THE DAILY EVENINO TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1871. en hit or Tzxa run as. Editorial Opinions of th Leading Journals upon Current Toploa Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. from the K. Y. Sun A joint resolution has been reported ia the Senate respecting the manner of making ap pointments to office in the civil service. It authorizes the President to prescribe such rales and regulations for the admission of persons to the civil service of the United (States as in his judgment will best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fit ness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability. The President is also authorized to employ suitable persons to conduct inquiries npon these subjects, and to establish regulations for the conduct of those who may reoeive ap pointments, lie is likewise empowered to prescribe fees to be paid by all persons applying for appointments, exoept such classes of honorably discharged soldiers as he may exempt. These fees are to be ap plied to pay the expenses of making such in quiries. This joint resolution Is very good, and we trust that it will be passed by both houses, and become one of the laws of the land. We hope also that, in devising the proposed rules and regulations, the President will pay -due attention to two or three principles which are of primary importance, but which, un less his attention should be earnestly called to the subject, might by aooident be over looked and omitted. These prinoiples are briefly as follows: I. All relations of the President, or of any member of his f aaiily, or of his wife's family, should be considered as fit, qualified, and suitable for any branch of the publio service, and should be regarded as perfeotly entitled to any plaoe or places which they may prefer or desire, in preference to all other persons. No examination whatever should be required from any relation of the President, or from any relation of any of his relations. In order to avoid accidents, however, all applicants for office who expect to be appointed by rea son of their relationship to the President, or to any member of his or his wife's family, should be required to file documentary evi dence that they are in reality related to him or them either by birth or martiage or spi ritual affinity. Relations should be preferred in proportion to the nearness of their rela tionship. II. Persons who give presents to the Presi dent should be entitled to appointments with out examination or any other evidence that they are qualified beyond proof of the fact that they have given presnts. So far as pos sible the offices conferred should be propor tioned to the magnitude and value of the presents given. This class of applicants should always have the preference next after the relations of the President or of his or of his wife's relations. III. As evidence of knowledge, ability, and character, testimony may be submitted that the applicant has succeeded in making money out of any confidential position he may have previously held; as, for instance, if he has been a railway director, by betraying the interests of the stockholders, or if he has been employed as a legal adviser, by selling his clients to the opposite parties. Proofs of talent and success in this direction should be regarded as of the first consequence, and as commending the candidate to the meat valu able and confidential offices. IV. No person not a relation of the Presi dent, or who has not given him presents, should be appointed to any office unless he belongs to the temperance society. By observing these fundamental prinoi ples, and giving them due prominence and weight in the rales and regulations to be prescribed, there can be no doubt that the President will soon be able to bring about a thorough reform in the civil service, and to elevate it to a wholesome and satisfactory condition. PEACE. From the 5". I'. Tribune. The armistice was peace. All the world knew there would be no resumption of hos tilities in France at the conclusion of the three weeks rest from pillage and slaughter. ' The war had exhausted one nation and orip pled the other, and from both oombaatants and from all the rest of Europe looking nervously and aniazedly en, wondering where the con flagration of war would next extend, th9re went up an earnest prayer for peace. But while the negotiations could end in nothing else, it was greatly to be feared that the positiveness say the arrogance of Germany, if you will and the pride of blindness of France would present insurmountable obstacles to the happy conclusion of a true, honorable peace whioh Europe might reasonably hope would prove lasting and blessed. This grave danger has been avoided in the negotiations which thejgreat statesman of Germany has been conducting for days past at Versailles with MSI. Thiers end Favre, the bravest and strongest of France's pilots come to the helm at last. Concessions have been wisely and