THE DA II j V jSVfiNINU TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAT , APRIL 10, 1871.
sriiitr OF THE MESS.
EDITOBIAX, OrltaONB OF TOR LEADINO JOURNALS
UPON OURHEXT TOPICS COMPILED IVEBT
DAT FOB THE IVENINO TELEOBAPH.
ANOTHER LINCOLN ROMANCE.
From the A'. F. Tribune.
"We find a very absurd story ia a pUoo
where Dobody clothed in his right mind
would ever look for it on the first page of
Mr. Tilton'a Golden Age. It states tbat a
friend of Mr. Lincoln's, who had been absent
in Europe during the first year of bis admin
istration (when all of Lincoln's friends who
were worth killing were at home) returned to j
the land of the free only to find the Fresident
girded about by men who poured into his in
nocent ears day and night the most frightful
falsehoods about the state of the country,
which the golemovche Tresident swallowed
and digested with unsuspecting candor. This
wise and upright patriot revealed to the aston
ished Illinoisan the dense and opaque igno
rance in which his keepers were holding him,
and in reply to his piteous inquiry, "What
Bhall I do to be saved ?" suggested a simple
and sufficient remedy.
The candid friend who had rescued the
President from his moral prison-house had
other matters of more importance than the
salvation of the country occupying his mind,
and so oould not continue his enlightening
work. 13 at he had anotker candid friend, to
whom he offered the thorny position of
truth-teller in ordinary to his Excellency.
The honest magistrate, still in a sweat of
mortal terror over the awful peril that had
been revealed to him, abjectly accepted the
ministrations of this rugged confessor, and
"the bargain was faithfully carried out, great
ly to Mr. Lincoln's credit and benefit." If
the unknown geniuses who write the Dime
Novels neglect this plot, there is no use trying
to help such people.
The story lacks but one thing: we pine to
know the obscure patriot to whom we owe the
rescue of Liineoln from the sinister con
spiracy which came so near destroying him in
his green and salad days of government.
The editor certainly got the story from the
Candid Patriot himself, and should not have
withheld his name from the admiration of a
waiting world. lie is too wise and useful,
too large and juioeful (as the New England
poet said of the Rhode Island Greenings), to
remain in private life or to elied his oorusoa
tions around the backstairs of newspaper
offices. He should be in Washington to-day,
performing for General Grant the inestimable
cervices he rendered to his great and good
predeoessor.
There is a wonderful family likeness about
all this class of Lincoln anecdotes. The man
who tells them usually steadfastly believes
them. He first begins by thinking what he
would have said if he had seen the President.
He repeats this to the partner of his bosom,
and, encouraged by her loyal approval, he
cautiously recounts an imaginary interview
to the loungers around his country post
office. He becomes a looal lien by virtue of
his story, and at the tenth repetition of it he
is ready to swear to all the material state
ments, and then he cannot rest until he has
Been his invention in print. With persever
ance and worry he always accomplishes this
and if his story is sufficiently brief and im
probable to be tempting to editorial shears,
it gets copied and passes unchallenged
into history. This story, for instanoe, which
has imposed upon the very elect, is so stupid
that to believe it you require absolute igno
rance of the whole range of American history.
It represents the Exeoutive Mansion as an
Oriental palaoe, guarded by lords of the bed
chamber, and secluded from the outside
world. The President is an idiot of glimmer
ing good intentions, who cannot read or
write, who sees nobody but his jailers, and
gets no hint of the outside world until this
' adventurous friend bursts through his en
compassing enchantments and lets in the day
on his blinking eyes. Then he is ail candor
And goodness all good-will and teachable
ness and the war goes bravely on, and the
country is saved.
Now the good-natured zany described in
these romances (for the above is only oneof a
hundred which are current) was a man over
fifty years of age, who had practiced law sue
cessfully all his life, who had been in Con
gress and his State Legislature, who had
been (he leader of his party in Illinois for
twenty years, who was the most consummate
and far-seeing political manager in the Mis
sissippi Valley. He knew by education and
instinct the general drift and tendency of
American politics better than any man in
Congress, lie kept the mere politicians danoiag
about him like puppets to his piping. He was
honest, as statesmen go, but he never de
spised hiirran weaknesses and follies as
means of government. lie said one day, in
an hour of bitterness after closing a pro
tracted local squabble with a brilliant com
promise, "All there is of honest statesman
ship consists in combining individual mean
nesses for the publio good." Yet it is this
shrewd and sagacious schemer, this Macaw
avel of the back timber, who is generally
represented by recollectors and paragraph
ists as a snivelling sentimentalist, full of cre
dulity and enthusiasm, blown to red heat by
every blast of rustic patriotism which visited
Washington.
Those impatient gentlemen who went to the
Capitol to tell him what he should do remem
ber well enough the reception they mot with.
