THE DAILY EVENINO TELEQllAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1871. onniT or xno rnnss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals vpon Current Topios Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. BOW LONG WILL PROTESTANTS ENDUKE ? Prim the Ar. lr. Times, There is a steady and insensible change going on in this 8tate in the seat of political power, which involves most important con seqnenoes and which our readers ought to carefully weigh. The population of thi city and the surrounding counties, owing to immigration and the prolific power of a laboring class, is increasing at an enormous rate. The interior and agricultural counties are growing in a much less rapid degree. It is true that in the last docado our metropolis has greatly fallen off in growth, compared to the previous; but this has arisen mainly from the fact that the middle classes are transferring themselves to the adjacent counties. The increase of Westohester and Kings is still immense, as compared with that of St. Lawrence and Oneida. It is also the lowest laboring classes which inorease the most rapidly, as is the experience every where in the civilized world. Our politioal power follows population, and the result is that the governing power of this portion of the State, and in consequence the whole State, is fast centring itself in the ranks of the lowest and most iguorant class of the whole commnnity-the Irish Catholio laborers and tenement-house population of New York and its vicinity, led by shrewd na tive demagogues. Eaoh year gives this class a greater numerical value. They work to gether as a compact battalion under able and audacious leaders. They control in the city administration enormous sums of money. Where they are deficient In votes, they can create them. The timid or the ambitious Americans who have, belonged to the same party organization, have not nerve or princi ple enough to separate themselves from those useful associates, whom socially they despise. Thus it happens that this accumulation of ignorant voters in one corner of the State controls more and more every year the in terior counties. Were it left to itself it could do little, as even the plundering of the city treasury would soon be checked by the honest yeomanry of the rural districts. But this mass of voters here is in affiliation with a large party in the country, the majority of whom are directly opposed to them in all their ideas and habits. Party links, and the hopes of emolument and office, bind the two opposing wings together, and the Democratic party of New York State is simply the tool of the Irish Catholio laborers and their demagogues in this city. The course the latter have marked out for themselves is simple and clear. They had first to get absolute possession of the Govern ment and income of this wealthy capital. This they have done. Next, they aimed at founding the Roman Catholio Church, so that it could not be easily shaken. This they have nearly accomplished by State and city gTants of land and moneys. The amounts which the various Romanist churches have received, either from the Common Council or the Legislature, during the past few years, would be incredible, were we not so hardened to such appropriations. Their next blow was aimed at the free schools, in carrying through the appropria tion for "sectarian Bohools." Though but partially effective, this blow will be repeated either this or some succeeding year, with more complete success. Already some of our ward schools are supplied entirely with Catholio teachers, and everything is "expur gated" from the books taught whioh might seem to smack too much of liberty of con science and of thought. Many of our citi zens will undoubtedly see the day unless some great revolution breaks forth when the Board of Eduoation of this city will be as thoroughly Roman Catholio as Tammany is now. The next blow perhaps the most insulting of all has been aimed, daring this session, in the bill for "hereditary religion." By this it is assumed that every Protestant charity dealing with the enfants perdus of our streets is engaged in spreading a false religion, and therefore must annually expurgate (or crimi nate) itself before the Legislature, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for eaoh of fense! As a correspondent suggests, the natural amendment to this act would be a E revision requiring every Protestant house older to make an annual statement, under oath, that he had never invited his Roman Catholio servants to family devotions, or "otherwise interfered with their religious belief." These incredible insults to the oourage of our Protestant bodies would never be given by these demagogues if our own leaders had not shown themselves in the whole question such utter cowards. When the most eminent publio men of the country are afraid to speak a word for one of the grandest events in the history of liberty, beoause the priests will dnounoe them before the ignorant Roman rabble, what