iIiftSINESS licrricEs.
4thrariadVer, Inventor . and Mannfae
• liZeWhe rste4,ltroli :num Piano,. has reeotrod
Medal at tbo World's Groat. MxhiblifoUt Eon
, dew. luglatut.,_lrks ,b_hrhowel prigue._,awardoil whim And
orbiluUM. Ilfatenixreas, MI Arch Iftreot.
t tioluid IVA , ..ggyhara w tf§
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'411,D., haw, foribe butt refir, bem' yelling my ale-
CM . 1 1M. ammo god upright Pianos; Oleo
intacf *Wm, wally 'au ,as at imy toraler
at an Woo* to gotlturit. toßidltimee'
lariolaNiotkki Piano op by, boroOle Mud& maraltil
siatorantsatishaeno.
GOULD, •
lade Iclo.ll2343heetnut street.
way 16 Soma' Grand square and
t tiaboaiWith their newly patonted firoanator,
lee the.origlhal tribune of sound clur tivtays be
• 110804110d.the againews in la violige At.
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;44E4 t• •41
DistiUSIPS IPlltsso —_
itkrE3 AT FIXED PRISES.- '
IDS:* 89010 statid-rentruted Planse; Marshal
allWatir'ioceiebratedrianoc)lhne Hon e' beantiru
*Woos, atmices %be' very loweet t _l NSW Pianos to rent
, • . 11, DUTTON,
~ • anti - 112s Chestnut street.
NING BULLETIN.
'l l 4 ll ~.Deeengiber 6;11869.
THE vinvEßsurry.
The University of 'Pennsylvania has 'now
ken.befnre, the public' and the municipal an
.:sl'unities for many months as apetitionerforthe
Intrileps of buying a portion of the Almshouse
jpreperty, for the purpose of erecting suitable
inildings for such a University as becomes a
itity Ivhich desires to retain the high position it
lies long occupied as one of the prominent seats
,e learning in America.
'Jfhe proposition of the University is in lieep
lug with the spirit of the times. Philadelphia
is waking up to a better appreciation of her
Amin importance and her own capabilities for
:neatness than she has exhibited in the , past
generations. We ought not to find fault with
„that old leaven of solid, sober conservatism which
jbe early supremacy of the Society of Friends
: mixed with all the social, educational, com
mercial
atid other interests and enterprises of
the Quaker City. That leaven exercised a
wholesome influence upon the growing cont.:
vanity; which, if it has kept Philadelphia
:back for a generation or two in the &Teat race
' , for American pre-eminence, has implanted
.4rinciPles and practices among the people
which will make themselves felt for good, for
'generations to come.
Philadelphia is now moving forward with
the steady, intelligent, well-directed force of
a'people conscious at last of a great undevel;-
' oped strength.. The people found themselves,
when, the Rebellion tried them, capable of
aebievements which they would have .pro
nounced impossible before, and their wakened
consciousness will never sleep again.
As a seat of learning Philadelphia still shines
with the radiance of her by-gone glories.
Fourth in the list of American colleges, her
University has, for a century and a quarter,
been famous, the civilized world over, espe
cially in its medical department. A long and
unbroken line of illustrious names forms the
roll of the faculty of the University, of , Pent- .
sylvania, and its diploma has always been the
best approved passport to all the great schools
of medicine in foreign lands: Its alumni are
scattered through all the learned professions of
America, honoring their Alma . Mater by the
records they have made for themselves hi the
various walks of life which they have adorned.
Animad the University have been elnstered a
Aisterhood of associations devoted to the several
departments of scientificknowledge, the vener
able American Philosophical Society, the His
torical. Society, the Academy of Natural Sci
awe, the Numismatic and Antiquarian SoCiety,
the Jefferson College, and others, which have
all contributed to maintain a high reputation
as a centre of
. scientific learning.
• The people at large cannot easily over-esti
mate the importance of sustaining the su
premacy of Philadelphia in this respect. Until
recently, the University of Pennsylvania, in its
literary department at least, has been suffering
under the depression consequent upon the gene
ral tone of apathy which so long retarded all
Philadelphia enterprises. Harvard and Yale
and Brown• and other universities, enriched
with the magnificent endowments of liberal
citizens, have been able to gather into their
'faculties anti attach to their curricula attrac
timis that have drawn hundreds of our young
men away from their homes to seek those
educational advantages which they ought to
Lind in their own city. ~But the University of
Temiunivania has awaked to a new career.
New blood has been poured through her
shrunken veins, and she has taken a new lease
of a vigorous and glorious life. In this regen
eration the whole people should feel themselves
interested. Whatever distinctionj the
University of Pennsylvania wins, re
flects credit • and advantage upon
the city of Philadelphia. The University has
am private or separate interests. It stands,
and has stood for more than a century, as the
representative of the highest intellectual culti
vation of this city, and as stall, its interests are
the interests of the whole community.
The noble effort which the University is now
making to put itself upon the true footing
which s uch an institution ought to occupy, haS
been met with much opposition, which, if not
selfish in its character, has beet), at least, very
short-sighted and illiberal. The proposition to
_procure a good site for the , University on a
-portion of the Alinshintse property has been
ctreated, in some quarters, very Hunch as if 'it
'ee a private speculation by which money was
to be made for sonic private corporation. The
grant has either been entirely denied by this
glass of persons or has been so saddled and
tuunpered with conditions as to make it practi
sally useless. This feeling is wrong. Phila
delphia is to be directly lx_mefitted by the
establishment of such a great centre of learn--
tug as the University of Pennsylvania now
offers toontr people, mid it would be no very
extravagant thing for the city to present the
University the with ground that is asked for,
gratuitously. It would be well appropriated,
to apply it thus to a cause which would not
only add to the permanent fame of Philadel
phia, blit would attract the young men Of all
parts of Ole country to this city, as the medical
department of the University haS done, these
hundred years past.
TIME COLLECTION OF TAXES.
is very evident that in the city of Phila
iielphia the receivinu and collecting of taxes
must be made two entirely separate and dif
*trent things. The exposition of the present
*tate of our finances, as made by the Finance
4C/ommittnee of Councils, has aroused an anxious
inquiry into the subject Of the enormous de
"licit in the municipal revenues, resulting from
the non-collection of the arrears of taxes. Be'-
ween five and six millions of outstanding
taxes account sUtliciently for the constant pov
erty of the public treasury, and Councils have
so more important business to discuss than the
sof titiol) of the beat method of collecting these
- ' iliriAl3lllB
No. ma ki ho'nft n t street.
4st-elms
,
arrears and preventing their accumulation for
the future. How id this top be'ikukelt
It is evident that the present system will not
answer. Thisimple fact 'that' that' under it this
Mutat aMeunt of arrsani hate gedetiti up`, is
enough to diunonstrate that proposition. The
Pinsijice Conunittee tumid.* acktiOWdliosli o hat
botlforthe plane thOltWe lieett PrOiNtted s ,twe
liable - to - grave ob,3itufi , ' . 4lfe`Cfty' Solicitor
has, already, grdte at. Much business as he can
attend to; ana the SieurJerser "famine
teen,' applied applied Would Ainly, Moat.
in the fob:nation trf atotruPt and` raid:downs
"Tax Ring." i,
There is a better plan than either of these,
to be foruinlin the establishment °fan indepen
dent and permanent Bureau of Collection.
The expellbes',of such a. Pepartment of the
city Crovellunent WOuld be terY lrispog,. 'com
pared =to ..314;. resnits to- to , reached.
Thirty thousand dollars, pei annum, world be
nothing at , compared to the: hundreds of
thousands now lost to the city: ' 'welt a Bu
reau, witla properly qualified dificials, with
liberal salaries and with nofees;eorad collect
erery dollar' of actually outstanding : taxes due
to the city of Philadelphia. Then there should
be a much greater stringency in the lair rega
latine the payment and collection of taxes. - In
stead of the present system, under which five
years have been allowed to elapse .before
liens on real estate have even been threatened
to be peed out, there should be a system
that will make every year's business
take Care of itself. The taxes should
lie payable within the year for which they are
levied. During the first six months of the
year, a gradUated diScount should be allowed
for payment. During the next 'six months,
a graduated per centage should be added for
non-payment, and during the following six
months, every lien should be entered, sued and
:sold out. Every dollar .of these five or six
millions Of arrears is a real estate tax and col
lectable. The arrears of personal taxes are
unregistered, and are over and above all the
huge amount reported by the Finance Com
mittee. We can see no reason why the great
bulk of these arrears cannot be brought into•
the city treasury, and the burden upon the
honest. tax-payers of" Philadelphia be thus
lightened. . ,
But there is a very serious question con
nected with this matter of tax arrears which
the Finance Committee is bound, to probe to
to the very bottom. Are all these taxes really
in arrears ? We greatly doubt it. That they
are arrears to the city is undoubtedly true, but
that a very large proportion of them have been
paid by the citizens of Philadelphia is very
generally believed. It would pay well if Coun
cils would authorize the publication of the tax
arrears of more than two years standing, as it
would probably bring to light tax receipts of
hundreds of thousands of dollars now on the
books of the Receiver of Taxes.
We hope that Councils will follow up this
important subject earnestly, honestly and in
telligently, until they sift the whole matter to
the bottom, without fear or favor, and, provide
a satisfactory remedy for the gross injustice
now inflicted upon the tax-paying citizen 9 of
Philadelphia.
GROWTH OF PHILADELPHIA.
' After all the boasting in young Western
cities of their rapid growth, there is not one
that shows such steady, rapid and substantial
increase as Philadelphia. The Chicago papers
are just now bragging characteristically over a
report that during the year 1860, twenty-five
hundred buildings have been erected in their
city, the cost of which is roughly estimated at
' ten millions of,dollars. This sounds very big,
but let it be compared with a few official
figures concerning the improvements in Phila
delphia.
