D % , ~ i ittiwGiats I;==z:n NOMDIATiONS. Yee77lHlll 07 1077117211 7072 T: %rimy amen= wnzwirs, Of Allorboki Neap IiVIIIIIIJ.L NEEXTT, ot:zego luad zy - ASS altaLTI Guiimies wiukesr. oskisia. WILLIAM IL. Fut% etw. ALIMAIDWA 111411,AL AliVii175111:111.11101nallt, Haw?* TO. 020/SifilLk/Minar.',itheteny. 1111 Inr*All•Wan.7. . - ' 71012•Wbe701 • WILLTKII.,OIty. .Ihll. J. r. , Ip.PlllllTON.klbert7 Priaaw. mamma. morn: . WILLIAM cL►wlos, Ctjty. DAVIII, So'raki,!, CILLIPLEII rcNH , Itaaskeater coxisoLiciArtow This bnidiess !mount:Laity, oonanding of nearly two hundred Moused persona, is new. governed by twelve different municipal authorities; each acting under fce a, ' rs antra and dissimilar charte, aid . g discordant and conflicting boric the . local 'jealousies, rivalries, or ma , of either May happen to deter s. The act of cOnselidation seeks unite these ditconhat elements coder . one tomegeneons city gOVlllll9ett. . - The old raexim, "united we stone' . diatelee Lim JOU," is as applicable now Was when used by our. Revelation ary fathers. ' The universal practice of 'u people in all parts of the country, from that day to this, proves its troth. All the !ergo prospering towns ud eities countrynaveexPerlemel the stage of being • restricted and .cramped within their original . narrow limfis'ead hate..f.Mind ll neceisary, from time to time, to extend them, and hare profited thamby. This is the natural coasequena of the healthful growth of any. prousesus community.. As it ix• creases in numbers, business and wealth, it needs an expansion of territory. A itpogin united, , municipal sometime:M.ls fleoesearj An the larger territory as for the smaller one. This has been the experience' mid history of all our large ,cities-sed has , proved beufislal to all; as none_ Aare ever desired to go back wArd, and divide a large, uniMd city tato Separme fragmente - l' -t hifirieednot cite the eiample of ells, tent cities; a reference to those of our own. State will be sal:dant phis has gone through the process of ounololation. Its former condition was similar to that of our owl at present. The erateunieett ceased by the con tlictieg legislation of to many corpora- Kthe same community, induced thopeopli to seek a remedy In consoll7 lotion. That measure having been hap., pily accompliiied, the good effect of it, after several your of , experience, have beeerfoundatabe all friends an. tkcipated.. And the peoples affected by it, are ,now nearly ,. edumehmens in, the VS that Alias a wtseiaiumnre, and has proried to be eminently ben.. idal to the value of property, the con unisece of the inhabitauta, and to the prosperity - of the whole. community. lid ire aVe'aisized by well learned .people of that city that if the question was now open for re-consideration, not ' one in Mn spoold Tote for going tank to ittiireziOidse!ipiat'of 'opiate muoi ,paltorporatioaa, The experience'of oar own neighbor hood has Dead 'similar. The city of Plpab,4 iirsficfy had, four afar. b6hisdirtee, increasing from five wards to ten. Allegheny has had three differanlehoudaries within n ;Ingle year past, hicreaalig fiom four to seven wards. • Them smaller consolidations opsimg.tittrieless st hole inee proved to be equally beaelcial to the people af asema lay that. go it will prove to be in they larger conselidatitai now to Do romplithed; for the same reasons which were applicable in the former cases are icily app)hrilde Int teseat No one among Its would now seriously pro- pose to din*, to the Alatricts which hare been con q glad 1n nithetAllegheny or Pittsburgh, aid relapse into the former separate .copogations. • A few years bencit,i7neneiMaaok itch Witit)lturprise that any opposition, however feeble, could haveheu manifested to a measure so elides* SexeliciaL ' • The obvious advantages to be derived from Tusolldatiott,rnay be briefly stated Arr:allilietintAitet one . single - pal government to mange the public business of one compact badness cm mualtyttirti‘ituglositstatlye authority, inatua of,twidie sets of coancihnen, to enact municipal tarsi onechisfecu tive oftioginiteradiorerlomunayors or burgesses, to execute the municipal laws and to oyarloolt ati,„city again; onenni• forysteor; parvadidg idl' Parts of the corporate territory, acting every. where„:under the same laws, sad the sartgs*lnstssel of ve'seta otnobi gating under different laws and rules, to preserve the peace and good order of all; one toriteglit* departiartat under one Dead,' setliTng - ibeievei duty or need may require, without halting at As ideal Ina tof surriarstidit bs, porarginoldne city zsgtztar, tartan of a desen,' toingttlite - streets and grades to accord with each other - and with a g,g2,11: ro f iati,- 4 . 