THE DAILY EVENING rELEGRAPII PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1871.
or in it or tud rnusB.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
ponCurrentTo?io-C3npI!8d Evory
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
I5L.VTIIERSKI TE IN TERVIEWi.
From tne A'. 1'. Tribune,
After the extraordinary progress in imper
tinence and self-abasement which hai beon
made within a year or two by that
peculiar product of American culture,
the special interviewer, it would
be rash to assume that the creature
Las reached its full development, or that baiow
the lowest depths yet readied the New York
Blatters. He will not find a lower. It d ies
eeem, however, as if the tender lmd of impu
dence had blossomed at last into such a stu
pendously big peony of vulgarity that no art
-could force it iato broader bio 3m.
Even Mark Twain' burlesque of
the reporter who pushed himself
into the cabinet of the captive of "Wilhaluas
hohe, and came away unconscious that his
Majesty had civilly turned him out of doors
without saying anything, is not half bo absurd
as the sober narrative printed on Wednesday
of the ineffable flunky who "worked up" the
amours of James Fisk, Jr. The interviews
of the representative of the Blatherskite with
two gentlemen concerned in the tearful epi
sode of Fisk'a gum-shoes revealed nothing
beyond the fact that "Mr. Ulysses Thomas
W. Fittman" wore a diamond ring on his
wedding-finger (whichever that may be), and
that "Mr. Achilles Stokes" is perfectly well
bred and has beautiful moss-agate sleeve
buttons. We might be skeptical as to the
Blatherskite standard of good-breeding, but
Mr. Stokes invited the reporter to "come
down to the dining-room," and that explains
a good deal. What they did in the dining
room we, unfortunately, are not told; but in
a short time we And the reporter, in com
pany with a friend named Smith, performing
an exploit that beats even the Universe's de
scription of Father Hyacinthe's wash-basin.
There are places into whioh we Bhould think
even an interviewer would be ashamed to in
trude, and scenes whioh oven the Blatherskite
might hesitate to depict. Mr. Fisk, for in
stance, in bis hours of relaxation is a spec
tacle not exactly fit for publio exhibition;
and his Josie, however picturesque she may
be in an affidavit, ought for several reasons
to be spared the nuisance of visits from re
porters. To the private residence of Mrs.
Helen Josephine Mansfield La lor, never
theless, the representative of the blatherskite
went; and, having got admission, he pro
ceeded to turn the establishment inside out
with a reckless freedom at which respecta
bility stands aghast. "The approach to the
hall door by the lofty stoop," we are in
formed, "made the reporter and his friend
feel a sense of awe as they ascended
the stone steps," which is attributable, we
suppose, to the fact that they were unaccus
tomed to approach brown-stono houses exoept
by the kitchen way. Having got into the
parlor, where "all the accessories that wealth
and refinement could suggest were heaped
with a reckless profusion worthy of a squan
dering Goth or predatory IIun,"they were
thence escorted to the dining-room, which
eeems, lik6 the parlor, to have been over
loaded, not to say choked, with its own mag
nificence, for mahogany furniture, with buhl
work, and marqueterie, "was as tbiokly
strewed in the room as leaves in Valla ni
brosa." In this curious place, surrounded by
pictures of "fish and other indications of a
refined taste," sat two ladies at dinner.
One was Mrs. Williams, a lady of whom we
are told very little, except that she is prepos
sessing in form. The other, robed in white,
was Mrs. Mansfield. Mrs. Mansfield is
"shaped like a duchess" which is brilliant
but vague. Her skin is "as fair in fibre and
bue as the lily itself." She has "sea-shell-likeears."
The reporter took her hand and
found it to be smooth: While she received
her guests the reporter and his friend stood
whispering together a the door, dropping
into poetry, discussing her appearance, and
carrying on quite a long aside conversation
on the subject of Ireland, Oliver Cromwell,
and Jim Fisk. What a tableau this must
have made ! When they had finished, Mr.
Smith introduced the Blatherskite, out
popped the inevitable note-book, and our
hero, after sucking the point of his pencil,
fell to business.
It is needless to say that the conversation
was conducted with exquisite tact and deli
cacy. The Blatherskite began by asking Mrs.
Mansfield if Jim Fisk gave her that house;
and having thus gently broken the ice, he
made it his duty to inquire where she got all
her fine clothes, who found her in wine (a
hint which she apparently did not take), and
whether she paid for her own food. She evi
dently meant that the reporter should pay for
his, for nothing could persuada her to invite
him to dine. A little lively conversation
about the character of Mr. Fisk suggested the
next question, whioh seems to have beeu
sprang upon the lady suddenly, without the
efightent preparation: "Mrs. Mansfield, don't
you think Montaland is a coarse person in
her way ?" This is inimitable. Just fancy
the creature putting this query, with a leer
of idiotic cunning, and the calm conviction
that he had Baid a neat thing for which Mrs.
