THE DAILY EVENIKG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1869. rOILIIHED EVERT AFTERR00I pTUHDATS BZOXFTXS), AT THB '.EVKNINQ TELE'S RAP II BU LDINO, tm, 108 & THIRD BTSXST, rHII'XLPHIA. JTi IVCei is Owee cent per eopp (doub e sheet); Or eighteen cent per week, payable to the carrier by whom served. 77k subscription price by mail U ifine Dollart per annum, or One Dollar and Fifty cent for two month' , invariably in advance for the Ume ordered. WBDNE9DAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1860. Xhe Charitable and Correctional Insti tutions or feunaylvwuli. Itf Much, 1863, a committee, consisting of Wtlmer Worthington (the present Speaker of the Senate), Russell Errett, and J. r. Wioksr fibam (Saperintendent of Common Schools), I was instruoted by the State Senate to inquire ; Into tha expedlenoj of establishing a lljard of ; 8Ute Charities, and to report to the present j Legislature. In pnrsnanoe of thin authority, , tie oommittee have presented a dostitniu'. 1 deaerrhtg the careful consideration of every , thoughtful citizen, and presenting an array Of faoU and arguments which leads irresistibly i to the oonolusion that earnest efforts shoal I fce made "to systematize and supervise th-j correotional and charitab'e inatitutions of the State." The "let alone" policy which -ha3 hitherto ! prevailed has not been destitute of good fruits. Tha efforts of philanthropic citizens have doaa : nuoh to atone for the habitual neglect of tin Commonwealth, and a host of useful inatitu tiona have been established and maintained by . private contributions. But 83 there is u general system and no authorizsd supervision, . gross negleot in some quarters, grave errors and abuses in others, and an inadequacy of : means to the ends that should be attained, are painfully apparent. I Tte absurd extent to which the system of i decentralization, or of abnegation of the duty ! Of the Commonwealth, is carried, is forcibly ! Illustrated by the remark of the committee 1 that "Pennsylvania has not a single chariu- lle or correctional institution which is Oivned, j controlled, and exclusively supported by the j State;" for although the penitentiaries au 1 j the State Asylum for the Insane are nnder im mediate State control, their expenses are de frayed mainly by the respective counties. A defense for this neglejt iny be found in the ! fact that the State mauagernent of alftirs of j any description has usually proved a lament able failure, and the report mively inform) Oi that the only important departure lota the general principle ' of lea v. Ing the citisens to take care of themselves waa in the casu of certain public im- 1 provements, which experiment ended in leaving the Commonwealth "without a slngb canal or railroad, and with a debt of forty millions of dollars." Bat although the wis dom displayed in this magnificent triumph of fctateJiuanship fin is its counterpart in the pre vailing sjatom of legislation, there can be no Serious error in providing for suoh aunual Statements of the real oondition of the chari table and oorrectional institutions, in the ag gregate, as will enable hnmaue eitizurn to give a wise direction to their efforts to allevi ate the miseries of their fellow-men, and ex pose the more glaring defects of the preseu system. The insti utions which, in the j a la ment of the committee, the S'.ate ouut to establish and support, are as folio wa: I. Penitentiaries for suon convict a? It it defined beet to send to them, & House of refuge or reformatories tot jtiva n'le offenders. 3 Ay luuas for the losaue. 4. Asylums fur trte blluil. 6 Asyluwa for tbe deal and dumb. (i Hoiiools for Id iota. 7. Work, house, hospital, or lutlrmnrltn fj fornVtihlng employ uieut, aneiieria aiul trend ing sacb persons as iue8tautt.a wuolo 1 under obligation to cure for. 8. Uomti tn the friendless where chll.lreu betODgioa to no particular locality ou ua unre 1 or and Instructed. 