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WTIAT TO DO WITH THE SOUTH.
From, Every Saturday.
From the careful review we endeavored to
make last week of what are succinctly and
fairly enough called the Ku-klux outrages of
the South, we think there will be no diffi
culty in inferring their true charaoter, so far
as BDy common character is discernible in
them. In a word, they are the natural
sequel of the War of the Rebellion, with its
immense social and political changes as
natural in their way as those disturbances we
are now witnessing in Paris, or those
milder ones which we know must exist
in Alsace and Lorraine. Nothing could
have prevented them, except the pre
servation of the exact condition of the
South before the war, and that was impossi
ble. The Rebellion was not like heat light
ning, which flashes across the sky without
premonition or result. If, as one of its
pioneers declared, it took thirty years to
bring it about, we cannot expect it to wholly
subside in six years or ten. Given, there
fore, the almost entire white population of
one section of the country, not only de
feated in their 'great expectations" of set
ting np a pro-slavery government, but com
pelled to encounter the emancipation of four
millions of chattels, and their endowment
with all the rights of citizenship, the whites
themselves in the mean while being sub
ject to the always trying rule for Amerioans
of "taxation without representation" and
we have the very conditions precedent of a
disturbed state of sooiety. Especially is this
true when we consider the virulence of race
antipathies, the domineering characteristics
fostered by slavery among the late masters,
and the indiscretions and occasional abuse of
their privileges committed by the new black
citizens of the South, abetted . by their white
allies, the carpet-baggers, so-called. , On the
whole we do not tbiuk that the future histo
rian of this era will be at all surprised at the
Southern disorders which he will have to set
down for the years 1870-71, while possibly
his surprise may rather be at their limited
extent.
The main question, then, is not as to the
quality, but as to the quantity of the disturb
ance complained of, for that determines the
character of the remedies to be used. In the
first place, do we have before ns the begin
nings of another rebellion or anything in the
nature of war? because if we do, the Govern
ment ought to lose no time in drawing, in
one form or another, upon the armory of the
war powers of the Constitution. Vfe have
shown in our previous article that the dis
orderly events or "outrages" at the South are
scattered, occurring mostly in remote and
thinly settled districts; that there is no
evidence of their having . increased
during the last year; that they indicate no
political combination, and that they are not
formidable, unless there is some oomraon
ulterior purpose working through them. That
there is among any of the Southern leaders,
acute enough to be dangerous, any thought
of war against the Federal Government,
cannot be possible. There is more wisdom
on this subject at the South now than
there was in 1801. With Lee dead and
Longstreet a Republican office-holder, with
the government of the Union manner by
Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan, and stronger
than it ever was at the most triumph
ant hour of the late war, it would
surely be absurd, if not cruel, to charge the
South with the design of renewing the Lie
bellion in these times. It follows, therefore,
that the Government also may put up its
sword. The exigency is not warlike. De
plorable and extraordinary as it is, serious as
it may be, it requires the exercise only of
constitutional and legislative powers. It is
to be remembered that the Government itself
has voluntarily closed the war period, even
while these outrages were going on, by re
storing all the Southern States to their legal
relations with the Union. This was an assu
rance and a pledge that henceforth nothing
but peaceful measures were to be employed,
such measures as might be of permanent and
general applicability. Let that programme
be followed out. ' The Government is strong
enough to be just, if not generous.
So far as the Ku-klux demonstra
tions are aimed against impartial
suffrage or equal rights, there is to be no
compromise with them. The faith of the na
tion is pledged to the maintenance of all tke
rights of citizenship granted to the freedmen,
and there must be no failare in this respect.
The fourteenth amendment appears to have
somewhat widened the powers of the Federal
Government to discharge this duty, and we
should be glad to see some measure similar to
Mr. Shellabarger 8 bill, divested or its clearly
objectionable features, adopted by Congress
for that purpose. It should not stretch the
authority of the Federal Government a hair
beyond its constitutional limits, or trenoh in
the least upon tne clear nents oi tne btates,
for that, as we have shown, is not required
by the facts of the case, and would establish
a precedent prolific in abuse and full of
dancer.
Attending this measure, or standing by
itself as the best, if not the sufficient remedy
for existing evils, should be an act of general
amnestv. To this, too, the Government is
pledged as the natural, logical, and neoessary
consummation oi uts reconstruction policy.
