TEL DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1871.
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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
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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.