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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1809
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tile, Financiat and River News, Market,
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Reading Matter, Amusement Directory.
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U. B. BONDS at Frankfort, SOS.
PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 58i@59f.
GOLD closed in New :York on Satur
day tit 135*. ,
Tan question of bridge-spans across
the Ohio Is likely to be settled by a decis
ion of the House, that no spans shall be
constructed of less than four hundred
feet in width, except upon the special ap
proval of a Board of U. S. Engineers.,
This adjustment is not considered favora
ble to the railway interests, which will
now labor to persuade Congress that the
people have no rights, in this matter, to
If. free navigation, which corporations
should be bound to respect.
THE ' TOWN ATANDS AGHAST at the
at/ill - city of the murder on Saturday even
ing, on Penn street. A grown man,
himself a husband and father, usually es
teemed as a quiet and good citizen hereto
fore, surrenders himself to a frenzy of
passion under, a trivial annoyance from
the children of the neighborhood, and
snatching the too-ready revolver, shoots
down a child of seven years, dead in a
few minutes ! Never have we heard of a
More shocking illustration of the perils of
an ungovernable temper ! -
WE ARE GRIEVED to learn that the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, in its trans
action of the business of the Common-
wealth, fails lo gratify the wishes or to
• satisfy the judgment of a few of the citi
zens of Ohio and New York. .I.rP fact,
'not to put too fine a point upon it, some
of our cotemporaries in those States ap
pear to be moved, by fiscal considera
tions, to object to recent legislation•in
behalf of the stockholders of the Fort
' Wayne Railway. Our Courts sit at home,
not in Cincinnati or New York, and are
at all times open to parties pleading in
' jury or seeking redress. -
Bolin TIME AGO the City Councils pre
pared and forwarded to Congress a
memorial praying for the removal of the
Allegheny Arsenal outside of the city
limits—where they did'rit care. On
Saturday the Military Committee re
ported adversely to the reqUest and the
Arsenal will be permitted to remain where
it is. It should be removed. It is awful
to contemplate that almost in the heart of
our large and thickly populated city we
have military magazines with powder
enough therein to get up an explosion as
frightful in consequences as a first class
South American earthquake. The memo"!
rial of the Councils should have met with
more consideration from the Military
Committee, as it is a matter of much im I
portanc3 to our citizens that the %Nth
ward be relieved of such a dangerous pos.'
session, and, besides, the increasing pop
ulation and business of the city - 'demand
the large space of ground occupied for
Arsenal purposes. Let another effort be
made to accomplish the desired removal.
TIRE BACKTRACK.
It will be recollected by readers of this
journal that, in the earlier stages of the
controversy between President JOIINSON
and Congress, we took the ground that
the Houses, in order to hedge the Execu
tive about, were pressing, their constitu
tional authority at least to the farthest
limits—that instead of resorting to mea
sures of doubtful validity, it was theman
'fest duty of the representatives of the
States and the people to proceed by the
direct and legitimate method of imperach-
ment and deposition. Congress proved
deficient in the clearness of discrimination
and the Tome of decision requisite to the
adoption of-the process we recommended.
It resorted to the Office Tenure Act, and
other, ineasures, which were only lame
and-halting confessions *of its want of
energy and courage.
Now, the Senate is debating how far it
will go in repealing the statutes to which
we refer. - It has prominently under con
sideration the Office Tenure Act, which
may be taken as atype of the whole; sad,-
as yet, appears to hesitate what it will do
in the' premises. Some of the members,
who were the champions of these meas
ures a few months ago, •flnd it bard pub
licly to acknowledge their blunders, and
are seeking means to let themselves down
easily. They are searching for what they
will not find; and ought not to avail
theinselves of if they could fir♦d it.
What has been wrongly done, ought to
be
,promptly and squarely undone; and
that plan of undoing it will best promote
the present as well as the historic reputa
tions of allconcarned in this business.
THE CABINET.
That General GILANT is perplexing the
politicians, if not baffling them, by his
silence as to who will or will not get
Cabinet portfolios under his administra
tion, grows every day more manifest.
