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CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM,
fivtn Every Saturday.
It sometimes happens that a man's real ser
vice to his country begins when he his thrown
off the shackles of offioe and regained the in
dependence of private life. This remark, how
ever, cannot be applied to Hon. Jaeob D. Cox
whose aitlole in the last number of the
North American Review on "Toe Ci vil-Service
Reform" has given Bnoh an excellent impulse
to public thought and discussion because he
has rendered the State, while Bt ill in early
manhood, most valuable services, both civil
and military, and because office has been no
impediment to his efficiency. The moment
it threatened to become so he left the office.
No man, therefore, is better qualified,
either by ability, charaoter, or expe
rience, to unfold the evils of that
official system of patronage which, wielded
for partisan and personal purposes,
has become an enormous and malignant
goitre on our body politic, the removal of
which becomes the great political duty of the
times. An outcry, of course, will be raised,
in oertain quarters, that Mr. Cox is an inte
rested party to the question under discussion;
that, frustrated in some of his plans while
in office, or otherwise so disciplined as to
occasion his retirement, he has transferred to
the publio the dispute which went against
him in the Department of the Interior. Ilia
reputation, however, is so strong he can
afford to disregard all such insinuations a
these, while the people will do him the jus
tice all he probably asks to take his state
ments and arguments so far as they are sus
ceptible of substantial verification.
As an exhibit of the evils of the p resent
office-holding system we do not know that
Mr. Cox's article gives anything particularly
new or startling. The facts have long been
known to the public; we might say too well
known, for in every part of the country,
down to the smallest school distriot, indi
viduals are found who have assisted in pull
ing the wires of the great corruption batteries
at Washington. Many people, se jing the de
plorable results of the present appointing
system, and despairing of a remedy have
been content to pass the whole question by
on the other side evincing the same disposi
tion which gopd men often exhibited in the
days of slavery, and which is now frequently
manifested in regard to the Mormon ques
tion. What was wanted, therefore,
was a bold, conscientious man to
hold this subject up in the sunlight and
compel the people to look at it. This Mr.
Cox was the man to do, and he has per
formed his duty well. His article traces,
although in outline, yet vividly and impress
ively, the chain of abuses, flexible, but tough
as a snake's vertebrae, which binds the pre
sent offioial system together. Thus, a Presi
dent of the United (States and he does not
of course refer to the present Executive
bent upon securing a re-election, neglects his
high duties to stock the national offloes with
mercenary politicians, who cannot be expected
to become good publio servants. As he per
sonally knows the names of but very few
of the people of the Union, the members of
Congress of his own party naturally become
Lis office-brokers; and having their own
election to pay for, and perhaps their next
election to secure, and offioes to their de
pendants being the acknowledged legal
tender in both cases, they can hardly be dis
interested operators. Under these circum
stances a Congressman's idea of a useful offl.
cer, when he recommends a new name to any
one of the Departments, is one useful to him,
and not to the publio service; and the ap
pointee, if he beoomes such, does not rely for
retention and advancement so much upon his
own worth as upon the gracious favor of "the
member for his district." Then follows the
result poor officers, not likely to improve bo
long as they remain in offioe; terrible neglect
and mismanagement of the publio business,
whether routine, executive, . or legislative;
and a constant play and interchange of cor
ruption upon the people of this Union, to
have withstood which so well as they have
gives one the proudest right to boast "I am
an American citizen."
The remedy suggested by Mr, Cox is brief
but sweeping, being mainly one of competi
tive examination, both for the admission of
now members to the civil service and the pro
motion of those already tried. This, it will
be seen, involves the entire divoroe of the
service f rem the oontrol of partisan politics,
otherwise the competitive examination,
wherever lodged or however applied, would
be but a farce. We have not the least doubt
that it is in this direction that the reform is
to be sought. Any specific measure that
gives this, whether it is based upon Mr,
Jenckes' bill or Senator Schurz's, will be in ft
nitelv preferable to the present system, for
it will relieve the corrupting congestion at
Washington, fed by and reacting upon the
whole country. To nse the words of Mr.
Tiowe. the British Chancellor of the Ex
chbauer. it will "withdraw patronage from
tha dominion of nartv and give it to the
neonle." '
Still, when the time comes for maturing
such a measure and come it must before
long there are some considerations, not
directly treated by Mr. Cox, that Bhould be
taken into acoount. We will mention three.
