ADVERTISING RATES. t lmo, 3 moc ()mon 117. 1.110 1.75 3.50 0.50 1201 3.50 3,60 0.60 9.00 400 2 4.66 6.21 00 17.1:0 26.00 11.60 17.03 2200 41.50 13.50 2100 40.03 00.00 2200 40.00 MOO 110.01 30.00 00.00 110.00 900.00 du+ Square . Twa &mare. ?luso Square. filx Squares, . Quarter Column 11 sir Column . Ono Column Proreesiottal Cards $l.OO per line per year. Ad minietrater' and Aodltor'• Notices, ♦3.00, City Notices, 20 cent. per lino ht insertion. 15 cent. per , toe cacti eubsequeat insertion. Tea Mee agate constitute a equate. ROBERT IRE DELL, JR., Puntisuin, ALLENTOWN, PA (coal nub 'Lumber. WILBERT. B. OTTO. N. K. OTTO. U. IT. WILLER FAURE WE, OTTO' HILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, WILLIAMSPORT, PA MILL ON CANAL WEST OP MAYNARD STREET OFFICE AT TIIE MILL W,FI.CRANE /MEN/. JAS. M. BITTER, CHAS. W. ABBOTT. OWEN RITTER JORDANSTEAM ' raniqsalp PLANING MILL, SASH, DOOR, AND BLIND MA.NUFACTORY, Union Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown, RITTER, ABBOTP & CO., lIANUFACTORERBOF • Hush, Doors, Outside Blinds, Inside 114nd,, Mould ings, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Starr Raft- Ova, Window Frames, Boor Frames, Gland IFfnclotes, Black train tie Mouldings, &e. SCROLL SAWING, • • TURNING, PLANING aintwwin. FLOORING and RIPPING, DONS A T THE SHORTEST NOTICE. AdAlO, STAIR BUILDING dune nod HAND RAILING made to order. Rating now hod almost three year.' possession of the Mill, refurnished it almost wholly with now and 'mores,. ad machinery, awl haying none hat experienced work men, we areprepared to defy colapetithin from at home and abroad, both lu price nod workmanship. Do you contemplate building? Cell at our Factory and saltily yourself with o personal examinatiun. Drawings for building+, • brackets, patterns for orna mental work, scroll, for purelte, can be nano at all times by calling at our °frau. Any Infortnation to the builder furnished cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Man, factory, on Union street, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen town, l'a.. or by letter through thu post Mace. nog 3-Iy] itirrbit, ABBOTT & CO REVIVALII The aubscrlbera having leased the "Old hope Coal Yard," would respectfully auuouuce to the citirene of Allentown cud the public is general, that they have just got =I COAL Consisting of Stove, Eitf, Chestnut and Nut from tue DUCK MOUNTAIN MINES. Order., left with A. A. Rubor, Sieger Ifottenstein, at the Eagle Hotel, Mope Moiling MIII, or the Yard, will be attended to In • BUSINESS like manner. Orders for Coal by the car tilled At short motto. the lowest prices. Always on baud a largo alock or BALED HAY, vablell will be sold et the lowdet market prlcea L. W. KOONS , sz , CO., at the Old Cope Coal Yard ileattlitou Street, corner of Lehigh Valley Railroad =! L. W. Kowts Get FROIIV, JACOBS at CO., WUOL!SALY Ds•LnRI tr ROUGH & WORKED LUMBER SASH DOORS AND BLINDS, =IQ $l4l- Orders from the trade solicited A NEW FIR, Ara, NEW LUnBER YARD TO BU IDLERS! , TREX LEII. & li ifr.,..cE AY Elt Would hereby announce to the public that they have Just opened • near Lumber 1 srd on tho epacious end con• •ectient grounds so long ocean:oil by TREXLER BRO.'S en Hamilton street, near Tenth, north silo, where they are now prepared with a full axsurtment of everything i f ee pertaining to the business, comprising iu p 1 ELLOW PINE, WHITE PINE, APR() d HEM LOCK FLOORING, WHITE PINE 8, SCANTLING and PLANK of all to • and troll iteastined. FRAMING TIMBER, Superior HEMLOCK JOIST and SCANTLING of assortedslxot. CEDAR, CYPRESS AND WHITE PINE SHINGLES of extra quality. HEMLOCIC and SPRUCE PLASTERING and SHINN. I,ING LATHS, and a holm ansorininntof WEATHERBOARDING, oleo W II ITS OAK PLANK and BOA It DS of all 8110,0.1.00, WHITE VlNEand SPRUCE PALINGS and PICKETS, superior to anything in I til. mark of WHITE PINK nod HEMLOCK FENCE RAILS, WHITE 0 ...K and CIIESTNUT POSTS, Ac., Au. ALI desiroUe of purchaelag Lumber 10 an good advantage I. le olPred at any other Yard In tin comity.aro request •d to sail extunkfte our %Wel: before purchaelng else where. Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price. Th., Senior member of liar knit would hereby express Isle thanks fur post furors while a member of the firm of Trea ter Bros., nail respectfully solicits it continuance of the mime, protalsiux to apply his beat endeavors to reader ”tislactiun to all patron.. of the Now Yard, It spectrally ED. W. TREXIAIt. august 11l REMOVAL! L MBEB ! LUMBER ! ! WILLOUGHBY R.',TREXLER =1 Hereby announces to thepublic that he has bought ont Iho well-knowa LUMBER YAM/ of TI L ES LER & BROS. s od .ytooded the Maitre to the roperty adjolulag, at the corner of Tenth and Ilatellton etreete, whore ho will be constantly prepared to eopply all demands that may he made upon Intro In the way of BUILDING MATERIALS of the bent gartlity, and at the lowest prices, Ins stock couslnta to owl of WHITE PINE nod HEMLOCK 'MARIN nod PLANIC, mum PINK IIk:MU/EN and YELLOW PINE FLOORING.' PINE and HEMLOCK, FRAMINU TIMBER, JOISTS mud SCANTLINO, of all lengths and slum • • • MICHIGAN PANEL LUMBER, • POPLAR, OAK, Atil, WALNUT.dCIIERRIC LUMBERS Sawed, Shaved a-d • CYPRESS SHINGLE, POSTS, RA S ILS, and PICK E I S, of all length. t 15001150 and PLASTERING LATHS, &c:, &c. DRY LUMBER will be made a specialty, and a full supply of all kinds constantly kept on hand. Persons In need of lumber for large bobbling. will find it greatly to their advantage b, coil, being constantly ready to fill orders fur all kinds of lumber used In barn building, upon tho must favorable berme, cud at the short• list untie°. Every article belonging to a first•cinse lumber yard I. eondtantly kept on hand. Thankful for past favors. I Invite my friends to call and Inspect lay stock. June Respectfully W . TREXLEIt. MIR OM AS fll OF F ETV, lOS Nollh EICIII 111 Street. led North EIGHTH Street, FIRST STORE ABOVE ARCH, WEST SIDE, I'IIILAD'A. I °Ear the fAlowleg. aviator entlervrear, eonnleting of Ladle.' Soul', blllott`,.utl Rape, as being •pectelly under llle InnAtet price: 1.51/IK.O MERINO VESTS. et 75c., regular price Fl. LADIES' NI EIIIND V E•tTS at 411.10. reduced from 51.50. "CA It CW RIGHT SE WARNER'S for Ladies. Doom Mk-Kra. mud Boy, AIEN's MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, from toe. u p. A SPECIAL LOTOF MEN'S SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, HALF WO 75c.. worth 41.'25. ONE LOT OF VEit FINE QUALITY OF NUN'S SHIRTS at 41. MEN'S ti , IIRTI AND DRAWERS, FULL REGULAR MADE, from $1.3 1 .P. • BOYS' SHIRTS AND DRAWERS. WHITE AND COL. 01150. MISSES' MERINO VESTS BOVS' MERINO VESTS. MEN'S MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS. HOSIERY, HOSIERY, HOSIERY. 3IEN'S HALF HOSE, FULL REGULAR MADE, M. MEN'S HALF HOSE, FULL REUULAII MADE, 28c. MEN'SENo LIM! HALF DOsE, FULL REGULAR. Mc. MEN'S ENOLISII BROWN 311YED HALF HOSE, CHEAP. LADIES' HOSE, FULL REGULAR MADE, 23c. LADIES' ItlllnED itsIHNo 110 SE, 2.5 c. LADIES' HOSE. FULL REGULAIL MADE, DOUBLE 'H• O EE EN LS UINK I RON • AND TOES, l FRAMEA HOSE. FULL REGULAR MADE, D411111.E HEELS AND TOES, we. INFANTS' eihRINO MISSES' 110,5, COM. REGULAR MADE, 2.1 c. MISSES' MERINO HoSE =2 I am Felling those very deelrable Wrench Cornets , , which gIYO the ladles MO touch cumfurt nod I,lceAure to wear. at the old price, FRENCH WOVEN CORSETS, WAR RANTED WITALE• BONE, We. TUE NEW SEAMLESS CORSETS, VERY COMFORT. ABLE Fit WINTER, We., coot 101.33 to mate. FINE FRENOII MOVED COREETS, O.!). FINE FRENCH CONsET, WARUANThD WHALE BO E, 51. Z. Utli.EN OF FINE FRENCH EMIIII.OIDERED COIL SEM e‘Lhe worth let 75. WERLEV CORM'S. THOMAS MOFFETT, lel North Elan r 8 Street, First Store above Arch Street, West *hie. A CCOItDEONS, CONCERT 11111 AM JOIN. 