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be justly compared, 80 far as length Of rail is
concerned, with any road which has it's build
ing on a level plain. The report of It's opera
tion gives some curious data. At the summit of
the Seri Nevada the railroad ls 1000 feet above
the level OF the sea, the rise being steady
from the base to the top. The highest grade Is
ll6 feet TO the mile, of which there win be but
three-and-ahslf miles on the road the average
grade tor the mountain division being seventy
FIVE feet to the rile. The bulk of the heavy
grades are los feet to the mile, with numerous
level intervals Only thirty per cent. of the
distance is occupied by curves, none OF which
have a radius OF less than 573 feet.
These figures convey but an imperfect idea of
the enterprise. BY comparing it with other
roads we can only estimate the result. Thus the
grade may seem large and dangerous, but iu
reality it is the reverse. The ascent is gradual
when compared with some of our oldestablished
lines. Thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has two stretches of road, making together II
miles, OF 1l6 feet grade with curves of 400 feet
radius, and the Virginia Central has for years
worked, with the unaided locomotives, grades
OF 295 feet TO the mile, and curves whose radii
were 800 feet
Thus It would seem that each company is
working with zeal towards the completion of
the common end. BY the toll OF men, the inge-
unity of the brain, and the improved mechanism
of the most recent scientific discoveries the
obstacles which of old were esteemed insur-
mountable have gradually given way before the
irresistible determination of great people. In
the days of Alexander the idea of erecting
monument to his fame out of mountain, with
city on one side and river on the other, was
deemed the height of arrogance. But what a
monument are we erecting to the enter
| prise and public spirit of our coun-
try when we build cities along a
road for thousands of miles, pierce not one
mountain but the great chains of mountains,
and span rivers as though they were the streams
| over which g man can leap; and when from
| ocean to ocean shall extend one unbroken line
| of iron rails, over which the passenger can go
| without leaving his car, we will have achieved
triumph to which all the other undertakings
of men can bear no comparison. Yet the
day is near when this hercuean enterprise will
be completed. ls.aSla
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Gen. Grant and the Republican Party.
IT seems to US that great deal of the discus
sion concerning General Grants political status
is irrelevant. We think nobody has occasion
to doubt that he endorses those positive acts
of the Republican party which constitute its
policy Of reconstruction. Beyond those mea-
sures the party itself has taken no authorita-
tive position, and there is a wide margin for
difference of opinion. Some members of the
party favor the impeachment of the President,
out the party, as party, has never committed
hseh 70 that measure. Some members of the
party nave advocated general law regulating
Iho eiec'lve franchise in the States; but the
party In Congress refused to pass such law.
The party, in some of the States. has made
the Issue of negro suffrage local
issue ior their respective States; the party in
others OF the States has refused to mako This
an issue. 30 of other questions that bava
been raised. Upon all of these no man g
authorized to say what is the position of tho
Republican party, because the party has taken
no position. They are open questions. Tho
party is no more committed to Mr.. Summers
bill for securing impartial suffrage in the
States Chan 1t is to Mr.. Buffers proposition
to pay the bonds in greenbacks. 1t is no more
committed to Wendell Phillips idea of sus-
pending the President during his trial on i'm
parchment than it is to Horace Greeley's
notions on the liquor question.
On the question Of reconstruction, which is
Che vital and fundamental issue of the hour.
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TIE POLITICAL WORLD.
MASSACHUSETTS.

