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The PresidentinI Cnndidntes.

WE notice that the various journals are
already putting forth their favorites for the
Presidential nomination, and each State is in
fact being impressed with the idea that she
must have at least one candidate for the
honor. The Boston Traveller of Saturday
contains pleasant article on the subject Of
the general scramble, which sums up the pra-
sent prospects in pretty reliable manner. It
says:-
mot a month passes without bringing nm n
new candidate tor the Presidency. The last gen
ueman named for the Republican NOMINATION.
is General Howard, who has good miIitarv re-
cord, and who is az the head OF the FreeGmenjs
Bureau; and MIR. Colfax is named for Inc seconS
place on the same ticket, it being we'll knoVp
that he Is after the first place on the regular
kepubncan ticket. AS Maine has no aspfrant
IN the Held, while Massachusetts Is supnospd IN
have six at least, with leave to increase 10 ten
and Then carry one into the White House.
II she can, IL IS only fair that Maine should have
one OF her most distinguished citizens named
Tor the Presidency, and who may prove the win
NM 5lng ~ man; an nheTe are not much above nun
area OF our folk after the nomination, and IL is
within the limits of possibility that some OF
em VIII not get IT,. Indeed, we do not see how
II could be possible TO satisfy them ali, even
If tue Presidency were to be cut up into
monthly parts, as was done with the Ro.
man Consulship after it ceased To be worth
having. The Democrats keep very Guiet
on the subject of their Presidential nomina-
ton, although they must be making it in little
more than year. One wonders who their man
Will be. Mr. johnson il expended, and they
viii not put themselv es to the expense of try
ing to carve candidate out Of so rotten piece
OF timber as he is; and his partner in a losing
business, old Mr.. Seward, though he expects
their nomtnation, will not get respectable
vote in their Convention. Mr.. Vallandigham
is not available, and will not be before 1872 at
the very earliest. Horatio Seymou broke down
in New York in "a, and therefore he cannot be
depended on TO stand up in the nation in '68
Tom Seymour has some chance for one of the
places on the ticket Gen. Lee it would not
answer for them to nominate-so soon: and tine
objections that exist to him apply also to that
otherwise perfect Democratic chief Mr., Jeffer-
son Davis 1t is scarcely necessary to say that
we place no reliance on the report that the
Democrats mean to nominate Ex-Governor
Andrew and Senator Salisbury, though such a
ticket would be a very strong one"
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San Francisco Safe.

THE Supreme Court decided, yesterday, ad-
versely to the De Haro claim to the city o.
San Francisco. The magnitude of this case is
not properly appreciated by us in the East,
and we can only form an adequate idea of
the interest it excited in California, by imagin-
ing similar case in which we of Philadelphia
were interested. Suppose that a claim to all
that part of Philadelphia east of Broad street
were to be made by one family, who were to
produce title direct from William Penn, and
we had no statute of limitation running in
Pennsylvania; that this claim was at least posi-
BILE, if not plausible, and was being
prosecuted before the Supreme Court of
the United States. Should it be decided
in favor of the claimants, all the land
and houses which we had learned to con-
slider our own would be suddenly taken
from us, and we be liable to suits for trespass
and the like. While such a suit was pending,
it is natural that we should all feel the deepest
interest in the result. Such was the case of
the De Haros' claim in California. Under
grant from the Mexican Government, the
De Haros had the use ofthe land now occupied
by the richest part of San Francisco. They
claimed it in fee. The Supreme Court has
decided, however, that they were merely
tenants at will, and that their tenantcy could
not be inherited by their descendants by deed
to the original De Haros. On this decision
Californians can sleep in peace, and not dread
the discovery that all their lands and houses
belong to some unknown heirs of wandering
grazier.
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THE SEIZURE OF UNITED STATES
POSTAGE STAMPS.