1.45#0 dna ires.sury; one eat of auessors; and o:sanitary system for at elite inhabl• • These observations are• genera]; .but there are semerfestures be the Act of con.. sOlidation which denoted the special at tention otthe Toter' of Allegheny. If this bridges are purchased ley the. nets exiiinhthini, the atnouitt to be Pild by the people in the _northern' dlotrict will be in proportlovto the ensued *raise of • . thole property (blamed with the Talus- Lion . in the whole of the new corpora tion: The total , 'elation In the whole • of Messy eorporatioa Is stated 1, , 01.1 to be ita,o7 La • • 44 4r i rrrer=ferfr 0.615,127 if ell the teldies are pnrohased. - for the sea stated, theadet wilt. 4°6 I r° The p• ofthis east falling • on U.. tat DeSen. la th * north. • era eltstelet. to IMAM Eedlt the bre:lm are veld for bleatha. per out. Londe, the - potties of Interest to be balel • thereon by that dietrhavill be.. Ves 'esteent tole eollseeed or. • . an the bettbtee ever t ansibe fly river, mu, fear, to teLest Of thlsnra letielaslate that 1411 twOrthhlhl -- 1471147. , ree11 0446 mou he s dlog to trtkern Oletrtiftnt so to 117,04, Itlthe bridges are made tree tee _ . tax payers will b* rallovott lr.a mess tette, axe FiiipaY theaal taalatootat oo Rasa. as • above Mated, amonatlng to. .... Atat, Therabitetaltlaa a clear gato eyuy year f. which Is equal to mum mills to the dol lar on all the taxable property l As dia. trot Now, we ask the carafe' attention of emu rotor in Alleeway, Bkarpebarg; saithlte_tewaskips, , to these agues; axe to bear talaind that by mating for can eaddittfeit - be rotes in reliefs himself froti.illeperkietW annoyasoe of papas tares - La the shape of bridge tolls, and alsoAlkairiirig to du tax-sues of the nerthsraAharict- sboat fifty thousand dollars emery year. Thera-false another fature of the act of special' interest to the taz•payers la the warts of McClure and Reserve town ships, recently mitered to Allegheny. Tinder the law, as it now artite, those tax-payers are assessed at the retail of city taxation en their farms - sad prelim But ander the act of consolidation they , wtil:payonly two-thirds of those rates. By , lioging for consolidatlon they will thereby *auk their Lazes one-third. ittice cizop says Salaam uutdo a very good pirate, 'bat a had ad!tor, although ha did a correopondiugamoud of steal. log to %Oa profeaidous. nrrElNAV'sterzitere. The lint gainer of the cement fiscal year closed on Monday. This, there fore, is a good period at which to make a comparison with the working of this branch of the Government daring the present and last fiscal year. According to the figures published, the, receipts at Waakingten Inc the month ig peptißaber Just closed, were ,j 18 , 1 641606.1114;W1d1e those for the same month in 1886, ;were $22,714,718 68, showing a::decrame of $20,730,111 67. The recelses of the en tire quarter, *tiding on lifosiday;l:Were 655,764,314 42, while those of tke same quarter a year ago, were $28,827,162 85. The difference between the receipts of these two_quartem . .42,071,848 42. One year: agelbrificeiCti averaged a lit tle more than tete milihnsof dollar% each' this year they average only a trifle ibOTee all ha dnd'tsouan~ ` a day. A port *V this decrease: is reconnted forty the fii tbst tie annum aueument was wads qui Zief.ths earlier , this year than heretofore; bozos clues portion of that list Wes collected before the close of the biltbootiqu.. This change was nude In reWised raw; passed Mirch. 