Mansfield would be everlastingly grateful.
He must have been amazed at the reply:
"I do not; I think faho is very nice and
pretty."
We need not follow the conversation to the
end. It is enough to say that the story of
the gum-shoes, and Fisk in tears, and Stokes
triumphant was all rehearsed, and Mrs. Mans
field told how Fisk was Buch a coward that he
never walked the streets without a mau to
guard him, and used to send to Sheriff O'Brien
for "a gang of the boys" to protect him at
balls and theatres. The interview closed with
a very appropriate remark from Mrs. Mans
field to the effect that she "didn't need the
assistance of reporters;" and the Blalhenkite
representative made his way out, and hurried
to put his shame on paper. Of course he did
not learn a single interestin a fact bv his visit.
and even the most prurient curiosity could
gather no satisfaction from his narrative.
We should not think of alluding to his exploit
if we considered only its results; but the man
who could go on such an errand with evident
satisfaction, and come away from it without
the least suspicion tnat ue was a dirty do
is a social phenomenon that ought to bo in-
vestigateu.
WASTE OF TIME IN CONGRESS.
From the X. Y. Time.
The collapse of the investigation into the
Brooks-Habtings affair ought to teach mem
bers of the House at least two useful lessons,
In the first place, they ought to see that it is
impossible for them to attend properly to the
business of the country if they are to be ever
lastingly occupied wiln each other a squab
ties. Members ought to have sufficient sense
and dignity to keep their private biokfjriug
and troubles out of Congress. The legisla
tive branch of the Government was never ia
tended to answer the purpose of a court for
the settlement of personal differences. Too
often it baa been made to answer that pur
pose; but it is not the less our duty to dis
courage it. Men in public life are expeoted
to have self-restraint and patience enough to
bear attacks with calmness, especially when
they are themselves rather quick to attack
others.
In the next place, this incident ought to
render members of Congress more chary of
inleiferirg in newspaper quarrels. There is
a remedy for every wrong a journalist may
infliet, without putting in force the ponder
ous machinery of Congress. In this particu
lar instnnce, it has been proved that a Con
gressional committee may bo rendered worse
than lifeless. To avoid the appearance of
separating without any result whatever, it has
passed a resolution absolving Mr. Brooks from
the charges brought against him. But every
man must Bee how utterly worthless is
its certificate. Without knowing anything
whatever about the facts of the case,
without hearing a witness on one side or
the other, it decides that Mr. Brooks stands
acquitted. It is as if a court of law which
had no jurisdiction in a case brought before
it, resolved, to the surprise of counsel and
spectators, to give judgment in favor of one
of the parties to the suit, without hearing
arguments or evidence. Such a judgment as
that would not stand very long, nor would it
much influence the course of publio opin
ion. In the same way, the verdict of this
committee must necessarily bo without
the least weight, and therefore it has practi
cally done Mr. Brooks more harm than good.
We need not enter into the merits of the
quarrel between Mr. Brooks and Mr. Hast
ings, but we must be allowed to say that
if a man is compelled to go back twenty
seven years to rake up something against
an antagonist, and then can only find an
apology for an indiscretion, evidently signed
under compulsion if it ever was signed at
all, which is denied he involuntarily pays
a high tribute to the character of that an
tagonist. Of course, this is not what Mr.
James Brooks meant to do, but he did it.
Moreover, he ought to have told the House
on Wednesday that Mr. Stone, whose name
he dragged into the case, is disgusted with
the use which Mr. Brooks and others have
made of the alleged "apology," and regards
its revival as both cowardly and unjust. We
observe that the Express complains of not
having received fair play from several of its
contemporaries. But tho Express must be
reminded that it has often been very ready
to go behind newspapers for the purpose of
attacking writers, and that whenever it adopts
that course it takes in hand a sword which
may cut both ways. Upon tbn whole, we
must repeat our opinion that this was not a
case which ought ever to have been allowed
to occupy live minutes of the time of Con
gress. DOWN WITH TIIETAXES.
From the A 1'. Herald.
Is there nobody in Congress with eyes
sharp enough to see and brain weighty
enough to win the eminent position that lies
waiting for the publio man who will lead a
successful attack upon the giant Taxation ?
I or some time past we have been peering
about with our lantern for some statesman
with a tongue and a head, a decent knowledge
of arithmetic processes, a modicum of care
for the publio good, and a large share of am
bition, who will see and use this fine oppor
tunity. We are surprised at that chronio de
fault of ambition and arithmetic which leaves
us without champions of the people's cause
in this question of purse and pocket; and
more surprised are we at the patience of
an outraged, oppressed, and defrauded
people. Camels can and do rebel and
bite when they are overloaded. Elephants
deposit their drivers and their burdens in the
river or the mud when those beasts, more
intelligent than our tax-payers, it would
seem, are of opinion that the burden has
been unfairly adjusted to the back, les,
even cows sometimes kick over the milk
pail, and the milkmaid in the bargain, when
they consider, after the reflection, that their
patient and useful teats are too vigorously
end exhaustively drawn on. But what will
wear out the slavish patience of our
tax-paying body ? What extremities of fiscal
oppression will they submit to before they
emulate the judicious camel, elephant, and
cow, and administer kicks to our dull finan
cial tyrants that shall compel them to reform
their blundering ways f
We have run through the negro question.
