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PROPOSALS..
n EPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES
~ SEW ERS, ETC.
OFFICE OF CHIEF COMMISSIONER, No. 1O4 s.


PHILADELPHIA, April 10, 1870.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed Proposals will be received at the 0fIlce Of
the Chief Commissioner OF Highways until IL O'Clock
of q Sewer on the line OF RACE Street, from the
Sewer in NINETEENTH Street, to the east side OF
INVENT IBTH Street, said Sewer to be con-
structed with brick, circular in form, with
q clear inside diameter OF three feet,
with such manhoes as may be directed by the
Chief Engineer and Surveyor. The contractor shall
take bills prepared against the property fronting on
said sewer to the amount of one dollar and fifty
cents for each neal foot of front each side of the
street much cash paid; the balance as limited
by ordinance, to be paid by the city. The con-
tractor will be required to keep the street and
in good order for three years after the
is finished No allowance will be maze for rock eXca-
walton, unless by special contract.
When the street is occupied by City Passenger
Railroad track, the shall be constructed along
side of said track in such manner not to obstruct
interfere with the safe passage OF the cars thereon
and claim for remuneration shall be paid the con-
tractor by the company using said track, as specified
in Act OF Assembly approved May s, 1866.
Each proposal must be accompanied by O GER
tiGcate that a bond has been fled in the Law
Department, as directed by ordinance of May 25,
1860. If the lowest bidder shall not execute q
contract within five days after the work is awarded
he will be deemed as declining, and will be held
liable on his bond for the difference between his bid
and the next lowest bidder Specifications may
be had at the Department OF Surveys, which will be
strictly adhered to. The Department of Highways
reserves the right to reject all bids not deemed sas
factory.
All bidders are invited to be present at the time
and place Of opening the said proposals.
-.,. 80. .. MAHLON II. DICKINSON,
4143t Chief Commissioner of HIGHWAYS
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regard 70 color, etc, remain, in all
respects, unaffected toy the adoption of
the amendment. IL in any State
white men are not allowed to vote unless pre-
viously registered, neither can black men
vote without registration. When the regis
tration next takes place here colored men
otherwise qualified to vote will be entitled TO
register and when their names are upon the
lists there is no danger of their votes being
refused, or of any obstacle being thrown in
the way of their full enjoyment of their
rights. But it is argued that no opportunity
was given last week to the colored men to
register, nor, for the matter of that, was any
given to white people either, who had ac-
quired the right to vote by residence or by
attaining the age of twenty-one years since
the last registration SO there was no dis
elimination in this respect - no privilege
withheld from the colored men which was not
equally withheld from white persons in the
same category.
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DID THE MANHATTAN DISREGARD
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS?
From the N. Y. Times.

Fyon the NJ Y. Times.
We presented yesterday trustworthy
account of the circumstances under
which the Manhattan, of the Williams g.
Guion line, passed the Samaria at the time
when the latter steamer was exhibiting sig
nails of distress. We are quite willing to hear
the statement of the captain of the Manhat-
tan, but it must be very explicit and be sup
ported by weighty evidence TO remove the
reproach which the account we now publish
places him under.
It will be remembered that the Samaria
lost her propeller, and was obliged to put
about and make for the port from which she
had sailed. While lying almost helpless upon
the water she deserted the Manhattan, and
instantly hoisted the commercial code signals,
''engines disabled, and 81 wish to commune
cate, besides firing guns. The Captain of
the Manhattan has declared that he did not
see those signals. 1t is now stated that he
deliberately 'tried to run away, but rocket
was sent up from the Samaria, and this the
Manhattan answered by displaying her en-
sign. She still, however, kept on her retreat
ing course. The officers and passengers on
board the Samaria distictly saw her-although
the Captain of the Manhattan pretends that
he could not see the signals of the Samaria.
The vessels were only about six miles apart,
and the weather was not bad. But there is
independent testimony against Captain For
syth, of the Manhattan. A sailing vessel, the
Elizabeth Yeo, was near the scene when the
steamers met The master of that vessel
writes a letter in which he fully confirms the
account given by the crew and passengers of
the Samaria, and says-''My ship was some
three miles further north than the Manhat-
tan; could see her signals but could not read
them, and also heard the report of the guns
fired by the Samaria, and saw the smoke. !"
He fully expected to see the Manhattan go to
her assistance, and was much astonished''
when she bore away.
The statement submitted by the passengers
is also most important, and amply refutes all
that Captain Forsyth has hitherto advanced
in his own excuse. We have been treated to
some round denials of his guilt. His company
has assured us that he cannot have acted in
the way described. This sort of bald asser-
ton will not do any longer. We must say
plainly that the case looks very black against
Captain Forsyth. There must be proper
inquiry into all the facts, and if this duty is
shirked in any way serious stain will rest
upon the Williams & Guion line, no less than
upon Captain Forsyth.
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CONGRESSIONAL ELooUENCE.

