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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-02-20

The sPlendid sleighing in Goshen is ssEsoa4ly impaired by the size of the chim- Reyas some of which are so large a hitch rsin wIn not 20 around them.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08
GtIaHfIaI.

HURST NATIONAL BANK,
OF WILMINGTON,
Depository Of the Public Monies,
AND
FINANCIAL AGENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
EDWARD BELTS, PRESIDENT.
GEO. D. ARMSTRONG;, CASHIER.
Paid Up Capital, .................. 900
kH-Philadephia and New York Exchani fur
nished to regular depOsitors without charge.
Discount days, Mondays and Thursdays, at sk A. Il
DIRECTORS:
CLEMENT B. HMYTH, 9RoRGR W. BUSH,
ISRAEL PUsBY, ELI GARRETT,
HENRY s. M0COMB, JOSHUA I. HEALD,
DANIEL JANIS, WILLIAM TATNALL.
EDWARD BETTE oct1-1y
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08
A GENTS WANTED FOR THE
UNDEVELOPED WEST,
OR,
FIVE YEARS IN THE TERRITORIES
RvT II READTE
BY j. I'll. BEADLE,

Western Correspondent OF Cincinnati Commercial.
The only complete history of that vast region be-
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific: Its resources,
climate, inhabitants, natural curiOsities etc., with
life and adventure on prairies, Mountains and the
Pacific Coast Mr.. Beadle has spent five years ira
Yelling In the States and Territories and knows
cravings of the scenery lands, mines, people, and
UurOslties OF the Great West, and is the best and
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08

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Unless relieved the blood becomes impure by dele
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08
Soldiers Entitled to Homestead
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08

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Il - "a
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Side Curls, Natural ........................ 100
Side Curtis, longer, Natural. ............... 200
Side Curls, very long, Natural. .,,,.....,,., 800
Frizettea, Putfs and ROLES. ,......,,.....,.. rs
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All orders finished within twelve hours.
Combings and old Hair and Hairwork made up in
every style.
LOUIS BALZER, HAIR-DRESSER,
1890 CaBaTNUT STREET, 1880
myo-1y Philadelphia.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08

II EMOVAL,
the ARTISANS SAVINGS BANK
Has been removed to Its new location In the Clay
ton House, where 1t ts now open for business.
Six per cent. has been regularly paid on deposits,
since the organization OF the Bank in 1861 and 1t 10
the expectation Of The Directors that the profits on
the accrued capital and on the regular business will
enable the BGnK continue this rate OF dividends
Deposits are solicited from persons In the receipt
OF reguler incomes from Farmers, Mechanics, and
Dealers, and from Widows and Cnildren's Estates,
and from those whose business enables them to
keep varying balance Of cash, from which, II
placed with us, they will derive an income In the
shape OF
SEMI-ANNUAL INTEREST.
A rule Of the Bank requires notice to be given
Of the withdrawal of Deposits, but In all ordinary
cases depositors will be paid on demand.
MANAGERS:
WILLIAM s. hnLKs, EDWARD DARLINGTON,
GEORGE W. BUSH, CLEMENT B. SMYTH,
NJ. L. LIcHTRNsTRN, GEORGE s. CAPKLLR,
JOHN p. MOLBAR, NATHANIEL r. BENSON
CHARLES W. ROWLAND, HENRY y. DURK,
JOB II. Jackson WIN. II. SWIFT,
ANTHONY HIGGINS,
WIN. 8. HILLES, President.
GBo. W. BUSH, Vice President
sorl4-tf 4. II. TAYLOR. Treasurer.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08

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FRAME AND MOULDING
EMPORIUM
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stock OF all the usual sizes of doors, sash, blinds
shutters frames, brackets and holdings, will be
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and now having factory in the lumber regions,
feel confident can give entire satisfaction to ALL
both in price and quality.
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elsewhere. Il will pay you 70 do 20.
Parties from the country viii have their goods
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08
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TOR PARLoR, CHAMBER, DNING-ROOM
ID FURNITURE, apply at the old eatabliahed
stand OF u. a j. N, HARMAN,
mafal.eodly No. e10 King street.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-08

