2 THE I) All j i EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 18G9. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Editorial opisiobs of thi ikadiso johrnalm fJPO.N CCBHKNT rOPICfl COMPILKi) EVBHT DAT FOB THI KVENINd TKLEOBAFU John SlUTHlt. HVonj the A. Y. 7'ritntne. re Jatiyeto the s3a-."iun,.iiiu of Prtj.-mlunt Linool m tun teHtitnony of two participants u Jhe crituw and yet disinterested witnesses tubal, Jul. u Siii-rnlt wail A fllffitlVe it Canada, very clearly to the effect that John KSnrrati waa, next to vviiKes oumu, mo re siding orcauizerof the assaaslnation. Arnold, Who la liow serving out lils time in the Dry Tortngas, but whose confeBBion was taken four days after the murder, shows thatdurmg the earlier stages of the plot, and while it was merely a plan to kidnap the President, the miner actors in the tragedy saw little of Sur-ia-t but Wilkes Booth was always 'pressed with business" with f urratt, and in daily and Btir3r'Utiy engroBBiuK buiuibui v""""" K... wHii him. burratt was present at tLe first meeting of the seven conspirators i ... w arraueed a very sly auc K f Ltosrif. "While Arnold was lo ml Into the private box of the Ibeatre and eeize the President, and Atzerodt and Booth were to handouir hi in and lower tin? to the stage, and others were to put cuTthe lights and carry him to the oosub, all f which was an obviously hair-brained scheme, Snrratt was to wait "on the other tide of the Kastern Branch bridge to facilitate escape." It would seem strange that Booth should need constantly to advise with one who was to bear so Blight and cowardly a hand in the business, if Booth were the originator of the crime. But if Snrratt were the inspirer ci the murder, it is easy to see how he might liave moulded the boldjcourage of Booth to carry out the promptings of his more guilty and subtle heart, and how Booth himself may have ieen bo impressed by Surratt's superior bold jiesB in guilt as to have overlooked his superior caution in avoiding danger. Arnold denounced the plan as impracticable, and withdrew from the entire conspiracy before it had developed into a plot to assassinate. AUeiodt deolares that the plan to kidnap Vas firbt changed to one of assassination at b o'clock on the evening of the murder. About the middle of March, the seven conspirators iSooth, Surratt, O'Laughlin, Arnold, l'ayne, Atzeredt, and Ilarold-had a plan by which the others were to capture the President, and fjurratt, as the be.-t driver, was to drive the coach over the Long Bridge into Virginia. It failed, leoause the President did not pass the place at which they were expecting and way laying him. When the plan was changed from kidnapping, ourratt bad just had an in terview with Booth. The impression left by these confessions is that Booth was the bold lanatic, and Surratt the cunning and cautious infpired of the deed. "IJode the Six Hundred." prom tlie iV. Y. Tribune. a here is a certain Senator in Washington, the name of him to us unknown, for whoni we feel a degree of commiseration which (in the present condition of the English language) it is impossible adequately to express. This grave and potent unfortunate, according to a newspaper letter now before u3, "has already received over bis hundred applications for cflfce." It is hardly possible to read this sor lowful statement without recalling the words of Scripture: "And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thine bed chamber, and upon thy bed, aud into the liouse of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs." How the poor Senator above men tioned must be howling for some magic spell which shall "destroy the frogs that they may remain in the river only I" The benevolent mind naturally shares its SjnipatLy between the Senator and the Beektrs. As we cannot write by post to the honorable gentleman, because we do not know his name, we print our pity here. We Sincerely hope that he may not be murdered. We pray Heaven to save him from becoming a maniac. It is useless to recommend him to bar his door, unless he wishes it to be broken down and destroyed. He cannot abscond, while hia legitimate public duties keep him in Washington. He cannot cause to be promul gated a report that he is dead, for his State would at once make hot haste to elect hia suc cessor. As for playing Bick and tying up the knocker, that would be a little too transparent; and, moreover, were he in the article