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THE IATLY KVFMTMn TT! Y.C V A ? !T ?T! TT. . fPUT A , PA TURD AT, FTTOTUTAttY 5, 10, ormiT or xna r&xss. ICdllorinl Opinions' of tha Lending Jonrnale I poo Current Toploe -Cempllrd Krrrr Par lr the Kvvntnc Tf l-rnph. HUMAN LIFE AND I10LY GROUND. Frm the. .V. r. Sun, Captain Shaw, of tho London Firo Hrigado, tecently Tisited this oily to study tho organ! 7ation and management of our Fir Depart ment, ho that whatever superiority it pos BOHsod might bo incorporated into hii own command at homp. A recont disaster in one of the immediate suburbs of London nptly illustrates the pressing need of reform in tho system which exists there for tho pre vention and extinction of fire. It also fur nishes a singular example of mistaken reli gious zp&l. The old Star and Garter Ilotol at Richmond Hill is aim oat famous In Iiondon annals. It stood in the neighborhood of many structures of ancient date, peculiarly liable to be de stroyed by fire. The inn was closed for the winter, its only denizens being the manager a gentleman who bad for many years been an oilloer of the Englirih army a olork, a cellarman, and a boy. A fire broke out, in what manner is not known, at 2 o'clock in the morning, and the building was totally de stroyed. All the inmates excopt the manager escaped. lie was on the third floor, and was plainly seen long after the fire was nnder full toadway. But there was no water obtainable hj which to check the flames, nor any ladder or fire-escape to furnish a moans of release to the unfortunate man. Of course, he was Imrned to death; and not the smallest trace of bis body has been discovered. And when this needless tragedy was complete, the autho rities convened a meeting and began to inquire how it all came about. They ascertained that eight firc-onginos were present at the secne soon after the out break of the fire, but that they were utterly useless because no water was to be hod. The "turncock" of tho district, nnder whose charge are the water-pipes, was first wakened. lie disoovered that there was an insufficient pressure on, and a man was sent a distance of five miles on horseback to give the necossary orders at the office of the com pany. Delay after delay ensued; and the fire-engines might as well have been in New York as within a few rods of the burning hotel. . But though red tape and a faulty system prevented the preservation of the building, why was not the man within it saved? The evidence shows that the authorities were not unaware of the existing danger. Last au tumn they had applied to the rector of the parish, whose church was not far from the old inn, for permission to place a fire-escape on the north side of the churchyard. They called his attention to the fact that the place was the best that could be selected, on ac count of its publicity; that there was great need of securing to residents of the suburb a better means of escape from fire than that afforded by ordinary ladders; and that in the city of London proper fire-escapes in many instances are allowed to be kept in tho churchyard of the parish to which they be long. But the answer of the minister was a rofusal. "I decline," ho said, "to allow the fire-escape to be placed in the churchyard. I should think it wrong and an act of desecra tion to keep a fire-escape in tho churchyard, which I believe to be holy ground." Now, if the clergyman had allowed the machine in question to be placed there, the life sacrificed at tho Star and Garter would without doubt have been saved. No other suitable- station was found for it, so that no fire-cscapo whatever had beon provided up to the time of the fire. Is it not both absurd and wrong to assert that any ground is too boly to be used for the jmrnoso of saving human life ? The noblest deeds wo know of are done by men and women who peril their own lives to save thoso of others. And how can it endanger tho sanctity of the holiost ground to aid in preserving tho lives of men' FIKST CATCII YOUR HAKE. from, the N. T, Tim. Tho resolution introducod into the House of Representatives by Mr. Logan, desiring to know why the United States have not recog nized the Cubans as belligerents, and assort ing that they have "carried on active hostili ties against Spain for fifteen months, have established and still maintain a de faoto Gov ernment, and now occupy with their armies and control a large portion of the island," Bhould also hare contained information as to the seat of the de facto Government, and the amount of territory it controls, because we suspect that it is tho very absence of definite information on these points which has' kept the Executive from doing long ngo what General Logan evidently thinks it ought to have done. It 'is very difficult to accord belligerent rights to a people unless you" know where their territory is; and if any body is able to say where tho territory of tho Cuban republic is, or even in or about tho size of tho area over which the writs of its courts run, he has thus far hell bis pcaco in a very unjustifiublo way. We all know there aro "insurgents" in tho east end of tho island, but than how many ' Do they hold any portion of Cuban soil in such a way that the pooplo living on it looli to them for police justice, pcy them tares and allegiance, and that the enemy cannot penetrate it except in largo force '! No body ventures to assert nnytLing of the kind. If the President wero to "accord belligerent rights" to-morrow, and to send an envoy to Cuba to announce the fact to the "de facto Government," he would not know whore to look for it. He woidd find nobody to