THE DAILY EVENING TELEGKAPH. miLADELPIIIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1867. THE NKW YORK TBESS. IDITORIAL OPINIONS OP THE LRADINQ JOURNALS UrON CURRENT TOPICS. OMFaKI ITIil DAT 90B EVKHINO TKLBOKAPH. Was the Confederacy aHebelllont JYom Ihe 71mei. The Richmond Enquirer, In discusMng the fcew proposition ol some Southern men lor an adjustment of the difficulties of the present situation, announces Itself as willing to yield on Bome points, If necessary, to quint distrust and uneasiness at the North. It especially speaks of the supposition of danger to the public debt Irom the votes of Southern men tor Its repudia tion, or for the assumption of the Rebel debt, and admits that if an explicit affirmation would quiet these fears, it would be wise to make it. It adds, however, that "the language employed should bo Inoffensive, and such as bonorablo men will recognize as applicable," from which peneral statement we apprehend no one will UHler. Now tho laneunee of the pronosltion in ques tion on the subject is as follow!: Section 2. The public debt of the United States, authorized by law, shull ever bo held sacred and inviolate: but neititer the United States nor any suite Btuill assume to pay any debt or Obligation incurred in aid of Insurrection or rebellion ng.iinst the Government or authority Ol the U lined States. What could be thought of any man who should declare that this language was oil'ensive or inapplicable? O.iizht be not to be stigma tized as one who was unable to look at the quettion in a fair spirit, or unwilling to accept the result ol tlie late struggle, and as one dc Birou of keeping up the present turmoil, rather than of securing peace and quiet by a reason able 8(1 bill IKSlOll ? Yet tins is the ground whbh the Enquirer lakes. It does not, Indeed, in express words describe the section an oitcuslve. and yet it U ciuite plain that it feels it to be such. "The terms of the Becond section above," it says, "do not embrace the Confederate debt, and would not bind our iaith, as tne Confederacy was neither an insurrection nor a rebellion." And jet, while usiu such language as that, the ii(uirer talks ot the majority of the Northern people as waging a "cruel and unjust war upon our society." If any justification were needed for lb adoption of stringent measures a&amst the South, it would be loan I in the prevalence of just such a spirit as is indicated by these words. Tho great question of the war waa whether the Confederacy was a rebel lion or not, and the verdict ol arms, to which, tribunal the appeal was taken, was emphati cally that it was a rebellion, and nothiug else. And yet such pnpers as the Lnquirer in one breath declare that they have accepted the results of the conflict, and in the next declare that the Contederacy was no rebellion, and shall not bo spoken of as such by us, who were the triumphant parties in the struggle. What if it bad been a question to be deter mined before the Courts, and the tinal judgment had been given that it was a rebellion, and the deteated party had coolly told the viotor that be was willing to arrange the matters with him, but it muft be on terms that were not "otfsn Eive," and weuld b binding on an "honorable man," and that anything which Bpoke of it as a rebellion would not be binding on him ? Would not the successful party be rather apt to say that it the other siae insisted in this way on still retainine the subject ot the controversy, he would try to see what the powers of the Court "Would accomplish in carryiug out its decree? These people at the South may as well under stand that the American nation has decided that the Confederacy was a rebellion, and if they propose to be a part of the nation, it must be accepted as such by them. They must allow it to be spoken of as such in the laws and public documents of the nation, and not consider such an appellation to be oflensive. They must un derstand that when the nation speaks ot rebel lion, it refers to the Southern Rebellion just as much as to Shay's rebellion or the Whisky In surrection. Their relations with the nation "will never become normal and healthful until they have become educated in their modes of thought to accept that as the actual relation of things. We do not expecf them to feel so all at once In their hearts; but the sojnor they come to feel it to he so, the sooner will the discord be tween them and us be banished. And to arrive St that state, they ought to put a bridle upon their language, and recognize the situation as it isitt their words, whatever be the wish ot their hearts that it were different. We do not, of course, mean that forms ot words alone will restore harmony between the divided sections; but we do say that they will assist poweriully; and that, on the other hand, to persist in a mode of speech which is appropriate only to an opposite result from the actual one, is to proloug the discord and postpone the harmo nious reunion of the nation. The New Bill for the South The Right Beginning at Last, JVom the Herald. The right beginning is balf tho battle, and Congress, in beginning at last at Appomattox Court House, gets at