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LEGAL TNTHLxIaHNcl.
The Philadelphia Artisans IustIt


Court of Common Pleas-Judge PaGson.
The following opinion has been delivered
by Judge PaxsOn:-
The object of this association, as set forth
in the charter, is ''the promotion and en-
couragement of mechanical, manufacturing
and useful arts, by such means and measures
as they may deem advisory and expedient."
This is certainly very indefinite, but thero
is a still more serious objection. / have
looked in vain through the acts of Assembly
for our authority to charter an association
with this object The nearest approach to
1t is the power to charter associations for
the promotion of science, but we cannot ex-
tend this to the mechanical, manufacturing,
and useful arts" by judicial Interpretation;
nor can we enlarge the terms employed in the
act of Assembly SO as to embrace other OBJ
jects, even though they may be equally meri-
torious. The term 'science" has a specific
meaning, and is distinguished from the arts
in this, that art is that which depends on
practice or performance, and science that
which depends on abstract or speculative
principles. The theory of music is science.
the practice of it is an art
But this charter is radically defective in
other respects, VIII
l. The membership is not restricted to citi-
Zens OF this Commonwealth.
2. The rights and duties of the members,
the powers and functions of the officers, th Q
qualifications of members, and the causes for
which they may be expelled and the man
ner of effecting the same, and the mode in
which the property of the corporation shall
be disposed of, are all to be provided for
hereafter by the bylaws and ordinances of
the corporation. This would make the char
ter mere matter of form, and enable the
association to introduce into the bylaws the
most obnoxious regulations, without any op-
portunity for the Court to pass upon their
validity or propriety. These are all matters
which should have been clearly defined aud
set torth In the charter, and their omission is
fatal.
3. There is no linitation as To the amount
OF property the corporation may hold.
, There aresother defects in this chartar but
the above are sufficient to require us to with
hold our approval of it,.
number of other charters have been
handed 70 me for examination. With sin
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The official returns to the Secretary OF
State of Indiana show that the average Demo
cratic majority on the Statet;cket at the late
election was 1864,
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R6y= OFFICE OF THE FIRE CoMM1sSG rNERS
OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
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nSSFs TEIE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE
H@~ STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2, 1871.
The Directors have this day declared dividend
OF SIX PER CENT, or Twelve Dollars per share,
clear OF all taxes, payable on demand.
j. H. HOLLINSHEAD,
1210t Secretary
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sPEOIAL NOTICES.

PG% sTEREOPTICoN ENTERTAINMENTS
given to Churches, sunday-schools, and Societies.
Engagements may now be made by inquiringof
w. MITCHELL M'ALLISTER,
Second Story No. 72s oHEsNUT Street, Phiada.
Res- JAMES NJ. SCOVRL HAS ESTABLISHED A
Law ana Collection Agency for Pennsylvania
and New Jersey OF No, bl4 WALNUT Street. ll22s
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ns7p OFFICE OF THE SECOND AND THIRD
w. STREETS PASSENGER RAILWAY co.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4, 1871.
The Board OF Directors have this day declared a
Stock, payable and after the 9th inst, clear OF
tax.
Transfer Books closed until the 18th inst
e. MITCHELL CORNELL,
10 At reasurer.
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DIVIDENDS, ENC.

