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Opinion Of Attorney General sfanbery.
80 ava f4ftSfTt WASHINGTON. NoV.15. :
Tho fallowinr hnrn

Tho following was published here today as a
communication, but it is understood to be the
opinion of Attorney General Stanbery's:-
The Attorney General reason that the seth
CongrNss had no power 20 pass theaact OF the
22d of January, 1867 calling foran extra ses-
sion. Otherwise il had power Hotoniy to coTil
vene an extra session but to creote an extrior-
binary OCCASION Tor it, in contravention Of the
powers OF the President. The present meeting
OF Congress is not an adjourned meeting from
the regular one. The session of March 4 1867,
as has been shown, was mot a regular sessi on
1t was new and extraordinary meeting, Great
ed by the act of Jan. %, 1867 in addition, to the
present regular times of the meeting Of Con-
gress as designated by tile Constitution. The
act expressly SO desgnates it now additional
not to any regular meeting of the seth Con-
gress, for that Congress expired on the 4th of
March, 1867 Nor was itadditionai 10, any reg
ular meeting OF the 10th Congress for The pres
ent regular times of meeting for the 10th Com
gress are the first Mondays in Deeef1beT, 1861
and 1868, and that Congress has as vet held no
regular session. 1t is not even yet fully organs
lied by the session of March Il, 1867. ana ifs
adjourned meeting constitutes an extraordi-
nary session OF the 10th Congress, created and
convened by the act of. Jan. %, 1867 r The time
viii come for a review Of its acts and proceed
ings, and we would sngsest to those NOW act
ing under the provisions--of that act, il it be
not 90 late TO pause and consider its very
questionable constitutionalty and comprehend
the precedent they are establishing, or else
change the time fixed by the Constitution for
the regular meeting of Congress by appointing
a different day therefor than the first Monday
in December in every year. 'lno o. a9ilaSt
1t is stated that the arguments contained in
ia tins opinion are substantially the same as
those set forth by the Attorney General in q
Cabinet meeting when the subject Of sending
in the Presidents message and documents 10
Congress was under consideration. - sa'i o 1
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CINCINNATI. Nov Is.
Whiskey unchanged. Mess Pork firmer; sales at
con firm and in moderate demand at l ior sho,id
ers and 15ic for clear sides: stock SMALL
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Matters arising and presented under the act
-'' of March, 1861.

Joseph Libby late of Gray, deceased. Copy of Will
and petition that the same may be verified and es.
tabisbed the vii, Of said tesator, presented By
Chas ~. Libby, Trustee under said will ilal
W liam Pitt PIeble, late OF. Portland, deceased.
Copy OF VIII and petition that the same may be
ffied and established the viii 0fsad testator pre-
scented by Sarah A Pr eble, interested in said will
Ehphaiet Greedy, late OF Portland, deceased Copy
Oh VIII and petition that the same may be verified
and established the will OF said tesLator present ed
iva. Greedy Cutter, Executor. fl
elizabeth l.. Greedy, late of Portland widow, de-
ce9Red. CopyOf will, and petition that the same may
be verified and established as the will of said tesatrx
presented by a. Greedy Cutler, Executor. @o
Emily II. Pierce, late Of Portland, deceased Copy
ofwllL and petition that the same may be verified
and established as the will OF said testau present.
ed b. Lewis Pierce Executor.
Lucia Wadsworth, lite OF Portland deceased Cnty
OF VIII, and eti ION Chat the ZANE may be Verified
ana established as the will OF said testaarix pre-
senteu ~ ANNIE Il. Pierce, Executrix f b.. -
JOSIAH Pennell, late of Portland, dect ased Copy
OF Will aud petition that he same NAV he verifea
and estab ished the will of said tstator present.
eddy freeman bradford, Administrator with The
win anneqed. ..f-
Isaac s. tayes, late OF North Yarmouth. deceass
Copy OF Will and petition that the same may be YER
ihed and established the will of said tes tator pre-
scented by Charles q. Cobb. Executor.
E.. JOHN A. WATERMAN, Judge
A trTc copy Of the original order
: Attest-AARoN b. HOLDEN, Register. 1885
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A LARGE and pleasant ffout room, TO let with
N bo,rd, suitable for Gent. and WIFE, Also a
pleasant room and board for two Gents For Terms
apply at No. 10 CASCO 81.
Portland, Nov 49, 1857. diws
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Lot Of Land ON Congress Street -