of death, the men who are haunting him would not eciuple to disturb his last meditations by asking him for his sign-manual. What can Le do to save himself? We really do not know. The frogs are large and numerous and hungry, and when they consent to "remain in the river only," we shall think that the thou sand years are at hand. But what a pity it is that the six hundred cannot be persuaded that "to remain in the "liver only" is the best thing they can do; though some of them may be jam ping into it, felo de s- fashion, with stones (and nothing ehe) in their pockets, before all is over. The xeport upon which we are commenting says: Of the six hundred applications, in all pro Lability not Bixty will be successful." What a prospect ! Five hundred and forty wretches doletul, desperate, disappointed, all their truuip-cards turned to rubbish, all their col lection of inlluential autographs become mere refuse, must ntnrn ( with a free pass, if they tan get it) to confront their neighbors and "i'hertobe pitied or laughed at ! Unhappy 1XL! Desperate Light Brigade of Beggars! "Into the JW4 of L.xub, Iuto t lie mouth of Hell, R(-,de the hix hundred." Much that has been written about the in- coropalibiiity of begging with the dignity 01 human ua'.uie must be stuff and nonsense. rii Iti anra xca iln tint li1iavu that One of the Bix hucdred would like to stand upon the pavement all day, with the right hand pite nnai .viandiiil. and with a nlacard on hid chest bearing the inscription, "I am blind." There is nothing-, however, derogatory in beg ging, if you only beg for enough. The pioui aU .ri-..)ii-nilml this when she prayed for a competency, adding: "And lost, O Lord, thou shouldst not understand what I mean by a competency, permit me to state that I mean one thousand dollars per annum oot; ,..,. :i ioafu.l TIih man who would 1-lnsh to ask for the loan of half a dollar (Butler currency) experiences no agony of inoruued pride in peuuuuK y -. . ,.,.n.... .i.u on omhasiv. Mr. Mason. VV1LQUIUIBUIL', V " ' - , , . ' if ri :. aa nrnilil S.3 1 UnCQ. lagged to be kept in hia place abroad until he l,u,i . i fA onnnirh to nav hi 3 debts: nd his creditors thcught all the better of him . . . , l Jtlla 4 (ntavfurd nrlf li his duty. But the prime pang Is in asking for Place and not getting it; and this is why our bowels yearn kindly for the six hundred, or rather, to speak accurately, tor the five Lundred and forty. "What did you get ?" asked a friend of a. returning fisherman. "I got tired," wsB the reply. How sadly "tired" the great mass of the unappoiuted Will get t We have sometimes thought that it would i le a good plan to give no man anything who 1 asked for it, ofiice-setklng being takn as rtoof irrefragable of decided incompetency. (xtii missions might be sent out (lest the pub lic! service should suffer) in pursuit of modest merit. Truth might be sought in the bottom of the welln, fidelity in corners, and capacity among the unobtrusive. But these are dreams. No man can be considered fit to serve the Republic in the humblest position unlecs he has twenty-fire yards of signatures In his pocket. Perhaps not even then. 1 his is a world In which aouie are happy a" "mees erable." We must take it as it goes I End of the devolution iu tuba -What Aext From the N. Y. Herald. Now that the revolution in Cuba exhibits .,T,iai.ia nlffna of subsidence, quackery- mongers abound with assurances of the new phase which the UUDan question is taxing, i yi aRnrHS us that the people will never sub mit, when in fact the greater part of them have never rebelled; another tells us that a movement is on foot in Madrid favoring the sale of the island to the United States, when such an idea would suffice to insure the over throw of any Spanish Cabinet: and a third. more hopeful still, insists that the revolution i3 to obtain new life from Borne undefinable cause, and mount in triumph on the wings of glory. But there stand the hard facts to contra dict all these. The telegraphic advices frt'in Havana which we have recent ly published, must put an end to the hopes many had entertained of an early severance of the "Gem of the Antilles" from the Spanish crown. Count Valniaaeda officially informs General Dnlce that on the 10th instant he took possession of Bay a mo, which was the headquarters of the revolution ary government. This is the Richmond of the revolution. Whether, pursuing the parallel, General