THL DAILY EV fciNiNG TELEGKAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1871.
sriniT of ins MESS.
XDITOTlIAL, OPINIONS OP THE LEADING. JOURNALS
VPON CURRENT TOPICS COMMLED EVERY
PAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S
SISTER.
From the X. Y. Sun.
Probably a dozen or more attempts have
been made in England within the last half
century to legalize marriage with a deceased
wife's sister, and invariably with the same
result. Tbe measure usually prevails in the
House of Commons, but in the Home of
Lords, where the influence of the Ranch of
Rishops is exerted against it, and the con
servative element ia in the aseendnnoy, it is
decisively defeated. The subject has been
once more before the IJritinh public, and a
bill legalizing such marriages recently passed
the lower house of l'arlinuient, only to ne de
feated in the upper house. This result was
foreshadowed by the action of a meeting in
the conservative interest, in which a number
of lords temporal and spiritual participated,
recently held in London. The chairman,
Earl Tercy, denounced the measure as con
trary to Holy Scripture, contrary to the rule
of the Church in all ages, and contrary
to common sense and all right
feeling; and ho believed that if it should be
come a law it would be productive of the
worBt effects both socially and morally.
Another lord "hhowed that the present law
against such marriages had been the la w of
England for a thousand years; and the
Bishop of Winchester, familiarly known in
England as "Soapy Samuel," declared that
if there was no law of affinity to restrain a
man from marrying his wife's sister, the lav
of consanguinity did not prevent him from
marrying his own daughter, and he pro
nounced it to be a high crime and misde
meanor for any one even to mention in terms
of advocacy such a shameful act. He adjured
the English people to reject the proposal as
one tainted with impurity, and which would
sap the foundations of morality and public
decency.
In the United States, where a distinction
has been made between marriages of kindred
and those of mere affinity, such language
seems extravagant, if not absolutely ludi
crous. No law here prevents a man from
marrying his deceased wife's Bister, and such
marriages do in fact take place, though by
no means frequently. Rut the terrible re
sults anticipated by the English alarmists
have not followed. The purity of doinestio
life has in no appreciable degree been sul
lied, and it is within the experience of almost
any one that the infant children of a deceased
wire have Leen cared for, as they perhaps
could not otherwise have been, by her sister
succeeding as their mother. Not only
has the tone of society not been lower 2d
by the celebration of such marriages, but
there is reason to believe that domestic
happiness would be promoted if they could
oftener ocour. Widowers, with or without
families of young children, usually, however,
incline to matrimonial alliances in a different
direction from their first venture. Some
general law of change perhaps influences
them, or they are opposed, for reasons similar
to those adduced by conservative Englishmen,
to marrying their sisters-in-law. Rut the
significant facts are that in a country whioh
legalizes marriages with a deceased wife's
Bister they are not frequent, the basin of
social life has not been unsettled, and publio
morals are as pure and public decency as
Btrictly enforced as in Eogland. The subject
is one which may well be left to individual
tastes and temperaments. If the law should
ever be changed in England, a natural rule
of selection which is superior to Parliamen
tary enactments will in all probability pre
vent there, as it has in America, the frequent
occurrence of marriages which so shock the
feelings of hereditary British legislators.
JENKINS AGAIN !
From the X. Y. Tribune,
We are enabled to hasten to report the fol
lowing important intelligence, exclusively for
the 2 ribune: The special Jenkins of a New
York newspaper has been honored by an in
terview with the ex-Emperor atWilhelmshohe.
The gifted Jenkins was at Rerlin when an in
timation was given him, from some source
which is left in painful uncertainty, that
Napoleon could not think of leaving Germany
without a few moments instructive conversa
tion with the representative of the greatest
journal in the world. To buy a new paper
collar, drop a little ink on the tell-tale stock
ing which peeped through a crack in his left
boot, and throw himself into a railway car
riage with a buttered biscuit and a copy of
Ollendorf, was to Jenkins an affair of a few
moments. He arrived at Wilhelmshohe. ne
went to the hotel. The head waiter recognized
Lira at once, and in the most affable manner
off ered him a glass of beer. He took a walk.
He apostrophized "the glorious United States,
the asylum of liberty. He made the pro
found remark that Napoleon, whose sun un
equivocally set last September, was typical of
yonder refulgent orb of day, whioh had not
yet set, but was pretty soon going to do so,
and he added the observation, "What an
abundance of romance does not the history of
the world afford." Having thus, by gentle
exercise and philosophio reflection, soothed
and sustained his agitated frame (a
Mr. Disraeli would say), he ventured
to approach the presence. He got in
through the stable. Reaohing the castle, he
"confronted M. Pietri," who let him pass,
ne met various officers on guard; but one and
all, having a wholesome dread of interview
ers, fell back at his advance. Prince Joachim
Murat "gTeeted his American countryman
with a friendly nod." Dr. Corvisart was
equally curt. Rut the moment of triumph
was at hand. Jenkins "stepped into an ad
joining saloon," and there he found his im
perial viotim, who "shook hands," and wel
comed him "as an old acquaintance." Poor
Emperor !
