mmiNQ BULLETIN ‘ SATURDAY, MARCH 26. 1864. THE ANACONDA RAILROAD. The indignation ofoilr citizens at the action of their representatives in the Legis lature, in favoring the monstrous railroad speculation called the “Union Passenger Railway,” is unbounded. We hear it ex pressed everywhere, and we also hear many intimations of the most corrupt practices,on the part of the contrivers of the scheme, to secure the votes of the members. If one half that- is, charged be true,-, then there need be no expectation, of honesty or virtue in the action of the Pennsylvania Legisla ture. Honesty is at-a discount. Patriotism and purity are in a hopeless minority. The Legislature will meet agam on Monday,and the railroad schemers ' will strain every nerve to put their hill through before the citizens can have time to remonstrate. It may yet be defeated, however, and even if it should not he, there is room for hope that the Governor will interpose with his veto power, and save the city from the perpetra tion of so gross a wrong. But it will be best to kill the monster in the place of its birth, the House of Representatives, and no effort should be spared to accomplish this end. PRESIDENT VAUX. We have every desire that Girard College should;* fulfil its great mission, and we have faith in the excellent management of Presi dent Smith. But we must repeat our pro test against the nonsense that has been giv en to the world annually, for several years, in the shape of the report of the Board of Directors. Since Richard Vaux, Esq., has been President of the Board, these reports have been the most ridiculous specimens of nonsense, bombast and bad English that have ever been known to issue from an offi cer of an educational institution. If any thing good has been done, Mr, Yaux states it in such obscure and pompous language that noone can exactly comprehend it. For instance, in the report for the year 1863, just issued, occurs the following remarka ble passage : “ The educational system, the internal or household policy, the home influences, the moral teachings, the individual training, the essential progresses in the scope, capamties, constituents and usefulness of the institution, in its dual character as 'an orphan establish ment’ and a ‘College,» were centered in a fo calized, intelligent, comprehensive and effective administration.” - In the next page he says “an active, healthy .earnest,live condition was thus made to eradicate the systemless inertia which was about to settle over the destiny of the institution.” We don’t believe that any “ systemless inertia” was about to settle as alleged, nor do, we believe that Richard Vaux ever did or ever can do anything to affect the destiny of that or any other insti tution, not even of the one that he evidently loves above Girard College, that of slavery. There are some pages of stuff and fustian about the college and the boys, astherehave been in former reports, all meant to-show that they were in a shocking condition until Providence or the Democratic City. Councils made Richard Yaux President of the Board. Here is a specimen of this : “ Co-minglipg such diversity of individuali ties m one institution, governed, as.tfeie is, by the letter and spirit of the will‘of the founder, could not fail to make its condition far from satisfactory. The hoys were in an abnormal educational existence. Without ambition, im pulse, motive, they were all on a level of mind and aim—to be, ended their effort.” This is a repetition, in different but equally nonsensical language, of a ridicu lous slander which has appeared in all the reports from the pen of Mr. Vaux. There is neither sense nor-truth in the assertion that “the hoys were in an abnormal exist ence, and that “to be, ended their effort.” ithout questioning that reforms may have been introduced into the college, we venture to declare that the college was well managed under President Allen, and that e oys were well cared for, well taught, and fo from being the ignorant louts that ~ , UX cads them. We know graduates ° w i are a thousand times more sen- TvTi T:J , ’ k 0 Can write a great deal better glishthan the present President of the ar o Directors.: For instance, what gra ua e of the College could speak of it in the ridiculous fashion of Mr. Vaux in the lollowmg passage? He says: ‘ velonLfT u prehen ? iveness ot idea basbeen de ness^xtenLfl^i 11 .