THE DAILY KvtfNING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA; MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1871..
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TELE PIIOTOQltirilEHS'- CONVENTION.
From the S. Y. Tribune,
If young men's fancies, as the poet tells ua,
lightly turn with the warm npring winds to
thoughts of love, middle-aged men's appa
rently rnn as fast to conventions. They herd
together during every May and Jane oa the
slightest pretext of union. They meet and
koo-too each other as Quakers, Presbyterians,
prize-fighters, or patriots; and now as photo
graphers. Some spark of good, we suppose,
is struck out of all this friction; a certain cor
dial emulation and guild-spirit, if nothing
better. That improvement and new ideas
may come from this great annual Association
of Thotographers is a matter in which we
are all personally ooncerned.
The convention, we learn, was large and en
thusiastic; delegates and specimens were pre
sent from all parts of Europe; our own large
houses in every State contributed their best
inventions. The staid Quaker City glimmered
with lenses and graphoscopes. The smell of
collodion and blue lights filled the air. There
is probably no mechanical art which has made
such rapid advance as this since the days of
Daguerre and Niepce, as is shown by the
numberless inventions and the exquisite soft
ness and beauty of the speoimens exhibited
in Philadelphia; but in an rcsthetio point of
view the profession, we are foroed to hint,
has lagged far behind. In the cities where
success would pay men with real artistic
talent to adopt the business, they have fre
quently done so; but outside of these
large markets it is. usually left to any young
Yellow who can command money enough to
buy a camera and expertness enough to han
dle it. Photography, like wood engraving,
while it offers a field for a great artist, suffers
from the fact that the process is easily
learned, the materials are cheap, and the
poorest workman will always find work and
wages. The average operator, as we all know
to our cost, has no knowledge of the first
rules concerning light or shade, nor any gliui-
. mer of the idea that there might be a skill in
placing and draping his victim which
would secure a beautiful and attractive pic
ture out of the most meagre and inhar
monious materials. He plumps him into
a chair of torture in a room heated
to 'J2 deg., screws his head into a vice, aad
then placidly offers to "wait until he has as
sumed his best expression." Hawthorne's
morbid fancy that the secret devil in every
man peered out of his face somewhere in a
photograph may have had its foundation in
fact: the treatment human nature undergoes
in that chamber of horrors brings whatever is
diabolical in it to the light. There is an old
story of a Greek artist to whom came an un
hopeful subjeot in the shape of a man blind,
lame, and with a broken arm. He painted
him taking aim with a bow kneeling on the
lame leg, closing the blind eye, drawing back
the broken arm. Our modern photographer
would have ssorned such art as sheer com
pounding of a felony.
Seriously, this is no matter for jesting. We
may leave what footsteps on the shores of
time we please in the shape of character or
good deeds, but our real selves, our faoes, are
inexorably in the charge of those minions of
the sun for posterity; and whether we will or
not, they choose that every wrinkle and smirk
shall go down unflinchingly. For the great
majority of ns, twenty years after we are
dead, the only trace left of us on earth will
most likely be a photograph in some dusty
album. Is it unnatural that we should wLaa
this to be at least the just shadow of what we
were? The most praotical Gradgrind among
ns would fain look with a cheerful f aoe into
that golden age to come, unknown world of
strangers though it be, and not scowl baok to
it a grisly ghost. We beseech the convention
to scatter some notions of true art among its
members. Kryolite and velvet cases and in
visible rests are no doubt excellent things,
but a subtle sense of grace, and fitness, aud
beauty is not altogether to be despised.
Have meroy upon us, Messieurs Photo
graphers; you have the immortality of this
generation in your keeping; for the love of
justice do not any longer confirm the Dar
winian theory by sending us down to unborn
ages in the presentment 01 a race 01 gorillas
THE DEMOCRATIC SCYLLA AND
CHARYBDIS.
From Uarper'i Weekly, edited ly G. W. CurtU.
"Mr. Orator Puff had two tones in his
voice," and consequently, as the affecting
narrative informs us, he oould not esoape
from the nit. The Democratic party, with-
the same vocal variety, is in imminent peril
of a similar catastrophe. Its Northern voice
and its Southern voice sing different tunes;
and as its object is to lull the pnblio into
eentle slumber, it ia naturally angry to nod
that the discord only more thoroughly arouses
the country. Mr. Vallandigham had soaroely
blandly alluded to the fact that tne gooae
hung high when Mr. Jefforson Davis Bavagely
retorted that not only did he not "acoept the
situation." but that he "acoepted nothing
So, also, while Tammany Hall complacently
heard the praises lavished upon it by the nre
eating Mobile Register, it was confounded by
the vigorous observation of the same journal
that, of course, Tammany would not expeot
to nominate its candidate! Alas for the
"creat statesman" of New York, the execu
tive wcent of the Erie ltine!"