Our readers may recollect a telegram from
our Washington correspondent, some days
ago mentioning the institution of a suit ia
the Court of Chancery in Canada by the
United States to recover from the holders
quantity of postage stamps, of the value of
SIC, 800, which, it is alleged, were taken from
the Electric Spark-a steamer sailing from
New York to New Orleans-at the time OF her
capture by the Rebel steamer Florida, on the
10th of July, 1864. The booty was sent to
England, and after passing through the
hands of several persons, was trans
mitted to John Boyd and George Arthurs, of
Toronto, Canada, for sale. Our Government
became aware of these facts, and despatched an
agenVtO Toronto, who after the investigation,
claimed the stamps as United States property.
On the refusal of the parties to give up the
stamps, an injunction was obtained from the
Court OF Chancery to prevent their dis
posing OF the property, and a commission
was issued to John w. Holcomb, of this city,
to take evidence in the case. The testimony
for the plaintiffs, represented by Mr.. George
Morphy, OF Toronto, Canada, assisted by Mr..
Ware, Solicitor of the Post-Ofice Depart
ment, has detailed the means and steps pru-
dental for the interests of the Government,
| in the making is secured to it, and by which
! in bulk it passes from the vault of the Ma
| tional Bank-note Company to the hands of the
| user for postal purposes; and in this case it
| has been directed to show the putting of the
stamps in question on the Electric Spark, and
| the transfer of the bags containing the stamps
| to the Florida, at the time of the capture.
The testimony of former officers of the
Florida gives her sailing from Mobile Bay in
the year 1862, having subsequently, a crew OF
] lZo men, mostly foreigners, with ~ omoers'
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Disn1ming as a Condition of Peace.

Disorming as a Condition of Peace.
! Tug proposition made by the Queen of Eng
land to the other powers for a general disarm-
;ro is the most direct and sensible step towards
secnripc the peace of Europe that has yet
been made. The present condition of the
nations of Europe is like that of community
whose members have quarrelled all their lives
mast. and where each man now goes armed to
the teeth. This very condition is a warlilSe
one and directly tends to provoke collisions.
The different peoples of Europe are filed with
a huge mistrust towards each other. Centu-
ries of old feuds, unavenged wrongs, and
mutual injuries, have done their work of
ALIENATION. If one nation arms, her neighbors
must all make haste to do so likewise, lest an
undue advantage be gained. If one nation
discovers and uses a new and improved
weapon, every arsenal in Europe is set to
work turning out the new gun. There is
constant endeavor ON the part Of all to guard
against surprise, or being taken at a disad-
vantage. The consequence is that every
power in Europe is saddled with military
establishment which is terrible tax upon the
l00uStfleS Oh lJS llldOllttuI'i ethA NhO A4aIlOlo
live in a condition of armed peace.
II is evident that no one nation, singly and
alone, could safely venture to change this
order of affairs, and live as though peace were
the normal condition OF mankind. To do so
would be to place herself at the mercy of any
rapacious neghbor who might choose to swoop
down upon her. All must disarm or none
will do so. But the proposal to disarm needs
only to come from few of the great powers
to be gladly accepted by all the rest. Of
course, the extent and the conditions of dis
armament would have to be settled by COM
mon treaty of all the powers. But the measure
once carried out, would 60 very far, in our
opinion to secure for Europe an immunity
rom war which she has never before enjoyed.
The reduction of these huge military establish
ments would also remove mountain-load of
expenses from the various Governments, and
tend to relieve the people from the evils of ex-
cessive taxation.
The time when the nations of the earth shall
beat their swords into ploughshares and their
spears into pruning hooks seems far distant
Iot thelo arc lhuloaIlOls, ldlhI IuouSn tney
be, that rulers and people are beginning to
realize more vividly than ever before the folly
of war. They see that it is wasteful, expen-
sive, oppressive and that the living in con-
slant state of preparedness for war and expec-
tation oft, is the surest way to produce it
and to prolOng its evils. We hail, therefore,
the proposal for disarmament, coming from
such power as England. 1t is step in the
right direction. 1t tends to turn the current
Of national affairs towards the channels of
peace, and to throw barriers in the way of
war.
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Mr.. Greeley as JEFF. Davis Bondsman,
THERE is something very significant in the fact
OF Horace Greeley's being the first man to
sign the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. 1t was
from no personal feeling that Mr.. Greeley did
so, for the two men have little in common.
and there are no personal ties between them.
Nor was it from any political sympathy with
Davis, for Mr.. Greeley has none. Its signi6.
canoe arises from the fact, on the contrary,
that while Jefferson Davis stands as the renre.
sentative of the old order of things. the nro-
slavery principle that dominated in the Cow
ernment of the "Union as il was y NJ
Greeley not inaptly represents the new order
of things, the free, forgiving, enfrancbisino
spirit that characterizes the regenerated and
reconstructed Union of to-day. Probahlv NO
man was more thoroughly traduced and Will
fed by the old South, that which jeff Davis
used to know and lead than Horace Greelev
But that old pro-slavery power has nassed
away-vanished like the unsubstantioI fabric
of a dream. In its place we behold the risir,,
OF a grander and nobler power one that is
fun of life and progress, one that is claroort
and unvindictive. Mr.. Greeley has all his life
long been true friend of the Soutb. The
principles he has advocated would bava rada
her great and glorious, benefcent and pro-
gressive, and would haue saved her from
untold and unnumbered woes. In the hour
of the humiliation of this old and naughty
pro-slavery power, in the person of its chosen
leader, MIR. Greeley steps forward on an errand
Of mercy and forgiveness. The principle OF
liberty has triumphed, and in the day OF its
power and glory, he would have it dispense
pardon to the fallen and humiliated represen
tative of a bygone era.
As for JEFF. Davis, he has ceased TO be O
any Importance. His imprisonment thougl
merely nominal, and rather Luxurious enter
tainment by the Government, has served I,
keep him before the public eye. He will now
vanish. There will be momentary recoppi
ton and welcome by old comrades, and ther
we shall hear no more of him. While he live
he will be an example of the clemency of
great people. But he belongs to past era
and the nation is too full of activity and pro
gress, too much absorbed in the grand destin
which opens before it, under the inspiring in
Auenoes of universal freedom and equality, I
nav further attention to him. Let the dea
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PhiladeIphia Trade Report.