® 3 eliminated, its usef'ul to tko G l ard C ° Uege Of +l,O J , Qen t Vaux the meamng it would be a been com ° k Philadelphia, which has •years fo c ‘ for several successive the city would only + 6r T"- ’ If from the college, that is, its threshold—c hmme~it wouts ? utside of to society. It is disgraceful th!LT ini? tution of which Philadelphia i s - should have at. its head such a charlatan and should be compelled to perpetuate his annual nonsense among its printed records. »'BPRINKLING BLOOD IN THE FACE OF THE -People.” The Hon, Jeremiah Clemens,of Alabama, has been prominent as a Democrat in the Southwest for oyer thirty years* He has held many high positions, among which was that of United States'Senator, previous to the outbreak of the rebellion. - He has recently seen the folly of rebellion, and has acted as the .principal leader in a Union meeting at Huntsville,: Alabama, held on the 13th inst. At the close of the meeting Hr. Clemens related an incident which oc curred in Apiil, 1861: He said ; “Shortly after the Confederate Government was put in operation, I was in the city of Mont gomery. .One day I stepped into the office of - the Secretary of War, General Walker, and found there, engaged in a very exciting dis cussion,_Mr. Jefferson Davis, Mr. Memminger, m Benjamin, Mr., Gilchrist, a member of our Legislature from ‘Lowndes county, and a num ber of other promineutgentlemen. They were discussing the propriety-of immediately open ing g re on ForU Sumter, to which General Walker, the Secretary of War, appeared to be opposed. Mr. Gilchrist said to him: ‘Sir. unless you sprinkle blood in the face of the people of Alabama, they will be back in the old Union in less than ten days.!’ The next day, General. Beauregard opened his batteries on Sumter, and Alabama was saved to. the Con federacy .” , One’sblood runs cold as such evidence of the deliberate.fiendishness of the leaders of the rebellion comes to light. This Mr. Gilchrist, it appears, was a member of the legislature of Alabama, and knew that the sentiment of her people was in favor of the Union. Yet, deliberately betraying his trust, he urges the rebel President and Secretary of War to “sprinkle blood upon the face of the people,” so as to blind their, reason gand till their hearts with the brute passion of the fighting ani ma). Secession, he felt, could not be carried out on reasonable or patriotic grounds. The old faith in the Stars and Stripes was too rooted and grounded in the heart of Alaba ma for even sophistry to shake. Nothing but -human blood would accomplish the ends sought by the traitors, and blood they determined to shed. What has been the terrible result ? The blood of hundreds of thousands of the bro thers of these leaders of anarchic rebellion crieth from the ground. The fields of Virginia, desolate as the plains of the Carnatic, in_ the imagination of Edmund Burke, are witnesses of this awful crime. The mountains and valleys .of Tennessee bear testimony against these betrayers of the people, and if the dead could speak, we would hear from battle-grounds like Shiloh, voices multitudinous, crying out against the mad ambition which sent its victims to their graves. The entire South is filled with such evidences of the foul treason of the rebellious leaders, no less traitors against the government of their fathers than against the people of their own commonwealths—their own brethren and sisters, who had honored and elevated them to seats of power, and who looked up to them for counsels wise instead of wicked, noble instead of base, and patriotic instead of grovelling and selfish. The load these “ sprinklers of blood in the face of the peo ple ” are forced to bear, is as fearful as the brand of Gain, and no amnesty granted by human authority can ever lighten their bur den or wash out the awful stains of their guilt. TAKUfG THE OATH OF ALLEGIAHCE. A very complete insight into the princi: pies governing the rebels by choice, who take the oath of allegiance to the United States for the purpose ofaccomplishing their own selfish ends, has been furnished in the department of General Steele, in Arkansas* The correspondence of a certain William E. Woodruff was intercepted, and the earnest ness with which he swore to abide by the laws of the United States may be inferred from the following choice paragraphs which will answer'as specimens of the whole: “ The ‘ screws’ have received several turns that , were not very agreeable to us, who are wedded to the South, by interest as well as sympathy. The