{ NEof the most desirable lots ON CONGRESS- stree,
on ao,,, Dssnop bseon's new residence lor lease
y" term oil years. Apply to
GEO. II. DAVIS & CO..
De2'ers IN Real Estate, No. ,'0r.on Bloek.
NoFe"oer ~. div argus copy
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Havana ,yn nlarl,e,s.

l. HAVANA, Nov A.
Sugar firm al 81 reals for No. ~ Dutch standard.
Exchange firm; on London 10 per cent. premim;
New York currency "A q 26A.S ElJe
HAVANA, Nov. 10.
Sugar firm at 81 reals.s Exchange on London Is
per cent preniani; On New York etnaency' % d 25t
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2OO,OOO Rr,eIss,

"A or ,i, arc m want OF nice Cistern Bricks Pale
at Richardson's Wharf '''i Sihos '"'"P ~ '''''hs
November Q. 2ws
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DIR. JOHNS0N'S
-. Era<xsx,a no1afSf...S 4,

ISCU HAefN<~ DS1tEtJ7'1Ce !
FTNIIIS J-eparatiou is recommended NV s,..
L1~~ehtists, Physicians and Cbemisfs ~ hI ineht
Sghu 10 none in use, for cleansing nniSb;mns Sc
rsersing Tue teeth hardening tn gums and ir
not be eNcellcd. II acts not onl, .s :" uspt San-
= soap ana wash, three in one. Contains pnu Is
ons grit or acid Try it, For sslS nv All srnos,syts
Octoler IN d,f NJ. ID JOHNSON Dentist
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"Little Pitchers Have Big Ears Y
The Little Pitcher Stories.
., BY MRS. MAY.

Author Of "Sweet Clover Stories" ''Nelie Millions
% 70 Housekeeping - Brownie Sanford ] I'D
D I3lfll raIasi &c, &c. tll In.Hr1T .iI
A Series Of bright aud sparkling Juvenile Books
tor Children from to twelve years Of be pub
ished in six volumes, beautifully illustrated aud
handsomely bound each book completed In ITSELF
Now Ready, ia n Neat ROxi
FOUR LITTLE PITCIITRS,
= Three illustrations, price 70 cents
BERTJE'S TEL EGRAPH. m
Fr-e Three illustrations, price ~ cents
UNCLE BAINEY'S FORTUNE, s...
Three Illustrations, prico 70 cents
ote 1smo Fancy English Cloths, Price 80 25
Now ready aud for sale by all Booksellers .r
wHLLIAM N. HsI-L, JR a. CO.,
no1S d3tW saw Publishers, 30 CornhHl.
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u o IL - Al n!

- Two Of Harding's Patent lr.
Hay and Cotton COMPRISING Machines,
quire OF Crsot,9,i u. ~ ,ieuslrs en-
A'Vf't. u" 81 onion Wharf
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Boarding.

a GENTLEMAN and wife, or two gentlemen can
-, ~ be accommodated with flrnishad roam AID
boaf~ia a small pr yate tauihy "a OF mrrNfnr CT
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PuIpst and Chaire for 80

{ NE Mahogny Pulpit and Two Mahogany Chair
c u, peIIset rep1r Can be seen at Vestry or ~,
Ch'lreii, corner 81 Park and Pleasant Streets ~ ~
further information enquire at 'i'e's' FOR
nov,ta,w 81 BROWNS STUDIO.
""''f" No. IL Free Sfr.a.
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Cloths for HENS and Boys Wear,
bal HEMP CAwPETENGs,
Sieetings, Table Linen, Towels,
and a great many other articles selling cheap a.
STEVENS ss CO.'S, q.
Gail and see. 800 Congress Street.
September 10 DER .EAee
% H ALE.
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SH oEM tBL0UR BARRELS, at Forest
',,frSj,3 OOO City Sugar Refinery, West Ooih-
uiercial, near foot of Emery street. :, 75t -
proposals will also be received for new Sugar Bar
rsis ana sample may be seen at the once OF me
Company, 1881 Comm arciaL al corner Of Union ~.
teb12d&wtt 4. g. HERSEY
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PEea.N'O -FOza SeaLE

