Republican Ratification Meeting.
AN IMMENSE OUTPOURING.
Speecbee of Ex-Governor Curtin,
Senator Nye, Honi G. A.
_andL
K. McClure.
The Academy of Music never contained a larger
audience than that which assembled within its
walls huh evening, upon the occasion
of the Republican mass [Median, to ratify the
proceedings of the State Convention, held on
Wednesday. There was an immense outpouring
of the people,. Every seat in the building was
occupied, and the aisles and lobby were filled.
8o groat was the crowd that the doorkeepers
were finally compelled to refuse admission to
those who were seeking for it. The scene within
the building was brilliant. The elaborate deco_
rations which set off the house dur
ing the sessions of the Convention re
mained, and over the front of the stage
were suspended gas-bets representing the words—
" Lincoln," "Grant," "Curtin," "Farragut," and
"Sheridan." As before stated, the assemblage
was large. In the parquette and on the stage
there was a fair sprinkling of ladies, notwith
standing the very disagreeable rain storm which
was prevailing without. The greatest enthu
siasm was exhibited. There was no disorder and
everything passed' off in the most peaceful
manner.
The following officers were chosen :
President—Hon. Morton McMichael.
Vice Presidents—J. Gillingham Fell,Thomas T. Tasker,
Adolph E. Boric, Edward C. Knight, Charles Gibbons,
Samuel Bisphani. General Hector C, Tyndale, William
C iKent, Isaac F. Baker, Governor James Pollock. Archi
bald Campbell. General E. M. Gregory, Edwin IL Fitter,
Nathan Hlllee. William Mathews Coates Walton,
William D. Heston, General C. H.. T. Collis.
James B. klaydock. Christian J. Hoffman, Henry
D. Moore. UatEon CornlY, William Ehnslie,
M. Meredith, George H. Stuart, George H Boker, Lindley
Smith, Wm. Struthera, Horace Binney, Jr., John Webb,
Won. Cramp, B. Franklin Dennison, Jacob G. Neatie,
Charles B. Baeder, Barton IL Jenks, Henry C Howell,
Alexander Henry, Joha Price Wethcrill, Barton Hoopes,
Thomas D. Stites, Captain Henry D. Lanis, Thomas Still.
sun, Conrad S. Grove, James Hunter, Wm. B. lenient,
Frederick Fraley.
Secretariee—Prof. James Rhoads, George Truman, Jr.,
Col. William McMichael, Gottlieb 'Direr, Colonel Jacob
M. Davis, John Goforth, Captain 'Thomas Bringtmrst,
Thomas C. Parker, Capt. A. M. K. Storie, David Grainer,
General Gideon Clark, E. Tracy,Col. James Given, Lewis
*Min, Col. James W. Latta, John H. liolmrp, Sergeant
James Heffey, Lieut. W. F. Street, N. J. Nickerson. Col.
James J. Seibert, Henry C. Kennedy and J. Fraley
Smith.
At the appointed hour the meeting was formally
called to order by John E. Addicke, Esq., Presi
dent of the National Union Club, who said:
By the unanimous vote of the committee, and,
I feel assured, by your unanimous approval, I
have the pleasure of introducing to you as the
knesiding officer of this vast meeting our well
own and well beloved fellow-citizen, his Honor
the Mayor, Morton McMichael.
Mayor McMichael came forward and said :
We have gathered here to night (and I desire to
embrace in that phrase the ladies who are as
much concerned in all that relates to public
affairs as any of ourselves, and wheso presence
upon these occasions is to us Republicans, what
ever it may be to other partisans,
always fraught
with pleasure)—we have gathered here to-night
for the purpose of performing an important and
gratifying duty. Yesterday, representatives
from all sections of our good old Com
monwealth assembled within these walls,
sent hither by their respective constituencies
to give expression to their sentiments
on the great issues of the hour, and to select
suitable candidates to fill the high offices in the
State and National Government which the people
will shortly be called upon to ratify. These
trusts-they-have wisely _and_ faithfully- executed—
The principles they have enunciated are just,
sound, and patriotic [applause); thelmen they
have presented are honest, capable, and deserv
ing. To reaffirm these principles, to stamp with
the seal of our approbation these mon, is; the
object of our meeting, and that object we shall
now_ proceed to accomplish.
I need not say, my follow-citizens, that the
present is a most solemn and momentous crisis
in oar political history. The nation which has
so recently vindicated its power to crush the
mightiest rebellion the world has ever witnessed,
is now called upon to vindicate its power by pun
ishing its Chief Magistrate for repeating that re
bellions attempt. (Long-continued applause. j
The same stern sense of justice that sent our vic
torious armies sweeping, like a bosom of de
struction, over the fields of the traitorous South,
has summoned as a convict to
the bar of the Senate the man
who, false to his professions, - false to
his pledges, false to his oaths, false to his
friends, false to his party, false to his country,
false to all the instincts and interests of humanity,
has attempted to renew in other forms the strife
between liberty and despotism. I Greafenthusi
asm.] And with the tidings of the verdict.just
pronounced in New Hampshire cheers) still
fresh in our ears, who can doubt the result of the
trial ! The popular judgment of the Granite State,
founded as it has been on the same irrefutable
proofs, foretokens the more deliberate judgment
of the high court of impeachment which will as
semble in the national capital to-morrow. [Ap
plause.-1
The doom—the deserved doom—of Andrew
Johnson is no longer a question of law, nor of
fact (for both these his own misconduct has con
clusively settled against him), but it is merely a
question of time; and when deposed and degraded
he is dismissed from the seat he has dishonored
the whole country will bless God for its deliver
ance.
The resolutions about to be submitted to you,
my fellow-eit4ens, embody the conclusions at
which the convention just adjourned has ar
rived, and endorse the nominations the conven-
tion has made. In the former we all heartily
agree; of the latter We are all heartily proud.
'the gallant soldiers who have so acceptably filled
_ l 4.e Anditor.ilememi - atid - f3ttritYar
- eral of Pennsylvania have been renominated for
these places by universal acclamation. I Ap
plause. I
Our aistinguished fellow-citizen, ex-Governor
Curtin I great cheering], who bore himself so
nobly during six years of unexampled toil and
struggle and difficulty, has been designated with
merited unanimity as the choice of the people of
the Commonwealth he has so faithfully served
for the second office in-lhe gift of the people of
the United States. And for the highest office,
the conventien---mingling with the current that
is flowing with unbroken and uninterrupted.
force from the Atlantic to the Pacific,- from the
shores of the Southerngulf to the margins of
the Northern lakes, along the valleys of the
East and across the prairies. of the West,
swelling and surging and accumulating as it
flows—the convention has named the first
amongst the foremost heroes of the age, the
leader who, in the beginning and during the pro- ,
green and at the close of our late civil war, struck
the most decided blows, and achieved the most
solid as 'well as the most brilliant triumphs; the
conqueror of Donelson, of Vicksburg and Rich
mond; the man whose very name is symbolic of
the patience, the sagacity, the endurance, the for
titude and the wisdom, which are the elements of
his character—the soldier, the statesman, Ulysses
S. Grant. I Great applause.
I have the pleasure now, lellow-citizens, to In
troduce to you Professor Rhoads, who will read
to you the - resolutions which have been pre
pared by the committee for the sense of the
meeting.
Prof. Rhoads then stepped forward and read
the following , series of resolutions:
Rego/sod. That we ratify and indorse the proceedings
of the Republican 13tate Convention, believing its °nun
dation of principles to be Just. wise and patriotic. and its
isteetionotteandidateeindicious and proper, and in ae,
sot dance with the general with of the party.
liersolved. Ilutt in John Ilartranlt, the candidate for
AuditonGeneral. and John 31. Campbell, the candidate
for burveyor-General, we recognize brave soldiers, honest
men and efficient oil Mere, who, by theaafthful perform
ance of the duty% of the positions to which they were
elected by the people of Pennsylvania, *have proved
• themselves worthy of IY:election. - (Applatine.)
/tesolca, That the State Convention having Inscribed
111044 our bunuen Pled(( and gratitude to the soldiers
who caved the Union; the inviolabnitY of the nation I/
faith; protection to American induet• support of the
reconstruction measures of our Congress;i ru"
tr enchmf 13t. eCOnOII , Y fled honest administration (mow
branch of the government; prevention of fraud in the col
lection of the re% enue,s.nd a consequent reduction of taxes
applaincl;,ncinunce to the one-man power, and a deter
mination to uphold the true Democratic principle of the
supremacy of the will of the people expressed by their
*mediate repreeentatlv.T. iApplaune,l We now, in
oupport of these principles, do def l / 1 13 that Philadelphia.
with Grant and Curtin an our standard bearers, will do
bur wbote duty in the coming election, an she ever did
darAtbesabgpion• • [Prolonged cheering.]
tat, That the American Wide having during the
warepdddrowed. Pie organization called the Demotratie
part, saatmatiotic and unworthy of trent' we now ar
xaimstitiliefore the aawe !Manta aa the chief cause of the
disquiet and want of confidence which still afflict our
country and derange its business, commercial, =masc.
turing and mechanical; Iva charge it with inspiring An
drew Johnson with false hopes and deMding him into his
arbitrary course; we_oharge it . with playing upon the
prejudices and endeaveringto the reason of the
peolle; we charge it• with obstructing the execution
of laws comititutionally enacted;
States
charge it with re..
taming the return of the rebel States to their full stand.
ing ha the thion; we charge it with encouraging them to
reject the magnanimmia proffers of Congress- wo n charge
Inconsistent
with with stimulating them to make demands
with the stability , of free government; wo charge it. With
exciting the impertinent rebels to atrocious eutrages upon
the freedmen, and to barbarous persecution of the white
Union-m,n-of-thefetitirtend-iinally=we-charge-it-witit
thus delaying reconstruction. and rendering severe and
radical measuresineCeseary to ensure peace and harmony
in the future.!
1?caolvell, That General Ulysses S. Grant is the best of
Radicals at d the beet of Conservatives-(vociferous
cheersi-Radichi, when treason and wrong are to ha up
rooted-Conservative, when Union, liberty and right aro
to be preserved-Gen 111. ENS Shaul
The reading of the resolutions was occasionally
interrupted by outbursts of applause.. After con
cluding the list, Professor Rhoads remarked
that there was another. resolution, which he de
sired to add on his own responsibility, and that
was in these words—" Resolved. That Philadel
phia thanks New Hampshire." tApplause.l
Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, having just arrived,
came forward to a seat upon the stage. His ap
pearance was the signal for the most tumultuous
enthusiasm, resulting In one wild uproar of ap-:
please. Perhaps no more sincure exhibition of
feeling was ever manifested in b,ttalf of any pub
lic man than that which greeted - the Republican
candidate of Pennsylvania for the Vice Presidency
of the United States.
The Chairman attempted to speak, but was in
terrupted by "three cheers for Andy Curtin,"
which were quickly given and repeated. Mr.
McMichael finally said: Fellow-citizens, after
such an exhibition it would be unbecoming in
me to introduce to you Governor Curtin.
Order having been comparatively restored,
Governor Curtin spoke as follows:
Lamas AND GENTLEMEN: 1 could scarcely lay
claim to the ordinary emotions of a man did I
fail to feel complimented by such a reception as
that which.you have so graciously extended to
me; and indeed I feel that I have been highly
complimented by the action of the convention oL
the Republican party of Pennsylvania which met
in this city during the present week.
Having accepted the invitation extended to
me, lam here to-night to acknowledge my ap
preciation of the partiality of that convention
towards myself. It may not bo inappropriate for
me to remark that it was long anticipated that
the Republican party of the State of Pennsyl
vania, at the first opportunity, would give
fitting expression to the grateful sentiments
which well up from the hearts of this people
towards the greatest soldier of the age, and
would nominate General Grunt for the Presi
dency.
The action of the convention in this particular
finds a prompt and cordial response in the head
and the heart of every loyal citizen- of Pennsyl
vania, and it only requires the usual formula of
conventional State nominations, and the action
of the National Convention of this great party, to
place General Grant before the people, and then
the formula of an election toplace him in the
Presidential chair. I ilpplause. It is a source of
much gratification to me personally to know
that that party has, with so much unanimity,
responded to the popular demand by nominating
a man toward whom public sentiment all over
the loyal part of this Republic pointed so steadily.
So far as concerning the nomination for the
Vice Presidency, I have only to say that the im
portance and value of the distinguished honor
cannot be overestimated by me', when I reflect
that it comes from a convention properly consti
tuted, and which represents the real sentiments
of the State and of the great party that has ever
been faithful to the Government in all its struggles
for life.
I know very well that when in her full measure
of dignity and power, Pennsylvania presents the
name of one of her citizens at the National Con
vention, her voice will be respected. Bat if he
whose name they have been pleased to present in.
this instance should fail to be nominated by the
National Convention, he will be found, as here
tofore, working faithfully with those who work
for_the good_and_virtuous _and _loyal__ and- true— --
for the nominees of the convention. j Great ap
plause.]