last one", however, is a stum per to most of us, as none of us can make necessary purchases at the store without pro ducing evidence of having taken the oath of allegiance to old Abe’s Government. I have held off for about a week. I had hoped to avoid taking it,by making my purchases through other less fastidious parties. But I fear X shall be obliged to take it, or be cut off from getting rents for my property, which,with a few board ers, is the only resource I have to support my family. I shall probably take it to-morrow. If I do, it will be a matter of necessity, not of choice, and I shall be quite as strong a rebel after taking it as I ever have been. “P. S.—Well, ' the deed am done’and lam now a loyal citizen of the United States—if the taking of the oath of allegiance can make me oo e*. X took it on yesterday as my only alter— native to keep from starving. “ Please place me right on the subject with my friends South. Tell them lath not less a sympathizer with them than heretofore, bn - feel mortified, and chagrined at the necessity that compelled me to do an act that my con-, science revolted at. The next order on the subject, I presume, will be one requiring all who have not taken the oath to come up and take it, or go beyond the lines.” General Steele very properly ordered Mr. Woodruff and his family to be put outside the lines, “where they might secure protec tion from those with, whom they so deeply sympathize.” But there are very many of these gentlemen of easy conscience who are not quite-'so plain spoken as Mr. Woodruff, but who are just as false, and who are scat tered throughout the loyal States. We have one in our mind’s eye now Who was clearly proved to be engaged in the most infamous treasonable practices. He was known'to have been acting in concert with notorious rebel agents, and to have been engaged, not only.in furnishing aid and comfort to rebels, -but' also in plotting damage to the loyal cause and citizens. These facts were proved to the satisfaction of the authorities, yet the'traitor was suffered to take the oath of allegiance and go at large.’ If the officers of the law believe that an intelligent and active traitor, who is a traitor from choice, is any less a'traitor at heart ‘after he has better thC -° atk of alle Siance, they have a we have Pm Tkis° f hUmaU Dature him arc ...h ™ an an d many more like under no T Our navy yards mii;+a _, We are aware of. factories'of the munitions of °w manu * to them and almost at thci/merc/"!^ 611 cannot avoid the conviction that d W ° destructive fires at Mauch Chunk‘d and Cairo, HI., are to be attributetT'to some such agency as this. We are aware of the difficulty of preventing rebel spies and agents from .scattering themselves through the loyal States ; but we think that, con victed traitors should be punished for their crimes and not be suffered to wipe out their sins with the convenient sponge of an oath of allegiance. And while we would . not prevent any contrite sinner from expressing bis repentance and making amends for his laults, we would hay? him well watched THE DAILY TONING BULLETIN ; PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1864. —TRIPLE SHE RT A HOUSE OF COBBECTIOH WASTED. Among other excellent recommendations made by the Mayor in his annual message, is that in regard to the; establishment of a House of Correction, in which may be con fined the juvenile offenders who infest our city. Such an institution is an absolute necessity to a metropolis like Philadelphia', and should have been erected long since and placed in operation. Our highways and by ways arc filled, daily and nightly, with re presentatives of this class, children, who, neglected, and in many cases, encouraged by their parents, roam at large, beggars de pendent upon the charity of an' indiscreet public; stealing wherever they have an op portunity to purloin a penny from an un suspicious shopkeeper; drinking at the bar of some groggery; frequenting the numer ous dens of iniquity with which our city abounds; and, in fact, indulging in every vice, conceivable and inconceivable. We are told by the Mayor that during the past three years more than one-half of the ser vices of the police force have been required to protect the community from the depreda tions of boys under fifteen years of age, an authoritative statement which, even if there were no other considerations, should secure the immediate establishment of the institu