THE DAIliV KVKNINir TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FIUDAY, JANUARY G, 1871. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON (SUNDAYS EIOEPTRD), &.TTIIE EVENING TELEGRAPH BUILDING, NO. 108 S. THIRD 8TREET, PHILADELPHIA. The Price 1 three cents per copy (double sheet), or eighteen cents per week, payable to the carrier by teftom served. The subscription price by mail it Nine Dollars per annum, or One Dollar and Fifty Cents for txoo months, invariably in advance for the time ordered. FRIDAY, JANUARY C, 1871. V3T The Evening Teleqraph, from ks original establishment, has been in the receipt of telegraphic news from the New York Associated Press, which consists of the Tribune, Times, Herald, World, Sun, Journal of Commerce, Evening Post, Commercial Advertiser, and Evening Ex press. The success which has attended our enterprise is, In itself, a sufficient evi dence of the lreshness, fullness, and relia bility of the news which we have received from this source. Last March we entered Into a special contract by which The Evening Telegraph has the exclusive use of the news furnished in the afternoon by the Associated Press to its own members, the North American, Inquirer, Ledger, Press, Age, Record, and German Democrat, of this city, and the leading journals of the East, North, West and South; and hereafter The Telegraph will be the only evening faper published in this city in which the afternoon despatches of the Associated Press will appear. sT The earliest regular edition of The Evening Telegbajph goes to press at o'clock, and the subsequent regular editions at 2, 3, and 4. Whenever there ia 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 early edition. TEE DISTRICT JUDGES El P. It is rumored that a vigorous movement will be made in the present Legislature to eon test the election of Mr. Lynd, who, according to the count of the votes polled last October in this city, was elected Judge of the District Court of Philadelphia. We hope this rumor is true, and that a thorough investigation of all the attendant circumstances may be made. The whole system of electing judges is at best an experiment, and too much pains cannot be taken to make it successful. It was either Mr. Lynd's fault or his misfortune we will not Stop horo to inquire which that he ran far behind his tioket, and it will scarcely be denied that a large proportion of the most upright, intelligent, and patriotie Republi cans of this eity erased his name from their ballots. He was certainly not an eligible can didate, and there are many who think that he was not a proper one. Although all par ties may be ready to bow, in spite of this opinion, to a fair verdict at the polls, it is alleged that unfair counting of the votes was resorted to for the purpose of giving Mr. Lynd a majority which would have no real existence if strict justioe were done, and there is certainly something mysterious in the unusual variance between the newspaper count of the vote on the judgeship and the official returns. All doubts on such a subject should be cleared up. It is bad enough to have a judge on the bench who does not pos sess the confidence of a considerable portion of the most worthy members of his own party, and it is intolerable that any man should deal out justice in our courts whose right to exercise such an exalted function is questionable. It is more easy to imagine than to describe the feelings that will arise in the breasts of disappointed suitors before auoh a tribunal if the Legislature does not clear away the suspicions that have been engendered in regard to the validity of the October returns. Either their complete fallacy or their truthfulness should be speed ily established by a searching investigation, so that if Mr. Lynd's right to the judgeship is unquestionable he may be subjected to no imputations, and, on the other hand, if he was not fairly elected, that the judgeship may be awarded to his competitor. Let us keep our courts not only pure but in all respects above suspicion. If we depart from this safe rule, the condition of the courts of New York City should warn us of the fright ful dangers that will speedily loom up. THE OEOWTE OF PEILADELPE1A. It is sufficiently proved that the growth of cities depends in a great degree on their di verging railroad). There can be no aoubt of the existence of a positive relation between the