9. boldlers' orphan aohoola or homea. The provisions now made for these objea'.a may be thus summarized: 1. In the penitentiaries the system of sep i rate confinement nominally prevails, but it li rapidly becoming impracticable on account of the overorowded condition of these institu tions. The somber of cells in the Eiatefj Penitentiary ia 540. The number of prisoners It contained when the committee visited it iu 1963 was 625, and the average population in 1867 was 594. In the Western Penitentiary the number of cells is 318, and the number of convicts confined there at the close of 18.37 was 48G. 2. The Eastern and Western Houses of Refuge were established and are now main tained in part by State appropriations, and in part by private contributions; but although the State Tory properly continues to appro priate large sums for their maintenance, it has no representation in their boards of managers, and they remain nnder private control. Tue committee recommend that this defect be corrected, and that the "contract system of labor in U3e should be abandoned," beoaose "no care exercised in the management can prevent it from producing bad effoots;" and they also suggest that the system which has proved so sucoesaful in Ohio, of establish ing juvenile reformatories on large tracts of land in the oountry, instead of in pent-up pri son like olty quarters, is worthy of imitation in Pennsylvania. The Ohio Reform School is located on a farm of 1170 aores, in the interior Of the State, and it contained at the date of the last report about 240 boys. The walls of the Eastern and Western Rdfuges of this State enolose about ten aores of. ground, and their Involuntary inmates numbered at the date of the last reports, 847. 3. Muoh has b'en admirably done to pro Tide asylums for the Insane, but the com mittee make the startling statement that, while the State contains at least four thousand Insane persons, "there are accommodations at a' I the hospitals, public and private, for only about 1000, leaving 2100 unprovided for, and well-ascertained facts show that the oondition of hundreds of insane persons who are oon fined in poor-house j, jails, and private houses throughout the Commonwealth, ia a disgrace to the civilization, and still more to the charity, of the age." The aotion of the Legis lature at the last session authorizing the erec tion of a new Northern Hospital or Asylum will do something to remedy the evils thus forcibly depicted, and it cannot be too speedily constructed. 4. The Pennsylvania Institution for the In. struoUon of the Blind has proved useful and deserving of support, but its accommodations are insuHioient, and the buildings are neither fire proof nor well adapted to the purpose for which they are used. The number of pupils In 1868 was 185, while only 175 could be oom- fortably accommodated, and about 50 were awaiting admission. The State oontatns nearly 1600 Hind persons, and provision should be made for at least 300 pupils. fi. The Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb reoeives a large portion of its income from the State, the sum of $240 being paid for each. indigent pupil, and the oommit tee recommend that it shonld be removed into the country on account of its insuflliient grounds and defective buildings. It also adviits that the pupils should "spend more time at work," and that "a class of pupils should be organized to be taught by the method of articulation." 6. The Training School for Feeble-Minded Children is comparatively a new institution. It contained in 1867, 177 pupils, of whom 110 were supported by the State at au annual expenditure per pupil of two hundred and fifty dollars. 7. Nothing important has yet been done, either by direot State or municipal authority, to provide proper houses of correction and employment, except that in Allegheny oounty a workhouse upon an improved plan, which is to cost $400,000, is now being erected. 