TOE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 18CG. TIIE NEW YORK PRESS. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals Upon the Most Import ant Topics of the Hour. COMPILED BVEIIT DAT POB TBLEORAPH. International Dualling From the Tribunt. ' We Bhould like to read an essay upon unnecaj fcary wars. There are ' good people who will answer that all war are iinnoooMary. ;W use an Indefinite phrase, however to , convey a de finite meaning. We accept war a hecoBsary where principle la Involved whore (ruth Is com pelled to crush error by the force, off, array where a people find It Incumbent to strangle with crime and oppression. By unnecessary wars, we refer to the contests arising out of per tsonal vanity the differences of small military and naval commanders rambition, cupidity, a yearning for territorial aggrandizement Very much aa though two testy gentlemen pret anry over a cup of wine, or the necessity of some political action the minister's last sermon the editor's last leading article and front dashing w ine across the table-cloth come to swords in the ante-room, or pistols en the dewy grass in the outskirts of the town. No goed comes of there quarrels. We occasionally hear of a Ger man student being killed, lor duelling is said to be "a) necessary as Euclid to a German education. In the beginning of this century the Irish used to cut and slash each other, merely, it seemed, in the way of physi cal exhilaration. If a man was killed, a Jolly wake ensued, and the survivors had a good timi, whisky punch and a )ig around the coffin, and 'We won't go home tilt morning.'1 Modern de cency has changed all this, and murder is no longer in the mode, no longer an accomplish ment. Merelv ollering to let a man kill you that you may kill him, does not condone murder and prevent us Ironi being hanged. What society has condemned as wrong among men, public opinion is condemning as wrong among nations. There is, perhaps, no logical objection to a na tion lighting another nation blockading its ports, destroying its commerce, Daral vising its manufactures, and killing its people. This Is an Independent national right, lust as it was aa in dependent personal right for Heenan to thump Bayers, and be thumped in return, but it is not n moral right. In the case of nation, public Morality is outraged. Peaceful commerce is in terrupted and destroyed, and where the industry of one country depends upon another lor its sources of supply, distress ensues to thousands of innocent men and women and children. We can better illustrate our point by referring to the war between Spain and Chili. Whenever the Spanish Government makes a periodical start out of the torpidity ot centurias, and an ambitious statesman wishes to show "vigor," he makes a quarrel with a South American repub lic. There is a popular impression that these quarrels were scttlea by the successful revolu tions of the early part of this century that Mexico and Peru, and the nations around the equator, became republics as absolutely as the United States. Tnls is a mistake. Spain never sincerely admitted the independence of her American colonies. She gave a deed of separa tion, witn tne reservation mat wnenever it suited her convenience or her ambition t-he would come back and take her own again. The dream of becoming once more the mistress of the Antilles, of having an Indies rivalling in wealth and splendor the Indies of England, has long i . 1 i i. . a 1 1 rm, r : jiuuiuuu me opumtuus. iuc puuuy ui iuuuiur, as represented by Palmerston. ard the Monroe doctrine of the United States, prevented any demonsu-at'on in favor of this theory. Our -ii' u trnxta tVin rmTfti.fiiritt7 A tit n r i Amnnlad the banner of Castile mieht again be advanced to the mountains Balboa climbed, or even during thought 1 to the land where Ponce de Leon . vainly wooed youth and vigor. San Do mingo was occupied; an attempt was made upon Mexico, which Napoleon prevented ; a war was lorced upon Peru; and now another war has been declared against Chili. In none of these cases had Spain any possible pretext. What had Mexico done that Spain should 6end fleets to murder her peonle ? Where is the crime of Peru that her coast should be blockaded? Above all things, what is the guilt of Chili? That country, it seems, sympathizes with Peru ; she refuses to make her territory a base of opera tions of Spain against a sister republic, and she is at once blockaded 1 What is the consequence ? Chili defies the blockade, closes her copper mines, attacks and captures a Spanish snip, ana says it rJngisna ana t rance can do without her copper, she can wait. England, ireen irom a cotton lamino in .Lancashire, sees before her a famine among the workers in brass and copper. This Chili sends her 47,000 tons of copper annually. Because Spain is on a roving commission of insult and depredation, must she lose all this wealth? So England becomes angry, and along with France sends word to Spain that while they do not claim a right to lnteriere with mat nctgn Dors personal matters, tneyaonot want tne peace ot tneir peopie.tneir comfort and prosperity destroyed, by reason of a Spanish whim of "honor." So Spain, brought to her senses, has submitted her cause to England and France. We presume there will be an end ot the quarrel. So