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Financial Schemes.
from the N, Y, Tribune.


II. B. W. sends us an essay looking to re-
sumption, which we do not publish, because
it seems to us mistaken in it's conce ptons,
without being original. In brief, II. B. w.
would approach resumption by easy stages,
through successive offers from the Treasury
to purchase all the gresnbacks that should be
offered, first at l42; after awhile, at lower;
after another interval, at still lower rate of
discount, until they shall have been gradually
brought to par with gold. The calculation of
course is that few or none would be offered at
the rates thus from time to time established
that the fact that the Treasury would buy all
that should be offered, say at 125, would esta-
blish that figure as their minimum value, and
so till they were brought to par.
All which seems to us good argument, so
far as it goes, in favor of resuming fully and
at once. If Offering to redeem greenbacks,
say at $780, would render them every where
worth that rate or more, SO that no one would
wish to exchange hem for coin, IL seems to US
that Offering to redeem them at par would
have similar effect.
But we do not choose to approach resump-
tiOn through contraction, real or threatened.
We do not know that we now have or have
not too redundant currency, and will not
dogmatize on that point. We say, resume:
then, If there be too much currency ahoat,
part of it will flow in and be exchanged for
specie; If not, not. We choose to be governed
by experience, not by hypothesis.
If experience shall prove that the currency
is redundant, it will of course contract on re-
sumption, and the Treasury must be prepared
to redeem greenbacks so long as thsy shall be
in excess of the business wants of the country.
How redeem themi In what The specie in
the Treasury would go part way; but, in order
to be able to redeem to the last farthing, We
mnst so appreciate the national credit that we
can borrow at fair rates to any desirable ex-
tent Only make it certain that United States
fves, having twenty to thirty years to run,
can be largely sold at premium, and the
Secretary may laugh to scOrn any attempt to
run his vaults empty of coin. He will borrow
just SO fast and so far as he may need, to
keep his vaults properly replenished, and the
gold gam blers will find that any attempt to
run him out of specie will 0e just like an effort
to pump dry a ships well.
Do consider that the Treasury is in the
steady receipt of over six millions per week
half of it now specie; all of it specie or its
equivalent from the hour OF resumption. Let
the Treasury, then, use its coin fearlessly to
enhance the price of United States bonds, by
buying up and cancelling fifty or sixty mil
lions of them. Then we believe the Govern
ment might resume without fear, and keep
its coin in fair supply by selling new fves sc
fast as shall be found necessary.
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the Dictator demanded that two members Of
the Legation, Mr.. Porter G.. Bliss, of New
York, and Mr.. G.. +. Masterman, should also be
given up TO him. cat this point" says Mr..
Washburn, 81 made a stand" We think it
and the way our Minister made it was to enter
into a long correspondence with Lopez in order
to gain time. AT last the United States steamer
Wasp, which was to carry Mr.. Washburn
home, arrived at Asunoion. Will our readers
believe it THE Minister of the United States
went on board, and allowed the two attaches
to be taken by force from his side as they
started TO go with him; ard so he steamed
away, leaving them to the certainty of an
awful fate at the hands of the enraged Dicta-
tor, making no effort whatever to save them,
taking no steps to vindicate the outraged
sanctity of his Office or aveuge this insult to
our national honor. An American squadron
was lying idle in the Brazilian waters; but Mr..
Washburn sneaked home like a coward.
By this time we have new minister in
Paraguay, and man, il we are not mistaken,
of very different stamp. General Mcmahon
has been too good a soldier to brook such
outrsges patiently, and while he is at the
capital of Lopez that ruler will be taught to
behave with at least decent show of respect
toward the United States. But the Presi-
dent should at once demand the release of the
prisoners taken from the Legation, and a
prompt reparaton for the insult to our flag;
and he should send a sufficient naval force to
give his demand unmstakable emphasis.
We are not in the habit of suffering such
wrongs, and do not mean to be patient under
than
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Will the Republican Party Split (!