2d, 1867. Bit the whole of the decrease cannot be accounted for in this manner.. The es. largetnent of the, free list nnder the pre4 eel law will aominnt for a part of ik Eiltould reeelpis daring the whole year chatinue at this late, - they will be nearly fifty millions of dollars leu at the close of the fiscal year; than they. were There le no questiOn in which the whale people have a greater interest than in this of internal revenue, and the nation aldebL'. If the taxon the two articles of whisky and tobaom, u imposed by law coald be NW collectid, our debt Irma be redeced at least Runty-lye millions of dollars' mere a year that it now is. Bat the of the tax on„whisky, thu ['rod lust since it bu been raised to two dales, hu hallo the stfortsof the officers at Washington. It would teem as If either the law or the admhilstratien of it is defective. The present tax is fully sixhundred per cent. of the original cost of the article. This statement lesions rodicient to abowhow great is the tomptatien to fraud. The hitter: fee the put yesz altowsvery con. elusively that,Lisa tax on whisky hat In fact the wholecounty In re. .gazd to that questim Instead of re ceiving at Least one,hundmd aid twenty millloas.of dollars tax from this source. the Government receives less than thirty million a Year. Pablicaentimantseems to show._ that the law is not 4 in unison with the public Mind.. Laws, to be of. fictive. must be. In harmony with the popalai sense of of justice and equality, so far u thq citizens are effected. The evident tendency of the present law is the creating of mammoth du oilling es tablishments, and the breaking up of all smell ones, whether is haadsof hmt. est or disheust owners. here, we ap. prebend, is the groat dllecnitcy lit regard to this subject. The Now Third Another Letter EDITORS GAZIATTI -A-renowned member of the Philadelphia Bar, is bidding farewell to a Smartie pupil, gave him this advice " When you ,can't . answer the arguments of an opponent, call, them aboard, Wee, prepoeterons,, and abase torn as strongly as you dare. Thur will past for a full answer with Most people." The, editor 'Cline Ewe tag Adwatt, belle/lug in this sort Of answer, attempts no reply to my former latter, but simply advertises it as e "comonnication of falsehoods." This is an ambiguous epithet, at hest, and calls for no more . than a planing notice. As to the challenge, I refuse, for the present, to' give my name bdt ware the Aerates, .I.dirourc that I am &mem ber, in good standing, of a Trade Union and 'faithful to all, my duties as such, though refusing to , recognize in its pa. laical association. --I„ concede to my feliew-woriftogmen honesty of intent end ' integrity -of purpose. I ac knowledge their right to support and vote for whomsoever their coo sclenceuapprove ; arid I claim the eases right and will ezercua it. In dif fering from them ,I am as sincere and conscientious, as any of them. em reedy to give my mesons for dm *dim 'Won to the Republican party; I tittered thdfought u mentally as any for. my deg, regardless of self, and shall ever do what I regard as best for my whole coluitrl, , regardless, of my own personal 'iilerests. This is not idle Wasting, eat written alecerely . as In the eight of the Searcher of Heats One Word to Mr. Edward Sullivan and my brother-workingmen, and I will pus from what may seem egotism to ergo meat.. Never be basty.in judging those who diffeitrom you,either in politiort or other matters; hut allow to all, in this thinking land, • the right to,think , for themselves. , If they err foludgment or views, strive by.„ressonable argument to convince them. of. their .error; but never quarreler impale wrong motives unless you know them to be - Insincere. • In informer letter I spoke of the third' party of- ; lBoo—that in It were thousands *filmiest, loyal men, almost admit, and - yet all-who supported its nominee., did unquestionably, indirect ly, bit 'positively, help the' so-called de. =. Concede honesty of intention, fact L still the same, that thous !teal ot those who...las/hen the corrupt democratic party, were used by shar per. I ty to divide and overcome the" known majority against But that was sot an isolated instance 'of the canning of the said party. ; in us log its honest opponents. Knowing wellthat to regain their ion