The record of what ensued is less complete
than we could wish; but we believe the con
versation was to the following effect:
Jenkins Avez-ous lejoli petit emiuau du ruisinier
demon port t (Looklug at uls Olleudorc) No- that
Isnt it! Beg pardon; got ttie wroug exercise
A eez-vous btaucoup d' argeiUt '
Napoleon Aon, Monsieur; je n'en ai pat beancouv
J. Voire feiwms a-Uelie beawoun d ai vent it UuZ
(looking at the book), on yes! here itli-le viUm
tavon lie la fitte ducharcutierf
H.Xon, Monsieur, tile n a ni lun ni I autre.
J. Avtz-eous otr (Looks In the book, but can't
End the place), un, u n: 1 mean, What do jou
think oi fctanibctta? .
Here the conversation lapsed Into English,
and became somewhat vague. The ex-Euipe.
ror seems to have expressed the opinion that
Prance would be all right if she could only
bave another plebiscite, and that the people
as a general rule did not know what wan go id
for them; while Mr. Jenkins, with a cheerful
irony of which we hardly thought him capa
ble, inquired whether his Majesty "intended
to retire into private life?" To this question
be got a rather indefinite answer, and we are
not eurpjitoctj to Jearn, a few lines below, that
"the Emperor exhibited leBS equanimity of
temper" than on the occasion of his last pre
vious interview with Mr. Jenkins. If Mr.
Jenkins keeps on, the Emperor will exhibit
less nod less equanimity every time. The
tmth is it began to dawn npon the young
man's mind that Napoleon was on the point
of boiling over, and the sooner he got
out of the way the better. Rnt we must tell
the rest in his own words, whioh are too pre
cious to be tampered with : "Having had
some forebodings, without indeed knowing
why, that he was not in a very cheerful mood,
I commenced and carried on the conversation
in French, instead of English or German, ex
pecting thereby to facilitate matters. It may
have had the opposite effect. Yes, indeed,
poor man! The Emperor's features remained
rather rigid, and I could perceive no change
as I made my obeisance and retired." And so
this momentous meeting terminalod; but
later in the day there was a little supplement
ary incident which deserves to be recorded.
Napoleon came to the hotel to take leave of
the Princess of llosltowa, who was going to
Geneva; he probably saw Mr. Jenkins peering
at him from behind the top-room door, for he
went away "looking very much agitated."
Thus the curtain falls upon a sooue of misery
and deepest gloom, and a cowed and quiver
ing despot retreating disnnycd from the pre
sence of a free American citizen.
On the very same day the very snmo Jen
kins was at Rome, interviewing Cardinal
Antonelli ! It is a curious fact or rather it
is not at all curious, but, on the contrary,
perfectly natural that the Cardinal, like the
Emperor, also exhibited les3 equanimity"
than he bad Fhown under a former visitation
of Jenkins, the fate of this estimable gentle
man being to make a perpetual round of
vifdts and get a colder and colder welcome
every time he calls. His Eminence "did not
rise," says Jenkins, "with the elastio cour
tesy displayed when I saw him last." Neither
was his conversation especially cordial. "His
tone was different he was neither patroniz
ing nor inquisitive, only appearing indiffer
ent." He "put on a smile for the occasion."
He had "a quiet, passive attitude of contrac
tion, as if he were waiting for something."
Dear sir, he was waiting for you to go.
Mr. Jenkins was pleased to observe that
"notwithstanding the attacks of the penny
press," the Cardinal continued to show "the
marks of intellect;" but there was a change
in his physical appearance. "Not a year has
elapsed, yet he offers much more of reduction
or contraction, so to speak, in personal ap
pearance, than thatporiodof age should natu
rally have produced in him." A cardinal,
indeed, whose frame begins to contract at the
early age of one year, when he ought to bo
getting his growth, must be a melancholy
spectacle. I'ossibiy on aocount or this mor
bid physical condition, his eminence did not
say anything, so far as we have been able to
discover, during the entire interview. The
brightest sallies, the tendercst expressions of
sympathy, and the most solemn utterances of
philosophy from the genial and accomplished
Jenkins failed to rouse the infant minister,
until our aash countryman touched npon the
question of the guarantees. This remark
must have been inspired by the same exqui
site tact which led Jenkins on a previous cele
brated occasion to ask Mrs. Lawlor what she
thought of Montaland. If we may be par
doned the expression, Jenkins got Antonelli
on the raw. "The sore point of hisE minence
being hit npon, the one which most affects
him in bis present debilitated and dilapidated
condition, he at once assumed a keen, bitter
tone of voice, and with a niockina look muds
What ne saitl we shall not repeat. Some
thing happened just about that time. Mr.