'Jew. Mane, Ylelio fitrlnge of the beg quality to be had at Q. P. woltertz'a Store, No. 914 VOL. .XXV ALLENTOWN SAVINGS INSTITU TION, Organised as Dimes Saving Institution," NO. 58 EAST HAMILTON ST., (NEARLY OPPOSITE TEE AMERICA. , ROTEL.) PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR 11213111r1 MONEY ON DEPOSIT. This Instillation, tho oldont Saving Bank in Santoro Penney Jeanie, hoe been in continuous and eneressful operation for ten year., and continues to pay SIX PER CENT. INTEREST •n money for one year, and special rates of interest fur shorter period.. SOLAR deposits of iaonoy will be hold strictly confi dential. Ere.:otors, Administrators,Trustees, Assignees, Treasurers, Tax Collectors, and other custodians of public or private money., are of fered liberal rates of intoreat. Farmers, Merchants, Laborer., and all who hubs money to put on Intermit for a long or short r I ut n agreea aada ntg p o e ruios d o will which to n do it bus o n a ss. We b e e P nd ll7 Wylie coos to transact their banking bust.ss with us. MARRIED WOMEN and MINOIIB have epeeist privi leges granted by our charter—hissing full power to trans act business with us In their own names. Money deposited with thin Institution IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED, by a Capital stock and WELL money curtly of over SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, and addition. the Board of Trustees hum as required by barter, given builds under the enperon of the Court In the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which bonds are regis tered In and held by the Court or Common Pleas of this county for the security of depositors. Our Irou.Vaults are of the most secure and extensive kind known In this country as a pernonal inspection will show, and to which we invite oar friends and customers. We refer to thin. believing that safe Burglar Proof Vaults complete the safety and reliability of a good Saving Daub. WILLIAM 11. A 'REY, President. CHRISTIAN PRETZ, Vico President. REUBEN STABLER, Cashier. , TRIISTIM: William IL Muer, Marko 8 Bush, Christluu Preis, Jollu D. tittles, F. E. Moments, lienj. J. llogeoltob. George Ilrobsi, Samuel Sell, Nathan Peter. Jon 12-1 f i f f AC/ UNGIE SAVINGS BANK, Hamilton, between 7th and 8:1J Street. A LLENTO WN, P A. tro lil m un o ni e tt o k i e l ki r o4d w e =lt w alUmat and In Any sums • SIX PER CENT. INTEREST _ will be patd. Deposits mny be withdrawn nt any time. Persons de• +lrons of sending money to any pert of the United States or Cunntlits, will have their matters promptly attended to, nod without any risk ou their part. Cold, Silver, Coupons,Bonds and other neeurities 1- \V I C:: LICATA Awat.t.nu DAVID SCIIALL, President. n Cashier. sep at.tf MILLERSTOWN SAVING RANK, MILLERSTOIVN, LEITIGII COUNTY. Thle institution will be opened on or before the 1.1 day of April. M will be taken nu depodt at all Minos and In any sum. (rum one dollar opwardo, for which !SIX PER CENT. INTEREST pet &noon, will be paid. Demuth* may be withdrawn auy time Alw, money oaaed out on ravorable tonne. JIkAtES WEILER, President eIIARILLIN 813111.11, Cashier. t J. F. It. Sharon, George Ludwig, Frailerick C. Yana. Christian K. Bendier, David Donner, William Saliday. Isaac (Irian!, Gideon F. Kim , , Horatio T. Ilerlsog, Benjamin J. tichinoyer. JIM. dinetnaster mArl6.Gm KUTZTOWN SAVINGS BASIC, (Organised under State Charter In ISOD.) MONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT, and Upor cent. In• erect will be allowed. For shorter periods el/eclat rates will be paid. Also, moony loaned out on FAVORABLE TERMS. Sold Bank Is located in the Keystone House, to the borough ol Kul:town. JON 11. FOOEL, Pres Want. HOWARD MOTTIMITSIN. M. H D. Citabler. P. J..Mough M. D David Flom. W. B. Fogel . , Riahnrd J. knerr, R. R.4Doxwon•T —1• FRANKLIN SAVINGS BANK, Located at the center of Hamilton street and Church alley, to Lion llall, second story, opposite the German Reformed Church. to the City of Allentown, Is organised and ready for bust... ft toll/ pay dew per cent. In• tercet on all deposits except business posits, for null period of time, to be untenanted from the dote of deposit. To ...re which, the Trusteesof the inatitution have filed to the Court of Common Plans of Lehigh County. Twenty-five tho direction of the Court. a hood in te RUM of wenty-five Thousand Dollars, conditioned fur l the faith ful keeping and appropriation of all meek awns of money ...Mall be placed in charge of said FRANKLIN SAVINGS BANK, whether as deposits, or shares of stock. which C bond may be enlarged by the ourt whenever It may bo deemed necessary In addition to this. the Act of Incorporation makes the Stockholders persona/1y tu the depositors in Jou ble the amou of the Capital Stock of the Bank, which in tifty thousand dollars. with liberty to increase It to ono hundred and fifty thousand dollars. These provision* will make it • very dealrable and info place of deposit. be ll i t , t e s Bpt eside., o lt ne my t te e tzur i t a o n sj a b t e e , it,hpaLleadx.oasint Its In this city. Arrant meals will he made to furnish draft. on the cities of New York and Philadelphia S. A. BRIDGES, President U. W. WILSON, rice President J. li. ZIBIAIERMAN. Cashier. i Trustee Daniel 11. Miller, S. A. Bridges, John Ilulben, J. W Wilson, William Baer, J. F.. Zimmerman D. 11. Croat. Peter Ores., Edwin Zimmerman. sop 15-1 Y GIRARD SAVINGS BANK, USRLT OPPOISITR TILE COURT ROUSE Monies received on deposit at all times from one dollar upwards. Pays SIX per coot. Interest for sig mouths or louger. Your per coot. on doily balance, subject to check at sight. Gold mad Calvet% Uulied Btatea Bond. aod other Securities bought nail sold. Interest collected on Uoverci mut Securities at fair rates. All deposits 01 mosey will be held strictly confidential, and may be withdrawn at uuy time. Married Moinell and minor. have special privileges g cm ra e nted t i r dia nus ouller, 11 name..O .114 power to triansaut bust- Thin I ustitutiou Is a legal depository for mooting paid Into Court, and rerOlVes Molloy In trust tram guardians, eJtuluistrutors. treasurys, tan ealloetorsi nod others. Ars7 - 11UNE 1 LOANED ON Fa 1' °HANLE TERMS, PIIAON ALBRIULIT, President• fl n..IIAIPrZELL. Cashion Ilfreeturo—Tinos Albright. James F. Kline, Tilghman Marts, David Weida, Aaron Eiseutort. THOS. WEAVER f FARBER'S SAVINGS BANK, Incorporated under a State Charter of 1870 Yogals•Ille, Upper Macungie township, Lehigh Co. This Institution has been organized and opened under a Slaw Charter. MONEY will be token on deposit at all times and it, any sum from it and upwards. for which 6 PER CENT. INTEREST Unposlt• may be withdrawn at any time. Also money loaned out on fat/ornate terms. WILLIAM MOUIL President R. IL FOGEL, Custater. TRIINTRIN: Dr. 11. A. Saylor, .1. 11. Straub, LlALitt,' Aloyor, Da•ltl Peter, Jours hooch, hillilllolllll6, Dr li. erelts, W.lllum Stain. William Mohr . Ispr 64m wE OFFER FOR NALE. AT PAR, The New Masonic Temple Loan, Redeemable after Eve (5) and Wlllllll tweuty•uae (21) years. Interest Payable March and September The Bonds tire reileloreil, and will be I.saed In sums salt• DEPENBcliito. E==Ml Stocks bought• sold on .111,111.100. Gold and into erontruts and sold. Accounts received and into sot allowed, subject to Sight Leans jI GG THE HILL" INSTITUTE POTTSTOIVN,MONTOONERY 00., PA English, Classical, Scientific, Artistic and Commercial. Location admirable. Tureuttoth Animal Session. Thor e) preparation fur Collego or Busion•a. Foe Circulars, address Kay. OEO. F. MILLED. A. nc nut,Pri REFERENCES—Dov•• Drs. !loin, &hamlet . Mann Krauth. Snln, Itutter,'etc., etc. hoes. Judge tudl..w Laniard Myers, J. S. Yost, U. K. 