we trust all such quarrels may end. Let the nations come to a determination to stop this interna tional duelling:. Let them do what they can to lessen the causes of war or rather, to restrict the international limits of .war. Such, wars as that in Mexico, the recent strife in Schleswiz- Uol9tein, and the wars in Peru and Chili, should be speedily supprcsbed by general understand ing. We can soonest reaoh the bright consum- mation of universal peace by preventing inter national duelling. ReciprocityA Question for Consideration, From the Turn. It is not easy to determine whether the De mocratic Journals which have undertaken to write up reciproelty are more intent upon serv ing the British Provinces, or feeding au ancient grudge against the great Union party. Be their purpose what it may, they arc taking the surest course to render it ineffective. In elsting up cn close commercial intercourse with Canada, they nevertheless confess that the Finance Minister of the Province, Mr. Gait, has syfciemaucanv violated tne spirit ot tne treaty, and so atfordea ample trrounds lor its abroca tion. And while charging upon the Union party the responsibility of terminating the treaty, they are constrained by the pressure of facts to admit flint this eountrv has not rpnnprl th full inmiaiirn of gain to which it has been entitled, and that tut continuance 01 me arrangement in its past shane is therelore not desirable. The verv lour- nals, then, which are advocating reciprocity as against the Union party In Congress, themselves lurnish a justification of the action taken by " that party in dealjner with the question. Upon two points suggested by the comments of our Democratic contemporaries, we feel bound to enter a decided protest, we protest against tne attempt to make a plain question 01 trade a pretext lor the advocacy ot Canadian interests. repardless of their bearing upon the interests of our own country. We protest against tactics that wouia twist and pervert to party uses con siderations which should be divested of everv' thing save that which concerns the Industrial and commercial lile ot the American people. If there is to be a renewal of reciprocal trade on terms essentially akin to those of tho treaty which will expire in March next, it must be lor other reasons than those now urged in behalf of Canada. Canadian Ministers may oscillste between tho North Pole and the lobby of the Federal Capitol ; they may pile up statistics that nrove anvthing or nothing, and print pamphlets and statements illustrative of their author's skill in cookery; they may inspire Democratic editors with reasons, and cram them with so-called facts until each becomes a verita ble Gradgrindi butlAmencan law-givers and American secretaries are not likely to succumb to foreign influence, or to accept, as infallible. areuuieiits derived from foreign sources. Nor is it pmbablc that the Union majority, Impressed with the financial necessities of the nation, will be wheedled by the Importunities of the Pro vincial agents Into a further sacrifice of revenue, or coerced by the scolding of the PV'orWlnto the abandonment of a purpose fortped tfelinerately and in full view 01 au me merits ot the cae. One thing, at any rate, is satisfactory. Of the journals in this country that have espoused the cause 01 uanaon, none nos ventured to excuse the bad fail h. of that province, or to urge a re newal of the treaty in its prwent shape. The acknowledgment is general that Canada has in divers ways violated the spirit of the treaty, and further, that the benefits accruing from it have been shared to a very imperfect degree by the United States. Jsurely, little else Is needed for an answer to tnurh of th rhetoric that has re centlv annearcd in print. The province whose ministers and leglslawrs so far disregarded their quota of obligations as to trample upon the spirit of the Whole arrangement, by discriminating in favor ol Great Urttain and against this country, have no right to demjr because we decline a continuance of the unequal bargain. They chose voluntarily, tor their own conveni ence and pront, to disturb relations contem plated by the American promoters of the measure, and to give a preference to British interests avowedly because they were such; and assuredly they cannot complain oi ill-usage De- cause we reluse to prolong the arrangement. They violated the essence of the treaty more than once during its existence; certainty we nave a right to say that the treaty shall end at the period indicated by itself. On their side is bad faith; on ours, elmply a resolve to under stand thoroughly the position we are nonce forward to occupy towards neighbors who appear to forget that upon this country thy are dependent, and inevitably ever will be de pendent, tor whatever commercial prosperity falls to their lot They in effect overturned a business compact; we demand a new compact belore again sailing in the same ship; and mean while they will have au opportunity of realizing results meet for repentance. mo body dounts mat genuine reciprocity is a gooa thing. Our most distinguished statesmen long ago pronounced in its favor. They were advo cutei of a continental commercial policy before England accepted the gospel according to Cob- den and Bright. But they uniformly held that