THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH i'HILADELPHIA, TUESDAY", DECEMBER 27, 1870. ' TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1870. g- 1 1 -- SENATOR WALLACES PLATFORM. The Clearfield (PaJ Republican, the home organ of Senator Wallace, has a carefully prepared leader in ita issue of last week, foreshadowing the future policy of the Democratic party in this State. As the arti cle certainly reflects Senator Wallace's views, and as he will be the master spirit of his party in the coming Legislature, we copy the material points of it. It will be seen that a fair apportionment, constitutional reform, and an advancement of the Democratic! stan dard generally, are his cardinal articles of faith. After discussing the prospects of Democratic success in the First Senatorial district, it says: "With success In that election, we have the Senate and will control Its organization ami be able to command a fair bill and au honest apportionment of the Statu. So too In regard to a Constitutional Convention, with one branch of the Legislature we will have our fair proportion of the delegates and our just share of representation therein. That re form In many matters of State Government Is Im peratively necessary can scarcely be controverted the election of a State Treasurer by the people ; the relief of an overburdened Supremo bench ; a check to special legislation by some such provision as Senator Wallace embraced In his amendment offered In the Senate last session ; the necessity for checking the abuses and corruption always accompanying the election of a United States Senator, as well as those surronnding the atmosphere of every bill affecting large interests, are each of them matters of grave moment, and In our judgment demand the calm consideration that should be given them by a con vention honestly composed of each shade of political . entiment. It will not do for the Democracy longer o halt and draw back from the advocacy of reforms he necessity for which is self-evident. We must e in the van of healthy progress, not lagging In the rain of in digested radical reform. We must re fognize existing evils and apply the remedy. We must be true to the past and ready to guide the events of the future. Taking no step backwards, we must appreciate at their full worth the evidences of disruption and disinte gration shown by our antagonists, and eliminating our policy upon the questions of the present and Immediate future from the great doctrine that Hint people Is best governed which is best governed,' and re-enunciating the great landmarks of our time-honored principles, we can move forward a harmonious and united party, whose ranks will be swollen at every step by the accession of thousands of our recent foes. "An honest apportionment, constitutional reform. and the administration of the government in accord ance with the tenets of the Democratic faith, are the key-notes to success, and will be the evidence of vitality In a harmonious, progressive, and victorious Democracy." THE FREE-TRADE MILLENNIUM. The sum and substance of the free-trade "re venue reform" doctrine is "No impost duty to be levied on any article where the like article is produced in the United States." If this theoretical tariff of the revenue re formers is put into practical shape, what becomes of our internal system of taxation? We must certainly abandon our internal taxes on spirits, tobacco, and cigars, from which the bulk of our internal revenue is now de rived. The American manufacturer of either must cease operations, unless the internal taxation is repealed as soon as the above doc trine is established by the removal of impost duties from spirits, manufactured tobacco, and cigars. Without the eiglity.ua von million dollars derived from taxes on those articles during the last fiscal year, the revenue from internal sources would have amounted to but ninety eight million dollars including gross reoepts, sales, apeoial taxes, legacies, and successions, ohedale A, and two-thirds of the income tax, repealed under the act of July It, 1870. Under the revenue reform tariff we would, therefore, be obliged to go back and renew the internal taxes we have repealed except ing those on manufactures, as no manufac ture oould exist with the five per cent, ad valorem taxes formerly collected and would levy an income tax that would be a "stun ner;" license taxes of the steepest grade; taxes on railroads, that would take the "brief remainder" of the New York and Erie; taxes on banks; taxes on insurance companies; taxes on all corporations; and stamp taxes that wou'd legitimatize revolution. "Oh, but," says the revenue reformer, "we are to have a revenue tariff, and will not need more than a few millions from internal sources, all of which can be easily borne by the tax- payer." The reply to this is a query. On what arti cles do yon propose to lay your