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WASHINGTON.

take effect on the 18th.
Sumner presented a petition from the
citizens of New England against the
annexation of more dominion.
The Finance Committee reported adj
versely upon various bills abOlishing
the income tax.
The House bill making appropria-
tiOns for revenue cutters passed. 1t
goes to the President.
The Southern Express Co.'s charter
was considered. The amendment, that
franchise shall not extend over twenty
years, and that the Company shall not
be exempt from total taxation in the
States where they operate, was adopted.
The bill then passed. ....
The President was requested to COM
municate any information he may have
relative to outrages upon loyal citizens
in North Carolina.
Drake took the floor to reply to
Schurz. "Stabbing theRepublican party
in cold blood,' sdevilish conspiracy.
&C., were among the milder epithets of
brakes denunciatiOn Of Schurz. Schurz
made brief reply.
Went into executive session and adj
journed to Monday.
Morton offered a resolution in the
Senate requesting the President to COM
municate to the Senate all the Informal
ton in his possession relative to organ
lied bodies of disloyal and evil disposed
persons in the State of North Carolina,
which have in view or threaten resis-
lance to the laws of the United States
or the denial to United States citizens of
the equal protection Of the laws and
their rights under the constitution; and
also what murders and Outrages for pO-
litical purposes have been committed
by such organizations. The resolution
was adopted. ...... ....
House.-The Committee on Claims
reported adversely to the claim of j.
Ross Browne, lately Minister to China.
The bill for the relief of Henry Ewell,
of Baton Rouge, passed. 1t goes to the
President. ...
The bill restoring to the estate of
Sam'l Miller, of Va, al 600 for stocks
and bonds sold under illegal confisca-
ton, passed.
The Reconstruction Committee re-
ported bill relieving number of per-
sons therein named; passed by a vote
of Ill to SO. .........
A bill from the Ways and Means COM
mittee, to amend an act relative to the
collection of duties on sugar, passed.
Adjourned to Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Roderick R.
Butler, of the first district of Tennessee,
was indicted by the grand jury here to-
day for forgery in signing the names OF
pensioners to documents, whereby he
obtained the pension money due them.
A bench warrant was issued and he will
be arrested tomorrow.
The Senate has confirmed PleasantOn,
and the appointments of Joel G. c.
Weirch, Judge for Eastern Texas and
Henry G. Hicks, Attorney for Eastern
Texas. ......... ........,..
Sir Edw. Thornton has received $1,000
for the widows and orphans of the crew
of the Oneida, quietly contributed by
seventy British subscribers headed by
the Earl of Shaftesbury.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


LONDON, Dec. Lett is thought that
Manteuffel is marching on COen ana
Cherbourg. Dispatches from Havre,
however, represent the retreat as pre-
cipitate. ..&<".. ..t -.
A balloon with mails from Paris de-
scended at Honfleur.
LONDON, Dec. 15.-The supply OF gas
in Paris is exhausted.
It is announced that Austria wishes
to maintain the existing guarantees Tor
the European peace act and is DESTROYS
of sparing susceptibilities.
Russia adheres without reservation to
the decision of the approaching confer
ence.
HAVANA, Dec. 13.-Valmeseda has
assumed the Captain Generalship.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 15.-There is perfect
accord between Prussia and Belgium.
The latter has been officially thanked
for good faith shown by her in her
steady and practical adherence to neu-
trality.
BORDEAUX, Dec. 15.-The sub-prefeet
of Havre, in a report received here, de-
MES having sent the dispatch announc-
ing the French victory at Paris. He
mentions, however, that there is a gen.
eral and precipitate retreat of Prussians
in the north of France.
The balloon which landed at Hon.
fieur is not yet received at Bordeaux,
but a dispatch from the aerOnaut says
he has good news from Paris.
Gen. Palladine has retired from
service. 3.
Paris letters of the 18th announce the
situation good. The repulse of the Army
of the Loire and the recapture of Orleans
has not discouraged the Parisians.-
There is a general demand for more
sorties and universal approval of the
answer sent by Gen. Trochu to Gen.
Moltke, and the people all say they will
resist to the last. The measures taken
by the government since the commence
ment Of the siege are accepted willingly
by the population. Having insured it.
self against waste Of provisions, ofwhich
there are enough on hand to last till Feb
ruary, the government will again have
fresh meats rationed to the inhabitants.
There are other provisions enough to
last six months.
MUNICH, Dec. 16.-The Chamber of
Deputies passed a bill appropriating
forty million forms for military pur.
poses.
The Federal treaty has been referred
to special committee.
MADRID, Dec. 16.-It is said that the
] first act of King AOsta will be to give
one-half of the appendage Of the Crown,
amounting to. twenty million dollars,
to the treasury.
FLORENCE, Dec. 15.-In the Italian
Parliament to day, Senior Lauroza
made powerful speech in support of a
bill relative to guarantees to be given
/ the Pope. He said the Catholic world
demanded every guarantee which it is
possible for Italy to cOncede.
BERLIN, Dec. 15.-The Bismark Or
gan insists upon the convocation Of con-
suls-general, and that there should be a
selection therefrOm of delegates of Ma
tional Conclave to consider the recon-
structiOn of the French Government,
with the view to peace proposals. 1t is
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Rumors insist that plediscHe Is no"
proceeding in Paris
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Butler' Oh
Tenn held in two bonds Of $1,000 eacii
for two forgeries. His colleague otohe7'
went his bail.
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TELEGRAPHIC.

