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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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piCTURES rOH PRESENTS.
A. H. It Oil INS ON,
No. 910 CHEbNUT Street,
Has Inst received pxonlslte specimens of ART
SUITABLE FUR HOLIDAY GIFTb.
FINE DRESDEN "ENAMELS" ON PORCELAIN.
In great variety.
SPLENDID PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS,
, - Including- a number ot choice gems,
SUPERB LINE OF CUUOjIOB.
A large assortment ot NKW ENGRAVINGS. Etc.
Alxo, RICH bTlLE FRA.li.Eb, u elegant now
Utt(U4. loj
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
UNION MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY
of philadelphia.
incoiuora.ti:l ihoi.
Fiie, Marine - aid Maul Insurance.
OFFICII,
K. 1". Corner TIJIKD and WALMJT Ms.,
UXC1IAKUE IIIMLDIN'J.
Tlie following Htateiueulol tlieafNlr of the
Compiuiy In ru,"l,,l"'J In couforuilly wiiu
pi'uvlhlon of lis clirtei:
Marine pu-iiUumt v;rliln to J in. 1,
1'i!' H'tfi.l'.S 1(1
lo. Mil tkini'il Jan. 1,
l"Oi M.71'111
Slju.ftl J
Flro premiums wrllUn name
Virion :vi.in3J
l-j.c pieiiiitiiua not t ;u ue.l
Jul. 1, ISM U7 TC II
73.SX178
. . , . i-'J,7iio
r.(ri!ri pi mi in inn iy .in'juwry i, .
lUtirltie l InUh 117 : ll s t
File r Inks' 1
Atnonnt received from lu.
tciem on Investments auu
Balvtiuee 17.C'Jii'77
r , Slti2,ZJ0i
Marine losn'8 S11I1HIS2 ,
Klre loese j.l'Wj .,"1
Kents anil snUrles 11,4 67
KflnHurauees and couiujIs-
KioiiH 11,771 m
United HiatN tHxes 2.613 -M
Deductions la lieu of bcrip... is 1M u
llH.7JJ.-9J
Aifts or the t'oiiniiT Jan. 1, lSO'j.
lont.i.
Slate of reuriPvlvnnla. courton 6 rer
cent J'OOihioo
ii y oi rmiHiieipui, o per cent, lj.utio UU
imueii ttuu iviuuoy i. it,,u per cent.
1SS! 11.20U00
Cainden and Amboy 11 It.. 0 per cent.
113 3,5;0 00
LBinueu ai u Aiuuuy it. it., u pur cent.
175 17,000 00
Fenntiylvanla It. 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
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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-
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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 ! Hi" lal: of fi.ny Ivunlv
A in ImriroO t adii in ly alii In . (IM,(KK) uj
mil lu. Cat ilai ll..3 51
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