power in the country by any direst means was utterly impossible, the Copperhead leaders have long been scheming to break up the Re- pa party into factions on side or false tomes. No lie, ltowevrt barefemed, hu been spared-' Possessing" no pried- !pia itself, and changing its professed [disciples at each election, the Demo cratic party has ignored or .falaided . the principles of the Republican party, and het sought to fasten abominable political heresies ripen. the best and purest of American citizens. Distorting the noble position of the Republican parry Ica throe of Manhood Suffrage and Equal Justice, the Democracy sought - to make the pw ple believe that these Divine principles meant or involved Social Equality , and the crime of Amalgamation; but the pea pie had learned, by blood-bought use te think for themselves; their in telligence and patriotism rejected the Copperhted lies and widened the 'Repub. &an party sod its principles, with in• creased Majorities. , Alter seeking to ove rt hrow the Goy enunent and with it Abe Constitation, the Democrats became thee/maniocs ol the latter, and, chargleg the Melted States Congress with aubverting that glorious chart of our liberties, succeeded in betraying a few 'Republicans into a "Constitutional Colon Party;" some' of the Copperhead Constitutional perigee 'lading that this scheme deceived very few Reptilians, joined the new PariTr and it necessarily died 'an early death— verdict of National Inquest—" Died of 47Onstirmtsong rottennene." ' The asiumnatton of Abrikuun Lthade, a sad bersimatott tothe loyal muses, wu welcomed; if mth....thatlgated, by the Clopped/tub throughout the land; they vainly thought that his death would be the death of the Republican party; they knew his sacuseor much better than did these who had honored him. No WOO, er had Andrew Johnson taken his seat u President thus theytheir ad. yucca. A. .1., more et= Mat than they, with difficulty restrained them for a time, till, by skUlfetly dissltnulatitig patriotism, he aced attach some Repub.. ilcans L hue., .na betray them. la the meantime be wee buy, with the help of Reward aid Satan, f e [ concocting Ado "Policy. His plot; onm mat he promulgated his "Policy," antt—the tlat went forth that none *hull hold Mee under the great A. J., except thosa.who would fall down and worahip Las Ma jesty and adore his 'Tolley." The Cop perheads, /mowing that they would sell their very souls for chic, and 'edging the Republicau by themselves, expected thus to p bay up so many Republicans as to criple the yarty_!. and reduce it to a cypher. The. Republicaus were, however, of sounder stud, and lenti l/lair principles better thaa tea, So fewwere thus led astray that the "Bread and Batter /3rigade," alias the Conservatiu Republican Party," won:deo° ineignilleant to be of any use to t h e Copperheads, and were unite. lady glutted and kicked out into the Tkus foiled in asaly scheme, beaten at every turn, the Reintbikun Party grow ing stronger rather than weaker, the Copperhead leaders were almost In ds apaU tke approaching diasalutkin and banal of War party being imminent no kepi, no prospect, no chance of.re• audtatlon Brat not Deep* Ia a word not fOtlnd la the Copperheadvoesbelary. With the help of him who neva for sakes there, their father and prince, the Dora, they hope on, defeat follows de- feat; they still hope for the day when they may betray their country null- The second time they hope the betrayal will be Anal, fatal. As in the days of Adam and Nye, "the serpent was more mettle than all the beasts of , ths Sold which the Lord bad mule," so itcrif the Copperhead paws hin:...descent -frtnn the tempter if Va. floskilifilly doss he work that those whom .he Imes do not suspect his agency—tliey suppose they are acting Independently; they crew Imagine that what thefare doing ; Is tl Inch against klm as spinet his adver sarien No grins—they see tt not; he chuckles with irrepressible delight—they hear it not. His work is partially sc. complithwi—a new third party is clove oped;-but third ~party so deplete the Republican rinks as to give by party a victory over the:Unkui.entlits-tmd • rob og env In conclusion lame's*: Even if the Labor italbrm Party is allthet its friends elaint, ea limiest, earnest effiiitler the alevatiera of the laboring classee—Nevedy max is it u Once* if the Qoppirbeilis have had no 'genii in - Its ineoptlon end development, is not the fed' clear and becontrovertible that eteW - Tete polled for it 'bye Republican Idn reduce the Republican Iola; and be n' gale fin the Democrats? Suppose same -Democrats 'chi Tote the Libor Reform ticket; is it not expected the!' at lean - ruturrentlas of its support will `collll3 Rom- those who would otherwise 'Vote rthe ltspnblicatt ticket? No' sane Man expecla to elect any helot en2,any_sidc lame,. however toad and important that issue maybe; while the country is id Its Preeent seta, The tight mut he between the .Republi. can and Denexautlo parties. moll the Union is tally rik-esr...bulagea, or the Recommits. triumph :la. lie oriutkro* The issue is and must lie, -ae is the wir, Union or Dietmlen. I have no /ear for the Mune. The R.: Publican Party has, under Ged, wild our country /tom dlariptioa and deetrat+ tion, and it will, under the same biliktal God of oar country, acconaulish,lts fIU nllllllOll in the pertuatletot thillalon on the lenntutablelesis of 1.11013,4qu1 Justice and Truth. • L. Id. Wu tam Defers ite a .lettea Mir et. Louis in which it la emituted that tiers were over almadnul deaths per day from cholera 11 that City /lit week, but thatit le now rapidly theappeartag. Thewriter Matta that the reason why this powa end health valid/idea have felled to gtve pabll t ulat c, to the fact that ,the epidemi was there was that lt world_ troy Mull trade sad seriously_ abet the prospects of the Laclede races thia week, and the Mechanical aid Nerticul; twat Pair next week.—Chime Avarua& "Tan great question is . &hell Masi States lately in rebellion comae back loyal er rebel aide up ? And shalt the Hem. icntatires la Congress be: - sustained In the policy which they have adopted, or shall e recreant President recede. ea. ceuragement labia suicidal coarse &motor Collett. Ir ”Oldlstr" bad, lived in the days of our Ara parents the presence. of tM serpent would have been sapettnotts. If at a latter period, he had bee' "are of:the twelve," there would kiss beet ne question tato whose. Docket the “thlr ty Nome! irepped,—Tharktis . --I marl never, by any act Of Millie, attempt to Make rebellion honirable. %olio* is &crime, and it shall not be made honorable —Gen. Jilkerldon. To Tail for Deatocrais la vote tkat the rebellion is ie honorable. • "I IX or oration that ths 'provision of the act ef Congress of February Stith,' IneS, &Wittig the notes isned la pet ulance of that act to , be lawthl, thorny, and a legal tender, is unconstitatioaaL— Judge Shameful. PQSE LIQVOII4, Para Liquors, • - Para Ltattora. ran Lletwoca, ' Pan Liquor.. Pan Llgam. a • . Pon LlOttabbt 7olmaitataal abb7abbw^ Yob atablebtat larvae*. Zra atiadlebal panto.. Cognac Brankit Port Wt.% 00113141 Brand., Part WI.. Marry Wtabtarabtatt Wt.% blarry Wine, Xatletnt Wine, ' Catawba Matt. Pat. tiotLand 010. Catawba Ala.. tPore Hallbad Pax* JUIIII, Pars Jamslulus. Petro ET Vida/. Sys w Slats Puss Sys 'Whisky, AyeUky. • JOISEPAI FLTILIASYS, • Owner at the Distsond sad Martst stmt. cars., of tad Diamond and Aktket most. • A DAIGICIIOI4 • Aka aloo4s IMparlalo.l eeehtitt tlah 1111 s fellea tune the nmaw. ,V9istation Ims twe srouderfelly Melee& easti.esel. u 11 Orr atty../ eon» a . =a .i yglANiratrjfa2 . 4 by : API =DIM* 0111., 54 lterk,ll TH •Milallen'tllat erm.Finurrus gums; 'kw &d Inn link IntlaslOn LBOSWOII2II &Ol t P ±op'n. .... • 'Al t lepaLltal aid plela ' mat reiori 'Patna' rip alsti7 .W• Papas, Me gagman% ptoriptan an pa . Intones tbott as Oaten Man. SI=AM. . LIQUOIL sne. MALTA LIU, Am. r=l764l==.4l4ltry War wrel7.l.lla AlmIXI: • earitan parr CLASS Lowusra Gums AND PICTURE FRAME MANUFACTORY. J.I.IrONS, ' Wood St, Plitsti , cuita, lOW He & au 11 ' "' ATTI.IraI? !I ' d:Ml rWOV ar D'AV + VAAI 4 II2 B VItij6, M U,T ) 2r.prig, , ,. • .kr, tb,.. ian.r.„,deir4 u. 4l V, liad rittrIMITNI, ULIU.DL,V •2611 , 1S•11t. to. h lsig Pal ° r iirD ' a LTz. noi mn.nrs ROM C. 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