reciprocity should be real that it should be lust and mu tually beneficial that it should be accepted in eood faith, and carried out in a large and liberal spirit by all contracting parties. Judged by this standard, the treaty with the British Prov inces must be pronounced a failure. Aside from the faithlessness on the part of Canada to which we have alluded, the operation of tne treaty hai developed results which Coneres3 could not'have passea over wttnout a paipahle neglect of duty. Its concessions and advantages have been shown to be unequal. The Provinces surrendered very little ana acquired very much; this country con ceded a creat deal and gained comparatively nothing. Their duties bear unduly upon our products, while we made free the larger propor tion of theirs. The treaty imposed upon them only a trifling loss of reveiue; upon us it has entailed a sacrifice which could not at any time pe overlooked. Just now. we prefer this general glance to a dry recital of lieures, or a discussion of the abstractions on which pi ofound pundits love to dwell. Theories on the balance ot trade are sometimes amusing, but rarely conclusive, ex eppt when a case is proved without them.- This case of reciprocity is manageable by tho people, whether the theorists say yja or nay. We have experimented these ten years, and propose now to pront by the lessons learned. Under any cir cumstances this would be a duty. The fact tnat reciprocity is vital to (JanarH should not alone change our course. Priding itself on its colonial relation, although more than sixty per cent, of Its exports come into the United States, its claims to commercial favor cannot be exemnted trom the ordinary test ot business interest. Thus tried, the treaty has been condemned. juaniiiacturers whose products are admitted into the Canadian market only after payment ot heavv 1utlos. comnlain of the disadvantage im posed by those who thrive by free access to the American market, importers, who fancied that they saw in Canada a field tor enterprise, dis cover that tho province with which they dealt so liberally has taken special pains to favor the St. Lawrence route at their expense. Producers of various grades ?re impatient under a compe tition which brings ttw countervailing benente, and entails losses not lessened by the pay of gratitude. In this direction the current has been greatly changed. The logic of experience i doing its work. The wool-growers havu sent forth their utterances, and other branches of the farming fraternity are not disinclined to say amen. Whole communities avow an acceptance of tho moral. Chicago, but lately an unit tor recipro city, is now loud against it; and those bodies which, like the Chamber of Commerce of this city, strenuously tavor extended Intercourse, and deprecate much of the opposition te the treaty, admit a necessity for its modification. The num ber of those who desire an extension of the treaty as it Is, is ludicrously small. The journals which would make of reciprocity a partisan shuttlecock give tribute to the popular will, so far as the existing system is concerned. Even they couple pleas for reciprocity with assertions touching the propriety ot reconsidering, revis ing, recasting the treaty. in addition to the manifold reasons growing out of experience, we have the greater and yet more urgent reason suggested by the altered cir cumstances ot the country. When the treaty was originally entered into we were a lightly taxed people, leady to run a h9cal race with all comers. There was, thon, at the outset, no ob vious hardship or injustice in admitting the population ol the provinces to our markets, and no peculiar tony in the expectation that we might gain ground in their markets. The legacy derived from the gigantic struggle through w hich we have triumphantly passed has changed our jxismoii m mis respect, aii classes are now required to sustain their share of a load of which we can never lose sient when questions concern ing revenue challenge attention. The farmer ana tne lorwaroer, the mechanic and tne manu facturer, the merchant and the laborer all are interested in the equitable adjustment of our trade relations with other countries. It would be neither politic nor just to expose the Ameri can producer to unrestrained competition with provinces wnicn propose to enter freely our markets, and at the same time remain exempt irom our Duraens. Spain and Chili Violation of our Neu trauty Laws, From the World. By a despatch from Washington, from a source which we think entit'ed to credit, we learn that there has lately been perpetrated an evasion of our neutrality laws, iu tho interest of Chili. Two vessels have been purchased on Cuilian ac count, loaded with certain munitions ot war. and made their escape to 8a, with the purpose of proceeding to the Chilian coast, blowing up the Spanish vefsels-of-war, and thus raising the blockade of the Chilian coast. 