Tllti DAILY By aft 1KG TELEGRAPH FniLAjgEjirillA,? THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868. TWO HOURS IN JAIL. BT JAMBS OKBRRWOOD. (Second Paper.) The City Prison at Ilolloway !b an uUbllsh ent for the reception of criminala aentenoed to two years imprisonment or less, and at the present time the governor has four hundred and fifty delinquents in his custody. To pro vide receptaoles at onoe commodious and aeoore for bo many lodgers is undoubtedly an essential oonditlon, but another of almost equal importance is so to arrange the said reoeptaoles that the ways thereto may con verge to one common centre, the latter afford ing a stand-point from which an uninterrupted Tiw of the full number of cell-doors may be obtained by the warders on duty. Without entering on architectural detail it may be Bald, by an admirable arrangement of radiating corridors, these prime aids towards successful prisen management have been at tained. It is needleBS to say that the whole esta blishment, from extremist corner to oorner, and from roof to basement, is scrupulously clean; indeed, it is glaringly so, and palatal to contemplate on that aooouut. You look up ward and round about, and all is white, white, spotless, and dead, and harmonizing .exactly with the frequent notice-boards enjoining 'silence" hnng around. Under foot all is black; it cannot well be blacker, for the floor ing material Is asphalte, and every morning It is black-leaded till it shines like the face of a kitchen-stove. It looks like a still, blaok pool in the evening light, and is slip pery as glass. The warders, conforming to the grim rule of silence, glide about in shoes, the uppers of which are white canvas and the boles India-rubber. They shift from this point to that so swiftly and noise lessly that you would think that the still, black pool was frozen to ice and they were sliding on it, only that as a rule sliders are jolly-looking people, and these were solemn inen, resigned to their duty perhaps, but overpowered by a melancholy that dwells in the atmosphere. The City Prison is a working prison, and the Governor taking advantage of certain facilities that perhaps are peculiar to the pri son location, appears to have advanoed far towards solving the long tried puzzle of how to make enforced labor profitable. By the way of answer to a question put by us rela tive to this matter, there was placed in our hands the "labor roll" for the day, showing at a glance how every capable prisoner of the four hundred and fifty had been employed since morning. I wish that I had copied the roll that I might have presented it to the reader in its exaot entirety, bat I well remember that it inoluded painters, glaziers, smiths, car penters, wood-choppers, barbers, wheel-tread-ers, oakum-pickers, bricklayers, bookmak ers, and, last and mo3t important of all, mat makers. There were between sixty and seventy mat-makers. We went into the mat factory, where there are several looms, which have been erected on the present Governor's responsibility. We were informed that a prisoner who had never seen a loom before, might be taught to make himself useful at one in a fortnight. The prison authorities are at no risk as regards their mat-making. A con tractor provides all material, bringing it to their doors, and carrying away all manufac tured goods; and lat year the profits thereon that were handed to the corporation out of this branch of prison labor alone amounted to nine I have alluded to brick-making as figuring in the labor-roll, and was as much surprised as doubtless the reader will be to find it there. Twenty-five, I think, was the number of pri son hands engaged at this branch of manufac ture; but where was it performed f To make bricks it id neoessary to have at your com mand clay and "breeze" or cinders for burn ing. "Come with me," said the governor, . "and you shall see all about it." He conduoted us out of the prison to the grounds at the rear of it, enclosed by the high prison-walls, of oour?e. The ground pertaining to the jail is about seven acres in extent, and without doubt is made the most of. Two aores and a quarter are in wheat the very finest that can ba met for fifty miles round, owing, doubtless, to a judicious utilization of the prison sewage in the form of liquid manure. Besides the wheat there are thriving plots of cabbage and potatoes, and onions and leeks for soup, all sown and tended by the prisoners. Never was wheat so precious, thanks to its merolful grower. It is a jail regulation that every pri soner shall take so much walking exercise eaoh day, and in ordinary the neoessary opera tion is performed in a dreary flag-paved yard, wherein