First, a new line will have to be drawn
between what may be called political and
con-political offices. On the one hand
it may be asked, If an inspector or weigher
and ganger in a enstem house, or the several
Drades of clerks in a department, are
all to pass through the gate of competi
tive examination, why should not the Col
lector or Head of the Department ? On the
other hand, Will it answer to cut off all the
rewards of political activity now found in
''the civil service? Would there not be less
voting than there is now, less interest in poli
tics, lens political education objects of su
preme importance in a republic ? It is neces
' sary that our civil service should not ouly be
' clerically pure and efficient, but that it should
r not be wholly divorced from current publio
opinion. In this point of view it might be
' ' advisable to make certain offioes hitherto
' filled. l7 appointment, like post offices, eleo
u tive. .. Secondly, no matter how well a
competitive, examination of applicants for
aamuMiuu iu mo wyii oorviue is oouuuri
' ed, it cannot , infallibly indicate good
uuAMbv ejvsw uut
it does not take oogniz&noe
Cra; i because
of those
habits,!, moral traits, and mental
j peculiarities which are as important as edu
;"caUonl attainment.. We should hav-, then,
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.aipialng board' a" discretion in this wt-
r ter (which w$j, understand to .be the case
i"i . . . ... ... 19 " uermany ;,.!, tto, to admit more
' " "' "into- the' lower grades of the service than
m-fr ..f .might ,L wanted, ,..rn. 'ordo
r ... j .11 u .feeding oat, to.aewi Ua rht nuwbo. for
promotion. The latter probably would be
the safer course, for once open the door to
personal discretion and all the old abuses
would be crowding in again. Thirdly, it is
not well to have ouioiai service in this coun
try made a whit more attractive than is neoes-
sary to get the publio business faithfully and
steadily done. The pay, therefore, should be
bo graded as to invite only the requisite share
of popular talent and worth, and to retain it
wnen it cas been officially trained, Liet us,
however, start the reform; its details will
take care of themselves.
SINGLE WOMEN.
From the A. P. Tribune,
The social position of unmarried women of
middle age in this country is an anomaly.
While the matron and the young girl enjoy a
liberty of action unparalleled in any other
social system, the so-called "old maid" is set
apart in an exceptional degree or sooiasion
and restriction. She is always a surplus the
one too many. If she makes a oareor or a
borne, it is by virtue of ner own euort;
neither work nor place is defined for her in
the social machine.
In England, on the oontrary, the unmarried
woman of independent means, with the safe
guard of a companion, frequently becomes a
householder, and of equal weight with the
matron in society. In countries, too, whoie
social organization has been moulded by the
Church of Rome, the single woman be she
princess or peasant finds her niche and hon
orable work awaiting her. Out of this de
ficiency in our society grows half the un
rest and feverish scheming whioh make
woman now-a-days its most revolutionary
member.
The story of a woman in a neighboring city
suggests to us this difficulty, and hints at a
possible cure. She is about thirty, we are
told, possessed of good looks, a competency.
and more than ordinary culture, but without
a husband or any home ties. Curiously
enough, she has taien np neither a mission
nor reform. Going into an asylum for bltad
women, she fitted up apartments with the
taste and eleganoe which her habits de
manded, and has made the service of these
poor creatures the work of her life, while she
does not deny herself the pleasures of the
outside world. There seems to ns, in this
course, not only a high morale, but a com
mon sense and shrewd perception of the re
quirements of womanly nature, from which
our reformers might take a valuable hint.
"All women," they tell us, "oannot marry.
Let them, therefore, be carpenters, leotc rers,
sea captains, if they wilL" Now. work of
itself never satisfied any woman. It must
have a certain element of devotion, romance,
self-sacrifice in it, or it is incomplete.
jno "Advanoed .Female, we venture to say.
finds in her lectures or the brokering busi
ness alone a recompense for the husband, the
home, the baby at her breast, out of which
fate has cheated her. The Church of Rome,
with that keen knowledge of human nature
from which we may always profit, provides
for the "old maid not only work and a sure
and sufficient livelihood, but clothes her in a
uniform which hourly appeals to her sense of
romance and devotion. It surrounds her
with symbols, pictures, and perfume; en
dows her with a mystioal name, a patron
saint, marries her with an actual ring to a
heavenly spouse. She is not Miss Blank,
nurse, needle-woman, or teacher; she is one
with the great army of saints and martyrs
gone Dei ore.
.Mow, why cannot our theorists learn some
thing here? Work both for heads and hands
and the ohanoes for livelihood lie before Fro.
testants as well as Catholics; the poor we
have always with ns. On the other hand
stands the great army of unemployed single
women. when we find among them the dis
position to co-operate, to call out the produc
tive capabilities in eaoh other, even to make
money singly, together with the common
sense to recognize themselves as women, in
exorably women, not striving to trample out
the distinctive elements of charaoter by whioh
Uod set them apart as such, we disoern at
last a glimpse of steps in the Slough of De
spond into which some of the sex seem to
have fallen,.