the right end of the thread of Southern restoration. The new bill from the Joint Committee of Fifteen, like the pend ing Constitutional Amendment, covers the diffi culty. Chaos reigns from the Potomac to the Bio Grande. Over all that unreconstructed region the Dred Scott decision against "nig gers" and poor Union whites fearfully pre vails. Under Mr. Johnsou's State establish ments the civil authorities too otten wink and connive at the doings of ruffians and outlaws; and when a military officer undertakes their punishment, be is ttopped by a revocation of his orders. Hence, the new bill providing temporarily to divide the territory of the ten outside Rebel States into five military districts, each under a Union General, and all under the supervision ot General Grant, and the laws and regulat'.ous of a military government. This, iu wiping out all the unauthorized doings of Mr. Johnson, is going buck to the point of Lee's surrender, aud beginning the work fie novo, and the authority and tue power are "With Congress, and the occasion justices its ' proposed action. The opposition fire-eaters of the nouse of course regard this bill as a terrible Cninese dragon that is to devour us all without pepper or salt. "The death-knell of civil liberty," "miliary despotism," "light lor our liberties," "xauipai ts of the Constitution." "rock the land like aii earthquake," "hre, sword, and destruc tion," and all such trash, twaddle, and futian, are the staple of thoir arguments. Give thetn brimstone ami molas-es, moonshine and green cheese, doughnuts and bounv clabber, pretzels ana laser, tandaugoei and fiddlesticks, aud you have them. We have described the bill. It ts a simple, seasonable, lawful, aud practical measure of legislation. It only proposes to rei eve Mr. Johnson ot the cares and troubles of the States concerned for a short time, and to put them under the caro of General Grant We think this a capital idea. Mr. Johnson has blundered much worse In his rffnrta to set uo attain the disjointed Stales of the late confederacy than "little Mac it" in his unfr ' tunate ellorls to put them down. When General Grunt took them in hand the kid-glove policy cave way to the LBKed bayonet, and Quaker irima were beard ot uo more, tie saw that the ntv argument with tbo Southern Confederacy was a regular thrashing, and so he thrashed it out of the boots of Jen. Dauis into absolute sub mission. To i re never was a job so difficult so neatly and thoroughly done never in all the ' .Ariil Just at that point when those Rebel o.wi tlipir chiefs and followers lay ab0' lutely at the mercirol the Government, and were jtady to comply with any terms just then, had Mr. Johnson not been blinded by his unexpected advancement to the While Houe, he would have called Congress together and laW tlm whole business of reconstruction before the two Houses. That was nis path of safety and ucocm. In taking the opposite course, and in holding to it, he hac brought himself at length to thai paw from which he must back oat or be oast over board, like Jonah, Into the depth of the sea, whale or no whale to pick bim up. Having forborne unM forbearance hit censed to be a virtue. Congress, assuming its rightful authority, proposes now to cast aside all this clnmsv, slipshod patchwork of recon struction attempted by Mr.JJohnson.fund to glvo Geiipral Grant atrial, is, he not the man for the task? Does he not thoroughly understand the necessities of the Rebel States on beha f ot law and order, and do not the ruling politic Uus of those Stales 'thoroughly understand bltn ? We dare say that under this ouj me very name of Grant will produce such a chanae all over the South among all classes, Rebel fire-eaters, Yankees, native white loyalists, nogro'-s and all that they will think the millennium Is comine-, and thank God for tho end of "Andy Johnson's policy." Under his mesmeric sham pooing the Southern politicians believe in tbo delusions that be has given them only their constitutional rigWs, and that the two Houses ol Congresses tliey stand are illegal, aud some how or other will be compelled to give way to "the Union as it was" and to the South as It was in the Senate ot 1800-61, including Jell. Davis, Toombs, Pcnjaniin, Mason, and Ullduli. But (,'eueial Graur, under this bill, will soon dispel all tuch mesmerisms. We rannot doubtit when the measure is advocated by such sterling and intelligent Union soldiers as Generals Thomas, Sheridan, Schotield, Baird, Wood, Sickles, and others, wbos Southern experience aud ser vices, even since tho war, entitle them to the highest respect. As to the present status of tho rebellions States, inside or outside, or half way, it is euoueh that they are not recognized by Con gress as reinstated in tho general Government under the legislation ol the Executive. They stand (excepting Tennessee) as they stood with the surrender or the lat of their Rebel armies, sul ject to the terms of Congress. Mr. Johnson having no authority to prescribe the terras or make the laws of their restoration, all that he has done, In being at last repudiated by Con giess, goes for nothing. Such, too, is their con dition