My friends permit me to say I have never pre
tended to be in advance of public opinion, know
ing that I have only been the representative man
of - an educated - public sentiment. Connected
with the Republican party on its first organiza
tion, I have over identified myself with its pro
gress. I have adhered to its prlnciples,advocated
the election of its standard-bearers, and marched
with" the•public sentiment of-that party,-step by -. I
step. In its infancy, I watched that great party
struggling with the great idea of human freedom;
and I stood by it in its struggle when whole
thousands of the best of our people went down.
to death to maintain our Government, and to
purify it, and when slavery and treason were
crushed beneath the mighty power of this great
party. [Great applause.]
I am to-day with the progress made by that
party. I shall be with it in the future; and as
public sentiment becomes stronger and stronger,
1 trust to be with my party when it has full and
entire respect for, and recognizes in the broadest
sense all the rightsi to which all mankind are en
titled. I Cheers. j It has already shaken the
shackles from the slave and given him assistance;
and where the white man was unfit to govern and
bad failed In his fidelity, the ballot has been given
to the black man. I Applause.]
I repeat to yon that I am with my party In its
progress, and will ever be found identified with
that party into whose hands have been entrusted
the destinies of this country, and which, by rea
son of its thorough knowledge of the great prin
ciples lying at the foundation of our fabric of go- I
vernment has sustained it through the severest
trials. When my party progresses further, I
will be found with it, if not one step in advance.
I am amide' to the gentlemen who drew the
resolutions just adopted for declaring that the
candidates presented by Pennsylvania are "con
servative" and "radical." just as the interests of
the Government demand.
In conclusion I will say to you, my friends,
that, if it should be the pleasure of the National
Convention to place your humble servant in
nomination with General. Grant, I will take the
standard of my party and, inscribing upon it in
letters of living light the great principles upon
which OUT IMP 6 — tiTe -13 as4.* 01 it oil
the shores of Lake Erie and carry it before the
people of Pennsylvania to the Delaware. And if
another should be honored with the candidacy, I
am ready to carry that banner for him, whoever
he may be. I have uo pledges or promises to
make to you, my fellow-citizens, further than
the assurance that I am a Republican in heart
and soul.
And now, having acknowledged the distin
guished honor which you have awarded me, and
given expression to the gratitude of my heart to
the people of Pennsylvania for their continued
support, I shall say noinore. I would be blessed
indeed to spend to this assembled multitude, to
these earnest people in this city of Philadelphia,
where there was so much of fidelity and loyalty
in the days when to be unfaithful was to destroy
our Government forever.
Mr. Curtin was enthusiastically cheered at the
conclusion of his remarks.
The chairman then said:
We have with us here to-night, fortunately for
all of us, one of the most steadfast and stern de
fenders of the right that the recent conflicts be
tween truth and error in this country have pro
duced. Ile is one who in the highest places of
the nation hue given utterance to the best senti
ment of the people of the nation, and who has
come here to. night atthe earnest request of those
having In charge this meeting, that he might ex
press to you the sentiments that pervade the
great Republican party, of which he is so dis
tinguished a chic!. I have the extreme satis
faction of introducing to you Senator Nye, of
Nevada.
Senator Nye received a cordial welcome in the
shape of numerous cheers, waving of handker
chiefs, and general applause. He said
Me. President, Ladies, ueea:,—lt. Is
cheering to an old soldier to witness the enthu
siasm exhibited on this occasion. I have never
known of an army whether marshalled in civil
or military strife, that"went forth into battle en
thusiastically, and with faith and courage, that
failed. The great instrument of success, as well
in polities us in anything else, is an abiding faith
in the issue and the principles upon which we
fight. Without that, our efforts are naught; with
that, they are potent.
.A few days ago I stood upon the snow-capped
bills of New Hampshire. Groat applause. I. I
called upon the people there to stand once more
in the breach; and forewarned them that they had
to meet every element of opposition, fair and un
fair; that every lnetruinentality that could be in
vented by our opponents was to be hurled with
terrible power against us. They, heeded theadmo
nition; they stood np In broken ranks, and day
before yesterday 'victory perched upon their
banners,
THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13,1868.
I therefore greet you heartily, eny fellow- I
citizens, upon this glorious commencement •of
this most important campaign, during which are
-to be used every element of' opposition, from the
lowest prejudices of the human heart to the more
potentlarguments of bribery and corruption. But,
my fellow-citizene, in the start I:went to give you
a word of cheer, and that this : That with us
In this conflict, and until this strife is completed,
"there is no such word as fall." (Applause.]
Now, in the short time allowed me, .I propose
brielly_and candidly to address yorr understendn_
lags upon some important Issues of the day.
Congress is arraigned everywhere before a tribu
nal more terrible than that before which the
Chief Magistrate of this nation will stand to
merrow;they are arraigned beforeAo enlightened
people for misgoverning or attempting-'-to mis
govern this great people. It is a solemn charge,
and, if true, you and I should help displace them.
But what has Congress done? Since I have
had the honor of a seat In that body; being ad
mitted about the close of the rebellion, their acts
have been entirely open to the world, and their
principal legislation has consisted of four enact
ments only. After that mighty upheaving and
overturning of the social order of one-half of the
Republic, the Government was surrounded by all
the confusion and perplexities incident to a state
of war and the expenditures of largo sums of mo
ney, and Congress at once entered upon the 'work
of trying to build up the waste places and heal
the wounds that were not then eicatrized.
I never expected that this could be clone in a
clay; I never claimed for Congress that they would
make no mistake in this herculean task; they
would be more than human If in some instances
they did not make mistakes. There were no for
mulm and no examples to guide them, but It was
left alone to the judgment of the assembled wis
dom of Congress to provide means and measures
for conducting the country safely over its ha
periled situation.
The first thing they did was to provide a con
stitutional amendment, mild in its character,and
the simple fruit of the rebellion itself requiring
that those States that had rebelled should incor
porate into their constitutions, and should help
to incorporate into the constitution of the
United States, an amendment by which all men
should stand as equals before the law; that the
freedmen should stand upon the same basis with,
and enjoy all the protection accorded to other
men. [Applause.
My friend Doolittle, at that time, persistently
urged the Senate up to that great duty. It struck
me that such a measure was highly beneficent in
its character, and that its adoption was abso
lutely necessary as a means of healing the gaping
and bleeding wounds left by the war. Con
gress thought so, and they adopted IL The Demo
cratic party did not think so, and did not adopt
it, and neither did thwrebels think so or adopt
it, That, I would say to any Democrats who
may hear...trie r _was _the far%.i .
whole political life; for if yb .. of your.
irlad' adopted it.
then with the united Democracy of the North and
your Lift bower, the rebels at the South—[Laugh
ter]—you would have had this Republican party
in a very tight place.
Lwas fearful they would adopt it, I confess.
But that prescription failed, and it is due to
truth to say that it failed by reason of the efforts
of the Democracy and the rebels at the South.
That provisiongave to the States the right to fix
the rule of suffrage for themselves, but they
would nut accept it, Time rolled on, and some
thing else must be done. Now th y complain
that we gave the suffrage to the negro. But we
first tried to let the rebellious element vote, but
they would not accept the privilege, and con
sequently the only material that was left for our
consideration was the black loyal element of that
Southern country.
Congress then passed the reconstruction act,
and provided that the colored people should ex
ercise the suffrage upon two questions—and
upon those questions alone, viz.: as to whether
or not they would have State constitutions, and,
in case of the formation of constitutions, upon
the question of their ratification. That was the
length, breadth, and extent of Republican of
fending upon that score. If had been pre
sumed..that _the .colored_race_would_vote in the in
terest of the Democracy, there would have been
no objection to their exercise of the right.
When it was ascertained that they were men
who intended to assert the prerogative of men,
and vote for that power that had taken them from
bondage to freedom, then, and not till then, was
this Democratic clamor raised. I know that the
change is so vast that it takes the world some
time to understand it. Here on one hand is the
spectacle of broken manacles, and on 'the other
an army that Is- counted by millions that, wore
them but yesterday, but are to day clothed in the
garments of citizenship.
Such is the magic power of republican liberty;
inch is the indescribable genius Of American
freedom—to-day a slave; to-morrow a citizen.
Come, now, my Democratic friends, and point to
a s'ingle shackle that you have knocked off; point
out one garment of citizenship that you have
placed upon a single one of God's creation, If
you find him, be don't speak the English
language. (Laughter and applause.)
The speaker then asked what reason could be
given why the late slaves of the South should not
be citizens. They had been born on American
soil, and he was not afraid to trust any man in the
exercise of the duty of a citizen who knew enough
to be loyal. If the history of the Republican party
was to stop at the point which it had already
leached it would still be crowned with immortal
Loud calls were made for Governor Geary, and
in response the following despatch ,was read :
lianitisnunc, March 12, 1868.—A/tit E. A &licks,
I am unavoidably prevented from being in
Philadelphia by important business.
Ilon. Galusha A. Grow was then introduced.
lie said : On the evening of the 4th of May, 1861,
a council of war is held at the headquarters of
the Army of the Potomac. 'Tis the eve of the
first day's battle of the Wilderness, Our army
has met with a partial repulse, and the dead strew
thick the bloody field. At this hour the General
of the Army and his corps commanders sit in
council over the destinies of their comrades. He
asks of each his opinion as to the proper course
to he pursued, and they, each doubting their own
judgments or preferring to leave to him—the new
General that was to fight out the
_battio,on this
cacti tei - give
With characteristic silence he traces a few lines
on a slip of paper, and hands one to each of his
lieutenants, with directions not to open It until
he returns to his quarters. On each slip . is written
a description of the road his corps is to take,
with the order, at daylight to-morrow, to advance
upon the enemy in solid columns. Each obeyed
his order. Ile slept that night, believing that he
had achieved a decisive victory. At the dawn of
day he beholds the army of the, Union concen
trated from all quarters upon his' lines.
After surveying the field with his glass, he turns
to his staff officers and says, "Follow me." That
is the - man who subdued the rebellion, and today
he has, been appointed the standard-bearer of the
people of Pennsylvania.
With him, the foremost in the coming fight,
the speaker said, was Andrew G. Curtin. [Great
applause. -He, who-when -the nation's life was
imperiled; threw himself before the foe with a
hundred sturdy Pennsylvania legions; he, who
saw upon the soil of his own beloved State, the
rebel power receive the staggering blow from
which it never recovered. With two such- men,
could there be any other result than victory?
[Cries of no! Doi] One invincible In the field—
the other wise in council—both patriots whose
every pulsation was for the country and for the
prosperity of the people. Grant would not be
such a man as these Democrats bad once claimed
as a leader—yes, a, leader who betrayed us, we
blindly ebnsenting—unto war and death.
It was James Buchanan who placed the Demo
cratic party where it is: - It was he who allowed .
the organization of pestiferous conspiracies under
his very eyes ; who assisted them ; who allowed
them to grow to maturity, and pretended to dis
cover them only when the first gun had sounded;
It was in his Cabinet that he allowed to remain a
man who furnished - government arms to the
Southern States to allow them to become rebels,
to shoot us downwhen we went to atruggie for a
,nationality, the pride of She Powers of . the earth.
[Applause.] De and his friends can, elaun who
caused all this dripping . blood, all those cold, dead-
martyrs who he in obscure-graves. Who shall, re
store them to us? Will they—those States who
left us—restore us these patriots? Then, in . the
name of liberty, let there be restored to those
States the power they left in 1861) to the Union,
out of which for four years they have persistently
kept.
It was to be hoped that all the sacrifices that
had beenglade In our dark hours might be reaped
Ia gooffirfreit by none but loyal men. { Ap
plause.] Mr. Grow would not, however, discuss
this question metaphysically—he would not go
into any argument to show how, when these
states became Confederate States, and placed
half a million of, men in the field to keep them
selves out, and haled in that endeavor, they
should receive the punishment of their: crime—a
crime that caused mourning and weeping and.
poverty over the whole land. Suffice It
that these very traitors looked up. to aniatt , ?-.
,
Andrew Johnson, arid, hoped tby his aid-oven to-morrow-to begin a , repetition . of their etre&
To-day Andrew JOhnson • was 'Preeident;-; but
there was a'great issue between him and the peel-;
pie, and as sure as , the . sun ,:shOnc; as Magna
Charts was wrung frour the tyrant monarch, at
Runymede, so would the people wring from him
a confession of their pewerTairdlint - hirrrirr - his -1
proper abasement. They will show, through ' 1
their representatives that the policy, of
the rebels is not our policy of governrnentt, (ap
plause);- that this country cannot and never will
be eontrolled - by one man; that he le guilty of the
higheaLerime of. the _century. The Democrats
harped about rights—State rights and the 'like;
about the relations of the States to the Federal
Government; but nobody can ever take the ter
ritory of the United States. What! Take that
territory from the jurisdiction of the United
States? drench it id fresh blood?