AsY CARRIAGES
- IN GREAT VARIETY,
at the very lowest prices
VIC are selling these Goods Cheap-vERY CHEAP.
ADAMS d BRO,
soc Market Street.
~FIELn cRoQuRT-
Good. Reliable and Cheap.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05
1n0ex 10 advertisements


ANUsENENTS-Thi Pd0o-5th and 9th columns.
BANKING AND FINANCIAL-Screnh Pdge-lst column.
NG-HoUsEs AND BASKERs-Thtrd PaQe-3d and
4th columns.
BOARD AND RooNs-Third PdQe-Sd and 4th columns
BUSINESS NOTICEs-FOurth Pdqe-1st column.
CHANCES FOR BUSINESS MEN-Third Pdge-2d column.
CORPORATION NoTICEs-Thtrd PdGe-3d column.
DANCING ACADEMIES FOge-3d column.
DIVIDEND NoUCEs-SereHh PGqe-4th column.
DRY GooDS-Third Pd0e-3d column
EUROPEAN ADvERTIsEMENTs-Serenh Pd0e-5th and 9th
columns.
rINANCIAIl-Screnh Page 30 column.
HELP WANTED. MALEs-Third PG0e-5h column
HORSES, CARRIAGES HARNESS. &c.-IhTd P09e-2d
column.
HOUSES AND FARMS WANrED-Screnh PG0e-5th column
INSTRUCTION Pd0e-2d and Sd columns
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MARBLE AND SLATE MANTELs-Sixth PdQe-3d column.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-IIth Page-6th column.
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REAL ESTATE SALE. CITY-Serenh PaQe-6tn column;
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05
THE OPERA.
why not 7

II is one of the unwrtten laws of society
that there shall be no Italian opera in New
York during that bustling season which ex
tends from the first preparations for the
Christmas holidays to the beginning of the
penitential time of Lent. Whether it is too
sad an amusement for the gayest portion of
the Winter, or is only refuge from domestic
dullness, to be sought when the ball and the
dinner party are not in fashion, we must leave
the managers to decide. This year at all
events melancholy has brooded over the par
quet and sorrow has sat in the boxes. We
have seen here a greater number Of artists of
the first eminence than have ever been in
New-YOrk at any one time before-nay, it is
only by some rare accident that so many
could be assembled in any capital of Europe
and yet the public has been unsympathetic,
and the ventures of the two managers have
been disastrous. In the case of Mr.. Maretzek,
disaster was to have been looked for. He had
three singers of great fame, but he had
nothing else and he offered an entertain
ment much worse IN its general effect
than even the patient and uncritica
people of New-York could be expected to en-
dure. Mr.. Strakosch, however has richly de-
served success. He has an excellent company,
more complete, though not absolutely stronger,
than we have heard here before, and notwith-
standing the carelessness that marred some of
the earlier representations of the season, he
has shown>a creditable effort to improve the
lyric stage, and an unexpected Gberality in
his expenditures. That the financial disorders
should have robbed him of his proper reward
seems to liz q public misfortune. IL we are
ever to have q permanent elevation of
the standard of lyric representations in New
York, we must encourage every genuine at
tempt, such as Mr.. Strakosch has made this
season.
Tonight we shall have the last performance
of"Aida" for the present, and on Monday the
company will start on the provincial tour
which for some years tn come will doubtless
be a regular incident of every operate enter
prise in America. II is pity that the SPLEEN
doris of the new opera, 80 far SURPRISING all
previous exhibitions at our Academy of Music,
should be snatched from the gaze of public
which is just beginning TO be enthusiastic
about them and to relish the admirable com
position which they serve to illustrate. Aida"
has given Mr.. Strakoscb, however, brilliant
close to his metropolitan Winter season, and
sent him forth upon his journey joyful and
crowned 80 to speak, with laurel. When he
comes back we trust he may find the city with
money in its purse. and hands outstretched to
bid him welcome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05