of general demoralization and couf'uslon, from his blundering policy, that the etllcient in tervention of Grant is needed to restore the primary elements of law and order. This object he can hoon achieve, and fhen the Constitutional amendment, made the supreme law by three fourths of the Stutes constitutin? the general Government, will without difficult? bo made the basis of Southern State reorganization, from Virginia to Texas. We car a no more for this party or that party than ihe man in the moon. The Herald, regardless of Presidents, parties, or party leaders, aims to be the organ of that public opinion which gives shape to the measures of the Government and the manifest destiny of this great Republic. So now we stand bv the sovereignty of Congress as the law-making power of the Union, by the issues of the war and the ultimatum ot the North. The A'cw Reconstruction Bill Dora It Sleun what It Seems! f Vom the World. Toe bill for romandius the South to martial law and releasing General Grant lrom his mili tary subordination to the President, aims at something dillerent from what appears on its face. It is not possible that men of ordinary discernment should pass it with the expectation that it can be executed. It aims to repeal that part of the Constitution which declares the President Co.nmauderin-Cb.iuf of tho Army, and .that part of it which forbids the habeas corpus to be suspended except in times of rebel lion or invasion. To expect the Supreme Court to uphold a law repealing certain portions of the Constitution is preposterous. Tne sudden ness with which this bill has been sprung upou tne country, as well a9 tho crudeness of its pro visions, indicates that dt is an impromptu manojuvre to uwet an unexpected emergency. There is no evidence that the idea of this bill occurred to anybody until after the Southern gentlemen, who came to Washington to consult the President, had digested the plan which the South is about to propose as a compromise. That plan was intended to be kept secret until some Southern State had acted upon it; but its premature disclosure in a Richmond paper put the radical Congressmen in possession of it, and they immediately set their wits at work to head it oil'. The new bill has been begotten and born since the Southern plan came out. It takes everybody by surprise, not because the secret ot the Reconstruction Committee was well kept, but because the conception of the bill preceded its birth by so short an interval c; at there was no secret to keep. It is the fruit of a hard strain suddenly put upon the ingenuity of the radicals. The reason why the Southern movement car ries consternation into the Republican camp is, that it bids fair to frustrate their purpose of postponing restoration until after tho Presiden tial election. It will be carried into the elec tions of this year as a test question. If tho Re publican party oppose it they will be deieated, and the way be opened tor their easy overthrow in the Presidential contest. Thcv are estopped lrom opposing it with any ettect before tue people. They must promptly circumvent it by u coup de main, or lall beiore it. The Southern plan runs so closely parallel to the Constitu tional amendment w hich the" Republican party have in so many forms indorsed, that the honest men of their party cannot be brought to oppose it. It diners from tho Republican amendment bv omission, oulv in tailing to distraucnise the Southern leaders a point having no eilect on any permanent policy, ana wuica is treated as transient ami subordinate in the amendment itself, the diabtlity being made removable at any time by a two-thirds vote ot Cougre.-s. As an onset and compensation, me soumcrn plau proposes to bestow impartial suffrage irre spective ot color, the same property or educa tional qualification belntr required alike of all. vv 11 a wnat nice cnu int iteiiuuucans oppose mis oll'pi ? Their leaders have a lace to do anything, but fhev cauuot carry with them the honest masses whom tuey have taught to approve of the Constitutional amendment. On every stump and in every political conversation, tho Repub lican leaders will be challenged to state why thev reject what is substantially their own plan. Thev will be required to explain why they de nounce this vear what tney piudeii to the skip's last. It will be perpetually thrust iu.o their laces that they are willing to kerp the Union dissolved for what they themselves confessed ubs a temnorarv ana minor consideration, and this, too, when that sliaht change is compen sated bv the great couce-siou 01 impartial sui frage. "It thpre U any honesty or fairness re- nuuninsr amoDg men, tne ivfuiiuiiuau ienun cauuot carry tue people with them, n rejecting the very terms ot restoration vtuiuu mcy tucui- selves propo-ed. it is thtir quicK perception 01 me uranun ui the Southern plan, and ot tho infinite embar rassment it niuet cause them it tt gets fairly preieuted. that has precipitated them into the clumsy mamcuvre of putting the South under martial law. This is their mode of making an official declaration that the South has no Staio Governments. The Southern plan is to be piopo-ed