Jenkins came away in a damaged and obfus
cated condition, lne subsequent proceed
ings interested him no more, and he is un
able to give any intelligent account of them.
We believe he was kicked oat. "I retired
from the interview," he says, "with the im
pression that I had received a copy of the
second edition of the work known under the
title of 'Non Possumus, by his Holiness
Pope Pius IX.' " Rut if he got it, who gave
it to him, and what he did with it, and what
was in it, he knows no more than we do.
PLAYING AT SOLDIERS.
From the X. Y. Timet.
The publication of the "accounts" of the
Fenian Brothers who occupied the Moffatt
Mansion in Union Square, in 18G(, induces
one to ask once more, how it is that the
patriotism of the Irish in the United States
can so completely overwhelm their sense of
bumor, and their general strong aversion to
being cheated. The opening of the Moffatt
Mansion was a kind of formal experiment on
Irish credulity, and the accounts show that
it was carried out with ludicrous pomp and
circumstance. In the first place, the estab-
ment of a belligerent "Government," on
foreign soil, was in itself a huge joke, but
tms was suggested, ana its real nature dis
gnised, by the operations of the Southerners
in Liverpool. J. he Kebels really bad their
Navy Department in that city, which fitted out
expeditions against the enemy, with as much
assurance and success as if it were working
on us own territory; out men, it had terri
tory of its own elsewhere, and a regularly or
ganized government to back np its preten
sions, and give it force and substance. It
was cnarsctenstio or tneienlansto peroeive
only that tne uoniederacy bad its seat on
foreign soil, and dispatched military expedi
tions irom a neutral port, ana not to peroeive
at all tne importance oi having some
where a political organization to fur
nish it with authority and standing
in the forum of international law. The
institutions which were set np in the Moffatt
Mansion were, on the contrary, the baseless
fabrics of a vision. The "Head Centre," who
presided over it, had no Circle. The "Secre
tary of Civil Affairs" had no "civil affairs" to
attend to. The "military affairs" were all
civil and "peaceable" as possible. The "bonds,
of which tbe numerous "bond clerks" took
charge, bound nobody; and "the Chief of
Artillery" bad no guns. The whole thing was,
in short, a little comedy which "drew" about
$10,000, and this sum the principal per
formers divided among themselves.
Nevertheless, the general dissatisfaction
caused amoDg the Fenian publio by the per
formance did not prevent its reproduction
under a new name in 18(lt, but with the "In
vasion" left out. Money came in, and "war"
was declared as before, to the huge delight
of thousands of Irishmen, whose faith and
hope seem to be absolutely boundless. The
failure last summer in Canada was enough to
damp the enthusiasm of any other nation.
Even Parisians would have succumbed umier
it, but Irishmen hardly ever ask for anything
but a change of leaders, for they firmly bold
the French theory that when they are de
feated it ia through "treason."
Accordirfcly, we are now informed that the
chiefs who have betu of late presiding over
the Fenian Erotheiuood on these shores are
to be et aside remorselessly by the recently
arrived "exiles," who are hereafter to have
the direction of all movements on this side
of the water for the overthrow of the British
Empire. This is very like what happened
once before, when the arrival of James
Stephens, another renowned "exile," broke
np the "Moffatt Mansion" establishment, and
turned the Centre and the bond clerks and
chiefs of civil and military affairs out on a
cold and unfeeling world. If this happens
again, we doubt very much whether the
"exiles" will meet with as hospitable a recep
tion on this side of the water as they have
hitherto received.
In connection with these convulsions here,
Lord Derby's recent observation in the House
of Lords on the Irish trouble is worth notice.
He says, what a great many Englishmen of
the name standing are beginning to say, that,
after all Irish grievances are redressed, there
will Btill remain the very formidable obstacle
to tranquil rmion with England, in the shape
of Irish dislike of English .rule simple un
adulterated dislike, without rhyme, or reason,
or foundation. The Established Church is
gone, and tbe Land laws have been amended,
and the Catholic clergy do pretty much
ns they ileae, and yet there is terrible
discontent and what is worse, the Protes
tants are snid to be no longer as devoted
to England as they once were the
"idea of legislative independence whioh
sprung up," ns Lord Derby says, in 17.S2,
never having died out, while it derives addi
tional force now from the concessions which
Government has felt called upon to mike on
certain questions of reform. What gave the
repeal agitation under (J (Jonnell its death
blow was the general belief that its success
was hopeless. Rut since auitation has re
sulted in bringing about such tremendous
changes an the disestablishment of the
Church, and the concession of more "tenant
rights" than its advocates even ten years ago
dreamed of ever asking for, people have not
unnaturally begun to inquire whether the
old scheme of legislative independence is,
after all, impracticable, and some of the
baser sort are not unnaturally asking them
selves also whether the species of agitation
that is, the shooting, cutting, and blowing
np, which seem to them to have brought
about the abolition of the Church and the
new Land law may not be made to effect
the repeal of the Legislative Union also.
