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PHILADELPHIA'S sPHYNX-READER


Nature proves little too much for even
the omniscient town-bred reporter. Now
priZe-fght, an opera, or new panier, can be
grappled with successfully there is techni-
cal slang known to all newspaper men which
takes the place of knowledge. But what can
he do with these obstinately uncultured seas
or hills? Usually he gives them the go-by alto
gether, and falls back on trenchant critieues
of the hotel bill of fare or glowing descrip-
tions of the magnificent seaside cottage
where our distinguished fellow-citizen dis
penses refined hospitality, or votes nature
a bore and grimly possesses his soul in
patience till the end of his summer holiday.
But our neighbors of Philadelphia are able
TO rise equal to the occasion. They have q
poet who chucks Nature under the chin, evil
dently mistaking her for a chambermad or
saucy shop girl There is peculiar flavor in
his descriptions which suggests Swinburne
turned milliner. He represents himself as
embracing and being embraced by the
on her most elaborate dress, he informs us,
and gives us hint that she is au .tatt to
Paris colors in the fact that ''the tapering
fingers of the willows that dabble in
the streams wear their deepest gloves
of green. ''His Majesty the Sun" ap-
pears to have Don Juanstic propensities and
''has kissed the trees until they blush all
over, conscious that the fruits of his wooing
will appear in due Season." Not at all dis
turbed by this phenomenon of red trees in
June, our poet proceeds complacently to de-
scribe the frogs as playing the, overture to the
vernal opera, and the winged Parepas twitter-
ing without money and without price, all for
his behoof Madame Nature evidently knows
''the Groves of Barney"
"An' it's here you'll find the swallows warblng
The frogs dsportlng in the verdant mud
The COWS give milk both night and morning
And all to welcome bold Ballen.a fud."
Our poet summons his companions ecstati-
cally to join him. Come ye workers.
Come to me nearer heaven! Taste with me
the grandure and the breezes! "The sphynx
it appears was Nature and not Life, and the
world is tired Of waiting for the man to read
her riddle" Philadelphia has found him.
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obviously fallen, caused this meeting to be
convoked for the purpose of officially pro-
mitigating his opinions. That the meeting
should have refused to take action in the
premises, in this view Of it, meaRs that the
Reverend Mr.. Fulton is left where he clearly
belongs, in a wretched and monomial minor
ity. Sucha consummation is as creditable
to the good sense of all the meeting save one
as it is discreditable to the head and heart of
that one.
The general religious objection to Mr..
Dickens works, so far as they are merely
works of fiction, may be simply stated. All
novels are bad; ergo, some novels are bad,
and the writers and readers of Mr.. Dickens
novels are under a common ban with the
writers and readers of all other novels.
Though this feeling will seem to the secular
public the offspring of an illiberal prejudice.
it certainly does not deserve, any more than
any other conscientious conviction, to be
considered contemplate. But in genera
tion in which q French abbe has written,
without other professional or literary re-
proach, SO admirable a novel as 'tLe Maudit, y
and a Congregationalist minister has written,
without pre- iudice to his professionalalthough
with grievous detriment to his intellectual
standing so wretched novel as Norwood,
we may fairly set it aside as to the vast ma
jority of men inappicable.
Inc Speclal re1SiOuS ODJecJlOuS 10 MT.
Dickens works are of a class which the Bap-
fists of Boston certainly deserve credit for
declining to ''reaffirm To object to an
English novelist, as has been publicly done
by the wise Mr.. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, and the
intelligent Mr. Fulton, of Boston, aforesaid,
for not making American temperance tracts
of his English novels, is as rational as it
would be to denounce the Rig Veda for not
containing condemnations of the practice of
suttee, or the Divine Comedy for emitting
structures on Papal infallibility. The point
that Mr.. Dickens has never drawn either an
amiable or a respectable minister of religion
is of much more moment indeed, but it is a
point which body Of ministers of relg gion
could not decently urge Mr.. Goldwin Smith has
recently attracted upon himself the inextin-
guishable laughter of mankind by assuming
as graphic description of himself the Gcti We
character of an Oxonian professor who was
also a social parasite. If body of laymen
were to resent the deineations of Stiggns
and of Chadband, supposing those delinea-
tions to be meant as classifcations and not
as caricatures, their resentment would be re-
spectacle. Some such course the laic readers
of England and America have tacitly taken by
agreeing to consider the unworthy ministers
of the novels as specimens of morbid ana
tony. But body of clergymen which un-
dertakes to resent the portraiture thereby con.
fes ses its correctness.
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my NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be maize at the next meeting
OF the Gt neral Assembly of the Commonwealth OF
pennsylvania for the Incorporation OF Bank, in ac
cOrdance with the laws OF the Commonwealth, to
be entitled HE CHESNUT STREET BANK, to be
located at Philadelphia, with a capital OF one huu-
dred thousand dollars with the right to increase the
same to five hundred thousand dollars.
nssn AN IMP PoRTAN NOTICE.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
The following named persons, IL they were on the
Bark ARCHIBALD Oracle, which left San Fran
cisco, California. in 1855, their next of kin, will
ma ~ TO their advantage TO address or call upon
kOBkRT S. LEAGUE & COMPANY, No. 1855 south
SEVENTH Street, Philadelphia. Immediate atten-
on to this is requested, and any one knowing their
as above.
A. NJ. Spencer, James j. Nichols,
Jaoez M. Upton, Charles Brown
G. b. Myers, Absalom Cryers,
Henry Adler, John Baker
Lewis Scarce, William Roberts,
Samuel b. Pingrey, E. 5 Wilson,
Martin Hart, G. W. Hopkins x Son,
William Douglas, L. b. Dresser,
William Chamberlin, William Rafferty,,
Daniel X. Colby, j. Ii. Painter,
Walter Smith, NJ. Barnes
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Henry Lowell, Mark Ferrill,
John Dockendorf, John Anderson
David Lozen, John w. Walden,
j. H. Keller, William SCrioner,
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A. S. Young, A. Ii. Whitner.
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S.naIhlssgS. STEAMSHIP LINE.
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A. M
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JULY, 1870.
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and agreeable than ii is at present, while
obviously facilitating the transmission Of the
mails and of freight immensely. At the same
time it will become another bond Of good un-
derstanding and peace.
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DICKENS AND THE BOSTON BAPTIsTs