TUESDAY, May 4-There is firm feeling in
the Flour Market, but not much doing there
is no demand except from the home consul
mers, who purchase only enough to supply their
medtate want Sales of a few hundred bar
for extras; Sl3@l475 for Northwestern extra
family; $3.50 10 for Pennsylvania and Ohio do;
Louis Rye Flour may he quoted at s9 400
barrels Brandy ywine Corn Meal sold at s6'25@6 10.
The receipts and stocks of Wheat continue
exceedingly small, and prime lots are In fair
request; sales OF Pennsylvania red at S3'l003'3O.
Rye ranges from Sl'7O 10 Sl75 q bushel Corn Is
quiet, and as again declined; sales of 5000
cars from shore, and alOat. Oats are dull;
sales of 5000 bushels Pennsylvania at 7Sc.
Nothing doing in Barley or Malt.
No. Quercitron Bark is held at Si2 4 ton, but
there is nothing doing
Groceries and Provisions move slowly but
prices remain without quotable change
Whisky-Prices are nominally unchanged.
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chiefly of the South; that in her two years
cruise she captured thirty-fve United States
vessels. all of which, with the exception of
two or three which were bonded and one
sunk, were burned. Great care being taken,
however, to ascertain the value OF the ships
and cargoes destroyed before the work Of de-
struction was commenced, with the view of
obtaining their value as prize money; that early
in Julv. 1864, she ran down of the Jersey coast,
where. on the 10th of that month the Electric
Shark. heavily laden with stores and delica-
oies for the Army of the Southwest, with many
Messengers and an unusually large mail, came
In siobt. the Rebel hosted the English flag,
and soon the vessel was under his guns, the
mails are transferred to the captor, the passen-
GERS put on board an English steamer, and
conscious of the danger of permitting his men
TO riot among the tempting stores, Captain
Mafitt souttled the ship. few months.atter-
wards meeting the United States sloop.of-war
Wachusetts in the harbor Bahia San Salvador,
Brazil, the pirate was captured in defiance of a
fair truce stipulation, as is stated incidentally
by the gentlemen above referred to.
The alleged release of the officers and men
of the Florida from Fort Warren is cited as
confirming the statement of the existence of
such a truce. Much other testimony has been
taken upon incidental points, and it concludes
with the offering of the stamps now claimed
TO a Toronto banking house in November, 1865,
through whose branch and correspondence
here information comes to the Government
and these proceedings finally result.
The cross-examinatiOn, conducted by Mr..
w. B. McMurrich, of Toronto, has closely fol-
lowed every link of the testimony, from
which, with other testimony, the defendants
expect to sustain their general denial OF the
allegations of the bill of oomplaint'-NeW
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEGRAPH,l
Tuasday Nav Ia 1897


