THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1809. OrOIXG OF THE ALBERT STANZA. It is nnderHtocxl that, influent-eil no doubt to Home extent by the visit of the! Priuco of Wale, and anxious to do ml 1 iing which hall confirm bim in the goixl o pinion of Western nations, the Viceroy of I.gypt Las 10X1 Hir Hamuol Uoicr to take command of edition directed to the -nppwsHion of She dSw-trade on the Upper Nile, to explore fully and in detail the vast, interior reservoir Xnowri as the Albert Nyanza, and to bring the hitherto untraverncd districts lying around the mysterious head waters of the great river of Egypt within the nphere not only of the Viceroy's authority, but also of mercantile results of such an expedition are so full of urominoto our knowledge of the face of the globe wo dwell upon, in its least known and most inaccessible regions, aud to the cause of a down-trodden and slave-driven people, that it is impossible not to be stirred iin to our innermost heart at the bare idea of Mich a truly glorious and noble enterprise. It iny be termed by sumo to bo a war of an nexation, and it may be said that Egypto Turks, of a faith which tolerate slavery in certain forms, are not precisely the people to occupy Central Africa; but nothing could bo worse than the state of the countries which it is proposed to open to civilization; there was no other power thnt could or would do it; and tho boon conveyed to the people them selves is of such vast magnitude as not only to exonerate the means that niayhave to be used, but to stamp them with the unquestionable seal of a truly philan thropic and humanitarian morality. No man, too, more fitted than Sir Samuel Baker to take the lead of such an expedition, and no man more likely to carry it out with the least fighting and quarrelling that is possible. True courage is always magnanimous, and Sir Samuel Baker has shown by the patient per severance and self-devotion of himself and wife in carrying out a great purpose, that he possesses what is rarer and loftier than mere physical coinage the attributes of the highest intellectual and moral courage that kind of courage which is sure to blend mercy with strength, and to be at all times concili ating whilst carrying out its objects. It will bo remembered that Sir Samuel Baker was led, when exploring the regions of the Upper Nile, to the discovery of the Albert N'yanza, from information he received at Gondokoro from Captain Speke. That lamented traveller had, upon tho occasion of his exploration f the .Victoria N'yanza, heard of the existence of another lake to the west or northwest, which he at the time supposed to be much smaller than his Victoria N'yanza, and which was also supposed to receive tho waters of tho outlet of tho upper lake, tho Somerset or Victoria Nile, as it has been called. After overcoming many wearisome obstacles (and who can read his narrative without a thrill of admiration for tho constant cheer fulness with which the hero and heroine bore the terrible hardships they were called to face, the daily danger and hourly anxieties of their lonely life in Equatorial Africa, and the sick ness and other disheartening trials which they were called upon to endure ?), Sir Samuel suc ceeded in reaching tho lake in question. It lay before him like a sea of quicksilver, with a boundless sea horizon on tho south and Bonthwest glittering in tho noonday sun, and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about seven thousand feet above its level. "I was about fifteen hundred feet above tho lake," the traveller relates, "and I looked down from the steep granite cliff upon those welcome waters upon that vast reservoir which nourished Egypt and brought fertility where all was wilderness upon that great source flo long hidden from mankind that source of bounty and of blessings to millions ol human beings; and as one ot tne greatest tnects in nature, i determined to Honor it with a great name. As an imperishable me xnorial of one loved and mourned by our gra cious ijueen, and deplored by every Jjiigiisn man, I called this great lake the 'Albert N'yanza.' Tho Victoria and tho Albert Lakes aro the two sources of the Nile. " 1 At Bunrise, on the following morning, Sir Samuel was enabled to distinguish, with the aid of a powerful telescope, the outline of the mountains on the opposite shore, dark shades upon their sides denoting deep gorges, whilst two large waterfalls that cleft the sides of the mountains looked like threads of silver upon their dark face. The lake itself was a vast depression far below the general level of the country, surrounded by precipitous cliffs, and bounded on the west and southwest by great ranges of mountains from five to seven thou sand feet above the level of its waters, thus rendering it the one great reservoir into which everything must drain, and "from this vast rocky cistern the Nile made its exit, a fiaut in its lirth." "It was, "adds Sir Samuel, "a grand arrangement