8. A number of "homes for the friendless" have been established by private efforts, and some of them aie sustained in part by State appropriations. The most beneent work of which the State boasts is the establishment and main tenance of soldiers' orphans' chools and hemes. The Commonwealth is now support ing i;.r60 soldiers' orphans, in forty different institutions, at an expense of nearly $500,000 per annum. The oommittee, however, evi dently incline to the opinion that many of the children would be as well cared for and as well educated if they resided with private families as they now are, and that by .vera management large sums could be saved to the treasury without detriment to the orphans. Twrlftli nnil Sixteenth .Street' i'ASseitger Itiiilroad. It is reported upon the best authority that a bill, certain of passage, will shortly be in troduced in both branches of the State Legis lature, incorporating a new passenger railroad on Twelfth and Sixteenth streets. The matter has been kept in pro'ouud sacrecy, and it seems that all the stock of the new road is to be held by the members of the Legislature themselves, without any admission of outside parties. The thing waa only discovered by that inevitable fate which a'.tends all species of fraud; they who had the matter in charge, like the devil in the fable, were uuable to hide its tail. Now we do not wish to declaim against any movement looking towards the accommodation of our citizen) a plea which may be urged for the construction of a rail road on Twelfth and Sixteenth streets; but then it has not been demonstrated that such an accommodation will be insured by the building of said road. Do the people living along the lines of feke two old roads running nearest to the contemplated new one either need or de sire a new one ? Ilave not the interests in corporated in those old roads a right to be weighed in the balance against the proposition for the construction of a new road running parallel and contiguous to them ? Of courtf, competition, the life of trade, always insures the best accommodations on the cheapest terms to the mass by the people; but, then, may it not prove that by the disruption of old interests in the creation of new, and the weakening of old railways, which have satisfactorily answered the demands of public travel, by the building of new ones, whioh may or may not do as much for the publio, nothing will be gained and a great deal lost f As to the bill to in corporate a ,new road on Twelfth and Sixteenth streets, now , insidi ously, like a reptile, afraid of the light, working its way up to a passage, to be openly broached and plaoed before the people, were the facts associated with it to be proven, then that almost sure suspicion of fraud and corruption new con nected with it could be in a great measure removed. Our Legislature has been doing many high-handed things during the present Cession; but if this bill is oarried through as it is now reported to be framed, they will have excelled all their previous "dirty work." FINANCE AND QOMMERQE. OVrtCB OV TUB EVKHINS TKLOBAPH, Wednesday. Feb 1W. The Money n.arket continues easy. Call loans rule at b7 per cent., the loruitr rate on Gov ernment bonds, Kim-class mercantile paper ranges from 7JS9 per cent, per aouuin. There was more disposition to operate in stocks tbis morning, and prices generally were flTHier. Government securities were a fraction higher. 108$ wus bid for 10-40; 1124 for Ca of 18H1; 113j lor '02 5-20; 1091 for '64 6-20; 110J for 'Hi 6-20; 10H.J for July '05 5-20s; . and 108$ for 'ti7 5-20j. City loans were without change. Xiio new issue nold at 1001. Kallroai shares were the most active on tbe list. Reading fold largely at 48J484, an advance of 1; Camden and An, boy at 121J, no charge; 1'euusvlvanU ltd I road at 67$, on ad vance ot i; aud Leblcb Valley at 6Ui.no chaupre; 43j wus bid for Little Schuylkill; 65 lor Jllnehlll: 34 for North Pennsjlvarili; 30 for lluiira common: 40 for Elmtra preferred: 34 for CatHu.ia preferred; and 2tf lor Philadelphia and Erie. City Pttfefenser Ilailway share were firmly held. ncstonvUe eolJ at U, uo chaupe, aud nreen sod Coatei at 39, tirt chanuc 40 was bid for Bccond arid Third; 3B for Kif'h sort Mirth; TO for Tenth and aleveuth; 18) for Thlripentti and Fifteenth; 4fi for Uncuut and Walnut; and 2j lor Olrard Colleee. ank shares were in jroorl demand for Invest ment at full prloes. Union sold at 63 2 18 was bid for North America; 158 for 1'ti I U'lDbU; 123J for Farmers' -and Kcrnntitcn'; 67 for Cotn mereini: 100 lor Northern l.ioerllef.; 57 'or I'eon Township; 73 lor Western:. 