THE DAILY rfVENINO tELEGKAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APIUL 5, 1871. ariniT of the press. EDITORIAL OPINIONS Or THE LE.VDINO JOURNALS T.TON Ct'BRENT TOriCS COMPILED EVERT DAT FOB THE EVENING TELEOBAPH. FUN ALIVE. From the K. Y. Sun. From its very beginning tho San Domingo commission has been funny. Rough old Ben "Wade, sensible and profane; Dr. Howe, with bis dyspepsia, watching hia stomaoh; Trosi dent Vbite, with his refined, scholarly ideas and changeable purposes, form as incon gruous a set of fellows as could be got to gether. Then around them thoy had a comi cal crew of buggiats an', shellisls, bent on the most useless sort of science; while General iSigel, that brave man of war, wandering aimlessly about, made the ludicrousness of tha affair something delicious. Bat, as if all this was not enough, here was commission to investigate a Spanish coun try without a man in it or altaohed to it capa ble of speaking Spanish. One of the most peculiar incidents of this inability to talk baa been described by Mr. Sumner: "Mr. Wade went to San Domingo determined to be pleased with everything he saw. No sooner had tie arrived there than he rowed ashore to visit Kaez, though he could not speak a word or Spanish, nor Mr. ISae, a word of English. Se they sat for a couple of hours with clasped hands, and looking at each other like a eonple ol lovers. Mr. Wade is very enthusiastic over lines, though everybody else knows what sort of a man he la." While they were in San Domingo onr jolly old commissioners went out for a ride, ac cording to the fashion of the country, on bullbaok. For the history of this excur sion we refer to the lively columns of the Capital: "The bulls of Ban Domingo are a qnlet, Inoffensive set of animals, and the one ridden by the chairman, sturdy old Ben Wade, was a specimen animal of great power. The three rode off, surrounded by na tives and followed bf correspondents, some walking and some carried on the back of negroes, so that the cavalcade presented a very Imposing appearance. The venerable Howe expressed himself vey much pleased with his beast. He satd that the slow, un dulating motion promoted digestion and stimulated poetic reflections, and he sang aloud our national anthem, as written by his accomDlished lady, to the tune of John Brown. Whether it was this singing to which the beast was unac customed, never having heard of our great martyr, alarmed It or not, the specimen bull nnder sturdy Ben Wade took fright and suddenly ran away. A bull's running Is not much as to speed, but it la strong and very Jolting. Our venerable ex Senator had to hold on to the horns and saddle to retain his seat, and disappeared from the eyes of his friends and followers In the deep forests that abound in that Island. When again seen he was found sitting upon some rocks scraping the mud from bis sturdy person. He swore terribly at the event, and ended by ordering one of the Other com missioners to dismount, so that the vhalrmau of the commission could continue his important excur sion. This the other commissioner flatly refused to do. In this way the quarrel began." What became of President White in this imbroglio is sot clearly stated by the writer; bat we infer that he must have been the com missioner who was ordered by Ben Wade to dismount, and who refused to obey. On that refusal we tender to Mr. White our hearty congratulations. It was manly and reason able. If Ben Wade could not stick on his own bull, it certainly was not the duty of the President of Cornell University to go afoot in ' the mud in order to give Ben Wade another bull to ride on. Ben ought to have ran and caught his ball for himself; or his friend Baez, whose band he had clasped like a lover for two hours at a time, ought to have had a spare bull at hand, and a well-broken one, too, for Ben to mount as soon as he had scraped the rmid off his clothes. But how ever that may be, it must have taken a good deal of courage in President White to sit im movable in the saddle of his own bull after old Ben had required him to dismount. In the whole history of the commission that is perhaps the occasion on which the highest moral power was manifested. What a tine subject for a painter! Old Ben in a rage: n rfnnrd. lift tore, he eurned. lie mwora. He swore he wouldn't go houiu any more," unless President White would get off and surrender his bull. This is one side of the picture the tempestuous side. The other side Bhould represent President White in perfect calmness, mildly yet firmly refus ing, as a philosopher should refuse, so no reasonable a demand to give up his bull. It is a scene worthy the genius of the greatest artist. The commissioners were getting into dis putes with each other all the time. They dif fered in judgment and in wishes at every turn. One of their most diverting squabbles was at Port-au-Prince, on the question whether they should go straight to Key West or meander about with the Tennessee to other parts of the West Indies. They disputed abomt it in the cabin till after midnight. Ben Wade was for Kay West; President White wanted to go over to Santiago de Cuba; and