DIVIDENDS, EN,C.
ROAD COMPANY, ONCE No. 2g. S. FOURTH
Street.
PHILADELPHIA, nov. 80, 1870.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Bocks OF this Company VII! be clos
on Wednesday, the 14th OF December next, and r
opened on Tuesday, The 10th of January, 1871.
dividend OF FIVE PER CENT. has beea de-
Glazed ON the Preferred and Common Stock, clear
OF State tax payable IL cash the 9th OF DeCem-
ber next to the holders thereof, they shall staa
registered on the books 0E the Company at the close
OF busiaess on the 14th OF December. All payable
at this oface.
All ordazs for dvIdendE must be witnessed and
stamped. S. BRADFORD,
l2l6w Treasurer.
sS~S SURANCE COMPANY, ii. E. Corner Of
THIRD and WALNUT Streets
o.,. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8, 1s7l.
At meeting Of the Board OF Directors OF this
Company dividend of SIX PER CENT wes de-
elaree on the outstanding scrip and stock OF the
SompShf' cleaI Vi tsSesI payable on demand
l62W JOHN MOSS, Secretary.
pGyn TIRE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE. OOM-
w. PANY OF PHILADELPHIA.
CoMPANYs BUILDING, No. 400 WALNUT sIREETl
The Directors have this day declared a. diyidiabd
OF THREE PER GENT. on the capital stock OF the
mand, free OF all taxes. ALEX. w. WISrER,
12n Secretary.
n6SsD OFFICE SUSQURHANNA CANAL co.
W. PHILADELPHIA, December 80, 1870
The Interest due on the LIST proximO on the Sus-
auebanna Canal Preferred and Tide Water Canal
Priority Bonds of the Company will be paid at this
onice ON and after said date.
ROBERT d. BROWN
IL 81 lot Treasurer.
ny OFFICE OF EAST MAHANOY RAILROAD
~ COMPANY, No, 226 S. FoURrH street
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 2S, 1870.
A dividend OF THREE PER CENT. has been de-
clared upon the capital stock OF this company pay
able in cash on and after 3lst instant.
l229lft JOHN WEIGH, Treasurer,
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pSyp FARMERS, AND MECHANICS Ma
w. TlONAL BANK,
PHILADELPHIA, December 5, 1870.
The annual election for Directors of tnis Bank
Will be held at the Banking House on WEDNES-
DAY, the 18th day OF January next, between the
hours OF IL O'Clock A. NJ. and O'Clock p NJ.
12Stl1 w. RUSHTON, Jr., Cashier,
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

sSS7s AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CON-
PANY, WALNUT Street, S, E. corner of
At Ihe Annual Election by the Stockholders, held
on MONDAY, January 2, 1871, the following named
gentlemen were elected ,-rrrs
Alexander whflldin, Isaac Hazlehurst.
George Nugent, James l.. ClaghOrD,
Hon. James Pollock, Henry X. Bennett
j. Edgar Thomson, L. NJ Whilldtn,
Albert G.. Roberts, George w. Hill,
Philip b. Mingle, John wanamaker.
Hon. Alex. q. Cattell,
And at a meeting of said Trustees held January 5,
the following officers were elected:-
ALEXANDER WHILLDIN, President.
GEORGE NUGENT, Vice President.
JOHN S. WILSON, Sec. and Treas. 165t
r6y- OFFICE OF THE FIRE CoMMnssGrNER
OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, January 8, 1871.
NOTICE.-Applicanons will be received by the
undersigned for the lease or purchase of such appa-
ratus for the extnguishment Of fires in the judg
ment OF the commissioners may be deemed neces-
replying TO said application are requested to state
the kind OF apparatus they offer, and in what condt-
ton they may be- and the lowest price for the same,
either for lease or purchase.
Applications will also be received for membership
OF the Department. All applications TO be directed
10 the Board of Fire Commissioners OF the City OF
Philadelphia of the Chief Engineer Of the Fire
Department, s. w; corner Of Fifth and Chesn1t
JACOB LOUDENSLAGER, President.
JOHN G. BUTLER, Secretary pro tenn. 146t
n6ss THE LORRAINE VEGETABLE CATHAR-
TIC PILL s far the best Cathartic remedy yet
discovered. The most complete success has long
attended its 1t never fails to accomplish all
that is claimed for it. 1t produces little or pain
leaves the organs free from irritation. and never
overtaXes or excites the nervous system. In all
diseases of the skn blood stomach, bowels, liver,
kidneys Of children, and in many difficulties pecu
liar TO women, it brings prompt relief and certain
cure. The best physicians recommend and prescribe
it. and no person who once uses it will voluntarily
return TO any other cathartc 1t is sold by all deal
ers in drugs and medicines.
TURNER q CO., Proprietors,
10 thstus No. 100 fremont street, Boston, Mass.
R@gn TURNER'S UNIVERSAL NEURALGIA
PILL is an UNFAILING REMEDY for Me- 3
ralgia Facialis. No form of Nervous Disease fails
10 yield to its wonderful power Even In the severest
cases OF Chronic Neuralgia its use for few days
affords the most astonishing relief, and rarely fails
to produce a complete and permanent cure. 1t con-
tains materials in the slightest degree injurious.
1t has the unqualified approval OF the best physi-
clans. Thousands in every part Of the country,
gratefully acknowledge its power to soohe the tor
iured nerves and restore the failing strength.
1t is sold by all dealers in drugs and medicines
TURNER X CO., Proprietors,
929 mwf8l No. 100 FREMONT St, Boston, Mass
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BANKS,

