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THE DAILY EvflNINo TELEQRAril PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY", MAY 10, 1871.
BriRIT OF TUB PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS Or THE LEADING JOURNALS
CTON CURRENT TOPICS COMPILED EVERT
DAT FOR THE EVENING TEL EORAPH.
MR.
nilLLirs ON TIIE 'HANGING
COMMITTEE."
From the y. V. Tribune.
We fear that we did but scant justice to
the plan proposed by the graceful and epi
grammatic orator of the Bay State for paci
fying the South. We can never sufficiently
admire the statesmanship of Mr. Phillips.
There is no war that he cannot foresee, or
invent; no ill that he has not a remedy for;
no posHible combination of fractures for
which he has not an epigram ready. lie has
perfect faith that he can govern the universe
by epigrams; and punish it by epithets. He
was born to command on the rostrum. What
a leader he is! Tnt him on the stage, before
the footlights, and he can tell any number of
men to go anywhere. He is the mitrailleuse
of the platform. He is most
dangerous when he is safest. Tlace him
on the steps of the Hotel de Ville,
and he would annihilate the Versailles Gov
ernment with a bon mot. He could invent an
epigram that would keep the Paris Commune
running a year. There is no doubt of it. He
is terrible, this man. And to think that he is
r robably full of epigrams undischarged. He
has never spared anybody or anything; except
one. Why has he spared Bntler ? Probably
for the same reason that Butler has spared
him; neither has been able to think of an
epithet adequate to describe the other.
Scratch a Russian, Mr. Phillips is fond of say
ing (he has nearly scraped the skin off that
Russian), and yen will find a Tartar. If you
scratoh Phillips will you find Butler? We
cannot say; it is not our scratch. But Mr.
Butler evidently has an epigram worth to
him twice that, namely: Scratch Phillips, and
be will scratch back !
Mr. Thillips has two remedies for the Ku
klux trouble, both bloody, both epigram
matic. One is, to "march thirty millions of
men to the Gulf;" irrespective of women,
children, camps, baggage, bay, cows, horses,
clean clothes. This is an old remedy of Mr.
Phillips. He is always marching that thirty
millions to the Gulf, on the slightest emer
gency. We seem often to have seen them
on their winding way; the promenade is fami
liar to ns. It is the easiest thing in the
world. It is only necessary for Mr. Phillips
to stand in Stein way Hall and say "march,"
and those thirty millions are off. Marvelous
man. And so cool, and so unexcited. But
be is to stay at home. What are they to do
at the Gulf ? Bah ! "Let me tell the tanner
of Galena that if he don't go to the Gulf,
the Gulf will come to him 1 (Sensation.)
But Mr. Phillips holds his thirty millions
in reserve. His simple summer campaign is
to have Grant go down South and hang five
of the richest ex-generals he can catch. The
merit of this plan lies in its simplicity. And
it is so practicable. And it would instantly
inaugurate an era of good feeling. Many of
the most prominent men down there never
have been hung, but it isn't possible they
would object to it if it was put to them in
the right light. It is to be an amicable and
peaceable proceeding. "It does not need an
army. You do not need one hundred men."
The process of arrest and execution is clearly
pointed out. As a beginning, Grant is to
go down to Georgia and arrest some ex
general, who counts his acres by thousands
and his wealth by millions, and stands pos
sessed of the admiration of half the Sonth. Let
Grant track him to his lair in this nest of
assassins, seize him at midnight (tho most
tragio time in the whole twenty-four hours),
try him before daylight, and bang
him before the sun is an hour high. There
are all the picturesque elements of terror in
this. The mysterious hour, the swift trial,
the dangling millionaire. How sweet and
calm Mr. Phillips is in contemplating it, and
he is not bloodthirsty either. He would limit
the number to five. Not another man, even
though his millions outnumbered his fingers
and toes. Hang five of the first men in the
South in this quiet, unostentatious, winning
manner, and r.o more will want to be hung.
We don't need any army or any courts;
nothing, in fact, but a rope, and perhaps a
cheerful epigram as they swing off. Mr.
Phillips and General Butler would be just the
men to do it, if they would march to the
Gulf; they must themselves see that they
can't hang anybody, worth mentioning, if
they stay where they are.
This panacea is so promising that we beg
leave to suggest to the President to appoint a
hanging committee, to visit the disturbed
districts during the recess of Congress, with
power to send for persons and papers; to read
the papers and to hang the persons. The
committee need not bo large, but it should
have two heads Mr. Phillips and General
Butler. Let the committee move slowly down
towards the Gulf, hanging gently as it goes.
