THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1871. irzniT or xxxzi rnnoB. Editorial Opinions ofthe Leading Journal upon CurrentTop!c Compiled Ever Day for the Evening Telegraph. THE AMAZONS AT THE CAriTOL. From the A'. P. Tribun. Tbe assemblage of vocal and argumenta tive women at present bewildering tbe Judi ciary Committee of the lower House at Wash ington ia evidently making the best nae of its opportunities. Tbe (Senate committee de clines to listen to the ladies, so they wisely determine that the auditors whom they have secured shall get enough of them. They probably do not expeot to achieve any dis tinct result. In fact, at the clone of the ses sion, their situation will doubtless be similar to that of the grazier who drove his ref raotory bull to market, the animal breaking into every cornfield and upsetting every beehive on the way; after roaring and pawing around the market , all day without finding a purchaser, he was at last reluctantly driven home by his owner, repeat ing on the way the picturesque but tedious exploits of the morning. When at last, after ' infinite labor, the brute was safely returned to the stall from whioh he had been led forth in the morning, his owner thoughtfully and with considerable cheerfulness observed: "Well, I had a good drive out of the brill any how." It is likely that at the expiration of the session the ladies will solaoe themselves with similar congratulations in respect to Congress. They will have accomplished no thing, but will have harried and fatigued the legislators as effectually as the grazier did his bull. Of course this is to be regretted; but what are we to do about it? Our stupid and narrow-minded legislators will persist in think ing that the fisheries dispute, the San Do mingo imbroglio, the settlement of the Ala bama olaims, the restoration of wholesome and friendly relations with the South, the national indebtedness, and so on, are sub jects of more urgent consequence than those which Kirs. Victoria Woodhull so eloquently advances. Whether she shall be entitled to rnn . for President, . and whether Miss Susan B. Anthony shall be entitled to vote for her, are, we confess, matters of the deepest concern; but it is diffloult to get your average member of Congress to think so. Confronted with actual and posi tive women, not merely the documentary and recorded shadows thereof, snob as petitions, resolutions, affirmations, and the like, he is apt to make a present show of concession, even of conviction, and to promise all sorts of aid and comfort to his besiegers. But, alas, he generally backs out as soon as they are gone, and the wizard spell of their voices and the compelling enchantment of their eyes are withdrawn from him. Possibly it will be so with Mr. Cook and Judge Lough ridge, and even with the fiery and determined Butler, upon whom, in full conolave, Mrs. Woodhull emptied her ethical and expostula tory urn. But whether they succeed or fail, their atti tude is alike courageous and interesting. It is no joke to beard the Judiciary Committee in its den, and, in presence of so many learned doctors, enter upon new exegesis of the Constitution. We see no reason why Mrs. Woodhull should not, bo far as intrinsic courage is concerned, be placed upon a level with Joan of Aro or the Maid of Sara gossa. It is really a feather in her cap that the Sonata Committee declined to trust itself, in her declamatory presence. However forti fied in their present convictions, that vener able and learned body could have no assurance that at the first wooing accents of her voice, the structure of their faith, however solidly buttressed with biblical citation and contemporary prejudioa, would not topple over like the walls of Jericho before the persuasive quaver of the ram's horns. They would have been like so mmy Samsons before the fair and fluent Philis tine, and she would have bound them one and all with her logical withes. They have escaped that destiny by declining to" confront the enemy and immuring themselves within the walls of their official Troy. If the House committee had set a similar example, it is diffioult to conjecture what tbe women would have done and to whom they would have intoned their plaints. They couldn't have gone direct to the President, as he is known to cling to the old fashioned notion that women ought to stay at home and mind their business. Boot well couldn't have given them any oomfort, unlefis, perhaps, he had assigned them all to situations in the Treasury Department and among the remaining Secretaries and other high dignitaries of the Capitol we oan think of none to whom in such an event they could have advantageously presented them, selves. Now, if they had gone all that dis tance and found nobody to listen to them it would have been in every particular a cir cumstance of misery, and we are therefore moved to suggest the appointment of a joint committee of both houses to be i n perpetual session, whose special function it shall be to hold interviews with wandering squads of women who with supplicatory, denunciatory, or argumentative intent may chanoe to visit