Cespedes will, like Ueneral Lee, find an Appomattox and accept an honorable sur render, or Valmaseda, like General Grant, offer terms which, by inoluding a capitula tion, shall free the country from the horrible evils of a guerrilla warfare from disbanded insurgents, remains to be seen. One thing is clear: the movement which has been for the last three months on foot in the eastern por tion of Cuba, with all the honors of a revolu tion, now subsides into mere local disorders. It is not our Intention to review the can3e3 which have produced this result. They are many, and have been faithfully presented to our readers by our correspondents and our own frequent comments on events as they oc curred. But there are certain facts which it will be well for General Duloe and the purely Spanish population of Cuba to bear in mind in their present triumph, if they wish for peace, ine late Insurrection was the first purely Cuban movemeut of any extent against tne Government which has taken place m the island. It has taught thousands of the na tive population two great facts first, that it is not a difficult tat-k to drive the small, iso lated Spanish garrisons out of the interior of the country; and, second, that it is very far from being every Spanish bullet that kills. in gaining possession oi these two facts; the popular mind of Cnba has made an immense stride towards the independence of the island; and whatever fate may attend Cespedes. Agnilera, Perdemo, and the other prominent leaders, they will be looked upon by the people as representative men. No act of the bpamsh Government can tear them from that position. lhere is but one course, therefore, that wisdom will cennsel to the Spanish authori ties in Cuba. The Government must abandon the policy of intense Espanolitmo which it has hitherto pursued, and permit, in the coming election of deputies to the Cortes, that native and representative Cubans be sent to that body. Cuba has wrongs which Spain should redress; and she can never do this until the true voioe of Cuba can be heard in her legis ative halls. It is not enough to send Span iards resident there to the Cortes, and much less is it wiseto send there any of the few Cubans who have become thoroughly Spanish in their views, and are for that reason hated by their countrymen. If the Government persists in ignoring the people of Cuba, and in sending only its own partisans as deputies to the Cortes, it will prepare the ground for a new revolution in the island. But both Spain and Cuba have made great progress in the rightful condemnation of the sixteenth-century policy wnicn stiu rules tne Spanish colonies. The scheme which we pub lished some days since on the authority of Sefior Ascarate, one of the Cuban deputies now in Madrid, as being the plan of General Serrano, chief of the provisional government of Spain to-day, embraces all the points which the telegraph announces as being the policy adhered to at a recent meeting of the leading liberals of Havana a separate nationality for Cuba, with an insular Assembly, division of the Cuban budget from that of Spain, and a Captain-General appointed by the Crown from the civil or military list, as may be best. We have good reason to believe that agitation for this plan is the shape wlrch the Cuban ques- tion in the island and in opain win ia&e at an early day, and all other forms of agitation must give way to the new idea. Corruption! Corruption ! Corrnptiou! From "Jirick" Pomeroy' N. Y. Democrat. In the days of mythology, the Pantheists always bestowed gifts on the priests of Serapis or Isis before consulting the oracle, and in proportion to the munificence or parsimony of him who sought the presence of the im poBtor was the augury favorable or the re verse. And something more than rumor says that the political priest3 and oracles of Wash ington are practised on by primary propitia tions. Human nature has exhibited the same traits of weakness and susceptibility to im posture for almost countless generations. It is not to be wondered at that the communis rulgus of antiquity, in r. state of natural igno rance, should have been deluded by the few who monopolized learning. But in this age of free Echools and nuiversal dissemina tion of enlightenment with the telegraph, railroads, and an uutiauiiueled press with equal political rights secured to all, it is a matter of philosophical inquiry, at least, why the people of this