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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-25
The next one is of the racy, piquant style, and
comes from one Of our Philadelphia belles:-

The next one is Of the racy piquant style, and
comes from one Of our Philadelphia belles:-
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16, 1862
Sir:-I, with party OF dozen others, have con-
cluded to answer your advertisement in the -
for q wife. You must be strange specimen of the
yeneou homo when you find 1t necessary to advertise
for wife when so many girls are desiring husbands
don't want you your attention, for already have
enough galants to render me half wild. Each one
imagnes that he is the favored guest nor do take
the trouble to correct any one of them so you see
am not writing to you for the purpose of entering
into any compact or agreement with you. want to
see you. My curiosity In this particular Is un-
bounded, for can't imagine what kind OF an indivi
dual you are. Wont you do me the favor to walk on
Walnut street tomorrow at 10? Walk on the square
IRittenhouse) pavement, having a white handker-
chief in your hand and Will see you. II like
YOUR appearance may let you know me. Recollect
don't say that lcill but that may. assure you
' Should not see you, address note to sub-Post
ONCE, Eighteenth and Chestnut streets, to
What kind of looking gentleman are you Please
let me see you Please give me the names Of the
other girls who write to you; it shall be sacredly
confidential. l only want to know which of my
friends write to you. Excuse the liberty have
taken, and believe me, until you know better,
Yours, lovingly,
This letter says on the endorsement: :-"She dis
appointed. letter to her asking where she can be
Seem"
The next letter is as follows and is written in a
fair round hand:-
NEW YORK, Oct 22-My Unseen nd:-Having
accidenty learned your address Will take the liberty
to write YOU presume you will receive number of
answers to your advertisement i'll the -, but pre-
haps you will also receive other ones that you like
better than mine. My age Is eighteen. am bru-
hs and y0n @ w tha me a s0 s0a @ Ge
accept It, will write brief note for the first one,
but shall write If this is answered as wise man
address, - New York City.
sLothario" answers this one, and swears in the
strongest language that he really loves her for her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

We publish this morning a number of inter
csting public documents concerning our rela-
lions with foreign countries. The naturalization
protocol signed by Reverdy johnson and Lord
Stanley lays down, in general the same princi-
pies on naturalization which were embodied In
the treaties concluded last year by Mr.. Ban
croft with the German Governments. 1t is free,
however, from the odious provision of the
German treaties according to which naturalized
citizens, by the mere fact of a two years
residence in their native land, forfeited
their citizenship in the adopted cOun-
try. In this respect it is a considerable i'm
prOvement over the treaties of last year, and
likely to give more general satisfaction and to
settle forever a question which, in past years
in consequence of the antiquated legislation of
Great Britain on the subject, has caused fire.
quent diplomatic difficulties
By a treaty signed at London on January IA,
1869, the Governments of the United States
and Great Britain agree to refer the San Juan
Boundary Question to the President Of Swift
zerland as arbitrator.
The dispatches from Gen. Mcmahon and
Admiral Davis on our difficulties with Paraguay
convey the gratifying information that Presi-
dent Lopez shows a very conciliatory spirit, and
is willing to satisfy the demands Of the United
States. The dispatch of Gen. Mcmahon, in
particular, sheds much light on the history of
this difficulty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

whole life had excellent opportunities OF study
ing the facial angle as an indication of char
acter; and when he says that we have changed
"our opinion" we suppose that he means to
intimate that he has changed his own. While
the Black was bought and sold, and treated
in all ways rather worse than respectable
groOms treat their horses, and whlle IL
was thought necessary for the natlonM
safety to extenuate and to perpetuaVe
this anomalous condition of wretcheu
race, the Bestial Theory was the one ABOUT
which the most egregious nonsense could DC
most safely talked with just that show OF science
which makes the deepest impression upon lgho-
rant whites. While we do not believe that any
man Of average culture ever conseientiousiy
entertained it, we are sorry to say that there
were those who gave the diabolical doctrine a
quasi appreciation. To all such, whether they
are Doctors of Divinity or Democratic Politl-
clans, the admission of Mr.. Reverdy Johnson
is rebuke which they will feel, If they can feel
anything. 1t is the beginning of the end. Inc
sham ethnologsts had better set their houses
in order, for the day of their departure Is al
hand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The Democratic problem whether a negro is
a man or a monkey, seems now to depend Tor
its solution upon the other problem, to which
class a johnson Ofiice-hOlder may be SAID TO
belong. For it appears that Mr.. Johnsons
Postmaster General has blundered into the
good step of appointing a negro as Post
master in a Virginia town, for no other
reason than because he was competent.
Passing over the question whether Mr. johnson
can afford to tolerate so ObviSus an irregular
ity in the grounds for the selection of office
holders. we have to note that it now devolves
upon the Virginia ethnologists to demonstrate
this black Things incapacity for undertaking
the duties of responsible human being.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