the prisoners tramp wearily to and fro through the specified time now much exhilarated may be easily imagined. Bat just now it is pleasant walking for the inmates of Holloway Prison, and it will grow pleasanter until wheat-cutting time comes. In one of the largest patches circular paths are left, and this is the exercise ground. To be sure, to expect to arouse wholesome emtlons in the breasts of a certain set of Holloway prisoners by so gentle a means would be simply absurd; but they are not all of this sort. There are scores and scores of miserable men, young and old, who, under a spell of devilry, have slipped from the path of rectitude once, and only once, and who in the confines of their narrow, solitary cell drop hot tears of remorse and penitenoe as their thoughts wander home, and to wives and children, and they yearn till their hearts aohe for the day that shall restore them. What, - after the debasing drudgery of jail-labor, must that hour's tramping through the hopeful green wheat be to them f But it is not all tramping through green wheat out in the prison rear-ward garden. It is here that the bricks are made. The Gov ernor's severely eoonomio instincts have led him to argue that although no kind of crop may be raised out of clay, such as abounds on his eBtate, there is another direot and simple method of making the material in question productive. In a great pit the furnaoe and ordinary fire refuse of the prison is stored, and with these two ingredients he sets to work. There is a "pug-mill" worked by manual instead of horse-power, and "moulders" and-barrow-hands and stackers, all wearing the slate-colored skeleton suit with the embroidered Blee ve and the metal tioket with a number on it about their neck. Bat ftilATi na still prevails. You can hear the dull thud of the clay as the moulder fills his mould, and the clap of the little boards with whioh the oarriers take up the soft brick, and the creak oi tne uarrow-wneei as tne bricks are wheeled away; but beyond that there is not noiaa enough to drown the chirp of a free sparrow thftt has. her nest in a niohe of the prison wau. in me hjicibi or me workers, perched in a sort of pulpit, is an officer in prison livry, who has nothing to do but fold his acma and shut his mouth and keep his ears open and stare at the 25 bookmakers with alibis might, ready to pounce on anybody who dare break the golden rule. Bat nobody gijriee; indeed, it may be safely asserted tlraf "throughout the jail there are no such cheerful-looking laborers as those out-o'-door Mi. However severe tne task, it is per fSiiued in the open air, where the crow flies overhead and the sun shines and the wind Hows. Besides, there Is fair in view the only obstacle that stands between them and liberty, between them and the common pavement ua which people lounge, or saunter, or hurry, without dreaming of restraint. They oan hr the leather-lunged potboy from the pubi c house over the way bawliog "Beer 01" thy can hear the carriages rattling along the road way, and the heavy market cart rumbling over the stones, and can pioture the happy carter smoking his short pipe as he slouches along, with one hand in his pocket and his whip over his shoulder. Ah, dear reader, you know a few clever people, and bo do I; but for "seeing through a brick wall," as the saying is, one of these unfortunate laborers in the prison garden might be matohed against any one of them, and baoked at long odds to win. The labor least relished by tne prisoners and I don't wonder at it is the tread wheel. Its use is to raise sufficient water for the use of the establishment to an immense tank fixed on the roof. Hand-pumping was at first tried, and with such questionable sucoess, that the laborers were suspected of "shirk ing," and to prove the charge against them a gang of free workers were called in and set to the task; but having that blessttd privilege, after a trial they dropped the pump handles and flatly declined "to have any more of it." The treadwheel answers better, bat it is fearfully hard work for the treaders. With all respeot for the excellent contrivers and managers of the institution under inspection, I would suggest an alteration in this treadmill shed. There should be more light and more air in the place; on a hot summer's day the fatigue must be unbearable. The "wheel" itetlf extends the whole length of the shed by the wall, and revolves on an axle. Attached to this wheel, or rather drum, are projecting pieces of board six inches in width and about nine inches apart. Overhead is a short bar for the operator to grasp with his hands, and when the wheel is started he has no foothold and no rest for