We think it may bo safely said that there
is only one argument against the repeal of
the Union which has any weight with any
body besides Englishmen, but this is a very
strong one, viz., the awful badness of the
Government which Irishmen set up when
they get a chance to set one np. The Mof
fatt Mansion Government was, to be sure, a
farce; but then it, like the whole Fenian or
ganization, does not afford the slightest evi
dence that the men who got it up and car
ried it on were capable of serious work
which a really well-acted farce might have
done. And then, we are sorry to say, that in
our times the cause of Irish independence has
a foe of which Grattan, Flood, Emmet and
Wolfe Tone never dreamed of, namely, the
municipal government of New York. Had it
existed, such as we now see it, in the last
centur Grattan would never have thundered
against the Union, and Tone would never
have been hanged. Castlereagh would only
nave naa to aistrioute the isew York tor no
vation Manual pretty freely among the de
cent people of the island to prevent the
heroes of 1768 from making any figure in his
tory.
In the course of the late war the
French often called their enemy by the
names of Goths and barbarians, and bystan
ders bave been so far moved as from time to
time to agree with them. Rut it was re
served for a famons Profnasor of Tiarlin to fijt
this title npon his countrymen as a compli
ment, and by way of strict historical parallel
made in cold blood. At the conclusion of a
lecture on the Roman catacombs held on the
13th of January last, the historian Theodor
Mommsen described the siege of Rome by
the Uotnio invaders, turning it, in the follow
ing manner, into a figure or another siege:
Tbe Roman knows nothing or what Is outside nil
city walls, and despises it ; for strangerr, under the
dlugulse of a most ready courtesy, he has at bottom
nothing but a contempt. The inroad of
Alarlc and his Goths had been wantonly brought
upon themselves. Despite the prodigious
circumference of the walls, all the twelve gates were
beset ; traffic was closed npon the Tiber, the pres
sure of famine commenced, they began to portion
out the bread per head, then to distribute naif ra
tions, at laht one-third rations only, as the neces
sity gradually became more terrible. Pestilence
and contagion began their fearful work In
tne invested space: it became impossible so
much as to bury the dead, for the cemeteries were
all in the occupation of the enemy. The besiesred
threatened a sortie en masse ; the Goth laughed, and
said, "The thicker the grass the better cuts the
sickle." Tbe Government resided far away in Ra-
venna; it sent bodies of troops to raise the alette.
but tbey never reacbed Home, and were destroyed one
by one. Tbe Goth tried many ways of extorting a
pence; ne ueiuauueu requisitions in money and
grain, and the cession of Venetla, Noricum. and Dal-
mat la. They offered him gold and silver "as much
ax be would," but beyond that he could gain nothing.
Tbe Emperor Honoring and all his oillciala swore
tbey would never make peace with Alaric, but wage
eternal war against him, etc.
The literary point made ia a good one, and
probably the historian was too much taken np
with the stiffneokedness of the Romans to
consider the merits of Alaric s enterprise.
A Western man has whittled out a clock
with his lack-knife.
Leporte, Ind., has a Swede, a carpenter,
who claims to be a first cousin to Jenny Lind.
A railroad with a three-foot gauge is in
operation between Akron and Massillon. Ohio.
The bridal dress of the Princess Louise is to
be of white Ifish poplin, with veil and trim
mings ol lloniton lace.
Advocates of woman suffrage are com plain
ing tnai mey now receive very little encourage
ment from New England.
During the past winter the ranire of the
thermometer has varied as much as 72 degrees
wunin iwenty-iour nours.
A veteran wood-sawyer of Pittsfield, named
Lysander Kearles, elxty-elx years of age, last
week tawed over eleven cords of four feet wood
twice in two, in four days.
in order to avoid the obiectlons made to
dancing by the churchmen in Virginia, the folks
there have taken to roller skating "through the
fill . ...
me returns oi income made this vear are
Bot to be published, and the officers adminis
tering the )w are required to keep them
secret.
Delescluze, the editor-in-chief of the Paris
Jitteil, who was imprisoned by order of the
Minister of Justice, In October last, says that he
was treated by bis jailers more brutally than
during his repeated confinements under the
Second Empire.