Indeed, a more laughable tragi-comioal
spectacle has not been lately seen than the
present bitnation of the Demooratio party. It
is engaged in the praiseworthy bat not bop
ful attempt to dissolve oil in water, and to
mingle in sweet silence gunpowder aud fire.
It is divided into two factions, the Northern
and the Southern. The cleverest of tue
Northern leaders are auxious to break tho
chain that binds them to the corpse of sUvery
and to the disastrous past of their party a
Earty false to the oountry, to liberty, and to
aman nature. But they have no platform to
propose except acquiesoeooe In KepulmoAu
action and denunciation of Republioaus,
This, being a tacit confession of the total
failure of their own party and a repudiation
of all its traditions, does not warmly com
mend itself to the mass of the Deiuoor-ttiti
voters. It seems to taein, and very uatu.
rally, an insincere course; and they declare,
with animation, that such couusels are offered
by those who have no faith in Demoordtio
principles, and who are, therefore, no batter
than the enemy. "If holding the otlicei and
sharing the publio plunder is the ouly prinoi
pie invciveu in tne pontics 01 io-aty, stys a
Kentucky Democratic paper, "there is im
necessity for keeping up two political oriui-
ZittionH.
wm:e inns Borne 01 tuej more Bagaeious
Northern Democratic leader advise au i'i'im.
cence in the 6itutioa, t'ut Southern ouUf,
who Lave been both the bruin and tba heart of
tbe ptrty, with scornful aui dhtimt brown insist
upon v. bat they call the principles for wiiio'i
the Democracy Lave alwajs contended. Taos
principles are really the Virginia and Ken
tucky resolutions of nearly eighty years ago
resolutions which assert State sovereignty
to a point which is incompatible with Na
tional supremacy that is to say, the South
ern Democratic chiefs insist upon the
right of secession. They deolare that the
"lost cause" is traditional Demooracy, and
that, when you abandon the constitutional
principle upon which that cause is justified,
Democracy, as a party name, is meaning
less. Indeed, there are a large number of
those who were the sincerest Rebels, who lost
everything in the war, and who now insist
that, the Democratic principle having been
overpowered, there should be no hesitation in
abolishing the State Legislatures, and in
establishing "one right, one government, one
Jaw." The ablest of the Southern leaders
and papers insist upon the lost cause as the
only rational Democratic platform. And Jeff.
Davis, the best beloved Demooratio leader in
the Southern States, declares in reply to the
"new departure" that a little patient waiting
only is necessary to secure the victory for
which he and his friends contended.
This was the spirit and these were the chiefs
who controlled the Demooratio party at the
last Presidential election. They propose to
contest the mastery again next year. They
deride and denounce 'the Northern aoqui
escers as men of no faith in principle, as
mere temporizers and Laodiceans. And this
position is so strongly taken, and the censure
is so free, that the Northern leaders are
already angry.' The very warmth of their
tones shows their alarm. For while they are
profoundly persuaded that there is no other
chance of Democratic success than express ac
ceptance of the situation, they are as pro
foundly convinced of the tenacity of their
late masters at the South. A few weeks ago
the Southern views, were described by the
Northern managers as the eccentricities of
"our gallant and chivalrous friends," who
would, as . good Democrats, gracefully
yield when "we" knocked them on
the head in the convention. But all
this is changed. The Albany Argus
now disposes of our gallant and chivalrous
friends in this manner: "The boisterous
Montgomery Mail is dead. The senile Mobile
Register has changed its coat and fallen into
line, an humble, and, we trust, repentant fol
lower of those whom it tried to browbeat into
its waved-up folly. The Memphis Appeal
alone remains as a vociferator of nonsense
and a gabbler of platitudes." And the New
York Wtrld, the friend of the Erie agent,
says of the other great statesman of its party:
"The truth is that Jeflerson Davis is not only
a badly beaten general, a failure as an execu
tive head of a resisting people, a thoroughly
whipped Rebel, but a politician who stupidly,
criminally (to use the mildest phrase) blun
dered. And these be brethren!
From all this it is plain, first, that the
Northern Demooratio leaders are convinced
that the Southern voice must be silenced or
the party is already defeated; and second,
that they feel much stronger than they did
in 18GS, and propose not to wheedle but to
lash the recusants into submission. But the
fact is none the less evident and significant
that the support of the Southern wing is
indispensable to Demooratio success. There
fore if, ia the National Convention ; of the
party, Mr. Vallandigham, who in 18G-1 made
the (Jhioago platform of surrender to the
rebels, should in 1872 make another platform
of surrender to the Republicans, it would
certainly be an occasion of satisfaction to
every patriot that the party did not take an
openly revolutionary position, but it would as
certainly be no ground fox supporting a- party
which contains every revolutionary and dis
turbing element. The question, as we stated
last week, would then be whether a purer
administration or greater fidelity to the new
order could be more reasonably expected
from the Democratic than from the Republi
can party. There can be little doubt that the
v allandigham platform would help the Demo
cratic party in the Northern States, but it
would as surely exasperate the stancbest
Southern Democrats. Meanwhile those who
are disposed to think that the Eoniooratio
party is always handled with admirable saga
city, and that it can rely upon its stern disci'
pline, may refresh their memories with the
history of its last three National Conventions
in 1800, 18G4, and 18G3, of which it may be
said that each surpassed the other in politioal
blundering.
