.n. ~ i s ^.64t, ~'~✓~ ( ax t r.m....mya:n~ BUSINESS NOTICES. .oSeinisAY* MOW . •LAND 13417 ANN AND UPIUOUT . PIANOS Stapersi rrdeetion in prices in accordance with the do aline in the premium on gold, !tideway & Sons mannfaeture also an entirely now nolo of inetrumint termed the • SCHOOL PIANO. Precisely the enmo in shin, scale, interior mechanism aad workmanship as their highest priced 7 octavo penON, In a perfectly plain, yet excel", ingly neat ex terior case:which are offered to thqee who desire to purees a Arst-clase" Steinway Piano," yet are limited ki Means, at 'very low prices. Npocial attention _ie rtIPO called to Steinway & Bone' new . .. PATNNT UPRIGHTPIANO, ' With Peale Iron Frame, Patent Iteennator, Tubular Metal Frame Action, Az— which are matobleisa in tone ad liarneb, and unrivalled In durability. Myer) Pianoforte is warranted for live yedri. !Inane to rent, and also sold on monthly installments illd Pianos taken in exchange. CHARLES 'CLAWS, sole Agent for the Fah of [tideway k Sons',v. - orld-renowned Pianofortes. tig W. rerooms, 1006 Chestnut street. Conrad Never. Inventor and Ilantdne veer sf the celebrated Iron Frame Piano, has received Mae prize Medal of the World's Great Exhibition, Lon• den,lngland. The highest PriZof3 awarded when and Wherever eshibited. Warerooms,722 Arch street. Established 1823. asylum wtf§ Geo. Steck Ale Cu.'s Uraud, !Square au Virifqo Plum Plum to rent. J. E. GOULD, Roll so. 923 Chestnut etreet. EVENING BULLETIN. Saturday, Blarch 26, 1870. II :7" Our advertisers have encroached so upon our space to-day, that we are obliged to change the positions of several departments of 'eading matter, as well as a number of adver titenaents. THE BIIRD commix ASYLUM There appears to be no limit to the careless, bungling, lawless legislation which results from the present reckless and hurried way of doing business at Harrisburg. Not only are new public laws proposed and made with a total dis regard of justice or common sense, but it is be coming common to tinker with the private rights of citizens and corporations, not out of any corrupt or improper motive, but simply as the natural result of crowding through the Le gislature all manner of private bills, which are read by title and rushed through, in two or three, minutes, without five members of the Rouse or• Senate having the remotest idea of A fe.w days ago, both Houses of the Legisla ,ture passed a bill, which is now in the Govern or's hands, which openly breaks a will in one of its moat:fundamental and important fea t:rues, and yet nobody at Harrisburg appears to lave taken any notice of it. We refer to the will of the late Mrs. Eliza How ard Hurd. This estimable lady left, by will, a large bequest for the erection and endowment of the Hurd Orphan Asylum. In her will, Mrs. Blvd defines the beneficiaries of the Asylum to be " white female orphan children of legiti mate birth, of the age of not less than four years and of not more than eight years." These limits are explicit and unqualified. But the Corporation of St. Stephen's Church, appeinted, under the will, to manage the Hurd Orphan Asylum, undertake to break the will, ant find no difficulty in doing so, with our fasi' ! Legislature. A clause of the will is hunted out which provides that the Corporation may apply to the Legislature for such addi tional powers as they may deem necessary to enable them to place out children to be instruc ted in suitable arts, trades and professions, and in other respects more fully to carry out the the objects of the institution as herein speci fied." Under the pretext of this clause, the vestry of St. Stephen's Church have broken Mrs. Burd's will, procuring the passage of a. bill to admit children " between the ages of four and twelve years." That this legislation is in direct violation of the charter of the Burd Orphan Asylum and of the will of its benevolent founder, cannot admit of a moment's dispute. Mrs. third chose to provide for a certain class of orphan chil dren, and for no other. The discretion of the management of the Asylum is clearly limited to the carrying out of the objects " herein spew:fled." No object is. "herein specified." except the maintenance of three particular classes of female orphan children, all of whom are to be admitted " not less than four years of age and of not more than eight years." By what possible right the Corporation of St. Stephen's Church can open the Burd Orphan Asylum to an entirely different class of chil dren, would require something beyond the wit of the cleverest Philadelphia lawyer to eonceive. Should this act become a law, it appears to place the very existence of this admirable char ity in extreme peril. For the will expressly provides that if its charitable provisions should become void or fail to take