extent of country covered by such roads, and the wealth and population about the focus to whioh they converge. The marvellous growth of Chicago is an example in point. That city has ten or twelve main trunk lines spreading out like the sticks of a fan, whioh with their tributaries govern a wide cirouni f erenoe, being so many swift highways for concentration one way and distribution the other. Philadelphia has not half as many, Although she has a much larger general busi ness. Her aoceea to the oeean, while it com pensates for much, does not nearly bring up her power of distribution to her capacity of production in manufactures and the useful arts. This power we must supply if we ex pect the increase of our population to con tinue in the ratio of the past decade. In- deed, we ought not to be satisfied with this, If we use our opportunities and Improve our connections with the country districts, and with other centres of population, we may surely reckon that the future growth of Phila delphia will bo much more rapid than the past. The disappointment expressed with regard to the late census of our city is not diffio'ult to understand. Our streets have been more crowded with strangers for several years past than ever before. Our hotels have beon full to overflowing. Manufactures have extended in the suburbs, and a greater aotivity has been apparent in general intercourse. The character of our thops and stores has im proved. But our increasod production has not been met by corresponding facilities of distribution; and this, above all, gives the appearance of a pressure of business aud population. We need more railways to con nect with the country, and especially with New York and Washington. Let us hope that no narrow policy will thwart a single meritorious move in this direction. Every avenue out brings into subserviency to our markets a wide circumference of country, cheapens food, and gives a fresh spring to population. IDE ALABAMA CLAIMS, The indications are very plain that the En glish are getting heartily sick of the Alabama claims, and that they are both anxious and willing to have them settled in such a manner that there will be no danger of their revival at any future time. The days of repentance have set in, and because the repentance is that of the thief who is caught in the act and who wishes to escape punishment, it is proba bly none the less sincere. England's Euro pean relations at the present time are such that sound policy dictates the necessity of quieting as far as possible the enmities that exist on this Bide of the Atlantio, for there is a wholesome fear existing in the minds of the ruling classes that in case of a war the United States would undertake to settle the Alabama claims and our "senti mental" damages along with them by pursu ing the same line of policy that England did towards us during the Rebellion. The Lon don Times, which generally reflects an impor tant order of public opinion very correctly, after certain complimentary allusions to our new Minister, General Schenck, expresses the hope that he will be able to effect a settle ment, without compromising England's honor, of all the legitimate claims of the United States in respect to the Alabama and other national irritabilities now existing. The Times declares that England only desires, by fair concessions and frank allowances, to bring about a settlement of the foolish quarrel which alienates two great nations allied by blood and sympathy. This is very different from the kind of utteranoes the limes indulged in some ten years ago; and the anxiety now being displayed in England to bring the quarrel between that country and the United States to a conclusion indicates that there is beginning to be an appreciation of the fact that it is not a foolish one. The payment of the Alabama claims would only go a small way towards pacifying the ill feeling that exists in this country on account of the hos tility manifested towards us in England dur ing the progress of the Rebellion, but it would at least have the effect of restrain ing us from allowing such pirati cal cruisers as the Alabama was to leave our ports for the purpose of preying upon British commerce. The condition of affairs in Europe is such that England may at any moment be drawn into a conflict that will demand all her energies, and the probabili ties are, therefore, that the Alabama claims