the Capitol. If anybody deems this sugges tion irrelevant or needless, we invoke hi9 at tention to the fact that any of the present committees can at will decline such interviews and send the wanderiDg and reformatory ladies home again without giving them a chance to unburden themselves of their grievances. This will never do. Let us make it somebody's business to listen pa tiently to all the feminine "whereases" and "resolves." W always give them a faithful heating, and any quantity of good advioe. Why should Congress be less mindful of its duties and obligations.' A VILLAGE POPULATION IN ONE HOUSE. From the y. Y. Sun. Gotham court, which comprises the im mense pile known as Nos. 80 and J18 Cherry street, is one of the institutions of New York. With the exception of some of our penal es tabliihments,it is the most populous dwelling in the State. It has bad as many as 200 fami lies, consisting of 1218 people, packed into it at one time. When it is .remembered that there is many a flourishing village whioh does not contain 1200 inhabitants, nor even half that-nuuiber, the reader may get some notion of what Gotham court is when in the full cram of its plethorio horrors. But whatever idea a reader may get of tbe density of the population of this gigantio tenement-house, he can get no adequate notion of its actual condition exeept by tbe application thereto of his own organs of sight and smell. Gotham court is in the Fourth ward, nj within a stone's throw of the spot, at the head of Cherry street, where General Wash ington at oiw lime lived vt Leu he resided in this city. It is to be hoped that the General's ;uol la iitYvr touiptlioU to vit Liafofuxar. metropolitan residence. An "Old Virginia walk-around" in that vicinity would be an unsavory excursion in these days for General Washington's ghost or any other man's. Gotham Court is 234 feet long, .14 feet wide, and five stories high. It is divided by a centre wall, from end to end and bottom to top, into two back-to-back ranges of dwell ings. Every floor, in each range, is divided into sets of apartments of two rooms enoh, one of which is called a living room and the oftter a bedroom. The living room is 14 feet by ! in extent, and the bedroom in 14 feet by 8. On the south side of the building there is an alley seven feet wide, which is not a pleasant promenade in the dog-days, nor at any other season of the year. If this huge strnoture were the only tene ment honse in the Fourth ward, it would be less intolerable; but the truth ia, there are over three hundred and fifty others, contain ing a total tenement-house population of 12,221 within that circumsoribed area. The result is such a state of degradation, filth, vice, disease, wretchedness, suffering, and woo as it is impossible to describe. The chil dren are eaten alive by marasmus and de voured by what has come to be named "the tenement-house rot." The owners of the houses cannot help this state of things, nor can the tenants themselves help it. As the Sanitary Superintendent says in his reports to the Board of Health, "Given this over crowding of population, and the results are sure to follow. . They may be somewhat miti gated; but so long as the overcrowding ie. permitted, they cannot be eradicated." The Sanitary Superintendent is right. It is the overcrowding that does the mischief and works all this evil; and the problem is, How shall this overcrowding, this tenement house packing, be got rid of ? So long as the poor laboring people, the mechanics and daily toilers of all kinds, who have to earn their living below Chambers street, are pre vented by A. T. Stewart and his confede rates among the politicians from getting quickly and cheaply from their places of work to homes in the suburbs, this tenement house packing cannot be got rid of; but it will, on the contrary, grow worse and worse all the time. We mjist have steam communi cation and cheap fares from one end of the island to the otbtu, and out into the country, before this abominable state of things can be overthrown. How long will the peeple allow A. T. Stewart and his political confederates thus to shut them up within jail limits, and compel them to sacrifice their health and lives in tenement houses ? THE SAN DOMINGO COMMISSION. From the A". Y. Times. The way in which some of Senator Schurz's arguments against the annexation of San Domingo were met in the Senate by Senator Wilson and others gives indications of a spirit which we trust will not preside over the inquiries of the commission. Mr. Schurz argues (bat the inhabitants of tropical coun tries are not capable either of conducting an orderly and free government, or of engaging in energetio and prosperous industry. Now, he may be wrong in this; it is an assertion which the Romans might have used against the inhabitants of Northern Europe, and which, had all traoes of the Roman Empire perished in the Dark Ages, the in habitants of Northern Europe might now make of the inhabitants of Southern Europe. . It is, of course, always dangerous to lay down any proposition about the absolute and perpetual capacity or incapacity of any race