One of them, a prominent New York lawyer,
began, his remarks with the swelling phrase:
"Mr. President, the North having generously
offered yeu its last dollar and its last man"
was interrupted with the chilling retort
"That is poetical and not true. The North
gives not a dollar except on good seourity,
and every State in the North has protested
against its quota in the draft." The speech
was entirely spoiled, and the impatient pa
triot went home to construct his report of the
interview.
We do not wish to destroy any ideal of
moral worth. Our honebt men are not so
very numerous that we can afford to neglect
the signal instances of integrity in ouioe.
But it is not necessary to emptiasize a man's
iionesty ij running him an imbecile. And
the fatal fault of those Lincoln anecdote? is
that while they make the President a monster
of feeble goodness, tbey ex ilt and glorify the
recollectors into portents of sagacious pa
triotism. Tbey always present theiusblvus in
the attitude of putting .Mr. Lincoln on the
head; and we do not rc maiber any of tueui
who were tall enough tj perform t'aat fans-
tion with the giant of the hangamon.
THE TWO PARTIES.
From tht hT. Y. Time.
It is a lucky dispensation that whenever
the ltepuLlicaiis luhW uu uiistake the Demo
crats intlantly go and commit half a doen.
TLtre is no reason to suppose that the Demo
crats do this oat of any Hpocial regard for the
law of rompensation, which philosopher say
plays so important a part in the material uni
verse. The probability appears to be that
they go about sewing thorns in their own
path, because, as Dr. Watt says, "it is their
nature to." From one cause and another
the Republicans have of late years fallen lata
blunders sufficient to give their opponents a
solid ground to work upon; but at the very
moment Republicans are short-sighted, the
Demecratio loaders seem to be deprived of
common sense altogether; and thus the
people ee that Republicans, at their
worst, are safer men to deal with than Demo
crats at their best. It might be supposed
that a party was handicapping itself pretty
heavily in the race for power, when it under
took to carry on its back the noisy gentlemen
at the South who are for reviving those
"issues" of the war which everybody else is
anxious to forget. A worse slump orator for
any political organization than Jefferson
Davis it would bo hard to pick out. To
have him going round making speeches is
enough to crush any side with which he is
identified. But the Democrats are not satis
fied with this load. Perceiving that the
question uppermost in the minds of the intel
ligent classes is, whether r not a stop cannot
be put to the political corruption which has
assumed such alarming proportions, the De
mocrats come out and plant their flag on that
same corruption, and try to sneer down any
body who ventures to declare war against it.
Thus the World on Friday devoted a column
or so of ponderous irony to Mr. Evarts for
dariDg to speak in behalf of the publio inte
rests at a meeting of the tax-payers of New
Ycrk a meeting held to support the very
cause which the World pretended to be
eager to win less than a year ago. No doubt
this course of the World is consistent
enough in one sense, for it is said to have
attacked the corrupt members of its
party for a "consideration," and now it
defends them for another "consideration."
Still, it is a curious line of policy, in the
present state of public feeling, for even the
World to take a brief from the men whom it
described last spring as "drunkards," "in
solvents," and "swindlers." The World in
always complaining that no one supported it
in the days when it had bysterios about the
"loung Democracy, but the reason was that
nobody put any faith in it, not even the
Young Domocraoy itself, and events have
shown that the general suspicions were well
founded. Wben the gentleman who has just
relieved his neighbor of bis purse and watch
we do not mean Mr. Tilden's watch, which
was stolen at the Rochester Convention of
"scalawags" comes forward and expatiates
on the beauties of honesty, tho mildest treat-
merit be can expect is to be laughed at.
The Democrats generally are doing tho
work which Froviaence seeuus to have as
signed to them tbat is, working much
harder for the Republicans than the Renub
licans are working for themselves. Thev have
a real genius for lifting their opponents oat
of a scrape, and then winning their battles
for them. What is the use of Senator Sumner
opposing General Grant when the Democrats
are working so hard to strengthen him in
the confidence of the people ? Look at
the Connecticut election. It is almost im.
possible for the Democrats to have a bet
ter chance anywhere than they had there.
They can never,' for instance, find a better
man to put forward as their representative
than Governor English. He is universally
respected, he was faithful to his country
during the war, bis publio life is singularly
free from blemish. To make his prospects
brighter the other day, the Republicans were
much demoralized at the moment of election,
and were inclined to let things take their
course without an effort. There was a re
markable combination of ciroumstauoes in
favor of Governor English, and the leading
Democratic paper, the New York Herald, un
hesitatingly predicted his re-election by a
tremendous majority.