graoefully made by Germany, and will be undoubtedly accepted by France, and the negotiations Lave virtually ended in a peace whose condi tions Germany can oonoede with safety and France accept without farther humiliation. There is hardly a doubt that the Assembly, judging from its past actions and its political complexion, will confirm the preliminary agreement signed at Versailles, and that the formal proclamation of peace will be made by the Emperor with praise and thanksgiving. The cession of Alsaoe and a part of Lor raine has been insisted upon by the Germans as a matter of course. The same political and military reasons which suggested this de mand, immediately after the successes before Metz, exist to-day in even stronger force than then. The campaign baa shown anew, and bo plainly that nnmilitary minds in Germany now comprehend, how absolutely' essential the passes of the Vosges whioh the Moselle and its fortresses cover are to the protection of the Palatinate and South Germany. Thion ville, Metz, Luneville, and Belfort form a line of defense which, though weak ap proached from the Vosges, is formidable to an enemy coming from the oaoipaiga country. These considerations were not lost on Von Moltke; Bismarok himself has told us how, early and strongly, he was impressed with this strategio view which silenced all doubts of the propriety and policy of making the war in any sense one of con quest. Lost long ago to Germany through the treachery of disaffected German princes and the aggressions of France, there was the Strong argument of precedent to silence all scruples in the German wind as to reel-timing them after they had been conquered. France, in consenting to putt with thorn, injures her trad iottrtfct less than tbe hurts her faWe pride; for German in ldrgnne an.l literature, they were German by every material and I natural bond. Bismarck might have made I and enforced other more obnoxious conditions than this cession of territory, bat less than this Germany would not let him do; more of concession France could not ask him to grant. If any are wronged in this forced restitution of stolen territory, it is the people who are transferred with the property, not Franoe; and it is not yet settled by any fair election or free interchange of opinion which side the conquered provincials prefer to go with. The indemnity claim is moderate, consider ing the great sacrifices which Germany has been unnecessarily forced to make. From two milliards of thalers it has been redaoed one-half, and two-thirds of this sum have been remitted in consideration of fines and requisitions and debts. The sum whioh France will have to pay is still enormous, and will tax her industries for some years to pay, but no one will doubt that the war expenses of Germany are far from being cancelled by the indemnity she has insisted upon. The most gratifying condition of the peace, thus far known, is that in which the Germans abandon all intention of marching into Paris. There 1b no need for German soldiers to carry relics of Paris home to prove to their grateful countrymen that they have conquered France and its capital. Their . triumphal march throngh the city would have proved nothing; it would hate been a mean gratification, un worthy of soldiers, gone with the hour that witnessed it; and would have aroused in the French heart hatred which ages would not have assuaged. Another welcome assurance of peace is con tained in the order for the liberation of all French hostages. There are numbers of French citizens, offioials, and others of rank and wealth who have been arrested and held as hostages for the payment of requisitions on various cities, a custom of war in Earope revolting to every sense of right and human ity. Their release ought to have bean ordered long since; it is a gratification to know that it has been a first result of peaoe established. The formal proclamation, the abandonment of the field by the French, the embarkation or march of the Germans homeward, the tri umphal entry of the Emperor into Berlin, are yet to come. But a crisis is now upon France hardly less momentous than any lately past. The task that confronts her in the for mation of a new government, when the cohe sion of common danger and the influence of the presence of an armed enemy are removed from the publio mind, is one requiring far more varied and extensive effort than the work of holding together the unauthorized'adminis tration that followed the fall of Napoleon. That task is begun under favorable auspices. There are few better men in France or else where than those experienced and prudent liberals who have come to the front under the pressure of dan ger and necessity Thus far their efforts have been directed to the seouring of peace. In this they have shown practical wisdom and good sense, and a recognition of existing facts which does the highest honor to their judgment and their patriotism. When the foreign armies abandon the soil