t THE DAILY KvfiNINt TELEGRAFR PHILADELPHIA, F JUDAS', MAY 19, 1871. snniT of the mess. EDITOBIAL OPINIONS OF THS UtADINO J0TJETUL8 UPON CDBKENT TOPICS COMPILED EVEBX DAT FOB THE EVENING) TELEGRAPH. POLITICAL PRECEDENTS. From (he A. 1'. Nation. An article which recently Appeared in the Buffalo Express draws an elaborate oompari on between the Fugitive (Slave Law and the so-called Ku-klax bill, and justifies the latter statute by the precedent set in the former. The Fugitive Blave Law, it says, was an ex treme measure in ihe direction of centraliza tion; it recognized no limit to the power of the United (States Government; it overrode the sovereignty of the States; it authorized the use of the military arm; it extinguished the writ of habeas corpus and all to protect the slave bolder in his rights of properly. The Ku klnx bill, it urges, adopts the same measures, and calls into action the name forces, bat with a far different object. It also acknow ledges no limit to the power of the United States Government, and overrides the sove reignty of the States, bnt only to protect citizens in their lives, in their freedom of actien and opinion, and in all their privi leges and immunities. We shall not discuss the pobition thus briefly sketched, but simply use it as the text for a few observations which it plainly suggests upon the danger of political precedents. The writer in the Express is so carried away by the comparison he has made between the atrocious design of the earlier statnte and the beneficial object of the present law, that he fails to perceive the double nature and re troactive force of his own argument, which is, indeed, a two-edged weapon, wounding friend and foe alike. This argument, in a nutshell, is as follows: Twenty-one years ago the party in power violated the spirit of the Constitution in order to protect pro perty in slaves; therefore we, who are the special champions of liberty and equal rights, may in like manner and by like means violate the spirit of the Constitution in order to pro tect life and personal security. Two prece dents have thus been established in favor of the same measures of violation, although with very different designs. Do not the Express, and all other advocates of this legislation, perceive that, when the party which was in power twenty-one years ago, or its legitimate political descendants, shall again control the Government, it will find in this identical example and in this reasoning ample autho rity for some future fugitive slave law ample authority by which to defend any usurpations of power for purposes as unlawful and wicked as those sought to be accomplished by the Force bill are proper and just? The doctrine that evil may be done that good may come has always found subtle apolo gists. It has often been invoked by statesmen in the administration of public affairs, but invariably with disastrous conse quences. Bad political precedents are dan gerous in any form of government, but are emphatically so in a government which .is restrained by an organic law, whose ob servance must be to a great extent voluntary, or compelled more by the moral force of public opinion than by material sanctions. A bad political precedent, set up for a worthy, desirable, and beneficial end, is, in the long run, more dangerous than a similar preoedent established for an improper, unjust, and im moral end. Thus the Force bill which Congress has just passed carries with it the possibilities of more and greater evil consequences than were involved in the provisions of the Fugi tive Slave law. A legislation which not only violates the organic law and the elementary principles of political science, biit.also.aims at a final result which is in itself iniquitous, finds few supporters beyond the ranks of those whose immediate interests are sub served. The common sense of justice is out raged, and an opposition at once springs up which continually gathers strength until it finally becomes successful. On the other hand, a legislation which violates the organic law and the elementary principles of political science, but for a worthy, desirable, and bene ficial end, at once finds supporters among large classes of good citizens, who, in their anxiety to reach the final result, shut their eyes to the improper nature of the way and the means. The people gradually grow ac customed - to the principle embodied in the unlawful exercise of authority; their opinions are reflected by the Legislature and by the Courts, until in time the measure becomes a part of the settled administrative policy of the country, and may be used as the base of a new departure. This process is illustrated by the history of the legal-tender enactment. Prior to the war, no lawjer, nor even an intelligent citi zen, would have hesitated a moment in pro- against the validity of sucu a statute. It was adopted as an experiment under the supposition that it was absolutely necessary. The people have acquiesced and the courts have sustained it, and for aught that appears it may remain a permanent fea ture of our