THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1871.
BriRIT OF THE rilESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADINO J0UBNA.L3
UPON CTBREHT TOPICS COMPILED EVEBT
OAT FOB THE EYENfINO TELEGRAPH.
THE DIVORCE LAWS OF NEW YORK.
From Theodore Tilton's Golden Age.
There is but one ground for divorce in the
State of New York. But we have repeatedly
insisted that to limit divoroe to this one and
only cause is to make a legislative mookery
of the sorrows and sufferings of human
hearts. And yet a correspondent thinks we
ought not to meddle with so serious a sub
ject, and begs us to let it alone. We cannot
oblige him. There is do topio now astir on
which greater courage of speeoh is needed
than on this. To keep silent would be to re
main criminal.
Let us exhibit our meaning by referring to
a couple of illustrative instances.
We know of a high-minded, genial, and
admirable gentleman, who a few years ago
married a lady of good social position and
many personal charms. But her temper had
been inherited, by the Darwinian prooess,
direct from the tigress. At times she would
illustrate in a fearful degree the maxim that
"anger is a short madness." In her rages she
"was dangerous, and several times threatened
her husband's life. Once, when excited to an
unusual degree, she sprang at his throat,
clutched him till he was black in the faoe, and
-appeared intent on strangling him a catas
trophe which was averted only by the pre
sence of mind of a nurse who, on hearing
the noise, entered the room, and seizing a
bottle of chloroform which stood on the man
tel, opened it under the nostrils of the infu
riated woman and thus melted her into quiet
ness and slumber. A family ooanoil was
thereupon called, and a separation between
the husband and wife ensued. This man,
who, by all who know him, is esteemed one
of the best of husbands, is now debarred by
the laws of the State in which he lives from
marrying another woman. Now, by what
right do the law-makers of this State forbid
this man to be divoroed from this woman and
to marry another ? What just reason can be
assigned for interdicting him from re
building his broken household on a
happier foundation? Why should our statute
book condemn him to live a solitary life?
What right has the body politio to interfere
with his heart's wishes for some domestic
peace during his remaining years? We con
eider that the law which thus binds together
this husband in formal marriage with a wife
from whom he long years ago separated
through fear of his life, partakes something
of the cruelty of the semi-monster from
whom he thus fled. Such a law we denounoe
as unworthy of an enlightened civilization.
It has no foundation in reason and morality,
and ought to be repealed.
Furthermore, we know of a woman who,
gifted by nature with a more than common
, ingenuity in delicate manufactures an arti
san of rare skill in subtle fabrics is forced
to use all ber earnings for the support of a
drunken husband who never earns a cent for
himself, who treats her with habitual cruelty,
and who is sometimes not merely brutal but
almost fiendish in the outrages which he at
tempts against her person. This wife would
gladly be legally set free from the clutches
of this brute. Her life is made wretched
by his loathsome presence under her roof
and in ber chamber. The case is one
which, to those who know something of its
details, is of peculiar violenoe on the one
hand and suffering on the other. But as
this case exists, like the other, in the State of
New York, there is no law on our statute
book under which this woman can ask for a
divorce. Now will our correspondent say
that she is fairly treated by our legislators?
Have they any right to impose this perpetual
yoke upon this unoffending viotim? Can our
State law justify itself before God and man
for such an encroachment on the personal
liberty of a broken-hearted woman? Why
should not the statute give to this woman a
release from her wretchedness, and permit
her to marry a man whom she could love, and
whe would be a blessing to her life, instead
of chaining her perpetually to a wretch whom
she loathes, and who curses her existence from
year to year?
These two cases which we have quoted are
not parables but facts. Nor are they isolated
or unusual. They are typioal of thousands
of other such instances. Our society is full
of similar misalliances. Skeletons like these
exist in many a family, making what out
wardly is called a home inwardly a enamel
Louse.
now in view 01 uiese gnastiy tacts, we
want the law to cease from compelling them
to exist. We want to open a gate by which
the gentleman to whom we have referred in
the first case, and the lady to whom we have
referred in the Becond, can escape from their
present imprisonment in the Castle of . Giant
Despair. But the State of New York would
have kept even Mr. and Mrs. McFarland in their
bonds. The last-named and agonized woman
had to nee to another commonwealth for
the remedy which she was denied here. And
there are ten : thousand Abby UoFarlands
whose breasts are bleeding with just suoh
sorrow as carried this sufferer to Indiana to
seek a divorce. A great multitude of her
bruised and beaten sinters who have not exhi
bited her courage suffer without a sign. And
society, by imposing upon them an unjust
law forbidding their release, becomes particeps
oriminit in their griefs.
This is what we mean by denouncing the
existing partial and limited legislation on the
subject of divorce. Our correspondent may
think there is no just occasion to touch such
a theme. We judge otherwise. Oar views
on the whole subject may be distinctly
summed up as follows: The law of marriage
is, "Whom God hath joined together let not
man put asunder:" and the law of divorce is,
"Whom God hath put asunder let no man
keep together, . u
DO WE ACCEPT REVOLUTION?