The people of no State can take the territory of
the Union. One other thing they cannot do;
they cannot change their relations to the Federal
Government. These are two things that aro
beyond the control of a State. But what is the
reason they cannot destroy their local regula
tions? is asked. The power that creates can de
stroy. The people of thie State of South Carolina
can tear down their local institutions, but we
will not let them, after they have torn clown one
house to build another., When the Southern
States seceded they did exactly what Abe mur
derer does when he takes life. He forfeits his
protection under their law. They lost
their rights of citizenship, and they have
no right—through representatives—to take
seats in our legislative halls. Their
representatives have no more right, now than they
bad to remain in Congress and vote supplies to
tin: rebel army during the war. All of those who
were in • the Seceded States and committed no
crime by rebellion, only have rights as citizens.
Those men who did lift their hands can only be
pardoned by the people of the United States
whom they offended. Democrats now mourn
because of the hardships of our Southern
brethren ! Wlio shut them out? Themselves.
And yet when `the last boom of hostile cannon
has hardly died away; when the sod is hardly
green on five hundred thousand graves; when the.
widows' eyes are hardly yet dry, we are asked to
receive these people back to our confidence and
our hearts.
Who shut them out? Themselves. \ How do
they come back for admission? Do they come as
the prodigal son did when his father hastened to
kill the fatted calf? Do they come saying,
"Father, I have sinned greatly before thee, and
am not worthy to be called thy son?" No. They
_come demanding_ it as a right._ Who shut them
out? Themselves. Every year hundreds of thou
sands of oar children leave the homes of their
youth to seek their own fortunes. Homes must
be found them, and yet the Southerners dared to
say that they should be shut out of the Western
territories. Slavery was a black wall across the
Continent, for they would not degrade themselves
cr their children by working beside a slave. But
now Providence had obviated all this, and the
free, broad acres were open to honest, well-paid
toil. Now the Democrats say that they are tired
of war, and that the country needs peace.
But who caused this whr? Who urged it on
by their sympathy? The Democrats. And now
these men, calling for peace, ask us to repudiate
our debt, and say as much as ii' they wished we
should pay the Confederate debt. But not one
cent shall ever be paid for the liberation of a sin
gle slave. I Applause. Where is the hardship
we hear so much talk of among these Southern
people? Every great criminal is Incapacitated
from being a witness in a court of justice, and
with these men, who have committed every great
crime, what do we do? The Indian says, If a
man cheat me once, shame on him; if a man
cheat mo twice, shame on me." (;Laughter and
applause.] We will not trust them, but we will
not confiscate their property—we will not dis
sfranchise_even_those _who_deserve it—They do not_
deserve to come back.
What do we lose by their not coming back ?
Forsooth, we lose the benefit of their wisdom in
making laws! [Laughter.] We have made a
bond with them—we have given them a key to
the national door. If they do not choose to come
I in, let them stay out till doomsday. [Applause.]
The. speaker saw nothing objectionable in the
declaration of citizenship—one of the very terms
in the bond. Every seventh Witt, woman and
child in the country born before the war was dis
franchised. It was not their fault. They were
brought from their own country, and consigned
to bondsmen's chains. A terrible retribution has
come on us for that great crime. The only basis
of social peace is justice. When in an Austrian
port a - United States flag, floating from the mast
head, liberated Kozsla from a dungeon, it was
the lisg, of liberty. If it can float over one
friendless man, it can float over millions, and
save them from outrage and wrong. [Applause.
Let it be the determination of the American
people to make the flag respected at home as it
is abroad, and yet life and liberty here are not
secure, although the sentiments of the Declara
tion of Independence, declaring which made Thos.
Jefferson immortal, were bandied from month to
mouth. There have been bondsmen in this coun
try, but in the late war they fell side by side in
the 83111 C ditch with white soldiers. When a
black brigade carried the enemy's works at Jen
kins's farm, on the James rive.: without firing a
shot, from that time they and rives,
race have en
titled themselves to the gratitude of the American
people. Thirty thousand of them now sleep in
unknown graves.
Make that declaration of rights a part of the or
ganic law of the land. If they refuse it, why
should we go about the streets shedding tears?
We are told to bury the by-goner, and forget the
past. Yes, we will forget the assassins, the cruel
ties and atrocities of the last war, if only repent
ance is shown. But they show it not. They ex
poet better terms from Andrew Johnson next
time. But if they wait for Andrsw Johnson's turn
they will have to wait a good while. The Demo
crate claimed victories everywhere in Maine, in
this State, everywhere; but. if they ever did gain
any, there is a reflex wave which will wipe them
all out. lAppitiese.
'they complainedofmilitnrglillls tieing Passed
in times of peace, but they never said anything
of the fact that Rebels were Rebels still. Mag
nanimity they spurn. Are we to leave that
whole country without local governments? If
the white man will not govern this land (these
white Rebelal then the black patriot shall. I Ap
plause.] These black men, indigenous two cen
turies, knowing no country but this, bared their
breasts to the battles. And yet, for two years,
because of Democratic principles, we kicked
them out of our camps. - But we soon learned
their value.
In the dark night, when our sons were skele
tons, escaped from Rebel prisons, there was the
black man as a comforter and auide. If It be
an evil that the black man is allowed to vote
whose fault is it? The Democrats themselves.
What are their arguments? We don't want mis
cegenation, they say. They don't want the black
man to vote for fear some Democrat may marry a
nigger. [Laughter.] Mr. Grow concluded by
thanking the audience for their attention. •
Col. A. K. McClure, of Chamberisburg, said he
would not trespass long upon - the attention of
the audience, but the time had now come to
decide almost the same issue as we supposed had
I been decided by war. Upon the determination
with which they were now decided depended the
safety of the country. There was no principle
the patriots advocated, which the purposes they
have in view kept out of sight. We know their
cause not so much by the banners that wave over
them as by the men who march before.
We have with us Sherman, who marches from
Atlanta to the sea. lApplause. We have the
great warrior who rolled back the tide of rebel
lion at Gettjsburg. [Applause.] We have the
gallant Phil. Sheridan, whose administration at,
New Orleans; has endeafed him to the hearts of
the people [applause he who led,
• only the
other day, !he gallant corps of New Hampshire.
We have Curtin loud' ipplause, rePeatedly re
newed j, ho who, in the darkest hour, stood, up
for his country.. We have all , the . great .men,
of the land, and behind them we have millions of
loyal men arid women.[ Applause.] Who are
the leaders against us ? Yon have Brick Pomo
toy and William B. Reed, of Philadelphia..
(laughter.) You have Bill McMullin and George
Woodward . . [Laughter.; You have John Mor
rissey and Horatio Seymour. [Laughter: I And
last, but not least, you have Andrew Johnson
and Jefferson Davis. [Laughter mingled with
But it was the hope of the speaker that he be
burled from power—that the day of his power
was over. [Enthusiastic applause, renewed half
a-dozen times, and mingled with eheen,) You'
have Gideon Welles (once Rip 'Van Winkle).
Wore these harsh comparisons ? No, they truly
JNo. W. Girt
and fitly represented the Demoqracy and rebels,
for, they were all banded together to -eUbvert the
:government. They were as determined on sub
version as were the men arched the speaker to
preserve the fruits le the watt:ThOry.wero
intend with traltore. The speakettt , wisitie d he
could show vividly wkat thrttroubles we to,
exhibit which this great audiehee had , aesembted
te.tight. Ho would f point tO 'a gres Republic
',laved, to four thilllonk of freedmen Made -free.,
Applause. I Ho werdd. Point to h,contitry =tick
in on to everything enneibling.
' hat-were-ther-trophlee-to-be-shown-by-the
other. side? Ho Would , show duplicity, treachery,
a desire to gain, at civil tribunals what they ha rt
failed to gain by blood. Wo were to fight in the
coming campaign for freedom, liberty, law—for
the further continued prosperity of a great people,
who had crowned their.triumph-with:generosity—
yes, for 'liberty - find law `for *ail generatkins to
come. [Applause. I
All we had to do was to stand united as brother
to brother. Could.we do else when the whole
country was dotted with the graves of our bravo
brothers? Could we countenance, could we
admit again men who, by their perfidy, would
again essay our destruction? No! It Is our deter
mination to hurl them from power, to have once
more a united prosperous and powerful coun
try. [ Cheers].
The chairman, before declaring the meeting .
adjourned, proposed three cheers for Grant and
Curtin. They were given with a vim that made
the hall tremble with the echoes. They were fol
lowed by cheers for the speakers. In five min
utes the multitude had vanished,and the Academy
was In solitude and darkness.
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CLOSE OP YESTERDAY'S rnoonzonrcia.
Mr. VAN Witome called up the House bill granting
pensions to certain Boldlera and sailors of the War of
.1812.
—The-questlon-wats-on-tlie—auss
mittee on Pensions.
All amendment . I striking out the words Who are
in circumstances which render them dependent on
others for support," baring been read.
Mr.'EDIIIINDS called attention to the importance of
the proposition, to which he supposed the Senate
would not agree, giving es It did, not ouly pensiOns
to the needy soldiers of 1812, but to those who might
be in goad circumstances.
Mr. VAN WINISI.III, of West Virginia, said the bill
did not include al the soldiers of 1812, but only those
who served for at least three months, and it made no
piovislone for widows or heire. Ile estimat xi that
deducting those who had been pensioned, the sur
vivors of the war would not exceed five thousand in
number of in years of age. They would consider it as a
great degradation to be obliged to confess themselves
paupers, and he thought the number was too small to
gratify this discrimination, which would make it ne
cessary for them to go to the Pension office, perhaps
at an additional expense, many of them would refuse
to go. When the act for the benefit of the revolu
tionary soldiers was passed, a like requirement occa
sioned great Indignation among those who were not
paupers, and be knew of one who had refuted to re
ceive the pension.
Mr. Stuntman, of Ohio, was opposed to the passage
of a bill which proposed to give pensions to soldiers
who had nor been affected by the hardships of war,
the woneded and diseased having been already pro
vided for. He believed there were thirty thousand
instead of five thousand still living. When the land
warrAnt bill was passed the estimated number of ap
plicstlita was more than quadrupled. Every citizen of
Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and New York, and in
fact of the whole frontier, from Maine to the far
Weal, bad been called out as a soldier at that period
to defend his home and fireside either against the
Britleh or against the Indians.
He reminded them that it was only last year that
the last Revolutionary soldier died—one of those who
bad been engaged in a war thirty sears before the war
of 1812—but It was evident public sentiment would
compel the repeal of the tax on domestic industry
immediately. Throwing off some $Bl,OOO 000 of in
ternal tax, the revenue at present was estimated at
11160,040,000. and deducting from that $135,t 00,000,
where was the money to come from for the expenses
of the government? He warned Senators that there
were no means for this purpose. To provide for
these Items of expenditures they would either have to
issue a new.loan, or continue the taxes, or issue new
greenbacke.
Mr. FESSENDEN hoped they would consider whether
they should establish this precedent. They had.
under somewhat doubtful circumstances,enaloned
soldiers of the Revolutionary war, but they w ere then
perfectly able to do it. No nation, on the taco of the
. earth pensioned men merely betense they had ren
dered three months' military service. If this was
passed, the survivors of the Seminole war,
the Mexican war, the Creek war, and the Black Hawk
war wopid expect the esme thing; so with those who
had been in the recent war, in which we hada million
men engaged. lie did not object to the land that had
been donated to the soldiers of the late war, because
there was plenty of it, and it was enough that a
• man disabled in the service should be liberally paid.
but it was preposterous as a national princiole to give
pensions to every man who had been in the military
service for three. months.
He was readyto answer to anything that could be
said against him for opposing this measure. In these
times of financial difficulty they should have the man
liness to stand up and refuse this appropriation. He
thought we were a great people, but regarded the
claim that we were a wisebteople in our conduct of pub
lic affairs rather problematical. Atter citing several
instances where popular clamor had led to unwise
legislation of a similar character, he declared that he
'felt bound to protest against it-
N'arf WINKLE interrupted, and in order. he said.
to give Senators more time for reflection, moved that
the bill be postponed. The motion was agreed to, and
ldr. Van Vs ankle called np in succession a number of
pension bills, which were passed.
PEEZONAL EXPLANATION.,
Mr. ANSITONT roee 100 a personal explanation. He
had been in the Senate far a long time. but had hither
to never hod occasion to reply on the floorto a news
paper article. A representation, however, he ci been
made in an evening newspaper here yesterday, which
he desired the reporter to correct.
Soule malicious prawn-had published- the assertion
that Senator Anthony was charged with the distribu
tion of tickets to the Senate gallery dun= the pro
gress of,the • , -hutent. Senatore mi fit imagine
the result. fLanghter.l His lodgings had nso be
set by crowds this morning seeking tickets that he
had to call in the fiergeantast4zrns. [Laughter ]He
desired to -say that-be -and -hie colleague had fewer
tickets than any other Senators but those from Ne
braska. Nevada and Delaware (alluding to the provi
sion in the resolutions that the surplus tickets no
distributed among Senators in the ratio of the repre
sentation of- their States In -the House of Representa
tives.)