tell him whore its seat was, or who administered it. Ho would be unable to find any lino or frontier separating its territory from that of the enemy, or any organized force to whom he could appeal for escort or protection. If, in consequence of the concession, cruisors appeared at sea, as they would, and undertook to search Ameri can vessels, as they might, or eommit any other outrage on American commerce. Mr. Fish would know no more where to look for redress, or indeed have any more chauee of getting it, than if their operations were di rected by the Flying Dutchman. Whatever the concession might be in form, the body to whom it would really be madn, and who would reap all the'benefit of it, would be the Cnbau Junta in this city and Washington. They are really the only ap proach to an organized government which the Cuban revolution possesses. It is they who would issue tho letters of marque or the commissions to the Cuban cruisers, and in fact carry on tho war at sea, which is what is wanted when these belligerent rights aro demanded; it is to their coffers that the proceoda of the captures would go, if, indeed, the captains thought it necessary to make any returns. But it is casting no imputation on the members of the Junta to say that it would be highly inconvenient to have a foreign power, friendly though it be, esta blished on our own soil, protected f rom repri sals or other customary modeu of redress for international injuries by tho Slate Fodoral Constitution, including the writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Fish could never sond a military or naval force to exact satisfaction from "a do facto Government" established at the Gra roerey Fark or Clarendon Hotel. The pro prietor would call a policeman and give the army and navy into custody. If they suc ceeded in eluding the vigilanco of the police, end making their way to the governmental parlor or bedroom, taking the organization prisoner, or doizing and smashing its property, the prisoner would be released under a writ of habeas corpus, and the assailants would be visited with an action of trespass or trover and conversion. In fact there is no end to the difficulties and embarrassments in which Mr. Fish would find himself plunged, if in his present state of knowledge he were to accord belligerent rights to tho Cuban insurgents. Before recognizing a dc facto Government, you have to find your Government, and it has to have Its scat somewhere outside your own territory. The United States has had a some comioal experienoe both with Cuba and Ireland, in having "belligerent rights" demanded for insurgents of these two countries, while aotually carry ing on military operations from United Sta'es soil. We have ounteltes seen the Govern ment of the "Irish Republic" established in this city, sending out armies and navies to engage in active military operations, and have known the Frcsidont of the "republic" to promote an officer by general orders, issued from his headquarters in the Bowery, for gallantry in a battle fought undor the general superintendence of an Irish Minister of War, having his official residence in Chatham street. They were firmly convinced they were entitled to belligerent rights, but for obvious reasons never got them. A CHINESE STATE TAPER BURLIN- GAME "NOWHERE." i Vom the . Y. World. Burlingame electricity is again active, and we have been waiting patiently for confirma tion of the extraordinary telegrams which more than a week ago were flashed across the continent. It was announced that the treaty between tho United States and China, signed at Washington, had been ratified by the im perial Government, and that the snug addi tional sum of $140,000 in gold had been sent to keep Mr. Burlingame away from his new masters for another two years. We think it quite probable that the first rumor may be true, for a more worthless piece of paper never bore tho signaturo of diplomacy, and the Chinese are quite shrewd enough to find it out. Adepts at humbug thomselvos, they have a keen sense of it when manifested by others. They know, none better, that the Burlingame "additional articles" for he never had the effrontery to cull them a treaty per tc gave no new privilego to tho outside barbarian, and therefore cost the Chinese nothing; no poyment of money, no conces sion of territory or commercial privilego, no surrender of prejudice; and hence it is quite within tho range of possibility that they have been ratified, as doubtless will be tho treaty lets (if we may coin a convenient word) Mr. Burlingame has been cooking up ever since, including Norway, Switzerland, and all tho Pumper-nickels ho has been visiting. But we have gravo doubts as to the ! 140,000 meaning, of course, not specie, for all China has not so much gold coin, but a Rterling credit to that amount in London. Mr. Mo Leary Brown, one of tho diplomatic staff, who loyg cro this must have parsed through New York to rejoin his emef in Europe, is said to have brought this credit with him. But wo very much doubt tho whole fitory. It looks liko an effort to bolster up Mr. Burlingame'a financial credit on the continent, whore, by the last accounts; it was tottering, and to keep him afloat, or, speaking Orientally, to keep his kite flying a little whilo longer. It is perfectly well known that when this grotosquo mission was first snpgested the Chinese authorities thought it would involve no expense to thorn, but that Mr. Burlingame would bo content with tho unspeakablo honor of representing, howover dibtbntly, "the King of Heaven;" and that whatever has been paid has come out of tho treasury of what is