effect `"from any cause whatever," the residue of the estate is devised and bequeathed to certain persons, named, "to be by them disposed of as they may think proper." The " charitable provis ion" for orphans between four and eight years of age will necessarily "Pail to take effect" whenever another class of children, not con templated in the design of the testatrix, is in troduced and the funds of the Burd Orphan Asy lum are diverted for their support. We have called attention to this particular eau, because it is a striking illustration of the mischief constantly being done by the careless and ignorant legislation at Harrisburg; and where there is no one specially interested in invoking the intervention of the courts, it is impossible to predict the extent of the injury that is often inflicted by this whole range of procedure. If the Legislature of Pennsylvania can thus break the fundamental provisions of a charitable will, very few persons will be found ready to leave , their money for any charitable purposes in this State. On Thursday last, the day when. the BULLETIIed article appeared exposing Mr. W. W. Harding's course in regard to telegraphic news and the Associated Press, the Philadel phia morning papers representing that organi ustion voted to admit Mr. Swain's new paper. Mr. Harding resisted as long as he could, but finally yielded, in consideration of the bonus of Sti,ooo paid by Mr. Swain,•one-lifth of which goes into Mr. liarding'a pocket. Money, and the saving of it, are iniportaut matters in Mr. Harding's two papers. - As an illustration : On the 21st of February, his representative on. the Everting Ttirgi ((ph, the person named Warburton, came to the Bina.rain office In great anxiety. lie wished us to join with him and suspend publi ca . limn on the 22d of February—a 'thi ng dai had never been 'done since the BunurrlN MEM =Z2 THE. DAILY EVENING „BULLETIN-7-PIIII4.PELPH TUAP.4,Y,,M was started. : lig admitted that his object was to save expense * ttp"the Telegraph was not making any 'money. INt-rather than deprive our Lands of one day's w`Yt and pay, and rather than violate our implied ttoptract with advertisers and pubseribers, we declkatd to go into the arrangement, and told him the 131g- ,- LETIN would appear as usual... Bo the Tele , graph had also to• appear. But the Associated Press was keeping the 22d as a holiday, and while the l3mA.Emiat was, full of telegraphic news, the Telegraph had little or none. The Democratic daily,thie morning, denies, in a mast furious manner, that its outrageous, slander of Mrs. Lucretia Mott was anything more than " a playful remark or two." We certainly shall not reprint any specimens of this playfulness, so that our readers may per ceive the delicate quality of the humor which prevails in the Age office ; nor'shall we attempt to prove that this attack was unmanly ; cow ardly, and grossly insulting. Tithe sensibilities of the Age people arc not fine enough to per ceive this, without argument, of course they cannot by any means be made to comprehend the shame of the assault; but we venture to question the fitness of such persons to conduct a public newspaper. The Pr sas,this morning, echoes our denunciation of these "playful re marks" as follows: "The unmanly attack on Mrs.Lncretia Mott, in 5 et,terday morning's Age, is worthy of Rochefort, or Brick Pomeroy, and it is only with mortification that we must refer to the appearance, is a Philadelphia journal, of such an article. ltwould be dignifying too greatly a happily anonymous scribbler to maim any reply to its flippant and vulgar insults. Mrs. Mott needs no defence in Philadelphia, and out of it the aspersions of .a local paper will never reach. With this notice we dismiss a disgraceful assault which has only injured the writer and publisher." No fresh lies in the Tribune to-day; but no repentance for the old ones. If we were sure where Mr.'• Greeley was going to church to morrow, we would endeavor to secure for him a sermon, Jon the Ninth Commandment, or Ephesians iv: 25. "Fron•Fron" in French. -The French Dramatic Company will have a benefit performance on Monday evening, given by the subscribers to the late season at the Amateurs' Drawing Room, who have paid nve (lona seas for ino - viu - gitt perierta see. The rest of the seats are sold at a dollar and a half a piece, but early application should be made for them at Boner's, as they are going very fast. On this occasion the new and very successful comedy of Frou-Frou will be played in French for, the first time in this country, all the artists appearing. The piece will be played precisely as written, without any alteration or adaptation; so that this will be thie only chance of seeing it just as it has been produced at the Gyinnase Theatre in Paris. JOVANALIBII.