I 1 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1871. SriRIT OF TUB MESS. EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING; JODBNALS UPON OUBBENT TOPICS -"-COMPILED EVEBT. DAT FOB THE EVENINQ TELEOBAPH. A RISING YOUNG COUPORATION. From the N. T. Evening Pott. ! " The Pennsylvania Railway Company began its existence only twerty-four years ago, and then in bnt a Hmall way. The road was de signed to run from Harrisburg to Johnstown, to connect at each end with the State rail roads already in existence, and complete a through fast line- from Philadelphia to Titts bnrg. No one then imagined that heavy freight could ever be diverted from the State canals to land carriage; still less that any railroad conld ever compete with the Ohio river for travel and truflio westward beyond Pittsburg. The Allegheny Portage Railroad from Johnstown to Pittsburg was a aeries of inclined planes, with stationary engines, and was regarded as a sad necessity, because no canal could run over the mountains. ' The company grew for many years at what was thought in Pennsylvania a rapid rate. It always, in its early days, had to contend with the Jealousy of the State, which owned the rival canal and demanded full tolls on all goods diverted from it as well as on all that it carried. The Columbia Railroad, from Philadelphia to Ilarriaburg, constantly quar relled with the corporation, and for many' months even refused to connect with it at Lancaster at all. Finally the State sold out its lines to the railway company, and when the Pennsylvania Railroad attained its ma joriry three or four years ago, it was praoti cally the owner of the State Legislature, and had already made itself the master of com plete lines of road across the State in three directions from Philadelphia to Pittsburg and to Erie, and from Baltimore to Elmira. Now came a bolder policy; and the mana gers of. the company openly aspired to con trol the Western trade of New York almost as completely as that of Philadelphia. They leased tbeWestern lines connecting with their own; and when any road could not be obtained on satisfactory terms, they projected ; and built a new one; until, before the New York lines' fairly understood the ' importance of their rival, the Pennsylvania Railway Com pany was in full possession of lines of road reaching from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Cbioago. This did not satisfy them. The main line of traffio aoross the continent seemed to be within their reach, and tbey grasped at it The most enterprising of their ofnoers was made President of the Union Paoifio Railway;. perhaps the best possible post of observation in which to watch for all prospective "good things between the Mississippi SQd San Francisco. And now, at one step, the, whole . mil wav system - of New Jersev has already been, "annexed," including the two 'main ' lines of rod and the canal from New .York to Philadelphia, and a network, of roads covering the southern counties of the State. , Already there art plans afoot in busy brains for the acquisition of one of the great lines 'from Chicago to the Mississippi; and when this is carried out the Pennsylvania company will own or control, beyond the power, of any rival, the whole of the best highway from New York-, x'hilaaeiphia.ana.Baitirnore ail tne way to Salt Lake City, with but one leap to make to the Paoifio Ooean. . ' This corporation is now beyond doubt the Greatest financial power under a central ad ministration in the United States. With pro perty in its bands to the amount of two hun dred and fifty millions of dollars, with a gross inoome far greater than that of tne United States Government twenty years ago, and greater than that of any btate Government to day, witn at least three btate EieeiBiatares re lieved to be ready to register its will, andothers ereatlv influenced by it, and witn all its achievements regarded by the bold and able men who control it merely as stepping stones to a creator future, what is to prevent it irom becoming - also the greatest political power? Its present position brings before the people in its most impressive form tne grave ques tion of the relations of great corporations to a republican government; and to the solution of this question all the statesmanship of our generation is imperatively called. i . . MUSIO A MODERN ART. ' j ' From Every Saturday. In a recent number of Every Saturday rnusio was spoken of as "the latest of the arts. The phrase is full of suggestions, some of which are of the freshest and liveliest IntArAHt. . It will be found esDeoiallv worth wnue to ODserve mo iwuuuk uubimvu wuiuu , i i il - - ii I . : u : - music occupies among the fine arts in its rela- tiona to modern work and experience; for it is in mnsio alone that the latest century can lay claim to any substantial progress or disoo very. In painting the anoients are credited by history with a skill at least equal to tnat of our era; and our own point of highest perfec tion must be placed, by nearly unanimous con sent, witn tne great masters 01 tne niteentn and sixteenth centuries.' If our artists are not willing to yield to Zeuxis and Apelles they must certainly admit tneir lnierioruy to , Michael Angelo, and