2 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 18G9. SrilUT OF THE TRESS. pDITOKIAL IMNION8 OF TFT 8 LEADING JOURNALS OTON CURRENT TOnCfl COMPILED EVERT " DAT FOB THE EVKNINti TELKORAPU. TERMINATING 11EP.KL D1SFH.YNCIIISE MKNT. From th JV. 1'. Tim. The question of putting an cnl to tlio present. mifTrno diwihilitieN of Dioho connected with the llebellion is ii,m;,'intT "Hention more Rnd more throughout tiio country. In Homo of the leading Southern States lilco Virginia nnd Tennesson, it Ims liecoma one of tlio prin cipal political iHsueH. Influential Southern ers of the moat diverse imity connections and personal RiitecedentK, from General Robert IS. Lee to Parson Urownlow, are taking the ground that the time has come when thero should no longer he a proscribed class beforo the ballot-box. The growing prevalence of lhe same spirit in the Northern political coun fcels iH manifest to every observer. The fact is that the first intense, impulsive, Indiscriminating hent against the rebellion Ind nil concerned in Jt has given place, with lhe lapse of time, to cooler, calmer thinking. Tho treatment of the conquered Rebels is now weighed with more regard to the true jnteresU of the whole country. Opinions upon it are shaped less by private feeling and more by considerations of sound public policy. Among the Union men of the South even ilio radical portion of them I hero is a per ception of a bad anomaly in a state of things Under which the highest prerogative of citi zenship is denied to thousands of the most wealthy, intelligent, and virtuous; while it is freely exercised by tens of thousand i who Jiave lived all their lives until very lately in tho most debasing slavery and benighted ignorance. ' The radicals of tho North, too, nre growing Tnoro sensible of this incongruity. It is hard for them to keep up their old cry of "man hood suffrage," nnd make the application stop fchort of the wliite race. If their principle is worth anything at all, its validity is absolute, and its application must be universal. It has come to this as every thinking man foreknew from the outset that the radicals cannot nourish their resentments againstthe Southern white man, except at the expense of the "im partial, equal right" platform, the abstract justice of which was all that ever gave them any standing-place in the politics of tho coun try. Thus it is that the very class of Northern politicians who have been most implacable toward the South are preparing to yield some thing, from the sheer necessity of keeping a Square and clear position before the people. Withal, there is something in this perma nent proscription that is calculated to make it unpopular, without any reference to party .divisions. It is essentially un-American opposed to tho whole spirit of our institu tions, and to the fundamental principles of our Government. There is not n monarchi cal rule in Europe which has not its long list of proscriU men who have been out lawed all their lives for some kind of insub ordination. This persecution is in perfect liarmony with a system which lives and has its being only in brute force, and knows no Buck thing as an inherent personal right. But we live in a republic which professes to l)e sustained purely by the "consent of the governed," and which declares certain natu ral rights "inalienable." That cannot be called a government of tho people from the privileges of which a considerable fraction of the people, for any cause, are excluded. To impose taxation and all tho other burdens of Government upon any person, while depriv ing him of representation and all the benefits of Government, has been to the American mind, from the beginning, the very essence of tyranny. The very love for constitutional law which impelled the great majority' to fight the Rebellion with such good heart, makes it all the harder to follow up the conquered Re bellion with pains and penalties so alien to the Constitution. It may be allowed that disfranchisement, with its attendant "iron-clad oath," for a time Berved some good purpose. But that is really no argument for their continuance. There is no reason in persistently keeping up an ex treme medicine in advanced convalescence, simply because it did some good at a more dangerous stage of the disease. Everybody