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THE DAILY EVENING TELEQRArH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1871.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1871.
The Evening Telegraph, from
Its original establishment, has been in the
receipt of telegraphic news from the New
York Associated Press, which consists of
the Tribune, Times, Herald, World,
Sun, Journal of Commerce, Evening Post,
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press. The success which has attended
our enterprise is, in itself, a sufficient evi
" dence of the freshness, fullness, and relia
bility of the news which we have received
from this source. In March, 1870, we en
tered into a special contract by which The
Evening Telegraph has the exclusive
use of the news furnished in the afternoon
by the Associated Press to its own members,
the North American, Inquirer, Ledger,
Press, Age, Record, and German Democrat,
of this city, and the leading journals of the
East, North, West and South ; and hereafter
The Telegraph will be the only evening
faper published in this city in which the
afternoon despatches of the Associated
Press will appear.
JiTThe earliest regular edition of Tub
Evening Telegram goes to press at
o'clock, and the subsequent regular editions
at 2 J, V,!,, and 4 J. Whenever there is im
portant news of the complications in Europe,
extra editions will be issued after this hour,
and before the regular time for the early
edition.
THAT TETITION.
Several gentlemen are now on their way to
Harriaburg with a petition said to contain
L'0,000 signatures, asking for the repeal of
the law creating the Building Commission.
If this petition is acceded to, the whole con
troversy with regard to the location of the
public buildings will be reopened and the
popular vardiot lamt OaloW will Im !
in a mo&t unjustifiable manner. This is just
what the petitioners desire, however; and the
Legislature, before giving any serious con
sideration to their arguments, should take
some means to find out exactly how far they
represent the wishes of the vast majo
rity of the people of Philadelphia.
The petition is said to contain L'0,000
signatures. IIow many of them are dupli
cates we are unable to say, but a careful exa
mination might disclose some curious facts in
this connection, and it might also show that
many of the signatures are in the same hand
writing. Admitting them all to be genuine, how
ever, it should be remembered that 51.02.")
voters of the city of Philadelphia decided
that Penn Square was the proper location for
the public buildings, in opposition to 32,825
advocates for another site. The anti-Fenn
Squareites have not been able to obtain to
their petitions as many names as they had
voters at the October election; and under
these circumstances it is impossible to see
that the Legislature can, with any propriety,
give them a hearing. The accusations of
corruption now being brought against the
Building Commissioners are utterly without
foundation, and the investigation which was
started in so muoh haste, an 1 with such a
grand flourish of trumpets, has miserably and
ridiculously failed. The commissioners are
engaged in carrying out the wishes of a very
large majority of the citizens of Philadelphia,
and the Legislature wiu do a great
wrong if it deliberately undoes all that
has been accomplished, and reopens a
controversy that every one is heartily
Hick of for the sake of giving a little ring of
dissatisfied property-owners a fresh opportu
nity to annoy the public at large. The anti-
Pena Square organ says, "The pending
question is not where the city's public offices
shall be located. It is, Shall the tax-payers
continue to be domineered over by Mr. John
Kice and his colleagues ?" We differ with
our contemporary. The site of the publio
buildings is the whole matter in controversy,
and Mr. llioe and bis colleagues have cer
tainly not domineered to any given extent, as
yet, over the tax-payers of Philadelphia. It is
to enterprising men Uk Mr. Rice, and some
other members of the commission, that our
great cities are indebted for the
architectural ornaments which make them
attractive; and if the commissiou of which
Mr. Rica is chairman will put up a handsome
architectural pile upon Penn Square, some
of the men who are now eager in their de
nunciations will be the warmest in their
praises. Every great publio improvement
must expect to meet with the opposition of
the old fogies, and those especially interested
in maintaining the old order of things; but
improvements must and will be made whether
the fogies like them or not, and the publio
buildings will be erected upon Penn S aare
in spite of the 20,000 names attached to the
petition sow on Us way to Uarrisburg.
THE ARCH-TRAITOR J10AS1INO OF
IllS TREASON.
