TEL DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1871. srmiT of tub ruEss. EDITORIAL OFITJIONS OF THIS LEADING JOURNALS UPON CUBRENT TOriC8 COMPILED EVEBT DAT FOB THE EVENINO TELEOBAPH. "WHAT THE COUNTItY THINKS OF TIIE COR11UPT DEMOOKATS. From the N. T. Tim. It would be a great satisfaction to as as Republican a to have the Demooratio party carry the Tammany gang on their shonldera in the next Presidential struggle. The con teat would be a comparatively easy one. The immense power and influence of this gang of adventurers are now mainly confined to this city and State. Here the money they have plundered, and the hundreds of petty offices they can distribute, and the rabble they com mand, give them great weight in all our po litical affairs. Tlie accumulation of an igno rant foreign population in this city and the 'lower counties" is throwing very year a heavier vote into their hands, which they are not slow to increase by any dishonest means. Uniting this vote with that of the more re Bpectable rural Democracy, they have been enabled to elect the Qovernor of the State, to control the Legislature, and to pass laws whereby they have acquired absolute power over the income of this wealthy metropolis. Imposing, however, as is the position of the "lling" in this city and this portion of the State, they have thus far little power outside of it, and are daily losing influence with their own more honest supporters in the rural dis tricts. If we pass beyond the limits of New York State, the name of this audaoious and unprincipled band of rogues and adventurers is "a byword and hissing" to all honest men. In the Went it is well understood that the Erie gamblers and their lawyers, the courts and judges who protect them, the Tweeds, Bweenys, and Connollys who now receive the rich income of this city and have beoome millionaires themselves, the "roughs" and "repeaters" and ward politicians who have so long aided to elect them, with Governor Hoffman at the head of all, form together one vast and unscrupulous "lling,'' which now seeks to obtain control of the National Government. The character of this set of scamps is enough to ruin Governor Hoffman forever, if he is presented by them as their chosen candidate for the Presidency. No party in the Union could carry round its neck Buch a weight as the New York Ring. Even in the neighboring State of Connecti cut, where these adventurers could employ money and personal influence as they never conld in more distant communities, we have seen how the well-founded rumor that the Democratic Governor was in collusion with Tweed has been one of the principal oauses of his defeat. In our own State, we venture to predict that this triumph in Connecticut is the sign of the approaching storm which shall sweep away the Ring and its works from pnblio sight for many years. Without doubt, next year the Republicans will carry both branches of our Legislature, and then it will be hard if New York, its beautiful parks, its Boards of Education and Charities, its finances and police, cannot be rescued from the hands of an ignorant and rapacious fac tion. The truth is that the rural population in this and other States still retains the genuine American pluck and honesty, and will not suffer themselves to bo utterly at the disposal of the most notorious gang of sharpers and adventurers who ever infested a civilized community. The "marble palaces," and countless city lots, and splendid equipages, and innumerable offices in the hands of Fisk and Sweeny and Tweed, do not impose on the honest yeomanry of Western New York or Connecticut or our neighboring States. These trophies are to them merely the signs of dis honesty and successful gambling. As Re publicans, we might desire above all things that the Democratic party of the Union should present the chosen champion of the Erie and Tammany Ring as their candidate for the highest office of the Union,, The 'prospect before our rnr-j community of hav ing the performances of Fisk and Gould, of Tweed, and Sweeny, and Connolly, repeated on a grander scale in Washington and through out the country, would make the course clear for any Republican candidate. Rat on higher grounds we should prefer, for the honor of the Republio, that no party, even by a nomi nation which had no chances of suooess, should ever place the stamp of approval on a set of men whose offenses are a disgrace to our civilization and a danger to the suooess of free pilnciples. AN OPERA BOUFFE BATTLE. From the X. T. Tribune, "Promotion has been quick in the French army" from the time when Claude Melnotte rose from the ranks to a colonelcy in twelve months, and Corporal Fritz to be a general in as many minutes, down to the memorable time when Gustavo Flourens was transformed in a brief fortnight from the skulking leader of a Montmartre