EVENING BULLETIN.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1866.
EVENTS OF THE TEAR.
On the first, second and eleventh
jiagea of to-day’s triple sheet will be
found our usual summary of the events
of the year just closing. It comprises a
list of the principal political and mili
tary events in the United States, Canada
&hd Mexico, with an unusually full and
•accurate local chronicle. As it has been
-quite carefully prepared it will be well
worthy of preservation.
THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
As might naturally have been ex
pected, the result of the President’s
prostitution of the Government patron
age, has been to reduce the performance
of the public service to the lowestpoint of
inefficiency. The Custom House and
Post Office of Philadelphia were filled
with expeiienced, honest and capable
clerks, in whose hands the business of
the community was conducted with
promptness and accuracy. By a whole
sale process of decapitation, this entire
force of skilled clerical labor has been
swept out of office, and there has been
substituted a class of men who, as a
body, are of the lowest grade of personal
respectability and of the highest grade of
political corruption. No regard has been
had to the fitness of these men for the
duties towhieh they have been assigned,
and the public service is being performed
in the most disgraceful style of helpless
inefficiency.
In the Post Office Department, the
delivery of letters has become a matter
of such uncertainty that no sort of de
pendence can any longer be placed upon
it. The Postmaster is a friend of Mr.
Johnson’s, brought from the interior of
the State to administer the business of
the second Post-office in importance in
the Union, perfectly ignorant of his du
ties and of the wants of a community
like this, and his new subordinates are
no better fitted for their positions than
their chief.
In the Custom House matters are still
worse, because the responsibilities are
still greater and the opportunities and
inducements for fraud and mismanage
ment are more numerous. A full state
ment of the manner in which
Mr. Johnson’s new appraisers and in
spectors are doing or rather muddling
their work every day, would be laugh
able, if it were not for the gravity of the
interests at stake. Valuable cargoes are
placed in the hands of men, as innocent
of any knowledge of what is to be done
with them, as'an unborn babe. The
business of our merchants is kept by
this brilliant Swiss, or Greek guard in a
state of the wildest confusion, and the
delay, annoyance and loss consequent
upon these wretched appointments are
neither to be described nor calculated.
Men who would hardly fill the post of
a porter in a private store creditably, are
vested with the discharge of duties
of the most intricate nature, re
quiring quick tact, cool judgment,
great activity, and trained habits of so
briety, punctuality and courtesy. Thou
sands and thousands of dollars’ worth of
goods are now placed in the hands of
men,whose opportunities for plunder are
almost entirely unchecked, who would
not be trusted behind the counter of a
retail trimming shop.
How the operations of the Mint are
being conducted, there are not the same
means of ascertaining. It at least is to
be hoped, until evidence to the contrary
is produced, that the absolute mechan
* ical necessity which exists in that branch
of the public service, for the employ-
ment of skilled labor, has preserved the
Mint from the degree of disor-:
ganization and mal-administration that
has become so patent elsewhere.
In the Internal Revenue Department
we do not hear of the same open de
rangement and disorder that prevail in
the Custom House and Post Office; but it
is well known that many of the most
important offices have been placed in
the hands of men alike devoid of com-
mercial standing, personal fitness and
political respectability. In: a wordf the
executive patronage, under Mr. Johnson
has been dispensed without a particle of
regard for the capabilities or integrity of
the applicants, and the public is the
sufierer by this abuse of Presidential
power, to an extent of which the people
have no conception.
It is a satisfaction to be able to believe
that the evil is so notorious as to provide
its own cure, and that when the Senate
sweeps out this Augean stable,there will
be an imperative demand that the men
who take the places now so disgracefully
filled, shall comply with the requisition
of the better days of the Republic, and
prove themselves, if they are nothing
else, at least honest and capable.
WH&T IS DUE TO POSTERITY.
Some blundering humorist once de
clared that we owed no particular duty
to posterity, for posterity had never
done anything for us that we had any
special need to be grateful for. Without
adopting this idea in all its length and
breadth, it may safely be assumed that
the present generation is doing a good
deal for posterity without any hope of
an immediate return from the latter.
Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch’s
' idea of getting rid of the National debt
on short notice, brings the somewhat
substantial idea of the said debt promi
nently to view in this discussion of the
mutual relations between posterity and
■ourselves.
And first, as to how this national debt
eame about. Our somewhat remote an
cestors, probably without thinking of its
effect on the people of 1868, and perhaps
without caring much about it, impor ed
a lot of negroeß into the then provinces,
and established an institution whioh
subsequently becamerathertroublesome.
she daily BVfiyrNfr blplletin.—phlladel puia. Isattjb pay, r scem bett 29. feiiLE^SHEEfe
The trouble to come became manifest
pretty early, and away back, fully
a century: Pennsylvania agitated
the getting rid of the nuisance. But
cotton became paramount, and the thing
became a power In the land, and it was
not to be get rid of easily, and so suc
cessive generations of statesmen, clear
down to Henry Clay, brave and gallant
as he was—temporized with it and corn
promised with it, and, in short, put off
upon posterity what inevitably had to
come sooner or later, and thus was put
upon us, who then meant posterity, the
practical solution of this great problem.
Our fathers dodged the question and
staved it off as long as possible, because
they were more disposed to smooth over, I
than to rake to the bottom, and as the
raking had to come, the brunt was put
upon us, whether we would or not, and
now the bill must he footed; and who is
to foot it ? The present generation has;
paid a pretty full instalment upon it in
gacrifices upon the battle-field; in giving
up its bravest and beßt to die that the
nation might live; in its Sanitary and
Christian Commissions, its bounty funds
and its thousand and one responsibilities
that were pat upon us by the exigencies
of the times. And all these sacrifices
were forced upon us by an ancestry who
wanted to escape the trouble them
selves, and who put it off until it fell
udou our shoulders.
Now posterity, as viewed from the
Revolutionary stand-point, had to pay
the bills incurred in the great struggle
for Independence, and it was perfectly
right that posterity should so do. The
war of 1812 brought with it its bill of
expenses, and posterity had to settle
that, and served posterity right too, for
it enjoyed most of the advantages of the
struggle; and how the little bill of about
three thousand millions of dollars,as the
result of the late rebellion, has to be
met, and the question is, Who is to
meet it?
The present generation has paid a
pretty good share of what our grand
children and great grandchildren will
enjoy the advantages of, and as our fore
fathers bequeathed all the “late un
pleasantness” to us, there is no reason
why those who have to come after us
should not pay their share of the cost.
We are building up great cities, taming
the wilderness, webbing the land with
railroads, and building the noble Pacifio
road that has so long been the dream
of many far-seeing men. Posterity will
enjoy the advantages of all these great
enterprises, and it will also enjoy the
fruits of four years of civil war which
decreed the abolition of the curse of
slavery. Let posterity pay its share of
the bill of costs for the accomplishment
of all these great ends, and let the Trea
sury authorities be content with the
receipt of our taxes to meet the interest
upon the public debt, without crushing
the financial life out of us by exacting
the payment of the principal immedi
ately after the monetary depletion pro„
duced by the war, whilst it was in pro
gress. „
THE GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENTS.
Governor Geary has commenced his
work well, in his appointments of Ben
jamin H. Brewster, Esq., as Attorney
General and Col. Frank Jordan, of Bed
ford county, as Secretary of the Com*
monwealth. - The Philadelphia bar
could have furnished no abler lawyer,as
the official adviser of the Governor,than
Mr. Brewster. Very clear in his com
prehension of legal points, very
thorough in his knowledge of legal pre
cedents, very direct and lucid in the
statement of his legal opinions, singu
larly bold and independent in all his le
gal positions, he has long stood almost un
rivalled as an advocate and a counsellor,
at the Philadelphia bar.
His appointment by the Governor as
Attorney General, has taken the com
munity somewhat by surprise, as it was
known that powerful combinations had
been formed to procure the position for
other gentlemen who aspired to the
office.