'Boyer, Td. Hasse Thayer etc. etc. July 71 "pIIIIIIII.OI4OPINV OF 111AROIA6E.—A New Coonite or LIWTO tea, Alldellverod at the Peons Polytechnic and Anetornical Museum. MO Cheetnut Bt.. three door. above Twelfth Philadelphia embracing the subject.: liew to Live and 'Whet to Live fort Youth, Ma tority and Old Age; Manhood Generally Reviewed; The Can.. of lodlreationt 'Flatulence and nervous Dleatuee accounted fur; Marriage Philneophically considered. These lectures will be forwarded on receipt of 25 canto by Addrusing: secretary of the PODIA. POLTTIMINIO ANATOMICAL Mrearm.l2ls (Myeloid 81.. Philadelphia. Pence. une 81-17 inancial. RE:=l D. Wanner, tieq., 11. Schwartz, Etti Daniel Clader Jonas Miller (Organized under a State Charter), EAST HAMILTON STREET, WILL BE PAID Bearing 7 3-10 interest, 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PRIL4DELPIIIA ebuctitional. frbitib ebicirtal. lIEN RY T. II ELM BOLD'S COMPOUND FLU ID EXTRACT CATAWBA GRAPE PILLS. Component Parts—Fluid Extract Rhubarb and Fluid Extract Catncba Grape Juice. FOR LIVER COMPLAINTS. JAUNDICE, BILIOUS AP PEcTIoNB, HICK Olt NEltVolli lIEADACHE,COS• TIVEYESS. Ero. PUItELY VEIETABLE, CONTAIN- I N.l NO MERCURY, BILSERALS uswanit:ous DRUGS. IEI 'The Pills are the omit delightfully pleasant purgative, superseding castor oil, salts, magne sia, etc. There Is nothing more acceptaule to the stomach. They give 10110, and cause neither nausea nor griping pains. They are composed of tile finest ingredients. After n few days' use of them, such an Invigoration of the en tilt system takes place its to appear miraculous to the weak anti enervated, whet her arising from Imprudence or disease. 11. T. I lelmbold's Compound Fluid Fxtract Catawba Grape Pills are not sugar coated, from the fact that sugar-coated Pills do not dissolve, but pass through the stomach with out dlssul clog, consequently do not produce the desired effect. THE CATAWBA. GRAPE being pleasant In taste and odor, do not ticcessi title their hying sugar-coated. PRICE Flynt cENT:4 PErt lIOX. HENRY 'l'. HEL MBOLD'S HIGHLY CONCENTRATED COMPOUW FLUID EXTRACT SA RSAPAItILLA. Will railleally exterminate from the system Scrofula Syphilis, Fever Sorra, Ulcers, Sore Eves . Sore legs, Sore mouth, Sore head, Bronchitis, Skin Disease+, Salt. Rheum, CallitCrti, Itunilluga from the Ear, While Swellings, Turners, Cancer ous Aftections, Nodes, Rickets, Ulandular Swel lings, Night Sweats, Rash, 'letter, Humors of all Kinds. Chronic Rheumatism, Dm epsitt, and all disease, 1 sat have been est:thin:llyd in the ssyatem for ,eats. Being prepare.' expressly for the above com plaints, Its blood-purl tying properties are greater 111111.1 any other preparation Oflt gives the complexion a clear and healthy color and .estores the patient to it state of health and purity. For purl lying the blood removing all chronic constitutional diseases arising,. from an Impure state of the blood, and the only reliable anti effectual known reined; for the cure of Pains Mill Swelling of OM Bones, Ulcerations of the Throat and Legs, Blotches, Pimples on the Face, Fry,lipelas and all Sealy Eruptions of the Skin, and beautifying the complexion. Price , el.GO per bottle. II HENRY T. HELMBOLD'S CONCENTRITED FLUID EXTII , M - 7 BUCHU 7116 GREAT DIUAETIC has cured every case of DIABETES In which lb has been given. Irritation of the Neck of the Bladder and Inflammation of the. Kidneys, Ulce ration of the I:itlueys and 'Bladder, Retention of Urine, Diseasesof the Prostate (Banal, Shunt In the Bladder, Calculus, (travel Brick-Dust De• posit, and Itietutot or Sfllkv Discharges, and for enfeebled anal delicate constitutions of both attended With the following symplosna:—lndis posit lon to Exert lon, Loss of Power ) Loss of Mem ory, Ditlietilty of Brett tiling, \Veldt Nerves,'fremb ling, Horror of Disease, Wakefulness, Dimness of Vision, Pain ill (Sc) Beek, llot Hands, Flubbing of the (tautly, lure:less of tile Skin Eruption no the Face, Pallid Countenance, Universal Lassi tude of the Muscular Syntem, etc. Used by persons l mom the ages of eighteen to twenty-five, and from thirty-tiro to II fty-five or lu the decline or enange of life; after confine ment or labor pains ; bed-wetting In children. EMZI Es.tratct linchn is Diuretic and Blood-Purifying and cures 1,11 diseases arising front habits of dissipation, and excesses anti Itn prudcnc,•s in life, Impurities of Ili° blood, etc., Collal ha in affections for which It IN used, anti syphilitic Affections,-in theso diseases used ht conned 101 l With Ileinibold's num, Wash. EM8362 In many affections peen liar to ladies, the Ex tract Hoehn Is unequaled by any other remedy— as in Chlorotils or Retention, Irregularity, Pain fulness or Suppression of Customary Evitena lions, Ulcerated or Schirrus slate of the .Uterus. LellellOrrlllell or Whites. Sterility, and for all complaints Incident to the sex, whether arising from Indiscretion or habits ol dissipation. It In prescribed extensively by the mbst eminent pity and midwives tor enfeebled and delicate constitutions of both sexes and all ages (attended with ally of the above diseases Or symptoms). H. T. Helmbold's Extract Buchu CURES DISEASES ARISING FROM IM Plt UDENCB:S. HABITS 'OF DIS SIPATION, ETC. 111 all their stages, at little expense, little or no change in diet, no ineonsymience and no expo sure, It Causes It freqtrent desire, and gives strength to Urinate, thereby removing Obstruc tions, Preventing and Curing Strictures of the Urethra, Allaying Pain and Inflammation. so frequent ill this Mass of diseases, and expelling nil l'olsonotte matter. "rlioosalote win, have been the victims of In competent persons, and who have paid heavy tree to be cured in a short time, have (amid they hove beets deceived and that the " Poison . ' lout, by the use of powerfal net Int:0111S," been dried tip In the system, to break out in a More aggro voted form, and perhaps atter Marriage, Uso II FLAMII/I,O'S EXTRACT DUCH II for all Affections anti Diseases of the Urinary Organs, whether existing In Male or Female, (root what ever muse originating, and no inattim of how long standing. PttICE, ONE DOLLAR AND Ftl fY Cl•:N14 PElt BOTTLE. HENRY T. HELMBOLD'S IM PROVED ROSE WASH en t be surpassed as a FACE WASIL and will be :nand tile only specific; remedy In every spe cie,* of CUTANEOUS AFFECTION. It speedily eradicates PIMPLES, 5P015, SCORBUTIC DRY NESS, IN DURATIONS of the CUTANEOUS EMBRANE etc., dispels RE NESS and IN CIP T lEN IN'ELAMMATION. ILASII :00111 PATCHES, DRYNESS OF SCALP Olt SKIN, FROST RITES nod all purposes Mr which N-3 SA lE. or OINTMENTS are used; restores the . - skin ton state of purity andllofilleMil, Una insures continued nealthy action to the tissue of Its van. 1,08, 011 whirl. depends the agreeable clearness 1111,1 vivacity of complexion no 1111.11 th sought and admired. html however valuuble as a remedy for existing defects of the skin, IL Ilehnbold's Rose WIWI has long sustained Its principle claim to unbounded patronage, by possessing quallth s which render it a Ton,ET APPENDAGE of the most Superlative anti Congenl character, com bining in an elegant lormula those prominent requisites, SAFETY and EFFICACY—the invar iable accompaniments of Its tine—as a l'rcitervit. tile anti Reit . ..Mier tit the Complexion. It Is an excellent Lotion fur I I Isenties of a Syphilitic Na ture, anti as all injection for diseases of the Urin ary Organs, arising from habits of dlasipation, used in