From, tk N. 7. World.
If the radical interpretation of amend
ments XIII, XIV, and XV were warranted.
particularly that interpretation of amendment
XIV which hnds ground in it lor the Ku-klux
act, then recognition of the validity of those
amendments would be acceptance of an ao
complished revolution a revolution which
lacked but time to blot out State govern
ment, to expunge the Federal Government, to
make prevail one consolidated centralized
government. No suoh revolution in the
structure of our institutions as the Grant Re
publicans are attempting; can the Democratic
party be brought to "aocept;" no such "sitaa
tion will they recognize: no suoh "new
departure" from the doctrines that are dearest
to them win tney validate wltn even the as
tent of fcilence.
The Democratic party would oase to ba
Democratic; it would have beguu to be (not
a Republican party, but) a Or nut-radio d
party tbe party of revolution, the party (
imperialism if .for one imUnt. if in oiij
election, If in one Congressional distriot of
any State, It submitted without indignant
protest, without organized and determined
resistance, to any and every such intolerable
interpretation of the Constitution as it is.
It was not alone Democratic Senators who
said in opposing the Ku-klux bill it' was
Senator Trumbull who said: "The question
before us is really a question whether we
will revolutionize our Government." This
proposed revolution none but Grant radicals
accept. Not one Republican of Democratic
antecedents can aocept it. All Democrats at
the North, and no Democrats more earnestly
than the Democrats at the South, loathe and
set their heels upon this plan for converting
our Federal republic into a solid empire.
More keenly than the North dues the South
feel that under such an imperial State local
liberties would be lost; more keenly does the
North feel than tbe South that the lasting
unity of such a monstrous inflexible State
would b e impossible.
In discarding the three amendments from
the issues of 1872, the Democratic party sur
renders not one syllable of any of its past
authentio utterance of the rights of States.
Northern Democrats deny, as they have
always denied, that secession is such a right;
and Southern Democrats accept the situation
that war has ended debate. But every other
State right defined or reserved in the Federal
Constitution, asserted in Democratic plat
forms, affirmed by the Supreme Court of these
States United to these and all of them they
cling, accepting no revolution which would
melt them indiutinguishably in Grant's impe
rial brazier. Thus the Democratio party could
not and would not discard from the issues
of 1872 the three amendments if they justi
fied those usurpations which Grant and his
party have cut the ties and laid rails for in
the Ku-klux act usurpation of the State
rights of police, usurpation of the State riuht
to have the suspension of the habeas corpus
writ kept within the legislative discretiou and
not delegated to a candidate for re-election
to the Presidency. Usurpation of the State
right to make and administer all criminal acd
property laws would be as well justified for
the gate is left wide open if the XlVth
amendment could justify the aotual usurpa
tions of the Ku-klux act. But it justifies
neither these nor those not one of them.
We are aware that the Ku-klux act is en
titled "An act to enforce the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of
the United States and for other purposes,"
but not a whit the more has the act that or
any other legal foundation. We are aware
also what can be amrmed concerning the
dubiety that should continue till the Supreme
Court pronounce whether or no the Ku-klux
act is thus well based, as in this passage from
the Boston Advertiaer:
"To put Its Issue In Its own words. The veant in
the dough 1b what this Journal has sall about the
Ku-klux law aud the purpose of Graut Republicans
to blot out the States, ao as to leave practically but
one government, with its political centra In Wash
Df ten.' Now aa the Ku klux law was passed under
autnonty or new provisions oi ttie constitution, by
which the States have expressly delegated to Cou
cress powers to legislate lor the protection of cer
tain personal rights aud tbe prohibition of certain
Mate interferences, which, constitutional provisions
have never yet been lu any way before trie Supreme
Court, we do not see how the question is to be de
termined by decisions made before the Con
stitution was ameBded. If the World Is
honest In Its professions of acquiescence lu the
Constitution as it is, it la impertinent for it to be
now bringing laws passed in pursuance of the new
constitution to ine test or judicial decisions uuder
the old one. Whether by this process fairly applied
it would succeed In making Its point Is Immaterial.
Supposing It should, it would oe of no more practi
cal consequence than if it should succeed, as it un
doubtedly could, in snowing tuat the Ku-klux law
does not conform to the Articles of Confederation
adopted before there was any Constitution. The
World's notion or appiyicg the decisions of the Su
preme Court to what thai journal has said about the
purpose of Grant Republicans to blot out the States
so as to leave but one government, would be one of
the most impudent of presumptions If It were not
the most grotesque and farcical."
The history of the fourteenth amendment
is conclusive, without reverting to the test of
judicial deoisions, which either prove our
thesis, or else prove that the fourteenth ex
punged propria vigore the whole Constitution
and all thirteen of its previous amendments.