financial system. But it contains the assertion of a power in Congress to break up and destroy all private contracts and per sonal obligations, and leaves no safe guard against the exercise of such a power. In this very process lies the great danger which must always accompany the kind of legialatien we are describing. When, in the course of time other measures iden tical in principle, but seeking to effeot some unwoithy and immoral objects, are proposed .nd rasned bv those who confessedly base their action upon the precedent already set, the better citizens will find themselves eatormed from making any opposition; their mouths will be shut, or at least all the f6rce will be taken from their arguments, and their remonstrances will be unheeded. In public as well as in private hie, with ponuoal com munities as well as with individuals, bad prac tices to accomplish good results must inevit ably end iu total demoralization, in an entire destruction of the practical distinctions be tween right and wrong. It ought not to be necessary to remind any one that the good and wise and virtuous will not always control the administration of pub lie affairs; there must be changes aud vast oscillations. We may be sure that when the evil-d sncBcd, the dishonest, and the wicked obtain power, they will succeBhf uu y push to terrible extremity the precedents which their predecesaora have established f r them. Tne very central idea of a constitutional form of government, and the final reason for the adoption of a written organic law, certain, and fixed iu all its features, is that restraint may be placed upon the acts of good and bi . rulers alike, bo that the unwise measures done by the former for a worthy end may not be adopted by the latter and i er verted to an evil purpose. Were the wise and good always to be in power, there uiifcLt L little danger that the rights and lil.ortifo of individual citizens would ever be iofrinpfd. The (Government lu'jVit ba pa ternal and protecting. It is enongh to say that our institutions were founded upon no such absurd and impossible assumption. They recognize the certainty of constant changes in society and in those who for the time being control society, and have estab lished safeguards intended to protect the people from any possible conseqneaces of these social and political revolutions. The danger from bad politioal precedents which we are pointing out is not imaginary. It already lifts itself in imposing proportions, and we stand face to face with it. The events of the pant two years show beyond a douht that as fast as the Democratic party has ob tained power in the States, it ha been quick to apprehend tho nature and force of the precedents which a Republican Congross has repeatedly set for its study and imitation. When the same party reaches the position of ascendancy throughout the nation and grasps the reins of the General Government, we may expect a series of legislative measures, ter rible perhaps in their results, but each find ing an example and a counterpart in some existing statute. The Honseof representatives first uied the process of impeachment as a means of punishing a political opponent, and with the avowed purpose of achieving a party success. State legislatures have been eager to copy both the act and the motive; and impeachment, which the Constitution de signed as the last sanction by which the dis cretion of executive and judicial officers might be restrained within just limits, may be considered in future as an ordinary and ready instrument in the hands of a party ma jority to accomplish partisan ends; nay, the acts of the Arkansas Legislature during the past winter have covered this most solemn proceeding with an odium from which it can hardly bo rescued. How meek and tame- were the Bepublican protests against the removal of Governor Holden, compared with tho thun ders which would have been uttered had it not been for the attempt to get rid of Mr. John son. Again, the "previous question," which was invented to cut off a factious opposition and to put an end to a discussion which had already been exhaustive, has for several years been used as a whip to gather in and control a party majority end ns a gag to stifle all de bate. The retribution has already begun in several of the States, and will some time doubtless be consummated upon the floor of the House. The appeal to the public made during the past winter by Republican mem bers of the Indiana Legislature who had re signed was throughout a curious document, but no portion of it was more curious or more refreshingthan that which bitterly complained of the tyranny of the Democratic majority in the use of the previous question, aud iu the prohibition of debate upon matters of the highest importance to the State. A vi.sion of Thaddeus Stevens ought to have appeared to the writer of this address and to have stayed bis hand as he penned the inconsistent complaint. The readiness with which the New York Assembly rejected the claims of Mr. Twombly and seated a Democratic mem ber in his place, finds many a