Listening patiently to whatever they
have seen fit to urge for or against one
and another, he has not taken any of them
into confidence. This is in violation of
unbroken usage, running back for a quar
ter of a centurlor more, in-conformity
with which the in-coming President hag
made his selection of Chiefs of Depart
ments from the leaders of fa on. Mr.
Lracouv went so far as to • troduce all
his rivals for the Presidential nomination
into his Cabinet, thus making it the focus
of all the ambitions, rivalries and in
rigues in the Republican party. Such an
: rangement; made in defiance of all the
:uggestions of common prudence, would
. ave soon exploded, through its inherent
epulsions, but-for the Rebellion.
In Cabinets formed upon this plan,
each Head of a Department is, of neces
sity, almost completely independent of
the President in the conduct of the mat
ters entrusted to his supervision. The
Chiefs, whatever their ordinary jealousies
of, and alienations from, each other, are
pretty sure to combine in support of their
mutual pretensions, and practically to ex
clude the President from the authority
conferred on him by the Constitution.
Shortly after General TAYLOR entered
upon the Presidency, he was forced to
exclaim, "I have no influence with this
Administration." Other Presidents have
found themselves in the same uncomfor
table predicament.
Doubtless, it is very pleasant for promi
nent politiCians, by means of combine;
tions among themselves, to get the con
trol of the government. Politicians who
occupy seats in one or other of the
Houses of Congress are more apt to ex
perience aspirations in this direction,
than those who do not. Not content
with the functions assigned them by the
Constitution, they seek practically to con
centrate the prerogatives of the Execu
tive in their own hands, for their own
aggrandizement. In time past we have
felt constrained stoutly to defend Con
gress from usurpations actual or contem
plated, by the President. In the case,
under consideration, the aggression, real
or intended, comes or is likely to come,
from Congress itself.
It now seems probable that General
GRANT will organize his Cabinet, not so
much to please the politicians, including
under that designation most of the mem
bers of Congress, as to please himself. If
he shall do so, he will clearly be in the
right. The division of governmental re
sponsibility is not the same in the United
States as in Great Britain. The President
is responsible, both to Congress and the
the people, for the manner in which the
affairs of the respective departmtnts are
conducted. It devolves on him to see
that the laws are duly executed. He has
the right to nominate the members of his
official household, and then the right of
rejection belongs to the Senate--a right
which it has hitherto exercised with
marked prudence, as it will dcubtless con
tinue to do in time 'to come.
It would be absurd to anticipate the ap
pointment by the new President of in
competent men to the high places he hits
to fill. He has a record behind him which
shows that his knowledge of men is In
tuitive, and rarely, if ever, at fault. No
commander yas ever more sagacious than
he in the choice of 'military lieutenants.
The analogies and indications give as
surance that he will prove equally wise
in selecting subordinates for the civil
service.
As a body the people arc not deeply in
terested to have the headship of depart
ments so disposed of that particular rings
will have the distribution of patronage.
But they are concerned to know that
honest and capable men will be selected,
who will rigidly enforce the laws, fully
collect the revenue, and retrench expen
ditures as far as compatible with the gen
eral welfare. Beyond this, the peupls,
have no direct interest in one man or an
other for a Cabinet appointMent. If Gen
eral GRANT shall satisfy them in this re
gard, it will not matter seriously whether
the 'politicians are pleased or displeased.
It is, indeed, desirable that he and the
Republican leaders should act in har
mony. But then concert-should come
not by improper and unwholesome re
straints yielded to by him, but all sorts
and conditions of men keeping clearly
inside of the limits 'properly prescribed
for them.
AFTER THE TIDE, THE EBB.