11 lor Manufacturers'; 43 lor Consolidation: and 69 for Coru Exo ianire. Canal snare were dull. Lehigh Navigation sold at S14(W31, no ebnnee: 10 whs aid for Bcliuylklll; Navigation oonmon: 201 lor pre ferred do.; and 12 for 8u Jnehanoa Canal. rue losuraucn Oomf.am of the 8imc of reiitiBvlvsnla announce? a dividend of 6 per cent., equal to $12 per fbare, payable, free of t, ou demand. PMUDKirillA STOCK KXCIIAN6K HAIK8 TO-OAI Reported bl He Uvu Bro., Mo, to u. Tulraatreai FIIMT B'tAkD. AO0 Pa a, 1 series mm f ') sb Hol R....M. u; f-KIO do 1 1 U1 IC dO ...OHKVIl. 48 do.'i net 10' V l,o 1o....i5Aio4m(i IliiKI 5-20s 'W..CP . ,ni ' U do W f lfltio do 1'iV KM do.. ,.r,(,tln.i8.ll m IjPh Bs. gold ll. Mil u ' Iimi dort .HOWD.4S :i l llOOtoliN An' bl t,S J Hu ii...?litiD. 48W 6 Nh I'nlon Bk M 4 ICO do..bV&liH. 41 'J 21 SUC A Am IS..12IV Ziv do... Ii.lwu 4 I ah fenn K r7S ' 2 O Io....'.'d,tln. 4i:V 20 d...,....-ln r. , loo do IM 4ti tt. ino do......bin. 17V iiM) do.......b :o. tni 44 do Is. 17 2(10 do I1s-i4 SOsh HesMiiivllle 1? i Km do :tii Mhii Ixii Vul...,M Is. Ofl'-Ji icn dn n li.. s' :u:sh l,cti N WK. ai I lt( Ui .a.U4v.u ftosli Feed Darn.. '4iSU0. do....is.rj.'H 48 4 5sli (ir&Coatra 8 Messrs. Do Haven A Brother, No. 40 83Utb Third street; report the following rates of ex. change Unlay nt 1 P. M.: U. 8. 6s ol 1881. U2( ttllijsdo. im, 113iail3; do.. 1804, VMS 101) ; do., 1805,110i'flSlU: do.. I8ii5, new. lOHidt 108 ; do., 1867. new, ia8.j:U0!; do., lSfiti, 108J fil09; do., 6s, 10-4K 10Sjf4l08; do. 33-year 6 per cent. Cy., lolaioij Due (Join pound Interest Notee, 194; Gold, 135Kai3Ci; Silver, 1315132,. Messrs. William Pointer Co., hankers, No. 3G fcouth Third Mieet. report the toliojlug rates of exchange to-day at 12 o'clock: united mates os, 1881. H2'ail2j: n. 8. 6 20 lHtJ, lHUllSi; do.. 1864, 10!;re10!)li do.. 18.i5, llo?(aii(ij; do. July. 1806, lo83ftil08j: do. July, 1W7, 108il08i; do. 188H, 105109; l0-40s. 108J (JrlOHj. Componnd Interest Notes, pnst due, 11925. Gold, 136i136. Philadelphia Trade Report. Whdnkbday. Feb. 3. The Flour market re ruRina in the same dull and unsatisfactory cou dttlon noted yeBtarday, and Id the absence ol any demand for shipment only a few hundred barrels were taken In lots by the home con Burners, Including 400 barrels supeifine at (Hra 6 2o: extran at Sj7o0-27: t.prlny; Wheat extra family at 77-fiO; Pennsylvania and Ohio do do. at 88-50$102i: and fancy biands Sllrdl3 ac cordlnn to quality. Kye Flunr sells at 877-60 per barrel. Not Moft doing In Corn Meal. The demand for Wheat la chiefly from the local millets, who purohased only of tood and prime lota. Bales of red at 8l 65fl7i; 600 br.BOl4 Westmoreland county do. at $190 and small lots of white at 9i 10(3 2 -20, Rye la Qtilet 81-55l-67. per bushel for Weatern Corn U Kt iluilud reqneHt, and price are weak. Baita of 2(100 btiHoelH new yellow at 82r87o. Oats are unchanged. 3000 bushels Western sold at 720:5o., and Pennej lvauU and Houlliern at eoraesb. KtBitrlt-y and Mail Aiednll. - liurk la flrui at $10 cr ton for No. 1 Querci tron. W hisky aella in a small way at 9o.8l per gallon, tax paid. Chioago ea's $1,500,000 worth of candy annually, a third of which Is manufactured by one house. Not a month ago, a well-known citizen of Boaton took out a polioy for $100,000. IIB died week before last. LATEST Sliirm liM'ELLIUtiAf K. For additional Marine Newt see Inside Jipet. POBT OF PglLADKLPniA '. FKBaOARV a. STATHOV THKKMOMETBB AT Til HVSKIXa TBr.. 1 A, M it 11 A, IS. 43 1 P. M t7 CLEARED THI3 MORNTNa. Roll r Chester, Kennvdy, Hillfix J. H. At wok! Bchr Atnrlcu KBle, Hbaw, New Yora, Bmltlgcon. OrutU A Co. ARRIVKD THIS MORNING, Barque Gertrude. Athrioa. Wtd) irom Buenos Ay re, with bone dim to order. HclirOcen Wve,, .Walter. Is) days from Newborn. N. U.i with shingles to