From the N T. World.
''About fifty Baptist clergymen" of Bos-
ton, the telegraph tells us, ''have met to con-
slider certain pulpit eulogies on the late
Charles Dickens" 1t is unfortunate that
the telegraph does not also tell us what the
''certain pulpit eulogies," " which it leaves very
uncertain pulpit eulogies, may have been.
For it is ''far cry" indeed from the sermon
in which Dean Stanley in effect adopted the
dead noyelist's construction of Christianity
to the discourse in which a Rev. Mr..
Orr kindly refrained from ''passing sentence
on this foolish creature" upon the ground
which, even to this Christian critic himself,
must have appeared the inadequate ground
that the 'foolish creature" would shave to
appear before his Judge and Maker" since
it is evident from the rest of his discourses
that the pleasing MIR. Orr regarded himself
as intrusted with the conduct of tribunal of
at least concurrent jurisdiction with that
to the decision of which he assumes so grace
fully to defer. Between these Loles of theo-
logical thought are all the gradations of CEN
sure and of praise which the uncounted thou
sands of pulpiteers who have commented
upon the death of Dickens have bestowed
upon him and his works. Whether it is the
censure or the praise which the Baptist clergy
of Boston have been convoked to "consider, "
and whether their convocation was meant To
be for reproof or for encouragement we are
no more able to CLEAN from the account of
their meeting than from the record of their
action, which is in these terms:-
Resolved, That the position OF the Baptist pulpit OF
Boston and vicinity does not call for any reatirma-
ti0n OF our principles
The only ray of light which illuminates
the murk of the meeting is found in the fact
that the Reverend Mr.. Fulton is recorded to
have voted alone against this resolution.
Coupled with the other fact that this Mr..
Fulton, as we dimly remember, took occasion
to berate the character and the works of Mr..
Dickens, it seems fair conjecture that the
Reverend Mr.. Fulton, upon whom the mantle
of the Reverend MIR. Kalloch, his spiritual
and probably his parochial predecessor, has
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seSy~ NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly OF the Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation OF Bank, in ac
cordance with the laws OF the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE JEFFERSON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, with the right to increase the same
to five hundred thousand dollars.
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H3Fn OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
- AND READING RAILROAD co. Ne 227 South

s,Ssn NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
~ application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation OF a Bank, in
accordance with the laws OF the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CHESNUT HILL 5 AVINGS AND
LOAN BANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with capital OF one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase the to
tv o hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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nsSg% PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY, Office No. 22I S. FOURTH
Street, Philadelphia June 29, 1870.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books OF this Company will be closed
on the Ith of July next ard reopened on Wednes-
day, July 20.
A Dividend of FIVE PER CENT. has been de-
cared on the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of
National and State taxes, payable in cash on and
after the 22d OF July next to the holders thereof
they stand registered ON the books of the Company
at the close of business on the Ith July next. All
payable at this Office.
All orders for dividends must oe witnessed and
stamped s. BRADFORD,
629 I'm Treasurer.
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HeSgn NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made al the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania for the incor rporaton of Bank, In
accordance with the laws OF the Commonwe 18th, to
be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital OF one million dollars, with the right to in
crease the same to five million dollars.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BRIBE
SENATOR'S.