Mr. Phillips is not the man to ad vise a scheme
he would not be willing to take the peril of
executing; we never knew him, in the most
troublous times to shrink from any danger. It
was always with him a word and a blow; and the
word first, then the blow wasn't needed.
We have no doubt now that he is
ready to undertake this Southern mission
which he advises. We can almost see him
sow executing it. He comes to a Southern
Tillage with his committee, He inquires for
the assessor's list. "Who," says he, "is your
richest man buow tite your local Vauder
bilt." "What do you purpose to do?" ask the
villagers. I purpose, says Mr. Phillips,
"to hang him, in the name of the forty-
second parallel." "Wnat for?' "I'll be
hanged if I know what for," says the orator;
' 'what for?' is a queer question Sin a free
country has it never occurred to you to
scratch an ex-general millionaire? Try
it; you will find a Ku-klux!" At mid
night Mr. Phillips and General Butler track
the Dives to his lair, scratch him till day
light, and then hang him up in sight of
the camp breakfast table. No more Ku-klux
in that region, but great terror falling on all
the country round about, and everybody
asking Butler what he ahull do to be saved
from Phillips. Is not this a terrible picture?
But it is not so frightful as it will be to lnve
Phillips coming around again, with a now
quiver of epigrams, in 1872, and jocularly say.
ing, "I told you so." And, bei,i8g, it is eco
nomical. Mr. Phillips will kill two birds with
one stone; he will despatch an ex-geral
one of the millionaires who would eluo adorn
a New York lamp-post in 187:5 for the mob
that year, he blandly prophesies, "will in
dulge in a millionaire." Anybody can sea
that all such causes of indulgence ought to be
removed now.
Behold the simplicity of genius! "I show
you," says this admirable man, "the two
dangers Ku-klux and corporations. I hold
in my Land the remedy. Hang five topmost
Alpine Southerners, smash all the Northern
corporations, and then come to me and I will
tell you what next to do." Alas, if we would
only be wise while we have this guide with
us! If he should die and net leave a stook of
epigrams to last at least fifty years, we would
not giva a Confederate not for the repnblio.
While be is here let us utilize him. Let him
have a free commission to play back and forth
between North and . South a destructive
double-ender, hanging the very rich and scat
tering the corporations. Only let him also
remember the maxim of the Persian Saadi:
"A learned man without works is a bee with
out honey. Say to the austere and uncivil
bee, 'When you cannot afford honey, do not
sting. "
SOMETHING BETTER THAN A VIGI
LANCE COMMITTEE.
From the X F. Times.
The frequent references made by the press
and in society to the famous Vigilance Com
mittee of San Francisco recall manyinoidents
connected with the history of that body. It
is undeniable that the state of affairs in San
Francisco at the time the Vigilance Commit
tee was organized, and the state of affairs in
New York to-day, bear a striking analogy in
many respects. New York is the metropolis of
the nation, and San Francisco only the chief
town of a distant State, but otherwise the
cases are almost identical. Here, as there, the
corrupt and ignorant have absorbed power
only to abuse it. Here, as there, a depraved
mob controls the right arm and the purse of
the community. Here, as there, criminals
escape justice because they are the "friends"
of the officers of the law. Here, as there,
an elective judiciary and a municipal organi
zation rotten to the very core, at once infect
and despoil the Commonwealth, and disgrace
free institutions. Here, as there, notorious
dishonesty is regarded ns a capital joko, and
the chief rulers of the people have clambered
to their high places, and prosperously retain
ibem, not only despite, but because of the
fact that they are peculators and cheats.
Here, as there, crimes against the person
multiply apace, since they are committed for
the most part by members of the "ruling
clnFS," whose escape from punishment is
almost a foregone conclusion.
Now, it is in consequence of this similarity
of condition of the two cities that the "heroic
remedy" of a vigilance committee ooours to
fo many minds, and so often finds expression.
But ught we seriouf ly to contemplate the
adoption of such a remedy? Assuredly not.
In the first place, the San Francisco commit
tee was illegal. True, it was organized not
to resist, but to enforce tie law; but it was
none the less illegal; aDd although many
have asserted that it wes the sole possible
refuge from anarchy, its inconvoniences.both
at the time and afterwards, are warnings
against so hazardous and doubtful a resource.
For example, members of the San Francisco
Vigilance Committee were sued years after it
bad ceased to exist, and held accountable for
its proceedings. Merchants have been brought
into court in this city on such suits; the
ruffians whom they helped long ago to expel
from San Francisco having found lawyers of
their own political and religious
faith to assist them to procure damages.