country will quietly submit to the outrages which are daily perpetrated by the high officials, who should be the public servants, and not the masters of those they nominally serve. The official mantle no Eooner falls on the shoulders of the disin terested office-Feeker, he is no sooner invested with the emblems of official authority, than he looks on every citizen who approa"hes him on matters appertaining to the business of his olliotj in the light ot a public enemy; aus terity and incorruptible virtue are worn like the plylacterics in the market places, aud the Pharisaical doctrine, "I am holier than thou," sickens the very atmosphere wa breathe, and, like the whitened sepulchre, their corruption is concealed from the public gaze, and those only whose individual rights have been trilled with, whose hopes have been battled, and whoee ramllieB have been beggared, have a proper conception and understanding of the total absence of moral integrity governing the decisions of the various departments of the Government. A disease known since the days of Cassius, an itching palm, sporalio before the war, lias become pandemlo among ofllilals in these weak, piping oT peace. Unrea- ponable delays and references, aud oonstaut demands for more evidence, amounting to a demonstration, weary the most indefatigable, aid change respect for the Government aud love for the country and ita institution into contempt and hatred. We regret that this is true of every dpart mi)t of the Government. It is a well-known fact that the Quartermaster's Department, under the statute of July, 1864, has exclusive jurisdiction in the settlement of all claims lor forage furnished the Government, with or wilhont vouohvrg, and claims of this nature, when filed in that department, are re'erred to youthful chanoellors or solicitors boys whose chins are innooentof beards who never read a law book mere tyros, whose reports upon claims involving thousands of dollars and the last hopes of many claimants, favorable or un favorable, reoeive the signature of the Quartermaster-General without further investiga tion; and the patriotio oitizen who furnished the Government with the means of perpetuat ing its own existence in its days of greatest trial, through the ignorance and incompe tence of its agents, is not only delayed in ob tainirg his rights, but is left to the mercy aud caprice of boys, who, while pretending to ex amine the claims, are thinking over their next game of billiards or base ball, or perhaps are Buffering from inoipient gastritis, caused by eating too much molasses candy. The routine and circumlocution necessary to ob tain the payment of the smallest claim, after obtaining a departmental deoisiou in your favor, are not only tiresome but ridiculous, and are no doubt kept up to give employment to hundreds of clerks who ought ti be living in the country, tilling the soil, and producing instead of consum ing. A claim, after being approved, before beirg paid has to go to twenty-three offices, in each of which are idle aud inoompetent employes of both sexes. Gibbon, in his "De cliLe and Fall of the Roman Kmpire," may have slandered the Church in its early days, when he said that the priests, in lieu of so many odalisques, were allowed a subsidy in money. We hope, in virtue's name, the state ment is not true. The Government and people of the United States Beeni3 to be at the present time imitating the customs of many nations of antiquity, and instead of avoiding the rooks upon which they were wrecked, are being rapidly drawn into a maelstrom of political corruption and moral degradation. The good name of the country calls for reform in more than one respect in the departments of the Government. A Hew A'egolhiliou for the Purchase oi" Cuba. From the If. Y. World. There is a report iu Washington, said to be semi-official, that Mr. Seward is engaged in a brisk negotiation for the purchase of the island oi Cuba; and that he expects to con summate the treaty before the expiration of the brief remnant of this administration. Mr. Seward seems possessed of a mania to distin guish himself by such acquisition; but the country cannot very well afford to sanction impolitio purchases and foot the heavy bills to gratify that gentleman's itching for eclat. There are two questions: First, is the ac quisition of Cuba debirable ? and second, if desirable, is the present a good time to pur chase it 1 Mr. Seward