Raphael, and Leonard! j i' i i x t i . i a m : i : Ql - 1IIU1, MJ III AUgtiUUU,- IV AlblttU, - Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese. Our archi. tecturo in its sesthetio oapaoity ' undertakes little more than the imitation or reproduction of the art of Greece and Rome and Medieval Europe. . In sculpture we have utterly fallen away from the glory of the early time, j With the lapse of the ages, marble seems to have crown more ana more ooia ana retioent: it gives out its secret life with ever-increasing reluctance and reserve; and tne Apollo lie! yidere, the Minerva of the Parthenon, and . the Venus of Milo beoome daily more distant from the possible achievement as well as ' from the faith and genius of our time. : Oar poetry, like our painting, may have great intrinsio excellence; but who would dream of comparing our verse with that of Homer and iEsobylus, of Dante and Shakespeare? j One place of superiority, however, re mains for us. ' We award the - palm for sculpture to ancient Greece; for painting and architecture to the Middle Ages and the centuries which itumediaUly succeeded them; but for mnsio to the last two hundred years of modern civilization. We make the assertion without qualification or reserve, believing its truth to be beyond a reasonable doubt, j And yet justioe demands our acknowledgment of great indebtedness to that genius of the Hebrew race whiuh spoke in the elder time through the , harp and voice of the sweet singer of Israel, and by its purity, its spirituality, and its eleva tion gave intimations of the worthiness of the art which the descendants of the nation of David were to carry to itn highest prfeuiion. The f aot must, however, be taken as incon trovertible. The composers of modern times are beyond comparison the greatest iq the hU tory of limbic. In li6tttioven we see the Vb.i l tos, the Michael Angelo, the Milton of Mania touching, through Lis taarvclluua harmouies and epiht-bturing melodies, the lof tiest points of religious faith and aspiralien, grouping into awfu! pictures the mighty creations of his dark imagination, and, agi"" "'"B with his strong hand faces and forms of trans cendent loveliness and majestio peaoefal ness and repoBe. Mozart may be likened both to Raphael and Shakespeare, resembling the former in the sweet ana exquisite Deavity of bis fancies, in his fluent ease ana airy deli cacy, and in his wonderful subtilty and refine ment; and ranking with the master poet in the MhauBtlesa fertility of his resources and as the incomparable dramatist of his art the creator through music of living characters, the delineator of passionH, the mirror of na ture. Bach, for his marvellous perfection of form an d for h is power of entering in to the deep est recesses of sorrow, suffering, and shame, mev be coruDP.red not inaptly to Dante; while Haydn may stand as the Claude Lor raine of his art, the reflection of the green fields of earth, of the sunny bine of heaven, and of all lhat is fairest, brightest, and most beautiful in the world of creation. We would not follow the conceit too fur, and without even sd allusion to Mendelssohn or Handel, or Glack, or to Rossini and the great army of Italian composers, we have cited names enough to enable the mind to see at a glanoe the justness 01 tne oiaim ot our time to an overmastering superiority in music. We have not meant to imply by what has been said that any of the arts which glorify life have passed or indeed ever can pass into a state of hopeless decay. They are in their nature immortal, for they find their source and fountain-head in the undying soul of man. The art of any time must neods be great and good if it but gives expression to the thought and life which characterize the time. The painting and poetry of the nineteenth century have in a great measure fulfilled this condition, and have giiued the right and the power to live for many ages. , Our architecture and ' our sculpture have failed in exactly that degree in which they have labored to copy the work of another race and era. With their emancipa tion the day of their greatness will dawn; so that there is more hope for the plastic art of our time in the statuettes of John Rogers than in a hundred Greek Slaves and White Captives. But with this truth may also exist another, founded upon the fact that any age may find in a single art a peculiar adaptation to its need, and the swiftest, surest, and fullest , mode of littering its thought and feeling. The law which governs , this truth . . may be obscure, but the truth itself is undeniable. Mnsio, as it would seem, has taken, and for the present is to take, this eminent position with us.' The soul of man which, in the classic time, found its brightest expression through the chiselled stone; which afterwards spoke through the tints and lines of the mediaeval painters, and uttered itself through the god-like yoices of Shakespeare and Milton, now inspires the sonla and guides the pens of the composers of music We are well contented that it Bhonld be so. The age which has contributed the opera, the oratorio, and the symphony to art may be pardoned for its failure to create a new school in sculpture, in painting, or in architecture. .. i , . ! MR., WASHBDRNE AND THE COMMUNE. from. the N. r. Tribune.. . . I I A spiteful paragraph, printed in a journal of London which serves as an organ for tho expression of the Napoleonic ideas, engen dered in the shadeB of Chiselhnrst, Btates that Mr. Washburne, our Minister at Paris, is seriously compromised by bis communica tions with the insurrectionary government of the Commune. This is a pitiful calumny, the offspring of a mean-spirited envy, i The conduct of Mr. Washburne during the war, and especially during the siege of Paris, was marked by such discretion, euch courage and energy, that it gained the respeot and esteem of the French and ' German people, aud ex torted the generous and voluntary praiso of the British Government in the House of Com mons. 1 We do not recall an ' instance in our diplomacy of a more brilliant and successful performance., of duty in circumstances of such gravity and delicaoy. It proves what we have .constantly asserted, that a man of experience ia affairs, of suffi cient culture and knowledge of the world, taken from the active pursuits of Amerioan life, is apt to make a better Minister, when there is anything to be done, than if he had waBted bis life in dawdling about an embassy. Ine diplomatic body in a ana was composed of the elite of the aristocracy of Europe. The Pans mission is always the highest prize in the service of every nation. Yet positively the only 1 minister who has made any figure in all these most important events is the Amerioan Envoy. He has received from the Government of Prussia the warmest acknowledgments of his services; and yet he has held the balanoe of impartiality so evenly adjusted that he has gained the confidence and affection of the Republican leaders of Franse. It is natural that such a suooess and such prominenoe have excited among the par tisans of tne late lumplre the apites and jealousies indicated by the report to which we have referred. It ia useless to repeat that any such charge is absurd. It is founded npon a distortion of the facts, which are infinitely to the credit of Mr. Washburne. When the rabble of diplo mats fled to Versailles after the insurrection of tbe 18th of March, our Envoy stayed at his post to do what was possible to protect the endangered lives and interests of the Ameri can residents of Paris, and to furnish to his Government accurate information of the true character and significance of events, ' He never gave any official or officious recognition to the de facta Municipal Government, but by the exercise of his great personal in fluence he succeeded in giving full pro tection to his countrymen, and, in mauy instances, in mitigating the sufferings pf the innocent victims of revolutionary rage.1 His kindness to the Archbishop of Paris and to the imprisoned ecclesiastics with him, some of whom he saved from prison and death, will never, be forgotten. If in. the exercise of these manly and humane offices it was neoes sary for him to hold communication with the officers of ' the Commune,, he did nothing more than his duty. . While the empire lasted he was forced, by the same considerations, to recognize a greater scamp than the Commune could boast of, and neither his moral nor his official character has suffered in the one case more than in the other.'" EXTRADITION AND THE COMMUNE. From the X. r. World. ' , ' . , I The demand made by the Thiers Govera ment npon all the countries of Europe for the surrender of the members of . the beaten Commune who have sought' asylum abroad, and for their surrender pot as political exiles, but aa ooiuuton oriuiinala, M one of the most fcbtoniuhing pieces of effrontery which even our day, rich as it ia in exhibitions of that quality, has brought to view. Doubtless the Govtruiuentof Versailles would not have pre sumed to make buch a demand but for the odium wLicb tho crimes committed ia tho name and on the LehiJf of tbe Commune have brought upon that body. But even so, the da- maud must wove us to Inquire in what way the massacre of hostages by the Commune was more distinctly a crime, undeserving of that protection which civilized nations extend to the vanquished in civil strifes, than the refasal to give quarter or to allow a peaoeable escape to the Communists which occasioned that maf fiacre. And back of that the question arises what title the fragment which happens to be victorious has over the fragment which happens to be vanquished, of the factions which have for so many weary months divided end devastated France. The Commune has at least as much to show in the way of con stitutional authority as the Versailles people, and it has besides the sanction of being born of tho needs und aspirations of the people in a desperate crisis, while the Verspilles people have not. The assumption of regularity of succession in such a case is tho assumption of .one of two pickpockets who falls out with the other urr a question of the division of the boty to which either is entitled and calls the police to his assistance. It is to be hoped the police will not come. It is the proper pride of England that her shores have been the inviolate refuge of legiti mists and reds, of Napoleon and of Louis Blanc As well suid by a