THE DAILY EVENING TELEG B A PH PHILADELPHIA. THURSDAY, MAY C,.18G9. PRISON DISCIPLINE T IrI1i ftymtem' ('mmnila oflhfi lapw lam mf th itaMrrn 1'enHttntla.rv. la addition to Hie extracts from the annual ttport of the Inspectors of the Eastern Pcnitcn- tixrj which we gave yesterday, we present tlio Allowing: The reformatory effects of nearly forty years' working of the separate system In this peniten tiary having been clearly given, we havo now tho opportunity of presenting, from a work hy a lmplaln iu the convict service, England, tho Jiev. Charles H. Oilwon, M. K. I. A., the rcsulta f the so-called Irish system, as shown by its reconvictions, tlms affording tho means of com parison with tho preceding statistics of the l'enn ylvanlu system. "The following statement is contained in the 'Rcportof the Directors of Irhu Convict Prisons,' S:8inee January, 1854, six thousand one iidrcd and twenty-ono have been liberated in Ireland; and since the establishment of Interme diate prisons upwards of six years since only ten per cent, of all classes of eonvicts liberated from the (lovcrnment prisons havo returned to them." Tbc words "since the establishment of intermediate prisons" produce the impression "that the majority of these prisoners li.id h id the advantage, " as it is styled, of the interme diate prisons; whereas, the whole number that ad passed through intermediate prisons, to the Slut December, ISM, was HTil, of which number nly 778 were released on license, and more than kalf of the 14711 emigrated. The same objection holds against Sir Walter Crofton's statement at Birmingham, that, "since Ike Institution of intermediate prisons, about mKK) convicts had been discharged.' This language conveys tho Impression that these convicts were discharged from Interme diate prisons, and that the chairman's expe rience of the working of intermediate prisons had been based ou 41100 aud not on 147ti Inter mediate prisoners, or, more correctly, on let than the half of 14T, as more than the half of the 147H had emigrated. By a second readingof the passage in the report of 1801, wc discover that this percentage is to be taken ou "all lasses" of eonvicts liberated from the time that intermediate prisons were established. Why, we would ask, in the name of candor and common ensc, take the percentage ou those who had not passed through intermediate prisons since the establishment of intermediate prisons ? What is the object of it ? If I am to judge of the effects of the new discipline, let me have the percentage of reconvictions on those who have experienced it. and not on those who have not. Wc learn from the report for 18(11, page fill, that 147(5 of .the 4i00 discharged eonvicts were intermediate prisoners. More than half but we shall say the half of these went abroad. The 7!i8 that remained at home gave 5 relapses nto crime, which amounts to ill per cent. If a mixed number of 4(KtO yields 10 per cent., and 1476 of this mixed number deducted, yielding 13 per cent., what will be the percentage on the aluuec 'i 10 per cent, on 400 is 4tl0 111 per cent, on UTti is I'.t'i :Ut U'i8 Hercwc discover that the non-intermediates five 8-58, or a fraction over 81 2 per cent. As 81 j is to 13, so is the advantage in favor of the non intermediates, or of those who have not got the new Croftonian training. In this calculation I have taken for granted that none of the balance of the 31124 nou-intcrmcdiatcs emigrate. They get uo emigration lectures, have no half crowns a week to lay up for it, anil no kind friend or emigrant agent, like Mr. Organ, to induce Cha ron to ferry them over for half an obolus, or from ' to 3, each. But let us admit that one quarter of them emigrate, which is admitting too much, still the returns would be in favor of tho non-intermediates. Ou the 1st of October, 180:3, there were 17'J convicted prisoners iu Spike Island Prison. Thirty-one per cefit.'ol these were intermediates, and sixty nine per cent, non-intermediates. But at this time there had not been much more tluin thirty one per cent, of intermediates discharged, so that they gave nearly man for man of reconvic tions with tho non-intermediates, without allow ing for emigration. There were thirty five prisoners in the last batch that came from Wouutjoy to Spike Island. Nine of the thirty five were reconvictions. Four of the nine were intermediate prisoners, who had enjoyed the ad vantages of Sir Walter Crofton's new discipline. joiir were uou-iuternicmaies, una one was doubtful. 