FroD, the Laurence (Kar-) Journal
If speech making would save this country,
il would have been saved long ago by our
modern Congressional statesmen. And if
speech making would ruin it, it would have
been hopelessly ruined long since. The
biggest bore and nuisance of this age and
country is the proneness for gabbling. We
yesterday referred TO a Mississippi State Sena-
tors argument" in favor of reclaiming the
waste lands of the Mississippi valley. We
have something more poetical and less meta
physical in the speech of a Mr. johnson, of
California, in his speech in the House of
Representatives on the subject of Cali
fornia Wines" Without consulting the
Congressional directory, we do not
know whether his name is Joe John
son, A. johnson, or Sam. johnson. From
the speech, we should judge the California
johnson was ''hefty" enough to have all the
names simmered down into one. Our Cali
fornia Congressman quotes from such
spectacle authors as Hesiod, Aratrus, Mean
der, Virgil, Habakkuk and a huge host of
others of like calibre, in the elucidation of
his subject. 'Wine-generous wine!' he
exclaims, 'elevates man to a level with the
gods, and he dwells in mansions in the
skies !" 1t has much to do
with freedom of thought and
happiness in religion The juice of the
grape makes men love one another; it raises
them from sordid earth to sit in sweet COM
munion with the gods, where they see all
below clothed in the most pleasing colors,
and the heavens-illimitable, outstretching
fields of never-ending beauty, of endless JOY"
With Anacreon he cries:-"Press the grape,
and let it pour around the board its purple
shower, and while the drops my goblet steep,
! III think in woe the clusters weep"
Mr.. Johnson is quite as heavy on the de-
scriptive. He pictures rustic, rural retreat
-"Where the unperced shade,
ImbrOwns the neonude bowers"
The grandfather calls to his knee the grand
child, the idol of his heart, and to her he
says:-'Mix me, child, cup divine, crystal
water, rubyw inc; weave the frontlet, richly
flushing, DER my wintry temples blushing;
mix the brimmer; love and l shall no more
the gauntlet try. Here upon this holy bowl
l surrender all my soul !"
Mr.. johnson might have illustrated his
subject admirably by presentation of few
cases of his California Wines, and converted
the whole House at once, at q less expense of
rhetoric and ransacking of ancient libraries.
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THE INCOME TAX.