Manifestly it is to come some time why not
cow? The withholding it thus far has aggra
vated every evil of the situation. The disa
bilities rightly at first imposed upon the
Rebels have come to be, with the avowed re
turn of peace, not only a badge of disgrace, a
constant source of irritation, festering and
oisoning even where it is not breaking out
n Ku-kluxism, but a denial of obvious jus
tice to those who pay the taxes of the South
and own the greater part oi the property,
and are as deeply concerned as any in its
interest, but are yet denied any share in the
control of legislation. This is a wrong which
drives the best element of the onoe rebellious
South into the attitude of alliance with the
Ku-klux miscreant. It is time that the Gov
ernment withdrew the pressure. It cannot
recall th carpet-baggers nor elevate their
character, but it can give every citizen the
full muniments oi legal right and self-defense.
It can never allow the negro to be deprived
of his ballot, but it can put his old master on
the 6ame level with him. It cannot oorrect
the evident abuses of the Southern State
Governments, but it can let all the Southern
people, like aU the Northern, order their own
local government as they please. It cannot
discriminate between the political parties of
the country, but it can enable the loyally dis
posed Democrats of the South to exert a
most salutary influence upon the mischievous
elements of tLeir own party.
Rut it may be urged that it is not said to
make this concession. Then the Government
oucht not to have closed the war period, and
returned to the conditions of peace involving
this. If, however, the question of safety were
really in doubt, it would still be by all means
advisable in the Government to clear its skirts
of wrong, to throw the whole responsibility
on its assailants, and t make the issue clear
to every right-minded man in the country
; - It . . - . . . .
especially wnen, as we nave already saia. it is
master of the situation. But it is on the very
ground of safety, as well as of justice, that
amnesty commends itself. If the Republican
party cannot look at the matter in this light,
it might at least consult its own interests in
reference to it. As it is now. that party
makes the twofold mistake of reinforoing its
antagonists with a good grievance and of
enabling them to act covertly. If there is to
be any alliance between disloyalty and
Democracy, the Republicans, in order to
Bhow the scope and character of the alliance
before the whole country, could well allord,
in a party point of view, to let even Jefferson
Davis return to the United States Senate. But
no patiiotic Republican would thank us for seri
ously arguing the question of amnesty on that
low plane; it is essentially a national and
moral question.
"SIIPLIT UP OLD VAN PRONK."
From the D. T. Tribune.
Everybody knows the story of good Mrs.
Dietrich Van I'ronk. She was a worthy
Dutch wife, and very fond of Dietrich.
When he died, she thought herself incon
solable, and in her despairing loneliness hit
upon the expedient of having a statue of
an I'ronk carved in wood. This she kept in
the guest chamber, visited it often, and tried
to feel that her house was still not without a
head. But before loner there came to see the
Widow Van Pronk a handsome young shoe
maker of the neighborhood. He came often;
he came every day; it was plain what the
young shoemaker intended. When this had
cone on for two weeks, one morning the
widow of Dietrich was told by her servants
that the kindling wood was all gone. "Ach !
ach!" says she, "maybe it ish veil enough
now to shplit np old an Pronk vat ish up
stairs!" History kindly forbears to pursue
the narrative further. We are not told
whether the shoemaker turned out a good
husband or not, nor even whether he mar
ried Mrs. Van Pronk at all.' If he chanced to
come in at the niement when the bits of poor
Dietrich were piled up in the chimney-place
to light the hre, he might well have hesitated
about slipping into his shoes. But the inte
rest of the story and its moral begin and leave
on together, at the point of the widow s haste
to make way with all visible sign and token
of Van front.
We have been reminded of this story again
and again in tbe course of the last few weeks.
by the reckless, hasty tone of comment and
suggestion all over the land in regard to the
Kepublican party. We are told that it is
dead; that it must be buried, and the sooner
the better; undertakers, with and without
references, flock to the front; administrators
are ready to take caarge of the effects; the
business, if carried on, must be carried on
under a new name; and it is doubtful even
then if it will thrive, etc., etc., etc., until we
are heartsick of the inconstancy, shallowness,
impatience, and folly of our own kinspeople.
lhere was never a political party in this
country which had so inherent a hold on the
country was so purely and it may be said
organically indigenous to it as the Republican
party. There was never a political party in
this country which bad a name so inherently
representative of its name, its principles, its
quality. Swarming bustlers aud greedy self,
seekers may do their worst and their utmost;
there will always be in this country a Repub
lican party that is, a party that believes in
not only a republic, but our republic: a
party that believes in a democratic repnbho,
and not an aristocratic one, like those which
died on the Mediterranean shores, or like
that which under a false nane struggles for
life to-day in Queen Victoria's little island!
a party that believes in a democratic republio
which is a nation, and not a con federation!