Especial to the Daily Telegraph
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MISCELLANEOUS.

PROVIDENCE, Dec. 16.-Burglars at
tempted to rob the bank in North King
stOn; burned the bank and town records
of 100 years.
ALBANY, N. v, Dec. 16.-The river
is full of floating ice. Noon boats from
New York have not arrived.
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NEW YORK, Dec 16.-The worlds
special, London, 18th, says: "Proofs OF
the Prussian scheme for the restoration
Of the French Empire, come from every
ouarter. Bismark says that this is the
only way we can do, and that the Re-
nublic of France will fight forever.
The fall of Paris can produce no erect
The Prussian course is to make terms
with the Empire and go home, and let
the French fight it out among them
selves"
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equibble that Republicanism ia not neoes-
sarily weak or monarchy necessarily strong.
That lesson taught to Germany,
explained, analyzed, and pondered on
as it would be by German pro-
fessors, orators, and soldiers, would
in the end be fatal to the monarchy now
holding its Belshazzsr feast up there in ver-
sailles, with all mankind save the Revolution
at its feet. This is the experiment which the
General of the Revolution is trying and in
which, in spite of ali hostile circumstances,
he may yet succeed. We doubt if there is a
Tory in Great Britain who, as he read Carl
baldi's instructions to the franc-tireurs-pub-
lisbed in the Daily Neacs, did not perceive,
as by a revelation, that this was not an sim
spired idiot" or second Massaniello; but q
military genius of q new type, and of the
most singularly original force. That those
regulations will be obeyed we are scarcely
able to believe. They require an educated
population, and the French are not educated;
population careless of military execu-
tions, and the French dread them
very much. But that, if obeyed, they
would, at hideous sacrifice of life and trea-
sure, rid France of her invaders, we have no
doubt whatever, and can well understand
how angrily Count Bismarck glances at the
possibility, how harshly German officers feel
inclined to carry out the terrorist rules in
tended to prevent such war. Those terrorist
rules may succeed for human nature is weak;
but they may also fail, for of all threats, the
one against which human nature rises up
most courageously is war without quarter,
and it is war without quarter which these
executions of Francs-tireurs proclaim. CT
am to die if taken; then / will die fighting"
even Hindoos are capable of that simple syl-
logism, and it is one which at all times made
insurgents formidable. If they fail, the free
war may give as severe shake TO the Ho-
henzollern system as the hostility
of the revolution is certain to
do to the Hohenzollern dynasty,
and it is both these chances, pregnant with
possibilities of future overthrow, which the
King and his Minister are developing by con-
tinuiDg the war. Had Jules Favres offer been
accepted, Germany would have retired almost
unwounded, arbitress of Europe, and by the
consent of all men entirely in the right.
Were she to accept them now, she would
retire with her future assured, her power far
beyond attack, her enemies in France alone.
If she protracts the war by demanding terms
which Paris untaken cannot grant, she may
obtain Poland in the West to join hands
with the Poland in the East but she may
also retire empty-handed and sorely wounded,
while she must retire knowing that hence
forward between the revolution and the Ho-
henzollern dynasty it is war to the death.
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SUPERIOR DUTCH FLOWER ROOTS.
On wednesday Afternoon,
November l6, at O'Clock, at the auction Roo ms
three cases Dutch Flower Roots, Hya6ntns, etc. u
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. Q, 1870.
The Board OF Directors have this day declared a
CASH DIVIDEND OF TEN PER CENT. on the
CAPITAL STOCK, and SIX PER CENT. interest
on the SCRIP OF the Company, payable on and after
the 1st OF December proximo, free Of National and
State Taxes.
They have also declared O SCRIP DIVIDEND OF
TWENTY-FIVE PER GENT. on the EARNED
PREMIUMS for the year ending october 81 1 SO
certificates Of which will be issued to the parties
entitled to the same, and after the 1s OF Decem-
ber proXimo, free of National and State Taxes
They have ordered, ALSO that the SCRIP GER
TIFICATES OF PROFITS OF the Company, for the
year ending October 81, 1866. be redeemed in CASH,
at the ONCE of the Company, on and after 1st OF
December proXimo, all interest thereon to cease
on that day.
BY provision OF the Charter all Certificates Of
Scrip not presented for redemption within five
years after public notice that they Will be redeemed
shall be forfeited and cancelled on the books of the
Company
No certificate OF profits issued under S25. By the
Act OF Incorporation, ''no certificate shall issue
unless claimed within two years after the declara-
ton Of the dividends whereof 1t is evidence"
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THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE co. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
once S. w. cor FOURTH and WALNUT Streeta
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
CASH Capital (paid up in fully 5000 900 90
CASH Assets, October 1910 ............. $751; 1919
DIRECTORS.
F. Ratchford Starr, ]. Livingston Erringer,
Naibro Frazier, James L. Claghorn,
John M. Atwood, VIM. q. BeultOn,
Benz. Il. Trediok, Charles Wheeler,
George III. Stuart, Thomas H. MontgomeI
John III. Brown, James M. Aertsen.
r. RATCHF0RD STARR, President.
THOMAS II. MONTGOMERY, Vice President
ALEX. w. WISTER, Secretary.
JACOB K PETERSON Assistant Secretary.
IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE co.,
LONDON.
EBTABILsHBD lSOSs
PALd-up oapitsI and Accumulated FnndA'
ssS,OOO,OOO I'm GOLD.
PREVOaT 81 HERRING, Agents,
No. I01 s. THIRD Street. PhilAdsIphiA
OHAs. N. PREvosg oHAs =. HERRhHe
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COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF ALI
u numbers and brands. Tent, Awning. Trunk
and Wagon-coyer Duck. Also, Paper Manufae
turers' Drier Felts, from thirty to seventy-Ei-
Inches. with pauline, Betting, San Irvine, etc.
JOHN w. EVERMAN,
No. 10 CHURCH Street iCiiy stogasl
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AbtIBIIttb 3 SAFE IN BankruptCy.
STOCK, GOOD WILL, UNEXPIRED LEASE, AND
FIXTURES OF WINE-HOUSE AND RECTI-
FLYING ESTABLISHMENT.
On Friday Morning,
18th instant, at 10 O'Clock, at No 22 South Fourth
street, the stock and fixtures, by order OF V. c..
SWeatman assignee, Ii162t
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ROOFING.