From the Chicago Post.
The Senate has decided in favor of the re-
tention of the income tax as it exists-the
five per cent rate, that is, on all incomes
over thousand dollars per annum. 1t is
said that the House of Representatives will
not agree to this, whatever may be the
recommendation of the Ways and Means
Committee. 1t will insist upon reduction
of the tax to three per cent, and an increase
Of the income exempted from one thousand
to two thousand dollars.
The propnety of q reduction of the income
tax will not be questioned, we presume, by
any one, and certainly not by any one who
agrees to the general policy of reduction of
taxation, both direct and indirect. That
there should be reduction of one hundred
millions wise policy would dictate. That
there ought to be q reduction of at least fifty
millions no man in Congress whose opinion
is entitled to respect doubts. That those
who pay income tax should have the benefit
of their proportionate share in the reduction,
might seem to be O demand of simple justice.
The proposition, therefore, that it is stated
the House will insist upon is preferable to
the continuation of the tax as it is, in accord
ance with the action of the Senate. There is
still another proposition, however, upon the
subject, which has few advocates, and that
is the entire abolition of the income tax.
LILO SucCeSo VI Illlo plOpOoi1AOh WOuu iOoutt
in relieving large numbers of persons, whose
incomes consist of interest on United States
bonds, from all direct support of the Gene
raj Government, and would be extremely
unsatisfactory and distasteful to the pub
lie at large. The continuance of the tax
as it is would be preferable to its aboli-
ton, but the reduction of the
rate and the increase of the amount exempted
by thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, is
the proposition on this subject on which Con-
'gress can best go before the country for justi-
tication and approval Itshould be observed,
however, that Representatives who expect re-
nomination and reelection will be in many
instances disappointed, if an act for the gene
| raj reduction of taxation shall not have been
successful-a measure which would have been
| law ere this time but for the most unfortunate
fact that the Washington lobby keeps the
| peoples servants nearly as ignorant of the
| demands of the country as is the Chinese
| Emperor or the Japanese Tycoon.
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WAR AND WHAT is WORSE.
From the N. Y. World.


The forced circulation of an irredeemable
currency will ere long be confessed to have
been hardly less expensive to the country
than the war itself, whose cost the paper
trickery was devised to cover and cancel.
When a return to the specie standard shall
have enabled us to estimate values truly, or
what may sooner happen-the census re-
turns shall tell just what we are really worth
in lands and movables, it will be discovered
that the process of impoverishment which
began with the war did by no means end with
it, and all will realize, what as yet few have
been able to see or willing to believe, how
enormously we have been pillaged and de-
spoiled, even during time of peace, by the
plunderers and blunderers into whose hands
we were, for our sins, delivered.
Meanwhile, some idea of the extent to
which paper money and high tariffs can de-
moralize productive industry may be OBJ
tanned by glance at the census returns of a
single Stste-the only one, SO far as we
know, that takes every year an inventory of its
real and personal property, and which is,
from it's position, age, and population, as fair
a sample of the whole country as could be
selected. We allude to the State Of Ohio, to
whose last statistical report reference was
recently made in these columns as showing
an alarming decrease in neat cattle, hogs, and
other farming stock which has taken place
blnce lcOO. we recur 10 IL now lOr hnoIner
purpose.
In that year of 1860 the extent of land
planted in wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye,
buckwheat, and potatoes, and kept in mea-
dow, was G, 6,942, 1S5 acres. In 1868, which is
the last year the report covers, the number of
acres was only 6,302, $3.50, or $50, 796 less than
eight years before. Estimating the diminu-
ti0n of the same staple products by the num-
ber of bushels harvested instead of acres
planted, the showing is even worse. In 1860
the product was 153 millions of bushels; and
in 1868, the last year since the war begun, it
was only 122 millions of bushels--the differ
ence being 81 millions, or 20 per cent
At the same time the production of butter
fell off slightly, and that of cheese
80 per cent Nor has there been
any progress in either manufacturing OF
mining to compensate in any measure fol
this retrogression in agricultural industry
for, while in mining the ratio of progress has
been no greater that in former years, il
manufacturing, if we may Judge by the re
turns from Cincinnati, which are the onl.
ones reported, it only needs we should com
pate the difference in prices resulting from
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THE NIGGER FRENZY.
From the N. Y. Herald.

FTOTW JItt Ns It HtFUIUs
The nigger fever still RACES All sorts Of
fever RACES at different times, but the greater
part run out in a few months or two or three
wears. None was ever before known so tena-
cious as the niger fever. The hen fever, the
shorthorn fever, the California fever, with
other fevers too numerous to mention, have
burned out a certain amount of human vitality
and displayed human weakness in various
ways, but they are mere sparkles in these
respects to the great blaze ofthis niger fever,
that set the country on fire more than dozen
years ago, and has apparently abated none of
its violence yet. How long ago it seems since
we heard the pitiful appeals asto whether or
not the niger was not "a man and brother, -
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PERSONAL.