known as tho Foreign In spectorate at the Treaty Torts, of which Mr. Robert Hart is tho chief administrator. All export and import duties are collected on the seaboard by thi3 Inspectorate, which, de ducting salaries, etc., pays, without account ability for details, the balanco to tho Imperial Government. If Mr. Hart and his colleagues chose to givo Mr. Burlingamo the original $11 1.O00, or this $110,000, th is nothing in the way of responsibility (aside from right nnd wrong) to prevent them; but why Mr. Hart, a shrewd, long-headed Scotch man, a perfect reflection of Jardiui, Mutlhio Bon & Co., should have thought the Barliu gnmo mission worth ihe original outlay, we never have been able to comprehend; ami in credulity is absolutely e:.hausted when we are af-ked to believe that after two years of inef fectual frolic in Amerisa and Europe, where Mr. Burlingame has accomplished nothing practical certainly nothing to tho benefit of the Chinese Government, imperial or local nearly ijOO.OOO more is to be given him to keep the gamo of useless folly up. We do not believe, one word of it, and, if we did, hhuiild certainly incline ty what was once the received commercial fool ing in China, that it is high time tho Foreign Inspectorate was broken np. Mer chants never plundered it to this extent be fore. Be this as it may, if it bo true, Mr. Burlingame has xando a pretty thing out of diplomacy, l or six years American Minis ter at relun, at no expense tor no was habitually a guest, hs Ministers in those re gions are upt to be with a salary nominally $12,000 (specie), but at the rate of exchange during the war at least .;o,ou0, amounting to $lt0,tH)0; for four years Chinese Minister at a salury of fcf.",1(M in gold or.Jsay, 80,000 in the paper we poor people at home havo to use making in all the comfortable aggregate for ten years of $420.000 and of this more than half taken out of tho duties foreign mer chants, including Americans, are paying to China, and the reht from the Treasury at Washington, into which we are pouring our taxes. We do not wonder that in view of all this Mr. Low, our now Minister, wishes his salary increased. Perhaps it may be expe dient to give him the increase, and that too on a Chinese principle. Iu tho Pekin Blue book is noted not only the salary of every official, but a supplementary compensation culled "the virtue-preserving addition, "to pre vent his being bribed. It will hence be, per haps, well to give Mr. Low the increase he Bfcks, or wo may havo him following Bur lingsme's example, and taking foreign pay and enlisting in foreign service. On bended knees must Burlingaine thank his stars that poor Brooks did not follow and shoot him at the Clifton House. . By a strange coincidence, othsr news reaches us at the same time from the East. Not merely Sir Rutherford Alcock's new com mercial treaty, of which we have spoken in which he and the Chinese alike ignore Lord Clarendon, Howard, Bismarck, and all Burlingame's viclimn but Huinattiiug still moro Mgnificant a seorot revolution of the policy of the imperial court in tho shape of a report from one of the provincial viceroys to Prince Knng on the foreign policy of China, and especially the revision ol tneso very com mercial treaties. Its genuineness wo dou't for a moment doubt. There is not a Sino logue who will not, from internal evidence, pronounce it genuine. It explodes utterly and absolutely tho theory of Chinese liberal ism. It confirms every notion and suspicion of Chinese perfidy and when we use so strong a wod we mean to apply it solely to officials. In its "protectionist intolerance" it is worthy of our neighbor of the Tribune, or Mr. Carey, or Judge Kelley, or any other champion of home-mado "pigs." CHIVALRY AND CARPET-BAGS. From th K. V. Tribunt. Few scenes are more painful and suggestive than that which occurred the other day in the Virginia court over which Judge Underwood presides, and in which ex-Governor Wise has lately been admitted to practice. The Judge, who. be it remembered, is a full-bloodod Yankee, and was the zealous and roughest spoken pioneor of Northern innovators before the war, took advantage of some luoky open ing to review succinctly his first advont into Virginia, his opposition to slavery, and tho hospitality of the pcoplo shown to him. It was, in fact, a gracious holding out of both his hands in the name of Yankee settlers to the ancien reyinie, a premeditated peace offering, ending with an especial tribute of personal compliment to Governor Wiao. The Governor, whose doafness prevented his catching more than a word or two, fancied taunts where there was only kindliness, and supposing tho red rag of "slavory" was flaunted in bis face with wilful malice, rushed to the conflict with a boat of invective, an outcry of defiance and woe, pitiable beyond description. The Judge and spectators, we are told, sat dumb with astonishment and pain. It is the first time that tho class to whioh Governor Wise belongs, the old repre sentative men of Virginia, have given any expression to their sense of real or fancied wrongs since tho war. We find nothing to laugn at in tne spestacle or tne white-headed, deaf old man, who lost sons, property, and rank in society in the conflict, giving vent. like Esau, to this loud and exceedingly bitter cry. It was natural to him to utter lamentations in the streets over griefs which his brethron bore in silence. iso is a man whose blood was poured at birth into his veins at fever heat, and who has never since given it time to cool. A man who would givo a homo and patient, genial welcome by hi3 hoarth for life to an