Were a vigilance committee ot like character
to be formed in New York, and to take sum
mary action in the same way, an endless
train of suits would be one of the conse
quences, and for years to come the Courts
would be crowded with litigation. The in
ference from this, putting aside other objec
tions, is that the New York Reform Commit
tee should act at first, and always, strictly
within the law. No provocation should tempt
it to act otherwise. It can be made quite as
irresistible by moral forces as the San Fran
cisco committee was by physical force. But,
equally with the latter body, it requires orga
nization, zeal, industry, and personal risks
and sacrifices. Deeds, not words, was the
motto of the stern avengers of outraged so
ciety in the Oolden City. We may hope that
reformatory action will not be confined in
New York to words alone.
The nucleus and starting-point of a suita
ble Reform Committee were supplied by the
late reform meeting at the Cooper Institute.
That meeting was regarded with profound
interest throughout the country, and com
ments upon it have now reached us from
many other parts of the world. We need
not diseuise the fact that, while approval
has been universal, the movement has been
spoken of by some in terms of discourage
merit. It has been thought that the enemy
is too strong, and that he can either
purchase or defy any influences that may
be brought to bear against him. This, we
need hardly Bay, we do not credit, and, for
some reasons, among others, that may be
briefly adduced. In the first place, it
cannot rationally be supposed that the emi
nent gentlemen who gave their presence and
support to that meeting intended to stop
short there without doing anything further.
They know very well that mere idle threats
would be a most signal encouragement to the
bad. men against whom they were launched,
Hence, it may with safety be assumed that no
apathetic attitude will be taken by them, bat
that they will proceed, in due time, to follow
np their original promises with spirit and
effect. Another reason for anticipating
proper activity in the mutter consists in the
fact that tne evils so snarpiy do
nounced are always growing worse
But for the recent demonstration at
the Cooper Institute, a publio meeting
would probably have been convened to do
nounce the contemplated alterations in the
code of procedure. Moreover, the pulpit, as
those who read carefully their Monday's news
paper are aware, has been eloquent and per
sistent of late in demanding reform, and we
may be sure that all this seed has not fallen
upon stony places. But the merohants,
and bankers, and lawyers men who have
a definite stake in the community, and
whose names and character, being well
known, will command confidence must
themselves work for the harvest; and those
among them who, while expressing doubt
about the practical results of the reform
meeting at the Cooper Institute, fail to work,
neglect a solemn duty to society and to theai
selves! These gentlemen are the proper
leaders of political reform, and the sooner
they assume their legitimate functions, and
Btrive industriously to break -down political
corruption, the sooner will New York be
freed from the grievous disorders that now
enact and dishonor ber.
TIIE QUARREL IN ST. CLEMENT'S.
From the H. Y. World.
Philadelphia is no more than Chicago a oity
from which we should expect ecclesiastical
excitements. The reasons are different. From
Chicago we should not look for any contro
versies about religion for the reason that we
should not look for any religion. And in
Philadelphia we should not look for any oon
trovertiea about religion for that we had sup
posed that all controversies calculated to
stimulate the mind or embitter the heart had
there been settled beyond the possibility of a
reopening long before the birth of the present
old tht inhabitant of Philadelphia. A wit
divided contemporaneous mankind into the
two clubfef g of those who tolerated everybody
because they believed nothing, and those who
tolerated nobody because they believed son la
thing. Chicago is composed of tho former,
and it is astonishing that any eoolesiastioat
proceedings whatever should have excited
opposition or even remark on the part of a
population wnion goes on its way rejoicing,
caring for none of these things. Philadel
phia is of the latter, and it is equally aston
ishing that the first manifestation of religious
dissent, or other form of mental activity,
should not have been suppressed by popular
indignation, and tne dissenter foroed by tne
chill contempt of Philadelphia to seek a more
congenial clime. Nevertheless Cheney hai
plunged himself into hot water by ont
Chicagoing Chicago in the looseness of his
theology, and Batterson made himself the
target of Philadelphian scorn by out-Philadel-phiaing-Philadelphia
in the scrupulosity of
his adherence to forms. Of the two it is
more intelligible that a man should be per
secuted for practical piety in Chicago ttiaa
that he should be despitefully entreated in
Philadelphia for ritualism never so advanced.
The shepherds who are thus despitefully
entreated for the sake in the one case of
righteousness and in the other of ritualism,
represent the opposite poles of the body in
whose communion they both profess to be.
