[l'ortba Pliilodolrbla Ev^^’Bunctin.l Cirolrd College. i Mr. Editori It is a matter d| public;noto- ] riety that political abuses’Of the Girard Trus t :< have steadily increased since the year 1854.. 1 when the management of the College, and ot the fund from which it is maintained, passed - hv the act of consolidation from the old city corporation—the trustees appointed by Mr. Girard—to the then county, now: a lafge cor poration, subject to frequent violent political changes. of thes trust continued to grow unUlr they xtjlwnated in acts which obliged the Councils of the city to appoint a committee of investigation. _ And, although that committee ha, a just published voluminous testimony confinnatory of these political abuses, yet neither it nor the Coun cils have suggested a remedy. dudge Allison recently suggested the following remedial measure: “Every case of trustees for charita ble use is within the powers of the court, and the remedy in a case of gross fraud or abuse of trust is to take the trust from the offending trustee, whether a corporation or an indi vidual, fill the office and vest 1 it in other hands:’' Consequently, a bill in equity has been prepared, and was presented this inorn ing, asking the Supreme Court of this State to rescue the Girard College, by taking, not the title to the Girard property, but its manage ment, and that of the College, ftoua its pres ent political guardians—the Cophcils of the consolidated .City-^ahdgiving ittoAperma n6nt board of directors, to be selected by the courk from the locality and with thequaM- Catidnß indicated in Mr. Girard’s -wdh - This measure will undoubtedly be .apjprpved of by citizens who are free Horn party trammels; for when political abuses, like those in Girtud College, existed in the board of man wrdrsof thfe?Almshouse, the Prison and the Ckmttollers of the Public Schools, the ap noindhc power was taken from the nomi nating cliques that how manage political ap poinlments, and given to ttio judges of our corrupting influence of party politics "wafi thus eradicated from the prison and the almshouse; rieid economy and right gov ernment were introduced, • and a noble band of self-denying philanthropists are now laboring in these instittitionß, bringing hope ful relief to the,.flail,: .hotfor to our city, and a great reduction in its annual expen diture. - The parties to the bill in equity, praying the Supreme Court to grant similar relief to the Girard College, are— . *'irs<-Mr. J. A. Barclay, the surviving executor ofMr. Girard’s will, who was spe cially charged by the testator to see that his intentions shall be strictly complied with in regard to the residuary legacy from which the College is now maintained. Second —The following well-known fellow citizens of Mr. Girard, to whom, in common ■with all others,he appealed to watch over the proper application of his legacy: Thomas Robins, John O. James. Stephen Colwell, Thomas S. Newlin, John C. Cresson, James Magee, Charles Macalester and William Several of the mothers on behalf of orphansalleged to have been injuredby the introduction of party politics into the Col lege and by mismanagement proceeding from other causes, and other orphans also bom in the old city, who are still excluded by insufficiency of funds, arising from the improper management of the trust. ' The following are some of the abuses* which, it is alleged, have gradually crept into the College, or which have been developed since it was put under the fostering care ot the large political body, that assumed the cuardianship fourteen years since, contrary to the letter and spirit of Mr. Girards will. First —The trust is abused and the income of the estate is lessened by the removal of directors and of all business agents with each * political change in the government of the city, and by the employment of political partisans to manage the property, to furnish supplies and to make alterations and repairs, with a view to party patronage, instead of tor the sole benefit of the charity. On one occasion, a lease for coal land made by the City Coun cils was so tainted with charges of fraud that Mayor llenry withheld His signature Horn the contract. The Supreme Court of this State sustained his act in a suit brought for dam ages, and Judge Agnew commented severely on the fraudulent intention, but the City Councils did not dismiss or otherwise punish these offending memDers. Second— By taking a large sum of money belonging to the Trust for improving the De laware front of the old city, in express viola tion of the terms of the will, and using it in erecting buildings outside of the old city to extend political patronage, as is alleged, thereby jeopardizing a portion of the re sidnary legacy and b&zardiDg the closing ol the College. The money was not repaid for many years,and could not have been returned much earlier without disbanding the orphans and closing the College, as was threatened in .1801. . , , Third— By appointing, through political favor and intrigue, contrary to the* letter and spirit of the will, directors who do not pos sess the qualifications indicated by the testa tor, and through such agencies introducing into the College discord and other abuses, as is certified to in the published testimony of the investigating committee. Fourth— By the resolve and attempt m the year 1858, on the part of the Directors, to change the legal and established mode of in troducing orphans into,the College, by which the number trotn the old city . would be de creased, and the, number from the districts largely increased, in direct opposition to the written opinions of the Solicitors of the old city and of the consolidated city. This at tempt was only checked by an appeal to the Supreme Court made by an ex-director at his own cost. Judge Head, in giving his opinion, thus stigmatized this unwarranted act of the directors: “It:was a decision that all former Trustees and Directors, all former Councils, all the eminent jurists, in thi3 city and in the Union, including Chancellor Kent, and Judge Story, had entirely mistaken the will"of Mr. Girard." Fifth— By harsh treatment of the orphans through a series of years, contrary to the merciful provisions of the will. This is cer tified to'by a majority of the present direc tors of the College, who have the entire ] custody of the. institution, with full power to remove every person connected with it, Mr. Girard’S will says: “Should it unfortunately happen that aDy of the orphans admitted into the College shall, from malconduct, have become unfit companions for the rest, and iStld means of reformation should prove abortive, they shall no longer remain therein. Sixth—By political interference with the plans and diitieS of tlie President of the Col lege. The efficiency of Mr. a adminis tration as President of the College was sadly impaired by political intrigues and claims Hot party patronage, after the guardianship of the College passed from the old city pro per, composed of six compact'Wards, to a fare® Corporation, now comprising twenty- eight Warns, and subject to frequent and vio-r lent political changes. Leading politicians of both parties now aver that Mr. Allen, who Is again President of the College, will be re moved from office with the next political efeange. President Smith recently testified before the Court of Common Pleas that !