1t was announced in the dispatches
from Washington the other day that the
investigation in the alleged attempt to
bride Senators to vote against the Bihg-
ham amendment to the Georgia bill had
substantially ended, and that the charge
had not been fully sustained. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, who was one of the wit
nesses, writes April 81:
''The Bullock lobby is still busy in
circulating the report that the investiga-
ton into the bribery cases has come to
naught, and is discontinued. An at
tempted explanation was placed in the
hands of every newspaper correspondent
in the city, last night, and the report
went broadcast that the explanation was
satisfactory to the committee. There is
no shadow of truth in this; but, on the
contrary, it is as false as a deliberate
falsehood can be, The gravest facts
have been already proven before the COM
mittee, and the investigation is but Just
begun. 1t is not at all unlikely that the
efforts at bribery will be found not to be
confined to the influencing of Senator'S
votes against the Bingham Amendment.
Some suspicious circumstances are con-
nected with draft or check of Y1ry
high official of Georgia, in favor of q
newspaper, whose record in tho Alaska
job is not wholly clear, >
The bare suspicion that there was in
the Senate one man who could be brought
would have thrilled the country with rage
and horror few years ago. To-day no
one denies that moneyis lavishly disbursed
at the Capitol. Representatives of States
spring from poverty to wealth at q br:nnd
and one poor seller of cadetships Is thought
to DO a sufficient sacrifice to popular dis
satisfaction and public 1ecency.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24
A FEMININE COMPLAINT.

A lady correspondent of the Boston
Post says:
s'The rudeness and ill-breeding of 8
majority of girls behind the counter are
becoming almost unbearable, and / an
not surprised when hear ladies say they
prefer some store where they employ
male clerks, nor employers when they
tell me they prefer male clerks to female,
because they please their customers bet
ter. Girls themselves are shutting ave-
nues of labor to their sex by their man.
ners to those whom they serve, and all
the work of Teformers viii do no good
until the girls learn TO work with them,
and deserve what they demand"
We are inclined to believe that this
severe criticism is based upon a substra-
tum of truth, but the fair writer does not
seem TO understand the secret of the fault
which she bewails. Women are not par
ticulaTly polite TO one another in mere
business matters, but they generally arc to
men; consequently, while females are in
a measure untitled for those positions
which require themto deal with their own
sex, they may be admirably adapted to
gain masculine trade and keep it They
will not do for dry goods stores and other
establishments of that class, perhaps, but
in genilemen's furnishing goois and such
like, they are, or may be, a success. The
bright-eyed French girls in Paris, who
sell gloves and the muItifarious adornments
and accomplishments of the manly form,
show that in these branches of the mer-
camille profession the dear creatures are
far in advance of all rivals. The peculiar |
which exists between the sexes |
must always be kept in view by those who
ire engaged in transplanting woman into
ler new sphere.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24
A RADICAL JUDGE

The Rev. E. E. Gillenwaters, by the
grace of the Loyal League, Judge of the
first judicial circuit in this State, has
caused the announcement to be made
that he evil be a candidate for re-elec-
ton in August next, provided Congress
does not interfere with Tennessee. The
Greeneville Union, of the goth inst,
gives US this bit of history in regard to
this pious man, who left the care of souls
10 administer the law according to Radi-
oal construction:
'FJudge Gillenwaters refused to answer
the question, whether, during the last
six months, there had been order within
his judicial district; whether the laws
had been executed; whether Union men
and negroes are prescribed; whether
there is need of Federal troops to execute
the laws. His statements were to have
been sent to Washington. He was NOR
ally bound to have given true statement
of affairs. Radical sheriffs and judges in
this and other counties testified unhesi-
tatingly, that the authorities at Washing
ton might be correctly informed But
Judge Gillenwaters did not feel bound to
answer any questions not emanating from
the Reconstruction Committee. His
statements would have been contradictory
to the vile misrepresentation of the re-
construction party and unfavorable to re-
construction. Unless reconstruction
speedily follows, the Judge will have to
vacate his Office. Hence his reticence.
We repeat that Judge Gillenwaters was
morally bound to testify inasmuch as
TRUTH is what the authorities should have,
and TRUTH would materially affect the
issue that is joined between the State of
Tennessee and unprinoipled demagoges.
We had hoped that Judge Gillenwaters
had the moral courage to dare to speak
the truth, though damaging to the cher
ished wishes of his party; and that he
could have raised above selfish motives,
and have been willing to have discharged
moral duty. But in this we have itJ;een
mistaken.
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The Cincinnati Gazette. though