At this interesting point, what must the
Democrats do but hoist "Boss" Tweed on
Governor English's shoulders, like another
Old Man of the Sea. lhat finished the busi
ness at once. The moment the people saw
Tammany in the background, they took
mgbt. bo it will be everywhere. Have not
the Western leaders warned tho Democrats of
this city that they must either throw Tam
many overboard, or give up all hope of win
ning the Presidential election? This ad
vice, like the advice dootors often give, is
not easily followed. Strike away Tammany,
and what remains of the Demooratio party,
at least in the Eastern States? It is a
thing of shreds and . patches, without or
ganization or means with which to
fight an arduous campaign. It is
for this reason that many respectable Demo
crats wink at the big and little Bosses, in the
hope that when the party recovers its po er
it will be able to shake off all its incum
brances. Of course that would turn out to be
a delusion; but then Democrats always hug
their delusions as if they were realities. The
fact is, the Republicans would win in 1872 by
the infatuation of their opponents, if by no
thing else. We hope, however, to see them
adopt a more decided course. We trust they
will take up the question of purity against
corruption, and "peg away" at it as they did
at the slavery question. If they do that, the
Democrats may be safely trusted to ruin their
Earty by their own follies, and the ltepub
cans w ill occupy a stronger position thaa
ever.
THE COAL STRIKE.
From the X. Y. World.
There can be ni question that the miners
have put themselves grossly and terribly in
the wrong. .The right of their fellows to
work was as clear as their own right to refuse
working. Yet for an exercise of this clear
right they have shot down some of the work
ers, and bruised and maimed others in a bru
tal way. It is particularly a public misfortune
that they should have thus put themselves in
the wrong at the precise time when the public
had como to see and say that upon the Oiigi
nal merits of the question they were in toe
right. No man can defend the bloody pro
cesses of the miners' mob. Yet defendars of
the cause of the miners would have arisen all
over Pennsylvania and in all the ooal-oon-suming
States, and soon created a publio
opinion which would have compelled legisla
tures, never so careless or so venal, to put
the penalty of the stoppage of coal-ruining
where the blame of it belongs upon the
shoulders, not of the ignorant miners, but
of the eduoated and powerful operators in
coal. The voices of these champions are
for tbe present hushed and the causa cf those
whom they would have defended is incalcula
bly injured Ly the foolish and brutal haste of
the miners themselves.
We have shown heretofore, and at some
length, in the correspondence from the capi-
ihi 01 renusvivama puoiisned in iridiya
Work!, bow absolute and bow urbitrary the
powr of the groit carrying corporations,
which aro hUo the great mining corporations,
cf Pennsylvania is over both the person iu
their employ to wit, the miners and tho
ptipous iu whose employ they are to wit,
the public, consisting of tho o iA ooinuiuers
of fceveiel populous States, aui iwuiediatoiy
represented by the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania. These corporations claim, and, what
is more, they bave been suffered to exeroise,
the right to fix their relations, both with the
persons whom ihey employ and with the per
sons who employ them, by the standard
of their own sweet will alone. Met
proralione voluntat is equally the
explanation they vouchsafe of their
tariff 'mof wages in the mines and thoir
tariff of freights upon the roads. It is true
tbat a clause in the charter of eaoh of them
forbids it to charge more than a fixed sum
per mile per ton in freight upon coal. This
rate gives them in every case an ample
profit. But tbe clause which fixes it has been
rendered nugatory by the decision of a
Pennsylvania judge. This magistrate, who
could not find God in the Constitution of
the United States and agitated to put him
there, had no difficulty in finding Mammon
in the cluster of a PennBvlvanian mono
poly and deciding to keep him there and to
exalt him. By Lis decision and legislative
inaction the state of affairs has been brought
about which we have seen. By a simple
union of three great mining and carrying
corporations tbe production of coal in all
mines could be stopped, as it has been
Mop ptd, and the price of coal in all markets
put up, as it has been put up, to a limit
which to the poorest class of consumers
means terrible suflenng. By virtually stop
ping work in thoir own mines they enforced
a strike. By putting up the freights upon
their several roads they made the strike
universal, since their aotion forced the
smtller operators not in their ring to stop
work, ana prevented the miners who
are still at work from remaining in
a condition to supply aid and comfort to
the miners who were already on strike. Aa a
last resort against this oppression, which,
considering its motive, its conduct, the man
ner in which it was made possible, and the
number and character of the sufferers by it,
it is a temperate expression to call infamous,
the .Legislature was appealed to. The Legis
lature has responded by a measure which is
not only a denial of justice, but a derision
and a mockery of justice. What was left
for rude men with savage instincts,
and arms in their hands, who
had looked forward to this as the only
nope or peaceable redress To despair and
die quietly was the bidding of philosophy.
But tbe miners are no more philosophers than
tbe Indians of the plains. Nhey felt them
selves wronged, and though it was not in
their power to right thoir wrongs, it was in
their power to inflict some part of what they
suffered upon the men at whose hands they
una suuered it. This, with tho vindictive
neRS of nnregenerate man, and with a coarse-
nesj and brutality peculiar to ignorant man,
is what they have done. Their conduct is
indefensible, and society must interfere to
put them down and punish them. But the
criminality of their conduct ought not to
blind society to tbe fact that the real blame
of the quarrel is not npon their shoulders,
and that the real and permanent danger to
society is from an unscrupulous use of the
enormous, overshadowing, and oorrupt power
of great corporations, and not from a spas
modic outbreak on the part of a few hundreds
of riotous miners.