or people. There was in the ninth century a petition in the litany used in the churches of Northern Italy "From the darts of the Hungarians, good Lord, deliver us!" and if anybody had uttered to those who used it the prediction that those thieving, murdering savages would eventually have beoome one of the most sensible and successful sets of Eolittcians in the civilized world, he would ave been well laughed at. Illustrations of this kind might easily be multiplied. Nevertheless, the longer the period daring which people have failed to do a thing, the more reason is there for believing that they cannot do it, and the safer is it to assert that they will not do it; and certainly there oould not be a safer assertion of the kind made than that the inhabitants of tropical oountries will never suooeed either in politios or indus try. We know them since the very dawn of history, and they never have suooeeded in all that time in achieving eminence either as producers or politicians. We know, too, that as a matter of fact, the effects of the tropioal climate on tbe Human frame are very debili tating and enervating. Different raoes suffer from them in different degrees the Caucasian most of all, and the negro least but all suffer. The great indus trial regions or tne world, those of Asia, as well as those of Europe and America, lie, and have always lain, outside the tropics; and the successful Governments of the world have always been found outside the tropios. Is . 1 - A 1 1 .a ium reaaomng as we usuauy reason, ana nave to reason, in politics ? He is not to be con sidered a rash or bad man who says that if we annex San Domineo the Dominicans will sav: uive as raucn tieip in the work of govern ment as in the work of production;" and it would be very unfortunate for them-aud for ns if the Commission went to San Domingo unaer ine innuence or very iiigii-nova a prwri notions as to the capacity of au uiu kind for self-government. Senator Wilson says that if the inhabitants of tropical countries were not fit for self-gov eminent, "the Almighty ought to have called tbe philosophers into His councils before He made tbe torrid regions." With all respect to tbe Senator be it said, this was a very foolish speech. There is nothing mere mys terious or improbable in God'a having made the inhabitants of the torrid regions inoapa ble of self-government, than his having allowed larce bodies of the inhabitants of all climates to pass their lives from age to age in sin. efcd miserv. or in his allowing disease and death to ravage the world. Both are juyste lions, to be sure, but we miisl not deny the existence oi inings because we do not under fefand them, nor doubt the existence of Provi dence because the whole earth is not covered by a nappy republic. On the other hand, it would be very uafor innate for the commission to go djwn clothed with prepossessions of any kind against the Dominicans. We have the great est respect for Mr. Wade, Mr. Dodge, and Mr. White. Their honesty is unquestion able, and their judgment is sound, but the judgment of the community at large upon the question of annexing Dominion is likely to be sounder. We think they will do best service in the careful collection or evidonoe, without respect to persons, parties, or oni nioDs, and its presentation to the country in a lucid and compact form. We know very little about the Dominioans. their religion. morals, manners, opinions, or capaoity, and need to know a great deal. The first requisite of a commission appointed to investigate tbeir condition, in the midst of such a con troversy as is now raging in Washington, is ('haract.fr, and this we have undoubtedly got. The President could not have given better 1'iovf tuo levUtude of la intentious tiiaa be has given in the selection of the gentle men we have named. They will cortainly try to get at tbe truth. But to get at it effectu ally they must not go to the island under the influence of any theory, either as to the capa city or Incapacity or tne negro, or of the in- inbitants of tropioal oountries generally. What we crave for is faots, and laots let ns have. Having them, the country will be abundantly able to form its own conclusions from them. There is one consideration connected with the inquiry which is very important, and yet has hardly been touched on, and that is the eDRth of time which it will consume to. make it thorough. The work of the com missioners, as traoed out by the resolution. if done well would take five yearn; if even done partially would take two; and it oan only be proseouted in winter. The gentlemen, too, who have been put on the commission, though not old, are well past their prime, and can hardly be expeoted to enoounter the dangers and fatigues of residonoe in a tropi cal climate with much ardor. It would seem 8B if they ought either to be surroundod by a large and competent corns of more youthful assistants, to act under their inspiration and direction, or else have the sphere of the ia- qniry considerably diminished. THE SITUATION. From the Fall Mall Gazette, Before the world had recovered from its first amazement at the