—Dr. John H. Gihon, ex•pri vate Secretary of Governor Geary, has com menced the publication of a very good-look ing Republican" daily at Harrisburg, called The Daily Topic. " The first numbers of the Topic indicate that it is to be a live paper, and that it will be devoted to supplying the de mand felt by many for an additional daily edi ted and published at the State Capitol. The American .Engineer is a new scientific weekly journal just started in Philadelphia by Messrs. Evans & Co., northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut streets. The Engineer is an eight-page folio, on fine paper, handsomely printed, and containing several well-engraved illustrations, the principle one being a section of the proposed bridge over the Delaware. The first number contains a great variety of information in the various departments of arts, mechanics, chemistry, manufactures„ ite. Among other features, the Engineer pro poses to give a weekly official list of patents issued and, other information connected with the patent office. The Engineer is published at a very low rate, and deserves extensive patronage. The Philadelphia Southern and Western Trade Journal, now in its third year, has been en larged by the addition of a column to its pages. This is the Trade Journal's second enlarge. ment, and speaks well for the increasing pros perity of this enterprising sheet. Its pages are• crowded with_ carefully prepared reports of the Philadelphia markets, and with the adver tisements of the Philadelphia trade. There in also a large variety of well-selected reading matter. . We congratulate the several publishers of the above journals on their prospeets,and wish them all manner of success. BuntingDurborew dr Co.. Auctioneers, Nos.= and 234 Market street, will hold during next week the following important sales, viz : On Monday, March 21,91 19 o'clock, on four months" credit, 000 lots of !Trench and British Dry Goodv, inclu ding blohairs, Alpacas Poplins, Epinglinow, Piques, he.; black and colored 'Silks Satins. Orillits, Matinee. Nets, &c.; a line of Paris Lista ThPiet long and salmi:. Shawls. 400 pieces Tarletans. Also, Artificial Flowers, Nottingham Ourtaine and Laces ; Hamburg Embroldor les , 400 cartons Paris Ribbons ; 300 &non Puns Kid Gloves ; also Trimmings, White Goode, Quilts, Domes. tics, Ties, Notions, &c. Also, a special sale of Guttknocht's lead pencils, cray ons, kp. l'oesdpy, March ot 10 o'clock, on four months' credit,2,ooo Lam Boots, tlhoce, •Traveling Bags, Hata, on Thursday, March Met, at 10 o'clock, on tow months' credit, 1,000 packages and lots of Foreizn and Domestic Dry Goods. Including Clothe, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Meltona, Italians. Satin do Chines, Nestings, dc. Also, Dress Goods, Silks, Shawls, Linens, Shirt., Hosier) • Gloves, Dahnoral and Moog Skirts, Sowings, Umbrellas, Ties. &c. • On Friday, April 1, at 11 o'clock, on four months' credit, 200 pieces Ingrain, Venitlan, List, Hemp, Cottags and Dag Carpotinge, Oil Cloths, Canton Mattings, &c. Extensive Sales of Residence*, Stores. Farms, Country Seats, Small Wive Maws, Large Lots,Stocks, Loans, Furs/inure, Books. Ma cbluery, Bulldlne Material, dee.. e. See Thomas tt Sons , advertisements on the seventh and last pages, and catalogues issued to-day. d:1-71)R. LEIGH'S IMPROVED HARD Rubber Truss never rusts, breaks or soils, used in bathing; Supporters, Elastic B-its, ---" Stockings, all kinds of Trusses sod Braces. Ladies attended to by MRS. LEIGH, 1230 Chestnut, second story. nog lyrp§ FOR INVALIDS—A FINE MUSICAL Box He n companion for the sick chamber; the finest torsorin eat in the city, nod a great variety of airs to ea• 'eel from. Imported direct by FARR & BROTHER, mhl6tfrpl 324 Chestnut street, below Fourth. _.. 181 \I•_GET YOUR HAIR OUT AT ,/ HOPP ' S Saloon, by tlrst • ciaes Hair Oatiers. ity leaving rn order, gentlemen can be shavod at their residences. Eeeore set in order. Oven on Monday morn• mg. No. 126 Exchange Place. jit•j 0.0. HOPP. A - UNE M EAS UR ES, YARDSTICKS, Board 31 , snores. Rolm and Tailors' &mama, for PP le by Tit um AN & SHAW, No. 8361 Eight Tb!rtY - five) krt street, below Ninth. qPIIING CALL-BELLS OF VARIOUS so lea, no I Plat.o4l or Plain Ton Bells, and lam , Pinner and Hand Wits, for role by TRUVIAN at Elf AW. No. Mt ElghtThlrly-firel Market street, b, low Ninth. , pATEN r ALARM AND DETECTOR Mouey-nrawer. Take your choice of the three futbq we have for Fele. TItIIMA N R KU AW. No. E 35 (Eight Thlrty•tlve) Market street. below Ninth. HORSE COVERS, FOR 'ROSES. Lap lines awl Donis Gear. All kinds None r or cheaper. RN RA81414 ilarllWltl More 1145 Dlrrketstreet. Bic horse in thn door. aWARBITETON'S IMPROVED, VEN. tilated and easy-fitting Dress Bats (patented)ln all the Approved fashions of the season,