simply reve nue imposts ? Certainly yon cannot levy any on silks, woollen manufactures, cloths, mus liaa, oottoa goods, nor hardware, cutlery, books, or cereals. You have tea and coffee to-day, not sugar, on which you can levy a duty; but to-morrow may prove that both are produced within our own boundaries. Then what ? Certainly, you cannot refuse to stand or fall by your own doctrine so defi nitely laid down, that no impost shall be en aoted on any article when the like article ii grown or produoed or manufactured in the United States. If you frame your revenue tariff to-day, and any article therein subjected to duty is produced la this country to-morrow, as a consequence of Vie protection whicJi your im. poit affords, you must modify your tariff at onoe, or your fabrio topples to its foundation atone! If you aay that this is absurd with refer ence to tea and coffee and numerous articles not now produced in this country, than we ask, "When you have destroyed an industry f this country by your revenue tariff, eo that its product is done away with, must you not at once place that product on your revenue list ana subject it to a revenue duty; or now can yoa permit, with any show of fairness or justice, the levy of a tax on one artiole not of domestic growth or production, and not levy on all such articles? Yoa have no right to even en courage home produetion of any article by your levying an impost duty. You must, to be consistent, levy a horizontal rate on all artiole not produoed in this country. You cannot adopt, with any show of oonsistency, the English method of levying imposts on a few items the universal Yankee ingenuity would produce every item of the English list Within a month after the imposition of duties, provided the market depended upon the diffe rence of duty. "Well," Bays a revenue reformer, "suppose we are driven to an abandonment of all im. posts under your supposition of what inny happen under a revenue tariff? we can colleot direct taxes, since you believe that internal taxes would prove such a burthen, and go directly upon real property for the wherewith to carry on the Government." To which our answer is, What right have you "revenue reformers" to abandon your tariff theory at all ? If that prinoiple is cor rect in theory, why not adhere to it to the end? why should there be any doubting Thomas in your fold? Is it not patent that you have no right to protect any interest whatever by your policy? The only solution to your theory, when it practically demon strates that you must give up all imposts, internal taxes, and direct taxes on realty, is a prr capita tax or poll tax on each man, woman, and child perhaps the latter ought to be omitted, as it is a domestio product in the United States. With all advocato3 of a "pure and simple revenue tariff," there can be no dodging the practical result that they must reach, always provided that their asser tion is correct, viz.: "That an impost duty is so much added to the price of the article to the consumer, that it comes directly from the consumer's pockets, that it goes not into the Treasury, but very largely into the pookets of and enriches monopoly." We say with Greeley "No hash," on this question. Pass round the dish aud let every one have a chance. What's the use of being afraid of results? Drive on to per capita taxation! How popular true government will then become, and how economical it will be! That will bring about the millennium and Wells, the New York Evening rost, the Chicago Tribune, and George Francis Train will all be of no use, and their services can all be dispensed with. "I wish all de world were dead" said an old African. "Why bo?" said his interlooutor. "Because den dis nigger could ride roun' and sell land," was the response. NAVAL STAFF RANK. The present Congress should by all means, before its adjournment, bring the naval staff and line controversy to an end by passing a law giving the staff officers the positive rank that will place them on an equal footing with the staff of the army, and secure them the social and official privileges to which they are entitled. The controversy that has now been going on for a number of years has caused nn immense amount of discontent and demoralization in the navy, aud it never c.tn be settled in a manner satisfactory to all parties unless Congress defines the position of the staff officers in such a manner that there can be no future question about it. All previous enactments of Congress and all orders from the Navy Department that have sought to de fine the position of the staff officers, and to accord them the position to which they were entitled, bnro leu so loosely Wuiitad tUftt the line have had no difficulty in violating their spirit if not their letter, and if any proof were needed that the staff should be protected by a positive law that will admit of no controversy, the action of the Navy