In the year 1868 the number of permits for
the erection of new buildings, issued by the
Philadelphia building inspectors,.was 4,787;
for alterations and additions, 1,115; total,'
5,902. These were all, or nearly all, brick or
stone structures, while . in Chicago large pro:
portion of the new buildings are small, cheap
wooden dwellines.
~ 1 11 Philadelphia also were
included many . large churches and other costly
edifices. But at the low average of $5,000
apiece, the total expenditure for new buildings
in 1868 - was - - about twenty-four millions; - and
including alterations and additions, over
twenty-five millions. .
But the improvements of 1860 in Philadel
phia. surpass; both 'in number and in value,
those of 1668. Here is a summary of the per
mits issued during the past eleven month.s: •
New Buildings. Alteratious. , 'Total.
January 113 38 151
February , . 291 ' 77 368
Id arch . .... .. . .. 614 128 C 42
April 728 154 882
141 - av 746 .140 886
June , 9.16 . 112 708
July 566 100 1136
August '417 119 536
ISeptgmber . . til7 113 .4310
October. 483 • 117 600
November . ..... 352. 439 421
Total 5,323 - 1;147 6,470
These arc official figures, and not the ran
dom guess-work of a boastful reporter, as is
the Chicago estimate. When the , nurnber
peii its for the month of December is added,
the aggregate for the year 1869 will be over
5,500 for new buildings, and oyei'l,2oo for al
terations and additions. The total amount of
money expended on these improiements must
be about thirty millions of dollars.
Thus it is seen that with all its boasting, the
nubiber of new buildings erected in Chicago
in 18(19 is not half so large as that in Philadel
phia, and their cost- is only about one-third as
great. The census of 1870 will, we are sure,
show a greater increase of population and of
buildings in Philadelphia,during a period of ten
years, than' any other city in the Union.,
There is great diversity of opinion upon'
the question whether drunkenness is a disease
or a vice, and whether, if it is a, disease, it is
curable by physical treatment. The statistics
of the Sanitarium, near. Media, an institution
devoted to the treatment of inebriates, strongly
favor the' theory that inebriety is a curable
disease. Sinop the Sanitarium was established,
one hundred and four patients have voluntarily
placed themselves under its treatment, and its
excellent superintendent, Dr. Joseph Parrish,
thus classifies
. the results : Forty of the ilk
mates have gone to their homes restored,
and are now successfully combatting the
e.ares and temptations of life. Eleven have
shown themselves to be beyond the'reach of
known iremediee, and !Mist Uotitinlie to be
burden to their tantilibandtti society. Nine
teen have not been heard from. Twenty-seven
find it more difficult to indulge to excess, and
easier to attend to business than formerly,
though they cannot be considered as cured.
Tiaff 'Law Intl in the institution, and three
after they ,
,left„tunk.,one, peanuts insane. Out
'''Oi:the *bole itintib4ii 'there hns 'been bat cele
'rata,leotard' nituda-n-pOtit.
With such sittitifititoryretodts‘ as these, there
should pe n generous etietmlnwentont given to
this Iforl.bY intititutionzy thaw
date the horrors of drunkenneas, and who be=.
lieve in the possibility, °fits eiF 9. , •
The `fatal explosion of a compound called
""Excelsior;' Refined ~Fltdd," !DO Paturday last, is
anotber SelleutVwstrCing to the ,rnblie against
e use of all such prepangiOns fbr fighting'
purpos,es,Tbiefittid4lnefeSsiiiik; btOenon-ex
plosive," and its sale has been defended against.
the prosecution; tribe bisector of Coal
upon the ground that , it br tOt . ' 4 f fined petro
leum" within the meaning of thelstat' nte. Tbat
it pessesses the most dangeious goslities of
is Well established by the Weent tra4c
affair F . rankford, and we trnst,that Watch eorn-
Poinds can now bo haikestrationt our "streets,
Sand:poor people be tempted 10A , their Own
destruction by the induceinentefeittni a fetv
psiinies uPon, the Flee,' of good Coal `oil, the
Legislature - will so amend the law as to pro
tect, the community against theit own ' • impru
dence. From what we can learn of this Frank
ford ease, this “.& - celsior Refined Fluid" ap
pears to come fairly, within the limits of the
presentlaw: Its 'Merits, howevr, are` about
to be tested in a. snit in the Supreme Court,
brought by those interested in it against the
State Inspetor; and we shall 'thus have an
authoritative decision upon this very im
portant question.
Petitions will be circulated' durlrkg the pros-
ent .week, asking the interposition of the
Governor in favor of Dr. Paul Schoeppe, now
nmler sentenze of death at Carlisle. In the
presence of grave doubts of the condemned
man's guilt, and the overwhelming testimony
of the highest scientific authorities of .Amer
ica, no one should hesitate to sign this humane
appeal to the clemency of the Executive.
[$Jl[U
ROCKHILL
ARE NOW
READY with the richest and rarest styles!
Overcoats in Countless variety!
Cheviots,CassbneresStall fine Coatings!
Klothee! Rlothes! Klothes! Mothes !
Height of the fashion!
Indeed you will be pleased,
Looking at the
Lots of elegant Clothes !
603 and 605 AaAaAaA
Chestnut Street, NiinNnn N
Philadelphia. DddroddD
Winter, gentlemen, winter !
Ice, snow, frost, and-so-forth !
Lowest prices for winter defences !
• , Safe against storm and snow, in
Overcoats of Rockhill & Wilson !
Now is the time to lay in your winter clothes!
The cold is great,?
. But the rash is grew er,
From all parts of this State,
And^every other State.
The best men colne, to
Buy their Best Clothe,
Wonderfully Cheap,
AT Tar.
GREAT BROWN HALL.
ROCKHILL & WILSON,
603 and 605 CHESVNUT Street,
PH ILADELPHI A.
DWARD P. KELLY
,
WILL OPEN
•
AT
1300 Chestnut Street
TUESDAY, DECEMBER . 7ih.
- WESTON &
TAILORS, •
N. 900 ARCH STREET,
piutealtmputt,
INVITE SPIEOIAL ATTENTION TO THEIR '
HANDSOME STOOK OF
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
JUST RECrEIVED.
A SUPERIOR GARMENT atia REASONABLE PRI OE.
SATISFACTION' GUARANTEED.
Dell Sm
U
s 117'0 .ti — FANCY CL ES FOR
.1101.1 DAY GIFTB, avaried assortment.
MASON & co
907 Chestnut strait
DESKS, ItUSgIA AND
TURKEY WRITING CASES and PORTIPOLIO}3,
foreign and domestic.
MASON & CO.,
907 Chestnut street.
0 OLD PENS AND . GOLD, IVORY,.
13f
31.UBBEIE and EBONY PENCILS and PEN HOLDERS.
MASON & CO.,
907 Chestnut strort.
FINE POCKET KNIVES AND SUM
80118, Rogere'n,lVoetenholme'e and other beet il i ngllah
rnakere. ,
BRONZE AND CARVED fNTiAIANDS,
•
PAPER KNIVES, BOOK-MARES, MATCH awl
STAMP BOXES, Art
• MASON Ft CO.,
007 Chestnut stroot.
VIENNA, FItENOtT,„ANIO ENGLHIS
v - - -
Pocket Books, Card,Letter and Cigar CIIHOff in Russia,
Turkey and Calf.
MASON &
del let Ey§ 907 Chestnut street.
_
SCOTCH GOODS GREAT VAIE'rY,
Fancy. Pen-wiperejloiee of Initial Paner,4C., Mona
grains, Wedding and. Visiting Cards, elegantly en
graved.
N. B.
raving trons will animus by giving their orders
for engnteytileci tor nolid!ky prnannta at an early
daft).
de4l9t rpli
H P. &O. R. TAYLOR,
I'DMITNIEDY AND TOILET E3OAPB
(Wand 649 North Ninth street
WILSON
MASON & Co.,
907 Choßtnut etroot
AtAkiaN L 00.,
fitruot
'CLIOTHINV•
Please Read the NOTE
;.' •
at the fest of ,
WANNSIKER BROWNV
. .1'
On our Eighth Page.
UMBRELLAS
iron
HOLIDAY PRESENTS
WZTU
Latest London and rarLs Novelties
IN HANDLES.
WILLIAM A. DROWN dz
NI an u itoturers,
No. 246 MARKET STREET.
de6 11 24 rp
BONBONS DE PARIS.
Paris Confections of Every Variety.
The recent enlargement of the Store and an introased
number of experienced hands will insure customers
being waited on with &Aglaia.
C. PEN Ag,
830 Wake, Street, Philadelphia.
A magnificent assortment of
Paris Fancy Boxes , and Christmas Tree
Ornaments.
de 2OtrD •
'FRE FINE ARTS. ,
JAMES S. EARLE :& SONS
. . . .
Are now occupying their own Building.
The Store having been entirely re
built 'sinde the Late Fire.
EARLES' GALLERIES.
LOOKING GLASS
•
WAREROOMS, •
No. 816 Chestnut Street.
C. F. HASELTINE'S
GALLERIES OF THE ARTS,
No. 1125 Chestnut Street.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
ENGLISH WATER COLORS, •
From 25 Cl,, to A 340 p•r boy.
PICTURES AND FRAMES
Of every description end every price.
Reduced for the Holidays.
my,113-IYrlel
PRINTINV;
The Poelict-Book Calendar and
Directory for 1870, in
• a neat style of
PRINTING
is now ready and may be lad
FOR
NOTHING,
which is a 9 near as postale the rates
at which work generally is done
A. C. BRYSON & CO
Steam-power Printers,
No. 607 CHESTNUT STREET,
(Bulletin Building.)