Mr. COMME.9 hoped that the Senator would not try
to, evade his proper reeponelbllits. [Laughter.]
Mr. Aurnoux would last may that he had delegated
all authority of that kind to the Senator from Califor
nia, Mr. I rennet!, to whom applications could be
made [Laughter. l •
The consideration of private pension bilis usa con
tinned, one of them giving a pension to the widow of
an assistant provost marshal, eliciting considerable
discussion on the propriety of pensioning such ore -
cers or their representatives. It ended, however. in
the passage of the bill.
On motion of Mr. Srmsra. at a quart eribefore four,
the Senate went into Executive session, and soon after
adjourned.
IMEEM:II
After the Executive seution,the Senate took up and
concurred in the House amendments to the Mil to
amend the judiciary act of December 24, 1798, in re
gard to taking write of error to the Supreme Court In
cases arising out of the collection of internal revenue.
The bill, whi.eb Puma' the Senate yesterday. now goes
to the President.
The Senate then adjourned.
souse of Representatives.
The Discussion of the report on the destruction of
bonds was continued.
Mr. Placa, of lowa, who had offered the resolution
on which the inquiry was ordered, said that he had ex
amined the record, and that in face of the report, he
must.say that he was astonished to find that any man
clainling to have even the crudest ideas of business
should put his name to a paper showing what the
record in the case did. )1e believed the whole thing
susceptible of satisfactory explanation, and that there
was no fraud in the matter: but an ounce of sense
would have taught the men who signed those certifi
cates that they should not have signed papers which
did not state the exact facts. Those gentlemen
should.be ashamed of having put their names to such
a paper, because four of them either signed a thing
that was abeolutely untrue, or else the other three
certified to/ a statement which had no foundation in
Mr. ilstsarlfiiiiittathat the mode of certificate
was irregular, and expressed the belief that business
would no longer he conducted in that manner.
Mr. LOGAN having again obtained the floor, eent up
Mr. Brooks' minority report, before alluded to, in
order to have farther extracts read from it, remark
ing, however, that he would have to apologize to the
Douse and to the galleries for the character of the
extracts.
Mr. Gann - am, of Ohio, who had been chairman of
the committee of which Mr.- Brooke had been a mi
nority member, remarked that he had always thought
the publishing of that document was a very scaly pro
ceeding,.
The reading of the document was interrupted by
Ruin, of Massachusetts,. who made the queation
of order that there was a good deal in the'document
that should not be read in public, , suggesting that it
might be published in the Globe. •
The SPEAKER sustained the point of oider, but on
the ground of irrelevancy to the question before the.
Mr. litwati said he had only desired to present this
document to show the character of an individual who
had charge of printing the money and bonds of the
government, and to show Wit tbes Inset's character
was so damnable that its description could notbe read
in public on account cit its immorality: He Withdrew
the document, and the report of the Committee on
Retrenchment, on the - Subject tinder discussion, was
then read. - ' -
Mr. H ALL, of Pennsylvania, in connection with
it, offered a resolution that the report and testimony
be recommitted, with instructions to report whether
any and what changes ere requisite in the resent
mode of printing the United States bonds and notes.
Mr. Dawes, of ' Maseachasetts, Wald that four or five
years ago, as the result of information which he had
obtained in an engraving establishment in New York,
they had struggled in the House to break up the
Printing Bureau iri the Tretutury Department, not
because of any lack"of confidence in the persons con
nected with it, but because he was convinced that the
whole credit of the natisn should not be allowed to
• rest on the integrity of one individual. The ,discus
sloe; however, had very goon degenerated into per
sonal charges against Mr. Clark, and thus the atten
tion of the House was dlierted Irma the inherent de
_ 'fects of the system teen issue , ae - to . the integrity of .
Mr. Clark, and from that time the establishment had
gone on and grown into immense proportional and
now tide investigation fell' .back on the integrity of,
one man. lie saw, from the report just read, that
the record of bonds was entered from slips made:
out in the office of Mr. Clark, so that the whole thing'
came back and rested on the integrity of Mr. Clark.
lie thought it time that the whole syatem waa broken
dews.
Mr. Juno, of Thine% suggested to Mr. Randall that
be add to his resolutibn 'instructions to - inquire into
the fitness of the party controlling the Printing Bu
reau.
Mr. RANDALL declined, not wishing to enter into
mere personalities. For hLtaself. he thought that the
man should have been suspended long ago. He added
that it bas come to the knowledge of the committee
th: t there were bonds bearing duplicate numbers,
which were, nevertheless. honestly issued. .
Mr. Ham= detailed at some length, facts and
figures invohed in the investigation'of the commit-
Mr. STEvEtre,. of Pentyylvania, •auggeated.- at 2:80'
o'eupek, that the matter go over until to-morrow, and
senate.
rap:storm.
e;nta-by-tho Cum
that the House take up the bill for the admission of
Alabama. • •
-Mr. Vali Wros objected.
Mr. fiTuvErm gave notice that at 4:3Ck r. at. to-day
he would move the previous question on the Alabama
bill.
The Bra/Joni Inedented a message from the Presi
dent intern Log the House that an act to amend the
supplementary reconstruction bill , had been presented
to him on February 28. and that not having been_rar_
tithed by him tot e House, it had become a law.
HALBBIC continued his remarks, and said it was
time that some action, each as he proposed, was taken,
and he hoped, therefore, that so eimple and proper a
proposition should be adopted.
Mr. KELLEY, of Pennsylvania, stated that bonde
with duplicate numbers were so frequently received
for cancellation at the Treasury, that the clarke having
charge of the matter became alarmed, and insisted '
that the redeemed bonde should not he destroyed, but
should• be cancelled and preserved; and that now when
a bond is received with a duplicated number, some
gentleman connected with the Department is called,
and suggests the number which the bond ought to
hear, and that the number Is changed accordingly.
Be suggested that the committee ehould turn its at
tention to that particular point.
The .SPEAlirat appointed. the following committees
of conference; On the pension' appropriation bill,
Messrs, Butler, Heivey and N theism; on the bill cov
ering into the Treasury t he proceeds of rebel captured
property, Messrs, Washburn of Wheconet3, Scofield
and Barnes.
Mr. Wsun, of New )(Mk, presented a remonstrance
of citizens of Elmira, N, Y., against the proposed
stamp tax On cigars.
The question as to the destruction of bonds in the
Treasury was resumed, and Mr. VAN Wreir. of New
York, expressed the opinion that no member would
rise to-day to say that the evidence taken by the com
mittee sustained the charge that there was any ab
straction of any part of the $18,000,000 of bonds. He
did not know what the gentleman (Mr. Logan) meant
when be spoke yesterday of attorneys for the Treas
ury Department, nor dhlhe know whom he meant It
did not apply to any of the gentlemen who had taken
part in this investigation.
He had spoken also of persons covering him with
slime. Be (Mr. Van Wyck) had eeen and heard no
thing of it. No gentleman had thrown any dirt in
the matter except the gentleman himself (Mr. Logan).
That {gentleman had attacked the Treasury Depart
ment, and had done so unanswered. Certainly no
member of the committee had come to the defense of
the Secretary, so that he threw back upon
the gentleman his imputation of white
melting. The gentleman had made a
charge as to the abstraction of $18,000.000,
Mr. Lomax, rising and interrupting, said that he
had never made any such statement, and that when
the gentleman from New York said he had stated any
about robbery or abstraction of those bonds, he
stated that which be knew to be untrue.
Mr. VAN WYCK said the gentleman had repeated
that time and again in this discussion. It wasan easy
matter to bandy words. The gentleman had spoken
of being slandered, and he (Mr. Van Wyck) bad said
that the centleman himself was the only one who had
thrown dirt, and now that gentleman had juat stepped
forward to confirm that mutton. He (Mr. Van
Wyck) b ol spoken of the-impression deducible from
the gentleman's (Mr. Logan's) remarks. The gentle
man had stated yesterday that he believed there was
fraud in the matter, and it was that impression which
he had conveyed to the house and country, and was
it not just to the whole country that the facts should
go out to counteract the statement? Why should the
gentleman from Illinois take exception to that? Re
verting to the facts involved ia the question itself,
31r. 1. an Wyck stated that the system carried on in
the Trmsury Department now was the same as under
Secretary' Chase and Secretary Fessenden. He ex
plained to the Douse in detail the particulars of the
system. In conclusion, he expressed his willingness
that the resolution offered by Mr. Randall should be
adopted.
The resolution was adopted,- and the report and
testimony were recommitted, with instructions.
Mr. ELDIIIDGE, of Wisconsin, suggested that the
matter be referred to a select committee taken from
members on the Democratic side of the House, as there
seemed to be a quarrel among 'members on the other
hide.
r. VAN WYCK said we Will attend to onr own
quarrels, and if you will allow to, will attend to our
own funerals too.
ELDiuDcE—Wo would like to bury you. [Laugh
ter.)
The Srtanzn, at three o'clock, announced that the
morning hour had commenced, and that the bill to
continue the Freedmen'e Burean wet before the
Boom
Al ter various propositions in reference to the course
of businese, the bill went over till the morning hour on
Tuttilay next.
DIPLOMATIC APPROPUIATION LILL.
Ir. Waettramsn, of Illinois , from tau Committee
on Appropriations, reported back the Senate amend
ments to the consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill. Ail the amendments were concurred in except.
that making the galaxy of the consul at Guaymas
$l,OOO a year, and that reducing the appropriation for
contingent expenses of the mielionc. abroad from $5O,-
000 to $20,000. A committee of conference on the
disagreeing Totes was appointed. .
PACIFIC TELEGBAPII LINE.
Id r. WasIDIVIINE, of Illinois, offered a resolution
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for informa
tion as to the contract made under the act to facili
tate telegraphic communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific States, as to the amonnt paid under the
contract, the amount paid by the government annually
for such telegraphing, the rates, Ltc., and as to any
communication from the assignees of the original
company. Adopted.:
NCIMKT FRAUDS.
Mr. VAN' WTCF, from the Committee on Retrench
ment, made a report on the whisky frauds. Laid on
the table and ordered to be printed.
The Rouse then proceeded, LIB the'next bru3lneas in
order in the morning hour, to diep:•ne of reaolutionp
and bill* offered previoualy, and which had now been
lying under the rule, as tobowa:
NATIONAL BANKS.
"'Resolution offered by Mr. Pile on December le,
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for informa
tion ns to the national hanks having changed their se
curities on deposit. Adopted.
YISEe 17E9
Resolution offered by Mr lll2by, on February 10,
calling on the Secretary of State for information as to
fees to lawyers. Referred to the Committee on For
eii.in Affairs.
Various other resolutions and brills were referred.
A resolution offered by Mr. Julian, on December 9.
declaring that the further sale of the agricultural pub
lic lands ought to be prohibited by law, and that all
proposed grants of lands for railroad or other special
objects should be carefully scrutinized, and rigidly
subordinated to the paramount purpose of securing
homes for the landless poor, the actual settlement and
tillage of the public domain, and the consequent in
crease of the national wealth, was adopted.
PAC [PIC RAILEO.A.D.
The resolution offered by Mr. Windom, on the 20th
of January, to regulate the tariff for freight and pas
sengers on the Union and Central Pacific railroads and
their branches was taken up. .
Mr. GAUFMLII moved its reference to the Commit
tee Nallte,ntritie Railroad.
.. . ..
.....
The motion waiitlidete — cf.
Mr. VAN Rona, of Missouri, moved to lay the reso
lution on the table.
The motion was rejected—yeas 53, nays 70—and the
resolution went over for further action. The follow
ing is the vote in detail:
nos—Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Archer, Ashley of
Ohio, Axtell, Barnum, Beck, Boyer, Brooks, Davis,
Dixon, Donnelly, Eliot , Haight, Hill Hooper. John
son, Jones, Kelley, Herr, Knott Lincoln, Mallory,
Marvin, McCullough. Miller. Morrill, Mungen. Myers,.
Neweornb,'O'Neill, Payne, Pile, Plants, Poland, Price,
Baum, Scofield. Smith. Starkweather, Stevens of Penn
sylvania, Stokes, Stone, Taber. Taylor, Thomas, Trim
ble of Kentackl, TWltcbell. Van Aeruam, Van Horn,
Washburn of Massachusette, Welker, Wilson of Penn
sylvania=-53.
Nays—Messrs. Allison, Bailey, Barnes, Beaman.
Beatty, Blaine, Blair, Cary. Churchill, Clarke of Kan
sas. Cobb. Cook, Cullom,
H Driggs, Farnsworth, Ferris,
Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Getz, Golladay, Halsey, Haw
kins, Holman, Hopkins, Hotchkiss, Hubbard of West
Virginia, Hubbard of Connecticut, Hulburd, Hunter,
Ingereoll, Judd, Julian, Kelsey, Ketcham, Kitchen,
Koontz.' LaWrenCe of Ohio, Loan, Loughrldge, May
nard, McCarthy, McClurg, Moore, Moorehead, Nib
lack, Ortb, Perham, Peters, Pike, Polaley;
Robertson Schenck, Shanks, - Sitgreaves, - Spalding,
Stewart. Taffe, Trowbridge, Upson, Van Auken, Van
Wyck, Ward, Washburn of Wisconsin, Washbuntelof
Illinois, Williams of Indiana, Wilson of Ohio, Wood
and Woodbridge-70.
