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MEDICAL.
BITTERS,
The Latest and Most Important Discovery OG the Ntne-
 tecnfll Ccntury.

Mo mans name is more intimately connect
 lN ed with the history of Materia Medica in the United States, or more favorably known as pioneer in medical discovery than that 0
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wanted-A Candidate.

from I1dfpeT"S Weekt1.
The Democratic party are entering upon the
Presidential campaign with the ennobling cry
of "Down with the niger !" and if General
Hancock will contrive to subject the Union
men OF every complexion in Louisiana to those
who still hate the Government of the United
States, he will be the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party. Since he has shown disposition
to undo the work of Sheridan and to foster
the hope that somehow the political and social
power of the State OF Louisiana will be exclu-
sively oonfded to worthy patriots like Mayor
Monroe and his police, who engineered the
New Orleans massacre OF 1866, the Democratic
papers have begun to perceive what brilliant
soldier, what an able and modest gentleman,
and what an accomplished statesman General
Hancock is.
General Hancock's military career was dis
tinguished. He did not make a name among
the most illustrious of the war, and, while it is
associated with many gallant services, it is not
identified with any great and decisive action.
He was one of many brave and meritorious
officers of whom perhaps more was popularly
expected than was achieved. But his military
career alone, however bright it may have been,
| would never have commended him to the pur-
veyors of a candidate for the Democratic party.
| But when the vast and universal popularity Of
| Grant, founded both upon admiration of his
resplendent service and confidence in his prac-
tical wisdom, revealed to the Democratic man
ayers their doOm-when Lieutenant General
Sherman declared that time would but
deepen the infamy of the Rebellion, and so
ceased to be possible Democratic candidate
they were compelled to scan the whole army
list to discover who could furnish military
mask for the Democratic Copperhead and,
luckily finding General Hancock "ooncilia-
ting'' in New Orleans, they have grasped at
him; and, as we said, if he only continues to
''conciliate," General Hancock will be the
successor of General Mcclellan in the favor Of
the trainers of the Chicago platform of '64.
Those builders are logical. They then de-
clared in Chicago that the war was failure,
and'they are now trying to make it so. They
acted then under the counsel of Vallandig-
ham, and with the cooperation of Clement
Clay and the Rebel Chiefs and they are now
united with the same persons in hostility to
the steady Union element of the Rebel States
They represented then the spirit of hatred of
equal rights, under the plea of State rights,
and they maintain now the State right to de-
stroy the equal rights of citizens. They still
hold that the war was really the work of the
Northern spirit, and that the Southern States
were deeply wron&ed. They still adhere to
caste and exclusive privilege. They still deny
the fundamental principle of the American
Government; and upon platform of such hos
tilities and denials they will ask General Han
cock to stand, unless he should betray some
sympathy with justice, and generously insist
! that loyal man should not be wholly subor-
dinated to the disafeoted citizens of the late
Rebel States.
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The National Banks.