PUBLIC SALE
bp
A STOCK _
ELEGANT CABINET FURNITURE.
Messrs. MEININOER OUBNTHEII respectfully
inform their friends and the public that they will soil at
Public Sae
On Tuisday Morning, Dec. 7, at 10 o'cloilk,
At tbo Auction Store of
• THOS. BIRCH & SON,
No.lllo Chestnut Street,
Their entire stock of Finished Cabinet Furniture, com
prising an 1141 a r merit of . ,
Elegant Parlor, Chaniber andDiaing
Room Farnitare,
minufacturod express's , for their ithistotner &deo. The
Furniture icpiay can be examined at the Auction Moro on
. I WEIMINOER
No, 432 North Tenth Street.
bitty GOODS.
:::, - j:::*':fi..pl - AG : 4;7..., - :', : :;,
Monday December 6th
CONTINUATION OF . SALE'
TO CLOSE OUT
ENTIRE STOCK.
NEAT INDUCEMENTS
Win be Owerea
Monday, Pecember O.
Black Bilks Reduced from $1 IS to $1
Fine Quality do. as "$2OO to 1
.60
Gros Grains '‘
$3 00 to 200
&Cases Black Empress Cloth,Reduced
from $1 00 to 62 1-2 ots.
Black Alpaca, Reduced from 50 to 25
MOCHNING GOODS.
CLOTHS and CLOAKINGS.
At Hair Former Prices.
Special Offering of
LINEN STOCK, Monday, Dec, 6th.
CLOAKS AND SUITS
Will be Sold at Great Reductions.
50,000 YARDS. FANCY SILKS
Reduced to SI, 81Z3,81 30,82.
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
No. 28 S. SECOND STREET,
Would invite the attention of buyers to their dock of
SILK CLOAK VELVETS
Pure Silk, Best Lasperted.
28-INCH VELVETS.
*4EOI VELVETS.
92 Dial VELVETS.
.96-INCAI VELVETS.
CINCH VELVETS
VELVETEENS, SILK FINISH,
AT LOW PRICES
FASHIONABLE SILK FLUSHES.
BLUE SILK PLUSH.
BROWN SILK PLUSH..
GREEN SILK PLUSH.
SCARLET SILK PLUSH.
WHITE SILK PLUSH.
PURPLE SILK PLUSH
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
No. 28 S. SECOND STREET.
405 w flu3mrpl
SOME BARGAINS AMONG THE
CLOAK T NS.
CASS" ERNI.
VELVETEENS.
SILK VELVETS.
CLOAKS.
SHAWLS.
BLACK POPLINS.
BLACK lIERINOS.
BLACK ALPACAS.
FRENCH SERGES.
SILK POPLINS.
PLAID MERGES.
TARTAN PLAIDS.
ALA NK ETS.
sti; ilia K.
LACE COLLAR.
LI AN DLL ERCII EFS.
HOSIERY.
KID GLOVES.
ROUAN SCARFS, 61e.
COOPER & CONARD.
S. E. corner Muth and Market Sts.
CARD, DECEMBER 1, 1869
.Anticipating an early resumption ar specie Payensee, as
indicated tey the rapid decline in gold, we hare, to Older lo
ao., out as war as possible our whole stock during M 4
Present m onth,ma lied down the peaces to a gold ra!uation.
and many below thee actual co s t en gold, in payment of
which, we ule „will in; to accept greenbacks, National
Bank nede.l. said Or silver coin.
A. & J.. R. RARTIIOLOMEW,
Impel -tore pf Kid Olcries,
No. 23 Nnith EIGHTH f3troot
EX TIIAORDINARY BARGAINS
IN
BLACK SILKS,
MILK POPLINS,
PLAID POPLINS,
CORDEMWOOI. POPLINS,
WOOL, SQUARE SHAWLS.
MOW, LONG SHAWLS.
BLUE BLACK ALPACAS,
LYONS CLOAK INO VELVET.
LADIES' MERINO UNDERWEAR
GENTS' MERINO UNDERWEAR,.
KID GLOVES,
HOSIERY.
SHIRT FRONTS.
Bargains in every deportment to close out tho whole
aleck at 23 North EIGHTH street.
del-w sm tt
1115.
GREAT - 6LOSING OUT SALE
HOOP SKIRTS AND CORSETS,
Commencing Saturday, December 4,
And will be continued until January 1,1870, with prices
marked down to and below the wholesale gold prices,
affording an opportunity for unprecedented bargains in
first•clusit HOOP SKIRTS and CORSETS for the time
above-stated ONLY.
15,000 /loop Skirts for Ladies, Misses and Children in
400 varieties of styles, size, quality and prices, from lbc.
to $2, many of them merited down to less than ono third
price.
Over 10,000 Corsets, including 83 kinds and prises. such
an Thomson's Glove fitting 4Joreets, in live grades; Jas.
Beckel'a Superior French Woven, lu all qualities; It.
Werly's n four,varieties; Mrs. Moody's Patent Self-ad
Susting ' Supporting Corsets; Madame Foy's Corset and
kirt Supporters; Superior Randlnado Corsets, in all
grades, Misses', Children's, &c. Together with our own
make of Corsets, in great variety.
All of which will be
MARRED DOWN TO PANIC PRICES.
Gall early, 'While the stock retrain' unbroken, as there
can bo no duplicalco at the pricee.
At 1115 Chestnut Street.
WM. T. HOPKINS'.
flog n) NV f 3xn4
1.869. LOOK WELL, GET SHAVED
l i ii?halr rut at Ropatt Saloon, by that (lasts
bar tatters, • Hair and whiskers- dyed. , ' Razors' bet in
order. Ladies and children's hair cot. Oren Sunday
morning. No, 328"Exchangol'ito , e. „ .
tt , . ~ . • . R. C. 30)17. attll
onoonitints, tampons, ago,
pi..O,..(g.Ay.::::ITOVS&- .
MUM= FLETOgn,
N 0.1204 CREEiTNIPr STREET
Adjusted to the Present Rate of gold,.
apt lyni
.
ALMERIA GRAPES,
IN BEAUTIFUL CLUSTERS,
40 cents per pound.
SIMON COLTON & CLARKE,.
S. W. cornet Broad and Walnut Stu.
SILVER FLINT BUCKWHEAT,
CHOICE GOSHEN BUTTER.
AND
THE NEW YORK GOLDEN SYRUP...
DAVLS it- RICHARDS
ARCH AND TENTH STREETS.
/di; rPtf
A. J. DE CAMP.
New Citron, eryetalized Orange. and Lemon NA, New-
Currante,Seedkie Rabin), rud Pure fipleee.
TABLE FRUITS.
White Almeria Grzpra, FJtrl la Oranipti, Layer
Dmiblii Crown 1131.40.11, Pap r..814r11 Almond's, Brazil
Nair, Earlieli Walnut -> . Ch , , litillgAt and
CANNED FRUITS.
Whit' and Y.-Ilaw Peseta s , , Clorries, })areas and
nag. , Plums, Piny Winstaw Coro, Asparagus,
To:nat.:Ka,
107 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
11.(1.uvi Clt(4totit, East 61(1(
(1.1 tf( DI, •
Import ~.dClictes;e..
FngllNh Ntlitost,
And Freoth Pates de Foie Graft.
1164 itnrp,t
Chrisirnas Presents.
The Beat and most Motttable Present to a
Friend or the Needy IS a barrel orator
"J. &Welch's" First Premium Flour,
And a but or ballbarrel
"Sterling's Mountain'Y Buckwheat Meal,
which we warrant SUPIZItIOII to any other in the V. S.
All goods warranted wa represoned, and deliy rred fro..
GEO: F. ZEHNDER,
FOURTH AND VINE STREETS
otll tfrp
A r -T1 11;7 ( BEST
7-'7l u uNi k
kPO I
. NA77IRAL FLAVOR WAND.
Sold by all first claw Grocers.
By onr improved process in canning the QUINTON
TOMATOES excel all others both in the quality and
quantity of the contenta of each can. "
Our labels and cases have been imitated. Beware o
substitution. Auk for QUINTON TOMATOES.
REEVES & P
•
Wholesale Ageney,46 North Water St.
nol3 tf
1.115,
YARMOUTH SUGAR CORN.
The most &Moue, in csns, Sold by all first-class
Grocers.
The award of the great PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1867,
wee given for the Tarnionth Sugar Coro. -
Wholesale Agency', 45 tlorth WATER Street.
BEEVES 41 PARTIN.
Port lmrp
HOLIDAY PRESENTS
FOR GENTLEMEN.
J. W. SCOTT"' & CO.,
No. 814 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
lropr doors below Continental Hotel,
tobt-lia w tC
SHAFTON,
• 'WESTMORELAND COUNTY,
For. Gratee, Retailed by
GALLOWAY C. MORRIS &
308 Walnut Street-
FIRST-CLASS
I
3PitICVS
WHITE
050 KEGS,
We Have Received the fre,
!bard in the world
IN SMALL TUBS.
431eddar Cheshire,
and Roquefort cheese,
YO .'ALE ISV
JAMES R. WEBB,
Wainnt and Eighth Streetl.
FOVATR...EDITI.ON
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STATE' OF TIM NATION.
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President or the United States.