ReIyp CORN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. S, 1870.
The Annual Election for thirteen Directors Of this
bank will be held at the Banking House, on TUES
DAY, January TO-. 1871, between the hours OF 10
II. P. sCHETKY,
1923 ftu tito Cashier.
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1919 eftu tito

RGr SOUTHWARK NATIONAL BANK.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10, 1870.
The annual election for Directors will be held at
the clearinghouse on TUESDAY, January 10, 1871,
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock A. NJ. and II
O'Clock NJ.
1212mwftj1O p. LAMB, Cashier.
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nGyp NOTICE TO SToCKHOLDERs.-A DIvI-
vs. DEND Of FIFTY GENTS PER SHARE will
be paid by the HESTONVILLE, MANrUA, AND
PARAMOUNT PASSENGER RAILWAY COM
PANY, free or State tax, on and after December
27th next, at the office OF the Company, No. 1l2
South FRONT Street.
Transfer books will be closed December 18th and
reopen December 3ist
CHARLES P. HASTINGS,
10 emwu Treasurer.
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NOTrON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF AL
" numbers ana brands. Tent Awning, Trunk
acd Wagon-c0Yer Duck. Also, Paper Manufao
tnrrrsi brier Feta, from thirty 20 BeVenty-aiJ
inchrs with Pauline Betting, Sail rwine, etc
JOHN w. KVERMAN,
Ea 70 QHuRCH Street tOtty StoIeaL
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DIVIDENDS, ETC.
HSyn 1PHIBADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD COMPANY, once No. 22T South
FOURTH Street
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.

EUTE.-Thc transfer books OF the East Pennsy-
vania Railroad Company will be closed on Decem-
Der 81, 1870, and reopened on January 10, 1871.
HENRY G. JONES,
Treasurer,
IL % TIL East PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company.
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KU-KLUX CLANGOR.
Fron, the n. z. World.

From the N. 7. World
Pennsylvania, once represented by Robert
Morris and Albert Galatin and James Ross
and George M. Dallas and James Buchanan,
has now for Senators John Scott and Simon
Cameron. They differ except in this: that
they are both the dependants and agents and
representatives of the huge corporation which
is trying to bestride the nation-do its bid.
ding, and in their time have received it's paw.
Cameron's story, from the days of the Winnie
bsgoes, through the varied phases of getting
into cabinets and being turned out, as the
leader of his own party said, for incapacity,
down to the day of his latest exposition of the
same negative quality in new position, is
pretty we'll known. He rarely speaks, but ex-
plodes occasionally in what may be termed
the gossip of debate. He tells what oc-
CURED at gentlemen's and ladies' breakfast
tables, and puffs the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, as in common gratitude he is
bound to do, and here it ends. Tue
other Senator is of higher qualities. He
has practised law in the county courts,
and has that training which tolerably
long course of squabbling, in Pennsylvania
fashion, as attorney for the same railroad,
with the presiding judge of his district ia apt
to give. To him has been delegated the duty
of getting up the Ku-klux campaign docu-
ment for his party, and he has done 80 in a
bpSSCn SlubbAoVOAJ AOPSASON AZ uG|OC, anu
now asks for and gets more money to keep
the mill of venomous gossip going This
speech now lies before US, and certainly a
more melancholy exhibition of intellectual
degradation, in substance aud in style, in all
our apprenticeship of this sort of stuff it has
rarely been our lot to gazs upon. Our readers
need not imagine we are going to say much
about it, though in its pretentiousness as
party manifesto it deserves some notice 1t
ireafs generally of bandits and Thugs,
"Draco" and the "Holy Vehme, "Jacs
Cade" and ''the Son of David, and thus con,
cludes, and to this passage alone do We direc
attention:-
Over-yolent laws against precedent hlv'
ALWAYS failed. / think u was the 2lst Richard (
which enacted that even the intent u depOse or O.
Kill the King should be high treason with )ut
act; and Ia two years after the act was pa3sar
| Richard III was both depOsed and murdered. No
sir; the truth is this: In North Carolina forty thou
/ sand, according TO estimate-it may be too much q
/ II may be too little-but certainly many thousand
Of the men who were in the Rebel army, wearing
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PATENT OUTSIDES.

