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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH I'HILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1870.
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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1370.
W The earliest regular edition of Tax
Evening Telegraph goes to press at
o'olook, and the subsequent regular editions
at 2J, 3J, and 4J. Whenever there U im
portant news of the progress of the Euro
pean war, extra editions will be issued after
this hour, and before the regular time for the
arly edition.
THE TRUE ROAD TO REFORM.
The beneficent labors of William Welsh of
this city in purging the Indian Department,
in unearthing the frauds which it has so long
sanctioned, in disseoting the vouchers given
to rich contractors, and in exposing extor
tions practised upon the aborigines, cannot
be too highly praised; and it i3 deeply to bo
regretted that all other departments of the
National, State, and city governments cannot
be overlooked in a similar manner by intelli
gent, industrious, and incorruptible citizens,
We would like to see daylight poured in upon
the Navy Department, so that the public can
be told plainly how many useless loafers are
on its pay-rolls receiving enormous salaries.
The War Department should be exa
mined critically by keen and candid eyes
ready to expose abuses which, though appa
rently sanctioned by custom, are nevertheless
grossly unjust. The whole machinery of Con
gress, too, and the practical workings of legis
lation, if they could be laid bare to the public
eye, would furnish a lamentable spectacle
and intensify the public demand for reform.
And if, in addition to the exposure of the
mass of rottenness that exists perpetually at
Washington, acute observers would depict
with bold and faithful hands the wrong-doing-at
Harrisburg and the peccadilloes of Phila
delphia ofticials, the people would be amazed
at the impotence, corruption, extrava
gance, and rascality of many of
their servants. What is needed
is that dine rent men should each take tip
some one of a hundred different departments
in a patient and persevering spirit like that
displayed by Mr. Welsh in his investigations
of the Indian Department, and publish the
results fearlessly to the world. We have lost
faith in Congressional or Legislative commit
tees of investigation. They rarely act effi
ciently unless they have some partisan pur
pose to serve, and they only disclose as much
of the truth as serves their immediate ends.
The nation is getting more and more into the
position of a rich housekeeper whose servants
combine to deceive and defraud him; and if
the Republic is to be defended and purified,
it must be by men who are above partisan
ambition.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD. The magnificent enterprise which will open-
open up to civilization our Northwestern
territory, with all its wealth of arable lands.
minerals, timber, and wonderfully salubrious
climate, is being rapidly pushed forward, and
it will be but a short time before the Northern
Pacific Railroad will be completed, and the
Atlantio and Pacific Oceans united by another
band of iron. The work on the eastern end
of this road is progressing at the rate of two
miles a day, and by the time spring opens
the engineers will be ready for the workmen
to commence upon the western or Pacific
end, and during the spring, summer, and
fall the grading and track-laying will go on
as fast as possible. In the meantime,
the Northern .Paoific ltailroad Company, hav
ing in view the importance of developing as
rapidly as possible the country through whioh
their main line will pass, are taking active
measures to make important connections
and to locate branch lines that will make the
Northern Pacific the centre of a network of
railways. To this end they have already
purchased the St. Paul and Pacific ltailroad,
three hundred miles of which are finished
and in prosperous operation in one of the
finest sections of Minnesota, and other
equally valuable connections have been made
and other branch roads projected which will
enable the company to command the entire
trade of the Northwest, as well as to furnish
the shortest route between theAtlantic States
and the Pacific, and with their steamship
connections between Europe and China and
Japan.
The Northern Pacific Railroad will reduce
the distance between the great lakes and the
Pacific Ocean by 000 miles, aud consequently
the distance between Philadelphia and New
York by the same number. Even more im
portant than this is the faot thut this road
will lessen the distance between London and
China by at least 1 too miles. Such an ad
vantage as this is of itself enough to assure
the prosperity of the road, for in these days
of rapid communications time is money in the
most literal sense, and the line that offers the
greatest facilities for the rapid transportation
of goods will certainly command the trade of
the world.