Only one Democrat is chosen TO Governor
Bullock's Council for next year, and he, Peter
Harvey, OF the old Webster-Whig school. Mr.
Welch, chosen IN the Third District over Mr..
RepuE lican as q p. l.. l.. can be, and in no sense
an Adams and Liberty" Democrat. He is the
head of the University Printing House of
Welch, BigeloW Co., at Cambridge, and posi-
declinaton was ignored, and he was voted in.
The new Council is, therefore, made up as fol-
lows:--I. John S. Brayton of Fall River (Re-
(Republcan.) III. A K. P. WEIGH of Cam.
bridge (Democrat.) ". Peter Harvey, of Bos.
ton (Democrat.) V. Rowland G. Usher, of
Lynn (Republcan.) VI. Thomas Talbot, of
Billerica (Republican.) VII. Charles Adams
Jr., of North Brook6eld (Republican.) VIII.
Horace G. Knight, of Eastuampton (Repub-
liean.)
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the party has taken It's position, definitely and
authOritatively; and, as we have before said,
we have no doubt whatever that General Grant
endorses that position. He supports the Con-
gressional plan Of reconstruction. More than
this It is not proper or fair at present to ask.
When the Republican Nominating Convention
shall assemble, it will doubtless lay down the
platform Of principles upon which the party
proposes to conduct the campaign of 1868. If
General Grant shall be the nominee, he will,
of course, place himself squarely upon that
platform. What that platform will be it is
impossible as yet fully to predict. Doubt
less 1t will hold to the essential ard vital idea
Of equality in civil and political rights between
all the citizens of the Rebel communities, ex-
cept so far as limitation for crime is concerned.
But it is not at all impossible that the prac-
tical workings of the present plan of recon-
struction may point out some notifications
that ought to be made. Should those who
have secured the controlling influence in the
Constitutional Conventions which are now in
session, or about to assemble, in the Southern
districts, use their power in an unfair or op-
pressive manner, Congress will doubtless in
terfere to secure essential justice, even at the
expense of extensive notifications of the pre-
sent law.
There are other issues which may become
Of sufficient Importance between now and the
assembling of the Convention to demand an
authoritative statement by the party. If so,
such statement will be made. But until the
party, through its appropriate organ, shall
have finally settled its definite platform OF
principles for the campaign of 1868, it is not
incumbent upon its possible candidates to go
further than hearty endorsement of the pre-
sent national position of the party, as taken
in the reconstruction policy of Congress
That we accept as authoritative.
In our own opinion, it would have been fal
better for the Republican party had its leaders
generally confined themselves strictly to the
elucidation and defense of this one great and
vital position, and left all outside questions for
settlement hereafter. Let reconstruction be
once achieved according to the principles of the
Republican party, and these other questions
will settle themselves in harmony Herewith.
Impartial suffrage at the South where it is not
merely a matter of justice, but vital requisite
of republican government, and a controlling
element in political dynamios, will soon secure
its adoption at the North, where it is rather a
question of abstract right than one of prac-
tical Importance. When once the key point
Of the enemys position is carried, his outworks
will be abandoned without contest.
1t is in view of such considerations as these
that we think much of the discussion in rela-
tion to General Grants opinions is premature
and irrelevant. If he becomes the candidate
of the Republican party, we assume that he
will accept the platform of principles laid
down by the party, and will fight it through
''on that line" to triumphant issue.
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The London Mining Journal says Mr.. j..
Livesy has invented a new method of treating
cast-iron in the solid state for the removal Of
such impurities as can be volatilized at tenn
perature below the melting point of the metal.
The metal is placed in a suitable chamber, to
be heated to the required degree. The iron is
isolated from contact with the fuel and its
resultant gases, by placing it in a close
chamber, and letting the heat circulate In
flues outside its walls, as is done in oementing.
When the iron has been raised to a red heat, a
current of pure air heated in its passage to
the chamber is admitted beneath, and allowed
to escape above, so that a current is con-
tinuously passing through and among the
mass of iron.
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THE AMERICAN BUTTON
HOLE, oVERsEAMINc, AND
SEWING MACHINE COM
PANY are now getting ready
their splendid combination
FAMILY MACHINES, for
Christmas Presents. Nothing
could be moro appropriate for
agift to Ladyfrlend than one
of these magnificent Ma
chimes. Beauty and utility
combined, it would prove a
constant, daily souvenir Of tho
giVer.
For sale at S. w. Corner of
eleventh and CHESNUT
Streets. ns1rp
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How They Work Out ON the PrairIes.

