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The resolution paused by the House of
Representatives on Saturday last, by the Urge
ot of 98 .yeas to 24 says, U a clear and
truthful exposition of tlie feeling entertained
by the people of the United Btatesio regard to
the revolution now in progress in the island
of Cuba. Its words are these:
"(mt!, ly tlie llmiHoof Hepre.ntmtatlvcn, That
tbe people of 'he I" ii it ml State Mympatlil.i! with tlio
people f Cuba in their putrtotU! eii'ortH to ween re
Hii-ir Independence Hint chIhIiIIhIi u republican form
of government gtiiininteeliig tlio prraoiial liberty ami
thr equal political righta of all tin: people, and the
lloiiNi! of Reprenenttitlvcn will (rive Its c onst it uIIoiiaI
support to tilt! I'rcHident of tlio United Suites whi'ti
ever, in "i" opinion, a republican government nil all
nave hci n in luct cMtalillwhcil, ami In- may deem it ex
pedient to recognize tins Independence auit sove
reignty of Hiii'h ri'piiiiili'an government."
Had time permitted in the short session of
Congress which has just closed that the reso
lution should have been offered in the Senate,
it wonld no doubt have been passed by an
equally large vote in that body. The passage
oi this resolution by the Senate would have
strengthened its record before the people, bat
onld have added nothing to the strength of
the resolution nor to the duty inon meant
upon the administration to recognize the wish
of the country and to aot in aooordauoe with it.
In all great questions of national polity the
instinot of the people is always in advance of
the politicians and placemen; and these are
successful in administration in proportion only
as they recognizethe ideas of their age and
act in accordance with them. The Cuban
question is the touchstone of President Gram's
administration, lie will suoceed or fail in
proportion as he exhibits capacity or incapacity
to grasp the problem now presented to him.
If he fail to oomprehend the true grandeur
and power which attend the march of the
Amerioan idea, and waste in dipbmatio parley
' and inaction the precious moments, when
"from the nettle danger" he should "pluck the
flower safety," he will forfeit the high confl
uence which the country has reposed in him,
and oonsign his administration from its very
start to the distrust and doubt of the people
of Amerioa and to the contempt of the states
men of the world. The resolution offered
on Monday by Assistant Alderman Stephen
Roberts, and so promptly passed by the Com
mon Council of New York oity, is the true
echo of the popular voice to the House reso
lution we have qaoted above, and we hope,
and the whole country hopes, that the Presi
dent will listen to the call of duty and prove
himself equal to the task of its requirements.
The first step for him to take is to lay down
a bold and national line of policy for his ad
ministration in this great question, and to re
quite every member of his Cabinet to live up
to it. When the fires of civil war were lighted
in this Union the Cabinets of. Western Europe
did not hesitate to show their sympathy with
the Rebellion, and Kogland, France, and
Spain in rapid succession proclaimed their
neutrality between the contending parties,
which was in fact a proclamation of their
sympathy with the Rebellion. Upon the
heels of this announcement came the great
fact that the harbors of England and Spain in
the islands of the American Mediterranean
were converted into nests of blookade-runners,
while France undertook the still grander role
of establishing an empire in Mexioo. From
all these points war was aotively made upon
us, and the conflict was greatly prolonged,
and our sacrifices of treasure and of blood
were enormously inoreased in consequeuoe.
When victory perched upon our banners, our
first step was to drive the Frenoh out of
Mexico. This we did, not because the con
tending parties in Mexico had no right to in
vite French intervention there, but beoause
France made that , intervention a part of the
war of Western Europe against the integrity
of the American Union.
The mar oh of events leaves us no ohoioe in
taking the next step in this truly Amerioan
policy. Spain converted Cuba into a pioket
post hostile to us during the late Rebellion,
and now that the natural development of
Amerioan ideas and the love of freedom have
led the Cubans to proolalm their indepen
dence, we owe it to ourselves and to theoause
of humanity and civilisation to throw the
moral weight of our sympathy and favor in
their behalf. The war which Spain 1b to-day
waging in Cuba is much more a war agalust
us than was French intervention in Mexioo. It
is a war to perpetuate African slavery. It is
a war to perpetuate a hostile position on our
coast, from which to annoy and harass us
whenever occasion shall offer. It is a
war to stay the march of Amerioan pre
ponderance in Amerioa. We should aooord
to the Cubans at once the belligerent
rights whioh Spain hastened to aooord
to the Rebels. When the Sumter ran out
from New Orleans to inaugurate the Rebellion
upon the seas, had she run into Havana she
would have been perfectly safe, and the lives
f her crew secure under the proclamation of
the Spanish Government. It was the activity
oi our own cruisers in tnose waters only that
oioted the ports of Cuba to Semmes. When a
few Cubans boldly captured a Spanish Bteauie
on the high seas, a few days since, had they
taken refuge in an American port they weuld
have been snbjeot to trial and execution as
pirates; and if the friends of free Cuba now
buy a few arms from us to help the cause of
freedom, they sub.jeot themselves to floe aud
imprisonment; while the agents of Spain are
allowed free access to our workshops and pri
vate arsenals, and are liberally availing them
elves thereof to arm their troops and their
mad volunteers.