JUDICIARY
On motion of Mr. SCILIMCK, the Senate bill to amend
the judiciary act of the 29th of September, 1789, so as
to place the officers of. the internal revenue on the
same footing as officers of the customs, in reference to
appeals for snits in civil actions from the United
States Circuit Court to the Supremo °bun, was taken
from the Speaker'e table fOr action.
Mr. WU.BON offered an amendment to It by.way of
an additional section, repealing so much of thu act of
February 5, 1867, being an act to amend the judicial
act Of 1789, as authorized an appeal froin,the judg
ment of a Circuit CouLt to the Supreme. Court of the
Milted States, or the *ere's° of any such jurisdiction
by, the Supreme Court, on appeals that have keen or
rimy hereafter be taken.
The . amer.dmeut r - wasr-agreed.. too:ma - the ;bill as
amended passed.
NAVAL. -
Mr. WASIIIIIMNE, of 111.111018, . suggested as it ques-e
tion of privilege that the Navy Department had been,.
by:Douse resolution of 6th January last. called on for
information which had not yet been furnished;
The BYEARER decided that that wet 'not, a question
Of privilege.
Mr. 'tenon', sad that the Navy. Department had
been progresaing with the information. 'for Jle, lag
two months.
Mr. WeennungE suggested • that if the gentleman
did not look out, the present Navy Department would'
not, be progressing in a . month - !-..
Ori motion of Mr. PeuxinVontit; a Committee Of
Conference itray ordered on the Senate , bill for the re
lief of Henry Dreithouse and Itemise
- "mptierninitSW4: L. 1-
Itnrcalkla.'front - the quipeachnient uOitigqo;
offered a resolution alithorizing -. the Monett aphers of
the House to ettend the Managers to the Senate s and,
report the proteedings of the trial in, the impeach
ment of the President of the United States, and that
THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAROH 13, 1868. ,
tbc're{tort be printed by the Congressional printer, so
ES diEttibElto to the members of the House at leant '4A/-c O PY of-such -report ot the-proceedings-of each
ay
d, by nine o'clock next morning, and that the nee
eestay expenses of each reporting be charged to the
Contingent , Fund of the House; also, retunved, that
Iwo ihoueand extra copies of such report be printed
for, the use of the House, and that one copy be re
tained for each member, nud bound, for preaervatiou.
Iteterted_tollie_Commitice.on_Etinting.
''he House, at half-past four, adjourn.
J U "Whisky Frauds—Report of the
1 Committee on Retrenchment.
Ar.an Wyck, from the Committee on Retrenennlonti
nettle he following report:
Witt a view to retrenchment of the expensee of
. the
geeferimentehe the reduction of the number of oilmen,
nil In v connected therewith, an Inman of the
rev me much time was spent In examining the nature
and. eitent of the frauds in the non-pat incur of taxes on
wfifeke , and tobacco, how far government officiate were
.con caned, arid what remedy should be recommended.
Ti elimonv taken before a committee of the Thirty-ninth \
Congr•no, of Which lion, William A. Dieting wee Cheer ,
man, was of great value in lisle examiaation. Thc.objeet
of thielinquity woo not 110 touch to demonetrete those frauds
eel:4, for every man in the country knew that fact—not
vu Much so toexposs the guilt of officiate, that they might
be tinhject to the penalty of public exposure and the die
grace lof removal. 01 eny had borne with becoming
111VOLlieral and reeignation the former, while they knew
there line not the remotest danger they would coffer the
unpleacent come:qui:need of the letter. The Preeldent had
t, hi/intent evidence, .in numerous caeem, eh° wing eon
clueively the tinfaitlifulness of many officers, yet they are
tied Lambed-oot to detect liegrant violations where in
dividual: had antaseed primly fc,rttinos by cunningly de.
vned Scheme.: Caere of that .kind have been reported,
yet nte a.
of
criminal
not
been compelled to di ,, gorge
the I tithe ot hie crime; not one victim to Huffer the , pates
end penidtlen of the violated law. Penton,' engaged in
other brencheit of businies, and all departments of in.
deer}} prying honestly their berme, have been
bewildered in the contemplation of the mien'.
tile! 1 of them halide. The whole people know
theti greet crimes were commited, with the connivance,
If net heeletance, of government officers.. An honeet pay.
rut nt of the tax on wlitelcy would realize 85200,000,000,
whereas but little over fitaie.,o,ooo in received ;BO that every
loan cuts nee and feel the enormity of these wrongs. With
helmet and efficient officers, this tax could be collected.
'l hey c e rtainly know where every distillery Is located,
and can know with reasonable certainty the amount of
production-of each. While, from defects in the eyetem,
collie frauds eau be perpetrated without the knowledge of
the olhcer, a great majority are committed through such
knowledge.
To nay that all revenue officers are dishonest would be
unjuet To say that the Secretary of the Treaeury and
Commiec.ior et of Internal Revenue are at fault would be
equally P.O; for the President amide like adamant
to protect hia friends in office, and the Commie.
t loner and Secretary are powerleao for their removal.
In 'Barlett blessed with honeet officiate, whisky distil
lation has almost ceased, while in all the large. eitiesit
has wonderfully increased. Why is It taat in the city of
hew York, from ten or twelve (which wee the number
before 1860), dintille, hes have inereaand to several hun
dred. when whisky can be manufactured much more
cheaply where toe grain to grown.
l'elther are all the officiate In the city districts dte
honeet, but the t are rhunned by the ring, and distilleries
are concentrat in those districts where dithoneety in
an easy 'wilt e. When whisky in sold for 811 50 in
the market, does not every man know that no
perCen iFf engaged in the manufacture intending
to pay honestly the tax of two &Mare on every
gallon? Loot I not every collector know that he or
hits officiate are guilty? And .do not the authoritate at
Waenington know that ouch officers are in complicity
with dietillerg?
Many free& ere consummate , ; through bonded ware
homey, and the laet ouggotion hot& owe' in that class of
seem. few warehouree are located in district., where
hem •-t officiate control. The ring soon ascertain where
they can teeth their whisky, operate their echenee and
be undisturbed.
A collector cruet know that where million. of gallons
Ale stored in his district, and its value in the market ie
let. than 81 eo per gallon, tile owner never eepeete to pay
the government honestly 8:: for every gallon; and the
I- resident meet know that such districts are places where
e Idsky thievee are mining fortunes; to that it needs no
meet a here heavy dl.tillation it carried on, and large
etentithoe Minded, there is the rogue'e harvest, and the
mg and the 01m:re are in complicity. •
a Ile coeflunien is irreei.ti hle that the present law, from
inherent defecie and fraudulent execution, is a failure.
All the earnest and faithful endeavors of the secretary
and Comm iesiOner have been It ithoutenceeee, and allithe
e ell-intended zeal of Congress has been equally fruit.
lees. I
. Cr ;three yetire efforts have been made to collect tidi
tai : bob y, erehe frauds have inereaeed, but not the re.
ve nee, The oifieraters throughout poemeeed more ability
teen Conereca titere ehrewilneee than the revenue &pat t
ment. co sooner would a regulation of the department
el au net of Coegress be peeled than means would be de
. i•-ed to evade it.
'I he:humeri Intellect emere far more inventive,and skill
Mrere effective, when to incentive for gain isadded
the cn - ovidiug security against detection and
eerie me g
Cur grete e c t.
ommitted the firet great error when the tax
ante
, A as naked to 82 per gallon, by exemption from the opera
tion qr that lawtwhieky then made. In anticipation of
?etch 'elite letioa large quantities were manufactured. The
us hie%Y. rit g thin ae hies ed its first great victory, and has
leer since Leen defeated. 'that law e withoat aiding the
leventle, netted to the operatont from tifty to eeveuteetive
milleen dollare. Can we wonder, when the
nee , :try effect of en actor emigre-se wee to orgonize and
e, ric such men, that they should continue to carry out
et bets,conge.egs inaugurated? That ,act of Congress
was ror their jbenelit rather than the codntry, and they
liar e {made every act of congreee from that day inure to
tilt it ?benefit Congreee can, therefore, well be modest in
ui brdiding otheriawhen it itself created and furnished the
et, pit i tt for those who now elude its vigilance, and set at
devil ce its enectments. From that one law the ring iu a
tew months realized in profits more than the government
bathii revenuet in three years.
'the dealere. Of tonne; kept op thelorice of Whieky until
the etock on Mind wee sold, when it became their interest
to cheat the got eminent of the tax on new whisky, and
from that timeit has nut told in the market for 52,ranging
teem 51 20 to te'l HI
Luting all this time the people have been vainly hoping,
Congress bee been 'vigorously legielating, the department
actively training rules_ Yet all has been as ropes of nand.
Congress enacted that if whisky gold for lees than /32 the
purchaser meet chow that the tax had been paid. The
Trice of whietcy Ltemediately went down. The nest recti
teieg houeee, alcohol &glitters and druggiets everywhere,
tallest dealers, that it, honest as the law and its admin
ist mien would allow them to be. commenced its viola.-
ilen. Vi bat could an home rectifier do in business pay
lc e 52. when his reckless neighoor would pay only $1 50—
tl; ue the government actually forced honeet men into_
tenkrupte y, by driving them Iron, the business, or into
combination against the law, and to do what they would
otherwise worn to do.
Mane- of the beet rectifiers in the city of New York
frankly - testified that they were compelled to evade
the law or give up the buetuefe. Ito evasion was
shingle; come niakiug out tictimoue laths at the legal value-
Mb, of gelling an the fixed price, and then making to
the purchaser a prevent ot whiskey emlicient to reduce
tee ( set to the market price. officerit contributed to its
N ',lathe]. Tbe statute proatbita the sale of confiscated
a iii- key at lees than tee: if not cold for that, it must oe de
et: oyttl : yet at differ, et tale= by Culled states marshals
I: a re Lia cer at 52, and the purchaser charged with lees
ter actual number of gallone, to reduce the cost to the
I::.iiker trice.
Congress having. failed, the department issued a stria.
peat et der that a receipt for the tax shall accompany all
'the ring, prompt and (mitt in resources, are not
di.cor.c.e tee, the price of whisky is not advanced, tax
toe soon become abuudant, and are cold in the mar
ket as irc.ly a.s whisky.
A lew wicks ago Congress supposed it could shut the
dodo to a large class of brands by enacting that no whisky
liould ho taken trout warehouees except en payment of
t h e t ax . Tnat, like other m.pedieute, was of no avail, the
price of whisky declined, and there was no increase in
the revenues. A New York operator in \Vaehiugton at
the time the law was passed offered an expert Simi() to
toll him how the law could be evaded. The expert told
him, re cell td a cheek for $l,OOO, and the dealer went
home a wiser, soon to be a richer, if not an houester man.
hue for duce years every has been systematically
violated and witn impunity.
All legislation which defeats the purpose for which
th.rigned drives honest men from tersiuese, forces it into
.--the-contrbibi - ire --mase_raptaimm -and - dpraVVIL-furirisires
them inunitultv by withholding punishment. ie au im
justice to the crortn and a reproach to the nation,
The different chimes of frauds, as detailed by many
wtineesea will illustrate the foregoing propositions.
Much is done at the distillery by secret pipes trom the
cistern underground coruecting with rectifying establish
ments apart troin the artillery. By forging brands: this
is an easy matter, for the genuine are nothing but stencil
elates and the forgery cannot be detected. ttemoval in
barrels by connivance of assessors and storekeepers.
Congress attempted to check this class of frauds by author.
ming •the appointment of au inspector for each die.
tilmery, requiring him to be - paid - by the distiller, blue'
making him a creature of the distiller. The frauds wereso
meal tic under this system that the law was aeon re
pesled. Plans to defraud were devised with tar more
Skill, and executed with greater fidelity than thoso to
collect the revenue. This was evidenced in_the frauds
convected- with-bonded warehouses. — ltr the trans
imrtation of whisky, a, permit would be obtained
to transport, say one' thousand barrels, naming
the destination. Instead of one lot, ten would probably
be started, at different times and by di ff erent routes.
Should either lot be eeized.on the route tt e permit would
ne offered and the whisky released. One lot would go
into warehouse and the remaining nine thrown up.4l the
market as free. The probabilities are that this ono lot
would be finally stolen away; the nextprocesai
would be to take it out on re distillation bonds or for
change of package, keep its day, take out one half, bring
it back, and a pliant storekeeper give the necessary cot.
tificates showing its return. If the operator* were deter
mined to steal from the government to the last dollar, an
exp , rtation bond would thenbe filed, the whisky put on
the market, the barrels filled with water and shipped.