THE PRESIDENT'S MILITARY HOUSE
HOLD.
From the N. T. Sun.
We notice that a professed eulogist of the
administration comes forward to correot publio
opinion respecting the employment of army
officers about the White House as aides-de
camp, secretaries, and ushers. He tolls us
that there are excellent precedents 'for the
practice, and that President Grant, especially
in retaining Uenerai Horace l'orter, "who
was his aide-de-camp in military service, as
his secretary, but follows the footsteps of his
most illustrious predecessors.
It is false to allege that any previous Presi
dent has ever kept about his person anything
like a staff of military officers. It is a truth
that on one occasion President Washington
transmitted a communication to Congress by
be hands of General Knox; but Knox was at
that time a member of the Cabinet, and in
the absenoe of a private secretary very pro
perly carried to Congress a message from the
President. The example ol 1,'resiaent daou.
son is equally opposed to the present custom
The allegation of Urant s apologist is false
that Jackson "had as his private secretary,
during his whole term from 1829 to 1837,
Colonel Andrew Jackson Donelson, a West
Point graduate, who was Li) nephew, and
had served as his aid-de-camp." Donelson
had resigned from the army years before, and
was not a military man at all when he went
to Washington as private secretary. He was
the only official about the President,' General
Jackson himself signing the land warrants, a
service now performed by a special secretary
The writer is equally mistaken in his other
proofs that Jackson kept np a military reti
nue. "Maior Jjewis, ne says, uvea 10 tne
White House during Jackson s administra
tion, drawing his pay as Auditor of the Trea
sury; and General Call, who had served on
Jackson a stall in Jtionaa, was one ol the
leading personages in Washington during Old
Hickory a days." By Major Lewis is meant
William B. Lewis, Third Auditor of the Trea
sury. He was an old friend of General Jack
son, and for a time was his guest at the White
House; but he was not a military offioer, held
no official place in the household, and had no
duties to discharge there. General Call wai
a private citizen, holding no offioe of any
kind, and merely visiting President J ackaoa
as a friend.
Next we have the example of President
Taylor, who, we are informed, "did preoisely
what General Grant is now so berated for
He took with him to the White House his
aid-de-camp Colonel Bliss, who aoted as hU
nrivate secretary until the President's death,
when he returned to the army. The truth
Bbont this is that Colonel Bliss, who was Pre
uidfint Tavlor's son-in-law, was his Assistant
AdinUnt-General during the Mexican war:
tr after General Tavlor became .President
Colonel Blias served as his private secretary,
twfnrminff alone, without colonels or gene
ruls or civilians to help him, all the duties of
the oiuce aiiui lavior uoaiu. ium vium.
however, there was no law to forbid an army
offioer from becoming the private seoretary
of the rresident. Such is not the case at
present.
'lho Army aot approved July i , ltwu, pro
vides in section 18 that "it shall not be law
ful for any officer of the army of the United
Statef, on the active list, to hold any civil
offioe, whether by election or appointment;
and any such offioer accepting or exercising
the functions of a civil office shall at once
cease to be an offioer of the army, and his
commission shall be vaoated thereby." This
provision utterly forbids the employment of
military otucers at the White House. 15 at
President Grant keeps three snob. ofHoers
about him in violation of this law. In the
"Congressional Directory." iust published at
Washington, these officers are set down as
secretaries of the President. They are Gene
ral F. T. Dent, General norace Porter, and
General O. E. Babcock. In the official re-
Eorts of Congress, General Porter, who
abitually bears the messages of the Presi
dent to the Capitol, is constantly represented
as his seoretary. This is a false representa
tion. General Porter is not a secretary of
the President at all. It is well known that
the only private seoretary is Mr. Robert M.
Douglass. But whatever else Mr. Douglass
.may do, he has never performed the most
conspicuous function of the offioe, whioh is
to bear the President's messages to Con
gress. I he three military officers who thus figure
as the President's secretaries fall under that
provision of the law which forbids any officer
of the army to exercise the functions of a
civil office. In the view of the law they
have all vacated their commissions by viola
ting this provision. But this is not the worst
feature of the case. If President Grant
wishes for three additional secretaries, it is
his duty to apply to Congress for authority to
appoint them, and also for an appropriation
to pay lor their services. This be has not
been willing to do. He prefers to attain the
purpose of keeping np so large a staff by
subterfuge and equivocation, alike unworthy
or the rresident and of the oiuoers whom he
puts in a false and illegal position. These
three officers appear upon the rolls of the
army not as secretaries of the President, but
as aides-de-camp in the staff of General
Sherman. As such they are paid, and Gene
ral Sherman details them for service about
the person of the President. This piece of
false pretense, this sneaking sort of illegality,
is, we say, not creditable to any of the par
ties engaged in it.