knows that the time must come when the ex treme resort must be discontinued, or the patient be the worse for it. For a while, after the overthrow of the Rebellion, the Southern temper was so hot and vindictive with disap pointment that it was easily moved to evil by its old leaders, and reconstruction was thereby greatly hindered, until it became palpable that these leaders must somehow be hampered nnd disabled, .or disorder rage indefinitely. Therefore these temporary disabilities were temporarily imposed, and with good effect. The irritation of the masses, . left without this stimulus, presently gave way to sober thought, and it gradually became clear to the whole Southern mind that it was best to forget the past, and be on good terms once more with the old Government. This feeling grew uu til the Rebellion was no longer spoken of or thought of by any class, except as "the lost cause." ' And to-day scarcely a trace of the old rebellious spirit ventures to show itself anywhere. Practically, the South is now just lis clear as the North of any purpose to organ ize resistance against Federal authority. The suspension of hnkmn corptiH, which the North ern people were made to feel during the war. Would be scarcely more out of time, if revived now, than are these civil disabilities, still visited upon the South. The Rebellion has forever passed, and with it should pass for ever away from both parts of the couutry tho last glimmering of its cruel necessities. If there was any significance in tho last Presidential election, it was just this which the people of both sections pronounced for in uniting as they so generally did upon General Grant, with his watchword, "Let us have Peace." The peace that was then voted ' was no hollow pretext or sham affair. It was honest, heartfelt peace, springing from a sense of common brotherhood and common interest a peace sought and fouii'l, in its natural course, laid in liberal forgiving senti ments, and in principles purely pacific, as far removed as the poles from all intolerance nnd proscription. Despite of the opposition of the few malignant on either side, it will yet be the glory of this administration to fulfil its assigned work, by making this peace a genuine and grand reality. THE OPPORTUNI TY AND THE FAILURE OF Till: GOVERNMENT. from the K. Y. UeraUU In view of the events which are passing around us and in the immediate neighborhood of our southern shore, it becomes an import ant question to the emmtry and to the nations with whom we hold intercourse to know what position the Government will take in tho Cuban question and the developments which f re following it. The fullness of time has come to tho colonial government of that iulan,! 's people, n,0 ft.K.J;UiilifJ' lY fvi'CO of their own arms new relations to the powers I of the world. No Amerienn can or does doubt I their right to do this. Our political education is based upon a neliet in tne sacroa ngnt oi revolution, nnd wherever we behold a people trending the path which our fathers trod before, our synqathies go out to them, and no wnall number of our people are willing to follow the example of Lafayette, who came to the assistance of our fatherland in its dark days. It cannot, then, be otherwise that in the struggle for liberty in Cuba some, perhaps many, of our own citizens will be found tread ing tho wine-press of freedom side by side with the impulsive sons of Cuba. If this were not so wo should belie our own teachings; and, admitting this fact, the question comes up, what position will tho Government hold towards them ? Tho war in which they Mil bark is a fierce nnd sanguinary one. The foe claims to rule "by the grace of God," and pro claims that nil who oppose him are robbers, pirates, and enemies of the human race. Pri soners are slaughtered in cold blood; homes are given everywhere to the devouring flames, and extermination is the policy adopted and acted upon. Further than this, the stipula tions of treaties of amity, commerce, and navigation with neighboring powers, and their local laws, are appealed to to justify this course nnd deprive those who aspire to exor cise tho right of self-government of the aid which private sympathy may extend to them. Will tho Government admit the claim of fho Spanish rulers in