From the Lancaster (Pa.) InteHtgencer.
Quite a number of country newspapers in
this State are using patent outsides. That is,
they buy their paper from firm which for
wards it to them with the outside already
printed. The party who furnishes the patent
outside not only makes his own selections,
but he has the right to publish therein GER
tain amount of advertising which he also
selects without consulting the country jour
nalist. A Republican editor in Miffiin
county was astonished the other day
to find his paper sent to him with
the whole fourth page taken up by elaborate
and extended puffs of Brick Pomeroy's Demo-
Ordt His contract required him to publish
whatever was sent, and he could not refuse
to do what no doubt went sorely against his
grain. The patent outside system is a nui-
sance, and no live newspaper men would
have anything to do with it. Every pub
Usher ought to make his own selections
with especial reference to the wants of his
readers. The selections of a country news
paper are fully as important as the original
matter, and as much care should
be bestowed upon them. What is suited to
one locality would be out of place in another
what would please one class of readers
would be distasteful to others. No one can
Gull matter which will be suitable for fifty or
hundred newspapers published in different
editor who surrenders control of one-half of
his paper to some manufacturer of patent
outsides may make slight reduction in his
current expenses, but in the end he will lose
both money and influence.
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ing junction of thoir columns, with the ter
rible design of advancing on Versailles, bat
ss the concentration was effected far in the
rear Of their previous position, and behind
Fort Mont Valerien, it is more probable that
they advanced backward on Paris than that
they reached Versailles. In some of the re-
ports, inspired from Paris, the battle is repre-
sented as a very sanguinary affair indeed; but
as the firing was confined exclusively to ar
tillery, it is not likely that the ranks of either
army we're decimated
What operations followed the flight of the
Communists we know not yet in detail, but
the intimation that the Government troops
again defeated the Communists would
seem to imply that the mob thus thrown into
confusion has not been collected again. The
prompt advance of General Vinoy is unques-
tioDably the proper policy for the Govern
ment, since pursuit will give the Commu-
nists no time to rally for defense against the
army, or to commit outrages upon peaceful
citizens. Thus far the sacrifice of life has
not been great; the danger now is that the
cowardly mob may wreak vengeance on the
defenseless people of the capital before the
Government is in possession for their protec-
ton.
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farms we're overlooked in newspaper rum
maging for Charles Settlers ham and black
coat. But much of that ungenerous spirit
which could discover no equity in the claims
of thousands of Union citizens has happily
been exercised, and the question can now be
met in the Legislature in a becoming and
statesmanlike manner.
II the invasion had not spent its force on
the border counties, but had extended over
the entire State, spreading devastation and
conhagration, and involving all in q common
ruir, it will be readily granted that claim
could not arise against the public treasury
All would be claiming indemnity for all, in a
catastrophe in which all had suffered alike
To tax all for the payment Of the losses of all
would be multiplying the burdens and deep
enipg the public calamities In such desola-
ton of war as that which has swept over
France indemnity for loss is out of the ques-
ton. Neither public resources nor public
credit could bear the immense weight of debt
that would be imposed on the nation, But
such is not the case with the claims made
by the people of the border. The shock
of the invasion fell on five or six counties.
Ia this region fields were laid waste, horses
and cattle driven away, farm houses and barns
pillaged, and a fsurishing town laid in ashes.
In a single day hundreds of citizens were re-
duced from affiuence to absolute want, and
were compelled to seek shelter in the fields,
guided by light from their burning dwellings.
This was not the fate of other portions of the
State. The people elsewhere in Pennsylvania
were prospering, Notwithstanding the inva-
sion. Many citizens enriched themselves in
war which brought in its train woe and de-
ISOLATION to the people of the border. The
State is rich and able to pay those whs have
suffered. No question concerning the public
credit is involved. But the claimants
ask only that the taxes due from the
border counties which we're swept by
the invasion shall be devoted to the payment
of the damages The duty of the State to
protect her citizens will not be denied. This
obligation is recognized in numerous ways.
For the sake of common defense the militia
are organized, placed under the command of
the Governor, and sent forth to repel invasion
or to quell domestic insurrection. If that be
not the duty of the State, Judge Black has
said that he does not know what the State was
created for. When the State fails to defend
her citizens from foreign invasion, or protect
them from the violence of domestic insur.
rectiop, she must make good the losses sus
tanned. This obligation has been repeatedly
acknowledged and the debt has been dis
charged.
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AN OPERA BOUFFE BATTLE.