mob to the commander of a corps of Nation al Guards. The organization, leadership, and achievements of the Paris in surgent army are a burlesque npon those of the opera bouffe, and Fritz and Boom are caricatured in Flonrens aiid Bergert. As in every revolution of the kind which affrights Paris with its passion and terrors, the scum of the great city is the first to come to the seeth ing surface. The Commune has elevated to place men with only the slightest knowledge of publio affairs; whose brief experience in war operations has been confined to the direc tion of infernal machine conspiracies or at tacks on the Hotel de Ville. These have been intrusted not only with the liberties and safetv of a city of a million and a half of people, but have had the temerity to lead to battle a column of a hundred thousand men, lacking in arms, deficient in training, and almost whelly unorganized. The natural result was the very ridioalons conflict which we recorded yesterday. It seems to have been a principal feature of the plan of campaign against Versailles that the Government troops in Fort Mont Valerien were to fraternize with the insurgents, refuse to serve their guns, throw open their gates, and otherwise reveal their incapacity to obey and enjoy good governnienf. On this snp position, which nothing seems to have war ranted, and only blind ignorance aud folly could have suggested to the Oomniaiie lead ers, they occupied on Sunday night several Tillages between Fort Mont Valerien and Ver sailles. When morning dawned oa Monday, Fort Mont Valerien opened a heavy lira upon them. Then began a desperate Btruiila t get back to Paris, in which each individual insurgent appears to have relied less up n th organization to which he belonged than in the Strength of his own good legs. Turon;'mt the day the fort, and a few batteries of living artillery posted in advance of Versailles, kept lip continuous fire on the mob, dispersing it in every direction. According to their owu story, the Communists Huoceeded, by streuu oua and almost superhuman efforts, in forui- irg a junction of their columns, with the ter rible design of advancing on Versailles, bat us the concentration was effected far in the rear of their previous position, and behind Fort Mont Valerien, it is more probable that they advanced backward on Taris than that they reached Versailles. In some of the re ports, inspired from Paris, fhe battle is repre sented as a very sanguinary affair indeed; but as the firing was confined exclusively to ar tillery, it is not likely that the ranks of either army were decimated. What operations followed the flight of the Communists we know not yet in detail, but the intimation that the Government troop again defeated the Communists would seem to imply that the mob thus thrown into confusion has not been collected again. The prompt advance of General Vinoy is unques tionably the proper policy for the Govern ment, since pursuit will give the Commu nists no time to rally for defense against the army, or to commit outrages upon peaceful citizens. Thus far the sacrifioe of life has not been great; the danger now is that the cowardly mob may wreak vengeance on the defenseless people of the capital before the Government is in possession for their protec tion. DIVIDENDS BY INSURANCE COMPA NIES. From the K. Y. llcrald. There is, in connection with life insurance, a question which deeply concerns the public We allude to the practice followed by many of our companies of announcing large annual dividends, apparently as an inducement to insure with them. This custom has of late years obtained to such an extent that the very existence of several of the smaller insti tutions has been absolutely imperilled by it, and it has formed a part of that gross mis management which has led to disastrous re sults. Moreover it has tended to create a wrong impression as to the real purposes of life insurance. The April number of the Protector alludes to the subject in these terms: "It ought to be more generally understood that insurance companies were organized for the express purpose only of equalizing life, or, in other words, to take advantage of a natural law, which enables them to estimate with aoou racy the average duration of life of a large number of persons, and thus give a single life the benefit of this calculation '." Byway of illustration it is stated that a man's expect ancy of life is of course the number of years which the average at his age will attain. To assure his life, therefore, a sum must be charged to him annually which, computed with four per cent, compound interest for the years of his expectanoy, will come to the amount for which he wishes to insure. With a view of meeting such contingencies as may possibly arise from increased mortality or from unforeseen causes, a small addition is made