Dr. Howe thought some other plaoe would be more beneficial to the interests of his country and his bonds. Finally, old Ben could stand it no longer, and bidding his fellow commis sioners to go to , he went off to bed. The upshot was that next day the Tennessee sailed for Kingston. And so it went on to the end of the chap ter. Fighting and disputing, swearing and scolding, were the order of the day, and ;of the night too; and through all President White maintained his temper, though Dr. Howe could not maintain his digestion. And now they have been having a fight at Wash ington to finish with. Ben Wade wrote his report, bat White and Howe would not sign it without additions and embellishments that disgusted Ben. Of coarse, they mast come to some agreement at last, or they would all ' cover themselves with derision; bat, how ever they patch up this final controversy, they are a pleasant and amusing set. John Gilpin with his ride was nothing to these 1 laughable explorers. The only consolation about it all is that Grant's scheme of annexa tion was so ridiculous that nothing but saoh a ridiculous commission could properly give it tha finishing stroke. miLADELPHIA FIREMEN. J"rt the N. r. World. The startling statement comes from Phila delphia that the "Moyamensing Hose Com pany" has made its final parade in the char acter of a hose company preparatory to assa ruing the character ot a literary association, A hose company and a literary association are cot commonly convertible terms. And the Moyamensing Hose Company is an organiza tion understood to be less addicted to resthe tio pursuits than almoat any of its kind. For many years its excuse fox existing has been inai it uroite me aoiemn uunneas of the nor mal Philadelphia evening with the soft note of the pistol and the wild cry of the rioter. w ii - ; .'1,1:1 i i i xuven tna viuiuua vuumy vuua im patted was preferable in the judicious mind to tb vir toons death which it diversified. Bat tue sudden subsidence of what was a gang iut what will be a sodality shows how the powerful oporino influence of Philadelphia will pre vail even over the worst intentions. With the fall and earnest desire to be sprightly public nuisances, tli6be people have boon forced by public opinion to become dismal and decorous ornnments to society. The conversion of St. Paul is an incident almost incredible to the modern critic Let the modern critio bethink him how muoh more incredible to the future Philadelphian will be the event which has cow been transacted, and modestly hold his peaoe. The conver sion of a single Saul from persecuting the saints to writing pastoral letters was as nothing to this conversion by wholesale of Philadelphia firemen from their former diversions, of devouring the salient fea tures of the members of rival companies and dragging the hose-cart of Jugger naut over unwary infants, to assuming the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit and holding sweet and controversial counsel over the historical question what song the sirens sang, or tLe scientific question, "Will mo lasses explode?" Why they Bhould become a literary society is not so dear. In Boston we can understand that the silent influence of the town would force a party of pugilists to make at least such a confession to public opinion as is implied in frequenting tha Public Library and voting the radical ticket. But why the rough Philadelphian should be come literary, when even the smooth Phila delphian commonly abstains from the perusal and much more from the discussion or the production of printed matter, passes under standing. It may be, indeed, that no other course was open to them of signalizing their conversion from the error of their fire-subduing ways. The path to glory, or at least to respectability, in Philadelphia is by the way of radical politics. And as, according to the satirical invention of some zealous Pro testant, a South Sea Islander accustomed to a sensuous and demonstrative worship of his own handiwork declined the solicitations of a Catholio missionary on the ground that from paganism to popery was not enough of a change, the Philadelphia firemen may have declined embarking in statesmanship on the gTound that radical politics as pursued in Philadelphia consisted mainly of the same sort of thing they had been doing in their unregenerate career, and dropped into poetry oat ot pure desperation. THE ST. DOMINGO SCHEME GENERAL GRANT'S JUDICIOUS RETREAT. From the if. Y. Herald. We are gratified to record a retreat on the part of General Grant as honorable to him as the head of the Government as his crowning victory of tne war at tne head of the Union armies. We refer to his judicious retreat on the St. Domingo annexation scheme. It has been semi-officially announced from Washing ton, through ex-Governor Ilawley, of Con necticut, that with the transmission to Con gress of tne report of tne St. Domingo in vestigating commission the President will send tip an important message on the pro posed annexation, and that it will be sub stantially to this effect, that had the ques tion received fair treatment when the treaty last before the Senate was