENT, has been de
clared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear
of State tax, payable In cash on the STtn of Decem
ber next to the holders thereof, as they shall stan
registered on the books of the Company at the close
of business on the 14Lh of December. All payable
at this office.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
stamped. . S. DRADFOKD,
H16w Treasurer.
t2 OFFICE OP THE PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD COMPANY.
PutLAPRLrutA, November 1, 19T0.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
semi-annual dividend of FIVE PERCENT, on the
Capital Stock of the Company, clear of Nat ional and
State taxes, payable In case, on or after November
BO, 13T0.
Blank powers of attorney for collecting dividends
can be had at the ofllce of the company.
The ofllce will be opened at 8 A. M. and closed at
8 P. M., from November 30 to December 3, for the
payment of dividends, and after that date from 9 A.
M. to 8 P. M. THOMAS T, FIRTH,
1112m Treasurer.
OFFICE
OK THIRTEENTH AND EIF
STRLEX8 PASSENGER RAIL
WAY COMPANY.
Pnti.APEt.PnrA, December 17, 1870.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
nil-8iiwial dividend of ONE DOLLAR AND
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS per share from the earn
ings of the road for the last six months, clear of all
taxes, payable on and after the 87th day of Ducem
ber, 1870, at the Otllce of the Company, No. 1011
South BROAD Street.
Transfer Books will close on the ?nth instant, and
be opened on the Sbth. D. BOYER BROWN,
is 17 stutnor treasurer.
W6T
CAMBRIA IRON CJM.PANY. THE AN-
nual Meeting of the stockholders of the Cambria
Iron Company will be held at their oillee, No. 813
South FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, on TUESDAY,
the 17tU 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, 1870. 12 17 im
t&f OFFICE ST.'HICIIOLAS COAL COMPANY,.
No. 2(fi!j WALNUT Street.
The Board of Directors of the st. Nicholas Coal
Company have this dav declared a dividend of
THIRTY CENTS per share, clear of State tax. pay
able on January 3, 1871. The transrer books will be
clohed from December 24 to January 3, 171.
R. JOHNSTON, Treasure'.
ruii.ADKi.rnu, December 21. 1870. Vi 21 n
isy AMERICAN'-LIFE INSURANCK COM-
I'ANY, WALNUT Street, southeast corner of
Fourth.
NOTICE. The Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of this Company, for the election of Thirteen
Trustees to serve for th'i eusnlufr year, will be held
at the Oillce on MONDAY, January 8, 1371, between
10 a. M. and 18 o'clock noon.
12 si nit JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary.
tgy K KNINOTON FO UP SO 01 ET Y A M I ST
Jng of the contributors to this Institution will
be held on THURSDAY EVENING, .December 2i,
is"n. at ly. o'clock, at the Houn House, No. lo;;o
CREASE Street, to elect oiticers and managers for
the ensuing year. CHARLES M. LUK.KSS,
18 21 2t secretary.
fa- OFFICE UNION MUTUAL INSURANCE
w COMPANY, N. E. corner THIRD and WAL
NUT Streets.
Piiii.APKi.rniA, D-c. 17, 1S70.
The Annual Meeting of the Stock and Scrip
holders of the Company, and the Annual Election
for Directors, will be held at the oflloo of the Com
panv at 12 o'clock M., on MONDAY, January , 1S71.
rtll o'J juu juuaj, .secretary.
K? OFFICE PlIM.ADr-XI'UIA Anil TllfcX-
" fliTtf UiltVdlll I'OMPAMV
Phii.adm.i'uia, Dec. 19, H70,
The annual iDcetlnsr of the Stockholders of. this
Company will be held at their oillce, No. 824 South
DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia, on MONDAY,
the 9th day of January, 1S71, at 1 o'clock P. M., when
an election will be held for twelve Lirectors to serve
lor the ensuing jear. VLOYI) II. WHITE,
a l'j idu , AssiBiani secretary.
y- FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' NA-
' THIN A I. BA'If
PmL.APKi.ruiA, December 8, 1870.
The annual election for Directors of tnts Bnnk
will beheld at the Banking House onAVElNE.S-
DAY, the 11th day of January next, between the
hours of U o'clock A. M. and 2 o'clock V. M.