Patten 00 dk Llpplno Jit. Oorrrrpmdrnee of the Philadelphia Exchange, IiBWuas, Cel., Fed. l-s P. Af. Scbr Onrila Tllton, from Navasaa tor Philadelphia, is at the Breakwater. Barque Harsh A. Staples. forHagua; brlR Samuel Lindsay, lor Cardenan; Anna, far Barbados; and aohr J. T. A (burger, fur Gnaoianaaao. all from Pulladel. pbla, went to fa yenierday. Barque Aberdeeu. for BrumeD, waa lowed Uj ea thin evenlnir by Ame rica. JOUUPU X.APKIKA. M MEMORANDA, Barque Ida, from Liverpool tor Phllade'plila re-turnt-d to that port ymterday. leaky, Hobr Belatfawa, Bryaut, hoooe, at Hew York yes terday. Hchr M. K. Coyne. Paeemlre, for Philadelphia, cleared at Mew York yeatorday. SPECIAL NOTICES. tttf ('OLD WKATIIElt DOES NOT CHAP - ' tir rmiKuen the sain aiver unuifc WKIUMTs A I.IWNA I KJUULYAltlN rABLKToSOLIDIriEU OLVCKIUN. Iu dally una makes the sklu dell valMly boH and beaullluf. Jl Is aellgbtfully Irauraot, IrauauafHiil, and luoouapaiable an a lollet Hoap. JCor al by all liruggUU, l A G. A WRIGHT, l No. tU OHK8NUT Htreet. fhf NOTICE. -1 AM NO LONGER BX. eutal Ataooiatlou. Penuma wlahlnv tath a r - - " v. un v..WH tianmd abaulutaly wlihotit aaln by frenb Nitrous oilda Gaa. will Hud me at No. 1027 WALNUT Htreet. t'bri' tuli all. DR. F. R. THOMAS. gyr- OFFICE OF THE NORTH PESNUYL- VANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Pbii.abki.fui a, No. 407 Walnut street, Jan. 8, 1869. DIVIDEND NOTICE. The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on BA1 URDAY. the th Inst., at S e'olock P. M., and be reopened ou SATURDAY', the 16th Inst. A dividend bai this day been declared of FIVE PBR CENT,, clear ol taxes, payable lu scrip, bearing no interest, and convertible Into Seven Per OenU Mor'gage Bonus of the Company, to sums of not less than Ave bundted dollars, on and after May 1st next. The said dividend will be credited to the stock huldeis as tbey aball Bland registered on the books of the Company ou SATURDAY, the Ulh lust. 1 Bluiwlm WILLIAM WISTEB. Treasurer. frjs OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA BAIL- ROAD COM PAN Y, PHiLaDKLPirrA, J ana try 27, 1809. NOTICE IX) MTUCKUOLDKIW. Tbe Annual Mretlug of the Stockholders of this rwpauy will be held on TUH8BAV, tbe ltf.h day of Kt-biuaiy. I809, at 10 o'clock A. M., at Cauoar; if all, tit . 12111 i'h anut alrett, Philadelphia, 1 he Annual Ki.cilon for Dlrvoiors will be held on MONDAY, the 11ml day of March, 1869, a; the oOlce ol th CjiDpauy, No !HH South TIIIltD S reet, 1 1 17t KDMUNU SMITH, Secretary. PHILADELPHIA AND ERIE RAILl EOAD COMPANY, Ofllte No. W WALNUT Street. . . . Philadklphia. January IS. 1869. Tli Annual Meeting of the htockho'drfr ot the PHILADELPHIA AM) KltilK RAIL O AD COM PANY will be hld at the otllcB 011 MONDAY, the Bib of February next at iu o'clock A. M. At this muctiug an election will beheld for ten managers ot ibe company, to serve lorjoue year. The polls to clone at 12 o'clock noon 1 28 smwth l)tj QKORGH P. LITTI.K, Bearetary. NOTICE. -WEST JERSEY RAILROAD COMPANY, Omca or tub Tiniiniiiia.l , Ciuuitu, N.J, Jamary Hi, 1W. The Board of Directois have this dy dwlared a Beml-annual Dividend ol PI V & PK.K CKNT.,olar or national tax, paabl to the Stockholders or this data on and alter WKDNKbDA Y the 8d day of FeO iiniry, Ut'.t, at tbe Treasurer's Ollioe lu Camden. The block 'Irausler Monas will be cloned from the date hereof, until tha lib Jay ol February, IM)). 1 19 141 Treasurer W. J. R. R Co. BEDS OF EASE. COMFORT. AND Cleanliness. Of ailoerlrtr mil n.rnunltnlu. Iloltr. and at leaa coat than any other good beds are made Irom the patent l.iamlu Sponge, This article pobkrsats no letting properties, aud rntalus Its elastic softness, being more durai-,1 ;ban lbs best curled hair. im w (j fTTcJ MR. HU1JH U. HOUSTON HAS BKEK ad ail tied to au Interest In our bn iaeus from Ibis dale. JAMlut K. CALDW1ELL A O'J. Pvbruary 1.1M. tut SPECIAL NOTICES. ONE OGVGRNHfNr FOR NORTH AHKklCAN tXJNTlNKVT. THE A I.tCTDRX ON Till A1IOVB BUnjEXT will be delivered by the HON OKOHUi: CONNF.LL, AT CONCERT HALL, On KKIDAY Evening, Feb 5, at 