London advooate of the Commune, the extradition of the exile of Chiselhuret npon the ground of thbcoup d'etat of 1851 is quite as defensible as the extradi tion of the exiles of London on the ground of the massacre of 1871. If there is nothing in the otio to insure the treatment of the ex-Emperor as a fugitive from justice, there is nothing in the other to shut the gates of mercy on the beaten adherents of the French republic. Tbe surrender of the one as com mon criminals while the other is retained as a national guest would be a lasting dishonor to English justice if it were freely made by the nation. But if it is made at all it will not be freely made. It cannot have escapod the notice of any observer of the conflict between the Commune and Versailles that it all went on by the sufferance of Prussia. The murder of Darboy, the burning of the palaces,; the slaughter of the populace might have been averted or ended at any moment by a nod of the Prussian Kaiser and a movement of tbe Prussian troops. But the Prussian Kaisar rubbed his hands in pious glee, and the Prus sian army stood impartial by, jn tho attitude of a policeman whose work is doing to his hand by two malefactors po annulling each other, or of the householder whose peace1 had been broken by the Kilkenny cats which at last took to mutual extermination. So long as Frenchmen were destroying Frenchmen and devastating France Prussia remained quiescent. But she interfered to prevent the escape of the party whioh was beaten and to drive it to despair. The ultimate responsi bility for the outrages which have ; made Paris a pandemonium rests not upon the madmen who directly perpetrated them, but npon the Emperor and the Premier (who suffered and encouraged them as a warning to the friends of free government in Europe OUR CONVICTS. . From the K. Y. Times. , ',. We reported recently the meeting in this city of a number of well-known citizens, under the chairmanship of Governor IiayneB, of New Jersey, to establish a "National Prison Association.'. This meeting was the result of tbe National Convention in regard to the best prison and reformatory methods, held last autumn in Cincinnati. It was there resolved to f6rm a national association, which should devote itself to efforts to improve ' the man agement of our prisons, and to introduoo the best system of treatment in our reformatories and houses or refuge. A "worms conven tion" on these important subjects of. human ity is to be held next summer in London, and Congress has already passed a resolution favoring it, '. and it is understood that Dr. Wines, the well-known prison reformer, is to be the principal delegate from this ooun try. He. will act with many other gentlemen who have done good servioe in this or similar fields. ' This country had the good fortune early to possess one of the most "advanced" and humane reformers in matters oonnected with tbe penal code and the treatment of prisoners which any nation ever enjoyed Edward Livingston, the author of the famous Penal Code of Louisiana a man who was far in advance of his times. One of Mr. Living ston's favorite theories was that the great de fect of all our systems of punishment was the removal from them of all element of hope. ne accordingly urged that after tbe first ex perience of punishment, stern and undiluted, the convict should labor with others, and finally receive a certain share of the pro ceeds of his labor; and that when he was discharged he should be placed in a kind of intermediate prison, or "bouse or ret age, as he termed it, and thus go gradually forth to the world from his confinement, after hiv- ingpraoticed some of the virtues whioh would be indispensable to his success in an honest calling. Punishment . would thus be not merely a retribution, or a dull, heavy penalty inflicted by society, but a species of moral education. The convict would come from prison more valuable to the world than when he went in. Hope, and the practice of the self-restraint of ordinary life, would call out his good quali ties. A lie prison would beoome, la part, a reformatory. These ideas and principles, with the plan of reformation sentences and regular "marks" for conduct, are the main elements of the great modern reform which has been introduced in the ' Irish prison system, so remarkably successful in Ireland under the general superintendence of Sir Walter Crof- ion. Livingston struck npon the bast ele ments of the system before any English re- lormer. One great object of a national association which should devote itself to this subject, would be to recommend and secure the pas sage of laws introducing the great modern reforms in the prisons of our dilterent States. '.there is now no unity in our various prison systems, a nere is, in some of the btates, a lamentable backwardness, and a want or in telligent methods of reform. .Many ques tions are still under discussion whioh such a society ought to debate and help to Battle for practical administrators. Thus far in our best prisons the great object has been to make the most money, and save the country the ex penses, of their management. The Albany i'enite&uary, under the able management of Captain Pillnbury, not only supports itself