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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH 1'IiILA.DELPHIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1870.
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1870. 1
The earliest regular edition of Thk
Evknino Teleqbath goes to press at lj
o'olook, and the subsequent regular editions
at 2, 3 and 4J. Whenever there is Im
portant new of the progress of the Euro
pean war, extra editions will be issued after
this hour, and before the regular time for the
early edition.
THE PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Thk Mayor yesterday signed the Paid Fire De
partment bill, as we anticipated that he would,
and the volunteer system, as his Honor
sagely remarks, for so many years our pride,
but for the last few years not so much so,
ceases to exist. A great pressure was brought
to bear upon the Mayor to induoe him to
reto the bill upon politioal grounds, but Mr.
Fox, we are happy to state, was able to waive
what he not unjustly considered imperfes
tions that interfered with the rights of the po
litioal party to whieh he belonged, and refused
defeat a great measure for the publio good
ior purely partisan reasons. When we con
sider how powerful political influ
ences are, the Mayor is entitled
to great credit for his action in this matter,
and by appending his signature to the bill he
has gained the good- will of the intelligent
men of all parties, and has proved himself
to be a public-spirited citizen and officer.
The Mayor ought to have been met at least
half-way by Councils in his desire to make
the new raid Department as free as possible
from the influences of mere partisan politics
by seouriog for each of the politioal parties
proper representation npon the Board of Fire
Commissioners. We regret, therefore, that
the Republicans of Select Council should
have insisted npon nominating and eleoting
a Democratic commissioner yesterday, for
such a proceeding cannot but cause dissatis
faction. Mr. George W. Plumly, the Demo
cratic member of the board elected
by Seleot Council, is entirely unobjectionable
personally, and will, we believe, make a very
excellent and effioient commissioner, while
his attachment to the Democratic party can
not be impeaohed. This, however, does not
alter the principle at stake; and the Demo
crats 6honld by all means have been permitted
to make their own nomination, and they can
fairly contend that they are not represented
upon the the board so long as the commis
sioners are exclusively the nominees of the
Republicans. If the Democratic caucus
should select a manifestly unfit person the
Republicans would be perfectly justified in
refusing to confirm their nomination; but
unless they do this," fair play requires that
they should be given no cause for complaint.
We hope sincerely that Common Council,
when it elects its four commissioners to
morrow, will not follow the example of the
Select branch, but that it will give the De
mocrats all they are entitled to ia as liberal
a spirit as is possible.
Our principal fear in regard to the organi
ration of the Paid Fire Department is that the
Board of Fire Commissioners will allow them
selves to be induced to purchase or lease more
apparatus than is needed. All the old com
panies will undoubtedly endeavor to sell out
to the best advantage, and the oity will be
callei upon to pay for gewgaws and ginger
bread work npon machines that for all practi
cal purposes are worse than useless. The
commissioners ought not to pay any more
for apparatus than it is worth for actual, effi
cient working purposes, and all the machinery
used by the new department should be made
as plain and unattractive as possible, and
every discouragement should be thrown in
the way of unauthorized persons running to
fires or hanging about the engine-houses.
We do not pretend to say that the Paid
Fire Department bill is perfect, and nume
rous imperfections will doubtless be disco
vered when it goes into practical operation.
In its main features, however, it is, we be
lieve, unobjectionable, and it at least answers
the purpose of finally and forever putting a
quietus to the old volunteer system, which
has become an intolerable nuisanoe. The
citizens of Philadelphia are to be congratu
lated upon the fact that a great reform has
been accomplished by the creation of a Paid
Fire Department, and now the commission
ers, Councils, and the publio generally should
unite in endeavoring to make it as efficient as
possible.
THE INDIAN RING.
