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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-28
THE WATER WORKS.

DESPITE the scare caused last summer by the
insufficient supplies of water in the Fair
mount basin, no adequate arrangements ap-
pear to have yet been perfected for guarding
against similar calamity this season. 1t is
true that something has been done. An ap-
preparation was made after months of pro-
.crastination and debate which virtually con-
sumed much precious time, and it has been
followed by an attempt to improve and en-
large the Fairmount works by an additional
set of Turbine wheels. These wheels, how
ever, are not, at the present writing, all
finished and in position. The works
may be in little better condition than they
were at the corresponding period of 1869, but
they are not by any means, fitted to meet an
emergency like that of last year. The old
principle of relying exclusively at the Fair
mount works on water power has been ad-
hered to, and while this continues, no matter
what may or may not be done with the
machinery, the citizens of Philadelphia will
continue to be, in a large degree, at the
mercy of freshets and drouths. The ex-
perience of hundreds of business men has
taught them that, despite the economy of
waterp power, it cannot be relied upon where uni
form regularity of operations is required, and
this regularity is an indispensable requisite in
any perfect or reliable project for supplying
q necessary of life to million of people
To-day three inches of water are running over
Fairmount dam, a week hence this supply
may dwindle down to nothing, while a
prolonged drouth will place Philadelphia in as
helpless position as she was last year.
Councils should not take their summer vaca-
tion until they have thoroughly Investigated
this whole subject and made ample provision
for every probable contingency. The true
thing to do, apparently, is to provide at once
for driving the pumps by steam if water-power
cannot be obtained, but if another or better
plan equally certain can be devised, Councils
should unhesitatingly adopt it.
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CITY TREASURERs OFFICE.
The semi-annual interest due on City Loans July
/, 1870, will be paid on and after date.
JOSEPH f. MARCER,
62S st City Treasurer
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AK E%HI5I ION'
ON FREE EXH HIBITION

AT CHARLES f. HAsELTINEs ART GALLERY
No. lI95 OHEsNUT Street. Braun's famous Autotypes
(of Pars) comprising Paintings, Drawings, Frescoes.
Statuary of the galleries of Paris, Vienna Florence,
Rome Milan, Basle, Saxe-W Wemar, etc. etc, amounting
10 5000 diverse subjects. Also 800 diverse views of
European scenery and antiquities.
Particular attention is called to 'Moses," by Michel
Angelo as before exhibited; the series of
Paintings by Carlo Doci Oaroni Salyi Guido Reni, ETC.
the whole collection of Rousseaus Landscapes and the
Rembrandt Collection of the Gallery of Cassel IL lerp
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nsg- A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE MEM
bers of the COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE ASSO-
CITATION will be held at their Rooms, No 42l WALNUT
Street. SATURDAY July 1870, at l2 o'clock M, to
consider and take final action upon the question of
cepting AT proving act of Assembly passed April
49, A. d. 1870 entitled "a further supplement to act
entitled AN incorporate the Csrn Exchange of
Philadelphia approved twentysecond of January,
thousand eight hundred and sixty ee confirming the
Bylaws adopted by the said corporation known by
the name of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia.
NATHAN BROOKE, President.
WAsHIEGToN j. JACKSON, Secretary.
June IA, 1870. 62l 1St
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nESgH OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
PARAMOUNT PARK, No 224 South FIFTH
Street.
PHILADELPHIA, June 2T, 1870
Military organizations notified that no military
parade can take place within the limits OF Fair
mount Park without special permission from the
Committee on Superintendent and Police, previ-
ousy obtained. This rule must be strictly observed,
to enable the committee to make the necessary
police regulations whenever an unusually large
crowd is concentrated on the spot, which might
endanger the peace and the safety OF public property
BY order OF the Committee on Superlntendence
and Police. DAVID f. FOLEY,
1t Secretary Park Commission
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nSs- A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD AT
Vs. the "MARINERS' BETHEL" FRONT Street,
below Christian, on FRIDAY EVENING, July 1,
1870, to organize Temperance Meeting on the
''Washingtonian" plan. All persons favorable TO
such movement are respectfully invited to attend
and hear the plans of the Society," Constitution and
asSt CHARLES BENTRICK, Secretary.
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nay HARPER'S HAIR DYE-THE ONLY
harmless and reliable Dye known This splendid
Hair Dye is perfect Changes red rusty, gray hair.
whiskers, moustache instantly TO glossy black
natural brown without njurng the hair staining the
for large box. CALENDER, THIRD and WALNUT;
JOHNSON, HOLLOWAY& COWDEN, No 602 ARCH
NELL, FIFTEENTH aud MARKET Streets BROWN.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
PHILADELPHIA, June 2s, 1870
YOr additional Special otses. see The Insid. n