connection with the EXTRACTS DU HILO, HARSAPARILLA, AND CATAWDA HA PE PILLS, le Hindi dineimeH ON recommended con Ind he serpanKed. PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PHIL 111 Full and explielt direction'. necompnny the medicines. Evidence of the most responsible nod reliable character furnished on eminent len. with bun• thefts of thousands of living witnesses, and up ward of :10,IXXI unsolicited certificates and recom mendatory letters, m:10' of which are from the highest sources, including eminent Physicians. Clergymen, Kt:arsine'', etc. The proprietor ans never reverted to their. publication in the news papers; he does not do this front the fact that his articles rank as Standard Preparations, and do tuft need to be propped up by certificates. Henry T. Helmbold's Genuine Prep orations. Delivered to nny address. Secure (min °beer vat lon, ESTABLISHED UPWARD 111)1 , TWENTY YEARS. Sold by Druggists everywhere Ad dress letters for information, in confidence to 11 EN 111 T. HE LMBOLD, Druggist and Chemist. Only Depot 5: IL T. lIELM BOLUS Drug end .Clicinlent Warehouse, No. 591 Broadway, New York, or to IL T. lIELMBOLD'S Medical Depot, 101 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. Ask for HENRY T. HELMBOLTrR! TAKE NO OTHER. s ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 221871. AUNT CYNTHIA'S, BETROTHAL. Aunt Cynthia sat by the kitchen window, vigorously sewing a very large patch upon a very small pair of trowsers. " Seems to me, Sammy," she said, looking up at the white-headed youngster who sat in a low chair in the corner, with a woeful and abused expression of countenance, and one of his mother's calico aprons tied aroucd his waist—" seems to mo you might get aloft without making such work of your pants if you should sot out." " Well, 'taint my fault," panted the little culprit; "if the other boys squirm trees, lye got to squirm trees, and )f ma's mind to buy such rotten cloth—" r • But here his logical reasoning was inter rupted by his older brother David, who bolt 4. ed into the room calling out: " Here's your saloratus, ma; he said he'd take his pay In eggs ; and here's a letter for Aunt Cynthy that come Saturday night." "For me?" said Aunt Cynthia, scrutinizing it on all sides. "From brother David, too. What can have happened t Let see: " `DEAR SIBTEIi g -I don't like to cut your visit short at Clymena's, but wish you would come back to our house es soon as you get this. I will go over to Dexter to meet yon Tuesday night. In , rite, "'Your brother, "'P. B.—Dou't ruil to come.' • "Mercy sakes alive I" exclaimed Aunt Cynthia, " what can bo the matter T More'n as likely as not them children are all down with the measles. I heard they was in the, next town but one 'fore I come away ; or mebby one of the boys have fell and hurt 'em. I've always said it wouldn't do 'em no good to be clambering round with Sam Smith's boys so much ; or p'r'ops David's wife is • down with erysipelas again. 'But there I while I'm talk ing the time is going, and this is Tuesday ; and, if I'm going, it's time somebody's stir ring round and doing something. Ilme's Sam. You can draw these pants right on now. I guess they'l last long enough to take you to the next tree. Now how het about the horse ? Who's going to carry me down to Jenksville to take the stage ?" " Dear me," said Clymena, as she put down her flat-Iron ; "It don't seem as though you'd made your visit moro'n half out. I'd calCu lated on your being here a good long spell." And she sighed as she thought of the huge pile of unmended garments that had been ac cumulating in anticipation of Aunt Cynthia's visit. "David," she continued, " you'd better go' down into the lot and speak to your father. I b'lievc he's plowing with the horse. I'd been a thinking all along that I'd have the sewgin,society here after you come ; and I reckoned you'd make some of your 'lection cake for It," she said, as she followed Aunt Cynthia into her bedroom. " Well, you know that I should have been glad enough to have done it, and it would have given me a chance to have worn my new black alpaca that I made up on purpose to bring here," said Aunt Cynthia, as she folded and packed her things with a rapidity and precision that would' astonish some of our more fashionable tourists. "Now I think on't I don't care if you put up two or three pieces of that gingerbread I made yesterday. I may want a bite or two of something before I get to Dexter," she continued, to Clymena, who was taking up things and putting them down again In a flustered, inefficient sort of way. Just then the proprietor of this little aide-hill farm CWIIO across the back stoop in shirt sleeves, and leaned in Um doorway. Vell, what's the trouble all of a sudden? he asked "Trouble enough, I should think, from what brother David writes," replied Aunt Cynthia. "There's no telling whether they are dead or alive by this time, and I want to go down to Jenksvillo In time to ketch the stage, if you can get me there." " Wa'al, if you're bent on going, I guess we shall have to manage it somehow," replied Mr. Rice. " I notice that when you say the word, things generally have to gee. I s'posc I can be mending the fence while the horse is gone." So the plow was left in the furrow, and Dolly hitched into the long blue wagon and brought to the door. Mr. Rico lifted in the leathern trunk. Aunt Cynthia climbed up over the wheel and took her place upon the board which served as a seat, and David, her charioteer, took the reins and seated him self beside her. "Come back, do, if there ain't anything very serious to pay at Uncle David's I" called Clymena, clinging to a last hope. Aunt Cpl. thia opened her mouth to reply, but just then her hopeful nephew gave Dolly a stroke with the lilac branch cut for this occasion, and the long-suffering beast sprang forward •with a bound that sent her harness flying in a heap, and shut Aunt Cynthia's mouth with a snap. "Now, David, what in the world did you want to start up like that for ?" said she, as they jolted down the road. "It give me such a jerk that it liked to have keeled me right over into the back of the wagon, and my back feels us though it was-'most snapped in two. S'pos'n this board had flew up, where'd you think we should have gone to i You should be more careful." " Well, aunt, you said you wanted to be sure `nd git there, and you can't git there unless we git started some time or other. The old mare'd never think of budging unless some one hit her a cut, and a snail would run by her on the road if you didn't keep prick ing on her up all the time ; so what are you going to do ?" And he gave her a second but lighter touch with the whip. Thanks to frequent " prickings up," they made out to get there in time ; w cat clatter ing down the long Jenksville hill just as the lumbering old yellow stage was leaving the post-office. A lusty shout from David brought the driver down from his box, and Aunt Cynthia was hustled Inside, and her trunk strapped on behind, In less than no time, while David, concluding that it would do Dolly good to rest a few moments, sauntered leisurely down the street with his hands In his pockets, and was soon volunteering his Spinion upon the weight of the fat ox that Mr. Jones had just sent to market, to the town loafers, who were discussing upon this point, upon the front porch of the old tavern at the corner. Aunt Cynthia took the cars at Flagton, and arrived at Dexter at five o'clock that afternoon. As soon as she stepped upon the platform she saw brother David's broad, goodnatured face beaming upon her. " How d'ye do, Cynthia 1 how d'ye do ?" ho