to this annual payment. This is briefly the principle upon which life insurance works. This paramount object being attained, it happens, however, says the I'rotcctor, that (he estimate for con tingencies exceeds, in well-managed compa nies, the necessities of the case. This arises in part from the fact that the rate of interest obtainable on investments is larger than what was taken into the calculation, and from there being certain other sources of profit to a com pany from lapsed and surrendered policies; a large fund denominated a surplus thus fre quently accumulates, which in mutual com panies is intended for distribution among their policy-holders. It will easily be understood that it takes some time to realize the enormous accumula tive power of compound interest an impor tant part of the foundation upon which the system of life insurance rests. It must, there fore, be manifest to every policy-holder that it is for his advantage to allow his dividends to collect for some years before touching them, as the compound interest alone gives a company much additional power to make re turns. The dividends will thus beoome pro portionably larger. The period selected by English offices to declare a "bonus," as it is called in England, is usually alter tne pay- niept of tne nttfi annual premium, and it lias been found io work more satisfactorily, biitu to the assurer and to the assured, than an earlier dividend. Such is a brief statement of the real facts surrounding the question; and we believe that those life insurance companies which will abandon the system of declaring ill judged dividends for the sake ef popularity will also, in the long run, commend them selves most to the favorable opinion of the public as being the more thoroughly con servative, and hence entitled to the greater confidence. KU-KLUX CLANGOR. From the S. T. World. Pennsylvania, onoe represented by Robert Morris and Albert Gallatin and Jamea'Ross and George M. Dallas and James Buohanan, baa now for Senators John Soott and Simon Cameron. They differ except in this: that they are both the dependants and agents and representatives of the huge corporation which is trying to bestride the nation do its bid' ding, and in their time have received its pay. Cameron's story, from the days of the Wiune begoes, through the varied phases of getting into cabinets and being turned out, as the leader of his own party said, for incapacity, down to the day of his latest exposition of the same negative quality in a new position, is pretty well known, lie rarely Bpeaks, but ex plodes occasionally in what may be termed the gossip of debate. He tells what oc curred at gentlemen's and ladies' breakfast tables, and puffs the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as in common gratitude he is bouEd to do, and here it ends. Tuo other Senator is of higher qualities. lie has practised law in the county courts, and has that training which a tolerably long course of squabbling, in Pennsylvania fashion, as attorney for the same railroad, with the presiding judge of his district is apt to give. To him has been delegated the duty of getting np the Ku-klux cuinpaigu docu ment for his party, and he has done so in a speech elaborately reported in the Ghbe, and now asks for and gets more money to keep the mill of venomous gossip going. This speech now lies before uh, aud certainly a more intluncLoly exhibition of iutellootuil degradation, in substance aud in style, in all our apprenticeship of this sort of stuff it hs rarely been our lot togazs upon. Our reiiers refd not imagine we are going to say much about it, though in its pretentiousness as a party mauifohto it deserves suae notice. It lr &t generally of "bandits" and "Thusja," "Draco" and the "Holy Vehmo," "Jauk Cadu" and "the Son of David, and thus oo-i-eludes, tnd to this passage a'one do we dvreut altiniior Over-vluJent laws against a premtlrfnt hivj lwu fulled. 1 tuiuk it was the Vlst KUiturd which ruar.ted that tvti tha lu'eut t 1mu or t kill 1 tie King should be high treason wlttnut au overt act; and lu two year after the act was paisul Richard II wan both deponed and murdered. Nr, air; Uie truth la this: lu North t'uroiiua furty thou sand, accord)!)