The one has provoked the indignation of his
flock and suffered extrusion from his sheep
fold, and the other, in spite of the fidelity of
his Hock, has attracted the animadversion of
bis bishop. But they agree in invoking the
secular arm when the ecclesiastical decision
to which it is to be assumed that they havo
beforehand agreed to submit themselves goes
against them. Mr. Cheney appealed to the
civil courts to keep Lim in the position from
wl ich the decision of an ecclesiastical court
had removed him. And now Mr. Batterson
appeals to the civil courts to keep him in a
position in which a majoiity of his congre
gation have strongly intimated to him that
he was not wanted. Mr. Cheney his boen
convicted of violating, and furthermore ex
presses bis intention to keep on violating,
what there is no doubt is an express regula
tion cf the Church ofwhich he still insists
(bat be is a priest. The charge against Mr.
Batterson is not so specifically made nor so
fully proven. The objection to him may only
be that the Philadelphian, in the interest of
his own ease, declines to go throHgh the vio
lent exercise which is 'demanded of him in
public worship according to the practice of
Mr. Batterson. But it is at least clear that
Lis congregation do object to him. And it is
ulno clear that Mr. Cheney's usefulness as an
Episcopalian clergyman is ended with the de
cision of the proper body that he is not an
Episcopalian clergyman, and that Mr. Batter
son s usefulness as tae pastor ot the particular
ilock to which he ministers is ended
with the determination of the flock that they
have ro further use for his ministry. Yet the
one persists in clinging to a church whioh
hRS rejected him, and the other to a coogro
gation which dislikes him. This tenacity, to
t be secular mind, lurmsues a much more iu
jurious imputation upon the character and tho
fcelf-reppect of the inculpated clergyman than
any possible looseness in doctrine on tho part
of the one or aDy possible rigor of ritual on
the part of the other. For the sake not less
of the tenacious rector of St. Clement's than
of his vindictive vestry it is to be hoped that
the courts, ecclesiastical and lay, will arrive
at a decision whereby the wicked Batterson
may bo made to cease from troubling and the
weary rnilauelpninn be put at rest.
MODERN MAN-HATE KS.
From the London Saturday Ilcoiew.
Among tLe many odd social phenomena of
the present day may be reckoned the class of
women who are professed despisers and con-
temneis of men; pretty misanthropes, doubt
fnl alike of the wisdom of the past and tho
distinctions of nature, but believing vigor
ously in a good time coming when wooieu are
to take the lead, and men to be as docile
dogs in their wake. To be sure, as if by way
of keeping tho balance even and maintaining
tne sum cf forces in the world in due equia
brium, a purely useless and absurd kind of
womanhood is more in fashion than it used to
be; but this does not affect either the accu
racy or the strangeness of our first statement;
ard tho number cf women sow in revolt
against nature, religion, and the
8r.pren.acy of men is some
thing unparalleled in . our history.
Both before and during the first French
Revolution the esjmts forts in petticoats were
agents of no small account in the work of
social reorganization going on; but hitherto
women, here in England, have been content
to believe as they have been taught, and to
trust the men to whom they belong with a
simple kind of faith in their friendliness and
good intentions, which reads now like a tra
dition of the past. With the advanosd class
of women, the modern man-haters, one of
the articles of their creed is to regard men as
tueir natural enemies from whom they must
both protect themselves and be protected;
and one of their favorite exercises is to rail
at them as both weak and wicked, both moral
cowards and personal bullies, with whom the
best wisdom is to have least intercourse, and
on whom no woman who has either common
sense or self-respect would rely. To those
who get the confidence of women
many startling revelations are made,
but one of the most startlmg is the
tierce kind of contempt for men, and the un
natural revolt against anything like control
or guidance, which animates the class of
modern man-haters. That husbands, fathers,
and brothers should be thought by women to
be tyrannical, severe, selfish, or anything else
expressive of the misuse of strength, ii per-
haps natural, and no doubt often deserved;
but we confess it seems an odd inversion of
relations when a pretty, frail, delicate
woman, with a narrow forehead, aoouses her
stalwart, broad-shouldered male companions
of the meaner and more cowardly class of
fanlts hitherto considered distinctly femi
nine; and when she says with a dis
dainful toss of ber small head, "Men are so
weaK ana unjust, 1 have norespeot for them:
we wonder where the strength and justice of
the world can have gone, for, if we are to
trust our senses, we can scarcely credit uer
with having them in her keeping-. On the
other hand, the man-hater ascribes to her
own sex every eood quality under heaven;
and, not content with taking the more patient
and negative virtues which have always been
allowed to women, boldly bestows ou them
the energetic and active virtues as well, and
robs men of their inborn characteristics that
the may deck her own Bex in their
spoils. She grauts, of course, that
men are superior in physical strength and
courage; but she qualifies the admission by
adding that all they are good for is to pusa a
way for her in a crowd, to protect her at night
against burglars, to take care of ber on a
journey, to fight for her when occasion do
mauds, and bear the heavy end of the stick
always, to work bard that she may enjoy, and
encounter dangers that she may be snte,
This role is the only use of their lives, so far
as the is concerned. And to womou of this
way of thinking the earth is neither the Lord's,
nor yet man tt, but woman s.