tion recommended. As the population in creases the evil is augmented, and for the future welfare of the community, the ad vancement of Christianity,and the cause of morality, a structure suitable to the object should he built, one which should not only have sufficient capacity to accommodate all the young shoots of villainy who may be found, worthy a cot within its wails, but which may also be an ever-present monitor to those who may feel inclined to emulate the vices of the dissolute and depraved. The following communication conies to us anonymously, but probably the writer has reasons for isot disclosing his name. At all events his 'intentions are evidently honest and good, and his conversion to loyalty sincere. For that reason we deviate from our rule of rejecting all articles unac companied by a responsible name, and pre sent his communication to our readers : . “Philadelphia, 19 March.—l am a Geor gian, and since the war broke out I have been directly and indirectly employed by the Con federate Government in various capacities ■ never, however, as a soldier or officer, being physically unfit for the field. “Six jnonths since I came to the conclusion that onr cause was hopeless, and since then I have been engaged in ‘settling up’ and quietly preparing to abandon the ‘ship.’ This latter 1 successfully accomplished about three weeks £ bice. So much for my personal history. “Occasionally 1 intend to write a fact or two, should you desire it, but only when I think it will be of service; for I frankly tell you I have got rid of all my secession fancies. “I noticed in a recent dumber of the N. Y Tribune a statement that the South could not" by any possibility, get .more than 200,000 men in the field. I know this to be a mistake f know there, are fully this number of veterans ncrui in the field. And I know , also, that on the first of this month about' 100,000 conscrints had been added to the army, and it was calcu lated that about 50,000 more would be obtained" so that the army will be about 350,000 strong by the Ist of April. If you calculate for a less number than this,you will be mistaken. “/know that fully this number of efficient men will be ready, by the time named, to meet your armies. - Ex-Rebel.” Every thing that we hear tends to confirm the statement made by Our correspondent as to the present strength'of the: rebel army and the measures taken to increase it this spring. , We must be prepared to meet this force with one of double the size, if possible, and we therefore hope that every thing will be done to fill up speedily the" calls for volunteers and conscripts. If this be done, we shall bring the war to a tri umphant close by next summer. • x . INCENDIARIES. tlonof r° Very day wo hear of destruc all casefthe iTf nt Pr ° perty by fire ’ and in the work If il 6nt is mado that !t was we heard of ”f endlanes - A few days ago we beard of a number,of fires” at Vicks burg, consuming largo quantities of goveS news ST h Came ’ ° n AS, news of the burning of a Quartermaste/s store at Cairo; of a warehouse .at Port- until he had given ".satisfactory evidence of his earnestness and his honesty. A WOED OF CAUTIOH The enthusiasm with which all classes of our community .are. preparing for the Great Central Fair- is .likely to render an occa sional word of caution very desirable. A little incident which has come to our know ledge will illustrate the. point. A patriotic' lady called, at a small trimming shop, and solicited a donation of material sufficient to work a large, shawl, or. some such article. She was politely informed that the proprie tress had already given quite a number of articles for the Fair, and that she could hot afford such a large donation.' The lady left the shop, indignantly' declaring that she would'never buy anything, there again. The incident itself may be quite unimpor tant, hut the principle involved is by no means so. In the general desire to make the Fair as productive as possible, and so to swell the coffers of the Sanitary Commis sion, our fair friends (and perhaps some of the rougher'sex as well) must be careful not to be led into the evil of pre scribing limits for clie-bounties of those whom they expect to contribute to this worthy object. Every store or shop-keeper or tradesman has the most unquestionable right to judge of bis own ability to give, and it is most unjwt to- threaten with a withdrawal of custom those whose circum stances prevent them' from