It has been charged for years that the Indian
Bureau was notoriously corrupt. Repeated
efforts to reform it have been made, but they
have never been completely successful, and
when frauds of one description w re tempo
rarily suppressed, a new class of schemes to
- plunder the Treasury and cheat the aborigines
were speedily invented. There islomething
In the very natur of the transaction be
tween the Government and the Indians whioh
seems to engender corruption. If a new
appropriation is made tor their relief,
rascally gents pretend thut they hare
lobbied for it at Washington, an demand a
lion's share of the governmental bounty
either from the rude sons of the forest and
'! plains or from disbursing officers. This p0.
cegg hag been repeated over and over again
until it has enriched successive generations
pi white jackals. Even when this form of
extortion baa not been practised, the iniiu-
enlil politicians who have from time to time
I en Governors of Territories and 8nperin
tendents of Indian Affairs in fron
tier regions have often countenanced
practices which plain folks call down
right stealing; and sub-agents have
stolen so much of what was left after the big
thieves were gorged, that we do not wonder
at the conclusion some of the shrewd In
dians have arrived at, vi., that our system
invariably enriches the white officers and
agents who administer it, while it impover
ishes and kills the aborigines. If food or
clotbiDg for the latter is contracted for, it
is either not delivered at all at the proper
time, or artioles of inferior quality are sup
plied. The publio sentiment on the fron
tiers is uniformly hostile to the Indians, and
taw settlers in our new regions care how
much a race they hate and
despise are cheated. If the clothing con
tracted for proves too flimsy to keep the red
men from freezing, or if the food furnished
is bo scant, so rotten, or so unwholesome
that death from starvation or disease ensues,
our pioneers often regard suoh results either
with indifference or illy-disguised satisfac
tion. Indeed, it has come to be a settled
axiom in frontier regions that the real mean
ing of the traditionary policy of our Govern
ment is to temporize so as to kill the Indians
off gradually, without causing too many
bloody wars, and at the same time
to enrioh such white favorites
as may be empowered to steal by the rulers at
Washington. In popular parlanoe, the men
who have made a study and praotioe of such
operations are known as the Indian Ring; and
it seems to be well understood that, although
this ring is occasionally changed in its details,
reorganized, or modified, it perpetuates itolf
under new forms, and, like other parasites, it
threatens to prolong its existence until the
last Indian or the Government itself expires.
It is amazing that, in spite of all
the reforms set on foot during the
last few years, and in spite of the earnest
efforts of the President and the Indian Com
mission, this ring should still continue at the
present day frauds as flagrant and rascalities
as infamous as any whioh have disgraced its
past history. Such persistence in wrong
doing can only be accounted for by the pre
sumption that the thieves stUl have accom
plices in high positions. We hope, however,
in view of the earnest effort now being made
by the Indian Commission and its energetio
chairman, that official ropuery will soon be
ferreted out, and that the Augean stables of
the Indian Bureau will be cleaned out at last.
Let it not be said that the ring, in spite of the
manly'fight made against it, is stronger than
the Government itself.
WILL THE RING ti SURRENDER f
All our advices from various reliable sources
point to the possible loss of Republican power
in our Republican Legislature, in the very
outset of the session. It is clear that the
reckless partisanship heretofore demanded by
the Ilarrisburg rings will be repudiated by
the coming Legislature, and only by the
wisest counsels and the most judicious ac
tions can the hopeless disorganization of the
Republican majority be prevented.
Will the ring leaders be admonished in sea
son ? or will they force the Republioan power
to Bpeedy and utter destruction? No ring
candidate can be successful for any position,
and it is but madness to persist in such
efforts. Who shall preside over the respec
tive bouses, and who shall be the custodian
of the treasury, the people care but little, so
they are honest and competent, and thus
necessarily free from the loathsome taint of
the unscrupulous politioal jobbers who have
dragged the Republican party to the very
verge of ruin.
If Republican disorganization is forced by
the insatiate demands of the corruptionists,
they will reap a fearful whirlwind. If the
retribution could stop with their discomfiture,
the people of all parties would rejoice; but if
the work of Republican disorganization is
once commenced, the measure of its sweep
will reach far beyond those who have invited
the storm. It is known by his offioial decla
rations that the Executive is not in sympathy
with the political leeches who have fastened
like festering blots on the Republican party,
and his offioial approval may be counted on
for any measure necessary to restore the State
to its ancient integrity.
If the Republicans are permitted to aot for
the common interests of the party and of the
State, we shall have capable officers, a liberal
Convention bill, a fair apportionment, and a
creditable record for the session generally. If
they ere distracted by the imperious demands
of the ring, we may look for a combination
embracing the Democrats and independent
Republicans to eleet the officers, pass a Con
vention bill and the apportionments,and in all
probability revise the Registry law of this
city. The only safety for the Republican
party is for the spoilers to retire from the
field and allow untrammelled Republican
action to secure Republican unity. We can
hardly hope for such a result, but if it cannot
be attained by reason of the power of corrup
tion, the honest and fearless Republicans owe
it to themselves, to their party, and to the
honor of the State to sanction no aspirations
or purposes of unworthy men, no matter by
whom commended. The bright morn of re
form has dawned at last in Pennsylvania. Do
the tricksters and pretenders understand?