debated and rejected, he would not have asked its further consideration; but, believing that the scheme had not been fairly presented to the country, and the question having become complicated with charges and insinuations foreign to its merits, be desired that full in vestigation at the hands of Congress which has been made, with results vindicating his course In the premises. He has, therefore, no further action to recommend upon the subject at present, but transmits the report of the investigating com missioners for the information of Con gress and the country, still adhering to his opinion of the advantages of annexation. He does cot care to press the measure, because he is confident that, if the country desires it, the object can be accomplished, and that the action of Congress will indicate the desire by advising a treaty to be made. He does not, by any means, abandon his own views, but leaves the responsibility of future aotionupon Cod cress, and he repeats hia original decla ration that he has no policy to enforce against the will of the people. This, it appears, is tne substance ot tne President s mesBage,wnicn will acoompany tne submission to the two houses of tne report of the St. Domingo "high joint commis sioners, llieir aeport will candsomeiy cover the retreat of the administration from its un tenable position, in view of the discords created in the Republican party; for it is understood that the commissioners are not only unanimously, but enthusiastically in favor of the proposed annexation. They have returned, as we are told, enraptured with the tropical beauties and the amazing fertility, abounding products ana incalculable re sources of that splendid island of St. Do- miEo; they return satisfied that it is the central wish of tne people 01 tne Dominican Kepublio to come under the protecting flag of the United btates, and tney are satisued tnat the annexation bill of costs will be but a bagatelle compared with the commercial profits which from the annexation will be oars. But if sucn is tne commissioners re- port, why does the President "baok down?" Why did he ask of Congress authority to send down to St. Domingo this exploring expedi tion if it was not for the purpose of pushing on the annexation scheme r The answer is substantially that the express object of the expedition was the refutation of certain serious charges and insinuations made in the Senate against the President in connec tion with this annexation project. What wqre these charges and insinuations? They were the charges and innuendoes advanced by Mr, Sumner, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, against the President in connection with this Dominican enterprise. Thus, according to Mr. Sumner's indictment. rjeneral Grant has been guilty in this business of a usurpation of the war power of Congress in his employment of the navy; guilty of the desion and of the attempt to appropriate the territory of an independent State upon usurpa tions and false pretenses, and in opposition to the wishes of the people conoerned; guilty of a design to foment a war as a pretext for the subjugation and seizure of the African republic of Hajti; guilty of a disgraceful co partnership with a gang of unscrupulous speculators in a scheme to divide the spoils from the annexation of Dominica in certain appropriated lots and lands, which, under the Government of the United States, it wad be lieved, would become exceedingly valuable; guilty of employing officers of the United States navy as confederates of this aforesaid gang of annexation speculators. In short. according to Mr. Sumner, General Grant, ia this annexation project, lias played the igno ble part of the interested tool and copirtner oi a "ring 01 reciuess aavonturers in a mon strous job, regardless of the consequences to Dominica or Ilojti, or to the Treasury or gooa came oi tLe inicea aiates. The St. Domingo Commission, after a care- ful investigation under the instruction em bodied in the resolutions of Congress, having vindicated the President against all these charges, insinuations, and denunciations, ufeneral urunt is content to turn over the an- edition scheme te the discretion of Congress In other words, having spiked the guns of Air. buiuuer, tho ueneral retires from the field. He has gained his point. He has the honest soldier's dense of honor, and he has made it good. President Johnson, in the Stanton-War Department imbroglio, acaused tne ueneral of deception and falsehood, and we know the consequences that followed to Johnson. Mr. Sumner, in his turn, has already felt something of the reaction against similar charges touching the honesty of Gene ral Grant; and with all his pompous, ponder ous, ana munuenug pauippics, we expeet the Senator, by the simple facts of the St. Domingo Commissioners' report, will be re duced to a mere bag of wind "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." It is re markable, too, that after his unbounded ad miration of the Alaska annexation scheme, and after carrjing through that delightful purchase of icebergs and white bears, at an outlay of seven millions in gold to Russia and two hundred