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]as<pS3|jjhe community that it is for
their interest to encourage this fair in the mist libe
lal manner It has become—very unwisely—the
lashion with many to aid the fair und:rprotest—de
claring that they think it an hnad visabie means of
raising money. "When we reflect on the stimulus
given to manufactures by sucb exposi
tion of wares as a colossal fair calls for—when W 9
remc-mtier the aiciit gives every form of “the tran
sit busiu-ss I’and 1 ’and the life which', it is already be
ginning to inspire into every phase of domestic ex
changes, it stems as If even the good which wilf
result from the profits will not more than equal
that developed in other directions; A very-grati
fying fea-uro is the great increase of sociable in
tercourse and the formation of new ties to whiciz--
snch an excitement gives rise.
There are many among our readers who can be
ofgreat assistance to onr Pair. Anything in the
form of a book or pamphlet, engraving or picture,
will be very acceptable. Autographs of persons
of any degree of celebrity, of military heroes, for
example, of authors, inventors, orators or artists,
will be very welcome. Paper of every kind will
be needed, and most thankfully received. Those
who can write should contribute to the news
paper. Everybody should do something, since,in
the first place the object which is directly pro--
posed is one of the noblest and most benevolent
which can be imagined, and, secondly, because
the whole Fair mo vement is a stimu Ids to industry,.
and an efficient means of keeping the minds of the ■
people in that earnestly active -and healthy-condi
tion eo necessary to enable us to pass vlgorously
and triumphantly through this season of trial.
A Great Spring Stock op Clothing. —.
Messrs. ,C. Somers & Son, No. 625 Ohrstnutstreet,
under Jayne’s Hall, have now ready their Spring
stock of fashionable Spring Clothing, made up in
;he best style, from the choicest fabrics, which
>hey 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.