A distinguished preaohor, belonging to a
very influential, powerful, and exemplary
Christian sect, once said, in deploring the
bitter controversies that arose in its periodical
Church councils, that there was always re
joicing in hell when such assemblages con
vened. The late distractions, dissensions,
and threatened defeat of the Republican party
have had a similar effect upon the unhung
foes of popular government, and especially
upon the petticoated refugee whose heart,
though black with crime, has long been trem
bling with cowardice. Jeff. Davis, who
ought to be glad to hide his dishonored
bead in the most secret reoesses of the
universe, and to drag out the dregs
of his despicable existence in some obscure
den, has had the hardihood to exult in his
treason, to predict its final triumph, to criti
cize the conduct of the people who mercifully
refrained from hanging him in chains as a
warning to his bloody Ku-klux supporters,
and to boast that he had never asked for
pardon because he felt that he had done no
wrong. The abstract of the speech he re
cently delivered at Montgomery, Alabama,
which was republished in The Telegraph of
yesterday, will do infinitely more than
any recent occurrence to convinoe the
people of the North that the mise
rable wretch who inflicted such fearful
miseries upon both sections still has hosts of
infatuated followers ready to do his wicked
bidding, and that the recent Democratic suc
cesses have exerted a dangerous and damaging
influence in emboldening treason and revivi
fying its bloody doctrines. This branded and
baffled Mississippi whelp of slavery and seces
sion would not have mustered up courage to
use his lying tongue for the infamously charac
teristic purpose of preaohing ar eaotionary cru
sade; if he had not been emboldened by the
hope that his allies would soon be installed in
power; and it remains for the people to deter
mine whether the wishes of this worst of
criminals shall be gratified,
THE BORDER RAID CLAIMS.
The inhabitants of the border counties who
suffered by the Rebel raids into Pennsylvania
are pushing their claims for compensation
before the Legislature. The counsel for the
claimants are urging that the State shall
settle with them, and that remuneration shall
then be demanded from the United States.
If these claims are allowed, the State might as
well go into bankruptcy at once, for there
will be no end to the demands for compensa
tion, with interest, that will be made by the
noble cultivators of the soil of the border
counties, who certainly presented anything
but a bold front to the Rebel raiders when
they appeared upon the sacred soil of Penn
sylvania. Every farmer who lost as muoh
as an old pitchfork has his litle bill ready, and
expects the State to settle, and the idea that
anything is to be sacrificed for patriotism
appears never to have entered the skulls of
some of the claimants. Some of the indi
viduals who are now demanding that the
State shall recompense them for their losses
sustained at the hands of the Rebels doubt
less suffered greatly, but the probabilities are
that the maioritv of the claims against the
State are similar to the following, which are
taken from the files of the Auditor-General's
office at Ilarrisburg, and which we commend
to the thoughtful consideration of our patriotio
readers:
diaries Seltzer, McConnehsburg:
Suit of clothes (black cloth) 835-OS
One bam, 18 pounds, at 15 cents 2Tu
Cine snouiaer, 1 pounas, ix cents iu
Sufferer in township ot Ayr, Fulton county:
ISO dajs' service lor horse improperly pressed
iu luueu ouibvs service, nb u tvuw per unj.v w
For loss on said horse by reason of being
broken down 00-00
Oats destroyed 78 00
two blankets taken by ueoeis iuiw
SM7-U0
Sufferer 1n name township:
Halt barrel of mackerel 110-00
Sundries 20-00
Mew hat 3 60
Henry Bear, Franklin county:
Two bams, about 16 pounds each 13-20
soap, butter, appie Duner, ana macaerei 13-uu
ise or norse eignt aays s-xu
If the principle that the Government is
bound to pay for all the property damaged or
destroyed by the enemy in time of war is
admitted, there will be no end to the burdens
of taxation; and while the losses suffered by
some of the border claimants are to be de
plored, we have comparatively little sympathy
for the man who can present a bill made up
of such items as "half barrel of mackerel,"
"sundries," and a "new hat." It may be con
sidered as certain that this individual made
more than he lost by selling his goods at the
most extravagant rates to both Rebel and
Union soldiers. The conduct of some of the
inhabitants of the border counties of Pennsyl
vania, during the Rebel raids was not particu
larly creditable to their patriotism; and many
a poor fellow who fought at Antietam and
Gettysburg can remember how he was, on
more than one occasion, obliged to pay ten
cents, ant even more, for a cup of water be
fore the inhabitants of the region would fur
nish it to him.
The claims of the border county sufferers
were presented for adjudication to a commis
sion appointed by the Governor in 18G8.
They numbered over four thousand in the
aggregate, the amounts claimed and allowed
in each county by the commission being as
follows:
Countie. Claimed, Allotiml.