‘tqo many have had control there who seem to i" have secured their places that they might procure their friends to furnish supplies to the iMtitutioi# procure some ortho Wbcn> diuate places for tbek relatives.” Some of the phssent directors, who are entitled to the hichest con Adduce, \ recently stated, unqer oath, ,befor6.the\Committee of Councils, that party politics has impaired the usefulness of the College. Since 1854 many of the. most experienced and best directors have resigned, or refused a re-election, because they could I not check the baleful. influences of party politics; and because the abuse of this trust for party purposes was likely to increase as other political patronage was being taken from the City Councils and transferred to the courts. , In February, 1865, the Board of Directors, in their annual report to .Councils, made an earnest appeal for relief from political thral dom. In that remarkable report, pie Direc tors, approvingly, made the following quota tions from the observations of ‘ a learned writer residing in another State:” “Theße Directors, appointed by the oity Councils, hre eighteen in number, of whom six go out of office every year, while the Coun cils themselves are annually elected. Hence the difficulty of settling upon a plan, and t e greater difficulty of adhering to one. the means of the College are ample Jomake those means effective- in the highest * some mode must be devised by which the politics of the city shall cease to mfluonce the choice of Directors. In other u’ouls, Girard College .must, be--taken out of politics. Timßoard of Directors should be a more permanent body than it now is. Thiß righteous appeal only aggravated the disease, for since then, every director whose political views did not accord with the domi nant party was swept from the College,being the first instance of this kind in the history ot this institution. ~ . „ „ . Eradicating party politics from the College is not only necessary to check the abuse oi the trust, but it is equally important to en able its managers to remedy certain inherent defects'that have become apparent in work ing this novel institution, and that are being acTfiravatcd by the large increase in the num her of its inmates. These remedial measures are .at present an impossibility, for each changein the principles of managing the Col lege hbw passes through four poliUcal or deals: Ist. A'Committee of Directors, -d. The Board: 3d. The Committee on Girard Trust. 4th. The City Councils; and iu each of these the bearing of the measure on the present popularity ot the dominant party is likely to control its action. . ' • The exclusion of politics from the charita ble and beneficial orders of Free Masonry and Odd Fellowship, even during the recent violent political struggles, affords us an earn est of the willingness of our citizens to rescue the Girard charity from its imminent peril; and the irreproachable management ot the time-honored Philadelphia Saying Fund shows that philanthropic, intelligent and honorable guardians of the Girard Trust can be found in our city. This Saving Fund never swerved from its charitable pur poses during all the monetary and politi cal convulsions which have passed over our country; and it has kept in perfect security more than thirty* three millions of dollars, and paid out twenty-eight millions of these hard earnings of our working people, with out ieopardizing one dollar or abusing the trust in any way. These managers nominate to the Court five persons whom they deem suitable to fill each vacancy. This nomina tion is to be repeated when necessary, tor the Judges do not make any appointment until they are perfectly satisfied; and by this plan the management of this institution is doubly aruarded. „ More than thirteen years of active service as a Director of Girard College enabled me to see that' the evil influence of politics was steadily increasing. Four and a half years since, on leaving the College, I resolved to attempt its rescue, but I was over-persuadeu by those who vainly thought that the evil would work its own cure. I have prepared this statement as a duty to my fellow-citizens, and as a relief to the widows whose sons are entitled to guardians free from the demands of political partisans. Wm. Win.sn, 1122 Spruce street. Philadelphia, Februaiy 15, 1868. Another Social Revolution-Women to do tile courting. [From the Herald of Health.] Tbe sexes are fully equal in intellect, in moral sense, and even in physique (admitting that women are designed to be more delicately organized), taking the stand-point from the best models, which is the true criterion, all others being exceptional; therefore, there is a propriety in admitting that a wornau has a right to choose her husband just as much as for a man to choose a wife; and the only pretext for denying this is based upon the inferior one of sex only. In saying this I shall have the whole innumerable army o romance writers and readers, as well as the imbeciles of both sexes, crying out against me; nevertheless, I stand to the -point, and nail my colors to the mast in defence of it— that it is right, proper, and delicate for a wo man to choose her husband; and-the man thus distinguished by her choice will feel himßelf ennobled and sanctified, and will reward such a woman with tenfold tenderness and reverence. , 1 am by no means Willing to have it under stood that I counsel women to go about n‘pop ping the question” to men here and there like an army of grenadiers; far from it._ A map -rarely ‘‘pops the question” till he is pretty well assured in his own mind as to the kind of response he will receive; and in all cases a refined woman prevents a lover from explain ing himßelf where she is bent upon a denial of his suit. Literature is full of heroines who are i>ractieimr after the fashion of the re nowned Spartan boy, and we follow them through the innumerable pages of vapid sen timent, where they are living and acting my riads of lies in order to uphold a theory false in fact and false to nature. The two sexes are one in a scientific point of view, and there is no merit in a woman who lays her part on the altar of pride merely for the sake of pride. It is no worse for a woman to be rejected than for a man to be so; if men and women were high and true, they would each regard the other in so pure, so holy, a light that these goings forth of the heart would be too sacred ever to be revealed; they would be too solemn for jest, too deeply real for gossip. They would be laid away, I shrouded like many a human hope, dead but beautiful, in the lone chariibers of the soul, to be looked upon reverently, just as so mauy of us garner in some secret receptacle a leaf, a bud, a lock of hair, whose hißtory is known only to ns snd&tbe-angels,. - - ----■- • Let our women be free not only to reject, but to choose also. Men and women are likely to do this without any great expendi ture of language, for the vocdbulary of love is more expressive than words. 