with its thousand conviobi, but turns over some eighteen thousand dollars per annum to the county authorities. This, of coarse, is good, bnt the question still ariaeB, whether financial suooess is consistent with reforma tory Buocess whether the men thus trained are more or less nseiy to prey on tne com munity arterwardf with the whole con. tract pvstem how far it is iuct to the out- fcide laborer, and how far it permits the best moral management of the prison; then the connection of prison management with politics all these questions need discussion by a national association, which should bring the experience of every btate into debate. Still further questions connected with the prevention of crime should come up, as to the best system for reformatories whether the congregated or the family and how far the remarkable efforts no long carried out by private charities in New York city, for the checking of juvenile crime, and the lessening of ignorance and . poverty among children, can be imitated in other cities. All these matters, of the utmost importance to the whole country, would naturally be deliberated on by a national association. It is a good thing that the movement for founding such a society ' baa been snpported by so many gen tlemen known throughout the oountry for their public spirit, philanthropy, and intelli gence. It already deserves "suooess. The grand convention in London, which is to be tho crown of this effort, has already reoeived the hearty approval of all the leading Euro pean Governments, and its assembling bid fair to constitute an era in the history of prison reiorm. A NON-DEPARTING NEW DEPARTURE. From Harper Weekly, edited by O. Wi Curtit. All good citizens will gladly see the Dem ocratic party desert its revolutionary and threatening position, and declare its assent to the beneficent and fundamental changes which have been effected by the Republican party. Such a declaration, indeed, will be no reason for restoring the party to power, not only because it is not made from convic tion, and merely for the purpose of attaining power, but because the party contains the chief moral and political, elements of hos tility to the Government and its principles. The only oredit due to Mr. Vallandigham, who has now become the leader of that part of the Democratic party which wishes to profess acquiescence in the situation, 1b that of perceiving that the sole chance for his party is at least to assume a virtue. But his platform is not yet that of his party, and it is not clear that it will be come bo. The Northern chiefs insist that it id senility and insanity to think of anything else. But the commanding fact in the history or the Democratic party is that its Southern element has always controlled it, and for the reason that it was the element of real convic tion; and we have yet to see that the situation is changed. ' , ' After the Democratic National Convention of 1808 had assembled, and before its nouii natious were made, a Southern Democrat re. marked that the nomination of Judge Chase would be a surrender whioh would dissolve the party. "General Grant," he said, "would, in that case, walk over the course." There was a very different opinion, however, among many New York Democrats, ibeir reason. ing was that to nominate ' a man who : had been a conspicuous Republican leader would inevitably demoralize the Ilepub lioan party. But it the reasoning were correct, it was applicable to their own friends. Had Judxe Chase been the candi date, tbe Democratic traditions would all have been abandoned; every Democratic rallying cry would have been silenced; not an nrntor won Id have alluded ta the oast: slaverv could not have been reviled:1 the war could not have been denounced; the "usurpations" of the Republicans could not have been condemned; the rescue ' of ' the Consti tution could not have been ' proclaimed: for if " the ; Constitution . had been vio lated, if tbe war was unjust, and its conduct a tyrannical usurpation, nobody was more guilty than the Chief Justice. To sneer . at "the gorilla and cheer lor nis colleague, the secretary of tbe lreasury, to spit npon un constitutional legislation and vote for the father of the legal-tenders, was something so preposterous that, however plausible as a party trick, it was impracticable if there were aty party conviction. lbe Southern Demo crat and his friends prevailed, and the con' vention appropriately and logioally nomi nated a candidate who had virtually said, as Mr. Dickinson was never weary of repeating. that he would see the Union dissolved rather than slavery disturbed. - , At the present time, when thd Uhio leaders have declared their acquiescence in the amend ments, three things are observable: that: Mr. Pendleton was president of the convention, and that the resolutions favor a form of repu diation; that the party organs of the new. de parture declare that tbe acquiescence is not in tbe amendments, bnt in the indioial constrno tion that may be put npon them; and that a vital element of the party in the Southern States emphatically rejects the movement. If a party were, what some of, the New York Democratic leaders naturally suppose it to be, a mere team pf draught