tn the natural fluctuations OF prices
a further risk of q change in the price OF the
gold with which the goods must be paid for,
eouaI say. 10 ten per cent OF the value OIL
Tho merchandise. Since gold ranged at from
400 TO ss5 in July, 1854, ten per cent is not an
unfair estimate for the changes susceptible OF
being produced by this cause in the currency
cos, Of FOREIGN goods between the date they
,ere ordercd and the time they were sold or
Maid for The same influence affects the ex-
port trade. Suppose gold suddenly 10 Ian
ten per cent. Either a reduction must DC
made in the currency prices here, or prices
must advance in the foreign market, or trade
cannot 90 on. Experience shows that the
currency prices are more likely to change
here. since, owing to his greater capital, larger
stocks and numerous sources of supply, the
foreign buyer is usually in moro independent
position than the American producer.
II any one will take the trouble to construct
a table Of the comparative prices at various
times in New-York and Liverpool or London,
of cotton, wheat, United States bonds, or any
other staple article of export, he will find
that the fluctuations, as measured by paper in
America, are much greater and more numer-
Gus Clln tnOSe WcaslTcU by SOiu III EHSiahu'
IL il true that sometimes Il fall in prices In
Europe, like that caused for a few weeks by
the announcement of war between France ana
Germany, is partly broken here by an ad-
vance in the gold premium; but the more com
mon case is that of an alteration III currency
prices here produced solely by some operation
in the Gold Room. Since September, lSb9' the
Secretary OF the Treasury has been iooKed 10
by the mercantile community to keep the price
of gold from being carried too high. re-
markably vigorous campaign was conducted
last Summer by this functionary, ana IN
few weeks the Government succeeded IN
depressing the price of gold from llS
20 the lowest point touched for eleven years.
Snch An effect, though often spoken OF as an
Improvement in the value OF the currency, is
more properly described in the common
language as a change IN the value OF gold
We certainly. would not deprive Congress OF
the credit of having kept the volume of paper
quite steady during the last seven years
During that period we must suppose the pur-
chasing power of the grecnback to have steadily
increased. But how has it been with gold
The following table will show the extremes
hatuaon vrhich II has nuctuatpd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05

forward. Before the Company oan pay any
thing on its stock it must meet the interest
on the bonds which have been fched by
a double back-action construction company
created for the sole purpose of enabling
unfaithful officers to put hundreds of thou
sands of dollars into their own pockets under
prctense of spending them on the road. Under
an honest administration of its affairs it could
only DO expected to earn the interest on its
actual cost-namely, S1,5OO,OOO; but by the
Credit Mobiier plan it musti also pay interest
on the much larger amounts which its officers
have diverted to their own use, and thus be-
comes chargeable with the interest on $3,OOO,-
900 of bonds. to say nothing of $2,000,0O0 of
stock. No wonder the Western Farmers are
convinced that the first step toward cheap
transportation il to investigate the affairs of
the railroads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05
GOOD AND BAD MONEY.