1 have known several women of refinement and intellect who owned that their husbands were rather sought after by them than other wise, and these matches were certainly among the happiest I have ever known. .. In. choosing a husband, it is easier to say what a woman should hot choose than to say what she should; for the best must and Will depend on characteristics best known to her self. If she iB a strong woman she may ven ture to marry a weak man; but if weak her self, let her beware of this, for she will put her own life out at last, and, ten to one, do theßame ungracious office tor her husband; while a woman of nobler proportions will he THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN— PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEISHUAKY 17,1868. I sabre forbearing, and make up, also, for some ■of his , . Let not any woman marry a man with m ■ sane blood in hia veinß, _;i I'^. Let ber not marry one deform# at birth, the disasters and accidental destruction ot any members by war or otherwise may ex cite her compassion andf/bb no impediment to deep, affection, but a congenital defect be comes hereditary, and by the laws or onr being will be repugnant to a. wholesome minded woman. , She can not and will not marry a drunkard. V ■,,- > - • ~, She should not marry a diseased, sickly man. ~ Neither will a wise woman marry an old man; for the true idea ojf marriage is the union of youth, and health, and beauty; a thorough completeness of spiritual, mental and physical lile; and everything short of this is all but nauseous to a sympathetic, penetra tive mind, as a violation of immutable laws. She will not marry a man younger than herself, not simply for the reason so often advanced, that a woman grows older sooner than a man, which is true only because ot the abuses of society; for a woman of sound health and cheerful mind, unswayed by the vulgar and wicked passions of envy, jealousy and malice, carries in her own breast a foun tain of perpetual youth and beauty. Let her be temperate in all things; preserve her pen son fresh as a rose; her mind undwaned by prejudice or idleness; her soul with all its affections and impulses, pure and loving, and she mav go onward to her eighty, ninety or a hundred years, generally beautiful to tne ; last, fit for- reverepce and admiration,., ana worthy to sit for one- of Michael Angelos Sibyls. Moral of many kinds are so in tangible that, unleßß carried to that excess which shows the best part, of manhood ut terly corrupt and depraved, a woman is not likely to know of them, and she should be unwilling to listen to common scandal; sue must not trust to any spy or informer, but rely upon bis truth and her intuition. , ' If she expects to find Chevalier Bayards, and Admirable Crichtons and Immaculate Josephs ready for Iter asking she will most likely remain without a husband. She can only hope for an approximation of the ideal; but if she is true-hearted, sincere to the core, unselfish and lovely in her own life, she will be sure to make the dear one whom she allows to be bead of the republic at home, not only a happyv man, but a progressively good man, growing into spiritual insight, advancing in dignity and manly worth, tor she.will be bis helpmate in building this bouse. , ... . In conclusion I think a Woman will not marry before she is twenty, for, by so doing, she loses that fresh, joyous, hopeful period of life, and a very essential part of it tor the sake of health, study and consolidation ot character—her girlhood; and she will, matter life, be sure to mourn the loss of this lovely period. 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Si e tlculai to th a .original-, &r aoe S 7&tP&rt& that tUo lubal on each Cu Jssft C\S&A .is likeThe' trade mark, For&aMf * irsl Locke, C'omtf , laBm&w-Bmsp{ nnimiro AND AUADNDB.—NEW CROP GKH W C ohiA Walnut* and paper SUpU-Almondfii for • ale by j j3 > bUBSIKB A CO.. 108 South Delaware aveuael Embroideries, star-papers, Frotedior ' Huxley’s Hidden. ChesN \ Player. . ' (Prom the Loudon Spectator.) Professor Huxley bas told the workingmen of South London, in a very fine passage of his inoBtrriaßCulino.Engllßh, What Beems to him the highest meaning of education. It is such a mastery of the laws 'of the gdmo which is always being played between the individual manor woman and an unseen player who ploys the phenomena of the universe on used and more or less accessible rules, as will enable the'human players to Oarry on tho longest game with the most brilliant success. But we mvst hot spoil by.sunwnarixmg a passage wMch deserves to live lu English literature both for its vigor of style and bho almost grand expression it give? to a particu lar crecd'wliicli is gaining rapidly upon us, in spite of the .dcsojation of its in spite of the stem, almost solemmneglect with •whicli it'passes by our highest life: “Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would one dav or other depend .upon his winning or losing a game of chess: Don’t you .think that we should all consider it to be a primary \ duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check ? Do you not think that we should look With a disap probation amounting to scorn upon the father who-allowed bis son, or the State which sllowedita members, to grow up without kflowing a i pawn, from a knight? Now, it is a very plain and elementary irntb that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less,- of those who are connected •with us, do depend upon our knowing sometomg of the rules of a game Infinitely mdtodimPtflt It is a game which has been played for, un told ages, every ihan and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her owi>. The chhss board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rulesof the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden, from us. All we know is that his play i& afcayslair, just and patient.. But,also that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man •who plays well the highest stakes are paid witteMhe etrongishoffa dclqfht in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated without haste',. but .ijithbut remorse. My metaphor will remind some one of you of the famous picture in which Itotzch has depicted Hi tin playing at chess with man for liis soul. Sub stitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel, who Is flaying for loveyas wc say,and would rather lose than win, and i should accept it as an image of human jife. ■Well, now, what I mean by an education is learning the rules of this mighty game. In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in tho laws of nature, and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into harmony with those laws.” J.lfo at Sea. Meals are. punctual. The viands are al ways pretty much the same each day, and on each day they all have pretty much the same fla vor. The soup and the entries and the joint, are all perfectly alike, especially the soup. Then the effect'd sitting every day next - to the same persons is singularly monotonous, as anybody knows who lias