This central principle makes as eternal and
unchangeable link, as eternal and unchange
able barrier, as the mountain ranges which
bind the solid earth of our continent. And
it is disheartening and exasperating to see
petty issues, petty alienations, rising into
buch prominence, forced into such antago
nism as to binder the working and imperil
the success of the great body of faithful,
earnest men who have at heart the welfare of
such a republio. If the Republican party
ceases to bear that name on its banners, it
will bave to make a worse one, for there is
none so good; 11 it allows itself to - be
diverted from main aims, bullied, or caressed,
or cheated into mistakes, it will simply
double or treble its ultimate burden double
or treble its years of hard service. . But its
worst enemies are, as is always the case in
life, "of its own household," and to such we
say good-naturedly, but earnestly, we have
not married the shoemaker yet; it is to be
hoped we shan't; don't be in such a hurry to
bhplit np Van l'ronlc ! lie would still be
found an uncommonly lively sort of corpse.
THE SOUTHERN IMPRAOTIOABLES.
From the H. Y. WtUL
There was a man In our town,
Aud he was wo nil rout wise;
Be jumped luto a bramble-bush
And scratcned out both his eyes.
Bat when he saw his eyes were put,
With all his might and mala
Be jumped Into another bush
And scratched them in again."
This marvellous reoipe for restoring the
lost organs of vision, which excited the won
der of infancy in that dawn of the faculties
when nursery rhymes were choioe literature,
seems to have been adopted as a model of
political wisdom by a few fossil politicians
and journals of the South. I he "bramble
bush" which seems so picturesque to the
wondering inexperience of budding patriots
who bad just exchanged long-olotnes for pan
talettes, prefigured Northern publio senti
ment, into which the South jumped in
18C0-G1, and "scratched out both its eyes."
And now, ten years later, it is proposed to
jump into the same bramble-bush and scratoh
tbe lost eyes in again !
It is the nearly universal opinion here in
tbe North, that the Southern leaders made a
mistake in jumping into the bramble-bush
and getting the precious orbs ''scratched
out." If they had not chosen to split the
Democratic party in twain in tbe Charleston
Convention in 1800, nothing could have been
easier than to crevent the first election of
Mr. Lincoln. Whether Mr. Douglas was a
patriot and a statesman is a question which
we will not discuss. We suppose it will not
be disputed that he was ambitious; that he
had set his heart upon the Presidency; or that
he was a competent judge of the drift of
publio sentiment in the Nortuern States,
He knew that neither he, nor anybody,
could be elected on an extreme Southern
platform. What did the South gain by ro
lectina him? Why, they insured the eleo
lion of Linooln; and the practical result of
their taction was to bring into power an
avowed enemy instead of a judicious friend.
It was tLo niobt btupeudous miatuka that
Southern politicians ever made. The South
jumped into the bramble-bush, and soratohed
out both its eyes. In pursuance of the same
blunder, tne ftoutn relinquished all its advan
tages after Lincoln was elected. If the
Southern members of Congress had not re
tired there would have been a majority in
both houses against the Black Republican
President. War could not have been waged
against the South, because it required an aot
of Congress to raise and equip armies. Pre
sident Lincoln could not have appointed even
his own Cabinet without the consent of a
Democratic btnate. Every foreicn minister.
every custom-house officer, every marshal,
every postmaster, must bave been a man
whom a Democratic Senate approved. Lin
coln would have been utterly powerless, and
the Republican victory in the Presidential
election a barren triumph, if the Southern
members of Congress had not insanely with
drawn, and left a Republican majority in
both bouses. Slavery would have stood to
this day, if they had not jumped into the
branjble-bush and scratched out their eyes.
lbewarwas a consequence of their stu
pendous folly and blindness. Instead of
gaining their assumed right to carry slavery
into the Territories, they caused its abolition
in the States, where nobody, at the outset,
disputed their right to maintain and per
petuate it. It was the most egregious mis
calculation ever made by Bane men. The re
sult was tbe impoverishment and prostration
of tbe South, the abolition of slavery, the
subversion of State rights, military
despotism, and negro suffrage. And why?
Simply because the South would not admit
that Xsorthern Democrats were competent
judgtB of Northern publio sentiment. Mr.
Douglas understood tbe North, and if the
South had not foolishly assumed to be better
judges of Northern sentiment than he was, it
might have saved all it forfeited by soorning
CIS advice.
A few Southern ultraists who "learn no
thing and forget nothing" fancy that they can
scratch their eyes in again by leaping into
the same bramble-bush in which they
scratched them out. We cannot pretend to
be very profound oculists, but we do not
belibve that lost eyes can be replaoed by any
buch process. We have outgrown the simple
faith of the nursery. In the progress of in
telligence there arrives a period when it be
hooves men to "put away childish things;"
and of all childishness none is more supremely
billy than tbe expectation that the hands can
be turned back on tbe dial of events. Why
will a lew deluded Southerners persist in
maintaining that we of the North are not bet
ter judges than they can possibly be of the
drift and tendency of Northern publio senti
ment!' In lbOO, lireckinridge against Douglas
was a simple mistake; it was not insanity.