irritable, underbred old woman, because she had showed him some kindness whon a boy; a man who, hated as he lovod, in tho extremest mood and always to the Litter end, and who was so loval to his State that he know no higher nppellntion for his Maker than the "God of Virginia." Yet, faulty as they may have been, ho aud the class iu Virginia for whom he spoke tho other day deserve sonio- thing better at our hands than ridicule. Tho wax was a savage necessity to answer a certain end. It iu over; its work is done. Let us, in tho namo of God and his justice, bury it out of sight, nnd not perpetually drag ila decoyed carcaso to tne Ii-rbt by social, puerile squnbbling. and unmanly jeers. Now that Virginia ban returned, let us meet her with open hands, not afruid to look with just eyes at her and our position. The social feeling against the North is exceptionally bitter there, wo Rro told. It is natural it hhould bo so. It is, we fear, in some measure duo to tho conduct of Northern settlers sinco the war. They have gouo ia too many in.. stances into Virginia as into a conquered province, seeing no good in any but tho blacks, and burning to avenge tho old wrongs of the negro by their actions and words. Tho result has been a want of fusion between tho two elements of society as absoluto as bo tween oil and water. General Grant, tho other day, iu effect assured tho Virginia dele gation that "manufactures wero better worth cultivating than chivalry." But while it is worth their whilo to remember this, it is worth ours to consider that thoro was some thing inherently good and worth saving in that much laughed at chivalry. Tho North ern new comers may bring capital, intelli gence, and enterprise into Virginia, but they should beware lest they ignore and destroy something which is there as valuable as any of these. Civilization is not more a matter of railroads and factories than of honorable instincts, of pure domestic life, of sincere hospitality aad of gentle maimers. The Northern people have suffered themselves too much to judge of Virginia by her slave breeders, her blatant politicians, and would be duellists. But behind these was the great lncholding population, ..a people simple niRnnered, bearing the traces of generations of case and culture; kindly, hospitable, genial. Our crude and chaotic American social life can illy ppare so sincere and good a typo. It is these people whom wo should welcome back again, overlooking any tempo rary bitternehs among them. Judge Under wood's words wero eminently (sensible and fitly spoken. We commend his example to all new settlers in tha Sfmth. Let thorn couch their eyes in the beginning, and be willing to recognize among their foes men "who boar without abuse the grand old name of gentle men." A friendly and pure social life is worth as much as a stable government; and tho man who went with tho heartiest, highest motives into tho war, will be the most zealous now in establishing with his old enemies the basis of a real and Christian brotherhood. DAMNATION DISTRIBUTED. Prw th K. T. Xatitn. We cannot imagine more ohoorful reading for on orthodox Catholic than the recent Papal Bull of Excommunication, which, though dated October 12, has only just been published. Iu the preamble, his Holiness re cites how, for good, and sufficient reasons, numerous proclamations of ipio facto excom munication have been issuod by the Church from time to time, some of which have grown obsolete and useless in the changes of society and manners, giving rise to great anguish of conscience among the faithful. To relieve them from this unnecessary torture, he there fore proceeds to defino now and forevermore the offenses for which the aforesaid ipso facto excommunication is positively incurred, assur ing them that these and no others are subject to that dreadful penalty. This is really a work of benevolence when we consider that ! the ancient canons, in force up to the 12th of October last, there were several hundred offenses so heinous as to be properly punishable only by this last resort ot spiritual power a penalty which separates from the church militant on earth and the church triumphant in heaven, with out trial, sentence, or appeal, the unlucky sinner wno either knowinclv or ignorantly incurs it. In reducing theso hideous trans gressions, therefore, to the comparatively trivial number of three dozen, Pius IX has earned a new title to the gratitude of his flock though it must be confessed that some of Hum are diavui up in tonus so g noral tli,t a single one embraces matter which the older custodians of heaven and holl divided iuto twenty or thirty. Having thus resolved to re more liberal than his predecessors with the treasures of mil vat ion entrusted to his chargo, his Holiness proceeds to announce that all apostates aud heretics, and all who refuse obedionce to tha Roman Pontiff, aro excommunioated by the mere fact of their disobedience, and can only be reconciled by special application to himself. Geographers, we beliove, estimate the population of the world at about a thou sand millions, of .which the Catholio Ghnroh boasts of possessing two hundred millions, including the Indians of Arizona and Para guay. Thns, as the mouthpiece of Omnipotent mercy, Pius IX, at one word cuts off from all rational hope of salvation eight hundred millions of human beings, with their innumerable pos terity; and it is no wonder that tho official organ of his court declares this act of crown ing mercy to bo "nne des plus bellos pages du genereux pontifioal deFie IX." Even this, however, does not exhaust tho resources of his benignity, for he