acceding to all the calls that are made upon them. We make these remarks, not by way of cen sure, but. simply as a kindly hint to many whose patriotic impulses are likely to lead them into a resort to that bad rule of “doing evil that good may come.” Let the Fair be carried through from the start, hon orably, justly and sensibly, and we shall all feel the bettor satisfied when the . work is done. THE. BEBEL AEMY, land containing hay and other property belonging to the government, - and of a' foundry for shell and shot' , at Mauch Chunk. The frequent occurrence of such fires makes one suspect that there are rebel spies or copperheads who are pSid for destroying the property of the United States, and it becomes very important that greater care and vigilance should be exercised every where in guarding government property, and increased zeal in detecting the villains who aro engaged in the -work, A few .examples made, by punishing those- de tected, would have a very good effect. GOOD AHD EVIL, “ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. . “ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. “Wherefore by-their fruits ye shall know them.” oHattketo VII, 18,19, 20.) It is clear to all discerning minds that as a nation we have not lived according to our pro fession. . The Declaration of our Fathers, good in the sight of Heaven and grateful to the’ down-trodden of- the world, has only rested with ns as a people to make us ashamed. What a fair promise before God and man! and by our acts how great a lie! Are we then worse than other nations—a people of false pretences ? We think we must admit it, and more, that we can never be the chosen people of the Almighty unless we are born again. The. principles directly antago nistic 'to the Declaration of Independence, which we have permitted to be cultivated among us, we liken unto a corrupt tree, which has grown until it has covered our land; its fruit is bad, and we cannot hope for better, for a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Let us reflect a moment and we feel sure all must stand convinced. With all our vain boast'mg as a people, we have not prospered, ,and like all pre-existing nations we are gliding in the current inevitably to downfall and ruin; all onr resources are of no avail; they are only the glitter of a moment, a type of what we might have been. Our land of fair promise, of milk and honey, wealth of soil, and hidden treasures in the earth, awaiting our bidding, bill and dale, valley and mountain decked in the loveliness of paradise, has been confided to us, and wo aro casting it away through our unfaithfulness, for God is not in us; we have preached Christ from the beginning, but not practised his precepts, and we are now being hewn down as a corrupt tree, and being cast into the fire. War covers our land. It is the fruit of wrong and injustice, a national crop which we must have the burden of gathering, and the laborers that fall in the harvest field aro legion. It must be so; we may cry peace, but there can be no peace until the gleaners have passed over the wasted fields and gathered the last yield of our little planting, and so wo must toil while we defy the Lord, for a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, and the wages of sin is death. Why, then, do we hold out longer against the will of the Almighty ? How many-nations must rise and tall before God is acknowledged on earth as in heaven ? i‘A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Here is a clear statement and easy guide, so simple and truthful that no man can fail to see what God requires of him ; and as the declara tion is equally clear that a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, and that every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire, it must be manifest to everv reflecting mind that it is idle and wicked to resist the decrees of the Almighty. Man can make Constitutions and laws, but if unjust, God will break them, for nothiag evil can stand ; if a corrupt tree, it cannot b ring forth good fruit and must be hewn down and cast into the fire. Senators rise in the Senate Chamber and de clare they will not recognize the equality of the negro; God says. “I recognize him.” Minis ters from the pulpit say, “we will have no hand in this war,” and it is.well, if the church has been righteous and just; but if not, then it can not escape bloodshed, for war is the fruit of injustice and wrong; Wo