But in lbvl, it is tbe height of midsummer
madness for a f ewSouthern ultraists to pretend
that they Know the publio mind of the North
better than the Northern Democrats. They
are urging us to repeat the samo disastrous
blunder which was committed in 1800; and
we tell them, in all sincerity, that they cannot
scratch their eyes in again by jumping into
tbe same bramble bush. We ask them to look
at New York, the strongest of all the Demo
cratic States. Tbe Southern press receives
our New York Democratic papers as ex
changes; and if they have examined them
with attention during the last month they
bave found that they all, without exception,
earnestly deprecate the revival of dead issues,
and emphatically endorse the position of
Governor Hoffman. Nobody in New York
believes that New York could be kept Demo
cratic on their platform, and if New York
cannot be retained with such a platform, how
can other Northern States be gained? Surely,
the South cannot expect to elect a President
without Northern assistance.
We are impelled to make these frank
statements by an article in the Montgomery
Mail, tbe Southern journal to which General
Blair addressed bis recent letter, and whioh
replies with some warmth to our remarks on
that spirited production. We are not dis
pleased to find that the Montgomery Mail
admits tbe force of our logic, and is quite of
our opinion that it would be futile and ridi
culous to direct the Democratic batteries
against tbe new amendments to the Consti
tution if the party does not mean to disturb
negro suffrage. We copy the closing para
graph of its article:
"We certainly agree with the World that opposi
tion to the ttiteenth amendment, so far an the South
Ih concerned, would amount to but little It the
Democratic party has made up its mind to accept
negro suti'rage. The known opposition to that
heiesy on the part uf the Northern Democracy was
the strongest ligament that bound tbe South to that
organ izaiioD, and we feel It to be our duty to warn
the leaders of that party everywhere againBt the
a anger uiey win incur ny cutting that ligament in
twain."
General Blair stated explicitly in his letter
that he thought negro suffrage should have a
fair trial, and that no attempt should be made
to abolisn it unless experience should demon
strate its incompatibility with civil order,
The Montgomery Mail is quite correct in
thinking that the Demooratio party would be
illogical in making war upon the new amend
ments and at the same time accepting the
things for which those amendments provide.
It evinces perfect clearness and precision of
thought when it agrees with us that the pivot
of this controversy is negro suffrage. If the
Democratic party do not intend to make that
a leading issue in the next Presidential
election, it would merely fight a shadow in
opposing the fifteenth amendment. Gene
ral Blair really dismisses the whole con
troversy ' respecting the amendments by
abandoning opposition to negro suffrage as
an issue in the next Presidential election. It
is precisely on the acceptance of neero suf.
frage that the question hangs; and we must
concede mat tne juontgomery Mail is more
logical and consistent than General Blair.
Every Southern journal which thus clearly
distinguishes between the husk of this contro
versy and the kernel renders valuable assist
ance in bringing the onestion to a focus,
Blink it and shirk it as vou mav. confuse it
as you will by oloudy irrelevance, the real
point is wueiuer me Democratic party will
attempt to abolish negro suffrage in the
Presidential campaign of 1872. When the
question is thus nakedly put. not even Gene-
' ral Blair, with all his intrepidity, cares to face
ii. no in iuu curreoi, a judge Dt publio opinion
to entertain any hope that the Demooratio
party could win on that issue.
Now, if we don't intend to jump into that
bramble-bush, let us squarely say si, and get
the full advantage of the disavowal. At all
events, the question must narrow itself down
to tbibpoint, and insteadof "beating about the
bush" let us discuss it on its real basis. If
the party has made up its mind to fling this
Jonah into the sea, let ns overboard with him
at once, and then consult as to how we will
afterwards navigate the ship.
THE POLITICAL PROSPECT.
From Harper' Wetkly (edited by Geo, Wm. CurtU).
If the election in New Hampshire showed
some apathy upon the part of those who
usually support the Republioan party, the
election in Connecticut shows as distinctly
that the indifference ia checked. And the
reubon is evident. The people of this c juu
try, who maintained the Government during
the war, have not forgotten their work, and
do not mean to relinquish its results. They
cherisn no vindictive feeling, but they are
not fools. While their own party leaders
sometimes displease them, so that they show
their disapproval by letting an election go by
default, the moment the enemy reveals his
spirit and purpose, they spring to their feet.
In 18G5-C(i Andrew Johnson was apparently
seriously demoralizing the Republican party.
But the massacres in New Orleans and Mem
phis distinctly revealed the character of the
opposition, and the consequence of Demo
cratic success; and from that moment the
Republican dominance was substantially
assured.