On Saturday we showed the wOrthlessness
of our current money as measure OF value
from year to year, touching upon the uncer-
tainty attending all contracts to receive and
deliver money at future time by reason of
the changes which might be made in the in
terval in the amount of paper in circula-
ton. We are further of opinion that our
paper money, considered merely as the
instrument by which exchanges are made,
merits just as little to be called by Mr.. OPP
dyke "the best currency we have ever had"
Gold and silver constitute currency, and
the only currency, which is current through
ont the commercial world. Paper which at
all times and under all circumstances is con-
vertible into gold on demand, like the notes
Of the Bank of England, is practically the
same thing az gold. Such, we are free to say,
was not the bank paper which circulated in
the United States before the war. Whatever OBJ
iections may have been made to Sir Robert
Peels Bank Act of 1874, 1t is universally con
coded that it placed the cOnvertibility Of the
Bank of England's notes beyond the suspicion
of risk. This means that the paper money of
Great Britain can at all times, without dis
count or other loss to the holder, be turned
into the metals which are necessarily en-
ployed TO settle the trade balances of the COM
mercial world. In this respect it differs
greatly from "the best currency we have
"ever had"
In May last the lowest price OF gold was
1864. Since then 1t has been as high as 1lS
and as low az 1861. These fluctuations in
gold imply corresponding changes in the
prices of all the products and manufactures
which enter into our foreign trade. Has
merchant ordered stock OF foreign goods
when gold is lOGl' He may be forced
TO pay for them when the metal IA sell
ing for 1i8. Thus there il Auperadded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05
WAS TT SARCASM!

Occupation 7" inquired the jailer of the
distinguished candidate for a striped uniform
who stood before him last Friday at 'the
Island The great convict hardly hesitated
before answering the searching personal in
ouiry. Possibly his bulky form Strengthened
ND little, and ghostly CLEAN of what
might pass for conscious pride shot across his
face, or more likely-remembering the great
career behind him and seeing the ignominy
before recalling his own relations to politics,
TO government, to the State. and knowing
who and what were his opponents and, in u
measure, his successors--more likely it was
with curled lip and bitter sneer that he
satirzed his age and country when he an
swered Statesman" 1t may be that he
swept the whole horizon with his eye, meas
uring the stature of our entire category Of
statesmen, and that, apprehendins from his
own experience their methods and their aims,
with deliberation and purpose he named him
sef As Of their number. For certainly he was
now no cAait-maker-that was gone with tho
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-05
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER LIBEL SUIT.

Mr. Willis Phelps, Massachusetts, railroad
builder, has sued The Springfield Republican
for declaring that he attempted cOrruptly TO
secure the election of a city government
favorable to the appropriation of an exorbi-
tant sum of money toward one OF his railroad
schemes. The charge was made during the
recent political contest and made, as The Re
publican avows, in the public interest; and
that journal also declares that :" there can
hardly be any dispute about the facts
son either side,n and the only question con-
sequently is, "was The Republican justified in
exposing the character of the transactions,
"and denouncing the man responsible for them
ain the decided and harsh language that it
used"
1t is perhaps unnecessary to say that Mr..
Samuel Bowles meets this question with I'M
bounded pluck and rejOices in the opportunity
to vindicate in q court of law the privileges and
duties Of journalism. This is only what we should
expect of the editor Of so able and conscientious
Il paper as The Springfield Republican. We have
always believed in the policy of libel suits
They are very good things for man to bring
when his character has been unjustly assailed,
and they are very good things for newspaper
to defend when it is sure of its facts and con-
scious of good motives. We have one or two
on our own hands in which we take great
satisfaction, and when they are brought to
trial we mean to make them interesting. If
we are not mistaken, however, the principal
issue in the Phelps-BowleS suit is likely to be
the right of journalist to draw dam
aging differences from well-knOwn facts
in the history of a public man, ana
to make of those differences an ar
grlment against the election of certain
set of candidates. If this is the case the trial
will be one of great Importance. The press
occupies the position of public censor. One
of its chief functions is to scrutinize the char
acter and fitness of men who concern them
selves with the control of public affairs, and
TO criticise them with whatever freedom the
public interests may require. Of course the
journalist is bound to assure himself of the
truth of the charges upon which he bases his
action, and may be called upon to produce his
proofs but when this precautiOn has been
observed his comments should be frank and
fearless. Mr. BOwles feels thoroughly equipped
for the encounter. and we esteem it fortunate
for the profession and the public that this
defense of Independent journalism is to be
undertaken by an editor who has both so
strict theory of the responsibilities of the
press and so high an appreciation of its rights.