thousand to the lobby it ia, in deed, very remarkable that Mr. Sumner bhould regard the annexation of Dominica, at less man one-iourtn the cost of Alaska, as a scheme of war, bankruptcy and all sorts of national disasters. The opposition of the Democracy to this Dominican scheme is not surprising, for General Grant in this idea is stealing Demo cratic thunder. Nor are we amazed at the horror concerning the project of those radi cal Republicans of the old . Puritan school, who fought to the last ditch against tho an nexation of Texas: but Mr. Sumner's hos tility to General Grant's pet measure, after all, we fear, is mainly due to his mistaken estimate of his own importance as the Mag nus Apollo of the Republican party. At all events he is silenced upon San Domingo-, and, with beburz and the other Republican mutineers against General Grant, Mr. Sum ner must cow seek some other point of assault, or give up the light to cat him out and cut him oil as the Republican candidate for the succession. "Where there is a will there is a way," and we apprehend that the troubles of most of these disaffected and dis appointed Republican leaders lie deeper or nearer come tcan ban Domingo. Ueneral Grant, however, has still the party organization within his reach, and may still, with proper management, be master of the situation. He is learning, but has yet much to learn of the complications of the political party machine. The examples furnished by Ueneral Jackson he may prohtably consult in reference to intractable bolters; and the con ciliatory policy of Lincoln with aspiring but noxible malcontents should not be overlooked. Jackson ruled Calhoun off the Presidential track as a declared enemy; but Lincoln con quered the aspiring Chase, and quietly dis posed of him as a friend by making him Chief Justice of the United states. Liet Uen. Grant call the leading Republicans of Congress around him for counsel in any doubtful move ment henceforth, and he may escape a repeti tion of the troubles he has had to enoounter upon St. Domingo. Let him propose a gene ral amnesty in connection with the pending Bcheme of a bill of pains and penalties on tne Southern Ku-klux Klans, and he may do much to secure his loss ground in the South; let him be cautious in interposing his autho rity and bis personal punishments in relation to the local squabbles biuodr his party leaders in this State, that State, or the other, and let him seek rather to heal than to widen the breaks in the party lines, and he may do much to keep his party together, otherwise the malcontents may reduce hi in to the hu miliation and tne hazards ot a scrub race in 1872. WHO PREVENTS RESUMPTION? .From the Scranton (Pa.) Arpubti-an. The leaders of the W. B. A. are being brought to light in their true attitude. Many of their transactions during the present sus pension have been kept carefully concealed, not only from the country, but from the miners themselves. We make the assertion here, boldly, and without fear of being con tradicted with proof, that the leaders of tha W. B. A., residing in Schuylkill county, have designedly prevented the men in this region from resuming worn. Messrs. Joan biney, Kealy and Parker, of the Schuylkill leader?, are the trio whoso interference has frustrated arbitration, compromise. and resumption upon satisfactory terms in this valley. Honest miners in this region may quail at this assertion, and denounce us for making it, but we tell them, for their own Bakes, that they have been sold out by the men we Lave named, and whatever misery and suffering may be in store for them in tha immediate future must be attributed to them. They have shown themselves, by their ac tions, that they are the evil geniuses of the miners, who have brought upon them muoh of the misery and privations which they have Buffered in the post, and we have the evidence to prove it. when rresident uowen, of the Philadel phia and Reading Railroad Company, made his plea before the Senate Judioial Committee (alter Governor Geary had made an attempt to settle matters;, he on erect on the part of all the companies to submit the whole matter to arbitration on the following conditions: 1st. That the men bhould resume work without conditions not upon the terms proposed by the companies in December but without any specified terms, and the question of wages and all other matters in dispute to be settled by arbitration afterwards. 