parallel in the acts of recent Congresses, and the process will probably be repeated upon a larger field. We have already said that the Ku-klux bill itself may perhaps be made the precedent for some future fugitive slave law, or for some other statute which shall equally violate the Constitution, political science, and good morals. The suggestion was reasonable, and its accomplishment is not at all improbable. If the Democratic party should come into power, it is certainly within the range of pos sibilities that it should eudeavor to uphold and sustain the liquor interest by Congres sional legislation directed against State pro hibitory and license laws. Such a measure could be easily patterned al ter the present Force bill; the State laws could be declared void: the States enacting and sustaining them could be described as "abridging the privileges and immunities of citizens of the . United btates, and as "denying to persons the equal protection of the laws;" inter ference with the free manufacture and sale of liquors could be pronounced a crime punishable by the national oourts, and resist ance could be overawed and put down by the military. In favor of the legality of all this an argument mignt easily be made, plausible enough at least for all those who should de sire to be convinced. Ihe United btates is bound and has full authority to protect its citizens in all their rights aad privileges; the right to acquire, use, and dispose of pro perty is as sacred as the right to life or liberty, and, equally with tne latter,- de mands protection from the General Govern ment; intoxicating liquors are the subjects of property, which draws after it all the incidents of complete ownership; the fourteenth amendment has made the way clear for Congress to interfere; and the State laws which wnolly prohibit or partially restrain the free use and trafho in this species of property, are directly opposed to the wholesome provisions or yiat amendment. This principle has already re ceived the judicial sanction and support of one of the advanced members of the United Statos Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Bradley has declared a statute of Louisiana null and void which incorporated a company for re ceiving and slaughtering animals, and gave it certain privileges and immunities wttiou were denied to all others engaged in the same business. According to that learned Judge, the fourteenth amendment was aimed at all State laws which abridge the rights and privi leges of citizens as Biioh, and under its be nign protection are included not only the rights to life, liberty, and property, but a!n what be magnificently 'called "the stored right of labor." If we bhould object, as we certainly should, that the whole matter of the manufacture, use, and tale of intoxicating liquors was within the purview of police regulation, aud that the subject of internal police was com mitted exclusively to the State authorities, re bhould be wet by the ready answer that all this might once have been true, but that the Fourteenth Amendment, as construed by a prt ceding Congress, had swept within the domain of national legislation the fonetiou of personal protection, and that such roteclion could not 8'op at life, iberty, and opinion, but must be extended to property. Such would be the logical result not to say the rcdnctio ad obnurdtua of a "centralism of liberty," an "imperialism of equal rights." The Deoio cratic party baa long been the champion of the liqiur interest; it derives a large portion of its hnpnort from those ugaged in the traffic; it Lhs uniformly opposed all prohibi tory laws; and if it bhould ever come into power, what is more natural than to expect bat tl n influence which hs been so promi ii Hit io its counc ils should be equally control liug in itrtlefeifclation? MRS. GENERAL KHKUMAN AND THE WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS. J-rm thi X. y. Herald. Another very satisfactory recommendation for General Sherman for the I'rosiducy H the fact that his wife is leading the yrsat couttrvhtive movement of women f;iiu-tt tLe Untitle doctrines of the liiiw-Uairud au I soclalistio agitators for female suffrage. Ably eoonded by Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren and Miss Catharine Beeuber, she has made a vigorous onslaught upon the works of the agitators worthy of Old Tecumseh himself at Atlanta. By her addresses and petitions to Congress upon the subject fche has cut a swath in the enemy's ranks paralleled only by the fiery swaths that Sherman cut in his maroh down to the sea. While continuing her good work through petitions and remonstrances, she does not fail to call in the aid of the press, and now publishes a new paper called the 2rve Woman, devoted mainly to the advocacy of the anti-woman suffrage movement. Thus she brings up her heavy reinforcements at tho critical moment and "fills up the gap in the line as Sherman filled it w ith his l.rth Corps at Vick9burg; and doubtless we shall soon hear of her cor nering the enemy, compelling his Surrender and then