The selection of Colonel Frank Jordan
is equally creditable to Governor Geary’s
sagacity and independence. Colonel
Jordan is well known throughout the
State, as a gentleman whose personal
and patriotic record constitutes apeculiar
fitness for the preference, which Gover
nor Geary has just declared. During
the recent political campaign, Colonel
Jordan won golden opinions by the sin
gularly efficient discharge of his respon
sibilities as Chairman of the State Cen
tral Executive Committee. The result
of the election was largely due to his
untiring energy and the excellent judg
ment displayed by him in the organiza
tion of the Union element of the State,
and the dissemination of sound Union
sentiments.
If these two appointments may be
taken as an earnest of the principles
upon which Governor Geary intends to
administer the affairs of State, recogniz
ing ability, patriotism and real indivi
dual merit, in opposition to the demands
of mere trading politicians, or the in
triguing combinations of a “ring,” he
has before him a career which will result
alike in the good of the Commonwealth
and the verification of all the high hopes
which his countless friends indulge in
his behalf.
THE NEW YORK EIRE DEPARTMENT.
The annual report of the officers of the
New York Fire Department has been
made public. It contains many very
interesting facts and valuable sugges
tions. During the present year the cost
to the city of maintaining the depart
ment was $935,807 94. This seems like
a very great sum; but it must be borne
in inind that a large portion of it was
expended in the purchase of engine
houses, apparatus, horses, drc. The esti
mated expenditures for 1867 are $700,000.
This expense Is not incurred alone for
what we understand in Philadelphia as
-firemen’s service. There is a large daily
detail of New York firemen who per
form patrol duty, and who discovered
and extinguished, with but little loss, no
less than two hundred fires daring the
present year. Then there are certain
properties thafc we considered extra,
dahgetohs, and & 66hslaht ' Watch'
is kept upon.them. It isagreat fal-.
lacy to believe that because New York
pays directly out of the city treasury
twiceor thrice the sum that it paid under
the old volunteer system, that the paid
system is twice or thrice as expensive.
■She fire department of a city must be
Sffijpported in some way, and if it is not
paidlor directly out of the publio funds,.
it will be paid for by the private contribu
tions levied upon citizens, and by the
personal sacrifices of the volunteer fire
man, who gives hiß time andlabor to the
public gratuitously. It is not right that
, the performance of an importaut public
service should fall upon the shoulders of
a few, when the public at large Is bene
fitted by it, and taking this view of it,
there is no doubt that a paid fire depart
ment in New York is nomoie expensive
than a volunteer department was or
would be; while it is at least certain that
the cost qf its support is distributed
equitably among all who are interested
in its efficiency.
The advantages .of having a system
that is under the direct control of the
proper authorities, and that is free from
the demoralizing tendencies of the vol
unteer system, have been so often and
so fully discussed that it is not necessary
to dilate upon that branch of the subject
at this time.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
“ The History of By berry and Moreland ”
is the title of a neat volnnie jnst published
by T* Elwood Zell, Nos. 17 and 19 Sonth
Sixth street. The work seems to have been
“ a labor of love” with Us author, Dr. Jo
seph C. Martindale/who gives us a very in
teresting history of a very interesting por
tion of the territory now embraced within
the city limitsof Philadelphia. Dr. Martin
dale gives ns a sketch of the locality from its
earliest eettlement, furnishes biographical
sketches of well-known families, telis us
amusing anecdotes of the people, past and
present; copies canons old records, and, in
short, has written a book that is as readable
as it ia.a valuable contribution to our local
history. As an edition of only three hun
dred and fifty copies has been printed, the
work will have an additional attraction to
i olleotors.
“ Breathings of a Better Life” is the title
of a beautifully-printed little volume, just
issued by Ticknor <fc Fields. It Is a compi.
lation by Lucy Lorcom, of choice extracts
from such writers as Xavier, Zschokke,
Thomas A Kempis, Fenelon, Robertson,
Trench, Faber, Tauler, Whittier, Bonar.
Bernard, Krnmmacher. Tholuck, and many
others. The utterances oi these fine writers
are classified under twelve heads, each illus
trating one of the phrases of religions life
and thought. The selections, as will be seen
above, are made without denominational
distinction, and are all marked by a pore
catholic spirit, which will make the volume
welcome by all readers of religious litera
ture. For sale by (J. W. Pitcher.