Russian announcement that the Treaty of Paris was to be violated. the limes informed its readers that there were two c'asses of persons who carried their alarms to the point of absurdity: one con sisted of those who were persuaded that there was an understanding between Russia and Prussia; the other of those who were con vinced that there was an understanding be tween Russia and the United States. In the month that has since elapsed we have had every sort of explanation of the conduot of these three States; but, after all that has been said and done, we are compelled to ask wneincr mere is any hypothesis to connect the facts which is more plau sible than that which seemed ridi culous to the Times. The optimists who denounce me alarmists appear to forget that there is a priori presumption for the exist ence of Rtich an understanding. Connt Bis marck is the parent of contemporary diplo macy, and all his great diplomatic move ments have been preceded by a series of ne gotiations, at once audacious and obscure, aimed at establishing understandings whioh might be disavowed if necessary, but which mignc aiso Dear iruit in action at the decisive moment. Taking first the Black Sea ones tion: what evidence have we to weaken this presumption? There is a rumor that Count Bismarck denied any such understanding to Mr. Odo Russell; but all we really know is, that Mr. Odo Russell began his negotiations at Versailles with a very bad cold, and after he was well again his namesake with the doc tonal title only mentioned him to state that he had heard nothing from Count Bismarck. The only facts really in point and really established are that Prussia has proposed a conference on the Treaty of Paris, and has declared herself free from the obligations of the Treaty of Lon den. The seoond fact gives its color to the first. Tbe important question with reference to the conference was whether it would as semble to disonss the future neoessity for the observance of treaties or the expediency of relaxing by agreement tne obligations or the Treaty of Paris. England and Austria go into conference to consider the last point; , - - 1 T I A i 1 n m. jrruHBia ami xvussia to argue me nrst. xne evidence, therefore, against an understanding between tne two last-mentioned powers stands preoisely as follows: One has proposed and the other bas consented to meet the repre sentatives of other European States for the purpose of contending that the power to whom a particular convention is onerous may decline to be bound by it without the permis sion of any otter State which may be a party to the convention. There may be many dis putes as to the exact intent and significance or tne iiiacK sea and .Luxemburg ciroulars; but it is impossible to deny that this at least is their common meaning. We do not profess to have a clear opinion on the correctness of the statement tele graphed from Washington to the New York Tribune, and repeated in one of our occa sional notes. It is alleged that Mr. Fish, the Amerioan Secretary of State, has been for three months beset by the Russian Minister with proposals for a joint demonstration against this country. Russia was to denounce the treaty of Paris; the United States was to press simultaneously for a settlement of the Alabama claims, li this aooount or the facts be true, there cease to be any question as to tbe JtuMdaa intrigues which preoeded Princa OorUcLakofia circular. The asser tion that ll proceeding startled not only EnglaDd and France, but all the other allies of Rusitia, is at once overthrown. Mr. Fish, indeed, is stated to have claimed credit for his resistance to the Russian suggestions; but m e are compelled to ask what more could the Government whioh he represents have done than it has done, supposing he had made no resistance at all f Let us reflect that, until the Gortschakoff circular was on the point of being issued, we heard nothing whatever of the probability of disturbed relations with the United States. We were told that the American publio bad listened with great complacency to the conciliatory lectures of Mr. Thomas Hughes, and that the claimants of compensation for the captures of the Alabama were asking why in the world they should not get the money whioh England was ready to pay. But, almost contempora neously with the Russian diplomatic stroke, rumor of alliance between President Grant and General Butler reached this country. This was quickly succeeded by Butler's im pudent speeches on the Canadian Fishery grievance; then came President Grant's mes sage, amusingly complimented by the Timet on being less audacious than the proposals of General Butler; and no the Amsrioin House of Representatives has, by a great nia- J'ority, voted all the measures hostile toEng and recouJnjended. I President Gran'j ex cept those which would vLibly oosl mouey". If we iiiiDK me evidence of understanding be tween Russia and the United States inconclu sive, it is less because we believe the semi, official paragraph In tho N. Y. Tribune than because there was really no necessity , for agreement. It has long been said that the Emperor of Russia has