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Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
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Mil. liLACK'tt KEPLY TO WILSON.
From tkt X. T. Woild.
The striking article from the Galir; which
we reprinted yesterday is one of the most
remarkable specimens of vigorous rhetoric
and overwhelming lgio which it has been
out fortune to peruse for many a day. lSut
we wish that Mr. Mack had Leon content to
give the nncolored argument without his vin
dictive, Hcathing rhetoric. His reply to Ssna
tor Wilson would not indeed hive boon huhU
piquant reading if he had dispensed wifcli its
warmth of coloring, but it would have baan
more persuasive, and more convincing to tho
misguided people who regard the late Secre
tary Stantou as a model patriot and political
saint, lihetorio has no value except as a
means of gaining attention; and Mr. Mack's
eminent talents and rceoguized standing
would have insured hlua readers without this
extraneous aid. The hardest lesson both for
tyros and veterans in argument is to learn
the weakening effect of excessive emphasis,
lie who would convince others must adapt
himsolf to their points of view. The art of
doing this is the great secret of persuasive
writing.
Mr. Black and Senator Wilson together
have made it very clear that Stanton was one
of the most consummate hypocrites and
most extraordinary examples of duplicity that
ever lived. There is no longer any room to
doubt that in the memorable winter of 1301
Stanton acted a disgraceful double part; pre
tending to President Buchanan and his
Cabinet that he was a zealous supporter of
their views, and at the same time holding
clandestine interviews with the llepublicau
leaders, assuring them that he was devoted to
their interests, and habitually betraying to
them the secrets, or pretendad secrets, of the
administration . His role in the Cabinet was
that of a st aunch and thorough-paced adherent;
his other role was that of a spy upon the ad
ministration and divulger to its enemies of
its secret counsels. Mr. Black produces un
answerable evidence that Stauton acted the
first of these parts; Mr. Wilsoa produces evi
dence, equally unanswerable, that he acted
the second. Now, even on the supposition
that he was a truthful spy upon the Cabinet
which gave him their confidence, his conduct
was inen'ably base and disgraceful. But tho
evidence shows that his midnight revelations
were unscrupulous falsehood. He libelled
the Cabinet which gave him their confidence
in order to ingratiate himsolf with those to
whom be pretended to divulge their secrets.
If there be a lower depth of baseness and de
pravity, history has not revealed tho names
of those who have sunk to it.
It must not be forgotten that at tho time
when Stanton was acting this disgraceful
part, there were other men in the Cabinet
whose record is as "loyal" as his. General
Dix was Secretary of the Treasury, "and Mr.
Holt Secretary of War the two most im
portant positions, at that time, in the admin
istration. These gentlemen were present at
all Cabinet meetings; were cognizant of all
the. Government counsels; had as ample
means as Mr. Stanton of knowing all damag
ing Becretp. If the administration was un
faithful, General Dix and Mr, Holt were
accomplices, and Stanton's pretended revela
tions must have implicated them as well as
other members of the Cabinet. Who, even
among Republicans, believes that they were
consenting witnesses and parties to treason ?
And yet they must have been, if there was
any truth in Stanton's midnight disclosures.
It is clear that those pretended disclosures
were Blanders, invented by Stanton to curry
favor with a party which would have offices
to bestow during the ensuing four years.
He simulated zeal for Mr. Buchanan's admin
istration to insure the oflice he then held;
and he acted the part of a spy upon it, and
fabricated slanders ngainst its loyalty, as a
means of recommending himself to the pirty
which was about to come into power. How
did it happen that General Dix, with equal
opportunities and equal zeal for the Union,
never discovered the enormous treachery
which Stanton made it his daily and nightly
business to convey to the camp of the enemy?
The explanation is, that the disclosures were
cot facts, but fabrications.
It is known and notorious that the first
month of Mr. Lincoln's administration was
modelled on the last two months of Mr.
Buchanan's. If there was feebleness and
vacillation under the one, it was continued
tinder the other. Mr. Lincoln's inaugural
was in the very spirit of President Buchanan's
conduct. Mr. Seward, abetted by General
Scott, intrigued for the abandonment
of Fort Sumter, although President
Buchanan had been resolute and per
sistent in his determination to hold it. The
new administration adopted no new measures
until the firing upon Sumter aroused and
electrified the country. Mr. Lincoln is
just as open to accusations of treachery as
was Mr. Buchanan dating the last two
months of his administration, when Stanton
was aoting the spy and deceiving both the
Cabinet and the Republicans the adminis
tration by pretended zeal for all its measures
and opinions, and the Republicans by bear
ing false witness against the men who gave
him their confidence.
Mr. Black, in his last article, nails many
falsehoods to the counter, but its chief inte
rest consists in the damning light it sheds
npon the character of Stanton. If Stanton
had died before he was made Secretary o.
War, there could not be twojopinions respect
ing his disgraceful duplicity and baseness.