Department in degrading them from the rank they had previously held, after Admiral Porter came iuto power, would be of itself more than sufficient. If this question merely concerned the per sonal comfort and convenience of certain officers of the navy, it would still merit the candid consideration of Congress; but B3 the present condition of affairs materially aff ects the efficiency of the naval service by prevent ing competent men from joining the differ ent staff corps, by driving from them officers whose services the Government cannot afford to lose, and by causing intense dissatisfaction among those who remaiu, it is the plain duty of Congress to remove all legitimate came of complaint. Since tke conclusion of the war the resignations among the surgeons have been so many that the medical corps is now reduoed to an extent that is injurious to the service, it being found impossible to per suade competent medical men to enter the navy as the matter now stands. The engineer corps has suffered to a nearly equal extent, many of the most accomplished and talented engineers whose names are in the "Register" of lrti;.l having resigned, preferring to seek their fortunes on shore rather than to remain in the navy, while they were not sure from one day to another what were their rights and privileges, or whether they had any that the line officers were bound to respect. Many of these offioers could easily have been retained if the status of the Btaff had been what it should be. and if Congress takes the proper action there will probably be but little difficulty in supplying their places with gentlemen of equal attainments. While the staff corps have thus been depleted, there are so many line officers that the Navy De partment cannot fiud employment for them, but, in face of this fact, it is seriously urged upon Congress to continue the useless grade of Admiral, with its emoluments, for the benefit of an officer who ha3 proved himself before the whole country to be a wholly im proper person to enjoy the additional honors that it is proposed to confer npon him. At the last session of Congress a number of bills for the settlement of the staff rank question were introduced, the best of which in many respects was that of Representative Stephens, of New Hampshire. The objec tionable feature of this bill is that does not do the engineer corps justice, as it makes the nnmber of chief engineers less than the num ber of full Burgeons or of full paymasters. Otherwise it gives the staff officers all they have a right to ask, and does no injustice whatever to the line. If Congress should pass this bill, the staff and line quarrel that has caused so much ill-blood in the navy would be settled beyond dispute, and we hope tinoerely that the present session will not be allowed to pass away ithout definite action being taken upon U or some similar measure that will serve the same purpena. THE DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED PI11LADEL I'm A N8. With in a few days past two distinguished rhiladelphians, the Rev. Albert Barnes and S. Morris Wain, Esq., have been carried off by death, and it is but proper that their de cease should be noticed otherwise than by mere obituary sketches. Mr. Barnes, who died on Saturday last, full of years and honors, was one of the most dis tinguished clergymen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and circum stances more than any desire of his own made him a prominent figuie in one of the most important episodes in the history of that Church. Mr. Barnes was the immediate cause of the division of the Church, which he happily lived to see reconciled, and we believe that no one rejoiced more sincerely than he did when the distinction of Old School and New School was done away with; and the great religions denomination with which he was identified again became what it was before unhappy differences divided it. It was as an eloquent preacher, a faithful pastor, an able writer, and a pro found biblical scholar that Mr. Barnes will be best remembered. As a preacher and pas tor he was the revered spiritual guide and counsellor of several generations of wor shippers at the Washington Square Presbyte rian Church, with which he was actively con nected for thirty-seven years. To the world at large he was chiefly known by his writ ings, among whifli the most important are his "Biblical Notes," which have had an ex traordinary popularity, both in this coun try and in Europe. Mr. Barnes wa3 a logical reasoner and the mas ter of a peculiarly lucid style; and for these reasons his writings are equally valu able to biblioal students and to ordinary readers. As a preacher and pastor Mr. Barnes' popularity did not depend entirely upon his great pulpit talents, for he was, a man of peculiarly winning manners in private, and he will be remembered with the fondest affection by a more than usually