bought American sym pathies with cheap civilities; but the price was thrown away, nasmucn as any demonstration against this country would have' adequately served as purchase money. The more closely the state of American feeling towards Great Britain is observed, the less satisfactory do those ac counts of U appear which explain it by acci dental and temporary circutuatanoea, such as the escape of the Alabama or the cd iaew of Britibh sympathy during the Confederate war. The truth is that the seutlments of the American people towards the British are like the sentiments of the Athenians toward tyiaiiis. They aia tho lob'cy of &d u; tbe prodnct of the present; and they are kept anve oy a penes or commonplaces which are of perpetual recurrence in the themes of schoolboys and in the perorations of grown politicians. Mr. Goldwin Smith is said to be anxious for the reform of American school-books, an giving a totally false view of history. Well he may be. They all but omit the history of the world down to the Amerioan Revolution, and then go on to paint George III as a sort of Xerxes who led against a nation of patriots a popula tion of subject slaves poor old George III, who in these days would deserve to rank as a pnragon among monaruhs who never broke a treHty, nor tore up a constitution, nor dreamed of such a thing as a forced con scription, nor prayed over a hecatomb of victims who merely wanted to make his colonial subjects bear part of the expenses of the empire which had squandered blood and treasure to secure the territories on which they were settled, and who made a feeble attempt to Hubdne them when they de clined to pay. It is this elaborate training in hatred it is the fact that the Americans meet regularly and solemnly once a year to repeat these views of history whioh relieves us from the necessity of giving any other ex planation of the alacrity of President Grant in 'seizing the-opportunity of the Russian difficulty. "We do the Americans the justice of believing that they have no natural liking for the modern fashion of treaty-breaking,. Contracts are never so much respected as among men of business, and the faults of the Americans, wbich ore also the faults of the English, would 4ead them rather into chi canery and into inequitable constructions of treaties - than into their open violation. Nor do we suppose that they have any special fancy for the political leadership under which they seem to be ranging themselves. An attorney with a stain on his honesty) a soldier with a slur on bis courage; a man known throughout the world for brutality to women these are not the types of character which singly or com bined commend themselves to a community which voluntarily chooses its political di rector. But everything Is condoned by Ame ricans when there is a chance of injuring this country. On such an occasion they are satis fied to follow General Butler, and to take tbeir opportunity in a breach of solemn pub lio engagements. Tbe hostility ef the United States is the true key to the position occupied by Great Biitain, and we should st .nd a great Xleal better with the woild if we honestly acknow ledged it. Those among us who are striving their hardest to put some other construction on Russian and Prussian diplomacy than that which every organ of opinion outside of Eng land has placed upon it would most of them admit, if they would speak frankly, that the consideration which reconciles them to turn ing the other cheek to Count Bismarck after one has been smitten by rnnoeUortsohakoff, is their conviction that if we made a bold step forward on the European political Etage the Americans would take ns at a disad vantage, lhe great error of English states manship is unquestionably its tendency to tide over the difficulties which arise with the United States by the help of the expedient which comes first to hand. But it is labor lost, and an ultimate rebuff iuvitcd, when the Foreign Office meddles with European politics, so long as any American question re mains unsettled. No greater blunder was ever committed than the postponement of the Alabama grievances. It is truoVe can never be sure what complaints the Americans will advance. Even the English Foreign Office might be forgiven for not having looked forwurd to a renewal of the fishery dispute. The true policy in nevertheless to solve all American controversies as rapidly as possible, and by any issue rattier than none, lhe policy aotaally followed has been the very worst conceivable. When the Ala bama claims had been postponed when the Dominion of Canada had been established when our American territories were virtually garrisoned by a weak militia, there remained, as M. Thiers put it, not another fault to be guilty of. THE TFORM BEGUN. From the Harriihurg Patriot. . , When it was announced that by the elec tion of a Democrat in the First Senatorial district the control of the higher branch of our State Legislature had passed out of the hands of the radicals, a great majority of the people of Pennsylvania were made glad Mai titndes of honest Republicans rejoiced secretly at this result, and not a