~ E D Y r o o 1 N g.
II, This Roofing Is adapted TO all buildings. II
can be applied 10
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-hah the expense OF tin. 1t Is readily put on
old Shingle Roofs without removing the shingles.
thus avoiding the Damaging of ceilings and furniture
while undergoing repairs. (No gravel lsedl
PRESERVE YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WHL-
TONS ELASTIC PAINT.
am always prepared % Repair and Paint Roofs
at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE BY the
barrel OF gallon; the best ana cheapest IN the
w. A. WELTON,
alU No. III N. NINTH St., above Ooatesa
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THOMAS BIRCH & SON, AUCTIONEERs ANp
Il COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 11lO Ches-
NUT Street; rear entrance No. 11VT SAMSON street.
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Sale 21sb Walnut street.
HANDSOME CHANDELIERS, FINE FRENCH
PLATE MIRRORS, RICH CARPETS, ETC.
- On Friday Morning,
Nov. 1s, at 10 O'Clock, by catalogue, the handsome
svered chandeliers and gas brackets, cut lustres,
three fine French plate mantel mirrors, handsome
gilt frames, rich Administer Wilton English, BruS-
sels and other carpets, English oil cothse III 16 ct
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ASSETS OF THE COMPANY
November 1, 1870,
PHILADELPHIA. November Q. II