'Iha Rev. Mr. Lyons, the Roman Catholic chaplain of Spike Island Prison, says, in the re port for 1850, when speaking of the seven pre vious years: "During that time about (KHK) con victs passed through this prison. Over 1400 of them returned to society discharged, and, after the strictest inquiry, I cau only discover twenty seven to have been reconvicted; that is, lean than two per cent, of those liberated. Though tho large number of (583 have been discharged during the last twelve months, I can discover but one vftiiemXo have been reconvicted." Let it be borne in mind that these men had not 'the ad vantage' of the new system, for the intermediate prison had not been established." Bin regard to the assertion that eighty per cent ot the discharged Irish convicts "are known to be doing well," this able writer says: "I cau aver that twenty-eight per cent, of the prisoners in Spike Island are doing well an re convicted convicts, who are generally well-behaved prisoners, and that fifty or sixty per cent, of those prisoners who have had 'the ait vantage f the intermediate prison' have emigrated to America, or the Colonies, or have gone to Eng land. 1 hope the latter are doing well, but how this can be 'known' I caunot imagine." Wc feel justilied in here suggesting the doubt that if, when the "Irish system" is thoroughly investigated, it will maintain the character now Bought to be given to it. Like all novelties or expedients, it is highly estimated. Experience will divest it of all its'attractions. Just now, it is the newest phase of convict treatment, aud most applauded where least understood. Tho "contract system" and the other "abuses" in the rongrcgato plan must bo replaced by some new theory, to maintain that plan vet a little longer in public opinion. It is odd that so much invention is necessary to devise means to fustain the opposition to the Pcnusvlvania ysteiu. At ltut the philosophy of our peniten tiary discipline, uud the laws essential to iu in tegrity as a system, must conquer opposition. OBITUARY. I'rinre McnMchiknfl, the Itussiaii Admiral. We have intelligence by the Atlantic cable of the death, on Monday last, of Prince Alexander Kergeewitseh Menschikoff, Admiral of tho Rus sian Navy. The deceased princo had reached a ripe old age, having been born in tho year 1780. lie was the grandson of that famous pastry-cook who attained to the highest dignities of the Em pire under Peter the (ireat and Catherine, and like his grandfather, the touuder of the family, was intensely Russian in every respect. Ho en tered the public service us far back us ISO., uud was lor some lime an aiiacuu to iuu jvusBtaii Embassy ut Vienna. In 18ia uo was appointed the Emperor Alexander, following three years different campaigns of aide-de-camp to and during the served i the the Allies against Napoleon, gaining by his bravery and capacity the rank of general. On the restoration of peace by the overthrow of Napoleon, Menscblkott became me leaner oi a Kussian party which proposed to itself the resto ration of tho Greek, empire, throwing himself into tho project w itli the greatest enthusiasm; but the scheme not meeting with the approval of the Emperor, the Ueueral retired from Court in Wi, along with Strogonow and Cimo d'lstrla. On tho accession of the Emperor Nicholas, lie was recalled bv that monarch, and sent on a ice'al mission to the Shah of Persia, Abbas Mirza In this ho wag unsuccessful, but not through uny fault of his, tho Shuh Uking ad vantage of a revolt in the Russian army to break off the negotiations, attempting at the same time to secure the person of tho plenipo tentiary in which ho very nearly succeeded. Menschikoff having managed to escape, though - - , tA t.iln Hurt in hnHf.lll- WllU UllUCUliy, m i" i""" l ti atuiiiit Ibo fclwli ot the very outbreak oi the war which fnllowed the rupture of the negotin tloim, and having been appointed at ft latcperlixl to the command of a Russian division In IH'H, he mode himself master of Anapa, and then passing Into Europe as (Jencral-in-Chicf, he un dertook the siege of Vnrna; but having been se verely wounded, he Was compelled to relinquish his command and return home. He did not, however, remain Idle long, for Immediately on his recovery ho was appointed Vice-Adrnlral and Chief of Staff of the