Let an end be put to this anomalous state
of things, and let us ooufer npon the patriots
of Cuba the rights of belligerents by procla
mation. They have earned these rights by a
successful prosecution of war lor six months;
by a conquest of more than one-half of the
territory of the island; by pouring out their
blood and treasure freely in behalf of freedom;
and by their indomitable resolution In burn
ing their townB and the seat of their free
government, when the tide of war has swept
adversely to them. Let the administration be
bold and courageous enough to proclaim to
the world that it will not hold every man who
ohooses to risk his life in freedom's battle to
be a robber and a pirate, and entitled to none
of the rights of honorable warfare. Let it be
true to the instincts and aspirations of the
American people, as so well announced by the
resolution of the House of Representatives,
and be it not afraid to let the whole world
know that it loves liberty, and will hail with
attraction the triumph of American ideas
and of freedom.
4,3 run Mexico Kowerru
rnrm the K. Y. WorUL
It has beea understood, for several weeks,
that President Grant inclines to reoall General
Roseorans from Mexioo, and that be would be
clad to replace him by the ex-Rebel General
Longstreet if he thought the Senate would
eonfirm the latter. It has been currently re
ported, in the Washington gossip, that he
nominated Longstreet for the New Orleans
tJaiYejorBfcip w pioneer experiment on the
THE DA1IA viwiNG TELE G H A PII PIl 1 LAD E L ril I A, WEDNKSMY,
temper of the 8nate, in order to pave the way
for bis nomination to the Mexican mission, if
he floated bim easily throogh that body lr
the minor office. The formidable opposition to
Loogstreet's confirmation as Surveyor ha
extinguished tbe hope of making him minia
te r. At any rat, It has ben de
cided 1o reoall Rosecraus; and it had leaked
out, in Washington clroles, that the subject
was recently discussed in the Cabinet, and
that the otiief reason (or displacing Roauoram
is the fact that he is a Reman Catholta.
General Grant takes a more active interest la
the affairs of Mexioo than in those of any other
foreign country. At the close of the war, he
wished to march an army thither and drive
out Maximilian. He now aspires to be a paci
ficator tor settling the internal disturbances
of that ill-fated and anarchical republic. He
thinks that the Protestant sentiment of the
United States requires the repression of the
Church party in Mexico, and that a Catholio
minister is not a suitable agent for counter
workiDg the designs of the Mexican clergy.
And it is in this viev that he has deoided to
recall Roseorans.
In our judgment, this is a mistaken and
narrow-minded policy. It the first place, our
Government cannot conoern itself with ques
tions of religion without violating one of its
fundamental principles. That it can take no
cognizance of religious questions at home, is
universally admitted; and surely it has less
right to intermeddle in the religious disputes
of foreign countries than In those of our own.
All tbe internal affairs of foreign countries are
matters ofdomestio policy with which we have
no proper concern; aud if we were to Intrude
beyond onr sphere at all, it would seem that
religion should be more exempt from our in
terference than any other subjeot. According
to our Amerioan ideas, religion is entirely out
side of governmental jurisdiction; and if the
domestic government of a oountry cannot pro
perly include it, how much less a foreign gov
ernment, .which has no jurisdiction of any
kind beyond the limits of its own territory.
It is no doubt true that one of the chief
impediments to the success of republican
institutions in Mexioo is the influence of its
ohuroh dignitaries. They were the abettors
of Maximilian, and they nave never had any
sympathies with the liberal party. But nothing
could be more absurd than the expectation of
countervailing their influence through a Pro
teBtant minister of tbe United States. There
are no Protestants in Mexioo; the only religious
differences being between the bigoted and the
liberal Catholics. The readiest and most
effective weapon of the high church party
is to accuse the liberals of a leaning
towards Protestantism and a design to
subvert the Catholic faith. The with
drawal of a minister of the United States for
the sole reason that he is a Catholio, and
the substitution of another for the sole reason
that he is a Protestant, would strengthen the
high clergy by supplying them with a formid
able means of rendering their opponents odious.
There would be plausible grounds for acousing
them of an attempt to subvert the Catholio
faith, and to subvert it by Protestant inter
meddling from the United State topics which
would appeal powerfully both to the Mexican
Bentiment of rengion and the Uxioan senti
ment of patriotism. A change of religion at
the dictation of a foreign government is the
one thing which would be more strenuously
resisted by the popular sentiment of Mexioo
than any other; and this is the light in whioh
the clerical party will represent the attempt of
President Grant. Even allowing that he may
properly oonoern himself with the religious
difficulties of that unfortunate oountry, he
could hardly adopt a more self-defeating
method, or commit a more fatal blunder, than
the substitution of one minister for another
solely on the ground of religion, and thereby
arousing and uniting every element of reli
gious hostility.
The difference between the Mexican liberals
and the Mexican bigots is of the same nature
as the diff erence between Gallioism and Ultra
montanism in France; that is to say, it turns
on the authority of the Papacy in the regula
tion of religion as a state establishment. The
full extent of the Papal claims is not necessa
rily admitted by a Catholio community, as is
proved by the example of Franoe, of the new
kingdom of Italy, by the recent ecclesiastical
history of Austria, and, more oonvinolngly to
us, by tbe staunch republicanism and nation
ality of the Catholics of the United States.