exclaimed, coming forward. "Who's sick ?" was her brief response. " Sick ? why nobody that I know of., At any rate we're all snug enough at our house." "Then, David, what on alrth did you send for me for ?" "Oh, never mind about that now, Cynthia. Just watt till we get out of this crowd. I'll tell you all about it before we get home," and ho turned to join in the chat of a knot of neighboring farmers, leaving his .sister to Ildgit away the time as best she might. At last, however, they were jogging along together out of town, and as they passed the last village house Aunt Cynthia Interrupted her brother's inquiries about Mr. Rice's spring -work with— " Now; David, for pity's sake, tell me what in the world, made you send for me all of a sudden so ?" "Well, It's rather of a long story," be re plied jerking the reins. " You know Roswell Sage, don't you ?" "What, he that married Abigail Clapp for his second wife ? "Yea ; but you know she died nigh upon a year ago, and I guess things have been go ing pretty rough up to ins place ever since. He's been paying high for housekeepers ; but land I the wages arc nothing, he says, to what they waste, and he's about made up his mind that be can't and won't stand it any longer. I've noticed that lie's been sorter banging round me for the last week or two, and In quiring if you was at home, and when you was expected, and so on. But finally, I telieva 'twas Friday night, he got desperate and spoke out, said he'd always know what a mazing manager you were, and knew if you were up to his place things would take a very different turn right straight off. Seems he'd thought of you after his first wife died ; but Abigail she'd been In his family a good deal, and staid thereafter his wife died, and seemed to rather expect him 'to marry her ; and as she was a thrifty person, and there didn't seem to be any particular reason why he shouldn't lie took her ; but he's after you this time, and no mistake." " Do you mean to sit there, brother David, and tell me that you sent for ine to come clear down here just to BCC that Ros Sage !" ex— claimed Aunt Cynthia, in a highly indignant " Why, yes. You see he seemed to be so uneasy and unsettled about it that I promised to write and have you come back. He said he'd be down to our house to-night, and offered to meet you at the depot, but I told him I guessed I'd better ace you first and explain matters a, little." " Well,•this Is a little too much,'' said poor overtaxed Aunt Cynthia, turning fiercely upon him. " I wish to land there was a train going back to Flagton to-night, and.my name Isn't Cynthy Root If I wouldn't be the first one to set foot on to it. I've more'n half a mind to get right out of the wagon now, and spend the night at some of the neighbors' only I know 'Mould make no end of talk, and I should hate to be mixed up in such a fuss. But I can tell you one thing, and that is that I shall step right up stairs as soon as I can get to your house, and stay there till it's time to take the cars to-Morrow morning. You can sit up and entertain that old gosling all night for all that I care." " Why, Cynthy, how you talk I Who'd'a thought now, that you'd flared up like this ? Mr. Sage is a likely, well-to-do man, and many a person younger than you would be be glad enough to git him." " Good land I" Interposed Aunt Cynthia. "I ain't so far gone yet but what I can take care of myself If I set out, I guess. And if you're tired of giving one a home, I ain't none concerned but what I can find one somewhere else. But to think of your grudging me the roof over my head, when Ins good as brought you up, and your children after you I" "Why, Cynthy, don't, now. How can you ? I never saw you cut up like this before. Do act llke a rational being," pleaded her brother, weakly, as they stopped at his gate. Ills wife came to the door to meet them. "I suppose you was a party to bringing me back on this fool's errand too," said Aunt Cynthia, tartly, as she went up the steps. " No, that's what I wit' n't," replied David's wife. "I mistrusted there was something in the wind, but I didn't find what 'twas till after the letter 'd emne. Then I told David that he'd no business to have done so." "That's so : she didn't know a word about it," put in David ; "for Mr. Sage specially aa:d that he didn't want any woman mixed up in it, or it would all blow sky high before you could get here." "There, Cynthia, I would't think any thing more about it," said David's wife, coaxingly. "Just step right in here, and take off your things, and have a good cup of DAVID ROOT ter.." But Aunt Cynthia's feelings were too deep ly wounded to be so easily healed, and she marched up stairs without waiting to speak to the rest of the family. "Jerusalem !" exclaimed Mr. Root, as he heard her door shut with a bang. '" What's the world coming to Who'd thought, now, that we should ever see Cynthy in such a tan trum's this ? You just ought to hove heard the peeling she gave me coining ever here. I declare it 'most took my breath away. hadn't you better just step up and see if you can't pacify her, mother ?" "Now you just keep still, and not try to make a bad matter worse," said his wife. " Cynthy's,all worn out with her dny's ride. You know she thinks 'bout as much of the children as I do, and sloe's scored. Just give her a chance to take a nap and get rested,and she'll feel better. I'll send up Emily with some tea byme-by." Au hour later there was a light tap at Aunt Cynthia's door, and Emily, David's pretty, rosy daughter, entered, with a tray of fra grant tea and hot toast.. She greeted her aunt—who was sitting grimly upright in the centre of the room—affectionately, spread a little table temptingly, and drawing it up be fore her, sat down opposite, saying "I was away at supper-time, so I thought you and I would take tea up here together, and be as quiet and cozy as we please." Then she chatted away upon the latest news of the neighborhood, and was so interested in eyerythiug pertaining to the late journey and visit, that before Aunt Cynthia had finished her tea she became quite chatty and agreeable in spite of herself. She was just saying that " Clymeny meant to do well, but didn't seem to have no faculty for turning off work—got hold of the wrong end of it some way," when a step was heard on the walk - , and Emily, un able to restrain her curlosay, flew to the window, and peeped,down from behind the green paper curtain. "Oh, do come, auntie," but Aunt Cynthia was on her dignity again, and couldn't be per suaded to move. '• Oh, you just ought to have seen him," said Emily, dancing back; "he was fixed up one in his broadcloth, and a new hat, that I almost wish he was going to send up for me I" "You can have the privilege of going down," replied her aunt, stiffly; "for I cha'n't; no, not if he sits there till dooms day." " Well, I wouldn't if I was in your place, auntie," said Emily. " Hateful old thing, to think he could swoop down on us, and carry you off without a minute's warning. I should like to give him a piece of my 'mind. Any how, I hope Deborah Green will break every piece of that new set of crockery •lie's just bought before he can find any one else to take care of it." "You didn't mean to say," interrupted Aunt Cynthy, rousing herself, " that he's got that Deb Green for a housekeeper Mercy I I don't wonder his things are all go ing to rack and ruin ; such a lazy, shifilss, miserable piece I never did see. She ain't fit to keep house for a Turk." A Turk was Aunt Cynthia's synonym for everything vile and heathenish. "I don't believe you know half how bad she is, auntie," said Emily. " Myra Clark