proceeds to include in the same curse all thoso who, without special authority from the Holy Seo, knowingly possess or read any books con demned by the Papal court. Thns, of the two bundled millions of faithful aud obedi ent sons of the Church, a very large propor tion of the educated and cultivated are at onco cut off. We tremble to think of the innu merable Catholic libraries which are condemn ing their possessors to eternal punishment by sinfully including on their shelves volumes which have been prohibited by the infallible judgment of the Congregation of the Index. Think of the Englishmen who have igno rantly indulged themselves by possessing Bacon's "De Augmentiis Scientiarum," Gib bon's "Rome," Swift's "Tale of a Tub," Robertson's "Charles V," Roscoe's "Leo X," or even Combe's "Phrenology!" Tity the Frenohman whose historical researches have led him to peep into De Thou's "Histo ria Universalis" or Sismondi's "Republiques Italiennes," or whoso literary tastes may have seduced him into the forbidden ground of Rabelais, or Montaigne's "Essays," or La Fontaine's "Contes et Nouvelles," or who, if scientifically disposed, has studied Raspail's "Chimie Organiqne!" One would have thought, indeed, that the perusal of Raynal's "Indies' or Vertot's "Knights of Malta" was in itself sufficient punishment, but the infal lible judgment of Rome has decreed other wise, and the weariness of those interminable books is but the foretaste of tho endless tor ments in store for their luckless students, nor will the owner of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix" bo allowed to plead ignorance to avert condemnation. So the Italian is hopelessly lost whoso rash curi osity has tempted him to look into Dot ta's "Storia d'ltalia," or Giannono's "Istoria Civile di Napoli," or Ginguene's "Storia della Letteratura Italiana," or Dante's treatise "De Monarchia." Not umnv Italians, we presume. have incurred the penalty by wading through Rolli's translation of 'Tnradise Lost" but us tho condemnation of the translation doubtless includes tho original, we tremblo to think of the number of Englishmen and Americans who may now be expiating their indiscretion in eternal torment. It is to be hopod that the proportion of educated nnd accomplished cninoiics is not very largo, lor we fear that this manifestation of Papal benignity may go UtUU W11U II1CEJ. Then the number of tho saved is stiil fur ther reduced by tho condemnation of all who impedo directly or indirectly tho external or internal jurisdiction ot tno Church. As Eng lishmen and Americans aro lost by tho previ ous clauses on heresy and disobedience and literary culture, this cannot do much harm t them, but as France and Italy nnd Austria have resolutely set bounds to tho external jurisdiction of the Church, and as tho States of Central America have been somewhat re calcitrant on the same subject, we fear that some hundred or more additional millions are thus swept into perdition especially as tho succeeding clause specifically includes those who directly or indirectly subject ecclesiastics to secular tribunals a crimo of which all those Slates aro guilty. Then Spain and Mexico aro likewise brought within the circle of condemnation by a clause which includes in the common curse all who invado or retain the revenues of the Church or of her ministers, thus striking off at a blow fioino thirty millions more from the rapidly narrowing group of tho olect. All these being particularly heinous of fenses, Pius then proceeds to withdraw any prweis which may have been previously con ferred on any one to pardon them, and to in clude in tho common excommunication any dignitary or prelate who may dare to grant absolution for them, except in articulo movtis and then only with a reservation in case the dying man recovers. Ireland we looked upon as a favored spot, exempt from this centagious perdition, until we come upon a special clause, apparently designed to bring the Green Isle under tho ban. This includes all members of socret societies crgnged in open or secret machina tions againtit legitimate governments, as well as all who favor or givo aid to such societies. Remembering Ribbunism and Fonianism, we ffclt that tLo doom of Ireland was sealed, and wo grieved to think how few of the Patricks snd Bridgets of America who contributed their stamps to tho "Sunhnrst" could escapo. Having thus weeded out tho faithful until few cro left, except tha clergy and the inhab itants of tho Roman Territory, who aro known to be enthusiastically attached to their paternal olerical govornmont, his Holinoss proceeds to decimate the scanty remnants of Lis flock by pronouncing the same terrible anathema ngnihbt a number of less wide spread offenses, such as holding converse uth excommunicants, farming out masses, simony, and n number of other peocadilloes, mostly of a clerical character. As we said before, there must bo something particularly cheerful to a devout and obedient sou of the Church in contemplating the care with which his spiritual father separates the black sheep from tho white. Knowing that his faithful obedience secures him a place in heaven, he has the satisfaction of feeling that there is little danger of being crowded there so long as the vigilant custodian of the keys uses the power entrusted to him with an eye silicic to keeping out and not to letting in the countless millions of souls whose fate depends upon his will. On the other hand, as our comments are based on an official copy of the original document, no person who reads this need natter mmseii wun tne nope that we have made a mistake, and that if he possesses any of the works we have mentioned, there is any excuse lor mm. LOST. tfrrn RE-WARD. LOST OH 8TOLEN. TN)U THRKK POUOK WARRANTS, drawn in fnvor of William MvtJlure, numoerea as follows: No. 8i i for 77 M. No. 107it for 77 60, No. ll.MW for $76; aUo. TWO WATF.K IlKJAtll fltB I w aukaw IS, drawn In favfii of Joxhua Bartley. numbered'as follows: No. 7HJU for V.V No. 7'Ji or $75. Payment having been stopped, ail per. sons are warned agtiuat nogot atiug any of tliem. A ipli out ion iH made for aW warrants. WM . McMULMN. 