THE DAILY EfiNItfG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1868. LITERATURE, IlKVIEW OF NKW BOOKS. Tni Lipb op Oborob Stri-hhrson and op ms boh Rohrkt BTKPHRNflOR. By Samuel Bmilei. Published by lUrper & Brothers. J'hiladelphia Agents: Claxton, Remaen & HaffeMnger. This reprint of the latest English edition of Mr. Smiles' important work should have an extensive cironlatlon In the United Statesf Where perhaps more than in any other country the genins and labors of the Stephensons, father and eon, onght to be known and appre ciated. We have in this volume a ooinplete ad satisfactory reoord of the Uvea and the accomplished work of two of the great, if not the greatest, men of our time. We live in a century when the engineer has superseded the knight errant as the hero of romance, and were It not that we have grown up amidst and are aocustomed to the great inven tions which make modern civilization what it is, the "airy tales of science'' wonld be more wonderful, more absorbingly interesting, more truly poetical, than anything the romanoera can tell us of Charlemagne and his paladins or Arthur and his knights. We are accustomed to talk in a large, general way about the railroads and the telegraph and the printing preBS, but how many possess any defi nite information about what has been really done by these appliances for the promotion of knowledge and the bringing of the ends of the earth near together T How many know any thing about the experiments, the failures, the Btndy, and the labor of mind and body that Lave preoeded the perfection to which these things have been brought ? For, as Robert Stephenson said, "The looomotive is not the invention of one man, but of a nation of me chanical engineers." The present, and proba bly the final, edition of Mr. Smiles' biography of the Stephens ras may almost be considered a new work. It contains a history of the railway and the locomotive in its earlier stages, and also a memoir of Richard Trevlthiok more complete than any notice of that distinguished engineer which has yet appeared; and in the preface is given a brief but interesting sketch of the progress of railway construction in all parts of the world up to the present time, with a number of curious and important statistics. The biographies of the Messrs. Stephenson Lave been carefully revised, corrected, and sew facts in regard to them which have come to light slnoe the last edition of the work was issued have been added. The book 1b handsomely illustrated, and the engravings and descriptions of the early looomotive models will be found particularly Interesting to the general reader as well as to engineers. Mr. Smiles has made industrial biography a specialty, and there is perhaps no living writer who is able to treat such a sub ject as the one at present under consideration in a more satisfactory and able manner. His tyle is lucid and conolse, and be wrlteB with a clear and thorough understanding of his subject. His book is deserving of a plaoe in every library, and .it should be perused by every intelligent workman. From G. W. Pitoher, No. 808 Ch3nut treet,we have reoeived "Friendly Counsel for Girls," by Sydney Cor. The title of this work indioates its general pnrport. The author treats of youth and youthful tempera, talents and ambition, pleasures and amuse ments, idleness and weariness, truthfulness, manners and courtesy, love, punctuality, Jealousy, neatness, extravaganoe and econo my, prosperity and adversity, gentleness and bitterness, friendship, pride, intellectual occu pations, beauty, fashion, and personal religion. Some of her themes are illustrated by short stories, and the general aim of the author is te combine sound advice with amusement. There are but tew ideas in the book that most persons will not admit to be essentially oor reot; but they are Bet forth in suoh a oommon place manner, and with bo little regard to elegancies of style, that they will not be likely te make the impression that they ought. The author is entitled to credit for her deBire to do good, and to benefit the young people of her ex but she 1b not gifted, apparently, with the ability to treat her eubjeot in suoh a way as will most effectually accomplish the objeot she baa in view. Q. W. Pitcher also sends us "Baron Leo tod Oborg, M. D.," from the German of Joseph A. Sigmund. This is one of Loring's series of "Tales of the Day," and, like those that have been previously published, it is much above the average in merit. The story is a singular one, decidedly Germanesque, and at times somewhat Jean Paulish in style, and is