Read in Congress, Monday, Deo. 6,1869
To Oa .Senate, and House Of Representatives;
In coning- before you for the first time ,an,
Chief Magistrate of "UAW great 'nation ,: it ti;
with gratitude to the Giver of all good for the
many benefits we 'enjoy. We are blessed.
with peace at home, and We are without en
tangling alliances abroad to fortieth, trouble,
with a territory - unsurpassed in fer
tility, of an area, equal to the
abundant, support of live hundred millions of
people, ;Rid abounding to eatery .variety of
neertil mineral in quantity fittlikient to supply
the world for generations,witb abundant drops,
with a variety ofelirnate adapted to the produc
tion orevery species of earth's riehiet,and suited
to the habits, tastes and requirements of every
liiring thing; with a population of 40,000,000
of free people, all speaking ono language,with
facilitiee for every mortal to acquire an edu
cation, with institutions closing to none the
avenues of raineor any, blessing of fortune that
may be coveted, with freedom of the pulpit,
the press and the sehool o w I th a revenue flowing
intaithe national treasury be_yond the require
ments of the government. - Happily, harmony. ,
issiapidly being restored 'within our own bor
ders. lilanufactiire, hitherto unknowa in.our
country are springing up inn!) sectitneti ‘pro s
(hieing a degree 01' national independence
neequaled by that of any - other
power. These blemings, and coutithee, others,
are entrusted to your care and mini ror safe
keeping for the brief period of our tenure of
office. In a short. time we must each of us re
turn to the ranks of the people, who have con
ferred upon tin ;our honors, and account to
them for our stewardship. I earnestly de
sire that ," neither you nor I may be
condemned by a free and enlightened
constituency, nor by our own consciences.
Emerging from a rebellion of gigantic magni
tude, aided as it. was by the sympathies minas.
instance of nations with which we were at
peace, eleven States of the Union were four
years ago left with Out a legal StateGoyernment.
A national debt lad been contracted. Amart
can commerce was almost, driven from the
seas; the industry of one-half of the country'
had been taken from the control of the capi
talist and placed, where all labor right
fully belongs, in the keeping of the laborer.
The work of restoring State govern
menu, loyal to the Union, of - protecting
and fostering free labor and providing
means for paying the interest on the pnhlic
debt has received ample attention from Con
grese. Although your efforts have not met
with the success in all particulaza that might
have - been desired, yet, on the whole, they
lave bten wore satisfactory than could have
been reasonably anticipated. '
Seven Stato, which passed ordinances 'of
secession have been fully restored to their
placce in the Union. The eighth (Georgia)
held an election, at which mhe ratified her con
etittition Republican ill form, elected a Gov
ernor, members of Cougnes, a State Legis
.bt lire and all other offices required.
The Governor was duly installed, and the
Legislature met and performed all the acts re
quired of them by the reconstruction acts of
congresm. Subsequently, however, in viola
tion of• the constitution they had ratified,
as ad nee decided by the Supremo Court of the.
State ' "they unseated the colored members of
the Legislature, and adinitted to seats some
members tt ho are disqualified by the third
clause of the Fourteenth Aiiiendinent to the
- Constitutiore one article which they them
eelves had contributed to ratify. Utider these
circumstances, I, ivould submit to you wheth
er it would not be wise; without delay, to en
act a law authorizing the Governor of Georgia
to convene the members originally elected to
the Legislature, requiring , each member to
take the oath prescribed by the reconstruction
acts, and none to be admitted who arc ineli
gible under thet he third , clause! of the Fe air- ,
Seenth Amendment.
The freedmen, tinder the protection which
they have received, are making rapid progress
in learning, and no complaints are heard' of
lack of industry on their part when they re
*cit.(' fair remuneration for their labor.
__The-means provided for 'Paying the interest
of the public debt, with all other
expellees of the. Government. are more
than ample. The loss of onr, commerce
is the only result of the late rebellion which
has not received sufficient attention from you.
To this subject I call your earnest attention.
I will not now suggest plans by which this oh
jest may be
. eftected, but will, if necessary;
male it the subject of a spezial
message during the session of
Congress. At the March term Congress
by a joint resolution - alithorized the Execu-
tire to order elections in this State of Vir
Mississippi and Texas, to submit to
them the Constitutions which each had previ
ously in conventions formed, and Pubmit the
Constitutions either entire or in separate
parts, to be voted upon at
the discretion of the .Executive.
Under this authority elections were called.
In Virginia the election took place on the tith
' of July, lael The Governor and Lieutenant-
Governor elected have been iastalled. The
Legislature met and did all required by this
resolution, and by all the reconstruction acts
of Congress, and abstained from all doubtful
Authority. I recommend that her Senators
and Representatives, and the State, be fully
restored to her place in the family of States.
Elections were called in Mississippi and
ilexes, to commence on the 30th of Novem
ber, 1869,. and to last for two days in Missis
sippi and four days in Texas. The elections taken place, but the result is not known.
It is to be hoped that the acts of the legisla
tures of these States, when they meet, will
be such as to receive your approval
and thus close the work of reconstruction.
Among the evils growing out of the rebellion,•
and not yet referred t0, , i8 that of an irredeem
able currency. It is an evil which I hope will
receive your most earnest attention. It is a
duty, and one of the highest duties of Govern
ment, to secure to the citizens a
medium of exchange of fixed and
unvarying value. This implies
a return to a specielliesis;and no substitute for
it can be devised. It should be commenced
now, and reached at the earliest practicable
moment consistent with a fair regard to the
interests of the debtor class. Immediate re
sumption. if practicable, would not bo de
eirable. It would compel the debtor class
to pay beyond their contracts the premium
on gold at the date of purchase, - and
would to bring bankruptcy and nitrite theses?
ands. Fluctuation, however, in the paper
value of the measure of all values ? gold, is'
detrimental to the interests of trade. It makes ,
the man of business an involuntary gambler,_ .
for in all sales, where future payment is to bq
made, both parties speculate as to what • Will
be the value of the currency to be paid and
received. I earnestly recommend to you,'
,then such legislation as will insure a gradual
return to specie payments and put an IMMO-
Oat° stop to fluctuations in the value of cur
rency. The methods to secure the former of
these results are as numerous as , are the
speculators on political economy.. < I
pee but one way, and that. is
to authorize the treasury to redeem its own
paper at a fixed price whenever presented,
and to withhold from circulation all currency
so Adeemed until sold ag,ain for gold. The
Vast resources of the ,natlon, both developed'
And undeveloped, •'-ought to ., make our ,
;esedit the best ott earth, < with a loss
(burden of taxation than the citizen has ett,
he
dured, for - for six
~ypti:
d 4past. 0 ~ r.
entire public debt. could be inAdit 1 yiathr ,
1)11t. 46 rio , notAleodrableibat. er , people - should'
be forced toipayritilia-044-lne.e..-A`ettr by Year
the alnay, to Day tooreNts In a sivid.rate, but
tWVaMeiV6liiitereltt ti htito W - OditTlti -w4 . 1
rAphiVyWestrf he' demi thOpt ;the violation
, ta t
ortoofzet., ' The; .pub debt ie-iepreeented.
in gre4t,partty,.bonda haying , tom ; five ,to '
iIAtYIO4 rrPrnlerr'to forty , yowls to mu
be ng - Merest at. the rate of filperr cent awl P
tivt i r pent &spelt* , v ery. ,It is optional with
the oVerfinient .0-- ' y these .thoWte at any,
pert after the ex piration of the least time'
mentioned Orion their face: - ,V+ + 'Mire hag
already expia l 64,*ll6o2.tv great ' "* l- ' of,the*
may' 11,0 taiten;op,nnd I n rapidly approaching.
ivbelf plume be. •It . Is belie rnd , that sill
^ whleb ' pie now due may i be '. replaced'. by
bonds bearinga_rate of interest not exceeding
four and;one-half pet dent 4 an an rapidly as
the ittablii.24. become due that they may 'be
replaced in the Same way. To acconfplith
tble it may be:necessary to authorize the; in
terest to be paid at either of three er four: of
the money centres of EnrOpe, or by any
Assistant.%resstirer of the Uttitcifitate!AtahP
oPtlon of the holders of the bonds. I suggest
this, subject for the consideration Of Congrem;
also, simultaneously with this, the, titoprifl#
'of tedeettang our current before suggeste
at its market valtie,at the titres laWgorrainto 6 -
feet,inereming tlitt rate :at which currency will
be bought and sold from day to day, or. week
to meck,ot the same ratoof interest, as the
GiOverament pays upon its bondit. .