TnE SPANISH FUTURE OF FRANCE.
From Hit Fall Stall Gazette.
The persons who of late have taken the
gloomiest view of the future of France are
those who have made up their minds that she
is reserved for a destiny closely resembling
tbat of Spain. What, then, are the national
characteristics which have given its complex
ion to the miserable politioal history of the
Spain of our days? They are, first of alL an
extremely ill-educated population, divided
into the slaves of superstition and the dupes
of the newest and crudest of modern social
and political theories. Next, thero is a
whole cluster of pretenders to the throne
competing with the vague aspirations of a
number of persons who give to their dreams
the name of demooracy or republic. Then
there is an utterly demoralized army, con
scious of military imbecility and ashamed
of it, but consoling itself to a certain
extent by a sense of political importance in
its own country, and accustomed to be
called in to help one Bide or other in civil
disputes. Lastly, there as a vast amount of
national self-complacency, founded on an un
questionably glorious history, but just serv
ing to disguise the realities of the present and
to keep down the sobriety of temper through
i :v. , l it. - t - : .. i : i .
wiiiuu wuun mo ouio lot Ciiwuug evils GOUlu
be discovered, ana provided. Is France
really free from any one of these politioal in
urmiiiesr rome oi mem aro more con
spicuous in France than in Spain, a few are
1rs distinct; some are of old date, while
others are the result of the recent calamities.
But which of them is absolutely wanting? Is
it then really truo that the future of France
; a a
is 10 ue a iuture oi pronunciamentos? Is a
riotous mob to share the Government with
the fractions of a soldiery faithless to its mili
tary honor It would be idle to deny that.
upon all discernible probabilities, these
questions must oe answered in the affirma
tive, and that there is little whioh noints in
the opposite direction except the rarity of
perieci analogies Dei ween me politioal con
dition of any two communities.
We have very little doubt of the ultimate
suppression of the insurrection in Paris.
There is in the lust resort that power to bring
to bear on it which the Journal des Debate
names with tbe deepest shame, but yet names
the victorious German army. But the facts
remain that the new Government has at the
very outset to rely on military forco. and that
the force first used has provod faithless to its
colors. The French army is evidently des-
unea to ue me may oi wnatever civil power IS
established in France, and the French army
is in a condition of spirit and morality whioh
is wholly new in its history. It is difficult to
say which of the two parts of which this army
consists will be most dangerous to the civil
power, which must depeud on the support of
one of them or of both. The soldiers who
have continued the resistance of France since
the capitulation of Sedan are not trust
worthy. Tbe praises and exhortations of M
Gambetta, which were intended to spur them
on to victory, have probably unfitted
them to bear defeat, and they evidently smart
unuer me severe discipline wnion was neoas
sary to quality them lor real warfare. There
remain the prisoners who will shortly be re
turning in such multitudes. It is not known
whether M. Thiers bad abandoned the inten
tion of dibbanding the forces which had served
under Bontpartit-t general, but no suoh idea
can now bo entertained. It is only the old
soldier who can be trusted to fire upon a Pari
sian mob; but can the new Government trust
the old soldier? No great military bodv had.
up to the beginning of the war, been exposed
to so many demoralizing influences. The
eovp d'dat of 1851, whioh must have done it
infinite barm, was succeeded by the long de
bauehtry of the empire, and now, on the
top of all this moral injury, comes
the bitter hhauie of universal
defeat. What is the army
vthich rtturns from captivity likoly to loA
back upon for consolation? It is more than
probable that It will avert its eyfrom recent
disgraces, and it knows too much of the Ger
mans to be in any hurry to face them again.
But it will remember the lessons which it
learned during the twenty years of the Empire
the contempt lor the civil popalatlon which
was caremiiy insiuiea into it the votes
which it was invited to give for the purpose
of showing it that it was not a body separate
from the rest of the nation the opinion con
stantly impressed upon it that it was the
legitimate source ot civil power. Here are
tbe features in which the France of the future
will bave the strongest and the most cu
rious resemblance to tbe Spam of the present.