November i, 1870.
100000 United States Six Per Cent
Loan lawful money! -. 1888, $500
100000 State of ltansylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan. an.................. 2140OO 90
100000 City OF Philadelphia Six Per
TAX. Observation-Disclosures. POI, 1920
Cent. Loan. ................. les, $4,000
10000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Bonds. ds........................ 9O,7OO'Oo
$4,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Bonds. ds........................ 95,25OOO
$4,000 Western Penn. Railroad Mort
penn. r. R. guaranteeS .... 100000
$4,000 State OF Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan. ................ 100000
Cent. Loan. .................. 100000
pany, $50 Shares stock ... 100000
Company, 100 Shares Stock. 100000
10000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mail Steamship Company, so
Shares Stock. ......... ~. 100000
first liens on City Properties.' 26l, $4,000
s1,26O,1bO Par. Market Value. 81 99s, $3.50
Cost, s, 1854, ,44I34.
Real Estate s56,OO)Io
Bills Receivable for assurances made. 230,9Tl'2I
Balances due at Agencies-PTemiums on
Marine Policies-Accrued Interest and
other debts due the Company .......... 9S,S75I7
TONS ST $50 Estimated value. $4,000
Cash. 142,9l1T5
81 800, 1877 '9T
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The HeIr-Yan RIper Contract.

This celebrated Instrument in
volving the city in an expense of
over three hundred thousand dol
lars, was conceived in secret.
and, as Mr.. Richardt tersely re-
marked, under suspicion" circum-
stances. No opportunity was offered
the people or their representatives in
the Council to scrutinize it, as such
contracts ought to be examined. 1t
was written by the man who expect
ed to obtain the benefit of its provis-
ions, and it was forced through the
Council on the same evening it was
presented, another most improper if
not equally Suspicion" circum
stance. No other resource was left
the people but to examine the docu
ment, and comment thereon, after it
had been signed. sealed and deliver
ed''. This the JOURNAL has done
fearlessly and eandidly. 1t is a re
markable fact. that the taxpay-
ers can not have failed to
observe, that the Water Works Com
mittee have met none of our objections
to the contract with good argument.
Loose and garrulous - not to say
bibulous = defamation against the
men who have signifed a willingness
10 construct the Water Works for
from twenty to forty thousand dollars
less money than the contract obligates
the city to pay Mr.. Weir. is all the
defense the Committee has to offer.
We are not surprised at this. The
conduct of the Committee in awarding
the contract without publicly solicit
ing bids, or competition, is utterly in
defeusible. and no one is better aware
Of this fact than the Committee them
selves. Yet the Courier impudently
asks Whether the Water Works
Committee have done aught of which
they should be ashamed"
We published the full record of the
Committees operations, the other day,
and to that record we continue to call
the attention of the taxpayers. We
challenge the Committee, or any of
its friends, to find similar record of
ring manipulation, involving public
improvement of equal magnitude, in
the history of any city in the country.
The Evansville Water Dog is an ami
nal without peer.
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IT was rumored. Tuesday, that the
demand Of the people that the loca-
ton of the Water Works be changed
from Lamasco to some point above
the sewers, was becoming irresistible,
aud negotiations were pending, if not
actually consummated, for the pur-
chase of some lots up town. 1nas
much, however, as the contemplated
change involved the necessity of a
consultation with Mr.. Weir, the con-
tractor, Mr.. Van Ripper started on the
morning train to interview that gen.
tleman. We presume it will not take
that distinguished engineer long to
tell Mr.. Van Ripper the difference in
the cost of the drift pipe and laying
the same above town, and in the place
designated in the contract-eleveu
hundred and fifty feet from the inter
section Of Leet and First Streets
The difference will not be more than
twenty-five or thirty thousand dol
lars-a mere bagatelle, in the esti
nation of great fnanciers.
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begins W securing the acquisition Of
fine merchant vessels.
In the steamer. which brought US
to Athens, an English Captain was
returning to his home, having taken
out a fine vessel. the Stamboul."
built to order for Turkey, and a sec
ond, called "Galata" is to be deliver
ed soon. Although ostensibly run
by a company in the Southern Black
Sea trade, it was understood that the
Sultan promoted the adventure: he
was also on board of her during her
trial trip in the Sea of Marmora.
The English Captain manned her
with SO officers and sailors, besides
himself; the Turks retained one or
two subordinate officers, chief engin-
eer. an Englishman, and then reduir-
ed seventy men as sailors; because if
/ it blows a little, or they want to
| let things take care of themselves.
This English Captain said to us that
every English seaman in his employ
ment is returned to his native land +;
such being their maritime law, the
Captain therefore engaged and paid
their passage and pays their wages
until they land in England. Their
fare to Toulon averaged about $50
each.
The immense wealth of the Sultan
(his income on account of his Egypt
ian and other dependencies, being. it
is said, greater than that of any Eu
ropean sovereignty, enables him to
originate and pay for gigantic under
takings; but the want of energy and
enterprise in his oriental subjects, will
be great impediment to success in
their completion.
Before closing my remarks regard
ing Turkey. I ought not to omit the
mention of the kind attention re.
ceived from the Consul General, to
whose experience in Turkey few
lines of introduction from our distin.
guished Speaker of the House had
politely consigned US.
My next letter will be chiefly on
Athens. Very sincerely yours,
RICHARD OWEN.
P. 5. Since rewriting most of the
above, kilograms bring us news Of the
destruction by fire of nearly one-hall
of Pora aud Galata, with great loss Of
life, and immense destruction of prop
erty, the Turks being badly prepared
to extinguish fires. 70.
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look into the matter fully, and if there
is any party jobbery in it, the people
shall be duly notified thereof. In the
meantime we advise the Commission
ers to conduct public business with at
least an approach to such fairness as
would be required of them In private
business transactions TIRE Hdute
Express.
Pshaw your Democratic Commits
sioners are behind the age. Our City
Council can learn them several things.
Down this way, we let the contractor
make out the plans and specifications,
and give him the contract at his own
price, without the annoyance of coma
petition. More than that, we pay
him ninety per cent. of the work
done every two weeks, on has oa0n es-
Inmates. If that is not an improve
ment on the Vigo Commissioners, we
can't tell an improvement when we
see il.
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Strategy Profound.