through th Southern Siato Legis latures, in the regular form of applying lor an ameudnient to tho Constitution. An amend ment which those States apply for they will be pledged to ratify, thus putting tho feasi bility ot this plan of restoration beyond ques tion. Differing from tho Republican amend ment but little in substauce, it will diifor lrom it i niirely in being pracicable. For Congress to pass an Immediate resolution declaring that there are no State Legislatures in the tsouth, through which such apian can be proposed, would be a little too barelaeed; aud so they have hatched this crude aud blundering bill, w hich enublus them to make the declara tion with a dillerent ostensible aim. Tho bill is a proof of their alarm at the new plan, and is designed to head it oil by disputing the compe tence ot the Legislatures that are to propose it. Congiess wiil then affect to treat the Southern plan as the irresponsible proposal of usurping bodies of Rebels, of which our Ucrermnent can no more take cognisance than it could hve held Intercourse with th Rr-bel Congress during the war. That this Im thn dodge which is masked under their absurd bill, we have no doubt. Martial law can be justified only by some urgent, overpowering necessity; but there Is no emergency In the South calling for this citrpme measure. It is not Intended for the protection of the white inhabitants, Hnd tne blacks have all ihe protection which any legislation can give them, lu the comprehensive and strineent Civil Rights bill passed at the last session. Being culled fur bv no necessity, pretending 10 aim at things for which tho amplest iPKislattve firovislon has aheady been made, the bill is a alsc pretense to cover a fraudulent desisra. It the Southern plnu can be got lairly before the country, it will be adopted, and the Immediate restoration ot the union wnicn woum iiito upou tollow would bung into the Presidential contest seventy elecoral votes certain to be cast aeainst the Republicans. Hence this violent effort to strauele the Southern compro mise in its birth. The Death Penalty. lYom the Tribune. The countrymen of Reccarla have carried to their legitimate conclusion the principles of that remarkable philosopher, and capital pun ishment is today abolished in Italy. This bappcLS at a time when the most aivanced and liberal of our own State Governments can rarely be appealed to with success for a commutation ot the death sentence. While in republican Massachusetts tlie gallows s'.ill bears ita horri ble fruit.nionarchicul Italy Is so fnrjonltghtenei by tlie liberty she possesses as to have cut away with the axe of a pioneer! tlitit tough old relic of barbariprn. Her suffering experience ot the policy of public murder taught her the justice of the act. Her history for many decades was a compendious torture tho gibbet set tip in the shadow of the church doing a bad business in the ninking of mai tyrs or criminals. Italy, line France, has had opportunity In her day to examine lor her.-clt every variety of capi tal punishment. Every part of Europe has had a full share of the dlsmil record, dating back to davs when executions weie thick as leaves in Vallombrosa; when Sir E.lward Coke wrote "What a lamentable thing it is to see so ianv Christian nr-n and women sfrangle on that" cursed tree of; tue eallowsl" Alter so many ceii.uries of murderous legislation, of one kind or another the death penalty having been assigned to every crime, troin larconv up to murder Europe is realizing not 100 soon that killing by law is not the vindication ot justice, but a violence upon its tirst piineiples. Italy has abolished the deatu penalty, and it is prol abie that helgiutu is about Ui do the fame. Thus, the policy ot Europe is tending toward- humanity; for ;he obvious reason that nuniHiinj 11 economy, th.it it pays best ana costs least. European sei.tiup'iit Is so tar advancing that a lct:nl of the prosxre.-s of the anti-killing movement will surprise some of our native ; patrons and c.ou:trvtnnisof liaiipiiv-. Tuscany, j influenced by ttie wi.-.doin o' the Marquis 1'ec- curia, abolished the punishment of oeath, ex perimentally, in 17o5. Atter twiuty-ouo years' trial of the reformed penal code, tlie Giand Puke Leopold, in 17;ti. Uecreid its perpetuity, averring that "instead of increasing the num ber ot crimes, it had considerably diminished that of the s mailer ones aud rendered those of ' an atrocious nature very run- " "The mildness j ot the penal legislation," reports M. Rerenger to the French Deputies in lfiiil). ' had so fur im proved the character of the Tuscans, that there 'wa a time when the prisons of the Grand Duchy were nearly empty." This noole example has no doubt been effec tual in the slow tut evident gravitation of Europe towards reform. In France, in the la?t four years ot which the statistics are acccsiole, little more than one-ha'.t of 04 death condemna tions were carried inio effect. Out of 127 sen tences tor murder iu f ruspia, lrom 1858 to 18G2, there were but thirteen persons executed. In Austria, during ten years ending with 1804, ninety-tive per cent, of death sentences were commuted. From 1830 