offering him generous terms, as Fherrran did with Joo Johnston in North Carolina. She has entered on a heavy catn taien, and bids fair to conduct it with the relentless vigor that beloocs to the name of Sherman. Some time ago we discoursed to the women's rights women on tho true right of Mifl'iaee, which they already possess, and which tbey seem anxious to barter for the meretricious right of casting the actual ballot. We instanced the commendable action of Mis. General Logan in securing the eleotion of her husband to the United States Senate merely in showing, by her genial hospitality, her excellent msnneis, and the brightness of her home, how much credit 6ho would reflect upon the honest and sagacious Illinois farnv ers who choso her to represent thorn in the social Senatorial circle in Washington. We imtnuced Blanche Butler, who guided her father's great influence, and Vinnie llenni, who moved a Congress to sympathy and on appropriation. Mrs. Gene rnl Sherman now comes forward as even a higher representative of this true womanly principle of woman's suffrage. Her pronnn ciamento against the American Communists is as great a master stroke of statesmanship cs the General's exposure of the Ku-klux myth. She aims to secure peaoo and tran quillity in the social circle, and he to insure it in our political aud commercial highways. She strikes at a social dragon, he at a politi cal bugbear. She is conservative socially: he politically. She would make au excellent lady of the "White House; he an excellent President. Thus moving together, hand in hand, under the banner of conservatism aud on the unalterable principles of opposition to Communist problems aud radical encroach ments, General Sherman and Mrs. Sherman present themselves the most available can didates for the White House that tho Demo cratic party can ever hope to enter for the race in 1872. GERMAN-AMERICANS. Fnmi the A". Y. World. The Times says: "When the WoiUl gives the German-Americans the cry of 'States rights' now, it hap pily forgets that the watchword of the liberals in GeimaDy is a 'united federal government, with Btrong powers,' aud that the 'reaction' have inscribed on their hnnuers 'States rights' and the independence of local com munities. No people have felt the evils of local independence, and of the constant op pre ssioT'8 of small States, like the Germans. They Lave more fear of extreme individuali zation or separation of community than of an overweening federal power. They see in this country that a terrible civil war like ouh, and a grand act of national emancipation, neoe sarily involve some abnormal and semi military measures, for the sake of preserving the peace of the country and protecting the freed slaves. It is not the Ku-klux bill which has separated the New York Germans from the Republican party, but f ar other matters, not so important, perhaps, but whioh possess great weight in tne view of Germans." But when are the "semi-military measures" to end? The Times misestimates the intelligence of German-Americans when by the proffer of free tobacco and free lager beer it under takes to diverrHheir attention from the com manding topics their countryman, Carl Schurz, places before their eyes. They know wbat is really going on in Germany and here. They see clearly that Bismarck has no thought of prostrating the local rights of Bavatia or Wurtemberg at the feet of Ber lin, as Missouri and New York are now at the mercy of Washington. In Germany the sovereigns of the separate confederated States and the States themselves have rights which Prusssia dare not attempt to take away. In the upper house of the legislative deportment the members are in fact dele cates. and in effeot they vote as States. The new Constitution of Germany is, like our own, strong for foreign operations "i& plu- ribvt unum but in purely community affairs it recognizes the wisdom, and necessity of local self-government. It is a sensible combination of State independence and aggre gate strength. But what would the father. land Bay to a law of the Federal Assembly at Berlin which proposed to authorize Emperor William to punish in Bavaria offenses t gainst the laws of that kingdom, as our Ku-klux law endeavors to enable Grant to apply, by bis army and navy, in New York the Jaws of New York, wheuever he sees fit to think the rights of a citizen of the United States are endangered r German Americans know full well that the dauger now in n is. country is not irom excess 01 centrifugal force. More than that, they feel that civil liberty, religions liberty, and per. sonal liberty, each and all, are safer in this country with the Slates powerful iu suoh things, than with a Washington master. They look back to the era of the fugitive slave law, and observe tLe tendency 01 national power then while the States moved iu an opposite direction. In respect to African-Americans Congrtss to-day runs wiloly in one direction, but iu the couiii g day its current may run as fiercely in another course. German-Ame ricans se tLut if Ktiow-Nothingisui were to spring up