He was an energetic and unscrupulous ad
ministrator, and was so fully supported by
the passions of the people in that passionate
era, that they would willingly ignore or con
done the loathsome treachery of bis previous
conduct. But history will give its final ver
dict on the sound maxim, Nihil tie vwrtuii
nini vtut'M.
THE CRItelS OF THE STRUGGLE IN
FRANCE.
Prom tkt If. F. 2'ines.
What may be called the third epoch of the
Franco-German war is drawing to a close
The first ended with Woerth, when it was
demonstrated that an offensive campaign
was out of the - question, and that all the
available strength of France would be re
quired to defend her own soil. The seoond
ended with Sedan, when the incapacity for
this purpose of the empire and its regukrlv
organized army was fully demonstrated. The
third will close with the inevitable surrendor
of Paris, and the more than probable defeat
of the thrice-organized Army of the Loire,
which has once more been summoued
to make a supreme effort on behilf
of "Liberty and the Republic." After
that, if the war continues at all,
it must be in the form of irregularly
4.gaui.vi (tail Uutfuliviv iiUiiu, L uoio
of men animated by no uniform impulse, save
the single determination of saying No! to
every demand for submission on the basis of
territorial concession. Terrible as have boon
the hardships of the later phases of the strug
gle, one like thh would lo far more replete
with horrors. Strong ns the Germans are,
tbey have not force sullicioiit for a complete
military occupation of Frauce; but, once re
leased from the vnst enterprise of besieging
Paris, ibey can isolate ia the most complete
nmnner tho four grput sections of French ter
ritory and population from eah other; they
can prevent any possibles goveruineut being
obeyed over any but a very small portion of
the fountiy; they can, in fact, omplete the
social and political chaos which is already im
pending over tl.o natiou.
The Republican leaders of France and no
other political power need for a moment be
taken into account kiiow this ns well as
the most disinterested of on-lojkers. Yet it
by no means follows that universal submis
sion will fi.How tho fall of Paris. They may
pimply elect, with tho possible concurrence
of the majority of the" poople, to allow Ger
many to work out the problem before her in
any way she tLinks fit. They may say, "She
Las got the provinces she wants, lot her keop
them, but their cession will be formally
ratified by no act of ours. While tho invader
remains on our soil we shall continue to re
fuse to convene a national assembly, whose
sittings would be held under the muzzles of
Prussian cannon. Our conquerors want a
huge indemnity; the longer they stay the
more difficulty they will have in raising
it. Let them go on making forced requisi
tions here and there, so long a3 they find
them repay the cost of collection". Let them
continue to ppiead famine and pestilence as
they have already scattered death and ruin,
till civilization cries shame, and in very
wcarineP8 Germany recalls her hosts, and
contents herself with ocoupying what she in
tends permanently to keep." Such a resolution
might be deplorable enough, but no one cau
sny that it is impossible. Come what may,
Franco and tho Republic are indestructible,
snd it is far from impossible that the ap
proaching crisis of the national defence may
be only the opening of a new phase of this
determined and terrible struggle.
PAUPERS.
From the X. Y. Tribune.
The pauper in the body politio threitens to
be the one unsolvable problem just now in
England and hero. Our friends in Philadel
phia and the guardians of the poor in Loudon
especially appear to find the burden mir.i
than they cau bear. What business a man
who can't work and is not aslnmed to beg
has to live at all, is a question apparently too
hard for these gjutlomcn. Even the bugs of
creation find their uses iu museums, or.
cased in amber, may givo ri;-;e to poetic in
quiry as to "how the devil they cune ttiero?"
Hut the pauper, they complain, dead or al'.ve,
is so much waste matter. Society spews him
out. Science will have nouo of htm. This
class and order are, alas! but too well kao vn.
There is no doubt as to how he got here.
He has not only come already, but ho keeps
coming every year, a gaunt, unweaned army,
in swaddling bands; and he claims it to be a
religious duly so to keop on coming in per
2duum. Under these circumstances it is no
wonder that the patience of theso guardians
of almshouses should wtx threadbare, and
that they should strive to lessen the weight
by every laudable means open to them.
In one of the English work-housos the
means embraced the inclosing of coatuma
cious paupers in air-tight celld over night;
kicking to death; smoking out women who
were trying to escape by the infirmary chim
ney with chlorine gas, the infirmary being
filled at the time with sick and dying patients.
At St. George's-in-the-East the guardians
divide the trade of the almshouse among
themselves, one supplying the paupers with
boots and shoes, another with liquor, a third
being tinker in general for the boilers. The
chaplain complaining that the baochanaliin
brother kept the paupers not only drunk, but
busy stealing to pay for thoir grog, ho was
incontinently taken by the nape of the neck
and kicked out of the board. One nurse was
exported for an UDploasant habit she had
of shaking tho dying paupers to hurry their
exit the witness apologizing for her, in the
last case of the kind, by alleging that "Mrs.
Snllivan did take an unreasonable long timo
dying."