Apart from this mere brute strength which
Las been given to men .mainly for her ad
vantage, she says they are nuisances and for
tne most part shams; and sue wonders with
less surprise than disdain at those of her
Bisters who have kept any trust in them, who
still honestly profess to bold love and respect
them, and who are not ashamed to own that
they rely on their better, judgment in all im
portant matters of life, and look to them for
counsel and protection generally. The
modern man-hater does none of these thin era.
If she has a husband she holds him as her
enemy ex officio, and undertakes home life as
state of declared warfare, where she
must be in antagonism if she would
not be enslaved. Has she money? it
must be tied up safe from his
control, not as a joint precaution against
future misfortune, but as a personal protec
tion against his malice; for the modern the
ory is that a husband will, if be can get it,
squander his wife's money simply for cruelty
and to spite her, though in so doing be miy
ruin himself as well. It is our new reading
of the old saying about being revenged on
one's face. Has she friends whom he, in his
quality of man of the world, knows to bo
unsuitable companions for her, and such as
he conscientiously objects to receive into his
bouse ? his advice to her to drop them is an
unwarrantable interference with her most
sacred affections, and she stands by her un
desirable acquaintances, for whom she has
never particularly cared until now,
with the constancy of a martyr
defending her faith. If it would
please her to rush into publio
life as the noisy advocate of any nasty sub
ject that may be on hand, his refusal to have
his name dragged through the mire at tho in
stance of her folly is coercion in its worst
form the coercion of her conscience, of her
mental liberty; and she complains bitterly to
ber friends among the shrieking sisterhood of
the harsh restrictions he places on hor free
dom of action. Her heart is with them, she
says, and perhaps she gives them pecuniary
end other aid in private; but she cannot fol
low them on to the platform, nor sign her
name to passionate manifestoes as ignorant as
they are unseemly, nor tout for signatures to
petitions on things she knows nothing about,
and the true bearing of which she cannot
understand, nor dabble in dirt till she
has lost the sense of its being
dirt at all. And, not being able to disgrace
ber husband that she may swell the ranks of
the unsexed, she is quoted by the shriakers
as one among many examples of the subjec
tion of women and the odious tyranny under
which they live. A3 for the man, no hard
words are too hard for him. It is only onrnity
which animates him, only tyranny and op
pression. There is no intention of friendly
guidance in his determination to prevent her
from making a gigantic blunder, no feeling
of kindly protection in the authority whioh
be uses to keep her from offering himself as
a mark for publio ridicule and dampging dis
cussion, wherein the bloom of her name and
nature is swept away for ever; it is all the
base exeroise of an unrighteons po?er, and
the first crusade to be undertaken in these
latter days is the woman's crnsade against
masculine supremacy.
Warm partisan, however, as she is of her
own eex, the modern man-hater cannot for
give the woman we spoke of who still believes
in old-fashioned distinctions; who thinks that
nature framed men for power and women for
tenderness, and that the fitting, because the
natural, division of things is protection on
the one side, and a reasonable measure of
we will not mince the word obedience in
the ether. For indeed tho one involves the
other. Women of this kind, whose sentiment
of sex is natural and healthy, the modern
man-hater regards as traitors in the oamp; or
as slaves content with their slavery, and
therefore in more pitiable caso than those
who, like herself, jangle their chains noisily,
and seek to break them by loud uproar. But
even worse than the women who honestly
love and respect the men to whom
they belong, and who find their highest hap
piness in pleasing them, and their trnest wis
dom in self-surrender, are those who go a step
further, and who frankly confess the short
comings of their own sex, and think the best
chance of mending a fa nit is first to under
stand that it is a fault. With these worse
than traitors no terms are to be kept; and the
man-haters, rise ina.bodyand ostracize the
offenders. To be known to have said that
women are weak, that their best place is at
home, that filthy matters are not for their
handling, that the instinct of feminine mo
desty is not a thing to be disregarded in the
education of girls or the action of matrons,
are sins for which these self-accusers are
accounted "creatures" not fit for the recog
nition of the nobler-souled man-hater. The
gynecian war at this moment going on be
tween these two sections of womanhood ii one
of the oddest things belonging to this odd
condition of affairs.