Perry 2.soo '2,640
Bedford 7,186 7,124
Fulton 54,421 45,630
Cumberland 238,400 816,724
Adams 652,304 607,797
York 127,669 124,729
Franklin s.iea Tnajsi
Total 11,820,948 $1,698,386
Due under act of lscd l,lgs,M4
" " lltf.OOO
Making a grand total of $2,939,944
including the balances still due under the
adjudications made in pursuance of the acts
of 18(1(1 and 1803. Of the total amount
claimed under the act of 18G8, the alleged
damages by the Rebels reached $1,61'J,087,
while that inflicted by the Union troops was
placed at $m,8C5 only. We hope the Legis
lature will have the firmness to settle this
whole matter by declining positively to pay
any of the claims, and thus prevent the
State from being placed under an additional
load of taxation which it ought not to bear.
Onk of the features of the abstract of the
report of the commissioners sent to Dominica
is especially noticeable. It is the statement
that while the national debt of Dominica is,
in round numbers, $1,400,000, nearly half
this sum, or $000,000, consists of claims for
unpaid salaries of Dominican officials. This
simple story lets a good deal of daylight
into the way the governmental maohine is
run down in the proposed aoqninition.'It sug
gests, on the one hand, that the Dominican
office-holders are to be well gorged with
American gold, in return for their support of
the treaty; and it indicates, on the other, that
Dominica must be fearfully poverty
stricken, for otherwise she would scarcely
have allowed such a large claim
for back salaries to accumulate. In this
country, before the art of plundering the
people was so well understood by the politi
cians, a few hundred thousand people could
be governed many years before the total
claims for the salaries of office-holders
amounted to $000,000; and Dominica must
either have beon served gratuitously for a
very long period, or else she must have pro
mised to pay very large salaries to her very
worthless office-holders.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
writing from Mississippi, complains that the
Governor elected by the Republican party in
that State has betrayed his political friends,
and acted in the interest of the Conservatives
or Democracy. If this charge is true,
Alcorn swells the long list of un
trustworthy Southern white Republi
cans. When the career of Andy
Johnson, Frank Blair, Andy Hamilton, cadet
selling Winnemore, Governor Senter, Gov
ernor Swann, etc etc., is remembered, it
becomes exceedingly difficult to know what
white men living south of Mason and Dixon's
line are worthy of the confidence of the Re
publican party; and if the rule is not adopted
of putting only colored men on guard in
rebeldom, the whole Southern Republican
party is in a fair way of being extinguished.
The Ku-klux elans may be dangerous enough,
bnt it is not possible for them to do as much
injury to the party they hate as it has
suffered from the bands of its Southern
champions.
NOTICES.
Gents and Boys'
ready-made
Clothing,,
ihoitest in quality",
LOW EST IN l'RICB.
We have Introduced many novel
ties this season In Children's Suits.
Ladles will And (on our first
floor) the best assortment of sizes
and the Prottlest Styles-in Philadel
phia. At Wakamaker. & Brown's,
Oak Hall,
Largest Clothing Hocsa ln Amkric
E. Corner Sixth and Market Stub
Spring,
Spring,
Spring,
Sprinu,
Spring,
Spring,
Spring,
Spring,
String,
Spring,
Sl'KINO,
isn.
1871.
1371.
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1871.
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1371.
1ST1.
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1371.
THK
A,
KT3.
The Stoden Changes of Temper vtuke, together
with the searching winds which are now so common,
are cansiDg severe Colds to prevail everywhere, and
laying the foundations for many case of Inflamma
tion of the Lungs, Pleurisy, asthma, and other Lung
especial precautions to avoid unnecessary exposure,
and if unfortunate enough to contract Colds, would
do well to resort at once to Dr. Jayne's Expectorant,
a safe and reliable remedy, which will not only
promptly euro Coughs and Colds, but will relieve
and strengthen the Pulmonary and Bronchial
organs, and remove all dangerous symptoms. Bold
everywhere.
F I S II.
EXTRA NEW MESS MACKEREL,
YARMOUTH BLOATERS,
SPICED AND FRESH SALMON.
E. BRADFORD CLARKE,
(8TJCCES50R TO SIMON COLTON A CLARKE,)
S. W. Corner BROAD and WALNUT,
1 81 tnthstttp PHILADELPHIA.
WATOHES.
Istallialiea iu 1834.
WATCHES.
EVERGOING
STEM-WINDERS,
KEY-WINDERS,
QUARTER SECONDS,
MINUTE REPEATERS,
ETC. ETC. ETC.
C. & A. PEQUIGNOT,
J No. 603 CHESNUT STREET,
8 3Uhstu PHILADELPHIA
FINANCIAL..