Our neighbors in Philadelphia have massed
all their dead weight of pauperism in Block
ley Almshouse, and the meetings of its
guardians are anticipated in that city of bro
therly love by reporters and people as the
best of raree-shows. A certain Mr. Parker, it
appears, steadily complains that the bread
served to tho paupers is not to be distin
guished in taste or appearance from wet sand;
that the wards are fuller and fouler than the
Black Hole of Calcutta, and that their in
mates are dying like sheep, and certainly
with no unreasonable waste of time. The
reverend old Quakers who constitute the rest
of the board as statedly reply to him not by
investigation of the difficulties, but by threats
of "kicking him out" and oaths agiiust
"jabbering bean poles," calculated to create
astonishment in the minds of all who are ac
customed to revere Penn and tho boasted
charities of his grave followers. What truth
there may be in Mr. Parker's allegations we
know not, but the very language of the guar
dians increases the doubt we have often ex
pressed of the expediency of placing large
bodies of the helpless wards of the State,
whether paupers, idiots, or insane, in the
care of a few men who naturally soon come
to regard misery as a mechanical weight to be
overcome by a general hard system and rule.
In England the boarding-out system is rapidly
coming into general use with regard to their
paupers, and, we doubt not, a plan approxi
mating to it will before long be found the
luost in accordance not only with benevo
lence but economy in this country.
WHY GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT SYMPA
THIZE WITH FRANCE.
From the London Spectator.
In the Fortnightly Jlevietc and the Pall Mill
umttte Mr. 1 redenc Harrison has vigorously
expressed his amazement that good Liberals
should display any sympathy for what he
calls Bismarckism. But the reason is not far
to seek. It was set forth in the lecture of
Father Hyacinthe last week. At least half of
the stern anger with which France is visited
by the most moral, most upright, class of
Englishmen comes from the fact, not that the
gauntlet was thrown down by France, or that
her pretext for declaring war was tho m ist
transparently wicked ever employed by a gre.it
nation, but that she done mora tha'i any
other country to clothe vice with splondjr
and grace. People whose Christianity
did nbt drive them away from the side of the
Southern States, but permitted them to wiak
at slavery, look upon France with disgust au 1
vehement passion, because Paris has raised
vice to the dignity of a fine art, beo.rno the
literature of France recalls t'ao license of drt
cayiiJ!' Uouae. and buumwH II. . r..i .....
I I'lufc'u bttri.js a depraved taste revoking
sweet delicacy of an English household.
Some of the best men and women resolutely
refuse to look byond the proposition that
Germany is a nation of purity, and France a
nation of license. They cannot bring them
selves to hold with a firm grip the equally
manifest proposition that Prussia may
now be going as certainly
down the abyss of political immorality,
as Franco did on the eve of the war. Or,
even if they hold that Germany is doing
wrong by seizing Alsace and Lorraine against
the will of the inhabitants, they will not face
the logical result that sho is doing a deed
leps beinously bad than the partition of
Poland, and that sho merits a large measure
of tho stern judgment which has followed the
ciime of France. They have but one answer
that the French are n wicked people. Nor
can it be denied that Mr. Carlyle has a firm
substratum of truth for tho vehement rheto
ric in which he clothes the counts of tli9 in
dictment. Paris alone would go far to con
demn a whole people. London miyboouly
a gradation less wicked, if indeed it bo less
wicked at all; London may bo a sink of vice
equally gross and equally hideous in its
nluindauco; but the vice of Lon
don is not gilded, or taken tinjjr
the wing of wit and taste, like that of the
French capital. The vice of London is
coarsely vulgar, idiotically insane; it does not
give a tone to society, nor has it a literature
devoted to the celebration of its own infernal
fascinations; men of letters do not enlist in
what Mr. Car'yle might justly call "tho
Devil's Regiment of the Line," or sell their
souls into his service. Mr. Swinburne has
striven hard, no doubt, to erect an Eoglish
literature of impurity, based on the best
models of France; but when the thing was
done in plain English, its Yileness, its want
of manliness, its imp-like orgies filled men of
the world with unutterable loathing, which
was only intensified by the plaudits of tho
little clique who placed the young poot in the
same rank with Shelley. France, on the
other hand, has nourished a large school of
letters to which the artistic treatment of
vice is the abiding theme. In no other
country would such a writer as Theophile
Gautier be possible. Here is a man gifted
with wit, charming sentiment, a delicate per
ception of the intricate machinery of passion,
tenderness of soul, an easy and melodious
eloquence; and all these endowments are em
ployed to teach, so far ns art can teach, that
the aim of art is to bring back the gilded and
(esthetic license of Greece. One of Gautiers
books. wLich we do not choose to name, is so
full of subtle analysis, so enriched with
beauty of expression, and so infernal in its
viciousness, that even a man of the world
might bo excused for calmly and doliberately
tearing it to pieces, leaf by leaf, for carefully
placing tho fragments in the fire, and watch
ing till every fragment of the lazav-like stuff
be turned to ashes. The literaturo of Eng
land presents no such phenomenon of
genius weddtd to a satyr like depra
vity. Even Byron, the most fl.igram of
our poetic sinners,, won tho enthu
siastic homnge of the reading mob by
tho intensity of his passion, by the marvel
lous force with which ho gave utterance to
the Philistine craving for freedom from the
shackles of a prim civilization, by the inten
sity with which he rellected the unrest and
the weariness that trouble the meanest souls,
by powers that might in noble hands
have been consecrated to noble ends.