leaches school in that district, and I went up to visit her while she was boarding at Mr. Sage's. She bad the prettiest room looking out on the river, and we went to walk in the dearest old-fashioned orchard, that sloped down to the water. I was quite in love with the place ; when we came to go in to sup per—bah I I couldn't cat a mouthful. We bad sour bread, heavy cake, and such butter and tea I George Sage says he keeps an old felt hat up In his room, and when he gets almost starved for something relishing, lie takes a bit of that. Then Deborah takes a " Emily I" called her mother, from the foot of the stairs. Away she flew. In a moment she trim [lei!. •• Father and mother my they wish you'd Just go down and speak to Mr. Sage. He is in a ow no fr , t, and won't hear a word to go. ing away without seeing yen. It won't take lint n minte, yon know, auntie, to dismiss him with your blessing." "Nell, perhaps, on the whole, I had bet ter go down, and MVO hard feelings," said Aunt Cynthia, resignedly, smoothing her hair with her hands, and giving a sly•glance at the lonking•glnss. " Now, auntie, why won't you put on your new dress ?" said Emily. "This one is tum bled and dusty and Mr. Sage won't half ap preeiate what he has lost unless he sees how nice you look when you have on a becoming dress. I want him well punished for his im pudence." Aunt Cynthia demurred faintly, but Emily, as usual, had her own way, and she was soon arrayed In her new black alpaca. " Now," continued her indefatigable niece, "just take this chair, and let me - put your front hair in puffs. I won't be butt a minute. Dear me, how pretty you areVoing to look ! Your cheeks'are so rosy, OM. your eyes so bright, that Mr. Sage won't imagine you are more than sixteen. Honestly, I'm afraid he won't think you are a person of experience enough to put at the head of his household ; or else he will suppose that nothing short of an elopement would be romantic enough for you, and will be suggesting a rope-ladder, and all that sort of thing. Then I should come into your room In the morning, and find a note on your table, saying, Adieu I you had fled with your beloved." " Nonsense, child l What stuff are you talking ? I never heard you run on so," in terposed Aunt Cynthia. " Then you won't leave us without fair warning, auntie ?" " Good land I if I had any thought of going, I should take my own time for it. , I wouldn't stir a step 'fore fall—ketch me I 'Twouldn't be no fool of a job to get ready for such an un dertaking." " Dear me," sighed Emily ; " I'm afraid there wouldn't be a single piece of that crock ery left by that time. There now, you are ready. Take this handkerchief in your hand. Now don't be so hard on the poor man that he'll he found still and cold in Bugby's pond to-morrow morning." And she opened the door for hei aunt, who, with a last glance at the glass, which was intended to be resolute and vindictive, but fell so far short of the mark that it come near being a smirk, went down with head erect to meet her impatient suitor. Nine o'clock came, and Emily heard her aunt come up to her room. Venturing to look in upon her, she found that implacable lady hurriedly transferring some of the effects of her bureau drawers to her trunk. "Why, auntie I" she exclaimed, in sun You don't think of leaving us to Mil night ?' "No," replied Aunt Cynthia, in a matter of•fact tone ; "but Mr. Sago came down with his big wagon to take up a barrel of flour, and he can just as well carry my trunk along at the same time, and save coming down a pur pose after it. Good 'gracious 1 what that poor man has had to stiffer is beyond all telling. Such goings on I never heard of. It's enough to make one's blood run cold. There's a whole barrel of pork gone to waste for want of a little looking after ; and the lard was all spited when it was tried out. Deborah let it scorch. Then he keeps eight cows, but the butter's so poor that it don't bring nothing at all, though there ain't any body around hero that tas better pasturing. • To•morrow, thank fortune, he's just going to clear that Deborah and her traps out of the house, for I wouldn't set foot into it so long as she or any of her duds were there, and the next day I'm going to take things iu hand ; and then see." And Aunt Cynthia shut her trunk with an empha sis that spoke volumes. Thursday morning the minister's chaise and Mr. Sage's buggy were both seen hitched at Mr. Root's front-gate. This suggestive fact epread like wild-fire, and caused great excitement in the neighborhood. " \Veil, what next?" exclaimed Miss Jones to Miss Fogg, who was making her an espe cial call for the occasion. Who'd ever thought ot such a thing?' " Well, between you and I," replied Miss Fogg, a ho would as soon have been convicted of one of the cardinal sins as of being off the scent, " I've been mistrusting it all along ; but I was the last one to go about saying that I thought Cynthy Root Was setting her trap for Roswell Sage, although I did as good as say, when she went off on that visit, that it was only to pull'wool over some folks' eyes. Well, I hope she'll be satisfied now she's made out to git him ; but if he don't find he's got more than he bargained for, I'll lose my guess, that's all." " Dear me," said Aunt Cynthia, as Emily tied her bonuct•strings previous to the cere mony. " I can't help feeling kinder cut up 'bout that barrel of pork. It would come so handy. If I could only have gone there a little sooner, I might have saved it."—Har per's Bazar. THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED The man In the ticket office said : " Have an accident insurance ticket, also ?" "No," I said, alter studying the matter over a little. " No, I believe not ; lam going to be traveling by rail all day today. How. ever,to.morrow I don't travel. Give me one for to•morrow." The man looked puzzled. Ile said : "But it Is for accident insurance, and if you are.golng to travel by rail—" If I am going to travel by rail, I shan't need it. Lying at home in bed is the thing I em afraid of." • I had been looking Into this matter. Last year I traveled twenty thousand miles, almost entirely by rail ; the year before, I traveled over twenty...five thousand miles, half by sea and half by rail ; and the year before that I traveled in the neighborhood of ten thousand mires, exclusively by rail. I suppose If I put In all the little odd tourneys here and there, I may say . I have traveled sixty thousand miles during the three years I have mentioned. Arid never an accident. For a good while I said to myself every morning; "Now I have escaped 'thus far, end so the chances are just that much hicreas ed that I shall catch it this time. I will be shrewd, and buy an accident ticket." And to a dead moral certainty I drew a blank, and went to bed that night without a Joint started or a bone splintered. I got tired of that sort of daily bother, and fell to buying accident tickets that were good for a month. I said to myself, " A mancan't buy thirty blanks in one bundle." But I was mistaken. There was never •a prize in the lot. I could read of railway acci dents every day—the newspaper atmosphere was foggy with them ; but somehow .they never came my way. I found I bad spent a good deal of money In the accident • business, and had nothing to show for it. My awl clone were aroused, and I bhgan to hunt around for somebody that bad won in thlslot tery. I found plenty of people who bad In vested, but not an individual that had over had an accident or made . a cent. I stopped huyiny accident tickets and went ciphering. The result was astounding. Tna PERIL LAY NOT IN