Old Cousln-Montauban, Count de Pallkao,
and Eugenie's Prime Minister after Olllvier's
resignation, is living In splendid style in Lon
don, where he has rented a very fine residence
on Buckingham Square. He is reported to be
worth eight or ten million francs, the fruit of
his extortions during the long service in Africa,
and principally during the expedition to China.
The activity which Henry Laube, the
German dramatist and theatrical manager, con
stantly displays is something extraordinary.
Not only Is he busily engaged in hastening the
preiaratlons for the construction of his new
theatre in Vienna, but he la writing three or
four new plays, corresponding for a number of
journal?, and has nearly completed an exten
sive new work on dramatic art.
Frederick (Jert6tacker, the German traveller
and novelist, Is in trouble. The English pub
lishers of Charles Rowcrofts' Australian novels,
come of which Geretacker has published in
German under his own name, have threatened
to prosecute him for plagiarism. About twenty
five years ago Gerstiecker published at Lelpelc
a German translation of Lipparda "Quaker
City" as his own production.
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REDEMPTION OP 8TATB BONDS
stats of California
Trbahdry Dbpartmknt,
Sachamrnto, Feb. 1, 1971
Whereas, there Is on this day in the State Treasury
tbe sum of two hundred and fifty thousand (t260,OJO)
dollars, which, under tbe provisions of an act of the
Legislature of said State, entitled "An Act to pro
vide for paying certain equitable claims against the
State of California, and to contract a funded dobt
for that purpose," approved April 23, 1307 ; and a' so
under the provisions of an act amendatory of said
act, approved April 27, 1B00, is set apart for the re
demption of Civil Bonds of said State, Issued under
tbe provisions of said first mentioned act, notice is
hereby given that
SIC A LED PROPOSALS
forthe surrenderor said Bonds will bo received at
this Department for tne amount above specified,
until the
IOTP PAY OF APKIL, A. D. 1ST1,
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 "Sealed Pro
posals for the Redemption of Civil Bonds of 1S57."
8ald bonds roust be surrendered within tea days
after the acceptance of tbe proposals for thlr re
demption. A. F. COUONKL,
8 14 eod 1 4 10 State Treasurer.
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Sackamekto, February l, 187L
Whereas, There is on this day in the State Trea
sury the sum of twenty-eight theusaud (28,000) dol
lars which, under the provisions or an act or the
Legislature or said State entitled ."An act to pro
vide ror the paying certain equitable claims against
tbe State of California, and to contract a funded
debt for that purpose," approved April 30, 1S00, Is
set apart for the redemption or Civil Bonds lor said
State, Issued under the provisions or said act, notice
Is hereby given that
SEALED PROPOSALS
ror tbe surrender or said Bonds will he received at
this Department for the amount above specified
until the
10TH DAY OF APKIL, 1371,
at 11 o'clock A. M.
No bid will be entertained at more than par value,
and a responsible guarantee must accompany each
proposal, which must bfc Indorsed "Sealed Proposals
ror the surrender or Civil Bonds or 1SC0."
Said bonds will be redeemed and interest paid In
gold and silver coin of the United States, and must
be surrendered within ten days after the acceptance
or tbe proposal ror their redemption.
A. F. CORONEL,
8 14eod t4 10 State Treasurer.
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PuiLAnKLi'uiA, March 20, 1871.
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"Freiburg, Germany,
FURNITUKb.
Joseph H. Campion (late Moore 3c campion),
WILLIAM SMITH, KICUABD B. CAMPION.
SMITH & CAMPION,
Manufacturers of
FINE FURNITURE, UPIIOLSTERINQS, AND IN
TERIOR HOUSE DECORATIONS.
No, 849 SOUTH THIRD Street.
Manufactory, Nos. 16 and 81T LEVANT Street,
Philadelphia. gl
MARBLE WORKS.
H. S. TABS & SON'S
MANUFACTORY OP
Oar red and Ornamental Marble
Work,
tiUEEIf Street, above Serenta
ISO 8m PHILADELPHIA.
gTAIlt UOI8, iTHI'l'LATLS,
OAS TOUCHES, GA8 TURNERS, WAX
TAPERS, Etc. Etc.,
On hand an for sale by
WILIiR 3c IttOSS.
MANUFACTURERS,
3 10 lm NO. 225 Sooth FIFTH Street,
OITY ORDINANCES.
RESOLUTION
To Lay Water Pipe on Toplar street and
other streets.
Resolved, Bv the Select and Common Coun
cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the
Chief Engineer of the Water Department be and
is hereby authorized to lay water pipe on
Poplar street, from Twenty-second to Twenty
fourth street.