ever tried the ex periment. To live for weeks in the society of a few persbbvto the very lowest bottom of whose minds yon have reached at the end of the first two days, and those persons not endeared to you by ties of affection or rela tionship, is one of tbff most deadening pro cesses conceivable. But then, whileyou are at sea, to be deadened is the best thing that can befafl you. Where all sensation is more or less unpleasant, any stimulus that excites it- must be an evil, and any moral narcotic that lolls it must be a good. The apathy which conquers the soul in these circumstances is one of the uncovenanted mercies of the gods. To have a fretful man, or still worse, a fretful woman, sitting next to one for many days is a calamity to which nothing that ever happens on land is atqall comparable. There are people of this sort who will not take their fate with composure, •who daily revile every dish that is set before them with acrid reviling, grumbling because Ihe cooking is not as good as at a first-rate London Club; because the ale is cloudy, as if a ship could move without rocking.; because the salad is not fresh, as if the sea grew let tuce and endive. Monotony may have its evils, but they are trifling compared with the evils of a peevish unreason, at least for a' re signed bystander. It is possible that the grum bler himself finds a certain relief in his grdm bling, but he secures it at the expense of his fellows. One of the most curious things, by the way, about long voyages, is the readiness with •which deadly antipathies spring up in one’ • bosom. Nobody who has ever . been ten days at sea has failed to conceive a hearty dislike for one or two of his fellow passen gers. Its grounds are unimportant and inex plicable. AVc hate one man because ho has a sour look upon his face, aad another be cause he is so implacably hearty and hila rious. No possible line of conduct protects anybody against a deadly animosity of this kind. Accidentally we make up our minds that some one whom we meet daily in the bear-like promenades on deck i 3 a. snob, or a pupnv, or a dolt. Everything that he does cr does not confirms this original conviction. AVe fully believe,him capable of any atrocity or folly—until at last the pilot comes on board, to take the ship into the harbor, and then, in an instant, the sea-scales fall from our eyes, and we are ready to believe all good things of all men. Concerning Cigars and tbeir Prices, correspondent of the Boston Tran acrijvf writes: . ' “Mr, Parton,inthe Atlantic Monthly for February, laments that ‘The Life of Josiah Quincy’ does not meet with the sale it merits. ‘Young men,’he says, ‘can not waste their hard-earned money upon a three-dollar book. It is the price of a bundle of cigars.’ Mr. Parton does not give us the. number of cigars in his bundle, but it can not be very large, since he elsewhere puts the price of a single cigar St from thirty to sixty cents. | “I have lying in a box beforeme a bundle containing fifty cigars. They cost thirty centfSpiece, fifteen dollars’for the bundle, which would have bought five copies of the noble,old, statesman’s.‘Life.’ , “I ; did not buy these cigars—no—-and Ido not mean to smoke them. They were given to me by one of the cleverest fellows in the world, who won them on a wager, and I am going to give them to another clever fellow, who is about to give a dinner party to some more clev.pr fellpws, and they may sharo the pleasure and extravagance among them.. “ ‘Extravagance!’ It is enormous, that’s a fact,- the present prices we pay for cigars, let me take a leaf out of an old book and go hack to the time when .1 began to smoke, that is, aeeording to Horace Greeley, when I began to be a ‘hog.’ Don’t start, neighbor Dutton, but, except your worthy, self, I doubt if there are many persons under the roof of the TTanBcHpt'huiX&Lna who were even born when I led to indulge in the ‘fllthy ■ weed.’ As long ago as when the town of Boston gave Commodore Perry the dinner he so gallantly earned for whipping John Bull ota Lake Erie, I was there with my cigar, then-spelt With an s. I forget who provided the dinner, but John Pierpont aftd ,‘your correspondent' provided what,was flatter ingly called the odea, and sat at the festive table side by side, a copper counterfeit Beaumont-and-Fletcher, fflow liulelt took ih those days- to make a poet! J “Well, about the price of cigars at that j far-distant date. I not only smokel tuem, 1 but sold them, and many and many a dozen have. I rolled up for Washington.-Al • i ton and : Joieph.Btoyenß Buckminster, and a Anst; of |other pretty cleanly persons, who lit'le, i dreamed that they were thus training thera -1 selves.tg become ‘hogs.’ - The tax;imposed • upcU these gentlemen for their ‘filthy’ indul gence was two cents for a single cigar, twenty-five cents for a dozen (thirteen to a 'dozen) and fourteen to sixteen dollars for a j thousand. These were the rates,, for the best imported Havana cigars, better—-think of it, ye unfortunates of modern days—better than you can now procure for ten times the money. Shade of Sir Walter Raleigh! “I must stop. My cigar is out, and I can not afford to light another. I will, however, add one remark. When I conclude to leave off smoking, I hardly think I shall venture upon Mr. James Barton’s remedy, which he Eays he found so efficacious— ‘for the first two days four good stiff glasses of whisky and water.’ I might become so infatuated with my new medicine as’to be obliged, one of these flay s, to cumber the pages of some pop ular monthly with a shambling diatribe on the question, ‘Does it pay to drink?’ C. S.” Xhth Contrew-second Session* Wabjiihgtoh, Feb. 15. House The Speaker presented corpmnien tlons from the Secretary of the Treasury,; with a reporter the ElghMtotrse Board, on the subject of a beacon at Long Beach bar. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Chanter (IE X) presented a petition of citizens of New York in behalf of midshipmen who may hereafter graduate from the United States Naval Academy. Mr, MillerfPft.) presented a petition from sun dry citlzcnrof Pennsylvania, asking for an ad justment of the revenue laws so as to keep the balance of trade In favor of the ÜBlted States. Mr. ’lVashburrie (Mass.): presented petitions from manufacturers of Northampton, Clinton and Northboro, Maps., asking, the reduction >of the expenses of the Government atd the removal of the revenue tax upon manufacturers. Re ferred to the,Committee of Ways and-Means. Mr. Jcnckes (R. L) presented resolutions of the Rhode Island Legislature relative to the obstruc tion of the harbor at Block Island. Referred to Committee on Commerce. • The House then, resumed Ihe consideration of the election case‘from the Second Congressional District of Kentucky. The contestant, Mr. Sam uel E. Smith, being entitled to the floor, Mr. Smith proceeded to address the House, in sisting upon the public. Importance of the ques tion Involved, and disclaiming being interested by personal motives in his cqntest tor a seat ia the House.