The Water Works Committee are
giving out through their friends that
the sections of the Weir Van
Ripper contract, indicating that the
Water Works were to be located be-
low the sewers, are merely strategical
put in to enable the Committee to
secure good bargains up town. The
strategy was most too profound to
meet the appreciation of the people.
With common sense obtuseness, that
must be painful to the astute Com
mittee, the people persist in asserting
that the Committee ought first to have
secured a good location above the
sewers, and then made the contract.
This could have been done easily
with proper management. As the
case now stands, all the owners of
property have been notified of rare
chance for bargains. and one or two
important sales have already been re-
corded, based, no doubt, on the Cour-
ier's declaration that the Works are
to go up town.
Similar strategy is being developed
in the sale of the bonds. The Com
mittee first give the financial world
notice that the city of Evansville
must raise too hundred and thirty; fre
thousand dollars IN cash. from the sale
OF bonds, by the first of February
next, and then gravely issue the
bonds and asks capita lists to pitch in.
This strategy, like that with reference
to the location of the Works. is so
profound that the people fail to COM
prehend its wisdom. On the latter
point, however, they have the word
Of the Chairman of the Water Works
aud Finance Committees that the
tonds shall not be sold for seventy
f1t cents or eighty seven and half
cents, meaning thereby, no doubt,
hatthey must bring ninety-or fifteen
Ier cent. more than the same Com
mittee obtained for the wharf bonds.
II the Chairman makes his promise
good, we shall be the better able to
comprehend the strategy of his ope-
rations.
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THE very loose and unbusiness like
manner in which our Democratic
County Commissioners have conduct
ed advertising and letting of contracts
for bridge building attracts much at
tention. To advertise for bids on
such works, without plans and
specifications, is a piece of folly-to
put it mildly-that is far from credita-
bic to those officers. It deprives the
county of fair competition, which is
grossly unjust; and it affords an oppor-
fuuity to bring accusations against the
Commissioners which those gentlemen
should have avoided. We propose 10
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A WESTERN GLANCE AT EASTERN
SCENES.

ecutaPi and q Turkish Cemetery
Ava Sophia, and other MOsks-
STEAMBOAT, hlppOdrOme Square and
A01uncts-The Museum or the JAM
iZarIes-Russians and Turks Com
DaPed-FareWeIl 20 COBStantin0Dle
Entrance into the DaPdanelles
or HellespOnt.
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