'One of these vessels was in the United States service in the late war, having been sold by the Navy Depart ment to the party ot whom tho Chilian agent made the purchase. The officers .who went out on board of them have also been in our naval lervice; the torpodoes were manufactured in New York city; clearances were procured at the New York Custom iionse as tor vessefs is owned by Chilian citizens; and they sailed under the Chilian flag. xne facts here recitea may revive, with some change in the disputants, questions which have recently been discussed between our Govern ment and that of Great Britain. It will be seen that the present case bears a close reseniblanco to the escane from the ports of Enerlaud of the Shenandoah and other Confederate vessels, tor whose depredations on our commerce our Gov ernment has demanded reparation Irom tho British Government. Tho Alabama, Slwuandoah, and the rest were not. as described by their commissions, privateers, but public vessels of war ; their depredatious on our commerce, were committed in that character. If these Chilian vessels should, in pursuance of the ordinary usages ot war, attack the merchant vessels-of Spain, that tower might demand of us redress and compensation, a? we have of Great Britain. If they should capture Spanish veRfe!s,would our Government acknowledge its liability to Spain in damages? 8uch captures would bring Our Government to this dilemma: We should be obliged either to abandon our claims on Great Britain, or to mak satisfaction to Sialn for the inlulry done to her commerce. It would be preposferous for us to stand before the world as maintaining one rule of International law to apply to cacs In which wo were sufferers, and an opposite lule to cases in which wo are ag gressoiB. ' ,.-, , It may perhaps be said that this dilemma is not likely to be presented in a practical shape, .inasmuch as the last mail from Esrope brings Intcllieenoe thnt Spain has accepted tho over tures of England and France for a reconciliation between her and Chill. But this tender nnd acceptance of good offices amounts to' "nothing unless Chili accedes to the terms the mediators may propoce. ' One party may begin a war, but it requires tvfo to end it. The war against. Chili was commenced bv the proclamation of Admiral Parol a, anrl the blockade of the principal Chilian ports,.. It is now for Chili to determine what she deems necessary for the satisfaction of her honor. Until she accepts terms of peacejthe state of war continues; and meanwhile, any.acls done In her Interest and by her authority are covered by all the protection which can be ira? parted by her belligerent rights. . Vessels sailing Irom this port may destroy many millions of Spanish property before Chill shall have accept ed the terms which may De proposed to her by En eland ard France. The queftlon is then forced upon us, as One of serious practical interest, what are our re sponsibilities in view of this evasion of our neutrality laws ? ' As regards the particular officers and citizens who have sailed on these vessels, they have acted in plain violation of our laws, and are subject to its penalties if they should ever strain come within our Jurisdiction. But we have no jurisdiction over them while they are on the high seas. Tho right of Chili to commission vesseis-ot-war cannot ue cauea in Question; a vessel sailing under the protection ot her flag cannot be molested on the ground that it has escaped from one ot our ports, uur control over it ceased as soon as it was distant a marine league from our shores. Its officers, if thev escape capture by the Spaniards, will pro bably become citizens of Chill, and very likely be honored with commands 1n her navy. So w ith Viem we have notking further to do. The only nuetion likely to call for govern mental action is, whether we are responsible to Spain in damages lor the depredations on their commerce these vessels niav commit, it jonn Bull were tiven to tricks, it would not be diffi cult to imagine this affair a crafty stratagem, set on foot by British instiaation to compel us to decide against our own claims. ' If the British Government had furnished tho money to fit out these vessels, it would be a good investment if it should bar our own cims lor indemnity. But she eerlninly had nothing to Oo with it. ji me question were a new one, not compli cated with our decent demands, there is little room to doubt how our Government would de cide it. Although our neutrality laws are strict, we have seldom proceeded to extremities in their enforcement. When Texas waged her war of independence ngain.st Mexico, our Southern citi zens went, with arms in their hands, to her assistance; in the Canadian patriot war, North ern citizens followed their example; the Lopez expedition again:-t unoa sailed irom mew ur leans; Walker had private support in the United States in his expeditions in Nicaragua; but in none of these caes would our Government have acceded to claims for the damaces inllicted by those violators of our laws. When they had escaped from our jurisdiction they merely put themselves beyond the pale of our protection (as well as of our punishment), and exposed them selves to whatever tho justice or the veDtreauce ol the aggrieved nattons might inflict. One ot the areuinents most insisted on by M r. Adams, in his correspondence with LordjRu3 sell, could not be used by Spain if she should demand reparation tor the injuries done by thee vessels. Mr. Adams contended that tho Con federate States could not be considered as a naval power at all, as they had neither ports nor access to the ocean. Whether this argument be sound or fallacious, it clearly is not pertinent to