1 2Vvtit N. 13 MAHJLKl' oWsn. SPETCIAL NOTICES. jciT THE WEST F. UN BAVINO FUND HOrlMr.nfliRH Soutliwit. rornnr of WAIAt'T rd 1 KM H MteiM. ncoriirin1 n hnisijr "J. l" 17. ( ijxn (or riinta and paymrnu dmlr. '"' wwi th Ikhidi ot 9 A. M. anil il I'. nn-1 on Monr:iy itnJ TlmiM-lny nfipiiMiopB Iriinltto 7 n'vlntk, lutotcst live por cunt. jor annum from JnmiNrjr 1. 170. Irtidtut JU11N AY 1 !''.( A !Y D. t!lirlo V urn nhrn M A.l Air. It" Sun nl V. .Mitiii k. nnhrn .lotin u. rron, John C. tnvis. loflOth II I dWOWIi't. ic. .1. lowio. M. !., J ro! F. .lono. Willlnm M. TiUlimaa, Churl" V hnnlor, John K Uop, Henry f . ( .ir, ltunry AVInnor, lull II WitUll. Wi'lmm W Kn. Prtor Wllltumaoo, H, H unci In Himlli, A. .1. I ft win, Knhert. Tnmnri, Ikahc I'. Hnkor, ,1ohn Afttthmnt, Vrmlnrtrk h rainy, 1). II. Dun mins. Jcsepb H. I.rniN I'll.lliniil II, -.,MrV, lt.. ir-ll"r. FPK.uIAL DEPOSITS KKUKtVKU. J 1 ut 8t U'li t Till n m .. ' i : i .i i r, j- OFFICE OF WELLS, FATJCJO COM PANY, No. 84 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, De cember 23, Notice i heretiy given, that the Tmnsfcr Hook of Wella, Farro A Company will be t)I.OSKI on the l!Hb day of JANUARY, ltd), t 8 o'clock P. M , to enable the Oempany to ascertain who ro own or of the tock of the old Ten Million Capital. The oniorn of that Block will be entitled to participate in the dintrihutiwt of amcts provtdnd for by the aroemout with the Paciflo Kxprcae Company. The Tinnafor Books will be opened on the 33d day of JANUARY, t la o'olook A. M , after whioh time the $.r),(HH),(H 0 new itock will bo delivered. Notice te also given that the Tiantfer Bookl of this Com pany will boCLOSKD on the Sftth day of JANUARY, l87n, at 8 o'clock P. M., for the pnrnoee of holding the annual KLKUTIUN OF DIRKCTOliS of thia Company. The books will lie UK OI'KNKD on the 7tu day of'l KU RUAUY, at 10 o'clock A. M. it 31117 OKOROR K. OTIS, 8ocretary. gy OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA KAILKOAD COMPANY. Pait.ArtKLPiriA, Jan. 85, 1970. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. The Anntml Mooting ef the Kttckholdtrs of this Com pany will be bold on TUESDAY, the 10th day of February, 187U, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the Hall of the Anoiubly Buildings, 8. W. corner of TKNTU and 011KSKUT Bt roots, Philadelphia. Tho Annual Kloction for Directors will be held on MONDAY, the 7th tiny of Mar. h, 1H70, at tho Office of the Company, No. 238 8. THIRD Streot. J853flr JOSKPH LESI.HY, 8oereUry. tgy- OFFICF. OF THE BELVIDERE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY. Bf.lvidf.tir, N. J., Dno. fl, 1W. Notion Is hereby gWrn to the utooklioloxm of the Ktflr V1UKHK M AN lit AC'l'URlNO COMi ANY respectively, that aMearments amounting to SIXTY PER CKNfUM of the capital stock of snid company have boon made and payment of tho same called for on or before the eighth day of February, A. D. 1H70, and that payment of such a DroDortion of all sums of iiiodov by thoin subscribed is called for aud demandod from tbem on or before the said lima. By order ot the Board of Director. U 2a few tKU-KHRKRD, Sec rotary. aST OFFICE OF ST. NICHOLAS COAL COMPANY, No. WALNUT htreet. Phit.adkli'Hia. .ln. 28. 1870. Notice In hereby given that tho Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Kt. Nicholas Coal Company will be neiu ar. o'nlock M. An Flection for a Board of Directors will be hold at the same time and place. lgHHt R.OUNSTON, 8eoretary. tear PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL ROAD CO., Office, No. 227 8. FOURTH Streot. Prni,rT:r.rmA, Doo. 22, 18t. DTVIDEND NOTICE. The Transfer Rooks of the Company will be closed on I' RID AY, the Mat Instant, and reopoued on TL'liSUAY January 11, 1870, A dividend of FIVE PF.R CKST. has bcon doolared on tho Preferred and Common Stock, clour of NatioB il au 1 Stuto taxes, payable in CASH, on and aftor January 17, 1870, to the holders thereof as tl.ey shall stand rogiitored on the books of the Company cu the 3tot insUnt. AU imyitbltfat this office. All orders for divi.lcnd must be witnessed aud stamped. 13. BRADFORD, 12 22 Wt Treasurer. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS, THE CIlKSArHAKE AND DFT.AWARK CANAL will be closed, for repairs to a lock, on MONDAY MOUS ING, 'the 7th Of February, lc70, and opened for n -mention in a few days thereafter, due notice of which will be given. 11F.NKY V. LKSI.KY, 8torctary. Philadelphia, Jan. 27, 1870. 127 dtUF ffgy HE WAS A K RESTED. T HE YOUNG man who determined to neizo tho iirst thin Hint uirceu up nan ooen arresiou Tor jiiiinng anotnnr man ui so. i uis iiuio joks ih only neiniinen to arrest tne atten tion of cur reaccra to tne Hjilondiii COAL sold by J. O. HANCOCK, northwest oornor of NINTH unit MA.STF.R. All the most desirable v mcties of Lehiirh an l Schuylkill am to bo bud of Air. Uuncock, carelully ticeened and picked. 1 6 wjiutiw URANC'H OFFICE REPUBLIC -FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CHICAGO. N. K. corner FIFTH und WA LNUT Streets. A Semi annual Divulenil of HVlfi PKlt CK..T. has bot-n declared by tiio Directors, ami is now iiayablo at-this Hhco. SAMNF, ALLEN A DL'LLKfi, Vtanuirors. 