8 o'olock." Attention U respectfully cnlfi'd to the fol lowing CORltMSPONDKNCK. JfON fiRonoK CoKNRtx H ate Senator. Dar Hl: 1 he undermined have lizard tlmtyon hve rrtoently drliv rl at Krip and other Weiern cltl a 1'Ki'ore on ' ON K OOVHINMKNT FOR THK NORTH Aa KHIVA N t t)N I1NKN I ," anl w demre to have tin- plM.nure ol llHtfnlnu to It In Phlladelolila. if vou have no objection, p.e.R nanm tbe tlm it will suit your public duties to repeat tbis lecture 10 the oitlsnns of 1 his city. VeryrOiptot'ully vonra, C. H, Clark Willi am Welili. lii'Hli-1 M. h' x, Jay Cooke, V mi.. 111 W. Hardlni, Henry M. Phillips, N. B IlrowuH, A.J. l)r-xl Morion McMtrbael, ( lirrlidK Waiburton, :aleb Cope, Itc-rert M. Fount, K herper Jeffrlce, P. B Mliglc. William It Thomas, Iticliitrd Vaux, bill K. Fries. James t. Clagnorn, TbHO. Cuylr. John P. Wetbortll, J Im I'ailon, D. It. Cummins, Iewla Wain smith, Alfred R Votet, Henry Hnmm, Vl.iceutL Bradlrd. Psnatr Chauiikh, IlABRrmtuitfi. Feb. 2. mi. (J utjt Bieri: liirtoklcK jou lor me opp ir'inii' v t cli ng ibe atic.iLloa i t tn v lellow-nltl.iini 01 Folia del' hla to a kiii j pc. which I rngaiil the ncrrit question of the day. I hhall b happy pi ro ii.-lv wl.li ilir i.qurel nr, fNinAY KVK.NINU NKi T, Fb. A. at Concert Hall. Vtry reepecfulir yours, . OK.OK'IK C'lN VKf.L. To MfMra. C. B, Clark, Jay Caoke. Mayor Fox. and other. Tickets for tbe Lecture can be bad. without charge, atihoHal). li' CONCERT HALL. WISS JONF8' WEDDINO-No Oard. ON 'lhl ltlOAV H.V1;N1NU.1'CU. 4. MR. DK CORDOVA, the Popular and Humorous Lecturer, will hive Thrae ot his most attractive Lecture In tula ulty at O JN 1 ku r hall as follow: ON THURSDAY KVKNlNO. Feb 4. MISft JOSliS' WKDDINa-Nu cards. ON THClDAY KVKNlNO, Feb. II. MRS. UUUHOY, ON THURSDAY E.VK.NINU. Fob. in. TRK HPRATTtt AT SAKATOUA. Adralralon (with reserved seat) .Vi 0. mi Tickets for tbe course (reserved 1 fl-50. 1o be cbtalied at Uonld's, No VIZ C'litonui street. Also at the door on theeveulngs or 'be Lectures. IX org open at 7. Lecture at a Hit AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. JAMES K. MURDOCH WILL BEAD, UKDEJl THK AUSPICK3 Of THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY COVIPANY, MONDAY EVENING, Febrnary 8, 181, At 8 o'clock. Tickets for aale at Truinpler'a Moblo Store, No. 920 Cuenut elitet. ajftt Parquet (reterved Beat.) 75 cants. Parquet circle " " .......Ti Balcony " ' ......75 Faintly circle " " ,.w fr BARLOW'S INDICO BLUE IS THE cheapest and bent article in the market tor bluing clothes. IT DUK8 NOT CONTAIN ANY ACID. IT WILL NOT INJURS 'HIE FINK-tT FABRIC. It is jut up at WILTRSRGKR'.i DUUO STORE, No.tos N. SECOND street, Philadelphia, and for aale by moat of the groc rs and druggists. The geLulne has both BARLOWS aud WILT UKROER'8 names on the label: all others are COUNTERFEIT. BARLOW'S BLUE will color more water than four tlu es the same weight of Indigo 127rnrn Ktgr- BATCH ELO R'S HAIR DYE. THIS splendid Hair Dye la the bent In tbe world the only true and perfect I-Je; harmless, reliuble. luaiautaneoos; ne dldappolmment; no ridiculous tints; remedies the 111 eilecta of lad dyes; Invigorates and lea veil tbe Hair soft and beautiful, black or brow. boid by all Druggists and Prrfumers; and properly appllt dat Batcholor'a wig Factory, Ko, 1 BOSD btreet.NewYork. ttmmti 1AUGU1UT10i BALlT The public expeoted An Inauguration Ball; But Oeneral Urunt. saya He don't care lor it at all. The publio expocted To have a jolly tfauce; But General Grant says lie won't give them a chance. The publio expeoted To iread on each other's toea Hut General Grant says They'd butter buy new Clotnee. The publio expected To spend lota of money, But Goneial Grant says It's wonderful funny That folks are so fool lab As to want such a Ball, And they'd better buy Clothing At the GREAT BHOWJN HALT,. Senalble General! Tha amount jf conn that each citizen would apeud In going to the Ball would boy him a splendid suit or Clothes at onr store. " The Winter Goods go. They go cheap, cheap, cheap for cash. Come, fellow-cltizeus, and help off what Is left of them, for soon tbe t-orlnlr Clothes will be upon us. ROCKHILL A WILSON, GREAT BROWN HALL, HOT. 603 and (05 CIIESXUT 8TKEET, PHILADELPHIA. QIE FEIN8TEN MEUBEL ARANG1ERT IN DER GANZEN ETAOB FERTIG ZUR AN8ICHT, TEPPICH UNO GARTIENEN ENBEGRIFEN. GEORGE J. HENKEL8, MEUBEL FAB RICK ANT, THIRTEENTH AND CHESNOT, l'i;u;rp PHILADELPHIA. 