animals, to be turned this way or that at the pleasnre of the drivers, such tricks as the nomination of an old Re publican or tbe sudden abandonment of the party position might be practicable. But the very hedging about the new departure, tne bitterness of the attacKs npon tna southern leaders, and tbe bungling about repudiation wnich betray the movement, show that the Vallandigham leaders do not feel themselves to be masters of the situation; . The Republicans have their troubles, but no such fatal culf as this Democratio diffe rence divides them. AentucKy, lor instance, is a model Democratio btate. The real prin ciples and traditions of the party are there most vigorous ana most caarisuea. ; Aue character and promise of Democratio ascen dency can be satisiactoriiy studied la the State of Kentucky, as in the oity of New York. Now Mr. John G. Cailisle, the Democratio candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in i that State, says that the new-departure platform, instead of laying the question of thu amend ments, merely raises it for the whole cam paign; that the amendments are not dead issues, and that "the courts" have power to try their validity. Mr. Alexander II. Stephens announces that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are not valid Father Ryan, n bis discourse over the Confederate dead at Mobile, npon 1 which oooasion he was intreduced by that aotive Democrat, "Admiral" Semmes, remarked that the lost cause "is not a false cause, but a true and noble one, and ought to be cherished: it is a cause which remains to be vindicated by suc ceeding generations." Jefferson Davis' speeches are already familiar; and Henry S. Foote says that he has no doubt of Davis mischievous hopes. Some of the Sjuthern papers assent to the new departure as the only cbance ior a Democratio restoration, out others resolutely denounce it as an utter be trayal or Democratio principle. Such facts are significant. They are not lees significant because the friends of the new departure decry them aa idle rhetorio and the ravings of dead men. , Moreover, tbey are not to be pooh-poohed in a patriotic desire that there Bhonld be nnivarsal fra ternity and harmony. Aud this for a twofold reason that this Southern sentiment moat be conciliated or coerued by the l?totuocratio leaders, and that the smooth ictreuoe to tha decision of the courts by those whose acquu escence is in its nature suspicious shows how the union is to be sought. The bollowneas of the professed acquiescence, therefore, immediately appears. If the Ohio Demo crats accept the amendments as valid, they agree that they bind the Supreme Court as much &s the President. If the Supreme Court can pass npon their validity it can pass npon the validity of the whole Constitution. Ihe Supreme Court has no more authority over a sinole clause of the fourteenth amendment than over every clause of the instrument. It may. of course, in an action properly brought, declare its 'yiew of the meaning or the amendment; but it is the validity which Mr. Carlisle says it may decide, and whioh Mr. Stephens and his friends deny. ; It will be well for the country if the Demo cratic party heartily acquiesces in the situa tion. But it mHst not expect the obsoure declaration of some of its leaders, even when united with bitter vituperation of the leaders who differ, to be accepted as the frank adhe sion r,f the party to the amended Constitu tion and tbe restored Union. CITY ITEM 8. j - Mr. William w. Cabsidt, the jeweller at Mo. 6 Sooth Second street, has one ot the largest and rast attractive stock of all kinds of Jewelry and Silver- ware In the city. He has also on hand a Doe assort- tent of fine American Western Watches. Taos 8 who Darchase at this aiore at the present time are certain to get the wrth ot their money. . . BrBNETT'B Coloonb the beat made In America. Wb would sat to every Mother who ha a suffer ing child, go at once and procure a bottle of Mas. WlKSLOWS SOOTHIKO SYRUP. Burnett's Cooking Extracts the best. SPECIAL NOTIOES. PENNSYLVANIA KAILKOAD COMPANY, TRASUBK'8 DBPARTMBNT. i Philadelphia, May 8, 1STL The Board of Directors have this day declared a semi-annual dividend of F1VK PBR CENT, on the capital stock ol the Company, clear of National and State taxes, payable In cash, on and after Hay 80,1871. Blank powers of attorney for collecting dividends can be had at the office of the company. ' The office will be open at 8 A. M., and close at 8 P. M., from Hay 80 to June 8, for the payment ot dividends, and after that date from 9 A. H. to 3 P. M. - . . ; , THOMAS T. FIRTH, B8m - i Treasurer. h ALL POWDERS AND OUTWARD APPLI- lng it harsh, coane, and flabby, and In a short time destroy the complexion. If you would have a Fresh, maun v. ana loutnrui appearance, puree me system thoroughly: use HELM HOLD'S UKaPB PILLS and IlELMBOLD'S SARSAPARILLA, which beautifies the complexion. Beware of those cheap patent ptllg, carelessly prepared by inexperienced persons vended In wooden boxes most of which contain either calomel, mercury, or other deleterloua drugs. B8wths7w UNI VERSIFY 0 PENNSYLVANIA. FACULTY OF ARTS. . Jtnb . 