In due time a consul's certificate from the port to which
it was consigned would be produced to cancel the bond
tor exportation. Here the bonds for each transfer would
bo good and tt.e government completely swindled.
A more ingenious device was resorted to, whereby
millions were lost to the treasury by fraudulent
bonds. A man of straw would turn up as owner of
whisky in bond. Bondsmen of the same description
mil n as security, justify by oath as to value of
propertY, be approved ltiy collector, whis tken
and put en the market as free. Afterwards said bo nd s lee
examined and the fraud is apparent, and five-twentica
and stock they swore to possess were more illusion, and
the real estate proved to have real owners. This gpeclua
of fraud was confined to certain dicer eta, allowing that
the officials must have been in complicity.
A plan who does not exercise for the government
a small part of the zeal and fidelity lie would ' bring to
the management of Ida mwn . offers is liable to the sus
picion of either being a fool or a knave, and it usually re'
quires more, brain than the former poesesses to get a
posifionnuderthis government. -
To such an exte nt was this carried that bondbrokora
were numerous w furnished such bondsmen
for a consideration. • The . same hind ef securities
would be furnished by distille,rs. eo that if , detected iu
their villainy the Government had no redress.
tibme warehouses had, the appliances of fraud con
nected. with them easily, to be seen and detected except
by °liken shorn to protect the revenue. A large estab
liehment was seized belonging to a firm lately moved
from a Southem state, who engaged In the whiskey busi
ness as rectifiers. The ,y had no difficulty in securing for
-a broken-dorm Southerner the appointment of
warehouseman; the rectifying establishment and
warehouse-was in the, same building, occupying
the mime floors, -a partition and door separating; the same
doorway received and delivered whisky of the 'firm, and
that,,lis bond, while near the rof was an alcohol dia.
Unary. 'The bank: book of ' tho 'storekeeper 'recharge.
whose legitimate pay is $5 per day.found to equal home of
the millionaires of,-that, city, and among the papers of the
*firm a letter. from Ori agent abroad urging speedy ship.
meats, also containing the g ratifying ahnotincement that
consul bailie/Mired him he ,would . 11301.04 r count the.
higtelereeelyed +induct exemine.the contents • -
The eibtrfe.eekt l nneft et4ketleett in all the area , cities
of the Union. en :ru s h go them with the came seal
and recklesarititis that ent husiasts do to now gold fields.
' Men who had been demoralized by eintracts and cotton.
brokerage during the war; those whe were engaged in the
rebel service auddenly resort to this; to them more harm.
letLemstlinktjJoinitre„,thes- Government... Very nehlt_t:
have retrieved the fortunes they lost in the field ciao
bond, on which tho treasury lost $50,000. was aided
through by one who a few years ago was a distinguished
rebel general.
The whisky ring is atronger than political combine,r
tions. controlling the selection of inspectors; in some
inetances it has dictated the appointment of consuls. to
have a willing tool at foreign , pmts. In New York dlr.
ic E day consuteertigeatts. r hu_obtained easily As tax_
receipts. 2
l'he proof shevred Wthiderful facility in bribing store
.
keepers carrying e. eye end the turatessors ma ng re.
turtle for the dllitillery. In one district was five dietil
leries. The one enamelled capacity and manufacturing
the Meet paid what Ito owner ehoao, yet paid more reve
nue than the Pim' combined, The owner thought he
could do better, engaged a political partner, went to
another dietrict, paid no tax to the government,
labile Olken knelt he wan publicly manufacturing. How
ever, the government harpies were numerous and greedy;
they laid him finder heavy contribution, were more griC•
,anus tandem than the legitimate tax, and the distillery
closed. Nearly all the dintilleriea have thus paid for a
partini or tote' exemption.
Infortunately, the prevent law offers an opportunity
and inducement to the ring and official plunderers, the
enormotie tax furnishing ouch a fund that men, certain of
cream: from punielinient, carnet withstand the great
temptation. The theory of the law, its PARK
penalties, and forfeitures, would catiefy the
areh age ofapraco, yet the violators are unlinrined:
tiny, not the government, are benefited. The um
principled, threatening its harsh provisions, will Pelee
the innocent and guilty and release each for a can.
eidei atiom They can seize dintiliefies, the store: of
rectifiers, druggiets, and wholesale dealers, for none are
free from this system of espoinage. They can also seize
booke and papers, and close th e concern for any substan
tial or technical violation. The owners know that in
most Inntancee the telzuren are only covers to extort
money. and, rather than have business closest and them
meivee gazetted, will pay the sten demanded. Because
stern provinione exist in the law, Congress thinks its
enactments whet' and (Alien:lons while ollicera nee its
harehneee to make seizures with the only object of pecu
niary gain.
bottle of the worst of mien secure appointments as in•
epectore and agents—solve who have lately graduated
from the Stater prison, mid others who have been in the
rebel 'service. tine woo in the rebel army, a colonel be
fore Atlanta, with a luau Friday la rebel ulster), paid his
conitlimente to distillers, and solicited interviews at hie
parlor in the betel.
Men from oilier Statue, strangers in New York, obtain
conimiiieloria for thirty days as whisky. inspectors. For
vvlietobject? There can be but one explanation. Take
an instance: A man lion: the Stale of Tennewee, a far
mer rejoicing in a name indicative of Inraelitieh armee
t 3 , , who probably knew nothing of the distillation of
whisky, and knew more about a hog trough than
he did of a mash tub, by request of the
President was commissioned for thirty
days to visit New York to watch distillers, to trap the
shrewdest body of men la the republic. This patriot
leaves his quiet home in nenneeeee, jioeB to the city of
.SCIN erk (where, without the aid of the police, ho
would probably be lost in its mysterious labyrinths), to
serve his country for one month at four dollars per day.
The whole thing is no plain that he who runs may
read.
A revenue inspector in New York city called upon a
collector and stated to him he could furnish au opportu
nity where each could make :Me(() a month. elle col
lector assured him he would be glad of the opportunity if
legitimate. The propoettion, as submitted, contemplated
taking whisky out of bond for exportation, substituting
water for eau eat, and putting the whisky on the mar
ket. 'With eel aof the guilty proposition, the col
lector reported t •ase to the department, and the die
honest inepectur was retained, not with the approba
tion of either Mr. Rollins or the decretary of the
'I napery.
lu hie last annual message to Congress Andrew John
eon, ram ring to theee great frauds, although they had
been existing for three years without any let or hindrance
from him, 69'8 that tue system of collecting revenue
"fives much disorganized by the tenure of office hill; • •
but, under the law which I have named the utmost I can
do is to complain to the Senate, and ask the privilege of
supplying his place with a butter mina" • * "The buy
doee.not define what :hall be deemed good cause for re.
revival." Concluding his strictures he begs for mercy;
'But alljust men will admit that the President ought
to be entirely relieved tram such reeponeioility. if he can.
not meet it by reason of restrictions placed by law upon
his actions." The pure minded Johnson, in hie anxiety
to relieve hirmelf of deserved odium, by reason of the
dishonest execution of the revenue lawe, skulks he
hied the Tenure of Office bill. He admite that it is a
law which he must obey. He says: "2ly hands are tied
by tide law, therefore the system is demoralized."
recognized its binding effect upon him. No desire then
to test its constitutionality, and get the judgment of the
Supreme Court. No pretence then that no can disobey
the law because his judgment dieapprovee it. The cha
racter of a thief in office was too sacred to be interfered
with; no ad interim olhcer then sent to till his place. No
matter, millions being stolen from the treasury, Johnson
said, I can only accuse. Wny did tie not do that?
But he steeds pouting at Congress and the
laws, encouraging (ranee by declaring hie unwillingness
to check. But he conceded the power of the tenure-of
etlice bill, and that it was a law, arguing not that he
should disobey it, but it crippled him. Ilia owe position I
is a subterfuge. and cannot relieve him for toe responsi
bility. lie ie willing to displace the hordes ofiplunderera
who, are eating out the substance of the people.
lie Men the Power to-day to remove thieving inspectors
and roving, robbing agents, but he delighle to retain
them. Be has power to euepend dishonest collectore_arui_
an eensore, but he chooses not to do so.
lie had no . dil4ully , in suspending asollector in Brook.
lyn, the least guilty of thote againat: whom chargea were
made, et ho wee too confiding and been overreached;
the evidence rhoived that his hands had
cot been stained with any of the money dl.
verted from the treasury. There were othere, at the
name time, whore sins were greater hy far who were left
untcathed He recognized the binding force of the
tenure—Of-office bill by suspending one collector, which
rirtuallyditplaced him from office. The power was left
in his hands to arrest faithlees othcere. He ehowed to the
country that his hands were tied only when he wanted
them to be. tan we wonder that fraud permeates every
branch of the service when the klaecutive manifesto BO
little regard for lair dealing? He virtually tells the plea
dereni to plunder Atilt more, that he means not to exec
cite any reetraint upon them. He intende there ehalt bo
no check upon tavoritee whom he Lae (meted on the tree
fury. As an instance, ho had appointed cotton agent, a
gentleman founetly trout lulu...dee, who seized tome
cotton, for which the owners cued the Government and
obtained a portion; the government compromised by
paying an amount agreed upon; there wee no pretence
for any informer's there, yet Johnson cunningly
eekti, intimater, end calls attention of the secretary and
others to the settlement of this man's claim, when lie
knew there could be no honest claim—rather than offend
the Executive, his friend was allowed to take V 38,000
fr e m_on Tre. v. an ry
. . -
Piundwing by officials has been encouraged. Some
friends of the Prenident irons Washington called on col
lecture and assessors in the full of ldtid. requesting from
each a contribution of $5,000, when it was known tnat the
annual salary of each, b honest, did not much exceed
that cum. V 1 as not that an intimation that an attempt
on their part to obtain more than the legal salary would
not be severely - criticised at headquarters:. in one dia
tii, t the eoilecwr made the distillers pay tribute, and the
*5,041 tt":l2 realized. Who has any doubt that wits a pay
ing investment?
he lestat of thin law in driving honest men front the
trade is singularly exemplified in New York city. Every
man eurrievd distilling rive years ago has men force d
out, ail trio manufacture is now in the hands of the
-cnionious, Jew s monopolizing the greater part. Some•
times a worthless creature is suede the ostensible owner,
with a view of signing bonds, making affidavits, with no
money to pay penalties and forfelturen. and no charac
ter p, lose on .expoeure. do Jews are beginning to control
the or holesale trade, rectifying and alcohol dis•
ti Heti( n, honest men finding the pressure too great. Un
less t ougresn grants relief all good men will be driven
out. V. hut a reproach upon the nation and Its legislation,
twat honest men, engaged in legitimate business. ate not
p, oteeted inn trade which for years they have been
creative, in which large capitalle invested: who are com
pelled to sacrifice their character or their business, and
have it turned over to abandoned and depraved men who
grew rich becauad of their depravity, and profits are
shared by officer - 0 for violations of that law of which
they are sworn guardians!
oeruatterfrom what cause, the law is anbatantiallv
a dead letter, a signal failure; the revenues have gradus
ally decreased, until to-day lees is collected than at any
_timasshen.ttallaw,was passed. With all our experience
no sy,eni baa - been advined-td , -onfoweite - eXtientkas -- .
'the question then recurs as to the remedy. The disease
le deep seated, and nothing will be of any avail except
it reacher the loot. All temperary and temporizing ex
cdieuts will not be worth a trial. At -last a metre is
proposed; this too will be without good results, unless
imot her can be invented Which will gauge the honesty of
government officials. Human Ingenuity will be inventive
to flesh out means to prevent an honest register by an am
.-tomatie machine. It honest men handle the metre it
will doubtless record correctly; but if honest men had
charge. of distilleries no metre would be necessary. If
dishonest men have charge it will register Just what
Mime and greentnialta dictate. Cheat) as is water in all
cities, eater metres are tampered with.
Whatever of force there may be. It is
the fact that spirit metre& are- discarded-by all
ceontrie F which have rued them. That a large distillery
has been running
_f ec some time put tn the eity_of New .
York withdmetre at tire tail of the still. is conclusive
and irresistible evidence that the thing is a failure and a
unlit'. No one bslievee that a distiller can pay Eli for
every gallon manufactured and then sell It in the market
for hi 611.
First of all is needed a simplification of the system and
abolition of bonded warehouses, that the great and rapa
elous army of othciala may be mustered out.
Second, that the tax should be materially reduced,
and collected at. the atilt estimating the capacity.
All plans looking to a correct estimate of production are
liable to serious 'objectiobs and many abuses, but 'the
capacity system hakprobably the least. Exports can as
certain to a reasonable certaMY:bruthie Judgment !Ten
quantity of beer, fermenting power, elze of atilt, surtace
of heat, and extent of steam; then storeket per, agents,
and inspectors might be consigned to the honest walks of
life.
The tax should be reduced to fifty cents per gallon.