'1 here are some extremo parttsaun of the
German cause who have all along contended
that the condition to which Frauoe is iu
danger of being reduced is exactly that to
which she ought to be reduced. The only
way, they said, in which the great disturber
can be made incapable of disturbance is to
afflict her with the moral and material lnurim-
ties of Spain. She is so full of the elements
of disorder, ber divisions are so inourable,
ber vanity is so inordinate, that you have
only to humiliate her snfficiently and she will
fall into more than Spanish confusion, and
consequently into more . than Spanish help
lessness. Assuming the result to be attaina
ble and we admit tbat it is far more attaina
ble than could have been supposed even a
fortnight ago we believe that it would be
the most awful of disasters and the most
formidable of perils to every single con-
tintntal country, Germany iacluded. We
are persuaded tbat Europe could not bear a
Spain in the position of France. Except our
own country and our own country only
within certain limits there is not a single
community which would not stand in jeopardy
every hour if the speotacle and example of
Spain were close at its door. It is doubtless
a little strange that Spain has spread the
contagion of her disorders so little among
her neighbors. But then she has been sin
gularly isolated ever sinoe they began, ine
knowledge which both Englishmen and
Frenchmen bad gained of the bpanisn
people and territory during the Peninsular
war gradually died out. v ith the loss of
her American colonies, the commercial
intercourse which might have made her
better known became slack in the
extreme: her language was less studied
than any European tongue exoept the Rus
sian, and but for her insolvency she would
bave commanded less attention than Walla-
cbia or Bessarabia. Still, with all her isola
tion, it may be doubted whether her military
insurrections bad not much more inuuenoe
over events in France than is commonly be
lieved. However that may be, a Spain with
Paris for its capital, with a language spoken
by tbe educated class in every country, and
a liteiature universally read, with an empire
over fashion and taste of which nothing
could deprive it, would be a volcanic
force which would convulse the world or
compel tbe world to extinguish it alto
gether. It would be hard to say which
would be most dangerous the perpetual
dynastio or demooratio revolts of which a
France in this state would be the theatre, or
the military alliances which they would com
mand and by which they would triumph.
There are plenty of the elements of social
disturbance in Germany itself, as would be
admitted by Count Bismarck himself, who is
said to be even now hesitating about turning
the turbulent population of Mulhouse iuto
German citizens and subjects. But far more
infectious than the example of civil disorder
would be the example of military insurrec
tion. Nobody wfco thinks on the vast armies
which will presently fill Europe from end to
end nobody who recollects how artificial are
tbe constitution and moral code of
the best ordered armies, of armies on tbe
German system as much as any others can
let his mind dwell without dismay on the
prospect of pnetorian warfare perpetually
waged in the very centre of Europe. We
have little hope that the German statesmen
in their present temper will resign any part
of tbe advantages they have extorted; but
we are not tbe less sure that if they knew
tbe true interests of their country, they would
at the final settlement of the terms of peace
at least consider whether, by doing so much
to render all future trench Governments un
popular, and therefore temporary, they bave
not provided for themselves a permanent
danger far more serious than an ambitious
and irritable neighbor.
A PRECIOUS BONE.
From the If. F. World.
On tbe top of a high peak in the Oriental
seas whence our great forefather, with Eve
under bis arm, stepped from the island para
dise into continental Asia and the wicked
world before him is a holy temple, and
there, in one of its most gorgeous shrines, is
kept and to be kept in $etula seculorum the
sacred tooth of Buddha. Whether it is a
"molar" or a "bicuspid" or an "incisor,"
whether it was by some ununeal hand
wrenched from the prophet's gums or is the
surviving witness of his masticatory exist
ence, we know cot; but there it is, and there
by pilgrims from all climes it is worshipped.
No other remnant of humanity so remote
survives, jsext to teeth in point of dura
bility, as we all know, are bones; and to the
preservation of classio and sacred bones we
are glad to see the attention of this irreverent
nation of ours is at last turning, not
merely in cemeteries and vaults and tombs,
but in museums and above ground and in
the sight of man. We are to have oar
Buddha's tooth.
"We learn this from that eminently loyal
magazine called IJppineott't published in
Philadelphia, though edited, we believe, in
Boston, literary ability being the only domes
tic fubiio not protected in Pennsylvania
where we find a lovely description of the
Army Medical Muaaum at Washington, hlled.
as we learn, with all the attractions of
"normal anatomical preparations, "thin sec
tions of diseased tissues, "on the podura
scale, w ith the ' 'grammatophera subtillisima.
the surrlsella gemma, and the nineteenth
band of Robert's plate. But this is not all.
There is a sentimental side of this chamber of
horrors. On a shelf by themselves for rank
will even survive in ashes "stand side by side
fpecimens derived from the mutilated limbs
of seven general officers, put there with tbe
run approbation of tbe distinguished gentle
men whose wounds furnished them. No
names are given, no members specified; all
we know is the owners still survive, and that,
as the commemorative writer sagaciously in.
forms us, "no critical eye can distinguish
them from the similar mutilations of subal-
terts, or even private soldiers." Milroy'a
tibia, slightly bit as he ran away from Win
chester, cannot be told from his who beat the
retreat alongside. But the interest vastly in-
tensities when we hear that, "As a memorable
example, wben at Gettysburg the gallant
Header of one of our army corps was struck
down by a fragment of shell, which shattered
tne bones of bis leg to such an extent aa to
tender amputation necessary, the first thought
of the sufferer after the shock of the
operation was of the museum at Washing
ton, to which he ordered the broken bone
to t e rent, in tbe hope that his misfortune
might prove the gain of fellow-soldiers in the
future. White modesty here. oo, reus the
name of Mm to whom once belonged the
fractured leg, no one can doubt whose it is.