OUR NEGRO POPULATION.
From the K. Y. World.
Superintendent "Walker, of the Census Bu
reau, reports tne negro population of tne
United States, under the enumeration just
taken, as 4,81)5,2Gt, stating, however, that
this total is obtained by estimates in soma
few localities, but that "the differences made
by revision will probably be limited to units.
tens, or hundreds." In this view the figures
civen doubtless express our negro population
with an accuracy sufficient for all practical
purposes, and by a comparison with the
figures of the enumerations respectively of
ISM and 18G0 and the ratios 01 increase in
either case it appears that the blacks are
dying out since the war. To eluoidate
this let us give the several enumerations
mentioned, and the increase absolute and
ratio of increase in each case. The table
stands:
reputation. Increase. liatio,
InlSRO 8,638,762
lu lo 4,436,709 796,947 81-90
In 1S70 4,fy6,264 459,655 10-3tf
Now while it appears here on the face of it
that there was an increase of 450,555 ia our
negro population from 18G0 to 1870, aud that
the per cent, of increase was lu lib, it is evi
dent upon reflection tnat tnia period 01 tea
years in which the increase might be sup
posed to have" taken place evenly year by
veer is, in fact, divisible into two equal parts
of five years each from 18G0 to 18G5, whea
the negroes, or mne-tentns 01 tnem, were in
slaverv. and from 18G5 to 1870, when all
were free. In the first half decade there was,
of course, no new element in the life of the
negro. The storms of war, to be sure, rolled
about him, but his position was too humble a
one to be hurt by the blast; and whilo battle
was deciminating the white race the
black remained in its old atti
tude of security and. as it is fair to
assume, at its old ratio of increase. In
other words, the negro from 18G0 to 18G5 was
just where he was from 180!) to 18G0 the
death-roll of the colored troops being ridicu
lously small and as he increased from 1S50
to 18G0 at the rate of 2 TOO per cent., so from
18G0 to 18G5 he increased at that same rate
proportionately, or at the rate of 2TJ per
cent, per year. For five years this is lQ-'Jo
per cent., and adding 10 !I5 percent. (485,710)
to tie figures (4,435,701) of 18G0, we find
tt at in 18G5 the negro population of the
United States must Lave been 4,1)21,410, or
2G.1':5 more than the census of 1870. Ad
mitting the premise that the negro popula
tion increased from 1800 to 18G5 at the sam
ratio as from 1850 to 18(50, and the
coLcluhiuU is irresistible that in 1805 it
ks gi eater than it is now. The only
vkv tu contravene this result is to say
tbbt ILe table we have given shows an in
titiibu of 10 oG per cent, from 16G0 to 1870,
niid to this' the answer is Instantaneous
What made the ratio of 21 V0 in the seventh
census drop instantly on the beginning of
the eighth decade to 10"3G, or less than half?
What great convulsion changed the whole
life of the negro in I860 to make him less
than one-half as fecund as he had theretofore
been? There was of course no snoh great
disturbance for the negro until 1865. Then
the change came; then was his whole life
altered; and from that time we 'are
to estimate the effect of emancipation
upon bim. The case is analogous to that of a
man who is well from the first to the fiteenth
of the month and pulled down by a fever from
that to the thirtieth: his loss in flesh is not
the month's work, but that number of days
only from the time the fever set in. To as
certain the effects of an anomaly we must
begin where the anomaly begins, end taking
up the negro population of the United States
from 18(55, when its whole condition changed.
we find that population has not only made no
increase in tne last nve years, but nas actu
ally fallen off. Beyond this fact, Mr. "Wal
ker's report is not specially remarkable,
though, as we have heretofore mentioned,
Kansas exhibits the curious increase of its
negro Vopulation from G25 in 18(50 to 17,10S
in 1870, and Kentucky and Virginia have
fewer blacks now than' ten years ago the
former having 222,210 to 2:10,107 in 18 GO;
and the latter 530,321 against 548,007. These
losses are explainable by the fact that during
the war many Kentucky negroes fled North,
and since the war the Virginia blaoks have
drifted freely into the better paid field of oot-
ton culture in tue lar South.
IMMIGRATION AND ITS COURSE.
From the N. Y. Time.