There being no Protestantism in Mexioo, it
would be the most obvious dictate of good
policy if it were permlssiblt. for General
GraBt to concern himself with religion in
that country at all to co-operate with
the liberal Catholics by giving them his
moral support, and sending a minister
in full sympathy with their views and
aims. The minister best suited to that pur
pose would be a liberal Catholio, whose ap
pointment would shock no religious prejudi
ces in Mexioo, ana wno wouia do consiaerea
as a representative of the great and liberal
Catholio denomination in the United States.
A liberal Catholicism is sufficiently favorable
to republican institutions, as we all know in
this oountry; ana at all events, it is the only
element whioh can be arrayed in successful
hostility to the bigoted clerical party in
Mexioo. A liberal Catholio, who would easily
gain the confidence ef the liberal Catholios of
Mexico, is the fittest seleotlon for the Mexican
mission. Of course, General Grant does not
aim to be a propagandist of the Protestant re
ligion in Mexico, but only of political reform;
and this cannot be promoted by shocking and
exasperating the religious prejudices of that
country.
General Grant is demonstrating his lamen
table incapacity to approach political ques
tions on their moral side, and put moral foroes
in operation to accomplish politioal results.
The first Napoleon bad a maxim, whioh he
expressed by an apt military figure, that a
government should never attack religious
errors in front, but always operate on their
flank. They are intensified and strengthened
by open opposition. If President Grant de
sires to weaken the olerioal influence in
Mexico, he should attempt it in a manner so
covert and indirect as not to frustrate his own
design by arousing Catholio hostility and sup
plying it with formidable weapons. His plan
of operations is calculated to strengthen the
clerical party in Mexioo, and to arouse against
bim the indignant opposition of tbe Catholios
of the United States a double blunder which
shows his unfitness to use any other appli
ances than physical foroe; shows, in ether
words, that his talents are only adapted to
war, and not to peaoe.
Financial Kit nation In i:
f'nnn the S. Y. Uullrliii.
ii rope.
The financial situation in Europe Is posi
tively startling. Its various btates appear to
be drilling into certain bankruptcy. With
the exoeption of Prussia, whioh seems to be
the wisest governed nation in Europe, they all
have enormous debts which can never be
paid; and, excepting Prussia and England,
their expenses exoeed their lnoomes. Taxa
tion has been reduced to a scienoe, and there
is no art of extorting money from the people
with which their respective governments
have not made themselves familiar. The ex
cess of expenditure over inoome has been so
common in all the European countries that
tbe fact of a deflolenoy soaroely exoltes atten
tion. Yet It is not to be supposed that suoh
condition of affairs is not a injurious to na
tions as to Individuals. The only differeuii,'
is, mat toe eta is slower In the case or
lional indebtedness. An individual is rului
by debts more easily than a mtttoa. Rat in
both eases the inevitable results are baakt
ruptcy and ruin. . , j
In this view, the fatnl faolli'.y with whioh
tbe European governments continue to live
beyond their means is by no meaoe enoour
aging to the friends of kingly government.
Hot they can contrive to obtain credit is a
matter of surprise. Rut human credulity has
a limit, and people, sooner or later, wiir
realise that the enormous national debts they
are piling up represent their own misery and
poverty. The deficit of the six leading na
tions of Europe, last year, was five hundred
million dollars more than tbe expenditures
of the United States, including interest on the
national debt.
This indebtedness, however, is not an un
mixed evil. It inoreases the dependence of
the Government npon the people, and its ten
dency is to break down the last remaining
links of feudalism. The Governments have
contrived to obtain possession of the best por
tion of the soil of their respective oountries,
which are mortgaged for the payment of prin
cipal and interest. By-and-by there will be a
fihanoial collapse, and no payment of interest.
Then will come the foreclosure and sale of
public property.
This process has been going on for some
time in Spain. The government t that conn
try could obtain no more loans, and was
obliged to sell off large slices of the publio or
royal property to pay expenses. As for the
Pope, bis property, Vatican and all. Is pass
ing slowly bnt surely into the hands of the
Rothschilds, who have mortgages upon almost
everything of salable value belonging to him.
Other nations are passing through the same
ordeal, and will doubtless some of them soon
be in tbe hands of the money king.
Our own national debt is large enough to
cause uneasiness. But there seems to be at
least an honest purpose to pay it, prinoipal
and interest. It is tbe prioe of the nation's
existence, and synonymous with the national
honor. Even Mr. Gladstone, the great Eng
lish financier, admits that it may be paid off
in one generation. But the enormous debts
of European nations "represent vast standing
armies, odious monopolies, and class legisla
tion," and their extinotion is only possible
through bankruptcy and revolution.
The Tyranny of Capital.
From the A'. Y. Tribune.
To divide the fruits of industry between the
capitalist and the laborer, that there might be
harmony, has been attempted from the first
organization of sooiety; and attempts are still
made, but without success, and there are
closing of workshops, and strikes, and appa
rently never-ending antagonisms.