3JIUIAEL MEAGUER &'"ca, o. 223 Sonth SIXTKEXIU Street, WBOLRSALK AND JtKTAIL DEALERS IN rBOYIMIOftN, OV11, ASDNAXD ( LAH, OU t AMILY VHK. TKRBAFISK dl6 IfcH IIOaES. 2 T U 8 T PUBLISHED, I tbe January Number of DUFKIKLli A H U M K A D ' 8 LI IKUAUV BULLETIN, a reonlbly record of Current Llteraiure. CONTENTS. Ittciery News. What the Press says. Principal Publications of J81I8. Tbe Latest Booka. Publishet ' Announcement. MagaKtnes aud Ptrlndieals. To ue had gratuitously of Dl'b'FIKLD A8HMEAD. 2 2 wfa3'.Ip No. 7J-1 CHESNUT Street. LARZELERE & DUCHEY, Custom IIouho Urokerg and Notaries rubllc, No. 405 L.IDRARY Street. All Custom House Duslncss transacted. PASSPORTS PROCURED. tT DR.-F. CIRABD. VETERNABY BUR. KJV OKON. treat, all disitases of harata and cav tlu, and all surgical operations, witn ediolent aoo.oni Diolatlius for boraea at his Inllrmary, No. U AivbU ALL Blitei, above Poplar. l iti. INSURANCE COMPANIES. CIRARD FINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFIOli, No. 639 CHE8NUT Stroot. Capital. - - 6200,000 AU I'nlil U In Casb. Surplus, over S20O.O00 Both of which have been aafely Invented In Rial EfcUto, Buuda, Mortgages, Uoyernment und other good Hecurltles. OVER $100,000,000 Ol l'ir)rty bas been successfully insured by this Company in 15 ears, aud OOO LOSSES DY FIRE rrornptlj and Honorably Paid. OUR RECEIPTS For the year ending December 31, 1869, have been: From Fire Premiums -StfH.SU-OO From Inlereat and Rents UM 22,692 78 Total HMIHIHIMtl 2 (9.478 78 Disbursements On account of Fire Losses............. 161,547 9J " Oomml8slous...... 2.',l)90 45 " Reinsurance 1,19181 " Return Premiums 10,741)5 " Oeneral Expenses and Repairs to Real Estate, including State Taxes.- 33,696-25 " Iuterual Revenue........... 5,50919 125,678 68 WE HAVE NO LOSSES DUE A.N D UNL'AIO PHtr,ArELPrA, Jan. 1, 180'J. 1o Our Agents ond the P6iic: It ia so well understood that the Olrard Fire Insurance Company belongs to no comblnnlion of underwriters, that a repetition of the faot is hardly necessary. But our experience lu some localities, during the year 18(13, Justitla? us In briefly alluding to the subject. Again, our uo. ecus seems to demand an explanation. It will be remembered that in 1SC7 we lost a smaller percent, of our premium than any other oom pany doing a Fire Insurance Buainess, through agenoles, in the United States. This happy re sult, wo believe, ha again been achieved. In our experience, for the year lStiS, uotwltbstanu Ing the multitude of fires. If so, the statistics of the worthy Insurance Commissioners of New York:, Massachusetts, and Connecticut will doubtless certify, when published. By reference to the reports of the Commissioners of M absachnsetts and New York for the year ending December 31, 18t)7, It will be found that our losses were twenty-seven per cent, and a fraotlon upon the Amount of pre miums received. In 186S they will not exceed thirty-three per cent. This is the test by which the general character of our business shonld be measured. Compared with the experience of other tampanles in this country, it either prove, that our agents and patrons are honest and fair towards the "Olrard Fire Insurance Company," else they we are remarkaoly fortunate. A million of premiums might have been re kceived, Instead of some two hundred thousand. But our profits might have been less, and tbe Indemnity o lie red the insured no better than now. It is the latter we desire to ailord our friends. We are sorry to notice, however, that In some instances "Special Hazards" have been offered onr agenta at less than the "National Hoard" rates. This is no favor nor compliment to us, and a poor reward for our independence Neither Is it the kind of patronage we seek. It