The current effort to awaken national
prejudices, and so to influence public-
sentiment, against the ratification of the
Alabama treaty, is likely to obtain stem
porary success. Time was, When the
country could boast of statesmen, among
its public men; that school is unhappily
now extinct. and we are cursed instead
with a countless swarm of political ad-.
venturers, who afflict the land with
plagues more destructive than were those
of Egypt. Grave questions, domestic or
international, were then debated and set
tled with a large and wise comprehension
of the principles justly involved, and of
the consequences, both present and future,
resulting as well to the honor as to the
material interests of the nation, at home
or abroad. This mode of dealing with
public affdirs.seems now to have gone en
tir ly out of use. Politicians and jour
nal ts, who have.barely strength enough
to oat with the poPular—current, and
whose limited brains are absorbed with
PMSBIAIGH, GAZI:I 4 II.Ii , " MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1869.
the one problem of how to avoid being
stranded in the eddy, have come to be
invested with a public influence unhap
pily too potent for mischief.
Consider the clamor which has been
raised against the proposed English
treaty. You can sift hundreds of col
umns in the journals, and find the most
frivolous pretexts for opposition, with not
one single grain of solid good sense or
sincere patriotism. Here, you read pro
tests against the' ayment of our national
liabilities; there, you are told that the in
juries we have suffered cannot be atoned
for without reparation for the insult.
This editor objects that a fair-statement
of the two accounts may bring us in debt;
that one is too tender of the national
honor to be satisfied with any sum what—
ever, in 'compensation. None of the&
have the remotest idea of the specific rep
aration which ought to be exacted, but all
of them concur in expatiating upon British
aggressions and vaguely hinting at some
mysterious and terrible settlement yet to
come. All this answers their present
purpose. A calm and equitable investiga
tion is to be deferred. -Under plausible
excuses, the public 'mind is to be artfully
inflamed into a hostile temper, and Eng
land is to be forced into the allowance of
Vindictive damages.
But this game will not win. The cur
' rent which now sets one way will soon
have its reflux. The reaction will come
into power with the new administration.
The new Executive, daring to do right,
will be sustained .by the people. The
mob of politicians and journalists will
hasten to follow the lead of GRANT; they
will discover that the English • treaty is
based on sound principles and in the nialn
an equitable method for the adjusbient of
all disputes. Amended in some of its de
tails, the treaty will then he ratified, and
much to the public- satisfaction.
Either we must believe this, or that our
next President is prepared to accept a
foreign policy, which means war sooner
or later, or it means nothing. Our rea
ders will adopt either view, to suit their
own notions of right, and their concep
tions of the character and official qualifi
cation of Gen. GRANT,
RAILWAY MATTERS
The war of the trunk-lines is removed
to a new field, the Ohio Legislature now
presenting the scene. A bill is there
pending to prohibit the lease of one road
to another corporation. As the proposed
measure is not retro-active, it is held to be
applicable only to the lease of the road from
Cincinnati to Dayton to the Erie line.
This lease is not yet perfected, requiring
the assent of the stockholders at their
meeting on the 18th of this month. And,
in the meantime, legislative interference
is invoked as above. The Pennsylvania
Central, having perfected all its proposed
leases in Ohio, would be benefitted rather
than prejudiced by the passage of the
bill. This is opposed by Cleveland and
Cincinnati interests, which are friendly to
the Erie party: -
The testimony of Mr. JAY GOULD, of
the Erie Road, before a Committee of the
New York Legislature, embodies the
statement that he and his friends had actu
ally secured a majority of the yolks, to be
cast at the Fort Wayne Company's elec
tion in 'March- Since this game was
blocked by the Legislature at Harrisburg,
the Erie party have been selling out their
useless purchases in the stock at a con
siderable loss. It is intimated that an at.
tempt will be made at the March election
to treat this law as a nullity, until ratified
in an acceptance by a majority of the
votes of the-corporation. We shall soon
We have Mr. GOULD'S authority for
the statement that the Erie management
now controls a nominal sum of about
$130,000,000, in the way of their own
stock "common" and "preferred," their
bonds, mortgages, lea.ses of branch roads,
tic. This property is largely depreciAted
below par, but its control gives to that
party an available cash capital of at least
thirty and perhaps fifty millions, as the
sinews of a tireless and unscrupulous war
against the Pennsylvania line. Yet they
have but few triumphs to count, thus far.