NJ EW, ana seven octave; OF the best quality OF
IN tone and make; great bargain for cash the own
er being IN the Wesi. Apply at IS Washington st.
November H.. dlw*
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oT. PETERSBURG, NOV. IL.
1t is reported on good authority that Iieut
Gen. Nicholas Ienatieff, at present Minister.
of Russia at Constantinople, win replace Prince
Gortschakof as Minister of Foreign Affairs
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% ss1q Notice.
fe'HE Very best Violin Strings, from Whites
4 Muse Store, Boston. Wholesale or retail by
. W. ID. ROBINSON,
november III. diw Exchange st.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-09
Taxation, Etc, in Great Britain.

From ne World.
1t appears from the official returns made
last month that the gross amount of revenue
from customs, excise, stamps, land and as
sessed taxes, and property and income tax
was, altogether, e263, $50, l57 in the five years
from 1927 to 1881, and G2S3, $50, 39l in the
five years from 1862 to 1866. At the begin
ming of the first period under consideration,
the population was %, 100, 529 and at the last
period was %, 1896 051 The taxation on each
Individual decreased from E2 IS. 3D.. or about
$l4 in the present paper currency oil the
United States, to about 81 at the present
time
The diminution in the number of articles
on which customs duties are levied is more
striking. In substance it may be said they
are now only nine in number--those on pep
per and timber having been repealed ON the
9th of May last. The following is an account
of all the customs receipts of Great Britain
for the last and two preceding fiscal years
the articles being then thirteen in number
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The Last Resort of RebeldOm-Appeal to
the Supreme Court.
From the Times.

from ue I1TneS'
The injunction filed in the Supreme Court
in behalf of the State of Mississippi affords
the strongest evidence of the leniency-the
rare forbearance and magnanimity-with
which the States recently in rebellion have
been treated by the National Government. 1t
were impossible, we believe, to find an in
stance in history in which the promoters Of
an organized rebellion, having appealed to the
sword and suffered decisive defeat, have sub
sequently been permitted to arraign the
authority of the conqueror, and plead with all
the forms of law for the very issues which
they had striven to uphold on the battle
field. Yet this is the spectacle now being
enacted before the highest judicial tribunal
Of the United States. Having failed to over
come the power put forth by the Federal Gov
ernment in support Of the UniOn-having
tried Intellectually by the force of arms to as
sert the sovereignty of the Southern States,
in the Secessionist sense of the term
having denied the title of the Federal
Government to coerce Rebel States into
submission, only yielding when further
denial had become impOssible-they pro-
pose now to transfer the struggle to the
Courts, and to attain their ends by bringing
the artillery of the Federal Judiciary to
bear upon Congress. The efrontery of
the spectacle Is as notable as its
novelty. In any other country the
parties to these proceedings would have
figured before the law in totally different
character They would, long ere now, have
been required to answer for their lives as
| rebels awaiting punishment. Here there has
been no punishment. The chief execu-
tive OF the Rebellion has indeed been held in
confinement, but there is no more likelihood
OF ms being punished than of his being canon
lzed as saint and martyr; while the associate
managers OF the great conspiracy have been
permitted to return in quiet to their homes,
TO resume, in most cases, possession of theiI
property, and to participate in political dis
cusslon as unreservedly as though nothing
unusual had happened. And now, by way o.
climax, some Of these men actually enter the
Supreme Court as contestants Of the law,
making power and complainants in case
made up to defeat by legalquirks and bubble:
the right of the people who put down the Re
bellion to insure the substantial products o
their victory. However the case shall end
the facts we have recited form a conoluslv,
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The Handwriting on the WaIl-A Panic
In the Radical Party.