1871. The ANNUAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS of the JUNIOR, SOPHOMORE, and FRESHMAN classes will be held dally (except Saturday), from June 9 to June 26, from 10 o'clock A. M. to 8 o'clock P. M. The (XjRNER-SI ONE ot the new Colleire Build ing In West Philadelphia will be laid on the after noon of THURSDAY, the isth, at s o'clock. i CANDIDATES (Oil ADMISSION to anvofthe college ciassess win be examined in the UK fc. Eli and LATIN LANGUAGES on TUESDAY, Juna 87, at 11 o'clock; and In the ENQLISH STUDIES and MATHEMATICS on WEDNESDAY, June 88, at half-DHRt 10 o'clock." ' i - : The ANNUAL COMMENCEHENT will take place on THuitBUAi, dune . 10 18trp '!' ' Secretary of the Faculty. t0f A SINGLE TRIAL WILL CONVINCE THE most skeptical of the efficacy of HELHBOLD'S UKAm riiLa in kick or jNervou9 Headache, Jaun dice, indigestion, constipation, Dyspepsia, Bulous- nesB, Liver Complaints, Ucueral Debility, etcj No nausea, no griping pains, but mild, pleasant, and Bare . in operation. Children take them with tmnunltr. They are tbe best and most reliable. HELMBOLD'S EX TRACT SARSAPARILLA creates new, fresh, and neaunj mooa, Deauunes tne tjompiexion, ana im parts a youiniui appearance, dispelling fimpies, Blotches, Moth Patches, and all eruptions of the skin. . r , - S8wths7w t6f- SPKCIAL' NOTICE. O A M D E N ' iiunnvuili nnin ivisi . i AND i 4M4MW4V 4..' . ' .vn" UUtl.J , . -. t V' 5 2 ' r of the ' - . ' CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD, 1 ! ' DELAWARE AND K A KIT AN CANiL AND -NEW JERSEY R ALL ROAD AND TRANS- -PoRTATlON COMPANY. r i M are Invited to sign a consent to lease the, works - to tne PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, now ready at the offices of BAUicu WELSH, unairmau, i No. 818 8. Delaware avenue ; D. M. ROBINSON, No. 138 8. Third Btreet; i GAW, BACON A CO., No. SIB Walnut street; ! THOMAS A. BIDDLR ft CO., No. 836 Walnut St. ' BULL A NORTH, Third and Dock streets. ' May IS, 1871. SlOlOt fgg- THIS IS THE SEASON OF TUG .YEAR when the ay stem Bhould be thoroughly purged Of the humors which create disease. : There U no pnrgative or cathartic bo mild and etncaolouB as HELMBOLD'S GKAPB PILLS, causing neither nausea or griping pains aa Is the case with the ordi nary cheap patent puis or the aay most oi wmon are com nosed of calomel or mercury, and carelessly prepared by Inexperienced peraona. After thor oughly porting the system use HELMBOLD'S EX TRACT SAltS A PA RILLA, the Great Purlner.and they will insure new Ufa. new blood, and renewed yinor. Try them. 6 8 wthslw ; THE PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON, iiun mr rmoRK uinpnin mupivv Philadelphia, June 10, 13U. The Board of Directors have declared a semi annual dividend of FOUR PER CENT, on the capi tal stock of the Company, clear of United States tax, payable on and after July 1,1871. 010BW a. HUKMitK, secretary. fjfcir- HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BAKSArAKlLLA, la the Great Blood Purifier; thoroughly cleanses and renovates tbe entire system, and readily enters into tne circulation oi tne Dioon. alter purging wita HELMBOLD'S GRAPE PILLS, the foul humors that have accumulated In the system for years. Both are carefully prepared according to the rulet of Pharmacy and Chemistry, and are thoroughly reliable. A teat of 80 years has proved this. Try them. - 6 3 wths7w jfif J. k L. Lt. BARRICK'S LEUITIM. ATK Tailoring cjuauiisnmeni, nu. i a. ia:xiu Street, where you can get the best suit for' the least money. Where, furnishing your own material you can have It made and trimmed exactly right. Price, flt. and worxmanahiD guaranteed. A tfooa BtocK always on hand, to bIiow which lino trouble, and to bu tne same at rates not . to do exceiiea is our hlghet ambition. . 6 8 tuttuvifit IF YOU DESIRE A MILD, PLEASANT, Bate, and agreeable Cathartic, which will cause nH; her uansa or RTlptng pains, one Nature's remedy, HELMBOLD'S GRAPE PILLS. They are purely vegetable; their component parts being Catawba "Urane Juice and Fluid Extract Rhubarb." Should you desire a brilliant complexion, youthful appear ance, new life, new fresh blood and renewed vigor, use Hklmbolds Extract Sahsapakilla. 6 3 wthslw tfiy PILES. DR. GUN NELL DEVOTES HIS time to the treatment of PlleB, blind, bleed ing, or itching. Hundreds of cases deemed Incura ble without an operation have been permanently cured.- Best city referenoe tven. Office, No. ii N. ELEVENTH Street. 4 15 8ia l5fIF YOU WOULD HAVE NEW LI PE, NEW Blood, and renewed vigor, use HELMBOLD'S GRAPE PJLL8. Purify the Blood and Beiutlfy the Complexion by the use of IJ ELM. HOLDS EXTRACT SARSAPARILLA. They aru no cheap patent modi Linet but thoroughly Pharmaceutical, and are not equalled hy . any Engllah , or JTrenoh prepara tion. 5 8wths7w 1ST HARPER'S iaiUID HAIR DYE Never Fades or AVachet Oat, . , will change gray, red. or frosted hair, whlakera, or moustache to a beautiful black or brown as soon aa epi'Ued. Warranted, or money returned. Ouiy 60 ccumabox. bold by ail Druggmu. 