s~S FOR WOMEN, NORTHWEST PENN
SQUARE. -.
PHILADELPHIA, June 28, 1870.
The following named gentlemen were yesterday
elected Directors OF the PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL
OF DESIGN FOR WOMEN
James l.. ClaghorD, W. p. Wilstaeh David 5. Brown,
II. r. Warner, George Whitney, T.. W. Clark, Jay
Cooke, John Sartain, Edward S. Clarke IL
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sk,s- T H E IMP ROVE NJ E N T OF
ROA D STR Rect.
A GRAND MASS MEETING
OF THE CITIZFNS OF PHILADELPHIA
,,.noup,,uESyo9r ESyorng 9fr 1.-The the - er,,,,,r
Will be held under the auspices of
THE BROAD STREET IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE,
OF CITIZENS HELD JUNE I7th 1870
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
ON THURSDAY EVENING,
June 81, at 8 o'clock
All who appreciate the advantages that the thorough
fare OF Broad street enjoys to make it, with i'm
THE FINEST AED MOST IMPOSING AVENUE IN
THE WORLD;
and all who who take an honest pride in o,r,, ,,,u,,
ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE
MEETING.
BROAD STREET IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE
It. T. WOODRUFF, President.
Dr. +. @. MELVILLE, Vice President,
GEORGE S. GRAHAM. Secretary.
JAMES w. HAVENS, Treasurer. 62l9t
my CITY EASURER'S OFFICE.
PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 1870.
City Loans maturing July /, 1870, will be paid on
and after the first day Of July next interest ceasng
from that date.
JOSEPH F. MARCER,
City Treasurer.
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HSyA AN MP PORTAN NOTICE
- TO ALL WHOM IL MAY CONCERN.

B9yH AN M oRTANT MOTTO E.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
The following named persons, if they were on the
Bark ARCHIBALD Oracle, which left San Fran
CISCO California, in 1885, their next of kim will
find It to their advantage to address or call upon
ROBERT S. LEAGUE s. COMPANY, No. 1876 South
SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia. Immediate atten-
ton to this is requested and any one knowing their
present whereabouts will oblige by communicating
as above.
A. M. Spencer, James j. Nichols,
Jabez Nj. Upton, Charles Brown,
G. T. Myers, Absaom Cryers,
Henry Adler, John Baker,
Lewis Scarce William Roberts,
Samuel b. Pngrey, Z. s. Wilson,
Martin Hart, G. W. Hopkins Son,
William Douglas, l.. B. Dresser
William Chamberlin, William Rafferty,,
Daniel X. Colby, ]. H. Painter,
Walter Smith, NJ. Barnes.
Samuel b. Wilcox, r. j. Black,
William f. Willis, r. Blair,
Henry Lowell, Mark Ferr
John DockendOrff, John Anderson,
David LoZen, John w. Walden
j. H. Keller, William Scrioner,
William Davis, William Callahan,
William Ferry, Jonn B. Jones,
Charles Nodine John III. Anxes,
A. S. Young, A. III. Whtner
Sanford Crooks, 62I
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
The Negro senator.

The Senate floor was the center of at.
traction this morning. Rsvels, the colored
Senator from Mississippi, made his ap-
pearspce little before noon, and strutted
several times across the Senate Chamber,
he is shortish, stoutish, yellow as O
guinea, wore snuff.colored overcoat, and
has all the characteristics Of plantation
negro. Out of one corner of his eye he
looked curiously at the seat formerly oc.
cupied by Jefferson Davis, which it will be
his pleasure to till. This will give him,
for neighbors, Kentucky on one side and
West Virginia on the other. The new
fedged Senator appeared very much at
his ease, and moved about under the
escort of Senators Morton and Drake,
who welcomed and made much of him.
Revels was surrounded while in the Sen.
ate Chamber by a crowd of pages and
Newspaper men, to whom he condesoended
to be affable with plantation dignity and
corn6eld grace. he disappeared suddenly
the moment the Vice Presidents gavel
descended on the desk to call the morn
ing prayer. Subsequently Mr.. Morton
inisosgoed bill for the admission of the
State of Mississippi into the Union,
which was read by title and referred 20
the Committee on the Judiciary.-Wash
fncton Correspondent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
Kennedy for the Innrmities of Old