? to estimate It in ly be t micti or It may Lio too little but certainly many th umn N of the iueu who were In the Rebel army, wearlug the Rebel grey, are now at night In the camp of the Kn klnx Klan, with the design of overthrowing the reconstruction acts and d'srranchlning the negro. A nd we cannot, shut our eyes to the fact that It the opportunity onVrs tne coiled serpent Is ready to strike. Tnere is the testimony of a witness on the stand who says that the subject has been discussed In their camps that if we get in a foreign war they will strike us la the back. This was the language ol Wllleford. There is the intent. And If we believe it, if we believe that the coiled serpent Is there ready to strike, the heel of power must be sufficiently shod to bruise Its head when It comes to light. Now a word as to the evidenee of the facts, rather than to the veterinary or smithy pro cess which is to be applied to the heels of our tramping President. This great conspiracy, looking so far forward to a distant Mur, in proved by one witness a vagabond journey man carpenter who had run away from Ca barrus county, North Carolina, who drinks bad whiRky on his way to Sabbath-school, and after helping to whip negroes "peaches" on his associates, and is rewarded by being honored by Governor Holden and paid mile age by henator bcott. inis is a simple state ment of his history as given by himself. The mode of examination by his friends on the committee ohiefly by Nye is delicious. We venture on one specimen the narrative of a frustrated attempt to drown a government detective whose moral tone, judging from the places he visited, was at least questiona ble. He says; Munroe was to get Mm out at one of these bad houses just on the river. Munroe said he had drank with Myers two or three times, and he could get him out: he would never think nothing of it, and then the other men was to go there and kill him and throw him Into the river. But there was an awful rain come up that night, and they didn't go. Perry saw me the next day or so, and said, "Tom, the cat tish naint eat tnat ieuow. it rained too hard." This was hardly specifio enough for the anxious, scrutinizing Nye for non coiistat but that the river might be tenanted by perch or nerring and we read: Q, Is that the kind of Ash that are found lntbe river there? A. Yes, sir. And thus in a "water haul" the story ends: Q. Did Mvers go away from Ktnston then? A, No, sir; he diu ut; he went backward and forward from Ktnston to Newberu, and they couldn't get him oil'. t. "Vou mean by that that they couldn't catch him? A No, sir; and then he catched some of them. Nor were the machinations of these Thugs directed only at human life the toppling of detectives in tne Tar or Neuse. As near loyal Philadelphia and disloyal Brooklyn, whisky made from what Nye calls with lovely alute ration "clandestine corn," seems to be dear to the Ku-klux heart. But the gravamen of Senator Scott's charge, "the coiling of his serpent," is the 40,000 Rebel soldiers who are organizing to renew the war and extending through the whole South; and thus the ex-negro whippor and smuggler proves it, winding up his testimony with a pleasant jest the farce after the tra gedy: Q. Did you learn from your commander, or other wise, that the order existed throughout the South ern States? A. Yes, sir; I heard hlra tell me them very words out of his mouth that it existed plumb through the Southern States; said they had a com plete line oi it. q. or what kind of people was the Ku-klux Elan composed? Was it made up of men who were in the Kebel army? A. Yes, sir; I don't believe there was one that belonged to it but what had been In the army. There was one little fellow, with one leg shorter than the other. I don't think he was in the army. Nor is "treason domestic" enough. We have "foreign levy" too: Q. Was anything said about foreign war? A. Yes, Blr;Iheard them say if there wasaoreiga war started up and the United States should take a hand in It, they could jump In on their backs and lick 'em out. (J Lick the United States' out? A. Yes, sir. r q. They said if the United States took a hand in it? A. Then Uicy could jump in on her back aud wool htr out. Nor it is hardly credible, but strictly true, that Senator Scott's venomous rhetorie and the projected legislation by which the iron heel of executive power ia to be more heavily planted have no other earthly foundation in the testimony than this, and for the aggrega tion of such stuff Congress has already spent $10,000. On such evidence as thin is the habeas corpus act to be suspended, martial law to be proclaimed, and the President, ac cording to his expressed wish, is to have military possession of the States south of the KoahoiS, with their htty-two electoral votes, till "the end of the next session of Congress" i, e.t till the very vergeof the Presidential election! "If," said General Blair, interrupting this Pennsylvania tirade with an emphasis that must, as did Colonel Newoome's objurgation of the lying Barnes, have made more than one cheek tingle "if the Senator makes statements as reckless as these, I leave it to the country to judge of a man who is so utterly reckless as to make such statements about things as to which he knows and can know nothing." On one point of Scrrtbern wrong-doing the Senatorial solicitor of the Pennsylvania ooai pany was at home the use of the State credit in buying up distant railroad bonds. "All our