I3rown street, from Twenty-seventh to Twenty
ninth street.
Ehamokin street, from Twenty-first to Twenty
second street, In tbe Fifteenth ward.
Berks street, from Sixth to '1 euth street, in the
Twentieth ward.
Centre street, from Hamilton to Wood
street.
Baker street, from Green lane to G.ty street, in
the Twenty-first ward.
Elm street, lrom Thirty-seventh to Thirty
ninth street.
Wan en Ftreet, from Thirty-eighth to Thirty
ninth street.
Haverford avenue, from Forty-fourth to
8ixty-elguth street, in the Twenty-fourth
ward.
Watt etrcet, from Reed to Whartoa
street.
Alter street, from Seventeenth to Eighteenth
street, in the Twenty-sixth ward.
Irvine street, from Fortieth to Forty-first
street, m the Twenty-seventh ward; and on
York street, from Germantown avenue to
Tenth street, in the Twenty-eighth ward.
HENRY HL'IIN,
President of Common Council.
Attest
llOBEKT BeTHEI-I,,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
SAMUEL V. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-seventh day of March,
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
and seventy one (A. D. 1871).
3 30 It Mayor of Philadelphia.
RESOLUTION
To Approve Contracts for the Erection of
School Buildings in the Tenth and Fourteenth
Wards, and of the Sureties Therefor.
Resolved, By the Select and uommon Councils
of the City of Philadelphia, That the con
tract dated the tenth day of lebruary, 1871, be
tween the city of Philadelphia, of the one part,
and Philip H. 8omersctt, of the other part, for
the erection 01 a school ouuaing ior tne price or
sum of nineteen thousaud eight hundred and
forty-five ($19,845) dollars, on the south side of
Cherry street, east 01 tieventn street, in tne
Tenth ward, be and the same is hereby approved,
and that John II. Miller is hereby approved as
snretv therefor.
And the contract a ate a tne tnirteentn aay 01
December, I81O, between the city 01 Philadel
phia of the one part, and William Keas. of the
other part, for the erection of a school building
for the price or sum 01 twenty-uve tnousana
five hundred ($25,500") dollars, on the lot of
ground on th9 north side of Wood street, east
of Twelfth street, in the Fourteenth ward, be
and the same is hereby approved, and that
Samuel Bolton and Edward Hayes, tho sureties
therefor, are hereby approved. And the Mayor
of the city of Philadelphia oe and is hereby re
quested to affix the corporate seal of the said
city to said contracts.
' HENRY IIUQN,
President of Common Council.
Attest
Benjamin II. Haines,
Clerk of Belecl Council.
SAMUEL W. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Artrovcd this twenty-seventh day of March
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-ouc (A. D. 1871).
DANIEL M. FOX,
2 30 It Mayor of Philadelphia.
COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA
J Clerk's OrFicK,
Philadelphia. March 17. 1871. f
Tn armi-dnncA with a Resolution adoDted bv
the Common Council of the city of Philadelphia
on Thursday, the sixteenth day of March, 1871,
the annexed bill, entitled, "An ordinance
creating a loan for the extension of the
Water Works," is hereby published for public
information.
JOHN ECK8TEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN FOR
THE EXTENSION OF THE WATER
WORKS.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils
of the city of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby
autbojized to borrow at not less than par, on
the credit of the city, two million one hundred
and twenty-two thousand dollars for the further
extension of the Water Works. For w hich inte
rest not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per
annum, shall be paid half-yearly, on the first
days of January and July, at tho olllce of the
City Treasurer.
The principal of said loan shall be payable
and paid at the expiration of thirty years from
the date of the same, and not before without
the consent of the holders thereof; and the
certificates therefor, in the usual form of the
certificates of city loaa, shall be issued in such
amounts as the lenders may require, but not for
any fractional part of one hundred dollars, or,
if required, in amounts of five hundred
or one thousand dollars; and it shall be ex
pressed in Eaid certificates that the loan therein
mentioned and the interest thereof are payable1
free from all taxes.
Section a. Whenever any loan st'I be
made by virtue thereof, there shall be by
force of this ordinance annually appropri
ated out of the income of the corpo
rate estates, and from the sum raised by
taxation, a sum eulllcient to pay the interest on
said certificates; and the further sum of three
tenths of one per centum on the par value of
such certificates so Issued shall be appropriated
quarterly out of said income and taxes to a
sinking fund, which fund and its accumulations
are hereby especially pledged for the redemp
tion and payment of said certificates.
RESOLUTION
TO PUBLISH A LOAN BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun
cil be authorized to publish in two daily news
papers of this city dally for four weeks the
ordinance presented to Common Council on
Thursday, March 16, 1871, entitled "An ordi
nance creating a '.oan for the exteusion of the
Water Works.' And the said Clerk, at the
stated meeting of Councils after said publica
tion, shall preient to this Council one of each
of said newspapers for every day in which the
same shall have been made. 3 17 2-tt
LOOKING GLASSES, ETO.