The Cincinnati Gazette, though Radi-
cal, is irreverent. 1t denounces Grants
pet scheme of annexing San Domingo a.
''humbug, and its Washington cores
pondent writes April 81, as follows:
''There is no doubt that active NOVA
ments have been renewed from the Exec
utive Mansion for the ratification of the
San Domingo treaty. 1t is reported that
there are parties here who have power to
extend the time for the ratification of
that flexible instrument notwithst,nding
the treaty itself gives period 70, its own
determination, Whether this he trre or
not, it Is certain that Senat ors hostile m
The treaty have been talked with bv the
President with vieVy of securing their
votes on a future Presentation of the sub.
leot to that bod. The opponents of the
treaty think mat the San Domingo bust
ieSs Is losing ground with the country
tne moe it is discussed, but they are
eqVAlly sensible of the fact that the ap-
r'iiances which are being brought to bear
upon individual Senators are not without
effect
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24
PLIMPTON'S
ROLLER SKATE! +!
Patented Jan, 1868 and june, 1866,
rs THE ORIGINAL
AND ONLY PRACTICAL SKATE
On a Smooth Floor!

Which has yet been devised wherein all the grace
full movements and evolutions of ice skating can
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24
An OLD DOCUMENT-POLI
HORSE RAGING.

A friend has furnished US a copy of the
Alabama Republican, published al
Huntsville, Friday, June 90, 1923. In il
we find document which was quite cele-
brated in its day. 1t is entitled 'Politi-
cal Horse Racing and Presidential con-
test" 1t first appeared in the Nashville
Gazette; and was said to have been writ
ten by Col Thomas II. Fletcher, of this
city. The political proclivities Of the
writer are very decidedly indicated, and
are not favorable to the Hero of New
Orleans. We republish this morning this
ancient document as an interesting relic
of the nast.
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either in or cut Of the Union, rs il sees
fit, and Mr.. Hamilton Fish viii swear, if
need be, that the thing has been fairly and
lawfully done.
An amendment has been offered in the
House of Repre- sentatives by Mr.. Bur-
dette, of Missouri, which is in the following
words: ~ ~
ssSection l. No State or municipal
corporation within any State of the
United States shall levy or collect any
tax for the support or aid of any secta-
rian, denominational, or religious school,
| or educational establishment. Nor shall
the Legislature Of any State, or the cor
porate authorities of any municipality
within any State, appropriate any money
or make any donation from the public
funds or property of such State or muni-
cipality for the support or aid of any
sectarian, religious or denominational
school, or educational establishment.
''Sec. 2, Tie Congress shall have
power to enfore this article by appropri-
| ate legislation.
This amendment has q two-fOld object
The first is to prepare the public mind for
Interference directly by Congress with the
public schools in the several States, so as
to compel them to be made common to
blacks and whites and the second is to
initiate by indirection an assault upon the
Catholics as distinct body of Christians.
In the latter phase is included purpose
to enlist and continue that portion of the
public press which, under color of unde-
| Unable and innumerable metaphysical
isms, all tend to skepticism, and the utter
overthrow of all religion, as well as all
/, morality. The Deists and the Atheists
and corruptionists who now govern this
country have, somehow or other, come tc
the conclusion that the Catholics especial
ly stand in their way Hence this EN-,
hrvO attack
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24
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SPECULATION has been rife as to the
cause of the withdrawal of the legal ten
der cases before the Supreme Court of the
United States, upon which a reopening OF
the case had been granted, but the Wash
linton correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette has hit the nail on the head. He
says: ''The withdrawal of the appeals in
the legal tender cases by the plaintiffs has
caused a general feeling of relief. There
is little doubt that if the recent decision
had been reversed in the manner fore
Swallowed, there would have been for
midable political movement started to re-
verse the second decision by the addition
of more Judges, which would of course
have entered into the next Presidential
election. This movement had already
taken some shape, and embraced some of
the most influential Republicans in the
country