Cuba, and deny the right of a whole people to throw off the yoke of despotism, and of our own citizens to take part in tho struggle wiihout running other and greater risks of the chance of battle? That the entire people of Cuba reject the rule of Spain has been over and over again pro claimed by the Spanish press, the Spanish authorities, nnd tho Spanish volunteers who now rTde Havana. It is testified by the fact that not a Cuban is trusted with arms in be half of Spain; that Spain rules only where her troops stand; that where her troops nre.nn exodus of the Cuban population is witnessed. If the Government ut Washington takes no step to control the sanguinary practices of this war for a falling rule, as it should do in justice to our own citi.ons and in consonance with our history nnd tho position wo hold as the leading power of America, then by its silence it justifies tho outrage against hu manity, nnd is false in its duty to ourselves. No treaty of amity, no laws of neutrality can sanctify before (lie people of the 'United States, or of the world, the claim of any power to the right to govern a nation when tho nation rejects such a claim. If this were not so, Mr. Fish would bo involved in an end less perplexity as to who should be recognized by him as the reigningsovereign in any coun try in Europe or America. But we may go even further. No treaty of amity can be appealed to by any power as conferring upon it the right to use practices beyond the pale of humanity in its effort h to preserve itself, and nil such claims will bo rejected by every right-minded statesman. In truth, the very fact of an appeal to such practices should lead at once to a condemnation of tho govern ment using them. It is argued that the Govern ment is a friendly power, wilh whom we have treaties by which we are bound. Rut by ap pealing to practices beyond the recognized laws of war the power so doing becomes itself, in a certain i-ense, hoxtis h ntnn iii-t, and thereby releases the binding effect of all treaties with it. We have brought forward these views be cause of tho great events now before us. Cuba is in process of successful revolution. American citizens have taken and will take part therein, animated by the holiest feelings of human nature and justified by their natural rights. The Government which is struggling to perpetuate its despotism proclaims its foes to be pirates nnd robbers, and not entitled to the usages of war. Our own Government has failed in its duty to place itself on record in such a way as shall lend its moral influence to the cause of humanity and human progress. It has gone even further than this, and has recently displayed a secret partisanship for the power which has been rejected, and the members of the Cabinet exhibit a self-accusing spirit by laying the onus of the act upon the inferior member of the Council. Every thinking person in the country rejects with a laugh of scorn the statement that Mr. Hoar alone is responsible for the acts which have committed the Government to an obnoxious policy, and none, however poor in intellect, will believe that the Attorney-General took the liberty of committing the Government in these great questions without advice and without direction from the whole body. The whole Government, from President Grant down to Mr. Hoar, is responsible for the acts which mark its policy and prove its partisanship. If Mr. Fish has consented to this course willingly, he has exhibited a want of sympathy with American feeling and with the march of American ideas which disquali fies him tor the high place he holds. It he entertains sympathies for the Cubans in their efforts to establish their own freedom, to sweep hlavery from their land, and to partici pate in the political happiness which we en joy, he should show it in some other way than by whisperings through the pen of a newspaper correspondent. Such breathings nre not sufficient to counteract acts in which the hand of the Government is plainly visible. It will not ho p.n act of war to perform our duty to human nature by recog nizing the belligerent rights of the Republi cans of Cuba, and to intimate to our fond ally Spain that we expect her to carry on war as a civilized government, and not as an enemy to the human race, especially as we are