We surrender large space to-day to Senator
HARLAN's late exposition of certain Land
Grants to Western Railroads and his connec-
ton Herewith. We have no room for COM
ment, and little disposition to indulge in any
Mr. Harlan suggests that such letters as Gen.
Boynton's are written because 1.-THE lazzaroni
of the Press are not bought up by the com
panies in interest. Perhaps they are-we can
not say. But those who can afford to buy
&" lazzaronir can afford to buy Senators and
Secretaries ALSO and pay much higher price
than would suffice "the lazzarOni." Let us
have the whole matter ventilated early and
often; it can do no harm and may prove useful
and wholesome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The man who first projected the Pacific Railroad IS
nearly as numerous as his brother who first proposed
Gen. Grant for President. lie bas been identified
with Dr. Carver, Asa Whitney, COL Benton @e.' &c
Mr.. John KING of Dubuque, Iowa, now identlhes MN
with Mr. John Plumbe, Weshman, who settled al
Dubuque in 1886, corresponded extensively win
Eastern journals made tile first survey Tor raIroao
westward from Lake Michigan, and urged the con-
struction of a railroad to the Pacific from the year
1896 onward He called a private meeting III Its
behalf in the Winter of 1851, assembled PUBIC
meeting therefor in 1885, and wrote largely ior inc
journals in advocacy of the project IN all MOSe
years: urging the project in a memorial TO Congress
during the Winter of lSS94O He spent the u's"
following Winters in Washington, urging the su'Va
prise, and in ls49 went overland to CAiliornA NJ
observe the nature of the country. We think "i'
King makes ont a pretty strong case
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The extracts from the diplomatic correspond
ence between Mr.. Seward and the Danish Gov
eminent, concerning the purchase of the Danish
West India Islands, show the eagerness OF tho
Danish Government to get rid Of territory
which is of very little use to it. The first price
asked was s25OOOOOO, but Gen. Raasloif, the
Danish ambassador, at once volunteered the
opinion that Denmark might be willing to take
$2O,OOO,OOO Mr.. Seward, after some DeGotia-
tons. offered sj,OOO,OOO, and the Danish King
and Parliament so promptly accepted the offer
as to leave but little doubt that $1,OOOyOOo
would not have been refused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