8 88 1 ultimo m THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH POWDER la the best article for cleanalna aud preserving the teeta. For aale by all Drugrf'.Bta. Price to and 60 ceuu fter bottle. UMaiuUUy rig DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO. Patients treated .gratuitously at this dally at 11 o'clock. lnstituiioa 114 FOR SALE. S: Fon rale-vaLuablk parnus, bitoatb IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA. " On tbe Bcthlehtm Pike. 18 miles north from Philadelphia, near the North Pennsylvania Railroad, containing ss acres. The Improvement are large, I cloeeta, range, etc, two Tenant Houses, two large BarnB,Btabllng foe 100 horses and cattl6,and all other necessary outbuildings. The farm Is under good fence and well watered. The avenues leading to the mansion are ornamented by two rows of large Blade trees; large shade trees around the mansion. There are a variety of frnlt armut thirty acres In timber, 80 acrea in meadow, the balance all aratle land. It Is well adapted for grain, breeding, and prating purposes, while lta situation, fine old trees, fruits, and modern Improvements, commend It aa gentleman's country Boat. It desired, can he di vided into two farms. There are two sets of farm bulldlDgS. R. J. DOBBINS, OBtuthsCt "Ledger" Building. . : FOR. HA LB, HANDSOME .RESIDENCE, WEST PHILADELPHIA. . y No. 8243 CHESNUT Street (Marble Terrace), THREE-STORY, WITH MANSARD ROOF, AND! THREE-STORY DOUBLE BACK BUILDINGS. i , . . . i .. Sixteen rooms, all modern conveniences, gas, b & - hot and cold water. ... Lot 18 feet front and 120 feet 8 inches dees to t back street. Immediate possession. Terms to suit purchaser M. D. LIVEN3ETTER, 4 18 No. 1S9 South FOURTH Street. FOR SALE OR ' EXCHANGE FOR SMALLER PROPERTIES. , , .; No. 1917 Chesnut Btrees. ! !.., No. 1408 North Broad etreet. ' No. 1413 North Eighteenth Btreet ''" . ' ; ' Lot, Broad and Vine streets, 73 by 800 feet. . Lot, Broad atreet, above Thompson, 145 by 800 feet Square of O round. Broad and Diacond streets, i Lot, Broad and Lehigh avenue, 145 feet deep. Lot, Broad and Summerset Btroets, 850 by 400 fee deep. , i Lot, Broad and Cambria streets, loo by 523 fee deep. ... 63 acre Farm, Bucks county, i 8 Cottages at Cape Slay. R. J. DOBBINS, eetf "Ledger" Building. WEST ' PHILADELPHIA! IVl ' t HE NEW. VERY nANDSOME, AND C&NVll MKiNT BKOWN-STONE RKSIDniNCES, I With Mansard roof, Nob. 4203, 4204, and 420A KINfa r-ENSINU Avenue, situated among the mostcosti) Improvements of this beautiful suburb. Horse car pans each war within one square each house coir tains all modern Improvements, bath, hot and col water, stationary washstandB,;bell-callB, range, twl lurnaces, bay windows, etc., etc., aud is built upJ A LARGE LOT, Ji more than 175 feet deep; the rear of the houses hsf ran unobstructed nm-look npon the 7i WiT fUlLAUflLFHl PARK. I 1 ABRAHAM RITTER, I S 9 1m fin. 2H W A 1.NI1T Krruot- Q TO RENT. TOiLET . . . ,. .,; v. .. STORE,' No. 326 CHESNUT Street. POSSESSION JULY 1. : APPLY AT I J5 trp No. 324 CHESNUT STREET. 1 FOR RENT, - ; STORE, Ko. 339 MARKET Stree I , l APPLY ON PREMISES. , 488 tf J. & ELLISON ft SONS fOAL 'AND LANDING WHARF TO LET d LEASE an favorable terms on the SCHUYLKlL between ARCH and FILBE8T Streets, T3 fel front on, Twenty-third street, by too' feet to t river. Has flooring and shedding capacity to sto: 4000 or 6000 tons coal. Office, scale, stable, an everything In condition to continue the coal bal ntss. Address COAL WHARF, North ?AmerlrJ office. ' ' 615thsta9wf A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE TO LET t ii Wayne street,' Germantown, within fi minutes' walk of Wayne Station: rooms, hot cold water and bath. Inquire at Bakery, No. 1 MAIN Street. . . 13iJ WHISKY, WINE, ETQ. TTINES, LiatORS, . ENGLISH AN scotch ai.es, etc. The subscriber begs to call the attention dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers eener&llv hla splendid stock of foreign goods now on hand. hla own Importation, aa well, also, to hla ex tens i assortment oi Domestic w ines, Ales, etc.amo, w men may be enumerated : . 6o0 cases of Clarets, high and low grades, ca iuny .eiecteci in) in Dtwc ioreign BlOCSI.. loo casks of Sherry Wine, extra quality of fin grade. ioo cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of flnf grade. 26 casks of Sherry Wine, best quality of medii grtiua, 89 barrels Scuppernong Wine of best quality. 60 casks Cataw ba Wine " M. 10 hnrrel. 44 " m1lntti ora.l Together with a full supply of Brandies, Whiakil Scotch and English Ales, Brown Stout, etc, elii wnicn ne is prepared torurnisn to tne trade andc Burners generally la quantities that may be quired, and on the moat liberal terms. , P. J. JORDAN. BBtf Ko. 980 PEAR Street. Below Third and Walnut and above Dock street: CAR8TAIR8 & McCALL, Ho. 126 "Walnut and 21 Granite 8 IMPORTERS OF Brandies, Winei, Gin, Olive Oil, WHOLESALE DEALERS IH I PURE RYE WHISKIES. IN BOND AND TAX PALP. 8. BAKBR, ARNOLD & CO K: 110 CHESNUT Street, Invite attention to their large assortment o GAS nXTUIlICS OF NEW AND BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS, r JNIgHJD IN GOLD-GILT, ORMOLU, VERD-a' ' TIQUE AND IMPERIAL BRONZE, ' Which they oilur at prices Lower than Ever Ueforo Know 1 6 lmrp OTRANQBRS AND OTHERS CAN OBTA gratia, a Guide to Phliadelohla, by calling C'HALLEN'a, No. 1304 CllasTN UT Street, a, ho doiiiir box of paper and a dollar pack of visa tarda, all for f 1. U i
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