cannot escape any of the fixed laws of the universe; everything is provided for, and it is only the good tree that can bring forth good fruit. Let us then be wise and live; and that we may fulfil our duty, it is necessary that we make a covenant at once with our Maker to listen to His teachings; and as it is manifest that our national troubles are the result of disobedience to fixed laws, and that wrong and injustice to the poor negro have lost us.our manhood, let us resolve now that Slavery and oppression of onr fellow men must pass away. Apologists say that all countries have to through civil wars; we would add, that they have never after been able to cast oil' the war power, and so nation after nation has "-one down and been lost. Must we also talk? °Ha.s a people of truth jet to bo born on the ruins of former nations; or may we break tbespelLwhich has bound us and listen to the voice of the forefathers? We think our count rv may- bo saved, but we must first humble ourselves in the sight of God, and foe! like the repentant prodigal. /Who is so great among us that he should set himself above his fellows i Are these views visionary and impracticable? Is it impossible for this people to adopt the teachings of Jesus ? If not, then let.us cultivate only the tree of truth and justice, that.good, tree that cannot bring forth evil fruit, and, as Jesus said, “If ye have done it nnto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”; - Let our love and kindness extend unto the most despised type of the human family the poor,'abused negro. We must be just to him or we-cannot be just to each other.- B A CABO; An advertisement by Phnion & Son, of New York, appeared in. some of, our papers a tew days ago, in which the undersigned were falsely and maliciously charged with counterfeiting their label and trade , mark. It was also an nounced that they had commenced a prosecution against us in this city. Tho undersigned beg leave to refer their friends and the public to the opinion of the Court in the case referred to, ..delivered by the Hon. Oswald Thompson, (President Judge) which appears in this day’s Buhetin. It fully disposes of the scurrilous attack upon our character. K. & (J, A, Wright. ‘■ THE SPRING TR DE. WHAT TO WEAB AKD WHERE TO GET IT. The opening of Spring always' gives a fresh impetus to trade. . Business, which usually languishes during the last of the winter mouths, takes a fresh start in vitality with the flowing of the sap in the maple and the blooming of the crocus. The change of the. season de mands a change of vestments, and ..the winter clothing being worn out, out of date, out of season, or out of fashion, is shelved, and its wearers cast about them ior newer garments, newer fashions and for goods suited to the newer season.' We are now in this great transition- state; in the very throes of the from the great-coat-far-and-pilot-cloth grub, into the cassimere-siik-and- mantilla-but terfly. Whether it is wise to take kindly to new fashions, and to he interested to a; high degree in Spring “Openings,” it is not our present province to discuss; but we have no hesitation whatever upon the subject of suiting your dress to the season, and upon the whole ■ (aid parenthetically) we believe in a reason able attention to the behests of fashion. That people will do so, whether we advise it or not, is made manifest to any one who will take a promenade of a fine day upon the south side of Chestnut street; and that the traders and storekeepers of the city are abundantly able to supply the demands of these wearers of spring goods, is made equally apparent by a glance at the advertising columns of our triple-sheet Bulletin of to-day. As the best dealers al ways advertise‘‘in the Bulletin, its columns will be found to indicate where the best goods are to be found. DRY GOODS, of course, stand prominent in the list of articles which come under the head of Spring goods. We do dot pretend fobs versed in the mysteries of chenie silks, pongees, Gros de RlUnes, bom bazines, cambrics, laces, organdies, “et id., 1 ’ 4tc.; bnt we do know that the following'naraed dealers in dry goods stand unimpeached in the bnsinesß world, and that the ladies, who are the best jndgesin such matters, speak approvingly of their wares: > £ Eyre it Landed, S. W, corner Fourth and Arch streets. George Fryer, No. 916 Chestnut street. Simpson Sons, Nos. 922 and 924 Pino street. John Stokes, 702 Arch street. Cooper fc