of nature for the birth of so mighty and important a stream as the river Nile." Unfortunately, at the period of Sir Samuel Baker's discovery of the Albert N'yanza, there had been Home difference of opinion among geographers as to whether the Victoria Nile flowed directly onwards from Victoria N'yanza into tho White Nile by Gondokoro, or whether its waters mingled with those of Albert N'yanza before joining the White Nile. Instead, then, of Sir Samuel and his wife, as to all appearance they might have done, keeping, nf ter their long fatigues, quietly in a boat, and allowing themselves to be peace fully rowed and drifted down the Nilo, which is described as we have seen, as "a giant in its birth," they navigated the lake in canoes to 'Magungo, the point at which the Victoria Nile joined the lake, and, what was worse, iu order to settle n question of no very great importance, as to tho lake-feeder at Magungo being really tho prolongation of the Victoria Nilo, they proceeded up that river, which is a fmceession of cataracts the whole way to tho Karaina Tails, were stricken down again with fever, narrowly escaped being eaten np by crocodiles, named the first obstruction they met Vu ' .?'e hr? inanropriately, "Muivhison's l olls, were deserted by the natives, were im prisoned on the island of Patuan, were pil fered and insulted by King Kamrasi in Kis wina, and were subjected to no end of sick MB; P'witionH, and trillls before thev reached Canoes could nnvir,Mt v;i : ? -. bU lul"' niul M1DL1I1I.1 I V Illlfl fir 11., frnm lu " mrse 7,Zf TiJ - ? .eat distal ; e "' win mo annul Hllil I .A If l i tie on the right and left banks of the' r aUts exit, were said to be hostile to fhj lake people, but this presumed hostility would not have entailed" difficulties gre ate than what had been rlready overcome, or than what they had to suffer at the hands of the cowardly and treacherous Kam rasi. The difficulties might, indeed, have been all overcome by change of boat and boatmen, a thing they had to do, even upoii the lake itself; upon one. occasion, indeed, changing boatmen four times in less than a mile. Sir fc'amuel, however, aJJ afterward that tho natives mnt positively refused to take him down the Nile from the lake into iho country of the Madi, as they said they would be killed by the people, who were tbeir enemies, as he would not bo with them on their return tip tho river; so wo are left in doubt if the victoria Nilo was ascended, in stead of the Nile proper being descended, from the love of geography, or from sheer necessity. The latter is to be doubted, for the travellers could have exchanged canoes on reaching tho Madi, and sent the lake people back in safety. This was all the more vexatious, as, Sir Samuel says, ho could see the river issuing from tho hike within eighteen miles of Ifnmmmi iil nltltmirrh if la mnrlrml nn t.flA map as being navigable to the first cataract at J Mount Jioko, still tlio question 01 nrst imr portance, as to the navigability (with a few intervening portages) of the Great ltiver Nile, from its embouchure in the Mediterra nean to tho Albei t N'yanza, would have been forever determined, and Sir Samuel and Lady Baker might have been spared many perils and much suffering. This is one great point which may now happily bo fairly considered as on the way of being Bettled. It is not a little remarkable that so intui tively did the quirk feminine perception of Lady Baker feel this point, that when Sir Samuel proposed going up to Kariima, although ho felt, by taking so circuitous a route, ho might lose tho boats at Gondokoro and become a prisoner m Central Africa, ill and without quinine, for another year, L idy Baker not only voted in her state of abject weakness to complete tho river to Kavuma, but wished, if possible, to return and follow the Nile from the lake down to Gondokoro ! The latter resolve, based upon tho simple principle of "seeing is believing," was, how ever, declared by her lord and master to bo a sacrifice most nobly proposed, but simply impossible and unnecessary." If thoro was any unnecessary sncrifico to bo made in the matter, it would certainly seem to have been in taking the sick l.idy up to Kartima, instead of conveying her by canoe down tho Nile to Gondokoro. A second and equally interesting point. although not of so much importance to tho future opening of the country, is tho possible communication between the Albert N'yanza and Lake Tanganyika. From the elevation at which Sir Samuel Baker stood, whon he first saw Lake Albert, with a boundless hori zon to the 6onlh and southwest, its waters would appear to extend beyond tho parallel assigned by Burton and Speke to Lake llusisi, and, in fact, to embrace that lake as a kind of inlet, as also Lake Tanganyika further south. The elevation given to Lake langanyikaof only eighteen hundred and forty-four feet above the level ot the sea. white the Albert N'yanza is two thousand four hundred and forty feet above the