Tbere has been a corresponding situation
within the last few months. There is, in
deed, fortunately, no Andrew Johnson; but
there have been difficulties and divergences
of many kinds, and jealousies and embittered
ftelings, until there seemed to be serious dis
order among Republicans. There were doubts
and questions and gloomy anticipations, and
tbe New Hampshire election occurring in the
midst of them all was hailed by the Democra
tic party as the sign of a fatal breaoh, or the
rising of a "tidal wave." We ventured to say
of it, however, that it might prove to be an
advantage, by leading Republicans to a better
mutual understanding. And that this will be
its result we bave now no doubt. For the
same general restlessness and uncertainty
wnicn lost teat election to the friends
of the Union and good government,
quickened the spirit of the Southern Demo
cracy, which has naturally always been the
controlling element of the Democratic party,
and within a month the country has had a
prophetic vision of tbe inevitable results of
renewed Democratic ascendency.
It has seen in the Southern States men and
women, whose offense is their color, or their
fidelity to the Union and to the Government,
harried and murdered. This disorder, occa
sioned by Democrats and levelled at Repub
licans, has swelled to tbe proportions of insur
rection, so that Congress and the country
could not be deaf to the cries of citizens out
raged and slain that others might be kept
from tbe polls, and Democratic majorities
assured by a reign of terror. In the midst
of these events the country has also seen
Jefferson Davis suddenly conspicuous, and
in a publio speech declaring that the
lost cause might yet be won. Mr. Linton
btephens, brother of Alexander H.
Stephens, and a respected Democratic
leader in bis section, demands at Augusta the
overthrow of all the reconstruction acts, and
"a readjustment of our institutions upon re
newed constitutions." Leading Democratic
newspapers in tbe Southern States loudly eoho
and applaud the demand, and acoept the New
Hampshire election as a sign that the work of
the war may be undone. The most represen
tative of these papers remind their readers
that tbe last National Demooratio Convention
declared the reconstruction acts "unconstitu
tional, revolutionary, and void," and claim
that they are not less so now; and that they
must, of course, be the issue in 1872.
While thus the country sees that the de
claration of the Democratic party in the
Southern States is for overthrowing the great
settlements of the war, it perceives also that
the Tammany Ring, supreme in the Demo
cratic party of New York, and aiming to
grasp the National Government, confirms
the monstrous fraud of the Erie bill, whioh
strikes at the most vital right of the control
of property; repeals the Registry law, to make
cheating at the polls more practicable; and
in the city of JNew lork assumes powers so
imperially absolute that the better men even
of its own party protest.
Meanwhile the Demooratio declaration that
tbe reconstruction acts are unconstitutional,
revolutionary, and void remains. No State
convention has withdrawn assent to such a
statement; no authoritative leader of the De
mocratio party has yet announced his entire
acquiescence in reconstruction. The World,
indeed, quotes Mr. Fernando Wood! But
Mr. Wood's declarations carry no weight, and
inspire no respect. It quotes Mr. John Quincy
Adams. But Mr. Adams sneeringly says of
the party which be has lately joined, that it
must begin by being Democratic that is to
say, it must discard all its policy and all its
leaders. The Mobile Register is a much
sounder and more generally acoepted authority
in the Democratic party than Mr. Adams, and
the lteginter insists that reconstruction is the
issue. Nor can the World be acoepted as an
authority in its party. It opposed repudia
tion in 18C8, but repudiation was put into
the Democratic platform. It favored Mr,
Chase, but Mr. Seymour was nominated. It
advised the abandonment of General Blair,
and it was heartily cursed by its party. It
opposed the Erie bill, and its Governor
signed it, and its party has adopted it. It
declared war against tbe ring, and the ring
silenced it. The World has advooated the
policy which its party has steadily rejected;
and the deprecatory tone of its article npon
General Blair's position, and its confession
that "the Southern Democracy" is seriously
divided upon the substantial issue for 1872,
reveal Us consciousness that the issue is a
foregone conclusion.
Nor will any one who observes closely
doubt it. If the Demooratio party bad car
ried Connecticut, as it did New Hampshire ,
it could not long have conoealed that its
national policy is reaotion. Its convention
would have been more absolutely mastered
by the Southern Democraey than it was in
1808. The Demooratio suocess would have
been interpreted as a repudiation of the Re
publican settlement of tbe war. lne iaots,
therefore, apon which .good citizens must de
cide their aotionin 1872 are already evident.
The Demooratio party is tbe organization of all
tbe elements of reaction, disorder, disoontent,
and revolution. The same spirit which com
pelled even its first convention after the war
'to denounce reconstruction, and to declare
stealthily for repudiation, and whioh now
ravages loyal sections with the Ku-klux, and
demands an active reconsideration of all that
has been accomplished, would certainly refuse
to pay the pensions of loyal Boldiers, or would
demand an equal payment of Rebel claims.