If there be any reason why General Grant
should have a larger number of secretaries
than any of his predecessors, there is no
doubt that Congress, on proof of the neces
sity, will grant them. But certainly they
Bhould not bo military men. No civil officer,
and least of all a President who has been a
military man, should be surrounded by a
military staff. There is in it something
odious and repugnant to the publio feeling,
which should not be tolerated for an hour.
But the case becomes still worse when such a
staff is maintained by the President by means
which savor of false pretenses, and involve a
deceitful violation of the spirit and letter of
the law.
LECAL NOTICES.
URVEY NOTICE
All persons interested In the Survey. Regu
lation and Alteration of the following Public
Plans of the City, are notified that the Court
of 'Quarter Sessions of the City and County
of Philadelphia have fixed WEDNESDAY, Feb
ruary io, 1871, at iv a. m., at the court
House, main building of the State House, to
consider said Surveys, Regulations, and Altera
tions, and any objections against the same may
be made by any freeholder then and there.
I be plans, in the meantime, may be seen at
tbe office of tbe Department of Surveys. No.
224 8. FIFTH Street.
Public Plan, No. 18. Revision of the errades
on part of the Fifth section of the Twenty -third
wara, uounuea
North by Allegheny avenue.
South by Lehigh avenue.
East by Kensington avenue.
We6t by Filmore street.
Public Plan, No. 44. Rearranging the lines
uud grades of Thirty-fourth street from Market
street to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Public Plan, No. 147 Revision of street and
grade lines in the Twenty-third and Twenty-
nttn warns, bounaea
south by vvneat neai lane.
West by Trenton avenue.
North by Bridge street.
East by Richmond street.
Public Plan, No. 1T1 Original plaa of the
Regulation of the Seventh section of the
lwenty-thira ward, bounded
Norm by Cayuga street.
South by Erie avenue.
East by Twelfth street. .
West by tiermantown avenue.
Public Plan, No. 154. Original plan of the
Regulation of the First section of the Twenty-
tblrd wara. Dounuea
North by Erie avenue.
South by Lehigh avenue.
East by Ninth street.
West by Tenth street and Germaatown
avenue.
X UUilV A lAUi W. V'V Z. .t 1 UU4 I'll. U U ,UQ
extension of Broad street from Chew avenue to
County Line road.
Public Plan, No. i.r uriginai plan of tbe
l lrst section of the late township ol Bristol,
Twentv-second ward, bounded
North oy tuners lane ana Kockiand
street.
South by Annsbury avenue and Wiugohoct
ing creek.
East by Second street.
WEt by Sixth street.
Public Plan, No. 204. Original plan of the
Ninth eection of the late borough, of German-
town, Twenty-second ward, bounded
North by uorgas street.
South by East Washington avenue.
East by Township Line Road.
West by Chew street.
Public Plan, No. 13'J. Original plan of the
Second section of the late Blocklev township, la
tne i wenty-seventn wara, oounaea
North by Market street.
South by Baltimore avenue.
East by Fifty-second street.
West by Fifty seventh etreet.
Public Plan, No. 47. Original plan of the
Third section, survey and regulation late town
ship of Blockley, Twenty-seventh ward,
bounaea
North by Market street.
South by South street.
East by Forty-seventh street. M
We6t by Sixty-fourth street.
Public Plan, No. 121 Revision of the grades
on Thompson street, from lwenty-eixth to
Thirty-first strett. in the 1 wentleth ward.
Public Plan, No. 227. Original plan of Low
Water Line and Houndlugs between Greeu
with Point and Broad street, and west of
Broad street in the First and Twenty-sixth
wards.
Public Plan, No. 238. Plan of the'resurvey of
a part of the Becona aua luira wards,
bounded
North by German 6treet.
South by Wharton 6treet.
East by Delaware river.
West by Passyuuk road.
J ' THOS. J. WORRELL,
1 9 City Solicitor.
MATS AND OAPI.
flat WAR RTTHTOuN'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
aUl and eaMj-intlng DRESS HATS (patented), in ail
the Uu Droved fanliloDJ of the aoaauo.
CiL&SNUT
fiueet, belt door to tne Pool Omoe.