The vileness of Byron has not helped him to
becomo tho favorite poet of the untutored
young, and of what Mr. Matthew Arnold
would term the un regenerate middle-class,
but has rather hindered him from reaching
tne cniei place in the Pantheon of Plulistia.
And the moral taint on such pootry as that
of Byron belongs to a different genus from
the artistic depravity which casts the
blight of a moral leprosy over
the lighter literature of France. The typi
cnlly French school has raised vice to the dig
nity of a fine art, has crowned it with poetio
garlands, and chanted its praises with song;
so that if the new gospel has the warrant of
truth, it undoes all the Christian teaching of
the last two thousand years, and sets us
dreaiily down once more amid the paganism
of a viler and less gifted Greece. France
has been the corrupter of youth. She has
been the evangelist of depravity. Armed
with a literaturo as perfect in form as that of
Athens, sho has waged war against that
purity of tone and principle which is the
most distinctive heritage of Christianity, aud
iu comparison with which all tho gl Dries of
literature, all the graces of art, all the tri
umphs of our electrio telegraph and steam
engine civilization are only so much dust
and ashes.
Germany, on the other hand, is not less
specially a land of domestic purity than Eng
land itself. The Germans are good husbands,
good wives, good sens and brothers. Much,
it is true, must be raid on the other side.
Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, and some other
German cities are not the most exemplary in
the world. The gambling "hells" which ex
isted at Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, and some
other German places of fashion, until they
were found intolerable by the stern Lutheran
ism of King William, did shook tho English
sense of propriety. And amid the established
gods of morality and religion, the German
thinking class wields tho Thorhauimer of
revolution more remorselessly than the most
intrepid of the French ioouoclasts. German
thought has given a new depth to the French
instinct for the destruction of the sanctities
and the proprieties. Germany can claim
half the parenthood even of such distinc
tively French producta as positivism. Ger
many has done a thousandfold more than
France to disturb the quiet of orthodox
England, by directly or iudirectly sending
across her frontiers a crowd of Goths and
Visigoths in the shape of essayists aud re
viewers, ColenBos, Voyseys, and the apostolic
band of devout atheists who are guided by
the one orthodox follower of Auguste Comte,
and who find salva'iou in the commemora
tion of their ciaiuluiothers. AU tho-e facts
are soiicwfully admitted by the good. apolo
gists for Bicuiaiekism. But, ia reply, they
point to the purity of moral atmosphere in
Germany. Immorality is not ia the air. The
people are too much swayed by
the dictates of manly virtue to
breed Theophile Gautiers. His mantel pieces
would excite the loathing of every cultivatad
man outside that dilettante clique which is
characterized by an incapacity for logical
thought, and a picturesque hostility to the
moral law. He would be "cut" dead by the
literary class, which would tell him that,
although he might wield the scalpel as re
morselessly as he pleased, andmightst ite the
results of dissection with the fearlessness of
science, he degraded the divinity of intellect
by giving an unhallowed g'ory to passion.
He would excite the same scorn and disgust
as a man cf geuius who habitually got drunk
and rolled in the gutter. He would be classed
with Edgar Allan Poe. And it is because
Gtimany sets up a high standard of purity ia
speech and act, that her triumphs over
France have been celebrated with the Utile
lujubs of many good Englishmen. It is,
, cu tU vlLvl L.ui.', becjusg tits t;i;4
literatnre of France is a literatnre of license,
and becauso her moral atmosphere is murky,
that she excites absolute loathing In many
English homes which have taken the noble
side in all the great contests of recent years,
such as the fight to liberate the Amerioau
slaves, and the contest to free Ireland from
the iniquity of the alien Church establish
ment. The tremendous punishment of
Franco excites such fierce joy as might have
iired the spirit of the Hebrews whon they
heard that the priests of Baal ha i been ut
terly destroyed, and the Canaanilish women
and childreu smitten with the edge of the
sword. The hatred is so absorbing as to
blind the eye to tho lines of political recti
tude. The unscrupulous intrigues of Bis
marck; that barrack-room piety of the King,
which thanks God for victories, and cuts
Providence in a season of defeat; the barbario
spirit of tho squireen caste which is permitted
to rule the best instructed poople in the
world; the detestable military spirit which
threatens to make Prussia the pest of Europe;
the sanguinary evangel of professors who
would set Europe in a flame to make good
their own tthnologicnl dogma, that Germany
is gifted with a divino right to r :ile everybody
who speaks a German patois; the aboiiinable
wickedness which has punished tho firing of
stray shots by setting fire to whole villages
and sending innocent women and children
adrift on the world all this display of a dull
brntality and a blind fury which history will
execrate and God will judge, wrings from
many of the best Englishmen the comment
of silence or of condonation.