The prospect of Democratic suocess is one of
endless confusion, alarm, and anarcuy. ine
passions of slavery and of the war are smoul
dering, not extinguished firts. Whatever
criticisms may be made of certain details of
Republican administration, its general suo
cess, tbe profound confidence that it is both
honest and economical, ana tnat tne govern
ment of tbe Union is safer in the bands of its
proved friends than it possibly can be in
those of all its enentioa of every kind, are
more than enough to commend that adminis
tiation to the heartiest support of aU good
citizens. ...
The vague talk of certain Democrats about
"dead issues" need deoeive no one. The very
issues that are described as dead by the
ftible Nor'hern wing of that party are vehe
mently declared to be tbe most vital of all
by the controlling Southern element. In
dttd, the force of tbe Democratic party has
always been with its Southern wing, not only
because of tbe greater general ability of its
KuULrn leudfis, but because th great
policy of tie party was a Southern iutcrtst.
The Northern leaders have no policy to re
place that of slavery, while the only positive
movement in the party at this moment is that
which is presned by General Blair and the
Southern leaders, the effort to overthrow re
construction. Let tbe Democratic party begin
by being Demooratio, sneers Mr. John Quincy
Adams, who clearly sees that tbe party he has
joined is tbe party of privilege, of.class, of a
section, and not the party of liberty, Union,
ana tne people.
It is because we believe the situation is sud
denly clear to the honest and loyal people of
the United States that we also believe they will
now fall into line and move unitedly forward
to victory. They have perfect faith in the
honesty of the administration, and they know
that dissenters have now expressed their dif
feiences and dissatisfactions. They will not,
indeed, hesitate yet to do so; but every man
wno comprehends the disasters sure
to follow Democratic control of the
Government will insist that Republican
criticisms of our own party shall be
friendly, and not helpful to the common
enemy; for it is only by friendly criticism
that tbe party policy is made truly wise. To
all that we have done and are doing let us
add a general amnesty, that the intelligent
classes who are disfranchised may have an
interest in the preservation of order. A
little sagacity assures our triumph. And it
is not party prejudice it is the perception
of an obvious situation and a simple calcu
lation f probabilities which assure every
thoughtful man that the continued asoen
dency of the Republioan party is indispensa
ble to the peace and consequent prosperity of
tbe country.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
3f NORTHERN LIBERTIES AND PENN
mw TOWNSHIP RAILROAD CO., Oillce No. 827
8. FOURTH Street.
Philadelphia, April 11, 1ST1.
The Annual Meetlnir of the (Stockholders ot this
Company, and an Election lor Oillcers to serve for
the eusuiDg year, will be held at the Office of the
Company, on MONDAY, the 1st rtav of Mav next, at
o'clock A. M. ALliEUT FOSTER,
4 11 17t Secretary.
?- SCHUYLKILL AND SUSQUEHANNA RAIL-
OAD COMPANY, Oillce, No. 82T South
FOURTH Street.
Philadelphia, April 10, lSTl.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
rompany and an Election for President and six
Malingers will take place at the Oillce of the Com
pany on MONDAY, the 1st d:iy of May next, at 13
o'clock M. ALBERT FOSTEct,
41Q8w Secretary.
jSy THE CHEAPEST AND BEST HAIR DYE
IN THE WORLD,
Harper's Itqull Hair Dye Never Fade or
AVauliea Out,
will change gray, red. or frosted hlr, whiskers, or
moustache to a beautiful black or brown as soon as
applied. Warranted, or money returned. Only fiO
cents a box. Sold by all Druggists. 8 89 tuthsOm
fcjV- THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
stockholders of the BAKER SILVER MINING
COMPANY, of Colorado, will be held at the ottloe
of the company on THURSDAY, April SO, 18T1, at
lx o ciock, nooD, ror tne election or directors, and
for the transaction of such other business as may
oe ueemea accessary . JUilH wijssi',
4 10 lot Secretary.
THE UNION FIRS EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGE,
1 80 tf Ho. 113 MARKET St.. General Agent.
THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH
POWDER la the best article for cleansing and
preserving tne teetn. f or saie oy an Druggiats,
Price 20 and 60 cent oer bottle. 11 26 stuthly
Mrs- DR. F. R. THOMAS. No, ll WALNUT ST.
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms,
aevoiea hib entire practice to extracting teetn wild,
out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gas. 11 n
DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO,
816 8. ELEVENTH Street.