samo level, and the in formation given to Burton and Speke as to the waters at the north end of Tanganyika flowing into that lake, are opposed to this view of the subject; but it i possible that there may have been an error in the barometrical observation made, as also in the information obtained from tho natives. It is now known that the waters of Lake Tangan yika do not flow into the N'yassa, which has an elevation of only thirteen hundred feet 'above the level of the sea; but, on tho con trary, that the rivers and small lakes south of the Tanganyika pour their waters into that great reservoir. It is not probable that Lake Tanganyika should have no outlet and receive rivers at both its north and south extremities, as also in its centre, the Malagarasi. The position of the lako, added to tho discovery made by Sir Samuel Baker of the great south erly extension of the Albert N'yanza, would then tend to show that the most southerly tributaries south of Tanganyika possibly the Moi Tawa, discovered by Livingstone, northeast of the N'ysssa are the most remote sources of the Nile. It is to be hoped that Livingstone's last journey will have settled this dubious point, and we shall but express the satisfaction which will be felt by all, at hearing of the safe return of tho great tra veller before Sir Samuel Baker's expedition is set in motion. As that expedition partakes, if we understand rightly, of a character of Egyptian occupation and ' annexation, the African chiefs may now be induced to look upon the presence of a white man in their countries as the forerunner of invasion on the part of their hereditary foes, and the life of such a man, however innocent his inten tions, would no longer be safe. Dr. Livingstone may, however, be in quite a different part of the country; for it is Sir 11. I. Murchison's opinion that if the distin guished traveller satisfied himself when at the southern end of L:ike Tanganyika that its waters vere about eighteon hundred feet above the sea, as stated by Burton and Speke, he would necessarily infer that they could not flow northwards in the much higher equato rial lakes. In this case he would abandon the northern route, in which it was supposed he might find the waters of tho Tangan yika flowing into the Albert N'yanza of Buker. Having also ascertained that tho Tan ganyika was fed by livers flowing from the south and tho east, it would be evi dent under these circumstances that this vast body of fresh water (three hundred miles in length) mnst find its way to the wost, and he would then follow the river or rivers which issue on the west coast of Africa. Under this supposition, Sir It. I. Mnrchison thinks he may be first heard of from one of tho western Portuguese settlements, or even from those on the Congo. If this view be entertained, we cannot be expected to hear of Livingstone for some time to come, as the distance he would have to traverse is vast, and tho region unknown. This hypothesis is also said to explain why no in telligence whatever respecting him has buen received at Zanzibar, inasmuch as he has ba:;n travelling through a vast country, the in habitants of which have no communication with the eastern coast. Sir It. I. Murckisou says he entertain ! a well-founded hope tint his distinguished friend thanks to his iron frame and undying energy will issue from Africa on the sniro shore at which, aftvr a very long absence, ho reappeared after his first great traverse of Southern Africa. A third and very curious point presents itself in tho possible existence of one or in :o outlets to the Albert N'yanza. We have scan that Sir Samuel Baker satisfied himself as to the existence of a river flowing out of tho l ike into the White Nilo, which the natives told him was nrhig'iMe for some distance, and by which, mereioi, it is to ue supposed mat tne lake could be entered in boats from the Nile, without the nectsity of conveying them, as we are informed is to be done, in pieces to the shores of tlio lake. But two French traders, Messrs. Jules and Ambrose Boncet, who have explored tho country between the Gazelle Lake and the Albert N'yanza, express themselves as perfectly satisfied that the river Jur, Bibi, or Buhr Kuknnda, as it is variously designated, Hows out of tho Luta N'zigo (as they call the Albert N'yanza) into the Gazelle Luke. If this is so, the river of tho Jur tribo and of the Niam Nams would present another menus of approach to tho great lake. But this is not all. Tho same informant, who have trading ports on the Jur, have also founded another station, marked on their map as Cagouma (Kaguma), Etablisioment l'oricet, on a great river which flows from southeast to northwest, and which is called Bahr-Bura, or Bahr-Munbutti. This river, they sav, which evidently comes from Lako Luta N'zige, divides itself in about four do grees of north latitude into two branohos, that to the east flowing, under the name of Kuwa, to the northwest, to go probably to form the