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MNANOIAL,
nPIlF. STRONGEST AND BFST-SK-
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NOW OFFERED IN TUB MAR-
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7 PER CISrJT. GOLD
First Mortgage Bonds,
Coupon or Registered, and free of U. 8. Tax,
riUNClPA LJAND INTEREST TATABLK IN OOLD,
I38CBD BT TUB
IlnrlIneron, cdar Ilaplds, and
911k vgota It. It. Co.
The small remaining balance of the Loan for sale
At 90 and Accrued Interest In
Currency.
Interest payable May and November.
J. EDGAR THOMSON, -w,,..,.-.
UilAKLES L. FROST, TaBteeB-
The bonds are Issued at 20,K0 per mile a?Inst
tbe portion only or the Uoe fullr completed and
equipped.1
Tbe greater part of the road Is already In opera
tion, and the present earnings are iargeiy in excel
of the operating expenses and Interest on the bonds.
The balance of the work necessary to establish
throDRh connections, thereby shortening the dis
tance between St. Paul and Chicago 45 miles, and 90
miles to St. Louts, Is rapidly progressing, In time for
the movement of the com log grain crops, which, It
Is estimated, will double the present income of the
road.
The established character of this road, running as
It does through the heart of the moat thickly-settled
and richest portion of the great State of Iowa, to
gether with its present advanced condition and large
earnings, warrant us la unhesitatingly recommend
ing these bonds to investors as, in every respect, an
undonbted security. A small quantity of the lssae
only remalnB unsold, and when the enterprise is
completed, which will be this fall, an immediate ad
vance over subscription price may be looked for.
The bonds have fifty years to run, are convertible
at the option of the holder Into the stock of the Com-
pany at par, and the payment of the principal la pro
vided for by a sinking fund. The convertibility
privilege attached to these bonds cannot fall to cause
them, at an early day, to command a market price
considerably above par. U. S. Five-twenties at pre
sent prices return only X per cent, currency inte
rest, while these bonds pay 9tf per cent., and we
regard them to be as safe and fully equal as a security
to any Kailroad Bond issued; and until they are
placed upon the New York Stock Exchange, the
rules of which require the road to be completed, we
obligate ourselves to rebuy at any time any of these
bonds sold by us after this date at the same price as
realized by us on their sale.
All marketable securities taken in payment free of
commission and express charges.
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IN EUROPE.
Exchange on Paxil and the Union
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IN SUMS TO SUIT.
UT8mt
QITY OP BALTI MO R E.
11,200,000 six per cent, lionas or the western
Maryland Railroad Company, endorsed by the City
of Baltimore. The undenlgned ..'ywe Committee
of the Western Maryland Railroad Company otTer
through tbe American Exchange National Bank
11,200,000 of theBonds of the Western Maryland
Railroad Company, having SO years to ran, principal
and Interest guaranteed by the city of Baltimore.
This endorsement having been authorized by an
act of the Legislature, and by "ordinance of tbe
City Council, was submitted to and ratified by an
almost unanimous vote of tbe people. As an addi
tional security the city has provided a slutting fund of
200,000 for the liquidation of this debt at maturity
An exhibit of the financial condition of the city
shows that she baa available and convertible assets
more than sufficient to pay her entire indebtedness.
To Investors looking for absolute security no loan
offered in this market presents greater inducements.
These bonds are ottered at 87X and accrued inte
rest, coupons payable January and July. ,
WILLIAM JCBYSER,
JOHN K. LONGWKLL,
MOSES WIE3ENFELD,
1 6 COtt Finance Committee.
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ir lo noov bom "H8T WUAHJf abort MAR.'
RETURNING, leT, RICHMOND MONDAYS and
Ifin. nvnruui luwvAri) and BA-
co Bin, of uaui inea arur U o'clock on talllna
THROUGH RATF8 to all points la North and Boat
Carolina, TiaBMboard Air Lin Rkilroad, ooonaotina at
Want, via Virginia and TannaaM Air Lin and Riotmond
ana iaaTiuv xutimm.
FreiKbt H ANDLKD BCTQNOB, and takan at LOWRB
HATjTh THAN ANS OTHKR LINK. witm
No charga for oonuniasisn, draraga, or anr axpanaa of
ranaiar. ,
h ten tn ship lnmira at lowest rata.
Freight reoeWed daily.
BUt. Room acmUtlon.or
No. 13 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and Uitr Point.