Those literary apostles to tho Gentiles who
have sat at the feet of the French Gamaliel
will sneer at a preference for Germauy which
is built solely on the idea that the domestic
life of the Fatherland U jnrer than, that of
Trance. They will dismiss such a preference
with a contemptuous sneer at the highly
organized irrationality of the British Pnilis
tine. And we certainly offer no apology for
the apathy with which a section of tho liberal
party sees the most caste-bound and essen
tially un-liberal of all Courts preparing to
transfer a million and a half of people from
the rule of France to that of Germany, and
treating the protests of those people as con
temptuously as if Alsaco and Lorraine were
inhubited by a race of cattle. That many of
the persons who were on tho
side of the North during the Aruo
rienn war should now be singing
hallelujahs over tho Aggressive policy of Bis
marck, shows tho liberal instiuo a oven of
many liberals to be only skin-deep, and their
moral sense to be at the mercy of their preju
dices. And equally unjust, we also grant, is
the accusation of wholesale immorality which
is ilung at tho French people. The peasantry
of France, who form the bulk of the nation,
compute favorably a respects morality of
act and tone with the peasantry of typically
"moral'"countries like home-loving. Presby
terian, and pious Scotland. The idea that
France is represented by Paris, ami that
French novels are a true index of French
life, is on a par, in point of accuracy, with
the belief tLat the United Status are
faithfully represented by New
York. Hence a signal iujustioa is
done to the canso of liberalism and to
the morality of Franco by the good people
whom we have in view, when they shut thoir
eyes to the criminal folly of annexing Alsace
and Lorraine, nnd to tho wickedness of burn
ing villages full of innoceut women tnd chil
dren, because a Theophile Gautier cm bo
bred by France, and because the moral at
mosphere of France is has pure than that of
Germany. But suoh a protest against the
good people does not satisfy the professional
despisers of the British Philistine. They ex
claim that the morality which can coudomu
the Gautiers must bo tho morality of Church
wardenism, and must be ai far beneath tho
dignity of philosophical discussion as the po
litical creed of an average Tory squire, or
the theology of an average clergyman.
Nevertheless, the British Philistine is guided
in this instance by a euro instinct, which
enables him to detect, in a confused way,
truths a thousand times deeper than the phi
losophy of the light brigade of "thinkers"
that half know Hegel and wholly know
Dumas. They see that whatever is best and
most enduring in modern civilization does
rest on purity of life. They see that the
nation which displays a puro family iife, aud
gt neiates a pure tone of thought, is dowered
with elements of lastingness for which we
look in vain amid the must splendidly gifted
of tLose peoples that have accepted the Athe
nian edition of the moral law, Thoy see
that the nation which finds its guidance in
that abbreviated code of duty is on the high
road to death. And if these are the
counsels of Philistinism, as they are contemp
tuously characterized by some poetical rheto
ricians whose peculiarity of mind enables
them to exhaust the possibilities of shallow
ness, it is time for all of us to seek in Philis
tinism a school. If, on the one hand, the
German war bR8 led many good people to
forget the principles of liberalism, and utter
unduly sweeping judgments on the morality
of the French poople; on the other hand, it
Las brought into healthy prominence the de
testation with which the best part of the
English people regard vice, however gilded
it may be by fabhion, or however glorified by
intellect and art.
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Nctf. The magnitlceut Oceau Steamships or this
llLe are among the larcest In the world, and are
celebrated for speed, taferr, and comfort. Owing to
reduction, rates are now I5 in Cabin and H In
Ptrnage chrapcr than other Orst-cJa-'S Hues.
For passage, or bank drafts for any amount, paya
ble nt sight in all parts flf Great llrltaln, I. eland
and in principal cities cf Norway, Sweden, Denmark'
France, Germany, and Italy, anrty to '
WALLER ,fc CO., Agents,
1 10 X. 2U WA LSUT St., jUHl above Srrood.
PTITT.Aim"! PUT A UTinrvrn vt
LlND KORKOI K HTirtuiiniD ,
!yi"&y,.'KE11' AIR LINK TO TU BOUTlJ
INOBHABFP FACILITIES AND RKDUOKD RATF8
Steamer Ibkto eTory W V. !N l' b'l . Y and 8 iTUBD V
t Jii0'00 nooD' from FIKST WHAHF ttOT MAll
Hit A Dtreot.
KKTt'KiMNO. leave KIOHMOND MONDAYS and
THTi?UY8' nd HOIU'ULK TUKSDAYS and BA
No Bill of Ladine eigned after 12 o'clock on tailiiu
liROUGH RATKS to all point In North and Sontl
Carolina, Tia Soalioard Air Liue Kuilroal, oonnevtinc at
Port.emontb.and to Lynohbnrar, Va., Teunmatid, and to
W eat. via V irginia and lennetiaee Air Line ana Riol moni
and Danville lUilrofid.