This sect of modern man-haters is recruited
from three classes mainly those who have
been cruelly treated by men, and whose faith
in one-half of the human race cannot survive
their own one sad experience; those restless
and ambitious persons who are less than
women, greedy of notoriety, indifferent to
borne life and holding home dnties in disdain,
with strong passions rather than warm .affec
tions, with perverted instinots in one direc
tion, and none worthy of the name in another;
and those who are the born vestals of nature,
whose morale falls below the sweeter sympa
thies of womanhood, and who are unsexed by
the atrophy of their instincts as the other
class are by the perversion and coarsening
of theirs. By all these, men are held
to be enemies and oppressors; and even
love is ranked as a mere matter of the
senses, whereby women are first sub j ugated and
then betrayed. The crimes of whioh these
modern man-haters accuse their hereditary
enemies are worthy of Munchausen. A great
part of the sucoess gained by the opposerd of
the famous Acts has been due to the mon
strous fiction which have been told of men's
dealings with the women under consideration.
No brutality has been too .gross to be related
as an absolute truth, of which the name, and
address, and all possible verification could be
given, if desired. And they have not been
afraid to ascribe to some of the most honor
able names in the opposite ranks words and
deeds which would have befouled a savage.
Details of every apocryphal crime have been
passed from one credulous or malicious ma
tron to the other over the five o'olook tea;
and tender-natured women, horror-stricken
at what they heard, have accepted
as proofs of the ineradicable enmity of man
to woman these unfounded fables which the
unsexed bo positively asserted among them
selves as facts. The ease of conscience with
which the fair propagandists have aocepted
and propagnted slanderous inventions in this
matter has been remukable, to nay the least
of it; atd, were it',, not for th gravity
of ; tho principles at stake, and the
nabtinehs of the subject, the stories of men's
vileneps in connection with the working of
these Acts would make ope of the abaurdest
itbt-books possible, illustrative of the credu
lity, the falsehood, and the ingenious iuiagi
nai'tun of women. We do not say that
women have no just causes of com
plaint . against men. They have,
and many. And so long as human nature
is what it is, strength will at times be brutal
rather than protective, and weakness will
avenge itself with more craft than patienoe.
But that is a very different thing from the
sectional enmity which the modem man
haters assert, and the revolt whioh they make
it their religion to preach. No good will
come of such a movement, which is in point
of fact creating the ill-feeling it has assumed.
On the contrary, if women will but believe
that on the whole men wish to be their
friends, and to treat tbem with fairness and
generosity, they will find the work of self
protection much easier, and the reconcile
ment of opposing interests greatly simplified.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
Jjy- OFFICE PENNSTLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY,
Philadelphia, May l, 1S71.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Notice Is hereby given to the Stockholders of this
Company that they will have the privilege of sub
scribing for New Stock at par In the proportioa of
one share for every six as registered In their name,
April 80, 1S71.
Holders of less than six Shares will be entitled to
subscribe for a full share, and those holding more
than a multiple of six Shares will be entitled to an
additional Share.
Subscription will be received and the first lnstal-
nieutor Fifty per centum will be payable between
the 22d day of May and 22d day of June, 1S71.
Second Instalment of Fifty per centum will be pay
able between the S2d day of November aud 22d day
of December, 1871. If Stockholders prefer, the
whole amount can be paid at the time of subscrip
tion. No subscription will be received after June 22,
1871. THOMAS T. FIRTH,
B 1 Bw Treasurer.
jgtfy PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
IRE AS USER'S DEPARTMENT.
Philadelphia, May 2, 1371.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
semi-annual dividend of FIVE PER CENT, on the
capital Block ot the Company, clear of National
and State taxes, payable In cash, on and after May
30, 1S71.
Blank powers of attorney for collecting dividends
can be had at the oillce of the company.
The office will be open at 8 A. M., and close at 3
P. M., from May 30 to June 2, for the payment ot
dividends, and after that date from 9 A. M. to 3
P. M. THOMAS T. FIRTH,
B 2 2m Treasurer.
CONDITION OF THE NATIONAL BNIC
OF THE REPUBLIC AT TUB CLOSE OF
BUSINESS, April 29, 1871.
RESOURCES.
Investments 12,443,702 62
line from banks B30,650-88
Cash 655,ttM-22
Total H,63T,09T-?2
LIABILITIES.
Capital f 100,000 -oo
Surplus and profits, net 6S,B04 49
Deposits 1,703,69824
Circulation 8oo,ooo-oo
Total f.1,637,037-72
Attest J. P. MUM FOR I),
5 9juths6t Cashier.