The conduct of the Rev. W. T. Sabine, an
Episcopal clergyman of New York city, a
few days ago, in refusing to read the burial
service over the remains of the veteran actor,
George Holland, cannot fail to shook all
rigbt-tbinking men, no matter what their
opinions in regard to the stage niiy be. To
say that it was a scandal to Christianity is
expressing in mild terms the disgust that
the jnblio at large must experience at
such a display of pbarisaical intolerance.
We are happy to believe, however, that Mr.
Sabine is in exception among the clergy of
Kew York, and the friends of the late actor
wern unfortunate in applying to the one man
among hundreds who had so little apprecia
tion of the spirit of the religion
he professes to teach as to
refuse to perform the burial rites over the
the remains of one who, by his pure, blame
less, and honorable life, gave no Mouse for
such an insult to his memory or to the pro
fession of which he wan a distinguished or
nament. Fortunately for the credit of the
religious denomination to which Mr. Habine
belongs, Another Episcopal clergyman, the
Rev. George II. Houghton, was found "at a
little chnroh round the corner," as Mr. Sabine
termed it, who unhesitatingly consented to
conduct the religions services at Mr. Holland's
funeral. It is difficult, in view of such
an affair as this, to believe that we are living
in the nineteenth century, for an exhibition
of intolerance like that made by Mr. Habine
would have disgraced the dark ages, and it
cannot fail to bring discredit upon the reli
gion he professes to preach from his pulpit
Sunday after Sunday. Mr. Sabine is evi
dently one of those Christians who forget
that the charity that suffereth long and is
kind is one of the main principles of Chris
tianity, and the indignation that has been
excited by bis conduct ought to teaoh him
that such things cannot be done with impu
nity in this day and generation.
NOTICES.
Notk thi Fact!
ALT.
Cl.OTTlINO BUTKR8.
BKKNSTT Co.,
Tower Hall,
no. b18 markrt 8trskt,
Half.way bbtwben Fifth and Sixth strbkts,
Sell Every Articlh
cndkr
A
Fcll Guaranties
THAT IT
Cannot be Botoht
Lower
Anywhere Else.
Will Take Back Goods,
AND
Refund the Monet,
if
Dissatisfied.
OAS FIXTURES.
CORNELIUS & S9IIS,
wiACf urAcrruREit
or
GAS FIXTURES
Wholesale and Retail
Salesrooms,
No. 821 CHERRY Street
PHILADELPHIA.
We have no store or salesroom
on Chesnut street.
11 18 2mBp CORNELIUS & SONS
JUST RECEIVED,
A large assortment of
ELEGANT PORCELAIN SHADES
AT LOW PRICES.
READING LIGHTS,
DROP LIGHTS,
DECORATED SEVRES SHADES, ETC
BAKER, ARNOLD & CO..
Manufacturers or Gas Fixtures,
No. 7IO CHESNUT Street,
11 1 Smrp PHILADELPHIA.
LOOKING CLASSES, ETO.
FOR
LOOKING-GLASSES,
RELIABLE AJTD CHEAP.
JAMES S. EAELE & SONS,
No. 816 CHESNUT STREET.
GROCERIES. ETC.
BETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT MEM,
The Genuine Article,
In tall and quarter bble., for sale by
james r.Webb,
B. E. Corner WALNUT and EIGHTH,
118 lmrp
PHILADELPHIA.
c
HRIBTMAS GROCERIES
Full assortment of every variety of
KAlblNB,
CITRON,
CURRANTS.
ORANGES,
mi A SK
NUTS,
PRESERVES,
' CANNED GOODS,
WINES, CORDIALS, CIIAMPAUNES,
FOREIGN AND DOAlkSTIO CHEESE, CIGARS,
ALBEKT O.ROBERTS,
11 T Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Sta.
OK ATI NO, PKATINO PPLENDII) R MOOT II
O lot. oi CEAiTHAL PARK, i'lFTEENTH aud
WALLACE Streets.