can ever be settled upon terms that will be reasonablv satisfactory to us. We sincerely hope that they will be settled, for they have been a cause of irritation long enough, and the American people ought to be glad to have them finally and forever disposed of. THE SENATE. Hon. Thomas W.Ferry, the Nominee of the Michigan Kepobllran Cancaa, and the Sur rrkkor of Senator Howard. A telegram from Lansing announces that the Republican caucus of the Michigan Legislature, on the sixth ballot, nominated Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, at present a Representative in Congress from the Fourh Michigan district, as successor to the Hon. Jacob M. Howard, whose term in the Uuited States Senate expires on the 4th of March next. There has been a very lively contest over the nomination, the candidates being Senator How ard, ex-Governor aad Representative Austia Blair, ex-Representative William A. Howard, and Mr. Ferry. As the nomination is equivalent to an election, on account of the large Republi can majorities in both branches of the Legisla ture, Mr. Ferry will enter the Senate as the colleague of Zack Chandler, and the country will be deprived henceforth of the efllclcnt ser vices of Senator Howard. Mr. Ferry was born in Mackinac, Michigan, on June 1, 1827. He is a self-educated man, and has always been engaged in business pur suits. In 1850 he was elected to the State Legis lature; to. the State Senate in 1850; for eight years was an active member of the Republican State Committee; was a delegate at large to the Chicago Convention of I860, and a Vice-President; was appointed in 1803 Commissioner for Michigan of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettys burg; and In 1861 was elected a Representative from Miehlgan to the Thirty-ninth Congress, being successively re-elected in 1860, 1808, and 1870. In the present Congress be is a member of the Committees on Post Offices and Post Roads, on Naval Affairs, and on Rules, holding the second poeltion on the two former. His standing in the House of Representatives has been a high and creditable oue. The Cijmati ok Puokt Bound. From Wiikc son's "Notes on Paget Sound" we take the following references to the climate of toe western terminus or the Northern Paclflo Railroad : "Vancouver Island occupies la the Pdcilo very much the same position that England does In the Atlantic. London and the south of England He nearly in the same latitude as Victoria and the lower end of Vancouver Island. The 'Puget Sound' of the Northern Pacific IUUroad lies almost wholly sonth of the island, and extends below It ninety mile. The influences which make the climate at Victoria and Esquimau prevail all over the Hound, but lu a greater degree and witu a more marked effect. Fourteen varieties of flowers la bloom In (no open air at Port Townshend on the 4th day or January last were received by Horace Orecley, in Kew York, on the Jtotli day or January, enclosod In a letter which contained proofs or the genuineness or this extraordinary and conclusive testimony In favor or the mildness or the climate or Wishington Territory. "The weather of Vancouver Island, on the testi mony ol the recorded observations made by Krttray, la milder and sti a Her than that or England; the summer longer, drier, and finer, and the winter ahorter and less rigorous. The mean annual tom pcratureof the former Is higher by 1-83 deg. than that or the latter. During the summer months the hot weather or Vancouver Island Is not so oppres sive aa that or London, and the maximum tempera ture la lef s by 14 deg., while In the winter the tem perature never falls so low In Vancouver Island as In London, and the annual range or the two places differs by 15V dog. In favor or Esquimau." NOTICES. Special Offering of Bargains. 