XQF J. & L. L. BARRICK'S LEGITIMATE
Tailoring Establishment, No. 41 8. TENTH
Street, where yon can get the beat suit for the least
money. Where, furnishing your own material you
can have It made and trimmed exactly right. Price,
lit, and workmanship guarantee!. A good stucK
always on hand, to Bliow which Is no trouble, and
to Bell the same at rates not to be excelled la our
highest ambition. 6 2 tuth82tt
t DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES,
SEWERS, ETC.
OFFICE OF CniKF COMMISSIONER, )
No. 104 S. Finn stkkbt, v
Philadelphia. Mav 9. 1871.1
NOTICE. OwnerB of Hacks and Carriages kent
for hire are notified that they must renew their
Licenses on or before the 1st of June, 1811. The
penalty for neglect la live dollars for each time the
vehicle Is used after that dato.andwlllbestrict.lv
enforced. - J. G. DIXON, "
6 Utnwtu 6t License Clerk.
CAMDEN AND AM BOY RAILROAD AND
TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.
Tkknton, April 10, isri.
NOTICE. Tho Annual Meeting of tho Stock
holders Of the (JAM DEN AND AM BOY RAILROAD
AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY will be hold
at TRENTON, May 10, at 12 o'clock, M., at the Com
pany's oillce, for the election of seven Directors to
serve for the ensuing year.
SAMUEL J. BAYARD,
419 Secretary C. and A. R. R. and T. Uo.
jgy TIIE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and Bell the Improved Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D.T.aAOB,
6 30tf No. 118 MARKET St., General Aga
afiy THE CHEAPEST AND BEST HAIR DYE
w IN THE WORLD,
Harper'a Liquid Hair Dye Never Fades or
-Washes 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. Ouly 60
cents a box. Sold by all Druggists. 8 93 tutluOm
tf PILES. DR. O UN NELL DEVOTES HIS
time to the treatment of Piles, blind, bleed
ing, or Itching. Hundreds of cases deemed incura
ble without an operation have been permanently
enred. Best city reference given. Oillce, No. 21 N.
ELEVENTH Street. 4 IS 3m
5 THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Stockholder of the CLARION RIVER AND
SPRING CREEK OIL COMPANY will be held at
Horticultural Ha'l, on WEDNESDAY EVENING,
the 24th Instant, at 8 o'clock P. M. 6 10 lit
rSf DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 9U WALNUT ST,
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Room,
devotes hla entire practice to extracting teeth with
oat pain, with fresh nltroua oxide gas. 11 1J
tW- THUKSTONS IVORY PEARL TOOTH
w POWDER Is the best article for cleausiag and
preserving the teeth. Fur Bale by all Druggists.
Price 25 and CO cents per bottle. 11 26 atuthly
DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO.
S16 8. ELEVENTH Street.
Patients treated gratuitously at this Institution
daily at 11 o'clock. i u
COAL..
I P. OWEN k, CO.,
V COAL DEALERS,
FILBERT STREET WHARF,
SCHUYLKILL. 101y8
SNOWDON A RAU'S COAL DEPOT, CORNER
DILLWYN and WILLOW Streets. Lthlgh and
Schnylklll COAL, prepared expressly for family use
at the lowest cash prloea. 1 18
HATS AND CAPS.
HWARBURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
and easy-tl 'ling DRESS HATtt (patented, In all
the Improved fashions of the season. (JHE5NUT
Street, next doorto the post Office. rp
PDGBHILL SOUOaL
MEKCHANTVILLK, N. J.i
Four Miles from Philadelphia,
The iebbloa commenced MOWDAY, April
18TI.
For circulars apply to
R6TLTWCATTKU
GS, BlSIIOPTIIORrE.-FIRST-CLASS BOARD
Ling during July and August. Fine aceurrv,
Uuo water, flue grounds, aud Urge rooms make IUU
ene of the pieaaautest places in the State.
Address MRS. J. H. ATKINSON,
512 et
Bethlehem, Pvuua.
LUMHtH
1 000 000 FKKT ,,kmlock joist
' ' - AND SCANTLING.
ILL LENGTHS,, ALL SIZES.
500 000 FEET n SOUTH
ERN 1INK FLOOIIINO (Dry).
Onr own working. Assorted and unassorted.
250 000 FEKT VIRGINIA SAP
' FLOORING (Dry.)
Our own working. Aborted and unassorted.
250 000 FEET 3' a"8
' INCH SAP BOX BOARDS,
Together with a large and well-selected stock of
thoroughly seasoned Building Lumber of all descrip
tions, Miltahle for the erection of ltrge factories,
stores, dwellings, etc in connection with the above
we are now running a
Nteam Sum- mid lManlnsr Jltll,
And are fully prepared to furnish Builders and
others with
131111 Worlc of all descriptions,
WINDOW FRAMES, 8ASFT, SHUTTERS, DOORS,
BRACK BT8, Etc
SUPERIOR WOOD MOULDINGS A SPECIALTY.