In all the elaborate discussions, so far as we
have seen, no referenoe is made to an import
ant element in our soolai struoture, and it
seems to us that this should receive careful
consideration as a preliminary to an under
standing of this question. We refer to the
absolute need, in society, that a considera
ble portion of the wealth created shall , be
reserved that it may be drawn upon ' in
times of necessity, and for the appropriation
of another portion for publio improvements
now become a requisite for individual
well-being, and for the maintenance of the
poor and the unfortunate; for, we may
think as we please, and protest as vehemently
as we win, society is a unit, ana it is as muou
possessed of individuality and power as the
most despotlo emperor. That the required
wealth may be set apart, it is necessary, as a
first step, that a part of tbe individuals who
form society shall have the mental quality
leading them to save and to aooumulate, and
as we have suoh, this quality of saving may
be said actually to inhere in sooiety. These
persons we call capitalists, whatever may be
their rank, station, or oulture, and, viewed in
the proper light, they are publio benefactors.
Although they contribute all their powers to
the accumulation of wealth, with the idea that
what they save is wholly their own, still they
are little more than stewards; for whatever
disposition they may choose to make of their
wealth, it still will be used for the good of
society; and, besides, should the publio
necessity ever require it, they may be dis
possessed of the last dollar. It is true that the
necessity must be very great before such spo
liation wonld be permitted, for sooiety in
stinctively watches and guards reserved
wealth, and its total extinotion is as much
dreaded as is the death of the queen bee by
her subjects. When the laborer, and those
who sympathize with him, deolaim against
the accumulation of capital, they do not con
sider that without It neither themselves nor
society, exoept in a savage state, would exist.
That wealth engenders extravagance and fol
lies of every name is to be granted, but the
evil done is confined to unfortunate indivi
duals who, in our oountry, soon run their
race; nor is this evil at all equal to the good
which accumulated wealth brings to mankind
at large.
It must be seen, then, that the complaint
of the laborer that he is robbed of his earn
inge is not true, at least to the extent be
alleges, for be Is made a partaker of this
wealth in many reipeots, ad, beside, it will
be preserved for tbe benefit of his children.
The only real complaint he oan make is that
he is not permitted to control it; but, as he
has shown himself incapable of keeping it, the
control is plaoad in more careful nanas.
When a man accumulates wealth he no less
accumulates within himself qualities of equal
indeed, we should say of muoh greater
value. These are persistence, patienoe, fore
sight, and self-denial, whioh contribute in a
marked degree to the enlargement of the.
mind, and hence suoh must, in the nature of
tbe case, be superior to the laboring man who
with health and strength consumes all be
earns. Of oouree we refer to the oondition of
things in this conntry, where no real obstacles
prevent development; and we may say, also,
that all similar discussions should refer to so
ciety on this continent, for their application to
European sooiety is eut of place, sinoe oarDano
institutions which should bave died out dur
ing the last century really do oppose and op
press the laboring classes.
The first thing which the laboring man is to
consider is whether it is not practicable for
him also to beoome a capitalist by saving a
part of his earnings, and, as a consequence,
acnuire an enlareed mind, by whioh he will be
able to abcumulate still more, for saving to
any extent is an intellectual achievement. To
spend tbe whole of one's wages at theolose
of each week requires no skill, but the saving
even of a small portion aotually brings out
some h'gh quality of the mind, and this will
be a basis, aud the only one porsible, by whleh
ultimate profperity is to be secured. Nor is he
to compare his poor attempts with others, ex
oept to oonslder that the ability to acquire
large sums bad a beginning as
humble as his own, nd that
it was the natural outgrowth of years of
self-denial and wise management. If he
should suspeot that auoh a power is a heredi
tary gift, he may as well suspeot that he him
self bss this hereditary gift, lying unde
veloped; or, it will not be less important to
fcnow that he oan transmit suoh powers to his
children, for it is more glorious to be the first
than the last of a family. Thus, in whatever
light we consider the subjeot, it will t iea
that the only method by which" the "laborer
can be relieved from what he calls' tbe pressure
of capital, but which really Is the weight of
hi. inn.ttivH vir. la to aouuire the habit of
savins, whether in a cooperative or in an iadi-
vidnal capacity, nai ne may piaow uimiwu
ii ulria of einltal and aeoure the advan
tages which it brings, more or leu; aud thus
be will correspond o society, wuiuu, mo
inaUta nnnn the lnnnni nlation of a re
u.i.-, ,j - r -
serve to be drawn upon in times of neoesslty.
Jo Jrlorc Indian Xrcai !.
From th A". '. rim
A new point of departure in our policy re
garding the Indians has now been taken. By
the Senate's recession from its amendments
making appropriations under the new trea
ties, a poiicy Is as good as agreed upon for
overthrowing the old treaty system.
Treaty T the very word almost Implies the
mutual agreement of two sovereign powers;
and, nntil we are agreed that there exists a
power besides onr own Government withta
onr domains, the very word nsed of Iitdiau
negotiations is a misnomer.
Bnt we have not hitherto been content to use
a wrong name; we bave also beeu doing a
vicious and pernicious thing. We have been
making treaties with the Indians for years, as
it they were hostile sovereigns. The Senate
has sometimes discussed these treaties, and
passed them in the same way as treaties with
England or France that is to say, not in its
legislative, but in itsexeoutive or treaty-making
capacity. Until the other day, hardly a voiue
was raised against this monstrous incongruity,
except by the army, who have always, from
their pecnliar habits of thought and cotton,
Seen it and deplored it. Nay, we doubt now
whether our people in general have noted the
grand, fundamental legislative error we have
been guilty of an error of that sort whioh lies
at the root of all politioal action.