Beginning with the abolition of the slave
trade and the slave-pens in the District of
Columbia in 180, step by step all the legal
wrongs of the black man nnder our late in
stitutions and constitution of Afrioan slavery
have been righted; and in the recent ratiuoa-
tion of the fifteenth amendment we have
made Uncle Tom "a man and a brother."
The Southern reconstruction question, which,
pending the conflict between the policy of
Congress and the policy of Andy Johnson,
threatened a long agitation and a world
of trouble, has been substantially settled
by Congress and General Grant. The social
and political disorders which still alllict the
South are but the natural consequences of a
political and social revolution tearing out the
old established order of things by tho roots.
These disorders can be cured only by time,
although the idea still seems to prevail in Con
Kress that they can be cured by another dras
tic purge or two of reconstruction. But he who
looks at the recorded revolutions or the whtrli
gig of American politics for the last fifty years
will find that the two great revolutionary
issues of the country have been "the almighty
uieeer" and the "almighty dollar," and that
w hen the nigger question has been temporarily
pushed into the background the question of tho
almighty dollar has come into tne ioregrounu.
Thus, if Southern slavery was tne great agiu
tion of 1820, the money question was the rul
ing issue of the country frjoi 1330 to 1850,
when the negro again came to the front aud
threatened to tear the country to pieces,
After twenty years of sestional agitations and
convulsions thus excited, including our ter
rible civil war, the negro question is sotteld,
and now, with all the accumulated financial
difficulties of these twenty years, the
"almighty dollar" is again the all-ab3orbing
question, and especially in referenoa to our
heavy, and needlessly heavy burdens, of tax
atiou.
This question of taxation is rapidly beootn
ing the foremost practical question of tho
hour for all of us. The reaction, of priooj
from the inflated condition of the war has
now set in with intensity, and the erlooaav
political condition of the Old World, reactftig
so powerfully as it does on an ine values of
our staples, threatens to precipitate alarm
ingly the fall in values. Our profit margins
are being abridged in all directions. Yet the
tide of taxation st ill rises around the weaken
ing foundations of our house. Both iu the
Federal and the State departments of our
publio affairs there is a ooastaut tendency to
increase in the public burdens. And impu
dence reaches a height unparallelod ia hU
tory in some of the projects submitted to our
legislative bodies for fleecing the people.
We read the other day of a project placed
before Congress for subsidizing mining com
panies to the extent of millions of dollars.
What we need is a flnanoe minister who
6b all have the management of our finance
system as a whole both before the legislative
bodies and in the department. To put it as
shortly as possible, we have no budget and
no Minister of Finance who draws it up and
has to answer for it. In all countries gov
erned by a parliamentary system, the revenue
and expenditure of each year aro stated by
the responsible minister to the representative
body. Ihus the taxation and the disburse
ments of the country as a whole are pre
Rented to the representatives and the publio
as a coherent, intelligible thing, which his,
like a building, its responsible architect. It
is obvious that by this method it is possible
to have real financial policy and
lo control it by publio debate and opinion.
But our plan of propounding tx
bills through committees of the House is one
which never can by any possibility introduce
logio, coherence, prudence and justice into
the financial system of the country. This is
a point about which it is of no use to fostor
illusions. Such committees will never pro
duce bills which represent anything but the
conflicts and compromises of private feelings
and interests. The question of the publio
advantage and of the reason of the thing will
be always as nearly as possible suppressed.
If w e are ever to get economy and rationality
properly represented in our fiscal affairs we
must do it through the medium of a minister
responsible to the legislative body, sitting in
it, talking to it face to face, and exposed to
rtceivmg direct blows right between the eyes
from skilful opposition hands.
We must cry on and cry aloud until we get
the modicum of justice possible in the reduc
tion ot the taxes. It is a short, simple, and
easy thing to reduce the Federal taxation by
a Lundred million dollars or so, and the
people will be satisfied with nothing le3S.
There must be an end put to this conspicu
ous folly of treasury hoarding, whioh takes
out of their hard-working hands the money
they so Eorely need, and boxes it up idly to
eat its own head off in interest in mouldy
treasury vaults. Have we really no use for
money in this land of high interest, scanty
capital, and boundless territory, that has to
be roaued, bridged, and towned, that we
snft'er the very men elected by ourselves to
wring it from us and lay it by, like an in
fatuated old woman who knows no better
than to put her surplus cash into a stocking
or a teapot ?