few of the more renutable journals of that party ex pressed the hope and tbe oonviotion that such a division of authority and responsibility would be productive of good result. This fetling, eo general in the minds of the oppo nents of the Democratic party, was au invo luntary tribute to the integrity of that great political organization. Mioy who had long been its open and avowed enemies saw that its aooession to power in the Senate of Pennsylvania would put it in a position wherein it would be compelled to do something to cneou: tne tide r corruption which had swept like a flood over former Legislatures. By an unexpected oombina tion of circumstances, the Democratio party has been put on trial before the people of PepLBylvania, and much depends upon the seventeen Democrats of the Senate. Thtit they will discharge the high duties devolved upon them in a manner calculated to estab lish and perpetuate tne supremacy or me Democratio party in Pennsylvania for many years to come, we have no reason to doubt. In the able address delivered by Hon. Wil liam A. Wallace when be took his saat as Speaker of the Senate, promises of reform were mace. And now, just as tne wont or the session is about to begin with the ap pointment of the different committees, we have had convincing proof given to us that Mr. Wallace intends, so far as in him lies, to make his promises good. Special legislation bas been the curse of Pennsylvania under radical rule. It bas swelled the volumes of our pamphlet laws to enorraoqi pro portions, and h rendpry j J an Impossibility ior aty 6be lo keep the run, of legislation the session. Under tacit "agreement, by which tbe private bills of each member wete allowed to pass without interference or objection from his fellows, much of what is most objectionable in tie course of our legis lation has sprung up. There is a wise pro vision in one of the amendments to tbe Con stitution of the State which prohibits the passege of any bill by the Legislature gt anting powers or privileges ia any en se wbere . the authority to . grant such powe or privileges has been conferred upon the courts of the common wealth. Aets have been passed from time to time giving tie courts jurisdiction over a large number of subjects whioh were frequently made the objecU of apeoibl legislation; but tbe consti tutional restrictions which removed alt suaa matters from the possession of the Legisla ture have been disregarded by one radical LegUhitue after another. Publio laws have been imothered under piles of unoonstUu liuud piiU LUU, To remedy Una great and growing evil, t cut up by the roots the bulk of the special legislation which has cumbered the two houses year after year, is the first step taken by Mr. Wallace in his official capaoity as speaker of the bonate. He has laid down tbe laws very plainly in the rules of order which he presented to that body. He call attention to the constitutional restrictions upon special legislation, and the joint rule of tbe two bouses recognizing the force and effect thereof; and, in order that Senators may know well their duty, he enumerates nearly fiTty subjects upon which no bills will be allowed to be introduced.Senators offer ing bills on any such subjects wiH be promptly ruled out of order, and committees will not be allowed to report them. None but those who are familUr with the tedious course of business in the Legislature of Pennsylvania can properly appreciate the iuh importance or the step taken by Mr. Wallace. That he will firmly enforce the rules and connDebusiness within constitutional limits no one who knows him will doubt. He is a man of Btrong will and resolute cha racter, and when he takes a 6tand is not easily moved. 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M FtflKht H A N Dl.K.D BUTONOK. and taka at LOWED RATFH THAN ANY OTUKR LIMB. No eharf lor ommlaaian, drayac. or any xpns r raoafer. ... BUamabip Inanr at lowtt rat. FraiicM roWd dail. ... No. MB. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WUARVK3. W. P. FOHTFR, A rent at Richmond and Oil Point. T. P. OROWKLL A CO., AcenU at Norfolk. It ff&fts. FOR L1VEUPOOL AND QUKEV9 CafiaySTOWN Inman Line of Royal Mall bit Miners are appointed to sail as follows: City of l'arls, Saturday. Jan. 81, at I P. M. City of Baltimore, via liuilfax, Tuesday, Jan. 84, at 11', Al. C!tv of I ondon, Saturday. January 21 at 11 A. M. Uity of Brooklyn. Saturday. Feb. i at 2 P. M. and each BncceeUing Kattmlay aud alternate Tues day. fram pier Ma 4fi North river. RATKS OP PASSAGE. Payable In gold. Payable in curreucy. F1rt Cabin f7B Steerage To Londen 80 To London 8t To Paris To Purls as To Halifax sol To Ualirax io PaaBeDgers amo forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, BremeD. eta. at f educed rates. Tickets can be bought here at Aioderats rares by nerHotig wlBhlnir to send for tnelr friends. For further lnforruaAon apply at the company's ofllce. JOHN G. DALE, Agent No. IB Broadway, N. Y. ! or too uuiNiNfc.i,i &, f Aui.ii., Ajrents, 4 0 No. 402 CHESN UT. Street. Philadelphia. nTHB HKGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI 1 LSDIXPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM SHIP LlN&ure ALON E authorized to Issue throagf Dills of lad iti? to Interior points South nud West U connection with South Carolina Rallroadt'tomnany. ALFRED L. TtfXEK, Vlco-Preldeut So. O. RR. Co. utTTT TAtrr TTrr i xrn ont trun nn v NMA1L sTKAUoHlr OOMPANY'ft RffOM LAK SKMI-AlONlliLY LINK TO NHW OR- Tb jtlNIATA will sail for New Orlsani, rla Havana, Or v. CMioeviiry. vouuarj io, o a. ra. k.Tb YAZOO will ail Itoia New Orlaana, via Havana, on , jnnuuTT . TMHouun Diiwur unuinu h mm low r&taa a Dl any other route aifen to Mohlla, lialTeaton, INDIAN OLA, ROCK. PORT, LA VACUA, and B R A.ZOI.aad to all rointa on the Miuaiasirpl rivei between New OrWana and t. Ionia. Rd River froighta rUippd at Navy Orleaiu without okarg of emmiaaiona. WKEKTY LINK TO SAVANNAH. Di. Tb TON AW AND A will aail for (tavannaa oa Sat. urdajr, Jnnnnry H, at 8 A. M. Tb WYOMINU will sail from Savannan on Saturday, January 14. Tb ROUGH BILLS OP LADING riven to all thaprla eipal town In UoorRla, Alabama, Florida, UiaaiMppi IxHiiaiaua, Arkanaaa, and Tennasne ia connection wttb tb Central Railroad of Georgia. Atlantio and Gulf Rail, road, and Florid tainr, at a low rata a by eompotinf line. , SEMI MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. N. O. Tb P loft K EH will aa.il for Wilmington on Wsdaes. d, January Hat 6 A. M. Ketotmug, will lav Wil ninr ton Thursday. January 19. Connect witn tb Giv Fear River Btnamboat Ooai, pany, th Wilmington and Waldoa and North Carolina Railroads, and tb Wilmington and Maaohwtar Railroad t all Interior point. 1 reicbu tor Colombia, B. O., and Aagusta, Ga., taker via W ilminrton, at aa low rate a by any other root. ; Inanracc eifeoted wbeu rvqnaeted by hippra. Bill of lading algnad at Queen etroet wharf oa or belor dr of atlinc. fc1IXJAU L. JAMirS, General .rut , li No. IU South 1 UiKDjblr. riMlE ANCHOR LIN STEAMERS 1 Sail every Saturday aud alternate Wednesday to and from Ulabgow and Deny. PaB'erjgerg booked and forwarded to aud from all railway stations la tlreat Britain, Ire laud, Gcr. in by, Norway, Sweden, or iH-niua:K and America as safely, speedily, comfortably, and cheaply aa by any oilier ruuie or iiiip. 'FXFKE8S'' 8TJSAMKBB. "KtTRt" 8TBAMKK3. IOWA, TYRIAN, . BRITANNIA, IWWA. TVItlAX, ANGLIA, Al STKAI.TA,. BRITANNIA, . INDIA, iOLUJlIBIA, fx nor A. JiKlTAM NI A. From Pier 80 North river, New York, at noon. Rates of l'uksage. Payable la Currency, to Liverpool, UHBgow, or Derry j . First cabins, & aud $&, accord lu? to location. Cabin excursion tickets (good for twelve uiontDs), aenirlrg best accoinmodailons, f 130. Intermediate, steerage, 124. t'crutlcftteii, at reduced rates, can be bought here by those wiaUlGg to send for their friends. .Drafts leaned, payab.e on presentation, : Ai-ply at the company's oiiioos-to HENDERSON BROTHKRM, 12 27t No. T BOWLINO (titKKN. AY r ii it e STAR LINE. Ol'KANIO STEAM NAN IOATION COMPANY'H. LINK t)V NKW STEAMKUS BKTWJIStf NKW 1( RK AND LlVKRl'COL, CALL1NO AT CORK, UthLAND. The company's fleet comprises the following nu? Dllhei.t lull-powered ocean steamships, the nix largest lu the world M EANU , Captain Murray. RCTlf. ATLANTIC, Captain. Thompson. BaLTiC. I'ACIFIC, Captaiu feuy. ADRIATIC. Tbt ee uew veusels have been designed specialty for Hie transatlantic trade and combine speed, rtiftiy, and comloit. Iaiteljfitr tccoruuiodatloiis unrivalled. Parties tending foriKoir friends iu the Old conn, try can now obtain prepaid. t!c!ser1t huuiiu. aa. cuirouor. (.nner raus as low a auy uni-wam uuc. , . For further particular apply to LSMAY, I MIME ro Ko. 10 WATVI'-t Street, Liverpool, and No. 7 EAST INDIA Avenue, LEADEMH vLL Street Tendon: or at the company's oitu-es, No. W BhOADWAY, New York. ltt J. H. SPARKS, Agent Lw, m fc NEW EXPRESS LINE TO A .Li IAN t fFTCdria, Georgetown, aud Wasr.igton j i ' i t'., via Chesapeake and Devr tul, '& connections at Alexandria from ;u moat direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, KnoxvlUe, Nahvtlle, Dalton, and the Southwest. Steamers Kave regularly every Saturday aj noon Tom the firat wharf above Alaxkot street, yreiijht received dally. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A OO , No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE A TYI.KK, Agent at Georgetown; U ELDRlptiE A CO., Afeht at Alotaudn. - . . ... A.. 1 . - 1 ! L PEL AWARE AND CHE.SAPEAK K ,"fiTKAia TO W HO AT COMPANY nurii j towed between l'liiiadiloh'. Baltimore, liavro-de-Uraoe, PcUwam City, aul lu tcrniedinte points w,Uieaj "VnjjAM P. CTTDS CO., Ag.