his feet until his spell of "treading" is at an end. For fulllwenty minutes he must constantly raise first his right foot, then his left, as though he was walking tip stairs, and this at the rate of about sixty times in a minute. Fancy having to ascend twelve hundred stairs in twenty minute3, to ascend to the summit of the Monument three times over in that short time, and then to be released that you may sit in a box like a church pew in the same shed and pick oakum for a further term of twenty minutes by way of a rest, and then three times to the top of the Monument again, and so on through the working hours of every day I And it is not as though the operator trod on the open wheel, lie must not speak to his neighbor, he must not see him; and to this end he works in a sort of box open at the top. It must be terrible work for a fat man, and such as well as lean commit them elvas. It is possible for such a one, as we were in'ormed, to lose in weight three stone in as many months. But it is not six hours at the treadmill, or at any other manner of work performed at the City Prison, that contents the inexor able authorities of that model establish ment. One way or another a prisoner mast work ten hears. He is roused at half-past five in the morning, and somehow or another he is kindly preserved against the perils of idleness until 8 o'clock at night. This shows fifteen hours and a half, but he is not working absolutely all that time. He has to go to chapel and to take bis meals and his exercise. He is tasked through ten hoars only. Many of the trades suoh, for instance, as the shoe makers and tailors and the out-o'-door hands (excepting the brick-inaker) "knook off" at six to get their supper, after which they retire to their cells; but they must do some kind of work until tne bell sounds 8 o'clock, when they may cease, and are privileged to spend the ensuing hour in reading or meditation, or in washing themselves, when the bell tolls ngain, and a clatter of. hammock-hooks, as long and precise almost as the grounding of arms at a military review, resounds through the corridors, and the prisoners may go to bed. Ah ! the glorious privilege of breaking that horrible silenoe, though only for so short a time as may be occupied in adjusting four iron hooks in as many oatohes I The blessed relief of lifting for a few seoonds the sombre veil that clings about a poor wretch so suffo catingly. "The strlotest silenoe must be ob served," Bay the notice-boards, and it is ob served. Entering in at a door guarded by a gigantio though melancholy janitor in India rubber shoes, the governor signs us to step softly on to a mat that is there. We do so, and in a listening attitude he raises his hand. There is not a sound. Before us is a long corridor containing a long double row of cells, eaoh containing a man alive and in health, and engaged at some kind of work; bat no charnel-house could be quieter. Judging from the awful "hush," the cells might each have been a church vault, with a coffined creature lying within it. Bat presently a noise is heard, a "Tap I tap I tap 1" and then a pause, and then a succession of taps, vigorous and hearty, conveying to our oppressed senses a relief for whioh we sigh gratefully, as one does on a sultry evening when the sudden and heavy rain-drops oome pit-a-pat on the dusty read. "That's a shoe maker," the governor whispers; "he's got a task to finish, and he is hammering out hid sole leather." Fortunate shoemaker 1 If it is a relief from the dread benumbing to clatter aloud for the space of half a minute with a couple of iron hooks, what must it be to be armed with a handy broad-faced hammer and a lapBtone, with liberty to assault grim silence with all the strength of your right arm f How the other poor still stitchers of cloth and pickers of oakum must have envied him I What would they not have given for a broad faced hammer and a lapstone and free permission to bang away as hard as they E leased for half an hour t They would ave been heard as far as the summit of Highgate Hill. "Do the prisoners dread this silence so very muoh ?" the reader may ask. Ay, do they a hundred times mora than a free man can possibly realize. A gang of them poor, soft-handed wretohes 1 were at work on the evening of our visit at the rough, and to them heavy task of bricklay ing, and had been so employed all day. Coma six o'clock, they were to turn into their cells, and spend the next two hours at some light work at which they could sit down; but they didn't want to sit down; they didn't want to change the heavy work for the light. Holding up his hand, which is the sign that a prisoner craves permission to speak, one