We think these inquiries pertinent at this
time, because Congress has as yet given no
intimation of moving in behalf of areduotion
of the taxes. Our Washington reports tell us
that the Finance Committee of the Senate, in
seeking suggestions from the Revenue De
partment, was met with the assurance that
nothing in the way of new legislation is
needed. Yet the country is demanding a
change in the Government's financial policy.
Who will be the Moses to lead the people to
ineir deliverance t
REPUBLICAN SWINDLING OF INDIANS.
From, the X. V. World.
If the administration of Indian affairs is
ever to become less expensive and more effec
tive than it now is, publio attention must be
kept fixed upon it and public officers held to
as strict performance of their duty as may be,
and not permitted to shirk or to perform sin
ful games. In a letter to Messrs. Eli K.
Price and William Strong, Mr. William Welsh,
Chairman of the Board of "Unpaid Oommis-
sicners, which offered to co-operate with the
Department of the Interior in furthering the
interests of the Indians, shows how all power
of acting effectively was taken from the com
missioners by a discreditable piece of hocus
pocus. In 18!) an amendment was made to
the Indian Appropriation bill, authorizing the
President to organize a board of not more
than ten commissioners, to serve with
out pay, and which, under his direc
tion, was to exercise joint control with
the Interior Department in the supervision
and control of disbursements of money, etc ,
to the Indians. Shortly afterwards, aud be
fore the lately appointed Board of Commis
sioners had come together, Commissioner
Parker came to New York to open and accept
proposals for furnishing the Indians with dry
goods, having been instructed not to act
without the concurrence of Mr. George H.
Stuart and Mr. William E. Dodge, who
were members of the Board of Unpaid Com
missioners. Ihese gentlemen saw at once
that frauds, customary on such occasions,
were being perpetrated, and obtained a
warehouse where the dry goods could be
stored and examined before they should be
Bent to the far-off reservations. This unusual
procedure did not please Commissioner Par
ker, who went post-haste to Washington and
had the original order remodelled so as to
compel Messrs. Stuart and Dodge to examine
the goods in the 6tores of tho sellers, the pre
tense being that otherwise there would bo
unnecessary delay in their delivery. As all
power of preventing abuse in their new ca
pacity was thus taken from them, the chair
man of the board declined to aot further as
commissioner, and the othors were disheart
ened. Outside of the Indian Office the board
has, however, done much good, although it
meets with all sorts of red-tape hindrance,
especially at the hands of those who from
long practice know how to shield agents
from detection in peculation, and then to
pocket half the profits with a smile that is
childlike end bland.
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Cl.EVEI.ANB. Ohio, Dec. 28. 1ST0.
A Special Meeting of the Stockholders of this
company win oe ueiu at tne omce or tne uompauy,
in Cleveland. Oh'.o. ou WEDNESDAY. January 25.
lsSH, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 2
o'clock P. M., to voto upon a proposition to aid la
the construction or, and leasing, a line of Railroad
between Springfield ami Cincinnati, Ohio, and upon
a contract with the Cincinnati, Sandusky, and Cleve
land Railroad Company, for runulng and business
arrangements.
The Transfer Books will be closed on the evening
Of January 14, and reopened February 8, 171.
Hy orner oi me lsoani or Director.
1280tJ2 OKOLUE H. RUSSELL, SecreUiry.
rry TO THE IIOLDEHS OF OHIO STATE
ky STOCKS. Notice is hereby given that the
Interest due Januarv 1. 1STI. on the Funded Deot of
the State of Ohio, will ue paid at the American Ex
change National Bank, In the city of New York,
from the 1st to the 15tu proximo, and thereafter at
our oillce in this city. Columbus, Ohio, December
13, 1S7U.
JAMES n. OODMAN, Auditor of State,
ISAAC R. MIKRW'OOD, .Secretary of State,
FRANCIS R. POND. Attornev-lieneral,
CommUbionira ot the SlnUug Fund ol the State of
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January 2, HI 1. f
Tho Directors have this day declared a dlvldeud
of THRKE PER CENT, ou the capital stock of the
lomiiauy iur the lbHt blx moMhj, pavauu on de-
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fgy ElUHTa NATION AIi BANK.
I 11 1 1 R I'Fl.t II I A, tmil A, 1311.
At the annuo! plTtton hold on the 10 li not. the
following stockholders were elected D.ieaors for
the cueuiwr tct.r:
Jacob Najlor, I T. S. Custer,
James Irwin, Henry !. legler,
jRcobU. iNc'Rfle, i .lames Lonir,
Charles N. litiU.m, i.iohn F. Norcross,
Chailon H. Cruige, V. W. Adams,
w imam Kinp, .i aeon unni,
a. Lincoln.
At a mcetlnc of the Hireetorsthls div. the folio 'fir
ing Ulcers crp unanimously re-elected:
JACOH NAYLOH. In . President.
CHAM.KS II. t KAKIlf, Ksn., Vice-President.