2 8 thsmSt Branch Oraco Kopuulic 1 ire Ins. Ca. THE FARIIAM SEWING MAOHINE Comnnny'sNew Family Sewing Machines are maat emphatically jironounced to be thut great desidorat.uni so loiiu and anxiotiKly looked for, in which all the essentials of a periect mucuinauro combined. l in no. 'in uimiiHu v Htroot. SS QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. SABLNK, ALLEN A DULLES, Agents, FIFTH and WALKuT Street -few- COLD WEATHER DOES NOT CHAP ur rutiKutm vuv pkiq 01 it utiiiik nmn i a r if COXATFD ULYtT.RINK TABLET OF SOLIDIFIED (j L'l i :UIM". ltsduilvuse niaUes the skin delicately aoit aud beautiful. Sold by all druKgits. K. 4 W. A. WKUIHT, 8 4 No. 821 OHESNUT Street fcjT COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION originated the anacstbetin nee of MTBOLS OX1DK, OK LAUGHING OAS, And devote thai r whole tuno aud practice to extracting teeth without ptiin. Gflicn. FIG 111 II and WALNUT Btreeta. 113 DR. F. K. THOMAS, THE LATE OPE- rator of the Co Hon Dental Association, is now tha onty m. in Philadelphia who devotes his entire timoand firttctico to extract iu teeth, absolute?? without pitin, by i ebb nitrous oxide tcae. Cilice, tdl WALNUT tit. 1 ft3 jggy IIELMBOLirS EXTRACT BUCHU AND Tmi iiovkd Kosk Wkii cures all delicate disordora in all thoir Bin pen, t lit t lo exponso, little or no change in diet, end no inconvoHiunce. Jt in nlona int in tjufc aud cilt.r, ininiediulo in it h action, und free from ull iujurious piopeitit'B, I'M rr IIELMBOL1VS CONCENTRATED E.V- Tit ACT KL'CHTT is tho Croat Diuretic. IIklm- mUK CoNCKVlltATI-D KTHA(T IS.MtHA.'AUtM.A ii tho (ireat Klood t until-r. Ilolli aro propped uccordin to rules id i'luuumcy .tad CliuuiUti( auu aro tUu most a five thut ran bo made. 1 1W 1'OR NON-KETENTION OU INCOX- tinence of Ciice, irritation, intlammation, or ulcera tion of the bladder, or kidnoys, di:eaet or do prsi.itu glands, nonn in the bladder, cak-nliis, .renvoi or briok diiBt depends, and nil dis,n-csof the bladder, kidimys, and dtopKirol h'.udlinfts, use HKLftlBoLUiil'LUiO EX. 'IHAO'l'liLOHU. Ui nty HELML'OLIVS EXTRACT RUCIIU givo, health and vipnr to the frame ami til join to tbn rullid cheek. i)etlltty it nccomptmiod hr many alurii.insr pymritoins, snd, if no treatment isaubmitted to, coUBUinption, insanity, or emlvpt 10 liia nue 118 tST ENFEEBLED AND DELICATE CON- "" stltntinns, of lioth sexes, ooe HKLMHOI.D'S EX TKAGT Hl't'ilU. It will Kive lrik and euerKOtio fenl intra, and enable o to tlooiwell. I lit Er3T TH E G LOR V OF MAN IS STRENGTH. Therefore tho nrrvouannd dubilitnted suoul l im mediately UK) HELMUOLU'K KXl'HACT Blit'Hl'. 1 al MANHOOD AND YOUTHFUL VIGOR are regained by HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUOHU IM ivgy- HELMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT BUOHU is pleaHsnt in taste and odor, freu from all injurious properties, and immediate in its action. 1 15 EQV TAKE NO MORE UNPLEASANT AND unsafe remedies for unploaHant and duncerons di eaxea line IlKLMituLD'H Kviiiacx ULcHU amii Imi'Huvku HuhK Wahh. 1 3 I' SHATTERED CONSTITUTIONS stored by Htl..MHU.D'K KXTItACT KccHU. RE IX WANTS. 1 TO O TUB WORKINU OLA8S.-We are now pre- pared to furniish all dilutes with conHtant employ wbntat borne, the wholo of the time or for tho siiaie moments. Bnbinesa new, lifrht, aud profitable. Poranut tit nil her Az aanilv mi n from Uln to ft:. Tier ovenim. and a proportional sum by devoting their whole time to the I uhiiickk. jiojs ana Kir a earn noaiiy an uiucu asmau. 1 hm. all who iua thin rw,tiiM ttvitw Mad their addreas. and tent the bubiueba, we make this unparalleled otter; To nuchas are not well satisUed, wa will seud l to pay for the trr.uhlo of writ inn. Eull particulars, a valuanlo sum pie, which will do to commeooe work on, and a ooi y of 7'Atf Litrrary CtmiKiiit'in oueoftus lafreht and tft.iilu n.w.r..lnni l.nhl i:0lH(i--all bttllt. frOO bV lUil. Header, if i.u want perwunuut, pmUtable work, adilroaa n. . A I i;f iv a) int., AUtriibia, iiu. ,,uiu TOHN FARNL'M &CO., COMMISSION MER f I chants snd .Manutucturers of Oonestoira. Ticking, tO No. UJ UUKiMJT btriwt. l'aiUvdelpiua, 41 wtoti WINE? AND LIQUORS. HER MAJESTY CIIAMFAGNE. DTJIJTOIJ & lussoit. 215 BOTJIH FKONT STREET. rPH E ATTENTION OF THE TRADE I X snlleited to the following rf tlboies Wines, etc.. for tale by AJUBiTtJW T.UHUOIT, 815 SOUTH l'UONT STREET. ' UHAMTAt.NI S.- Aa-onts for her Majesty, Ihie de slontel'eilo, Curto Uloue, Oarte Hlannhe, aod (Murine I arre's (irund Vin Enaenie, and Vin Imperial, M. Klee Dinr Oo.,of Maytuve, bparkluuj Mosolle and RULNK M A DEIBAB.-Old tsland, South Ride Kesei f e. M1KKHIEN.- E. Hudoipho, Amontillado, Topait, VaJ. lotto, I'aleand fiolden Her, tJiown, eto. l'OK'l 8 -Vlnho V elho Loal, Valletta, and Crown. tJI.AUK IS. l'rn"il Aine Ci., Monti errand and Bar. deaus, Clrreta and Kuutorne Wines tilN. "Meiier hwan." LKANDU-hV Henneater. Otard. TJnnnr A fk'i virion. Intasee, 4 a c A It B I A I It S A MoOALIt, Not. VJo WALNUT and SI GRANITE Street. Importers of BRANDIES, WINEH, CilN, OLIVK OIL, KTO., AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS For the sale of rUKE OLD RTK, WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHI3. KiEs. emp, f tAK STATUS' OLIVE OIL AN INVOICE J of the above for sale by rARSTAIHS A MrOALL, 2p Nos. 1 WALNUT and HI WKAMTK rit. WILI-IAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS Il la l'uu Whisaiea, North BOOOND 8tnmt, VhihulelDul 8HIPPINQ. LORILLARD STEAMSHIP LINK FOR N 13 W Y O JX K. RUNNING REGULARLY EVERY TUESDAY.THURS 1AY, AND SATURDAY, AT NOON, would call attention of shippers to this SPECIAL NOTICK. 