Shary or Asu, which throws itsolf, after its junction with tho Bah-gun or Bah-bal, into Lako Tsad. The west erly branch, which is much the largest, keeps its name of Bahr-Bura, and Hows in a west-northwei;t direction to about tho sixth degree of north latitude, at which point, according to tho Munbutu people, after re ceiving another considerable affluent coming likewise from the southeast, it empties itself into a great lake, in part marshy, and which was called by the people of Aii Umuri, an Arab trader, Birka Matuassat. This lako, again, is doscribed as having two outlets: one to the north known as the Bah-gun or Bah-bai, joins the Shary south of Lako Tsad, tho other, and the most important, issuing from tho west end of the lake, according to all appear ances gives birth to the Binuwa Niger, or, at all events, to an affluent of the Binuwa and Kwaira tho Kibbi or Kulla which in that case will possess a much greater importance than has hitherto been conceded to it an im portance equal to that of tho Binuwa or Kwarra itself. It is not likely that there should bo so much division and subdivision of waters as is hero described. Excepting in a delta, the general rule of rivers is to receive affluents in their progress to the sea, and not to divide oil' into branches; but tho region between tho Albert N'yanza and the Gazello Lako is nothing more than an inland delta, as is also apparently the case at tho north end of tho Victoria N'yanza, and the same thing may hold good of tho Bahr-Bura and Lake Ma tuassat. This latter lako would appear to correspond to the Muato Yanvo, of which the old goo grupher D'Anville obtained some notice, and near which was Monsol, or Munsul, capital of tho Anziko, proximately placed on tho map attached to Mr. W. I). Cooley's "Inner Africa Laid Open" (London, 18."l'). It appears that an Italian explorer, Carlo IMagga, has also pushed his researches in tho same direction, and that ho la obtained in formation of the existence of "a vast interior lake"' lying on the equator or south of it; and Sir It. I. Mnrchison has justly pointed out that an entirely new field for research is thus laid open to the enterprise of explorers, who v ill have to determine whether the streams issuing from this immense lako and the ad jacent region to the west of twenty-five de grees east longitudo do not flow from a watershed entirely separated from that of all the affluents of the Nile, and which sends its waters into the South Alantic Ocean, and pro bably bp the great river of Congo. It would scarcely seem that tho immense lake here alluded to as lying on tho equator, or south of it, is the same as tho Matuassat of Messrs. Toncet, which is placed in about six degrees north latitude, unless it has an ex tent of some six degrees, which is not at all impossible. Albert N'yanza has possibly an almost equal extent, and, if it joins Lake Tanganyika, would embrace iu its prolonga tion over ten degrees of latitude. It is cu rious, in connection with Sir K. I. Muivhi son's suggestion, that this great central lake may give birth to the Congo, that Fernando do Enciso speaks in his "Suma do Geografta," of a fact learned from the natives of Congo, that the River Zaire, or Congo, rises from a lake in the interior, from which another groat river, presuired to be tho Nile, flows in au opposite direction. This may be one of the rivers seen by Sir Samuel Baker, tumbling through gorges in the Blue Mountains west of the Albeit N'yanza. The theory, however, advocated by the Messrs. Toncet, of Lako Matuassat sending off tributaries to the Binuwa Niger, and to the Shary and Lake Tsad, as also by Fernando de Enciso and Sir It. I. Mnrchison, to tho Congo, only corroborates the old opinion held by the father of history and by all the old geographers, that one half of the Nile flowed over i Egypt and the other half over Ethiopia. "There are two mountains," said Herodotus, from information obtained from tho registrar of Minerva's treasury at Lais, "rising into a sharp peak, situated between the city of Syene in Thebais and Elephantine; the names of these mountains are the one Crophi and the other Mophi; that the sources of the Nile, which are bottomless, flow from between these mountains, and that half of the water flows over Egypt and to tho north, and the other half over Ethiopia and the south." The sources of the Nile, being described as bottomless, are evidently meant as issuing from a lake, and it is afterwards that thoy pass through the mountains, the names of which, admitting an error in their positioning, would Ue represented by the Koshi and M.idi of the present day. The transposition and identification are rendered all the more neces sary, as the sources of the Nilo could not have been between Syene and Elephantine, nor could the river have divided itself in such a latitude to flow one-half to Egypt and the other half to Ethiopia. It is remarkable that the Oriental geographers, as more especially Al Idrisi and