worthy of the attention of thoBe who desire te while away an hour or two with a really in teresting and well-written novelette. From the same house we have also re. eeived "How to Furnish and Adorn a House oa Small Means." This little work Is by Mrs. Warren, the author of several other books of a similar character, which show ho house keeping may be carried on so as to give the greatest amount of real comfort for the least expenditure of money, and it contains many valuable and practical ideas and items of in formation which are worthy of attention. Although written more particularly for English, wadera, this work w ill be found to contain bints which American housekeepers can profit by. Mrs. Warren la not as elegant or graceful a writer as Mrs. Stowe; and her little manuals, useful as they are, cannot be put in compari son with the "Home and Home Papers" of that lady, which are decidedly the best essays ef the kind that we know anything about. From T. B. Peterson & Brothers we have reoeived "Miss Leslie's Guide to True Polite ness and Good Manners." This work has been before the publlo for a number of years, and it is frequently treated with a ridloule that it does : not deserve. Some of the dlreo. tlons about good manners and etiquette, it is Irue, are calculated to raise a smile, but most ( f those into whose hands the book is likely to fall would do better to follow the good lady's Lints rather than laugh at them. From T. B. Peterson Ac Brothers we have received "The White Scalper," by Gustavo Atmard. This is one of Mr. Aimard's exoltlng romances of frontier life. Tho scene Is laid in Texas during the progress of the war for inde pendence, and the story is as highly spiced with thrilling incidents as the most ardent lovers of this class of fiction can desire. The Atlantic Almanac for 1800, published by Ticknor k Fields, aud edited by Donald K. Mitchell, is finely illustrated and handsomely gotten up. The contributions of prose and poetry are original, and such names as James Russell Lowell, Harriet Beeoher Stowe, Joslah Qilnoy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Donald K. Mitohell, Charles James, Sprague, and others, are guarantees of excel lence. The illustrations comprise four colored engravings of the seasons, from designs by E. W. Perry, Jr., J. G. Brown, and S. Colman, Jr. In addition to these there are a number of designs by A. K. Wand, F. O. C. Darley, H. Fenn, S. Eytinge, Jr., A. Uapkins, D. C. Hitchcock, Granville Perkins, and George G. White. The calendars, chronology, calcula tions of eclipses, tides, etc, are by Professor Charles S. l'eiroe. For sale by G. W. Pitoher, No. 08 Chesnnt street. The American Journal of Medical Sciences for October, edited by Isaao Hays, M. D., is up to the highest standard as regards the number and value of its articles. This quarterly is too well known and too highly appreciated by the medical profession for it to need any spe cial commendation from us. Published by Henry C. Lea, Nob. W and 708 Sansom street. I1MS1I BKrUBLICAMSM. Letter of B. "JcC-MiIiiiians, an Irish Itelii gee, JBtc. To the Editor of The Evening Tdegraplw Sir: One of the principal reasons why my sympathies tend towards the Republican party is, that upon its banner is inscribed universal Iberty and equality befoie the law, of all peoples, no matter of what race, religion, or color. Being mjsell a tative of a country where despotism exists, and is carried out to such an extent as Invests the few with an arbitrary and irresponsible power over the lives, liberties, ay, and consciences of the many; where a grinding nrlstocracy are privileged by "rights of property" to crush, traaiplc down, oppress, and starve out of the land the people whom they regard as belonging to an inferior race; and where all have lor ages been convulsively but ineffectually struggling to free themselves from a worse than Helot state of bondage being, I repeat, a native of such a hapless land, I would consider it unjust, inconsistent, Intole rant, and entirely at variance to the principles which 1 always entertained, with deny to any other portion of hHmanitv those heaven-born rights and liberties for which my ancestors fought, bled, and died, and tor which I have unceasingly struggled, in my own humble way, lrom the nrst dawning of reason up to the pre sent period, and for which I shall continue to struggle while life remains. It is my firm be lie! that bod never placed any distinctive marks, as some might be so absurd as to argue, upon any portion of the human family, to indicate that such portion should be kept in