2d. That the Judiciary Committee should be discharged from further consideration of the subject before them. As we understand it, Mr. Gowen was au thorized to make this proposition in behalf of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western, Delaware and Hudson, and Pennsylvania Coal Companies, as well as for other corpo rations and operators. The offer opened the Bought-for opportunity to submit the ques tions at issue to arbitrators composed of ope rators and miners, with a disinterested third party as umpire. But without consultation with the miners, whose interests they hold in tho hollow of their hands, Messrs. Siney and Kealj rejected the projwsition, and insisted that the committee go on and make their report. In this Messrs. Siney and Kealy acted upon their own responsibility, not for the- purpose of serving the miners, but to show the companies and the world their power over the thou sands of poor men who have trusted themselves to their tender mercies. - Had the I proposition made by the companies, through I r A- i i . i . . . i ait. uuweu, ueeu nucepieo, it would nave been no dishonorable yielding of the men, but they would have met the companies upon common ground, and in the settlement of their difficulties would have had an equal voice with their employers in the arbitration. The leaders of the W. B. A. have had their way tWy have shown to the world once more the power they yield; the Senate com mittee will go on and report, but what will it profit the poor miner and laboring man upon whom bears the heavy burden of suspension? Arbitration is a recognition of the rights and interests of each party to an unsettled ques tion. J. he oompames have made the offer, and the Schuylkill leaders of the W. B. A., speaking for the Luzerne miners, have re jected the oner, if thu action shuts the door to compromise, and results in yet addi tional months of suspension, prostration, and suffering, let the curse rest where it belmgs, upon the leaders of the W. B. A., Siney, Keaiy x jo. W e cave the most positive information that since the rejection of this offer to arbitrate, the companies are more than ever determined not to yield, and we see no hope , for a com promise in the immediate future. The aotion of Messrs. Siney &. Co., in rejeoting the com panies' offer, Bhould only serve as an addi tional evidence to the miners of this county that their future well-being demands that they manage their own affairs, instead of entrust ing them to the care of men who have shown nothing but criminal ignorance and incompe tency in every suspension or strike in which the miners have become involved. We do not say: sever your connection with benevolent or pro tective associations, but we do say that the Luzerne miners should themselves decide whether they desire to snbmit their difficul ties to arbitration or not, and not leave John Siney or any one else in Schuylkill county to decide for them, and without consulting them. But the labor autocrats who oontrol the 30,000 miners and laboring men did not want the Luzerne miners to pass judgment upon the proposition of the companies, for they knew that if they did they would accept the pro posal with an overwhelming unanimity. Let our miners act for themselves, and not trans act their own business through men in an other county, who have no further interest in their welfare, except to receive the quota which pays them their annual salary. hen we talk to intelligent miners upan the subject of tho suspension, they tell us that they are ready to meet the companies half way, and we have repeatedly been told that the men are ready to compromise and arbi trate their difficulties. Do these men not know that they have given Schuylkill leaders the power to accept or reject terms for them? If they hold that Siney & Co. acted without authority in rejecting the offer made by Mr. Gowen, let them publicly disown the action, and renounce it. The time has come to look at the subject of the present suspension not as we should like to have it, or as it might have been, but just as-we find it, and in this light we ask the miners to look at it. If the companies were to offer terns to the men to-day, we presume, on the same prinoiple on which the proposi tion at Harrisburg was- rejected, the men would be compelled to refer the companies to Messrs. Siney and Kealy,. to ascertain if the terms offered were acceptable. We are not surprised that the companies refuse to treat, through Schuylkill county leaders, in order to reach the miners in their employ. In their management of the W. B. A., Messrs. Siney, Kealy, and Parker have shown themselves greater tyrants and autocrats, and worse enemies to the interests of the laboring men and miners, than the companies them selves. And the day is cot far distant when the miners in Luzerne will assert their man hood and independence,, and shake off the leeches that have fastened themselves upon them, and are Bucking their life-blood. FRANCE. DRIFTING TO A MONARCHY. From th Ih T. Times. The chances of the Versailles Government seem to improve, but there is little question that it will find itself, after it takes posses sion of Paris, in presence of one of the most disagreeable problems with which any Frenoh Government has yet had to deal. The Reds will be disarmed, but they will be still there. and very hungry and very mutinous, and they will still continue to publish such pleas ing and instructive periodicals as The Dry of the People, The Iron Mouth, The Avenger. lhese papers are small, dirty sheets, filled with blasphemy and iBdecency, and attacks on property and relmton. Ia most countries they would hardly live a week, or if they did live, would only be read for amusemeut. But one of the peculiarities of the Red mind is tnat it takes all this disgusting trash in sober earnest, and a weeks reading makes a Belle ville or La