Abu'l Facia, represent this divi sion of the head waters of the Nile into an Egyptian and an Ethiopian liver as a well determined fact. Such, then, are some of the points to be de termined by the navigation and 'exploration of the Albert N'yanza, and they aro of ilia greatei-t possible interest, as they will pro'ia bly either themselves load to the unveiliii'f of tho mystery which has so long made a LI ink of our maps in as far as Central Africa is con cerned, or they may pave .the way to th.i gradual unfolding of every detail connected with the origin of tho Nile, the Congo, ivil the Binuwa Kwarra, or Eastern Niger, of lh) Egyptian Nile, and tho Ethiopia Nile. Interesting and curious as the solution of such questions may be, great as will be tho difference mado upon existing maps, and various the people and tho regions that will be brought under the cognizance of tho civilized world, still, even all those additions to knowLilgejAe irMniportance before tho prospecPUjrtened of an amelioration in tho conditiontJr the African races, only recently mado known to us by the ovplorations of Burton, Speke, Grant, Pethorick, Baker, irU othcrH. Of all the impressions left upon tho reader of Kir Samuel's book, those relating to the slave-trade of the White Nile are porhaiH the most startling. Many people have thought but lightly of the evils connected with Ori ental slavery. Those who wero most en thusiastic in waging warrngainst tho trade of the went coast were content, for the most part, to look upon Turkish and Egyptian slaverV as a minor evil compared with the other, and one which was so inoradicably ' mixed np with the nature of Oriental life and despotism, that any denunciations directed I pgaiiiht it would be as absurd as they would bo futilo. No doubt, too, the slavery itsolf was a comparatively small evil. Tho subjec tion of one human creature to another is not so shameful a phenomenon to the African mind as to be unendurable, whon it takes that patriarchal and domestic character with which slavery in the East appears to be more or loss invested, and more especially when the slave continues to enjoy a climate something like his own. Sir Samuel Buker way, however, be said to have lifted the veil which concealed the pro cess by which tho slave markets of Cairo and Constantinople were recruited. Barth has given ns a graphic if painful ac count of the expeditions of the Mohammedan Sultans of Bornu, Baghirmi, and Sokoto, car ried on even into Adamawa and tho regions of the Binuwa and Eastern Niger; and, still more recently, M. Mage has depicted, with the most striking minuteness, life, as it is on tho Upper Niger and in the vast Pullo-Feli-tah dominions. That lifo appears, under tho rude sway of the Mohammedan, to bo one successive, continuous, and incessant war fare; tho enslaving of everything Pagan; re prisals, murders, and executions. Wo havo also heard something of tho questionable pro ceedings of tho. Egyptians on tho western frontiers of Abyssinia fromTaka to the upper regions of tho Blue Nile, and we havo always regretted that tho costly expedition sent to that country to liberate tho British captives should havo dono nothing towards insuring the immunity of a Christian people against the enslaving propensities of their Egyptian neighbors. Sir Samuel Baker may bo said to bo one ot tho hrst to make us acquainted with the nature of tho raids mado by Mohamme dan slave-dAilers from Gondokoro against the Obbos and Latukas, and other tribes in the neighborhood, and which were so cruel and reckless in their character, that, it has been justly observed, one of tho worst fea tures of Sir Samuel's journey must have boon the necessity of witnessing, without the power of mitigating in even tho slightest de gree, the atrocities which the slave seekers committed. Under cover of carrying on an "ivory trade," armed bands of desperadoes ascend the river and penetrate into tho heart of some savago country. To be at war with one another is a normal condition of existence amongst the native tribes. Taking advan tage of this, the traders offer their alliance to the tribe with whom they first come in con tact, on the understanding that they may be at liberty to make prisonors from the enemy. The African savage is . either too sim ple to see, or, what is far more likely, is willing, for the sako of revenge, to close his eyes to tho fatal nature of tho friendship offered. Assisted by his Mussulman allies, ho sets forth on the campaign, and, amidst the reckless slaughter that ensues, a draught of living captives is secured for the trader's net. But very soon tho original dupes, if they can be so termed, discover that the trader iH equally ready to turn his arms against them. In alliance with some other tribe, he makes war against them in turn, and the friends who assisted him to effect his first captures fall victims to his whips and chains in turn. Forced to some extent into associa tion with tho "ivory traders," Sir