can be expected but that such tools of the priests as Senator Norton and his associates will propose such insult ing aots as this in the Senate of the New York Legislature ? If our Protestant bodies do not arise and show some manhood, they will deserve to be thus trampled on and in sulted by the delegates of the Catholio masses in these counties. And they may be certain that the treatment they have thus far re ceived from the Tammany ring is mild and considerate to what is in store for them. AGAINST SUBSIDIES. Prom the !f. Y. Sun. The subsidizing of foreign steam lines is again np in Congress, llow this measure ex pects to get through, except by the mere foroe of log-rolling, we cannot see. We regard it as no better than a scheme of waste and cor ruption from beginning to end. The sole objeot of it is to put money into the hands of the steamship companies by the million, under the pretext of in some way advancing our mari time or commercial interests, or adding to our naval power. But Congress has decided that it will not keep np an expensive navy in time of peace. All the nation needs is to create the couditions which will enable it to call a navy into existence when one is wanted. To do this we require a maritime population and the requisite means and appliances for ship building. We can only have these by making our earrying trade profitable, and by being able to build ships as cheap as other people. When this is done we shall have both sailors and ship-builders in abundance. But neither of these results can be obtained by any hot bed processes. These interests must grow from the soil and be self-sustaining. The nation reaohed this conclusion when it aban doned the system of bounties for fishermen, which existed from our earliest history until within a very few years. All systems of boun ties are liable to great abuses, and the fisher men's bounties were no exception. At the last there was scarcely anything left in this par ticular case but the abuses. We tried the system of nnbsl Jio in the famous Collins line of transatlantic steamers, and what came of it? We took millions from the Treasury and threw them into the sea, and the steamship line followed the millions. Everything went to the bottom together. Nobody was benefited a dollar from the be ginning to the end of the wasteful, prodigal scheme. The reason exists in the inherent vice of the system. Men are enoonraged to embark in an enterprise under the pleasing illusion that its profits shall go into their own pockets, and its losses shall be paid from the Treasury. This expectation naturally en tails waste, extravaganoe, peculation, and prodigality. It Is an artificial and cor rupt system, and we want none of it. It is corrupting to the publio morals, and it an swers no good purpose either in its publio or private aspects. The true friends of the maritime interests of the country repudiate the policy. It is not what is wanted to revive our great navigation industry. On the con trary, it tends to depress it still further by creating a fostered and privileged class. There can be no fair competition against a subsidized line of ships. The men who have no bounties can be bo matoh for those who have them. When the subsidized lines end, there will end the development of the business pursued. Is this the way to encou rage an industry that to be anything must bo national ? What the country wants is to be allowed to build ships free from the oppression of an outrageous taxation. To resume our former protninenco as a maritime power, we need nothing but to have our ship-building indus try put upon the same footing with, that of the same industry in Great Britain. Is this an extravagant demand? On the contrary, is it not a request most natural and most rea sonable ? And is not a refusal by Congress to grant it one of the most absurd and short-sighted acts of a Government pretend ing to wisdom and statesmanship that can be conceived of ? We cannot be a naval power unless we de velop our mercantile marine. We must create the classes on which all real naval power rests, namely, mariners and ship builders. These classes we have, but they are kept down and are daily growing weaker, not because they have not Government aid, but because Government unnaturally oppresses them and prevents their growth and expan sion. They only ask to be let alone. They do not demand to be placed among the fa vored classes. They ask only to be put on the same footing with the same classes in Britain, Jour great and now overshadowing rival on the ocean. Congress seems unwill ing to yield even this much of simple justice; bnt, instead, it wastes its time and attention over absurd projects of endowing monopo lies of steamship lines, which, if onoe well under way, will strip the Treasury annually of untold millions, only to end in a grand fiasco at last. Meantime, the real maritime interests of the nation will go on in an accele rated decline. Gentlemen of Congress ! abandon your preposterous schemes