large circle of warm personal friends. On our third page we publish a very complete sketch of his career, to which we refer our readers, and merely in this place pay a tribute to his memory as one of the most useful, modest, and self-sacrificing clergy men whose talents and labors have aided in advancing the cause of Christianity in Phila delphia. He rests from his labors and his works do follow him. S. Monis Wain, Esq., who died on Thurs day, was one of our most esteemed private citizens. During a long life he was inti mately connected with various mercantile enterprises that have contributed materially to the prosperity of Philadelphia, and al though he never accepted oflioe or placed himself prominently before the public, he distinguished himself on all proper occasions by hia public spirit, and displayed a lively interest in all enterprises connected with the welfare of the city. He was particularly prominent in giving liberal aid to a multi tude of benevolent schemes, and there were fm suilellea wllli guud objects In View that did not receive his hearty support. Mr. Wain's good works were done quietly and without ostentation, and many of them will never be known, but they were nevertheless in the highest degree valuable, and by his death Philadelphia lose3 one of her most public-spirited and most truly benevolent citizens. The World declares that the passage of the San Domingo resolution "is the death-knell of the Republican party" a statement which is very important if true, but we do not be lieve a word of it. The party has been look ing out for a new issue for some time, and if the history of past conflicts affords a fair in dication of the future, a territorial acquisi tion will be apt to prove as popular as any thing that could have been selected. The Democracy carried the Union in 1844 on the Texas annexation scheme, and the Republi cans will win more votes than they will lose by a cortest predicated on the annexation of San Domingo, provided a proper investiga tion shows that the proposed acquisition is not clogged with too many expensive and troublesome conditions. Sumner and Schurz may go over to the Democraoy on the new issue, but they win take with them but few recruits, while thousands of new voters can be gained by a cheap sugar and cheap coffee platform- NOTICES. You Can Buy Cl.OTHINO BZTTKK AND C'HBAPKit or BiKNKrr A CO., Tower Ham., NO. 513 MABKST bTREET, IUi i -wiv Bxtwkkn Fifth and sixra Stkset. THAN ANVWHIHK BIAS. THE V WILL NOT BK I'NDWtSOLD . UNDER AN V CUCUMSTANCS.i. What i-t Mori Common ok Distressing than a Btlioi' Attacs? Who Is not familiar with the well-known symptoms, oppression across the sto mach and chest, low spirits, restlessness, gloomi ness of mind, 'weariness, dull headache, dirty, greasy appearance of the Bkin, yellow tinge of the white of t'ae eyes, loss of appetite, and eostlveness ? Few, indeed, of the more ordinary Ills of life are more widely prevalent than Jhese bilious disorders, and yet they may readily be got rid of by using Dk. Jayns 8 sanative Pnxs, by whose operation the liver will be rapidly restored to healthy action, the vitiated secretions of the stomach changed, all cos tivenesa removed, and the whole system assisted In recovering its normal condition. Sold by all drags'.st. 'AfcOlT SAU E." the t'litorj of The KvtnU:i TetegrapH. In the issue of the Morning Postot the 23 1 lust, there is aa error in what la htatea la reference to the cases against certain parties in the city for manufacturing and soiling a counterfeit article of Lea & ierrin3' Worcestershire Sauce. The fact that a counterfeit sauce waa made and sold iathU community was abundantly proven. The man A. A. Smythe, who waa the manufacturer of the article, pleaded to guilty the charge, and was sentenced by the court In May last. la reference to the case of Henry Tohl, tried Thursday last, the evidence against him s'.iowed conclusively that he had been dealing In the counterfeit article, and hia acquittal waa owing to a nvTe technicality. Thomas R. Fatten, who U still under bail, will be tried in due course. John Duncan a bona, Special Agents for the sale of Lea A Perriua' Worcestershire Sauce in the United States, intend to prosecute to the full, it extent of t'le'.awa'l person whom they have or may here after d scover engaged tu makio or seKiuj a couu '.erre.t oi Le & 1'errias Sauce.; Whitman's Jujube. For singers and public speakers, to keep the throat moist and voice clear, It la excellent, sn cents per box. Druggists sail it. Stefhkn f. Whitman & Son, Sole Manufacturers, 8. W. corner of Twelfth and Market streets. CLOTHING. OUR LOSS 13 YOUR GAIN! The Prices are Down! Down! Down!!! 603 and 60S Down!!!! (JOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR BARGAINS ! RA.HGAIA8!! BARGAINS',!! BARGAIN!! K. & W. CO ME AND SEE! Great AND SEE!! ' .ar Tl AND SEF!!! I"lW.a AND SEE! Hall. We have