Mr. Bingham reported the first draft of the
amendment. To it was objeoted that it did
authorize Congress to do what a radioal Oon-
Kess (seeing no other hope of escape from
3ing power in '72) has attempted in the
Ku-klux act. Republicans not wearing Grant's
collar now, united witn . Democrats in de
nouncing Mr. Bingham's proposal., It was
never brought to a vote in either house. Af
terwards Mr. Thaddeus Stevens introduced
all of the first section of amendment four
teenth as it now stands, except the first sen
tence, and excluding therefrom the de
nounced clauses of the original Bingham pro
posal.
That Congress now, in furtherance of a
political scheme, has given a construction to
Amendment XIV whioh obliterates this differ
ence is no proof that Amendment XIV war
rants the ftu-klax aot as tne tsmgnam propo
sal might have warranted it, but is proof that
the imperialists feared defeat even before
Congress, then; and that when closer to the
peril they dragooned their more scrupulous
associates thus to attempt to avert next year's
del eat.
But "decisions made before the Cons tit a
tion was amended" a fourteenth time do
enable every lawyer, every publicist, every
reasoning man of trained or untrained faoul
ties, to Bee that the Ku-klux aot is downright
usurpation, infamous in itself for the uses to
whioh Grant may put it in the interest of his
own dictatorship, but much more portentous
for the revolution which it inaugurates in the
interest of the imperialists and consolidation
lets among us, of whom Grant is but the
present file-leader. The first part of Amend'
ment XIV confers United States and State
citizenship according to birth, naturalization,
and residence here, ihen follow three classes
of prohibitions addressed to a State. Citizens
shall not by a State have their immunities and
privileges of United States citizenship
abridged by the making or enforcing of any
law; persons shall not by a State be deprived
of life, liberty, or property without due pro
cess of law; persons shall not by a State be
denied the equal protection of the laws.
Now, prohibitions precisely similar in legal
effect to these were already contained in tne
tenth section of the Constitution, whioh for
bids a State making treaties, coining money,
emitting bills of credit, granting titles of
nobility, or keeping troops or ships of war in
time of peace without consent of Congress.
Tbe enforcement of those prohibitions has
been easy, simple, and effectual under the
warrant of the Judiciary aot of 178'J, section
zo, wmcn gives me bupreme uonrt junsdio
tion oi a case involving repugnancy or a
State law to the Federal Constitution. In
other words, the prohibitions upon a State in
section 10 oi tne constitution have been in
variably enforced by the judicial power, and
the judicial power is abundantly competent
to enforce the prohibitions upon a State of
amendment XIV, But the Ku-klux act
usurps to the Congress and tbe Executive the
power of directly enforcing the proliibitious
i t amendment XIV; and then to get leverage
fur the usurpation prepares a, fictitious denial
of its guarantees, a false aud fraud ulaut
pretense of such denial which the President
(a candidate for re-election) is to judge of the
lutrils of. . .
There needs no new decision of the Su
preme Court to set the baselessness of the
Ku-klux act npon amendment XIV. or upon
any other clause of the Constitution, in a
more glaring light. As prohibitions the
latest are not merely similar, they are identi
cal with the earliest. And their enforcement
requires no new distribution of the powers of
the Government, much less a bold Congres
sional usurpation to itself and to the Execu
tive of the sufficient, legal, and orderly power
of the Supreme Judiciary.
As for the Ku-klux assignment to the Exe
cutive of the power whioh rests solely in the
legislative discretion to suspend the privilege
of tbe writ of habeas corpus, it is not pre
tended that it has warrant in amendment XIV.
It is unprecedented even in the history of
this party of usurpation and revolution. For
when to Pre' idi nt Lincoln a similar assign
ment was made, there was at least the insuffi
cient reason of existent rebellion to excuse
if not to warrant it. But now there is neither
rebellion nor invasion, nor the pretense nur
the likelihood of any. Yet that power in the
Ku-klux act is not only unlawfully assigned,
but in its fourth section Grant himself, a
candidate for re-election, is attempted to be
made judge of when the "publio safety" re
quires the suspension of the great writ of
civil liberty.
Henry Laurens was President of the Con
tinental Congress in 1771). In 1780 be was
sent as Minister to Holland. On his way he
was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of
London for fourteen months. When Lord
Shelburne booame premier Laurens was
brought np on habeas corpus and released.