of Franoe, the true crisis of her fate will come. It will then be Been whether her people have had their folly brayed oat of them in the mortar of war; whether they have learned to set their country above party, and to acknowledge, as the first and best of the fruits of revolution, the absolute rule of civil equality and sub mission to the regularly expressed will of the greatest number. When the last Prussian has gone back to the Rhine, the deadliest enemy of Franoe the spirit of faction will still remain to be grappled with and subdued. It is upon the result of this contest that humanity is waiting with mingled hopes and fears. TIIE COAL FAMINE THREATENING. From, the A'. TMtrald. The conspiracy on the part of the Pennsyl vania railroads and the coal mining compa nies still holds its own. The prioes have not actually increased in this city, because the wholesale dealers are frightened at the popular indignation which is directed against the conspirators. It is estimated that only about four days' supply for the consumption of the great mass of the people is on hand, and when that is exhausted the coal famine is npon ns with all its severity, and the rugged month is before ns. The compro mise offered by the operators, at the meet ing in Philadelphia, to the Miners' Associa tion for the resumption of work upon what they call the $2 '50 basis, is a despotio measure, whioh the men have yet shown no disposition to aooept, and which is probably thrown out by the operators with the hope that they would not accept it. Tneir aim is to throw all the odium of this conspi racy upon the miners ' themselves; but in truth it lies altogether between the coal carrying companies and the operators, who, after all, are one and the same thing. It has occurred heretofore, no doubt, that "strikes" have been made at the instigation of the owners in order to enhance the price of coal; but the operators have long been opposed to the system of paying wages according to the "price basis," and having the strikers in their power at this time, owing to the exhaustion of the long winter strike, have now determined to fight for the abolishment of the system altogether. This they are doing in connection with the despotio railroad monopolies, which they own. The result is that the strikers cannot resume work with the hope of any reasonable wages, and thus a coal famine, as rigorous as the provi sion famine in besieged Paris, is threatening this city and the other great cities of tUp Eastern seaboard. Indeed, the enciroling lines of King William could not keep bread out of the city of Paris more completely than the consDiracv of coal operators threatens to keep coal out of this city; and Paris, with her few days of preliminary provisioning in anti cipation of the siege, was far better prepared for a scarcity of the one than we are f or Ja scarcity of the other. There must come a time when we are to be well rid of these blood-sucking corpora tions, and now is the best time. A mon archical or despotio government would have obliterated them at onoe; but in our country, and under our system, we mast follow the regular routine of the law in all emergencies. Congress has already taken np the case, and a motion was made in the House on Friday to repeal th import duty on NovaS3otia coal. Of course some soulless Pennsylvania protectionist objected, and the measure had to go over nnder the roles. Rat it will b or ought to be pressed until it is made a law. There should be indignation meeting held in this city and in Philadelphia and Boston and all the cities affected by tua grinding tyranny of these Pennsylvania cor porations, to urge immediate and decisive action upon Congress. Tne unaorupulou monopolists who think to play upon the winter needs of the poor and to grind their own employes, for the gain of a few thousand dollars must rind that their "vaulting auibi- ;.... I ..o '.l,...r,,l itc-lf " o.i.l II, at tl,l'.. in ItUU AJIIB J hUOlt U- ordiiihte iltiuand have proven their ruin. The lerpeiiiug ' free trade in coal will do all this. It will raise the coal siege of oat cities, and leave the monopolists bo much in arrears that they will be glad enough to re sume their operations, with fair wages for their men and honest prices for their coal. Congress can alone do this, and the indigaant sentiment of the people must be brought ti bear npon uongress, IRON AND IGNORANCE. From the N. 1". World. The Tribune remarks: "That there are heads incapable of holding at onoe two ideas is a melancholy truth; bat are their unfortu nate possessors capable of instructing man kind in political economy?" The Tribune's instructor of mankind in political economy bad for years the one idea in arguing for his clients, the iron-makers, that iron-making is free to everybody. Lsnghed out of this sole and silly notion, he held it in abeyance for a year or so. Now all at ence returning to it, he introduces it with the following variation: "Here, for f