Patients treated gratuitously at this Institution
ciauy at 11 cciock. i 14
NEW PUBLIOA1 IONS
ft ELL'H ENCYCLOPEDIA, DICTIONARY AND
UAzari'jtaK is jnuvv uuu.ri.jf tic, w
59 PARTS, AT 50 CENTS PER PART.
ZILL'S HEW DESCRIPTIVE HAND
Atlas of the World,
First two Parts now ready, to be complete In 88
fans, at do cents each, juperienced Agents Wanted,
T. EL1VW00D ZELL, Publisher.
Nos. IT and 19 South SIXTH 8treet,
3 23 tun3m PHILADELPHIA.
H
OOVEIl'S MEW CHIIO.UOS.
"The Changed Cross," size 22x23, the finest ever
offered to the public
"Mary and St. John," size 82x23, a most sublime
cbromo.
"Tbe Beentlful Snew," size 16x22, a very lmprea
slve picture.
"The Holy Family," size $5x28, a real gem.
"Delhi, Del. Co., N. Y.," size 32x29, a beautiful au
tumn scene.
Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by
J. HOOVER, No. 804 MARKET Street,
8 IssmwSm Phlladelphia,2econd floor.
LOOKING CLASSES, ETO.
NEW ROGERS CROUP,
"RIP VAN WINKLE."
NEW CHROM08.
All Chromes sold at S per cent, below regular rates.
All of Prang's, Hoover's, and all others.
Send for catalogue.
Iooklnfj! lasses,
ALL NEW STYLES,
At the lowest prices. All of our own manufacture.
JAMES 8. EAR LB & SONS.
No. 818 CHESNUT STREET.
TOBACCO.
LEAF TOBACCO.
100 OASES CHOICE CONNECTICUT
WRAPPERS. '
Crop ise. For aale by
f
DAVID L. KETLER,
Nos. 60 and 62 South FOURTH street,,
4 T lrnrp Philadelphia.
WHISKY, WINE, ETC
CAR8TAIR8 & IttcCALL,
So. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Bti.,
IMPORTERS OF
ran did. Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Eta,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN :
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID.
S3)
OO AU.
R P. OWEN CO.,
. COAL DKALE1W,
FILBERT STKEi;T WUARF,
KOHUYLK1LL. HlOly
s
NOWDON A RAIJ'S COAL DEPOT. COttNEH
DILLWVNaud WILLOW Streets. Lehigh aud
Schuylkill COAL, prepared expressly for faimsv ue
at me luwuu cot) incu. it-
EDUOATIONAL.
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ARVARD UNIVERSITY,
.. - . CAMBRIDGE, MASS..
Comprise! the following Department :
Harvard College, the University Lectures, Divinity
School, Law School, MelicaJ School, Dental School,
Lawrence Sclentlno School, School of Mining and
Practical Geology, Buss?y Institution (a School of
Agriculture and Horticulture), Botanio Garden, As
tronomical Observatory, Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Peabody Museum ef Archeology, Episcopal
Theological School. I
The next academic year begins on September S3,!
1871. !
The first examination for admlnston to Harv&rA
College will bcg4n June 19, at 8 A. M The second
examination for admission to Harvard College, and
tbe examinations for admission to the Scleutldo
and Mining Schools,; will begin September 23. The
requisites for admission to the College have been
changed this year. There Is now a mathematical
a'lematlve for a portion of theclanslca. A circular
describing the new requisites and recent examina
tion papers will be mailed on application.
I NIVERS1TY LECTURES. Thirty-three courses
In 1S70-71, of which twenty begin In the week Feb
ruary 12-19. These lectures are Intended for grada
ates of colleges, teachers, and other competent
adults (men or women). A circular describing them
will be mailed on application.
Tlllt T.AW Sf'IlOOT. h hon nnmmlMil thla
year. It haa seven Instructors, and a library oft
18,(00 volumes, a circular explains the new course!
of study, tbe requisites for the degree, and the cost
of attending the scliool. The second half of too'
year begins February 13.
For catalogues, circulars, or Information, ad
dress J. W. HARRIS,
6 8m Secretary.
Jj D G E U I L L
MEKCHANTYILLK, N. J.,
SCHOOL
Four Miles from Philadelphia.
The session commenced MONDAY, April
1871.
For circulars apply to
Rev. T. W. CATTELU
rpflE REV. DR. WELLS' j
BOARDING SCHOOL FOR LITTLE B0T8
From Six to Fourteen years of age. Address the
Rev. DR. WELLS,
S 28 tuthB2m Andalusia. Pa.
FOR SALE.
Q F O R
8 A
I
Jin Elegant Hesidsnco, I
WITH STABLE,
AT CHESNUT HILL.
Desirable location, a few minutes' walk from depot.