The Pennsylvania Central manage
ment cannot swing a hundred millions of
fictitious capital, nor does it stand ready
to slaughter the future interests of its own
stockholders, in order to gain temporary
present advantages. But its solid legiti
mate strength is powerfulfy aided by the
public confidence, which seems to be ex
clusively given to the personal probity of
its President and Directors, and which
told so effectively in the recent struggle
for the control of the Columbus and
Chicago line. In that case, the Erie
party made the best promises, but could'nt
do whit the Pennsylvania did--command
confidence in their performance. The
last year has not afforded a more notable
proof than this, that "honesty is the best
policy."J
This railway war should have interest
for our readers in Pennsylvania, in the
fact that it is at bottom much more
than a mere struggle of private interests,
between corporations. it is a fight be
tween two great States between their two
great commercial cities, New York and
Philadelphia, for the command of the
trade between the Atlantic and the Pa
cific. Ms a struggle of great moment
for our own city of Pittsburgh, as for
the material interests of_the whole Com
monwealth, and we should be recreant to
the plainest promptings of duty, in deny
ing our sympathies, or the hearty co
operation of our people, to the representa
tive menwho are making this fight for us
all—and so far bravely and triumphantly.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH
BOYS!
This question presses every year, and
with steadily increasing force, for solu
tion.- Every boy (and we think every
girl, as well,) ought to be instructed in a
trade, calling or vocation whereby his
personal independence and comfortable
subsistence may be assured. Labor is not
a curse, but a blessing; and men are val
uable, to themselves, to theii country,
and to the human family, in exact ratio
as they can do things which are of conse
quence to be done.
Comparatively few boys in. the United
States now learn trades, and a majority
of those who do, learn them only in an
incomplete and superficial manner. Rela
tively to population the number of native
born skilled-laborers grows less and less
every year, the deficiency being supplied
by importation from. Europe. Mean
while an increasing multitude of boys are
crowding into professional, mercantile
andl financial pursuits. The walks of
ournalism and instruction are over.
crowded. Law, medicine and divinity
have at least four times as many men
engaged therein as are needed, or Ca]
find remunerating employment. Banks,
ihsuranu effices, counting rooms ani
sales rooms, could be supplied a doze a
times over with all the help required
without materially lessening the importuL
pity for engagements. It is hardly an
exaggeration to 'say that each one of the
pnncipal cities has more boys in its Com
mercial Colleges, drilling in the mysteries
of accounts and finance, than can be
found in its factories and shops, diligently
and effectually engaged in learning trades
The popular explanation of these phe
nomena is that boys of American parent
age are too proud to work, and inslist
on seeking out lighter and genteeler em
ployments than the manufacturing and
mechanical vocations, i by which more
money can certainly be made, and higher
degrees of respectability , attained. If
these boys had such ideas in their heads,
they , would manifestly be resting under
ruinous niisapprehensions. Those em
ployments which are thoughtlessly rated
as lighter are by odds more severe than
those requiring largest outlay of mu,scu-
lar strength. Nothing conduces more to
bodily health and mental comfort than
vigorous physical exercise, and nothing
so wears upon the human frame, con
signing it to premature decrepitude and
decay as to be shut up in a room and
bowed over a desk engaged in writing.
In the long run, the pen or pencil be
come heavier than sledge-hammer or
crow-bar
Nor have artisans and mechanics the
advantage only in the matter of health
and contentment. On the average, they
are better paid than any other class of
men in the country, though they are most
of the time grumbling as if they wire
oppressed beyond enduiance. Taken as
a body, and on the average, artir.ans apd
mechanics are regularly in receipt lof
larger yearly incomes than lawyers, cler
gymen, doctors, editors, school-teachers,
accountants and salesmen. Their net in
comes are greatly in excess of those en
joyed by farmers, especially if from the
Incomes of farmers be deducted an
amount sufficient. to cover interest on the I
capital invested., A few professional men
acquire liberal competencies and enviable
reputations; but the same is just as true
of attizans and mechanics. The great
prizes are about equally distributed be
tween these two sorts of workers, while,
as to average results, the professional
class fall a long way behind.