to 1803, the whole num ber of death sentences pronounced in Hidgmni was 810, of which only hlty-seven were iullicted, or lessthan two lor every year. In Portugal the last execution occurred in 181C; in a large partot Switzerland there have been no execu tions for thirty-five years. In Denmark, Swe den, and Holland, the commutations have been ninety per cent, or more, England, with the most cruel ot criminal codes, condemned annu ally to death in the ten years ending with 18:12, nearly 1280 persons, out of which number the annual average of sentences carried luto effect was not niore than fifty-nine. Rut in the decade ending with 1SG2, the an nual number of condemnations fell to CO, of which about 11 were executed, so that even England, brutal aud remorseless as her peuul system has been, aud still exhibiting tlie horri ble spectacles of public executions, prepares to array Lersclt on the side of humanity aud com nionsen.se. We cannot assure ourselves that even iu this iree and humane republic the record of the death penalty is quite so credit able as these .-"talistics of "the "tyraunous sys tems" of Europe. In Massachusetts, for twenty years, up to 1805, says Governor Andrew, "the record discloses only 10 executions out of 28 convicticns, leaving 18 commutation:'." Rut Massachusetts, with her tendencies tocnlighteu nieut on the subject of capital punishment, can not stand m this respect for ihe country. If in each State of the Union tbero have been two executions iu the course of the year, our portion of responsibility for the taking of human lite would seem to be as great as that of France or Enelaud, or in shamelul exce.is, if we judge ourselves by the standard ot that superior en lightenment and freedom we claim to possess. The commutation of the death penalty has long been the subject of eloquent argument nnd appeal bv the be,t men ot every country. With rare ability, Robert Kautoul pleaded lor it years ato beiore tho Legislature of Massachu setts, as did Mr. Livingstone before that of Loui-lana; and in ibis Slate, in 1841, Mr. John L. O'Suilivan, in a paper remarkable lor its logic and research, urged it upon the Lezisla tuie. It is well remembered how certain min isters of the Gospel, fired with a pious zeal tor the cruelty of the old Jewish dispensation, and determined to employ the Bible to keep man kind in a state ot ieligiou destructiveness, opposed the able effort ot O'Suilivan and other men on the side of reiorm and progress. They nude the Bible the buttress for capital punish ment, and. iu the words of Dr. Lebbeus Arm Btr. ne, declared that "the commutation ot the murderer's sentence was virtually a repeal of the Divine law." In oilier words, to quote the same extrava gant pamphleteer, "It man may legislate Into oblivion one of God's laws because it is bad, then all Divine laws and penalties mag be abolithtd lor the same reason." Tho educa tion of these earnest gentlemen did nut allow them to reflect profoundly on the full scope and meaning or the commandment, "Thou sbnlt not kill." Had thev done ... thew would not, with divine and humun nature to a-sist their interpretation, and with the revolting spectacle ot the gallows in view, bavo ren oeied it, absurdly, "Thoushalt not murder, but shalt kill him who has murdered." Happilv, the growth of nature in the bosoms of the most Levitical of clergymen has effected a cuiinge in some too narrow views of Scrip ture and of men, and the present sentiment on the sublect of ccpital puuishment (witness the amnesty extended to the South) is much advanced. ' At all events, the death penalty here aud in Europe gives forewarning of a eure thotieh slow decease. Its commutation' and abolition are proofs m various degrees that mankind is growing better; for it is simply axiomatic that as the aggiegate of society does less and less evil by example, so individual crimes must diminish. "Kvery punishment," says Moutes quieti, "that does not arise lrom absolute neces sity is tyrannical;" and it has been proved ot laie most nobly, by the example ot Italv. that uauyius i urns unuecesfttry. "To sacrifice a man iu honor ol nu abstract principle oi ol. j ug 1 MIV lowlnff tne example oi tne moiRnum onora uncrihces to the trod". There Is nothing b a brutalizing pro'ana'lon ol" our nature in the blow of an axe." "W hat right," asks llecc irta, "have men to cuf the throa's of the r fellow crcatmes? It It were so, bow snail it be reconciled with the maxim that a man bat nu tight to kill himsoll ?" But we do not intend to argue the injustice, ol Ihe deaih penalty. The reel wisdom oi the world, always just because it is humane, has declared equally that the fear of death, to far as sucu a sentiment exi ts In the desperado, is no pn ventive ol murder, aud that society can only be ju-tined In imitating the inurm-rer when it can do no better. 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I'ru lniiinison .Maiinel'onciei), Ac crued ii.lensl, and other debts due lo the Company Scrip and s-.ock oi niinury Insu rance and oilier ton, panics, $.". i-sUmated value Ctr-h 111 Lank 3ll .pre-JU t a.sU in Drawer 417-14 ?'