slavery or denied equal rights with their fellow-man. Those who promulgate this doctrine are guilty ot blasphemy, by making God the awhor of injustice, fiome, as a last resource, aud In order to justify themselves lor their rampant ana iunatical hatred against the ucgro, will exclaim, "Oh! didn'tGod put a oiuiaerer ot his brother Abel, and shunned; and didn't He also mark the nipper, as every one'ean see?" Such shallow reasoning, it reasoning It can be called, is hardly worth a moment's notice. God marked Cain as a fratricide, cer tainly ; but if (Jain had not been guilty of this terrible crime he would not have been stamped with any distinguishing mark; and in this case, what would thb negro haters do for a compari son to which t refer? By the wav, was Cain a black man? Now we all know that there are many white fratricides, parricides, and nume rous other cldea er70, all white men should be in slavery I ior humauity must abhor each teirful criminals, who, if discovered, would assoreuly appear to display upon their features some peculiar marks characteristic of their debased natures. Is speaking to soma of those very logical and philosophical Democra.s about negro rights, I seldom get any other reasons out of them for their enmity towards the Hack man than the mere expression of their deep-rooted and unjust prejudices. It you ak a Democrat why he entertains those feelings of dislike towards the "nteger,"and why he would deny him those rights which naturally belong to every human being, and which God never intended should exclusively appertain to any particular race, he will generally reply by putting to you a series ot questions, such as: "Would you like your sister to be married to a black man ?" "Do you think a blaok man is as good as you are?" "Would you like your children to go to school with nigger children ?" "Would you like tho black man to rule the white?" "Arc you going to ktaDd up for the Know-Nothings, the church burners, the Black Republicans?" Now I beg leave to put a few other queries to these argu mentative know-some: hing Democrats. Would any of you like your sister to be mar ried to a white thief, ioboer, burglar, or mur derer? Do you think one of those characters superior to an honebt, simple, quiet, though black man ? Would you make them your associates; eat with them, talk with them, sleep with them, or allow your children to go to the same schools with theirs? Is an ignorant, besotted, degraded, low browed, tavern-brawling, cut-skulled rowdy, ever practising the rufuan, and exhibiting un mistakable facial evidence of a lite devoted to nothing but dissipation and crime of the deepest dye are such white men, and there are plenty ol them to be found, better than an industrious, intelligent, peaceable, and mayhap educated negro I Will the color of the one counterbalance the ignorance, the vices and iniquities of the other, aud so place him lower iu the socUl as well as political teale ? Is that man there, with a roar Jul cut over his eyebrow, a pair ot manufactured black eyes, and a nose of the composite orJcr, owing to the amount of punishment, to une a sporting (I) phrase, it has received during its owner's various pugilistic encounters, and who is rolling drmikthrough the streets, roaring oat like tome wild beast seeking whom he may devout is he superior to jon harmless negro quieily sitting at his door, and, perbaos, for ought we know, saying to himself, "Am I not as good a member f society, both morally, social ly, and politically, as this mau coming stagger ing up. cursing me and my race ?" Wouldyou wish the poor, despleed, but not bv God, nefiro, to be back atain wtta ni. crui slave owner, to be treated like a mere beast of burden ? Would you like to see hi back bared and the inhuman lashes of the eltv-whloner entering bis flesh and tearing the skin off his bones? Before God and thj world, I denounce the man who would not only wish to see this barbarous state of thlngb returning as a tyraut. a despot, and an enemy to human liberty, but alBo he who would in any shape, either directly or Indirectly, aid towards the establishment of tbobe principles which tolerate the existence of such oppression aud woe, and such ruthless fiersecution of beings formed atter the image of heir Creator, These are my sincere sentiments, snd I fearlessly vpr"m them, wheth'T or no. they bn plt-aning to any onn scciou of ilm community. I never hare flomi, nor shail I ever pander to Iho puvi-nm snd prejudices of mov party. I so ill al vayn give free ut'erauce to what my coi.eoicnci whisper to me is jut ami rUh', while I