Spain, or religious bare, and get possession of Congress there would be no security for them, with State rights pros- trattd as tcey ovo by the Ku-klux law. They see aud hear that it is aoioug the wild schemes of the politioal reform association, of which the J'iiius is organ and Mr. Evaita the deoorative orator, to bring tbe Fideral Government from Wash ington into this city to put down what is called Ucol mismanagement. The property of a citien of the United States is taken from him by Jim Fisk or some one else in New York possibly Tweed without "due process of law, in violation of tne fourteenth amend ment, end the State courts are unable or ua willincr to punith the offenders. Heuce Grant enters with hid army commanded by Sheri dan fresh from the entouraae of Imperialism Such is the logic of Mr. Evarls' new political BShOiiatts! If the State and city of Now York venture to take steps looking to a viudu-i tion of their lichts, then "corruption" is the watch wold fli d reply of Kpiib!i.!au con spiratois! ETHICS AND ECCLESIASTICS. i'rom Theodort Tiltnn' GoUlm Agr. Some of our denominational exchanges condemn Professor Seeley'a admirable lec tures, recently republished here, for their in sidious infidelity. Their heresy is counted all the more dangerous because covered with the garb and semblance of faith. Their pol ished phrase and professed fealty to religion blind the very elect to the subtle elements of unbelief .lurking in and diffused through them. They are as much more fatal than the bold denials of Voysey, Colenso, and Parker an the keen rapier wreathed in roses is more death-dealing that the blunt' broadsword brandished high iu air. Aud the ground of this censure is that he makes anything but complimentary strictures upon the Churou for neglecting to teach those essential morali ties upon which the welfare ond happiness of individuals and the world depend. Professor Seeley's statements relate to ecclesiastical parties in EnglAnd Those who draw a sharp line between the saved and the unsoved, the Church and the world, religious beliefs and sacraments that are saving, and "mere morality" which is well enough in church-members, but not essential to salva tion and very dangerous for the unconverted to have of course, take no pains to indoctri nate their congregations with ethical princi ples end create a sound and healtny moral sentiment in the community. And only the Broad-Church party in the Establishment, with a 6mall body of dissenters, are suffi ciently emancipated from the old theology to regard all human beings as equally children of God, ond subject to moral laws that are equally binding upon all men. The average Englishman looks to his church for religion merely, and a religion well-nigh destitute of moral elements, and gets his ethical ideas from the press. And this is the reason that the Church is so little of a moral force in the nation, and has already lost its hold upon the best minds. The same thirg is essentially true in this country. If the line between the Church and tbe world is less broadly marked than in for mer da; s, it still exists, and the chief busi ness of tbe minister is to recruit the former from the territory of the latter. His work is not to teach ethics but to save souls, and to save them by some other means than the morality which is the essence and outcome of genuine religion and an essential element of true manliness, lie labors to make con verts, not to create a climate so congenial to wbat is best aud noblest in human nature that society will blossom with graces and produce the richest and rarest virtues. In bis view, morality has nothing to do with soul-saving. Though well enough in its way, and a convenient thing to havo, it is not cssentiul to salvation. According to the most popular preacher in America, it is, at best, a beam too short to bridge the stream that separates earth from heaven. Morality is admirable for the saints, but dangerous for the unconverted, who are constantly tempted to trust to it for salvation. The more moral men are, the more are they satisfied with morality and the less likely to accept the doc trinal and sacramental expedients for the saving of souls, and the better the world the worse for the Church. The inevitable consequence is that, with a few noble exceptions, tne pulpits ring all pos sible changes on the doctrines and sacraments they regard as essential to salvation after debtb, and spend their force in recruiting churches and building up denominations, while the great common moralities on which individual sanity as well us sanctity depend, which are the foundation of public welfare and prosperity, are dropped into a secondary and merely incidental place, if not decried as "beggarly elements ' and "filthy rags." Doctrines ond sacraments sit at the ecclesiastical feast, and ethics are left to pick up tho crumbs that fall from tbe table. The practical result of this policy is that tbe streets of all our cities are mined with vices and honey-combed with pitfalls; business has become another name for gam