1
Sir Frederick Pollock (says an Eng.
lish paper) appears to have discovered q
new remedy for some of the infrmities
! of age, and be is anxious that his expe-
rience should be made public. We de-
rive our knowledge of the facts from q
monthly medical magazine called the
Practitioner, to which they have been
forwarded by the President of the College
, of Physicians. Sir Frederick Pollock,
best known to his countrymen as the late
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, has long
been remarkable for great mental and
physical energy. He is now eighty-six
years old, and to the great wonder and
JOY Of his friends his strength scarcely in
any way fails him. Still some years ago
he suffered from the indefnable nervous
malaise which is incident to old age, and
which sometimes makes itself knowB in
painful spasms more or less connected
with the digestive system. 1t was neces-
ssry to find some drug that would be at
once stimulant and narcotic in it's effect,
such as tobacco or opium. These drugs,
if taken in moderation, are often found
of great benefit in old age, as soothers of
it's nervous troubles; but unfortunately
they either did not suit Sir Frederick
Pollock or they failed to produce the de-
sired effect. He, therefore, tried ether
the best rectifed ether--which he inhaled
from an ordinary bottle applied to one
nostril; and let us state, in passing, that
the safety of the experiment to some ex-
tent depends on the inhalation of the
spirit through only one nostril.
A few whiffs taken in this way re-
moved spasm and pain, and induces q
general tranquility of the nervous sys.
tenn. Sir Frederick goes on with the
inhalations every day, and enjoys in con-
sequence magnificent health. The guam
tity of ether which he uses is variable;
sometimes it amounts to several ounces
day; but how much of this escapes and
how much of it is absorbed into the sys-
tenn it would be difficult to estimate. 1t
is supposed that but very small quanti-
ties of ether can enter the system in such
inhslations as we have described, since
not only does much escape into the air,
but also of that which is at once actually
inhaled o large proportion is again ex-
hailed. Never, in any case, is 80 much
of the vapor absorbed as to disturb con-
sciousness or to cloud the intellect. Nor
is sleep in any way at all compelled,
although by the removal of nervous irri-
liability it is favored.
Sir Frederick Pollock is, we observe,
able to sleep for as many as eleven hours
out of the twenty-four-bu this includes
q regular midday siesta Whether the
remedy which he has found so happy in
its effects on himself will suit Others who |
may suffer from the irratibility of ad-
vancing years is question in which |
London medical men are just now much |
interested; but at least the experiment
seems to be worth making; and in view
of the facts which we have recorded, it
might not be bad plan for any of us
who have elderly friends, to whom we
wish many happy returns of the present
season, to consolidate our wishes in a
bottle of the best rectifed ether.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
Publisher and Proprietor .