fhall willingly accord to eiry other man the tame privileee. I cbarncU rize him ai a moral rowntd who Is alraid to cxprei what ho tliiokt lest it might give oflense to a fcMon. Uooa principle I would express mi opinion against ibatot millions, no loug as I believed in the Justice of entertaining such an opinion. I am ready to listen ralnly and diopassionately to the aigumeuts of others, and I expect ihe nimn toleration on their part. If 1 am wrong it will take something more logical to convince me of mv ertor than the rcmoin employed by a cudgel or fist. I Pha'l not be drag oned into the opinions of auy man, or a'.low Intimidation to swerve me lrom mo pun oi reciiiunc, or tbat which in my own judgment I believe to be the true one. I have been an unwilling slave myself at home, but here I should be no tyrant. The true patriot must be an advocate of fiecdon for all mankind, and in this high, this noble and sacred feeling, be prepared to trample upon all bis prejudices; otherwise he deserves not the name he professes. None but a narrow and bia-ieil mind could deny liberty, in Us fullest and most extended sense, to any paiticular people or rare. I do not deBire the negro to ru'e the white man, nor de I wish the white man to enslave i'jo negro. I am quite satUfied with what Is embo died in the declaration of American lights noon this matter, and which is, I "guesi," that all men, of all races, countries, and religions, stand equel before tho law. I, as an individual, may, in the abstract tence of the word, think myself better, as the common phrase is, than some black men, and I may think the same as regards some wnl'o men too. The law, however, does not inter f re with a man's private opinions. It does not oblige my sister to marry a negro, nor can the Itw oblige her mairy .my other who is not her choice. How, I came across, in my llletime, several in telligent and well-educated negroes, whom I considered infinitely superior to many white men I knew. Do all while men consider them selves upon an equality ? Do the white and pampered aristocrats ot England consider the veovte of Ireland, for instance, their equals? No one will fay they do. Oa the coutrary, they look down upon the Celts as a very inferior race to the Saxons, as composed, in tact, of lar grosser metal tbau that of which the latter are formed, and the proud aristocracy ot .England ocneve that our peo ple are not fit to govern themselves. or even exercise, with discretion, the right of universal suuruge. do we, as irishmen, con sider the aristocratical Government of England. or In other words the superior British people. Justified in these opinions, and in acting upon them? Decidedly not. Our history shows a continned struggle to resist such injustice, such tvrannv and despotism. Let us, then, apply the same arguments we use In vindication of our own rights, or in protestations against tne wrongs our country has and is still suffer ing, to other people also struggling for the same righ's and battling against the same wrongs. Let it not be said that, un williug slaves at home, we are the enemies of freeedoui aoroad. Let reason and judgment take the place of passion and prejudice, and let us to longer be blinded by the hollow sophistry of those who wouia perpetuate slavery. As I purpose in mv next letter saving some thing more upon this subject, and as I have already transressed the limits I at first pre scribed rnjf-elf, I shall finish by expressing the hope that all countries, and all people in general, and those of my own little island in particular, groaning under oppression and misrule, may speedily enjoy toe blessings or ireeuom. I am, sir, respectfully yours, B. McQciNNess. Philadelphia. 14th October, 1868. LETTER FROM SEDALIA, HO. Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 10, 1868. An exourslon party over the Union Paoiflo Railroad oreates almost as muoh exoitement and enthusiasm in this oountry as the Preai dentlal election. At this pretty little village we rest to-night, and to-morrow will go west ward to Kansas City, and thence proceed on towards the plaoe wh tbe "ntar of empire takes its way" ever the Union Pacific Rail road, Eastern Division. Sedalia is the oounty Beat of Pettia county, Missouri, located one hundred and eighty-nine miles from St. Louis and ninety-four from Kansas City. It is a city of seven thousand inhabitants, a large number of whom assem bled at the depot with a fine band of muslo and extended a hearty welcome to the excur sionista, amid the booming of cannon and other demonstrations. The "Ives House" and other buildings