Everybody admits that we owe no incon
siderable portion of our prosperity and rapid
development to foreign immigration. The
rapid growth of the Pacific coast has been
remarkable, but the population of the States
west of the Sierras was drawn, for the most
part, from the older States. The West and
more especially the Northwestern States,
attest the value of immigration. During the
decade just passed there was a considerable
decrease in the number of arrivals. The
causes for this, both in this country and
Europe, are now happily removed. At
the beginning of the decade our own war,
and in the last year of it the war in Europe,
operated against large immigration. Those
who have made the subject a special study
predict that in the present decade the in
crease of population from foreign immigra
tion will far surpass that of any former
period. Emigration from Ireland has reached
its maximum, and will, without doubt, Bhow,
in the next ten years, a considerable decline.
This will, however, be more than counter
balanced by the increase from Germany, and
in addition the people of other countries
from which immigration has heretofore been
small, will be attracted to the- United States
by the certainty of bettering their condition.
The immigration from Sweden and Norway
in the last decade is worthy cf attention as
illustrating how rapidly the increase will be
from any country as soon as the- superior ad
vantages of the United States come to be
known. In the decade ending with the year
18G0, immigration from Sweden' and Norway
was but 20,931: in the decade ending with
the year 1870, it increased to 11 7, 790. This
large immigration sought the Northwestern
btates, adding to tne wealth, and aiding in
the rapid increase of population, which bids
fair to give to this section a preponderating
influence in directing the affairs of the na
tion. !
The Southern States, relieved from the
burden of slavery, are now seeking to develop
their resources by encouraging immigration,
They have learned the secret of the success of
the Northern and Western btates, and are re
solved to profit by it. Lands are abundant
and cheap, and a large portion of them capable
of cultivation; the climate is desirable and the
products varied; water and timber are abun
dant, and the markets are easy, of access,
Agents of different States are now ia Europe
for the purpose of bringing the advantages of
the country to the attention oi intending im
migrants. But as these agents represent a
particular interest, their representations of
the superior advantages South will not be im
plicitly believed. Large grants of land have
been made by the Government to certain
railroads, and these also have agents in En-
rope, but their representations are open to
the same objection as those made by agents
of the Southern States; and the immigrant.
while listening to each and oomparing their
statements, will, as Heretofore, rely on the
information contained in the letters of his
countrymen who have made homes for them
selves in the West.
Our laws favor immigration, but the peo
pie of other countries require a knowledge
of them. Little care has hitherto been taken
to give the immigrant information with re
gard to the resources of the different sections
of the country, lbe skilled workman knew
that he must remain in or near the large
cities and manufacturing towns, and tho agri
cultural laborer, having a suiall sum to invest
in land, or seeking employment, that he must
go West. lhe special report or Mr. I5a
ward Young, Chief of the Bureau of Statis
tics, just publshed, will afford the immigrant
all needful information. With infinite labor,
a large mass of statistics relative to the agri
cultural advantages of each State, and the
wages of labor, skilled and unskilled, in
different sections, has been collected and
arranged. It is indeed the immigrant's
hand-book, and will be found equally
valuable to the foreign immigrant and to the
citizens of the older States who contemplate
removing to a newer country. The price of
land, its nearness and accessibility to market,
the kind of produce and its market value, the
nature of soil, cost of stock, wages of skilled
and unskilled labor, and many other valuable
data are given, wmcu will enable tne immi
grant to contrast the advantages offered by
different sections, and to decide in advance of
embarkation where he will settle thus sav
ing him much time, anxiety, and expense
This work, which is published by authority of
the Government, will exercise an important
influence in determining the future direction
of immigration, and it brings into notioe
many regions which are at present almost
unknown to tne ioreign workman or agrioui
tunst.
THE COMPARATIVE WORTH OF THINGS
AND MEN.
From the London Spectator.
The general grief and horror with which
the nows of the devastation of Paris in this
fratricidal war has been received, the con
sternation with which Englishmen and
Frenchmen alike have heard that "a palace of
strangers is become a heap," "a defenced city
a ruin," cannot but strike us, when we re
member the comparative indifference with
which we bad come to hear of the terrific
slaughter of human beings of which tbe his
tory of the last nine months has been iuii.
For it is not the human misery, the loss of
life and loss of livelihood to the inhabitants
of Paris, which we think most of when we
read of the Tuileriea in ruins, the Louvre
partly destroyed, the Luxemburg blown to
Eieces. and of so , many of the grand
istorical buildings ' of Paris left with
hardly "one stone upon another that has not
been thrown down. It ia of the beautiful
city itself 1 we think, and not mainly of its
people. We sorrow for the miracle of art
and mftgnincenoe, tne lairest capital in
Europe, the chief intellectual stimulus of the
whole -Western world, the ' one place which
nobody visited without receiving a new im-
session of the vividness of life and the bril
inncy of man, the spot on the surfaoe of our
planet where human i acuity seemed the
keenest and the most available, where human
wit had reached its culminating point. And
this, of course, though the work of the
1 rench people, was not the work of the
French people in any one generation. Iu
every sense Paris has been a capital, for she'
had inherited tne accumulated intellectual
wealth of ages, and the' great palaces aud
terraces and monuments and gardens which
made her so fair were as much the
products of savings, as much artistio
capital essential to tae raagio she
wielded over the minds of men, as the mill
and looms of Manchester,, the products of
Lancashire s past savings, are essential to the
great industrial work of every new year of
our cotton manufacture. Paris as "a olty of
confuaion that is broken down," Paris with
shattered monuments and ruined palaces.