From the World.
Two remarkable articles are published by
the Providence Journal, Senator Anthony's
organ, and the Springfield (Massachusetts)
Republican, radical journal of acknowledged
influence in New England. The 'lesson Of
Connecticut" as the Tribune calls it, has been
thoroughly learned and understood by at
least two leading radical papers, and the Phi
ladelphia North American also thinks that the
radical majority in Congress "has been push
ing along the car of national progress little
too fast for some sections of the party"
The Providence Journal states the case
more nearly when it declares that the party
"cannot endure everything which ambitious
and extreme men may undertake to accom-
plish in its name" that the schemes now fos-
tered by the Radical leaders "are mischieVOus
enough to ruin any party that if impeach-
ment is successful sit is easy enough TO see
that the Republican party is ruined;' that
forcing suffrage upon the States is beyond
the power of Congress, and will be exceed
inplv injurious to the continuance Of the
nagfy's power" The Springfield Republican
evnressRs its views in nearly the same strain.
Tbese journals see that their leaders will ruin
the marty. They see the defeat of Radicalism
in one of its strongholds, Connecticut. The
handwriting on the wall produces panic in
the party. The cry of the leading Radical
iournals of New England now is, that the
ynartv has "gone too far.' 1t is quite possible
that this going ''too far may be followed by
renentance that comes too late, and that the
neople may take the view of Western judge,
Who terseiy says, Repentance at the!eleventh
| bonr may do; but-a man that comes in at
halfpast twelve"
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Influence of the Telegraph Upon the Ex-
the World.

From the Herald.
Electric telegraphs, and particularly those
ocean telegraphs which connect continents and
nations, are producing a remarkable revolu-
ton in foreign exchanges and in monetary
affairs generally. We see however, only the
beginning of the great change which must be
produced within a few years. For example,
Should gentleman in London want money at
once from his business house, friends, or agent
in New York, to make some purchase or to
enter into some business transaction promising
tempting profits, or if he wishes to travel
on the Continent and needs it for that purpose,
he Immediately telegraphs, and the same day
or next morning he is informed that so many
thousand dollars in gold have been deposited
with bankers here having London connections.
The banking house in England is notified of
the fact at the same time, and he is enabled
to draw the money. This may all be done in
a day, or even within a few hours. Before
| telegraphic communication was established
through the Atlantic cable, person in such
! circumstances would have been compelled TO
wait nearly month for the funds he required.
| In the meantime he might have lost the oppor-
tunity OF using the money proftably or agree
ably. The amount would have been sent, pro-
badly, in the usual way by bills of exchange.
Suppose exchange were against New York, as
| il generally is, say two per cent. above par
he would lose two hundred dollars in the
transmission of ten thousand in this way. II
the gold were to be shipped, which is very
iAconvenient mode of transmitting funds, the
freight and insurance would amount TO nearly
the same. Then there is the use Of the money
and the interest on it, which would be lost to
the parties during the delay. Now, as we
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-09
The Division of the Negro vote.

FtOfn lte ITtOtGle
The division of the negro vote is already the
one great object of ex-Rebel politicians, and
unless they succeed, the Republican party win
probably carry every Southern State. AS
nearly every Rebel officer or journal advising
submission to the law does so upon these
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, NOTICE.-THE STOCKHOLDERS OF

F495s NOTICE.-THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
~ the PENNSYL YLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANYI(pursuRnt to adjournment had at their annual
meetng) will meet AT Concert Hall, No. 1919 CH ES
DAY the sOth day of April A. ID. 1857 at IL o'clock
titled AN Act TO repeal an act entitled "A further
supplement to the act Incorporating the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, authorizing an Increase of capital
stock and to borrow money approved the twenty
first day of March. A. d. Thousand eight hundred
and sxtysx; and also TO authorize the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company by this act to increase its capital
gage" approved the twenty-second day Of March,
A. d. 1857; q proposed increase hereunder OF the
capital stock of this Company by 3OO0O0 shares and
issue of the from time TO time by the Board
Directors and the proposed exercise by the said
Board of Directors of the granted by the said
act of issuing bonds and securing the same by mort
cages for the purposes in the said mentioned and
Within the limits therein prescribed will be submitted
to the Stockholders for their action in the premises
EDMUND SMITH
46tJ Secretary.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