Awoman correspondent of the Spring
Geld Republican has been visiting the
various departments at Washington, and
in recent letter says:
We visited the rooms in which the
women clerks were busily counting the
new notes. Were it not for the abuse
aud misuse the term lady 4" receives
days, l should apply it to those,
who are, with very few exceptions, ladies
by birth and education. Through much
tribulation they have entered into the
clerical ranks, for by loss or suffering
alone can women obtain these positions,
whereas men can eaEily earn them by
votes. And concerning these women,
know, o reportersi that you have been
believed: though, for the ISLANDERS you
have not hesitated to heap upon them,
you have not sought foundation whereas,
in what you have written OF our city, the
chief fault with which you can be charged
is the rather free use of hyperbole If
ever there has been relentless newspaper
persecution of an unoffending class in
these latter deys-I speak Independently
of sorosis or any clamorers for woman's
rights - it has been of those who,
losing their nearest and dearest, and los
ing them, in many instances, in their
country's cause, have come here to sarn a
livelihood. They work faithfully for 1t,
and many have parents, children, or
other relatives dependent on them. They
earn but a scanty support at best, They
ore liable to dismissal at any time. aud
have few or no other chances to obtain
employment when the official axe has
fallen; and in addition to the secure GER
tainty of insecurity, they must patiently
bear attacks of all kinds from any man
who can command place In print, and
worse than all, sneers In opsu debate
from ignorant or malicious members OF
Congress. Acquainted intimately my
self, during the past six years, with many
of the women in each of the departments,
l have yet to meet one such as l have
seen described in the newspapers,
have, indeed, heard of some such, and
have heard of their dismissals, and have
again heard of their being reingtsted ct
the earnest solicitation, or positive In
sistance, of some member of Congress.
Ie these things are true, let the "inHu-
eue,," be reviIed openly, but let Us have
mo wholesale denunciatiol OF women
clerks az 5 class, thus forcing the lnno-
cent to suffer with their supposed guilty
companions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
PUBLIC LEDGER.
The PUBLIC LEDGER is published every Az
ternoon texcept Sunday By
Il. wHITMORE E.

at No. IL Madison street.
The PUBLIC LEDGER is served to City subscri
bers BY faithful carriers at FIFTEEN CENTf
per woek. payable weekly ts the carriers.
By mail lin edvanoe): One year, So; six
months, 81; three menths, 81; one month. II
cents.
Newsdcalers supplied at 2% cents per COPY.
Communications upon subjects Of general in
forest to the public are at all times acceptable.
Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
FIRST Insertion 90 per square
6ubsequent Insertions........... 30 :"
For Ono Week-....................-5 3 %
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N;rht iinaa of NopnaraiI mild conatituta a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
Fhe Neg Post Omce-The work to
be stepped.

It will be seen By note in another
column from the constructing superin-
tendent Of the new postofiice building in
this city that before the close of the
month he viii be obliged 10 discharge
every laborsr now employed on the work.
Il is therefore useless to bore him, with
applications for employment This stop.
page ia the progress Of this important
work is very much to be regretted. It's
construction was commenced with the
most hattering assurances Of being car
ried on without being obstructed BY those
vexatious delays that have characterized
the erection of nearly every public build
ing Of note in the city. An unu-
sually favorable winter also contributed
toward facilitating the speedy compile
ton Of the undertaking. But, alas
the tardiness Of Congress in not granting
spprepristion asked for hy the depart
nent has accomplished what the terrible
old Frost King cogld not=uipped in the
bod he fruits Of the skill and energy Of
tbs architect sp1 his experimenting as
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
The Ups and Downs of Speculation.

Ine UPS anu DoGhB VI
Rev. - is pastor of rich church up
town. Unable TO see why preschers
should not lay aside a little filthy lHers
as we'll as other people, this Reverend
turned his attention to stocks some
months since. As novicss requently do.
he made fortunate hit-that 10 TO soy,
he bought on rising market He con-
tinusd to buy. and the market to ad-
vance, until he had amassed q snug Little
fortune. Then be began to spread him
self, moving into fashionable quarter,
driving fine span Of horses, etc.
Almost every afternoon his spanking
team could BE seen in the Central Park.
He still continued 10 spread. Bat then
came an end TO sll his prosperity. The
bull was followed by q bsar market.
When prices began TO fall he eonEnped
buyiug, averaging at every fresh decline,
uutiI be has finally lost al be made, and
several hundred dollars in addition. His
carriages, horses. fnery, etc. are gone,
and be is now back on bis old status
again, a wiser aud ssdder man.-New
York CorrespoRdenc6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09
BEST FRENCH CORSETS
AT THE
Southern HOOpskIrt Manufact'y

II AIDES viii fnd ii to their Interest to pur-
IL chase French Corsets Of me. as they are
genuine and imported direct from WERLY,
L'0ISEAU, and NINE. DUPONT. Te ladies
desiring a close fitting. durable corset. would
respectfully recommend the Wefly; while the
broiaersd' The Dupsrt l. 4 ,to-f Csr-et. of a
most beautiful patter1- ] have then in sizss
from Is to IS, and promise 70 exchange one
size ior another. until the proper o. is procured.
The fnviIibie watkins skirts TIE only f.sh-
ionable skirt for outdoor dresses, whla fta
NEE PORTE ROBE II indisrenIable = IAe
Tain Dress. Beta Ekirts can be kad ONLY
i1Tion. flso-lo-ksl LOUIS LsN0E
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09