18 8tjll W. RUSHTON, Jr., Cashier,
fV- PHILADELPHIA AND KEAUINlr KA1L
umnriiuPANV nm..n xr. uor si riri'ir
..VTA AS -rtf.A . . , V..Ubt A. V. . . A V J . . . A.
street.
PHII.APKI.rHU, Dec. IB. 1870.
Notlco is hereby given to the Stockholders of this
Company that the annual meeting and election for
President, six Managers, Treasurer, and Secretary
will take place on the second HONDA Y (9th) of
January next, at 18 M. WM. H. WEBB,
18 is tjan v (secretary.
NOTICK It JliiKl.tii UIVEI THAT 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
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER BANE, to
be located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to increase
the same to Ave hundred thousand dollars.
T.
T. T. T.
T. T. T.
T. T. T.
T. T. T.
T. T. T.
T. T. T.
THEUO'S TEABERRY TOOTHWASH.
Sold by all Diugglsts.
A. M. WILSON. Proprietor,
8 S lOrn NINTH AND FILBERT St., Philada.
ny riUMJUE la iii.KKttx uivca that am
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CUESNUT HILL SWINGS AND
LOAN BANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
THaiMPEWSUABLBlPMFUMK !-A8 A
nency. An hour or two after their use there Is no
trace of perfnme left. How dliierent Is the result
succeeding the use of MLKUAi A LAN MAN'S
! lAJKlUA WATBK I iu-r in piuauuu tuo
handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate,
and agreeable fragrance. 8 1 tathat
fs NOTICE 18 nc.itr.ui uiv&j that Aa
application wul be made at the next meeting
of the Gt neral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the lucorporation of a Bank, lu ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled? HBCHKSNUT STREET BANK, to be
located at fblladelphla, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with th right to increase the
same to five hundred thousand dollars.
STEREOFTICON ENTERTAINMENTS
given to Churches, Sunday-schools, and Societies.
Engagements may now be made by inquiring of
W. MITCHELL M'ALLISTER,
Second Stery No. T2S CHESNUT Street. Philada.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania ror uie woorporauoa 01 a nun, in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thoa
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
ore hundred thouandUollars.
i'THtJRSTON S IVORY PEARL TOOTH
a' POWDER ta the bt article for cleansing and
preserving the teeth. For sale by all Druggists.
Price kO and M oenia per bottle. 11 S stulhly
tea notick "Whereby given that an
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Buk-, la
accordance with the laws or the Commonwe It U, to
be eutltltMl THE UNITED STATKS BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital of one million dollars, wit 11 the right to tu
tnasi' tue uue to Ave million dollars.
8PEOIAL NOTIOE8.
ay- CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR TUX POOR.
A Dinner will be given to the CMldren of the
Sabbath and Day Schools of the BEDFORD 8TK RET
MISSION, on CHRISTMAS DAY (Mondays at
o'clock, at the Mission-house, No. l BEDFORD
Street.
Donations In Money, Poultry, Provisions, and
Clothing thankfully received by tho undersigned.
Donations towards the erection of a Building on
the South street front of Lot earnestly eolirited from
our Benevolent Culzens.
All friends of the Cause cordially Invited.
Kpmcnp 8. Yard, No. ost Spruce strett.
Jamks L. Bihph am, No. IK) 8. Socond street.
Jacob II. Burdsai.l, No. 1181 Chesnnt street.
(4KOROK Mili.ikkn, No. 888 Arch street.
Chari.ks Spknckr, No. 7 Hank street.
Gkokok pKHKiNriNF, No. 50 N. Fourth street.
F.pmukp A. Johns, No. 4l Arch street.
W. 11. IlKisi.KR, Seventh National Bank, Fourth
and Market streets. US17swthf4t
Rev. Johw D. Long, No. 019 Bedford street.
FR K N V H BAZAAR
w FOR THB BENEFIT OF THE VICTIMS OF
TDK WAR IN FRANCE.
To be held at CONCKRT HALT;, from December
the 14th to December the 84th, CHRISTMAS EVK.
An appeal is respectfully made to Philadelphia,
the State of Pennsylvania, and all other States, to
contribute in gifts or money towards our Bazaar in
behalf of tho Sufferers In France. The ladles in
charge of tables will gratefully receive any dona
tions made In favor of the country of Lafayette and
Rochambeau. ADELE P1COT, President.
18 g tf C. JACOB, Secretary.