Conard, S. E. corner Ninth and Market streets. Edwin Hall &. Bro., No. 26 South Second street. H. Steel & Sons, Nos. 713 and 715 North Tenth street. Curwen, Stoddard & Bros., Nos. 450,452 and 454 North Second street. Besson &. Son, (Mourning Goods), No. 918 Chestnut street. George Vogel, No. 1016 Chestnut street, (“Laces, Hdkfs., Gloves, &.c.). J- F. Young, No. 17 North Fourth street. J. K. Campbell &. Co., No. 727 Chestnut street. Thos. W. A Co., Nos. SIS and 820 Chestnut street. J. M. Hafleigh, No. 902 Chestnut street. Sheppard, Van Harlingen & Arrison, No. 1008 Chestnut street. M. &A. Myers &. Co., (Mourning Goods), No. 926 Cncstnnt street. Price & Wood, No. 113 North Ninth street. R. Denny, S. E; corner Eleventh and Lom bard street. Granville Haines, No. .1013 Market street E. R. Lee, No. 43 North Eighth street. Sharpless St Bro., N. W corner Eighth and Chestnut streets. E. M. Needles, (Laces, Stc.,) No. 1021 Chestnut street. J. C. Strawbriage & Co., N. W. corner Eighth and Alaiket streets. J. Cowperlhwaitc & Co., S. E. co rner and Arch streets. Snodgrass it Co., (Cloths), No. 34 South Second street. Seymour, Pearless & Sands, (Cloths), No. 205 Chestnut street. James & Lee, (Cloths)' No. 11 North Se cond street. Wonie’s, (Laces), No. 38 North Eighth street. K. D. & W. H. Pennel, No. 1021 Market street. SIILUNEKY, AC. It would be presumptions for any one not a wearer of crinoline to essay any comment upon the details of ladies’ head-gear. Wo c m only say, in a general way, that full justice will be done the wearers of bonnets “and things,” at the iollowing well-known establishments: P. A. Harding Co., No. 413 Arch street. Miss E.'Gair, No. 1016 Chestnut street. Mrs. 11. Dillon, N.*. 331 South street. CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS Seem to come next in order, properly, and these elegant articles of ladies’ apparel will be ;oi:nd at the following well established houses : J- W. Proctor & Co., No. 920 Chestnut street. ■ . 1.. Lefevre & C--.. No. 704 Chestnut street. clothing Tho sterner rex are not above tho amiable (and sensible) weakness of desiring to keep puce with the feshiens, nor beneath the practi cal making their dress conform to tho shilling seasons. Times have changed since a certain ambitious and unscrupulous gentle man named. Iliebard (the third of that ilk) talked of employing a score or two of tailors to study fashions to adorn his body. Either of of the houses named below could perform tho task far better, and more practically, than any score of the makers of hose and doublets in the days of the Plantagenets : Rockhffl & Wilson, Nos. GO3 and 605 Chest nut street, above Sixth. Chas. Stokes, Continental Hotel. Edward P. & John Kelly, No. 612 Chestnut street. - C. Somers & Sons, No. 625 Chestnut street. Perry & Co., Nos. 303 and 305 Chestnut street. ' . Diettrich & Co.,Continental Hotel (on Ninth street). / Wm. S. Jones, southeast corner Seventh and Market streets. Wannamaker & Brown, southeast corner Sixto & Market streets, J. Henry -Ehrlicher, No; 321 north Third street. are the most conspicuous articles of male at tire. With a bad ''tile” the best dressed gen tleman, m other respects, would cut a poor -v r nid wwT ith a 00d tort, even shabbiness be measurably relieved. To get hats hat are worthy of the name, it is only necet eUherof ' tbe . establishments.named 1 C. Oaklord & Sons, Continental Hotel. gentlemen’s fuhnishiso goods. The articles which come under this general head are as important to comfort as they are to n ref t Dtatlon ' 0f a genteel appearance. They be ,. obtawed ‘n the freshest spring styles at Whi? me Damed first - class T w Seoul n°- J ** 706 C “ nut streets. - at „r^t C ' IValboln,KoS ‘ 5 aDd 7 T °rth Sixth L. Lukens, N. W. corner Sixth and Chest, nut streets. • vnest. CUMMINS, &0., , require replacing in the Spring as well aswear u'g arel does - Those who. desire to procma applicatiS 163 “ be glatmedo “ L E Walraven, No. 719 Ches'tnut street. * . H. Patten, No. 140 S Chestnut street. • Kelty, Carrington & Co., No. 723 Chestnut Like adversity, Spring has its “sweet uses” besides the general revivification of nature. People of means and taste have new wants at this season, and we trust we have given them above, sagacious advice as to how those wants can be best sopplied. TEE GEEAT SANITARY FAIB of PELLA. DELPHIA. It is proposed to hold in Philadelphia during tha raomh of Jane, for the benefit of the Sanitary Commies,on, a