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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