From, the ". Y World.
Not, we suppose, until after General Grant
has selected his Cabinet, and bestowed his
other patronage. His characteristic reticence
will prevent an early termination OF the seeds
of schism which are plentifully buried in the
Republican soil.
General Grant was not, as every body knows,
the spontaneous choice OF the radical or
stronger wing of the party. The socalled
conservative Republicans began to push his
claims early last year They were met by
resolute opposition from the radicals, led by
the Tribune, which assailed his pretensions
with seornful ridicule. General Grants sup
porters desired, and were charged with covertly
aiding, the defeat OF the party in the State cleo
tions of last year; expecting, by such tactics,
to bring the radicals to perceive that, unless
they consented to the nomination of Grant,
the Democrats would take him up, and, with
the assistance of his early Republican sup
porters, elect him. This management was
successful. The radicals were compelled to
make a virtue of necessity. They were fain to
be satisfied with very slender proofs that
General Grant was a Republican. His COM
plicity in the restoration OF Stanton was their
strongest almost their only, evidence that
Grant was with them. The fact that II was
their fears, and not their will, that consented
to his nomination, will make quarrel easy, il
they should find that they cannot control him.
His sympathies and gratitude go more natu-
rally with the section Of the party that forced
his nomination.
Besides these historical grounds OF distrust,
there Is disconfOrmity OF mental organiza-
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The American Flag in Paraguay.

FfON0 Ue ~ r. IFt6llne.
The extraordinary letter from Mr.. Charles
A. Washburu, our ex-Minister to Paraguay,
to the Hon. William Stuart, British Minister
to Buenos Ayres, which we published on Tues,
day, will be read with indignation by every
patriotic American. When the Paraguayans
were about evacusting Asunoion, number
of persons, both natives and foreigners, sought
refuge at the American LegrtiOn. Among
them were several Englishment and Senior
Pereira, the Portuguese Consul, with his
family. President Lopez demanded that all
these refugees should be turned away. Mr..
Washburn relates how one after another left
his roof for an imprisonment which was little
else than slavery. He did not turn them out;
he only read tO'them the orders of Lopez, and
left them free to act as they saw fit. AT last
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" p. M.
Y. r. MI.
Y. p. Mn

YOUNG's PURE MALT WHISKY.
Y0UkG'A PURE MALT WHISKY,
YOUNGS PURE MALT WHISKY.
There is question relative to the merits OF the
celebrated Y p M 1t Is the quality OF Whisky
manufactured from the best grain afforded bv the
Phade pha marx et and II Is sold At the low ra OF
s5 gallon, 26 per quart. at the salesrooms,
No. 700 PASSYUNK ROAD,
ll52pS PHILADELPHIA.
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The Outgoing Administration Mr.. John
son n Failure.
From TIE ". Y. Herald.

From the ". Y. Herald.
All eyes are turned from the setting to the
rising sun, from the outgoing to the incoming
administration, from Mr.. Johnson to General
Grant, rom favors lost, refused, or enjoyed, to
favors expected, and generally from the dis
appointments OF the past to the hopes OF the
future. Very few politicians or philosophers
now care to inquire what Mr.. Johnson has
done, what he has failed to do, what he may
do, what he is doing or intends to do, or
whether on his retirement from the White
House, he goes to Tennessee or TO Texas.
To the public at large it is enough that his
administration has been failure, and that
they are awaiting the incoming of General
Grant with very general expectation OF
something better.
To the aspiring politician, however, Mr..
Johnson's administration, even as a failure is
full of instructive matter. First of all, it re-
minds US OF Tyler and Fillmore, each of whom,
like Johnson, was elected as Vice-Presid ent,
and as make-weight on the ticket, each Of
whom became President from the untimely
death of his superior, and each of whom as
President turned out failure. 1t was the
great misfortune, We apprehend, of all three
of these men that they were not satisfied in
being President by accident, but desired an
other term each in his own name and in his
own right. Thus it was that Tyler quarrelled
with Henry Clay and the Wing party, and
endeavored 10 set up party OF MS own on
the basis of the distribution OF the spoils The
movement was carried to the point OF an in
dependent Tyler convention, but ii collapsed
with the nomination Of Polk as the Democra-
tic candidate and was merged in the Demo
cratic party. FILLMORE, as the substitute for
General Taylor, played more cautious game,
but failing to secure the Wing nomination Of
1852 he took the field in 1856 as the candidate
of the American or Know Nothing party, the
lineal successor of the Whig party South,
against the Republican party, the iiueal sue
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TRUSSES.