This is the legal view of the old treaty
system; Its moral aepeot, or that of
expediency, is still more strikingly, though
not more Intrinsically, awry. Under the pre
tense of treaties, jobs, swindles, aud trusk-and-dicker
of all sorts have been rushed
through the Senate often when but a hand
ful of members were present and the Indian
ring controlled everything to its purposes.
When these wholesale swindles had been per
petrated and sometimes, it is alleged, an
Indian tribe had not half the number of mem
bers a Senate treaty wonld take for granted it
had equal trouble arose on the Plains. A
crew of sharks, sharpers, runners, traders,
sutlers, swindlers, and Indian agents gene
rally, took care to let as little as possible of
the worth of any money Bet apart to the use
of tbe Indians reach them. Thence oame
oomplaint, protest, anger, recrimination, re
venge, plunder, and war.
Suoh was the treaty system hitherto flour
ishing. It is cheering te know from Mr.
Dawes, who presented to the House the con
ference report on the Appropriation bill, that
"probably not another Indian treaty would
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1 and 2 SIDE FENCE BOARD8.
WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARDS.
VELIO W AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, IV and
41 bl'RUt'E JOIST, ALL SIZES.
HEMLOCK JOIHT, ALL SIZES.
PLASTERING LATH A SPKWIA I.TV.
Tniretlivr with a Kenural aaaortment of Buililinji Lnrnbe
for mile low lor caan. T. w. S MA LIZ,
8 26 liin ITFTEENTH and STILES Stret
ROOFINQ.
-EAD Y ROOFING.
IV Tln Roofing ia adapted to all buildinga. It can be
applied to gjEKP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half the eipenae of tin. It ia readily pnt on old
Slnnule Roofa without removing the ahimjlea, thua avoid
ing the damaging of ceiliuga and furniiuiti while under
going repaira. (No gravel uiied.)
J-RESERVK y0UJLAIhNnul0,0l.,WITH WELTON-8
I amAlwaya prei''! ! P',r lJd ' Roofa at ahort
notice. Ai, PAINT 1UK SALE by Ui barrel or aaUon.
.l... i..t .mi cheaueat in the market.
4JV "
W. A. WELTON.
lINo. 7M N. NINTH Street, above Ooate., J
11 No. Ml! WALNUT Street.
OOFING. LITTLE & CO., "THE LIVE
unaU'llH" No. l'Z:tN MARKET KtiW u
description of Old and I)uky Roofa mads tight and war
ranted U) keep in repair for live yeara. Old Tm Roofa
made eul U new. A trial only required to inaure aatia
faationT Ordera promptly attended to. g H am
OLD GRAVEL ROOFS COVERED OVER
with MaatiC Slate, and warranted for Urn yeara.
HAMILTON A OOOHFKH.
t da N, w5 S, aXNXU burnt,
APRIL J4, 18G9
INSURANCE.
DKLAWAUK MUTUAL SAFETY" l.MSUIt
AM K t COMPANY. Incorporated by aba Login.
Uture ut Pounnyivauia, lb36.
Office, S. K. corner of THIRD aad WALJTUT Street,
Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURANCES
On Veaarla. Cargo, and Krpiglit to all purl of the world.
INLAND 1NMUKANCES
On got da by rivqr, canal, lake and land carriage to all
part of the Union..
FIKK INSURANCES
On Mert'bandlae generally; on Store, Dwelling, Houaea,
Etc
ARRKT Or THK OOMPAWT,
November 1, 1HHH.
tao.OOO United States Five Per Cent--Loan,
1M $W,M0 00
12U,OM) United Statee Six Par Cent. Loan,
11 136,80000
tO.OOO United Ntnteo Si Per Cent. Loan (for
Pacilio Railroad) BO.OOO'OO
900,000 State of l'ennHylvania Sii Per Cent.
Loan 9tl,375 0
125,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent.
Ioan (exempt from tiix) 128,SP4'00
tO.UUO Stale of New Jerney Six Per Cent.
1oan 61,600 00
!I,IMI i-enn. Kan. fimt Mortgage six 1'er
Cent. Bondn
85,000 Prnn. Kail. Second Mortguge Six Per
Cent. Bondn
25,000 W astern Penn. Rail. Mortgage Six
90,300-00
24,000-00
1'cr Ucnt. Bonda (Penn. llailroaa
gaarantee) 90,83600
30,000 Rlnle of lenncwee Five Per Centl
Loan 91,000 00
7,000 State of Tcuneaace Six Per Cent.
Loan
15,000 Germantown Gaa Company, prin
cipal and Intenwt guamnteed by
City of Philadelphia, Duo euares
Stock
lO.OtMi Penn.vlvHni Rjtilniad Cnmiianv. 900
6,031-26
15,000-00
ahnres Stock 1100 00
5,000 North Pennnylvania Railroad Co., 100
allnrea Stock
90,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Co., HO Shares Stock
3,500 00
16,000-00
aoi.wu ijoans on Bona ana Mortguge, nrat
Liena .on City Properties 907,900-00
$l,10i,(H0 Par. Market value, 1,13025 J6
Coat, 81, 093.604 Do.