After bis release be was treated with great
Kindness and respect by the British authori
ties. He dined with Lord Shelburne. After
dinner the conversation turned on the sepa
ration of the two countries. Lord Shelburne
remarked:
"1 am sorry for your people." "Why so?"
asked Laurens. "They will lose the habeas
corpus," was the reply. "Lose the habeas
corpus!" said Laurens. "Yes," said Lord
Shelburne. "We purchased it with centuries
of wrangling, manj years of fighting, and had
it confirmed by at least fifty acts of Parlia
ment. All this taught the nation its value,
and it is no ingrained into their creod, as the
very foundation of their liberty, that no man
or party will ever dare trample on it. Your
people will pick it nd and attempt to use
it; but having cost them nothing, they will
not know how to appreciate it. At the first
great internal feud that you have the
majority will trample on it and the people
will permit it to be done, and so will go Aoar
liberty! "
May God forbid it:
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
From the Ji. F. Tribune,
The International Christian Moral Soienoo
Association, to inaugurate which Dr. Cather
of London has been visiting our principal
cities during the winter and spring, held its
first Constituent Congress in Philadelphia last
week, and assumed permanent name and shape.
The association professes, in brief, to be for
the purpose of defining and manifesting the
unity ol tbe Catholic Christian Church, which
it very properly holds to bo the sum of all
evangelical denominations; its work will also
be the elevat ng and strengthening of its
members, and developing tne resources
and agencies of the Church of Christ.
An annual Congress is to be held
in each country, and an International
CongresB once in five years, for the disous
Bion of such questions as are common only to
all Christian churches, out of whioh discus
sions they propose to eliminate a catholio
science of morals. To become a member of
the association membership in some evan
gelical church is required, and also, as is
awkwardly expressed, "jealousy for the honor
of Christ and the purity and efficiency of His
church, and an expression of this by the an
nual payment of $25 for clerical and $50 for
lay members." This money is to be appro
priated to "working the association, holding
the annual congress, and publishing and dis
tributing its literature. ' '
' Now, here, to the eyes of a secular outsider,
appears an admirable scneine, thoroughly
pure and beneficent, and thoroughly unprac
tical. Uow many castles in tne air built by
devout people out of great ideas fall to pieces
for the lack of a little of the adhesive mortar
of common sense! Dr. Cather and other good
men having no toleration for intolerance, pro
pose to unite all Christ's people in that bond
of spiritual love witn whion it was liis errand
to imbue them. Bnt, in order tnat tne acolyte
at St. Albans, and the itinerant Methodist in
London, and the disciple of John Knox, should
be made, with a throb of brotherly love in
their hearts, to feel that tney nave alike but
one hope in death or life, and that that hope
is Christ, is it necessary to maintain a system
of National Congresses to keep up an intri
cate machinery of presidents, vice-presidents,
secretaries, and executive councils, at what
cost let the management of each individual
churoh testify? The idea of each church in
every nation sending up its delegates to claim
universal brotherhood under Christ is touch
ing and beautiful, we acknowledge. But do
these discussions, in sober fact, contribute to
unitv? Hieh Churchmen, and Presbyterians,
and Baptists are precisely like other kinsfolk
they are apt to love each other better when
they live apart. There are few Christians, we
think, who would not gladly have welcomed
some practical method of bringing them near
enough to all their brethren to feel that the
same fire warmed their hearts. But how
many can afford to pay $250 for a grand
council once in five years where their great
men may hnd out, as tney assuredly will do,
how much tney disagree
The ordinary Bpeotator might suggest that
there were other bonds oi union than expsn
sive organizations which are to begin and end
in talk. Dr. Cather might take a hint from
an old story whioh we all learned in our
primers. A certain man finding that his sons,
who were grown and gone from him, had be
come enemies, brought them home and talked
to them of the holiness of brotherly love for
a long time, but in vain. Mom, and John,
and Jacob, were men with creeds and habits
of their own, and both creeds and habiti
clashed. Then, as they were about to sepa
rate, he led them to the house of their younger
brother, who had fallen into want and wretch
edness. One made haste to comfort
him in his sick-bed, another brouqht
warmth and plenty into the miserable
home, the third took his children
and pressed them to his breast. And as
they looked at each other with tears iu their
eyes, they remembered tbe old time again,
and were once more oniy dovs and brothers
If the "International Association" had plaoed
before tbe churches some one demand for
prauticul hearty help, they would have de
veloped more "brotherhood" in one year's
work than in a dozen councils. The world
wants no new, cumbrous science of moral
ethics. It needs but to see more plainly the
pcinttd finger of its Manter at His needy chil
dren, and to hear His words, "The poor ye
Lute always with you." It is but a week or
two since one of our brothers whom the world
has maltreated cruelly was among ns, looking
at onr wealth and civilization with gloomy
eyes, and turning back to starvation and
ignorance in his wigwam with that old loud
and exceeding bitter cry of Esau to his God:
"Hast thou no blessing for me, also, Oh, my
Father?" The money required by this new
association would build a church in every
Indian villnge and Bupply every tribe with
teachers. Yet tbe savage whom we hive
wronged cries in vain for succor, while
Christ's churches send up solemn deputations
to assure each other that they are in verity
His children. It is not yet too late, we are
sure, for our friends to give to their under
taking a more praotioal basis, and one whioh
will be more acceptable to thoughtful Christians.