From the N. Y. World.
We do not see any present necessity for the
Democratic party to present more than one
issue on the banking and currency questions,
namely, the submission of greenbacks for the
notes Of the national banks. The time has not
come for the creation of a new banking sys-
tenn, and will not come until the resumption OF
specie payments. When the banks can no
longer issue circulating notes, they will be de-
prived of their chief motive for combining to
control the politics of the country, and their
interests will impel them to return under
State control.
AS there is a profit in issuing circulating
notes, they will be glad to reorganize as State
institutions for that purpose, as soon as the
condition of the country permits resumption.
There is no inducement for them to do so be-
fore, because the States have no power to
authorize bank notes payable in anything but
specie. The declaration Of the Constitution
is explicit that "no State shall make anything
but gold and silver coin tender in payment
of debts" 1t was held by Congress that this
is only prohibition on the States, not on the
Federal Government; but nobody is ever
likely to contend that it does not bind the
States.
A surrender of the banks to State control
will therefore be favorable to the resumption
and to the permanence of specie payments.
The withdrawal of their circulation from the
national banks will set all their faces Stateward
and the desire to regain circulation as State
institutions, will make them spur instead of
the clog they now are, to resumption.
The substitution of greenbacks for the
national bank notes is an excellent and intel
ligible popular issue for the Presidential elec-
tiOn. 1t is certain that this Republican Con-
gress will not make the change, and take the
question out of the Presidential contest.
The national bank circulation will not be
touched by this Congress, and it will form one
of the clearest and best defined issues in the
Presidential canvass.
The merits Of the question are perfectly
level to popular apprehension. Everybody
knows that the greenbaoks are better curren-
cy than irredeemable bank notes. They will
pay debts; which the bank notes will not,
unless creditors consent to take them. The
bank notes derive their credit from their pay
ability in greenbacks-by the banks while
solvent; by the Government when the banks
fail.
But the chief argument for the change is
the great savings it would bring to the tax
payers. This is commonly stated at
Sle,OOO,OO0 year, but it would be much
larger, For it must be borne in mind that
the elghteen millions year saved is eighteen
miilOns In gold, which at the present pre-
MUM ls equivalent to about 825, 900, 900 in
currency. Jay Cooke, ia his defence of the
banks, and the Comptroller of the Currency
after him, made up balanoe-sheet
to show that the banks pay to the Govern
ment more than they receive from il.
This delusiOn was spioed with few pertinent
items to give il a flavor of reality. The eigh-
teen millions which the banks cost the Gov
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eminent were, for example, put down in coin,
while all the items on the opposite side of the
account were estimated in ourrency--a fraud
on public oredulity to the amount OF S7,000,-
900. The whole exhibit was made up in a
spirit equally dishonest. But we wish at pre-
sent to direct attention only to the amount
that would be saved by substituting green
backs for the bank notes. II is $25, 600, 900 a
year. True that there is one Offset which is
pertinent. but even this will dwindle on ex-
animation. The offset to which we alude is
the tax of one per cent. paid by the banks on
their circulation. Those who insist on the
deduction assume that It costs nothing to col
lect the public taxes, while in point OF fact il
cannot cost less than five per cent.
At this rate it must cost 81, 1 25, 900 to collect
the S25, ,OO0,000 of taxes which go to swell
the profits of the banks; SO that the circula-
tiOn of those institutions actually costs the
people in taxes including the expenses of col
lection, $26, 125, 900. The one per cent tax
on the circulation of the banks is paid in cur
rency. Instead OF paying back in taxes on
their circulation one-sixth of what they re-
receive, the banks pay only seven-tenths of
One-sixth. But as we are reckoning both sides
of the account in currency, we must credit
the banks with the full one per cent. on their
circulation, which leaves balance against the
Government of $23, 125, 900, and this is the
actual cost of the Taxpayers each year of
allowing the banks to circulate their irredeem-
able paper as money.
Besides this great saving to the taxpayers,
another capital advantage attending suppress
sion of the national bank notes will be its ten
dency to hasten the return of specie payments
We have already explained how it would en-
list the bank influence on the side of resump-
tion as a means of recovering the profit of
issuing circulating notes by reorganization as
State institutions. But this is not all. As
things stand now, if the Government were
prepared in other respects to resume, it could
not on account of its obligation to redeem the
bank notes. When bank fails now the Gov
ernment pays its notes in greenbacks. After
resumption it would have to redeem them in
gold. If the banks should then suspend they
would all suspend together, and the necessity
of winding them up and paying their notes
would bankrupt the Government.
1t is clear then, for these reasons, that the
most important financial measure which can
at present engage attention is the substitution
Of greenbacks for the circulation of the ma
tiOnal banks. 1t is better to narrow the cur
reDcy question down to this one intelligible
issue, and fight it out con this line." When
the national banks are stripped OF their op
pressive privileges, the remaining financial
reforms will be comparatively easy.
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Mileage.