We have received an original Public Docu-
ment. We trust that readers who have never
hitherto found us untrustwOrthy will not now in
their haste pronounce this an incredible thing, for
we are prepared to prove it. We have to thank
one of our New-York Representatives for the GU
riosity of which we speak. Mr. James Brooks
is the gentleman who is bringing it to light.
We have received under the frank Of this
faithful public servant and honorable gentle
tleman, that new and novel Pub.
"Doc.," four entire pages long, entitled, " New
"York State Poultry Society" Since Mr.. Sey-
mour studied watermelons and gave us Orations
on cheese, we have seen nothing in the whole
range of Democratic literature more touching
than this sudden devotion of Mr. Brooks
the cause of chickens. We had no idea that
he was 80 chicken-hearted man.
We wish Mr.. Brooks all manner of sue
cess, we are sure, with his Brahma Pootras
and Shanghas. But he should not allow
his enthusiasm for poultry to run away
with his franks. We have searched
this circular of the Poultry Society through.
and can see no sign of any speech in it by Mr.
James Brooks. He has not even Mr. Lynch's
excuse for franking it over the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Tho friends of the late gifted poet. Fitz Greene
UaTIeck who may desire to contribute toward ina
oroction of full-length bronze statue of him, ios
,vhcb n site has been selected by the Commissioners
Of the Central Park, invited to forward their so
scriptons to the Treasurer Of the Committee WHOSE
name appears below, any of the undersigned in'
sum of $4,000 is required for the erection Oh .no
statue. considerable portion of which amount mas
been already subscribed by citizens OF New-io
SAMUEL +. b. MORSE, President. No. West Iwenty-
seoond-st; BENJAMIN II. FRLD. Treasurer. NO. la'
Water-st.; JAS. GRANT WILSON, Secretary NO d Oh
Marks-place; HAMILTON FISH. WILLIAM u Del
ANT John II. GOURiLR, WILLIAM kEMBLE SAME -
b. RUGGLEs. WILLIAM II. APPLETON WILLIAM -
BLoDGErT, ANDREW IL. GREEN. EyARr A. D0iSA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The political craniOlogists who hold that per-
sons of African descent should be regarded as
beasts of burden by reason Of the peculiarly
OF their facial angles, have met with rather
severe blow. Mr.. Reverdy johnson, the Embas-
sabOr who during his residence in England
has made speeches concerning most matters
which can agitate the human mind, upon the
occasion of his recently eating his dinner with
the London workingmen said: We at one
" time in America thought there was differ
"ence-nOt in white skulls, but between the
black and the white ones. We have changed
"that opinion. now" Some of us have some
of us never held the opinion but We suspect
that here and there an eminent philoso-
pher-Pollard, for instance, or Morgan of
0hiO-still adheres to the profound and
well-cOnsidered notion that the African. at the
best is just little higher in the scale of
creation than the gorilla. 1t will give us
pleasure to set off the views of Mr.. ambassador
johnson against those of the learned Helper.
The excellent Plenipotentiary has during his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Ex-Alderman Thomas c. Steers died suuueny
at his residence in Putnsm-aye- Brooklyn on 49,
evening" IN the 4sd year Of his For seyefA yoAi.
was Treasurer ana Manager OF the old Chatham :,
In 1868 lie was the Republican candidate for uhoaSh
the Seventh Ward Brooklyn, and was eeseeu ,sS rat
the Ward was Democratic. lie was reelecteu ~ ~ a.
was unseaed by the Board OF Aldermen On s,s Of his
legged infOrmalty in the returns Al the uAe - Saant
death he was clerk In the Brooklyn Water Depaf
He leaves widow and nve children .HIJ
San Francisco is to be supplied Win zee ii aas
the Of the Sierra Nevada IN eSrs
capable OF holding 500 900 tnns 1I nvs ri, tie
tho Pacific Railroad tRek. ito,n ~ sor 81 the zoe
house whore the water allowed 70 lall h ,hgy AZ
epray into the building below. IN tls mayh nth au
poet TO gradually form mass OF soho 'oo ""i'
tic antIro building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Mr.. Burlingame has been as successful in
France as he had previously been in the United
States. The French press has from the begin
ming both understood and appreciated his mis-
sion, and committed none of the plumbers by
which a number of the English papers stulti-
fed themselves. Yesterday the ambassadors
were received by the Emperor, who expressed
his satisfaction at seeing China take upon her
self the duties of civilization and of interna-
tiOnal courtesy The establishment OF regular
diplomatic relations between China and France
may now be regarded as q fixed fact.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
A correspondent Is. X. FL proposes that VIC

correspondent Is. X. FL proposes that we
impose tax on Government bonds OF so cents
per 800, and that we fund our Fiye-Twenties
in new five per cent. loan! How can man
be SO blind as not to see that taxing our bonds
is sure to defeat the funding of our debt at a
lower INTEREST," Is there grown person who
does not know that assuming right to Tux
our bonds must prevent reduction OF the in
terestP Now that we have peace and union,
we ought to be able to fund even lower than
five per cent; but not if we reserve the right
10 tax the bonds. 1t is amazing that any one
should think to gain by fraud, but that an
embarrassed debtor should fancy that he can
defraud his creditors yet maintain his credit
and borrow at favorable rates, is the most
melancholy self-delusiOn conceivable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