-,, .j • ’ The Speaker laid before the Ifcasevthe follow ing, in compliance with the resotanpu of the Bouse of Feb. 14,-18)8: - f : ) I have the honor transmit heruwjgf copies of the correspondence between Gewm Hancock and myself relative to the ’ removal by General Hancock of the Coucdlmen in the city-of New Orleans. ' . '• Very respectfully, your obedient servant, . U. 8. Grant, General (Telegram received at Washington, February 7,1868, from Headquarters Fifth Military Dis trict:] New Orleans, Feb. 7, 18G8— (Jen. 17. M. Grant-. I have removed nine members ol the City Council (two white and seven colored) for contempt of the orders of the military com mander in proceeding to an election for a Re corder for the 2d district, and' which is. an; elective office, under the laws, by the people and Lot by the Council. The attempt to hold the election was made while 1 was absent in Texas, but the council was referred to General Sheridan’s order forbidding elections until reconstruction was. completed, without authority of the Commanding General. Nevertheless these members voted for afl lmme i diaie election, and the project was carried. The j election was about to be completed, when one or ! two members, more timid than thesd, leftjand I broke the quorum. j A case in point Is Ihe order of Gen. Mower: .Special Orders of Oct. 15. 1867, removing the Ji-Uerson City Council for a like offence. My action in this” matter was in accordance with the power granted by the Reconstruction act, which allows Ihe District Commander to suspend or re move persons from office, and provide from time to time for the performance of the' duties of per sons removed by appointment ; Slimed.] „ 'WiSFiKM* S. Hancock, I . Major-General, U. 8. A. I TVamii.'-gtox, Feb. Btb, 1868.— Major-General Jlaneurh. Stic Orleans, La. —Suspend your orders removing the City Council of New Orleans until the repoyt of Seasons is sent. Answer by mail. [Signed] L’. S. Grant, General. ' Ey telegraph. Received, Washington, D. C., ! !• A. M., Feb. 11. 1868: [-New Orleans!, La., j 2.30 P. M., Feb. 9,.1868. I Gen. V. .V. Grant, Commanding Armies of the | United States: Your despatch of the Bth|February, i directing me. to suspend my order No. 28, of the ! 7 th December, removing certain members of the City Council of Now Orleans, until a full report of the reasons therelore should be sent to yon, was received at , 10 P. M. to-day. I request that you . may reconsider yonr action, and that my order in the premises i be not suspended until you have thefull report of j the reasons called for by you. f telegraphed you i at the moment the order was issued, giving as | fall a statement of my reasons for mv action as I ■ thought could be made. 1 referred you to the i order of General Sheridan, forbidding the clee : lions, which you have on file at Ilead | quarters, and stated that the City Coun : oil had been previously notified of this ; order by one. I also referred you to. an order of • General Mower, issued in October last, which set | forth a parallel case, and which you have on file, i in that case an appeal was taken to you for a - reinstatement ol’ the Council relieved by. General ! Mower, Which appeal'yon Have not sustained. ;-The present case was in defiance of that exam i file of General Sheridan’s order and of my own letter, cautioning,the Council to desist in this election, and forwarded to you, a printed copy, January 2Ufli. H was also illegal under tho law by which they claimed to act. I waa astonished at the action of the Council, and could not account for it,■,except the fact that they had-been instigated to it by designing men, who beUoyed. if I dared to make resolves, that It ‘would end in my own removal from this place, and that they would be protected at tiny rate. My self-respect as commander of this district made it absolutely necessary that I should take summary measures, regardless ’ ot tho conse quences with which''partisans inlghtthreatcn me. 1 do not know what fuller, report could be fur nished in this case, for all papers explaining my , action Uavq .been sent to you. To suspend my order, would be to destroy my usefulness hero, and such a want of sense of what I consider due to ■ me and my position, in this matter would necessitate a respectful request to be relieved from.my pres ent command: Although I havo been:here seventy days, this is the second occasion I havo taken on my owni responsibility to make a removal;, the first one two days previous to this, both for grave causes reported to you In de tail by telegraph, and while I fully refognizo the power of the Gencral-in-Chlef to disapprove my action,' I respectfnlly request that as I have acted upon a full knowledge of facts, the’ General-in-Chief may delay , hia. ac : tlon . ,until he , con, ’ ’ ■ inform efrie what further papers or information ho mayule sire in addition to what has been already mp i nished for a fall understanding of tho case nndor 'consideration. :My action in the: premisesqwas | originally based on the first supplementary re construction act of July ID, 18G7. I await your reply before issuing the order. " - . a, , 8. lUsco.ck, , Major-General Commanding. | Telegram.]—Washington, Feb. 11th. 1868. — Major-General IF. 8. Hancock, New Orleans, La.: ‘ If your order removing the Council has been executed,- and-new appointees are in, you need not suspend orders, es.dlrectod. U. S. Grant, General. . ["Telegram received , February llth, 1868.] ■ New Orleans, Feb. llth,' 1868.— General ll.' 8. '• Grant, commanding U. 8. Amy—Thechange in ! tho City Council was ah established fact, when jiyour despatch of: February.9thiVW,,received. -Several of the appointees have alreadynled coplcs i of their oaths of office. In my selection I have appointed the best men to office, without THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.—PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1868. regard to their political sontimobts, and alt' must take the required oath. The change will be of immense advontoge to tho city as well as to the" poor, of which the city Is principally composed,- 'and who are dependent on the public confidence. . f Signed] W. 8. Hancock, I Major-General, U. 8. A.* . ; - TEnSONAL EAI'LANATWS. 7 i Mr. Pa ibb, of VViscon’ln, rislog'l6 a privileged -;qot Htlon, sent to the Clerk’s deak, and had read a paragraph ,from the - vVaahlngton telegraphic corre apondence o£ jeßterdaj’s Now Fork rnbune, pro 'ienelng t« relate lucldenta f that ..Uccorred irrtue-roum or ihe,Coiutt/itteeon RecohatructlonWit!i« linp.hieh (merit ornpoßltion. lie raid: pf course, I .have no knowledge as to the source of. the Information of the -writer of that article, but It happens that every single statement purporting, to-be ft-statement ot.fict.re latlug to me In thatcomihlttce room, is without the slightest foundation. There is not even a sointUUof .truth lu one single word of It; Evhry/word is incor -rect.’ I did not attempt to ‘."dodge the question ” It ia not proper for me to state what I gala ordld there, but I went very wlde Of any attempt to “dodge the question." 