probably takes it for granted that the acquisition of that island by the United States is desirable, because our Government has made previous attempts to buy it; and thinks the present time op portune, because the need of money by the new Government of Spain might induce her to part with it on favorable terms. Both arguments are speoious, but neither will bear examination. The condition of things on this continent has so greatly altered since the former oilers to purchase Cuba, as to deprive the motives which prompted them of nearly all their force. Cuba was then wanted by the South to strengthen the institution of slavery. That motive has, of course, become inoperative. The country would have approved of the pur chase, at any reasonable price, twenty years ago, on grounds of commerce and revenue; but the expectation of this kind of advantages rested upon the continuance of slavery in the island. The negroes would have beeu no mere slaves in, than they would have been out of, the United States; and when our people did not anticipate the abolition of slavery at home, their moral sense would not have been much shocked by the oontinuanoe of that institution in Cuba. At any rate, the negroes would have been no worse off uuder an American than under a Spanish sovereignty. The commer cial and fiscal value of the island depends almost entirely upon slave labor. Whatever advantages may have resulted from emanci pation in the British West India islands in other respeots, it is undeniable that it de stroyed their commerce and revenue, and con sequently their money value to the British Government. If we purchase Cuba now, we shall necessarily emancipate its slaves, and the island will become as unproductive in proportion as Jamaica. With our colossal national debt, we do not want to purchase a possession which would be worthless for reve nue as soon as it became ours. We surely do not need Cuba for any pur pose of security. In the hands of Spain we have nothing to fear from it. We long ago notified the world that we should not permit its acquisition by any other European power. There is no immediate danger of any other power acquiring it. Spain cannot find a pur chaser unless she finds one in us. No other power wants it enough to take the risk of a war with the United States. France has too recently burnt her fingers by intermeddling in America; and England knows by her experi ment in Jamaica how little Cuba would be worth after the abolition of slavery. The island, if we do net purchase it, will not pass from Spain except to become independent. There is, therefore, no sufficient reason why we should increase our heavy publio debt to purchase it. But even granting that Cuba is desirable, this is not a well-selected time for its purchase. Slavery in that island cannot long survive the shock of emancipation in this country; and after its fall the revenue to Spain will not Buffice to defray the cost ,pf governing it. What Spain puts in the market now is a pos session yielding a large revenue. But five or ten years hence it may be a possession yield ing nothing. If it is desirable for ns at all, it is better to wait until after the abolition of slavery, and buy it at what it may then be worth. There are chances that the island may become independent; and after a short trial of indepei-denoe it would probably apply for admission into the Union, and we should acquire it without any cost. Our proper policy in regard to Cuba is "a wise aud masterly in activity." A Had Heresy. From the If. Y. Timet. Patriotism is a very good thing in its plaoe, but such love of country as Mr. Kelley of Pennsylvania Bhowed in the House on Tues day is of a very dangerous charaoter. He objected to the printiug of Commissioner Wells' report because it represents that, while wealth li accumulating more rapidly than in any other land or age, the poor are steadily growing poorer and the rioh richer; that there is a wide, yawning gulf between poverty and wealth, which is ever widening; and that the laboring man and his family cannot live so well on his earnings now as they could in lbCO. And the gentleman added that, if this were so, "then the coun try is on the eve of aristocracy aud of a sooial condition suoh as the wot id has never seen." Yet he did not contradict the terrible facts of the report nor could he do o. His obleo tion was to the conclusions drawn from them by the Commissioner, and