T. P. CROWBILL UP.. AnenU at Norfolk. 1 1
FOR LIVERPOOL AND OUEEN8
LTOWN. Inman Line of Roval Mall
Steamers are appointed to sail as ronowa:
(Jit? of Paris. Saturday, Jan. Si. at 8 P. M.
City of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, Jan. S4, at
City of London, Saturday. January 9A. at 11 A. M.
City of Brooklyn, Katurday. Feb. 4. at 2 P. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier ino. wortn river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payable In gold. Payable in currency.
First Cabin fTB
To London, 80
To Paris JH)
Steeracre 13
To London 86
To Paris
To Halifax.... so
To Halifax is
Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg.
vrenieu, evu., bi reuuueu mien.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persona wibqidr to uuuu mr meir irieuus.
For further Information apply at the company's
office.
JOHN O. DALE, Agent. No. 15 Broadway, N. Y.
ur 10 j uvd!xs.l.u a r auLit, Agents,
45 NO. 408 CI1KSNUT Street, PtUladelphla.
milE REGULAR BTBAMSHIPS ON THB PHI-
X LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to Issue througt
ollls of lading to Interior points Sooth and West lr
connection witn uoutn uaroiina Kauroau uomnanj,
ALFRED L. TVLER. .
Vice-President So. C. IUi. Co?
jgeguj
PHILADELPHIA AND 80UTHERN
MAIL, DlKAaiDnlr UUHPANVH RJI7
MI-MONTULY LLNH TO NUW OR.
Tba JUNIATA will aall for New Orlaaaa, tU Havana,
OB We1neydy. January 18, at 8 A. M.
feTha YAZOO wiU aall from Maw Orlaaaa, via Haras;
W , tJ miliary
TllKUUUii DiiiUi jk uiuinuH aa tow rata aa bt
an other root eWen to Mobile, Galveston, INDIAN
OLA, HOOK PORT, LA VACUA, and BR AZOS.and to all
twin nn the lrliniaaiDDl riTei between New Orla&na .nH
St. Lonla. Had Kivar IreiRhu raabippad at Naw Orlaaaa
wilboai oaarga 01 oommiwiona.
WEEKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH. OA.
Tha WYOMING wUl aall for SaTannao on Satnrlar.
January SI, at 8 A. M.
Tna TON A WANDA will aall from SavannaA on Satm-
aar, January ai.
ThkOIKJIl BILLS OF LADING riven to all bhanrin.
eipal towna in Uaoncia, Alabama, Florida, MiaaMaippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection with
the Central Railroad of Georgia, Atlantio and Gait Rail,
road, and Florida ataamera, at aa low rates aa bf oompatinc
unea.
' BKMI-MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. I. O.
Tbe PIONKKU wiU aail lor Wilmington on Thurs
day January 26, at tt A. M. Retaining, will leave Wll
nD ton l-'ridaT. February 3.
Connects with the -Cape Fear River Steamboat Com.
pany, the Wilmina ton and Weldon and North Carolina
Raiiroada, and tha Wilmincton and Manchester Railroad
te all interior point.
Freights for Colombia, 8. O., and Aognsta, Ga., takes
via W ilminirton. at as low rates aa by any other route.
. Insurance affected when reaaeated br ehiunera. Bills
of lading eiened at Queen etreet wharf on or before da
oi sailing,
WILLIAM L. J A MICH, Oenaral Inot
U
No. UU Booth TU1RU 8 treat.
E ANCHOR LINK STEAMERS
1 Sal
bau ever; baiuraay ana alternate Wednesday
luauu jruiu uiasuuv nuu uerrv.
Paagengera booked and forwarded to and from all
railway stations la Oreat Britain, Ireland, Ger
many, Norway, Swatlen, or Denmark and America
as safely, speedily, comfortably, and cheaply aa by
VUj uiucr iuui ur uuo.
"SM'HESS" BTKAMEH8.
"EXTRA" 8TBAMBR8.
IOWA,
TYRIAN,
BRITANNIA,
IOWA
TYRIAN,
ANUL1A,
AUSTRALIA,
BRITANNIA,
INDIA,
COLUMBIA,
CUKOl'A.
lilllTAM NIA.
From Pier 20 North river, New York, at noon.
- - Rates of Passage, Payable in Currency,
to Liverpool, Glasgow, orUerry
First cabins. $05 and 175, according to location.
Cabin excurslou tickets (good for twelve months),
securing ui'Bi uccumuiuautiuuB, iiau.
Intermediate. 133: steerage, 123.
Certificates, at reduced rates, can be bought here
i) j uioHe wisuuig to bbuu ior tueir menus.
Drafts Issued, payab.e on presentation.