for depleting the Trea sury, and give to the navigation interests of the country a fair field and free play for their energy and resources. They want none of your money and none of your patronage. The American mariner and ship-builder only ask to have their raw materials free of duty, and they will soon find a way to restore our lost maritime ascendancy. Can there be a more reasonable request than that ? THE BROOKLYN STABBER. From the N. Y. Times. When De Quincey wrote his "Murder Considered as a Fine Art," the essay was commonly deemed an amusing but rather fantastio freak of imagination. This is funny, thought many readers, but totally in credible. It is magnificent, but it is not human nature. Yet precisely suoh things occur. The inexplicable is by no means lacking in the complex elements that inspire men's actions. An example is just now con spicuous which, if put in a novel, would have been ridiouled as absurd. In oar neigh bor city of Brooklyn, an unknown miscreant has for some time been distin guishing himself by indulging in a passion as terrible as it is grotesque. Armed with a knife, he prowls about at night in search of young girls, seleoting oomely ones for choice, and, watohing his opportu nity, he cuts savagely at their faces. Some times the blow falls elsewhere, but the ruffian obviously aims at the head. His object ap pears to be simply to mutilate, Binoe he never attempts to rob his viotims. There have been live authenticated cases of these assaults, the first having occurred in the latter part of No vember, and the fifth last Saturday night. They have generally occurred in or near Grand and Remsen streets, and the perpetra tor, after his attaok, always makes off with great swiftness. Quite a panio has been created, especially among working girls whose business keeps them out after dark; and the Common Council of Brooklyn has offered a reward of $-50 for the apprehension of the offender. The peculiarity about this strange affair is not only that it is unaccompanied by any effort to steal, but that it is so deliberately disposed over considerable intervals of time. It would seem that the guilty person, wishing to enjoy his frightful pastime to the utmost, limits himself with cautious reserve in its indulgence, lie apparently lays down for him self a regular plan of operations. Thus, on one night, we may suppose him to reflect, he will slash off some young woman's ear. This being successfully aooomplished, he may re tire and gloat for a week or two over the ex ploit. Emerging with fresh gusto, he may de termine to have the pleasure of slitting same other poor girl's cheek, and again retreat to chuckle in his mysterious lair at compassing so exquisite a gratification. To slice off some other victim's lips may furnish, after due re pose, the third dish of this extraordinary banquet and so on. That these things, or things very like them, have been done we know; the motive so far is unfathomable. The theory of insanity is suggested, and no doubt is plausible. The old story says that Malays sometimes "run a muck," as it is called, hacking and maiming every one they meet; but in suoh oases they are, we believe, assumed to be not only irresponsible morally, but the subjeots of sudden frenzy. While in the paroxysm they are totally bereft of reason. The Brooklyn assassin, on the other hand, if really a monomaniao, has a distinct method in his madness. lie invariably addresses the women he ap proaches as a civil stranger, as if to allay any possible fears, and bo get the best chance to do his work in an artistio way. Again, his regard for his personal safety and the artful celerity with which he provides for it, is a decided point of difference. The muok-run-ning Malay takes blows aa well as gives them, and seems as regardless of pain as most East Indian devotees. If this Brooklyn stabber ia indeed a maniac, his is certainly a very cu rious kind of lunacy. If he be sane, we remember nj case lu the records of crime which furnished a parallel to, or whioh sug gests any intelligent explanation of, his con duct. SKULLS AND SCIENCE. Prom the H. Y. Tribune. Chicago has done it at last ! The last re proach upon our flag is wiped off, and tho city of divorce and ditches is our redeemer. As a nation our youth has always been the one damned npot that would not out. The taint of vulgar newness has rested on our rivers and our mountains, -as well as our ideas and our manners; and Chioago has no donbt felt the burden with peculiar bitter cess. We may have jibed her with her late birth ourselves. Any feather-headed foroigner bad the prerogative of age to jeer at us. Whether we choked a Rebellion or sounded our r's through our nose, we were liable to be patted on the back and suavely reminded that wa were yonng, and that things were not so done in the older countries over the sea. Could we deny it ? Jonathan could stretoli his mighty limbs as he pleasod, brag ef his giant's strength, his shrewd brain, his yearly conquests; yet