powerful to enforce such protection upon s own than
upon foreign territOryP
Of course there is the usual minority report
that the negroes have committed gross out
RACES and that both parties are to blame,
which sustains its claim to impartiality by adj
yancing no proof whatever of either assertion.
The quickest way to secure order and protec-
ton in Louisiana is to place Benjamin +.
Butler in command of that military district
This would promote the peace of Louisiana
and our financial credit at the same time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

spain is either about to fall back into des-
potism which the Cubans detest, or she is Oh
the eve of advancing to realization of free
dom and equal rights which must deprive the
possession of Cuba of all substantial value ~
is better for all parties that Cuba should now
be allowed to decide for herself, not merely
who shall be her legislators, but where they
shall legisate, and what shall be the nature Oh
her institutions. She has been in leading strings
quite long enough
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
- orx nAuy TRIBUNE MONDAY. JANUARY 25 1863

dians and couldn't in the least see what God
made them for We should think that their
own history would teach them lesson of
Justice We are sorry to say that the expert
ment of treating the Indian like a man is yet
to be tried upon any general scale. If he
must be exterminated, let us at least try to
exterminate him humanely.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

BECOsD PAeE-SL DomngoThs Frsnehl Atlantic Cabe-Lthd
Grants to RailrOadl-E1rA Cornsrs Birthday Reception
XLth Cobgress-Id Session.
C..O Tho Blsisie-EeEel CassTbe Great Smuggling
CNs-Tbs Cubs Insurgeb OBesrA-Ipouss-The Stevenson
Cotton Csse.-The KentaekJ Bourbon CGse.-Tbe Italian
COuhtsreterL-Gs1srll HOeL-TbS Money Asrkes.-Tbs
Markets
sIrH PAGETbs Americas aud Foreign Christian UnOs snd itS Anti
Popery Books-Rsal Estate
BEVEErE PAGL-Sdippbg IuteliRsnee.-Tbs Courts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The effort to repeal the Civil Tenure-Of
Office act remains suspended in the Senate,
and is now thought certain to fail. We cannot
doubt that this result will coincide with the
sober judgment of$fhe country. Now, give
certain notifications concerning the Cabinet,
and let us have the Civil Service bill, and the
new Administration will begin with something
ike a chance for securing reform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
THE BALL s
Bssntss aoiitts.

BURNETT's STANDARD PREPARATIONS
Have osu alluded among the most popular articles made 10
this country. The list embraces:
CocoArSB. perfect hair dressisg
KALIlsroN, a cosmetic for the skin,
FLoRMEL. a delightful handkerchief perfume,
Oriental ToorH WASH. for the teeth aud gums
COLOGNE WATER unvd in richness and deheaey Of perfume 10
sizes and their superior
FLAvoRiSs EXTRACTS Nhres Iesl for cooking purposes
JOSEPH BURNETT & Co. Propueors Boston and NeNYork
wholesale by JoHN r. HESRv No. q Parkrow and dealers
generally ana retail by druggists and family everywhere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1869.
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Smnstmtnis. &t.

BROADWAY THEATER-This Evening.-"The Vic
GINS" aud SoioR Single M. john K. Owens
BRYANTs' NEW MINSTREL HALL, Tammany Build,
ing ForteeuthsL, adjoining Academy Of MuUcThs Evening IL
Trovaore"-" The Rivals DE Soils. the Infant Tenor
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor. Eighth-ave. and Twen-
Tdst-Tbis Evening at ia Perichoe" Nile luna
NEw-IORR CIRCUS Fourteenth-st.-Ihis Evening
AZ 7Dispay oAlete Skill The Brothers RIareh and Melville
Roland, Sacauey, etc
NEw-YoRK THEATER.-This Evening at s." The
Field oftbe Cloth Of Gold" Worrell Sisters
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.-Day and Even
ing
NBIos GARDEN.-This Evening at s.-"After
DARK; London by Night"
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening at S.-The Second
Volume Of IunptJ Dumpty. G. L. Fox, Mile. saugalL ETC.
SAN FIANCsCO MINSTRELs, No. 5S5 Broadway
This Evening" Bone Squash Disblo"
SNEDECOR's ART GALLERY. No 7GS Broadway
This Dsy.-Free Exhibition Of Paintings and CbronoS
THEATRE FRANCAIs. This Evening at S-OpeIa
ROufe-" LIil Crsy6"
THE T,MMANY.-Tammany Hail. Fourteenth-st'-
This Evening at IT,
wAIIAcK's THEATER. - THIS Evening at g.
Money, Lester Ws.hck
WOoD's MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN THEATER.
BroaiWav Threthst-Th krenng at II bntnii o. Inc
Horn Throughout the DayThe Eluger
Poo aud Grand Meuagere Of Living Wild Animals
THE BALL SEASON
The following Balls take place tonight New
Observation-Disclosures Of Music BROOKLYN Caledonia
Enersd AoeatoaBrooku Academy Of Music Sons q Lbe-
Brookes Assembly Rooms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