8ikck Takino Stock Aocount We have reduced a number of odd lots of goods to such prices, ror the purpose or clearing them out, without regard to coat, aa to make them JUkal Bargain? ror any one. A chance seldom seen la now offered to dealers to purchase many Job Lots upon which much Monrv Can bb Made, Brnnktt & Co., Towbk Ham., No. 513 Market Btrkkt, Half-way between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Messrs. II. A A. C. Van Beil, the well-known and much-respected wine merchants, whose well-known business house Is situated at No. 1310 Chesnut street, now advertise one or the finest wines at the lowest rates which have ever been advertised la Philadelphia. The wine ia the well-known Sparkling Moselle, which is usually sold at other establish ments at twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per case. This establishment advertises the same wine, of exactly the same quality, for the sum or eighteen dollars per case, and they defy any other house to show a similar price for aa good an article. They have but a few cases left, and these must be sold to close accounts. This Is the enly reason ror the reduction. OAS FIXTURES. CORNELIUS & SONS. CTArVITFACTUIlEUS OP GAS FIXTURES Wholesale and Retail Salesrooms, No. 821 CHERRY Street PHILADELPHIA, We hare no store or salesroom on Chesnut street. 1115 2m5p CORNELIUS & 8QNB GROCERIES. ETC. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS, NUTS, ETC. MITCHELL & FLETCHER, No. 1204 CHESNUT Street, Invite examination of their EXTRA FINE STOCK or Raisins, Figs, Oranges, Lemons. Citron, Orange Peel, Lemon PeeU Curranta, Lady Apples. Glace Apricots, Cherries, Olace Figs, Pears. Belledeur Apples, Sweet Cider. Prunes, Engllsh'Walnuta. 11 10 thstuamrp Almonds, Pecans, Filberts, etc. etc. etc BETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT A fresh Invoice just received In quarter barrels and email bags. PEAK, FREAK & CO.'S CELEBRATED LONDON BISCUIT, received fresh by everysteamer. HEW GRENOBLE WALNUTS. NEW PAPER-SHELL ALMONDS. FINEST DEUEdA LAYER RAISINS. MEW SULTANA RAISINS, NEW SEEDLESS RAISINS, NEW CURRANTS AND CITRON. FINEST QUALITY HAMS, DRIED BEEF AND BEEF TONGUES. WILLIAM KELLEY, N. W. Corner T rVELFTH Street and GIRAED Avenua, 11 10 thstu PHILADELPHIA. ESTABLISHED 1801). Choice White Almeria Grapes, In one-eighth kegs own Importation. CHOICE QUALITY OF LADY APPLES, PRIME HAVANA ORAN9E3, NEW ALMONDS RAISINS, WALNUTS, FIGS, PSOAN NUTS, Etc. Etc COUSTY'S East End Grocery, No. 118 Mouth 12COIVI St., 17 thatn Below Oheanut, West Side. FINANCIAL. DREXEL & CO., No. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET, American and Foreign Hankers, DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIN CIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE. DEALERS IN Government and Railroad Securities, Drevel, Winihrop & Co.,Drexel, Barjes A Co., No. 18 Wall fcireet, No. I Kue ScrtUe, New York Paris. S.WINQ MAOMINEB. f U IS WHEELER & WILSON smvinu MACuinm, For Bale fin Easy Terms. NO. 914 OIIESNUT STREET. mint PHILADELPHIA CLOTHING. 1871. 1871 . W. Hurrah ror Eighteen Seventy-one! There's a beautiful suit for every one At thestoreof R0CKHILL & WILsON. The times or the old high prices are done ; Come, buy clothes cheap ror Seventy-one At the store or ROCKIIILL & WILSON. Look at the way the people run For fine new clothes for Seventy-one To the store olROC&HILL & WILSON. Equalled by rcw, excelled by none, Are the Winter Clothes or Severty-one For sale by ROCEHILL ft WILSON. For the whole month or JATJUARY A SPECIAL REDUCTION IN THE PRICES or all Tlie Fine Clotlies at the 6KEAT B110WN HALL OF 603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA Ji!KTNUTST. ''UNDER 1 - 11 U I C L. 'PHILADELPHIA: PA. ZZandsome Goods. Elegantly Trimmed, Artistically Cat, and XVIade ia the best STVLS. Tailors.! Tailors. Tailors. PLATED WARE. Special Announcement For the Holidays. ELEGANT SILVER-PLAED WAKE. MEAD & ROBBINS Invite special attention to their Immense stock of SILVER PLATED dOODS, Selected for ollday sales. Tea Sets, Triple Pla'e Hard Metal Silver Soldered, from to f 75 per et. Seta as low as f 20, and a full stock of goods of ever description in Silver-Plated Ware Suitable foi Holiday Presents. EVERY ARTICLE WARRANTED AS REPRB. 6ENTID. MEAD & ROBBINS, N. E. Cor. NINTH and CHESNUT, 10 8 stuth3m PHILADELPHIA. OPTICIANS. SPECTACLES. Microscopes, Telescopes, Thermometers, Mathe matlcal, Surveying, philosophical and Drawing In itrumenta, at reduced prices. JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., No. 991 OlU&If ITT Street. 1 W mwfUji PHILADELPHIA. QOOPES &' OONA YOU ARE INVITED TO WE find, after taking stook, that although oar business in DRESS FABRICS has been unprecedented large, yet we Btill have a large surplus and WANT to reduce it; in order to do which we have marked down many DRESS STUFFS to prices much leas in currency than they cont to import in Gold. We will continue the sale until we have converted our entire Winter Stock into MONEY. and invite all to examine it, assuring them they will be repaid for so doing. 