he was painfully conscious all the time that he was the hobble-de-hoy among nations tho nnlicked school-boy with whom nobody dared to try a wrestle, but who could be stung into fury by a sneer. Consequently he has koo tooed and salaamed before every travelling tcribbler or story-monger, fearful that he would be dismissed by them to the dunce's stool for some solecism in manners or pro nunciation. To be sure, we did what we could to make ourselves a descent and a antiquity. The New Englanders kept the dead bones of the Pilgrim Fathers stalking abroad in the sight of all men. Philadelphia has never buried William Penn; in New York we made what capital we could out of Hen ri rik Hudson; and Virginia families, headed by the Lees, console themselves to-day for their empty pockets and missing slaves by squabbling about whether their visionary coats-of-arms should be moons with unfillod horns or rampant squirrels. But Chicngo has come to the rescue. She has discovered a skull in Calaveras county, California, and named it in her Academy of .Sciences, which proves the American to be not the youngest son of Time, but the un named ancestor of Time itself. The Euro pean scientific journals receive the report of the discovery with breathless awe. "The spot from which the skull was taken," they say, "the lowest of four deposits of auriferous gravel, over whioh were five successive beds of lava and volcamo tufa, refers it to the Plio cene, or the age before the volcanic eruptions which cover a great part of the State, pre ceding that of the mastodon, elephant, and other great pachyderms. This remarkable discovery, then, if placed beyond doubt, car ries back the presence of man in America to a period even more remote than that inferred from the stone implements in the drift of Abbeville and Amiens in the valley of the Somme, or the human skeleton in the loess of the Rhine." Various conjectures follow as to the effect of this discovery upon future scienoe. But what do we care for future science? We are no longer like Melchisedeo, with out father, mother, or descent. The past is ours. The first dead Yankee has gone down to be crowned king in Hades. "Hell from beneath is moved to meet hi in at his coming: it stirreth up the dead for him, even the chief ones of the earth." Talk of your Norman blood, of old Castilian, or the ancient Latin races ! When grey-haired Saturn was a babe in swaddling clothes, this great pro genitor of ours had left life, old as Age itself, to see what profit could be made in the realm of ghost. When the modern Adam first looked about the newly-fashioned world, this ancient Jonathan nodded good laok to him out of the land of shadows. Ages before he had discovered, invented, tested the world, and all that was in it, and found it to be but vanity and vexation of spirit. The ages since have heaped dead races over his resting-plaoe, who, being dead, rest in quiet and make no sign. But, true to his nature, he comes nosing his way baok, and thrusts his fleshless jaws among nis descendants, to see what new thing they have found out at this late hour of the day. He has brought ns dignity among the nations. Henceforth the Goddess of Liberty shall keep him in Bight of them cheek by jowl with herself. "Here she and Time shall sit. Here is her throne: let kings come bow to it." OUR WESTERN PRESIDENT. From the Washington Patriot. In the early flush of personal popularity, General, and even President, Grant was the pet of the West. He was born there. He was, in a certain sense, bred there; and if in his mature manhood there was little to win or command sympathy, the good-natured for bearance of a young and frontier community looked kindly and generously on him. When the crisis of war occurred he was especially the Western soldier, and in his successes and accumulating honors the West had a natural and noble pride not the less so for being sec tional. When the war was over, and the drift of publio opinion showed that the Chief Magis tracy was to be his, and that, in virtual suc cession to Mr. Lincoln, he was to continue the line of Western statesmen, the pride of his region knew no abatement. There was an inner sentiment, too, at work. The great West had no fanatical antipathy to the South, either in the moment of conflict or of victory; and when, at the end of the war, General Grant proclaimed, in written and measured words, that the South was sincere and honest in its submission, and that the policy of the North should be thoroughly conciliatory and generous, and when Eastern ultraists sneered at what he said as "whitewashing," the West felt that it was their brave soldier's, their fu ture President's, honest utterance, and that their confidence was, and to the end would be, justified. Cruel indeed has been the awakening, sharp the disappointment, and in nothing more so than - in the development in the recent past of the manifest sacrifice of the generous and heroic sentiment of amnesty and toleration on the poorest, lowest