were brilliantly illuminated, and everything indicated pleasure and rejoic ing. Indeed, I greatly doubt whether the arrival ef Grant and Colfax or Seymour and Blair would have produced a more enthusiaatio welcome. The party numbers twelve ladies and forty five gentlemen, all antler the care and protec tion of Colonel C. N. Pratt, J. M. Webster, General Ticket Agent of the Union Paclflo Railway, . D., and W. O. Lewis, General Ticket Agent of the Paoiflo Railroad of Mis souri; and consists of Captain and Mrs. J. N. Bofinger, Mrs. Hill, Miaa Shewell, Mrs. Lewis, Alfred Cook, and . G. Byington, of St. Louis; Frank Chandler, General Ticket Agent of the Columbus, Indianapolis, and Chicago Railway, and Miss Chandler, of Indianapolis; C. D. Whitoomb, General Tloket Agent of the Union Paoiflo Railway, and W. L. Newman, of Omaha; C. P. Leland, General Ticket Agent of the Miohigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad; Samuel Powell, General Tloket Agent of the Chicago, Burlington, and QuinoyRailroad, Mrs. Powell, Harry Starring, General Agent of the Hannibtl and St. Joseph Railway, Mrs. Starring, Master Starring, C. M. Goodaell, ef the Chioago Tri bune and New York World, James Reed and A. J. Day, of Chioago; Peter B. GroaV, G. T. A. ef the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, of Hannibal; C. P. Atmore, of Louisville; M. J. O'Brien, General Superintendent Southern Express, Augusta, Ga.; Lewla Perrault and Henry Labroix, Montreal; Mr., Mrs., and Miss George D. Teller, Buffalo; J. D. Dare, lode' pendenoe, Mo.; J. W. Sweeney, W. W. Se combe, and C. Moran, New York; Charles McCabe, Detroit; L. Grant Byington, Iowa City; J. G. Craddook, Paris, Ky.; John W. Clark, Memphis; H. C. Robarts, Little Rock; W. F. Harris and wife, Louisville, Ky.; II. Hale, Superintendent Paoiflo Railway, E. D., Kansas City; F. J. Davis and J. R. Scott, Boston; George C. Lyman, Jnnotion City; E. J. Warner, Sheridan City; J. W. Gore, Gene ral Tioket Agent Camden and Amboy Railroad; Mrs. Gore; Sam Carpenter, General Baggage Agent Pennsylvania Railroad, D. Torrey, Pennsylvania Railroad, and U. G. Lelsenring, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mr. J. W.Brown, Columbus, Ohio; O. H. P. Rogan, General Ticket Agent East Tennessee and Georgia Rail r sad, Knoxvllle, Teen.; Isaao Litton, Nash ville, Tenn.; William G winner, Easton, Pa. After a magnificent banquet at the Ivss House, a splendid ball was given in honor of the excursionists. It waa attended by the lite of Sedalia, and the toileta of the ladles were surprisingly rich aud beautiful. Fort Hat3. INSURANCE COMPANIES. -f ILLINGHA8T A HILT',0 INSURANCE ROOMS, EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH. TUB EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Tlilslt'omimnj Imve an exclusive grant to laj SUBMARINE CABLES VROM Canton to Tien-Tsin, (TtlE BEAPOItT OF PKK1N), CONNECTING ALL THE PORTS ON THE ASIATIC COAST, Whose foreign oommeice amounts to One Thousand Millions Annually, o? This Company is chartered by the Legisla ture of the State of New York, with a CAPITAL OF $3,000,000; SHARES, 9100 EACH. No. 409 WALNUT St. A8EJ8T8 AND ATTOfiJSBYB JOBi UomeFIre Insurance Company, NEW HAVEN. CORK. Springfield Fire and Marine Ins. Co., Tonkers and Ken York Insurance Co., HEW YOBS Peoples' Fire Insurance Company, WOKOESTKB, HASP, Atlantic Fire and Marine Insurance Co., PKOVXBHJJOBL U. I. Guardian Fire Insurance Company, Hit TOB.K Lumberman's Fire Insurance Co., CHICAGO, ILL Insurance effected at LOWEST RATES. All lowee promptly tnd liberally adjoated at their Office, Ko. 403 WALKUT Street, H PHILADELPHIA. A limited nnmber of shares are offered at $50 eacbj?ayable $10 each, $15 November 1, balance in monthly Instalments of $2 60 per share. THE IKQUIBIES FOR THIS 8 TOOK ARE NOW VERY ACTIVE, AND THB BOARD OF DI BECT0B8 UfBTBUCT US TO BAY IT MAY BE WITHDRAWN AT ANY TIME, AND THAT NONE WILL BE OFFERED ON THE ABOVE TERMS AFTER NOVEMBER 20 NEXT. For Circulars, Maps, and fall information apply to DREXEL & CO., Ko. 34 South TILLED Street, riuUdelpMa; To duly authorised Banks and Bankers throughout Pennsylvania, and at tne OFFICE OF THE COMPANY, 1708. 