1 aßßore this,House I did not move toward the door to leave the room. It Is not proper for me to say where I did go. hut I' made no euCh movement as that. Mr. Stevens did not Shake his finger, at mo and say,. “Paine, come, back,’: ; [Laughter.) lie did not say to me, “You have got to face the music.” He did not Bay to me, ‘,-You have , got to go either one aide or tho other.” He (Mr. Paine) did not 'heatitate. Mr. B .evena did not then say, “Clerk, put him down againet impeachment.” Not only did no one of these things happen, but nothing which in the remoteatde gr« resembled any one of them. There is not only no trpth ln the statement, but it is not even allied to trnth. There is nothing on which to found one of the -assertions. My friend, Mr, Bontwell, was present, -and I'should llke hlm to inform the House. : Many members—Ob, no. We want no corroborar tion. , Mr. Et-dridoe aeked whether the etatement re ferred to any authority. Mr. Paine Bald it old not. Mr. Bincuam remarked that nobody knew ana no body cared. , Mr. Bldridoe intimated that from what hie col league had said, the etatement in the paper must be a lie. [Laughter] Mr. Chanleb. of New York, presented a petition from certalutaahogany dealers of New York City for a repeal of the Income tax. AVPROrRLATIOK BILL. The Honee then, at half-past three, went lntoCom mittee of the Whole on Ihe state of the Union, Mr. Welker, of Ohio, In the chair, on the con sular and dlDlomatlc appropriation bill. It ap propriates for salaries of Ministers, #801,COO; for the ealariea of secrctsriee, Interpreters, &a, $33,550; for contingent erpenses of all foreign' missions, $50,000; for contingent expenses for foreign intercourse, $3O, - 000; for the relief of American sCainen In foreign conn 'tries, $200,000; for. stationery and mlacalianeousex penses, $80,000; for consular office rent, $45,000; for consular salaries, $-125,000; for expenses in carrying out the treaty for. the suppression of the slave trade, $17,000; for expenses under the act to encourage im migration. $10,000; for expenses under the neutrality 'act, $20;000; for the second annual instalment-capi talization of the Scheldt dues, $55,551, and other ex penses, making the total appropriation $1,268,034. \ ■ Mr. Washbiuine, of Illinois, in explaining the bill, said that it pimply carried out existing laws, and con tained no new subject. The amount appropriated by the bill was less than the estimates by $154,520, and leea than the amount appropriated for the fiscal year Jiy $154,520. The reduction was made by cutting ’ down various items. Mr. Brooks, of New York, congratulated the House on its policy of economy. Mr. Woon, of New York, inquired whether the sala ries in Ihe bill were payable in gold. Mr. WAsnncRNE said they were. Mr. Wood remarked that there was no such pro vision in the bill. In reply to a remark of Mr. Holman, Mr. Blaine said that the consular system of. the United States was self-pustainlng, and"that the government derived Sf, re money from it than was appropriated by this 11. ' Mr. Higbt. of California, asked a question abont the mission to Portugal, and Mr Chanleb inquired why no appropriation was reported for the inisßion to Greece. - Mr. Wasubcbne, in reply to the latter, said that when the bill was prepared, the committee had no in formation as to the appointment of. a Minister to Greece, and therefore no item for that mission had been Inserted, bntthe gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr: Butler) had been Instructed .by the committee to offer an amendment to that effect. Mr. Butler moved to amend by striking out Ecua dor and inserting Greece. Mr. Chanleb' called for a division on the question, and argued against the admission of Ecuador. Mr. Butler modified his amendment so a 3 simply to insert the wojtl Greece. ■ Without disposing of the question, the Committee rose, and tiie Honse. at 4 o'clock, adjourned. IQDQ SEASONED CLEAR PINE. TOGO ±OUO. SEASONED CLEAR PINE. IODO. CHOICE PATTERN PINE. SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. MAULE BROTHER & CO.. *5OO SOUTH STP.EET. 1 QdQ FLORIDA FLOORING. 1 QCiO IODO. FLORIDA FLOORING. 1000. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK AT REDUCED PRICES. 1 Gt*Q WALNUT BDS. AND PLANK. 1 QCiO IODO. WALNUT BDS. AND PLANK. 1000. WALNUT BOARDS. walnut plank. LARGE STOCK—SEASONED. IQt?Q UNDERTAKERS* LUMBER. logo IObO. UNDERTAKERS’ LUMBER. 1000. RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1868. leasonld cherry. 1868. irtf>n CIGAR BOX MAKERS. 101*0 IObO. CIGAR BOX MAKERS. 10b0. SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS. FOR SALE LOW. 1 QdQ CAROLINA SCANTLING. IQGQ 1000. CAROLINA H. T. SILJ.S. 1000. NORWAY SCANTLING. LARGE ASSORTMENT. 1 CdQ CEDAR SHINGLES. IOGQ IObO. CEDAR SHINGLES. 1000. CYPRESS SHINGLES. W. PINE SHINGLES. IQtiQ RED,CEDAR POSTS. IQCQ IObO. RED CEDAR POSTS. 1000. CHESTNUT POSTS. CHESTNUT PLANK AND BOARDS. 1 Q(‘Q SPRUCE JOIST. 1 Qf*Q 1000. SPRUCE JOIST' 1000. . PLASTERING LATH. i OAK SILLS. . MAULE BROTHER A CO., jal.tf 250 U SOUTH STREET. (-A flAft FEET CHOICE 4-4 AND 6-4 MOULDING OO.UUIJ stuff: Red Cedar Posts and Logs for turning; assorted width Shelving nod beaded Pennine; dry Pat tern stuff; 4 inch Fellow Pmo SilLa; cheap Boxing, Sheathing and Flooring; Cyprian and White Pine Shin, glee, low prices. NICHOLSON'S, Seventh and Carpenter streets. . . - ialS2m§ T ON'G BOARDS—IB TO 24 FEET, FIRST AND \j second. c&m., and roofing; also, &-4 and 6-4 Sign Boarde, 24 feet long; Undertakers* Case Boards for sale low. NICHOLSON, Seventh and Carpenter eta, LjalB-2m; TAMES & LEE ARE NO t W CLOSING OUT THEIR tf entire stock of Winter Goods at vtry low prices, com nriaing every variety of goodft adapted to Men** and Jioya 1 wear. OVERCOAT CLOTHS. Duffell Beavers. . . ' Colored Castor Beavers. : - ' ' Black and Colored Eaqhtinaux.. ' Black and Colored Chinchilla, Blue and Black Pilots. COATINGS. Black French Cloth. , Colored French Clothe. • Tricot, all colors. Pique and Diagonal. • PANTALOON STUFFS. Black French Caedmerea. Black French Doeßkins. Fancy Caeßimeres. . Mixed and Striped Cassimeres. • l'laida. Bibbed and Silk-mixed. ; Aleo, a large assortment of Cords, Boaverteona, Sati nctts, and Goods adapted to Boys'weM, at wholesale and retail, by . JAMES * LEE. , No. tl North Second at. Sigh of the Golden Lamh_ t EHIOH. EAGLE VEIN, AND BEST -LOCUST Ju MOUNTAIN COAL, Af LOWKS7' KATEo. < - --' SAMOnL-0.-BUBOiB-'is-WO.;- co-operative coal yard. w i Office and Yard, 833 North Broad Street above Wood, liaet Sldo. Orderß by Mail. fe3 3m a. MAftOM nmra, joint r, unurr, milE UNDERSIGNED INVITE ATTENTION TO jJL their stock of _ ■ < „ -. j _ , i Spring Mountain, Lehigh'and Loonit Mountain Coal Which, with the prepaxation riven by na, we think cannot he excelled by ady other CoaL , , . [Office. FrankUn Imtitnte BnlldlnihNa 1* BonUi Servajtl ff&li ■ , . Arch atreet wharf.SOhnylkAl j-"'“ '’PEMTIS'i , KY« 0 DE. JOHN M. WNE’S DENT AC ROOMS, jMfIBNo. 219 Vine street.-Thirty years’ practice, and pUTIBono of CieioMeiitei! tablUhed lien tie ts In the city, l.