And KOHKKT H. WILL'AMS. Cashier.
JOHN lioU&UTS, F.sq., was elected H llcitor.
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kidneys of children, and In many dlillcultles pocu
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The Annua' Meeting of the Stockholders or the
BUCK MOUNTAIN COAL CO. will be held at the
ofttr.e of the Company, No. 820 WALNUT Street, on
WEDNESDAY, February 1, 1371, at elevea (11)
o'clock A. M.
An election for seven Directors to serve tne en
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WATCHES, JEWELHX, AND
8alyl SILVER WARE,
First floor or No. 632 CUES NUT Street,
8. K. corner SEVENTH and CUE3NUT streets.
EDUCATIONAL.
T ASU1KGTON COLLEGE,
IKUlilA,
GENERAL O. W. CUSTIS LEE, PRESIDENT,
WITH FOURTEEN" 1'UOFESSOKS.
The Spring Term of the present season begins on
the .
FIKST Or FKI5KUAUW.
The rearrangement of classes then made enables
students to enter the several schools with advan
tage. Students entering at this time pay only half
lets.
All the ACADEMIC SCHOOLS of the College, ns
well as the Proitsmonal Schools of LAW and EN-
G1NEF.KINU, are In full operation.
tor further lniormatiou, aanress
WILLIAM DOLD,
Clerk of Faculty, Lexington, Vi
January 1, 1S71. 1 lTCw
T7DUBHILL SCHOOL
rj .
MEKCHANTVILLS, w. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
Next session begins MONDAY, January 9, 1371.
For circulars apply to
Si ly Key. T. W. CATTED
CROOERIES, ETO.
SHOT WELL
b'EET CIDER.
ALBERT O. ROBERTS.
Dea'er lu Fine Groceries,
11 T Corner ELEVENTH and VIN3 S'.a,
SHIPPINQ.
iSCif NATIONAL STEAMSHIP Ppff
ZJUUmLl LIN B Steam to and from .fLtllU
NEW YORK, LIVERPOOL, AND QUPKNS TjWN.
Bteamtrs sail WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
bAl'UKUAl.
Cabin, TB and t3; Steerage. $M. Excursion
tickets, good for ooe year, liberal iy reduced Per
sona sending for their friends can obtain tickets
(Steerage) for laa. Tickets to and from Iondnnderrr
and Glasgow by this tavortte route at the same low
currency rates.
Passengers booked to and from London, Paris,
Bnmburg, Havre, Bremen, etc.. at lowest rates.
Notk. The maguitlceut Ocean Steamships of thU
llr.e are among the largest in the world, and am
celebrated tur speed, ra'ety, and comfort. Owing to
reduction, rates are now lir in cabin aud li lu
stferage cheaper than other first-class lines.
For passage, or bank drafts for any amount, paya
ble at sight in all parts of Great B.ltain, I. eland.
and in principal cities i f Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
France, Germany, ami Italy, apt ly to
WALI.Kli & CO., Agents.
1 18 .Vu. 804 WA LSUT St., just above Sa-oiid.
PHILADELPHIA RTlUTUfl MM
k&.AKD NORIfOl.K RTRAMamP r.fiMir
THROUGH FKKIUUT AIR LINK TO THH SOUTH
AM WK8T.
LNORKAfeKD FAOILITIK8 AND RFDUOKD RATK8
fr,i!i.0L.'ock 0oon ,rom FIRST WHAKF abor UAH-
n cii int.
RKTUKNINQ. Iea RtCUMOMi WOKnir ..j
TUUKSIi&YB. nd NORFOLK TUESDAYS ud BA
a L' KDA TBi
No Bills of Lading signed ft 12 o'oiook on aatliiu
d.
THROUGH RATK8 to ll points In North and Boott
Carolina, ti Seaboard Air L1d Railroad, cooneotlnjr at
Portemonth, and to Lynchburg, Va Tenneetwe, and to
V.'ent, ia VHiniaaud Tenneueo Air Lin anil Riotmond
and DanTilla Railroad.
Frelebt HANDLKI) BUTt jnuk, ana taken at LOWED
BATKB THAN ANY OT11KR LINK.
Mo charge for eommieaion, drayage, or ear expense a'
ransfor. .
Htenmnnipi inrar ai lowest rates.
Freinht reoeired dail.
fctate Room accommodation for passeaeer.
No. 19 8. WHARVKBftiir. Pier I N. WIlARVKS
w , x , win i iv. nfinuv eefc ihvuuiuuu eai-U UlkJ I UIUt
T. P. ORO WELL A CO., Acente at Norfolk. U
FOR LIVERPOOL AND OUEEVS
LTOWN. Inman Line or Royal Mall
bttainera are appointed to sail as follows:
City of Paris, Saturday, Jan. 21, at a p. M.
City of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, Jan. 84, at
lP.M- . . .