THE TICIIBORNE LAWSUIT, t
From the H. Y. Times.
The Tichborne case continues to attract
eager attention in London, and thu balanoe
of testimony to exhibit that bewildering suc
cession of contradictions, by which this re
markable trial has from the first been char
acterized. Before the examination of the
plaintiff, tho putative Sir Roger Tiohborne
himself, bis case looked extremely strong.
Many credible witnesses had sworn point
blank to his identity, and other corroborating
evidence seemed quite impregnable. But
now that tbe sharp counsel on the other side
have taken the claimant in hand, his chances
appear to be sensibly diminished. The
confusion and inconsistency of some of
his answers to questions, his strange illness,
which has recurred more than once during
his examination, his total ignorance of per
sons with whom the true Sir Roger is de
clared to have been acquainted, combine with
other untoward incidents to give the affair a
more dubious look than ever; and if, as is
threatened, the Solioitor-General does in fact
put in the witness-box the father, brother,
and sister of Arthur Orton, the Wapping
butcher, to prove that the claimant is that
person, his hopes of enjoying the baronetcy
must, to all appearance, be seriously clouded.
Among other critical matters sifted by the
plaintiff 's examination, that of his ignorance
of French has been much dwelt upon. The
defendant's advisers plainly rely much on
this weak point of their opponent. A volume
of Chateaubriand was lately produced in
court, which tho witness attested to be his
own. He, at least, believed it to be his
own. It certainly had been the property of
the true Sir Roger. Now, of course, one
more readily forgets how to speak a lan
guage, once having known it, than to read
it. The test as regards speaking French had
already been applied. In fact, the plaintiff
and his counsel admitted squarely that he
had forgotten all the French he ever knew.
On this occasion ne was asked to real a page
from the Chateaubriand before him. Ue
replied, "I don't profess to do it." The
Lord Chief Justice, in apparent surprise,
said, "Jo you mean to say you can
not read i rench in i rencn, not to
translate it lo wnicn answer was
made, "No; I have quite forgotten the
lancusce. I can't read my own letters." On
this tbe foolicitor-ueneral expressed nis re
gret, Baying that was precisely what he had
been about to ask tne witness to do. ine
Lord Chief Justice appears to have conveyed
to the claimant at tbis juncture a distinct idea
of prejudice against him, for presently we
find Sir Roger, or Arthur Orton, remonstrat
ing to tbe court as follows: "Your lordships
is very sharp upon me. I feel in duty bound
to say so. Since I have been in this box the
other side have required no counsel at all.
Your lordships seem determined that justice
shall not be done me." To which the Chief
Justice made the caustic reply, "I must
trouble J you to be more decent in your
observations, and to answer the questions
promptly. '
It, for tne Base oi hypothesis, it is assumed
that the claimant, while astonishingly well
"coached," is in truth an impostor, it must
be admitted that the latest developments lend
great plausibility to the theory. So long as
the examination refers to things in which he
is manifestly well up, tne claimants re
plies are reasonable and coherent; but when
taken out of his depth that is, when inter
rogated, through the ingenuity of counsel, on
topics that he might be presumed to be
equally at home in as with others with which
he is acknowledged on all sides to be familiar
ne nounders and excites suspicion. The
following, . for example, looks exceedingly
equivocal:- ' .
The Solicitor-General Can you give me the
name of any book you read with your tutor ou your
tour?
Witness I den't remember what they were : they
were the general books read In that day. Q Just
tell me one. A. I dont remember, o. Can't you
give me the name of a single book, you read wltn
your tutor? A. 1 can't Just now. C But now la the
time. Can t you give me tbe name of one or them?
A. They were the general books. O. Can't you
give us toe name oi a single one? a. o. u,
The ordinary school-books; you were there, you
Know, until you were niieen or sixteen? a. jnoi
quite so long as that ; I did not commence
Latin and Greek until I went to Stonyhurst. U.
You have sworn your tutor taught you a little Latin?
A. 1 don't think he did ; he taught me reading, writ-
book; he was my only tutor, and was with me four
or rive years. C Can't you recollect anything else
he taught jou7 A. 1 can't remrmoer anytnlag but
grammar. Q. Did ouread any history or France
or of England? A. I can't say; 1 read several books
1 can't give you the name of a single book: he
taught uie arithmetic;! don't think tnat I got be
yond simple division; I only went one tour with my
mother." , .