xample, are Messrs C. Vanderbllt and A. T. Stewart men of vast buolnms capacity and ample wealth. Let Htherof them say, 'I want to mibark in iron-making; I will put in $10,OOU,000, and solicit subscriptions of $N1,000,000 from others, so that the work may be done on the largest scale and with the greatest possible economy.' Who does not know that the sum would be eagerly put up on the strength of the public confidence in the pro poser's sagacity and ability? Whv they choose to Invest their means In other undertakings Is none of our business; but eveiy one knows that we speak truth when we say that they so Invest their money because they believe it will pay them better than iron-making. And they know." Were this teacher capable of comprehend ing more than the one idea by which he is possessed he would see, first, that if a high tariff on iron gives no profit to iron-makers, apd has no inducement which will enlist new capital in iron-making, there is no possible excuse for leaving the high tariff on; and, second, he would ask himself how it was that not only Messrs. Stewart and Vanderbilr, but a hundred other capitalists, do not enter into the thns protected iron-making business. Ala6! his monomania is too far gone for him to appreciate the significance of the following facts. The present iron industry is more than half bnilt on sand. It has for its prop nothing bat the tariff. Iron is made where potatoes and cabbages should be grown. Companies have got up schemes for ulterior purposes, built furnaces, etc., etc The in ducement held out to investors was the high duty on foreign iron. Hence, although in some regions, as Missouri, pig-iron can be made for $18 to $20 a ton, Lot they are the legitimate fields for it and the iron-masters do not need or crave an ex orbitant duty, in other places, utterly unfit for such productions, pig-iron is pro duced at a cost of $30 to $:U per ten. In such places the profits will cease when the swindling duty ceases, and the tariff being already in a fearful looking for of judgment, wise capitalists decline to em bark in bo precarious a venture. The tariff removed, iron would cease to be made where it cannot be made profitably, and be made more than ever where it can. And capital would be quick enough to take advantage of the investment offered it in the latter case, when it was made legitimate and secure, and released from the competition of subsidized foundries. But, say a the Tribune, after showing that iron making is unprofitable "Now we want to induce men to make iron, cloth, and wares In this country, to the extent of the home demand for them. To this end we stand by protection, as affording inducements to such invest ment which would not exist under free trade." Let as show this monidealist what under his protective system the inducements to in vestment are. We imported railroad iron under a duty of 24 per cent.: lfif8 12 9S7.676 1859 2,214 032 1&60 3,709,378 Total H97o,9S And we imported under nearly a double duty cf 40 1 per cent, on railroad irons 1S68. , ft,05,830 lbC9 0 777,408 1S70. 9,678,805 Tota' $20,518,541 We doubled our duty on railroad iron with a view of keeping foreign iron away and to give our own industries the monopoly of the market, and we sucoeeded in increasing our imports nearly 150 per cent. There is nothing to do in such a ease but to serve np the Tribune with its own sauoe, and say: "That there is a head (under a broad-brimmed hat) incapable of holding at once two ideas is a melancholy truth. But is the unfortunate possessor capable of instruct ing mankind in political economy?" DOMINICA-SPEECH OF MR. KELLEY. From the Seto Or'eane Republican. We are in receipt of this very able argu ment in favor of commercial expansion to the South, npon which a few comments will not be improper. It comes from an auspi cious quarter. Mr. Kelley has been long known as one of the most efficient advocates of American industry. He has devoted him self especially to the advocacy of the iron and coal interests of the great State of which he is a representative, and we may suppose that his advocacy of a more liberal commer cial policy is based upon his conviction that Pennsylvania wants a broader market for her material and wares of iron, ooal and woollens, than can be found within the Union as at present constituted. He, how ever, shows that howsoever great may be his devotion to the interests of his State, he has held in higher estimation his regard to the principles professed by him, as will be seen subsequently. We will take the liberty to make a short prtface about the West India trade in advance even of the period when Mr. Kelley connects it so conclusively with the earliest policy of our Government. It is well known that Columbus did not "go a sailing for mere love of nautical adventure, or for the solution of an astronomical problem alone. He set out to find a shorter passage to the eastern coast of Asia. The world had al ways known the value of