City of i.ODdon, Batnraay. January 2S. at u a. M
Ultv of Brooklyn. Saturdav. Feb. 4. at 2 P. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, frsm pier No. 4 North river.
Payable In gold. Payablo In currency.
First C'ablD 175 Steerage 3
To Londn 80; To London St
To Parts SKI To Paris as
To Halifax 20 To Halifax ib
Passengers also forwarded to Havre. Uamburz.
BremeD, etc, at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bongut here at moaerato rates by
persons wishing to send for tnelr friends.
c or iunuer mioruiutiou appiy ui vuo uompauy a
Ofllce.
JOHN O. dale, Agent, wo. is Broadway, N. Y. I
OrtoO'DONNELL & FAULK, Agents,
1 6 No. 402 CHESNUT Street, Philadelphia.
rpde regular steamships on the phi
1 ladklpiha and Charleston steam
HIP LINE are ALONE authorized to Issue througl
oills of ladiLg to Ulterior points South mid West li
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
at nrjirrk r nj wr
Vice-President So. C. KR. Co.
TPS PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
j&&ku.MAir, HTKAMSH1P OOMPANV3 REOO
LAM E)fttll-iUUrlU.liX AilWJl I'U MKW OH
LKANS, La.
Tha JUNIATA will sail for New Orleane. via run
OB Weilnpydny, January K at 8 A. M.
fc.The YAZOO will eail from Mew Orleane, via Harana,
on , Jnnuary .
TUKOUUU dilwui L.uinuH aa low rale as bi
kn.nihar ronte given to Mobile. Onlvpstun. INDIAN.
ULA, KOUKPORT.LAVAOOA.end BR nZOS.and to all
rmiiti cn to. mimiBBipvi nvoi uebweeo new uriaana anri
St. Loots. Red Kiver treipbu roahipped at New Orleani
without onarge OI oemmiaaiona
WKFKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH. GA.
Tha WYOMING will aail lor Harannaii on Hatnrlir.
.lnnuarv St. at H A. M.
Ttoe TON A WAN DA will aail from Savannaa on Satui-
day, January 21.
THKOUtitl jnii.i ur Lauinurinaiotii taepnn
oipal towna in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Misaieaipui,
luiaiana. Arkaaaaa. and Tenneaaee in oonnoction with
the (Jontral Railroad of Ueorioa, Atlantic and Ualf Rail
road, ana r londa ate in era, at aa low rate aa by eompotuv
iinea.
BHMI-MONTnLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. It. n.
The PIONKF.U will aail for Wilmma-ton on Thnra-
o, juciiur? , at oa. m. Ketnimng. will leave Wit
miction Iridav. February 3.
Uonneutswitb tne Uape Fear tuver Steamboat Com,
puny, the W llniiti ton and Weldon and North O&rolin
k'aifroada. and the Wilminctoa and ftlanoheater Railroad
to all interior points.
Freishta for Colombia. 8. O.. and Augusta. Oa.. taken
ia V ilminetnn, at aelow ratea aa by any other route.
IniTtrtiiRii MffARtAri when reuuestod br ehioDera. Billi
of lad: tip: eigned at Queen atreet wharf on or before da
oraailing. .
V IL.1.1 A. oi Xd. iiaoinis, uoaprai ajQat,
1 No. W South TU1UD Street,
rp II E ANCHOR L I N A STEAMERS
X Sail every Saturday and alternate Wednesday
to and from lilasgow and Derry.
Passengers booked and forwarded to aud from all
railway atations in ureal urttain, Ireland. Uer
many. Norway, Sweden, or Denmark aud America
as tately, speedily, comfortably, aud cheaply as by
any inner nnne ur line.
"EXl'KESS" bTEAMEKS.
"EXTRA" 6TKAMKR3.
IOW A,
TYHIAN,
P.IUTANN1A,
IOWA,
TV HI AN,
ANG1.IA,
AIS'IKALIA,
P.K1TANMA,
INDIA,
t OI.UMMA,
r.L HOI A.
liltlTA.NMA.
From Pier 20 North river, New York, at noon.
Kates of Pufcsage, Payable In Currency,
to Liverpool, triasgow, or Derry:
Flrtt cabins. fib and 1t, according to location.
Cablu exinrbloii tickets (good for twelve uiouths).
seeuriDg uesr accommodations, iiu.
intermediate, ZSA: steerage, lis.
CertlBcates, at redueed rates, can be bouirht here
uj Tiioeo wisnicg to Bena lor ineir irieais.
lira its issued, payao.eon presentation.
Al Plv at the company '8 oillces to
HENDF.HSON BROTHERS,
12 2t No. 7 UOWLINU OUEEN,
II I T E
STAR
LINE.
OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
LINE Ob' NEW STEAM IS US UBTWKKM NEW
Y( RK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING AT CORK
IRELAND.
The company s fleet comprises the following mag.
niilcciit full-powered ocean steatustiiis. the six
largest in ine worm :
OCEANIC, Captain Murray. RCTfC.