Villette republican ready to shoul der his musket and "descend into the streets," for the purpose of embodying the ideas con tained in these publications in the political system of the country. If you ashed him why he thought it his duty to take this very violent step, he would be ablo to give you co better reason than that he 6aw in print tear it was a good thing to do. Now, this being the effect of the liberty of the press on the French mind, it is impossi ble lor any uovernment in t rance to let the press alone. No matter how liberal the re gime that may be set up, it is sure not to be liberal enough for the radicals, nor would any regime be tolerated whioh did not ar range for a fair division of property every juonaay morning, consequently the radical press is sure to assail it violently, and to excite the Reds to active resistance; the radical papers will, therefore, have to be suppressed, and, of course, when once the Government takes upon itself to suppress newspapers for any reason, there is no tell ing when to stop, or where to draw the line. After having put down the BoutJte de Fer for advocating resistance to all government, of course official censors will be disposed to put all criticism of the Government as hostile to order, and to bring the journals Let Debate and the Presse, under the same rule as the dirty sheets of the Faubourg St. Antoine; and then we have one of the worst features of the Empire restored, and one of the most valuable guarantees of liberty and economy destroyed. J. he enect of such re strictive measures, too, is of course more damaging to a republican than a mon archical government. Every government has to keep up some show of adhesion to its own principles; and the liberty of the press is, of course, one of the chief artioles in the republi can creed, bo that a republican government which repudiates it, is in some sort guilty of Eelf-Btultification. Take, also, the question of the standing army. We presume there is nobody now who shares General Trochu's amiable belief that the Paiiaians can be governed by "moral force." It is quite plain that for some time to come they will have to be governed by brute force. Paris will have to be garrisoned by about one hundred thousand men, and the population will have, as of yore, to be dis armed, and the Government will have to rely on this force for police duty to a degree which must, to a greater or less degree, subordinate the civil to the military authorities, and make the General in command of the troops the mobt important peson in Paris. Now there has never yet been a republic, or even a con stitutional monarchy, whioh was able to en dure the presence of a large military foroe concentrated in its capital, and for the avowed purpose of keeping down tha people. Countries in which constitutional government is as deeply rooted in the popu lar affections and habits as the United States, or England, or Hungary, could hardly stand this; still less can a country in which the people are entirely unused to popular govern ment, and in which democratic assemblies rule by just the same methods and instru ments as military dictators. Among the flrt thiDgs done by all parties ia France which gat into the ftflcndii&t, is to suppress newspaper and ehoot defeated opponents; and surti a thing an a government which had a largi standing army at its disposal, and did not use it to crush opposition, is something of which . few Frenchmen save, as yet, any idea. A French general in command of a large armed force, and yet feeling his sub ordination to the civil power, and respecting it, is a very rare bird also in faot, if he did cot appear in General Cavaigaae, it would be difficult to say when or where he did appear, or when he will appear again. Any French general of this or the next generation who knows that the Legislature is dependent on Lim for protection against being turned out of doors, is hardly liltely to respect it. These two difficulties met, or temporize! with, as they probably will be, there- would still remain another, axd this, also, an im mense one the question of the form of gov ernment. The Assembly was monarchical when it met; it is now more monarchical than ever. The scare caused by Gambetta's performanhces has been (deepened and in tensified by the recent events in Paris. Amy doubts which the country members might have had about the advisability of es tablishing a republic will have been dissi pated by the establishment of "the Univer sal Republic" in Taris ; and tie melancholy days they have passed in Versailles, and tho terror in which all persons having property are cow living in Paris, have probably deep ened the horror of democratic government. Of course there will be much disputing and intriguing about the choice of a monarch, but the choice will be, after all, betweea Bourbon and Orleanist, and the return of either of these will madden the Republicans, and make the government of the towns a seriorw task to the new dynasty. A new dynasty without an tecedents, absurd as it would be in France of all countries m the world, would in some ways promise better than the return of any of the old