&dtea beware ofeheapdontis try. Wo are receiving calls weekly from those, that have ton Imposed upon, find. aro paakh'S new.settlor thom. For beautiful llfo- Jiketoetb, andneatand cubstantlffwork, ourpriceß are more reasonable than any Uenwt In too city. Teem Slugged, teethrepaired, exchanged, or . remodeled to suit. Nitrous Oxide Oas and EtheralwayB_on hand. To saya -time and money, glye Ue_a caU Doforo enxaxing else, .where. No charge unleSl »atlefled. . i ßoet of refer inca; v lall-n.m.tu.fim •l■' •I:.. FBHaOWAI* Il BABEULA MAMAMO, M. D.. KSNORTH TWELFTH J. street. Hours, 9to S. Advlca frae, v c . j»2Wm* LDBIBEB. ASH. WHITE OAK PLK. AND BD3. HICKORY. CLOTHS, CASSIBPKBEg, *C« COAL AND WOOD. dJftHUBANVK* 1829 ~ CHARTER P ? RP:BTUAL * FIREINSURANeECOMPAW OB' PHILADELPHIA, Nos. 435 and 437 Chestnut Street. Assets on January 1,1808,' O9 Capita 1;.......... Accrued Surplus, Premiums. ___ ; :WS UN BETTLEb CLAIMS, INCOME POE 1388 ' sn,m2n. , 8350,000, Losses Paid Since L 829 Over $5,600,000. Perpetual and Temporary Foliciej on Liberal Term! DIBECTORB. 1 ' Goo. Falat Alfred Fitter, I Fraa. W, Lewis, M. D., i Thoraaa Sparks, i Wm. 8T Grant. N. BANCKEK, President. -8, Vice Pro*ldoDt Tetair pro tem. . :ky, this Company &aa no fetf Chaa. N. Bancker, Tobias Wagner, 8 {•.mu el Grant, Geo; W. Richards, CHARMS GEO. PAW . JAB. W. Mod LUSTER, 8 ■ Except atLexinglon, K cal Agencies West pf Pittsburgh TtELAWARF. MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COM- by the Legislature of PenusyV Office, 8. E, corner THIRD and WALNUT Street!, Philadelphia. I . MARINE I»«JKANCEB On Veatelf, Cargo andFreUbMo all parts of the world. INLAND INBU RANGES On good* by-river, cans], lake and land carriage to all parta of the union. krlW™ INSURANCES On Storea, DweUlngsTac. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY. •200,000 United Btatc»l??ve r Permit Loan, : <9201,000 oo mooo United State! Six Per Cent. Loan, 1881..... 184,400 00 63000 United States 7 3-10 Per Cent. Loan, Treasury N0te5,...., 62,683 60 100,000 State or Pennsylifcnla Six Per Cent Loan.. .\JI7T7. 210,070 00 126,000 City of PhUadHnhla Six Per Cent Loan (exemptfrom tax) 125,625 00 60,000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent, Loan 6LOOOOO 20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mort gage Six Per Cent. Bonds 19,800 0 2ROOO Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mort gage Six Per Cent. Bonds 23,376 00 26,000 Western Pennsylvania Railroad Six Per Cent. Bonds (Penna. EK. guarantee) 20,000 00 80,000 State of Tennessee'Five Per Cent . Loan 18,000 7,000 State of TennesseflTßlx, For Cent Loan 4,270 00 15,000 300 shares stock Germaatown Gas Company, Principaljpnd Interest guaranteed by thtreity of Phila delphia 16,000 00 7,500 160 shares stock Pennsylvania Rail road Company 7,80000 6,000 100 shares stock North Pennsylvania " ih-.iLroad Company. 3,000 00 -6,000 80 shares stock Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Co.-.. ■. - 16,000 00 20L900 Loses on Bond and ilortgage, first liens on City Properties. -. 20L909 00 Market Value $1,102,802 60 Cost, $1,089,679 28. Real Estate 88,000 00 Bills Receivable for Insurances made. 219,135 67 Balances due at Agencies—Pre miums on Marine Policies—Ac crued Interest, and other debts due the Company. Stock and Scrip of sundry Insu rance and other Companies, @5,076 00. Estimated va1ue...... 8,017 00 Cashin Bank $103,017 10 Caabin Drawer 298 62 103,315 81 BUOUOO Par DIRECTORS. Thoms* C. Hand* J unee O. Hand, John C. Davis, Samuel E. Stokes, / Edmund A. Souder, Jamea Traqpair, / Joseph H. Seal, William C. Eud wig* Thcophilus Paulding, Jacob P. Jonas _ Hugh Craig, James B.McFarlaUd* Edward Darlington, Joshua P. Era, John K Penrose, John D. Taylor. H. Jones Brooke, Spencer McUvalne, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., Georgo G. Lolpcr, George W. Bemadou. William G. Boulton* John B. Semple, Pittsburgh* Edward L&fourc&de* ' D. T. Morgan, *• Jacob RiegeL A- B. Berger, " THOMAS C. HAND, fcreddent JOHN C. DAVIB, Vice President HENRY LYU3URN, Secretary. HENRY BALL, Ajsaiatant Secretary, rrißE RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHIL. 1 ADELPHIA: „ „ Incorporated in 1841* Charter Perpetual. Office, No. 808 Walnut Htreet CJAPITAL $300,000. Injures against low or damage by FIRE, on Houses, Stores and other Buildings, limited or perpetual, and on Furniture, Goods, Wares and Merchandise in town or country. . LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. Assets. -SHUT 78 • Invested in thefollowing Securities viz.: First Mortgages on City Property,well secured. .$133,600 00 United States Government Loans 117,000 00 Philadelphia City 6 per cent Loans •... 75,000 00 Pennsylvania $3,000,000 6 per cent. Loan 36,000 00 Pennsylvania Railroad Bonds, first and second Mortgages.....' f. Camden and Amboy Railroad Company’s 6 per Cent Loan 6*ooo 00 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company’s 6 per Cent Loan 6,000 00 Huntingdon and Broad Top 7 per Cent Mort- „„„■ gage Bonds * 4,560 00 County Fire Insuranco Company’s Stock 1,050 00 Mechanics’ Bank Stock 4,000 00 Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania Stock 10,000 00 Union Mutual Insurance Company’s Stock.. ... 330 W Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia’s Stock '8*252 JO Cash in Bank and on hand. 7b Worth at Par. Worth this date at “jjutj^'roKg Clem. Tingley, Thomas H. Moore, Wro. Messer, Samuel Castner, Samuel Blspham, James T. Young, ILL. Carson, Isaac P. Baker, Win. Stevenson, Christian J. Hoffman, Benj. W. Tingley, Samuel B. Thomas, Edward Siter. CLEM. TINGLEY, President Thomas C.Hiti, Secretary. . . ..., PuiLADuuma, December 1,1867. jal-tuthstf pntENIX INSURANCE COMPAN OF PHILADELPHIA. __, „ INCORPORATED 1804—CHARTER PERPETUAL, No. 224 WALNUT street, opposite the Exchange. This Company ins urea from losses or damage by FIRE on liberal torms, on building)!, merchandise, furniture, fcc,. for limited periods, and permanently on buildings by di'V'Cisdtor premium. it ■ The Company has been in active operation for more timn sixty years, during which all losses have been promptly adjusted aßd jgJ|- CT Q R5 j John L. Hodge, David Learie, M. B. Mahonv, Benjamin Etting, John T. Lewis, Thoe. H. Powers, William 8. Grant, AiR- McHenry, Robert W. Learning, Edmond Caatulon, D. Clark Wharton, Samuel Wilcox, Lawrence Lewis, Jr., Louis C. Norris- JOliN R. WUCHEREB, President, Samcel Wilcox, Secretary. , rpHE COUNTY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-OF jL/tice, No. 110 South Fourth atreeL below Chestnut.' Fire Insurance Company of the County of Phil* delphia.” incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylva* uia in 1839. for indemnity Against toes. or damage by use. exclusively. cjjAHngft PERPETUAL. Thlfl old and reliable institution*with ample capita land contingent fund carefully invested* continues to insure buildings, furniture, merchandise,&c., either permanently or for a limited time, against loss or damage by fire, at the; lowest rates consistent with the absolute safety of its cur *°Loeses adjusted and pMd possible despatch. Cbas. J. Sutter, C Andrew H. Miller, Henry Budd, . . James M. Stone. John BomT Edwin L. Reskirt, Joseph Moore.!" Robert V. Massey, Jr.. George Mecke. . Mark Devine. u * - CHARLES J. SUTTER, President Benjamin F. Hoeoklst. Secretary