The lack of railroad communication has
hitherto prevented the northwestern section
of our territory from being settled as rapidly
a some others, and yet all who. have ex.
plored it unite in prainea of its fertility, its
mineral wealth, and its remarkubly salu
brious climate. The latitude is about the
name as that of Northern New York and New
England, but a variety of causes have con
tributed to render the climate much more
healthful aud invigorating than that of our
Northeastern States. In fact, everything
appears to have contributed to make this the
garden-spot of the United States, and the
improving hand of man in alone needed to
make the desert blossom like the rose. The
Northern Pacific Railroad will aid in develop
ing this magnificent section of country in a
manner that would be impossible without the
facilities that a transcontinental line
and its connections will afford, and
enterprising settlers are already making their
way along the line of the road and establish
ing homesteads that in a few years will be
splendid estates. The plans adopted by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company for the
encouragement of permanent Bottlers are ex
ceedingly liberal, and there ii no doubt that
they will aid materially in filling up the
whole Northwest with a thrifty and intelli
gent population. The Northern Pacific Rail
road is a great national enterprise, and it is
being advanced under such unusually favor
able auspices that its suocess is absolutely
certain. Its bonds are therefore worthy of
more than usual attention from capitalists
who wish to make safe and profitable invest
ments. Messrs. Jay Cooke fc Co.,
No. 114 South Third street, the
fiscal agents of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, now offer for sale at par and ac
crued interest the first mortgage land grant
gold bonds of the road. Both the principal
and interest of these bonds are payable in
American gold coin, the principal at the end
of thirty years, and the interest at the rate of
seven and three-tenths per cent., half-yearly,
on the first of January and the first of July.
These bonds are secured by a first mortgage
on the railroad and the Government land
grant, and the general mortgage is recorded
in the office of the Secretary of the Interior
at Washington, the trustees being Messrs.
Jay Cooke and J. Edgar Thomson. For those
who wish to make safe, profitable, and per
manent investments, no securities in the
market offer more advantages than these
bonds, and we commend them to the favor
able notice of all who wish to put their
money where it will be secure, and at the
same time yield a handsome profit.
Two of the prominent Democratic poli
ticians of New York have recently made, in
an ostentations manner, large'gifts to the poor
of that city, William M. Tweed, head sachem
of Tammany Hall, contributing $.".0,000 and
Sheriff OBrien L'",ooo. It is decidedly
better that these gifts should be made than
that the fortunes amassed by the donors
through their political successes should be
devoted wholly to selfish purposes; but if the
whole truth were told, we suspect that Tweed
and O'Brien would rank with that class of
operators who put a penny in the urn of
poverty and take out a shilling. Tweed has
accumulated an enormous fortune by a series
cf speculations which are all based on his
partisan influence, and after selling the peo
ple out wholesale he can well afford to retail
relief among his henchmen. O'Brien, as
Sheriff of New York, has received as salary
twenty times as much as his services were
worth, and he would only render strict justice
if he paid back to the people nineteen-twen-tieths
instead of a mere tithe of his over-pay.
The American people are being devoured by
their politicians, who habitually barter away
their property and their rights: and while the
partial restitutions which are occasionally
made are creditable things in their way, the
great wrong consists in the toleration or crea
tion of innumerable opportunities for the
enrichment of partisan adventurers.
We receive many communications asking
why Ahem is not arraigned and tried for fo
menting a riot at the meeting of the Return
Judges in last October. The evidence adduced
against him certainly furnishes probable
cause of action, and his imputed offense
strikes at the very foundation of social order.