and tcmblins bridges and wasted cardans
end a river choked with fragments of ma
sonry, cannot exert her old spell over the
imaginations of men till the waste places are
restored, and tbe wilderness again blossoms
as tbe rose. Ihere are adjuncts to the power
of men which are essential conditions of its
exercise, and therefore it is, we suppose, that
we feel authorized to grieve more when we
hear of a destruction whioh prevents France
from being to the future of Europe what
she has been to the past, than we grieve
even when we near oi tne sweeping away
ol a great portion of a generation oi a rench.
men in the hurricane of foreign and civil war
Men may come and men may go, but while
the spell of France remained, there would
always be Frenchmen enough to use it aud
transmit tbe great . i rench tradition to the
world. But now, when "all joy is darkened.
the mirth of the land is gone, in tbe city is
left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
destruction, "who is to cast the spell of France
over us? With Paris in ruins, the staff of the
enchanter is broken and her magio lost. The
"Capital of Pleamire has beoome a wilder
cess, and while it remains bo 1'ranoe must
loss her peculiar place in the world, and the
heart of tbe continent almost cease to beat.
Hi can hardly be denied, we think, that there
are physical conditions of human life bo full
of significance and so difficult to create
anew, that their Ions diminishes the moral
significance of the life of the men who are
their natural interpreters even more than the
loss of any number of those interpreters
themselves. A plague in Rome that destroyed
half the population would be a tearful thing,
but would it be wrong to feel less
calamity by far than the physical destruction
of Rome itself, even though all the mhabi
tants bad had time and warning to escape ?
It cannot be inhuman, to think so, for did
not our Lord himself, who named himself the
bon of Man to show his intensity of human
sympathy, speak of the physical destruction
oi Jerusalem wita a shade ol ,w
most deeper pity and sorrow than , he
expressed in referring to the mere carnage and
loss of life which would aooompany it? The
destruction of a typical city, of a centre of
age-Ions life, is the end of that age, in a sense
in which the mere cutting off of half a gene
ration oi men need not necessarily be bo at
all. What was, is at' an end; who but a pro
phet csn tell what will be? How shall we
know that the old spell which the suioidal
armies of the Commune and the fratricidal
armies of Versailles have destroyed between
them shall ever be revived? No one would
desire to see it precisoly what it was. There
was enough of Circe in Paris to turn even
the wisest of men who had no antidote
raoly" in their hearts, not only inte the
most grovelling, but into the maddest and
most possessed of swine.
That that part of her spell may be
silent for ever we shall all wish. But may not
the power to give a fitting framework to the
email things of life, to fascinate and vivify.
to create a true sooial intercourse, and send
a thrill of tenderness and gayety through the
trivialities oi conversation, go with it r May
not tbe ruin or l aria tarn out to be the judcr.
ment-day of an epoch, in which much that is
good will pass away along with amen that
was evil, and Pleasure lose, with many of her
worst dangers, all her counsels of perfection?
Ob the whole, ws are persuaded that it is no
spurious and inhuman judgment which
shrinks back fiom such news as we have
received this week, with even more awe
and misgiving than from the news of
the bloodiest battle-field and the most destruo
tivo campaign. There are external conditions
of life which thread together history, and the
annihilation of which ends and beams an era,
It is possible,nay, it is quite probable, that tho
Durning oi i'ans is a ' catastrophe of this
nature, tbe more so that it arose from the
collision of social discord, and not from the
shock of conquest. If only as a measure of
the fierce internecine passions that have been
at work in tbe very heart of French society,
this mighty explosion must shake France to
the very centre, and mould her future into
new and probably less unoonstrainod and
buoyant life than that of her past.