4iircnt lCe1uclion ol Rate. On optningof Spring Navigation the steamers of this line will tun DAILY, at Scents per 1(10 lbs, '1 ceuts tier foot, or H ocnt per nollou, ship's option. JOHN F. OHL, No. lit NORTH WHARVES. N. B.-Eitra rates on small packascs iron, metila. eta. to. m FOR LIVERPOOL AVIl ?'$S9UKKNSTOWN.-Inma!i t in8 of Mfti, LStfflJIlHrn area iiinnininrl .-.'.I (i --Saif5tr lows- Etna, via Halifax, Tuesday, Feb 8, at 11 A. M. City of WnahinKton, Satuniar, Feb. la, I E. M. Oity of Baltimore, tiaturdny, Fell. lt, at 8 A. M. City of New York, via Haliiax, Tueedny, Eeli.'Ji, 10 A. M. City of Paris, Baturday, Feb L'i, at 1 V. M. And each succeeding rut ur day and alternate Tuesday, from Tier 4o, North Kiver. KATES OF PASSAGW. JT I HK MATT, STEAilKH 8A1L1.VI EVT KY AATtTTtrMT. 'sal.lo in Gold. Payable in Currency. FIRhT CABIN $100 STEKKAGK ......$38 To Iindon, To Irfindon 40 To Paris Ua I To Pari, 43 1'AHHAdK 11V THE IUU1IAX SIKAMUi, VIA IIAI.II'&X. nilNT CM IH. CTKIIUHi! Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency. LiTerpool.. Liverpool . naiitni Bt. John's, N. F., by Branch Steamer. . .. 3(1 itaiitsx St. John's, N. la 45 tiy Hraneh riteamsr.. 3D Fasi-eufiei s also forwarded to Havre, Hauburc. Bremen, eto , at roOnced mtos. Tic ket s can be bouahl here at modorato rates by person! wishinR to sond for their friends. For further particulars apply at the Company's Offices. , )'V0,NN.K1'L "AULK .A crnt a. No. 403 CUHtiNUT St root. Philadelphia. - ONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCE stil XT. tic" TIIR GENET? A r. THA VSITt.i VTin Rcsirvirsv.i-company's mail stkamships U il i .i1' LW iN K W V OKii AAD UA VRE, OALLINO AT IS r H. h 1 . 1 he Riilendid new vessels on t.M. fnrliA r... 11.. Continent will sail from Pier No. 60, North river, every Baturday. , ... PI"OK OF PASSAGE in geld (including wino), TO HRKST OR Hvntf First Cabin .SUM I Second Cubin RS TO PARIS, ( Tnelmllnir r&ilwnv tiketv. f llrnt.nH An hn,.i 1 First Cnbin $115 Second Cabin '. ...885 J hee steamers do not carry stcorago passengora. Alodical attendance free of cburun. American travellers soinit to or retitrnintc from the con-tic-M of Europe, by tukinK tho stoumersof this line avoid unnecosary risks from transit by Encliah rai Iways and c rocs i uu tho channel, besides savin time, troiihlo, and ex pense. UliOKUK MAUK ENIK, Atcant, No. 68 BROADWAY, Now York. For pnsssre in Philadelphia, apply at Adams Express Company, to II. f LEAF, 12.4 No. 830 CHKfciNUT btreot. EVERY SATI'KDAV. At noon, from FIUKT WHARF abovo MARKET Dtreet. TUKOUGH RATK3 to all nnlnf. n Knrh .n.l snik Onrolmavia heahnard Ai Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmout h, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the W eht, via y lrgmia and Teuuosboe Air Line and Richmond and Dauville ttnilroad. Fre-ubt HANDLED BUTONOK, and taken at LOWER RA'lhb THAN ANY OTHER lIsK. ou" a The regularity, aafety. and cheapness of thia ronte com mend it to tte public as the most desirable medium for carrying every description of frniirbt. Iso charge lor commission, arajage, or any exponae of transfer. Hteamships insured at the lowest rates. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLVD7? & CO , No.19S. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. POKTEU, Agent at K,chmnnd and City Point. T. P. CRO WELL 4 CO.. Agents at Nor o!k 6 li NEW F..YPUFSS I TVF. Tf Alexandria, Georgotown, and Waahtnrrton. P. rjjbMS C.. via Chc.aarjt.ikt Hnd Dlawaro lliinat. urit.li oouiieutions at Alcxundriu from tha most direct rcute for Ijnchbtirsr. Lrattol. Knoxvill.i. NjuihvillM. ll:rr.n iml thm Boutlincsu btnamera leave regularly every Saturday at coon from the brut wharf above Market streot. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A- CO., No. 14 North and houtb wharvoa. HYDR A TYLER, Acoiots, at Goora-otown: M. ELD1UDGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria, b'lt . fS? r NOTICE. FOR J LfV'-i- ;'' Delaware and Itnritan TRANhPtlHTATUL NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA Carnl. KWIU'SIIRR UUMPANV.-DltS. A-i 1111 nu hv If 1 riiJUr. M.XK. The l.usii't os of these lines will be rortunod on snd after the nth ot 'March, ror freigbtu, which will be taken on accommoaatinx t.errus, apply to W.M.BAIHD CO.. 8 2? No. l:a b.iutb Wliamea. FURNITURE. FINE FURNITURE. DANIEL El. KARCHER, Nor. 236 and 233 South SECOND St. A LARGE AND SPLENDID STOCK ON HAND, FOR WHICH EXAMINATION IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. 8 3 thstnluirp RICHMOND & CO., FtliST-CLASS FURNITURE WAREROQulS, No. 45 SOTJT1I SECOND BTKEKT, EAST SIDE, ABOVE OHESNUT, 11 6 tf PHILADELPHIA. 1UY YOUR FURNITURE AND BUY YOUR BEDDING. TlIIl It 12 AT Is without a rival, is without a rival, being the Finest, ChcapeBt, aud Largest stocked Furniture and Bedding W arennuse in this o.ty. and its prices being wuolesule te all. You can save at least an per cent, on any purchases) you may make at our establishment. And ourprioes being One Price, makes it the leading store ia the busi- GREAT AMERICAN LARGE No. lJi-a MARKET btreot. net. NEW BUILDING 187 Ira COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVA8, of all numbors snd brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Mauulacturera' Drier 1 eltn. from thirty to seveiitysix inches, with l'auliuu, Belting, bail Twine, eto. JOHN W. EVEKMAN, 103 CHUkCH Street (City Store, rs. PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, eKL.'AM' NORFOLK tsTEAMHHI V LINK. SQiftE-L? 'TltROUttll FHKriJHT Allt LiNli TO BCSSSariliTUE 8)U I'll ANW WEST. HUM m4w4m'mm