DISQUALIFICATION WILL BE MADE
IN TO the Cty Treasurer certificates the fol-
lowing City SIX per cent loans, free from all
Certificate No. 19O03 Loan No. a. dated November s.,
Cefti6cSte No. 2s4s New Loan dated November %,
1857 $1,000.
CeTti6cste No. 1884, Liabilities, dated November %,
1857 $1,000.
Certificate No 1885, Municipal Loan, dated November
26. 1867 $1,000. - -
Certificate No. 25,146, Park Loan, dated April 1859,
$1,000 lH th sm
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OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
" s. w. CORNER SIXTH AND SAMSON SITS
PROPOSALS FOR STREET CLEANING.


Sealed Proposals will be received at the OFFIOE Of the
BOARD OF HEALTH until 10 O'Clock noon, the 18th
day of April 1870 for cleaning and keeping thoroughly
clean at all times from the date of contract tohe 3st day
of December. 1871 all the paved streets, alleys courts
inles market houses CUTTERS cutters under railroad
crossings cutters OF unpayed streets and AL other public
highways and the immediate removal of all filth and dirt
thererom, after the has been collected together
Also the removal of ashes and the collection and burial
Of all dead animals in the butup portion of the city
lying north Of Allegheny avenue, known Brides burg
Each bid must be accompanied with certificate from
the City Solicitor that security has been entered at the
Law Department in the sum of five hundred dollars
(S5o0) in compliance with ordinance of Councils ap
proved May l, 1860
The Board the right to reject any and all bids
Warrants for the payment of said contracts will be
bly, approved March 1S, 1869.
Envelopes enclosing proposals must be endorsed PRO
ELIAB WARD, NJ. D., President.
OHAs b. BARRETT, Secretary. 4Sl0t
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JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.
A N DIN A n CE

An ORDIN NCE
IA To Authorize Loan for the Erection of
Bridge across the River Schuylkil at Fair
mount.
Section l. The Select and Common Councils,
of the city Of Philadelphia do ordain, that the
Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby au-
thoTZed to borrow, at not less than par, on the
credit of the city corporation, from time to
time, such sums of money as may be necessary
TO pay for the construction and erection of
bridge over the river Schuylkill at Fairmount,
not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven
hundred thousand dollars, for which interest
not to exceed the rate of six per cent. per an
nun shall be paid, half-yearly, on the first days
of January and July, at the Office of the City
Treasurer.
The principal of said loan shall be payable
and paid at the expiration of thirty years from
the date of the same, and not BEFORE without
the consent of the holders thereof; and certih-
Gates therefor. in the usual form of certificates
of city loan, shall be issued in such amounts as
the lenders may require, but not for any frac-
tional part of one hundred dollars, or, If re-
quired, in amounts of five hundred or one thou
sand dollars and 1t shall be expressed in said
certificates that the said loan therein mentioned,
and the interest thereof, are payable free from
all taxes.
Section g. Whenever any loan shall be made
by virtue thereof there shall be- by force of this
ordinance, annually appropriated, out of the
income of the corporate estates and from the
sum raised by taxation. sum sufficient to pay
the interest on said certificates; and the fur
ther sum of three-tenths of one per centum on
the par value of such certificates SO issued,
shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in
come and taxes to sinking fund, which fund
and its aecumulatons are hereby especially
pledged for the redemption and payment of said
certificates.
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Oily oRplNANoEe.
COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADEL-
CLERKS OFFIoR. I
PH1IApFIpuIA. March 25. Inn

In accordance with a resolution adopted by
the Common Council of the City of Phlladei-
phia on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of
March, 1870 the annexed bill, entitled IAN
Ordnance to authorize loan for the erection
of bridge across the river Schuylkill at Fair
mount" is hereby published for public infor-
nation.
JOHN ECKsTEIN,
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EsoLUTIoN TO PUBLISH A LOAN

Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun-
papers I of this citv. dailv for two weeks the
ordinance presented to the Common Council on
Thursday, March "a, 1870, entitled IAN Ordi
nance to authorize loan for the erection of a
bridge across the river Schuylkill at Fair
mount" And the said clerk, at the stated meet
ing of Councils, after the expiration of four
weeks from the first day of said publication,
shall present to this Council one of each of
said newspapers for every day in which the
same shall be made. 1926 PAT
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IEoAL MorIcEs.