JJAVING BEEN APPOINTED AGENTS
FOR THE SALE AND EXCHANGE
or TBI
NEW UNITED STATES LOAN,
We would tender our services to Investors or hold
ers of old loans desiring to make exchange.
DREXEL & CO.,
Ho. 31 BOUTH THIRD 8TRKKT,
PHILADELPHIA.
W PERSONS WISHING TO BUILD WILL
observe the offer for sale of TWO H ANDSOM E and
ELIGIBLY SITUATED LOTS, Nos. 1729 and 1731
CHESNUT Street, by THOMAS A SONS, at the
PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE, April 4. 8 SO 6f
f FURNISHED ROOMS TO RUNT TO CiCN.
L J tit-men, B. K. corner of FIFTEENTH aud
Cod &T fctreits. Ttiuis moderate. swat"
8EWINQ MACHINES.
fp II B.
WHEELER & WILSON
Eirinu machine.
For Bait on Easy Terms.
NO. 914 CHESNUT STREET.
4 kwH PHILADELPHIA,
OLOTHINQ.
The Popular Clothiers!
Custom Department
or tub
GREAT BROWN HALL,
MOW
X 11 Full 15 1 it s t
With Choice Varieties
Of Foreign and American Fabrics
Of Every Grade,
Every Style,
Every Color,
Every Description.
- CHEAP I PROMPT!
ROCKHILL & WILSON,
603 and 605 CHESNUT STR22T.
.1 snitmtp tuc 1
wv- vnukn si - 1
PHILADELPHIA; FA.
With a Stock of Goods
From which any and every one may
SEE AND SELECT
The fabric and style that best suits
HIS FANCY,
With able and long-tried
CUTTERS
To do Justice to that choice,
An with the best skilled
WORKMEN
To finish it all.
We la; our claims for patronage
Before the Public.
CURTAINS AND SHADES
Curtain Materials.
IVJSW LA.CE
Curtains and Shades
WALRAVEM
IW1ASONIC HALL,
No. 719 CHESNUT St.,
3 IS thstu3mrp PHILADELPHIA.
OROCERIES, ETO.
JNGLISH AND SCOTCH ALES AND
BROWN STOUT.
Just received, afresh invoice of Guinness' Extra
Dublin Stout, Tennant's English Ale and Brown
Stout, Robert Tounger'a Sparkling Edinburgh Ale,
Bass A Co. 'a East India Pale Ale, AUsopp'a Pale Ale,
in stone and glass, all in fine order, our own importa
tion. A full line of choice and desirable FAMILY GRO
CERIES. WILLIAM KELLBY,
N. W. Corner TWELFTH Street and
GIBABD Avenua,
11 10 thatn PHILADELPHIA.
ISSTAULISIIJai 1809.
WARRANTED PURE
Old Government Java Coffee.
Roasted fresh every day, at only 85 cents per lb., or
8 lbs. for one dollar. Lovers of good Coffee,
give tola a trial and satisfy yourselves.
For sale only at
COUSTY'S East End Grocery,
No. 118 South lECOflD St.,
Below Chesnut, West Side.
N. B. Choice Groceries of all kinds constantly ar
riving.
S 9 thaturpj
GREGG'S DRICK MACHINE,
New, Never T7ied, For Sale.
CAN BE DELIVERED AT ONCE.
Address CAPITAL,
8 SS let Box 003, Philadelphia Post Office.
EDWARD PONTI & CO.,
IMPORTERS OF FOKEIQH PRODUCE,
Wines, Oils. Fruits, Cigars,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
No, O04 WALIIT Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
edward roNi i. L3 a; i J W, HAVENS.
w
CORHAM SILVER.
BOBBINS, CLARK & BIDDLE,
Now opening au immense stock of
FANCY PIECES
FOR PRESENTATION, USE, AND ORNAMENT.
THE YARIETY IN
PRICE AINU STYLE
Cannot fall to meet the want) of careful buyers, or satisfy the most critioal tastes of thosts
in search of the
UNIQUE,
BEAUTIFUL,
USEFUL.
ROBBIlS,CLABK Sc BIDDLE,
GORHAM
1124
CHESNUT
JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE.
-TXJT OPENED.
A LARGE INVOICE OF
English Work Baskets,
WITH FITTINGS COMPLETE,
Just received by steamer Russia.
J. E. CALDWELL & CO..
JKWELLEU3,
No. 902 CHESNUT Street,
3 19 Ituth PHILADELPHIA.
PIANOS.
tSteinway & Sons'
Grand Square and Upright Piano.