We are aware that it is explained that Sir
Roger is an exceptional person, that he drank
card for some time, tuat he has been wounded,
end has experienced, from various causes,
cerebral derangement, yet it is somewhat sur
prising that his memory Bhonld be so clear
and accurate to the minutest detail about
other things that happened at the same time
and so obscure and unsatisfactory about this,
Other extraordinary complications have been
brought forward, on the other hand, in the
examination, which appear bo totally useless
and, if considered as fabrications, for the
plaintiff's case so absurdly prejudicial,
that to many minus they will confirm be.
lief in his identity. Thus, he swore most
positively to the seduction of his
cousin with great reluctance, it Bhonld be
said the lady Bitting meanwhile in open
court, and gave a leng history of connected,
circumstances, which the defense cannot ap
parently upset. Such statements as this, and
others not essential, it would seem, to , the
establishment of his case, and at the same
time offering numerous vulnerable points of
attack, the claimant advanced, and stood
elaborate crops-questioning upon, with per
fect freedom, and we cannot help thinking
that all this is incompatible with tLe theory of
imposture. On the last day of the examina
tion, the report of which has oome
to hand, the witness begged to
be excused from going on; "I cannot
be responsible for any answer that
I may give to-day," he said, "lam in Buch in
tense pain." A consultation then took place
between the Court and counsel, and the case
was postponed by agreement until Thursday,
June 15. So far, the interest of the trial has
been kept np in a manner not short of amaz
ing. The n.obt ingenious novel writer could
not have devised a plot in which hopes and
fears, probabilities and doubts, should be
more artfully adjusted and balanoed; and we
fancy that the cleverest of lawyers no leas
than thn Ipnnt f ntnllinanf nt Inrmnn mint, be
perfectly mystified, so far, as to whether this
A 1 : . . . . it n mi l
cucruirio uiainiaut do indeed Oir iwoger xicu
borne, Baronet, or Arthur Orton, the Wapping
butcher. , .
SPEOIAL NOTICES.
DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO.
m Ala a v T uui'VTn .
Patients treated rrataltoim'. m.t thin institution
duly at 11 o'clock. 114
gfc- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
TREASURER'S DSPARTMENT.
Philadelphia, May 3, 1STL
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
semi-annual dividend of F1VK PER CENT, on the
capital stock ol the Company, clear of Natioual
and State taxes, payable In cash, on and after May
80,1871.
Blank powers of attorney for collecting dividends
can be bad at the office of the company.
The office will be open at I A. M., and olose at 8
P. M., from May so to June 8, for the payment or
dividends, and after that date from 9 A. M. to 8
P. M. THOMAS T. FIRTH.
P 8rfl Treasurer.
TO HOLDERS OF ORIO STATU smnrrs
Notice is hereby given that the Interest due
Julyl, 1871, on the Funded Debt of tbe State of
Ohio, will be paid at the American Exchange
National Bank, lu the City of New York, from the
1st to the 16th proximo, and thereafter at ouroillce
in this city
The trausfer books will be closed for one month
irom ine iota mm.
CoLDMBrs, Ohio, June 12, 1511. 6171m
JAMBS H. (luDMaN, Andltorof State.
IAAC B. SHERWOOD, Sec. of State.
FRANCH B. BOND. Attornev-UeniTftl.
Commissioners of SinktDg Fund of State of Ohio.
y STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, TREA-
Colombia, 8. C, June 1, 1871.
Thn interest maturing Julv i. 1371. unon t.h
Bonds of the State of bouth Carolina, will he paid
in gold on and after Julv 1, at tbe Banking House of
H. H. Kirnpton. Financial Agent of the State. No. 9
Nassau street, New York, aud at the South Carolina
Bank ami Trust Company, in Columbia.
'ine interest maturing upon Kegistered Stock at
tnat. time win ne paid at tne Treasury omce only.
unwi mitts u. Munut, state Treasurer.
gg STATE OT ILLINOIS, TREASURER'S OF-
The intercut which will become due noon fctock of
tne Mate or Illinois on the first Monday of July,
1871, will be paid at the American Exchange Na
tional Bank, In the City of New York, from the 3d to
uie inn aays, inclusive or juiv, proximo.
X.KA8TLS N. BATES,
0171m State Treasurer.
vi- BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS SPLEN-
did Hair Dve is the best in the world, the only
I rue aud perrect Dye. Harmless Reliable Instan
taneous no disappointment no ridlcaloua tints
"lMes i t contain Lead nor any Vitalie PoUon to in
wren., tiar or tsgtum." invigorates tne flair and
leaves it sort ana oeaatirm ; mack or Brown.
Sold by all Druggists and dealers. Applied at the
Factory, No. lfl BOND Street, New York. (4 87 mwf
J. & L. L. BARRICK'S LEGITIMATE
Tailoring Establishment, No. 41 S. TENTH
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,
lit, and workmanship guaranteed. A good stock
always on hand, to show which is no trouble, and
to sell the same at rates not to be excelled Is our
highest ambition. 6 8 tutha26t
IIARPEK'S LIQUID HAIR. DYE
Never Fades or AVashea Out,
will change gray, red. or frosted hair, whiskers, or
moustache to a beautiful black or brown as soon as
applied. Warranted, or money returned. Only 60
cents a box. Sold by all Druggists. 8 83 tuthsOm
ti$T PILES. DR. GUNNELL DEVOTES HIS
time to the treatment of riles, blind, bleed
ing, or itching. Hundreds of cases deemed incura
ble witnout an operation have been permanently
enred. Best city reference given. Office, No. 81 N.