In general boys are not , unwilling to
work, either • mentally or physically.
There is a vast deal more of genuine de
mocracy in them, so far as relates to
labor, than in men of mature years.
Probably in certain circles of society the
I instincts of boys are perverted by bad
training, and they imbibe the notion that
labor is disgraceful. Such false training
much,oflener proceeds from silly mothers
and sisters than fathers, who cotninonly
take sober and just views of life, and re
gard labor of all sort as honorable. -
The fact is American boys who want to
learn trades are denied the privilege.
Trades-Unions have rigid rules on this
subject, which they enforce despotically.
They deny knowledge to those who need
it, by insisting that only a comparatively
small number of boys shall be instructed.
This rule they enforce as arbitrarily
against their own sons, as against other
lads. The infatuation from which this
rule proceeds seems to us unaccountable.
It stands to reason that skilled workmen
should wish their sons, exceptions ad
' milled, to be skilled workmen likewise.
But this is not the case. They inexora
bly exclude the mass of them from the
possibility of learning trades, and thus
shut them up to the necessity of crowd
ing into professions or clerkships,
or of falling into - the ranks of vag
abonds and depredators upon society.
If lawyers, dOctors, ministers, editors,
merchants, and accountants were as sel
fish and imperious in respect to imparting
to others a knowledge of their respective
callings, there would be little else for
even the sons , of skilled workmen to do
but to descend to the grade of common
laborers or else join the dangerous classes
and make a precarious living by preying
upon society. Proprietors of factories
and shops are forced to submit to this
wretched despotism, and to aid l in inflict
ing this great *mg upon the bulk
of the boys. IThe heaviest accusation
Protestants make against the Pope is that
he denies knowledge to men that need it.
Without assenting to grounds of this
condemnation, we cannot withhold the
remark that this is preCisely what the me-
chanical associations of this country do,
and even where,the offspring of ti heir own
members ace concerned. ,
It may be urged that boys wh I are ex
cluded from the right to learn trades can
resort to agriculture. That is true, pro
vided they can raise the necessary, money.
But, pray, why have not farmers! as good
a right to say that the boys shall not be
made farmers, as mechanics have to say
they shall not be made mechanics ?
Farming may be overdone in any parti
cular nation the same as any other occu
pation. The true interests of farmers
require that a large portion sof the popu
lation should be engaged in mechanical
and manufacturing employments. I All
interests' are promoted . by diversifying in
dustry !as much as possible. Whoever
stands in the way of this diversification
is, through mistaken selfishness, ' an
enemy of the State and of , his kind.
It was a wise provision of some anniern
nations that every boy should learn a
trade, no matter whether he followed it
in after life or not. 4. trade was, not op
tionel, but compulsory. The Apostle
Paul thus became a tent-maker, and! ad
mirably did his craft ! come to his
_fielp
even after he was elevated to the apostle
ship. , It would be most wholesome for
every State in this Union to proiide by
law that every boy in it should be appren
ticed, in due form, and for from - five to
seven years, to some trade, profession or
employment, whereby, upon arriving at
manhood, he could in, any contingency
or stress make h decent living for himself
1 and family. A return to the old - sys
tem of long apprenticeships would have
several beneficial effects. It would turn
out workmen, proficient in their trades,
which the present system does not. It
would bridge over, in !the best manner,
the perilous - period of early manhood,
when character is in its formative condi
tion. More substantial men would be
turned ! out under this than by the shorter
process. Labor itself is disciplinary.
Many a one learns through his fingers
more than in any other way. .
It is conceded that States may right
. fully compel the attendance of children
at school, on the 'grounds of individual
advantage and of the public concern
ment. Men are the chief products of
any community; and men are valuable in
proportion as they are trained in their
higher faculties, and to the most im
portant ends. In Europe, and in some
of the States of this Union, government
assumes authority to say that boys shall
be sent to school; that a 'certain degree of
education is essential to the proper outfit
of a man; so that he may get the best
use of his powers, and the State get it
as well. Why not have the government
Igo a step further, and ordain that every
boy, at least, shall be instructed in some
vocation? The same arguments that
justify the interposition of governmental
authority in the one case, justify it in the
other. In this way practical knowledge
is made to supplement and consummate
abstract attainments.