Tbe touching wish expressed in the agony of
amputation alone reveals it. "Don't give up
tbe sbip "Kiss me, Hardy "I die con
tent," are tbe sentimental, unpractioed utter
ances of wounded heroes on shore and afloat;
but who but our Sickles would, the moment
tbe tourniquet was taken off, think of sending
his "astragalus" to the anatomical museum?
Then such a leg! Such a footl What associa
tions cling around it! Is it not the foot which
be "put down" so firmly when Mr. Peabody
asked him to do honor to royalty? Is It not
the leg, or one of them, on which ho refused
to stand at tbe Star and Garter when the
yueen a Health was drunk? is It not tne reg
on which he pivoted on tbat Sabbath day
when be shot to death an unarmed man in tho
streets of Washington? Is it not that which
did such good service when Stonewall Jaok
son broke in on the 11th Corps at Chanoel
lorsville, and the loss of which saved its pro
prietor from a court-martial at Gettysburg?
All we know is, it is not tbe leg, for it sur
vives, whose pregnant hinges crooked to a
Radical President and fawned successfully for
office. Still it is a precious member. May it
last as long as Buddha's tooth, and have as
many intelligent worshippers!
SPEOIAU NOTIOES.
ray OFFICE OF THK FRANKLIX FIKB IN-
SUKANUfi COMPANY,
PHILADELPHIA, April 8, 1971.
At a moctlnir of the Board of Directors, held this
day, a iUAKTEKLY DIVIDEND of ElIIT DTL-
LAKS piT Blinre was declared, I'AY AISLiK IN
to the stockholders oa and after tho lMti Instant,
clear oi ail taxes. J. w. MCAXL.13 rii.1t,
4 4 lit ancretary.
trtf- la K UOAHD 1F DIKKUTUKS VV THK
mw LEHIGH VALLEY RAtLKOAD COMPANY
have declared a rmarerly dividend of TWO AND A
HALF PBR CENT., payable at their office. No. 803
WALNUT Street, up stairs, on and after SATUR
DAY, April 10, lb.l. X, CHAM biiKLAlN,
b bi iinwtAio Treasurer.
ifc- BATClIELOK'S HAIR DYK. TniS SPLKN-
did lla'r Dve Is the best In the world, the only
true ana perfect vye. Harmless Keiiame instan
taneous no disappointment no ridiculous tints
"Vote w f ronram Ltwx nor any v italic rouon to n
jvrMbt Hair or Sntem." Invigorates the llairand
leaves It soft and beautiful : Black or Brown.
Bold by all Dropplsts and dealers. Applied at the
Factory, No. 16 BOND Street, New York. (4 8T mwfi
jfcf THK UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Kxtlcirulsticr. Always Reliable.
D. T. OAOB.
80 a No. 119 MARKET 8L, General Agent.
JOUVIN'S
KID OLOVB CLEANER
cloves equal to new. For sale
by all drupirlHta and fancy goods dealers. Price 85
a rn.v pviicu
cents per bottle. 11 28mwfi
WW- DR. F. R. TnOM AS. No. 911 WALNUT ST.
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms.
devotes his entire practice to extracting tenth with
out pain, witn iresa nitrous oxiae gas. ii in
DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO.
Ot Q PIBVl'MTIl Strut
Patients treated .gratuitously at this Institution
aauy at ii o ciock. i 14
EPUOATIONAU.
II
AKVARD UNIVERSITY,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.,
Comprises the following Departments:
Harvard College, the University Lectures, Divinity
School, Law School, Mellcal School, Dental School,
Lawrence Scientific School, School of Mining and
Practical Geology, Bussy Institution (a School ol
Agriculture and Horticulture), Botanic Garden, As
tronomical Observatory, Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Peabody Museum ef Archaeology, Episcopal
Theological School.
The next academlo year begins on September 23,
IS71.
Tbe first examination for admission to Harvard
College will begin June 89, at 8 A. M. The second
examination for admission to Harvard College, and
the examinations for admission to the Scientific
and Mining Schools,; will begin September 83. The
requisites for admission to the College have been
changed this year. There is now a mathematical
a'ternatlve for a portion of the classics. A circular
describing the new requisites and recent examina
tion papers will be tcalled on application.
I NIVERSITY LECTURES. Thirty-three courses
in 1670-71, of which twenty begin in the week Feb
ruary 12-19. These lectures are intended for gradu
ates of colleges, teachers, and other competent
adults (men or women). A circular describing them
will be mailed on application.