JNTliE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
Il STATES FOR THE EASTERN DiSrhIgI Ot
bbtNNsYLvAklA.T w ss0a. sSWEENpsY, J; p.,, Of
vans, IN the SAID District a Bankrupt who formerly
carried business in Poi adephia, Pe under the hrIn
nsme Of n W; sweeney Jr, sad h.m being conp9seS OF
vii Pa having petitioned for his discharge meeting o
creditors will be bed day OF April, D. l5l
at 9 o'clock p NJ, before Register II. MAIrZBERGER,
his office, No AZ N. Sixth Street. Reading, Pa that
said bankrupt may be finished, and
business Of meetings required by sections ~ Of
the of Congress transacted Tho Register will certify
whether the Bankrupt has cunfortned to mis- duty. A
hearing will also be kad WEDNESDAY tho 27tn day
OF April, A. D. 1870 before tho Court at Philadelphia,
10 O'Clock A. NJ, parties in interest
may show against the discharge. - - -
- Witness the Uor. JOHN CADWALADER,
4, Judge OF tho said District Court, and the seal
thereof, at Philadelphia, the 18th day OF March,
CIR FOX, Clerk
At,est-H. MALTzBEReER, Register. 41 t27
TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR
THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
FLLEN II. SMtrH, by her next friend, etc, VS..
JAMES ID. SMITH. December Term, 1862 No. 70. In
Divorce
10 James ID. Smith. the Respondent - Please
take notice that the Court has granted rule
you 10 show cause why divorce vinculo matrimon
should not be decreed the above Returnable
SATURDAY April l6 1870, at 10 o'clock A NJ, personal
service having failed on account OF your absence
JOHN O. ADAMS,
44mth4t' Attorney for Libellant.
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GOVERNMENT SALES.
GALE OF A NAVY VESSEL

- n II II VI n IN n u . q IL.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BURKAR Of CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 6, 1870.
The Navy Department Will offer for sale at
PUBLIC AUCTION, at the United States Navy
Yard, Brooklyn the 23d day OF April, 1870, at 12
o'clock, NJ, the ive-oak frame, copper-fastened
screw steamer
SEMINOLE,
OF 500 tons, old measurement.
The vessel and her inventory can be examined at
any time on application to the Commandant OF the
Yard. One-haf of the whole amount of the purchase
money must be deposited at the time of adudica-
tion, and the balance within five (5) days thereafter
and the vessel must be removed from the Navy
Yard within two (2) weeks from the day of sale.
The Government reserves the right 10 withdraw
the vessel from sale for any purchaser who will pay
the appraised value with an increase Of ten Q0 per
centum thereto. 45 tuths6t
SALE OF COPPER SCALE
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR,
April H. 1870.
There will be offered for sale at public auction on
FRIDAY, May 6, 1870, at ~ O'Clock NJ, at the
United States Navy Yard, WASHINGTON about
SEVENTY THOUSAND 100000 POUNDS OF COP
PER SCALE, in lots to suit purchasers
1t can be examined at any time previous to the
day of sale upon application to the COmmandant OF
the Washington Navy Yard.
Samples OF similar scale have shown 50 per cent.
OF metallic copper.
One-half the purchase money must be deposited
at the time OF SALE and twelve days will be allowed
to remove the scale from the yard, otherwise the
deposit Will be forfeited 10 the Government.
I AnEpayments to be made in Government funds,
and before the scale is removed from the
yard. 4l9 tuth6t
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SRECIAL NOTICES.

SPECTNC MO ] TCESs
n.y. NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
subscribers to the Capital Stock of THE PEO.
PLIES BANK" that meeting will be held at No IA
s. SIXTH Street, THURS DAY, the 9th day of May
next at 10 O'Clock A. M for the purpose of organizing
said Bank and eecting officers and directors:
ID. b. MCKINLEY,
CHARLES A. MIESTR, O.,
r. ID. BARCLAY,
42tM j. B. WALKER.