The subject of the tari ff and internal taxation
will necessarily receive your attention.. The
reventies of the country are greater than the
requirementa, and may ivith gaiety be re
duced ; but as the funding of the debt le-a four
or a four and a half per cent. loan would , re
duce the ammo] current expenses largely,thus,
after funding, justifying agreater reduction of
taxation, this may' be reduced aafely , from
sixty to eighty millions per annum at once and
may be . still ' further reduced froth
year to year as the resources of the
country are developed. The report of the
Secretary of the Treasury Allow; the receipts
of the Government for the ilscal year ending
June :30, 1869, to be i.-370,943,747, and the
' expenditurem, inchrding interebt, bounties,
&c, to be $321400,17.17, The estimates
for the ensuing year are more favorable to
the Government, atid will, no doubt,• slum a
much larger decrease of the public debt, The
receipts in the Treasury beyond , expenditures
have exceeded the amount nocest.ary tO place
, to the credit of, the Sinking Fund, as pro
,' vided by , law. To lock up the surplus in the
Treasury and withheld it from
circulation would lead to , such
a contraction ' of the currency
as to cripple trade and seriously affect the
prosperity of the country. Under these cir
cumstances the-Secretary of the Treasury and
myself heartily concurred in the propriety
of using, all the surplus currency in the
'treasury in the purchase of bonds,
thus reducing the interest bearing indebtedness
of the country, and of submitting to Congrem
the question of the dieposition to be ma d e of
the bonds so purchased. The bonds now held
by the Treasury amount to atiout $7.1,000.000,
including those belonging to the Sinking
Fund. I recommend thatthe whole be placed
to the credit of the Sinking Fund. Your at
tention is respectfully invited to the recom
niendatious of the Secretary. Of the Treasury .'
for the creation of the ollice of Corn
tnissioner of Customs Revenue, for
the increase of salary to certain classes of
elliciala and the iulartaution of increased na
tional hank circulation to replace the outstand
ing three per cent. eertillattes, and most es
pecially to his recommendation for the repeal
of laws allowing shares of lines , _ penalties,
forfeitures, &c, fo officers of the Government
arid to informene
The office of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue is one of the most arduous mid re
sponsible under the Government. it falls but
little, if any, short of a Cabinet position in its
itnportance and responsibilities. i would ask
for it, therefore, such legislation as in your
judgment will place the office upon
a footing of dignity commensurate
with its importance and with
the character and qualifications of the class o f
men re quires to fill it properly
As the Ueited States is the freest of all na
tions, ro, troa iIK - people sympathize with all
peoples struggling for liberty andself:govern
!tient.' lint while so sympathizing, it is duo to
our honer that-we should abstain from en
forcing our views upon unwilling
natioesand from taking an in
teresir_si part, withont invitation, in the
quarrels between diffisrent nations or between
governmentx and their subjects. Our course
should always he in conformity with strict
justice and law, international and local. Such
has been the policy of the administration in
dealing with these quieitions. For more than
a year., a valuajrie province of Spain, and a
near nighbdr - tif ours, in whom all our people
cannot but feel adeep interest; has been strug
gling, for independence and freedom. The
people and government of the United States
entertain the same warm feelings and
sympathies for the people of Cuba in their
pending struggle,,that they manifested
throughout' the previous struggles betwe e n
Spain and her former colonies,in behalf of the
latter; but the contest has never assumed a
condition which amounts to a war in the
sense of international law, or which would
show the existence of, a de facto political
organization of the insurgents sufficient
to justify , a recognition of belligerency.
The principle is maintained, however, that
this nation is its - ownjudge when to accord the
rights of belligerency, either to a people strug
gling to free themselves from a government
they believe to be oppres.sive, or to inde
pendent nations at war with each other. The
United States have no disposition to interfere
with the existing . relations of Spain to her
colonial possessions on this continent. They be,.
lieve that in due time Spain width° European
powers will find their interest in terminating
these relations and establishing their present'
dependencies as independent powers, mem
bers of the 'family of nations. These depen
dencies are no longer regarded as subject to
transfer from one European power to another.
When the present relation of the colonies
ceases, they are to become independent pow
ers, exercising the right of choice and of self
control in the determination of their future
condition and relations with other Powers.
The 'United States, in order to put a stop to
bloodshed in Cuba and in the interest of a
neighboring people, proposed their good.
offices to bring the existing contest to a termi
nation. The otter not being accepted by Spain
on a basis which we believed could he received
by Cuba was withdrawn. It is hoped that the
good • offices of the United States may
yet prove advantageous for the settlement of
this unhappy 'strife. Meanwhile, illegal ex
peditions against Cnba have been broken up.
It has been the endeavor of the Administra
tion to execute the neutrality laws in good
efaith, no matter how unpleasant the task,
made so by the sufferings we have, endured
from lack of like geed faith towards us by
other nations. On the 26th of March last the
U. 8. schooner Lizzie Major was arrested on
the high seas by a Spainsh frigate and two pas
sengers taken from it and carried as prisoners
to Cuba. Representations of these facts were
made to the Spanish Government as soon as
official information of them reached Wash
ington. Mlle two passengers were set at
liberty, anti the Spanish Government assured
the United States that the captain of the fri
gate in making the capture had acted without
'law; that he had been reprimanded for the
irregularity of his conduct, and that the Span
ish authorities in Cuba would not sanction
any act that could violate the rights - or treat
with disrespect the sovereignty of this nation.
The question of the seizure of the brig Mary
Lowell atone of the Bahama islands by the
,Spanish authorities is now the subject of corms
'spondence'betiVeen this government and those
of Spain and . Great Britain. The' Captain-
General of Cuba, about May last, issued a
Airoclemation.authorizing search to be made
of vesitels on the high' seas. Immediate r&
monstrance was made against this;wherenpon
;the Captain General issued a new proclama
'lion, limiting the right of search to vessels of
the United States, so far as authorized under
the treaty of '179E5. • 'This proclamation, -how
ever, was immediately withdrawn. I have
always felt that the .most intimate relations
should be Cultivated between the Republic of
the .17mted , States • and indepen- •
dent on Abia continent. It
'may be well,. worth • congidering•
Whether ~new :treaties .between the United:
.States and them ; may ..not be profitably en
tered into to secure more intimate relations,
friendly, commercial or. otherwise. • The - stit
feet of an inter-oceanic:'.oanali to connect
t, he: ikthuitio and Pacific.f.?ceans throtigh:
Abe" Isthmus Of • Darien, . •is one • in
which .eatalAercie greatly ~ hitereated-
Instinctiesti hale teen given:to-Oar Minister'
.
ethelfitiiitobliq ot-J4irr,,Ao'nitedcipitauss,'Aitt c,0t,..
enibire tor,elidedliee tO '6l3tritrO itiitberitY Ire?*
eurvty by thitr.aovernmentin'order - to - Ciottor
mine-the precticakility,,or snob' an .tinciertAk
i pg, and a charter, , for , they:right of way ,to'
build,' by private ' enter rise, :"such ct :
work, if • ' the . survey -' , • proyes . , ',lt,
to betracticable. '' lei' order to" 'Comply; With,
the'agreerrient.'"ot'lltil;ltliiitol::slittes as to a
mixed commission lit - Ulna"' for'' the, adjust- ,
nieritra 'L'Oltititiii;',lt% 1 .ftairie' deeeisary tie send;
"i Cornmiesioner and'l36cretaryt‘rtimisiii AUL.
gust .lesti.:••No - .'appropriation' 'hivingWelt
made by Congtietssfor this lturpetiel it la' now
'asked that tone be :ffistdeMovering tlietivit and
Mime' expeusea , of.tbe emutriission;:
-The good ogees of thelhilted States : to , bring'
about a'perte.e.betweed Sped ' NA!' the , 'South:
American reptiblits,With WhicNriihe lit war, ,
- having been , escceprod ibk Ispan,.tern' and ,
CliiiiO Congress:has been invitedtenbe 'held in
'Washington during , the 'present' Winter,' A
grant' ;. has' been .-• ' given , -to Europeans of '.
an' * . ekelutdre ', , right •, Of , , transit • over
tb,e_ - - territory •of ~ Nicaragua,' to •whioh •
Costa Rica' has ! given. 'its ' assent,
which, it is alleged,' Conflicts', with the vested
rights of citizens of 'the ,United - States. The
Department of State' hats .now' this Subject
under consideration. . The Minister of Peru
having , made representations that there was a
state of - war between Peru and Spain and that
Spain was constructing in and ear New York ,
thirty gunboats. which might -be 'used by
Spain in such a-: way as to relieve
the naval force in' Cuba, and , also to operate
,against Peru; orders were given to_prevent
their departure. No ftirther steps haVing been
taken by, the represientative of the Pe
ruvian (loVernment to prevent the de
parture -of these vasselli,,? and "r 1 not; feel
ing authorized Yo' detain:Me- property of a
nation with which we were at peace on a mere
Executive order, the , matter has been re
ferred to the Courts 'to decide. The
conduct of the war between the
allies and the Republic of Paraguay has made
the intercourse With that country so difficult
that it has been deemed advisable to withdraw
our representative from her, Towards the
close of the last AdminiStration a convention
was signed at London for the settlement of
all outstanding ' ' claims between Great
Britain and the ' United States, which
failed to receive the advice and consent of the
Senate to its ratification. The time and the
circumstances attending the negotiations of
that treaty were unfavorable to its acceptance
by the people of the United States, and its pro
visions were wholly inadequate for the settle
ment of the grave wrongs that had been sus
tained by this Government, as well 118 by its
citizens, The injuries resulting to the butted
States by reason of the course adopted by Great
Britain during our late civil war ; in , the in
creased tatoi tifinsurance, in the diminution
of exports and imports,fand other obstructions
to domestic industry and production ;•• in its
effeet upon the foreign commerce of the
country ; in the decrease and transferto Great
Britain of viir,cemniereial marine ; in the
prelopgation . of , ' the : war, and
in the increased cost, both in
treasure arid in lives, if its suppression could
not be adjusted and satisfied as ordinary, com
; mercial claims which continually arise be
tween commercial nations • and yet the con
vention treated these simplr as such ordinary
claims, frontwhch they differ more widely in
the gravity of their diameter than in the mag
nitude of their amount. Great even as is that
difference, not a word was found-in the treaty,
and not an inference could be drawn from it,to
remove the sense of the unfriendliness of the
course of Great Britain In our struggle for
existence which had so deeply and univer
sally impressed itself upon the people of this
country.- Believing that a convention thus
misconceived in its scope and inadequate in
its provisions - would Lot have produced the
hearty, cordial settlement of pending ques
tions which alone is consistent- with
the relations which. l desire ,to have
established . betwee • the United
States and Great Britain. I regarded the
action of the Senate in rejecting the treaty to
have been wisely taken, in the interest of
peace, and as a necessary step in the direction
of a perfect and cordial friendship between
the two countries, A sensitive people con
sci OILS of their powe,r,are more at ease under a
great wrong wholly' unatoned, than under the
restraint of a settlement which satisfies neither
their ideas of justice nor their grave sense of
the grievance they have sustained. The re
jection of the treaty was followed by a state .of
public, feeling on both sides which
I thought not favorable to an iintue
dime attempt at . renewed negotiations.