of them hum bly reques'ed the Governor to allow them to continue bricklaying until eight o'clock. But the request could not be granted. "For God's Bake, governor, put me in another cell I" was the prayer of one poor prisoner who had occupied the same lodging through nine weary months; "for God's sake put me somewhere else 1 I have counted the bricks of the cell I am in till my eyes ache." But there came under our notice one ourious instance of how email a matter may upset the calculations, and turn even to ridicule the Sternest enactments, of men mighty in autho rity. From the men's oorridor we proceeded to the women's, and, prideful of his eminently successful silent system, the governor paused at ice threshold with the whispered remark, "These are the female cells, and yet you perceive the same unbroken still ness Jelgns. Women or men, gentle men, one system rules them, and they must obey." When lot at that very in stant a tiny voioe was heard to crow its shrill-' est, and that within a dosen yards of where we1 were standing. "That's one of the babies,'! remarked the Governor, with all the wind suddenly taken out of his sails. "Of oourse, you can't keep babies quiet." i We were further informed that as many as fourteen of these small mockers and defiers of gags and governors were born in the jail within the year. The mothers ate permitted to take charge of their children. In every cell door there is a peep-hole of about the size of a penny, covered first with wire gauze and then with a shifting metal cover. Putting this last aside, we peeped in, and there we saw the little rebel who had so audaoiously put to rout the Governor and his silent system, Bitting on the bed bright and lively, and getting rare fun out of a tkeln of darning cotton, while its mother, seated on a stool by the bedside, was busily finishing a job of sock-mending by the fading light that shone in at the high up barred narrow strip of window. It would be hard to Bay whether the presence of the innocent baby with its cheerful little faoe and its general air of content made the gloomy little cell look more or less prison-like. How the mother would have answered had the question been put to her need not be doubted, but of course she was a prejudiced person. By the way, I wonder if the silent system in' all its grim severity is imposed on mothers with babies f The cobbler is at liberty to pound away at his Je&ther till the gloomy corridor echoes again, but he no more dare whistle as he hammers than he dare demand a pint of beer wherewith to whet his whistle: the incarcerated tailor, to beguile the tedious time, may think a tune if he pleases, but to hum one would be to peril his prospects of din ner: how is it with mothers and their little ones t Are they bound to caress them (and you may depend that they are not so debased as to have overcome the very natural habit) in dumb show f Do they convey to them words of endearment under their breath, and indoctrinate them in the soothing nursery jingle by unsounding movements of their lips t The next time I am in the company of our worthy governor I will ask him all about it. Every day the prisoners, male and female, old and young, are made to attend chapel, and twice on Sundays. The appearance of the sacred edifice quite upsets one's ideas of "free dom" of religious worship. The chaplain's pulpit is perched high up against the wall at the end, bo as to enable hint to get a view of his entire congregation. Otherwise this would be impossible; for while the larger body of ad alt male prisoners occupy the body of the chapel, the women and children are partitioned oil on either side by a tall partition that quite preoludes the possibility oi their seeing be yond. Before the great ppace where the men Bit is a pair of tall grim iron gates; and they are ranged on seats rising one above the other with warders in attendance and constantly on the watch lest for a single instant they, through the whole of the service, depart from the rigid rule of "eyes right." They must look steadfastly before them, regarding through the iron bars the preaoher in his pul pit, and they must raise and lower their prayer-books with elbows squared and all at once like soldiers at drill. They may not scrape their feet upon the floor without having afterwards to explain the movement. They may scarcely wink an eye or sigh without dan ger of rebuke or punishment. God help them, poor wretches I It says muoh in favor of the Holloway sys tem, however, that it exercises no injurious effect on the health of the inmates. There is a commodious infirmary; but out of the large number of four hundred and fifty only three were