23 and 25 NASSAU STREET, 128 NEW YORK, FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC. 1868. PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. FLAUS, BAMEES, TRAKSFABOCLES, AJN1) LAKXEILNS, Campaign Badges, Medals, and rins, OF BOTH CANDIDATES. Ten different ityle. nt oa reottlpt ol OneDoUai and Fifty Cenu. Agenu wanted everywhere. Fiaas In Masun, Banting, and Bilk, all slsca, whole sale and retail. PoUtical dobs fitted oat with everything they n moire. BALL ON OB ADDRESS W. F. 8CHEIDLC. No. 49 S0UT1I T11IED STREET, Urp PHIT.ATTri.PHIA. CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS. "A REGAL DESSERT." A new and beautiful Chromo-Lithograph, after a painting by J. W. Feyer, Just received by A. S. ROBINSON, No. 910 CHESNUT Street, Who baa Jast reoeived NEW CHItOMOS, NEW EBORAVINGS. NJLW FUENOH PHOTOGRAPHS, ,., , . N KW DRAB DEN ENAUELS, LOOKING CLASSES, 16t FREE GALLERY. WIRE GUARDS, FOB TOBH FBOKTi, AftYXUauL FAO TeiUS, ETC, Patent Wire Balling, Iron Bedsteads. Ornament. Wire Work, Paper Makers Wires, and every variety ef Wire Work, manufactured by WALHKB BOWaU gjnwtl 10 UAeriAiuxm sweet TvELAWAEE MUTUAL SAFETY ISSUE- 1 J A Ms'lhl a" TOM" PA NV . InGOrnnratiul K. -. JuTe otPnylVMla7i. w Office, Southeast corner THIRD and WALKUT MARINE INBUKaNUKH On Vessels, Cargo, andFrelgUt, to all parts of the INLAND INSURANCES On Goods, by river, canal, lake, and land carriages to fire'insobances On merchant! ise genera" . On Stores, Dwelling House., eto, A8BT OF TUB OMPABT mm om united state. Five Per Cent. r Loan, 11MUS ..........- 1201. 00000 im.000 united State. Five Per Cent. ' Loan, ml 1M.40000 (0,000 United States 7 S-10 Per Cent. Loan Treasury Notes................. 6S.562 M 200.000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent, Loan . U0.070-O0 19,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. Loan (exempt lrom tax) 125,628 00 f0 000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 161.00000 10,000 Pennsylvania Jtiauroaa f irsi Mortgage six Percent, Bonds. 19,80000 M,0004PennByivanla Railroad, Second Mortgage blx Per Cent Bonds. U,87S'0O Six Per Cent. Bonds ( Pennsyl vania Railroad guaranteed).... 20,000 00 Bo.oo-jBiaie oi xenussse. mttv ret Uenk Loans........... 18,00000 TO00 Btate of Ten nesase Blx FerOent. Loan-..... 1270'00 Bwovo snares stock oi uermantown Ga. Company (principal and Interest smaranteed by tta. . ..city of Philadelphia)....... 16,00000 TJW0 I'O tihare. Btock of Vennsvlva. . nla Railroad Company........ 7,80000 8,000 10o Shares Btock of North Penn. a. ...ylvanla Ball road Company. 8,00000 w.wv ou (snares stock rnuaaeiptiia ana isoutnern Mau steamship Company. SOl.BOO Loan, on Bond's and Mortgage, uit iiena on wty rropeny J. 16,00000 801,90000 U.101,400 par. t Woe. H.lo2.802) Beat K8tate-...... . 88,000' .jin jnwfuvaoiv ior xnsurauue Dale....,... 119, US' VI Balances due at Agenoies Pre mlnm. on Marine Policies Accrued interest and other debt, due the Company.. 18l38t,80 took and Scrip of sundry tnsa ranoa and other Companies Cash in Bant6074-00' e,tJlnted v?&7r77S W7"w Uaah In i) , "T "...8103 01710 -"P.. . KM-U INSURANCE COMPANIES. Thomas O. Hand. DtRKJ a Hand. John O. Davis. I Samuel E. Bio. 183,918-q H.fiO7,S06-lS fiA mnnrl a uX. JohHreeair"' TheophUus Paulding, Hugn Craig, ' Edward Darlington John R. Penrose, H.Jones Brooke. Henry uloan, George G. Lelper, William G. Bouiton, Vjl-mArA T arr,.,..,.. jaueo egai, Samuel E. Stokes. J"ins Traqualr, William tiLudwIg. Jkmtl Ft UJ -1 .a Jou-.P.Eyrer"U',, uuu , lay tor, HpencerMc.'JyaIne, H anrv fl Italic. . t- I w ' -oi, edi Georae W. Bernardoa, r """ i'lt'sourg, TTTni'V,Bia8f.'(?' " . i Ail w V, ,V. ti ' u nesiaeni, HENRY LTLBN1! s'ec?. Veeldenl, HENRY BALL. Assistant Secretary. 1280 J829-.-C1UIITEB PEHPETUAI. Franklin Fire Insurance Co. F PIII I. ADELF OFFICE: KOB. 485 ana A37 CIIESAPT STREET. ASSETS ON JANCABT 1. 18S, 381003,74000, CAPITAL ACCMVLD UU&PLUlt.., JfHSHIVAa UNSETTLED CLAIMS. aa,es8 - Moo,eeeee i.M.wM..M.M.Mm.8e8eegngi ...... 1,1(1 tMee INCOME FOR 1868 ase,oeeoe. IOSSKS PAID SINCE 18S9 OTB 00.000,000. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. Cbarles N. Bancker, Tunies wagner, Samuel Grain, George W. Richards. DIRECTORS. Ueurge Fales, A urea Ditler, Francis W. Lewis, M. D I'bomus Spar, ' " 1 1 1 r , u ,!--.. CHARLE9. BANCKER. President. uauu m "LUX, Vioe-Presiuent, JAB. W. McAWMrER, Beoietary pro tern. PSdeK C0MP5T OP USCORt-OiiATKD 180- CHARTER PERPETDA I No. ifcA W ALA UT Bireet, oppowie the Jlami This Company Insures trout ions or damage by FlRki, on liberal terms on building., merchandise, fhrnltnra etc.. for limited periods, aud permanently ou build 4ngs by deposit, of premiums. " u The Ooiupauy has been In active operation for mora than SIXTY VEK, during whlcfi ail louiui been promptly adjusted and paid. M. B. Mabony, John T. Lewis, William 8. Grant, Robert W. Learning, D. Clark Wharton, Lawrence Lewis, Jr. David Lewis. Benlauiln Kttlng, Thomas H. Powen. A. R. Moilenry, Edmund CaoilUoO, tamuel