JAMES 5. EAR LB & SONS.
No. 815 COESNUT STREET,
Bave reduced tbe prices of ALL THEIR
Chroinoi 35 Per Cent.
This includes
ALL CIjROMOS PUBLISHED,
AMERICAN AND OTHERS.
FRAMES of every character equally as cheap.
CLOTHS. OASSIMERES. ETO.
LOTH HOUSE,
J A Tvl E C & H U D B R,
Ho. 11 Horth SB'.COrI tttreeft,
bign oT the Uolden Lamb,
Alt w receiving a large and splendid aaaortmen
of new styles of
FANCY OASSIMERES
And standard makes or DOESKINS, CLOTHS an4
OOAT1NOS, I W mwt
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
PROPOSALS.
OFFICE OF PVRUIIA8INO AND DEPOT COM.
MI88AHY, No. S0 8. FOURTU Street,
Room No. I. j
ST. Loria, March 8, 18TL
ttr a T vti PT)nrno a T a t n jnnnfl.,A in wA WA
1 . a m v . vk iiiiii, 1 1 uupiivsvT, win ins 10
ceived at this ofllce until 13 o'clock M., MONDAY,
Apru 9, tod, lur lurniBiiiug me Buosisience uepart
ment U. s. a. :
F8 pounds mess pork.
40,000 pounds or bacon clear sides.
181,000 pound or double extra dour.
13,000 ponnds or bard bread.
11,000 ponnds of corn meal kiln dried.
lB.oito ponnds or beans white navy.
0,000 pounds or split peas.
4,M0 pounds or rice Carolina.
600 pounds or hominy.
17,000 pounds or green Rio coffee.
1,000 pounds or Rio coffee roasted.
0. 000 pounds or brown sugar.
1. fioo gallons or whisky vinegar.
8,ti(io ponnds or candles adamantine.
8,000 pounds or extra ramlly soap.
87,t)O0 pounds or salt.
600 pounds of pepper black.
4,000 pounds or hams sugar-curort.
17,ooo pounds or choice family flour.
3,M 0 pounds of dried apples.
ton pounds or dried peaches,
l,2(o pounds or raisins.
17fi gallons of pickled cucumbers.
r0 gallons or pickled onlonB.
87S gallons or sauerkraut.
33v dozen cans or milk.
3,2(io pounds or lard.
7,ono pounds or butter.
1,000 pounds or cheese.
Information as to kind or packages, condition,
etc. etc., can be obtained on application at this
office. C. B. FE'VROSE,
3 18 t Captain, C. 8., U. S. A.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, BAL
TIMORE, MD.
Favkttb Street, keab Charles,
Third Story Union Rank Building,
Makcu 1, 1S7L
Proposals are Invited lor dredging in the channel
below Fort Carroll leading to this city. Proposals,
to be sealed and In duplicate, endorsed on outside, and
accompanied by a copy or this advertisement, will
oe received until noon of 1st day or APRIL, 1871,
and will be opened in ten minutes thereafter, In the
presence of such bidders as may wish to be present.
About 7fi,000 cubic yards, more or less, to be re
moved. Length or haul or material averages about
two miles, The object is to attain a depth or 22 feet
at mean low water. The tide rises about one root
and one-half. Proposals will state kind or machinery
to be used ; average quantity In cubic yards to be
removed dally ; price per cubio yard, including ex
cavation, removal, and deposit. Material to ba
measured In dumping scows.
Tbe right to reject any bid Is reserved.
Forms of Proposals and any desired information
to be had on application at this office.
WILLIAM P. CRAIGHILL,
8 2 Major or Engineers, U. S. A.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
TniKD Stoky Union Bakk Buildings, )
Fajette Street, near Charles, y
Baltimore, Md., March 88, 1871.)
PROPOSALS are invited lor dredging a channel
through Fredeilcksburg and Spotta wood Bars, In
tbe Rappahannock river, Proposals, to be sealed, in
duplicate, endowed on outside, and accompanied by a
copy or this advertisement, will ba received until
noon or April 28, 1871, and will be opened In ten
minates thereafter, In presence of such bidders a
may wish to be present. Separate Proposals will ba
also received lor removing one wreck in Fredericks,
bnrg bar.
The material Is easily removed. The channel la
tot to exceed 90 feet in width or 8 feet In depth an
mean low water. The locality Is sneltered. The
tide rises about two feet
Forms or proposal and any desired information
to be had on application at this olllce.