the rich production of that mystarious region known as Ormas and the Ind, and the appeals made to the Governments of Portugal and Spain were based upon the additions to the royal reve nues, and the commercial power of those na tions. Queen Isabella may have been moved by a religious motive ia giving ultimate aid to the expedition; but the arguments used by Columbus were based on the material ad vantages to result to the Government from the undertaking. It is now known that Columbus died in the belief that he had found the eastern coast of Asia, and in igno rance of the fact that be had discovered a new and intervening continent. But from the earliest history of commerce the Northmen have sought to exchange their commodities egaiiiSt the products of the tropics, and have even sent buccaneers and privateers to cap ture these products wherever they might be found. Thus England and Spaia fought for the control of the West Indies and the coast of Central America, until England secured the mastery of the Gulf and Caribbean Sea. The captains and mariners who aided the elements to destroy the Armada were Drake and Fiobisher and Raleigh, whose skill had been acquired in the freebooter and si tve trading commerce of the South Bean. Eng land had preserved her control of this com merce np .to the revolution of her American colonies, so that when American indepen dence was acknowledged she excluded our shipping from her West India ports. There is no doubt but that the necessity of some retaliatory enaotments was one cause why the maritime interests of the United Colonies insisted npon a "more perfect anion" which should give to Congress the control of the commercial relations among the States and with foreiga powers. It is at this point that Mr. Kelley takes up the policy of General Washington as impressing upon our Minister to England that "the privilege of carrying our own pro ductions in our own vessels to their (West India) islands and bringing in return the productions of those islands to our ports and markets, is regarded here as of the greatest inportance." Presidents Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and J. Q. Adams endeavored to carry out this policy, but without success. At the end of more than forty years President Jack son succeeded in securing an adequate treaty. Mr. Kelley explains that our fathers were anxious to obtain free and unrestricted trade with the tropics, because they afforded mate rials of commercial exchange and would always stand in need of the productions of our fields and workshops. "The European powers who had domineered over the Arohi pelago so persistently" attached the same value to this intercourse, and herein the diffi culty. Added to this opposition are the export duties laid by the governments of those islands upon their own products, and the import duties which they impose upon ours. The import duties imposed by the United States upon West Indian products are, indirectly, taxes npon our industry. The speech contains a tabular estimate of our trade with foreign nations, and shows that about one-fifth of our entire foreign trade is with Spanish America, and it is known t- be only about one-fifth of the foreiga trade of those countries with other nations. With this evidence of the importance at tached by the Government of the United States to free or reciprocal trade with the tropics, the question arises why, during the thirty odd years since the administration of Jackson, so little progress has been made in commercial expansion in the desired direc tion? This question Mr. Kelley answers in Btating his own course of opinion. The faot is, that about the same period with the close of Jackson's administration, the sectional questions between the North and South attained an importance which oulminated in war. The acquisition of Texas was resisted by some statesmen and advocated by others on the ground that it would affect the balance of seoMonal power. The Wilmot proviso was important as deciding against Southern expansion in one direction, while the Clayton-Bnlwer treaty, about 1850, abso lutely renounced the right of the United States to colonize or acquire territory in Cen tral America. Some Northern statesmen re nounced their right of commercial expansion and even their party affiliations rather than assent to the extension of an institution which they did not approve. Among these was Mr. Kelley. He now says: "Some or my friends who remember the energy with which I have blttierto opposed the acquisition of Southern territories may deem me Inconsistent in advocating earnestly, aa 1 do, the acquisition or San Domingo. My hostility to the measures alladed to did not rest on constitutional scruples, but qdou the fact that they were Intended to extend the area of slavery." He charges that the Democratic party of which he was at that time a member was actuated by opposite motives, and says, "I appienepa. tnat tney and i nave changed grounds on ibis