From the NJ Y Tribune.
promotion has been quick in the French
army" from the time when Claude Melnotte
rose from the ranks to a colonelcy In twelve
months, and Corporal Fritz to be general in
as many minutes, down to the memorable
time when Gustave Flourens was transformed
In brief fortnight from the skulking leader
of Montmartre mob to the commander of a
corps of National Guards. The organization,
leadership, and achievements of the Paris in
surgent army are burlesque upon those of
the opera bouffe, and Fritz and Boom are
caricatured in Flourens and Bergert AS in
every revolution of the kind which affrights
Paris with its passion and terrors, the scum of
the great city is the first to come to the seeth-
ing surface. The Commune has elevated to
place men with only the slightest knowledge
of public affairs; whose brief experience in
war operations has been confined to the direc-
tion of internal machine conspiracies or at
tacks on the Hotel de Vile. These have been
intrusted not only with the liberties aud
safety of city of a million and a half of
people, but have had the temerity to lead to
battle column of hundred thousand men,
lacking in arms deficient in training, and
almost wholly unorganized.
The natural result was the very ridiculous
conflict which we recorded yesterday. 1t
seems to have been principal feature of the
plan of campaign against Versailles that the
Government troops in Fort Mont Valerien
were to fraternize with the insurgents, refuse
to serve their guns, throw open their gates,
and otherwise reveal their incapacity to obey
and enjoy good government. On this sup
position, which nothing seems to have war
ranted, and only blind ignorance aud folly
could have suggested TO the Commune lead.
ers, they occupied on Sunday night several
villages between Fort Mont Valerien and Yer
sailles. When morning dawned On Monday,
Fort Mont Valerien opened a heavy fire upon
them. Then began desperate struggle e.
get back to Paris, in which each individual
insurgent appears to have relied less upon th'
organization to which he belonged than in tht
strength of his own good legs Throughout
the day the fort, and few batteries of fyinl
artillery posted in advance of Versailles, KEEP
up continuous fire on the mob, dispensing i
in every direction. According to their owl
story, the Communists succeeded, by strenu
Gus and almost superhuman efforts, in form
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COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA
~ CLERKS OFFICE.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN FOR
THE EXTENSION OF THE WATER

AIN ONDlNALNOI OhbAllN n LOAN FUN
THE EXTENSION OF THE WATER
WORKS.
Section /. The Select and Common Councils
of the city of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby
authorized TO borrow at not less than par on
the credit of the city, two million one hundred
ana twenty-five thousand dollars for the further
extension of the Water Works. For which inte-
rest not to exceed the rate of six per cent per
annum 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 the
certificates therefor, in the usual form of the
certificates of city loan, shall be issued in such
amounts as the lenders may require, but not for
any fractional part of one hundred dollars, or,
if required, in amounts of FIVE hundred
or one thousand dollars; and 1t shall be ex-
pressed in said certificates that the loan therein
mentioned and the interest thereof are payable
free from all taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan sEall be
made by virtue thereof, there shall be by
force of this ordinance annually appropri-
ated out of the income of the corpo-
rate estates, and from the sum raised by
taxation, sum sufficient to pay the interest on
said certificates; and the further sum of three
tenths of one per centum on the par value of
such certificates SO issued shall be appropriated
quarterly out of said income and taxes to a.
sinking fund, which fund and its accumulations
are hereby especially pledged for the redemp-
tion and payment of said certificates.
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RESOLUTION

TO PUBLISH A LOAN BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun-
ell be authorized to publish in two daily news
papers of this city daily for four weeks the
ordinance presented to Common Council on
Thursday, March 49, 1871 entitled San ordi--
nance creating lQan for the extension of the
Water Works" And the said Clerk at the
stated meeting of Councils after said publica-
ton, shall present to this Council one of each
of said newspapers for every day in which the
same shall have been made 31724t