now, unless they can manage to !get sick, and
to "have it very bad" No sore mouth "
will do now. Nothing short of fresh case of
intense physical agony" will serve their turn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Washington circles have only been able to
ascertain the fact that there are to be two
opinions prepared, in the Supreme Court, on
the consttutionality of the Legal-Tender act
How the Judges are divided, or when the
opinions are to be delivered, remains in doubt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The counsel for the defense in the Blaisdell-
Eckel case were more effective in their sickness
than in their strength. After looking at the
treatment which their efforts to secure delay
of sentence received on Saturday from the
Court, we find ourselves at loss to suggest
anything that can possibly save their clients
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

If there were particle, scintilla, Of truth
at the bottom of this canGrd, it would suffice
to account for Maximilian's collapse and execu-
ton. A governm ent that would give $1,000
OF even two dimes, for the support of most Of
the journals named in the above list, ought to
be doomed to destruction for utter want of COM
mon sense. Yet, while we have no idea that
so much as a tin sixpence was ever paid to
any American journal for championing the
Empire, we should not wonder if some smart
adventurer obtained money from Max's lean
treasury on the pretense that he could. would,
or should, use it to purchase newspaper favor
in this country.
Who can shed any light on this su6jecti
Is there not some one living who knows to
whom Gf to any one) Max. paid money for the
purpose above set forthi Now that the Alaska
"subvention' is nearly ventilated, let us have
the Mexican mystery unmuddled!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Gov. Fenton received a cordial welcome by
his neiGhbors and friends on his arrival. Sat-
urday afternoon, at his home in Jamestown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
CAUTION.

A man named w. H. Chambers has obtained
money from different parties on forged or fraudulent
checks. We the public against him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

The Senate Judiciary Committee, entertain
ing apparently the same views of the Georgia
case~Nwith those expressed in The TRIBUNE,
have decided against the right Of Mr.. Hill to a
seat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Advertisements for this weeks ISSUE Of THK
wEEKLr ne banded in To-Day Price 81 per line
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
THE HARRISON BoILER-ASAFE STEAM Boiler.
$500 Ian 1868

JOSEPH HARRISON jr., es1 ., q,
We willingly aud positively saJ 70 you mar s ny
The 18th instant old not arise from any explosion or '
in in their places IN he ts
careful examination o. te made 81 the Doll
e h oar own people they found entirely ut
slight brrakgeS Of them outside
th brckudr caused evidently by falling wbe during the progress
the FIRE q $1,000,
The water was at proper level the Ores had ont 10 natural
without disturbance Of ashes IN the furnaces and the
Freedom. had been le by the breman ben they
attended II O'Clock the night Of the IRE lhe' are
when st examined except that the water
freeing AZ far as the boilers are con
ready for just as they we're before lhe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
i" SUBVENTIONS."

The Herald has what purports to be a letter
fir ON Mexico, dated Dec. 20 last, from which
we clip the following:
Your correspondent had occasion lately to make a nos
Of the following from the Imperial statistics
SubventOns bubesl to foreign papers, &C. in the United
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
A SET OF FURs

"A SET OF FURS
% CuOlCRsr MIND
j. r. TgRlY's,
No d lui0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25

Some folks can't sleep nights without using
DoDDs NERvNR
Por sale nv an druggists at ~.