E,LJi. y ins treei. 4 19 m
JOUVEN'S KID GLOVE CLEANER
restores soiled giovea equal to new. For sale
by all druggists and fancy goods dealers. Price SB
centa;e r ottie. , liasmwfi
tfy THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH
POWDER is the best article for cleansing and
preserving me teetn. i or aaie oy an Druggists.
rrice vo ana ou cents per Dome. 11 se stathiy
DR. F. R. THOMA8, No. 911 WALNUT ST.
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms,
aevoieg nis enure Dr&cuue to exirauunir wana wit.n.
, out pain, witn iresn nitrons oxiae gas. 11 in
LEGAL NOTICES.
TVSTRICT COURT OF TnE UNITED 8TATES
J FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRIOT OP ALA
BAMA In the matter of TUtf ALABAMA AND
CHATTANOOGA KAILKOAD COMPANY, Baak
rupt. IN BANKRUPTCY: A warrant in Bank
ruptcy has been issued by said Court against the
jotateor me Aiaoama ana unattanooga Kaiiroad
company, or tne state or Aiaoama, in said District,
adiudgrd a Bankrupt upon tne petition or its credi
tors, and the payment of any debts and the delivery
of any property belonging to said Bankrupt, to It, or
to its use, are forbidden by law.
A meeting of the Creditors of said Bankrupt to
prove their debts, and choose one or morn Assignees
of its estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy,
to be holden at Montgomery, in Bald District, ou the
22riday of July, A. D. 1871, at 13 o'clock M., at the
cilice of LAWRENCE WOKRALL, Esq., one of the
Registers in Bankruptcy of said Court
ROBERT W. HE ALT,
United States Marshal, Messenger.
M.. Af fit.... U..Mhal Un.tnnn..... Al-
June p, lsn. o n im
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
X AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of GEORGE A. ALTEK, deceased.
The Audit jr appointed by the Court to audit, settle, 1
and adjust tne account or caiuakinb alixh,
administratrix of OEOROE A. ALT UK, deceased.
ani;to report distribution of the balanoe in the bands
of the accountant, will meet the parties interested
for the pnrpose of his appointment, on THURSUAY,
July ,' 1S71, at 11 o'clock A. CI., at his office, No. 131
South FJ r Tli tttreet a tne citv or r nuaneinnia.
GEORGE M. CON Alt ROE,
o?8fmw.Bt Auditor.
w
I D O W'S
NOTICE.
IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND CO"Tr OB" fMlliAUHLrUlA.
Estate af M1CUAKL CONWAY, deceased.
Notice la hereby given that JULIA CONWAY,
widow of said decedent, has Sled her petition, with
Inventorv and aDDraineaient of the personal property
Khe electa to retain under the act of Assembly of
April 14, ISM. and lu supplement and that the same
will be approved by the Court on BATi'RDAY,
Jure 24, 171, at 10 o'clock A. M , unless exceptions
be filed thereto. (;uaKLi,(t Bins,
6 15 thf4t Attorney for Petitioner.
T? STATE OF JAMES R. GAREIGUES. DE-
Jli CEASED. Letters Testamentary upon the
above estate having been granted ti the under
sigued alt persons indebted thereto are requested to
make payment, ana iuobh nnviuir ciwmi tu present
tLem lO ll-TX,
' HENRY H. bAHKKUES.
Executors.
6 26 f6t Residence, No, 8015 OGDEN Street.
MILLINERY. TRIMMINGS, ETQ.
McVAUUU Sc DUHUAIf,
NO. 114 SOUTH ELEVENTH STREET,
Have opened their Spring Assortment of
DKSIUABLE WHITE GOODS.
Piques In Plaids. Stripes, and Cords.
KreucL Kaiubook, all prices.
French MubIId, 8 wide, very low.
Tucked M ufcliu. lor Waists and Hklrts.
A LK(;E KIOCK OF UAMBUKU EDGING AND
1NSEKT1NU.
Heal and Imitation Lacts.
R ch Hounding In Nainsook acd Swiss.
pTeneu Cps for Ladies acd Ch ldren.
I.adim' rnrttr-earnieuu. v-rr cheao.
NOYKI.TIES AND FANCY ARTICLES RE
CEIVED DAILY.
INFANTS' OUTFITS
on hand andmade to order. 1 13w3in
FOR 8AI.E.
FOB BALI,
HANDSOME RESIDENCE,
' WEST PHILADELPHIA.
Mo. 8943 CHESNT1T Street (Marble Terrace),
THREE-STORY, WITH MANSARD ROOF, AND
THREE-STORY DOUBLE BACK
BUILDINGS.