supplying her with guns, powder, and slops wherewith to make the war. As tor a national policy, it is plain, that the weak and cold tulmimstialion ol Grant and i lsh is not equal to the tiuk of devising one. Wo look to the American peopn to take care of that, intimating to the administration that they will do well not to place themselves, in their timorous appreciation of European complica tions, in an attitude of hostility to the na tional policy the people shall lay down. CRIME !Y INFECTION. Prom the X. V. World. Thut crime is contagions is a belief so an cient and approved that it has been embalmed 111 our copy-books. How manv mi vnviiin bus twisted las tongue into chirographic contor tions over the maxim that "evil communica tions corrupt good manners!" Tiiwivh a heathen, Menander said tho thing; the great Apostle Paul cited and endorsed it; and, as it is both appointed to bo read in churches and to bo written in schools, it may be taken and held, we presume, to be a settled truth. But is crime also infectious ? This question is raised for us by a clever writer in tho Midictil (Ittzitt? of this city, who seems to be more than half disposed to charge upon the most enterprising and successful journals of the day a certain measure of defi nable and culpable responsibility for the mul tiplication of monstrous offenses against hu manity. The writer b theory is that the sort of latent or half latent moral insanity which I'wU'fi WUfclvYf WU' vthvrfj LftYv fUvwu exist in most men may be stimulated and developed by familiarity with the exciting da tails of any particularly striking crime, and so, arousing the imitative faculty, may Wl directly to the perpetration of a similar act. I tie proposition is obviously plausible, and, if it could 1)0 established to demonstration, it might warrant, perhaps, the interference of grand juries and district attorneys to suppress tho strictly "sensational" journalism of huram wickedness, lsut it strikes us th.it this is eminently one of the many cases in which there is "a great deal t bo said oa bjth sides. If we assume, in the first place, the truth of Quetelet's doctrine, extended and formulated bv Ruckle, concerning the averages of ham in, feeling and action, we must be prepared to believe that the impulses which propagate a special form of malefaction at any given timj are much more subtle and lie deeper down in human nature than our prophet of infection would have us to suppose. As a certaiu and an ascertainable number of persons in a given region ol country will every year at a given time provide themselves with white hats or order cucumbers with their salmon, and this without consulting the daily journals or the virhtt of J.aron do Jrissc. precisely so will a certain nnd ascertainable number of persons n like manner coincidentlvelopt! with tho re .1- haired governesses of their children or put their grandmothers to death with "extenuating cir cumstances, which in legal t rench means a blue cotton umbrella or a trombone. The-ie people obey n mysterious and irre sistible proclivity. conditioned. (landl ess, upon atmospheric, social, and political influences, of which we have a very inadequate notion as yet. or, olio may more truly say, no notion at all. It, is quite as pro bable, to say the least of it, that a person laboring tinder these influences, uncon sciously to himself, may be suddenly braced up into a state of moral horror which will enable him to resist them, ns that a person not laboring under these influences should be seduced into crime bv the lierusal of the full, true, and necessarily shocking story of an ex ceptionally brutal offense. Of course,- no account is to be taken, in considering this question, of cl imes committed for a specific and easily intelligible reason crimes of self interest deliberately weighed or of passion specifically inflamed. We are examining now tiie genesis of strange and irrational crimes; of the morbid offenses against property or human life which make juries hesitate so often so clumsily decide between the gallows or the penitentiary and the asylum. Our own bcliclf is that upon a vast majo rity of people elaborate and harrowing nar ratives of crime net rather as safety-valves for brooding nnd inchoate fancies of evil within them than as