90 "SEELEY'S HARD RUBBER TRUSS,
~SsSB No. 1s47 or ESNUT Street This Truss cor.
recty applied will and retain WIZ ease tne o3
comfortable, used In bathing nstsa 70 Io6m, never lever
place, NO strappinR, Hard Rubber Abdominal Sup
porter by which the others, Oorpulent, and Ladies
perfect supports very light neat. and et1ectnaL Pile
INSTRUMENTS Shoulder BIsceai ELASTIC 5tocklnks 70
Leather Trnsses. half usual prioa Lady IA sttena
n0os .." AhefWu4
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W l r Z c U A r d s,

FOR STORE FRONTS, AsXLgMss FAC
TORIES, ETC.
Patent Wire Railing Iron Bedsreads, Ornaments
Wire Work, Paper Makers Wires and every variety
of Wire Work, Manufactured by
M. WALKER a. SONS,
mwtE No. IL North SIXIH Street.
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPICs-CoMPnBD EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELBGRAPR
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STOVES, RANGES, ETC.

- EOTICE.-THE UN D ERSIG GNED
laAeE would call the attention OF the public 10 his
skzHX NEW GOLDEN EAGLE FURNACE.
81 This Is an entirely new heater 1t Is so con-
sucIed as TO at once Itself To general favor
being q Combination of wrought aud cast iron. II IL
very Bn pie in It's construction, AID Is PERFECTLY air
ught selfcleaning, hayinglno Pipes or drums to be
taken out and cleaned 1t Is arranged with upright
hues as 10 produce larger amount OF heat from the
same weight of coal than any furnace now In use.
The hygIometc condition OF the air produced by
my new arrangement OF evaporation Will at once de
monhtrate that IL is the only Hot Air Furnace that
VIII produce PERFECTLY healthy atmosphere
IL ose In want OF q complete Heating Apparatus
would do well call and examine the Golden Eagle,
CHARLES WILLIAMS,
Nos. 1882 ana 1874 MARX kT street,
Philadelphia.
A large assortment OF Cooking Ranges Fire board
on hand.
n. b Iobbng OF all kinds promptly done 5 1O2
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SAARQUETTEI
MARQUErTEI

Another letter from the great fire at Marquette,
HERRING'S SAFES preserve their contents where
Sales Of other makers fall
MARaUBrTE Michigan, July 20, 1868.
Messrs Herring d. %.
CiES1LEM ES-On the l1th ult., the entire business
portion OF our town destroyed by fire. Our eafe
which was one OF your manniacture was subject 10
an Inter 30 heat, but proved Itself adequate TO the
severe test 1t lay in the ruins fourteen days, ana
when taken out rom It's appearance (Lhe outside
covering being burned through in many piacesl aud
in that several other safes iously
taken out were entirely destroyed, II was great
surprise TO US 10 dnu the cOntenS egDe ana In good
several orders for safes have already been
senI Won which best proof of this satisao
tory test and the confidence OF this community in
your safes. Respectfully yours, o>, a e,,rrr,
HRRRINGS PATENT BANKERS CHAMPION
SA TES made OF wrought iron and steel, ana the
Patent Franknite, or "5piegel Elsen" the best re-
sistant to burgars' drills or cutting Instruments
DIV WEi4LiNG.HOUsE SAFES. for silver plate,
valuable papers, laoies jewelry etc etc., both plain
and in imitation of handsome pieces of furniture.
HERkING'S PATENT SAFES, the champion
Safe for the past TwESrY-sHvEN YEARS; the victor
at the W oRLD FAIR, London; the WORLDS FAIR,
and WINNER TIM wAeER OF $1,000 FRANCS at the
recent International contest in Paris are made and
sold only by the undersigned and our authorized
"S'A"' FARREL, HERRING & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA.
HERRING. Farrell q SHERMAN,
HERRING & CO., Chicago
HERRING, FARREL 4 SIBERIAN,
92wfm3mrp New Orleans.
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HE G R EAT
RURAL CEMETERY,
MOUNT MORIAH,