bling; politics, as represented in "the rings," is on organized conspiracy to rob the people; the domestic life of our country is demora lized; the churches are the hiding-places of extortioners and hypocrites; and a man escorts a woman in tho street oar after dark at tbe peril of bis life. Ihe majority of ecclesiastics seem to forget that the saving of souls in the next world is God's business, while it is their business to moke souls worth the saving. Those who have caught a glimpse of better things do not preach morality because tney Know so little about it. A knowledge of ethios is not considered a necessary part of the intellectual furniture of a popular minister; ne contounds morals with deportment, and, tilling his quiver with theological proof-texts, brashes the subject aside. He fails to see, what Kant showed long ago, that the only impregnable ground of faith in God and immortality, as scainst the Biibtle speculations and scientific activities of the age, is this of indestructible- moral obligations. If the Church has any meaning and use in modern society, if it sran Is tor any permanent reality and essential element in our new civilization, it is the representa tive of those mortl verities, laws, and obli gationB that are as indestmotibU as human Lotnre. and the unalterable conditions of human coed. For morality is not that meagre and pinched affair that ignorant priests have represented it merely a thing of the hands, a matter of proprietj', a set of manners, a sort of Lord Chesterfield etiquette with a little ' move sanctimony in look and severity in tone. It relates to all Luman relations. It covers t.11 human duties, It reaches to the bottom of the heart and the top of the life. It concerns all human thoughts and feelings as well as actions. It gots wherever the word Ought goes, and covers all that means and reaches to. Reli gion and the Church rest at last upon morals, A religion without morality is air without oivceu. or a body without bone or blood One reason of the immense defeotion from tie Church, and that it has lost so much of its former hold on the brain and heart of our Tople, in because ecclesiastics have ignored ethics, taught religion without morality, and tried to build up sacraments, dogmas, and denominations without regard to the inte rests of mankind, if not at the expense of the woild. The only way by which they oan recover the ground they have lost, and make the Church the power it might and onght to be in American society, is a -fresh and bold ii 'culcation of morality. Sydney Smith sug gested that' the only way to avoid railroad accidents was to compel the directors to ride in tbe front car. It is perhaps too much to Bay that our American eoclf siaatics should be held responsible for the vices and crimes of society, and that for every murder a minis ter tnould be hung; nut tne clergy are re. sponsible for the low moral condition of society to a far greater degree than they imagine. They ought to be regarded, they onght to regard themselves, as the teachers of ethics, tbe ordained expositors of tbe immutable lawa of morality, and look upon the moral welfare of men and society as their special vocation and deportment ef service. And in proportion as they do this will the world improve, and will their office win the respect and awaken the enthusiasm of the best minds. Were the forty thousand ministers of America to tnash tbe great principles of morality with all their mind and might, and to take the lead in every movement of social and moral reform, we frhould have uch a renovation a the world nevtr witnessed, and the Church would be transformed from a burden to a beueficenoe. SMtPPINQ. FOR LIVKHPOOb ANl yTJEBM OWN. TtiBlnroan Lldti of Kovai M bteuiuers are appointed to sail a follows: Citv of Lunerlck, via Halttax, Tuwulav, May !0, at 1 P W. City of Baltimore, ThnrRrtaj, May 1. at 8 P. tl. City or Paris, enuirdav. May SO. t l fc, Ottj of BniHRf ls. Satnrrtu? . May T. nt It A. M. an1 each nccredine tsatorday aud alternate Tim "ay, from Pier No. 4R North rlvi'r. RATKS F PASSAGE By Blall Steamer Sailing every Satarlay. Pu jaiiie in trold, ramble In cufmucj. First CaMn T5 Steerage V3j To Iioiirtwn 80 To Llmrton H6 To Halifax n To Halttax 1 raflsenircrs also forwarded to Antwerp, K;uer- 4.im, Sweden. Norway, DenmarK, etc, at reilncert rates. 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THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rates wi by any other ronte given to MOBILE, GALVES TON. 1NDIANOLA, ROCKPORT, LA VACUA, and JJRAZOfS emt o all points on the Mississippi river between New Orleans and St.. Louts. Red river freights reshlpped at New Orleans without charge of commissions. WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, GA. . Tne TON AW AN l A will sail for Savannah on Sat urday, Mnv 20, at 3 A. M. The WYOMING wul soli from Savannah on Sat tday, May so. TJJROLUh BILLS OF LADINt given to all the principal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee lu con nection with the Central Railroad of Georgia, At .aptlc and Gulf Railroad, and Florida ateauiers, at nslow rates as by competing lines. , SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. a The flONEKKwlll sail for Wilmlngtou, N C, on Weoucslay, Aiay 24. at 6 A. M. Returning, wul leave Wilmington Thursday, June 1st. Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat Company, the Wilmington and Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Man chester Railroad to all Interior points. Freights for Columbia, S. C, and Augusta, Ga., taken via Wilmington at as low rates as by any other route. Inanranee effected when reqnested by shippers. Bills or lading signed at tueen street wharf oa or before day of saiikng. WIIJULAM L. JAMES, General Agent, No. 130 S. THIRD Street. fft CLYDE'S STEAM LINES. JU'rl. Ortlce, No. 12 South WHARVES. PillLADKLPHIA, RICHMOND AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINE, THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO 'IHE SOUTH AND WET. Steamers leave every WEDNESDAY and SATUR DAY 'at noon," from FIRST WHARF above MAR KET Street. No bills of lading signed after la o'clock on sailing day. THROUGH RATES to all points in Nortn and South Carolina, via Seaboard Alr-luie Railroad, con necting at Portsmouth, and at Lynchburg, V a., Ten nessee, and the West via Virginia and Tennessee Air-llne, and Richmond and Danville Railroads. Freights HANDLED BUT ONCB and taken at LO W EK RATIOS than by any other Una. No charge for commission, drayage, or any ex pense of transfer. Steamships Insure at lowest rates. FREIGHTS RECEIVED DAILY. State-roim accommodations for passengers. WM. P. hJHTJth, Agent, Rloumoud and City Point. T. P. CROWELL it CO., Agunia, Norfolk. Sf-PT PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON. SfciaSwi PHILADELPHIA and CHARLESTON bTHiAMSHIP LIE. THURSDAY LINE FOR CHARLESTON. The first-class Steamship EMPIRE, Captain Hinctlty, wUl sail ou Thursday, May 23, at 8 p. M.. noon, from Pier S, Norta Wharves, above Arcn street. Through bills of lading to au principal point In South Carolina, weorgio, norata, ew., etc. Rates of fieight as low as by ajiy other route, yor freight or paaaage apply ou the Pier, as above. WM. A. COCRTKNA Y, Agent In Charleston. . k!T Fr NEW YORK DAILY VIA ,2b2SdELA W A UE AN D R A RITAN CAN AU EXPlti-Ss rsTfiABiouAi- tuiurAjiir. The CHEAPEST ami QUICKEST water comma, nidation between Philadelphia aud New York. Steamers leave DAILY from first wharf below MARKET Street, Philadelphia, aud foot of WALL Strett New York. i H ROUGH JN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines runulDg out of New York, North, East, and West, free of commis sion. ' Freight received dally and forwarded on accom mouuung terms. JAyES HAND. Agent, No. 118 WALL Street, New York. ,rr- NEW EXPRESS LINK to ALEX ANURIA. GEORGETOWN, AND WapHiNGION', D. C. Cbesap-ake aad uelaware Canal, connecting with Oraugu. ana Alexandria Railroad. Steamers leave regularly every SATURDAY at noon, from nrai wnarr aoove uauivjST Street. Freights received dally. HY't TYLER, Agents, Georgetown. D. C. U. ELU1UDUE tt CO., Agents, Alexandria, Va. .fT N DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE iEJSa; TOW-BOAT COMPANY. nurses towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore, nav re-de-Grace, Delaware City, aud intermediate nnlnfL CAPTAIN JOHN LAUOIILIN, Superintendent. Oitlvii, NO. IU BOUtn w lift it tea, PHILADELPHIA. WILLIAM pTcLYDE CO., AGENTS For all the above lines, No. n SOUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia, where further information may be obtainud. -.fT it, FOR NEW Y'ORK, VIA DELAWARE Jj-rand Rariian uauai. b ilzslUS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DESPATCH AND SWlFfSURE LINK A The steam propellers of this company leave dally a U M. sud or.. Through In tweuty-fonr hours. Goods forwarded to any point free of commUsloo, Freight Uktn ou accouimouauag terms. Atpiy t WIT IT AM M RATRD A CO., Agents. No. loi bouta DLAWAUE Avuu. HIPPINO. LORILLAKD 8TKAM3UIP OOXIMAY BAILING XTJESDAYB, THTJRSDAlS, AND SAT URDAYS AT NOON. INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT, No bill or lading or receipt signed for leaa than Ofty cents, and no Insurance effected for leas than one dollar premium. For further paticnlatn and rates apply at Com pany'e offlce.'Pler 83 East river, New York, or to JOHN P. OHU TIER 19 NOKTn WHARVES. IT. a Extra rates on small packages Iron, metaljf eto. 1? O R SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 1 THE FLORIDA PORTS, AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. GREAT SOUTHERN FREIGHT AND PA88EN GER LINK. CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA AND AT LANTIC AN. Gl'LF RAILROAD. . 