provocations to sin. The ima gination in many people serves a purpose of what we may call nui.nl perspiration'. It car ries off. through sympatny and terror and the delight of a conscious emotion, pent-up forces which might else accumulate and turn to humors in the soul, if we may so speak, and at last explode in crime. For one Cour voisier moved to cut his master's throat by reading the wondrous tale of the deviltry and the daring of .Jack Sheppard. we venture to say that we have a hundred Smiths or Browns who live out in fancy over Aim worth's pnges many dire suggestions of wrong, and faint hints of the ferocious creature within them pent, which had festered else into horrible fact. Besides which, it re mains to be shown that Courvoisier told the truth when he foisted upon his imagination the responsibility of a deed which more pro bably originated in his pocket. An empirical but not unsatisfactory way of throwing light on tho point would be to ascertain, if we con veniently could, how large a proportion of the most startling crimes annually committed among men take place within the subscription lists of a daily newspaper, nnd how large a proportion in lonely hamlets and isolated neighborhoods, divided not, like Sydney Smith's Norfolk residence, "by twelve miles from a lemon," but by hundreds and thou sands of miles from a reporter and a printing press. THE CHURCH BILL. From the A. 1'. Tri&tttw, Few words will suffice to define the triumph which the English Commons have obtained over their Lords, by the vote in the latter house on the bill for disestablishing the Irish Church. By a vote of 179 to 140, and in pleasant disappointment of the apprehensions felt a week ago, the Lords have abandoned their retrogressive and crab-like hold of the Establishment, but yet, we fear, have not abandoned it altogether. Carnarvon, Salis bury, Stanhope, and the Archbishop of Can terbury have proved safer counsellors than Derby, Cairns, and the other Lords whose tenure of prejudice and oppression was less tractable or yielding. Mr. Disraeli, the leader of the Tories, has not continued to manifest the affected desperation of his late speech before the Commons. As a consequence of so much defection in their ranks, the Tories have been compelled to bend a proud knee to the volume and multitude of British opinion. Still, we believe they will contend with energy for some recompense of their conces sion, with a chance of being successful in embarrassing for a time, however inconside rable, the administration Gladstone and Bright, and of offending the popular good sense and feeling of which these men are perhaps the truest representatives which Eng land has ever produced. It was for the Lords to decide whether they, the owners of a great part of Ireland, were willing to place themselves in direct hostility to the people from whose wrongs they derived their titles and property. "Are not the Irish peasantry very likely to agree with their Houses? ' asks one of the heads of British opinion "to believe the House of Commons when it soys that the Church has no title to its endowments. Mid the House of Lords when it soys that Lord Derby has no better title to his lands?'' There has been reason, then, for urging, us most vigorously have done the most sensible of tho English press, that the hostile action of the Lords shall not too far succeed in opening up questions so radical that they will be laid bare to the vulgarest in tellect of the realm. Mr. Disraeli has been wise in not persuading his party to tlio meciijico which Lord Derby j would have had them leap blindfolded. We expect that the lords will insist upon some form of disendow -me nt, which the Commons may or may not be disposed to grant at once. Lords have ever been the worst brakesmen to the cur of British progress, but they are pru dent enough not to attempt to withstand tho Hood which any rashness of theirs might pro voke. More than this, tho best of them are aware that they effect the greatest economy of their position nnd means as a party by sur rendering j,t once to the inevitable and incon trovertible, fact. 