altar that was ever built -out of the fagots of fana ticism and party expediency. Hence it is that the most decisive revolt, or, to speak more correctly, the most intrepid and manly reassertion of the policy to whioh it was supposed the Western soldier was pledged, has occurred in the West itself, and in the communities which were sup. Eosed to have the closest association with im California and Oregon first, then In diana, Nevada, and emphatically Missouri, while Illinois, Nebraska, and Ohio are quite ready to follow suit. For these defections there were other and minor Teasons equally operative. The Western President became a willing victim to the blandishments of the luxurious East. The first song of the sirens seduced him. The city Circes had no diffi culty, lie turned his back on the region which first honored him, and called around Lira as his confidential advisers, and des patched abroad as his confidential agents, men of whom the Atlantic seaboard f umishei an almost grotesque contingent. Of the original Cabinet, not counting Mr. Washbnrne's fortnight's inonmboney, . four out of the six were from this side of the Alle gheny Mountains, and the others not further west than the Miami. The citizens of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were preferred to the untutored denizens of the prairies. The foreign embassies showed the same re sult. The six great courts of London, Ber lin, St. Petersburg, Madrid, Vienna, and Con stantinople, like the Cabinet, belonged wholly to Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylva nia. Illinois got Franco, and a Northwestern brother-in-law Becurod Denmark. And when accident, or imbecility, or ill-temper forced a change, Camden sucoeeded Philadelphia, Ohio Ohio, and Georgia part of Massachusetts in the Cabinet, and in foreign patronage the dispenser did not seem able to get further West than Indiana. The only two States now represented in the Cabinet that pretend to call themselves faithful in their allegiance are New Jersey and Massachusetts. How long they will remain bo, even radioal Massachu setts, is beyond our ken. Pennsylvania, after waiting in vain for something better than she has got, is, through her Executive, in open mutiny, and, so far as we can trace po pular action, is drifting Blowly but surely back to the moorings of her ancient faith. For these new and doubtful and selfish friends has he, without a scruple, sacrificed all those representative men who, as neighbors and early friends when he needed them sorely, petted and sustained and promoted him. Operative as these elements of disappoint ment may be, they are, we repeat, of minor moment in comparison with the great inner revulsion which we have alluded to, for,after all, masseB are not affected by the frustrated hopes and aspirations of leaders. To take the most notable instance of disaffection Missouri. The people of that great State we mean those Independent Republicans who once were a majority do not care a farthing whether it is represented in the coterie called a Cabinet or not, or in tho wider and more ornamental circles of diplomacy. This is not what alienates them. Missouri, if we may give a now application to a well-worn figure, is the keystone of a great arch resting on the North and the South. Had Missouri beosnie part, permanently or for any long term, of the Southern Confederacy, it would have been fatal to the ancient Union. The popu lation, while the heat of war was active, was fiercely divided, nence is it, perhaps, from mutual respect, from the necessity of making allowance, that the process of reconciliation has been so rapid and so sure. Nor is it in the least surprising that, when this generous and rational impulse found itself unexpect edly in conflict with the Exeoutive, the strug gle was sharp and tho result decisive. So will it be everywhere throughout the West, and this, one would think, should be apparent to every one. This is altogether independent of the material considerations we have else where suggested. Yet, in the face of these nnerring, unmistakable signs and portents, we find the new crusade devised and perpe trated ! Surely madness can no further go. WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETO. ttWlS LAD0M.US & CO? 'DIAMOND SEALERS & JEWELEK3. W1TC1IK8, JKWBLUY A8II.TEK WAKX. .WATCHES and JEWELS Y EEPAIEED. , 02 Chestnut St, rhilai Would Invite attention to their large stock of Ladles' and Cents' Watches or American and foreign makers. DIAMONDS In the newest styles of Settings. LADIES and GENTS' CHAINS, sets of JEWELRY of the latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN . BRACELETS, Etc. Etc. Our stock has been largely Increased for the ap proaching holidays, and new goods received dally. Silver Ware of the latest designs In great variety, for wedding presents. Repairing done In the best manner and guaran teed, s 11 fmw TOWER CLOCKS. Ho. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET, Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS, both Remontolr fc Graham Escapement, striking hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour on fall chime. Estimates furnished on application either porson ally or by mall. e 20 WILLIAM B. WARNS 4 CO.. Wholesale Dealers In WATCHES, JEWELRY. AND gaiyl SILVER WARE, First floor of No. 633 CHKSNUT Street, a E. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT (Street LEGAL NOTICES. TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY A AND COUNTY OF4T1IILADELPIIIA. Estate Of CHARLES HENRY FISHER, Esi deceased. The Audit jr appointed by the Court to audit, settle. and adjust the several accounts of FETKR C. HUL- LIS and 11KNKY 1'. Ml IKHEAD, trustees under the will of CHARLES HENRY F1SUEU, deceased, for ELIZA G., ELLEN, JAMES LOGAN, and MAUD FISHER (as stated by P.O. Hollis, acting accountant), and to -report distribution of the balances In the hands of the accountants, will meet the parties Interested for the purpose of bis ap pointment on TUUK8DAY, February 18. H71, at la o'clock M., at his office, No. 131 South FIFTH otrefci, in me city or r nuaaeipnta. GEO ROE M. CONARROE, ! 8fmw rt Auditor. TN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CITY X AND COUNTY OF PHILADKLPHI A. PHILIP SPAKDER vs. GEORGE HAMRRBCHT, A. fa. ! VIRTUE C. SWKATMAN vs. GEORGE HAMliKLCHT, fl. fa. September Term, 1870, Nos. 97 and 99. The Auditor appointed by the Court to report dis tribution of the fund in court, arising from the Hherlirs Bale under the above writs of fierifm-ia of tlie'personM estate of the said Utouut HAM BRECHT. will meet the parties Interested for the purposes of his appointment at his Office, Ni. MS WALNUT Street, Room No. 10, in the city of Phlla- delDiila. on WEDNESDAY, rebruary 10, isn, at 3 o'clock P. M., when aud where all persons are re quired to make their claims before such Auditor or be debarred irom coming iu upon sain mini. E. C. MITCHELL, 3 9 lot Auditor. CROOERIES, ETO. UST RECEIVED, Davis' Cincinnati Hams. ALBERT O. ROBERTS, Dealer in Fine Groceries, 11 T Corner ELEVENTH and VINE 8 to. MILLINERY. R 8. R. D I L L O NOS. 823 AND 831 SOUTH 8TREET, N FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, CRAPE VEILS. Ladles' and Misses' Crape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin, Silk, Straw and Velvets, Hats and Bonnets, French Flowers, Dat and Bonnet Frames, Capes, Laces, Silks, Sating, Velvets, Ribbons, Sashes, Ornaments and all kinds of Millinery Goods. 1 4 MNANOIAL, a reliable: 1 Safe Home Investment TUB Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad Company 7 PER CENT. GOLD First Mortgage Bonds. Interest Payable April and Octo ber, Free ofStnte and United States Taxes. We are now offering the balanoe of the loan of $1,200,000, which in secured by a first and only lien on the entire property and franchises of the Company, At 90 and the Accrued lute rest Added. The Road is now rapidly approaohing com pletion, with a large trade in GOAL, IRON, and LUMBER, in addition to the passenger travel awaiting the opening of this greatly needed enterprise. The local trade alone is sufficiently large to sustain the Road. We have do hesitation in reoommending the Bonds as a CHEAP, RELIABLE, and SAFE INVESTMENT. For pamphlets, with map, and full infor mation, apply to WM. PAINTER & CO., Dealers in Government Heouritiee, No. 30 South THIRD Street, 6 1 tf4p PHILADELPHIA. Wilmington and Reading HA1XHOAD SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS Freo of Taxes. We are offering $200,000 of the Second mortgage Bonds of this Company AT 82 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. For the convenience of Investors these Bonds are Issued In denominations of $I000a, $50Qf, and $100s. The money la required for the purchase of addi tional Boiling Stock and the fall equipment of the Road. The road Is now finished, and doing a business largely In excess of the anticipations of Its officers. The trade offering necessitates a large additional outlay for rolling stock, to afford fall facilities for Its prompt transaction, the present rolling stock not being sufficient to accommodate the trade. WM. PAINTER & CO., BANKERS, No. 36 South THIRD Street, BO PHILADELPHIA. AMERICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY Of Philadelphia. LOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION fob nn D3 O IV I S Of this Company Are now open at the folio wing1 placet Office of the Insurance Company of North Ame rica, No 233 Walnut street. Oillce of the Delaware Mutual Insurance Company, southeast corner Third and Walnut streets. Office of K. c. Knight 4 Co., southeast corner of Water and Chesnut streets. Office of Drexel & Co.. No. 84 South Third street. Office of B. K. Jamison 4 Co., northwest corner of Third and Chesnut streets. O. Camblos & Co., No. 33 South Third street. Office of Darker, Bros. 4 Co., No. 83 South Third Street. Office of Olrard National Bank, Third street, below Chesnut. Office of Central National Bank, Fourth street,' below Chesnut. These BONDS are Issued in sums of $300 and $1000 each, with Interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, free of State tax : are a Orst mortgage upon the property of the Company, and the prompt payment of the principal and Interest of the same Is guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany. 1 81 m F O It SALE, Six Per Cent. Loan of the City of Wil liamaport, Pennsylvania, Froo of nil T a x o h, At 85 and Accrued Interest. These Bonds are made absolutely secure by act of Legislature compelling the city to levy sufficient tax to pay Interest and principal. P. 8. PETERSON & CO., No. 39 8. THIRD STREET, 86 PHILADELPHIA. 