question for the sauq6 rea son." This shows that this "halt in the com mercial progress of the United States" has been caused by a sectional difference which has passed away with the cause that occa sioned it. The whole country is now in terested in commercial expansion southward. Boston and New Orleans, Richmond and Philadelphia, elike need more markets for their various surplus productions. Mr. Kelley reprobates the inconsistency of those who think with him upon the subject of human freedom. He says: "The people of the United States have waded through a sea of blood and incumbered themselves and their posterity with mountains of debt to abolish human slavery and make our institutions throughout our broad limits homogeneous and har monious with the fundamental principles that un derlie them. And yet, sir, we are to-day the sup port and buttress of slavery wherever it exists upon the continent or islands of America, as ve must continue to be uutll we shall acquire tropical terri tory, on which to grow coffee and sugar, and to bacco eanal to that of Cuba. By the acquisition or Kan Domingo, and by no other peaceable means, we can overthrow both slavery and Spanish supremacy In Cuba, for we consume fully seventy par cent, of her exports, every pound of which might be pro duced by free labor lu San Domingo." We are not prepared to say that this allega tion is altogether unfounded. This paper has heretofore contended that the policy of the Government favored the production of slave grown sugars, as the superior of almost the only frte labor sugars, those of Louisiana. The capacity of bringing statistical facts to bear npon an argument for whioh Mr. Kelley is 6o well known has enabled him to show the extent to which we should be benefited by the acquisition of tropical territory, and his speech, practical and statesmanlike, deserves the attentive perusal of every editor or merchant really interested in the future pros perity of the city of New Orleans and the valley of the Mississippi. SPECIAL. NOTIOES. 1&r THE ANNUAL MEETING OP THE STOCKHOLDERS of the CON NELLS VILLE AND SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA RAILWAY COMPANY will belheldatthe Office of the Com pany, No. 838 S. THIRD Street, on WEDNESDAY, March 1, at 19 o'eiock M., when an election will be held ror a President and twelve Directors to serve tne enBulng year. CHARLES WKSTON. Secretary. Philadelphia. Feb. 15, 1871. g 13 ws4t csr DAXZELL PETROLEUM COMPANY, Office No. iMX WALNUT Street. Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1S71. The Directors have this day declared a dividend of FIVE Pfili CENT, (being Ten Cents per share) on the capital stock of the company, payable, clear of State taxes, on the 1st of March, proximo. The Transfer Books will be closed from February 82 to March 8. M. 13. KELLY, 8 IS lit Treasurer. tK!v- THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COM- PAN Y OK PHILADELPHIA. COMtAKf t BCIi.DD.0, No. 400 WALNUT BTBRBT.) January 8, 1ST1. The Directors have this day declared a- dividend of THREE PER CENT, on the capital stock of the Company for the last six moDtns, jjavable on de mand, free of all taxes. ALEX. W. W1STKK, 1 fctf Secretory. gjiy- THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Manufacture and sell tne Improved, Portable Fire Extinguisher. Always Reliable. D. T. GAGH, so tf Ho. 118 MARKET St. General Agent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT TQK books for subscription to the capita stock of the BUTCHERS' AND DHOVKKS' BANK will bj opened at No. 619 WALN I T (Street, lu the city of Philadelphia, at 18 o'clock M ou FEBRUARY , 1571. 884 UUt SPECIAL. NOTIOES. jfcj- REDEMPTION 1SW. OF CIVIL IKDS Of Rtati op California MA. I- IKNT.) IkRAKPRT Dkpatxkk Sacramekto, February l. is:l Whereas, There Is en this day la the State Trea luiy tbe eum of twenty-eight thousand (2,ooo) dol lars vhkh, under the provisions of an act of the legislature Of said State entitled "An act to pro vide for the paying certain equitable claim against tbe State or California, and to contract a funded debt for that purpose," approved April 8), 136), Is set apart for the redemption of Civil Bonds ol sa;1 State, Issued under the provisions or said act, notice Is hereby given that SEALED PROPOSALS for the bui render of Bald Bondi will be received at this Department for the amount above specified until the . . 