1 - accordingly so instructed the
:kr i»ii:tc.r of the. United States to Great Britain,
and found that my views in this regard were
shared by. her Majesty's Minister. I hope that
the time may soon arrive when the two Go
vernments can approach the solution of this
monieutous question with an appreciation of
what is due to the rights, dignityy and honor of i
each, and with the deternunation not only to i
remove the causes of complaint in the past,but ,
to lay the foundation of a broad principle of
public law which will prevent future difficul- 1
ties and lend a firm and continued peace and'!
friendship. This is now the only grave ques
tion
which the United States have with any
foreign nation.
The question of renewing a treaty' for re
ciprocal between the United States and
...
_ .
the British provinces on this continent bas
not been favorably considefed by the Admin
istration. The advantages of such a treaty
would be wholly in favor of the British pro
vinces except possibly a few engaged in the
trade between the two sections. No citizen
of the United States would be benefited by re
ciprocity. Our internal taxation would prove
a protection to the British producer almost
equal to the protection which our manufacttt-
rers now receive from the tariff:. Some ax
arrangement, however, for the regulation of
commercial intercourse 'between the United
. .
States and the Dominion of Canada may
be desirable. The commission , for ad-
justing the elairus of the Hudson Bay
and Puget's Sound Agricultural Company
upon the: United States ' has terminated its
labors. The a.N•ard of Stif_io,ooo has been
and all the rights and etitles of the Company
on the territory of the United States have
been extinguished. Deeds for the property
of the Company , have been-delivered:--An ap
propriation by Congress to meet this sum is
asked.
The commissioners for determining the
ICorthwestern land boundary between the
United States and the British .possessions, un
iler,the treaty of 1854 i, have completed their
labor and the commission has been dissolved.
In conformity with the recommendation of
Congress a proposition was early made to the
British Government to, abolish the mixed
.. -
courts created under.the treaty ofAprill,lB62.,
for the suppression of the slave trade., The
subject is still under negotiation. )
It having come to my knowledge that a
corporate company organized under the
British law proposed to land upon the shores
of the United States and to operate there a
sub-marine cable Under a concession from his
Majesty, the Emperor of the French
of an exclusive right for twenty years of
communication between the shores of France
and the - United States,with the very objection
able feature of subjecting all messages con
veyed thereby to the scrutiny and control of
the French government. I caused the French
and British legations at Washington to be
made acquainted with the probable policy of
Congress on the subject,• as foreshadowed
by the bill which passed the Senate
In March last. This drew from the represen
tatives of the Company an agreement to
accept as the basis of their operations the pre
visions of that bill, or of such other enactment
on the subject as !night be passed during
the approaching session of Congre.ss ;
also, to use their influence to
the French Government n
secure from
modification of their concession so as to per
mit the landing upon French soil of any cable
belonging to any company incorporated by the
authorities of the United °States, or /et any
finite in the Union, and on their part
not to oppose the establishment lof
any such cable. In consideration, of
this agreement, 1 directed the withdrawal
all opposition by the United States author
ities to the landing of the cable and to the
working of, it until the meeting of Congress.
I regret to say that there has been no moditi
cation made in the company's concession, nor
so far as I can learn have they at
tempted to secure one. Their ..concession
excludes the capital and the citizens of the
United States from competition upon
the shores of France. I recommend legisla
tion to, protect the' rights of. citizens of the
United States; as well as the dignity and
sovereignty of the nation against such an as
sumption. I shall also endeavbito 'secure by
negotiation an abandonment of the, princi,ple
of mobbpolies in
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intell'a' nal ofiircteetkon; ..
The' tlieti of the • United 'Staten, `whether'
native, kid Opted, who dlietiffigsfif 'ltils'ffakfto
his country entitled Wits ceftripletis Protec , •
bail. While I havea voice in the direction of
raffainr ,- I - shall not consent, tO - imperil this
saered. „right by -conferring ', it 'upon•
ffeUtiOns or . fraudiffent clairuante. ~ On
thenetession of the present Affininistration it
was fonnd,thate the Minister for North tier
trfaro Made propomitteirot 'for the negotiation of
a Convention for the prOtection'of 'emigrant
passengers; to which:no response had been
given, It was concluded' that. to be effectual
all the maritime powers engaged in the
trade should join in such a measure. In
vitations have been extended to the Cabinets
of London, Paris, Flerence, Berlin, Brussels,
The Hague, Copenhagen and , Stockholm to
empower their Representatives at
Washington to einsultatieously enter
into negotiations, and :to; conclude with.
the !Totted States conventions identical• In
form, making uniform regulations as to the
construction of .the parts of ; vessels to he de
voted to the use of emigrant passengers, as to
the '"quantity of food, as to the medical
treatment of the sick,. and as to the
rules to be observed during the voyage,
in order to secure ventilation, to promote
health,to prevent intrusion, and to protect the
families, and providing for the establishment
of tribunals in the several, countries. for en
forcing such regulations by , summary
process. And ' your attention 'hi re
spectfully called , 'to the ' law
regulating the tari ff on Rusmian hemp, and to
the question whether to fix the charges on
Russian hemp higher than they are fixed upon
manilla is not a violation, of our treaty with
Russia , placing her products upon the
same footing with those, of the most favored
nations. ,
Our maitufactures are increasing with won
derful rapidity under the encouragement
which they now receive. With the improve
ment in machinery already efiected and still
increasing, causing machinery to take the
place of skilled labor to a large extent, our .
imports of many articles must tall off largely
within a4very lew years.
Fortunately, manufactures are not confined
to a few localities as formerly, and it is to be
hoped will become more and more diffused,
making the interest in them equal in all Bee"
tions. They give employment and support to
hundreds of thousands of people ,at home, and
retain with us the means which otherwise
would be shipped abroad.
The-extension of railroads in Europe and
the East is bringing into competition with our
agricultural products like prcduets of other
countries. Self-interest, it not self-preserva
tion, therefore, dictates caution against dis-
;barbing any industrial interest of the' country.
It teaches ns also the necessity of looking to
other markets for the. sale of our surplus.
Our neighbors 'south of us, and China and
Japan, Should receive, our special attention.
It will be the endeavorof the Administration
to cultivate such relations with all those na
tions as to entitle us to their confidence,
and make it their interest as well as ours to
establish better commercial relations.
Through the agency of a more enlightened
polity than that heretofore pursued towards
China, largely due to the sagacity and el - harts'
of one of our own distinguished citizens, the
world is about to commence largely increased
relations with that' - populous and
hitherto exclusive' " - nation. -As the
United States have been the ifilliatoni in this
new policy, so ' they should be the
most earnest in showing their good
faith in making it a success. In this
connection, I advise such legislation as
will forever preclude the enslavement
of the Chinese upon our soil under the ' name
of Coolies, and also prevent American ves
sels from engaging in the transportation of
Cooliesto any country tolerating the system.
1 also recommend that the mission to China
be raised to one of the first class.
On my assuming the, responsible duties of
Chief 3fagistmte of the United States, it was ,
'with the conviction that three things were
essential to its peace, perpetuity and fullest
developments. , First among theses is strict
integrity in fulfilling ' all' our obligations.
Second, to secure protection. to the
person and property •of the, citizen of'
the United , : States .in each .and every
portion' of oust' common- country,wherever he
may choose to move without reference to ori
ginal nationality, religiori, color or politics.
demanding of hips only obedience to the law s
and proper respect for the rights of others.
Third—Union of all the States with equal
rights, indestructible' by any .constitutional
means. _ ,
To secure, the first of these, Congress has
taken two essential steps—first, in declaring
by joint resolution that the public debt should_
be paid, principal and interest, in coin; and
second, by proViding the means for paying.
Providing the means, however, could not se
cure the object desired without a proper ad
ministration of the laws for the collect
lion of the revenues and an economical
disbursement . of them. To this subject the
Administration has most earnestly addressed
itself with results, I hope, satisfactory to the
country. There has been no hesitation in
changing officials in order to secure efficient
execution Of ' the laws ; sometimes
,too, where in a mere party view un
deserved political results were likely
to follow; nor any hesitation in
sustaining efficient officials - against
remonstrances wholly political. It may be
well to mention, here, the embarrassments
possible to arise from leaving on the statute
books the so-called tenure of office acts, and
to earnestly recommend their total repeaL. It.
could not have been the intention of the
framers of the constitution, when providing
that appointments made by the President
should receive the consent of the Seuata,
that the latter should have the power to retain
in office . persons, placed there by Federal ap
pointment, against the will of the President.
The law is inconsistent with a faithful 'and
efficient administration of the government.
What faith can the Executive put in officials
forced upon him, and those, too, whom ho
has suspended for reasons? How will such
officials be likely to servo Audminis
tration which they know does not trust
them. For the second requisite to our growth
and prosperity, time and a firm but humane
administration of existing laws, amended
from time to time as they may prove ineflec e
live or prove harsh and unnecessary are, pro
bably all that are required. The third
cannot be attained by special legislation
but must be regarded as fixed by the Consti
tution itself, and gradually acquiesced in by
force of public opinion.
From the foundation of the government to
the present time, 'the management of the
original inhabitants of • this con
tinent, the • Indians,, has ' been a sub
ject of embarrassment and expense, and has
been attended • , -with continuous robberies,'
murders and wars. From my own experience
upon the frontiers in Indian . countries, I do
not hold either legislation or the conduct of
the whites who come most in contact with
the Indian blameless for these hostilities.