Sixteen rooms, all modern conveniences, gas, b ft,
hot and cold water.
Lot 18 feet front and 120 fret 8 Inches deep to a
back street. .
Immediate possession. Terms to suit purchaser.
M. D. LIVENSETTER,
4 18 No. 129 Sooth FOURTH Street
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR
'2
SMALLER PROPERTIES.
No. 1917 Chesnut street.
No. 1408 North Broad street
No. 1413 North Eighteenth street
Lot, Broad and Vine streets, 73 by 200 feet.
Lot, Broad street, above Thompson, 143 by 800 feet.
Square of Ground, Broad and Diamond streets.
Lot, Broad and Lehigh avenue, 145 feet deep.
Lot, Broad and Summerset streets, 250 by 400 feet
deep.
Lot, Broad and Cambria streets, loo by 513 feet
deep.
93 acre Farm, Bucks county.
8 Cottages at Cape May. R. J. DOBBINS,
6Ctf "Ledger" Building.
WEST PHILADELPHIA.
RlE NEW. VERY HANDSOME. AND CONVJ3-
With Mansard roof, Nos. 4203, 4204, and 4206 KING
frEsSlNO Avenue, situated among the most costly
improvements of this beautltul suburb. Horse oars
puss each way within one square each house con
tains all modern improvements, bath, hot and celd
water, stationary washstandsnell-calls, rangp, two
furnaces, bay windows, etc., etc., and la built upon
A LARGE LOT,
more than 175 feet deep ; the rear of the houses has
an unobstructed out-look upon the
WEST PHILADELPHIA PARK.
. ABRAHAM HITTER,
6 8 lm No. 628 WALNUT Street
TO REUTi
FOR RENT,
STORE, No. 339 MARKET Street.
APPLY ON PREMISES.
4 22tf
3. B. ELLISON & SONS.
QOAL AND LANDING WHARF TO LET OR
LEASE on favorable terms on the SCHUYLKILL,
between ARCH and FILBERT Streets, 73 feet
front on Twenty-third street, by 400 feet to the
river. Has flooring and shedding capacity to store
4000 or 6000 tons coal. Office, scale, stable, and
everything in condition to continue the coal busi
ness. Address COAL WHARF, North American
office. e 15 thstusw
S A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE TO LET ON
llS Wayne street Germantown. within nva
minutes' walk of Wayne Station : 9 rooms, hot and
cold water and bath. Inquire at Bakery, No. 44l
Direet. 6 IS tf
OFOR RENT DURING JULY AND AU
GUST. A desirable furnished House, two
squares from Germantown Depot Terms reason
able. Address B, GREEN Street, below Chelten
avenue, Germantown. 6 82 8t
FOR RUNT TTTW T A Ttnv KTnnrrnnrBiit
No. 813 MAKKKT Strpot nfimnlotl. r.irnl.haH
with counters and shelving. Apply on the pre
mises, a on Bt i
J T0 RENT, A FURNISHED
COTTAGE, near the sea. ADnlv at Room No.
n,
O. 619 WALNUT Street ai t
FIRE AND BURQLAR PROOFS AH
MARVIN'S
SAFES, "?7
,iiowesi jrrices
MARVIN'S
Largest
Assortment!
SAFES
MARVIN'S
721
SAFES CHESNUT St.
B 5 fmw&m
(MASONIC HALL.
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
"yiNKS, LIQUORS, ENGLISH AND
SCOTCH ALES, ETC.
The subscriber be&s to call the attention of
dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers generally to
his splendid stock of foreign goods now on band, of
his own Importation, as well, also, to his extensive
assortment of Domestlo Wines, Ales, etp., among
Ysuicu may oe enumeraiea
boo cases of Clarets, high and low grades, care
folly selected from beet foreign stocks.
loo casks of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade.
loo cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade. '
o cask! oi snerry w me, oest quality o meuium
rde- :
o Darren ocuppcruoug wine ui uesi quaiuj.
CO casks Catawba Wine " "
10 barrels " medium grade.
Together with a full supply of Brandies, Whiskies,
Scotch and English Ales, Brown Stout etc., etc,
which be is prepared to furnish to the trade and coa
sumers generally la quantities that may be re
quired, and on tne most liberal terms.
P. J. JORDAN.
6 5tf No. 820 PEAR Street,
Below Third and Walnut and above Dock street
CAR8TAIR8 A McCALL,
27 o. 126 Walnut asd 21 Granite Sti.,
IMPORTERS 07
Bran diet, WUe, Gin, Olive Oil, Eta,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAU
A YOUNG MAN (MARRIED) WHO IS WELL
acquainted with Kugliiih laruilng, aud who w,
I repsred to leave England directly, is desirous of
Miding a situation as b urux Manager in the country.
Cau be well recommended. Address
S. J. MILLS, No. 4 Shakespeare Villas,
6i7Sw Uythe, Kent, England.