From the ~ Y. Independent.
There has always been an absurd outcry
against mileage. Certainly the Government
ought to pay the travelling expenses Of pub
lie servants whom it summons to Washington
in the public service. If member-elect of
Congress lives in Maryland or Connecticut, his
expenses will not be great and might be
borne by himself without hardship, But sup
pose he comes from California or Oregon
Now we believe in paying the exact cost of
the direct (not circuitous) travel between
representatives residence and the Federal
capital. But we do not believe in paying the
cost of fictitious journeys-round trips which
are never made-or what Professor Lowell
would call "Fireside Travels"
We look, therefore, with something like
contempt on the project of some members OF
Congress to draw mileage for their attendance
on the present session. The preceding ses-
sion closed, one day, at noon; and the present
session began the moment after. The mem
bers made no Journeys they did not even leave
their seats. To charge travelling expenses
for sitting still is little more than a strictly
honest man Except a member of COngress)
would ever dream of doing
We propose that the matter be compromised
by paying the semi-rogues their mileage for
going home, on their signing an agreement
never again TO come back.
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SPIRIT or THE PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
upon CURRENT TOPICs-CoMPILED EVERY
DAY PoR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
The New Political Power.


FTOmtho ~ T. Herald.
Mr.. Johnsons bodness and sagacity IN
shrowing the name of Hancock, like another
rlpple of disoord, among the rival candidates,
Or like a tub to catch the Presidential whale,
Ks prime puzzle TO all the politicians, who
never gave him credit for the aptitude to
weigh so well the points in the President
making game. Hancock's name has made
a great fuss and takes wonderfully with the
Democrats and the Democratic organs in this
ueighborhood, all of which is because, no
doubt, il is a name acceptable to the head
centre Of Democratic power in this State.
Dean Richmond, in the good days of the
Albany regency, managing the Central Rail-
road, managed also the State Democracy.
But now there has come forth a greater
than the Dean in the person of Commodore
Vanderbilt, who drives a handsome four-in-
hand where Richmond drove a single pony.
Vanderbilt holds the ribbons of the Central,
the Harlem and the Hudson River railroads
betWeen his forefngers and that of the Erie
under his thumb. For the latter there are
some scraps of claims outside that amount to
nothing. And with these roads the Commo-
dore has a fouriold claim to run the Democra-
tio party-a claim that, like Selkirk's domi-
Mon, "there is none to dispute" He runs it
accordingly and is the power behind the
throne Of Democratic glory. His ooadjutors,
adiutants, aids and subordinates are the
Schells-the familiar Dick and dignifed Au-
gustus-and Belmont, and, in promiscuous
general way, the whole Manhattan Club. Bel
mont, with the fortune as well as the tenacity,
wit, balance and comprehensive view of the
whole Rothschild family, carries the purse,
and in virtue of the purse makes party opinion
In the party press; for that press, not being
independent, not having in any sense the sup
port OF the people, must study the thonghts of
the party almoner and take its pap and its
cue from the same source.
Thus Vanderbilt with his railroads runs the
party machine and the conventions. Belmont
keeps the right sort of ideas before the people,
and the Schells shave the party notes and dis
count any mans claims for place in the fu-
aure Cabinet; and, ,altogether,it it's very pretty
game, and no doubt a source of much anx-
sety to those who would be on the winning
side and are so troubled by the way Hanoock's s
name takes that they cannot for their lives tell
which is the winning side. Truly, Democracy
prospers under the new power when men can
not say that it may not triumph.
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INSTRUCTION.

TEvENs DALE INSTITUTE.
BOARDING SCH ooL FOR YOUNG LADIES
Terms-Board Tuition, etc.per scholastic year, $500
NO EXTRAS
Circulars at Nessrs Fairbanks & Ewings, No. 7lS
CHESTNUT Street; also at Messrs. T. B. terson
Brothers'. No. SO6 CHEsNUT Street.
Address, personally or by note,
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rhe plymouth Ids. and Mayor HOFFMAN

The Plymouth Idea and Mayor Hoffman,
From me ~. Y. Tribune.
Nobody celebrates the anniversary of the
discovery of America, though it was an event
of some physical and commercial Importance.
Nobody commentaries the landing of Captain
John Smith at Jamestown, or the arrival Of
HendriCk Hudson, or the Dutch settlers, at
the mouth of the Hudson river, or even the
settlement of Pennsylvania by one of the
purest representatives of the purest of scots.
The personal character Of Penn, the adyen-
furious heroism of Smith, the entire respeota-
bility Of the "fOunder" of HudsOn's river, So
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LEGAL NOTICES.

TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR
j THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADEL-
Assigned Estate of THE PORT RICHMOND POT
Terry COMPANY.
The Auditor appointed by the court 70 audit. set
tie, and adjust the account of GEORGE > AK
GEANT assignee Of the Fort kchmond Pottery
IN the hands OF the pccountan VIII meet the parties
interested. for tie purpose OF hs appointments on
THURSDAY January 1868 Al eleven QD O'Clock
A. NJ. at his office No. 400 WALNUT Street. In the
u 10 thstu 5tsl WILLIAM D. BAKER, Audltof.4 y
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h4S57 PHILADELPHIA AND READING
- RAILROAD DCOMPANY-OHce,N No. 2l7 south
FOURTH street.
PHILADELPHIA, December a. 1867.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books OF the Company will be closed
Tuesday, 3ist instant, and be reOpened on Tues
day, January II, 1855
A Dividend OF FIVE PER CENT. has been de-
CaTed on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of
National and state Taxes. payable IN stock, on and
after the Goth of January next to the holders thereof
as they shall stand registered the books of the
Company on the 3st inst all payable at this office.
All orders for dividends must be witnessed and
stamped, s. BRA DFORD,
l226lm Treasurer.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

tcSsg@ NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. JOY
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Honestly rewarded, whether their rights OIL
person and property are respected, whether
the expenditure among them of the capital
which they have not got but which their for
mer owners have, is to their advantage, whether
they or their former owners understand best
the legislation which will protect oil inter-
ests-does any one doubt the result? But
are they left to themselves? Is not the object
of tho Ethiopian Association, of the Union
Convention, of the inhammatory itinerant lee
turers, who are travelling the contry, to inter-
fere directly with their decision, to induce
them to trust not to themselves nor to their
white fellow-citizens, but to the Radical party
The Radical party today has no PLATFORM
nor does it avow any principle which is neees-
sary to the existence or protection OF the col
ored vote of the State.
The questions which do interest both black
and white in this State, are questions purely
of domestic character. Our State taxation,
or system of general education, the organIza-
tion of our Courts, the relief of the suffering
which extends everywhere. We object, in the
interest of black and white alike, to any politl-
cal agitation which turns our attention from
these subjects to discussions which are entirely
Improbable, or if profitable are profitable
alone to the thousand and one political adven-
turers who are striving to serve personal end
under the pretence of puplic spirit.
Whenever the writer of this letter, and men
who, like him, have influence among their
people, find any unwillngness among their
white citizens to do justice in these mat
ters, they may distrust them, but not until
then.
We belong to those who believe that the
great bulk of the colored vote Of this State,
unless intentionally and mischevously misled,
will vote cordially with the white citizens.
Their relations are too Close and their inter
csts too identical to, be separated except by
persistent and unresistcd Misrepresentation.
But there will naturally be small class of in
telligent and ambitious freedmen who will de-
sire TO assert themselves and their influence,
and through whom agitators will endeavor to
net. 70 these we feel no unkindness. We do
not dispute their superiority to most of their
race, nor do we resent their ambition. We
imagine that our correspondent is one of them.
1t is worth while for such men to think how
far an antagonism to the white man can serve
any useful purpose. They may represent their
rucc in color, but they will find TINT their very
superiority will be cause Of jealousy. and a
source of weakness. A little practical e1pe-
rience, and they will find that they must stake
their fortunes with those whom they wish to
join, not with those whom they wish to leave,
and that they have before them most useful
and honorable career, if they will use their
influence and ability asthe means of explaining
and reconciling to each other those classes in
the State whom bad men are trying to separate
for their own selfish purposes.
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SECTION And be it further enacted That lists OF let
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town or village, where newspaper shall DO pr,neea,
shall hereafter be published once only IN the
which, being published weekly oftener, shall nave tne
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