ones. But new dynasties are no longer likely. It wonld take a Napoleon to create one, and if the present troubles do not throw a new "Savior of Society to the surface, the country will probably throw itself baok into the arms of Henry V or the Count de Paris. The title "Savior of Society," as applied to poor Louis Napoleon, by the way, does not look so ridiculous as it did a year or two ago. Most men now acknowledge that, bad as the Empire was, it at least kept off a worse thing "The Universal Republic." SPECIAL NOTICES. REDEMPTION OF STATE BONDS Htatk 0 California, Treasury Department, Sachamknto, Feb. 1, 1ST1 Whereas. taere Is on this day in the State Treasury the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand (1250,000) dollars, which, nnder the provisions of an act or 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 debt for that purpose," approved April S3, 1SC7 ; and also nnder the provisions of an act amendatory of said act, approved April 81, I860, Is set apart for the re demption of Civil Bonds of said State, Issued under the provisions of said nm mentioned act, notice la hereby given that SEALED PROPOSALS for the surrender of said Bonds will be received at this Department for tne amount above specified, until the 10T17 DAY O? APRIL, A. D. 1371, at 11 o'clook A. M. Nobidawill 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 1S5I." Said bonds must be surrendered within tea days after the acceptance of the proposals for their re demption. A. P. CORONEL, 8 14.eod 1 4 10 State Treasurer. gy REDEMPTION OF CIVIL BONDS Oi' 1SG0. 4 NT,) 8TATO OP CAMFORMA, Thkascry Dkpathsn Sacrauknto, February 1, 1871. Whereas, There is en this day la the State Trea sury the sum of twenty-eight thousand ($iS,000) dul lars which, under the provisions of an act ot the Legislature of said State entitled "An act to pro vide for the paying certain equitable claims against the State of California, and to contract a funded debt lor that purpose," approved April 30, 1SG0, ia- set apart for tlie redemption of Civil Bonds "of said State, issued under the provisions of said act, notloe is hereby given that SEALED PROPOSALS for the surrender of said Bonds will be received as this Department for the amount above specific! until the 10TH DAY OF APRIL, 1371, at 11 o'clock A. M, Ko bid will be entertained at more than par value, and a responsible guarantee must accompaD; each proposal, which must be Indorsed "Sealed Proposals for the surrender of Civil Bonds of 1S60." Said bonds will be redeemed and laterest paid in gold and silver coin of the United States, and must be surrendered within ten days after the acceptance of the proposal for their redemption. A. F. CORONEL, 9 14eod t4 10 State Treasurer. OFFICE OF THE FRANKLIS FIRE IN SURAUCE COMl'ANY, l'HILADKI.I'HIA. Atrtil 3. 1S71. At a me.'tlnir of the Board of Directors, held this day, a QUARTERLY DIVIDEND of RMI1T D JL I ARS per 6liare was declared, PAYABLE IN GOLD to me Biocknoiuera on auu art-r t lie istn instant, ciear oi ail taxes. j. w. JUCAkLiSTtai, 4 4 lit Secretary, 1- TBE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LEB.1GII VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY have declared a quarterly dividend of TWO AND A HALF PKK CENT., payable at their offlce, No. 803 WALNUT Street, up stairs, on and after SATUlt DAY, April 16, ls.Il. L. CHAMBERLAIN, 8 31 fmwtAlS . Treasurer. tSf THE CHEAPEST AND IN THE WORLD, BEST II AIR DYE Harper' Liquid Hair Dye Never Fades or vaaliea Out will change gray, red. or frosted hatr, whiskers, or moustache to a beautiful black or brown as aoon as applied. Warranted, or money returned. Only 60 cents a box. Sold by all Druggists. 8 83 tuilisom f- BATCH ELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS SPLEN- did Hair Dve ia the beat In the world, the onlv true and perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable Instan taneous no disappointment no ridiculous tints "Does nr toitfain Lead nor any Vitalie PoUon to in- jurem tiatror timtem." invigorates the lialr and leaves It soft and beautiful : Black or Brown. Sold by all Druggists and dealers. Applied at the Factory, no. m bund street. Mew xork. 4 ST mwf THE UNION FIRS EXTLNUU13UEK COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire KxtlDguamer. Always Reliable D. T. GAG 3, I 0 tf No. 118 MARKET St., General Agent. gy- DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 911 WALNUT ST, formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms, aevoies un entire practice to extracting teetn witn- uui pain, wuu ireau uuroun oxiae gaa. 11 111 Igy- JOUVIN'S KID GLOVE CLEANER restores soiled gloves equal to new. For aula by all druggists and fancy goods dealers. Price V3 cents per bottle. 