invalided, and that at least in two casea not through being unable to bear up against the severity of jail discipline. Of the two cases in question one was that of an old man turned eighty, an experienced "smasher," or passer of spurious coin, while the other wa a tall, languid young man of decent appearance, who. coming of a family of thieves, had always been himself a thief, but who was now in the last stage of consumption. He was going home to his friends in the country, as we were in formed. "He may as well go home and die. since he wishes it, as die here." When fever cases occur in the jail they are removed at once to the Fever Hospital, and when he is cured he gets his liberty; on what principle, however, is not very clear. There are peep-holes in the doors of the cells in which the male prisoners are confined The polished black-leaded floors and the India rubber shoes favor stealthy approach, and the eliding corner of the peep-hole'may be Banted quite without sound, so that at any moment a prisoner may be under the suspicious eye of the warder, and he never know it. It was now 8 o'clock (a fact the great shining bell hung in the hall announced in deafening accents), the signal for striking work lor the night. There yet remained an hour till bedtime. "What do they do meanwhile f" we inquired. "Look and see for yourself," replied our guide; and we did, treading softly from door to door, and noiselessly pushing back the peep-hole screen. The majority were engaged in the healthful process of washing. They are not bound to wash themselves over night, but as they are expected to show clean and ready to com mence the labor of the day at half-paBt 5 o'clock in the morning, they find it convenient to perform their ablutions before they retire to their hammocks. 1 The prisoners are afforded every faollity for cleanliness. In eaoh cell water is laid on, and the not unliberal allowance daily is six gal lons. Each prisoner is provided with a bowl for washing his face and hands, and a neat uttie tray, holding about a gallon and a hair, in whioh he is expected to perform the same necessary operation oa bis feet, when neoes tan. 1' - i. . .. v - H i ,3 : . paij. i' uiiucr, juo uao a wwuueu tsuup-uiou, and a handy bit of yellow soap, and a good towel. Every day the men go to church; but on Sunday godliness and cleanliness go specially hand in hand. On the Sabbath morning the governor makes a tour of sanitary inspection, and every prisoner appears at his cell door with his trousers pulled up above nis sums ana his ieet naked, while bis shirt and jacket are turned back at the oollar so as to expose his neck and shoulders. Onoe a week in hot weather, and once a fortnight in cold, every prisoner has a bath. But peeping in at the peep-hole we dis cerned that very many of the captives were not brjsy with the soap and towel perhaps it was ODly the experienced and "settled-down" hands that were so. Some of the poor fellows it was in the highest degree painful to con template. Here was a man seated on bis stool before the scanty bracketed board that served as his table, evidently engaged in com posing a letter to his friends to his wife, perhaps. Prisoners have to ba mighty careful how they write their let ters. One and all are carried to the gover nor, and by him inspected; and unless it is composed in the plainest language and is en tirely free from ambiguous phrases and mat ters of a "private" nature, the prisoner ha3 wasted his time, for the letter will not be for warded. The prisoners are, of course, ap prised of this regulation, and, neoessary though it be, its observance is doubtless a source of considerable embarassmnt espe cially to the imperfectly educated and tbe alley-bred, whose knowledge of phraseology, although invaluable to the compiler of a slang dictionary, s altogether unequal to the pro duction of suoh a plain ani unmistakable (plstle as will pass muster with tbe lynx -eyed, supervisor. But, however unsatisfactory, this occupation evinced a disposition towards resignation, whioh. was something. Others there were who were a long, long way from resigned. Here might be seen a man who had taken off his shoes that he might mike no noise pacing his cell to and fre, to and fro, and with rapid stride as a wild animal does when it. is newly oaged, with his arms tightly foi led and his faoe hag gard and wrinkled by the terrible reflections that are tormenting him. Here is another a poor, stricken wretch too oast down for an active display of his agony, and who sits on his stool, still as a ttotne, with his head buried in his hands. Who he is, is a secret known only to the gov ernor and the record book. Perhaps he Is