The evil under consideration has risen
to such magnitude and the omens for the
future are so alarming, that some form or
degree of legislative regulation cannot
long be withheld. The nation cannot
afford to have its boys erow up as multi
tudes now do. A knowledge of the in
dustries which constitute one_ prime
department of the best civilization cannot
be kept under lock and key, in order to
gratify the cupidity or thoughtlessness of
any class of citizens; and least of all in
view of the fact that the mischief falls
upon their own offspring as well as upon
the children of others.
THE INCLEMENT SEASON
AND ITS EFFEL"Fi ON 111 E WEAK AND
FEEBLE.
The drafts which searching cold makes upon
the vital powers of the debilitited and delicate
are not less severo than the drain upon their
strength caused by excessive heat. The vast ,
desparlty between the temperature of over-heat
ed rooms Mad offices. at this season. and the
frigidity of the outer air, Is a fruitful source of
sickness. To fortify the body against the evil
con• equences of tile sadden alternations of heat
and mid referred to. the vital organization
st.caild be atrengthened and endowed with extra
-resistant poWer by the u se o f a whol,onte In vig
°rant: and, of al. preparations for this purpose,
(wl , eiher embratmi In the reaular pbarni lt , O o o l l
or mit erttsed In the pudic Journals,) there is
roe that will comesre in nurity and excellence
with HOSTETTER'S eTOMAtilt BITTERS.
Acting directly noon the organ which converts
toe food into the fuel oc tilt', the preparation tab pails to it a tons and vigor which is communica
ted to every fibre of Hit frame. The digestive
function being accelerated by its tonic operation,
the liver regulated by its anti-bilious properties.
and the waste matter of the sy tem carrl, d nit
punctually by Its mild aperient action the whole
organization will necessarily be to the beet pos
sible condition to meet tee snocks of winter and
the sudden changes of temperature. The weak
and telatitive. epitela ty. cannot encounter ,rase
vicissitudes with safety, unless diet • tende• sys
tems are braced and strengthened by artificial
meat , d. Every liquor sold as a at.tpk of trade is
adulterated. and. we - s it otherwise, mere alcohol
Is at reply a temporary excitant, welch. when its
first effects h...ve subsided. leave- the phystcal
cower( (and the mind as well,) lu a worse condi
tion than before /19111,1 C Tr.R"S BITTERS,
on the other hand, contain the essential proper ,
%Ire of the most valuable tonic and alterative
roots, barks and herbs, and their active princi
pal is the mellowest, least exciting and most In.
omens of, all diffusive Stimulants.
THE SOUND OF THE LUNGS.
One on the most accurate ways of determiniu
whether the lungs are in a healthy or diseased con
dition, is by meanieflistening to the respiration.
To tuoce experienaid In this practice It becomes .
as plain an inaexao the , state of the l inage, and is
as well tee en to the operator as are the voices of
his most intimate acquaintances. The belief that
long standing wash., and diseases of the lungs
open which they are dependent, are Wearable,
are fast becoming obsolete. One great advantage
to be gained, from ibis advance in mealeal knowl•
edge Is U e earlier application of those who be
come afflicted with those diseases, to some one
oompeteutto afford relief. 'She error which had
taken hold of the public mind in regard to the
curability of oonsumption, or rather non-curabil
ity, is fast becoming obliterated, and ft is well
that it should be so, not that persona should lose
that salutary fear which would make them apply
for is tharly remedy, but that all might be indu
ced to use remedies while there Is my hope. It Is
the delay in these cases that fills us with ap
prehension and alarm, for , lf every one would
mate timely ninlileatiOn of DR. KEYSER%
LUNG CURE In the beginning of a eold or cough,
few cases would go so far as to become irremedia
ble.