Kiissian Navy, in which capacity he devoted himself most assiduously, with the Grand Duke Constantlne, to Improve tho Imperial Navy, at that time in a very low and Inefficient state. In 1831 Menschikoff was appointed to the government of Finland; in 1834 ho was promoted to the rank of Admiral, and In 1830 was intrusted with a portfolio as Minister of Marine. But the event with which his name will be most prominently associated in historv, nnd which has given him n world-wide reputa tion, is the Crimean war. In 1853 he was the Ambassador of Russia to Turkey. The period was a critical one. The question of tho Holy Places had been raised between tho two powers, threatening se rious trouble, nnd Menschikoff was not the man to throw oil on the troubled waters. Fanatically Russian, he found it impossible to conceal, tinder the polite forms of 'diplomacy, bis con tempt for the Turk, lie deliberately insulted the Porte, and then abruptly departed from Con stantinople, after having submitted nn iiltlnnttuni which virtually amounted to a declaration of war. He was received at St. Petersburg, on his return, with some coldness; but the work he had left behind him could not he undone. War immediately broke out, and the haughty prince who had been instrumental .in hastening it, was appointed to the. supreme military "and civil government of tbc Crimen. In the early struggles between the belligerent powers, of Which that peninsula was the theatre, he played a conspicuous part. He commanded the Russian army at the battle of the Alma, and upon being beaten by the Allies conducted the retreat to. Sebastopol. which lie hastily fortified on the land side, vt bile he closed the entrance to the port by sinking in the channel a part of the Russian licet. In his defense of Sebastopol, he displayed great energy, but his fortunes were not equal to bis va.or and capacity. Some time after the defeat of Inki mum. and the death of Nicholas, he fell sick, and was removed from the Crimea, lie was subsequently intrusted with the defense of Cronstudt, but had no further opportunity of distinguishing himself during the continuance of the w ar. Since its close, Tittle has been heard of him, although he continued to occupy a scat in the councils of the Empire, and to be rccogni.ed as chief of the old Russian party, wedded to the traditions and customs of a barbarous age, and opposed to till reform. . PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND. The OucMion of Kiiiiuriuion He (ore I tic TIoiiNe l l,rli Uiiuliutd Surplus) I'opiilmion. In the House of Lords ou the evening of April 10, Lord Houghton called the attention of the House to the question of emigration in relation to the present - state of pauperism! He referred to the admitted increase of pauperism, and to the means which emigration offered for its alle viation. The colonies would, not, perhaps, receive pauper Immigrants as gratefully as they would skilled laborers; but they appeared now disinclined to bear their share in the expenses of the transfer of labor, and must therefore be eon tent with an inferior kind. Even an inferior kind would doubtless be welcome, since labor was as necessary now as formerly to the de velopment both of Au.-tralia and British North America. It was, besides, by no means certain that, under favorable conditions, pauper immi grants would continue in this lower grade. But the practical difficulty remained, how to provide 'means for conveying these paupers to . those places where their labor would be remunerative. One way was to em power the Poor Law Cuardians to raise the ne cessary resources by a rate, with a Government guarantee, and he was of opinion that it would not be opposed to the true principles of the most economical of Governments in such a cause to supplement local out of the imperial resources. In return for such aid conditions might bo im posed on the Poor Law Guardians with respect to the individuals to be selected as emigrants, and on the colonies as to providing properly for their employment on arrival. The former body would, he anticipated, be the harder to deal with, and he acknowledged also that some stimulus might be necessary in order to induce those that were useless here, but might be very useful elsewhere, to accept the boon of emigra tion. If there remained any difficulty about the question, it might be removed by a royal coin mission; but lie hoped