Ticknor & Fields have just published
Captain Mayne Reid's “Giraffe Hunters.”
The author brings his old characters “The
Young Yagers” on to the stage again, and
starts them into the interior of Africa to win
a reward offered by the Consul of the
Netherlands at Cape Town, for a pair of live
giraffes. Their wonderfal adventures are
told in Captain Reid’s well-known graphic
b yle, and the juveniles will devour the nar
rative of the young hunters with as great
avidity as they displayed in the pursuit of
their coveted giraffes. For sale by G. W.
Pitcher.
Mr. Eugene Commiskey has published a
reprin t from an English edition of a histori
cal religious novel, called “Lydia.” It is
translated from the German of Herrman
Geiger of .Munich. It is a story of the pe
riod of Marcus Aurelius, and is devoted to
the early martyrs of the Christian chnroh.
The heroine, Lydia, is a Christian slave in
the household of Metella, a Greek matron,
who is finally converted to Christianity
through her influence. The American edi.
tion is printed and bound in handsome
style.
SkellyA Co., have just published “Milli
cent Legh,” a tale by Emma Marshall, the
authoress of “The Lost Lilies” and several
other works.' It is a story of English life,
and; the heroine, Lady Legh, is a beantiful
character, and the minor actors in the story
are all well drawn. A little carelessness is
occasionally manifested, as in the case of a
gentleman subscribing “five hundred dol
lars" to repair an English ohapel, hat the
story itself is a very readable one.
“The Sapphire” is the name of the second
volume of the "Gem Beries,” a collection of
entertaining tales, essays and poems, com
piled from the fugitive literature of the pre
sent century, by Epes Sargent. “The Sap
phire” contains a number of admirable se
lections, drawn principally from the Eng
lish and French magazines, and is a very
pleasant little volume for the library or
drawing room table. For sale by J. B. Lip
pincott & Co.
Fine Arts.
Withir a few days a sale of fine pictures
closed in New York. About the same time
a sale of pictures by the same artists, and
belonging to the same collection, took place
in this oity. The contrast between the prices
at which the pictures were sold in the tw;o
cities does not do much credit to the good
taste and liberality of Philadelphia. Artists
will send their piotnres to the best market,
and if New York will pay most liberally it
will secure the finest gems of art.
Sale of Valuable Beal Estate, StocKs, Pew.
Ac., dee.
H.Thomss&Sons’ Sale on the Bth of January will
Include the valuable business stand. No. 188 South
Third street, by order of master; elegant residence, I9as
Chestnnt street; valuable business stand, Ninth , and
Cherry streets, and other valuable property, by order
of Orphans’Court, Executors aud others. Full parti
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Auction Notice—Sale of Boots and Shoes.
The attention of the trade Is called to the large and
deelrable sale of Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Ac,, to he sold
by catalogue, for cash,pn Monday morning, December
81, commencing at ten o’clock, nv Philip Ford & Oo„
: Auctioneers, at their store, No. 6C6 Market street.
Ecane of City Wharves.
H. Thomas * Sons will sell at the Philadelphia Ex
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Dock street and the South Btreel wharves, Delaware,
and the Arch street wharf, Schuylkill,
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: 45?;
13d u 43 large Steel Engravings. 51 eacb, 1139.643.
Ti.c distribution win take place after the concert,
where 20,010 persons can witness it a committee will
be appointed by tieket holders to take charge of the
same, -all agents and purchasers will be supplied
with a correct list of the awards as soon as published,
Price of tickets, $1 each. Sent by mail on receipt of
price and 3 cent stamp for retain postage, -
EVERY OTHER TICKET DRAWS A PRIZE.
Any party procuring a club of five or more names
for tickets, and sending us the money for the same,
will be allowed the lollowlng commission. We will
send— . . „ •
5 tickets to one address f0r..... 4 go
lu tickets to cne address f0r.....~. 000
2u tickets to one address for 17 so
Send the name of each subscriber and taeir Post
t'ffioe address, with town, couuty and state la fall.
Alexey by draft; post office order, express, or in regia*
tered letters, may he sent at our risk. -
Trctn Chicago limes.