The importance that is so naturally at
tecbed to the physical devastation of Paris is
not, then, in our opinion, due to that weak
ness of imagination which is unable to realize
the meaning of a great accumulated mass of
human misery so vividly as it can realize a
great loss of material grandeur and wealth
on the contrary, it is due to the instinotive
feeling that a very much greater change is
coming over unman lite than any mere short
ening of the period of one generation's exist
ence would imply. It may be quite true that
if any great building were on fire, the man
who deliberately postponed the duty of se
curing the endangered lives of the bleeping
women ana children to that of resou
Ing the treasures of art it might
contain, wouia be regarded as inhu
man. Our sympathy is imperiously claimed
by living sufferers even at the cost of
sacrificing a multitude of the refined enjoy
ments and educated tastes of posterity. We
might respect the man who gave his own life
to save a great Raffaele or a Turner, but we
Buouia naraiy ju&tify one who offered up an
other a for the same end Evon in Paris, the
man who should have deliberately eleoted to
kill an innocent soldier for every piatore
saved to tbe Louvre, would be rightly es
teemed to be a wretch worthy of instan-.
death, asd this though it is quite certain that
many a picture would do vastly more for tae
future life of the French nation than many a
,i i i , n At 1 A1-AJ. . -
jjuu luougu mat is true, mat is no
reason wby we should not deliberately grieve
mors over the destruction of ull the
greatest ornaments of a great capital, than
over the loss of a host of innocent lives. It
would be wrong to commit a single delibe
rate Murder, even in order, if surh a thing
were conceivable, to save Moot Blano and
the Lake of Geneva to Europe: vet no one
would think of feeling the same horror at
hearing of a new murder which he would
feel at tae thonght of the final loss to Europe
oi tnose magnificent forms and colors. Or, to
take a more wosflible case, it would claarly be
utterly demoralizing to save a bank from
breaking, and a whole population from des-
, . ... . , ,
uiuuoii ana penury, by putting a violent
end to a sincle life: vet it would be
very heartless not to feel far more re
gret at the occurrence of the former ca
lamity than at the occurrence of the
latter. It is pite easy to invent fifty oases in
wnicn it wouia De utterly wicked to ward off
a great catastrophe by intentionally causing
one or much less magnitude, though it would
be both natural and right to regret the ooour
rence of the latter. A failure of the harvest
is a far greater and more lamentable evil t,uan
puiaii tujuntiurjKuui uvuutij WiiljU UUUi-
tually and deliberately committed small' in
justices to prevent the failure of a harvest,
would have any promise of a great future.
The destruction of Paris might almost com
pare as a calamity with the destruction of a
vein of genius in the character of a great
people, while the destruction of a
multitude of 1'arisians could only compare
as a calamity with a temporary suspension of
that vein of genius; yet even for the sake of
not only preserving but stimulating that vein
of genius, no one would have sanctioned the
deliberate murder of a multitude of Pari
sians. iWe hold, then, that the universal hor
ror which the week's news has brought us is
perfectly legitimate, even though the same
degree of regret has not been felt over the
hecatombs of lives lost on the field of battle.
The ruin of Paris is the catastrophe of a
thousand years perhaps even greater in its
consequences than the meeting of the States-
General and the storming of the Bastille,but,
at present at least, purely dark, and without
any of the bright hopes justly excited by
those events.
MILLINERY.
M
S B. R. D I L L O
NOS. M3 AND 331 SOUTH STREET,
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, CRAPE
VEILS. .
Ladles' and Mlpseg' Crape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin,
811k, Straw and Velvets, Hats aud Bonnets, Frencti
Flowers, Hat and Bonnet Frames, Crapes, Lacea,
Silks, Satlos, Velvets, Rlhbona, Sashes, Ornament
and all kinds ef Millinery Goods.
OLOTH3, OASSIMERE3. ETC
LOTH HOUftSI.
J AMEO ft HUBDn.
Wo. 11 Worth SECOND Mtreet,
. Sign ot tne Golden Lamb,
Ax w receiving a large and splendid aasortmon
of new styles of
FANCY OASSIMERE8
And standard mokes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS an
. COATINGS, S 88 mwt
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
LOOKINO OLASSE8, ETC
NEW ROGERS CROUP,
"RIP VAN WINKLE."
. NBV7 CHHOMOS.
All Cbromos sold at 25 per cent, below regular rates.
All of Prang's, Hoover's, and all others.
Send for catalogue.
Itooking-Qlagsea.
ALL NEW STYLES,
At the lowest prices. All of our own manufacture.
JAMES 8. EARLS & SONS.
No. 818 CHESNUT STREET.
VVATOMEI, JEWELRY, ETC
GOLD LIED A L REGULATORS.
G. W. RUSSBJL.K.,
ISo. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Begs to call tne attentlon.of the trade and customers
to tie annexed letter:. 1
TBANSU7I0M.
"1 take pleasure to announce that I have given tc
Mr. G. W. RUSSELL, of Philadelphia, the exclusive
ta'je of all goods of my manufacture. Re will be
afcie to sell them at the very lowest prices.
"UL'STAV BEIJK.EK,
"First Manufacturer of Regulators,
"Freiburg, Germany.
lOb.
I ALL."
"BE SUM KNICKERBOCKER IS ON THE
WAGON."
KNICKERBOCKER. ICE COMPANY.
THOS. E. CAR ILL, President.
E. P. KExtSHOW, Vice-Fresident.
A. HUNT, Treasurer.
E. u. 00 KNELL, Secretary.
T. A. HEiNDKY, Superintendent.
Principal Onlce,
No. 435 WALN UT Street, Philadelphia,
Branch Offices aud Depots,
North Pennsylvania Railroad aud Master street.