.,: SO 2.9UO-00 41,51000 $1,407321-00 Tliis belDR a new enterprise, the Par is assumed &3 I ne nuirkei value. 'J lioinas C. Hand Samuel E. Stokes, Henry Sloan, William (I. ISoulton, Edward Darllnxlou, H. Jones Brooke, Edward i.alulircaJe, Jacob 1. Jones, James it. AIoKarland, Joshua 1. Eyre, spencer Mclivaine,' J. II. Seinple. Pittsburg, A. 11. Herwer, " D. i. Aloitcan, " Cieore W. Jternnrdou. .1 oti n V. Davis. J-duiiind A. Somler, Tl.eophilns Paulding, John It. Penrose, J aloes Traiiiniir, Henry C. l.'allett, Jr., J.imes C. Hand, William C. Ludwiu, Joseph Jl. Seal, oeorne O. Leiper, 11 nph (Tali:. John 1J. '1 aylor, Jacob iuekel. TITOMAS v Jl A.n II. President. Joli;s C. DAVIS IIkniiy Lvi.t:uiiK, Secretary. ice-President. 18? LlYElirOOL AND LONDOS GLOBE INSURANCE COffiPAXY Capital and Assets, $16,000,000. Invested in United States, $1,500,000 Total Premiums Ileceived "by th Company in lfcSG5, S4.947.175. Total Losses Paid in. 1865, $4,018,250 All Losses promptly adjusted wlUiout rcteienc EtiKland. ATWOOD SMITH, Qeijeral Aijeut lor Peuutyivuii. ' OFFICE, No. G Merchants' Exchange FBILADKLI'BIA. 18116m TSJORTH AMERICAN TRANSI no. au n. oi tint .vrntKT, PHILADELPHIA. Annual Policies issued aitainst General Accidents ot ail descriptions at exceedingly low rates. insurance eliecleu lor one year, in aov sum from film 10 $iu,uu0, ai a premium ol only one-naff percent., securing the lull amount insured in case of death, and a compensation each week equal to the wliolu pre mium paid. i short Lime Tickets lor 1, 2. 3, 5, 7, or 10 days, or 1, 3, or fc months, at Hi cents a day, iiisuruiK in tne sum of -.ueo, or ylvimr tin per week If disabled, to be had at Ihe t.eneral Ullice, .o. 1W S. PoLilt'l H Street, 1'hlla Uel hiu, or at the various Kailroad Ticket cilices. Jlu Mtie lo purchase Ihe LicKets ol the jNoritt American 'i run sit lii.-urance (i.iiip.iny. 1 or circuiam aud luriher information apply at the (jenciai oiiice, or ol any of thy authorized Agents of the Company. LKWIS L. HOl-PT, President. JAM Kb 11. CONKAD 'I rea.su rer. 111'MlY O. LIIWVNM, Secretary. JOHN C. iil'l.LI 1 j, solicitor. Dlhl-.c'iolts. L. L. Iloupt, late ol Pennsylvania liailroad Com pany. J. Kinysli y. Continental Hotel. si inuel C. Paiiuer. Cat.hier of Coin. National Hank. Ji. Ci, Leis umm. IN'os. :.,7 aud 1UU Dock street. Janus -M.luuiuu, firm ol Conrad & Walton, S'o. 627 Jlui net sireel. l.noch Lewis, late lien. Superintendent Penna. R.H. Andrew filehulloy, fc. V. coiuer ol Third and YVul mil sin els. li. V. JTiinclsciiH, tien. Atent Penna, 1. R. Co. Thomas K. Pi lerson. ISo. 3'ili6 .Market street. W. W. Kuriz, liiui ul Jurist k Howard, No, 2"iS. Third street. a ly TJUIU-NIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF X 1 HILAIH' LI'HIA. JMOlil oltA l I' D lhi.4 C1IAKTKK PFUPETTAL. o. T- W A L.N IT Street, opposite the UxcuuiutH. In audition to ."JAltlNi. aud INLAND I.SSUU ANT, tins Company insures liom loss or uiuilak'0 by 1 IKK lor liberal lei nis on hinidiUKs. merohaudi&o, liiiniiuie, eic.for limned periods, uud permanently on liuikiiiigH, by deposit ol premium. The ompany has been in active operation for more than SIX! V V LA Lis. durin.; whlcu all losses have hctrU promptly aujusled and puld. jiihki ions. John I,. Hode. Lawrence Lewis, Jr. David Lewis, llenjainin Kiting, '1 nomas II. Powers, A. K. MrH'-ury. K'iJiiiinil tUstillon, Liiuis o. Norris. M. li. Maliony Jrhn T. Lewis, iiiiaui S. Uiant. Hubert W. Leauiiuj D. C lark S liai ton, Samuel W ilcox, JOHN WUCHKKKU, President. Samuel W i.cox, Secretary. i i "IPIRK INSUUANCU KXCLHSIVELY. THIS P l KNNS LVAMA FillK lAsLHAM'K Co.M jAN V Incorporated ISii charier Perpetual No. (ill) WALMI'l Mreet, opposllo liidependeuce Square. This Conn any. lavorably known to the community for over lorty years, eonlinueb to Insure aitaiusi loisor damaKe by hie on Public or Private Buildings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also, on Furniture, block ul CiooUa.aiid Merchandise h'enerally, on liberal U i ins. '1 heir Capltnl, tofether with a larKe Surplus Fund, Is Invested Iu the mcst careful maimer, which enahloi Ilium 10 oiler to the Insured au undoubted security iu the case of loss. MUECTOBS. Daniel Smith. .Ir . John Devoronz. Alexander P.ensuu, liaac liu.lehnrst . Thomas tSmllh, Henry Lewia, I Cilll,,,. I.,.,., I'nll 'lhouiaa Itobinns, .-.muri natiuoeK, jr. -DANIEL bMlTU, Jn rredident. V 1LLIAM G. Cltow ULL, becrelury 8 3"! safety," says the Count do Hrllon, "Is llkfol- INSURANCE COMPANIES 1829CUAIlTEI1 PERPETUAL Franklin lire Insurance Co. 0 pniL,AiKiJinrA. Assets pn January 1, 1800, 52,5O0,b51'O0. l'tltiu (), tun Acc.iuik M. I plus SH4 M3 Ui Pn-n.iUDit l.ltrl.lntl-si UBSKTlLH- CLAIMH. IHCOMr fOE im ll.4t7M. iUOIKM. LObHES PaID SINCE 18 QVK& O.OOO.OOO. I'ervetnsl and lempomry Pollcieaoa Liberal Terms DlHiCTurw. :tiari Ji Baocker, i dnud c. Utlt, 1 ohms Warner. kieortiv Kalea, Suuiue Gran.. M Mred Fitter, litorne VV . Ulcliordi, TrauciarV Lewis, M. b. lHudcI.ea. Il't tei McCnll. CilAhLrB li. HAtNCRJCK, President JV.DVV a h l C. IA I. , Vlcr-I'renlucnt fAii. W. WcALLlsTi-U. hctrttary protaui. 