,The past, however, cannot be undone, and
the question must hornet as we now tied it.
I have 'attempted a new policy towards
these wards of the nation (they cannot be re
farded in any Other light than wards), with
air resnits, so far as tried, and which 1 hope
Will be attended ultimately with great success.
The Society of Friends is well known as hav
ing succeeded; in , living in peace'
with the ' .Indiars ' in the ,early
settlement of Pennsylvania, - while the ir
white neighbors of other sects in other sec- .
tions were constantly embroiled. They were
also known foftheir .opposition.to all strife,
violence and war, and are generally. noted for
their strict integrity and fair Oentiligs. ' These
considerationSindecednie to give then:tanager :
went of wfo*reiierviations of Indiantitothein:'
and to throw the burden of the selection Of
agent a open the. Soniety itself., The .result has
wenn IriOsfP.l4#etOrY
. ,
; . 'it, s aidllif,Sfotind more fully set forth In the
11 0.1.0 . 31 t istiO, Roxivaimioner,ol-adian-ittraixTi,
Fir Superintendent and Indian Agents not
0. the restritittionti s "'MlUpere nf tha. army were
)te eted.,),Theritutonefor Wit ate Mitillefolle:
1. .b e r e aSiArti•VIUSATO Net* there , or near ,
it ere, trelopn l mpatp A aentaktsX Tillajwgentand
t, g e conninaaaer . 0,4! • • .*rilOtifispandent
r if t
(.1 t 'ilto . fi afi • ~_ ~ato ..„c an cot
to ''' '4tOdo l rar''''''' 0• ' • • lgerent - 'd ' art
!J . /lOUS et tote Ci - - . ~•:iit." The 46 [0 1 + 1 oer
ItOlds•a piAittett.f64 , i
life Jethe '` Agent; at '.the
mill of the President" , lle former Is Pertiottally
interestfAipil ' !_yirw 'ltarnioby•Mith•the. 1414
di3r, 11 0114"0 eetalligh ' tug . a , permanent ; peaee
fto t et encljha* afime pippon vt'Vfl lifemay. be
sPe'U,t thjfi ..the,",ltral,ht:of • eivip s oci so nty ;
the . fat 1" has no' sunk ;personal in rest.
lAifotheir "'tenon id 'an eapotashite'oh , ' and
still stllUther.lhe'liallWhierr the 'aoverntriellt
has titian alife:oScerto sconce a faithful die ,
charge of• bid duties. in, carrying out a+ given
;A% ~ Timinlilittng of railroads. and the ac
ram TiocriFWlgiv.exkt* a ll ,the ttattural and
piltiefa region.; of the 'coo n in to, in rapidly
bringing eiyilized settlements contact
With ;Mtge tribes or Indians. No matter What
Ought to both° relations lietweeiesirchr' . settle
ments'and the •abeiriginea, the fact 'is that
they, do , not harmonize ;well, and one for .
the other, ,has, to give, way in the end.
A ayetem which 'oohs to the extinction of a
race is too horrible for a nation. to adopt with
out entailing upon itself the wrath of all
Christendem, and engendering in' the c3titen a
disregard for human 'lifti and the rights.tif
others dangerous to society. Tete° no substitute
for such a system . - except in placing all the.
Indians on large reservations, as rapidly as
can be done,and giving them absolute.protee
tion there. As soon as they are fitted for it,
they should lie.induced to stake their lands in
severalty and to set up territorial government,
for their (MD protection. For full details on
this subjeet, I call attention to the reports of
the Secretary of the Interior and ' the
Commissioner of .Indian Affairs. The
report of the Secretary of War
shows the expenditures of the War De
partment for the wear ending the 30th ofJune,
1869, to he $80,b44,042, of which :523,882,310
was disbursed in the payment of debts con
tracted ;Wring the war, arid is not chargeable
to current army expenses. His estimate of
534,531,031 for the expenses of the army for
the next fiscal year is as low as it is believed
can be relied on.
The estimates of bureau officers have been
carefully scrutinized or reduced wherever
it has been practicable. It, however, the
condition of the country should be such, by
the beginning of the next fiscal year, as to
admit of a greater concentrution of troops, the
appropriation asked for will not be expended.
The appropriations estimated for river and
harbor improvements and for fortifications are
submitted separately. Whatever amount
Congress may deem proper to appropriate for
these purposes will be expended. The recom
mendation of the General of the Army that
appropriations be made for the forts
at Boston, Portland, New York, Philae
delphia, New Orleans and San Francisco,
if for no others, is concurred in. I also ask
your special attention to his recommendation
of the General commanding the military divi
sion of the Pacific, for the' sale of the Seal
Islands, of St. George and St. Paul, Alaska
Territory. and suggest that it either be com
plied with,' or that legislation be had for the
protection of the Seal fisheries, from which a
revenue should be derived.
The report , of the Secretary of War con
tains a. synopsis of the reports of the heads of
bureaux, of the commanders of military divi
sions, an di of the districts of Virginia, Mis
sissippi and Texas. and the report of the Gen
eral of the Army in ' full. The recommenda
tions therein contained have been well con
sidered, and are submitted for your
action. I, however, call - special at
tention 'to the recommendation of
the Chief of Ordnance, for the sales of
arsenals and lands no longer of use to the Go
vernment; also, to the recommendation of the
Secretary of War that the act of March 3d,
1869, prohibiting promotions and appoint
merits on the staff corps of the army be re
pealed. The extent of country to be garri
soned and the number of military posts
to be occupied is the same • with a
reduced army as with a letrge one and a large
number of staff officers required is more dependent
Upon the latter than the , former condition and - the
report of the Secretary of the Navy accom
panying this shows the condition of the Navy
whin this administration came into office and
the changes made since.
The method by which postage should be paid
upon public matter is set forth fully, in the re
port of the Postmaster-General.
The report of the Secretary of the Interior
shows that the quantity of public lands dis
posed of during the year ending 30th of June,
1869, was 7.666,152 acresi, exceeding that of the
preceding year by 1,010,409 acres. Of this
amount '2,899,544 acres were sold for cash, and
2,737,;i0 acres entered under the homestead
law
The remainder was . granted to aid in the
construction of works of internal improve
ment, apportioned to these States as swamp
lands and located witliwarrants and scrip.
The cash receipts from all source's were
- $4,472,886, exceeding those of the preceding
year $2,840,140.
During the last fiscal year 23,196 names were
added to the pension rolls, and 4,876 dropped
therefrom, leaving at its close 107,963. The
amount paid to pensioners, including the
compensation of disbursing agents, was
was $58,422,88.4 , an increase of
strenuous efforts have been made to place as
many vessels in commission or render them
fit for service, if required, as possible, and to
substitute the sail for steam whilst cruising,
thus materially reducing the expenses of the
navy and . adding greatly to its efficiency.
Looking to our : future, I recommend a Jibe ,
ra], though not extravagant . policy, towards
this branch of the public services.
The report of the Postmaster-General furn
ishes a clear and comprehensive exhibit of the
operations of the postal service and of the
financial condition of the Post-Office Depart
ment. The -ordinary-postal revenues for the
year' ending, the 30th of June, 1846,
amounted to. 318.344,510, and the
expenditures to $2J,698,131, showing
an excess of expenditures over receipts,
55,353,620. The excess of expenditures over
receipts for the previous year amounted to
" $6,437,102. The increase of revenues 'for 1869,
over those of 1868 was 52,051,909, and the in
crease of expendures way $967,538. The in
creased revenue in 1869 exceeded the
increased ,revenue. ,in 1868 by $936,336, and
the increased expenditures' in 1810 was
$2,527,570 less than the increased expenditures
in 1868, showing, by comparison, this gratify
ing feature of improvement, that while the
increase of expenditures over the increase of
receipts in 1868, was $9,439,535, the increase of
receipts over the increase of expenditures in
1869, was $1,084,371.
Your attention is called to the recommen
dations made by the Postmaster General for
authority to change the rule of compensation
to the main trunk railroad lines for their
services in carrying the mails, for having post
route maps executed, forreorganiziug the effi
ciency ni the speciaragew service, for the
inciease of the mail service on the
Pacific, and for establishing mail ser
vice under the ring of the Union
on the Atlantic and most especially do
I call your attention to his recommendation
for the total abolition of the franking priv i
lege. This is an abuse from which no one re
ceives a commensurate advantage. It reduces
the receipts for postal, service from
twenty-five to thirty per cent. and largly
increases the servise to be performed,
of 54,411,902 on that of thepreviou.s year: The
munificence of Congress has been conspicu
ously manifested in • its -legislation for the
soldiers and Sailors . who suffered in the
recent, struggle to maintain that,
unity of government which makes
as one people. The additions to the pension
rolls of each successive year since the conclu
sion of hostilities,resultin a great degree from
the repeated Amendments of the act of the
14th of July, 1862, which extended 'its •proVi-
Si3llB to cases not falling within its original
scope.