THE UNION TIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY QF PHILADELPHIA.
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. OAQS,
680tf No. JH8JIARKBT St, General Agent.
fiilf- FAIR OF CHRISTM AS GOODS IN AID OF
h T. K. CHURCH OF ST. MATTHIAS, Decem
ber 20, 81, and 22, afternoon and evening, at north
east corner of BROAD and SPRING HARDEN
Streets. 12 IT r.f
rty- DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 911 WALNUT ST.,
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms,
devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with
out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gaa. 11 17
WATOHE8, JEWELRY. ETO.
Gifts! Gifts!! Gifts!!! Gifts!!!!
No. 56 17. EIGHTH Street.
l.uteat Style
FASHIONABLE JEWELRY.
KI.1D GOLD 8FTS (Pin and Drops),
HANDSOME EAR DROPS,
HANDKERCHIEF RINGS, all styles,
WEDDING RINGS, SEAL RINGS.
PEBBLE RINGS, CHILDREN'S RINGS, Etc.
LADIES' SETS (Pin and Drops, In solid Gold,
Australian Pebbles, Coral, Whitby Jet, Black, etc.
BRACELETS, Chain Pattern, handsomely Chased
and Enamelled, Black and Gold Striped, etc., etc,
OPKRA CHAINS, all prices ; LEON TIN E CHAINS,
CHATELAINE CHAINS, NliCK CHAINS, etc., etc.
GENTS' SOLITAIRE and CLUSTER B()S')M
PINS, with beautiful pebble Settings, VEST
CHAINS, BOSOM STUDS, SCARI-' PINS, Etc,
RINGS, Wedding, Seal, Moss Agate, Brilliant,
Amethyst, Pearl, etc., etc.
SLEEVE BUTTONS, HANDKERCHIEF RINGS,
SOCIETY EMBLEMS, LOCKETS, CHARMS,
PENCILS, NECKLACES, AKMLKi'S,
and 1001 other fancy and useful articles.
p. S. CLOSING OUT, at less than cost, all our
cheap and low-priced Jewelry. Articles sold else
where ror one dollar wc are selling for 60 cents and
less.
3. U. 12VA.IVS,
12 20 4trp No. 6C N. EIGHTH Street.
CHR I8TMAS PRESENTS"
Watches,
Diamonds,
Jewelry, and
Silverware
lu reat Variety.
A flue assortment of BAND and CHAIN BRACE
LETS, OPERA CHAINS, NECKLACES, Etc. Our
prices are unusually low.
LEWIS LAD0MUS & CO ,
No. 802 CHESNUT STREET,
1816 tjl PHILADELPHIA.
TO WSR CLOCKS.
U. IV. KUIiriULL.,
Ho. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontolr k. Graham Escapement, stnklng
boar only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or bymalL Baa
HENRY HARPER
IS STILL AT THE OLD-ESTABLISHED STAND,
No. SiO A IK II 0tieet,
And is selling at LOW PRICES, previous to making
alterations, bis stock of
Fine Watches, Jewelry,
and lSlthstulm
JBIJJ V K It W A It 10.
WILLIAM B. WARNE k CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
WATCHES, JEWELRY, AND
Second Boor of No. 63S CHESNUT Street,
B. B. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
FINE ASSORTMENT OK STONE, CAMEO,
plain onyx and solid gold sleeve buttons at
reduced prices.
ISAAC DIXON,
13 15 6t No. 180 South ELEVENTH Street.
OAHRIAQES.
ESTABLISHED 1853.
JOSEPH BECKH AUS,"
No. 1204 FEANKF0RD Avenue,
ABOVE G1RARD AVENUE,
Manufacturer of exclusively FIRST-CLASS
CARRIAGES.
NEWEST STYLES.
Clarences, Landaus, Landaak-ttes, Close Coaches,
Shlitlajr or. Coaches, Coupes, Uiroticues, Pbu-tons,
Kcckaway. Etc., Si liaULB FOR PRIVATE
FAMILY amd PLUlIO I sE. Workmanship and
BbIbU second to none in the country.
Fire and varied stock ou u.ud completed and In
the works, timers receive prompt anu peraontl au
tentlon. i 11 work warranted. U l 3mrp
WHISKY, WINE, ETC
QAR8TAIRS A McCALL.
Ho. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti
1H POUTERS Of
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olivi Oil, IU.