Samuel beheld their proceedings. Very nar rowly did he escape a sudden death at their hands, but his wonderful intre pidity carried him through; and ho livod to register a resolution that, if he ever came back from his wanderings, he would do something to interfere with the proeeodnu,M which, for the timo being, ho could only con template with secret indignation. -Tho timo for action has now happily arrived. No doubt it will be a difficult task to persuade tho tribes through which the "ivory traders" have passed, that the object of tho expedition is simply the extinction of the slave-trade. It matters, however, little whether the Africans fully understand the expedition at first. The traders of Gondokoro will com prehend it readily enough, and they will soon feel, or bo mado to foel, that a prompt submission to the new system to be inaugurated is inevitable. This, then, one of the avowed philanthropic purposes of the expedition, with the anticipated oponing of Central Africa to tho purposes of commerce, and the withdrawing of the veil which has so long hung over so large a portion of the earth's surface, fully entitle the projected expedition to our most earnest hopes of success, and to anticipate that it will yet constitute one of the most remarkable pages in tho history of our own times. OITY ORDINANCES. OP PHILADELPHIA CLERK S OKFICB, Pnir.APELPillA. June 25. lSrt. t In accordance wltli a liesolution adopted by the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, od Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of June, 18ti'J, the annexed bill, entitled "An Ordinance to Authorize a Loan for the Pay ment of Ground Ttcnts and Mortgages," Is hereby published for public Information. JOHN ECKSTEIN, Ckrk of Common Council. AN OHDIN A N C E To Authorize a Loan for tho Paymen Ground Rents and Mortgages. (Section 1. 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Inland in'uranikh On foods bjf river, cnnl, InKn, and land carriage to all f'nrta of t he I'nion. t , RK INHUKAKOKR On Merchandise generally on Stores, Dwellings, Homes, AftKFT Or TRR COMT-AWT, ... November 1. 1M1K. faPO.eo United fit tee Km Ter cent. Loan, . I"-.. $30S,500 00 120,000 United States bn Per Cent. Loan, . 1 136.81M 00 60,000 Unied (states Si Per Cont. Loan (for Pacitlo Railroad) 60,090 00 SOO.COO State of l'eniicylv;inia Six Por Cant. Loan ail,376-0 125,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. lxwn (unmptr from tnx) liW.SM'OO 60.CO) Stato of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Lwin 61,600 00 Bil.OOO Pcnn. Rail. First JIortKii(re Six Per Cent. Honda ao,2K) 00 96,000 Penn. Rail. Second Mort. Six Per Cent. Hnnds ai.OOO'Ot 25,000 Western Penn. Raft. MnrtRnpn Six I'erCent. Bonds li'enn. fcuilroad (tuanintec) 20,62600 ai'.OPO 8tate of Tennessee Five Per Cont. loan 21,000000 7,X Stato Bf Tennoaseo Six Per Cont. Loan 6,03r25 16,CW) GeniiMnUmn (iaa Company, prin cipal and Ii;tor"H Riiur.'intood by City of Pbiliululpnia, 3n0 shares , f-t.xk IS.OOOTO 10,000 rnnylvanift Railroad Company, 200 shares Stork ll.HJO 00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., loO iv, .,w. "bares Stock 8,600 00 t00 riiikidfllpliia and Southern Mail Steamship Co., W Mia res Stock.... 15,000 00 ar,,.tO Loana on Hoard and AlortKiio, tirst Liens on City Properties 907,900.00 l,ltt,MM Par. Market Talue, $1,130,325 25 , . Cost, l.OM.Bol-JS. Real Fata to , JH.PKrnn Rilla receivable for iiiMiranco made SEiMro"!1! xialanres duo at acem ies, premiums on m. n ine polit ies, accrued mteiest, and other debts due thocoiimany 40,1783 block and scrip of sundry corporations, $3154. J-Htiniated value 1.F13 00 Cash in bank $HB,l.'j0 e9 Caah In drawer ,u 66 116,5(3 73 $1,WT,867'N) ThoroasO. Hand, John O, Davis, James C. Hand. 1 heopliilus Paulding, Joseph H. Seal, HukIi CraisT, John R. Penrose. Jacob P. Jones, Inines Traquair, KeVarri I arlington, Jl. Jones lirooke, James 1!. McFarland, Kdward I.alourcado, ' Kitmiind A. Sondor, Samuel K. Stokes, Henry Sloan, William C. Lndwig, . OeoraM O. Ioiper, illoiiry C. Dallett, Jr., jjohn 1). Taylor, !oor?e W. RernAdou, 1AV allium (. Houluiu, Jacob RiegeL ! Spencer Mcllvaine, fpencer Mcllvaine, n t ! ........ i..t.iMiv0 John K. Somple. " 'A. H. Mower, " TIT.HIiij c it A-it n :j t oosiiua f, 1-yre, T, ivt Jv0,i!j VM. Vice-President 11KNRY HALL, Assistant .Secreta ry. 10 1829.CnAKTER PERPETUAL. Franilln Fire Insnrancs Cospy OF PIUI.ADEIJ'IIIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CIIESNUT St. Assets on Jai 1,1809, $2,677,37213 CAPITAL ACCKUKD SURPLUS... PREMIUMS , UNSETTLED CLAIMS. stoo.ono-oo j,s:t,.V2v l.iuj.tsi.i'ja INCOME FOR ISGtf, LesssspaiJsiicel823,oyer$5,50!l,e03 Ferpetnal and Temporary Polio'es on Liberal Terms. Tbo Company also ianuos Policies on Rente of Buiidiaa of all kind. Ground Rente, and Mortgages. DIRECTOR S. A 1 . I Vtll Alfred O. Baker, Fiamuei tyrant, Ueorfre W. Richards, Isaao Leo. ni'ini tuor. Thomas Sparks, William S. Grant, Thomas S. Kiln, OllRttVrlal 4 linnalM Ltoorge tales. ALFRED U. KAKKlY Prci lanf JAS. W. McALLlS-f&tiry!8' VW,-tal Til KOOORli M. RKUKR. Assistant Bocretary. 