Y'et months after months pass by without an
attempt being made to summon him before a
jury of twelve good and lawful men. Who is
to blame for this neglect '(
Thi Dakvbian Pkiki'U'ai.itik. A recent caWe
telegram states that Prince Charles of Kouiuanta
has called the attention of the great powers to the
fact that his position, as settled by the treaty of
Paris, is no longer tenable. The necessity for tins
appeal Is shown in the following letter from a cor
respondent at Bucharest, who writes under date of
November SO: "The first news of Gortsouakoirs
evil designs was telegraphed here to the Prince as
early as the Sth Inst. Some very important message
arrived, and the result was the immediate departure
of his representative te his post at Constantinople,
to press further on the Turks the necessity of for
warding troops here, and this though they
were refused four months atro, when
80,800 were asked for; but in the present state
of Roumania the fact of Turkish troops entering at
one end would cause the Russians to enter at the
other, and the Wallachian would become a sand-
rich, and the result would be that the name 'Rou
mania,' which was painted on the map or Europe
at the treaty of Paris, would be obliterated. The
Roumanians talk of a very Urge army of, they say,
over 8i,0u j men. but asyttlliave been unable to
find 40,000, and I have been here three years; but if
Koumania Is still a province of Turkey, or
under her protection as she virtually It by
her paying every year the tnouie how can Turkey
refuse to send troops here? Cue thing, though,
I am quite convinced of, and that Is, if Russia lands
a large force on the shores of liulgaria, nothing on
earth will Induce the Ro.iranniau troops to cross the
Danube to help to expel tueiu, and Koumania will
then declare herself free act independent, and the
Prince will take the title cf King. Whatever hap
pens here Roumania must always recover a ad ap
pear on the stage ol Europe ajraiu monger than
ever firstly, from her position ou tie high road
from London to Bombay by railway, the Danube
washing 80) miles of her coast; and secondly, be
cause she is more civilized tan any part of the
East. Where else will you liud su h roads and Iron
bridges as the Kussiaus will find if they come here
aa between Yasy and Bucharest, or such a lino of
railway as from Bucharest to Glurgevo? In the
East there Is only one malady from which Roumania
suiters, and that is her const nit Chan e of minis
ters. In tliiee years 1 have setn forty-live."
France and the roiE. A recent cable teir?ra
states that M. Garobetta has announced to the Pope
bis desire that Prauce shall terminate the Concor
dat, In order to eilcct the entire separation of Church
and State in France. The separation of the church
and State in France mainly Involves the abrogation
of the Concordat or agreement entered into between
the French and Papal courts at the time of the Re.
storatlon, by which it waa stipulated that the Roman
Catholic bishops aud clergy In France should receive
salaries from the Government, while on the part of
the Papal Court it was agreed that no bull of the
Pope should be published tn France till U had
sanction of the King; and that the approval of the
Government would ke necesMn to render valid all
Important Papnl decrees arTectlng national Interests.
The French Government pays annually about
tlo,iKH),ooo to the Roman Catholic and W0,o)r to
the Trotestant Church. The .lews also receive State
aid.
AeniTOR-OKKERAL AND SCRVITOR-UlNRRiL,
There are a number of candidates for Auditor-General
and Surveyor-General. The strongest candi
dates named for Auditor General are Major David
Stanton, of Beaver couajy, and formerly of the 1st
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and General Beaver, of
Centre. Major Stanton Is a near relative of the late
Secretary of War, and la well spoken or, and seems
to be looming up lately, to the surprise of every one.
Colonel W. W. Jennings, of Dauphin, Is the most
prominent candidate named for Surveyor-General,
and if he consents to be a candidate, he is going to be
a hard man to beat. The Auditor-General will be
conceded to the West, while the Surveyor-General
will be taken from the East.
NOTICES.
Sk vtivc .Tacmts.
. skauno Jacket?.
skating Jackhts.
Skating Jaikkis.
t.knnktt k. Co.,
Tower Ham.,
No. Bis Market Street,
Hai.i-wat between Fifth anu Sixth streets,
BAVK
A fine assortment of thce neaxonable and comforta
ble Coats, tirlHnfi at half-price..