Real Estate BH.onotH)
Bills receivable for insurance madn uU,4rx!'tt4
Balances due at agencies, premiums on marine,
policies, accrued interest, and otherdebta duo
the company 40,17888
Stock and scrip of sundry corporations, $3168.
Intimated value 1.813-00
Cash in bank -Jll,16riif
Caab in drawer 41305 118,66373
DIBECTOIU.
Eduinnd A. Souder,
.Suinuul E. Stokea,
. Henry Sloan, '
William C. l.udwig,
'George G. Leiper,
, Henry C. Dnllett, Jr.,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bomadou,
Willmm G, Boulton,
; Jacob Riegel.
iSpencer Mcllvalne,
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg,
: John B. Semple, "
Thomas O. Hand,
John C. Davia,
James C. Hand,
Thenphilus Paulding,
Joseph ii. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John R, Penrose,
Jacob P. Jones,
James Traquair,
F'dward Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke.
James B. McKarland,
F.dward ljifourcado.
Joshua f. Eyre,
' A. n. Merger,
THOMAS O. HAND. President.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Viee-Preaident.
HENRY I.TI.BURN, Secretary.
HENRY BALL, Assistant Secretary. 106
1829.
-CHARTER PERPETUAL.
Frantlin Fire Insurance Company
OI-' 1111 f .A DKI.l'1 1 1 A.
Office, Nos. 435 and437 CHESNUT St.
Assets iJail,ll9, SWira
CAPTTAI,
ACCRU ED SURPLUS.'. J
PREMIUMS .,
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,
8100,000-00
i,nN:i,5iv7Q
l,lJ,I-13
INCOME FOR ISftH
tees paii since 1829,0Yer $5,500,000
.
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Tonna.
The Company also issues Policies on Rents of Buildings
of all kinds. Ground Rents, and Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred O. Tinker,
Aiuvu riush
Thomas Sparks,
William h. Grunt,
Thuniiis S. Ellis,
GuHt.nvus S. Benson.
nuiiuini tirunt,
George W . Richards,
latino Leu.
Geurgo 1 ulus,
ALFRED G. BAKEK. President.
GEORGE FALES, Vice-President.
JAS. W. MrALLISTEH, Secretary. ,
WM. GREEN, -Assistant Secretary. 39
OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA, No, tiii WALNUT
Street, Philadelphia.
Incorporated l?lt l. Charter Perpetual.
Capital, $500,000.
Assets ',:i."0.000
MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRE INSURANCE.
OVER 20,000.000 LOSSES PAID SINCE ITS
ORGANIZATION.
DniECTORS.
Arthur G. Coffin, George L. Harrison,
Samuel W. Jones, Francis R. Cope,
John A. Brown, F'dward H. Trotter,
Churlea '1 aylor, Edward S. Clurke,
Ambrose White, T. Charlton Henry,
Richard D. Wood, Alfred D. Jeasup,
W illiam Webh, John P. Whito,
S. Alums Wain, Louis O. Madeira,
John Uaaon, Churlea W. Cushman.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLATT, Viue-Preeident.
Matthias Mabib, Secretary. 9 1
gTRICTLY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF rillLADELPUIA.
OFFICE, No. lit H. FOURTH HTREET.
Orifunlzet! to promote LIFE INSURANCE among
members of the Society of FrienUH.
Good rtakB of any clasn accepted.
Policies iBBued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President, SAMUEL R, SHIPLEY,
Vlce-I'retdUeiit, WILLIAM C. I.ONGSTKETII, '
Actuary, ROWLAND PAR It Y.
The advantages ollered by this Company are un
excelled. 8 1 m
JNBURK AT HOME,
IN TUB
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
No. 981 CIIE8NUT 8TREET, PHILADELPHIA.
ASHETM, 84,000,000.
ICIIAIITKKEU BY OL'lt OWN STATE.
ItlANAUKO BY OUlt OWN CITIZEN.
I.ONKES PKOMPTLY PA1I.
POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Applications may be made at the Home Office, and
at the Agencies throughout the State. 2 1US
JAMES TltAOUAIR PRESIDENT
SAjMI'KI. K. KTOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. IIOKNOlt A. V. P. and ACTUARY
HORATIO W. STEPHENS SECRETARY
TJH07.NIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
J. PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1804CHARTER PERPETUAL.
Nil. UU-t WALNUT Street, opposite the ExuliWnKe.
This Company insures from lima or damage by
FIRE,
on liberal terms, on buildiuKB, merchandise, furniture,
etc., tor limited periods, and permanently on buildiuKS by
deposit of premiums.
'I he Company has been in aetive operation for more than
SIXTY VEARS. durtna- which all lusaua have beeu
promptly .djusudan,lpu..lL H
John L. Hodge, i Duvid Lewis,
M. K. Mahouy,
Bniijumin Ettinff,
Thomas II. Powers,
A. R. Me Henry,
Edinnnd Caatillon,
Samuel Wiloox,
John T. Lewis,
Willism S. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
. i i. iit...
1... v in i . , , iin i nil. .