-uu. Captain JOHN Hl'GBLIW, bi?t-ilQt..uatiut. Oillwi, IvO. IS ttOUU V? aAf ca fikkaylclpiua, i U , BHIPPINU. LORILLARD STEAMSHIP UOMPAHJ FOR m;iV IUKU BAILING TUBSDAY8, THURSDAYS, AND SAT UUDAYS AT NOON, re now receiving freight at winter rates, com mencing December 8. All goods shipped on ami after this date will tee charged aa agreed upon by the agents of this company. INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT. No bin of lading or receipt aurned tor leas than fifty cents, and no Insurance e (Tot ted for less than one dollar premium. For further particular, and rates apply at Com pany 's o nice, Tier 88 East river, New York, or to JOHN F. OHU TIER 1 NORTH WHARVES. N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron, met Ala, Mt. 1 3 f 17 O R SAVANNAH, OKOEQU 4 THE FLORIDA TORTS, AND THE SOUTH AND 80UT1IWE8T. GREAT SOUTHERN FRKtOHT AND PA9SEN HER LINE. central railroad of okorcsia and At lantic AN KJULF RAILROAD. POUR STEAMERS A WEEK, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND 8A.TURDAYS. THE STEAMSHIPS BAN SALVADOR, Captain Nlckcrson, from Pie No. H Noith River. WJL R. OARfllSON, Agent, No. b Bowling Green. MONTGOMERY, Captain Falrcloth, from Pier No. 13 Noah River.. R. LOWPRN, Agent, No. 03 West street. LEO, Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. 10 East River. MURRAY, FERRIS A (JO., Agents, Nos. 61 and Oi South street. OFNERAL BARNES, Captain Mallorr, from Plet No. 10 North River. LIVINGSTON, FOX A CO., Agents, No, 83 Liberty street. Insurance by this lino ONE HALF PER CENT. Sup nor accommodations for paaacngera. Through rates and bills of lading la connection; with the Atlantic ami Gulf Freight line. U 6t Through rates and bills of lading in connection with uentrai itauroaa or ucorgin, to an points. i. iU-itvu GEOR3E YONUE. Agent A. A (i. R. R., No. !29 Broadway. Agent C. It It, No. 409 Broadway. FOR NEW YORK. YIA DELAWARE lt-thv snd Rarttan CanaL SWIFT SURE TRANSPORTATIOa DOail'AXNlf. DESPATCH AND 8WIFTSURB LINES, Leaving dally at 19 M. and C P. M. The steam propellers of this company will corn mence loading on the 8th or March. Through In twenty-four hoars. Gooa forwarded to any point free of commtsstoa Freight taken on accommodating Wirma. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents, 4 No. 189 South DELAWARE Avenue. Ijl O R ST. THOMAS AND BRAZIL UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL STEAM SHIP COMPANY. REGULAR MAIL STEaMKRS sailing on tho !8d of every month. MURRIMACK, Captain Wler. SOI TH AMbRICA, Captain E. L. Tinklepaugn. NORTH AMERICA, Captain O. B. Slocurn. These splendid steamer sa'l on schedule ttrae.and call at St. Thomas, Para, Pernatnbuco, Ilahla, and Rio de Janeiro, going and returning. F'or eagago merits of freight or passage, apply to WM. K. GARRISON, Agent, 19 lot No. 6 Bowling-green, New York. r n II nbw vnnir .Z&m EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. itfH win Flu Awnrn nnrt Rarttan Hanoi The Steam Pronellers of the linn will oommeno) loading on the 8th Instant, leaving dally aa usaaL THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines going oat of No York, North, East, or West, free of commission. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., Agenta, No. 19 s. DELAWARE ivenae JAMES HAND, Agent, No. tl WALL Street, New York. 144 OORDAOEi ETC. CORDAGE. Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Cordagt At LowMt Nw York Prloa and Vrtchta, EDIYIN H. flTLEU da CO l-aotory, TKATH 8t. and OXBMAJITOWa Avna. Stor. No. SS WATER 8k. and 99 H DELAWAS Avooa, It 12m : PRTLAPgLPHIAl hURNAOES, ETC. ESTABLISHED 1020. ran t. kick.. aw. dim XX. J. DE&S U CO., J1AH lirACXII It li K8 OP Warm Air Furnaces ' ' AND CJoolting- Xtixrvg-ea.) Portable Heaters, Low Down Grates, SUte Mantel Bath Boilers, ReglBters aud Ventilators. No. I I I North SEVENTH St., PHILADELPHIA. (9 99 thstaemrp JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDS i T9. PROPOSALS. PROPO8AL8 FOR PUBLIC PKINTIXO AND BINDING. . Notice Is berebv given tbat Sealed Proposals for the Public Printing and Binding for the State of Pennsylvania, for the term of three j ears from the first day of Jul, 1S71, will be received by tbe Speakers of tLo Senate and lloute of ileprcsentatlve from this date to the fouilh Tuetday of January, 1871. in compliance with tbe act of Assembly entitled "An ct la relation to Public Priming," approved 8th of April, lt&tt; said proposals to be accompanied by bonds, with approved securities, for the faith ful performance of tbe work, as required by the act of 25lh February. 1803, entitled "A further nf lement to an Act In relation to Public Prlutit-r," approved the 0th day of April, 1850, V. JORDAN, Secretary of the Common wealth. IIahribburo, Jan. 2, 187L 1 3 ISt WHISKY, WINE, ETQ. No. 126 Walnut and 21 GraMt9 gti. ' IMFOKTSttSOI rrtfcdUi, Wfe&i, Ola, Ollf Oil, 2ta.; WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE IVHISKISd IlOWP AWJPJTAI PAID. : . CcnTfxcliange Bag Hactonr. JOHN T, DAI LEY. N. H. Cor. WATER and MARKET EU' KOI' AND TW'NE, BAGS and BAGGING, log Oram, Flour, bait, Super-phosphate of Lima, Hon' Innst, lite. Large snd small OTJNNT BAGS constantly hand. AIhq. WOOL 8AUK& COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OP AL f numbera and brand, Tent, Awnliig. Truu aud M'ajron-coyer Duo. Also, Paixst Alanuiao. ' tyrers' Drier olW, from tulity to aeyeuty-au ..l it... 1.. ft, i li. Q .b JulTN W. E V tli.HI AN, ?X IIOKSK XJVfcB.S, BUPKALO ROUHH Jk .Fancy Kola, Lap HuRi, Fur Glove and luiUia. l.artfe slock of ail grade goods at lowettt price. MOYr.lt t Hrm-a, Saddlery and Truni buxv, lw, t AUiiki-X tt'-uct. w s 11 Uaif
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