TUB LAW SCHOOL has been reorganized this
year. It has seven instructors, and a library of
16,(00 volumes. A circular explains the new course
of study, the requisites for the degree, and the cost
of attending the school. The second half of the
year begins February 13.
For catalogues, circulars, or information, ad
dress J. W. HARRIS,
6 8m Secretary.
T7DQEHILL SCHOOL
MERCHANTVILLE, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
The session commenced MONDAY, April If,
1671.
For circulars apply to
Rev. T. W. CATTELL.
ACOl fcTUS K1NKELIN, TEACHER OF PIANO,
can be engaged for Dancing, Parties, Enter
tainments, etc. Orders by mall from suburban resi
dences punctually attended to. Residence, No. 110
b. tm t i 11 fciretr, ueiow unesoub a ia im
MILLINERY,
Ttf B 8. R.
OIL
NOS. 823 AND 83X SOUTH BTREET,
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, CRAPK
VEILS.
Ladles' and Misses' Crepe, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin,
611k, Straw and Velvets, Hats and Bonnets, French
Flowers, Hat and Bonnet Frames, Crapes, Laces,
Silks, batlcs, Velvets, Ribbons, Sashes, Ornaments
and all kinds of Millinery Goods,
OORDAQE, ETO.
CORDAGC.
Manilla, glial and Tarred Gordafc)
at Low act Rw York FriOM and VrtKfhU.
EDWIN IL VITLKIi CO.
VMtoir, TOOTH Bt and QSBJf AKTOWZf Avanoa.,
Una. Ho. IS . WATER Bi. and a IL DSLAWAKB
Avaaaa,
PHILADELPHIA
TOHN S. LEE k 'CO., ROPE AND TWIN
(J NAM 'JTACTCKKKH,
DEALERS IN NAVAL STORES,
ANCHORS AND CHAINS,
SHIP CHANDLERY OOODS. ETC.,
Nos. 44 and 48 NORTH WHARVJtii
FOR SALE A NEW STEAM YACJT,
- i. proved a good and faai aea-boac In the DtH
ttiel!ay; eight toui; has all Uie requirements of
the new 1 nnd htatea law, Ufe-preaerveM, ew.
Now lvlna at Arthauibauli'a whrv', Reach and
Vienna strata. Apply to SAML'LL WR1UHT, No.
Vll MARKET bUeet, dally, between 1 and
1 o'clock.
yn- I L S O N 8
CARPET CtKASlXO
ESTABLISHMENT,
4 1 8m No, on South bEYENTEENTU btreet.
SAFE PEQ8IT COMPANIES.
fHK PENNSYLVANIA C'JSIPASY
FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES AND
GRANTING
ANNUITIEG.
Office No. 304 WALNUT Sired.
INCORPORATED MARCH 10, 1813.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL ftl.OOO.OOO.
6TJBPLTJS TOWARDS OF $750,000.
Receive money on deposit, returnable on demand.
for which Intercut Is allowed.
nd under appointment by Individuals, corpora
tion", and conn, acts
EXECUTORS. ADMINISTRATORS, TRHSTKBS,
fll' 1DTM 1K1Q lUCIlMtL-tl KkifulTmL'IKJ
vi i 1 ii i v i 1 r '( a, no i" ii M-j i', i nn i rr.TL
RhL'KI VKKS, AOKNTH. COLLECTORS, ETO.
And for the faltliinl performance ot lis duties as
such all Its assets are liable.
CITAItLES DUT1LII, Piesldcnt.
William B. Hill, Actuary.
DIRHCTORS.
Charles Pntllh, Joshua B. Mpplnrott,
Ururr J. Williams, Ic'haries H. Hutchinson.
WillUm S. Vaux. il liulluj Siinth.
Ji.hn R. Wnchercr, (icoore A. wood.
Anoipti K. none, "Anthony j. Antelo,
Alexander lilddle, Charles 8. Lewis,
uenry Lewia.
gECURITY FROM LOS8 BY BURGLARY
liOBBEUX, FIKK, OK ACCIDENT.
The Fidelity Insurance, Truafr M
Safe Deposit Company
OF PHILADELPHIA
IK THE IB
New Marble Fire-proof Building,
Nos. BW-881 C1TESNUT Street.
Capital subscribed, lUWO.oon; paid, 1700,000.
COtTPON BOND& STOCES. 8ECirniTIll..
V1IIITV DTiniD . I XT ItCLTikl -J ....... r .
of every description received for safe-keeping, ondor
guarantee, at very mutiernie rates.
The Company also rent SAFES INSIDE THEIR
Bt'ROLAK-i'ROOlf VAULTS, at prices varyln from
f IS to fits a year, according to slzn. An extra else
ror corporations ana nan iters, uooms and desk
adjoining vaults provided for Safe Renters.