Fair, which, it has become evi dent, will be in rnaoj respects the most remarkable ittuvai onr city bas ever witnessed. Already tha so bile magnetism of the excitement which heralds v nat ‘ ‘everybody’ ’ says is to be a very great event,' bas begun to pervade almost every family in alt classes of society, and we are 'constantly gratified by bearing of instances of profuse liberality or of mcred ble zeal in forwarding the good cause. Wonderful anticipations are being formed of tha splendor and extent of the Fair; strange rumors are beard of the open-handed liberality with which one gertleman has devoted his home, and another bis wealth to it, and as prophecies In such cases Invariably lead to their own fulfilment, there is little reason to apprehend that any one will be dis. appointed. It would be well to remember, before going for. tber, that there are still many clear-headed people who ask vhy the country, in addition to the heavy ; tax paid for carrying on the war, should also be ! expected to deTote millions of dollars besides, to ; coii g what they th,nk should be done by the War : department. The answer to this is plain. The j -Cent .'cry Commission xants supplies, and labor to do I xith them xhat the experience of every nation haa ; ‘d-cst no gor eminent xhatever has ever i teen allt to more than eery imperfectly effect,. The great object of every general in command, in an »mergcncy, is to wina victory, and to do this he devotes all the means of transport-and of labor 1 at his command, however great that may be;. ! Every horse is impressed for military service;every ; man and wagon devoted, it may be, to carrying ; ammunition or the bare means of- subsistence. So i Well is this understood, that at the present day more than one government in Europe is devoting ; its serions attention to the institution of voluntary i Sanitary Committee?, and the Kev, Er. Bellows ! is now in correspondence with one or more, in | stmeting them, from his wide expeiience, howto j carry oat their good intentions. The truth is, that i turn it 15 we will, the fact meets ns that no ma i chinery which any government can construct, can ’ do as much to relieve suffering as the infinitely | varied and inexhaustibly generons and tender ac ; tion of private UneTolcn.ee, publicly directed. The ; one, must be branded simply on a good system— the j other liows from Christian love, family sympa , lilies, and every noble impulse or sweet and secret 1 fueling. Working for “the Sanitary” by women (whose hearts all tell them intuitively what too j many men require to have explained to their rea i sons; is the sympatheticlaborof mothers for sons, j maidens for lovers, wives for husbands. They ! what is true, that the Sanitary Commission i contributes incredibly to soften the horrors of war i Let us give a single fact. Five hundred wonnded once died—so thought an army pbvsician— ' owing to the destruction of certain i wagons, with supplies for the Sanitary Comnus , sioc. But ‘'‘Government should have attended to all this. ” I(o Government on earth could fllva done so. In the furious torrent of a heavy fight “Government” has its bacds full of wilder worfe and is borne away by sierner needs. Apart from the great benefits conferred by “the Sanitary,” and lis claim to respect from its judi cious and weil regulated expenditure, there is an other reason why ;he coming Fair should be en couraged. It will be an immense aid to the indus try of onr country. Everything exhibited will be . an advertisement for. th.e exhibitor, if his name be thereto attached, and ills a moderate estimate to assert that a million pair of eyes will behold it I Few out of the Sanitary'Commission and the Com mittees are aware of the vast efforts which are being made to attract to our . city such throngs of visitors as it never before held. Pliiladelphia is to be one vast collection of exhibitions, of galleries,. of balls, concerts, receptions, sales, and, in a word, of every kind of attraction, and it canno** tc doubted that every resource of her wonderfully various will be taxedto produce chefs d' oeuvre for the occasion. It is worth, while to make it apparent in this con nection to all c]ashey are selling at moderate prices, The Customer-.. - work of this popular old establishment has largely ' incieased. Their suits are got. np in the highest ityle of the ait,, at short notice, while thelrwork manship and prices are particularly favorable to- c. a. h.