Ridge Avenue and Willow street.
Willow Street Wharf, Delaware avenue.
Twenty-second .and Hamilton streets.
Ninth Street and Washington avenue.
Pine Street Wharf, Schuylkill.
No. 4&3 Main Street, Germantown.
No. si North Second street, Camden, N. J., and
Cane Ma v. New Jtntev.
1811. Prices for Families, Offices, etc. 18TL
8 pounds dally, CO cents per weefc.
U es "
is " 80
0 B5 "
Half bushel or forty pounds, so cents each de-
uvery.
WHISKY, WINE, ETC
w
INKS, LIQUORS, ENGLISH AND
. SCOTCH ALES, ETC.
The subscriber begs to call the attention of
dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers generally to
hlB splendid stock of foreign goods now on hand, of
his own Importation, as well, also, to his extensive
assortment of Domestic Wines, Ales, etc., among
which may be enumerated :
600 cases of Clarets, high and low grades, care
fully selected from btat foreign biocks.
100 casks of Sherry Wine, extra quality of Quest
grade.
100 cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade.
'it casks of Sherry Wine, best quality of medium
grade.
M barrels Scoppcmong Wine of best quality.
60 casks Catawba Win " "
in hnrrpia " " medium trade.
ToKether with a full supply of Branuie, Whiskies,
Kcotch and iUjgusn Aies, cruwu dluui etc, kw.
w hlch he la err pared to furnish to the trade aud coa
Burners generally la quautltlHB that may be re
quired, ana OH uie uiuoi, iiuerai teruia.
P. J. JORDAN.
BBtf Ko. 820 PEAR Street,
Below Third and Waluut aud above Dock street.
CAR&TAIR8 & McCALX,
So. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti,
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Eta,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. Mt
1AFE DEPOSIT OOMPANIHTi
THE PENNSYLVANIA COHPANY
FOR IR5UBANCTC""tN "XlVE'S AD
- G KAN TING
ANNUITIE8,
Offlc No. 304 7ALNtJT StrecL
INCORPORATED MARCH 10, 1313.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL $l,O00.O00.
8UBPLTJS UPWARDS OF $750,000,
Receive money ondepoBit,retaavla ondemanil,
for which Interest la allowed.
irnd under appointment by Individuals, corpora
tions, and courts, antns
EXECUTORS. ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTERS,
GUARDIANS, ASIONEKS, COMMITTERS,
R1.C El VERS, AGENTS. COLLECTORS, ETC.
A nit for tbe falihfnl performance of Its dutloa as
such all Its assets are liable.
CHARLES DTJTILH, PaesidenU
William B. Aua, Actuary.
' DIRECTORS.
Cliarles Dntllh, : Jonhua B. Llpptncott,
Henry 3. Wllllnms,
William 8. Vaux,
Charles 11. Hutchinson,
Lmdley SiBjth,
Gcori?e A. wood.
Anthony J. Antelo,
Charles S. Lewis,
John K. W.ncherer,
Adolph E. Korie,
Alexander Blddie,
Henry Lewis.
THE PHILADELPHIA TBUST,
SAFE DEPOSIT
AND
INSURANCE COMPANY,
OFFICII AND BUROl.AR-PKOOF VAULTS Df
THE PHILADELPHIA BANK BUILD1NQ,
No. 421 CHESNUT STREET.
capital, srsoo.ooo.
Fob Safi-kkkping of Oovbrnmrut Bonds and
other bKOUKiTiits, Family Platk, iTkwblkt, and
other Valuables, under special guarantee, at the
lowesi rates.
The Company also offer for Rent, at rates varying
from f 15 to $J5per annum, the renter holding the
ke. SMALL SAFES IN THE BUKGLAR-PUOOF
VAULTS, aimruiug absolute Pbcukity against Fiaa
Tdk ft, Burglar v, and Accident.
ah nnucinry obligations, encn as trusts, uuak
Mankbips, Executokriii. etc., will be undertaken
and faithfully dlHcharpcd.
A U truMt invextmenes are Kept separate and apart
frvm tne Company'! aanetH.
circulars, giving ruu aetaus, lorwaraea ou appu
cation.
DlKECiuits.
Thomas Robins,
Augustus Heaton,
F. Katcnford Starr,
Daniel Haddock, Jr.,
Edward Y. Townsead,
John D. Taylor,
Uoii. William A. Porter.
Lewis R. A&uhurst,
J. Livingston Erringer,
R. P. WoCullagh,
Edwin M. Lewis,
James L. Ooghorn,
Benlamin B. Cotuea.va,
Kiiward S. Handy,
josepn v.Hraon, ai, u.
OFFICERS.
President LEWIS R. AS.'IHURST.