Laurence Lewis, Jr.,
ly)wis C. Morris.
JOHN R. W UCUEltEit. President
Bawuil Wnxox, Secretary.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1K!6 Charter Perpetual.
No 3 1 0 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square.
This Company, favorably known to the community lor
over forty years, continues to insure airainst lose or damans
by tire on Publio or Privat Buildings, either ponuanenuy
or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks of Goods,
and Merchandise generally, on liberal t?"1"?- . . .
j heir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, is In
eted in the moat caret ij manner, which enables thein to
offer to th insured an undoubted aecurity in Uia oaaa of
PIM0TOlll.
Tt.nt.il flmfth. Jr..
jntin iiovernnx,
Thomaa Smith,
ii i
A luaandvr Beuaon.
Isaac lulXieuursfr, I ..vTiiti mwin,
luoiuaa Rubins, . Cilliutfhaiu Fell, .
Daniel Haddock. Jr.
DANIEL SMITH. 0U., President.
WM. O. CROWiCLL, JSnciDUtry. a M
lsaae llaxienurst,
fiuiiry ijewis.
INSURANCE.
'r1'.,'L;N!1Klu'Hl8E INSURANCE CO. OF
A 1-HII.AUM.t-HlA.
Ilh Southwest r. EOURT1T and WALNUT KtrMta.
! . AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED. '
Cash Capital. . ,m,inn,oil
Cash Assets, January 1, pwa.
.. , . , DIKtCTOKR.
t . RatcMord RUrr, J. Livingston Errlnger.
Naihro rraxirr, 1 James U Clashorn.
John M. Atwood, Wm. . Ilouium.
Bi nj. T. Irrdii k, I Charles V tineler,
liwilt" H. Stuart, Thoa. II. Montgomery,
John H. Brown, James Anrliwtn, '
1 lua Company inrarea only tirxt-olass rinks, taking ho
aprcially haaaidoua risk! whatever, such aa faoUmas,
mills, etc.
Y. RATCHKORT) STARR, President.
HICK. II. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
Al.F.X. W. WlMTK.il, Secretary. gty
IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE
CO.
LONDON.
i:htabmsiu:i iho.i.
Pnld-np Cupltal and Accumulated. Funds, '
gKlOO.OOO I IV GOLD.
FREV0ST-& HERRING, Agents,
8 No. 107 S. THIIID Street, Philadelphia.
CHAS. M. PHKVOST. CHAS. P. IIKURINd
SHIPPING. .
jt. LORILLARl'rs" STEAMSHIP
jrttr LINE FOR
IvKW I Villi,
Bulling Tucpil!ivs, Tlmrndnys, ami Hut unlays. '
HHDL'tTION OF KATES.
Sprltiut rates, eomtm'm-liin Murrh 15.
SnllliiR Tin siIhvs, Thiir.-Ui.rtf unci Suturdiiys. On
bikI lifter Kith (if Murrh ftvlglit by thin line will ho
tiiken at 12 cent per Iiki pimmlx, 4 cent per foot, or
1 t-etit per fio'loti, Hliip'n option. AiIvhmcd cliurtfcn
mulled ut ottlee on l'ler. Freight received at all
Uiut-8 on covered wharf.
. JOHN F. OHI,
8 2S Tier 19 North Whurvcs.
N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron, inetulH, etc.
FOR LIVERPOOL AND
.rfyQUF.K.N.STOWN. Inman Line of Mail
jygj St earners are appoiuted to aail as fol-
v ia iiaiiiax. Tuemlar.
City of Imdon, Saturday, April 10, at 1 P. M.
City of Brooklyn, Saturday. April 17, at 10 A. M..
City of Etna, via Halifax, Tuesday, April 3(1, 12, noon.
And each sueceedinir Saturday and alternate Tuesday,
from Pier 46, North Kiver.
KATKH OI'' PASSAOR.
Vt THK MAIL HTK.AMKU 8AIIJNO EVKKT SATTTIWAY.
Payable in Cold. Payable in Currency.
FIUST CABIN $100 STKKKACiK $33
1o London lliol To Ixindon. 40
To Pans 1101 To Paris 47
I-AUKAOK HV THK 11 KbUAI B1KAMKH, VIA HALIFAX.
F1IIHT C'AHIN. HTEF.IIAI1K.
Payable in Cold. Payable in Currency.
Liverpool 90 Liverpool $30
Hirlitax 'Jl Hulilux 13
St. John's, N. Y I ..ISt. John's, N. P., 1 .
by Branch Steamer " by Branch Stoamer.
Paaaerurera also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen,
etc., at reduced ratea.
Tu-kete can be bought here at moderate ratea by persons
wishing to send for their friends.
boriurthcr information apply at the Company's Offices,
JOHN U. DAL1-'., Agi-tit, No. 13, BROADWAY, N. Y.
or to trilUNNKLL A FAULK, Agnnta.
4 3 No. 4 UCHKSNUT Street, Pliihulelphia.