merely a regular thief, bemoaning his seve rance from Borne Sail or roll of Spitalfields, and may be a little child or two, their shame ful progeny. It is possible, for even profes sional thieves may not defy the laws of nature as well as the laws of society; and though the criminal records may justly brand thnm as "hardened ruffians, make no doubt that they are not all hardness. They must have their inner life of domestio affection and their heart-yearning for somebody, or tbey are lens than the fox or the wolf. May ' be, however, the dismal figure, tight clal in his prison suit and buried in sorrow so that no more than the top of his closely-cropped head is visible a month ago was a free and seemingly happy fellow, who dined sumptuously every day, and wore fine clothes and costly jewelry, and lived in a hand some villa at Brompton or Twickenham along with a confiding and innocent wife and a troop ef merry children, who would as soon have believed that the moon was about to fall as that papa, who of late had grown so fidgety and complained of headache, and shut him self for hours together in his room, was a miserable felon, waiting and quak'ng for the crash that he knew must presently come. Anyway, there he is, and there he must remain, no man at all, but a mere machine built of flesh and bone and mutole, that may be adapted to any useful purpose his custodian may choose for him. lie is merely a ticketed animal that must, through two years, through six hundred weary working days, make bricks, or draw water, or scrub floors, or pick oakum in silence. SEWING MACHINES. THIS GREAT AHEBICAN COMBINATION BUTTOA'-KOLE 0YEKSEAM1NU ADO SEWING MACHINE, Its wonderful Popularity Conclusive Frool of Its Great Merit. The Increase In the demand for this valuable Machine has been TENFOLD daring the last seven months of Its first year before tbe public This grand and surprising success Is unprecedented In the history ot Sewing Machines, and we feel rally warranted In claiming that IT HAS NO EQUAL, relDff absolutely the beat FAMILY MACHINE IK TIT JL WOULD, And Intrinsically tbe cheapest, for It Is really two Machines combined In one. Bold at tbe S. IV. 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On htorts, Dwelling Houses, etc. ANSETH OF TUB VOmtArY KOTemwr I, U87. 20O.C0O Tjlll1 biates Five Per Cent. ' Loan, 11M( l-.-OLOCWOO 120.0C0 L'dIkU blatea Five Per Ceuh Lon, 1W)1 lSl-OO BO 000 UnlieU Slates 7 8-10 i'er Cent. Loan T'reasnrv Notes - 61.562 SO 200.000 Ptsie of Pennsylvania HLz. Per Cent, Ix.an 310 070 00 125 000 City uf Phlladflpuia Six 1'erCeut. Loan (exempt from tax) I2S.62S 00 69 000 State of New Jersey tix Percent. Loan - ; Sl.OOO'OO 20 000 Pennsylvania Kallrond First Moi iRBge MIX Ptr Out. Bond. 19,800-00 25,000 Pennsylvania Railroad, Hmond Mortgage hlx Per Cent. Bonds. 23.875 00 25,000 Western i'emif vivanta KMIioud Six Per Cent, Bonus ( Po insyl- vanlaRallroalguarauted).... 40,000 00 80.0CO State of Tennwsee Kirve Per Cent. Loans..... 18,000-00 7000 State of Tennessse HU Percent. Loan. 427O'0O 6,000,800 shares stock of Hermnniowu Una Company (principal and Interest nuaraDlecd by the city of Philadelphia....- 15,000 00 7,500 ISO Shares Ktock of Pennsylva nia ltatlroad Company. 7,800-00 5,000 lOOHbarenbtockof North Peun- sylvanla Kallroad Comtauv. 8,000-00 20,000 to (Shares Block Philadelphia and Southern Mall Bleautshlp ... T Company W.OOO'OO zoi,900 Loans on r.onrts ana Mortgage, first Hens on City Property . tol.oof do I1.1U1.4C0 par. Market value. 1,102,H02-60 Real Frtate. 86,000-0 Bills Receivable for insurance mde......... M J10.136 67 Baltmes due at AKeno es Pre miums on Marine Policies Accrued intiei and other ' nebts due the Company 43,334-38 Etock. and f- crip of sundry Insa- rD ana otner uompaniea n..T , d- f"107-00i estimated valne F??h Bn-.-....... ..1103 017-10 Cash in .Drawer ..... ss 52 8,017'00 Thomas O. Hand, .James C. Hand, juiiu v. xavis, Edmnnd A. Bonder. Joseph II. Beal, Theopbilus Paulding, xiuii 181,815-63 H 607,805-15 buiuuel K. Btokes, -lauiea iraquair, William V. Ludwlg. 4 Jumps R. Mi'V.rl.n I Joshua p. Kyre, juuu xj. lay tor, spencer atc'lvalne, Kenry O. JJallett, Jr., Ueorse W. Bernardoa, I).T, Morgan, Pittsburg. J, B. Semule. ' I A, B. Berirer. H JOHN c. DAVIS, Vice-President, HENRY LTLBURN. Secretary, """ HENRY BALL. Assistant Secretary, 12 80 Edward Darlington John R. Penrose, H.Jones Brooke, Henry Sloan, George G. Lelper, William G. Bouiton, Edward Lafourcade, jaoeoiuegel, 2J -C1IARTER PERPETUAL. Franklin Fire Insurance Co. OF PIIILADJfcLrillA. OFFICE: Kos. 435 aud 437 CHESNUT STREET. ASSETS OJT JANITABY 1. 