D. T. PRATT,
No. 108 South FOURTH Street
8 84Sm
m It. T . DOBBINS
BUILDER, OFFICE, NOS. 8 and LEDGER
BUILDING, offers for sale the following properties
at reduced prices :
Io, 1. Handsome four-story Brown Stone ReslU
dence, with side-yard, situated No. 1917 Ghesnutl
street, finished with all modern conveniences. Bully
by the day without regard to cost. Lot 4i by 178
feet deep, to a back street. Clear of all incumbrance;1
will be sold a bargain.
No. 2. Elegant three-story Brown Stone Rest
dence, with Mansard Roof, situated west side of
Broad, above Master street. Very commodious;
finished with all modern conveniences. Built In a
very superior manner. Lot BJ by 20 feet deep to Car
lisle street.
i
No, 8. Neat three-story Brick Dwelling, with aid
yard, No. 1413 North Eighteenth street, above Mas-,
ter, containing ten rooms, with all modern convent'
ences; will be sold below cost.
No. 4. Lot west side Broad, 60 feet above Vine, 73
feet front, 193 feet deep to back aireet; wlllbesoldJ
do on w jjujr wen tor luveBtuieut.
Also, lot west side of Broad, above Thompson, 96,
feet front, 200 feet deep, to Carlisle street, with
brick stable for four horses.
No, e. A Cape May Cottage, located on the beach i
la larfPA anrl rnmmnr1lnna If tint ns1r1 will k nnfA
No. 6. A good Farm In Richland township, BuckJ
county, containing 93 acres, with good Improve
ments. 4 7 tf 1
SALE OF THE ATSION JBSTATE.1
I
AliOUT 88,000 ACRES OF LAND, TO BE SOLD
AT PUBLIC AUCTION, AT THE WKST JEKSttJ
HU1&L, KjAwiicn, n. d., uiN juai e, lsil. A
1 O'CLOCK, P. M. -TO
SPECULATORS IN LAND. PROJE'TTORS O
TOWNS AND CAPITALISTS GENERALLY, A
RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTMENT IS
riiHSlUNTJiD:!
A FARM of about TOO acres, with extensive Im
provemeniB, is iuciunea.
SEVERAL MILLS and additional mill and mano.4
facturiDg Bites are on tbe property. If
Ba.iii.VAUO inverse uio cui.ua mugui ui laa
tract. j
ATSION STATION la the point of Junction of
two railroads. I
TOWNS and SETTLEMENTS may be favorably
locaieo. ,
THE CEDAR TIMBER Is of considerable value,
CRANBERRIES, GRAPES, SWEET POTATOES,
nors. etc., can ie very But-ceimiuiiy cumvaiea.
GOOD TITLE will le nmde to the purchaser.
SEND FOR A PAMPHLET containing partleu-
lara, and apply personally, or by mail, to
UKORUE M. DALLAS. Aislirnee.
8 84 87t No. 29 S. FOURTH St., Philadelphia.
FOR SAL E A BARGAIN!
ELEO ANT FOUR-STORY BROWN STONX
RESIDENCE,
WITII SIDE YARD,
No. 1917 CHESNUT STREET.
Also, the FURNITURE, which Is very handsomt'i
and new, will be sold for gsooo less than cunt.
. II. J. DOBBIXS,
419 4t
Ledger Building.
TO RENT.
FOR RENT.
FURNISHED COTTAGE AT LONG BRANCH,
Situated on CHELSEA Avenue, within a short!
distance and bat-lug a riuo view or tne ocean;
UDlfcbed In the beHt stjle, with all the modern lm-i
proveuients bath-room, hot and cold water, Btal'
tionarv waih. stands on second flour, and gas In ait
the rooms. The furniture i of the best character)
with velvet and wprstry carpets, and everything
nereggarv to commence housekeeplug at once.
Apply "to CHARLES 11 MASSON,
' No. 829 N. SIXTH Street,
Philadelphia,
or No. IM W. FOURTEENTH Street,
4 19 4t" New York.
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If I) It A IJ L I C J A C It
AND .
MACHINERY.
PRICES REDUCED.
GREATLY IMPROVED PUMP,
Tnrlnaed from diifct.
and Dlston truided ton and bottoiW
,nl'
' rrnuimg wear iui;r uue-uuu.
jacks on hire, from 4 to loo tons.
PHILIPS JUSTICE.
Shopa SEVENTEENTH and COATES htreew. I
OUH-.e No. UN. HFTU Street. 8 1Stuthlin A
I L 8 O N ' S
CARPET CLEAN INQ
ESTABLISHMENT,
4 1 8m No. 611 South SEVENTEENTH 8treet
lOUN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MER
l chants and Mniiufa' turerg of t'om-HU;ira Tlck-l
lug. etc. etc., Jo. sua Cllti.MT btreet, l'UUadol-1
f