Apply at the company's otllces-to
HENDERSON BROTHERS.
12 27t No. 7 BOWLING QUEEN.
I T E
STAR
LINE,
OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
LINK OP NEW STEAMERS BETWEEN NEW
Yt RK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING AT CORK,
1 S E-L.AI U.
The company's fleet comprises the following mag.
nincent iuu-powerea oceun steamships, the six
largest lu.tlie world:
CCKAN1C, Captain Murray. A RCTIC.
ATLANTIC, Captain Thompson. BALTIC.
PACIFIC. Captain Perry. ADRIATIC.
These new vessels have been designed specially
for the transatlantic trade, and combine speed,
gaiety, ana couiiort.
Passenser accommodations nnrlvalled.
Parties sending for their friends in the old coun
try can now obtain prepaid tickets.
Steerage, 32, currency.
Other rates aa low as any first-class line.
For further particulars apply to 1SMAV, IMRIE A
CO.. No. 10 WATEK Street, Liverpool, and No. 7
EAST INDIA Avenue, LEADEMll ALL 8treet,
I-oudon: or at the company' oillces, No. 19
rkiiadway. New ork.
1 tt J. II. SPARKS, Agent,
-mm NEW EXPRESS ONE TO ALXXAH
i .r-'Ck.Wdrla, Georgetown, and Waaaingtoo
jt.-.-'.aLn p., via Chesapeake aed De.s-ware
Caual, with connections at Alexandria from lae
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, KaoxvlUe,
Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest.
Bieauiers leave reguiany every Dttturuay at nooo
'Tom tne nrst wharf above market street.
Freight received dally. v f,r vnw
1 Lilal a. A At VHl CSV V.s
No. la North and South WHARVES.
HYDE ft TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M.
KLDR1DUE A COAteuU ajAUixandrla. 1
- DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
fJ 8TKAaI IV W BOAT COMPANY
J.n.nrm towed between Philadelphia,
bultliiiore, iiavre-ao-urauo, aio vaiy, ana Ui-
. . ... a il II IS.
"" V1LLIAM P. CLYDE k CO., Agent.
nanteJn JOHN LA UGH LIN, Supertntendeut
Oaloe.No. 12 Soavh WiAfTos Puuadelpaiav
BHIPPINU. .
:fffjW LORILLAKP BTSAM3HIP COMPAK
SAILING TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS. AND SAT
URDAYS AT NOON,
are now receiving rreignt at winter rates, com
mencing December 58. All goods shipped on and
afterthU date will be charged as agreed upon by
the appBti of this company.
INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF 0N3 PER CENT.
No bill of lading or receipt signed for less than
I
flfty cents, and no Insurance effected for less than
one dollar premium.
For further particulars and rates apply at Com
pany's office, Pier 83 East river, New York, or to
JOHN F. OHL,
- - PIER 1 NORTH WHARVES.
N. B. Extra ratos on small packages Iron, metals.
etc. 8 8 4
F
OR SAVANNAH, OBORGI
THE F1XR11)A PORTS,
AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTUWBST.
GREAT SOUTHERN FRKIOIIT AND PASSEN".
U Kit LINK.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF QEOROIA AND AT
LANTIC) AN UULF RAILROAD.
I'OUR STEAMERS A WiiBK.
TUESDAYS,"
THURSDAYS,
AND SATURDAYS.
THE STEAMSHIPS
8AN SALVADOR, Captain Nlckerson, from Pier
No. 8 North River.
WM.. K. UAKKIHON, AffCOt,
No. 6 Howling Or ecu.
MONTGOMERY. Captain Palrcloth, from Pier No.
13 North Klver. -
R. lowdkn, Agent,
No. 93 West street.
Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. 16 Basj
LEO.
River.
MURRAY. FERRIS A CO.. Atrenta.
Nos. 6i and 02 South street.
GENERAL BARNES, Captain Mallory. from Plei'
NO. 80 norm uiver.
L1V1NUSTON, 1'OX L'O., Agents,
No. 84 Llierty street.
Insurance by this line ONB-IIALP PER CENT.
SuDtrtor accommodations for passengers.
Through rates and bills of lading lacounectloJ
with tne Atlantic and Uuir Freight Hue. 1 1 6t
Through- rates and bills of lading la connection
with Central Railroad of ueorgta, to all points.
C. D. OWKNS, UEOliyK YONGB,
A sprit A . A a. It. R.. Anntn. K. H.