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Kftmiated vulue 1,813 00 Cash in bnnk iJUG.iriO uH Cash iu drawor 413 '65 1I6 55T73 $1,617,3 17'XO ThnninsO. Hand, ,iobn C. Davis, Iniiies C. Hand. 1 hoophiliis Paulding, (loKooh 11. Seal, HukIi (rail, John H. Penrose. Jacob P. Jones, James Tiaiinair, )''dwnid 1'nriitittton, II. Jones Htnoko. , lames It. McKarfand, Ivitward I.a)ourcudo, DIHKOTona. i iMlinunri A. Sender. Siimucl K. Stokes, iinnry ion, William (J. I.tidwiff. Coorno (1. Loipor, Henry (J. Uallett. Jr., John 1). Taylor, (ieoi-ito w. Mornamu, William (. Iloulton, lacoti JCiC'Tol, Stienoer Mcllvnine, 1). T. Moriran. Pittsburg. John 11. Seinplo, " A. It. Herjor. " JOKliuu 1 , Kyro, THOMAS (). HANI). President. JOHN !. DAVIS, Vioo Prosidout. HKNRV I.YLIiURN, Socrotary. 11 KN HY HA LL, AssibUint Secretary. 10 B FranUin Fire Insurance Company OF PHIIDELPIUA. Office, Kos. 435 an"d437 CHESNUT St. Assets on Jan. 1, 1869, $2,877,37213 CAPITAL ACCRU1:1) SURPLUS PRKMIUMS UNSKTTLKD CLAIMS, S'lOO.OfHVOO l,MN:t,.Yj:v70 1,15) ;J,MJ-i;i INOOMK FOR 1S, l3tO,O0O. Losses paifl since 1829,over $5,500,000 Porpetual and Temporary Polioies on Liberal Terms. The Company also issues Policies on Konta of Building of ail kinds, Ground Hon la, aud Mortgage. DIRECTORS. Alfred O. Baker, bamuoi i,rant, George W. Richards, Isaac Lea. Thomas Sparks, William S. Orant, Thomas 8. KUis, faustjivuR A. Kflnflna. George iales. ALFRKO . BAKKR. President. . OKOKOK FAI.ICS. Vioa-Preaident JAS. W. McALLlSTI'.K, Secretary. THKODOKK M. KKtiKR, AasisUnt Sooretary. 80 A S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 2C1 RROADWAV, corner READK Stroet, New York. CASH CAPITAL 4150.UW $12o,000 deposited with the State of New York as security for policy holders. I.EMUKL BANCS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Secretary. KMORY Mi CLIN TOCK, Aotuary. A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medical Examiner. RKKKltKNCKS 11V 1'KUMIHHKIN. Thomas T. Tasker, John M. Maris, J. IS. Llppincott, Charles Spencer, William Divine, James Long, John A. Wright, S. Morris Wain, James Hunter, Arthur G. Collin, John B. McCreary, hi H. Worne. In the character of its Directors, economy of manage ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PbAN OF DEC LARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female lives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and no restriction of travel after the first year, the AS BURY 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. Special advantages offered to clergymen. hot all further information address JAMES M. LONOAORE, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office, No. S.I3 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. FOKMAN P. UOLIJNSHEAD, Spociul Agent. 4 16 gTRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OP PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET. Organized to promote LITE INSURANCE among members of the Society of Friends. Good risks of any class accepted. Policies issued oa approved plans, at the lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM. C. LONGSTHETH, Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY. The advantages offered by this Company are un excelled. S 1 27 J N S U K E A T II O M E, r tub Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. No. 921 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. A.N.SKTH, 84,000,000. CIIAllTEKED BY OUR OWN STATE. BIANAUEU MY OUR OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at the Home Office, and at the Agencies throughout the state. 2 1S J A3 IKS TKAUUAIlt PRKSIDENT SAMUEL E. STOKES VIOEPKKSIDKNT IOIIN W. UOltMOIt A. V. P. and AOTUARY i IQHATIO S. STEPHENS SKCRKTARY THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY X OK PHILADELPHIA. Office S. W. Coiner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. llltE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED. f 'nth Capital flaKi.tWiPtK) Cusu Aasuta, May, lHHd, OVER HALE A MILLION DOLLARS. DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston Krringor, railro f ra.ier, John M. Atwood, Kmijimiin 'I'. Tredick, (li'orue H Stuart, uuuk'b u. lugiiorn, William (i. (ionium, ( 'liurles Wheeler, Thomas II. Montgomery, This CoiutiaiiY insures only llrsi-class risks, taking no jolin ii. mown, UUlllHS AOrilCU. specially hazardous risks whatever, such as factories, uiillb, etc. F. RATCHFORD STARR, President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President. ALFXANl'LU W. WlblKH, Secretary. 