-Tjl. only UIKECT LINE TO FRANCE
TUP r.l'Vln!. iuivqitt iirrin
SSrwam-f!OM panics mail mtkamsAipm
r .. - ' . .... ...... a ...nu . I.I , 1' I 1 1I . 111. . . . . .
l.i.i Jj..i MCW VOltK. AND HAVKE, CALUNU AT
The splendid new vessels on this favorite routa for the
Continent will anil from Pier No. 60 North river, aa fol
lows: PKHFIRE Duchesne Saturday, May 1
LAFAYF.TTK , Itousseau i .Salurduy, May 13
ST. LAl'KK.NT Immune..' Saturduy, May 2
V1LLF, DE PAltIS Surmount Saturduy, June VI
PKICE OF PASSAGE
in gold (including winnV
'lO BKI'ST OR HAVRR.
First Cabin : K14U Soeond Cabin. $5
TO PAULS,
(Including railway tickets, furnished on board.) -
First Cabin $U& Second Cabin Bo
'I bese st eanlors do not carry steerage passengers,
llcdicul attendance free of charge.
American travellers going to or returning from the con
tinent ot F.uriipe, by taking the steamers of this line avoid
'unnecessary rinks I nun transit by F.nglish railways and
ctoFaing the channel, besides saving lime, trouble, and
expense. OFOUliK MACKENZIE, Agont,
No. ,'jN BltOADWAY, New York.
For passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams' Expreaa
Company, to H. U LEAF,
La; No- 3--JQ CIIESN UT Street.
-js. PHILADELPHIA, KICHMONI),
iiL-V-AND NOHKOIiK STKAMSH1P LINK.
LT"i llrtOi;(iH FKKIUHT Allt LINK TO
jaCBSTHK SOUTH AND WEST,
.VJ-rlY DATUKUAX,
At noon, from FIUST WHAM' above MARKET
Street.
THROUGH RATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS to
all points in North and South ( 'arolina, via Seaboard Air
Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth and to Lynuh
burg, Va., Tennessee, and the West, via Virginia and Ten
nessee Air Line and Richmond anil Danville Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUT ONCE, and taken at LOWER
RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINK.
The regularity, safety, and cheapness of this route com
mend it to the publio as the most dosirablo ui odium for
carrying every description of freight.
No charge lor commission, drayago, or any expense of
trunafer.
Steamships insured at the lowest ratea.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. I I North and South WH All VES.
W. P. PORTER. Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROW ELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. 6 U
v"jv CHARLESTON, S. C.
THE BOUTII AND SOUTHWEST
FAST FKMGHT LIN 10,
EVERY THURSDAY.
The 8teamnhipB PROMETHEUS- Captain Gray, "J.
W. F.VEKMAN, Captain Vunee,
WILL FORM A REGULAR WEEKLY LINK.
The KteainHhjp I'KOM ETHEL'S will tuiil ou THURS
DAY, April in, ut 4 P. M.
Through Mils of hiding given In connection with S.
C. R. J- to points in the South and Southwest.
Insurance at loweat rutes. Ratea of freight aa low
aa by any other route. For freight, apply to
E. A. HOl'DKIi A CO.,
8 22 tf DOCH STREET WHARF.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D,
C. via Chenapeake and Delaware Canal, with
iuueotiona at Alexandria from the niost direct rpute for
lnchburg, Bristol, Knuxville, Naahvdle, Dal ton, aud lb
Southwest.
Steamers leave regnlarly every Saturday at noon from th
first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
t t ?- 14 North and South WUarvea.
.T. B. DAVIDSON, Agent at Georgetown.
HYDE A TYLER, Ageuts, at Georgetown; M.
KLDBIDGE CO., Agenta at Alexandria. 1
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA
DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL.
EXPRESS STEAM BOAT COM PA NY.
Hie CHEAPEST and QUICKEST water communica
tion between Philadelphia and New York,
Steamers leave daily from first wharf below Market
Street, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall atreet, New York.
Goods forwarded by all tbe Iinea running out of New
York, North, East, and West, free of commission.
Freight received and forwarded on accommodating tmms,
WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., Agenui,
No. 14 S. DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia.
No. 1 1 9 WALL Street, New York.
NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK,.
via Delaware and Hnritan Canal. RWnce-
aa SURE TRANSPORTATION UOMPAWY.
DESPATCH AND s W I l"l SII Ii R i.mu
The business by these lines will be resumed on and after
the 8th of March. For Freights, which will be taken on.
accommodating terms, apply to
W. M. BAIRD A CO.,
. No. South Wlmrvea.
CHROMO LITHOGRAPHS.
piCTUltES FOB PRESENTS.
A. S. ROB XT? SO XT,
. No. 810 C1IESNUT Street,
Has Just received t-xquiBito specimens of
:AK'I SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS.
FINE DRESDEN ' ENAMELS" ON PORCELAIN,
IN GREAT VARIETY.
SPLENDID FAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS,
Including a Number of Choice Gem,
A SUPERB LINE OF CI1ROMOS.
A large UNKortment of
NEW ENGRAVINGS, ETC.
AIbo, RICH STYLES FRAMES, of elcgnnt new
putterim. j
HAT8 AND OAPS.
WI WARBURTON'S IMPROVED VF.XTf.
ltd and easy titling Dress lists (itent1V in all i
improved fashions of th seasou. CUlUjA t i Sn-eet. net
ttvvi to the Pot, OiUu. U If
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