530 530 iiAnrassorj exumuso, BANKER. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS RECEIVED AND INTER BUT ALLOW KD ON DALLY BALANCES. ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED POR THB PURCHASE AND 6 ALB Of ALL RELIABLE SE CURITIES. COLLECTIONS MADS EVERYWHERE. REAL EaTATfl COLLATERAL LOANS NEGO TIATED. 18 81 em Ho. 630 WALNUT St. Phlla da. FINANCIAL. SPECIAL NOTICE TO INVESTORS. A Choico Security. We 'are now aMe to supply a limited amount of the ...... Catawissa Railroad Company's 7 PER CENT. CONVERTIBLE MORTGAGE BOVDS, FKBE OF bTATK AND UNITED STATES TAX. They are Issued for the sole purpose of building the extension from MILTON TO WILLIAMS PORT, a distance of 80 tnilre, and are eerured bp a lien on the entire road ef marl UK) miles, fully equipped and doing a nourishing bualnes. W ben It Is considered that the entire Indebtedness of tho company wlil be less than ti6,ooo per mile, leaving out their Valuable Coal Properly ef 1300 anree, It will I een at once what an uuusual amount of security Is attached to those bonds, and they there fore must commend themselves to the most prudent lpvestors. An additional advantage is, that they can be converted, at the option of the holder, after 10 years, Into the Preferred Stock, at par. They are registered Coupon Bonds (a great safe guard), loaned In sums of $S00 and $1000. Interest payable February and August. Price 92X and accrued Interest, leaving a good rosrgln for advance. For further lmormatlon, apply to D. C. WHARTON SMITH & CO., No. 121 SOUTn THIRD STREET, 18S PHILADELPHIA. OFFER FOR SALE, AT PAR, THE NEW MASONIC TEMPLE LOAN, Searing 7 3-10 interest, Redeemable after five (5) anu within twenty-cne (91) years. Interebt layable ZVlurcli and Sep tember. The Bonds are registered, and will be Issued in sums to suit. DE HA YEN & BKO., No. 40 Gouth THIRD Street. S 11 PHILADELPHIA." Stocks bought and sold on commission. Gold an! Governments bought and sold. Accounts recolveal and interest allowed, subject te SlghtiDraf ts. DUNN BROTHERS, Nos. 51 and 53 S. THIRD St., Dealers In Mercantile Paper, Collateral Loans, Government Securities, and Gold. Draw Bills of Exchange on the Union Bank of London.and issue travellers' letters of credit through Messrs. BOWLES BROS a CO., available In ail the cities of Europe. Make Collections on all points. Execute orders for Bonds and Stocks at Board of Brokers. Allow Interest on Deposits, subjeci to check at Bight. IS JOHN S. RUSHTON & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS. Q0ID AND COUPONS WANTED. City Warrants BOUGHT AND SOLD. Ho. 50 South THIRD Street. 8 gel PHILADELPHIA. B. K. JAMISON & CO., SUCCESSORS TO I?. IT. KELLY & CO, BANKERS AND DEALERS IN Gold, Silver, and Government Bond At Closest Market Kates, N. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESNUT Sti Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS in New York and Philadelphia Stock Boards, etc. etc sef a X.EGAX. irjVEsrrsEmT Having sold a large portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad General Mort gage Bonds, The undersigned offer the balance for a limited pe riod at 95 and Interest added In currency. These bonds are the cheapest Investment for Trus tees, Executors, aud Administrators. For further particulars, inquire of JAY COOKE 4 CO., E, W. CLARK A CO.. W. H. NEW BOLD, SON 4 AERTSEN. C. 4 H. BOKIE. 911m WHISKY. WINE. ETO. QARSTAIRS & ftlcCALL. No. 123 Walnut and' 21 Granite SU IMPORTERS Or Erandiet, "Winei, Gin, 01iv Oil, EtaJ WHOLESALE DIALERS IN PURE RYE VHISKILTS, IS BOND AND TA-E PAID. Mtpi COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF ALT. cumbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufao. turero Drier Felta, from thirty to aeventy-sU inchea, wlU PanUne, NO. 10 CHURCH Street IClti Storaot COTTON. MIDDLINQ FAIR AND MIDDLING! Gulfs, Alabama and Uplands, samples, clean stain, etc., for sale by WILLIAM M. OREINBR, 1 SO 8m No, 109 CHESNUT Street. STEAM ENGINES ANB PORTABLE AND Stationer Boiler of Kofren, and Black's, ud l:iniplnr. Patents and other forma. Tank., Paua, and PUleWerk. UEOKOK O. HOWARD, fcilmt No.l78ouUi ElUUTKKNTH Street, TOHN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MERJ (I thanU and Mannfaotorra of Ocnertom Ticking, ee ajfc M UlihVS ater a. ttilUflaHxUfc US i
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