No. 22D Broadway. No. 49 Broadwan
FOR NEW YORK. VIA DELAWARI
and ltantan canal. I
saMsussli
iSWIFTSURB TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY. i
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURB LINES, 1
Leaving daily at IS M.fend 5 P.M. I
The steam propellers of this comp&av will com
mence loading on the 8th of March.
Throng a in twenty-four nonrs.
Goods orwarded to any point free of commlaaloo
Fretghia taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agent, -I)
Mo,-183 Sonth DELAWARE Avenge.
TTS O R ST. THOMAS AND B R A Z I a
A? I'MTED STATUS ANO UKAZIL STKA:
Sllll' COMrAN i .
REGULAR MAIL STEiMKRS sailing bn
23d of every month.
m kk kim At. k. i aptain wier.
SOI Til AMaRICA, Captatn K. L. Tlnklepaugl;
ISOHTli AOtn-HlCA, capLainu. it. Diocuiu.
These solenoid steamer sa(l on schedule time.
call at St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahla,
Rio de Janeiro, going ana returning. For euga
menta of ireignt or passage, npniy to
vyjh. n. uAititiciurt, Airent.
H lot . No. B Bowling-green, New York.1
FOR N B W Y O R
via Delaware and Rarltan Canal.
EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANYl
The steam Propellers of the line will comment
loading on the 6th Instant, leaving dally aa nsnai.1
lunuuun in inanii-cuuAauuna J
Goods forwarded by all the lines trolns oat of K
X orK, r (inn, anst, ur ne, iroa ui ouuuniaaion.
jrreighia receivea at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO..' Asrents.
No. 12 8. DELAWARE Avenaat
JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. lis WALL Street, New York. S
OORDAQE, ETO.
CORDAGE.
Slanllla, Blial and Tarred Oorda;
At Lowest Raw York Prloee and Freight.
EDWIN XL FITUKR OO
factory. TKSTH St. and QKRMARTOWH AranoJ
Btore, No. 13 , WATER Bt. and 22 B DRLAWA7
Avenaa.
1112m
PJULADELPBj
CITY ORDINANCES.
R
ESOLUT
ION
Of Request to
the Legislature of Fennf
v am a.
Whereas, During the late Rebellion li
amounts of money have been drawn from J
City Treasury "for the defense of the c(
'Tenet ol lamuies or toiunieers, ana l
bounties to volunteers" by appropriations n
by Councils for those purposes, amounting
eleven millions eight hundred and nlnei
thousand and sixty-eight dollars. J
Treasury of the city to aid in tbe suppress!
tne late Keueuion was warranted oniy d
occasion, and baa vested in the city a Just
equitable claim on congress lor the lull am
of tne same.
Resolved, By the Select and Common C
ells of the City of Philadelphia, That the I
iature oi rennsyivania be and they are h
requested to make application to the U
states Government to repay to tne city or
dciphla the said sum of eleven millions
hundred and nineteen thousand and sixty
dollars, the amount expended as above
tloned.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutio
cent to the members of the Legislature froi
cltv of Philadelphia.
iioiti liuurs
President of Common Coun
Attest
Benjamin II. Haines,
Clerk of Select Council
SAMUEL W. CATTELD
President of Select Coun
Approved this fourteenth day of JanJ
Anno Domini one thousand eight hu
and seventy-one (A. D. 1871).
DANIEL M. FO;
1 14 It Mayor of Philadelpl,
o
ID OAKS
CEMETERY
COM
OF PHILADELPHIA.
This Company Is prepared to sell lots, cleaH
encumbrance s, on reasonable term. Purchadi
see plans at the oulce of the Company,
NO. 618 WALNUT STREET,
Or at the Cemetery, where all Information
will be cheerfully given.
By giving notice at tbe office, carriages wt
persons desirous of purchasing lots at Tioga fc
on the Germantown Railroad, ana coavey
the Cemetery and returt, free of charge.
'ALFRED a HARMER, President.
MARTIN LANDENBERGER, Tre
MICHAEL NISBET, 8ec'y. lOBwf
Corn Exchange Bas Manufai
JOHN T. BAJLCY, j
N. X. Cor. WATER and MABEl'
ROPB AND TWINJI, BAGS aad BAGQH
Grain, Flour, Salt, Super-Phosphate of Llm(
Dust, Etc ' 1
Le-rgeand small GUNNY BAGS ConataJ
hand, Alao, WOOL SACKS. I
HORSE COVERS, BUFFALO 1
.rr-VFaucy Robes, Lap Rugs, Fur Glo4
l ollars. stock ol aa grade goods at
price. MOYKU'S Uarneaa, Saddlery aud
Store, No. MA RliLT biroeu 2 U
"l II! ill.