The large:outlay which it thus occasioned is
further increased by the more liberal allow , -
mace bestoWed since that date upon those
who, in the line of duty, were 'whoy 'or per;
Maneutly disabled. Tubli&. , '•npiniqn: has
given au emphatic, ,sanction to these
measures of Congress;, . and -, it: be
conceded that no part of our ; imbligburdeit is
mere - cheering, *Rive than that which is ,im.
poSed•bytlid branch of tho 00010: !noes--
Wes hither, neat • flkW , `iear
ditioat; to , the iattitituMootoolidiargeable . .lo
the us , ,, OldintliT4 l ol.o . .3ldVelPiation
tent
Mb** . 1 12. 4 1 94 rliAlkiift•Pe Year' Oleg
the
6 '0t.4 ) 14 1t i - 4solPt. 4 „.,
13,70Aotenta, an
,
.
its receipts were 1.686,38 , 4—being $.214,026`m0r,
I would respectfully call, your. attention to
' the recommendation Of the 80brefary of the
Interior, for uniting the duties ot superset,- ~
ug the eclocatiop Of freedlao6., with 4 fthe'
ether duties devoliong upon ' the , Coto
inbetiblier Of ''''PAtrieatltitt; It' : It ' is •
desire ..tif`"fiengfeo to ' make ' 'the censuit
which must be tak en during the 'yeeit''lB7ot '
Mere cooloplete - And 'perfect than heretofore, I
would lingiog, tawly action upon anyplatt that
bayagreed. Amon. I . _ „As (loam*
at , the 'last ; een itiMettktuit , lad r _,
mittee to ' '' ''' t ae , into , econsitiera On,
such measures as' ight,be deenied pig&
20 44
reference to thbeenshisi and to ferobit;a;p,
I desist from saying * more. I
meta • '.' to' 1 your , .flittortible" ' , eon OW
lion tire , elhitlis of .1 !the' "agricuinatill
buresonforjihe , • laPPrOlglationie i lnut.eotattry
so di ltd. . ellintitel 04 Soli tliteitilii4 , '
' with 4 titillt g'., ifg ' Irk, tiernitent.. ' '
agriculture. .6 boo th a* *,:t i .
ferreit , lly.t: ;" (Welly this - 'ftistering - eatt,
are' IT/all , ksi. ' I "dellire, ' respectfotilY,' , to
call ;the tattentioli ... of - Colognes - tef this ,
inadequate ealarlea. of it' number ,of the roost
important oilmen of, the governMent. , I-n.
this message' will ,mg - enumerate thelogbOt
will specify :only tllk Itudices of the Supreme._
Court.' No' change Itios, been inado in tizt
salaries lbelitteen. years,' arid Withinthlit a to '
the labors of, the court have hugely itieretteed,
and the expenseas expenses°fitting have at loniettdeliblett .
during the same time Congress - hae , tatice
found it necessary to increase largely Abe
compensation of • its.nsembers, and thee. duty ;
which it owes , to another department , ,otirthe. ,
Government,, deserves, and will nadeabtedly ,
receive its due . consideration. ~
There are many subjects not all u ded - to' in
this message, which might, with proprie „tV'te '
introduced, but I abstain believing ' - - ,
that your patriotism and statesmanship .
will sugggest the topics and ,the legislation.,
most conducive to the interests of the whole
people. On my part, I promise a rigid ad- ,
herence to the taws add their strict enforce
ment. U. 8. Oitstrr. .
The Opening of. Congress.
[Spacial Despatch to 4be Philada. Evening Bulletbl.]
WAsunto'roli, Dec. 6.—Quite a large .num
ber of Senators bad assembled in the Senate ,
Chamber at 11 o'clock, and as others came in
there was a` general shaking of hands aaad,o9o-
grattlations. !tlie galleries were well filled in
anticipation of hearing the President'S Mes
h age.
liev.Dr. Newman, in his opening prayer-,
made a feeling allusion to the decease of Mr:.
Fessenden.
The call;of, the roll was answered by fifty.
five Senators. The credentials of r. Morcill,
of Maine, were'll 3l
presented byr. Hamlin, Find
ho was sworn in.
The Vico President kid before the Senate
the resignation of Senator Grimes, and' akin
the credentials of the new Senators from Vir
ginia were presented, after the usual! commit
tee had been appointed to, notify the. HQUSB
and the President that the Senate had organ
ized and was ready to proceed to business.,
Mr. Cameron presented the monster peti
tion of over'3o,ooo citizens of Pennsylvania,
asking aid for Cuba.
Senator Drake then presented his bill ,tak
ing from the Supreme Court all jurisdiction
over Constitutional. questions,and moved that
it be postponed till Monday next. to allow
time for'him to speak in its favor.
The usual Hood of bills for reference then
followed.
There appears . tobe but one opinion among
the Republican Senators as to the course to
pursued,
The Senate at 12.60 took a recess for, half an
hour. On re-assembling the message vvili.be
received.
By the Atlantle Cable.
LoNno3r, Dec. 6, 11 A. M.—Consols for
money, 921; for account, 92.1.1.9211; U. S.
Five-twenties of 1862, 851; 18655, old, 841;
18675, 86i ; Ten-Forties, 811. Stocks steady;
Erie, 201; Illinois. Central, 991; Atlautic and
Great "Western, 26.
lavEnroor„ Dec. 6,11 A. M.—Cotton steady;
Middling Uplands, 12d.; Middling Orleans,
121 d. The sales will probably reach 10,000
bales.
LofinoN, Dee. 6, 11 A. M.—Talloir i A7s.
Sugar firm on the spot and afloat; on the
spot. ;S:ls.a:i9s.tid. Refined petroleum, hi. Hd.
Linseed oil, .tni its.
QuEENsrowN, Dec. ti.—Axrived—stearamhipS
Helvetia and Manhattan, from NeW York..
GLAsoow, Dec. 6.-Arrived—steamship
lowa. from New York.
SOLTILMPTON, Dec. 6. - ---Arrived, steamship
Main, from New York.
Lo NDON, Dee. 6, 1 P. M.-,--American' securi
ties firmer. Five-twenties of 1862, 86; ; 1865'5,
old,•85,1 ; 1867's '
862. Erie, 20.1•
LIVERPOOL, Dee. 6, 1 P. M.—Cotton (inlet.
Tallow, 45A."0d.
Runs, Dec. .Bourse opened firm ;
Rentes,' 721. 70e.
ANTWERP, Dec. 6.-Petroleum opened ti nn
60;f.
From Norfolk and Fortre!m Mon roe.
FORTRESS MolinoE, D ec. 4. A meeting. of
the Board of Trade of Norfolk was held ;AN
terday, at which resolutions were adopted in
favor of government aid to the Oriental and
hiediterrianean Steam. Navigation Company.
The United States steamer Severn. arrived.
here a day or two since, having in tow the ship
Pawnee, which is to relieve ; the New Hamp
shire as receiving4ip at Norfolk, .
The Severn sailed at ten o'clock, A.; 31, to
day, for the West India squadron, where she
will relieve the Powbatan as flagship of Rear
Admiral Charles It poor.
The following iv a list of her officers : Com
mander, it. B. Lowery; Lieut. Commanders,
H. H. Farquhar, S. IC Haswell and B. S.
Houston; Masters, E. H. Vail and W. W. Kil
patrick ; Fleet Surgeon, Charles Martin; Fleet
P. M., Edwin Foster; Fleet Engineer, Charles
William Son; Chaplain, M. C. Brittain; Passed
A.ssistant Surgeon, M. J. Babin; Assistant
Surgeon, E. C: Dunning; First Assistant . Sur
geon,,J. Bissctt; Second Assistant, R. B.
Hine;' Captain of Marines; J. H. Baker;
Second Lieut. of Marines,A. H. O'Brien:Com
manders Clerk, George Baker; Mates, F. H.
Poole, E.F. Meyers,
A. E. Bateman, G. M.
Bowers and J . L. Plunath; Boatswain, A.'
W. Pomeroy; Gunner, It. H. Cross; Carpenter,
W. Barnard; Salhnaker, J. C. Chavelier.
The Pawnee passed up to Norfolk to-day
under sail, and upon relieving the New/lamp
:,hire, it is understood that that vessel will pro-,
coed to Portsmouth, N. EL, as receiving-ship
at that station. • ,
HIGHW AYMEN.
Utempted highway Robbery in Broad
Daylight.
One of the most audacious attempts at high
way robbery sever known in Philadelphia
was made this morning, in the very heart of
the business part of the city, and would have
proved successful but for the pluck and
courage of the person assailed.
Messrs. M. Thomas & Sons, the well-known
auctioneers are in the habit of drawing funds
from the Girard Bank, at an early hour of tim
day, to pay their sales, and, this morning, at
about ten o'clock, their clerk, Mr. Ellis Hen
kels, a young man of twenty years of age,
drew the sum of $lBOO, in notes of various de
nominations, making quite a bulky roll; and
started on his usual route, through Harmony.
Court to his unite.
Just alter turning into Harmony Court, Mr,
Henke's was suddenly assailed by two men,
one'lct whom struck him a violent blow ,om
the back of the head with a black-jack, while
the other clapped his hands over his mouth.
Although partially stunned, Mr. lienkels
managed to preserve a firm grip upoti bin
roll of money, anti to break away from , the'
grasp of his ii. , ,sailants. Before this was
accomplished, however, he had been badly
beaten anti cut about •.the head by repeat 44
blows from one of the ruffians, The yo . , •
man's cries for help filially began to nU,r,,
people to the spot, and the highwayMeti,
foiled of their trey, - walked leisurely down
the street anti disappeared' into Third' streeti,
no attempt being made to arrest them;
The matter was promptly placed in the' ,
hands of the pollee, and it is to•bo hoped ; for
the credit of the city, that these ,dating semi*, - ':
drels will be brought to justice. , ,
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Too• much .l
iraiso cannot beawarded'PA
iounglienkels, for 'his gallant and
detence'orniinsell and the' Otatie of - ,"'
employers. Although , hlhideeathi sk 'fl
with' the blows of his assailed:olo ttild • :,•'•
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that they must kW hits,bittbsoA the y , gottiolvi.'. •
money. Net Are & t ad Wlettru:that XT t .li**ol: , ! , - -; 1
keite wounds, tliffiq/11 -tiertuua . are nu'
angerous chsoetet. • , , , , •
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