markedjHow a all our prices f For the Holidays For Christmas Presents For New Year's Gifts. No matter how much we loBe on It, We arc determined to aell It, And accommodate the public with It At prices to suit everybody. N. It. Our reduction in priceB is aa great on oar Cnstomflnadc Clothes, to order from piece goods, as on our ready-made stock. GREAT BIIOWN HALX, 603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET. "UNDER THE Handsome Ooods. Elegantly Trimmed, Artistically Cut, and IVTade in the best STYLE. Tailors.) Tailors. Tailors. IT IS EVEN SO! HAVING TOO MAN If CHEVIOTS! AND WISHING TO CLEAR THEM OFF, WE WILL 6ELL THEM BELOW COST ! SUITS COSTING $15 WE OFFER AT $13. " " $1 " $10. ti 22 t3 EITHER READY-MADE OR MADE TO MEASURE. These are all Sound Goods AND TBI MOST SEASONABLE, THE MOST SERVICEABLE, AND THE MOST COMFORTABLE SUIT, AND BY FAR The Cheapest in the City. EVANS & LEACH, No. 623 MARKET STREET, 12 SthStnUn PHILADELPHIA. " fine" " READY-M A I K CLOTHING, ComWuiDj Style, Durability, and Excellence of Workmanship. JONES' Ono-P rico EST A B LI 8 H ME NT, No. 604 MARKET STREET. GEO. W. NIEMANN. Handsome Garments made to order at the short est notice. 10 3 tfrp -too VIOIX NTREET. POLITICAL ECONOMISTS SAY Expenses Eat Up Houses. On this Ground Arch Street Defies 'Competition. HAVE NOT BOUGHT OUT SEVERAL IM PORTERS, BUT HATE ENOUGH TO SUIT ALL GOOD -PAYING CUSTOMERS. WE DO NOT BUY ALL FOR CASH, BUT Dl S GOUNT ENOUGH TO PAY ALL OUK EX-TENSES. HAPPY CHRISTMAS. DRY QOODS. HOLIDAYS. DESIRABLE DRY GOODS. GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT. TOLITE AND RESPECTFUL ATTEN TION. "AT THORNLEY'S," EIGHTH A1SD SPRING GARDEN. SPECIAL ATTENTION INVITED TO BLACK SILKS, RICH POPLINt?, PAISLEY SHAWLS, POWER-LOOM TABLE LINENS, PIANO COVERS, MARSEILLES QUILTS, Etc. PARTICULARLY CHEAP. JOSEPH H. TH0RNLEY, NORTHEAST CORNER OF EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN Sti 83 .thBtnS PHILADELPHIA. FINE DRESS GOODS For Holiday' Presents H. STEEL & SON, Nos. 713 and 715 N. TENTH Street, Preparatory to maslng alterations, WILL CLOSE OUT THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF SILKS, DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, VELVETS, FLUSHES, VELVETEENS, HOSIERY, WHITE GOODS, and KID GLOVES, FOR CASH, WITHOUT REGARD TO COST. Stock new and choice, all bought this season. VERY OHEAT BARGAINS Will be oiK red, as our entire stock MUST BE SOLD. BEST FRENCH CHINTZES, 31 and 37c. Open in the evening until 9 o'clock. 12 85 at DREXEL & CO., No. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET, American and Foreign flanker, DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIN CIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE. DEALERS IN Government and Railroad Securities, Drexel, Winthrop & Co.,Drexel, Ear jet & Co., No. 18 Wall Street, I No. 8 Kue Scribe, New York. I Porta. FOR CHRISTMAS. We desire to call the attention of the public to ou Fine Fruits, Nuti, and Delicacies Of every description, and to the fact that we are selling our goods as low as possible. Call and see for yourselves before purchasing else where. E. BRADFORD CLARKE, SUCCESSOR TO SIMON COLTON A CLARKE, S. W. Corner BROAD and WALNUT, 1 thBtntMp PHILADELPHIA. RIC'KMAKEliS' CI.A V-SI'Al)T:s AND TOOLS, Miller's male. No. S9 S. FIFTH Street. llin -- OYSTER KNUK OF KINfc L J cast Sitel. No. 3t9 S. FIFTH Su 400 LAuOELL JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE. HOLIDAY GOODS. J. E. CALDWELL & CO.. JEWELLERS, No. 902 CHESNUT Street, Open this day a large Invoice or Pink Coral Jewelry Of Newest Designs, Jnst arrived from Naples. They 1U also open on Monday next an Invoice or English Fancy Goods, Including a rresh supply or Ladies' Furnished Work Baskets. Their stock oi PARIS AND VIENNA NOVELTIES Superior to that of any previous season. ' .CHRISTMAS GOODS, In Gold, Silver, Bronze, Crystal, Leather, Wood, I Etc. Etc., ! AT PRICES SUITED TO THE TIMES. ii 82 trip HOLIDAY COODS. HOLIDAY GOODS. Spring Horses, Rocking Horses, Children's Carriages, BOYS' SIEDS, WAGONS, VELOCIPEDES, Etc. Etc. H. J. SHILL, Factory, No. 226 DOCS Street, 18 9 ip BELOW EXCHANGE. 1020. 1020. PRESENTS ! PRESENTS ! AT REUKAUFF'8 ART GALLERY AND LOOKINQ-QLAS8 WARS ROOMS, No. 1020 CHESNUT STREET, French and German Carved Goods. Imported and American Pictures innumerable. l Is 13 12trp 1020. 1020. Helen's Medicinal Cod Liver Oil, FOR COUGHS, COLDS, CONSUMPTION, BRON CHITIS, ASTHMA, ETC. The utmost reliance may be placed on Us genuine ness and superior quality. Sold In bottles only, by all Druggists. SHOEMAKER & N0LEN, PROPRIETORS, 18 8 thstulm No. 183 South FRONT Street. rfJNy- HOUSE COVERS, BUFFALO KOUB.S Fancy ltobes. Lap Rugs, Fur Gloves and Collars. I.arfre stock of ail grade goods at lowest prices. MoYKH b Harness, Saddlery and Trunlt Suae, No. "no MARKET Street. H imrp
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