his opposition to printing the report was that it would Ihraw discredit upon the country and upon Co ti gress. This is very much like a physician's refus ing to warn a man who is threatened with severe illness because it would show the mau to have been careless and his medical adviser not altogether wise. It would be simply con tinuing and perpetuating the maltreatment. There can be no doubt that, since the ne cessities ot the war enabled men of strong executive ability and sagaolty to accumulate huge fortunes, the tendency of capital has been, as it always will be when it has a chance, to concentrate, to agglomerate, to gather more and more largely together, like rolling snow. Nor can it be denied that the abnormal condition of commerce and manu factures, and particularly the loose and expan sive nature of our circulating medium all necessary consequences of evil times have disturbed the regular workings of labor and production, have iullated prices, and by mak ing it harder for persons of limited means to gel on, have tended to "make the poor poorer." And why should we ignore the fact ? To assert that a nation which has spent millions ;of property, millions of money, and hundreds ot thousands of lives is as rich as before, is supreme nonsense. We are as a nation poorer, and must bravely look the fact in the face. The tendency to a concentration of riches and an increase of poverty is no less true thau portentous of trouble ahead. Let ns take the unwelcome fact home and study it. Let us not stop to criminate each other as to whose fault it is, but calmly look for the remedy, l'oes it bear hard upon Congress? Let Congress men be doubly anxious to retrieve past errors, to unite in measures of judicious eco nomy in publio expenditure, to provide a way for the funding of our huge debt at lower interest rates, to raise our ourrency to the value expressed upon its faoa. Let them learn not to pass demagogic and meaningless laws, attempting to regulate the relations between capital and labor, not to tax the whole count ry by high importdutiesand tariffs for the benefit of single sections of the land. Let them take a new Btart in their modes of legislation, working less under the pressure of "influence," more after the guidance of in dependent reason. Congress cannot be blamed for the whole evil under which we labor; on the contrary, it has done much that is eminently praise worthy. But let its members not shirk their share of responsibility. Above all, let them not ignore unpleasant facts nor think of keep ing them from the country. The worse things are, the more we all ought to know about them. The report was ordered printed, but Mr. Kelley's attempt to smother it was of such decided and rank heresy to all the traditions and necessities of our national life, our com monwealth, that we cannot forbear an earnest protest against his doctrines. 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K., 2d mortguge, ti percent 10,000 CO ciitf penite ana .Delaware canal, u per cent 14,610 00 remisyiviiiiiu i. it., isi mortgage, t percent l.COO 00 Schuylkill Navigation Company, ti per cent 10.000 00 Philadelphia aud Erie It. H , 0 per cent 10,000 00 Wyoming Valley (Jamil, ti per rent ll.oooiKJ PlItHiiurn Water I,oau, 7 per cent 7,ooO 00 North l'emnylvania K. 11., 6 per cent 10,000 00 North Pennsylvania H. 11., 7 per cent 8 500-00 Lehit;u Valley 11. K., 6 per cent O.OUO-OO luxira 1(0 JMttle Schuylkill Railroad S.O'HJ OO i:- Pennsylvania Railroad (1,010 00 100 North Pennsylvania Kailroad 5 000 00 18 Delaware lUllroad l.'Juo 00 100 Wyoming Valley Caual 6.:iin)'00 OH Philadelphia Hank 6,H')0-00 M Farmers' and Mechanics' Hank... s'.ij'jo 00 KS Delaware Mutual Insurance Co... 2.2H)-00 lbO Phojulx Insurance Company 1.0J0 00 4 American West India Steamship Company 40000 20 Philadelphia and Uoutheru Mail H. 8. (Join puny 5,000 00 1111 Union Mutual Insurance Co 2,S,1M0 00 Par value $215,23000 C?st J1.94.M0 u Hills receivable for premiums 22,.vr7.i!l Sundry accounts due for premiums.. 157tWl2 C'ush in tianks 82.2,019 11 ' Cabh, in drawer 119 o'4 22,138-45 82oo,27 47 DIRECTORS, Richard 8. Smith, William H. Baird, Charles Wheeler. 8. Delbert, Sol. Townsend, F. Davergne, J. 8. Perot, John Moss, Lemuel Coffin, V. li. Cummlngs, J. H. Tilgo. W. 1). Wlnsor, James L. Hewley, rrancis iete, A. K. Borle, John H. Irwin, N. A.Smith. William U. Kent, Henry Lewls, J. U. Stelner, Edward L. Clark, Oeorge Lewis, H. F. Robinson, bamuel U. Cook, MC1IAED S. SMITH, President. JOHN MOSS, Secretary. 