that the issue of such a commission would not be accepted by the Gov ernment as a reason for not taking immediate steps. Lord Granville quite agreed as to the urgency of the question. But lie doubted the expediency of u Royal Commission, and lie was particularly opposed to any Imperial addition being made to local resources. That Imperial aid was not In dispensable was demonstrated by the enormous amount of Irish emigration which had been pro vided for by private means, and any such pri vate efforts would be certainly put an end to by Imperial aid. The general question was, however, before the Government, and the Presi dent of the Poor Law Board had ut present under his consideration measures, to which Lord Granville referred, for an improvement in the existing regulations for promoting emi gration. But he warned the House against an ticipating any loo great results from anything the Government could do in this direction. The class whieu it would be of most benefit to this country to Induce to emigrate either would not emigrate, or was not acceptable to the colonies. Lord Overstone thought the true remedy was iu a wise administration of the Poor Law. He denied that there existed any necessity for resorting to extraordinary measures with respect to what, if left alone, would lind a natural re medy. The weulihic.-t country in the world, the capital in which hud immensely increased during the la.-t three years, must surely have resources for the employment of its able-bodied popula tion. Lord Grey concurred with Lord Overstone in disputing altogether the assumed fact that Eng land was now laboring under over-population in the sense of there being more able-bodied men than there was capital to employ. Local conges tion there might lv. but labor was not redundant is a rule, lie showed, on the contrary, that wages were rising and the demand for labor in creasing. It wiK not now for the first time that artillcial remedies lo." a supposed exodus of population had been called lor without neces sity. But If it still remained to be proved that tills country required emigration, it was still more doubtful whether there was any room or wish in tlie colonics for a forced immigration, particularly of the kind proposed. Although assenting generally to the tspirit of Lord Gran ville reply to Lord Houghton, he regretted to hear Hint there was un intention on the part of the Government to empower the Central Board to use the hinds t H command for emigration purposes. n Lord Carnarvon agreed with Lords Grey and Granville in deprecating the inea.-iires suggested by Lord Houghton, lie denied the lattl?s as- nemiMi mm mere was any great d einand tor niuor in tnu Australian colonies. lie showed ny reicrence to Victoria that .- i . .(;.. . "?J ";io nicy were ex- n...w..i.,i, ... . Hi- surplus ot labor; and be was esj.ee ally sin e tliattbry would not be sali. Deil with nferlor labor. lf0 il(),ca thu ,iov lnent would not promote tin uriilieial movement, wbieh they would lind themselves totally unable to control. Alter it few words from Lord Iledcsdale as t the 111 effects ol union rates In Increasing pau perism, n Lord Houghton replied. He expressed a doubt us to Lord Overstone. 's declaration us to the Mist Increase of capital during the past tnreo yeurs, nnd he reasserted, uirainst Lord Carnar von, the greatness of Uio demand for labor in Austndiu, Astronomers estimate that the most remote fixed star is coming towards the earth at the rate of tweuty-eiL'hl wiles a ueeoud. Clear tho l " " , (Jack, Cntlinrfnc II oi'Rnta. Catharine's life was one of ceaseless labor. She rose at six both in winter and summer; she always retired to her room at ten. Her day was chiefly passed in her own .apartments. .Rt her desk, or in consultation with her trusty counsel lors. She planned her own military expeditions, and attended to the internal regulations of her vast empire. She sent out selentiUe men to ex plore her distant territories, and bravo naviga tors to trace the continent of America and the islands of Behring Straits. She founded schools nnd charitable institutions, and lotiked with pity on the sufferings of the poor. . She planned a vast rehento of internal improvement; built canals, roads, and bridges in various' parts of tho empire; reformed the laws of the tuition; en forced justice; protected, when she could not emancipate, the serf; recommended morality: was assiduous in her religious observances; and filled all Europe with the fame of her liberality and beneficence. Yet there were moments when Catharine must havo felt how giddy was that splendid eminence upon which she had 'placed herself, and when the anticipated pains of deposition, shame, and death drove her to remorseless deeds of cruelty nnd crime. At such moments no fear of infamy, no sentiments of pity, moved her from her fear ful design. She crushed the feeble pretenders to her throne w ith relentless hand. She pursued them to their deaths with a malignity full of fraud and viiidietiveness. Yet, in this respect, w as Mic more guilty than Elizabeth of England, the executioner of her cousin, or Mary, the assassin of her husband; than Henry VIII or Louil XIV? Ou the darker shades of Catharine's character I do not propose to dwell. Let her errors be buried with her. They certainly brought with them their own fearful retribution. Prince (ire gory Orloff, her favorite for many years, and the chief author of her greatness, died, in 1781, a raving madman, the victim of remorse. The bleeding shade of tho murdered -Peter III fol lowed him wherever he went,terrined him in hor rible visions at night, and seemed constantly to threaten him with avenging darts. Orloff some times sunk into silent melancholy, and then broke out into wild shouts of insane merriment. He heaped curses and wild reproaches upon Ca therine fearful to listen to, and which seemed to plunge her in the deepest despair. At length the wretched prince fled to Moscow, and died in unspeakable agony. JJarper'n Mayazine. ICE COMPANIES. CE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! Ice! Ice! Ice! Ice! Ice! Ice! Ice! OFFICE OF THE KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO., No. 435 WALNUT St., Philadelphia. Established 1K!2. Incorponited lSxlt. Wholesale and Rotnil Dealers and Shippers of EASTERN ICE. THOMAS K. CAHILL, President. E. I. KERSHOW, Vice-President. A. HUNT. Treasurer. K. it. CORNELL, Secretary. T. A. HENDRY, Superintendent. ICK delivered daily in nil part nf the consolidated eity. Went Philadelphia, Mantua, Richmond, Hndoahurg, Tto.t and (ieriunntcnvn. 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MUTUAL BAFETY" 1 DELAWARE I a srrB t INSL'K- lature of Pennsylvania, 1MI- Offlce, 8. K. corner T'mUJ and WALNUT Streets, MARIN K INhUKANCKS On Vessels, Oarro. and Freight to all parts of the world. Inland inhukanckh On gosda bj river, canal, lake and land carriage to all parrs in i lie n num. FfHK INSURANOKS On Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings, Uouset, agTT OF THIS COMPAKT, November 1, lhiiM. 9UO,000 Unl'd States live Per Cent. Loan, v. 830800 00 LTti.OOO United (slates Biz Per Cent. Loan, hvd.. 136,800UU ptl.OOO United Hlats Six Per Cent. Loan (for 1'acilic ltnllroad) hLlXKJMO SgKl.OUO State of Pennsylvania Six l'or Cunt. Loan ailJ76M6 126,000 City of Philadelphia Hn Per Cent. Loan (exempt front ts) 128,KHU0 50,000 State of New Jersey but 1'ereJenL loan 61,6OU'U0 ai.OOO Penn. Kail. First Mortgage hit Per Cent. Honda au.&XnH) aS.OUO Penn. lind. hecond Mortgage Hix Per Cent. Honda 84,000 (10 26,000 Western Penn. Rail. Mortgage Six PerCont. Bonds (Penn. Kail road guarantee) ao.ffioTAI 80,000 State of Tennessee rive Per Cent Loan Il.llUiroO 7,00(1 State of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Ixwn 6,rel'S5 16,000 Germaniown (wil Company, prin cipal and Internet guaranteed by City of Philadolphin, UU0 aharos Slk 15,000'UO 10,000 Fennf.ylvunia Railroad Company, 300 shiirenMock 1100'iXI 6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100 aim res Miolc 8,600'00 an.000 Pinladelphia and Southern Mail hteaniship Co., N) Shares Stock 16.O0OUO Xiv.KIO Lon na on liond and Mortgage, nrst Liens on City Properties 8O7,f0H0 H.lOSt.SOO Par. Market value. $1.130a U6 , Cost, tl.OM.ttH ai. Real Kstjitfl IM.OOO iiO liills receivable for insurance mado 8U,4ao S4 iialanceadue at agenciea, premiums on marine pihcies, acrrned intercat.aud other debts due the company ),178'88 Stock and scrip of sundry corporations, 43156. Kstimstcd value 1,81300 Cash in bunk $U6,1KI)-IIH Cash in drawer 413'0o 118,663'78 fl,W7,:)H7-W DtRr.cTOM. K.dmund A. Souder, jhamuel I-;. blokes, .Henry Sham, W illiam C. Ludwig, (ieorge O. liper, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., John l. Taylor, lieorge W. Kernadon, William O. Uoulton, Jacob Kiegel, 'Kpencer Mcllraine, !l. T. Morgan, Pittsburg, Thomas O. Hand, John C, llavis, James O. Hand, Tbeophilns Psulding, Joseph II. Seal, liiiKli Craig, John K. Penrose, Jaob P. Jones, James Traquair, K.dward Darlington, H. Junes Prooko.t James K. McKartand, Kdward lfourcadu, uunn it. nempie, 1 A. II. Herger, " THOMAS (). HANll. Prnalrlnnt. doanua r. iLyre, ,.t,.t, ,.,.,1ullN v- 1AVIS, Vice-PreaidenU HENRY LYI.nURN, Secretary. HLNKY BALL, Assistant Secretary. 