Open titty and eveulng.
Full
burnt of music.
H
B. BARBER, Proprietor.
OLOTHINQ.
THOSE OVERCOATS
At the Great Brown Hall
Are the Very Perfection of
Beauty,
Elegance,
Durability.
Neatness,
Cheapness,
Good Fit,
Fine Stjie",
Tastefulness.
BUY AN OVERCOAT FOR YOUR BOY",
3 TO 18.
BUY AN OVERCOAT FOR YOURSELF,
$10 TO 40.
Tbe Great Retortion In the price of Overcoats
at the OH RAT BUOWN HALL makes tt
Worth your while
To embrace the present
Opportunity
To get
A FINE OVERCOAT,
Choapl Cheap!! Cheap!!!
We do not only sell Overcoats, but line Winter
Clothing ot every description is offered
NOW
At prices which defy competition.
Don't forget onr Cnatom Department.
YOURS, TRULY,
HI
UK EAT BROWN 1IAL1,
60S and 605 CHESNUT 8TBEET.
IIHE
' HOTEL "
PlilLADlPHIAPA.
ZZandsome Goods.
Elegantly Trimmed,
Artistically Cat,
and
ZVXade in the best
8TYLD.
Tailors.!
Tailors.
Tailors.
JTCNE
READY-MADE
CLOTHING.
Combining Style, Durability, and Excellence of
Workmanship.
JONES'
Ono-X3 rico
ESTABLISH ME NT,
No. 604 MARKET STREET.
GEO. W. NIEMANN.
Handsome Garments made to order at
est notice.
the short.
101 trp
DRY GOODS.
INDIA SHAWLS AND SCARFS.
0X308.0X31 FXV2XXL,
7o.
016 C II E SHUT STREET,
lias In store a large and elegant stock of INDIA
BUAJtra. Also,
Silks in Oreat Variety,
With a stock of
Rich XBdia and French Fancy
Ooods,
different In style from any In the city. Purchasers
of Christmas presents will do well to exainlue the
stock before purchasing. in 8 lmrp
FINANCIAL,.
DREXEL & CO.,
No. 34 SOUTH THIRD 8TREET,
American and Foreltrn Hankers,
DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIS-
CIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE.
DEALBR8IN
Government and Railroad Securities,
No. is wail bireet, no. itae scri&e,
New York. I Paris.
BOARQJNQ.
OIRARD 8TRBET, BETWEEN ELE
LIZ I venth and Twelfth and Chesnut and Mar.
ket streets. Vacancies for Families and ttiugle Clen
tlemen. Also, a suit of rooms on the seooud floor,
furnished or unfurnished, with first-class board.
Also, table board. 10 itf
WINES.
We heartily thank our friends for
their very liberal patronage during
the past year, and assure them that
our most earnest efforts shall at all
times be directed to the procurement
of the choicest specialties in our line.
Our arrangements for the ensuing
year are made, and the finest vintages
of
Spain,
Germany,
Italy,
France and
Portugal,
Will, early in the season, be found at
our Stores.
Wishing all many happy returns of
the season,
We are, truly yours,
H. & A. C. VAN BEIL.
The Wine X&erchant,
No. 1310 CHESNUT St.,
11 llfmw2m
Philadelphia.
OARPETINQS.
AXMINSTERS,
FIRST CLASS.
IVoav Designs
CARPETING S
or
American Manufacture.
ai.se,
Imported Axminsters.
REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON,
1222
CHESNUT STREET,
UKmwf M 1
PHILADELPHIA.
FURNITURE. ETO.
HOVER'S
PATENT SOFA BED.
AH old and young bachelors, as well as ladlea who
keep old maid's bail, ara now buvlng UOVEit'S
CELEbRATKD PA1 ENT SOFA BED. This Is the
only f of a Bed that can be taken apart to cleanse It
the same as a bedstead. All others are unsafe and
liable to get out of repair. To be had only of the
manufacturer and owner.
ii. r. uovim.
No. 230 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
lISTtuftStrP PHILADELPHIA.