The Dubuque Times, in a review of the late
Waterloo campaign, has the folio Wing:-
''In the West we do those things different,
and we can point our Eastern brethren to Iowa
as bright example, and one that Will do them
good to copy after. Here, instead of running
behind, we gave a larger majority for Colonel
Merrill, the Republican candidate for Governor,
than was ever before given to any man for that
Office. Large meetings and stirring addresses are
all very well in their place; but one quiet, per-
seyering man, working prudently among his
the minds of men than would onehalf of the
popular speakers of the nation. The fact is, it
Is not among the noisy demonstrations of public
are most susoeptibIe 70 the force of reason: but
on the contrary, most persons are either drawn
to such places by previously formed opinions,
or go with prejudices which ward OFF the effect
of any truth they may hear. One trouble with
the Republicans, as already suggested, is that
they have depended too much upon demonstra-
tion and oratory, and too little upon work.
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The London Globe says man named
Charlier thinks the notion that horses need
shoes entirely wrong, He himself does not
cut a horses hoof. He merely pootects it
against violent blows and accidents, and
against the wear and tear of the Paris pave
ment, by inclosing it in a thin circle of iron,
which wards it from danger without compress
ing it. In this way the horse stands upon a
healthy member instead of upon one which
is being constantly wounded by the iron and
knife Of the smith. Besides the economy of
this reform, it is expected to make hOof diseases
infrequent
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THE GREAT SAFE TESTS.
Lilies ChiIIed-IrOn Safes Master
Of the Situation.
ImpenetrabIe TO the Elements OF Fire or
the Burglars Implements.

Neither five hours ofth most intense heat I'm fiery
furnace six hours the most scientific drlllipg
yet known in this country, the thorough use of
the best steel wedgeJ and the Bledge for long
could avail against It, The two safes which stood the
above tests are now on exhibition in my store. No
$50 Arch street. Also. the Evans a. Watson Safe,
with the Boston Steam Patent burned in the same
furnace with It's back broE and buTstit sides caved
Ia and twisted. much OF the wood badly scorched in
side indeed to every appearance on its last legs, only
requiring little longer time to have finished II
tiFey; aud simply ask any and all candid and intel
lgent men, having any in in Fire Proof
Burglar Proof Safe to call and examine those three
Safes for themselves, and form their own opinion
to their res pective merits.
full report will be made. early practicable,
of the above ae Tests and signed by both citizens
and operators. NJ. o. ADLER, Agent,
No. 639 ARCH Street.
p. ST. notice in aSunday newspaper Evans & Wat
sons charges and statements, and their self coust
tued committees report, all of which will be properly
answered In due time and 10 their order. But say
here and everywhere, that every base aud slau-
derOus allegation made the en against Mr. Lille
myself is absolutely untrue, aud that neither Mr..
Lille myself require any such subterfu Zes to
tain the merits of Lilies Chilled Iron Safes,
IL ll3t NJ. c. SADLER, Agent.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
Nomination OF Judge Chase in Charles.

CHARLESTON, 5. c.. Nov. G.-The heads of the
various Union Leagues met this evening in
Liberty Hall, and took into consideration the
question as to the Republican candidate for the
next Presidency. When the vote was put by tue
President of the State Council as to whether
Judge Chase or General Grant would be their
choice, the unanimous vote was for Judge
Chase. The question has assumed importance
with the Republicans of this city to such an ex-
tent that already a large hall, known as the
"Chase Hall and Reading ROOM" has been fitted
up, and was appropriately dedicated,
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OHIO.
The ohio senatorship.

The race between Vallandigham aud Judge
Thurman for Ben. Wade's seat becomes quite
exciting. Both claim to be ahead, but we must
wait q long time for the decision.
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|. CHANGE OF HOUR FOR VIII

ssAIINGTON.-On and after wednesday,
i8, the steamer 8, M. FELTON, will leaYe
JHHSNUT Street Wharf for Chester, Hook, aud VII.
nington at O'clock. Fare to Chester 0r Hook, 10
,ents; Wilmington. 10 oants. II
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GREAT VICTORYI
THE STEAM FIRE PROOF SAFE
WITH
HOLES BORED IN IT