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re• rived Tt the efice of the Commissioners. No.
66 SNIITUFIF LD r.TREEf.-Lunitt
the Ist day' of 51ntch next, for the
Stone Work, Erick Work, Iron Work
and Carpenter Work,
Required In the erection of the new Cl' y
according to the plans and soeCitlcatlonl of the
same, which can be seen
to
the oeice
KEttri, Atchivet.'ln Appolo Building. o No. SO
Fourth Avenue, where requisite inforntstion
will be given.
T HOMAIS STEEL, Secretary
E=l
10 - THE RINK.
FIRST GRAND MASQUERADE
A_ND
Fancy Lress Carnival.
MONDAY EVENING, February Sth,
UNDER TUE AUSPICES OF THE
KEYSTONE SKATING CLITI3-.
Costume Tickets will be leaned (exclusively to
the regular patrons of the .161ni.), on Monday tt
u! 4 P. 3K.
No person except those tot whonn Costume Tido
ets are issued will be allowed on the lee until MA
o'clock, when, at the ringing of the bell all must
unmask, and spectator, can skate until 11 o'clock.
lientlenten when procuring tickets must desig
nate the costume or character therare to wear,
and no gentleman will to allowed to appear la
letnale cos' ume.
No extra charge to holders of seasq3n or coupon
tickets.
Admission to s pectators
_ as usual. BO cents.
For COvtume Tickets and (briber information
apply early at the Rink to
W. H. BROWN,
GENERAL II AN AG ER
ORPHANS' COURT SALE OF
SEAL ESTATE.
Public notice is hereby given. that by virtue
and in pursuance of an order of the Orphans'
Court of Allegheny county, air! to me directed.
dated February 6th, A. D. 1869. I will exmose
to sale, by public outcry. at the COURT HOUSE,
lb the City of Pittsburgh. on TUESDAY, March
Slid, A.D. 1869. at 10 o'clock .a. st., the follow
ing described Real Ev ate bcionsiog to Martha
Jane Martin es al., minor children of William
Martin, late of Allegheny oonnty. dec'd. to-wit:
All that certain lot or piece of land situate in the
township bf Richlend, county of Allegheny and
tntatc or Pennsylvania, bounded by land owned
by the heirs o[[ Le wit Ross and land of James 8.
Crawford and - Joseph Martin. containing twenty
seven (27) acres and seventy (70? perches.
more or lees.
Timms or Satz -C.ASFI. lo manner followin s
$lOO to be paid on day of sale and the balance at
the purer-atm money to be paid on confirmation of
rate aed delivery of decd. The purchaser to pay
for writing deed. acknoiviEdmeLA and stamp.
JOHN MARTIN,
' Guardian of Martha J. Martin et al.
GEORGE R COCHRAN, ...
Attorney for Guardian.
FirTSRUAT:I" 6th, 1869. leB;elST
ECONOMY BUTTER CO.
ask the attention of all Interested in the reduc
,
tion of the extravagant cost of Butter, to their ) ,
practical and economical sysOni of making parr-
Prime Butter by the aid of the
EXTRACT OF BUTTER PLANT.
A brief allusion to the origin of this inavortant
illscovety may rot prove uninteresting. Among .
the anthent'ented records of the renowned Cap
tain Cook's voyage around the world, is found
the statement, that while sojourning fora ihort
time on the Brizilisn Coast of Smith America, he
obterved the natives using, in the preparation of
their food, a Decaliter oil, which, upon examina-
Von. ke found to possess the appearance, taste
and flavor of Butter; nron further inquiry, how
ever,
.;
be ascertained that it was simply a sub•
stance that the natives distilled in a crude and
Imperfect manner, from a rich and luxuriant
plant that grew spontaneously and abundantly in
that warm tropical country. A few }ears ago. 7
an eminent French chemist, while on a profes
sional visit to the tropics, made numerous exper
iments with this remarkable production of na- ,
tore, and succeeded in extracting a concentr&ted
- essence of the plant. The formula for its prep a- •
ration, and the Sole Bight VT its sale In this
country are the exclusive property of this Com
pany,
by whom It was purchased from the origi•
nal discoverer. We claim for this remarkable,.
yet simple and perfectly harmless preparation—_
Isl.—Time; by its use a net gain of from 50 to 900 't
per gent. is made in the manufacture of Butter.