There was very little disposition to operate in
stocks this morning, but prices were steady.
Government bonds continue in fair demand.
July 1866 5-20s sold at l0o, slight advance;
993 was bid for 10-40s; 109 for 1862 5.20s; ll1S
tor 6s OF 1881; and 1074@l064 tor June and
August 7'4Us. City loans were also in fair de-
mand. The new issNe sold at l0lS@lO2, no
change.
Railroad shares were dull. Reading sold
at 81 S9.lGOG95lR, no change; Pennsylvania Rail
road at 52s, slight decline; L. high Valley at
583, an advance OF 4; and Camden and Amboy,
1903, no change. ~ was bid for Little Schuyl.
kill; 62 tor Norristown; SO for Mlnehill; 334
for North Pennsylvania; 20 for Elmira common;
l3 1or CataWlssa common; I'll for CataWissa
pre- erred; 555 for Philadelphia and Baltimore;
and 28S for Philadelphia and Erie.
City Passenger Railroad shares we're firmly
held. 76 was bid for Second and Third; Ga Tor
Tenth and Eleventh 27a for spruce and Pine !;
So tor West Phiadelphia; II for Hestonville,
and "a for Grard College.
Bank shares were in good demand for invest
ment AT tull prices. liz was bid tor Second
NatonGl; 81 for Commerclal; 81 tor Mechanics
Sc tor Penn Township; S6 for Western; 80 Tor
Manufacturers; and 110 for Trade mems.
Canal shares were unchanged. Morris Canal
preferred sold at ll9. q was bud Tor Schuylkill
Navigation common; 80 for Schuylkill Nayiga-
tion prefeIred 5l3 for Lehigh Navigation; l58
tor Susquehanna Canal; and Sc fol Delaware
Division.
Quotations of Gold-1O} A. NJ, 1866; IL A. NJ.
1861; II d., 1861; l P. NJ, 1861, an advance OF
on the closing price last evening.
William H. Kemble, State Treasurer, gives
notice to the holders of the overdue loans of the
Commonwealth up to and inclusive OF July l.
1856, that they will be paid on presentation at
the Farmers and Mechanics Bank in this city.
and that all loans maturing to above date will
cease 10 draw interest on the lst DAY of August
next
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO DAY
NaA hwyn nalNaN ~ ,N-ha
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THE INJUNCTION CAsEs.-As was anticipated,
the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the
application of the States of Georgia and Mis-
slssippi, in regard to an injunction restraining
the military officers from. executing the Recon-
struction bill. The ground for the dismissal
was a want of jurisdiction. We think that
this termination of the case will materially aid
reconstruction. The last hope of the South
has now been thrown down. They have all
along vaguely stated that the Supreme Court
would interfere. They have no such pleasing
delusion in the future. They must rely on
themselves and the justice of the North. The
decision given yesterday will act as a powerful
stimulus to self-exertion.
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PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO DAY
Reported by Dehaven d Bro, No. 40 $. Third street
--Messrs. DE Haven & Brother, No. 40 South

-Messrs' lie haven & Br0ther, NO. 4O South
Third street, report the following rates of ex-
change to-day at l P. M.:-U, S. IS of 1881, lllS
@llls; do. 1862, 1Os4@1O9; do, 1864, 1O58@
1861; do, 1865, 1O6a@lO6s do, 1865 new 1O7S@
lO8t; do 5s lO4Os, 993 @99b; do 1905, Aug, 1861
i05S; Compound Interest Notes, June, lS64 lis f
@li9I; do, July, 1864 11ss@lls4, do; Aug. 1864,
ll8@lls4; do, October, 1854, 1l7@1l74; do,
December, 1864, ll6@ll64; do, May, 1865, 1lSH;
do, Aug. 1866, 1925 do, September, 1865, 1l2};
13009l32.
-Messrs. William Painter Co., bankers, No.
SO South Third street, report the following
rates of exchange to-day at II O'clock
5:2Os, coupon, 1852, lo8S9lO9; DO, 1864, io5l@
1863; do, 1865, l06tG1O68; do. new, 1919
@lO8b; IS, lO-4Os, 998@99E; U. S. 7'3Os, Isl
series, l06bGlO68; do, I'd series, lO58@lO5B;
Sd series, l05s Ml055. Compound Interest Notes,
December 1864, Is; May 1865, IA; August 1865,
13; September, 1865, l24; October, 1865 III
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

hley" NEWSPAPER ADvERTIsING.-JOY,
COE 90. Agents for the "TELpsRAPH
and Newspaper Press OF the whole country, have RE
MOVED from FIFTH and CBEsNUT Streets 70 No
IA s. SIXTH Street second door above WALNUT
oFF1oEs;-No. IA s. SIXTH Street. Philadelphia;
TRIBUNE BUILDINGS, New York. 7os4p
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past bury its dead. Horace Greely's signing
Jeff' Davis bail bond closes the old record.
1t is the writing of the epitaph on the tomb
stone of the slave power.
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h1S95@ PITTSBURG, FORT WAYNE, AND
- CHICAGO RA LROAD COMPANY, OFFICE