Yt-AfM HANDl.K.ll BUTONOK. and taken atLOWRH
RATKS THAN ANY. OTHKR LINK.
No chime for oommiseion, dravae, or any eippnte p
rannfer. ... . ,
bteamshipi Insnre at low eat rate.
Kri'ifiht received daily.
BUte Room acconuasl&l'oiia for MwjTt.
WILLIAM P. lll.VDK A CO..
No. IS S. WHA RVFS and Pier 1 N. WHaRVri
W. P. FDR I FK, A stent at Richmond and Ottw Point
T. P. tUKUWKLL A UO Agents at Norf olk. U
FOR blVEKl'OOL AND tTlJKRVH
SfgTOWN-Iinu.in Line of Itoyal Mali
bUMii.i rs are appointed to sail aa follows:
City of Paris, Saturday. Jan. at. at 2 P. M.
City of lialtiniore, via Halifax, Tuesday, Jan. 24, at
1 V. M.
City of Iotdon, Saturday. January 2-. at 11 A. M.
Citv of J'.rockl.vti, Saturday. Feb. 4. nt 2 1'. M.
aid each succeeding hatuntav aud alternate Too-
day, fr?ni pier No. 4f North river.
it AT US OF PASSAGE.
Payable in gold. Payable In currency.
Flrft cabin 875 Steerage .-
To London so; To Iondou Si
To Par's 90; To Paris ss
To Halifax 20 To )!n!ifn m
Passengers also forwarded to llavro, Hamburg,
BrtineD, etc., at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persons wiohiiit' to Bend for tuclr friends.
Fr further Information apply at the coinnimy'B
OfflCP.
JOHN G. DALE", Agent, No. 15 Hroadway, N. Y. '
Or to O'DONNLLL & FAULK, Agents,
4 8 Ko. 402 CliESNLiT Street. Philadelphia.
riiHE KEGI'LAU STEAMSHIPS ON TIIK PHI
JL L.A UljL.1 111 A APtlJ ,UA l.L.Ca OlICAJll
fcl".
Oil
HIP LINE are ALONE authorized to tssuo througt
1 1 1 ci r-t lrH f ti MituHrtv tvilnta Urtnth nvt l t -
uuLUbiuu mtu ouuiu vBiouurt luiurutii 'joranaay,
ALFHKD L. TvLKit,
VIco-PresUlent So. C. RK. Co.
g5 PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHSP.S
i- IfiftLZ. Mill U'I1 t AICU IU rif1 n a trinn - ... . - - -
pwiin w r.ni'iujjii uv.tirant n ititliU
UU BKMI-MOSTULY LINK to NKW OH.
LKAKS. I
Ttie JUNIATA will aail for New Orloanii, via Havana
or Wcdneydny. January lrt, at 8 A. M,
k Tho YAZOO mil aail from New Orleans, via Havana,
on , Jnnuury .
TU ROUGH lill.LS OK LADING at aa low rates a bv
auy other ronte Kiven to Mobile, Galveston, Uuny.
OLA, ROOK PORT, LA VAOO A, and BRZAS,and to all
pyiuta on the MiseiHsippi rivei bntmeen New Orleans and
M. Louis. Rod River iroihu reuhipved at New Orleans
wilboat oeargeof oomniia&iona.
WF.ICKT.Y LINK TO SAVANNAH, OA.
The WYOMING will aail ror Savannah on Satarl.iv.
J..nui,ry21, at 8 A. M. o v 4 j,
Tbe TON A WANDA will sail from Savanaan on Satur
day, Jiir.uuiy 111.
TU ROUGH BILLS OK LADING given to all tbeprin
cipnl towns in Georia, Alabauit, Florida, Mississippi.
Ivounisna, A rknnsas, and TeDnps.iee in connection witt
tl'e UeiiUal Kailroiul of Georgia, Atlantic and Gal' Rail
road, and Florida steamers, at rs low rates aa by oompeLiof
lines,
KKM 1-MONTH LY LINK TO WILMINGTON. N. O.
Tbe PIONKKR will sail lor Vt'ihninRton on I'iuirv
dc, Jacuurv 26, at t A. At. Kaliumutf, will leave Wil
uirton I ridnv. If binary.
Connects with tbe Cape Pear River Steamboat Ooob,
pacy, the Wilmington and Weldon and Nortb Carolina
Kailrckdn, and tbe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
to all interior points.
Freights for Colombia, 8. O., and Augusta, Oa., taken
via Wilmington, at aalow rates as by any otber route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills
of lodii'K signed at Qneen street wharf on or beiore oUr
of sailing.
WILLIAM L. J AM KB, General Agent.
1 15 No. IM South Til DAD BUees.