10TH DAY OF APRIL, 1371, ct 11 o'clock A. M. No bid will be entertained at more than par value, and a responsible guarantee must accompauy each proposal, which must be Indorsed "ae'ed Proposals for the Butfehrtef 6f Civil Bonds of 1SCQ." Said bonds will be redeemed a ud Interest paid In gold and silver coin or the United States, and mast be surrendered within ten days after the acceptance of the proposal for their redemption. A. F. CORONEL, 8 Heod t4 10 State Treasurer. REDEMPTION OF STATE BONDS. Statb or California. ) Trrasdky Drpartmknt, V Sackamknto, Feb. 1, 1471. ) Whereas, there Is oa this day In the State Treasury the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand (1250,000) dollars, which, under the provisions of an act of the Legislature of said S'ate, entitled "An Act to pro vide for paying certain equitable claims against the State of California, and to contract a funded debt for that purpose," approved April 89, 1307; and a'so nnder the provisions of an act amendat ry of said act, approved April 87, isco, Is set apart ror the re demption of Civil Bonds of said State, issued under the provisions of said flrst mentioned act, notice la hereby given that SEALED PROPOSALS for the surrenderor said Bonds will be received at this Department for the amount above specified, until the 10TF DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 1871, at 11 o'clock A. M. No bids will be entertained at more than par value, and a responsible guarantee must accompany each proposal, which must be marked "Sealel Pro posals for the Redemption of Civil Bonds or 1S57." Said bonds must be surrendered within tea days after the acceptance of the proposals for their re demption. A. F. CORONEL, 8 14 ecd 1 4 10 State Treasurer. gy NOTICE TO STOC'KnOLDERS.-CIHOAOO AND ALTON RAILROAD COM PAN Y. Secretary's Office, Chicago, III., ) February 8, 1871. The stockholders of the CHICAGO AND ALTON BA1LROAD COMPANY are hereby notliled that a cash dividend or FIVE PER CENT., free of Qjvern inent tax, has this day been declared on the Pre ferred and Common Stock of this Company, out of the earnings of the last six months, payable at the oflice of the Company's agents, Messrs. M. K. Jesup & Co., No. 12 Pine street, In the city of New 1 oik, on the 6th day of March next, to holders who are registered as t uch at the close of business hours on the icth lnst., at which time the transfer-books will be closed, and reopened ror transfer oa the 7th day of March next. 8 1513 T W. M. LARRABEE, Secretary. jjgy- CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, CINCINNATI, AND INDIANAPOLIS RAILWAY COM PANY. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1311. The annual meeting of the stockholders of this company, for the election of directors and for the transaction of other business, will be held at the office or fie company In Cleveland, Ohio, on WED NESDAY, March 1,1871, between the hours or 11 o'clock A. M. and 8 o'clock P. M. Tbe transfer books will be closed from the even ing or February 18 until March 2. GEORGE H. RUSSELL, 2 9 3w Secretary. gy- OLIVER AMES, PRESIDENT. JOHN DVFF, Vice.Fresidcnt. JOHN M. P. WILLIAMS, Treasurer. E. II. ROLLINS, Secretary. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY",! SBAKS' BUlLDIMa (POST-OFFICE BOX No. 377.) - Boston, Feb 4, 1S71. j The annual meeting of the stockholdfrs or the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY will be held at the office or the company In BOSTON, ou WEDNESDAY, the 8th day or March, IS71, at 10 o'clock A. M., to elect officers ror tne ensuing year. OLIVER AMES. 814t3-8 President Union. PaclUc Railroad Ox gy- OFFICE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD COMPANY. Philadblphta, Feb. 83, 1371. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. The annual Election ror Directors will be held on MONDAY, the 6th day of March, 1871, at tbe office of the Com pany, No. 838 S. THIRD Street The polls will be often from 10 o'clock A. M. until 6 o'clock P. HI. Noabare or shares transferred within sixty days preceding tbe election will entitle the holder or holders thereof to vote. 8 23 lit JOSEPH LESLEY, Secretary. tfS- OFFICB OF THE PHILADELPHIA, GER- MANTOWN, AND NORRWTOWN RAIL ROAD OOMPANY. Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 137L Tt-e Board of Managers have declared a dividend of THREE PER CENT, on the Capital Stock, pay able, clear or tax, at the Office or this Company, No. 18 Philadelphia Exchange, on and after tne 13th of March next. The transfer books will be closed on the 80th lnst., and remain closed nntll the 14th of March. A. & DOUOHKRTY, 8 13 m Bt Treasurer. IS?" TREASURER'S OFFICE, ST. JOSEPH and Denver City Railroad Company. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 83, 1871. The Interest and coupons due Feb. 16, 1371, on the first mortgage eight per cent, (8 per cent) gold bonds of the Ht Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company will be paid at tbe office or the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, in the city or New York, npon presentation and application, on and after that date, free of Government tax. 8 7 2tt THOMAS E. TOOTLE, Treasurer. jgy CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE. Philadelphia, Feb. 8, 1871. The premium on Gold Interest on Cl'y Loans of July, 1870, will be paid In currency on and after February , 1871. JOSEPH F. MARCER, 88 Glty Treasurer. y THE IMPERISHABLE PEHFUMB t AS A rule, the perfumes now in use have no perma nency. An hour or two after their use there la uo trace of perfume left. How different is the result succeeding the use or MURRAY LAN MAN'S FLORIDA WATER I Days after its application the handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate, and agreeable fragrance. SI tutus ty- DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO. 816 8. ELEVENTH Street. Patients treated .gratuitously at this institution daily at 11 o'clock. 