Wlloox, lwls U Norrls. JOHN R. wiKiuKiLaUt. PresldfmL B4HTPXL WILCX1X. HrryUU-yJ Wb F1BE 1N8DRANCE EXCLUBIVELY THE trENNUYLVAML. FIHa, 1NBURANUE COM JAWY-Incorporated 1826 Charter Perpetual No 810 WALM UT Sirvet, opLoahe Independence Square This Company, favorably known to tbe community for over forty years, Continues to Insure against Joes or damage by are oa Publlo or Private Buildings. Hther permanently or for a llmHed time.. Also on Furniture stocks of Goods, and Merchandise gene rally, on liberal terms, a l helrCaplial. togvethrr wim a large Burplns Fnnd Is InvesteO In the most osrelul manner, which enables tnem to offrr to the Insured an undoubted security In Uie case ol loss. ixyi? , Daniel Smith, Jr.. Alexander Benson, lxaao UBslrhursta Y nomas itooins, John TtavaMHiTr Thomas nmith, Henry Lewis, Jk JllIlnl,... 'Wall. ir..T"i" fpu,"1 ajwwi.,va, jr, DANIEL SMITH, jB.,Pieldent. WU, B, CBOWA L Secretary. ' ' ( NSUIiANCE COI1 PAN NORTH AMERICA, Ko. 232 walnut street, puilada. INCORPORATED 1791. CHARTER PERPETUAL Marine, Inland, and tire Insnranee, ASSETS JANUARY 1, 18C8, - $2,001,20672. $20,000,000 Losses Paid in Cafth SlneeIts Organixation. nmai'Toas. Arthur O. CoBln, Oeorge L. Harrison, Francis K. Cope. ;o ward U. Trotter, Kdward S.t'larke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred 1 Jftinup, John P. Wnlte, Louis a Madeira. t baiuuel W. Jones, .unn a. itnjwu, I harlea lavlor, Ambrose White, William Welih, Mrharrt D Wood, H. Morris Wain. Jnhn Munn. ARTBTJll Q nnirB'tni. p.m.il rntxim Pi. att. Secretary. WILLIAM BUE8LFH, Marrlshnn. Pa OentraJ Agrnt for tbe Stale of Pennn ivania. QTRICTLY MUTUAL. PF.GV1DENT LIFE Af!D TRUST CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. (truer, . hi . rontrii ntrect. Orrnrilzpd 10 promote LIFE 1N4CRAKCE aaona; metubers ol the rXlCIETY OF FBIEJID.1. Ocod rink of any clasi accepted. Policks Is&utd upon approved plans, at tbe lowest rates. tTeineni, B tHTKL K, bUtrLEY. Vice President, WILL AM C. LoNCWTttETH. Actuary, KOWLASD fARRT. The artvontsues o tit red by this Company are not excelled 27i GOVERNMENT SALES. OALE of condemned oudnakcjs anj OKDriAFiCB. b l OrUuj. ofick or V. h. Ordminc. Agrnct, t Cor. HorsioN a Umieni Sts. tentrauceonureene), Miw Yokk lTV.tsept. 24,18t8. (f. O. Box 1811.) bealtd Proposals, In duplicate, will be received at thisotllce until SATURDAY, Octobvr 24, 1H68, at 12 M., ior tne purcnasiug or couuemnea cannou, snot, shell, scrap, wrought, and cast lion, brass, and other ordnance stores, located at ihe following point, oa the Atlantic coast, lo wit: Fort Hamilton and Re doubt. Forts Wadsworth, Lafayette, Columbus, and; Schuyler, aud Cat-He Williams, in Mew York Harbors Fort Trumbull, Mew London Harbor, Conn.; Fort Adams aud Walcott, Newport Harbor, U. I.: Fort Constitution, Portsmouth Harbor, M. H.; Fort Knox, Bucksport, and Forts PreDln and t-kiaminel, Portland Harbor, Me.; Forts Plckenand Barrancas, Pensacola Harbor, Fia,; Mobile; and Forts Ualue. and Morgan. Mobile Haroor, Ala. This sale contemplates tt. disposition of 78 cannon In Mew York Harbor, estimated as weigh. Ing 437.0U1I pounds; 28 cannon In Portland Harbor, VBiUU.HU H WVlgUlUa IW..UV PVUUU), 1.UIUUV. 11) I Mew poi t Harbor.estimaled as wvigbli. g 1m,6w pouudsT 1 n n t- . ... T ...,. .... U . . , ... j ' j a v . li u iy u in juuuui. mi, . va.au. aMU a weighing M.M8 poundH; lit cannon In Peosacola Har bor, I siluia'.ed as weighing eil,H7 puunds; 0 cannon In Mobile Harbor, estimated as weighing 1U9.400 pon bob; 80 cannon In Portsmouth Harbor, M. BU, tstlmated as weighing H,v6i pounds. Also smaller lots at Fort Mlagara, Tonngatown, N Y.; Fort Ontario, Oswego a. Y., aud Sackett'a Harbor, M. Y. The condemned shot and shell, amounting in the aggregate to 1.IUH.1M pounds, are In quantity at each of the above-mentioned forts; also, scrap wrought Iron, amounting In tne aggregate to 468,381 pounds. Full and couipltte catalogues of the property ottered can be nad on application to in Is office, th. Ordnance Olhoe at Washington, and to the com,, mandlng officer of ihe dllleient forts. Terms; cash ten per cent, ou the d.y cf sale, and tbe remainder wheu the Property Is deiivemd. Tnlrty dava will ha allowed lor the rt uioval ol heavy ordnance: all nth., i stores will be required to b. removed within ten day. from close ot sale. 1 Tha Itrdnanca Tlpnartmant rfmsrvM ftha rioYi ft r.Ject all bids not deemed satisfactory. Prior to tbe acceptance of auy bid, it will have to be approved by the War Department. Bidders will stat. explicitly the tort or fort, where tkey will accept stores, and the