The history of all nations shows that a tax greatly in ex
cces of the cost of,pro action increases the risk of deter
mined frauds and. v olatione. Smuggling itt never so
generally practicedin.ao remunerative as when duties
are high. ro manufacture whiskey costs from thirty to
forty cents a gallon, so that the tax is six times the coat of
production. ,
,
By the reductlen, double the amount of revenue would
be received and more , important than all, the govern
ment would not be furnishing a fund to demoralize Fevs
nue officere and all engaged in the whiskey traffic, from
which fortunes are made so suddenly as to rival
the wonderful tales of Aladdin's lamp. I)IstII.
lation from pain requires,. cumbrous ma
chinery, end • the
_place carithlts *malty be kept
BCC] t so that most il licit. production is from "whines,
costicc from eighty cents to one defier per gallon. A tax
o tiffs.cents onlyuld enable spirits from the cereals
to drlverum from t ifo market. •At all events, the margin
would be so tiltalirOSties wOulit not huger& the chances.
Consumers now. ay tha two• dellins tax, about one
tenth of high goes b the got:eminent. The people would
willingly pay the two dollani if it went Into the treasury,
but not to enrich the spoiler. •
The theory and figures look well on paper: IOCOPO,OOO
callers, at two dollar& making $2004000,0* if collected,
would enable us to abolish taxation on many of the neces-
Holes of life. •There ir , wiedtint in* that philosophy
which directs that we upon things. as
they are, and not VP they should he. The truth Is.lhis
N
tax has neverbeen collected. and never will be; better
by far that whi*,y pew free. , than, the_ mockery/pow
existing. Ifoneet mien in the' trade, and those who ?NAV
been forced ' onti men of large' And intelligent expo
derma. and desiring the tea to • be coUeeted; concur that
it ahould be reduced, while the Jews.the. ring,the rob.
Wog officials. the Allielt.diatiller, , are, *greed ;last the
present rate ahoeld be retained .
110 w is it proposed textdneeto. it better inihtitutttii thin ,
the past? NV het assume° havetyou `honk Andredr Jethut
remand if tbo alintinistration by impeachment Or tao votd
o f the peotle be .chinged. What ilea anise , hare you that
human nature, under any other,adminletration. will not „
be as easily NedUced?" , ProfeellOttal polltiotAns wilt con.
trot some , orthe appointmente. aufb-eirperteeee shows.
unfortunately, that it is not always in the power of
partnto exalt Itself above thoatigndueures which destroy,
•
benefit). when perfional gain and advancement are the re.
wards for crime.
ouglannt taignornthe:expedanees• 4.)U-they-ultra:
certainly not of our Man; in 1864, when tit° tax was
twenty and sixty cento, nearly ea much revenue was re.
alized as in 1866. - -
- .
Our tax is really higher than in England. They use the
imperial gallon, whichls onafifth more than. the wine,
gallon in use in this country, and their standard of taco'
hol is fifty-seven, while ours Is fifty. But in England
illicit distillation cannot be prevented, and the revenues
ot-those-imdar-amore-modera :
tax. There mall eine are prohibited; none of Capacity
less than four. hundred *anon*, so that the buidneas
has been forced Into few hands. England has 8;
Ireland, 23; Scotland, 117; total, 148. New Yorkcity alone,
Philadelphia alone, lifts more than the United Kingdom,
ito that in a country of limited area, denim population,
with a moat caul ully prepared system of laws, and thor
oughly organized and experienced corps of revenue ofli•
ems, with few diatillerles, it has teen impossible to pre
vent illicit distillation and evasions of the excise.
In Great Britain. whisky for manufacturing purposes is
free; it is rendered impossible for drinking purposes by
mixing "wood-naplitha." The British commissioner ad
mits that "It is scarcely too much to say that it this mix
ture hod not been devised for the relief of our manufac
tures, it would have been almost Impossible to re
tain the present high rate of duty." No nation has been
able to retails higs, taxes except England; no others have
.them to-day.
ilieCtilloch, an English writer, says: "The imposition
of duties does riot lessen the appetite for spirits; and as
co vigilance of the officers or ae=ity ,f the laws has
been found Buthelent to secure a iMopoly of time market
to the legal distillers, time real effect of the high duties has
been to throw the aupply of a large proportion of time de
mand into the hands of the illicit distiller, and to mu.
. . • •
peradd the atrocities of the smuggler to the idleness and
dissipation of the drunkard."
A duty of four cents a gallon was levied nude!: Charles
11. From this point It was increased, until intemperate
zeal and fiscal rapacity nearly oxtinguiehed all receipts
from distilled spirits. •
In 1730, rays McCulloch, an act was passed, ''the history
and effect of which deserves to he studied by all who are
clamorous for au increase in the dude's on spirits. The
effect of this act was directly the opposite what was coct•
tsisplatcd by the ministry, Respectable people with
drew from the trade, and Use business fell into the hands
of the loss est and most profligate characters. The pee
-1 le espoused the cause, of the smugglers and unlicensed
dealers; therollicers of the revenue were openly assaulted
in the streets; informers were hunted down like
wild beasts, while drunkenneas, disorder and crime in
creased with a frightful rapidity. In Ms the high duties
were repealed.
The tax should be collected at the distillery and after
leaving there the whisky should be free ;no spies to follow
It into the rectifier's, the druggist's or- dealer's, to Bake
stores, break open safes, and examine the private pacers
of the citizen. Such espionage is not compatible with the
habits of our people or the apfrit of our institutions.
The great temperance and moral sentiment of the coon
try should favor a reduction of the tax. With increase
of taxation drunkenness has focreased. Distillers have
wonderfully multiplied from 1,193, in 1860, to over 3,000.
Hmnll stills, not before in use. were introduced, so that, at
one time, the coppersmiths of Bt. Louis, Chicago, Cincin
nati, and other cities were engaged on no other work. Pri
vate and public integrity,morality.and temperance will be
promoted bl a return to email taxes. Every man has the
evidence of his senses that sobriety has not been pro
moted tinder the present legislation
If thie law, therefore, has not only increased drunken.
ness but the pecuniary profits on vice, why should not all
favor its modification?
AUCTION NAGE&
BUNTING, DURBOROW at CO.( AUCTIONEERS
Nog, 230 and `S34 MARKET etroob corner Bank ttreet
SUCCESSORS TO JOIIN•13. MYERS & CO.
LARGE PEREMPTORY SALE OF FRENCH AND
OTHER EUROPEAN DRY GOODS, &c.
ON MONDAY MJRNING,
March 16, at 10 o'cicck, ON FOUR MONTHS' CREDIT,
700 lota of French, India, German and Britiah Dry Goods.
LARGE POSITIVE SALE OF FRENCH, SAXONY,
,BRITISH AND ITALIAN DRY GOODS, arc.
NOTlCE—lncluded in our sale on MONDAY, March 16,
at 10 o'clock, on fuur months' credit, will be found In
part the following viz—
DRESS GOODS.
Pieces black and colored Mohairs, Alpacaa, Empresa
Goth.
do. Fancy Mozambiques and Silk and Wool Plaids.
do. Plain and Fancy Delainea, JBaregea, Scotch
Gingliams.
SILKS.
Pieces black and colored Drap de France and Poult
de Foie.
do. Lyons Black Taffetas. GrO4 du Rhin and Gros
Grains.
Ituft GROSS PEARL BUTTONS.
Of all sizes, plain and fancy, In the beat Engli.h Goods.
—ALS 0—
Ribbons, Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs, Balmoral
and Hoop Skirts, Curtain Muslim, Embroideries,
Umbrellas, &c.
TRIMMINGS; are.
A large invoice of Pada Drava and Cloak Trimmings,
arc„ of a well known importation embracing Galoons.
Gimbs, Bugle and Fancy Tr,mmings, Fringes, Collars, &e.
SHAWLS, &c.
Brodie Border, Stella and Fancy Mozambique Shawle•
Thibet, Springwoad Plaid and Grenadine Swamis.
Cloaks, acc.
LARGE. PEREMPTORY SALE OF BOOTS, SHOES
HATS, CAPS, TRAVELING BAGS, dm.
' -ON - TUESDAY MORNING
March 17, on FOUR MONTHS' 2000 packages
Boots, Shoes, Balmoral& dic., of city and Eastern mane.
facture.
LARGE POSITIVE BALE OF BRITISH, FRENCH.
GERMAN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
ON FOUR MONTHS. CREDIT.
ON THURSDAY MORNING.
March 19. at 10 o'clock. embracing about 1000 Packages
and Lote of Staple and Fancy Articles.
J AMES A. PKERMAN, AUCTIONEE R.
No. 421 W A LNUT street.
REAL ESTATE SALE, MARCH 18.
This Sale, on WEDNESDAY, at 19 o'clock, noon, at the
Exchange, will include—
STOCKS.
On Account of Whom it may Concern.
.9.i0 shares North Carbondale Coal Co.
two shares Keystone Zinc Co. .
100 shares Merrimac Mining Co.
1608 HELMUTH. and 1609 itICHARD STS.-2 Three.
story Brick Dwellings, Seventh Ward; lot 16 by 65 feet.
$2O ground rent. iszeculor's Sale—Estate rtf John WIG
Hams, deed.
TIOOA ST.—A Dwelling and Large Lot, Tioga at. and
Township Line Road. bring 2705 feet front. rErdoe
plan. Orphans' Court Bak—Estate of William Rheiner,
dec'd.
LOT, TIOGA ST.—A triangular lot. corner of Town
ship Line Road, 93 by 114 fret. Same Estate.
SALES ON THE PREMISES, GERMANTOWN.
Peremptor Sale March 19, at 11 o'clock.
VALUABLE MI'LL PROPERLY, wad. ENGINE
and MACHINERY, Armstrong street an 4 the railroad.—
The two Stone Dwellings, with Stone Mill, Engine and
Machinery, bc.
lar Particulars in handbills.
1 , 100 to be paid at the time of sale.
On THURSDAY. March 19, MS. at 12 o'clock, noon.
DWELLING, .141ANUFAOrtlitY and Blau t 'No. 23
ARMAT Two story Brick Dwelling and ld '.
2 Two
story Shope in the rear, lot 35 feet front and 134 feet wide
in the rear by about 150 feet deep. Orphans' Ctntrt &e4s
—.L'etateqt ieldforth, deed.
MACH
MACHlNERY.—lmmediately after the sale of the
above will ho sold the valuable machinery for making
hosiery and knitgoods.
Catalogues may be had at the auction store. •
On MONDAY, March 23, at 2 o'clock P M.
POOR HOUSE and FARM. GERMANTOWN, RIT•
TENHOUSE ST.—A tract at the west corner of Adams
street 262.,99 by 279 feet.
N. CORNER OF RITTENHOUSE and ADAMS STS.—
Large stone house, frame roughcast house, b .rn and lot,
190 by 162 feet.
19 ACRES, intersected by Rittenhouse. Lehman, Morrie
streets and Pulaski avenue, will be divided and sold
according to a recent survey. Thins may be had at the
auction store. Sate NI order of the manaders for the
relief ancLemp/otment of the poor of the tommhip qf
Go mar/totem
• ittIOCEIfBORS TO
MOCLELLAND & CO., Auctioneers,
No. 506 MARKET street
BALE OF 1600 CASES BOOTti, tatOBS. BROGANS,
BALMORALB• &c.
ON MONDAY MORNING.
March 16, commencing at ten o'clock, we will sell by
catalogue, for cash. 164)0 cases men's, boys' and youths'
Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Balmorals,__&c.
Also, a superior assortment of Woolen's, Misses` and
Children's near.
To which the special attention of the trade le called.
C J. WOLBERT, AUCTIONEER.,
18 Sotlth SIXTH street
OLD BRANDIES. WINES. RUM. WHISKY, CRAM
'AGNES. CLARETS.. dm.,
To Close Canal men s.
ON' UESDAY MOH.N.ENO NEXT._
March 17. at 11 o'c Oldo. le South Sixth street —A
large assortment of Flue Liquors, in cages, demijohns
and bottles, warranted strictly pure ma imported. AND.
65 cares Madeira►, Shelly and Port Wines and Old Boor
bon 'Whisky, horn an Old Family. Grocery cud Liquor
Store. Also, cases and baskets Champagne, private
stock. Mr Catalogues now ready. TAM St 4
THE PRINCIPAL MONEY ESTABLISHMENT.. 8. E.
corner of SIXTH and RACE streets.
Money advanced on Merchandise generally—Watches.
Jest elm Diamonds. gold and Silver. Plate. and on all
articles of value, for any laugh of time'siersed
WATCHER AND jltYa,Lit.ll ATRALVATVL 7 4.•
Fine Gold Hunting Casa Doubleßeftom end ti Face
Engfinh i American and On**, Parbt alvet COW'
Fine Gold Hunting Case and Open ace rine Wetehef
Fine Gold Dtrzlex and ether Watches:: Fine'Rilver UM%
Ins Case end Open Face English, A merican and Ow*
Patent. Lever and Leine Watches, Doeble Cade English
Quartior at=t i l t ier Watches: Ladiee' Fancy Watches
Diamond Inc : Finger Rings; Esx-Ftligar; Studs,
dc.; Fine gold %nine. Medallions; Bracelets - Scar:
Fine; Breastidne; Finger Rings ;Pena Cedes and Jewelry
ge Ptrli all ifilLEA large and' valuable Fireproof Chest
suitable for a Jeweler ,• cost ROO. _ •
Abu), several lots in Routh Cam den. Fifth and Chestnut
streets.