and Treasurer, T7URE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY-—THE PENN r syivania-Fire Insurance Company—lncorporated IB2S —Charter Perpetual—Noe 510 Walnut street, opposite la d hbicSmpßivt known to the community for over forty years, continues to iraurerigaiMtlMoordam. age by fire, on Public or Private Building*, either perma nently orfor a limitedtime. • Also, on of Goods and Merchandise generally, on liberal terma. Their Capital* together with a large vested in a moßt careful, manner, which enables .them to offer to ISlel Smlth'.Jr., JohnDovereruc. Alexauder Benson, Thomas Smith, Isaac Hazelliurct, • Henry Lewis, •; i Thomas Robins* J, QiUinghwn Fell, i •* Daniel Haddock. Jr. , „ . A DANIEL SMITH, Jr., President, r William G. Secretary; :tr 'iTED FlREMftN'ff toSUiiANCE COMPANY OF- Pinr.tnßt.PHT*. ’ T This Company takesriska »t the lowest rates consistent with Bftfety v Md c9iifi)Ka ita business . fibe insurance in %ib errv op’ fhiUldei**. OFFICE—No. 783 Arch Streets Fourth National jßiank Building. i DIRECTORS: - l Thomas J. Martin, William Glenn, i Charles R. Smith. Albertue King, John Hlmt ; , Henry Simons, • jamoeMongan. Oamai Jenner, i Albert C.JKoberts, Robert B. Panels, ■Alexander T.Diohson, Ooorge ll.Bewtey. 1 A" 8 ™" 1 " *• "* CONRAD B ANDRESS, President I ffsi. A. Rohm, Trcae. Wm. H. Fagkn, Sec’y. <■££. - FIRE? AB3OCIATION OF PHILADEI. Bi phia , Incoinoratel March 37,193). Office, WWtm A So; 84 N. Fifth effect XMOrt BaUdinm, ■<«» I*hllad9lthift. ; • <-y-,r :• * pWB!?® Statement of tlu> Aaseteof the Association l&6B,;pubUj!&ed in prt>» m Estate mi Furniture and Fixtures ’ of Ofllco 4,490,03 U. 3.6 a>l * aUMMEX 'ffIoNEEBS, • , , ~ N«.SUB WALNUT «treet. tontaininslull description* ot property tobe MWiMjto® ft partlaFuilPoffproperty contained in our Beal Entata .Renin teriandogeredatpjrivateaalp. ■...' ■; '. 1 -s- T tara«le« advertised DAILY lb all the doily nowi" tftpen);;- ... ' ■■'• c: . ""-■■’ -v , .'.f-: ■ - np~ L. ABHBEJDQB*. CO. , NoT 606 MA < Fifth. THIRD BHOK3. f Feh.l9, »t°B. o®ck.we"wlU «b«ut 1500 pM&BgecTßqpUand Bhoea,«mta»wo* »!nna asaort- Which the i4tenUon,of H>e trade U g °° , JAMES A, FREEMAN,. •ANY, NO. NUT4O6 CHEST AUCTION SALES, (ONEERB. r*, B t > ADornon a Julies. Vi THOMAS & SONS, AUCTIONEERS, - CVJ , Nos. 139 and 141 South Fourth stmt BALES OP BTOCKS AND REAL ESTATE TCnESHAYIat la s ov!locks*k ,la^^ KVEKE i HMdWna.of eefch property issued separately, hi addition to which wo publish, on the Saturday prerioas toeach sale, one thousand catalogues, in pamphlet tons. at Private Bale, ■ [ 'Vf~ Our Sales are also advertised in the following newspapers : North Aitheicam, Paras, Lnhekn. Draw )htmtio KyOEB, Ikquirkb, AoiC EvWntn -Bt nxniA Evbnimo T Bi-EOEara, Qimn DiaiooaiT, Ac, Thursday” 0 ' BaM ' '** th ® A?,ctioa stow, every ! ftf~ Sales at residences receive (-special attention,; BANK AND OTHER STOCKS, LOANS, i:c. UN TUESDAY. FEB. 18, At 12 o’elsck noort. ntthar PhiUaolphi* Exchaa*,— 80 shares Fourth Nhtlonal Bank. , 1 olmre Steamship Duck C , 22 flhnfea Relishes Co: 1 share, Philadelphia Library. 1 thsroAsoaomy of FlfinArtg. 6 shards Ofte»ApenkB nnd Delnwaro Canal, To s'arwPfieißc'and Atlantic Telegraph Go. loco _ ~ SSCWI North Mlsepurf Railroad Co: first mortgage bomb, 100 chores KcveimtrJiirteneion Silver Mining Co. Hoi Ciarca Petroleum Centro Do* Ktu ehaieallibbardOltCo., UCO shires Star Oil.CO. v",„ . , ■ 1(00 shares Ohcrry r ßnn and XYcaC Hickory Oil Co, 200. shares Sugar Creak Development. 3to Bharea Sherman Oft Co. • 1 10.0 eharee Story Farth Oil Go. 1500 shares Eureka Oil Co. 4000 eharea Pcocle’a Equitable Oil Co. 4000 Bhareii Philadelphia Mutual Oil Co, ' 700 shares WalnUtlalanii Oft Co. - 500 Bhkree East OU CreekOll Co. ' TC-Oehuree Philadelphia and Tidewater OU Co. 2000 Bhnres Drake Petroleum Co. . . 500 shores PithoJe Oil Co, r ■■ ........ 10 shares, $6OO each, Oil Creek- and Caldwell OUC*. 2500 shares North Fork Hnghen River Oil Co. 600 shares Miners’Oil Go. - 000 aharee Continental Oil Co. 600 shares Homer Oil Co. 500 eharea ButleyOil Co. 504 shares Dunkard Creek Oil Co. 200 . ghageß Globe Oil Co. 2000 BhareeOrganlc Oil Co, ' 500 shares Upper Economy OU Co. 500 shares Krobzer Farm OS Co. 900shnreeRevenueOllOo. • 6000 aharea Mcßae and Cherry Kim Oil Co. / 8000 shores Netv Pork and Philadelphia Petroleum Co. 1000 shares Wirt Oil Co. * /w REAL ESTATE SAMI. FEB 18. A Orphann* Court Bale—Trust Estate olßlctney P, Dunott. under Will of Thomiut Lancaster, doc'd—THREE-BTORY BRICK DWELLING. No. 428 Lombardßt. . i image farm; Sa country beat. ' VERY DEBXRABLEFARM, 86 ACRES;MonSompry ville. Jlotiteomeiy ccmtity,_Pa. . 1 :.■■ : oTTfTrr ■ i T?IrEeStOBY BKXCK BTOBE and DWEfildNO, No/TW'Cilnibßrtandßt; ■ ■*' • THiSEE-STORY BRICK DWELLING, No. 702 Cu«»- berlflnaßtijsth Ward. **:■'■ - . . .. 3 THKH&BTOBY BRICK DWELLINGS, Nog. 241%. 2415 and 2417 Cedar street, north of Wrcken street, lMti BRICK DWELLING, No. 460 Allen street, 18th Ward. ■ ■ 2M BtOKY FRAME DWELLING, No. 422 Allen street. 18th "Ward. 1 . ; ■ 2 THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLINGS, Noa. 1014 «nk lol6'Palm(*r street, IBth Ward. • 3is S fORY BRICK DWELLING, No. 1363 Beach fft* 18th Ward. ■••••- . 2 BRICK and FRAME D WELLINGS, Nee, 418 and 420 Rsebmond st ___ 2 THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLINGS* Nob, 422 «ut 433 Richmond at. HTWbTORY BRICK DWELLINGS, Noa. 919 and 931 Warrcnatreet, 18tb Ward. > f _ 2 2M-STORY FRAME DWELLINGS, Noe. 604 and 006 Richmond at. •• ■ .•/ 8 CHpiGE ; BUILDING LOTS, Cumberland street, Dickinson Street and Tulip at. , A .. ..... . FRAME BLILIING.. inirfr occupied- wr a Public School b oue&t. comet of and Paschal Btreete, 24tb Ward. ';v T ' ' ' 3 THREE-STORY Nosu 2312. 2214 nnd 2216 A street, betwe6n22d and 23d and Thompson and Master streets, 2uth Wy d, •• LEASE OF CITOWHARVES. ON TUESDAY, - Feb. 18, at 13 o'clock noon, at too Philadelphia Er~ change, by o r der of J. H. Pugh, Esq., Commissioner, will be leaped at public sule for a term of one or three yeans, to the highest and best bidden Spruce Street Wharf, on the river Delaware; Almond Street Wharf, OrT the river Delaware. .• i . NOTE .—Only thatportion of Almond street wharf lying eaatof the east lino of Delaware avenuc wlllbo Bold. SALE OF.THKOLOGICaUTmeDICAL AND:MISCEL LANEOUS BOOKS FROM LIBRARIES, ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON,* ' February 18, at 4 o’clock. Salfl Wo. ISOB Pine street. ELFOANT FURNITURE, TWO ROSEWOOD PIANOS, men VELVET AND BRUSSELS CARPETS, BEVBtf HANDSOME MIRRORS, FINE CURIAINS, CHINA. Ac.* Ac* ' , . ' 9 ■ l ON MONDAY MORNING, ■ FeKM, ntltt o’clock, at No.ls(lBPino street, by iat®- logue, the entire Furniture, including-Very elegant W&lnnt and ’BrocfiteJld Drawing-room tJuita, handsome Walnut Chamber and Pimna-rooiiL Furniture, handsome Rosewood Piano Forte, by oebomacker ,- 0 . m Walnut street. % SUPERIOR FURNITURE, LARGE FRENCTT PLATE MIRRORS, FEATHER BEDS. FINE BRUSSELS. VENETIAN CARPETS OIL CLOTHS, .. !T.» oelEuia. EBBBUABY Urn U6B. the inirchwe end lalt ofStocks Rndtioldoa wwjjily^ 3 * Office, No. 28 Boutli Third ,tte |{- E j, B y EB j. CmSs.