Korts American Prize Concert.— Among the
that gilt enterprises ever commenced m Chicago was
that id Messrs a. A.-Kelley «fe. Co., which has been
perpetual lor more than three-years past, and has
given thQmostperfect&atisiactioh.if we are to Judge
oy the extensive patronage accorded it. They are tne
proprietors of tne “Korth American Prize Concert,”
uow so extensively advertised in this and other papers
siul endorsed by some ot the best business firms in
this country. From wtiat we know of Mr. Kelley, wo
are positive that he wll», "in the future as in the past,”
oeallairiy and honorably with all who take stock in
his enterprise,
FVom the Chiag&Jouznal.
tcv-t-t.tcv & Co.’s Gift Enterprise,— The first fo
embark in the Elttenteiprlse'busmess in Chicago was
the firm of A a. Beley <fc Collocated at £40.105
Bandulph street. Who does net remember their store,
which opened two cr three years ago, where many
purchased books and otner articles, and was so lucky
ue to find with their purchases tickets which entitled
them to valuable gifts of jewelry, or other prizes?
'thousands of our citizens were thus fortunate, and
these havedhe the bear evidences that Messrs Kelley
&Co. always perionn a.l they promise; that they are
honorable men, and do business honorably and on the
equar*.
The citizens of Chicago who know A. A. Kelley A
Co., have confidence in their honor and integrity, and
arelaigely investing in their enterprise.
These are some of the reasons why we feel safe in
recommending Kelley A Co.’s Gift Concert to the
public.
Tappan, McKellog & Co., Commercial Agency, Chi*
cagc;l«ot C.-Whliforae, wholesale paperdeaier.Cnlcago;
Louis-Bsarbach & Philadelphia;
bamueUXßurlock, publisher, Philadelphia; Baker <fe
Moss, commission merchants, Chicago; Van Valken
berg A Co., importers; Hew York;W, H, Adams A Co,
advertising agents, Chicago.
All communications should be addressed to
PRIZE CONCERT.
PRIZE CONCERT.
PRIZE CONCERT.
AND THE CONCERT GIVEN AT THA
Chicago/ ill.,
SPECIAL TERMS OR CLUB RATES.
EVERY OTHER TIORET DRAWS A PRIZE.
BEAD WHAT'THE CHICAGO PRESS BAY:
BEFEEENCKS:
A, A. KELLEY & 00.,
i No. 105 RandolpbStreet,
I. C. BTBAWBRIDGE t CO)
COTTON GOODS.
oy COTTON GOODS
6HOPLD INDUCE oaRKFUI. HOUSE.
KEEPERS aT ONCE TO LAY
IN STOCK.
Yard-wide Shirting Muslins, 20c.
9-4 wide heavy Sheeting Muslins**
65<3l
5-4 wide Pillow Muslins, 25e,
WIDE SHEETINGS'
AT GBEAT BEBUCTIOR
10-4 Waltham Cheatings,
10-4 Utica Sheetings,
11-4 Hngaenot Sheeting*
12-4 Hngaenot Sheetings^
9-4 Waltham Sheetings,
8-4 Waltham Sheetings:
WE HAVE NOW IN STOCKS
AT THE REDUCED RATEa,
, NewYorkMflls,.
W amsutta.
~W illiams ville*.
Fore stdalei
Whitney^
Amoskeag A s ..
Housekeeper,.
WHOLESALE RATES;
PILLOW MUSLINS-
AT THE LOWEST FBICEB.
5-4 Waltham Pillow Kmliiu,
, 5-4 TJtiea Pillow Mutlins,.
_ 5*4 Wamsutta Pillow Htulisir-
l 0 BALES UNBLEAGHBB KUSEOfA
Fine yard-wide Unbleached Muslins,22e
Extra heavy yard-wide Muslins, 23c.
Heavy wide Unbleached Sheeting Mus—
MUSLINS BY THE PIEOE
At Wholesale Rates^
j.; c, 4 cik,;
CHICAGO,
dg N. 3 W. cor. Eighth and Market Sts,
BY THE PIECE.,