112121 DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSUR ANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 162J. Office B. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets. Philadelphia. MAK1NK IN8URANCK3 On Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES On goods by river, canal, lake aud land carriage to all parts of the Union. FIRE INSURANCES On Merchandise generally; onStores. Dwellings Houses, etc. " ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, November 1, 1808. United States Five l'er Cent. Loan, 10-40s United States Six For Cent. Loan, l&jl United States Six l'er Cent. Loan (rorPaciflo R). S200.0CO 120,000 50,000 2C0.000 125.000 50.000 20,000 25.CC0 25,000 30,000 7,000 lo.OCO 8208.500,00 130,800 00 50,00000 211.375 00 128.591 00 51,500 00 20,200 00 24,000 00 20,62.3 00 21,00000 5,031 25 15.000 00 11,000 00 3,500 00 15,000 00 207,000-00 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan City of l'hlla. Six Percent. Loan (exempt irom tax). Slate of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan Penn. Rail. First Mortgage Six Per Cent, bonds Tenu. R. Second Mortgage Six Per Cent.Lor.ds Western Peuu. R. Mort. Six Per Cent. Bonds, (P. R. R. guarantee) Slate of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan State of Teunesste Six Per Cent. Loan Oermautown Uus Co., prin cipal and Interest guaran teed by City of Phllad'a, oOO shares Slock Penn'u Railroad Company, 200 shares Stock North Peno'a Railroad Co., 100 shares Block Phila and Southern Mall Hi eam.Co.,feOBhareH .Stock Loans 011 liond and Mort gage, lirst Ileus on City Properties 10,000 5,000 20,000 207, DUO 1,1U).00 I'ar. ' Market value, 81,li0,y2J-2j Cost, 81,003,001-20, Real Estate 30.000 00 Hills receivable for insurance made 32,460 01 Balances due at agencies, premiums on marine policies, accrued inter est, and other debts due the com pany 40,17888 Slock and scrip of sundry corpora tions, S.iloO. Estimated value 1,813-00 Cosh In bank 8110 150-Ori Cash in diBwer 413 05 . 110,503 73 81,017,30780 directors, Thomas C. Hnud, Kilmiind A. Rninlnr jonn c. uavis, J tune C. Hand, 'i'heophilus Paulding, Joseph 11. Seal, Hugh Craig, John R. l'enrose, Jacob P. Jones, James Traquair, Edward Darlington, H. Joufs Brooke, James B. McParland, Samuel E. Stokes, Henry Sloan, I William U. Ludwlg. (leorge O. Lelper, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., John D. Taylor, Ueorge W. Bernadou, William U. Huulton Jacob Rlegel. spencer wciivaine, 1). T. Moruan.PiLlMhnro Edward Jarouroaue, JoBUua I'. Fyre, A. B. Berger. THOMAS O. HANI), l'rfsldent. JOHN (.!. UAVIS. Vice-Fresideut IJFNRY LYLBURN, Secretary. HLMU' BALL, Awljjtaut SocroUry. 1Q a uu u ji. ouuipie, INSURANCE COMPANIES. PROVIDENT LIFE AUD TKUST COMPANY OK PHILADELPHIA. CKcc, o. Ill South 10 UK I II Street. 1'iiiLAUKi.pHiA, First Mouth 1,180). 1.1 u.. . . Aft: . Jy'iiit Value. 4u)MC0 aioi (( fl"t lien on City uu- rt 1 1 1 0W Oil (,roo to iii.il ii -m, &KiMf) in .'(( l iiii.d piaii-diii ft to it, 11 juiIh, ft 17 7;.-, ;j ifiiyiui do. On. ilo. IM'n.. til (iin 00 .i.t'Viv On. u. uu. cur- rn y I- ttii in mi s-Voo Oi I IV 0 (Hi t inn o hat'. .' .rcnl. i-urrtmy 1" l.TiH-im V O It Ml ( l il I'll llil,pllia lr fJBlH. I ok 4 ti I , n 1 1 1 1 " J 11 m l Inn I'alnoBil r rom. Iimul v.. 4 5,,, li.ioiu i-i.i-nf i'i i.k) lvn.ni U per ciui. lnui. - ....... tcinitt I.h in Nav'Kiulim Vnuip.ny B pi-r com. iM.ini- 6 ntn-n 1 iM"? hi tin Him vmral Hiioi al IUhk v, h I'.J Mi I IIhnK of til HhjuiIi le () af..Vul ImaliB1 I.. I.Uli Vii-y KniIiimi.., h i.mi u 71. Ul !!. H'lllMl I l.M.oih C'l '-7 ,., ;a: ; liatx nn r.ilUmrnl t-curlt ..w'7 Vi m! HI 4.8 Wl MinHry m-rlirilinl ll, inl rlt n i, tl lit fur ri. 1 tiiinn uf liiiertxt, ji iv,,, i MM fai.li cm liuri) Si I' lui m l'n-iiili'iu no'ia hoc-iiUHl by imm i'u I'oilcUn K2litC(i C niro FlTtnion 1 om)t( a-ti In l.i fi'i'd A, ot..... 34 Vain o( l-Mirr.-(l I'n minim lor ini cm inn iear . '.i'4'01 lfi.lUl 1 78.T2I.-, l l slMsOF TJ' K ( OMl-ANY FflRl.'J'''W',J rrrtiiti'inn, Inrlurt .i-a A tinuliim.. f.iy.n -7 11 i I liter .l u l it-iii In in j-mid llli.')77 Ilu rtnl oq Auuuny I mi. !.... IM..W C'fiti In ha' iN r f Afnti ami De Rntd 1'ieii.luu n I.fM Agent' CoDiinltiloiis , 71.47141 . 