50c. French Wool Poolins, Garnets, Drowns, Etc. SI 'CO Corded French Silk Poolins. $9'S0 for aiB-lnch Lyons Silk Cloak Velvet. Cloak and Shawl Room too full for the season. 2 cases Williamsvllles, an extra low price. jif th p S. E. CORNER NINTH eURNITJRE, ETC HOVER'S PATENT SOFA BED. All old and yonng bachelors, as well as ladles who keep old maid's ball, are now having HOVER'S CELEBRATED PATENT 80 FA UED. This is the only f ofa Red that can be taken apart to cleanse It the same as a bedBtead. All others are unsafe and liable to get out of repair. To be bad only of the manufacturer and owner, 11. F. HOVfiR, No. 230 SOUTH SECOND STREET, 12gTtuf'29trp PHILADELPHIA. BUY YOUR FURNITURE OF GOTJL.O & CO., Nos. 37 and 39 N. SECOND Street AND N. E. Corner NINTH and MARKET. LAKGKST, CHEAPEST, AND BEST STOCK IN THE WORLD. 10 6 wfm3mrp COPARTNERSHIPS. THE FIUM OP ELLIOTT & DONN IS THIS day dissolved by mutual consent. Either mem ber of the flrin will sign In liquidation. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, J. H. DUNN. Philadelphia, January 2, 187 1. The undersigned have this day entered Into a CO PAHTNEK.S1I IP for tre purpose of transacting a general Hanking business, at No. 109 South THIRD Street, under the name ot ELLIOTT, CLLINS & CO. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, FKKDEKIC COLLINS, ADOLPHU8 W. ELLIOTT, FKEDEKIC J. ELLIOTT. Philadelphia, January 8. 1871. 1 3 6t "VTOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE partnership between JAMES SALT, FRKUtt RICKMEAR, and CHARLES W. SOUKOPP was dissolved on the 2d dav of January, A. D. 1371, by the withdrawal of JAMES SALT. All debts due to the said partnership are to be paid, and those due from the same discharged, at No. 109 North SECOND Street, where the business will be continued by the said FREDERICK MEAK and CHARLES W. SOHROI'P, under the firm of MEAR & SCHROl'P. 16 11 13g5 4t A COPARTNERSHIP IS THIS DAY FORMED between the undersigned, who propose to carry on A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS, at Nob. CI aid 63 South THIRD Street, in this city, under the style of DUNN BROTHERS. J. H. DUNN, R. M. DUNN. Bd January, 1S71. l COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. Tn E UNDER, signed entered into a Copartnership on the lain Inst, for a General Auction ami Commission busi ness, nnder the nume and style of 11KNKY W. & b. fiCOTT, Jr. HKNUY W. RU JTf. B. SCOTT, Jr. JMiiladelphia, Dec. 31, 1ST0. s 65 COALi ANTHRACITE COAL, Per Ten of 3310 Pounds, lellv ered, LEHIGH Furnace, tT-75; Stove, 9; Nat, 7. SCHUYLKILL Furnace, 7; Stove, $123; Nut, IS-2S. EA8TWICK & BROTHER, Yard corner TWENTY-SECOND Street and WASH INGTON Aveuue. 18 80 rptf Oilice, No. 328 DOCK Street. L KKOWIES & CO., No. 1218 MARKET Street, RECEIVERS OF CHOICEST GRADES OF 8T. LOUIS FAMILY FLOUR. ii6uf' ATTEND THE SALE. AND MARKET STREETS. UPHOLS TERY POOPS. ETO. NEWEST DESIGNS LACE CURTAINS AND LAMBREQUINS. STFVFNSfiN SPMWFMMFR WlhllllUWII V WWIIIIhlllllll.il, No. 1113 CHESNUT Street, GIRAHD ROW. FINE BORDERED SHADES, With best fixtures, pat np 1'60 each. COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF TABLE and PIANO COVERS. 10 18 wfm3m4p HOLIDAY COODS, Lin I irtAV rnrro Spring Horses, Rocking Horses, 1 Children's Carriages, B0YB' SLED 9, WAGONB, VELOCIPEDES, Etc. Etc. H. J. 8HIL.L, Factory, No. 226 DOCK Street, 18 9 4p BELOW EXCHANGE. PIANOS. m im m w rriiiiari w n nnnrn wltinilAI & wUHw H-vFi Grand Square and Upright Pianoi. Special attention la called to their ne Patent IJprlclit Pianos. With Doable Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tnbali menu f rame Action, eta, which are matchless lone ana xoacn, ana nnnvauea in durability. CHARLES ItKjAglUS, WAREROOMS, No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET, 13 tfrp PHILADELPHIA. PATENT Arion I?iano Fortos Warranted to stand in tone longer than any othet 1'lanos in the market. ALSO, ESTEY'S COTTAGE ORGANS, With the Jubilant E. M. BRUCE, No. 13 North 8IS7KNTU Btreet. Music Bound at lowest rates. U 9 imwlmrp WRIGHT'S NK PLUH ULTRA Minced Meat. Unequalled for Quality. CAUTION. Beware of all Imitations, aa Uwra but one WKlUHTln the market. DEPOT, 80UTHWBST CORNER KPHiNii uakd-lw ana kavklt BOLD B? ALL OROJKKS. II IS tfrp GO
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