Totals.....G22, ,l9S.2n G2l70o,972 col ,906 85l
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E~S55-' NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING.-JOY, ,
COE g. co. Agents for the "TELEeRAPH
and Newspaper Press OF the whole country, have RE
MOVED from FIFTH and CHESNUT Streets TO No
l44 S. SIXTH Street second door above WALNUT
OFFGCEs:-No. IA s. SIXTH Street, Philadelphia;
TRIBUNE BUILDINGS. New York. 7Ne4p
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R0B- NATIONAL BANK KOFTHEREPUBLIC.
49, PHILADELPHIA. March II, 1867.
In accordance with the provisions Of the National
Currency act and the Articles of Association of this
Bank, it has been determined to increase the Capital
stock this Bank TO million dollars (Sl O0OOU0).
Subscriptions from for the shares allotted
TO them IN the proposed increase Will be payable on
the second day OF May next, and will be received at
any time prior to that date number of shares wiz
remain to be sold, applications for which will be
ceived from persons desrous of becoming Stock
holders.
BY order of the Board of Directors
3157w JOSEPH Z. MUMFORD, Cashier
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Walking a Raft.

There was fellow once stepped out oil
the do0r of q tavern on the Mississippi
meaning tn walk mile up the shore to the
next tavern. Just at the landing there lay
u big raft. one Of the regular Old-iashioned
whalers-a raft mile long.
Well the fellow heard the landlady say
the raft was a mile long. and he said to
himself. Il will go forth and see this great
wonder and let my eyes behold the timber
which the hand Of man hath hcwn So
he 60; on at the lower end and began to
ambuate over the raft in pretty fair time.
But Just as he got started the raft started
too, and as he walked up the river it walk
cd down. both going at the same rate
When he got to the end of the sticks he
found they were near shore and in sight OF
a tavern; So he landed and walked straight
into the bar room he'd come nut of. The
general sauIrness of things took him Il
little aback. hut he looked the landlord
steady in the face and settled it in his 0wn
way:
publican said he, ARE you gifted with
twin brother. who keeps a similar sized
tavern, with duplicate wife, u c"mport
Ing wood pile. and corresponding circus
bill. a mile from here!'
The tavern Keeper was fond of fun, and
accordingly said that it was just so.
Aud, publican. have you among your
dry goods for the entertainment OF mar
and morse any whiskry OF the same size as
that of your brothers !
And the tavern man said that from the
rising of the sun even unto the gong
down of the same he had.
~. -l,at, cfrnt,
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eytraordinarv etrpnpt combined with that
Of tho safes. that the entire building might
he consumed and the vaults still remain
Intact. they beinv sufTic;entlv strong to
withstand WEIGHT of fifty TONS 70 the
snuaye Tho waiI. of tb. safe ara CON.
sirnc,.d of alternate mates IF stool and
bn,lcr iron s;nnort.d ur str.notbenel bv
angl.. iron. iii. entire saf. weighing thirty.
eight TINS and casting nhout a22 600.
THe riycts ARE irregular and Alternate. no
.;,ple ,;y.t nassinc throuch the entire
w.h hnt nniv ,brou1h fwn mr. uor. nlat..
Tins i. d,..;on.d In nr.rent the riv.ts
b.;no 5r;v.u ,i,ronub mr. dr;,lad ant Tho
door, weighing two and n half tons each.
ar. alan c.,,,s,r,c,.d NJ sta..I .ra h,;lar.
iron Tho .l..t;c;,v of the forn,er enshI;no
IN. inor m h,.t,.r Withstand hlnvs win !.
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