the case ot limn. Chili has always had a nag upon the seas, and though her six principal ports are blockuded, she has some thirty or forty lesser ones to which the blockade does not apply, and to which captures made bv her ves sels can be taken lor condemnation. These vesdels will proceed to some Chilian port before receiving commissions, which will shield them from one of the legal objections made against those of the South. The case on which we have commented, and the possibilities it involves, will be turned to the best use, if they shall contribute to that liberal ity and moderation of views which ought to be brought to the consideration of the unsettled questions respecting the liabilities ot neutral nations. It is important for the peace of the the world that some rule should be esta blished which nations will be willing to accept as governing their obligations ana responsibili ties in respect to acts committed by their citi zens without thtir consent, ana which may here after prevent such questions as nave arisen between us and G reat Britain. The Reassembling: of Congress The Re publican Party and the Administration From the Herald, After their holiday recess of a fortnight the two houses of Congress, fresh from the people, have returned to business. From their confer ences with their constituents we doubt not that the members of the dominant party are better qualified than at the organization of the House to shape their legislative measures according to the prevailing public sentiment of the country on all great questions of the day. The Southern reconstruction and restoration policy of the President's Message, it must now be apparent even to such visionary radicals as Messrs. sunt ner and Stevens, is iu great favor among the people, and that the masses oi both parties in the Noith desire the restoration to Congress of the excluiied States In a spirit of liberality and con fidence, and without unnecessary delay upon matters ot secondary importance. With tho abolition . of slavery, however. whereby one million six hundred thousand Southern blacks, heretofore excluded, nowcome within the representative population of the South, some new legulation ot this matter seems to be regarded bv the Republicans as a question of primary importance. They hold that the four millions of blacks in tho South should either have the right of suffrage or should be excluded from an enumeration ol the people as a basis for representation in Congress. Under the Consti tution as it is all the Soulhern blacks must now be counted; while, on tne other hand, the power oi reguiuting the elective franchise Deionas not to Contn-ess. but to the several Slates. Hence Jhe only way in which Congress can reach these questions ot negro suffrage and negro represent tation is through an amendmcut ot tho Constitu tion. Such an amendment has been already extensively discussed anions the Republican members, and we are promised that it will shortly be brought belore tho House in the form of a proposition making the number of voters in each State ihe basis of its representation in the popular branch ot Congress. Upon this subject, and the general subject of reconstruction, General Schenck, ot unto, a icau ing member of tho House, in bis speech at Column bus, Ohio, made known some very important facts and contemplated proceedings. He said, among other things, that "you will find that Conwress will sland by the President, an I tho President by Congress," and that "all difficulties will be over come;" that "the President and Congress, stand ing together, are determined that certain terms" of reconstruction shall be complied with; that these terms embrace, first, tho Constitutional Amendment abolishinsr slavorv. already legally effected; second, provision against the payment of Rebel d(bis; and 'third, a Constitutional amendment basing representation iu Congress on the voting population. This amendment, he insisted, "should be adonted bv three-lourthB of the' loyal States before admitting the other States, and requiring them to aareo to it; other- wite they might dcleat it, and ult mut?ly g'u snch power ss to undo all that has been done to prevent a repetition of the late disasters." But General Schenck, who Is more st home in the field of politics than in the field of battle, fiyt henows that tho President Is in favor of tins amendment, and believes that a majority of Congress is. He says, iurthermore, that the com mittee to whom this subject was referred will soon report: and that, If the measure Is adopted, the South, beiore tho end of tho year, will be prepared to come into the arrangement. Such aeclarationj, from such a source, are entitled to respect, and though we mav not share In the ap prehensions expressed by General Schenck con cerning the South unless bound to this condi tion, that condition, and the other, in advance, we may safely conclude that the Constitutional Amendment suggested is to become a leading measure of the present session. To show how fur its agitation has already extended in the Re publican camp, it Is only necessary to refer to the recent mt ssage of Governor Cony to the Maine Legislature, in which he says that "as a measure ot security to the nation the Constitution of the Union should be so amended as to limit t lie right of