TllKY ARK HEAVY AND WARM,
A c an overcoat, but shorter, and are v orn by mtny
an the only out-of-doui t coat, betuii oi.jicf warm
rnovnh, and mveh more convenient t linn the overcoat
fur busine, and
MUCH CUK.AI'Elt,
Holiday Gifts. Holiday goods In abundance
can be found at Dreka's store, No. 1033 Cheenut
street, and such goods as are acceptable at all
times for presents. His stock comprises writing
desks, pocket-books, gold pens, Inkstands, card
cases, pen-holders, boxes of paper and envelopes,
visiting cards, playing cards, etc. ' Dealers will find
it to their interest to call at Dreka's before purchas
ing elsewhere. His prices are low, and general
satisfaction Is guaranteed in all sales.
Christmas Present?. Persona In search of
Chilstmas or New Year's presents cannot do better
than to call at the store of James W. Queen & Co.,
No. 924 Chcsnut street, and examine the fine assort
ment of opera glasses, stereoscopes and views, gold
spectacles, pocket-rules and measures, thermome
ters, pocket-compasses, and other articles of gene
ral use. Such presents are always acceptable, and
wc know of no place where bargains can be made
to better advantage than at No. 924 Chesnut street.
The firm have also on band globes and pumps, elec
tric machines, magnetic toys, mercurial toys, etc.
Whitman's Jujube. For singers and public
speakers, to keep the throat moUt and voice clear,
it is excellent. 25 cents per box. Druggists sell it.
STErnEN F. Whitman & Son,
Sole Manufacturers,
8. W. corner of Twelfth and Market streets.
SS& A URGE PU3LIC SALE
OF
150 rirst-Slass Carriages,
INCLUDING AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT
OF
FINE CARRIAGES, ROUES, IIA1CNES9,
SADDLES, HIDING WHIPS, ETC.,
at
Gregg & Bowea' Cariia e Worki,
CORNER OF EIGHTH AND ORANGE
STREETS, WILMINGTON, DEL.,
OS WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 1870.
Sale to commence at 11 o'clock A. M.
OCBEE & MILLER,
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Real Estate Agents, Auctioneers.
CHESNUT STREET SKVTING RINK,
TWENTY-THIRD AND CHESNUT STS.
Splendid Skating,
Jieaitlii'ul Ice,
ISIeeraut Warm Kooiiis.
LIBERTY SILVER CORNET BAND.
OPEHALL DAY AND EVENING.
CARD.
THE SKATING PUBLIC ARE RESPECTFULLY
INFORMED TEAT WE HAVE A feOLID BOD 7
OF SMOOTH ICE, SIX INJHEJ THICK, WniClI
WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE WEATHER,
BEING IN A HANDSOME BUILDING, PRO
TECTED FRM SNOW OR RAINSTORMS, AITD
NOT AFFECTED BY THE RISING OF THE
THERMOMETER.
12 28 J. A. PAYNE I'.RO,
HOLIDAY COOOS.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
1 OMIIIIK nUI969
Rocking Horses,
Children's Carriages,
EOYb' SLEDS, WAGONS,
VELOCIPEDES, Etc. Etc
H. J. SHILL,
Factory, No. 226 DOCK Street,
IS 9 4p BELOW EXCHANGE.
BETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT MEAL,
The Genuine Article,
In half and quarter ibl., for sale by
JAMES R. WEBB,
S. E. Corner WALNUT and EIGHTH,
U 3 lmrp PHILADELPHIA.
IOPGEl:S & WOaTENUOLMS POCKET
V hinvt'8, Fairchllds' Celebrated Gold Pens,
j octet-books, etc.. in treat variety.
WiL M. CHRISTY, Stationer,
11 22 tl 1 No. 127 S. THIRD St., below Chesnut.
WILLIAM B. WARME CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
WATCHES, JEWELRY, AND
8 v lfl MLVER WAKE.
Second floor of No. 633 CU ESNUT Street,
6. B. corner bfiYfiVfU and WIESNUT Streets.
CLOTHING.
THOSE OVERCOATS
At the Great Brown Hall
Are the Very Perfection of
Beauty,
Cheapness,
Good Fit,
Flae Style',
Tastefulncss.
Elegance,
Durability,
Neatness,
BUY AN OVERCOAT FOR YOUR BOY,
$5 TO $13.