1 PKOVILENT LIKE AND TRUST COMPANY OK I'lilLADKLl-JilA, No. II I suiiiii ItjLLIli suent. INCOM'iiKA'l KD :id .month, 1865. CAPITAL, l-rti.isni, 1'AID IN. Insurance on Lives, by eany Premiums; or by 5, le, u in Near l'ri-niiunis, .Non-K,rieiiure. j.iii.oH menus, payable at a Inline age. or on prior dtcea'-eby Really Premiums, or lu year Premiums boih claM-vs Non-ioi'leuui e. A nnullies i.rauled on lavorable terms. Tcim l olicik-s. lhildrcirH KudowmentR. '1 1. Is Company, wl, tie t?i vttiK the Insured the aprtirlty ol a paid-up I apimi, v. ill divide the entire profits of li e Llle business amoiiK its l'olicy holders. Moneys received at interest , and paid on demand. Auihoi izeu by charier to execute Trusts, ami to act an Lxeriilor or Administrator, Assixnee or Ouurdlaii, hod iu oiher lidueiary canacnles, u ncier appointment oi any Court ot this Commonwealth, or any person or persons, or bodies politic or corporate. lllKfcCTOKK. SAMUEL K. SHIPLKY, i IIKNltY HA INKS, JosllLA H.MOKKid, T. WTSTAII HKDtVN-. Jtllll A l:li N OOD, WM.U. LtlNt.cs i'HKT II. lilUHAltDCADiiUT.Y. WILLI AM UACKKlt, 11 A KLKS K. t'Ol- KIN. SAJ1UKL K. Sil ll'LEY, P.OWLAND PAItRY, President. Actuary. THOMA8.NVJSTA K, M. I)., J. n. TOYVNisKND, 7 Medical Kxaminer, Legal Adviser. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMEBIC A. OFFICE, NO. 211 1WLLKUT BT., PHILADELPHIA INCOUPOliATLD VM. CHAKl Eli pEhl'LTUAL. CAPITAL, UU.tU Asiets, Januarv 8, 1867, $1,763,267 33. INSURES MARINK, IK LAND TRANaPoKf AIION and FIB E EISK3 DIKECTOBS. Arthur O. CofllH. George L. Han-leon, Francis K, Cope, KdHard 11. 1 letter, Fiiwaro 8. ClarKe, W II: lain CuuimiiiKS, T. Charlton Henry, Aliri d 1). Jessup,. John P. Whlto. Louise Mudoira Bun.uel VV.Joi.es, John A. Brown, Cnar e i aylor, A mbro-o hlte, Itlchard D W ood, M Illlaui Welsh, B Jl on is W ain, John Mason, ABTHTJK G. COFFlH, President CriAHLr.s Pi. att, Secretary. WILLIAM LULULEK, Harrisbnrir, Pa., Central Agent lor tne State of Pennsylvania. WHISKY, BRANDY, WINE, ETC. JpREDEllICK BALTZ & CO 'S ILBSI IMPORTATION 40 GALLON PACKAGES GIN. Just arrived and In bond, 60 Packages 40 Gallon FX CKLbloR 8DEDAA1 UJN . Mluch we are now soiling a the lowest tgure. We claim to be the FIRST IJkiP0i.TR3 OF FOUIY GALLON PACKAGES 6HEBKY AND PORT WISE. Sole Agents also lor KIVIFEK GAEDRAT & CO. tOCAC. No. 11G WALNUT Street. 1 12 lm PHILADELPHIA. (jalii okma mm COMPAQ WINES, From the Vineyards of Sonoma, Los Angeloa, aud Wapa Counties, Calilomta, consist ing of thu foliowiag : WIS E EITTEHH, AMjELIuA, bULkltV, AtOCK, AlUBCATEL. CATAWBA, LAitET, POiiX,' BKANTVYJ CUAJuPAGE. These WINES are vr arranted to be the pure juice prape, unsurpafsed by any in the market, ana are h recuniuiendeasior Medicinal and tauiily purposes. t OU HALE liYi E. L. CAUFFMAN. AGENT, No. ai Korth FOURTH Street 1 8lhBtu2tn PHILADELPHIA QREAI REVOLUTION IN TDK WINE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES Pure California Champagne, Made and prepared as III done In Franoe, from pa California Wine, and taklLa the place of I m pone Cbanipane. 'Ihe underelgned vroold call the attention o. w Dealers and hotel Keepers to the lollovilntt letter, VVlne11 """ corrttt jUia o inequality ot taei' "CohTiKEMAL Hotel, Pbiladku-iiia. Oct. 25. 1868. (jentitu eu:-Uavih(t slven yonr California Cham patne a thoioiikh test. Me taie aleaaurv In saylnu tha we tbtnk it the i" t Au.ericnu Wine we have ever used We Htm li at once place it on out bill ot tare. "Y ours truiy, J. E. KiAGnLEY fe CO. CALL and TKV OUK CAL1UOKMA CILAMPAGN BOUCHER &. CO., 11 20 tuthcIiirO o. 3o DET btreet, New York. A. MAVEIt, Agent "10 hANSOM St.. Philadelphia. aHlBTS, FURNISHING GOODS, &t Jt W. SCOTT & CO., SHIRT MANUFACTURERS, A.NU CEALKBI IV MKN'8 FUliNlSiilNQ GOODS' No. 8H CHESNUT Street, FOTB VOVHH BELOW THE COSTINKNTAX, 1 rp FiilLADJCLPUIA. pATENT SnOULDER-SEAil KI1IHT MANUFACTORY AND GENTLEMEN'S FUKNISHINQ 6TOKB, PEKFECT F1TIIMO BDIR1 8 AND DKAWEB inade irom measure nient atvtry ahort notice. Ahotbcr aiilcle.or Oi-MLEMtii a DitEtjS QOODS in iuu varwijr. 111S ,7TvnH1i'HTlT.n A nr NolOtlCHlHKUT Btreetl CUTLERY, ETC. CUTLERY. A fln a.A.t.n.. rTuYr ,.iuV. Lv"S.01 J DiJKEI and TAS.AV.TLKKY. HAZOttS. HA. I . V EI L r .r n CBUerj BI0W, NO. 1S fcouti, TENTH Wreit IBS JliUtUvori above WaUiutJ Vr I FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETC. THE FUKNITUUE r COULD 6i CO.'S I'UllNlTlJItfci LKI'OTS, H. K.C0KUEE NINTH AMD MAiiliT BTJBEKT8, No. 87 and M Kotxh UCOhP Btreot, U the Largest, theat.e,t, and Best Btock im Um World ! reaWon, rtvle, ouraLIlity, fjnlnh, and cticapnoai att combined In their Immense variety ol OU'I-MjUDK tCRNlTUKi:. liciore purdhaplruj coll and examine, or aendfora printed cauiegue. 21(1 6e TO UOUSEKEEP Bit's I bava large atock oi every variety oi FUliMITlIItK Wnlcn I ui teil ai ivi.uieu pncee.cunalatinx oi PLAIN A1) MliliUa. 