number and kind, they propote to purchase. Deliverif s will only be mad. at the forts. Proposals will be addressed to Brevet-Colonel 8 Crispin, Major ot Ordnance, U. S A., Indorsed "Pro potals for purchasing condemned oronanoe and ord nance stores." B B. CRISPIN, Brevet-Colonel, TJ B. A. B2lw ' Msjor of Ordnanoe. UOIOK MULES, ETC., AT AUCH0N. Dxpot On.RTERUAHTEH'H Onrra 1 WasHiKoriM, a.. C, uotober , inns.i Will be sold at public auction, under tbesupervlsloa of Brevet Colonel A. P. Blunt A. Q. M at Lincoln Depot, on MOM DAY, October 18, commencing at 10 o'clock, the following stock and unserviceable auax- c 8 Horses, 8 Carta, 60 Wagon Wheels, 50 Ambulance da, 28 8adules, a snorted, sou lbs. H. S. Nail.. MVS ural a sacks, 40 choice Mules. 200 Army Wagons, 8 two-horse do., 1 Spring do., 1 Hand-cart, jo ooo lbs. assorted Iron, is ih,o I h. btl. 1000 lbs. litiunL Spades, Axes, Shovels, Tools, Stoves and Buckets, mo. elc. Cart, Ambulance, and Mnle Harness. Attention Is particularly called to this lot of Mules which are only sold lor want of use. Terms cash, lu Oovrrnment tunds. By order tf the Uuartermaster-Ueneral. A. P. BLUNT. Brevet Col. and A. Q. M., 15 Bt Acting Depot Quartermaster, Pipe, A U O T I O N. OiFICB DEFOT rOMMIBSABT OF BOBSISTKNCB.l nio.in.iUB, A, v., ..uiooer S, ISrtS. Will be oQertd at public auction, at tue Subsistence Storehouse, at Sixth street wba.f, lu this city, on TTJUbUAY.ihe sothof October, at 11 o'clock A. M. abom: ' 80,000 pounds Desiccated Mixed Vegetables. The attention of hotel aud boarding-house keepers Is called to It, as It Is capable of making an excel lent; soup. Livery-stable owners and stock-raisers are also requested to examine It, Terms, cash in Government funds. Samp'es can be seen at any time at the place oi ;.ale, the Monameut lotion Four teenth street, or at the office of the undersigned. 10 M M Q. BELL, C. 8., fc7. B. A. PROPOSALS. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OP THE auuiH. CHIEV QnASTKBUASVIB'S OFVICBLl , . ATLANTA, Ci., Kept. iD.ltWS. ' Sealed proposals wi't be received at nils omce until 12 Jrl October 21, 1S88, ior TRAAHPORTATION OF (iOVEKNBENT TllOOPS AND ST'OBhkt froni Charleston S. C, to Savannab, Oa., Fernandlna. Jacktonville, xaiaika, Picolata, and St. Aug ut Una. Florida. Bios should be for through rates from Charleston to each point, and alto rates from one point to another. Ail stores shipped will be classified and paid far ao cording to tbe Uovornmeut claislhcatlon. This contract to reauain I. lore, tor on. year. Tbe usual requirements for bids will be exacted. Fronosal.suould be In trlnllcate.lwltb a codv nrtMa J advertlfeemeut attsched to each, and shuu d be In-a I domed ' l'ropoaals for Transportation," and addressed S ti I ha iiiwUr.il ntil t H.V'I'kM Hvt. Brlg.-Gen. and U. M., U. & A 10 14 6t Chief U M. Pep, of the South. HOOP SKIRTS. 628 H00P SKIRTS, fiOQ NEW FALL STYLES. VAO, LA PAKIiR, and .a other desirable styles and 8lse ol our CELEBRATED CHAMPION SKIRTS, for ladies, I lanes, aid children, constantly ou(it,i' aiid made to croer. larguat asaorttuent lu theJlty and specially adapted for first das. trade. CORoEIOl CORbETSI COR8ETSI Retailing at very low price.). Oar assortment la compleie, embracing Thompson's Olove Fitting, la all giades, lrom tt 5 K Meckel's superior '' French Woven Corsets, from eite to 9aae; supe rior Vnhaleboue hand made Corseu, from t ceo is to a. 110. In shlt-lcs akd circular gore; Madame Foy'e Corset bklrt Supporters, at $ t4U. Al.n. lira. atii.ulw'M I.Imi, k-)f.lr1ln.Hntf IMnml nal Corsets; which every lady shooid examine. corset ciarps, e cents a pair. Wholesale and Retail Manuiactory and Kalosroom Bo. ARCH Street. 8 8 am Wit, T. HOPgHHB. A Z U R EN C, COXCEJiTKATED INDIGO. For the Laundry. Free from OxiUlo Acid, Bee Chemist's Cerlltlcate A Patent Pocket Plnoushlon or Emery Bag In each Twenty Cent Box. f7 87 mwtsia For sal. by all respectable Grocers and Druggist pENKSYLVANlA HOSPITAL. X. ... . PHiLAUELriuA, January 88, 1808, Tbe attending Managers are: B. Morris Wain. Mo, lis (south Delaware avenue. Adolpb E, Borle. No. 1WI iock slreeu Attending Physician Dr. J. M. Da Costa, JSO, 18B Spruce stret, Attending Burgeons Dr. Addlnell Hewson, No. na South Flileentb street; Dr. D, HayesAgueW.MO.lt Morth Eleven to street. . Th. Phjslolans and Surgeons attend at the HoaMa. tal .very day (Hundaya excepted), to reottive appuV nation for aumlnslon, . , Persons seriously Injured by accident .are always admittwilf hrouaht to the Hospital lmjuiediaty tiMa-tMU-MA 81
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