coats ms as much to pay losses a other institu tions, and we must have fair rates, fair risks, honest agents, and honest insurers. Then our welfare will be Identical. A few agents have been removed and others appointed, but not without a sufficient tanse, for we believe that of all things done through the agency of others, the Insurance business of this country should be confided to the most honorable, responsible, and intelligent men to be found In It. Other wise the profession of the underwriter will be likely to suffer. We invite no conflict with other companies. We seek no business by unfair or ceterf means. Honest losses will be promptly met, as heretofore. Agenta should be cautious asto whom they insure, as well as to what they Insure, and abide by our rules, now so well and mccetsfully established. DlltKCTOIlS. 1 HOM AM fRlVEN, k-VBltlAM HHEPPABD. THOMAS JUCKELLtB, JOSEPH HL1PP, Ha !., ALBEBT S. tiIC.Lt.TT. CI1AHL.ES I. DUPOHT. I K.Ms V F. UEBfsTEY, M.S. LAWBEll'B, JOUST W. rLAUHOBN, jobi a IT PPE.EE, MICAS YEHKB, JB. TII0JIAS CKAVEN, rresiucnt. A. S. GILLE1T, Ylcc-rrceldcnt and Treasurer. JAMES U. ALVOltD, Secretarj. J0UN C. UINUM, Asslstaut Secretarj. tl wfmSMp IN8URANCE COMPANIES. FAME INSURANCE COMPANY, 406 cntsauT street. Philadelphia, nary 18, 1809. ThU Company, Incorporated n 1K8, anl doing a FiKIC INSURANCE BUSINESS KJC CLUHI VLLY, in order to enable It to aocept a large amount of buslnew constantly declined for want of adequate capital, will. In accord ance with a supplement to lta charter, in crease lta CAPITAL STOCK FHOM 100,000, fa IrcRcut amount, to $ 2 0 0,0 6 0, In Shares of Fifty Dollars Eiich, And for whlrh anlworlpMon boo a a are oow open at this crjin. By order of tho Hoard of Director. CHARLEG RICHARDSON, PUKHIDKNT. WILLIAM H. RHAWN, viOKPiikBiDBiarr. WILLIAMS I. QLANCHARD, 1 Ptf SKCUKl'ARY. WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC."" J. E. CALDWELL & CO. Will RESUME BUSINESS On Monday, January 18, AT THE ST O IMS No. 810 CHE6NUT Street, t 16 Wl tf PHILADELPHIA. W A H E 8. C. & A. PEQUI 0 N OT, Olannructurera aud Importers, Uo. 13 South SIXTH Street. almwsjrp Manufactory, No. 22 & FIFTH St, CARPETINGS. GREAT REDUCTION. $50,000 WORTH OF OUR STOCK OP OAKPETINGS Have been reduced In price to close out early and make room for NEW SPRING GOODS. REEVE L. KNIGHT & SOX, 1 222 CHESNUT STREET, It linwlrurp i'lI'LADKLPHIA. BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY. JA8. H. DRYSON A 80N, No. 8 North SIXTH Street, Stationers and Printers. Blank Books, Ledgers, Bay Books, Cash Books, Etc. Etc, Made M order at tbe shorWst nolle, t the lowaat maikei rates. LETTER PAPE R. per r-n sa Nwii i'apkr porrtD."Jl..:..'''''" A fall Maorimeot ot luip.rted mad ITtapIa'sTA TIONERV. always on band; INKS, PiCNciLS I'Ktf HOLDERS. Ktc. Id great variety, ENVfLOPICS.burl. letter alze 1,.(0 pe, low WUJIV. A rreat variety of sty Us and trades Alwav. on band, at tbe lowest rate. ways on PRINTED BLANKS. CARDS, FAMPHLBTsi. Etc., n tented In the moat approved style-, itsim INSTRUCTION. ELECTRICAL INSTITUTE KP. l2n WALNUT BTKEKT. A Class of LaJIs and cientleuiea Is now rormln? at Dr. B. V. BKCKWITH'8. No. Uio WALNOT Btreeu fblladelpbla, lor Instruction la tlie use of KlMtrlau for toe treatment of chrnlo dlsaaaes, to whloU ail deslrou. rf becomiog students, boibofthe niadliuLi colleges and otbers, are Invited. All students loinlmr lbeclas lor FKBHUARY P, will be asmltted ta ,thi Operating Room, for practical Instiuotlcn. Terma arranged on appllcatloo. ... Dr. 8. W. BRCKWITH. t8p Nn. li-m WALNPT Htreet. 1'Mit-HDk.Li-Hia, Feb. t. 189l H T. a n v. ii o v a .. CLABftXCAL AND KVfJLleiH hUHoJl NO, HQS MARKET fctreetl it S lm COAL. WILLIAM W. ALTER, LKIIIQH GOAL,. Also. Lorberry and Locust Mountain. Bcpot, Ko. 957 Korth MNTJJ street, Below Olrard Arenaa. 1 so tM U Offlcc, Cor. S1X1H and Si'KtKH OAK DO. BOARDING. A T KO. 1121 OIRARD STRRET MAT BJi- SGARTLAND, UNDERTAKPR. EM FIR R SLATE MANTEL WOUKS J R kimi4, no. Kiw cilia u i htVtKK.s;i:? an r f
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