national representation to the legal number of voters In each State," etc. This, then, may be considered the leading feature of the Congressional programme of Southern restoration a constitutional amend ment settling the negro suffrage question by making iho basis of Federal representation tho legal voters of each State. Under this rule, if the blacks are not allowed to vote they will not be counted, and thus the Southern States will be left to determine on the sutlrase question whether by excluding the blacks they will agree to sacrifice twenty or thirty members of Cou crefs, or by giving the blacks the right to vote they will acenpt the gain of twentv or thirty members. We think this alternative would soon settle the question in favor of negro suffrage, for the Southern States have always, and very wisely too, put a high valuation upon a member of Comrrcss. Tnus by a trained minority they ruled the country for many years acainst tne undisciplined and constautly changing representatives of the North. Under the proposed iimeudmcnt the New England States will lese half a dozen members of Congress unless they give the suffrage to their Ionian while the' West wiil gain consid erably, and the Southern States will lose or gain as they may deny or give the right of vot ing to the biacks. The proposition seems to be a fair one lor the settlement of the suffrage qnestion on a constitutional basis, and without touching the reserved rights ol the States on this subject. But if the excluded Southern States are to be still to bo excluded from Con gress until this amendment 8li all have been de clared ratified, Congress should act at once, while the State Legislatures are generally in session, so that during this winter the question may be settled. We think the excluded States entitled to admission upon the terms laid down by the President; but if he is iu favor of this proposed amendment as a compromise with Congress, and as a new condition ot restoration. we are sure that he Is in favor of immediate ac tion. If the thing is to be tried it ousht to be tried without loss of time. HAIR ESTABLISHMENTS. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. T. M. GREEN'S HAIR J E W E L II Y ESTABLISHMENT, Ko. 139 AECH STBEET, BELOW FIFTH rillLADELUFJIA. ORDERS PROMPTLY AND SATISFACTORILY EXECUTED. 12 IU 13t EAKER'S POPULAR HAIR ESTABLISH MEM Tho assortment ot Urania. Wigs Toupee lianOeaux. Bunillona. Kouleaux. Tonauca. Frls C rimpsca. 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O R lTe"T N S IIOUS E, No. C3I CHESNUT STREET, , ; ' , PaiLADELPalA, J '8TEFPAOIIEU, Puopbioior, Coidiictcd cn tLe l urCpean p'an. 1125 3m 4y u and if TEA DB AL&XLQfi INSURANCE COMPANIES. TWJlfVARE MUTUAL 8AFET1 INSURANCE I t COMPANY, Vjt-JJNKYt.VANIA. 1KW, OFFICE 8 E. 0MR 1IITHI) AND WALNUT WAltlMi lNfUBVCE cargo, J To H Prt of the w On Ooods by Mvcr. Canal. Lake, and Land Ca pn par! " i m i -lm". F1KK lK8UUANCt8 On Verrhandls ppnerallr. On Stores, Dwe ling UouBoa, etc ASSETS OF THtf COMPACT . Novrmtr 1, 1HM. ion imo United Bute It per cent, loan, 71....f!V,MM60 liflOU) ' " " "81. . j. lis IVViKI " 1 t-10 per cent, loan, Treasury Notes 1 04 9(5 00 100 000 State ot x enusylranla Flva Per Cent. Loan W MP ' (4,000 Slate of rcuusylranla btx Per Cent. Loan 63,260' 128,000 Clt.r of 1'blladelphla Mix Per Cent. Loan 112,81? 50 20,000 Pennsylvania Kallroad First Mort- Sin Per Cent. Bonds 24,000-00 20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Peoond Uort- FRite tsix Per Cent. Bonds 23,750 00 20 000 Western Pennsylvania ltal.road Mort gave Hlx Per Cent Bends , 23,750 DO 18,000 iilio Bharea Stock Ounnanlown Gas company, principal ana imprest etisrsnteed by the City ot Phtla- nnlnhta . .... 13,537 50 7,150 H shares Stock FennsvivaLla Ball rod i.omnany 5 .Ofifl 11)0 Kliana Nt,M.k North Pennsylvania 8 580-0 Railroad Company J, 250 -00 40.000 Deposit with United Htates Govern ment, sub lect to ten days' nail 40,0001)0 S0,(00 State ot Tennessee Five Per ConU . Loan 18500DO 170 700 Loans on Bonds and Mortgaite. flist . lions on City Property 170 700-00 1 03o,850 Far. Market value $996..V0'00 tteai r:siate 3,i u;iisi Bills receivable lor (D urances made. 121,013 37 Balances due at A gcnolos. Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued Inte rest, and other debts due the Com pany 40 511 44 Scrip and Slock of sundry Insurance and other Companies, 138. Esti mated value 2,910 00 Cash In Banks 55,95 Hl Cash In Drawer 078-48 66,635 37 1.2oW-18 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Rami Samuel K. Stoke. John C. Davis. K.dmundA. Nouder, Tbeophilns Faulc'inir, John B. Penrose, James Trannair, Henry C. Dalleit, Jr., James C. liand William C. Ludwlg, Joseph H. Seal, J. F. Penistan, ricnry moan, William G. Boulton, huward DarllUKton, H. Jones Brooks, Kdward Laiourcad ', Jacob P. Jones James B. McFarland, Joshua P. Eyre, Spencer Mcllvaln, J. B. Semnle, PittHbuni, a . B. Beruer. P'ttobiirir. Ti. T. Mnriran. Plttithurir. Meorne j. Liocr, nURU ITailT, Robert Burton. JoliuD Taylor, jiiumis tiAKi), rresioent, JOHN O. DAVIS, Vice-Piesldcnt Hf.net Ltxbdbk, i-ecrHarr. 