2d.—That ,Butter, which from age or whatever
cause, may be strong, rancid, streaked or
coarse-grained, and comparatively useless for,.
general use, by, the aid of this Extract, Is re- .
stored to lis original freshness and sweetness,
fine-grain, and even color.
3d.—lty the use of this Extract, one pound of
delicious, fresh Butter Is actually made from
one pint of milk.
4th.—That a pure and excellent table Butter can
be made, at a cost of from 15 to 90 c nts per : .
pound. The chief expense 'wherein being Bat
ter, which is the essential Owe.
Bth.—lhat Butter manulacturtd by the aid of,"
this Extract Is equal in every respect to the best
Butter made by the ordinary method.
6th.-Tne Extract after thorough analysis, by.
ableebenasta, is pronounced perfectly free front
any dehiterious substance, the ingredients be-
leg purely of a vegetable nature.
proof of .he foregoing assertions, the*
factory of this ccmpany is max.ng one tonsitr.
Butter per day, which suects with ready
zn the New York lidrrket. and Is oonsuzned from;'
the tables of the first Hotels, Restaurants andr.' . .
Private fanzines in this city and elsewhere..
A sample package of the Extract (sufficient to ".
make 60 lbs. of Butter) with full directions tot -.
use, will be Britt to any address on recillpt of $l..
CAAFFION:—As articles of real merit are sub.
)ect to spurious imitations, we 'would special)] . ,
cast ibn the public against counterfeits and worth;
less imitations, advertised as powders, cook .
pounds, &c.. as the Fitract of the Butter FAA . - -
Is prepared and sold only by
The Economy Butter Co l -
OTIFTCE, 115 LIIIIIiierT STRZILT,
FACTORY, 236 LiIIESSWICI.I hr., 2481 it Toni, J
State, County and City Rights for Age, 4 ffeetry
to capitalists rare opportunities for estabpskliil'
&staple business, paying enormous profiti e .
Agents Wanted Everywhere.
If. CAD A. 111" Pars lregfEruble Cslorisp, Si
pound, sufficient to give a rl,h, go , den yellow t - ; ;-
5500 lbs. of White Rutter: 80 cents per asap'':);
package. sent to any address No rammer shoal'
be whicout it, as white . and stressy natter.)
*Una from six to ten cents round less to s:
markets than that - of a rich yellow feteed-
FANCY
Bahnotal, Napoleon, Sweet Pearl and Alraos
put up iu-small ttn Cane for f ugly use; alt;
frebh *Anger rasps and Bete. Cates receive .
and for sale by
• 4NO. A. RENSHAW,
fen Comer Liberty and Hand streets."
. .
RIEEID. I
_ ,
,:i•
'''''' sop Bu. ctioicrs elavEli sEKu.
250 bushels choice 'Timothy Scud,
In stot4s and for sale l by ' ..
1
r IIEABIOR tlc II ARPEII, ~.
1 3219 Liberty street,
jell ' . I Pittsburgh'
....
einIAIDILt WU EirfEß BELTINi
hose, Steam Peeking and tisootets of t
em 'Belting companies tosnufacouro at Del'
as leak sa tlite gustily of goods emu be bought the t
ausestseturer A lul stork always on he
at the ;eau Rubber,D•Amt, S 6 end 21111 $l ,
Street. i I [J. I H, l'lllt,Lit.B, - i
fee, Sole Agents fur the Corpse-
OAK T 41NS ED LEATUE
kl i LTINti or a
egos.superior quality; also rot
le. liter Bolting of afferent sea. A I,rge st_
to ha.. at the loweet ptlexs.
J. & H. PHILLIPS,
Jib aadlol tflattt Strof