2,Vi Intrriiiit on oihfr Inviwimnnu I'ollcli iKmiPd In l-vi, l Irnuiliii; I'oiiciH oumtaudtiiK 11 tuu. i, ,vi, uYi llflUK AllKUIllOl A IIIIUIIUH Hdlll IU 'Kl,X 'loial aruiiiiiit ot At iiuait nulj u ive" U ii bv uiftLtj. iiuii.lii-riiitf i.vmm ra H7nt .... 44iiT 1 1 u- ,6,0Ii.:i7iij .. I.!lill .. IANI.' '1'nlai aniiiiint 11I Ueailn frout ln iriKl n uf HIT. l'lll'MIIJ .M I xixnnea lur 1mJi... Liablillltl lu lJi punuit anU iruala. 4i.sv)-no i.7i :n .. 112,173 J:, KAWt KL It, Knipr.KV. I'rmldenL WILLIAM C. i-U-Mi-il KK'l II, VicirreililHiit. Jii-WI.aM) fAhKV, Actuary. r-amtml R. Shlpiry, j-uiih. uicbard f 'adburr. Phlla Jii.a 11. Mo.rlB, " Utinry Jlalnen, XUIiur.i V vih, ' i 1'. Wii.ar lliowo, W. llacipr. I a'iii. C. IiiiKHlrt-m. Cliwrlig I, Cilllu, UiciiiumiU lud. Will'. I TJ 8 U R E A f H O nTe IN TO B I'mii Mutual Life Insurance Co. Ko. 1)21 U1LSMJT St., l'lilludelphia. AJsi;ivi, f , 000,00. CHART Lit K L BY OCR OWN STATK. MANAUKD BY OUK OWN CllUKNS. L Hi H WtOAIPXLV PAID. IX)LIflKaI;tl!.I OA- VAKIOU4 l'LANH. Appllcatloui way le iuaO at tlm lluuie OUlte, and tlie Ageotlm tliruugbuut tuu blaie, l ini JAJdHH 11CAtl AIU PilK-tlDKM HAJtlKL. l:. kluliU vii,K PltiCiUiSi- JRO. W. IKIKMU A. V. 1. aulAClt'AUY IIOUATIO H. Ml;i-IU;.MH fcCKK r A K Y J H S U li A K li U OJlp AM Y NORTH AMERIOA, No. 232 WALNUT STREET, PEILADA. lis ( OIkPOKA TKU 17W. CHARTKK PK&PKTVA.L Blurlue, Aulnud, aud k irv luturauoe, ASBliTS JANDARY 1, 1868, - 12,001.266-72 1,000,000 Losbes tald lu Ci fcluot iti Organization. Arthur G. Cofflb. LIRM-'IORS, biiael W. Joutj, Joan A. Ilrowu, Cbariea lay lur, Ambrose W bite, William WelHh, UK-Lard I. Wuud, b. Morris Wain, John Maaon. uourga 1.. uarruna Francia R.Coi, ' ittiward U, 'lruiiar, JCdwacd B..Jlr, T. C'liariluo Henry, Alfred It. Jsmuu, JeiliU F. WbllM, LuuU U. UaUuua, aninnno, WW IT IN. Pre ll den I. CRABllca Piatt Secretary. ' WILLIAM BUKULKK, ilarrlabnrg, Pa-. Contra Atfent for tb a Btaw uf Peuny Ivania. 1 bi 29"-CUAllTJiU PJSmTUAI. Franklin Fire-insurance Co. OFFICE: Sos. 435 and 437 C1LESMJT STREI, AASETH OJf JAHVABT I. 1S0S, UiUL M TJKbTTLlCI CLAUtb, lOOXJt iXlit iJj 9a.W 5.0-A. JMHKtLH VAIU SINCI1 OVKJC Wf5 500,000. Perpetnal ana Tempoiary r uiiclea on Iberl Ttrui DI&LUTORfl. Charln N. Bancker, Alfrwi Fltlar. baiAiuel Uiaiit. 1 iioiuaa Hp,rfc William B. uraai. Aiirt-d llkr. Uuorice W KlbbariU, Inaac Lna. Oeoige Dale, JHAULlra H. BANlllr iru u ... . JAH. W. JicAiinisl KIt. breiiryV'TiZL Lio-plat Lexiut.iD, Kemao&v. uTii no Aiteuole Whi of Puwo Coiupaoybaa iiiu-.ij J&UllAAtJi LUllI'lVV .,. X PllliADELI'lilA. VUJUAAY Oi TUU Company UutZ!lt'' on liberal Uraii, on buiiuirWojercuanrt.,,. IurnUl.r. eic.,lorllmliea piTluds, aud beruiauouti. i.; f?' litis by Uepo.lt ol pr-uiiuui i. u,"iuy ou Uulld- '1 ho J mpauy ban btua iu aoilveotiBraiiim i tban blXxV YKAite. ituilug ""cu "l 1.'"' ? beeu proluptly adju..tid aini U, 1 bave John L. Hodge, ,Lavid Lewia, I Utii-Jaium .ui,r .TUouia U.Puwera, ixi . jo. mauciuy, Joliu 1. X.UW1H, William b. UiaDt, ltobert W. Leamlr.g, ll f'luwli VI I........ t.x. juvuiijry, I -ilu.ui U 1'antllloQ, jfciamuel Vi:co. ' I v. I i ' v- w Lawrence Lewis, Jr. n aia;ua) occr fckjkry, FlliE K S UK A Sci:E2:CLUKl VEL Y TiFk AfcT1J.lSt,'1',,l, iS-barier Periw4ual-No 611 WAI..NUT Blrwt. opi oibe ludviieodunoa SqTiZri Vhiu Couiuany. lavorauir known u. ll,o...T.7.",f for over forty yeara, coutluu to limure airalnst liii ojr damage ty bre ou Publio or PriTaui au 'dliiM fltlier imruiaumtiyor for a limned time. AJau T.n KnrnlUir block, of Unn.lu ..i .mMU "a ?KlIv.on llhral ' " " "uuauuras gun- 1 belr Capital, tonetberwliha large Bnrplna rnj It lnvesteii In be uioat carelul manner, whim. ZTi,' tbtm to oer to tlie inaurea aa uuUoubiad aooS? ufi tbecweofloua. Daniel Smith, Jr.. Juhll TlAVAMn w Alexander Benton, Ihaao Jlazleburnt, Thornaa amttb,' Henry i.ewU, J.UIlilUBbaiu lliouia IUbiu, FelL IiANIhl.KUi'Kf' .. WM. g. CHOW LLL, becretary. "la gTRICTLY MUTUAL. PROVIDENT LIFlTaND TRUST CO OJC PHILADJIILPHIA. UU" OFFICK, So. Ill . FOIH11I HTatrv-r Orgauuedto proniota U.4MS LMsuHa uui, L member ol the anooi A , . HOCIETT OF FRIKNDH. Good rlakaof any clasa accepted, tatlIClM taU84 UPOa P1,luv4 l lowtal Prealdfint, ' .. BAMTJRL K. BUIPLFY. Yice-rreaiuent, W1I.L1AM o. LONiiHTKHTH. The adTHDIarn. AlUa.rri HWLA N D PAliJtT. excelled. e" Ottora ' UU Vouxptu, ar 1 h. fnllowlnr taimiit of inn amet. and hnMosw 1 1 il l. ( oniDny It inil lhi'(1 In cnnipilanoo wlm the t.ri.r.l innuikinf ! 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