1213 NORTH AMERICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 133 S. FOURTH Street PHILADELPHIA. Annual Toltcles Issued aRaiDBt General Accidents descriptions at exceedingly low rates, Insurance effected for on year, In any mm from 100 to S10.000, at a premium of only one-half per cent., seen ring the full amount Insured In case of death, and a com pensation each week equal to tho whole premium paid. Short time Tickets for 1, 2, 1, 5, 7, or 10 days, or I, 3, o 6 months, at 10 cents a day. Insuring In the sum of (3000 or giving $15 per week It disabled, to be had at the Gene ral Office, Mo. 133 8. FOUBTB Street. Philadelphia, or a the various Kallroad Ticket offices. Be sure to purchase the tickets of the North American Transit Insuiance Company. For ciiculars and further Information apply at th General Office, or of any of the authorized Agents ot tb Company. Lfc.WI9 L HOUPT. President. JAWFS M. COInRAD, Treasurer. BF.JiRY V- BROWN, Secretary. JOHM 0. BULLITT. Solicitor. D1RECIOR8. L. L. Honpt, lnte of Pennsylvania Railroad Coir nan v. M. Baird of M.W. Baldwin &Co.'8. " Samuel C. Palmer. Cashier ot Commercial Bank. Richard Wood, Me. SOU Market street James U. Conrad, So. 623 Market street. J. Kinpsly, Continental Hotel. l. G. Lelsenrlng, Nos. 237 and 2.1!) Dock street. Samuel Work, ot Work McCoucb & Co. George Martin, Mo. 322 Cbesnut sUoet. 11 3 ly f II E PROVIDENT Life and Trust Co., OF rniLADKLPUIA. Incorporated by the State of PennsylvanlaThlrd Mont 22d. IHtift, INSURES L1VKS, ALLO W- IMtltiSoT OS DEPOSITS. AMD ;RA NTS ANNUITIES. CAPITAL,. &150,000. XIBOTOKB. Samuel B. Shipley. Richard Cadbury, Jtri'iulah Hacker, Joshua H Moirls, Richard Wood, nonry iiames, T Wlstar Brown, Will Ian C. Lonustretb. i naries SAMUEL B. bHIPLET.ProBldeut Rowland Pabrt, Actuary. okfic. 7 28 ly N6. Ill S. FOURTH Street. 1829. CHARTER PERPETUAL. FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PUILADBLPBIA. ASSETS OMJANUABT I, 1865. 2,501,207-04. CAPITAL 4(HI.0OO ACCRUED SURPLUS !)I7 m 1 REM 11 Alrt 1.103.428 Unsettled Claims, U,745. Income lor 1865, C.101,0u0 LOSSES PAID SINCE 1829, OVER 5 UO.llOO. PERPETUAL AND TEMPOS ART POLICIES OST LIBERAL TERMS. ITRRCTOllS t OTJARLFS N BANCKER. ISAAC LEA. r . coinu. I UiJIAB WAUiSr.tt, 8A.VUEL GRANT, JACOB R. SM 1TH. GEORUE W. RICHARDS EDWARDC. DALE. GEORGK FALE8. ALFKED k 'TILER. ERAS. W. Lr.WIS. M. D. t HA UEK3 M. BANCKEK, President. EDWARD C D Lli. Vice President. James W. McAllibtbu. Secretary pro, tern. 3 25 12 liHCKMX IN8UKANCE COMPANY OP JT PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 1S04 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Kxuhanre. In addition to MARINE and INLAND INSURANCE this Company insures irom loss or aainane bv FIRE, on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture, etc., lor limited periods, and permanently on building, by deposit ot premium. The company has been In active operation for mora than SIXiY YE rs. during which all losses have been promptly adjusted ana paiu. DIRECTORS. John L. Bodge, W illiam McKee, M. B. Mahoney, Jot, T. Lew In, William 8. Grant. Robert W Learning, It rMuvV UThurtjtn Luwrencs Lewis, Jr., Dayid Lewis, Benjamin Ettlnir, Thomas ii. rowers, A. R. McHenry. Edmond ( 'astllion. PHtliUet TV UCOX iiuun a. W bCUERER, President rUMCKL Wilcox, He reta'ry. 128 ly I7IRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. THE r P1. NTJST1.VAMA TIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Incorporated 182ft Charter Perpetual No. 510 WAX- NUT street, opposite muepeiiuencn ouuaio This Company, lavorably known to the community for over forty years, continue to Insure against loss or damage by tire on Public or Private Buildings, either permanent y or tor a limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks of Goods and Merchandise generally, on liberal Tbeir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund. la Invested In tbe most careful manner, which enables them to otler to the Insured au undoubted seauritylu the cass oi loss. Daniel 8mlth. 3t . V1UU1VIWK John Devereox. Thomas HinitU, Henry Lewis. J. GUllmihajn FelL Alexander Benson, Iaao Hazlehursc, Thomas Rooms. Daniel Haddock, Jr. 1AN1EJ, smith, J., president. William O. Cb Secretary. ISOly I K E INSURANCE, a i m r. iioaiq jnoL'najujEj vaijrA.Ja I )' PHILADELPHIA. Not'lftO 8. FOURTH Street Charter Perpetual. Authorized Capital, tftOO 000 Paid-up Capiial, alOA.liOo. Insures against loss or damaue by E1RK on buildings, either permanent y or tor a L1MITKD period. Also on merchandise generally and Household Furniture, city or couutty. DlRKl'TUKB. J limes Brown. '1 homes Klmher. Jr.. Chare A. Duy, Win. 1. I ewis. William It. ISullock, Vi oi. x. .Neediea. Jnl.nl) lavlor. Henry IS. Mct.'omb, Lemuel Coma, C'lian P. Bavard, J. lilllborn Jones, John V.'oodsiile. ItltOW N. Prualilent. , JAMES ('HAS. A. D17Y, Vice President SCly II 1 OA" a H fcElLPON. Becretarv. f SHIPPING. Sff FOR NEW ORLEANS AND SAVANNAH DIRECT. FIRST CABIN PASSAGE TO NEW ORLEANS FORTY DOLLARS. $10. THE NEW STEAMSHIP MATANZAS, WILLIAM LIESF.GANO, Commandor, Will tall frmKW TORK, HATRED AT, January 1), carrying passengers at above low rates. . ' The well knswn and popular steamship MISSOURI, : James 8osbmax, Commandor, will follow January W. FOR SAVANNAn DlRECT-Weekly Line. Th splendid aew steamship BAH SALVADOR, Cap tain Atkins, will sail Saturday, January 13, snd be soo eeeded by the SAN JaCIMTO, Captain Loveland, Bator day. January SO. For Tickets apply to II. L. LEAP, No. 120 