RURAL CENE NETERYi
MOUNT MoRIAH,
embracing an area of one hundred and hfty-fve
acres and comprising variety Of scenery, is by
the largest and most besuLiful OF all the cemete
riea near Philadelphia.
AS the tide OF Improvement tends northwsrd,
MOUNT MORIAH,
by geographical position, Is
FOREVER SAFE FROM INTRUSION OR DIS
TURBAkCE BY OPENING OF STREETS,
and Will never be hedged in and surrounded by
houses, factories, or otner improvements the inevi
table fate OF other cemeteries northward centrally
situated.
At convenient distance from the city, readily
cessble by excellent road and by the street
of the Darby Passenger Railway, Mount Morah,
by It's undsturbed quiet, fuihls the solemn purpose
OF It's dedication last resting place of the dead
No funeral service here is ever interrupted by the
shr whistle of the locomotive the sensibiities
friends visitors shocked by the and rattle
OF long trains of passing freight coal cars, must
of necessity be the In other burial places,
established projected, the imm mediate line of
steam railroads, or through the grounds OF which
such railroads run. Just now the hues of Autumn
tinge with gorgeous colors and Infinite variety the
lage OF the various groups OF fine Old forest
through the grounds and ADDS so great q charm 10
the attractions OF the place
Churches OF all the principal Protestant denOmna
tons have here purchased sections of ground for
OF their congregations, and more shan seven
thousand families have given this great Rural Gene
terry the preference over all Others
Cl oIce lots of any size desired may sill be hsd
upon application at the Lodge at the entrance Of the
Cemetery, or at the Branch Office Penn Mutual In
surance Building, No. 92l CHEsNUr Street, up stairs
where any Information VIII be given by
10 rs Inn GEORGE CONNELL, Secretary.
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Baltimors Market

Flour.-We have again to report a quiet mar
ket; yesterday, only sale e0O bbls ordinary
Howard STREET ENtrs at ~iI.
GTain.-Recefpts OF Wheat yesterday SO
bushels white and a.359 bushels red market
was steady for high grade, but heavy for lower
qualities; included i'm the sales were as bnsh-
els Pennsylvania white al 275aS2 ~: 300 bushels
choice Pennsylvania red at s2.65; Go bushels
prime do. at 2.59s>2-55; 4G0 bushels good do at
2.45aS2.4e; 800 bushels common MARYLAND at
$40; 300 bushels choice Virginia Valley at
$2.s5. Corn-5s0 bushels white and . 30 bu
els yellow received; market OPENED ~ ith sales
of 200 bushels yellow at Sl.i1; subsequently
2,e0o bushels do. sold sI6: also in small lots
l-sU0 bushels, for uptown delivery. NJ lisa
Slt7; so bushels white in lots, as 70 condition.
al lC4a~l.1O; 100 do. prime AT Sl.l6-no sales of
Western mixed, 7.o0O bushels ofered-the mar
ket closed heavy under Gable advices report
ing decline OF easd. AT Liverpool. Oats. zoo
offered; only 800 bushels reported sold al IS cts:
leo do. black, for seed, al IS cents.
Provisions-Lard is firm; we report a sal.
yesterday of ~ tierces western steam rendered
az 13A cents; quote held al l3k cents per III.
Bulk meats held stiff; quote shoulders at as9y
cents for loose and packed; I0AaI0x cents for
rib sides. sale of IL tierces sugar -pic Killed.
hams At 49, cents. Bacon remains steady on
southern orders az last quoted, viz for shoul-
ers II cents, rib sides l2E cents, and clear RIB
l3al3s cents; hams 1sais cents. Mess pork
steady AT S,l3 per barrel
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RECOySTRUCrJOy