BUY AN OVERCOAT FOR YOURSELF,
$10 TO $40.
The Great Reduct'.onln tne price of Oyerco its
at the GREAT BROWN HALL make I it
Worm your while
To embrace tae present
Opportunity
To get
A FINE OVERCOAT,
Cheapl Cheap!! Cheap!!!
We do not only sell Overcoats, but one Winter
Clothing of every description Is offered
now
At prices which defy competition.
Don't forget our Custom Department.
YOURS, TRULY,
GREAT J3K0WN HALT,
603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET.
UNDER 1
PHILADELPHIA: PA.
Handsome Goods.
Elegantly Trimmed,
Artistically Cut,
and
IVZade in the best
STYLE.
Tailors. Tailors.
Tailors.
READY-MADE
CLOTHING,
Combining Style, Durability, and Excellence of
Workmanship.
JONES'
Ono-T rico
ESTABLISHMENT,
No. 604 MARKET STREET.
G EO. W. NIEMANN.
Handsome Garments made to order at the short
est notice. 10 3 tf rp
CLOVES.
nj. north Kiuimi sr.
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Handkerchiefs infancy boxes reUice I.
Lace Collars reduced.
Linen Collars reduced.
Hen's Cloth Gloves reduced.
Ladles' Cloth Oloves reduced.
Children's Kid Gloves reduced.
Fancy Jewelry reduced.
Hosiery.
Gents 811k nanakerchic f.
Embroideries.
Shirt Fronts.
Eid Gloves for Ladles.
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Kid Gloves for Children.
Sid Gloves for Ucnt'.tmcu.
Lined Kid Gloves for Gentlemen.
Ladies' and Gents' Castor Gloves.
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OPTICIANS.
SPECTACLES.
Microscopes, Telescopes, Thermometers, Mathe
matical, Surveying, Philosophical and Drawing In
struments, at reduced prices.
JAMES W. QUEEN & CO.,
No. 99A CIIESXUT Street,
1 30 mwaHp rmLASSLPniA.
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ARCH HTREET.
POLITICAL ECONOMISTS SAY
Expenses Eat Up Houses.
On Hi is (i round Arch Street Defies Competition.
HAVE NOT BOUGHT OUT SEVERAL IM
PORTERS, BUT HATE ENOUGH TO SUIT
ALL GOOD RAYING CUSTOMERS. WE
DO NOT BUY ALL FOR CASH, BUT DIS
COUNT ENOUGH TO PAY ALL OUR EXPENSES.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
PIANOS.
SCHOM ACKER & CO.'S
Urcut (Sale of first. l'lu Rose-
ivootl 1'ianoM
At Prices llelotrilie Actual Cost
to 9Ianuftictiiie.
Eavlnp determined to offer our extensive stock of
superior and highly finished Boat-wood 1'ianos at
prices below the actual cost to mauufacture, we will
sell durlDK the nioni li of December at rates
LOWER THAN EVER OKFKKKD HERETOFORE,
in order to close out our large stock by the cud of
the vear.
The reputation of these first-class Instruments
makes It unnecessary for us to say a word in their
favor: they are universally acknowledged to be su
perior to anv instruments made.
Those wishing to purchase or desiring to make
CHRISTMAS l'RESENTS
will find that our special and extraordinary reduc
tion of prices will enable them to oi tain
A FIRST-CLASS INSTRl lEN'T
at a price even less than a second teor tnferloi
one would otherwise cost them.
Those wanting bargains should not 'all to call a',
our
WAREROOMS. No. 1103 C1IE8N'L?T STRKKT,
and examine our large stock, where they will oe
readily convinced of the superiority of these piauos,
aud tlie sacrifice at which we are offering litem.
KCHOM ACKER & CO.
N. B. Sole Agents for the celebrated
RL'RDETT ORGANS.
A SPECIAL DISCOUNT OF Su PKR CENT.