10 6 1 82 9 ,c 11 A 11 1 E K r E "t"ua L. FranBin Fire Insurance Cohpj OF niH.ADKI.PHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNTJT St. Assets on Jan. 1, 1869, $2,677,37213 CAPITAL ACCRUF.D SURPLUS... PREMIUMS , UKSF.TTLED CLAIMS, 400,000'0 l,:i,.VfS'7 ll3iS4J-U 1NCOMR FOR 18U0, .J0,000. tes paid since 1829,over $5,500,000 Perpetual and Temnorarv Policies on Liberal Tumi The Company also isuuua Policies on Kents of Buildings os aii aiuus, vrrounu Aents, auu uuri;kua, DIRECTORS. Alfred O. Baker, Alired Fitter, Samuel (.runt, Thomas tSpurks, George W. Richards, William 8. (irant, Isaac Lea, Thomas S. Ellis, George i ales, Gustnvus S. lienson. ALFRED O. BARER, Preaidont. , GEOKljK FALES, Vioe-PresidenU JAS. W. MoALLlHTEK, Seorotary. '1 HEODOKE M. RECER, Assistant Secretary. 89 A S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 2P1 BROADWAY Cor. READE St.. New York, l iihu t mm ii 1 9150,000 itili.OOO Deposited with the State of New York aa Security for Policy Holders. LEMUEL BANGS, Preaidont. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-Proaident and Secretory. EMOKY Mi.CLlNTOCK Aotuary. A. E. M. PURDY, M. D Medicul Examiner. ItKFtlll'.NCKH BY 1'EIIMIUHION. Thomas T. Tafikor, John M. Mans, J. B. Lippincott, Charles Spencer, William Divine, James lxng, John A. Wright, S. Morris Wain, Jainus Hunter, Arthur O. Cottin, John B.MclSreury, E. H. Worne. In the character of its Directors, economy of manage ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN OF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female lives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and no re striction of travel alter the hint year, the ASIiUKV pre sents a combination of advantages offered by no other company. Policies issued in every form, and a loan of one third made when desired. SH-.l IAL AUVANTAUKH OFFERED TO CLEROYMEH. For all further information, adress JAMES M. LONOACRE, Manager for Peensylvania and Delaware. Office, No. aoa W A LNJJT Street, Philadelphia. FOK.MAN P. llULLlNSllEAD Special Agent. 46i STRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOUKTH (STREET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among ni cruliers of tlie Society of Friends. Good riska of any tlu8 accepted. 1'ollcien utbUfd ou approved plans, at the lowest rates. President. SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vlce-Prebident, WILLIAM C. LO.NGSTKETII, Actuury, ROWLAND PAitRY. Tlie advantages ottered by tliht Couipauy are un excelled, 'i l 274 J N U K E AT HOME, IN TUB Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. No. IW1 CUESNUT 8TUEET, PIlILADELrillA. ASSETS, S4,000,0U0. It IIARTEHKD II V OVll OWN STATE. MANAJiED IIY Ollt OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAII. POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at the Home Office, and at the At cue its throughout the State. 3 189 JAMES TRAOUAIR PRESIDENT SAMUEL E. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN W. IIORMHt A. V. P. and ACTUARY HORATIO S. STEPHENS SECRETARY "PIICKNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF JL PHILADELPHIA. INCORPOH ATKD 1H04-CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. '2 I WALNUT hi met, opKute the Eaohvuke. This Company insures from loss or damage by Flltii. on Iiheral terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture, eto., for limited periods, and permanently on buildings by deposit of premiums. Tlie Company has been in aotWe operution for more than SIXTY YEARS, d uriu which all losses have been promptly adjusted and paid. DIRECTORS. John L. Hodee. , David Lewis, M. E. Mahony. llenjamin Ettimr, T'homas H. Powers, A. R. Mcllenry, Edmund Castillon. hamuel Wiloox, John T. Lewis, W illiam b, Grant, Robert W. Learning, D. Clark Wharton. Lawrence Lewis, Jr., Iewis V. IN orris. JOHN R. WlIllliERKlt. President Bamuf.L Wilcox, Secretary. s) T PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. InivmiAntiMl