1898, $,003,740 OO, CA-FJTAIn ft4e)0y06000 A CCS UED BORPLVH M 1.0tS,8g.ga UNSETTLED CLAIMS. INCOME FOB 1868 VSS,OI'lt!f 985v,00(HOO. 1LOSSE9 PAID SINCE 1839 OVEB 5,C00,000. Perpetnal and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms, DIRECTORS. George Fales, Alfred i liter, (frauds W. Lewie, M, D, Thomas Bnarks. William S. Grant. Charles N. Bancker. Tobias Wagner, Samuel Grant, George W. Richard JUmao Lta. CHARLES N. BANCKER, President. ,.o . -ulw,w FaLES, Vice-President. JAB. W. McALLlbi HIl, secretary pro lew. Except at Lexington, Kentucky, this Company hag w MBvswva v vs v IIWWU1 y TNSUBANCE COMPANf NORTE AMERICA, No. 232 WALNUT STREET, PHILADA. INCORPORATED 1701. CHARTER PERPETUAL, Murine, Inland, and lire Insurance. ASSETS JANUARY 1, 18G8, - 2,001,2G6-72. 120,000,000 Losses Paid In Csa Since iU Organization. DIRKCTOR8. Arthur O. Goffln, George L. Harrison, Baiuuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles 'lay lor. Ambrose White, Francis K. Cone. Edward H, Trotter, Edward B.Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred I. Jessup, John P. White, Louis a Madeira, William Welsh. Klcbard I) Wood, B. Morris Wain, John TA AAA 11. ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President. Charles Putt. Secretary. WILLIAM BUEHLER, Harrlaburg, Pa-, Central Agent fur the Stale of Pennsylvania. 125 STRICTLY MUTUAL. PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST CD, OF PHILADELPHIA. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among members ol the SOCIETY OF FRIENDat Good risks of any class accepted. Policies lssufcd upon approved plans, at the lowest rates. President, 8AMTEL R. SHIPLEY. Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETH. Aciuary, ROWLAND FARR7. The advantages u Hired by this Company are not excelltd. 7 87 T O N D O N IMPERIAL f IBS INSURANCE COMPANY, ESTABLISHED ISOf. ' Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Fuuds, ,iO,ttOU IN GOLD. LOCAL D'KKCTOBS: F. M. ARCHIBALD, II U M CoiihuI, Chalrmaa. A A LOW, of A. A. Low A Bion. KB JAFtltAY.ol' K S. J .11 ay A O). RICH A HD 1KV1N, of Klchard Irvlu A C.i. DAVID SALOMON N. U W. Thin lbth st. J HOOHM N J Oil Nr ON, of J, J Jiihu.oU fc Uo, JAMES slU ART, of J. J. atnurt M. K. W. C HOWELL, Resident MariSRpr. No. in PINK ireet, , Y, PRRVOxT & H KKKI IU, Aveiits, 1 22 lm No. 107 S. THIRD Ulriwt, Phllada. INSURANCE COMPANIES. yiLLiriCHAOT ft HILTa i 15SURAACE KOOXS. i John L. Eodce. M. B Mahoby, John T. Lewis, . William S. Grant, Robert W. Learning I), Clark Wharton, Lawreuce Lewis. Jr, David Lewis. enamin Ettlng, Thomas H. Power. A. R. Mcllenry, Krimond Casillloo. Samnel Wilcox, ewis u. Norris. Daalel Smith. Jr.. Alexander Benson, Inaao HfKlehum, Thomas iioo ns. John Deverenx, Thoaias oniilh. . Henry Lewli, J. (JlillniFt.ain IFnll. UB1I nthUUW-K, jr. DANIEL SMITH, jB.,Presl ens. WM. 6. CBOWELL, Secretary. 8 301 No. 409 WALNUT bt. A8ENTB AND ATlORKETtt F')M Home Fire Insuraiice Company, NEW HAVE. -ONM, BprlngllCidFIreftuil Marine Ius. Co., 1 SPRINGFIELD. MASH. Tonkcrs and Acw York Insurance Co., ' NEW YORK Peoples' Fire Insurance Company, WORCESTER, MASS. Atlantic Fire and 3Iurluc Insurance Co., PKUVIDitLXCK, a. I, Guardian Fire Insurance Company, NEW YJRK Lumberman's Fire Insurance Co., CHICAGO, ILL Insurance effected at LO .VEST KATES'. All losses promptly and liberally adjusted at their . Offlce, Ko. 409 ' WALNUT Street, l philadelpu I a, PIICENIX iNfeUKAKCH COMPANY OP FfllLADF.LP.blA. V INCORPORATED 1804-CHARTER PERPETUAL. Ko,E4WAUUT Street, opposite the EiVmrlT This Company Insures troui loss or damage by on liberal terms on bnlldiuga, merchandise, fnrnltara eic. for limited periods, and permanently on butlcu Ings by deposit of premiums. i The Coiupauy has been in active operation for mora than SIXTY Y KS, during which All losses hS been promptly adjusted and paid. " AUIUMJIWV- JOHN R. wfTGHJLRKR. President. Piml Wtttox. Rmmuiv . l IRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY TBB -ENN8YLVANIA FIRui INSURANCE COM PAN Y Incorporated ISij-Ctiarter Perpetual No. Mi) WALN UT S'fer, opi.oslie Independence Square. This company, favorab y kuowo to thecommunlty for over forty years, c .utilities to Insure agtlnt loss or damage by lira on P-blli or Private li illdlogs, f Ither pfraianPDily or fur a It ml eel time. A'so on Furnltur Stocks of Quods, and Mercbaudlse gene rally, oo liberal terns. Their Capital, togelhf r wih a large Surplus Fund, Is invented In tbe moat ctrelul manner, which enables them to offer to the lururea an undoubted security la tbe case ot loss. dibbctobs. STEAMBOAT LINES. Jf BRISTOL LINB KEW YORK AND BOSTON. VIA BiUSiOU . for PKOTTDKNCE, TAUNTON, NEW BEDFORD CAPX COD, aus itii points of railway oouuaunloaa tlou. East and North. 