ATLANTIC, Captain Thompson. BaLTiC.
PACIFIC. Cuutain Peiry. ADRIATIC,
These new vessels have been nestgued specially
for the transatlantic traae. una combine speed,
sartty, sun comiort.
PasKeiiKcr bccommodatlons unrivalled.
Parties tending for their friends In the old coun
try can now obtain prepaid tickets.
Steerage, f 32, currency,
other rates as low as any flrst-class line.
For further particulars apply to ISM AY, IMRIE &
CO., NO. 10 w aitjK Bireet, Liverpool, auu no. I
EAST INDIA Avenue, LEADENH ALL Street,
Lcndon: or at the company's oillces, No, 19
Ll OADWAY, New York.
1 tt J. H. SPARKS, Agent.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO AUIXAN
Kdrla, Georgetown, aud WaaiUufton
si D. C, via Chesapeake and De.sware
Canal, with connections at Alexandria from Lie
most direct ronte for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knozvllle,
Rasnvuie, uaiton, ana tne Doutuwesu
bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
Tt m tne urst wnari aoovo market street.
freight received aatiy.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO.,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
HYDB k TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; BL
El DhlDOE A CO., Agents at Alexandria, 1
I-OR ST. THOMAS AND BRAZIL
UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL STEAM.
lP SHIP COMPANY.
REGULAR MAIL SIEaMEKS sailing oa the
23d of every month.
m k R R 1 MACK, captain Wler.
sol TH AM hRICA, Captain E. L. Tlnklepaugn.
NORTH AMEhlCA, Captain U. B. Slocuiu.
There splendid steamera sa'l ou schedule time.and
rail at St Thomas, l'ara, Peruambuco, Bahi. aud
Rio tie Janeiro, going aud returning. For eugage
nients of freihl or p.isage, apply to
ni WM. H. GARRISON, Agent,
12 10t No. 6 Bowling-green, NewYork.
k FOR .NEW YORK
TXa via Te!aware and Rarltn Canal.
a4 Mite EXPREsa STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
'il,e bttttin propellers of the line wlU commeuot
loa-ding ou the 6th instant, leaving dally as usual.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne
York, Norib, East, or W eal, Iree of commission.
FreiRlit rei-eived at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLY DE A CO.. Agents,
No. 12 S. DELAWARE AveuilS
JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. lis WALL bireet, New YorK. I ii
IHIPPINO.
'Ff? LORILLARD STEAMSHIP COMPAQ
ron TfKW YOKU,
SAILING TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SAT
URDAYS AT NOON,
are now receiving freight at winter ra,e, com
mencing December 23. All goods shipped on and
after this date will be charged as agreed upon by
the agents of this company.
INSURANCE ONK-EIQHTn OF ONE TER CENT.
No bill of lading or receipt signed for leas than
Dfty cent, and no insurance cirected for lc39 than
one dollar premium.
For farther particulars and rates apply at Com
pany's cfllce, Pier 33 East river, New York, or to
JOHN F. OUL,
PIER 19 NORTH WHARVES.
N. B. Extra rates ou small packages Iron, metals.
eic sst
;OH SAVANNAH, OEOROU
J THE FLORIDA POUTS,
AND THE SOLTil AND SOUTHWEST.
GREAT SOUTHERN FREIGHT AND PASSEN-
UEIl LINK.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA AND AT-
LAftTKJ A IN Wl'Ll1- KAI l.KO Al).
FOl K STEAMERS A WEEK.
TUESDAYS,
'lllLHMJAlS,
AND SATURDAYS.
THE STEAMSHIPS
SAN SALVADOR, Capialu Nickerson. from Pier
No. 8 North River.
WM. It. GAR HLSON, Agent,
No. 5 Bowileg Green.
MONTGOMERY;. CapTaiiil'alrcloth, from Pier No.
13 North HUer.
R. LOWDEN, Agent,
No. 93 W est street.
LEO, Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. 14 East
River.
MURRAY, FERRIS & CO., Agents,
Nos. til and 02 South street.
GENERAL BARNES. Captain Mallory. from Pier
No. 6 North River.
LIVINGSTON, FOX & CO., Agents,
No. S3 Liberty street.
Insurance by this line ONE HALF PER CENT.
Sup nor accommodations for passengers
Through rates aud bills of ladlug lu connection
with the Atlantic and Gulf Freight line. I 6t
Through rates and bills of lading in connection
with Central uauroad of Oeorgls, to all points.
C. D.OWENS.
GEOR'JE YONGK,
Agent C. R. It,
No. 4)9 Broadway.
Agput A. & G. R. R.,
No. 229 Broadway.
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
and Rarltan Canal.
SWIFT SURE TRANSPORTATION
L
COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND 8WIFTSURK LINES,
Leaving dally at 12 M. and B P. M.
The steam pronoirers of this company will com
meoce loading on the Slh of March.