Vico-President J. LIVINGSTON ERRINGER.
Becretorv R. P. McCULLAGU.
Treasurer WM. L. DUBOIS. 9 3fmwS
LUMUbH
1 nnn nn a feet hemlock joist.
AXD SCANTLING.
iLL LENGTHS,, ALL SIZES. ,
(l0 000 MJ"i ii suvi'ii
Our own working. Assorted and unassorted.
OPA AAfk FEET 4-4 VIRGINIA SA:
FLOORING (Dry.)
Our own worklDg. Assorted and unassorted.
OKI) AAA FEET 4-4, 3-4, 5-8 and UUi
INCH SAP BOX BOARDS,
Together with a large and well-selected stock o
thoroughly seasoned UulluiDg Luinoerof all desortp
tionB. suitable for the erection of Urge factories,
stores, dwellings, etc. in connection with the above
ora nrtw m iinlntr a J
Steam Saw and Planing 31111,'
:1
And are fully prepared to furnish. Builders an
oiners witu .
Mill Work of all Inscriptions,
WINDOW FRAMES, 8ASIT, SHUTTERS, DOORSi
SUPERIOR WOOD MOULDINGS A SPEOIALTYi
DROWN & WOELPPER,
No. 827 RICHMOND STREET,
6 9 tutbslm PHILADELPHIA.
1871
BPRUCE JOTST.
JPRUCB JOIST.
HEM LOOK,
HEAiXOCK.
187
1871
SEASONED CLEAR FTNS. iQw
SEASONED CLEAR PUStf. 104
CHOICE PATTERN PINK.
SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS.
RED OEDAU.
1871
FLORIDA FLOORING.
FLORIDA FLOORING.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGIN LA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOOKINO.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDuL
RAIL PLANE.
187
t 071 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANS. 1 Q7
AO i 1 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK, AO 4
WALNUT BOARDS.
WALNUT FLANK.
t Q fJt UNDEHTAEEKS' LUMBER.
10 41 UNDERTAKEN' LUMBER,
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINE.
187
1871
SEASONED POPLAR.
SEASONED OlLSKfOr.
1871
1UII
WHITE OAK PLANS AND BOARDS,
HICKORY.
CIGAR BOX MAKERS' IQnl
l0 4l CIGAR BOX M AEER3' 10 Iff
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
FOR SALE LOW.
lOM CAROLINA SCANTLING.
10 4 1 CAROLINA H. T. KILLS.
187.
NORWAY SCANTL1NU.
1GT1 CEDAR SHINGLES. -i
10 I 1 CYPRBIBS SHINGLKS. 10 I
MATJLE, BROTHER & CO.,
No, S&oo SOUTH Street.
Tf-kATMTTT. priNR. ALL THIOKNRSS-KS.
I (nUMOH W.ANK. AI.LTHIlllfNltSSlli
1 COMMON BOARDS. (
1 and t GiUE FKNUis BOARDS.
WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARDS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINK FLOORINGS 1 I
k SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZE.8.
HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES.
PLA:lTJHDXa LATH A SPECIALTY.
Together with a general assortment of Baii&iJ
Ln tnber for sale low for cash. T. w, a halm ,
e sosm No. 1T18 RIDGE Avenue, nortu of Poplar s
LECAL NOTICES.
TN THB COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR Ti
I fii'V a nii rinitw'PV otw PHII.AIIHI.FIIIA. 1
-Uvnf PhtlRriftlnhlnviL HOUKKT L. CUKKY. OWUiJ
etc Lev. fa. ; sur claim. D. To, Ho. 160. 1
The Auditor appointed by the Court to report of ,
trlbution of the funds arising from the SberW'a s
under the above writ of all that certain two-stJ
basement and stone dwelling-house and lot r.
rrrnn n A fittnura (in th north hi da of lA'tllne, fl
merlT Bim fctreet. ia the Twentj-foarta ward of t
Ullf Ul fUHOU''P"i - ' " wv-. -
..imri r in Oiwir fn v wlllnfl Bfrttrtt ttA ft'
6 lncbe, aiiJ in deptn iw feet to Grape itreet, w
HieCt IH8 Iriir luirjiroicu, iui iuo f K"" "
nnniMimeut. on TUESDAY, the 87th day of Jul
lhil 81 v lxn iit turn wmuw,
nerbf WALNUT and SIXTH Streeta. PhUadelphil
when nl where all (l ersoua are required to mat
the r emiujo, ur ui uo ae"irrri imm wm ,
; "l f.,n,i. HKN'HY S. HAUtHT.
afmw6t AudliorJ
tt-OILEES. SATE AND ECONOMICAL. St
Tubular, water nuclide of flue. Plum CyiUnW
Tanks, Fmxs, and DiKsra, I
i.L,m1ii' okoKGEO. TIOWARD, k
m No. 17 S. EIGHTEENTH bUeetJ