money," said one of the witnesses with a piteous wail that sounded like Harris burg "all our money has gone into the Florida Railroad, bo that we have got nothing, while they have got a road in Florida which js covered, with mortgage?, and we cannot reach it." This, however, is a branch of Ku-kluxism which we cannot now pursue. TnE BORDER CLAIM FOR RELIEF. From the Jlarruburg Patriot. For yet another time the people of the border counties of Pennsylvania make an appeal to the Legislature for the relief to which tbey are entitled. It is quite evident that their olaims are now reoeiviag more ne spectful consideration from the press of the State than formerly. There is no more of that ungenerous and often indeoent language in which a portion of the newspapers indulged towards the claimants, but there seems to be a disposition to discuss their demands in a spirit of fairness and moderation. If the in justice of the Legislature should oontinue, something has already been gained in induc ing the press to consider the merits of the claims instead 01 calumniating tne sunerers. The bill now before the Legislature simply provides that the taxes due the Common wealth from the border counties shall be de voted to the payment of these claims; and that rightful claimants be granted treasury certificates showing the amounts due them from this fund. The claims amount to about $ 2,700,000, as ascertained by a board ap pointed by a former Legislature. A revision of them is again to be made, and the utmost eare is taken in the bill to provide against the admission of any but such as are just and meritorious. It was those beggarly claims so improperly considered aud admitted by former boards, and paraded in the newspapers, which have provoked a general feeling of disgust, aud o"t odium and suspicion on the entire body of the demands of the people of the border counties. The injustice whloh selected those claims as examples of the looses iuourred in the rebel invasions was as conspicuous as the meanness which iaduoed the application for their payment. The conflagration of a pros perous town and the waste of flourishing farms were overlooked in newspaper rum maging for Charles Seltzer's ham and blaok coat. But much of that ungenerous spirit which conld discover no equity in the olaims of thousands of Union citizens has happily been exorcised, and the question can now be met in tne legislature in a Decoming ana statesmanlike manner. If the invasion had not spent its force on the border counties, but had extended over the entire State, spreading devastation and conflagration, and involving all in a common rnir, it will be readily granted that a claim could not arise against the publio treasury. All would be claiming indemnity for all, in a catastrophe in which all had suffered alike. To tax all for the payment of the losses of all would be multiplying the burdens and deep ening the publio calamities. In suoh desola tion of war as that which has swept over France indemnity for loss is out of the ques tion. Neither publio resources nor pnblio credit could bear the immense weight of debt that would be imposed on the nation. But such is not the case with the claims made by the people of the border. The shock of the invasion fell on five or six counties. In this region fields were laid waste, horses end cattle driven away, farm-houses and barns pillaged, and a flourishing town laid in ashes. In a single day hundreds of citizens were re duced from affluence to absolute want, and were compelled to seek shelter in the fields, guided by light from their burning dwellings. This was not the fate of other portions of the State. The people elsewhere in Pennsylvania were prospering, notwithstanding the inva sion. Many citizens enriched themselves in a war which brought in its train woe and de solation to the people of the border. The State is rich and able to pay those wh have suffered. No question concerning the public credit is involved. But the claimants ask only that the taxes due from the border counties which were swept by the invasion shall be devoted to the payment of the damages. The duty of the State to protect her citizens will not be denied. This obligation is recognized in numerous ways. For the sake of common defense the militia are organized, placed under the command of the Governor, and sent forth to repel invasion or to quell domestio insurrection. If that be not the duty of the State, Judge Black has said that he does not know what the State waa created for. When the State fails to defend her citizens from foreign invasion, or protect them from the violence of domestio insur rection, she must make good the losses sus tained. This obligation has been repeatedly acknowledged and the debt has been dis charged. PATENT OUTSIDES. From the Lancaster (Pa.) Inttlliyencer. Quite a number of