1 14 DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 9U WALNUT STn formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms, devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with ont pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gaa. 11 IT THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH w POWDER la the beat article for cleansing and preserving the teeth. For Bale by all DruKglots. price 20 and 50 cents per bottle. 11 86 stuthly OLOTH8, OA88IMERE8, ETO. QLOTH HOUSE. J A M E 6 & HUBS ft. No. 11 IVortli Bi:JOI (Street Sign of the Golden Luinb, Ai w receiving a large and splendid assortment OX new styles of FANCY OASSIMEUKa And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS ana COATINGS, . I83mw AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FINANCIAL. Bowles Brothers & Co., PARIS, LONDON, B05T0U. Wo, 19 WILLIAM Otroot IV o W Y o r lc Credits for Travellers IN EUROPE. Eschar, ge ca Fatii and the TJaio Bank of London, IN SUMS TO SUIT. 11 T 8m QITY OF BALTIMORE. $1,200,000 bIx per cent. Bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company, endorsed by the City of Baltimore. The nndenlgned Finance Committee of the Western Maryland Railroad Company offer through the American Exchange National Bank 11,800,000 of the Bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company, having SO years to run, principal and interest guaranteed by the city of Baltimore. This endorsement having been authorized by an act of the Legislature, and by ordinance of the City Council, was submitted to and ratine by an almost nnanlmons vote or the people. As an addi tional security the city has provided a sinking fund of f200,000 for the liquidation of this debt at maturity An exhibit of the financial condition of city shows that she fcas available and convertible assets more than sufficient to pay her entire indebtedness. To investors looking for absolute security no loan offered in this market presents greater Inducements. I These bonds are offered at and accrued inte rest, coupons payable January and July, WILLIAM KKYSER, JOHN K. LONQWKLL, MOSBS WIE5ENFELD, 1 6 60tt Finance Committee. FIRE EXTINGUISHER. THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER. OVER FIVE MILLIONS (ts.000.000) OF DLLLARS WORliH OF PROPERTY IN THK UNITED 8TATE8 HAS ACTUALLT BKENJ SAVED BY THE EXTIN GUISHER Within the past three years Wi'.l'e n Philadelphia alone twenty-live ores, endangering" prv?rty to the extent or HUNDREDS Ol THOUSANDS Ou' POL LAKS, have been extinguished during the past year by the same means. Our Machine la tho IMPROVED CARBONIC ACID OAS FIRE EXTINGUISHER, and Is indorsed and nsed by M. Balrd Co., Henry DlSHton A Son, Benjamin Bullock's bona, Morris, Taaker A Co.,1 Alan Wood A Co , Lacey Si Phillips, Bromley Brothers, 8. J. fcolms, Charles Eneu, John son & Co., Rimby A Madeira, Francis Perot A Sons, George W. Chllds, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia and Boston Steamship Company, Phila delphia and Southern Steamship Company, and many other of our leading business men aad corpo rations. CAUTION. AH parties lu this community are warned against buying or selling "Extinguishers" except those purchased from us or our agents, under penalty of Immediate prosecution for Infringement Our prices have been reduced, and the Machine la now within the reach of every property holder. N. B. One style made Bpecla.ly for private resi dences. Union Fire Extiuguiiher Company OFFICE, tlS8Btutfrp No. 118 MARKET STREET. GROCERIES. ETO. Choice Blew Ctrop Teas AT REDUCED PRICES. I1NEST OOLONG, JAPAN, AND YOUNG HYSON? TEAS, Just received, which we now offer at a great re duction In prices, In half chests, 10 lu. boxes, and at rtstalL Fine Old Mocha, Java, Laguayra, and Rio Coffees, at greatly reduced prioes. Owing to the late reduction ni Government duties, we can now offer to our customers a Urge assort ment of FlRbT-CLASS GROCERIES at low rates. WILLIAM KELLEY, N. W. Corner T fVELFTH Street and GLKAED Avennj, tl 10 tnstnj PHILADELPHIA. JONDON BUOWN STOUT AND SCOTCn ALE, In glass and stone, by the cask or dozen. ALBERT O. ROBERTS. Dealer In Fine Groceries, 11 f Corner ELEVENTH and VINE BU. WHISKY, WINE, ETQ- QAR8TAIRG & McCALL. Ho. 128 Walnut and 21 Granite Cti IHPOBTKBS OF Brandiea, Winei, Gin, OIIyi Oil, ZU.I WHOLES ALB DXAIJCB8 IN PURE RYC WHISKILU, U BOHD ARI TAX FA-ID. M W CO'iTON.-M I DOLING FAIR AND MIDBLINO) Gulfs, Alabama and Uplands, samples, clean stain, etc., for sale by WILLIAM M. G REINER, 180 8m No. 109 CUESNUT Street.
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