39 A s BURY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 201 BROADAVAY, corner READE Stroct, New York CASH CAPITAL irJ 15 fcl.i6,UO0 deposited with the State of New York as security for policy holders. I.F.MUKL HAiS'liS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice President and Becrotttrr. EMORY McOLINTOCK, Actuary A. E. Al. PUKDY, M. D., Medical Examiner. AMFEltKNrlLH 11V I'K-UMIkKinw Charles Spencer, John A. Wripht, Arthur O. Collin, j nomas x . i asaer, John M. Maris, J. If. Llppincott, James 1-our, Jamos Hunter, W'illiaui Divine, o. morns wain, John li. McCrearv r.. n. vvorne. .u .. ui uiiwiuin. eumiiniiy 111 in:tnaKe- mont, reasonableness of ratos. PARTNERSHIP PLAN pF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in femulo Jives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policios, and no restriction of travel after the first year, the ASBURx' pre sents a combination of advantages offered by no othor company. Policies issued in every form, and a loan of one-third made when dosirod. Special advantai's ottered to clerfrymeo. tot all farther information address JAMKS M. LONWAORF, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office. No. i2 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. J'ORMAKHOLUNSUEA.DLBpecial Agent. 4 1( STRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Lifo and Trust Co. OP PIIILADELPUIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH" STREET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE amonij members of the Society of Friends. Hood risks of any class accepted. Policies Issued on approved plans, at tne lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETH, Actuary, ROWLAND PARKY. The advantages offered by this Company are un excelled. 818T5 J N 8 U It AT HO ME, IN TBM Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. No. m CIIESNUT STREET, PIIILADELPUIA. ASSETS, 82,000,000. ICHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE. HANAIJLD BY 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. It 1S In III. PhlruKta. nf iia I I i .... t " - JAMES TRAOUAIR MAJtIUKI. E. STOKES JOHN Y. IIOJiNOK A. IIOHATIO N. STEPHENS... PRESIDENT ..VIOE-PRESIDENF V. P. and ACTUARY .. SECRET AHY rpiIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY 1 Oh" PHILADELPHIA. vvv.ni Ollice B. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. FIRE INhURANfJK EXCLUSIVELY PERPETUAL AND TERM PUUCIEa 1 ISSUED. Caah Capital ii emrivi Cfl Asset-, Way, im OVER HAlji' ' A ' MILLION DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Rtarr, J. IJvlnjrston Erringer. James L. Clahorn, William G. houlton, Charles Wheeler, Thomas H. Montgomery, James Aertaan. JMalhro ra&ier, John M. Atwood, ltenjumin T. Trmlick, George II. btuart, Thia Company iuenres only specially hazardous rinks whatever, such as fauturiea. mills, eto. V. HATCH FORD RTARR. President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Yi coresident. AlFIANHKH W. Wihtkb, BcoreUry. ' reaiqenc. TilKKNIX INSURANCE COMPANY Off X PHILADELPHIA. WS INCORPORATED 1804-CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Kiokaune. This Company insures frnm Ir.ilk or damage by 1? IRE, on 'liberal terms, on buildinfis, merchandise, furniture eto., for limited periods, and permanently on buildinaa L dupoeit of premiums. The Company has been In active operation for more than SIXTY VICAIH dnrin. which oil loU UeS promptly adjusted and paid. donn ii. nonce, M. E. Mahony, John T. Lewis, William H. Grant, Robert W. learning, Renjamin Ettlng, Thoiuaa H. Powers. A. H. Mc Henry, Edmund Caatillon, Samuel Wilcox, p. Clark' Wuanton, Ltwrence Lewis, Jr., !Vr l. iwis U. Worris. ..... ..... , " wiivn, rrosiaoniv, SAMVUtWlUOX,Siivrluiy. t j. INSURANOE. THE P EN N 8 YL V A NI FIRE INSURA! JL COMPANY. k incnTiinrmeil irLW imri"r rnryfimu. No. MO WALNUT Htree, opponito Inrierendenoe R This Cfinipany, favorably known to the oommnni by rlre en f'ulilio or Private I'mldine, either pnrmm or for s limited time. Alan on Furniture, Htocksof ti mil m ercnnmiino Runnrniiy, innrii criiin. Their Capital, t'jrether with s lanre 8urplne Fund, vofcted in the moat careful manner, which ffnahi in ofler to the insured an undoubted security in thee. HISS. vuui lUIV. Daniel Smith, Jr., John Derereim, Alexander henaon, Thomas Kmith. I Imuo Har.lelurt, Henry lwia, ' Thomas Kobina, J. Giflinguam Fell, Daniel Haddock, .Ir DANIEL SMITH. Ja.. Praaidi WM. O. CROWF.I.L, Secretary. l",U" "''' OHI,V)K T"R INSURANCE COMP. J-tohS.RTH AM. WALNUT B incorporated 1 9MJ Asr,et , , , MARINE, INLAND, AND EIRE INSURAlio' OVER $30,00C.(!M LOSSES TMD S1NOK ITS OlV MnrcmRIL Samuel Sv. Jones, John A. Ilrewn, Charles Taylor, Ambrose V htio, William We Mi, S. Morris Wain, John Mason, Georss E. Harri'irti. Arihnf fl rViffl. t renols R. Oone, ! Edward U. TroTter.' Edward a OlarW i-.J'Tilon "nry, Alfred II j.Tessnp. j John P. White, J Jni O. Madeira, I Chailos W. Cnabn & ? Y?.