IwtA i ihfiri jir PeroetnaL No. aiOWAlJiUT Htreet. noiKisite Indeoeudence Square. This Company, favorably known to the community tor raljly known to the community lor n mis to insure axainat loss or damage rivate Buildinirs, either permanently Also on Furniture, riuxjka of Goods, over tony years, continues u by tire on Public or Private or for a limited time. Also i n(t Ibf MniliMnfiiiu. ..nfeMllv nn IiKamI btrmL 'i'beir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is In vested in the most careful manner, which enables them to otter to the insured an undoubted security in the saa of loss. PUUOTOB. Daniel Smith, Jr., i John Deverenx, A Inlander lienson, I 'l unulas run iui, Isaac llazlehurst, I 111 lluuiiaa Robins. I J. Henry Lewie. . Gillinghain feu, Daniel TladdiM'k. Jr. ' DANIEL bJmi, JB,, Preaident. WH. O. CROWFXL, bct.tr it)) NSURANCE. OJSEiST TI,K TNSURANCB COMPANY" Incorporated fThartef PerpetoaL CapiuL 9300,000. Asset ' j.t(,000 WARINK, INLAND, AND FIRE iNBOKANoic. OVER 8-JO,0oo,nno Ixihhps paii Kinnit ITS OKUAN1ZATION. DtaacTona. - Arthur O. Coffin, ISamoel W. Jones, John A. llrown, Charles Taylor, Amhnire hite, Rirliard D. Wood, Wiilimn Welsh, S. Morris Wain, Ueorse U Harrison, r ranoia R. Cope, Kdward H. Trotter. Kdward H. f'lnrke, T. ;harlton Henry. , Alfred D. Jnwup, John P. Wini, ' tmis O. Madeira, Charles W. Cnnhmnn. iionn niaeon, ARTHUR O. COFFIN. President CHARLES PLAIT, Vice-President. MaTTHTAII MAB1R, beeretary. i 1 HMIE ENTRKPKISE INSURANCE CO. OF A PHILADELPHIA. Office houthwent ( or. KOUHTH and WALNUT BtreeU. KIKE INSURANCE K.Xl LUSIVKf.Y. PERPETUAL AND T ERM POLICIES ISSURD. Ch ( apilal , (.LaSi.tMODD Carh Assets, January t, tHr 47V,3KI 2U T. Rstrhford Starr, UIKWIUKJI. J. Livingston Rrringer, r.aioro r rar.ier, John At. Atwood, i'.i nj. '1 . Tredick, t-rorge 11. Stuart, . I nmes 1.. t.iiictiorn, Wm. U. Hnuiton, f'liarlee Wheeler, . Thos. H. Moniuiery, Uuhn 11. Hrown, , lames Aertwen, 1 ins Comi'iiny insures only tirstlass risks, takins I fpetinlly hazardous riaks whatever, suoh as factories, Diillr, ale. ' F. RATCHI OIHI STAPH. President. Til OS. H. MUNTI.iJjlERY, Vice President. Al.KX. W, Wihtku, Secretary. 3 6 JAlFEKIAIi TIllE INSUKANCK CO. LONDON. i:sTAii,iMii:i iso:i. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, feH,000,0()0 1 3V GOLD. PEEV0ST & HERRING, Agents, 3 No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CnAS. M. rRKVOST. CTTAS. P. IIERRINq SHIPPINfH ' LOIULLAUD'S STEAMSHIP LINE FOR fcssi new YORK. Sailing Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. REDUCTION OF RATES. Spring rates, commenclnp; March lfi. Sailing Tut'sdayH, ThursdayH, and Saturdnys. ' On and uflcr l.Mh of Alurcli freight by this line will ba taken at 12 crnta per 1WJ pouiulB, 4 cents per foot, or 1 cent per gallon, Bliin'8 option. Advance charge cached at olilco on l'tcr. Freight received at all times on covered wharf. JOHN V. OHL, 2 2S5 ' Pier 19 North Wharves. N. If. Extra rates on small packages iron, ineuis, eto. FOR LIVERPOOL AND fit ll.'L'tliXillirit V w . a, ! uiv. inm.in i.ino or man Steamers are aDOointud to auil aa fd. IcSSsrra? lows t i oi aiaiitheator, via llalliax, Tuesday, May 4,atl P.M. ( ity of Itallimore, Saluriluy, Alay b, at A. Al. City of London, Saturday, iliiv to, at 11 A. M. City of llostnn, via Halitax, Tuesday, May 1H, at 1 P. M. And each sueceedinx Saturday and alternate Tuesday, from Pier 6, North Hiver. RATES OF PASSAOK. BT TH MAIL BTFAMKB BAUONO RVKHY SATTTRriAT. . Payable in Cold. Payable in Currency. FIRST CAU IN miOO BTEERAOE ...S5 I'o Ixmdon liai; To Ixmdon ) To Paris 1161 To Paris. l-ASSAdR ny THK TUK8DAI BTKAMKU, VIA HALIFAX. riHHT CABIN. eVP.RUAOK. Payable in Cold. Payable in Currency. Liverpool 9 R0 ' Liverpool ; 830 Halilax.. .. ial Hahlnj ig St, John's, N. F., ) bt. John's, N. F., by Hraneh Steamer. Passengers also forwarded to ltavro Hsmi.ura lVoVan etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bounht here at moderate rate by persona wishing to send for their friends. Foriuither information apply at the Company's Offloesk JOHN U. DALE, Agent, No. 15, BROADWAY, N. y7 or to O'DONNEI.L A FAULK. Acnts. 