WUOUCSALB 0X4LHU IS
PURE RYE WHISKIES
Ot BOND AKD TAX T AIP. ' M M
jBfcUMBnr.Ll.A8 CllEAPFSTINTrl C1TT !
Tdhoa . Mo. i . auauttt au, , t u
DRV QOOD&.
Ijfgtjf CHFSNUX STREET. tjTg
AT RETAIL.
Grand Clearing Sal
or
Prior to making extensive alterations in the Stoa
Rare opportunities of securing GREAT BARQAl
adapted to the wants of Families, and sabstant
gifts for the HOLIDAYS. The entire Wholesale a
Retail Stocks are combined, constituting the greij
est concentration of BARGAINS in the better cl.i
of DRY' OCODS ever offered in this city, and
marked aown to such extremely low rates as v;
ensure rapid Bales.
Strictly One ?rice. q
ALEXANDER RICKEY
No. 727 CHESNUT St.,
i
13 IB thstutf PHIL VDBLPHIA
INDIA SHAWLS ANO SCARH
GsoRosiirnirxsR,
No. 916 CXXX2SRUT ST It 12 Hi
Has In store a large and elegant stock of IND,
SCARFS. Also,
Silks in Great Variety,
With a stock ol
A
Rich India and French Fantf
Goods, 1
different In style from any in the city. Purohas
of Christmas presents will do well to examine ft)
stock before pnrcnasing. vi h lmrn
PIANOS.
GEORGE STtCK & CO.'
PIANOS,
M 1 j . WT . ft-
ALSO,
HAINES BROS.' PIANOS.
Only place In Philadelphia for sale of
Mason & Hamlin's World-Renown
Cabinet Organs.
Fur tale or rent, or to rent teUh view to wtrctow. a
pvt rental apt'ly. 9 lilt
UOVLI) Ac risen UK.
fri.i Cfceaaac Street
1U1S Arrh Htreeu
J. R. CJOUI.D,
WM. ii. FleH'HKK.
STElNWAY & SONS'
Grand Square and Upright Pianos.
Special attention Is called to their ne '
Patent UprlgHt Pianos
With Double Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tabnll
Metal Frame Action, eta, which are matchless
Tone and Touch, and unrivalled In durability.
WAREROOMS,
No. 1006 CUESNUT STREET,
13 tfrp PHILADELPHIA.
E1'AIILlNIIaI 1883.
MEYER'S
World-Renowned, Creicent-Scale, I
proved Overstrung
IIiVPf O-ITOUXJES
FIRST PRIZES AWARDED IN EUROPE AN
AMERICA. -INSTRUMENTS
FOLLY WARRANTED.
Salesrooms, No. 722 ARCH STREET,
13 1 thstulni PHILADELPHIA
FURNAOES, ETO.
ESTADLISHED 1825.
FBKS, T. MICKS. B.
. . Mil
- J
S. J. DBAS O. GO
JIAItlirACTUItUKS
Warm Air Furnaces
Cooking- Xtang-ca,
Portable Heaters. Low Down Grates. Slate Manteli
Bath Boilers, Registers and Ventilators. I
No. I I I North SEVENTH St.
PHILADELPHIA. 9 8 thstaBnu
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
i
1004
ARCH STREET.
1004
GRIFFITH & PAGE.
HOLIDAY LIST.
Car-rtu Itrackets,
lloolc Shelve,
lllacklner Case,
Spice lloxes,
Children' Trajs.
Table 9Iati,
Fire Screens,
Cake ISoxew, '
inoklner tJetw. 1
Match Sales), A
Wall Pocketw,
Plated Knlrew.
Crumb Trays,
ltltuthsmi VrnmbllraiheM
Patent Plated Puddlacr liahe
BOOTS AND SHOES.
HOLIDAY PRESENT
rou hoy,
Fine- Otili Roots.
UAUTLKTT,
No. 33 SOUTn SIXTH BTRCET,
1 II ttstnDtl
ABOVE CHK8Nlir.
i V-. HORSE COVERS, BPt'KALO ROUiM
y1 vKsucy Rubes, Lap Rugs, Pur UIovm aa
foliar, l.urse Htock of ail grJe goods at lotrtxi
prices. MUV1 KS Uarnesn, Saddlery aait TruuJ
1em
1
btore, ro. urn MAKivbi street. u n u luirp