T H
1 r-u
II K ANCHOR LINa STEAMERS
all every Saturday and alternate Wednesday
tuauu jiuiii rianjteuw niiti uerry.
PcSFcngers booktd aud forwarded to and from all
railway stations lu Great ISritaln, Ireland, tier
ninny, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark and America
as safely, speedily, comfortably, and cheaply as by
Hi!, lUULt K1 llUC
"KM'KKKS" bTEAMtltS.
"KXTKA" STKAUKK3.
IOWA,
TYPIAN,
BRITANNIA,
IOWA,
TYKIAN,
ANGI.IA,
At STKAI.IA,
1SRITANMA,
INDIA,
COLL'M Iil A,
tl nop A.
liul l ANNIA.
I roin Pier 20 North river, New York, at noon.
Kates of Past-age, Payable In Currency,
to Liverpool, (Hasgow, or Derry :
Ftit cabins, fus aud fib, according to location.
Cabin excursion tickets (good for twelve mouths),
nt tiling best ucconmiodutious, (130,
Intel mediate, S'H; steerage, in.
CirtiUcates, at reduced rates, can be bought hero
by those w ishing to seud for their friends.
Draits lhf-ned, payab.e on presentation.
Apply at the companv's oilic.es to
HEX DHKSON imOTHEItS,
12 27t No. 1 UOWLINU (HUCKN.
T 11 I T
STAR
LINE.
OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'8
LINK OF NEW STEAM Kits LET WICKS NKW
Yt UK AND LIVERPOOL, CALL1NO AT CORK,
1WK1.AND.
The company's fleet comprises the following mag.
clticeiit lull-powered uccuu steamships, the six
largest In the world:
OCEANIC. Captain Murray. Rf'TIC.
ATLANTIC, Captain Thompson. IMLTC.
PACIFIC, Captain Perry. ADRIATIC.
Thtse new vessels have been designed specially
for the transatlantic trade, and combine speed,
lafety, and comfort.
j'tiSHCiigtr accommodations unrivalled.
Parties sending lor their lncuils iu the oid coun
try can now obtain prepaid tickets.
Steerage, fH2, currency. ' ' '
Other rates as low as uny first-class Hue.
Eor further particulars apply to LSMAY, I.MRIE 4
CO., No. 10 WATER btreet, Liverpool, and No. I
EAST INDIA Avenue, LEADEMIALL Street,
london; or at the company's oillces, No. la
liHOADWAY, New York. c .
! 6r J. H. SPARKS, Agent.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO AUvXsN
'drla, Georgetown, aud War.:rgtcn
it n via l!hiuunpakA unri llrt Avrarr
CttUtUt Willi LUUUV,.l"uB - -
most direct route for Lynchburg, Drtstol, Knoxville,
Nashville, Dalton, and the Houthwest.
bteamers leave regularly every (Saturday at noor
torn the tlrst wharf alove Market strooL
FKlgM received dally, p cLyna
No. 14 Norch and South WHARVES.
HYDE A TYLER, Ageuti at Georgetown ; IL
ELDKIDgE A CO., Agents at Alexandria, 1 1
Za DELAWAKe" AND CHESAPEAKE
iJTiLteSTKAM TOWROAT COMPANY
jTT7LllHrgeS towed between Phil idlphia,
Kitimore7Havre-de-Graoe, Delaware City, and In-
ClLLIAM P. CLYDE A IXi., Agents.
Captain JOHN LACGHL1N. b ip.'rluin.iont.
. i . Anni.anMnna nt A In v a u.i rf a fr.'iKn
HIPPNO.
ppfr LOHILLAUD STEAMSHIP COMPAQ
FOIl HI2W lOKU,
SAILING TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SAT
UKDAYS AT NOON,
are now receiving freight at winter rates, com
mencing December 2. All goods shipped on and
aftcrthts date will be charged as agreed npoa by
tho agents of this company.
INSURANCE ONE-ElGHTn OF ONE PER CENT.
Ko bill of lading or receipt signed for less than
fifty cents, and no Insurance effected for less than
one dollar premium.
For further particulars and rates apply at Com
pany's o nice, Pier 33 East river, New York, or to
JOHN F. OHU
PIER 19 NOHTH WILARYES. .
N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals,
'c. 8 8,
1i' u it fj " . i. " n , ir m w it t I A
' THE 1'l.OIUDA PORTS.
AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
CHEAT SOUTHERN FREIGHT AND PASSEN
GER LINK.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OK (1 EORGI A AND AT
LANTIU AN GI'LK RAILROAD.
FOLK STEAMERS A WE UK.
TUESDAYS,
THURSDAYS,
AND SATURDAYS.
THE STEAMSHIPS
SAN SALVADOR, CiiptaUi Nlckerson, from Pier
No. st North lflver.
WM. R. O ARRIS ON, Agent,
No. 5 Dotviing tircen.
MONTGOMERY, Captain Falrcloth, from Pier No.