1he nw aud splendid steamers BSISTOL anal PROVIDENCE, leave Pier No. 40 NORTH RIVER, root of tual sireei, adjoining Debraases Street Ferry, New Yerk, at 6 P. M., aally, Sundays excepted, coo necting with steamboat train at Rrlatol at 4 8U A. AC arriving In Boston at A. At., in time to connect with, all the morning trains from that city. The most de siraole and pieaxant route to the White Mountains. Travellers for tuat point oan make direct connec tions by way of Providence and Worcester, or Boston. state-rooms and Tickets seemed at othoe en Flex ba New ork. 615m H. O. BRIQBS. General Manager. tT-a. PHILADELPHIA AND TBSX- "-4-- t u steaoiDuat Line. Tne su-amboat jvisni. tUAlilkiT leaves ARl.il Street Whtrr, lor Trenton, sioppiug at Tacony, Torresdale, beverlr. Burllngtou, Bristol, Florence, Rob'jina' W hart, and White Hill. Leaves Aich Street Wbarfl Leaves South Trenton. 3 baiurday, Sept. 12, 8 A. At Saiurday, berkli. 12 Us. feunduy, eepU la, to Uumngton, Bristol, aud Inter mediate landings, les.ves Arcn street wharf , 8 A.aC and 2 P. M.; leavts Bristol at u,', A.M. aud 4 P. AC Monday, Sept 11. 10 A.M Monday, Sept. 14, P.AC Tuesday, 10,11 A.MITuesday, 16, F.MC Weo'aay, ' 18,11 A M Wta day, " lo, I P.At Thursday " 17.12 M. 1 liutsuay, " IT, P.AC Friday. " IS, 1 P.W Uriday, " 18, i F K Fare to Trenton, 40 cents each way; Imerin dial places, 26 cents. 4 11 rjPEn F0K CHEBTIR, HOOK, AMD UScwSSSC WILMINUTON-At 8 80 and V 60 A. At, The steamer 8, U. FELTON and ARIEL leave CHEtNUT Street W harf (Sundays excep'ed) at 810 auo 9'6o A. 14., and 8to P. M., returning leave WU mtngten at '60 A . M., 12 60, aud 840 P, AC stepping at Chester and Hook each way. Fare, 10 cents between all points. t Excursion tickets, 16 cents, good to return by either boat. JH. t-jbil'ClN OPPOSITION TO TUB COM- bESSbMsKLBINICD RAILROAD AJN.U BIER Sieaiuer JOHN SYLVESTER will make dally excursions to Wilmington (Sundays excepted), touch ing at Chester aud Marcus Hook, leaving A HUH Street hai f at 10 A. M. and 4 P. Ll returning, leave Wl'mlnrtor at I A. AC and IP. AC Light freights laken. . F .AtTTH DAILY EXCUR8IOK8.-THa aBBbS splendid est nam boat JOHN A. WAR i li.lt.. leaves CUESN UT Street Wharf, Phllada,, ai o'clock and 6 o'clock P. M., fur Burlington and Bristol, touching at Rlverton. Torresdale, Andalusia, and Beverly. Returning, leaves Bristol at I o'clock A.M. and 4 P. M. Fare. t cents each way: Exonrsloa 40 ota. Vtt ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETC -ffctts JPENN BTEAM ENGINE AXO rLJL lr T " BOILER WORKS.-NEAFIE A LEVY. PiwACilCAL AND THEORETICAL ENOIN JC&Ra. MAC H IN la l , BOILER-MAKERS, BLACK. SMlTHa, and FOUNDERS, having lor many year been In successful operation, ana been exclusive engaged la building and repairing Marine aad Rlvar Engines, high aud low-pressure, Iron Boilers, Wat- Tanks, Propellers, etc etc., respectfully offer their services lo tbe public as belug fully prepared to con tract for engines of all sizes, Marlue. River, and Stationary; having sets of patterns of different sues are prepared to execute orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern-making made at the) shortest notice. High aud Low-pressure Fine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers, 01 the best Pennsylva nia charcoal Iron. Forglngs of all sizes and kinds. Iron and Brass Casllugs of all descriptions. Roll Tu.ll.D.l?,, 'Scww Cutitpg.and all ether work connected with the above business. Drawings and siieciucatlous for all work done at theestablUhment tree ot charge, and work guaxaa. 1 he subscribers have ample wharf-dock room fog repairs of bouts, where they can He lu purfccl safely, a-iU are provided with sbeurs, blocks, falls, etc. u for raising heavy or light weights. . JACOB G, NKAF1JL JullN P. LHVY. II BFACH mid PA LM E R Streets. J, AVUUH MU.AB1CK, WILULAM H. MlUtltlOaT JOUR SI. CXI PH. COimiWAKK l-'oUNJJIir, FIFTH AXD k WASHINGTON Sireeu. rHlLjlUK.PHlA, MERRICK. A SONS, E NO INK KKS AND MACHINIST, mannfbuitire High aud Low Prenmire Steam Engines lor Laud, Rlvt r, and lUarme service. Rollers, UaHon'eiera, Tanks, Itou Boats, etu. CasUuics of all kinds, either Iron or brans. Iron rauie Roofs lor Gas Work, Workshops, and Railroad stations, etc. Retorts and Una Machinery, of the latest and most Improved contilruclliiii. .fcvery description of Plautatlon Maculuery.also fliigsr, Saw, aud Orlsl Mills. Vacuum Pns, OU Steam, iralus. Defecators. Filters, Puuuiug, Ka glnes, eto. Sole Agents tor N. Bllleux's Patent tiunnr Soiling Apparatus, Ntwmyth's Patent Steam Haiuiutr, aud Axptnwall A WooUey'g Patent Ceutrliugul sovmi Draining Atachlues. Ji
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