GREAT. .YICTORYL
THE STEAM FIRE PROOF SAFE
HOLES BORED IN IT
LILLE ANb sADLER.
PERFECTLY PRESERVES ITS CONTENTS
LILIES FURNACE.
LUXE HHLBLE ANP 10 DEsrR6Y + s RbFN
THE STEAM FIRE PRooF SAFE.
gThe Lille Safe Inches Thick,
The Steam Safe Inches Thlck.l
EVEN TAMPERED WITH IT.
the Lille safe Made Expressly for the rraI-"The
Best He Could Make"-has It's Contents Damaged
Folded and Packed in the Lille Safe Previous to
Read the following report of Committee appointed
BY Evans Watson to superintend sne opening oi 'ne
SAFES On the tCro0ImaimffT tCommffTTERS Fl EEESIBoR s REPORT
The undersigned witnessed the opening ofthe sates
Watson's being first opened, and the contents io1Sd
perfectly from the hery oTdeS All sSowns sSG in
that the Sale would have stood much more rre as
ss ss5 0eSed TO %e's ana nsa o be with ns
paper OF which was % Ws qs 9 & Ssd y @
not si1ged That which was wet, discolored and
@SkdPg oSd bs SS wi tbonE Il was iaen from bottom
said safes were placed upon their backs In SAID iur
nS'tes tsgned) JOHN @; KEmRsHAw. Err
VS No. NJ s, Fourth street,
HENRY a; Na ga 1iSa hsEh, 9ids,,os.s,raa,.
~ No. Il & Fourth street.
Committee,
We invite the public to call and examine the Steam
sIe ra 10 s9 ana r the LILLE safe tested IN he
% o. me steam SAFE perfectly preserved
mace, both OF which were perfectly preserved.
RaPsTs which were saturated with alum water and
bs SRa PaeSs a50 h Re ss ae s s S
any and All times 70 Oroughly explain the eOnstruo-
Wv" v '"' ''''''" 7A'' EVANS q WATSON.
Ill step NO % South SEVENTH Street
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COMMITTEE's REPORT

Read the following Report of the Committee an
pointed to superintend the burning of the safes:-
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
tIbr addtonal s,Deetal Nottoe. ZEE l,s s.onra nn.

k9g@ THE TWO sTANpABDs.-LIsERTY
- standard sheet. the starspangled bannsr. and
Americas s,andard perfume Phalon's Might Bloom.
does the other.-NetO Haven Palladium II
R0yss CHILDRENs HOsPITAL.-THELADY
~ visitors II the Chidren's Hospital VINO arc
to make Sn ,aInest appeal to the IberSlity Of
nge o. our gIoS Sy & expen
building has for the pretent exhausted the treasnry
this nstlIution the only ne Of the k nd in Ameiica
locality that one Should ns see i for 10 h@ss R
asked Public Spreas have farey BEEN oss6 ssd
the eiore It's wants have been <, nerally known
ehs fhi S are mdns
PTSysogs s or GToeeIiss wl be most soceps3e AID
SECOND stree below Walnut. nE2t
a4~ THIRTEENTH ANNIvDRsARY
TIoSy YQUuNItGr uIt ME- MEMS 4 CHRIsTIAN AssoCLA-
j, DAY -.,o EyESNING E9y a. EXERCISES M 70 commence
D. D.. Of New York uae OF Dublin); Rev. EDWA ARD
L. CLARK, of New Haven; Rev. PHILLIPS
tously at the American Tract soeety tore No 1910
CHEsNUT Street. after 10 o'clock A. NJ. on wednes-
a9@% THE PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. II. 1867.
The stockholders OF this Bank are hereby notified
that the state tax on their shares, now payable
cordng to the recent advertisement of the Receiver
Of Taxes, has been assumed and Will be paid by the
miist Cashier.
hS9y7 DR.. j. NJ. HOLE, OF OHIO, PRESI.
~ dent of the National Medical Association Of
the United States of America, treats specially Con
sump lion, Bronchitis, and other diseases OF the Lungs
also Female Diseases generally and Seminal Weak
ness with entirely new remedies, with great success
Persons suffering with those diseases should IT fail
to call at his Office No. 933 ARCH Street, Philadel-
phia. Charges moderate. l02i1m4p#
hS55@ HOLT40WAY'S PILLS. EPILEPSY
49, or Failing Sckness-As preventlves from y
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ofblood to the bran they are the only antdote Sold
by all Druggists. IL l2tuths3t
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% THE PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. II, 1867,
The Stockholders of this Bank are hereby notified
that the state tax on their shares, now payable
COrdng to the recent advertisement of the Receiver
of Taxes, has been assumed and will be paid by the
Bank. b. b. COMEgYS.
IL l16t Cashier,
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-05-03
Religious Items.