NORTH CAROLINA.-ln the Con yeution yes
terday the report Of the committee on militia
was considered IN committee of the whole 1t
requires every able-bOdied male citizen between
the ages OF twenty -one and forty years with.
out distinction Of color, 10 perform military
duty. excepting those who have religious scru
PIES against so doing. The reporter OF the new
daily newspaper, the Corolinian, was expelled
from the hall by the president for using the
term 'nlgger" in his report. The Con vention,
py test vote, laid Mr.. Burham's resolution i'm
favor OF general amnesty on the table.
VIRGINIA.--ln the Convention Yesterday Am
addiuonal article was adopted providing Tor a
settlement with the State Of West Virginia
about her share OF the State debt, and the ap.
payment of the public debt of Virginia. The
aIahchlse report Will come up next week.
There are three Of the majority report for dis
Irhnchlsing those who are disfran chised by the
reconstruction act A substitute was reported
by Republican member of the committee and
a minority report by the Conservative mem
bers OF the committee. -
GEOaGIA.-The bill Of rights was completed
yesterday In the Convention, and the subject of
relief debated until the hour of Adjournment
Ihe meeting OF tire Radical State Convention
which was fixed for the 18th Of February, has
been postponed to day not announced.
South CAROLINA.-Twelye thousand dollars
in State bills have been received in Charleston
from the State Treasurer, for the expenses m
the members Of the Con Sention. The military
have instructed the civil authorities 10 arrest
MI. Mackey, son Of the President Of the Con-
vention, who assaulted q reporter on Monday.
MIssIssIPPL-In the Convention yesterday
the report of the printing committee was recon-
mttted. MI. Clarke (whitel offered resolution
that no reporter be admitted within the bar vhe
makes distinction in the members of the Oon
ventton. He had noticed that the Clarion's re-
porter had left sMr." on In speaking OF the col.
ored members. A motion to table prevailed by
three majority. gsf u = =
loUIsiAHA.-The Convention yexterdav
adopted the articles Of the Constitution as tnr
rs 49, 81 W ~ FfF - = -. -
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A s.MARRIAGE FOR Fun" ANNuLLED BY THE
CoURTs.-in the Wayne Circuit Court DE
roit, one of the most novel suits for divorce
ever instituted was concluded by the granting
OF The prayer OF the petitioner. The case is thar
OF a marriage which was performed i'm that
city in August last which was first made pub
lie through the columns of the Free Press As
will be remembered, the young man and Young
woman in question. Mr.. William w. Bowers
and Miss Julia l.. Madison, AZ an evening
party. bantered each other 10 marry, ana in the
same spirit Of jest thar prompted the bantering
proceeded TO the residence of a clergyman
where the ceremony was performed, the min
lister, however. not being let into the secret but
supposing the marriage 10 be I'm earnest, and the
intention of the parties bona 6de, 10 become
husband and wife. To the sorrow OF the maid
and the chagrin of her other hall. who had been
made unwittingly husband, the clergyman
pronounced his opinion that they Were moi only
somewhat married, . as Artemus Ward said OF
Brigham Young. but tho truth also came home
to the parties that they were a great deal too
much married. The result was that the vouns
maiden entirely innocent and unsophisticared
in the ways OF married llfe, was Obliged To go
before the Court and have the con SEQ ueuces or
her silly frivolity set aside and annnuled bv
Juuicial form. OF course the young man, the
partner OF her sorrows, did not appear TO de-
fend himself against the claim for a divorce
and the decree asked for by the petitioner was
granted. II
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Dusrse me week ending 60 day there has
b., L recsiVed Al the Treasury Department nom
the Printing Division, s55o-1tO Daring the
same period the amount Forwarded was as Col 4.
lowss-st.0Jo IN - notes 70 the Assistant
Treasurer 81 New York: $40 oto0 iE fractional
curr, ncy Ia the same. - a.lsO 10 the u. =. d.
posltary NJ Cincinnatii SIR, 1851 20 national
banks and othsrs. Toial S-l52. i-6-3r.
The amount OF Sec arIties held by rhe Treas-
nrer OF the Tnited States in trust for national
hanse reported to-day were as follows For
circulating notes, sal ,2io.400 10 secure the,ds-
posl;s OF public moneys, SSS7,-2s,s5O Total,
sS7e.UfS.2-o
The amount Of national hank noteS issued
during the ~eek WAS S6s.0lJsl-making the total
amount issued mp 20 date, -, 6g7s,s5i. Prom
this ts "a b. deducted the following amounts.
hutilatsd bulls returned, e6.O45 055; notes Of IN
solvent banks redeemed and burned hy United
States IreasnTer.-Sis.s6l; leaving an actual
circulation at this date, so. .542. a36
During the week there has been redeemed
and destroyed s53U.loo in fractional currency.