CHE8NUT STREET. GARRISON ALLEN No. 5 Bowiing Green, New York. in , HIGHLY IMPORTANT NO TICE. '1MK BJLABOARD AND ROANOKE RAILROAD UrEn. CHANGE Or HOUK. On and after Monday next (8th of January) the steamers ol the OLD BAY LINE win leave BA LTIMUKH jolFOR'f RE88 MONROE and NORFOLK at o'clock We now offer to the publlo, by this route, unsurpassed accommodations, In having two such steamers as th THOMAS KEL-M and ADELAIDE. Passengers leaving Baltimore at ft o'clock P.M. win arrive at Norfolk in time to connect with the Jamas River steamers tor CITY POINT and RICHMOND. The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad being new onaa, this Is the omy line by which connections can he made with It at Portsmouth for Suffolk. Blaokwater. Kdentoa Plymouth. Wei don RaleiKh. Uoldsboro Newbero.Wd mmxton. and all points on the great cotithern route. Passengers going to any point south ot Norfolk will find this to be the most trpedihvut and the eheayttt route. Fare from Philadelphia to Fortress Monro 0715 " Norfolk 17 J " " City Point 10 15 " Richmond 10 '2 Through tickets from Baltimore to Weldon, N- 0., 12 only. Through Tickets can be obtained at all the depots of the principal Northern, Eastern, and Western oitles. and Washington City. D. C. Be particular to procure tickets by the old-established BAY LI N E I state Rooms and Meals extra. The State Room accommodations are unsurpassed and the table well supplied. Passengers taking tne 8 A. M. train from New Terk have ample time to dine in Baltimore. Passengers leaving Philadelphia at 9-19 or IHO A. H. wil' connect with this Ine at Balt'more. Passengers leaving Washington at 1 HP. M. Will eon nect wltu this line at Baltimore. Passengers and their baggage transported free between railroad depots and steamers. M. N. FALLS, President R. D. JAMAR, General Passenger Agent, Phlla. Hit IT A Mil .T .'J Dicainw npptfif iiio Unit-class tul: oowered t'lvde bunt Iron acrnw Steamships, o this Line iogularly EVEKY WEDNESDAY iHROUGHOUT THE TEAR FIRST CABIN (through from Philadelphia) STEERAGE do do vdo WOO PAYABLE IN PAPER MONEY, ron LONDONDERRY, BELFAST, DUBLIN, GLASGOW OB LIVERPOOL. CABIN (according to location; 990, (30, and T STEERAGE aw All payable In paper money, and booked through tre, from Philadelphia to any oi the above port. Pariies about visiting the old country will find It t theli advantaKe to call on tbe underslcnnd before eav gaging elsewhere, as they can seeure choice berths, an save their ral.road exoouses to New York. E or passage, app y to W. A. HAMILL, No. 217 WALNUT Street, up stairs. Drafts lssuf d for nnv amount navable In any nart of England, Ireland, Scotland, andWaies, or on the Con tinent. Oil STEAM TO LIVERPOOL. '!jlJ''l7rlllnor i OITF.ITNSTriWW Th Inm.. II.. aumngSaVMI WEEKLY, carrying the U. S. MaU. ETN A, Saturday, Decembe r 'M. CITY OE MANCHESTER, Wednesday, January . EDINBURGH. Saturday. January 0. At noon, trom Pier 44 North River. RA'IES Or PASSAGE. First Cabin ano-00 Steerage OSO-60 First Cabin to London 95 00 Steerage to London. .. .14-00 F'rst Cabin to Paris.. .106 00 Steerage to Paris 40-00 Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bre men, Ac, Ac. at moderate rates. Passage by the nial steamers, sailing every SATUR DAY, payable In gold Passage by the mlu week steamers, payab e In United states currency. Passage by the Wednesday steamers : Cabin, 0ft Steerage (3ft; payable in United States currency. Steerage passage from Liverpool or Qut,enstown, tM gold, or Its equivalent Tickets can be bought her by persons sending (or their triends. For farther Information apply at the Company's Offices JOHN G. DALE, Agent, Ho. Ill WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. FOR NEW YORK. DESPATCH and bwiltsure Lines, via Delaware and mritan I anal. Ihe steamers of these Hues are leavlaa- daily at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clook P. M.. Irom third pier above Walnut street ' For freight, which will he taken on accommodating toiniB, apply to WILLIAM M. BAIHD & CO., No. 114 a, DELAWARE Avenue. COAL. JAMES O'BRIEN,; DEALER IN LEHIGH AND SCHUTLKILL COAL, BY IHE CARGO OR SINGLE TON. Yard, Broad Street, below Fitzwater. Has constantly on band a coin Detent supply of the above superior Coal, suitable lor family use, to which he calls the attention of his friends and tha public generally. Orders left at No 206 S. Ff'th street, No. 82 S, Seventeenth street, or through Despatch or Jfost Office, promptly attended to 1 A SCPJtfilOa QUALITY OF BLACKSMITHS COAL. . 7 81y 0M DIT, .gi i 1?; 1 FltiLHE MAN UFACTURER, AND DEALER IN Ml BOOKS. BIBLES, PRAYERS. Magazines, Novels, and all the ITcw Publications. CARD, MEDIUM, AND IMPERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Views, rictarcs of all Linda. Framed to order. 808 CHESTHUT ST. 808 u if ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., ft, E. cor. of FOPKTH and EACE SixeeU, PHIIAPELFHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS Importers and Pealers In Foreign and Domestio Window and Plate Glass, MANUFACTURERS OP White Lead and Zinc Painta,Putty,eto AOKKTS FOU IBB CELEBRATED FRENCH ZING PAINTS. Dealere and Consumers supplied at 1020 81a ! VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH. .A. f -. Vl
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