We give the Methodist Conference
appointments for St Adams District:
p. p. Ray Presiding Elder St
Adams, H. H. Cobb; St Adams Bay,
to be supplied; Swanton, H. f. Aus
tin; Highgato, j. Robinson; Georgia
and North Fairfax, to be supplied
Fairfax aud Westford n Spencer;
Milton, A. S. Cooper; Cambridge, II.
Webster; Wateryille and Fletcher, A.
Scnbnor; Essex and Essex Junction,
r. Morgan; Underhill and jericho, s.
d. Elkins; Colchester J. Chase;
Waterbury, II. w. Worthen; Water
bury Centre, John Y. Pufer; Stowe,
w. II. Hyde; Hyde Park and john
son, to be supplied; Eden, to be sup
piled; Wolcott to be supplied, Nor
ristown, A. II. Honsinger; Bakersfield
" n. Learned; Sheldon, v o. Free
man; Franklin, l.. =. Cushman; En-.
osburgh, w c. Robinson; Montgom-
cry, G Wedgeworth Ricbford and
East Berkshire, Is. f. Livingston
West Berkshire, w. ID. Malcolm; Al
burgh A. b. Truax; Isle La Mott, tC
be supplied; North Hero, to be sup
piled; An Jong, Missionary to China
The Rev NJ. A. Wilcox was ordain
ed pastor Of the First Baptist Church
Burlington, on the 25th ult. Tn,
sermon was preached by the Rev w
H. Parmly Of Jersey City. The ad
dress to the church was by the Rev
l.. A. Dunn, of Fairfax.
The Congregational church in Glov
er have resolved to celebrate the fiji
tieth anniversary Of their organization
which occurs on the 18th Of mex
July.
The request of Rev J. H. Wood
ward to lie dismissed from the paste
raj charge of the Congregation
church Of Irasburgh has been refuse,
by the Council of Congregations
Churches, called to consider his re
quest, The society were strongly op
posed to his dismission, and prosente
to the council petition and remon
STRANGE signed by moro than one hun
bred citizens against his dismissal.
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Political.

Gov Brown of Georgia addressed
the citizens of Augusta the other eve
ming, advising them to accept the re-
construction act. His speech was fa-
vorably received
The Now York correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledgcr writes that
many of the Democratic party, who
have been quietly in consultation there
during the week, are in favor of a
speedy change of the entire policy of
THAI party, in the hope that it viii
enable them to carry the next Presi-
Dental election. To make long sto =
ry short, the plan is simply this-to
ignore the negro altogether, and to
bring up internal Improvements
and Free Trade in his place. The
correspondent adds that it will not be
long before this change Of programme
is officially announced, and with the
announcement the Democratic cam
paign for the next Presidency will
regularly begin.
A Washington correspondent SAYS
that the House Judiciary Committee
received notice to reassemble next
week pursuant to adjournment, to con-
tinue the impeachment investigation
The intention is to close the investiga-
ton by the first of June, and to report
the evidence as directed by the House
at the meeting in July.
The Rochester Democrat (Republ
cam has put General Grants name
under its editorial head as its candi
date for President The New Yorl
Tribune correspondent puts forth {
feeler for Chief Justice Chase
Ex-Attorney General Speed hai
4 been delivering acceptable speeches il
} Kentucky. The political feeling il
that state is said 10 be rapidly i'm
g proving.
Z A New York Democratic paper
. having learned that President John
E son, on his way to North Carolina, vii
= probably address the people, sincere
Il ly hopes he viii do nothing Of tn
e kind Let him play base ball o
0 euchre, exclaims the editor, so
+ dance the polka or on the tight rope
. or do anything else by way OF variety
. but let him not make speeches.