At the late Woman's Rights Conyen-
ton in Washington, 9 member said tbA.
"woman wanfs bread, she wants work,
she wants clothes" Especially clothes.
II there is sauythinga woman wants worse
than clothes It is a husband-nntil she
gets Chicago Times.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09

sistants. The stoppage of this work viii
create trouble sll around-not only with
the Postal Department of the Govern
ment, but with the contractors, the clerks
srtesans, mechanics, laborers and Other
classes, who have made their calculations
upon the steady progress the structure
and arranged their business and domestic
plans accordingly. 1t will also give the
umbrella brigade now occupying the
ricketty old shanty satrized by the name
of postoffice further lease of premises,
which threaten daily and nightly to be-
come their untimely ssrcophsgus.
1t is to be hoped that Congress will
open it's eyes to the NANTES. wrong it is
doing by its hardness in not supplying g
the funds necessary to continue to com
pletion work 80 auspiciously COM
menced as the new postoffice, aud oy
prompt and immediate action make all
the amends within its power. In the
meantime it will be well for applicants
for place on the work to read the before
mentioned note from the superintendent.
-New York Herald.
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-09-23

The speakership has assumed a TRAN
gular form, the Hon. Lyman G. Hinck-
ley of Chelsea, Col. Joyce of Rutland
and Gen. Grout of Barton, severally be-
ing presented by their friends. Person
ally these men are all deserving, but we
certainly think that the west side of the
State can afford to be sufficiently modest
this year, to yield the speakership to the
east side, since the west side have had it
continuously for some eighteen years, or
since 1858, except in 1862. We have
never believed in geography in electing
governors, speakers or congressman, and
don't now, but if we present man on
this side as acceptable and as well quail
fee, it seems to us we have good claims
for his election. Mr.. Hinckley has not
only had several years experience as a
member of the legislature, but has had
four years experen as assistant clerk,
position not unfrequently requiring as
much parliamentary knowledge as that
Of presiding officer On the score of leg
islative experience Mr.. Hinckley seems
to be the senior of either of the candi-
dates named, and it is not unlikely there
fore that a general unanimity may pre-
vail in his favor by the time the legisla
ture meets
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-09-23

Two Horses Killed
AT THE NEW ENGLAND FAIR.

The Manchester, n. H.. Mirror thus
explains how the two valuable horses
were killed at the New England Fair:
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, as
parties were exercising their horses on
the track, the fine stallion Lucius Peel"
owned by G. G. Smith of Corinth, VT,
and the dapple stallion " Lexington"
owned by John Tyler of Lebanon, GO
ing in opposite direct ons about the track,
came in collision, with so much iorceas to
drive the thills of the opposing sulkies
iato the breasts Of the horses. The black
horse fell dead the other suffered bro
ken leg, and the shaft caused a bad
wound. He was ruined, and will I'M
doubtedly die or be necessarily killed
! The horses we're both valuable, and were
said to be worth not less than $4,000
each.
The sad accident on the track, result
ing in the death of two valuable horses,
happened thus: Lucius Peck was GO
ing the way horses go when they speed,
and, according to the rule understood by
all good drivers, was entitled to the pole,
Lexington was out exercising for show
and not going fast. He met Lucius Peck
coming fast, and, as in duty bound, the
driver Lexington turned to the out
side, giving Lucius Peck what he was
entitled to, the inside If Lucius Peck
had kept the inside, no accident could
have happened, but he turned also for
the outside, and thus collided.
Lexington was very valuable stock
horse, his colts selling high, was owned
by company, and John Tyler, of West
Lebanon, was his agent. Tyler did ev.
erything possible to save the horse. He
sent for Martin, of Franklin, Robert
Wood, of Lowell, and Bright of Boston
veterinary surgeons. One fore leg hac
compound fracture, and it was ampu
tated but shaft was run through tn
J shoulder and breast, which would hav
killed him anyway. He bled proiusely
and, to save him from agony, he was hu
namely killed about A o'clock in the al
ternoon