-v i TOT- r " rMrisitTAL KIKE INSUIIAJNCK LOXDON. LSTAfJU.SHED ISft3. Paid-up Capf ul and Accnmula'.pd -p-nn.-., ,000,000 I IV GOlj PPvEVOST & EESrvIIJG, Agentl S 45 No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Pailadelpti CHA8. M. PREVOST. CHAS. P. HKRIT BHIPPINQ. 1 THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST j FAST FKKIGHT Ll EVERY THURSDAY. j The StearcBhlpg TOOM ETH EUS, Captain Orav! WILL FORM A REGULAR WE EivLTr LfVi The steaniPtiln J. W. EVER MAN will SATURDAY, July IT, at 4 P.M., from rTr J below Spruce street. u fllJ Through bills of lmllnp; given In connection w C. R. R. to points In the South and Southwest. 1 Insurance at lowe3t rates. Rates of frelirht al as by any other route. For freight, apply to i jrtONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRAjj T GENERAL TRAVSittJ sT&u:-C.A PA NY'S M A 1 L MtVa Ci l.i. I VT, X X L" U7 I'll ) r a Mn ii . ,i .V v' A MS! BREST. -waww AVlttCGALLINi The splendid new vessels on this favorite rr.-nt. Continent will sail from Pier No. fio Noil" rive?. PEREIRF. Dncheene Satnrd i I iA FAYETTE Ronsaeaa . V ' s?;?1' V1LLK DE PARIS....V.Sunouut::-:.V.V' i . . PRIK Off PASSAGE In gold (including wine, v.- . , v, ,fo atiksT or havrr. lirst Cabin Kil40!Keoond Cabni i'ii it i l.i.. u- I,nIndinK railway tickets, furnished on board First Cabin ttiA Kn..nnH it..?L 1 uoara ' 3 2? .'"" do nt cry steerage Psienieri.' Medical attendance free of charae A tti iri c ii n lr..llnM . . ' . . tinentofi:rope;bftangh0.t. nnnecestiar naka from ti-an.i. i... u iv""".uae -LB. No. 3VJ0 OH&Vffi aw. PHILADELPHIA RTnTJrJ Crfr'AVD NORFOLK STEAMSHIP ' fl m gOfi'm ROUGH FR K IG I IT a ? l,Hr.W T.si"yH AND wksi-r m AtT noon. OarolinX, via BboVrd Air" L?n. F?. SoSSSSf1, " Portsmouth and to lnchbnrg, t Tenn-80"" Freipht HANDLEDBUT ONOE. andtak.- . TrJ BATES THAN ANY OTHER Un" The regularity, safety, and eheauneaanf th 1 mend it to the public thS2m ourrjing every description of freiKht meaias; transfer . ' w W Xpei 3 h;eomships lnsnred at the lowest rates. , .' : ' wi races. i roight received datly. i VTTiLIAM P. OLYDK A nn' W P I- 7 i Pi" A.BV?S.a?,d t ier 1 N- WlliRVi LORLLLARD'8 STEAXSI :-f ? LINE FOR NEW YORK. Balling Tne8daya, Thursdays, and Saturday luiutiiiua Uf KATES, Spring rates, commencing MaS IB. Balling Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and after 16th of March freight by th's line wii Uken at la cents per 100 pounds, 4 ceuta per foo 1 cent per gallon, ship's option. Advance ctiai cashed at office on Pier. Freight received al times on covered wkarf. oo. JOHN P. OHlJ 285 Pier 19 North Wlmrvi N. B. Extra rates on small pttckagegjroreta' . NEW ' EXPRESS LINE1 Jkf ' 25. AlexaD?.Ti' Oeowtown, and Woshingtrf afios.uiku C, via Uiesapeake and Delaware CarSD connections at Aieiundna from the most direct rout rthwea"?' KnoiTille. NoshviUe, DalSJ. Vmd Steamers leave rrolarly every Saturday at Boon fro flmt wharf above Maiket street. li'ieight received daily. i v.1!'1.'11 p- Ol YDS A OO nvnw a tvt V 'T"' na oootn wnarv ELD RIDGE A CtX, AgenU at Alexandria.6080"11 r , ".iu7, uuiy ii. ai la noon. I !'...( , .. . U.,HH.. T..1.. IN - . . n t yny ui uiiiuou, oaiuraay, duly 34, at 1 P. M. i City of Bultiuiore.via Halifax, Tueaday, July 27 at 1 ' from Pta?46! mSS? RfvetUrJ7 "d U A 'V L w? ATJ" n a OD a n -mm t V HILT . 1 1 J ., . Payable in Gold. Payable in Onrrenor' Uverpool $80 Liverpool... . Halifax SW Hahlalr:..': bt. John's, N. F., jgjgt. John's, N. if i by Branch Steamer.. .. by llranch Steamer.. PassenKers alno forwarded to Havre. Uambnrs. Br etc., at reuueed rules. ' Tickets oun be bonght h'jrj at moderate rate by pai l orluither information apply at the Company's O JOHN ii. II A I K Aaont. Nn 1A. KIIOI liVv r. to ''l.'ONNELL A FAULK. Atm'nu o no. llcub.bNUT Street. PhibLdelLk . ITS? fc. NOTICE FOR NEW YORK. lTtBi dklaWark and raritan oa sfcjfcaau - EX PRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY vvvvvwaa sumuui'iuujb kUU OV? X UTH bteamers leave daily from first wharf below M; treet, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street. New Yor Goods fonvsrded by all the lines runninir out of , York, North, East, and West, free of oomTuiwlon? ! Flemht received and forwarded. on ae.coiniiiHUtin t HO. la S. DELAWARE Avenno. Phil&delpl , .amr 3 tiAm, Agem No-1 1.9 WALL Street. New Y e .?.. NOTICE. FOR NEW Yt trf " Crrr via nelawara and Hurlf.n l.n.l fa,.- aooouimodaun- teruis, aVpi to Uk " 1 .t'J Son thWhr JvJOW IS THE TIME TO CLEA1 TUR HOUSE. WIJIII!K. lIARTMAIf & CO WASHING AND CLEANSING POVVDKf Isnnequallod for scrubbing PuluU. Floora. .-A -nl bold . Ask for it and tSe no ofiier. 83 6m W. No. o. lualFRAN ivFO RD Ro T"U."KINKEI.l!sr f!Ar -nv fimn-,,, I . . . 7 " vinouLlrilJ sCrrt-n Payable in Gold. Payable In 1V,T; I !RSJ CA W .7. $1U0 :STEErAGE.?. Uarren0 ToLonuo-u mo. To London.
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