THOMAS BIRCH & SO_ A N AUCTIONHERB AN/
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, •
No,lllo CHESTNUT otreet. ,
Rear Enttutteel.l.o7llimeom etr
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE OF EVR W DESCRH:
TION RECEIVED FRIDAYSIGN ENT.
SALES EVERY MORNING
Sales of Furniture at Dwellings atteaded, to ou tdr
moot remould:de porno. • '
• • •
• •
Vit B THOMPSON & CO. s _AUCTIONEEIaI: - '
. CONCERT BUM. AUCTION &AM.. MO 2 .
egim N trT street and 1219 and bi r r4m, stir.,
CARD.—We takopleaettre in info tb4 91/19110 that
our FURNITURE SALES are confined A -Ctli to marsh
NEW add , EIRSZCLa 58 FITBNITURE4 ,an in . we . ea
order and guaranteed In every reaygot. _,
Regular weal or Funuture over. • W SDNEMD&V• •
Out door video oromptbrutter 80 to. , '
TIAVLEI & HARVEY. AiN ti l'lO,N= o , ,,
J. , (Late with tomas
Fult
NMT4E . Store 421 W t "Wr i l irir e fElltßDAli
iabie ES Attila tore E
V
BALES 'AT :AWP 2 4 10 .F# % 7 1 4 ,F1 144 4TP Plrqcsay
attention.
•. • .
- rly BARRI & co.:AUCTIONEE
r •C&811 AINPrIQ
No. 230 IdA rus E"L' enter, corner or ANKetrroct.
Cock adv ced on coneignraento without *gun charge.
bcorra
No.,loslobeetnut stroeu Philawielorus
T AIMBRIDGE /JO.. A[10114.04141M 1.
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O. IMS MARKET duet, sbovr JAW..
AVOTION
TEOIA63II 80N8 AUOTIONEEEE-.
Nos. amid lel South FoothitifirieL. --
OALIS OF STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE__
111 r Publlo saes alb° thhadalphla EsebangeNVAlNS
ESDAY, at 1.2 o'clock.
/Br Handbills of each property issted. _
dition.to which we publish, on the Sat reYiollll
each sale, one thousand catalogues, in pamphletrow.,
viz ...
d tio of all the .ro to be sofd
at Private Bale.
Sir Our Sales are also advertised in the followbat
newspapers : NOB= Asesetroare, Pima, Laws% Lanai
Irrnmijortforg, .Incimarn, Asa, Evnaneo Struirrias s
EVENTRO 'l'noton.aru. OERMA2I DISZIOORAT, ace.
Cl!" Furniture Bales at the Auction Store EVERY
rlrriitsDAY.
SW' Sales at residences receive especial attention,
STOCKS, LOANS. Sec.
ON TUESDAY. MARCH. 17.
At 1.2 o'clock noon, at the Philadelphia Exchange••
20 shares Schuylkill NaVigation. common.
69 do. do. do. preferred.
600 shares Coal Ridge llnprovement Co.
Ti7o do, do d o. ye per ct. preferred.
ro oboes Union Bank Tennessee.
25 shares North reansylvania Railroad.
5 shares IlorticAtural Hall.
150 shares Little Schuylkill Railroad.
1 share Academy Fine Al te.
Executors' Sale.
20 shares Camden and Amboy Railroad. '
For Other Accounts
-30 shares Second r *atonal Bank.
67 shares Commonwealth National Bank.
17 shares North American National Bank.
fiu shares Northern Liberties rifts.
26 shares Old Township Tu , npiko,
10 shares Reliance Insurance co.
150 shares Lombard and South Streets Passenger
Railway Co.
6 shares Broad Mountain Coal Co.
700 shares Shamoken Coal Co.
211 sharer Baker eilver Mining Co.
$4OOO North 51Issouri 7 percent. Bonds.
Stitt° Delaware State 6 per cent
3 shares Philadelphia and Southern Steamship.
000 shares Dicllhony Oil Co.
$10,500 Cohn Canal Sixes.
$13,000 Lehigh Navigation Ist Mortgage R.R. Loan. into_
rest quarterly. Clear taxes
REAL ESTATR SALE. MARCH 17.
Orphans' Court Sale—Estate of Thomas Roll, deed.—
TIIREE-STORY FRAME DWELLING. Poplar at., west
of Old York Road, 12th Ward.
Same Estate—BßlCK and FRAME DWELLING..
Frankford road. south of Cumberland et, 19th Ward.
VALUAOLE BTAINEBB STAND-FOUR-31 ORY STONE
STORE, No. 418 Arch at-20 feet front, 124 X feet deep.
Assignees , Peremptory BaIe—MODERN THREE.
STORY BRICK DWELLING, No, 812 North Twentieth
street.
MODERN THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE.
yard,with side No. 1624 Poplar at-83 feet front.
TWO-STORY FRAME DWELLING. S. E. corner of
Front and Parham's allay, north of Catharine at
MEDICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS DOORS,
IN 4TRUMENTaL MUSIC, arc.
UN FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
March 13, at 4 o'clock.
Sale No. 1928 Race street.
VERY ELEGANT WALNUT DRAWING ROOM
SUITS. PIANO, MIRRORS, BRUSSELS CARPETS.
dtc., dm.
ON TUESDAY MORNING,
March 17. at 10 o'clock, at Zr.t 192 Race street, bi cats
logue. wry elegant_Carved _Wank, and. rich Crimson
Brocatelle Drawing-room Sults. handsome Centre Tables,
Extension Table. Rosewood Piano Forte, French Plato
Mirrors, Chandeliers, Brussels Carpets, Maiiings, &c.
RAPE AND VALUABLE FOSSIL REMAINS.
GREAT IRISH ELK OR MOUSE DEER.
ON TUESDAY MORNING
March 17, at 11 o'clock. at The Auction Rooms. three
Skeletons (complete) of the. Great Iri.h Elk or 'MOM
Decr. (species now extinct) measuring 11 feet 8 inches, 12
feet 1 inch and 13 feet 2 inches across tho horns by the
head; also, Anders, Heads, Bones, &c. To Colleges, Mu
seams and institutions of Natural Sciences this gala
oilers a rare opportunity far securing epeciminusof this
wonderful animal.
rifr . One specimen may be seen at the Academy' of Na
tural Sciences, in this city. Tickets of admission may be
had at the Auction Booms. The remainder may be seen
at the Aubtron Roams. Salo Peremptory.
Sale No. 555 North Sixthatreot.
VErtY SUPLItIoR FURNITURE.
ROSEWOOD PIANO, FINS. VELVET CARPETS, dtc.
March 18, O a N
10 WEDNESDAY
o M S OR NIN t G,
Sixth street.
below Green, by catalogue, superior Furniture, including
Walnut and Brocatelle Pallor Furniture, superior Chant.
ber and Dining room Furniture, fine toned Rosewood
Hano Forte, by Vogt; Velvet and Brussels Carpets.
Kitchen Utensils, &c.
May be seen early on the morning of sale.
• Admlrdstratrix's Sale.
HORSES, MULES. DRAYS, &c. •
ON THURSDAY MORNING,
March 19, at 9 o'clock, at the northwest corner Twenty
second and Market streets, will be cold by order'of the
dminiatratrix, 3 Horses, U Mulct, 1 - Truck, 3 Drays, lot
of Harness, dtc.
Rald No gCS WalunrettfOL
SUPERIOR FURNITURE, MIRRORS, PIANO, CUR-
TAINS, CHANDELIERS. CARPETS, &c.
ON FRIDAY MORNING.
March 20. at 10 o'clock. at No. 9.8 NValnut street. by
catalogue, the superior Parlor, Dlning-room, Chamber
and iiai Furniture, Curtains, China, Glass and l'lated
Ware. fine Matresses. Blankets, tine' sebi' and other
Carpets. &c. Also, the Kitchen Furniture.
MIPECIAJe NOTlCliells
OFFICE OF THE MORRIS CANAL AND .
BANKING COMPANY.
JERSEY CITY. March 10; 1801.
Notice is hereby given. that the Annual Election for
Five Directors of the Morris Canal and BankinaCookoaakir
(in the place of Class No. 3. whose term of office will theca
expire,) will he held at the office of the Comeau,: in
Jet eey City, on MONDAY. the stitth day. of April pent.
The poll will be open from ono to two o'clock P. AL
'the Transfer Books will be closed from the 16th Inst. to
April 6.11 inclusive. JOHN RODGERS.
mllll tap 6 Secretary.,
law- OFFICE OF THE GRAND ISLAND IRON CO.
'"'" No. 121 Walnut street.
PIITLADELPIILL, Feb. Mil
In compliance with Section 1. Act March 6. 1861. of •
Legislature of Michigan, a meeting . of the Stockholders of
the Grand bland Iron Company will be held at the Com
pany's Office, in this city, No. 121 WALNUT street, on the
80th day of March, 1868, at 12 M. for the purpossef author
izing a sale of the property of said Company in Schoolczan
county, State of Michigan.
By order of the Board of Directors.
fe29tmh3ol GORDON MONCIES, Secretary.
PENNbYLVANIA • MINING COMPANY OF
116 r. MICIIIGAN.—Ncrtice is hereby given that the An
nual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Pennsylvania
Mining Company of Michigan will be held at their Mike;
No. MAS Walnut street, Philadelphia. on MONDAY. the
Sixth day of April,lBG3. at 12 M., at which time and place
an election will be held ror Dtrerters to serve tits , Qom
.
pony the existingYrid
i.mittrittA, March 3 d . 86
f. P . WEA. B. geereferV.
Pnt
mh,lst ap6s
ger BOHEMIAN MINING COMPANY OF MICH
IGAN.
PHILADELPHIA. March 12,1868.
The annual meeting of the Stockholdere of this Com
pany will be held at their office, nu South Fou,th street.
Philadelphia. on MONDAY, the lath day of April, A. D.
18t;8, at 12 o'clock noon. at which time and place an elec
tion will be held for Director . . to serve the ensiling year.
JOSEPH G. EIENSZEY. P
Secretary .T.
mblpl4
seir- MERRIMAC MINING COMPANY OF LANE
SUPERIOR.
- -
PHILADELPHIA. llia , •ch 19, 1868.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholdera . of this Coin
_ DlN;delp
ilithoenldiroti4iisiat,lifi%WthBodll4ltokfOlAti,tAerlik.
1868, at 12 o'clock nom], at which time and place an elec
-tion-will-belield'forore to serve the,a_lMWS_V/Ilr,
1111112 tapl4 WM. MURMY,lleeretarrr. 'l'.
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, C^HINER OF
FRANKFORD ROAD and PALMER STREET
(opposite Now York Kensington Depot), in charge of the
Sisters of St Francis.
Accident cases received if brought immediately After
eception of injury.
Lying in cases received at a moderate rate of board.
Free medical and surgical advice given on Wednesday
►nd Saturday Afterttoons.between 4 and 6 Welk. felatf
figar. OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE COAL COW
PANY, . ,
PHILADIMPUI.I. 4 February 18, Ufa
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this tient,
Pony and an Election for Directors. will be held,at No.
316 Walnut street. on WEDNE3DAY, the 19 lb day a
March nest at 11 o'clock A. M.
fela,Bo? R: 'WHITE. President:'
I ;LIN :* Di, f ;DJ: Dt , o).'kt :4_, yr t
uLIMm
TAMES & LEE ARE. NOW ()LOSING OUT THEW:
N. entire SW* of Winter Goods et very low prima, cone.
pflaina every variety of gocde adapted to fan., and
Bole` wear. •
• OVERCOAT GLOMS.
Dagen Heaven.
Colored Caetor Beafeh.
Black and Colored Emulated=
Black and
B Colczilt o niau,
COATINGEI in . e ,
'Black French Cloth. - • •
Colored French Cloths.
Tricot, all colors.
M YR "
PANTALOON STU asigalalit.
' Black French Caselmeree.
Black French Doeakina. -
Fancy Cacchnerea.
4 ViriferTtl e. 4' 4
Mao, largo awrhirlartgot, B e t • "
netand Goods adaptedqe Dere. we r
til ii - ...a
rata' . ,114,77
No. hi N l2 r l U• B4 * ll -Aliltr. Etta ciAtta ntdaa
i'iiiiii'*6iki.:'
UPWARD ROBINS it i o:,
rB.AXILUtt.‘I9/0 BROKBIA ,
Removed from ct. AN pouch T URn street.
To Na NI South THIRD street,
Next door to Mechanics' National Bank. • attOir•
ALE&