13 North River.
R. LOWDEX, Agent,
No. 3 West street.
LEO, Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. 16 East
River.
MURRAY, FERRIS A ((., Agents,
Nos. 01 anil tii s.iutU street.
OENF.RAL RARNES, Captain Mallory, from Pier
No. i.6 N 01 th River.
LIVINGSTON, FOX .V CO., Agents,
No. ss Liberty street.
Insurance by this line ONE HALF PER CENT.
Sup-rior accommodations for passengers.
Through rates a ad bills of lading lu connection
with the Atlantic and Gulf Freight line. 1 1 fir
Through ratcH-and bills of lading In connection
witn t eiitrm Katiroad 01 Georgia, to a:i point.
C. D. OWENS.
OEORMK YONGH,
Audit C. R. R.,
No. 409 Uroadway.
Agent A. A G. R. It.,
No. 229 Lroudway.
j t t-'it nun iwitu, 111 iJEi4J w zwua
vv Anil Hnrlt.nn fnrtfil
BVtT WiytTr I) rr rv,r limn.
t. S VV 1 F T S U R K TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND SWIKTSURE LINES,
1 caving daily at 12 M. and b P. M.
The steam propuirers of this company will com
mence loading on the 8th of March.
Through In twenty-four hours.
Goona 'orworded to any point free of commission
Freiehts taken on accommodating terms.
Appiy to
WILLIAM M. I5AIRD A CO., Agents,
5
No. 132 South DELAWARE Avenno.
1 o R ST. THOMAS AND BRAZIL
1 I MTED STATES AND BRAZIL STEAM
SHIP COMPANY.
EICULAR MAIL STE aMLRS sailing on the
23d of evi rv month.
MhRKIAIAf'K, Cartaln Wler.
Mil 'I'll A Me RICA, Ciiptula E. L. Tlnklepaugh.
NObTH AMEhlCA, Captain G. li. Slocum.
'1 liene splendid steamers s.v'l on schedule timo.and
mil at St. Thomas, Para, Pernamtmco, Uahia, and
Rio de Janeiro, going and returning. For engage
luents of freight or passage, apply to
WM. M. OAKRISOX, Agent,
12 lot No. !i Rowling-green, New York.
FOR NEW YORK
via Dela ware aud RarlUn Canal.
EXPRESS STEAM ROAT COMPANY.
liie eteam Propellers of tho Una will commence
loading on the 8th instant, leaving daily aa usnaL
TU ROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going ont of No
York, N'.rth, East, or West, free of comuilsalon.
Freights received at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents,
No. 12 a DELAWARE Avenue '
JAMES II AND, Agent,
No. J PLWALLStreet, New York. 8 4?
CORDAGE. ETOi
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Sisal and T&rred Ccrdagt
At Lowest New York Prices and freights.
KDW1M H. KITI.EU ofe CO.s ?
Suitor, TKHTHBt. snd GKRMAKTOvrR Avenue,
Store. Ho. 23 31. WATKB St. and a E DELAWAH '
Avinne.
412 12m PHILADELPHIA! ;
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
& f3 cC ALL.
Ko. 120 Walnut and 21 Granite ti
IMPOUTKK.3 OS
ErandleB, Wine, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.;
WHOLES A LS DKALKK3 IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IW BOND AND TAX PAID. tSlpl
FURNITURE. ETC.
HOVER'S
TATEKT SOFA BED.
In consequence of certain parties representing;
thut thtlr to:u Reds and Lounees ate of my patent,
1 btg leave to in'orm the public, that my SufA Red la
lor Hale only at MOORL' CAM PiON'S and ALLEN
& ULOTHf H'N, and at the Manufactory, No. 83(1
South SECOND Street
1 li!s novel Invention Is not In the least compli
cated, having lo cords or roi es to pull In or Jer to
reculate, or rrops to keep It np wheu in the form of
a bedsterd, vvhleh are nil vey tms.t'e and liable to
get out of repair. The heosrend Is formed by turn
ing cur the ends, or closing them whea tae Sora is
wunud.
Ko. 230 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
12 2 tufiStrp PHIL VCELPHI A.
CLOTHS, OASSIMERES, ETO.
Q L O T H HOUGH.
HUDCR.j
no. 11 Worth WIH OfB Street,
8!ga Cf the Golden Lamb. h
of new styles of
FAKOY OASSIME11E3
And standard makes of DOK.SK.lNd, CLOTHS and'
coatings, (ssainwi j
AT W HOLES ALS AND RETAIL. '
SAXON GREEK
FJEVER FADES,
8 1 am
Com Exchange, Dag Manufactory.
JOHN T. BAILEY,
XT. E. Cor. WATEH and MARKET SU
KOFB AND TWINE, RAGS and BAGGING, fot
Clam, Flour, halt, buper-fUiwpUnUj of Liuiu, Ron
Dust, tlo.
Large snd small orTJNY 8AQ3 constancy
lUUdt Alao, iJh BA'JUHk