Special attention la called to their ne
Patent Upright Pianos,
With Doable Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tnbnlar
Metal Frame Action, eta. which are matchless ln
Tone and Toaoh, and unrivalled ln durability.
WAR ER OO MS,
. No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET,
liatfrp PHILADELPHIA.
cs PIANOS AND ORGANS, sfw3
GEO. STUCK & CO.'S.)
BRADBURY'S, PIANOS,
HALNKS' BROS', j
AND
MASON AND HAMLIN'S CABINET ORGANS.
GOULD k FISCHER,
No. '23 CUESNUT Street.
J. 1. oocxd. No. 1018 ARCH Street.
WM, Q. FlfiCHKE. 1 IT ttip
GrandSquare and Upright Pianos.
GREAT REDUCTION.
FIXED PRICES.
DUTTON'S PIANO ROOM8,
8 85 lm4p Kosliae and 1188 CHESNUT St
FIRE AND BUROLARPROOF SAFES
AMERICAN
STEAM SAFE CO.,
Safe Makers to the United States .Government
No. 32 8. FOURTH Ct.f
PHILADELPHIA,
NOLU 9IA.5IUFACTUUERS
or
8TEAM
FIRE-PROOF SAFES,
8ANDORN'8 PATENT
Bank Vaults, Burglar-Proof Safes,
ETC. ETC.,
61 Welded Steel and Iron, with Sargent's, Isham's,
and Plllard's Locks.
SILVER SAFES, EXPRESS BOXES, Etc., built
to order. Bl8tutli6airp
p o n SALE,
By tho Bachelor'! Barge Club,
The Fonr-oared Outrigger Barge Lotus,
With oars and larnlture, all ln excellent condition.
Apply to H. P. ATKINSON.
8 83 tumrip No. W Nortk THIRD Street.
SILVER,
STEEET.
1124
DRY OOOOS.
1853 " TH0ENLEY S ' X871
Eighteenth Anniversary.
For eighteen years we have been on SPRING
GARDEN St.. and amid the mutations or Time we
have went steadily on adding to our long and re
spectable lilt of FIRST-CLASS customers (and to
oar exchequer, of course) for all of which we to-day
present our
ANNIVERSARY THANKS,
And say that never ln all the past have we o Jered a
more complete stock of
Dry Goods
Than we hare the pleasure of now presenting 'jefore
tne public.
fsOTflLIPLCIALTILS.
BLACK SILKS,
SPRING DRESS GOODS,
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL SHAWLS.
RICn LINEN TABLE DAMASKS,
MARSEILLES AND OTHER QUILTS,
MUSLINS, CASSIMEREd, FLANNELS, Sio.
Joseph h. thoruley;
NORTHEAST CORNER OF
EIGHTH and SPUING GARDEN Stc.
8 thstnj PHILADELPHIA
CHESNUT STREET.
ALEXANDER RICKEY,
Importer, Jobber, and Re
tailer of Dry Coeds,
DEPOT FOR THE SALE OF CHOICE FABRICS
IN DRY GOODS,
AT POPULAR PRICES,
STOCK DAILY REPLENISHED
With the CHEAPEST and CHOICEST OFF ERIN ii$
of this and other markets.
ALEXANDER RICKEY,
8 81 tnthstf No. 78T CHESNUT Street.
ytX SIIII3TlIVg.
A CASK OF SUPERIOR QUALITY
DARN8LEY SHEETINGS,
Ordered by as, have juBt come to hand, bat
WETTED ON THE VOYAGE.
As no Injury will result if immediately washed oat,
we will offer great Inducements to purchasers.
PERKIfJS & CO.,
No. 9 South NINTH Street,
89 tnths3mrp PHILADELPHIA.
WATCHE8. JEWELRY, ETO.
THIS
NEW YORK WATCH COMPANY'S
WATCHES,
(Factory, Sprlngneld, Mass.
In presenting their Watches to the American put
llc.we dojso with the knowledge that ln point of finish
and ttoe-keeplDg qualities they are superior tor the
price to any Watch made ln this country.
. Foi sale by
ALEX. R. HARPER & DRO.,
Successor to John M. Harper,
No. S08 CHESNUT STREET.
SECOND STORY, a 8mrj'
Salesroom of tbe American Watch.
V- Fol! 8ALK-A DAHK BRO WN IKRSE.
yCJvvery Handsome uud spirited, a:id WArraated
tt il. ( tly souud. Apply to W. 11. B.,
SWSt No. 3U WALNUT Sireet.