country newspapers in this State are using patent outsides. That is, they buy their paper from a firm which for wards it to them with the outside already printed. The party who furnishes the patent outside not only makes nis own selections, but be has the right to publish therein a cer tain amount of advertising which he also selects without consulting the country jour nalist. A Republican editor in Mifflin county was astonished the other day to find bis paper sent to him with the whole fourth page taken tip by elaborate and extended puffs of Brick Pomeroy's Demo, orat. His contract required him to publish whatever was sent, and he conld not refuse to do what no doubt went sorely against his grain. The patent-outside system is a nui sance, and no live newspaper men would have anything to do with it. Every pub lisher ought to make his own selections with espeoial reference to the wants of his readers. The selections of a country news paper are fully as important as the original matter, and as much care should be bestowed npon them. What is suited to one locality would be out of place in another what would please one class of readers would be distasteful to others. No one can cull matter which will be suitable for fifty or a hundred newspapers published in different parts of the country at the same time. The editor who surrenders control of one-half of bis paper to some manufacturer of patent outsides may make a slight reduction in his current expenses, but in the end he will lose both money and influence. SPECIAL NOTICES. as?- office of the franklin fire in- SURANUE COMPANY, Philadelphia, April 8, 1871. At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held this day, a QUARTERLY DIVIDEND of KIUHT DOL LARS per share was declared, PAYABLE IN GOLD to the stockholders oa and after the 16th Instant, clear of all taxes. J. W. MCALLISTER, 4 4 lit Secretary. ts TIIE CHEAPEST AND BEST HAIR DYE IN THE WORLD, Harper' liquid Hair Dye Never Fades or Wattle Out, will change gray, red. or frosted hair, whiskers, or moustache to a beautiful black or brown as soon as applied. Warranted, or money returned. Only 60 cents a box. Sold by all Druggists. 8 28 tuthsOm THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire Extinguisher. Always Reliable. D. T. QAQB, 1 80 tf No. 118 MARKET St, General Agent. tiT DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 911 WALNUT ST, formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms, devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gaa. 11 IT m&f THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH a" Pnwni.:D la h hiut arfllo tar nlnnnRlnir and preserving the teeth. For sale by all Druggists. price 2S and 60 cents per bottle. 11 84 stuthly DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO. 218 8. ELEVENTH Street. Patients treated .gratuitously at tins institution 114 dally at 11 o'clock. WATOME. JEWELRY, ETOi GOLD MEDAL REGULATORS. U. W. It! SSQLL, No. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET, Begs to call the attention of the trade and customers to the annexed letter; TRANSLATION. 'I take pleasure to announce that I have given tc Mr. G. W. KL1 SHELL, of Philadelphia, the excluslv sale of all poods of my manufacture. He will be able to sell them at the very lowest prices. UUSTaV BKOKER, "First Manufacturer of Regulators, Freiburg, Germany. WHISKY, WINE, ETO. CAR 6TAIRS A McCALL, Bo. 126 Walnut and 81 Granite Sti., IMPORTERS OP Brandies. Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES, IN BOND AND TAX PAID. S3 ,1 GUN FAKNUM & CO.. COMMISSION M ER- ciiants aud Manufacturers of Conestofra Tick luff, etc. etc., No. vat CliBSNCT btreei, ruuaaei (ilia. CITY ORDINANCES. R E SOLUTION To Enter Satisfaction on the Bond ol Henry rblllirpl. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be and be is hereby Instructed to enter tntlsfactlon of the judgment entered on the bond of Henry Philllppl, on the seventh of October, 1870, to September Term, 1870, No. 850. D- S. B.. In the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, in the sum of ten thousand dollars: Provided, that in the opinion of the City Solicitor the interests of the city will not be prejudiced by such entry of satis faction. And provided further, that ten dol lars be first paid to the City Treasurer to de fray the expenses of the publication of this re eolation. HENRY HUFIN, President of Common Council. Attest John Eoxstkin, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL. President of Select Council. Approved this twentv-flfth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX. J61t Mayor of Philadelphia. E SOLUTION To Authorize the Gradine, Curbing:, and Paving Sidewalks on Centre Street in the Twenty-first Ward. Resolved, By the Select aud Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, That tha Chief