10,;K STEAMERS A W ET.K, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS. 411 C k nt QUO '1 lli? KAN SAT.VATMlW Ponialn K!l,.bnvM nu. No. H North River. WM. K. GARRISON, Agent, No. 8 Bowling Green. WllKTfiflMltltV. Cnnuln VilrWh mi 13 North River. R. LOWDEN, Agent, No. 93 West street. T.I-.0. rnntnlti Dnnrtmrn. from t'lpr TJn u r.. v . - , - -AW MO River. MURRAY, FERRIS A OO., Agents, Noa. 61 and a Koum street. GENERAL BARNES. CaDtaln Mallorr. from Plat No. a North River. LIVINGSTON, FOX A CO., Agents, No. S3 Liberty street. inanrnuce by this line ONE HALF PER CENT, bnpt-nur at-comniodatlnua for pansengers. Through rates aud bills of ladiig la connection with the Atlantic and Gulf Freight linn. Through rates aud bills of lading Iu connection with Central Railroad of Uennrla, to all points. V.V. UWJtlSH, UiOliOK YOMGB, Agent A. 4 G. R. R., Agent C.R.R, No. 829 Broadway. No. 4ni Broadway. 'PUB ANCHOR LIN STEAMER8 I Sail every Satarduy and alternate Wednesday to and from Glangow and Derry. Passengers booked and forwarded to and from all railway stations lu Great Britain, Ireland, Ger tuauy, Norway, Swedeu, or Denmark end AraerloC as safely, speeusly, comfortably, and cheaply asb) any otuer rouw or line. BSPKBPfl" 6TBAMEIU. E-VTRi" ttTIAJflES. IOWA, TYKIAN, BRITANNIA, IOWA, TYRllN, ANGLIA, AUSTRALIA, BRITANNIA, INDU, COLUMBIA, fcUKOl'A. JSttlTAiNJMIA. From Pier SO Nwrth river, New York, at noon. Rates of Pabsage, Payable in Currency, to Liverpool, Glasgow, or Derry: First cabins, fc.5 and $75, according to location. Cabin excursion tickets (good for twelve months), securing beHt accommodations, tlSO. Intermediate, fi3 ; steerage, $2$, CertiticatuN, at reduced rates, can be bought here by those wishing to send for their friends. Drafts issued, pavab.e on presentation. Apply at the com pan v 's offices to HENDERSON BROTHERS, No. I BOWLING- GiUiEN. w HITS STAR L I N K A OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S LINK OF NEW STEAMERS BKTWBKN NEW YIRK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING. AT CORK, IRELAND. The company's fleet com prises the following mag nificent full-powered ocean steamships, the six largest In the world : OCEANIC, Captain Murray. .ARCTIC. ATLANTIC, Captain Thompson. BaLTIO. PACIFIC, Captain Perry. ADRIATIC. These new vessels have been designed specially for the transatlantic trade, and combine speed, safety, and comfort. Pacsenger accommodations unrivalled. Parties tending for their friends in the Old coun try can now obtain prepaid tickets. Steerage, f 32, currency. Other rates as low as any first-class line. For further particulars apply to ISMAY, IMRIE A CO., No. 10 WATER fetreei, Liverpool, and No. 1 EAST INDIA Avenue, LEA DEN HALL Street, London; or at tbe company's onicea. No. 19 BROADWAY, New York. J. H. SPARKS, Agent. 17OR ST. THOMAS AND BRAZIL, ? UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL STEAM SHIP COMPANY. REGULAR MAIL STEaMEKS sailing on the 83d of every month. MERRIMACK, Captain Wier. SOUTH AMkRICA, Captain E. L'. Tlnklepauga. NORTH AMERICA, Captain G. B. Slocuin. These splendid steamers sa'l ou schedule tline.and call at St. Thftmas, Para, Pernambuco, Bah la, ru Rio de Janeiro, going aud returning. For engage meats of freight or passage, apply to WM. K GARRISON, Agent, No. B Bowling-green, New York. OORDAOE, ETO. CORDAGE. &&nllla, filial and Tarred Oordajs At lxmm Nw York PrioM and Vroicbta. KOWII1 EL FITXJCR A CO FMtorr, TJCKTTH Ht. and OMRMANTOWB JvvtBM. tor. No. tt n. WATX& Bt. and 83 H DSLAWA&B Avails., PHILADELPHIA JOHN S. LEK A CO., ROPE AND TWINE MANUFACTURERS, DEALERS IN NAVAL 8TORES, ANCHORS AND CHAINS, SHIP CHANDLERY GOODS, ETC., Nos. 46 and 48 NORTH WHARVES. WHISKY, WINE. ETCU TT7 INKS, LIQUORS, ENGLISH AND II SCOTCH ALES, ETC. Tbe subscriber begs to call the attention of dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers generally to his splendid stock of foreign goods now on hand, of his own importation, as well, also, to his extensive assortment of Domestic Wines, Ales, etc., aiuoit which may be enumerated : UiO cases of Clarets, high and low grades, care fully selecied from best foreign stock. 100 casks of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest grade. i 100 cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest gTade. 85 casks of Sherry Wine, best quality of medium grade. ys barrels Scappernong Wine of best quality. bO casts Catawba Wins " JO barrels " medium grade. Together with a full simply of Brandie. Whiskies, Scotch and Euglisu Ales, Brown Stoat, etc, etc., which be is pr. pared to furnish to the trade audcoa--turuers generally la quantities that may be ro c, tilled, and ou the in"8t liberal terms. P. J. J on DAN. 6 6tf ' No. 80 PEAR Street, Below Third and Walnut aud aoov Dock street. CARKTAIKS & McCALL, Po. 126 Walnut and SI Granite Sti,, IMPORTERS OF Erandiet, "Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Eta, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES, IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 835 I? DUE HILL SCHOOL rj MEKCHANTVILLE. N. J., Four Miles from Philadelphia. Tbe session commenced MONDAY, April 10, IsTl. For circulars apply to Rev. T. W. CATTKLL. HATS AND OAPS. nWARBURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED and eaay C'ting DRESS HATS (patented). In all ti.e in, proved faahio"s of tbo season, IIUESNUT fc:rm, text door to the f ost Office, rp3
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