3 o piKENIX INSURANCE COMPANY; OF 1 PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 1 Hi 14 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. SKH WALNUT Street, opposite the Eichuufc-e. This Company insures f romloss or damnge by nr. lihoral terms, on huildiuus. merchandise, furniture. etc., for limited periods, and permanently on huildiugs by deposit of premiums. 'I ho t 'fiinoaliv has t has been In active operation for more than S. duriiiK which all losses hava been SIXTY YEARS, duruur which all promptly adjusted am J nam. John L. Hodge, 1 wilt,. Duvid Tevrla. M. E. Muliony, John T. Lewis, William S. (liant, Rol. -it W. Iiiiniur, l. U'l.- Itoujainin iutlnr, Thomas 11. Powers, A. R. Mi-Homy, Edmund lastillun, hainutd Wiloos, 1 d 1 hiN-riu r. mil a v imiwu, latwieuoe Lewis, Jr. JoilN R. WUUUliUER, President. .Secretary. 4 is4 INSURANOE. ryilK PENNSYLVANIA KIKE INSURANCE 1 . COMPANY. - Incorporated lSi" -Charter PcrrotaI No M0 VA LNUT Sti , op;-o.ite In He:i.lm. -4 R mr llns Company, favorr'l ly knwn to thn cionniiriuy r over forty yours, cont innes to insure attain it ! or lintt ly Hi-con I'nlilic or Private liioldiii.rs, cnlvr p.-rm in, mil or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, Suwasot GvkJ, and Mprcliandlne generally, on liberal tarnis. 1 heir t Capital, t d"' h.-r ith a Inr,- Surplus Fun 1, is in-vo.t-d in tho most rsr jlul inunnor. which r-nihie t j.un -t oftYr to tbe insure ! an undoubted security In Ur cut o( loss. tllHK'TOHH Dsninl Smith, Jr , I John Doernx, Aloxnndi r Pen -on, I Tlinnins Smith. Im,c Hm. ,'bm ,t, I It nry l.o.vis, Thomas Robin?, I .). Ciflinhara PelL Drnlrd H i ldock, Jr. ,.,,. DNi:".l. SMITH. Jr.. PreaiJ.vit. WM. O. f HOWELL, Socrotary. J ij , fAFTlCE OK THE INSURANCE COMPANY PbiliirioVhiaT,TU AM,'UI(JA' Ko- ia WALNUT Sinwi. Incorporated 1711. Charter PcrpotuaL Capital, $!tKl,0tki. Assets liTvitUU MARINE. INI AND. AND I IRE INpUkANCE. OVER $atMyw IOSSr.rIAjy S'SCIC ITS ORUAI. Arthur O. Coffln, Samuel W. Jones, Jotin A. Lrown, I nirlcs Taylor, Ar brnse V bite, William Wnlsli, S. Morris Wain, John Mason. - niiiFCTorti. Irancls R Oop, E.lward H. Trotter, hdw.-iH S, CUrkn, J. Clnrlton Henry. Alfred D. Jom, John P. While,' l-ouis ). Madeira, Charles W. Uualnnaa. CeorKO L. Harrison, ARTHUR n. COVV1V, Prsldont' MAWWA MAUl.l. Soclot lry. rosuion JMI'EUIAIi FIKK INSURANCE- OO. IjOKUON. IXTARMSIII 1N0;. rald-up Carina and Accumulated Funds, ,O0t),'()()O IP GOLD. PREV0ST & HISFvIXG, Areata, S 4i No. 107 8, TlllUD Street, Philadelphia, CITArt. M. PRKVOST. CIIAS. P. IIEKRIXU SHIPPING. t?-.,CHARLE3TOP2. a. C. THE SOTJTII AND SOUTUWE-ST FAST XfllliHOIIT JLtJIVlO, EVKRY THURSDAY. The Stearri's'ilps PROMKTIfEUS, Cnptnln Qrnir 3 W. KVKR.M AN, Cnptiiln WILL FORM A R.'COULAK V EL'IiL? LINE. The Bteaiiishlp I'ROMETHEL.S wul nail nn THI'HSDAY, Juiso !il. ut.4 P.M. 0U Throiifrh bills of lifiliitr jfivun in connection with 9. C. R. li. to polMtH in the Smith and Koutliwoi. Iiifiirance at luivest mien. R;it-s of frehrht aa low as bj any other route. Tor freight, apply to K. A. SOUDlifl A OO 8g8 tf DOC1I 8TRKET WHARF. rON LY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE d'ir TflK GENERAL TIlANSATLAlf fcliaSCO.. PANYS A! A I I, M Ka , visit mi i'.-vir'1 lNKW VOUK AND UAVKE. CAljau TLANTTO IPS RREsT uaLiLiliU AT 1 bo splonrt d new vessels on this fuvorita ronta forth Continent wiU sail f ia Jler No. 60 Aortb river, ii fol" iPlf vFTTi Ouoheino Saturday. Ma, 1 Le 'wiWkt Rousseau Sat irti;iy Ma, li ST. LAURENT Lciuarie Saturday V.L.o V1LLE DE PARIS Surmount . ... V. iZJ. u pn rr w .u in gold (inclurlinir wmo), TO BREST OR HAVRK. First Cabin $1-10 1 Second Cabin. au TO PARIS, . Unorad'nB railway tickets, fumishod on board ) tirst Cabin $146 Second Cabin... aw These at earners do not carry steerage uassenffsra! Medical attendance free of charge. American traveiicrsioiu(f to or returning from the con tinent ot Europe, by tiikiu the steamers of this line avoid unnecessary risks lrora transit by EnKlish railway. Md orossina; tha ohanue!, besides saving time, trouble anil Bxpensa, GKORUE MACReNZk, AVent, .oUWAlO AevTYork. Conir.in.ti "W1 dU!' ExprOS 16" K ...aou.";.J.M'. No. 3Ht OHKSNUT sfrUt LT r 1 U T LJ trr,,,,,. . . Btreet. moown MAKK.ET THROUGH RATK8 to all points in North Tand Rnnth Freight HANDLED BUTONOE, and taken at LOWRB RATVS THAN ANY OTHER UN utE,nM w The reyujanty, safety, and cheapness of this routa com. mend it to the pubho as the most desirable medium for carrying ever, description of froiKht i No cliarge for oouuniaaion, drayase. or any axnaiua nf transfer. rw w Steamships Insured at the lowest rate. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. OLYDR A OO No. 1 R. WHARVES and Pier IN. W 1 1 A RV l.S. y-tf-rKTSJ1! V?nt.at Hichmond and Oi PoinU T. P. CRUWKLL A CO., Agenta atjrVorfolk. l AM Bnon. n-.tn d'lUUT W u a u i. . LORILLARD'3 STEAMSIUP LINB FOR NEW YORK. SaUlm TneBdayg, Thursdays, and Saturdays. REDUCTION OF RATES. Spring rates, commencing March. IB. Bailing Tuesdays Thursdays, and Saturdays. On and after 16th of March freight by this line will ba taken at 19 centa per loo pounds, 4 cents per foot, or 1 cent per gallon, ship's option. Advance charges cashed at office on Pier. Freight received at all times on covered wharf. JOHN F. OHL, t8,?85 . Pler 19 North Wharves. N. ii. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc JNKW EXPRESS LINK Tf. XT? Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D. ."irst C. via ChaauDeaka anil IIaI.mmIUii.i couiiections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regnlarl, ever, Saturday at noon from tha first wharf above Market street. Freight reoMved daily. " WJflLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., HYTK A TYLER, Agents, at Ueonretown- M. ELDR1DGK A CO., Agenteat AlexandriaT 8 1 ! stT- R I'lVERP OOL AND JfaTS3LKNSTOWN- ""n of Mail are appointed to sail aa foV Ciiy ol lilooklvn. Satnrdnv. .Tuna j t. t T Xf XiSW lOW B Oty of Washington, via Halifax, Tuesday June 29, at 10 City of Antwerp. Saturday. Jul, 3, at 12 noon. City of Psr.p, Sat iday. July It), at 1 P. M. And each succeeding Saturday and alternate Taesda,, from Pier iu, North Kiver. , RATES OF PA 88 A OK. " BT TRK MAIT. HI K AilEU BAILING KVfHT SATTTnrMT. .-,I ?yable in Gold. Payable in Ourreacy. FIRST CAUIN $1(10 STEERAGE. ...831 olxindon I i6 To Ixinduu 40 lol'aris. 1161 To Paris 47 PASSAOK UY THK TC.ES1IAT, SIHAMlCH, VIA HALiyaX. HI1STCAJ11N. HTEKKAUK. Payable in Gold. Payable in Curreno,. Liverpool K'80 ' Liverpool $M lialitax -iu Halifax IS St. John's, N. F., ) - St. John's, N. F.. I ,, by Branch Steomor. ...("" by Hrsnoh Stoamer. Passengers also forwiirded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bo'ittht hare at moderate rates b, pereons wihiug tu send for thmr triends. For further infornnition upply at the Company's Offloes. JOHN O. DALE:, AK'mt, No. 13, BRUADWAY, N. Y. orto I i'IhiNN ELL A FAULK, Agents. 46 No. 4 1 U- II i'.SNUT Street, Plii ladelpiua. m9 t. NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA UWm trT DELAWARE AND R A RITA N OANAL. aSLasastftdi K.XPP. ICSS STEAJI BOAT U051PANY. 'Ilia l lil AlMM' ., M,t (JIHCKES'P water coinmunioa. tion between Philarl. !pb's und New Y'ork. Steamers leave daily Irom first wharf below Market struct, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall struet, New York. Goods fnrwaiued by all tho lines ruuning out of New York, North, Fast, nnd West, froe of ooiiimiasion. Freight ruoeived nd fiu warded cu sctKiiuiucHtatingtarnuL WiJ.l.IA.M P. CLYDE A CO., Agouta, Bio. 1J a. n Ai'.r, Avenue, i-iiiiaiieipuia. 1 AMES HAND, Agent, 6 K No. 1 1 It WALL Street, iew York. NOriCK. FOR NEW YORK via Delaware and Rnrit;in Canal, SWIhT SURE TKA.VSPORTATION II :.1 P A at V. DESPATCH AND SWIU'tillllK I.1NIC The business o, tiiose lines will be resumed on and after the Hb of March, tor Froights, which will be token oa euconiuiodatuig terms, apply to W. M. BAIRD A OO., US! No. Vii South Wharvec fy O R N E X CHANGE UAO MANUFACTORY, JOHN T. IIA1I.EV, N. K. oorner of Al A H l ET and WATER Streeta, Pbiladelpiiia, DEALER IN HAGS AM) RAGGING Of every dcttci ipt ion, for Grain, Flour, Halt, Super-Phohpliste of Lime, Bone Dust, Etc. lArge and small GUN N Y BAGS constantly on nana. S Also, WOOLSACKS. J-?3r. . PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND s-)K':AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP VfvV S'JXTliiliOViili FREIUHT AIR , iTlNB l5 KSS.S2fcTHE SOUTH AND WRKT LJJiiC 10 mm
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