'lhrongh in twenty-four hours.
Goods 'orwarded to any point freeoT commission
Freights taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD fc CO., Agents,
4; NO. 132 South DELAWARE Avenue.
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TOW BO AT COMPANY.
Barges towed between PhlladelDhla.
Baltimore, Ilavre-de-Grace, Delaware City, and In.
termedlate points.
wieIjIam r. uivYua & co., Agents.
Captain JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent.
Otliee. No. 12 South WVarvea Vutladel'phtav 41l
PROPOSALS.
TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDER3
Kcnled Pronosals. endorsed '"ProoosaU for
Building a Public School-house In the Tenth
AVard," will be received by the undersigned,
at the Oillce S. 15. corner of SIXTH and
ADELPHI Street, until WEDNESDAY, Febru
ary 1, 1871, at 13 o'clock M., for building a Public
Schocl-bouse, on a lot of grouod situate on the
south tide of Cherry, west of Teuth street,
in the Tenth ward, said school-house to
be built in accordance with tha plans of L. H.
F.sler, Superintendent of School Buildings, to
be teen at the oillce of the Board of Public
Education.
Ho bids will be considered unless accompa
nied by a certificate from the City Solicitor that
the provisions of an ordinance approved May
25. ItstiO, have been complied with.
The contract will be awarded only to known
master builders.
By order of the Committee on Property.
II. W. I1ALLI WELL,
1 19 23 28 Fl Becretarv.
ri'O CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
-a- Pealed Proposal, endorsed "Proposals for
Building a Public School-house in the Fifteenth
Ward." will be received bv the undersiirned at
Hie cilice, Southeast corne'r SIXTH and ADEL
PHI Streets, until WEDNESDAY, February 1,
1ST1, at 12 o'clock M., for building a public
Echool bouee on a lot of groand eltuate on tho
corner of Twenty-third and Shatnok in streets, In
the Fifteenth Ward, 6ald school-house to be
built in accordance with tho plans of L. II.
F.tler, Superintendent of School Building, to bo
teen at the oillce of the Board of Public Educa
tion. No bids will be considered unless accom
panied by a certificate from the City Solicitor
flat the provit-ious of an ordinance approved
May S.'5, lfcbl), have been complied with.
The contract will be awarded only to known
master builders.
By order of the Committee on Properly.
II. W. HALLIWELL,
1 19 23 23 Fl SecrcUry.
TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDER3.
Staled Proposals, endorsed "Proposals for
Building an Extension to a Public School-house
iu the Tenth ward," will be received by the un
dersigned at the otliee, southeast corner of
SIXTH and ADELPHI Streets, uutil WEDNES
DAY, February 1, 1S71. at 12 o'clock M., for
building an extension to a Public School-house,
situate ou Race street, below Fifteeulli, in the
Tenth ward; raid extension to be built in ac
cordance with the plans of L. 11. Esler, Superin
tendent of School Hull din us. to be seen at the
oflice of the Board of Public Education.
No bids will be considered unless accompanied
by a certificate from the City Solicitor that the
provisions of an ordinance approved May 25,
1800, have beeu complied with. The contract
will be awarded only to known master builders.
By order of the Committee ou Property.
II. W. HALLIWELL,
1 19.23,28,F1 Secretary.
CMTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE, No. 212
J South FIF'IH bireet,
Philadelphia, Jan. 18, 1371.
Sealed Proposals for the necessary Blanks,
Books, Stationery, and Printing required by
this department for the year 1871, in confor
mity with an ordinance of City Councils, ap-
. Dpppmher Jtl INTO will 1ia rpnftpad at.
this Oillce until 12 o'clock M. on SATURDAY,
jnnuary 21, 1871, at which time said proposals
will be opened and the contract awarded to the
lowest and best bidder.
Printed schedules, on which the bids must be
mado of the articles required, will be furnished
on application at the City Commissioners'
Otliee.
ALEXANDER McCUEN,
THOMAS M. LOCKE,
JAMES BAIN,
City Commissioners.
1 18 St
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLIC PRINTING AND
BINDING.
Notice is hereby given that Sealed Proposals
for the Public Printiug aud Blndiug for the
State of Pennsylvania, for the term of three
years front the first day of July, 1871, will be
received by the Speakers of the Senate and
House of Heprceeiit&tives from this date to the
fourth Tuesday of January, 1871. iu compliance
with the act of Assembly entitled "An act In
relation to Tubl'ic Printing," approved th of
April, 1856; said proposals to bo accompanied
by bonds, with approved securities, for the faith
ful performance of tie work, as required by the
act of 25th February, 1802, entitled "A further
fctq ph uieut to au" Act lu relation to Public
PiiLiitsr," approved the !Hb day of April, 153.
V.JORDAN,
Secretary of the CummouwealtU.
lUitnisBVUO, Jan. '2, 1871. I 2 1