4 6 ' No. 411CHKSNUT Street, Philailelphia. --CHARLESTON, S. C. ffasrSi THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST FAST FKEIGHT JUUSlZ. EVERY THURSDAY. The Steamships PROMETHEUS, Captain Gray, J. W. KVERAI AN, Captain Vance, WILL FORM A RKtiULAIi WEEKLY LINE. The KteariiHhlp J. W. KVEKJ1AN will sail on THURSDAY, May 6, at 4 P.M. Thrnujrti bills of lading given In connection with 3. C. R. R. to points in the South aud Southwest. Insurance at lowest rates. Rates of freight aa low as by any other route. For freight, apply to E. A. SOULIER & CO., 2 22 tf DOCH STREET W HARF. r- ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE Ml?" THE GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC fc25rKjCO.MFANY'8 MAIL STEAMSHIPS l.l.Hl'.i.AiMlW lUitH. AN1J HAVRE, CALLING Ax It K EST. T he splendid new vessels on this favorite route for the Continent will sail front Pier No. SO North river, aa fol. PEREIRE Duchesne Saturday, Mayl LAFAYETTE Rousseau Saturday, May 16 ST. LAURENT Lemarie Saturday, May 2 VILLE DE PARIS Surmount Saturday, June Ul PRICE OF PASSAGE in (told (including wine), TO BREST OR HAVRE. First Cabin $ 140 Neoond Cabin. 8-S TO PARIS, (Including railway tickets, tumished on board.) First Cabin $146 Second Cabin $S6 rl hese steamers do not carry steerage passengers. Medical attendance tree ot charge. American travellers going to or returning from she oea tinent of Europe, by taking tlie steamers of this line avoid unnecessary rinks from transit by English railways and) crossing the channel, besides saving time, trouble, audi expense. GEORGE MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 5N BROADWAY, New York. For passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams' Express Company, Ui H. I.. LEAF, U'.S No. :i-20 CUESNUT Street. JT. riiiLauthrillA, KHJIIMUND, JTHKOUCH FREIGHT AIR LINK T J jESaaSsSaTHK SOL'i'H ANi W EST EVERY SATURDAY, Ati noon, from FIRST WHARF above MARKET Street. THROUGH RATES to all points in North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, ancftha Wert, via Virginia and Tenuessee Air Line and Richmond and Danville Railroad. freight HANDLED HUT ONCK, and taken at LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINK. T ho regularity, safoty, and cheapness of this rout com mend it to the public as the most desirable medium for carrying every description oi freight. No charge for eummiasion, dray age, or any expense of trauhter. Sleumahipa insured at the lowest rates. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A OO., No. lti 8. WHARVEb and Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. CROW ELL A CO., Agents at Nortolk. e li NEW EXPREH8 LINE TO m Alevandria. Gfors-etiiwri. and Wajthinirfrm Ik (.'.. via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, witja ctions at Alexandria Iroin the most direct ntut fi lnchburg, Bristol, Kuoxville, Nashville, DaiUin, and the) Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from th first wharf above Mai ket street. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLYDE & CO., No. 11 North and South Whsrvea HYDE A TYLER. Agents, at Georgetown; M. FLDiUDGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 61 f 1TP . NOTICE. FOR NEW YolK, VIA. lU1(V7 DELAWARE AND RAR1TAN CANAL. atfiirru-T11 EXPRESS STEAM BOAT COMPANY. 11.0 CHEAPEST and QUICKEST water communica tion between Philadelphia and New York. Steamers leave daily I nun first wharf below Market Street, Philadelphia, aud loot of Wall street. New York. GHtls forvtarded by all tlie lines running out of New York, North, Fast, and W ent, free of commission. Freight received aud forwarded on accommodating terms WILLIAM V. CLYDE A CO., Agents No. l!i S. DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia, JAM ES HAND, Ageut. Ji No. W ALL Street. New York. f KOTICE.-FOK "NEW YORK. 1 ZVnnKni1 Riritan Canal, KW1FT m in-ir'" SURE 1RANSPORTATION COMPAiiv . k 1','t,PA'1V,H A,NU BVVIFrBUKi LINK? v.1 ?ibUf"'i,i'" M1""8.11"6 W'U resumed on and after the 8th of March, l or Freight, which will be taken oi accommodating terms, apply to u" 83 w. M HAIRD A CO., . No. l.l-i houah Wharves. Ji AND WOSTENnOLM'S POCKET ROIK'KRK' .Sf u A?!l.Ri"S.!,!.,,n,1ln"' of hesutif.il Huish. ft i i . .UJ w ADK A BUTCHER'S RAZORS, sud CnUqu.h'ly8'1 Li0OLTliB RAZOR SOlSSORS of Rasors, Knives. Scissors, aud Table Cutlery Ground and ctJinJt. AAUttA'8,N- 1 13 8- TM'rn aU""' TV, DR. F.(i IRARD. VETEUINAKY 8UR- 5T, 0KN, treat all diseases of hones and cattle, aud aU surgical operations, with efficient socomiuudaUoa for horses, at hn.liihrmaiy o. l0 MAJtoHALL trt lS5
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