DUY YOUR FURNITURE
or
GOULD Ac CO.,
No. 37 and 39 N. SECOND Street
AND
N. E. Corner NINTH and MARKET.
LARGEST, CUBA PIS T, AND BEST STOCK iN
TUB WORLD. 10 6 wfm3mrp
HOLIDAY GOODS.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Spring Horses,
Rocking Horses,
Children's Carriages,
BOYS' SLED, WAGOSP,
VELOCIPEDES, E c Etc
H. J. 8HILL,
FCtrry, Ko,
220 COCK Street,
ISSsp
ttKLOW EXCHANGE.
WXIXOXXT'3
NK PLUM ULTItA
Minced Meat.
Unequalled for Quality.
CAUTION Urwareofall Imitations, as there ia
but one WKIOIiTlu tbe market.
DEPOT,
SOU ru W KST CORNER
SPRING GARDEN and FH A I KLIN.
fcOLD UY ALL OHO.'EHS. II 18 tfrp
tWINQ MAOHINGSt
II li
WHEELER & WILSON
BICWIIVU MACHINE,
For Hale on Eaey Term.
no. 914 CHESNUT STREET.
mw4 PHILADELPHIA.
PIANOS.
GEORGE STICK COS
PIANOS,
Grand, Square and Upright
auto,
BAINEH BROS.' PIANOS.
Only place In Philadelphia for sale of
Maun & Hamlin's World-Renowned
Cabinet Organs,
For talf or rent, or to rent with view to purehoM. and
part of rental apply. I It U
UOVLD Ac FISCIIUIt.
93 Cheanat Street
1U1S Arch MUM,
j. k. nori-o,
t&z STEiNWAT & SONS'
Grand Square and Upright Pianos.
Special attention la called to their ne
Patent Upright Pianos,
With Ponble Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tabular
Metil Frame Action, etc., which are matchless la
Tone and Touch, and unrivalled In durability.
fJIIA.KL.Ii8 HLmSIUS.
WAREROOMS,
No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET,
18 tfrp PHILADELPHIA,
PATENT
Arioii IPisxno Fortes,
Warranted to stand in tune longer than any other
fianos in tne marsei.
ALSO, ESTEY'S COTTAGE ORGANS,
With the Jubilant. E. M. BRUOE,
No. is rortn bis 'knth Mtreet.
Music Bound at lowest rates. li 9 fmwlmrp
' W ATONES. JEWELRY, ETO.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
Watches,
Diamonds,
Jewelry, and
. Silverware
In threat Variety.
A fine assortment of BAND and CHAIN BRACE
IET8, OPERA CHAINS, NECKLACES, Etc Our
pi Ices are unusually low.
LEWIS LADOMUS & CO.,
No. 802 CHESNUT STREET,
lSlStjl PHILADELPHIA.
TOWER CLOCKS
. W. MUSSEL.!, .
Ho. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for 81 EVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Hemontolr & Graham Esoapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by man. 6 85
"BRtKXAK'S CASKET OF JEWELS."
The Largest, Finest, and Cheapest
STOCK OF JEWELRY IN THE CITY.
JOHN IIItI2NCVA.IV,
12 IT 13trp
No. 13 8. EIGHTH Street.
WILLIAM B. WARNS CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
SA WATCH ES. JEW ELK V , AND
8 lyl SILVER WARE.
Second floor of No. 634 CH ESNUT Street,
&Jt. corner SEVENTH and CRB8NUT streets. t
UPHOL8 TERY GOODS, ETO.
KEWEST DESIGNS
IN
LACE CURTAINS
AND
LAMBREQUINS.
STEVENSON & SCHWEMMER,
No. 1113 CHESNUT Street,
OIRARD ROW.
FINE BORDERED SHADES,
With best fixtures, put np l-co each.
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
TABLE and PIANO COVERS.
10 IS wm3mp
TOBAOOO.
RED CLOUD
NAVY TOBACCO.
J. A. DLAKB & CO.,
SOLE MANUFACTURERS,
No. 1907 MARKET STUblST,
11 11 fcnamrp PHILADELPHIA.
SPECTACLES,
ytcrofciopea, Teleacopt, Thermometers, Matha
nmiical, Surveying, philosophical and Drawing In
siruuiLbU, ni reduced prio-a.
JAMES W. QUEEN & CO.,
Wo. 09 A CIIi:srUT Street.
T M tuvrUp PHILADELPHIA.