Commissioner of Highways be and is hereby authorized and directed to notify the owners of property on Centre street, from Cres eon street to Wood street, to grade, curb, and pave the footway as on said Centre street, and if they fail to comply with the terms of said notice for thirty days from the service thereof, the Chief Commissioner shall cause the work to be done and charge the expense thereof to the property-owners. nENRY I1UHN, President of Common Council. Attest Abraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council, t SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX, 4 6 It Mayor of Philadelphia. II ESOLUTION Of Reauest to the City Solicitor. Whereas. There is now a Jury of View ap pointed to examine and estimate the value of the Perklomen turnpike, with a view to Its becoming a free road; and whercas.it is desi rable that the city should be represented by its law officer to protect the interest of the said citv: tnereiore. bo It Keeolved. By the Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor is requested, by himself or assist ant, to be present at the taking of testimony before the jury, in the matter of the taking of the Perkiomen turnpike by the city of Phila delphia. HENRY IIUIIN. President of Common Council. Attest Abraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council Approved this fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX, 4 6 It Mayor of Philadelphia. R ESOLUTION To Authorize the Opening of Holly and other Streets. Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways be and is hereby authorized and directed to notify the owners of property over and through which Holly street, from Lancaster avenue to Hutton street, Grape, Sycamore, and Aspen streets, from Thirty-ninth to Fortieth street, Lewell avenue from Beach street to the Cohocksluk creek, will pass, that at the expiration of three months from date of said notice said streets will be taken for public use, provided the same be dedicated to the city. nENRY HUFIN. President of Common Council. Attest Abraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX, 4 0 It Mayor of Philadelphia. I) ESOLUTION To Authorize the Repaying of Carbon Street, from Bainbrldge to Fitzwater Streets, with Tramway Stone. Rcsohed, By the Select and Common Coun cils of the Citv of Philadelphia, That the Department of Highways be and is hereby authorized and directed to repave Carbon street, from Bainbrldge to Fitzwater streets, with tramway stone in the tracks of the wheels; cost of said repavingto be taken from Item 4 of the appropriation for repairing streets. HENRY IIUIIN. President of Common Council. Attest Abraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. . SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX, 4 6 It Mayor of Philadelphia. ANT ORDINANCE To Authorize the Repavine of Federal Street, Between Twenty-Bixth Street and Gray's Ferry Road, in the Twenty-sixth Ward, with Cobble-stone Pavement. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways be and is hereby directed to have iederal street, be tween Twenty-sixth street and Gray's Ferry road, in the Twenty-sixth ward, repaved with cobble-stone, all ordinances to the contrary hereof withstanding. President of Common Council. Attest- John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL V. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-one (A. D. 1871) 3 V DANIEL M. FOX, 4 6 It Mayor of Philadelphia. AN ORDINANCE To Make a Further Appropriation to the rnftrtmnt of Hiirhwavs. Bridges. Sewers, etc. (Section 1. The Select and Common Couuclls rf tha Citv of Philadelphia do ordain, That tlie ,im nf fmir thousand f4000) dollars be and is hereby appropriated to the Department of Highways for the pnrpose of completing the grading on Paoll avenue, from Rid avenue to Washington street, the Twenty- first ward. HENRY IIUIIN, . President of Couiinou Council. Attest John Ecksiein. Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL V. CATTELL, President of Select Couucll. Approved this fourth day of April, Anno Dotuiul one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-one (A. D. 1871). pANIEL M. FOX, 4 6 It Mayor of Philadelphia. OITY ORDINANCES. 11 ESOLUTION To Approve of Contracts for the Erection of School Buildings in the Tenth and Fifteenth Wards. Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, Tha. the con tract dated March 29, 1871, between the city of Philadelphia, of the one part, and Philip II. Somerset, of the other part, for the erection of a school building on the nerth side of Race street, below Fifteenth street, in the Tenth ward, for the cum of ten thousand dollars, be and the same is hereby approved, and that David C. Moore, the surety therefor, is also approved. And that the contract dated the twenty-ninth day of March, 1871, between the city of Phila delphia, of the one part, and Charles C. Carman, of the other part, for the erection of a school building on the northwest corner of Twenty third and Shamokln streets, in the Fifteenth ward, for the sum of twentv-elght thousand seven hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby approved, and the surety therefor. Samuel F. Prince, is hereby also approved, and the Mayor of the city is hereby authorized toaflixibo corporate seal of the city to said contracts. IIKNRY HUIIN, President of Common Council. Attest Robert Betdki.l, Assistant Clerk of Select Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this fourth day of April, Anno. Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX, 40 It Mayor of Philadelphia. COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA. Clerk's Office, ) Philadelphia, March 17, 1871. J In accordance with a Resolution adopted by 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 Waterworks," is hereby published for public information. JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN FOR TnE EXTENSION OF THE WATER WORKS. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Major of Philadelphia be and he is hereby authorized to borrow at not less than par, on the credit of the city, two million one hundred ana twenty-two thousand dollars for the further extension of the Water Works. For which 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 the office 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, ia the usual form of the certificates of city loau, 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 eald certificates that the loan therein mentioned and the interest thereof are payable free from all taxes. Section 2. Whenever any loan shall be made by virtue thereof, there shall bo by force of this ordinance annually appropri ated out of the income of the corpo rate estates, and from the Bum raised by taxation, a sum sufficient 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 dally 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 'fan for the extension of the Water Works." And the said Clerk, at the stated meeting of Councils after said publica tion, shall pretent to this Council one of each of said newspapers for every day in which the same shall have been made. 3 17 &U ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO. PKNN STEAM ENGINE AN1 BOILJK3 i'VORKS NKAFLS & LEVY. PRACTI CAL AND THEORETICAL KNC41NEER8, MA. CHINI8T8, BOILKR-MAKKRS, BLACKSMITHS, and FOUNDERS, having for many years been In successfdl operation and been exclusively engaged in building and repairing Marine and River Engines, high and low pressure, Iron Boilers, Water Tanks, Propellers, etc etc., respectfully offer their services to tne publio as being fully prepared to contract for engines of all slzess, Marine, River, and Stationary j Having sets of patterns of dlffeient sizes, are pre pared to execute orders with quick despatcn. Every description of pattern-making made at tne shortest notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal Iron. ForgiDgs of all size and kinds. Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning, tcrew Cutting, and all other work connected with the above business. Drawings and specifications for all work done the establishment free of charge, and work gaa ran teed. , The subscribers have ample wharf dock-loom rot repairs of boats, where they can lie In perfect S'ifety. and are provided with shears, blocks, fail, etc. etc., for raising heavy oHlght weight. JOHN P. LEV Y, BEACH and PALMER Streets. QIRARD TCBE WORKS AND IRON CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA., Manufacture Plain and Galvanized WROUOHT-1RON PIPE and Bundrics for Gas and Steam Fitters, Plumbers Machinists, Railing Makers, Oil Ketlnera, etc. WOKKS, TWENTY-THIRD AND FILBERT STREETS. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, No. 4 N. FIFTH bTKKET. OROOERIE3, ETO. JONDON BKOWN STOUT AND SCOTCn ALB, In glass and stone, by the cask or dozen. ALBERT O. BOBEKT8, Dealer in Fine Groceries, Corner ELEVENTH and VINB Bta. II v l) u a u t; JACKS AND MAOH1NER7. PRICES REDUCED. GREATLY IMPROVED PUMP, Inclosed now dust, , , and piston guided top and bottom, rtduclrg wear ful.'y one-half. Jacks on hire, from 4 to 100 tons. jaL PHILIPS JUSTICE. j.hons SEVENTEENTH and COATES Streets. OUice-No. 14 N. FIFTH Street 8 18 stathlm SAXOT4 GREEN, Is frightef, wl'l cot Fude, Costs Less than any other because it will l'ulnt twice as much surface. MMI.V UV A 1.1. DEALEltl IN J. K. WEEKh & CO., Manufictureri, N I'J I N fUCiiril Nd Philadelphia. COTTOArLTuCKAND CANVAS, OF ALL. numbers and brand, Tent, Awniig, TrnnJt and Wagon-cover Duck. Alo, Paper Manuiao. turers- Drier Pclu, from Uiiriy f seveutj-itf teat with Pauims, ftraSU Ho. 10 CHURCH Btrtt icitf pioita.
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