TIIIVILLINO,BOT IN STAYING AT lIOUIt. I hunted up statistics, and was amazed to find that after all the glaring newspaper headings concerning railroad disasters, less than Vireo hundred people had really lost their lives by those disasters in the preceding twelve months. The Erie road was set down as the most murderous in the list. It had killed forty-six—or twenty-six, I do not exactly remember which, but I know the number was double that of any other road. But the fact straightway suggested itself that the Erie was an Immensely long road, and did more business than any other line In the country ; so the double number of killed ceased to be matter for surprise. By further figuring, it appeared that be tween New York and Rochester the Erie ran eight passenger trains each way every day— sixteen altogether ; and carried a daily average of 6,000 persons. That is about a million in six months—the population of New York city. Well, the Erie kills from thirteen to twenty-three persons out of its million in six months ; and in the same time 13,000 of New York's million die in their beds I My flesh crept, my hair stood on end. "This is appal ling I" I sa!d. 'lThe danger isn't: in travel ling by rail, but in trusting to those deadly beds. I will never sleep in a bed again." I had figured on considerably less than one half the length of the Erie road. It was plain that the entire road must transport at least eleven or twelve thousand peciple every day. There are many short roads running out of Boston that do fully half as much ; a great many such roads. There are many roads scattered about the Union that do a prodigious passenger business. Therefore it was fair to presume that an average of 2,500 pasSengers a day for each road in the country would be about correct. There are 846 railway lines in our country, and 846 times 2,500 are 2,111,- 000. So the railways of America move more than two millions of people every day ; six hundred and fifty millions of people a year, without counting the Sundays. They do that, too—there is no question about it; though where they get the raw material 11 clear be yond the jurisdiction of my arithmetic ; for I have hunted the census through and through, and I find that there are not that many peo ple in the United States, by a matter of six hundred and ten millions all the very least. They must use some of the same people over again, likely. San Francisco is one-eighth as populous as New York ; there are 60 deaths a week in the former and 500 a week in the latterif they have luck. That is 3,120 deaths a year in San Francisco, and eight times as many in New York—Bay about 25,000 or 20,000. The health of the two places is the same. So we will let it stand as a fair presumption that this will hold good all over the country, and that consequently 25,000 nut of every million of people we have must die every year. That amounts to one fortieth of our total population. One million of us then die annually. Out of this million ten or twelve thousand are stab bed, shot,drownedi hanged, poisoned, or meet a similar violent death in some other popular way, such as perishing by kerosene lamp and hoop-skirt conflagrations, getting burled in coal mines, falling off housetops, breaking through church or lecture-room floors, taking patent medicines, or committing suicide in other forms. The Erie railroad kills from 2 to 46 ; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of n man each ; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to the appalling figure of nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand six hundred and thirty one corpses, die naturally in their beds ! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me. And my advice to all people is, Don't stay at home any more than you can help ; but when you have got to stay at home a while, buy a package of those insurance tickets and sit up nights. You cannot be too cautious. [One can see now why I answered that ticket agent in the manner recorded at the top of this sketch.] The moral of this composition is, that thoughtless people grumble more than Is fair about railroad management in the United States. When we consider that every day; and night of the year full fourteen thousand railway trains of various kinds, freighted with life and armed with death, go thundering over the land, the marvel Is, not that they kill thriie hundred human beings in a twelve month, but that they do not kill three hundred times three hundred I THE IMPERIAL RING. The following startling article, coining from a non-partisan pnper, Harper's Weekly, we consider of sufficient importance to cepub• lish During the long Republican ascendency in this State the Democratic party constantly alleged that the city of New York has been virtually deprived of self-government by the system of commissions appointed by the Gov ernor and Legislature. The people were im plored to save the very principle of free popu lar institutions by overthrowing the Republi- cans and bringing the Democracy into power. At length the Republicans were defeated. We aro now entering upon the second year of Democratie supremacy in the State, and pop. ular government in the city of New York is already practically subverted. An Imperial ism has been established here as absolute as that of Louis Napoleon, and it Is formally sus. tained, as his was, by an occasional plebiscite called an election. DeTocqueville, that acute political thinker, contemplated with the utmost apprehension a democratic state of society without honest democratic institutions. lie thought it the worst form of tyranny. This is the spectacle which the city of New York now presents, and it challenges the thoughtful at tention of every political student, aa%f every American citizen who in looking candidly to see with which party in this country the just developement of the American constitutional and popular principle is most assured. There are in the city of New York four well-known persons—Mr. Tweed, Mr. Swec ny, Mr. Connolly, and Mr. Hall. They me the managers of Tammany Hall, and the most conspicuous of them, Mr. Tweed, has been de scribed often and at length In one of the or. • - - - gans of his party to the city, the New York World, in terms which, if, not justified by knowledge, were the most wantonly injurious that could be applied to any man. And it is one of the signs of the power of which we speak that the World la now as utterly the spaniel of the Imperial Ring as Paul de Cas• amuses paper was of Louis Napoleon. The four persons whom we have mentioned aro the authors of the present city charter, which was passed last spring by the Democratic Legislature—many Republicans voting lor it because of a registry law which Mr. Tweed permitted to pass for the purpose of procuring an r ppearance of unanimous support for his charter, and which he now intends to repeal. The charter vests the executive psiver in the 'Mayor and the heads of Departments. TIM Mayor is elected for three years ; and the sys tem by which Tammany controls what are called electidns Is notorious. The Controller is elected every four years. The heads and commissioners of departments are appointed by the mayor to servo from four to eight years. The charter was passed,and took effect imme- ROBERT IREDELL, JR., laitt inb Pun lob No. 003 HAMILTON 13TIMT, ELEGANT PRINTINGI, LATENT STILIN Stamped Checks, Cards, Circular., Paper Hook . COBS COBS lotions and lir;Lawa School Catalogues,. Bill Hiatid Enveloped, Letter L eads Bills of Lading. PfnY Bilis, Togs and Shipping C,ards, Politer. croaky acre, etc., etc., Printed at abort Notletri NO. 8. diately. ThqMayor was