BROWN & WOELPPER,
No. 827 BICUMOND STREKT,
6 9tuth8lm PniLVDELPHIA.
1871
SPRUCE JOIST.
epRiicrs joist.
HEMLOCK
HEMLOCK.
1871
1871
i-fi SBAKONED CLffAR PIE.
8EASONED CI.rtAR FINK. lO I 1
CUOiCK PATTKKN PIN 5.
SPANISH C1CDAR, FOR PATTERNS.
RED UEDAR.
187!
FLORIDA FLOORING.
FLOKIDA FLOORING.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORIM1.
ASH FliOOKlNU.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDS.
KAIL PLANK.
1871
1 071 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. - Qrf-t
10 I 1 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK 10 i
WALNUT BOARDS,
WALNUT I" LANK.
1871
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBE3.
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER.
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINE.
1871
1871
SEASONED FOPLAR.
SEASONED CHERRY.
1871
ASH,
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
iQ7 CIGAR BOX MAKERS'
lO i 1 CIGAR BOX MAKERS'
1871
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
FOR SALE LOW.
1Q1 CAROLINA SCANTLING.
lOl CAROLINA H. T. SILLS.
1871
NORWAY SCANTLING.
1871
CEDAR SHINGLES. -i Q74
CYPRESS SHINGLES. 10 I 1
MAULE, BROTHER Ik CO.,
No. 8600 SOUTH Street
PANEL PLANE. ALL THICKNESSES.-
COMMON PLANE, ALL TIllOKNESJd&i.
1 COMMON BOARDS.
1 and S SIDE FENCE BOARDS.
WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARBS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, IX an
X SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZES.
HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES.
PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY,
Together with a general aasortment of Building
Lumber for Bale low for caah. T. W. SMALTZ,
11 80 Cm No, 1T10 RIDGE Avenue, north of Poplar St
JUlLDElSli, TAKE NOTICE.
The largest and beat stock of
W O O I 9IOU1L.D1IVQ8
IN THB STATE,
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES,
Can be found at the;
U. S. BUILDERS' MILL,
Nos. 82, 84.86, 88 South FIFTEENTH 8treet.
Also, Scroll, Biacket, and Turning Work fur
nished to order at very short notice.
Call and Bee stock and prices. 4 BTlm
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
TV
7 INKS, - LIQUORS, ENGLISH AND
SCOTCH ALES, ETC.
The subscriber begs to call the attention of
dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers generally to
his splendid stock of foreign goods now on hand, of
hla own Importation, aa well, also, to hla extensive
assortment of Domestic Wines, Ales, etc.. among
Which may be enumerated :
600 cases of Clarets, high and low grades, care
fully selected from best foreign stocks.
100 casks of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade.
100 cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade.
88 casks of Sherry Wine, best quality of medium
grade.
86 barrels Scnppernong Wine of best quality.
60 casks Catawba Wine " "
10 barrels " " medium grade.
Together with a full supply of Brandies, Whiskies,
Scotch and Engllah Ales, Brown Stout, etc., etc.,
which be la prepared to furnish to the trade andcoa
suiners generally la quantities that may be re
quired, and on the most liberal terms.
P. J. JORDAN.
6 6 tf No. 820 PE AR Street,
Below Third and Walnut and above Dock street.
CAR STAIR 8 & McCALL,
Xo. 126 7amut and 21 Granlto Sti.,
IMPORTERS OF
Erandiei, Vicei, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
' WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 88
GROCERIES, ETC.
JOKDON BROWN STOUT AND
SCOTCH ALE,
In glass and stone, by the case or dozen.
ALBERT O. ROBERT3,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Bta,
EDWARD POfJTI & CO., .
IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN PRODUCE,
Wines, Oils, Fruits, Cigars,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
No. DOl IVALillJT Btreet,
PHILADELPHIA.
KDWAHD PONTI. 13 87S JAMES W. HATKK9.
OLOTHS, OASSI MERES, ETQ.
Q L O T H HOUSE.
JAMES & II U O s n.
tto. 11 Rorttt gKt'oni) Street,
Hlgn of tue Golden Lamb,
ait receiving a large and p!eniid a&sortmen
of new style, or
FANCY CASaiMEltF.3
Ac siauJurd makes of DOESKIN4, CLOTHS aa
COATINGS, 8 43 mil
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.