PITTsBURG Pa, April 27, 1867,
Pursuant to resolution adopted at meeting OF the
Shareholders and Boudholders OF this Company, held
at PtsOurg March 90 ultimO, notice Il hereby given
that an a. jour ned meeting OF the shareholders will
be held at PITT lSBUR RG May Is, proximo AT IL NJ
tu consider such detailed estimates may be sup-
mtted BY the Board OF Directors for additional equip
ment and permanent Improvements to be made TO
The railway and also to determine upon the question
increasing the capital stock for the purpose of
raising the necessary means for paying tor such
equipmen and mprovem ents.
JAMES S. CRAFT
Chairman of StoCkholders' Meeting.
5lO14t @, W, CA~S President
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

Rls FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
~, n, ,HoRTHERN HOME FOR ,FTIIdS FRLESDMLE9SS M "a
CHURCH, FOURTH Street, below Arch, on TUES
DAY EVENING, at T'3O O'Clock. Unusually interest.
ing exercises will take place by the children. and
esses are expected TO be delivered by his M1eel-
lency John w. GeRry, Governor of PennsylvaniG
Mayor McMichael, Colonel McFarlRnd, Superintend-
ent OF BOlders and Sailors Orphans; Rev. Mr. OOnk-
h cal will preside. 5l32t
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RB OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

PHILADELPHIA, May T. 1867.
The Board OF Directors have this day declared n
semEannual Dividend of tn KEE PER CfGNT on the
Capital stock OF the Company, clear OF National and
state Taxes, payable In Casn on aud alter May ~.
They have also declared EXTRA DIVIDEND
OF FIVE PER CENT, based upon profits earned
prior to January 1867, clear OF National and state
Taxes, payable in stock and alter May ~, at It's
lar value of Fifty Dollars share-the shares for
sJ, ok Dividend TO be dated May 1, 1867
scrip Certificates will be issued for fractional parts
rest or DIVIDEND but Will be convertible into stock
when presented in sums of Fifty Dollars
Powers OF attorney for collection OF Dividends can
be had on application at the Office of the Company,
No 2SS s. THIRD Street.
48Ot THOMAS II. FIRTH Treasurnr
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separation from the Union, and those who
made that attempt in the late rebellion.
were guilty of treason.
During the early stages of the war the
republican congress declared that states
cannot go out of the Union on their own
motion, that they cannot destroy their own
republican forms of government; that all
ordinances of secession are null and void
but have claimed and now insist that con-
gress is vested with power to sever the con-
nectlon between states, to annul state gov
ernments whose citizens have been engaged
in rebellion, disfranchise those who are citi-
ZenS OF those states and of the United
States and make new forms of governments
for their people and place over them as ru-
lers persons unknown to the constitution as
citizens, and while they have not assumed
directly the exercise of judicial functions
and abolish their courts, they have declar-
ed 1T to be criminal 5ffense punishable by
iine and Imprisonment for "a judge to ques-
ton the constitutlonality of their acts. If
they loved justice more and partisan powe~,
less, they would have acted in harmon.
with the president and would have left to
those people the REL construction of their
social and political institutions under the
constitution upon the basis of freedom, they
would have provided means in money and
lands for the education, elevation and sup
port of the blacks and made the ruling peo-
pie who know their wants and whose own
best interests are at stake the almoners of
their charitable bounties made in discharge
of the solemn duties and fearful response
bilities assumed by the nation in the en-
forcement of freedom upon the four millions
of slaves, many of whom are now in a state
of want, vagabondage and crime and the
whole number now reduced to 3,500,000.
The war was inaugurated and carried On on
the part of the south for the purpose of
perpetuating slavery by a separation from
the Union, and developed no very strongly
marked aspirations in any considerable por-
ton of the slave population for freedom,
much less for the right of self government.
But now that their freedom has been as
sured. will not the greater danger to those
communities be in Withholding from this>,
emancipated race any of the rights of privf-e
legcs accorded by the constitutions and laws
of those communities or states to American
citizenship? and how far can those rights
be safely extended? The south must
answer
TO BE CONTINUED.