DEPOSIT8 OF MONEY RECEIVED ON INTB
REST at three per cent., payable by checic. wlthoa
notice, and at four per cunt., payable by check, o
ten days' notice.
TRfST FUNDS AND INVESTMENTS kent
S El' A HATE AND APART tr nt assets of Company.
INCOME COLLECTED and remitted for one pe
cent
TBATORS, and (1UAHD1ANS, and KLUtlVE and
EXECUTE HiL'STS of every description, from tne
Courts, Corporations, and Individuals.
N. B. BROWNE, President
O. 11 CLARK, Vlce-ITealdent.
ROBERT PAT1RBSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
U1RECTOKS.
N. B. Browne, , Alexander Henry,
Clarence U. Clark,
John Welsh,
Charles Macalester,
I I. W I urunhAti A I 'Ql(1 1T 1 T
1. uv I'.... .1 (A. ' . IT U 1 . ,
George F. Tyier.
Henry C. Mlbson.
Edward w, uiara,
J. UUilngham Fell.
Henry Pratt McKean.
15 13 f mwt
THE PHILADELPHIA TRUST,
SAFE DEPOSIT
AND
INSURANCE COMPANY,
OFFICE AMD BCHOI.AB-FROOr VAULTS IW
THE PHILADELPHIA BANK BUILDING,
No. in OHESNUT STREET.
CAPITAL, $A00,0OO.
Fob Safb-xebpino of oovbknmbnt Bonds and
other SEcirarms, Family Platb, Jewelbt, and
other Valuables, under special guarantee, at the
lowest rates.
The Company also offer for Rent, at rates varvins
from f 16 to (70 per annum, the renter holdlutr tho
key, SMALL SAFES IN THE BUKULAR-PHOOF
VAULTS, affording absokite Security azalnatFiaa
Theft, Bukolaky, and Accident.
ah ouuciary obligations, such as trusts, Guar
dianships, EJCEccTORsnirs, etc., will be undertaken
and faithfully discharged.
A U trwtt investment are kept separate ana apart
from tne Company'e aenet.
circulars, giving run uetaua, i or warned on appli
cation.
DlIUECTUKS.
Thomas Robins.
Benjamin B. Comervt.
Lewis K. Asnnurst,
Augustus Heaton,
F. ltatctiford Starr,
Daniel Haddock, Jr.,
Edward Y. Townsend.
J. Livingston Errlngcr,
R. F.McCullagh.
Edwin M. Lewis,
James L. Claghorn,
John D. Taylor,J
Hon. William A. Porter.
.UFF1CKHH.
President LEWISR. A8UHURST.
Vice-President J. LIVINGSTON ERRING EK.
Secretary R. P. McCULLAGH.
Treasurer WM. L. DUBOIS. 8 8f mwt
PITY ORDINANCES,
COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.
Clerk's Officb, I
Philadelphia, March 17, 1871. j
In accordance with a Resolution adopted by
tbe Common Council of tbe cltv of Philadelphia
on Thursday, tbe sixteenth day of March, 1871,
tne annexed dut, entitled, "An ordinance
creatine a loan for the extension of the
Water Works," is hereby published for public
information.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common CounclL
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN FOR
THE EXTENSION OF THE WATER
WORKS.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils
of tbe city of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby
authorized to borrow at not less than pax, on
the credit of the city, two million one hundred
and twenty-two thousand dollaia 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 th first
days oi January and July, at the ollice 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 tame, and not before without
the consent of the holders thereof; and tba
certificates therefor, in the usual form of the
certificates of city loan, shall be issued in such
amounts as the leudera 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 bo ex
pressed in eaid certificates tbat the loan therein
mentioned and the lnterebt thereof are payable
free from all taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan stall be
made by virtue thereof, there shall be by
force of this ordinance annually appropri
ated out of the income of tbe corpo
rate estates, and from the sum raised by
taxation, a sum sulllcicnt to par the interest en
said certificates; and the further sum of three
tenths of one per centum on the par value of
such certificates so lesued shall be appropriated
quarterly out of said income ana taxes to a
sinking fund, which fund and its accumulations .
are berefty especially pieugea ior me reaemp- f:
tion and payment of eaid certificates. f '
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 IB, lb71, entitled "An ordi
nance creating a oan for the extension of the
Water Woika." And the eaid Clerk, at the
staled meeting of Councils after said publica
tion, rhall preteut to this Council oue of each
of said newspapers for every day In which the
turue thall have been made. 3 17 'Hi
rpiIK ST. CLOUD."
This new clepxnt and commodious Orst-cUta notel,
on AUCU Street, above tSKVtNl'U,
How open.
Te una. 13 nr dav.
4 1 tm O. W. M I.XUN A bRO., Proprietors.
IOHN FARM M & CO., COMMISSION N Kit
chant h and Manula tutorit or l uut'biupa Tli k
lug, etc etc., N". fi CHhiSVT bircct, l'Uilaicl-plita.