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
WM. P. CRAIGHILL,
3 29 6t Major or Engineers U. 8. A.
TTN1TED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
J THIRD STOKY, UNION UAWK UU1LDINO, I
Fayettk Street, near Charles, y
Baltimore, Md., March 20. 187L )
PROPOSALS are Invited ror Dredging a Channel
in Ojieenstown Creek, Maryland, from Chester
River to Queenatown, Proposals to be sealed, in du.
plicate, endorsed on ouMde, and accompanied by a
copy 01 mis aaverutemenc, win rje received until
noon of A pill M, 1871, ana wlU be opened In ten
minutes thereafter, In presence or such bidders as
may be present.
Tbe material is easily removed. The channel is
not to exceed one hundred feet In width or eight
feet in depth at mean low water. The locality la
sheltered.
Forms or proposals and any desired information
to be had on application at this office.
The right to reject any lad is reserved.
WM. P. CRAIGHILL,
8 23 6t Major or Engineers, U. 8. Army.
US. ENGINEER OFFICE,
Third Story Union Bank Building, )
Fayette St., near Cuakles, v
Baltimore, Md., March 29, 1871.)
.PROPOSALS are Invited ror excavating a channel
In the James river, at the Rocketts, near Richmond,
Proposals, to be sealed, in duplicate, endorsed on
outnide, and accompanied by a copy or this adver.
tisement, will bo received until noon or April 89,
1871, and will be opened In ten minutes thereafter,
la presence or such bidders as may wish to be pre
sent.
The material to be removed Is rock In beds and
boulders. The channel is not to excend ISO feet in
width or 18 feet In depth at mean high water. The
locality Is sheltered. The tide rises about 24 feet.
Forms of proposal and any desired information to
be had on application at this office.
The right to reject any bid la reserved.
WM. P. CRAIGHILL,
8 29 Major of Engineers U. S. A.
TTN1TED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
1UJK1I C 1 Un , tMUH DANK ZiUILDIKO,
.DING, )
IAKLB3, W
h 81, 1S71.)
r AYKTT OT., NEAR CUA
Baltimore. Md. March !
PROPOSALS are Invited for Dredirlnjr a Channel
at Cambridge, Maryland. Proposals to be sealed, in
duplicate, endorsed on outside, and accompanied by a
copy or this advertisement, will be received until
noon of April 24, 1971, and will be opened In ten
minutes thereafter. In presence of such bidders as
may wish to be present.
The material Is easily removed. The channel Is
not to exceed one hundred feet In width or ten
feet in depth at mean low water. The locality is
sheltered.
(Tomis of proposal and any desired Information to
be had on a p 1 lea' ion at this olllce.
Tbe right to reject any bid is reserved.
WM. P. CR4I9BILL,
8 23 Major or Engineer U. 8. Army.
DEPUTY QUARTERMASTER - GENERAL'S
OFFICE.
Philadelphia, March 16, 1S7I.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
office (where proper forms will be furnished) until 18
o'clock M. on FRIDAY, April 81, ls71, far the de
livery at the Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, of
89 pairs Boots (t!00 pairs to be cable screwed).
eooO Haversacks.
1000 yards Crimson Worsted Lace, l)tf Inch.
All to be or army standard, samples or which can
be seen at this office.
STEWART VAN VLIET,
Deputy Qnarterraaster-aeneral,
8 21 Brevet Major-Oeneral, V. S. A.
JfRAMiFOKD ARSENAL, OFFICE A. C. 8.
Philadelphia, Pa.,
March 15, 1871.
PEALED PROPOSALS In duplicate will be re
reived at this office until 18 M., April 15, 1871, lor
rurnlHhicR the fresh beef required by tne Subsist
ence Department, V. S. A., at this station during
the two moLths commencing May 1, 1871. Informa
tion as to conditions, quality of beef, payments, etc.,
can be obtained by application to
WILLIAM PRINCE,
8 15 First Lieut. Ord., A. C. S.
Galvanized Elastic Cable Fencing
Dofs not "kink." In warm nor "snap" In cold
weather. Is cheaper than mutt wood iuces ; orna
mental and durable; large quantities erected and
eat'.slactinii given. Seed lor circulars, or see tbe
fenclcg at tuo manufacturer's, 1 3 17 rm wlm
PHILIP S. JUSTICE,
No. 14 North FIFTH Street. Philadelphia.
EhopgSEVESTEENTII and COATiiS Streets.
SAXON GREEN.
is Pripbter, will not Fade, Costs Less than any other
because it will I'ulut twice as much ituriace.
fcOLU BY ALL. DEALER 4 IN
PAINTS.
J. II. WEEKS & CO., Manufacturers,
8tf ti: 141 N. FOURTH Bl Philadelphia.
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