Catalogues, with descriptions of styles and sche
dules of prices, can )e had by applying a; our ware
rcorus, or will be sent by mail. VI it mwsup
3 GEORGE STECK & CO.'S
PIANOS.
tirand, Square and Upright.
ALSO,
HAINES BROS.' PIANOS.
Only place In Philadelphia for sale of
Mason & Hamlin's World-Renowned
Cabinet Organs.
Fur or rent, or to rent with view to purchase, and ,
jHt'i (curat appiy. v lt tr
UOl l,I 6c FISCHEK.
HM I'hemiiit Street,
J.E.OI'I.D. lOlNArrHr..
WiU. ii. I' lMCHEH.
tfi STEiNWAY 4 SONS' ua
Grand Square and Upright Pianos.
Special attention Is called to their ne
l'aleut Upright A'iano,
With Double Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tubular
Metal Frame Action, etc, which are matchless In
Tone and Touch, and unrivalled In durability.
CIIARL.ES 1IL.ASIUS,
WAREROOMS,
No. 100G CHESNUT STUEKT,
13rp PHILADELPHIA.
I8TAltLlSIlBl
frF3 MEYER'S
World-Renowned, Crescent-Scale, Im
proved Overstrung
iiyviso-xoitTi:.
FIHST PRIZES AWARDED IS EUROPE AN
AMErttCA.
1NSTIIUMBNTS FOLLY WARRANTED.
Salesroom, No. 722 AKOH STICK KT.
1'.' 1 thstulm PUILADBLPUIA.
PATENT
Arion Xiaiio lortos,
Warranted to stand lu tune loiter than any other
Piauoi hi the market.
ALSO, ESTEY'S COTTAOE O1C0ANS,
With the Jubilant. E. M. BRl'CK,
No. IS North Sli'KNTIi Street.
Music Bound at lowest rates. 12 9 finwlmrp
j FINANCIAL..
i DKKXEL & CO.,
No. 34 SOUTH THIK1J STREET,
! American and 1'orelsrn Hauherg,
S DRAWS KXCUANUB ON LONDON AND PRIN.
I CIPAL CITIES OF SUROPS.
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DSAL2R8 IN
Government and Railroad Securities,
Drexel, Wtnthrop dt Co., Drexel, Harjes fc Co.,
Ko. is Wall Street, i Mo. S Kue Scne,
New York. I Par j,
400
DELL
JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
J. E. CALDWELL & CO.,
JEWELLEKS,
No. 002 CHESNUT Street, !
Open this day a large Invoice of
Pink Coral Jewelry
Of Newest Designs, Just arrived from Naples.
They will also open on Monday next an Invoice of
English Fancy Goods,
Including a fresh supply of
Ladies' Furnished Work Baskets.
Their stock of
PARIS AND VIENNA NOVELTIES
Superior to that of any previous season.
CHRISTMAS GOODS,
In Hold, silver, Bronze, Crystal, Leather, Wood.
Etc. Etc.,
AT PRICES SUITED TO THE TIMES.
ii aa tf-ip
OPHOLS TERY OOOD8. ETO.
NEWEST DESIGNS
IN
LACE CURTAINS
LAMBREQUINS.
STEVENSON & SCHWEMMER,
No. 1113 CHESNUT Street,
GIICAltD now.
FINE BORDERED SHADES,
With best fixtures, put up 1 1 'CO each.
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
TABLE and PIANO COVERS.
10 12 wfmSnup
ART GALLERY.
1020.
1020.
rilESENTS ! PRESENTS !
AT REUKAUFF'8
ART GALLERY AND LOOKING-GLASS WARE
. ROOMS,
No. 1020 CHESNUT STREET,
French and German Carved Goods. Imported and
American Pictures innumerable. IU is Vitrp
1020.
1020.
TOBACCO.
R B D C L O U
NAVY TOBACCO.
J. A. BLAKE & CO.,
bOLS MANUFACTURERS,
No. 1D07 MARKET STRbET,
11 11 fm3c rj PHILADELPHIA.