101 CUilAttm 8U1TI EAflhP Sl'"b 11 -i-vt-i l'Lusa PALI. OH HVii H IN HlhOI.OTU. i PAHOHrUriS I'M KhP. ' hide board;, KxtMnlon l.blea, ffardrobei, baokcaae Uattrease, LoiuiKu. etc .to , K Jt'. OUSTINKr 1 H. E. corner WKCOMJ and ItACH. wtreeta.' ESTABLISHED 1795. A. S. ROCINSON, French Flat Looklng-QLassoa, EStiKAVUS 1A1M IMit. LUAWlJiUS M'C. ttacuibi.',t.itr ol tll kinds oi LOOKIKG-QLASt, P0LTKA1T, AND PICTTO1 FBA5LLS 10 OKDEH. No. OlO OUKSNUT KTHEET TBIKD DOOB ABOVE THE CONTINENTAL, lllLAPKLrlllA. I1M STOVES, RANGES, ETC. QtJLVEll'S iEW PA TENT Deep Sand-Joint HOT-AIR F URNACE. GANGES OK ALL. KI1.ES. Also, PhllcKir'a New Low Pressure Steam lleatlug Apparatus. ' FOB SALE BY CllAItLKS WILLIAMS, INo 1182 MABK.ET Street. THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER, ifllt 1 1 KC 1 EaJ. KAiNOE.iorFaniilieii, botela. or 1 uultc limtltutioiia, In UWEN1Y UIK V V U 1. T . IL I.I.II .1-,.. 1. 1 - . 1 - a ibv, i uii.uvipiiia j&anjceg, jitil'iii i i.iui..cn, ruiinuitii rnivr., J unuown viralOS. llKinml Mcvtf, nth Boileis, 8 tew hole Piatea, Poller, ookirg htovta, etc , wholesale and retail, by the- D unulatlurera. HHAKPE &, THOMSON, 1 UI i-tuih Bni- Ko. '-Kip N. nECONLI HUeet. GOVERNMENT SALES. QOVKBNMENT SALE AT CHAULESTOW, The following OKDN ANCE PROPERTY will be sold at Public Auction, al the United States Arsenal, Charleston, 8. C, on MONDAY, Marsh 4, 1.S07, commenclug ut 10 A. M.: About 'IW net tons (ctinuon) Cast Iron. About 760 net tons Shot, Shell, etc. (about one half have valuable soil metal attached). About 100 tons Lontled Shell. About 15 tons Scrap Wrought Iron. About ilA tons Scrap Brass, Copper, etc 6o7 wooden Artillery Carriages, Ironed. 100 wooden Chassis, Ironed. About 750 Cavalry Saddles, 750 Bridles. 850 Cartridge Boxes, und a quantity ot other leather work. 1 large Hand Fire Engine, built by Aenew. Philadelphia. About WUU barrels Unserviceable Powder. Also, a large quantity of other property, oon Klsting principally ol M usket Appendages, Rags. Hope, Implements, Miscellaneous Tools, etc etc. Terms Cash on the day of the sale, la United States Currencs. Ample time allowed for the removal of tho property, at the expiration of which that not, removed will revert to the Government. By authority of Chief of Ordnance. F. H. PARKER. Captain Ord., and Brevet Major U. S. A., 2 7 9 13 18 20 Coinm'g Charleston Arsenal. JARGE MALE OF ARMY CLOTHING. Depot Quartermaster's Office. 1 Baltimore Md., February 6, 1867.) Will be sold nt Public Auction, in the city of Baltimore (at Government Storehouse, No. . li!0 K. KUTAW Street), on WEDNESDAY, 12 M., Februury 27, lbO", a lot of ARMY CLOTHING, consisting of 3478 NEW YORK JACKETS, of irregular pattern, and otherwise unsuited for issue to troops. By reason of Its leng retention In store, the material is in some instances more or less damaged. Sale will take place in lots to suit purchasers. Terms Cash in Government funds, on day of sale. Three days allowed to remove purchases. By order of the Quartermaster-General, A. S. KIMBALL, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. A., Depot Quartermaster. ADREON, THOMAS & CO., No. 18 S. CHARLES Street, 2 7 I7t Auctioneer s ALE OF DAMAGED CLOTHING AND EQUIPAGE. Office Army Oxothino and Equipage,) New York, February 8, 1867. Will be sold at Public Auction, on account of the United States, at the Depot of Army Clothing aud Equipage, corner of Lalght and Washington streets, lu New York city, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th of February, 1867, at 11 o'clock A. M., and will be continued from day to day until all are aold, the following named articles of damaged clothing and equipage: Woollen blankets, greatcoats, blouses, uni form coats, bedsacks, shirts, drawers, greatcoat straps, knapsacks, Blockings, stocks, trousers, knives, forks, spoons, plates, tin cups, bats, caps, lace, brown Hollands, tiO yards; alpaca, 121 yards; boots, shoes, brass articles, musical instruments, cap covers, etc. elo. Catalogues may be had at the Depot; also samples of the articles may be seen. Terms Cash, In Government funds; ten per cent, down, and the balance before the goods are taken from the Depot, which must be within three days from day of sale, under forfeiture' of the purchase and the ten per cent. Brevet Brigadier-General D. H. VINTON, 2 9 9t Assistant Q. M.-General.U. S. A. AI PORT ANT SALE OF OVEUNMENT JL VESSEL, Depot Quartermaster's Officb, IFFICB, ) RK, Md.. n-y 30, 1807.J ilALTIHOKK, .tHnimrv i Will be sold at Public Auction, at the port of Baltimore (Henderson's Wharf, East Balti more), on THURSDAY, 13 M., February 17, the w SUPERB SIDE-WHEEL STEAMER COSMOPOLITAN. Of 779 ton: length. 225 feet; breadth of beam, 31 feet; depth of hold, 13 ieet; cylinder, 60 incite und 11 feet stroke. , A rare opportunity Is afforded, in the sale of this steamer, to persons desiring to purchase really first-class vesstl. ' .... She Is of light draught, the engine and boiler are in most excellent condition, and the hull perfectly sound and strong. a It is believed that. lor Uii and build, the COS MOPOLITAN surpasses any vessel hitherto oilered by Government for sule at this port. Terms Cash, lu Government funds, on day of sole. . . Further rrticulnrs may be learned on appll- -, cation to the undersigned, or to the Auction eers, Messrs. ADKKON, THOMAS & CO., No. 14 South CHARLES Street. By oidor ol the Quartermaster-General, A. S. KIMUALL, Captain and A. Q. M., U. s. A., 2 2 127 Depot Quartermaster,
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