Mr. Hall, and ho instantly appointed Mr. Tweed Commissioner of Public Works, and Mr. Sweeny tho bead of the Department of Parke. In November. Mr. Connolly was elected Controller under tile auspices of Tamm s any Hall. Thus these four persons, known as the Ring, on whoby familiar means nominate and elect their agents to the hegislature,and fill all minor offices with their adherents, were placed by the charter which they had prepared,and which the party under their control had passed, in tho chief executive positions in the city. Their official terms are four years,except that of Mr. Swee ny which is five years, and that of Mr. Hall, which is two. They will continue to hold the offices at their pleasure. So efficient Is the political machinery of Tammany Hall, and so well adjusted is it to Democratic voters, that no man whom tlio Imperial Ring does not nominate will be elected Mayor, and it will nominate no one of whose obedience it is not 111 The next step is now to be taken in the formal subversion of the popular system. The Imperial Ring has introduced a bin in tho Legislature which constitutes the Mayor (Mr. Ilail), the controller (Mr. Connolly), the Commissioner of Public Works (Mr. Tweed), and the President of the Department of Parks (Mr. C,weeny) a Board of Apportionment, which, after providing (or the interest of the city debt, and for the city:s proportion of the State tax, shall appropriate at its pleasure all the money that is raised by taxation in the city. To make this extraordinary grant of power more acceptable, it is decreed that the amount raised in 1871 and 1872 shall not exceed a sum equal to two per cent, of the valuation already fixed for this year by the Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments. And it is further provided that no bonds and stocks of (lie city or county, except those already authorized, shall be Issued hereafter except by this Board. But it is by their will alone that the rate of taxation is limited for two years to two per cent. of the present valuation. It will rest with them alone to determine what the rate shall be after the two years are ended, or to amend their law next year by striking out the limitation for 1872, and leaving the valuation wholly at their p ensure. Mennwhile,.to divert public attention from this practical imperialism which the Demo— cratic party has thus established, it imitates the policy of Louis Napoleon, who imitated the Roman despots, in amusing the people with games and public displays while they destroyed liberty. Thus there is a show of care about the public grounds, and of anxiety • to complete the system of water supplies. There is an ostentation of charity to the poor. But while every 'man is glad that suffering is relieved, he shrugs his shoulders when he Is • Asked if the money that relieved it was honest ly gotten. While this is the outer show, the secret aim of the Imperial Ring is to dishearten opposition by showing its hopelessness, and to terrify capital by a relentless exercise of the mastery of property which the law bestows. It bribes Wasilence where it can', but it spares no blow, open or secret, to cripple those whom it fears, and the terrorism is deepened - by the public knowledge that certain judges upon the bench arc the supple tools of this enormous and arbitrary power, so that the citizen is conscious that he is deprived of the last remedy of injustice. Thus the result of the ascendency of tho Democratic party in New York is the destruc tion of a popular government in the city, as it would have been in the country at large If the people of the United States had not chosen war as the least fearful alternative. Nor is this surprising. The Democratic party in its long national ascendehey was steadily hostile to the fundamental principles of a free gov ernment. It was a vast conspiracy to make slavery the fundamental law of the republic. That purpose required resolute national de moralization, and the great eflort of the party was to produce it. A clear perception of the true spirit and principal of free :popular gov ernment was fatal to Democratic dominance, and therefore the party ruthlessly sought to obscure it. In the city of New York the par ty has never lost Its supremacy. The men who guide it to-day are politicians bred either in total ignorance or in utter contempt of American principles. They are brought in constant contact with the most ignorant and venal men ; and without faith In individual honor, with the sincerest pursuation that money and fear are the masterkeysof politics, tiny distrust mere honesty as hypocrisy, and undoubtedly despise "the people" and their representatives as heartily as Robert Walpole. Any Democratic protest against the Imperial power, whether from tkie mere adventures of the party, like the World, or from honest men who cherish the vein illusion that they can control it, is swept away like a leaf upon NI- To-day the protestants of last spring ire, either like the World, kissing the imperial ft et, or, like those honest men, leading the rresta;e of their names and their weight of voles to schemers whom they utterly distrust and to pratices which they abhor. Toe im perialism of the Ring is the rule of corruption by money and by fear. It is a plague-spot In the center of the American system. It is the fresh attack upon American institutions under the name of Democracy. Let the people of this country consider it well, and decide whether it Is to restore the control of the national government to such'men and to such influences that our brothers died in the field, and that we are taxed to-day. agara ' In the Senate on motion of Mr. Sumner a resolution was adopted that the Secretary of the Navy be directed to communicate to the Senate a copy of the instructions to the com mander of the ship Tennessee on her present cruise : also, the names of the United States ships in waters of the island of Son Domingo • since the commencement of the recent negoti ations with Dominica, t , gather with the arms• meats of such ships. The joint resolution of the Indiana Legislature withdrawing from from that State's alleged ratification of the fifteenth amendment, was then taken up for the purpose °fallowing Mr. Morton to address the Senate upon the question therein presen ted, the latter part of the morning hour being awarded to him for that purpose. Mr. Blair, of MisSouri, replied at length. The bill to replete telegraphic communication between the United States and foreign countries came up on Mr. Nye'o motion to limit the charge tor a mesave of ten words to $5. Without action the legislative appropriation bill was taken up, the question being on the amend. ment Increasing the judicial saliales. After debate Mr. Wilson moved to amend by fixing the salaries as follows: Chief justice, $8,500 ; associate Justices, $8,000; circuit judges, $7, 0 0 0 ; Justices of the Court. of Claims and Distriet of Columbia, $O,OOO. Agreed to— yeas 20, nays 28. In the Donee the greater part of the day's session was occupied In tho•discuasion of the amendment to the election laws, known as the enforcement act, which was finally passed. Mr. Banks introduced a bill to incorporate the European and American Telegraph Com pany. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The conference committee on the bill to create a Territorial gavt i pment for the District of Columbia made a M r port, which le to he voted on to-day. In the evening the Douse, in Committee of the Whole, coned , ered reports from the Judiciary Committee. ALLENTOWN, PA NEW DEBIOIIIS CONGRESSIONAL
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