11 HSmwfS 1- THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH preserving the teeth. For sale by all Drupgiata, 11 86 siuinly Price S6 and 60 cents per bottle. CT- DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO. 1 8. ELEVENTH Street. Patients treated .gratuitously at thia Institution aauy at 11 o cioca. n riiiv tidnih rn . COMMISSION MER tJ chants and Manufacturers of Coneatoga Tick- lug, etc. etc., JNo. IKS iu.n oireei, ruuauci flu. BAFC DEPOSIT OOMPANIEV. fUE FEBJT8YLVANIA COKPAffT FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES AND GRANTING annuities Office So. 304 WALNUT Streel, INCORPORATED MARC II 10, 1313. CHARTER PERPETUAL, CAPITAL 1,000,000. SUBFIUS UPWARDS OF $750,000. Receive roney on deposit, returnable on demaa J, for which IMereat Is allowed. nd nnder appointment by Individual, corpora tlntip. and conrrs, act as EXECUTORS. ADMINISTRATORS. TRUSTERS, GUARDIANS, AfS()NElN, ro.tf HITTERS, RLCKIVERfV AOFST8. COLLECTORS, ETC. And for the fattMol pfrformauce of Itt duties as such all Us assets are liable. CHARLES DUTILH, President. William B. Hill, Actuary. IVTRSCTORS. CharleR Dnttlh, Joshua B. I.tpplrtrott, Henry J. Wllllnms, ICharies II. Hutclrlason. Willlnm S. Vaux, Llndley Sinvth, John R. Wucherer, Ocorue A. Wood, Adolph E. Rorie, Anthony J. Antelo, Alexander Riddle, Cltnries 8. Lewis, Henry Lewla. gECURITT FROM LOSS BY BURG LA IT! KUSBElii, if IKK, OR ACCIDENT. 7ha Fidelity Inauraaee, Truat, o$ Bafe Deposit Company OF PHILADELPHIA IN TUB IB New Marble Fire-praof Building, Nos. S'29-331 CHESNUT Btreet. Capital subscribed. 1 1,000,009 ; paid, 1700,000. rTTTnT RONDS. NTOPKH HITPiroiTtBO FAMILY PLATE. COIN, DEED m VALHaBLItA of every description received for cafe-keeping, under guarantee, at very moderate rates. The Company Also rent SAFES INSIDE TnKTR BURLAR-I'ROO F VAULTS, at prices varvln irom lis to t0 a year, accord I rg to size. An extra alae for Corporations and Bankers. Rooms and desk aajoiamg vauita proviaea ror saie Kentera. VDDII.MhMttl,. ..01, Hn.nhln K.hnw J . i notloo, and at four per cent., payable by check, 0 nn ilnaal nnttnA TRUST FUNDS AND INVESTMENTS kenfc SEPAHATE AND APART Ir im asset of Company. INCOME COLLECTED and remitted for one DC cent. The Cotrpanv act as EXECUTORS. ADMIvt.h. TBATOWS, and GUARDIANS, and R-SOE1VE and EXECUTE TRUSTS of every description, from the Courts, Corporations, and Individual N. B. BROWNE, President. C. H CLARK, Vice-President R0B3HT PATTRBHON, secretary tad Treasurer. DIRECTORS. N. B. Brewne, . Alexander Henry, Clarence H. Clark, John Welsh, CUarlea Macalester, Stephen fa. Caldwell, Ueorge F. TjHer, Henry C. Gibson, Edwara w, uihk, j. uuungnam reu. Henry Pratt McKean. IS 13 fmwl TH3 PHILADELPHIA' TRUST. SAFE DEPOSIT INSURANCE COMPANY, OVPICK AND BCHGI.AR-PROOR VAPLT IK THE PHILADELPHIA BANK B'-TILDING, No. 421 CHESNUT STREilT. CAPITAL, $.VK).000. For Safk-keii'ino of Oovkrnmiki Bokds and other Secuhitibs, Family Pi.atk, Jbwblrv, and other Valuables, under special guarantee, at the lowest ratcB. The Company also offer for Rent, at rates varying from $19 to Tper annum, the renter holding the' key, SMALL SAFES IN THE BURGLAR-PROOF VAULTS, attorning absolute Securitt against Fi&a TaBfT, Burglary, and Accidknt. All fiduciary obligations, such as Trusts, Guar, diansbips, Executorships, etc., will be undertaken and faithfully discharged. All trust investments are kept eepxrmte and apart from the Company's assets. Circulars, giving fojl details, forwarded on appli cation. DIRECTORS. Thomas Robins. Benjamin B. Comegyi , Lewis R. Ashhnrst, J. LivlngHton Errluger, B. P. McCullagh, Edwin M. Lewis, James L. Clash orn. nuKUBbU zxea&ou, F. Ratchford Starr, Daniel Haddock, Jr., Edward Y. Towuseud, John D. Taylor.j Hon. William A. Porter. OFFICERS. President LEWIS R. ASHHUBST. Vice-President J. LIVINGSTON ERRINGEh. Secretary R. P. McCULLAGHi. Treasurer WM. L. DUBOIS. 8 3fmw WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETCi -EWIS LAD0M.OS ACQ mniOTii DEALERS 4 JEWELEUS.l WATCHES, JKWKLUT A SiLVKK V, xl'.K III . WATCHES and JEWEL Y EEP AIRED, JJj J02 Chestnut St.. Pfitt-- Would Invite attention to their large stock of Ladles' and Cents' Watches Ot American and foreign makers. DIAMONDS In the newest styles of Settings. LADIES' and GENTS' CHAINS, sets of JEWSLRY Of the latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN BRACELETS, Etc. Etc. SILVER. IVAHI3 of the latest designs in great variety, ror wed it 1 presents. Repairing dona In the beat manner and guaraa teed. sil fmwj GOLD 1IEDAL EEGTJL&T0B3. U. IV. Ul MNBLL, Ko. 22 NOllTII SIXTII STREET, Begs to call the attention of th tratfe and customers to the annexed letter: translation. "I take pleasure to announce that I have given tc Mr. G. W. RUSSELL, of Philadelphia, the excluslv sale of all Roods of my manufacture. He wUl be able to sell them at the very lowest prices. "GUHTAV BECKER, "First Manufacturer of Regulators, Freltmrg, Germany. GROCERIES, ETO. JONDON BHOWN STOUT AND SCOTCH ALE, In glass and stone, by the cask or dozen. AJJ3EUT O. ROBERTS, Dealer In Fine Groceries, Corner ELEVENTH and VINE sta. WHISKY, WINE. ETO. v CAR8TAIR8 A McCALL, So. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti., IMPORTERS OF Srandiei, 'Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES, IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 831 A LBXANDBH G. OATTELL 4 CO.. . PRODUCE X)M MISSION MKRCHANTi, K0, M NORTH WHAKVJUl AMD HO. T UORTH WATER 8TB1E3T( PHILADSLPIUA. Ajjxanuu a. Cinuu bxuas Cirri l 1
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