THE DAILr EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1809.
snxizT or run muss.
Editorial Opinion, of the I.piutln JoiirnaU
Onj tor the KTenlim TclrHTnpri.
ATTORNEY-OENERAL HOARS OPINION
ON Til E VIRGINIA TEST-OATH.
Prim the A'. 1'. H'orW.
The opinion of Mr. llonr in
w.iiirv of Secretary Rawlins.
reply to
vhethor
tho
the
otlicers of the new Virginia State Govern
uieut must take the test-oath, will have a re
assuring intluenco, although exceptions may
e taken to some of tho Attorney-General h
reasoning. He split tho ilitYereneo bctwoon
General Canby and the Virginia conserva
tives; but splits it in such a way as to give
Virginia tho oyster and Cauby tho shells.
Congress, Mr. lloar maintains, cannot pre
scribe tests for tho State of Virginia any
more than for tho Governments of the other
States, and therefore the test-oath cannot bo
required: but then, on the other hand, the
new Government has no validity until ac
cepted by Congress, and can perform no
functions except such as may be prerequisite,
for bringing it before Congress for judg
ment. Tho Virginia Legislature, Mr.
Hoar thinks, may assemble and
organize without taking tho test-oath; but it
can pass no laws, and can transact no other
business than to ratify tho fifteenth amend
ment. It may do this, he thinks, because
Congress has prescribed it as a condition of
admission: but, since the military government
will stand until the State is admitted, tho
ordinary functions of the new officers remain
suspended until that time, unless they take
the test-oath. Tho new Virginia governnion'
is a fu'tus perfectly formed and mature for
birth, awaiting the Congressional uci'oucJieur;
but, though unborn, it can nevertheless come
forth into tho air for the solo purpose of
going to Washington and getting tho uccou
vlicnr to deliver it!
The legal absurdity of a part of tho Attorney-General's
opinion must not blind us to
the excellence of its practical effect tho
practical effect, we mean, of the whole opi
nion. It capsizes the pretty radical scheme
in which this test-oath proposition had its
origin: the scheme to throw out so many of
tho conservative members of the Virginia Le
gislature as to make tho radicals a majority,
and then proceed to elect radical Seuators to
Congress. We are too grateful to Mr. Hoar
for blasting this contemplated rascality, to
bear very hard upon that part of his logic in
which he trims to tho radicals and indorses
Canby. Tho Attorney-General is a radical
himself: he wishes to keep on terms with his
faction, and we must pardon something to tho
exigencies of his position. The Senators
cannot be elected when the Legislature
first meets; but when they are elected,
they will be chosen by the same
body, neither thinned' by the test-oath nor
trammelled by the presence of a military gov
ernment. The majority of tho Legislature
will be of the same mind next January or
February as when they first assemble in Sep
tember; both in the choice of Senators and
the passage of laws they will act upon the
same preferences and be governed by the
same principles. The postponement gained
by the radicals under the Attorney-General's
opinion is a barren advantage; it is the un
profitable malice of keeping an heir out of his
estate for a few months, by vexatious litiga
tion which does not impair his rights, and
will change nothing in the end.
The distinction which Mr. Hoar tries to
draw between ratifying the fifteenth amend
ment and other legislative business, will strike
many minds as ridiculous. The ratification
will be a nullity unless given by a valid Legis
lature; and it is preposterous to contend
that a valid Legitdature cannot transact the
ordinary business of legislation. Mr. Hoar
must of course assume the constitutionality
of the Reconstruction acts, and there would
be no justice in complaining of any conclu
sions which, by fair reasoning, he may de
duce from that assumption. It is undoubtedly
true that, according to those acts, the new
government has no complete authority until
Congress shall have accepted it. If Con
gress rejects the new constitution, the
whole structure falls at once into ruins. In
that case, the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment would be just as null and nu"a
tory as any other act of the abortive Legisla
ture. In point ol authority, all its acts must
stand on precisely the same footing. If Con
gress can cast back a retrospective authority
upon one of them, like the ratification of a
constitutional amendment, it may upon all.
The provisional passage of ordinary laws, or
the provisional election of United States
Senators, is just as much within the compe
tency of the Virginia Legislature as the pro
visional ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment. They would all be alike void if Con-
cress should reject the new constitution, and
tney woma an ue uiumuu wiiu eijuiu vigor
and authority by the acceptance of that in
strument. This part of the Attorney-Gene
ral's reasoning rests upon a futile distinction;
the new Legislature being just as competent
to transact any otner business as to ratify au
amendment. Congress may just as well give
a retrospective sanction to ordinary laws as to
a ratification
The. concession which Mr. Hoar makes to
"General Canby'a crotchet, and tho consequent
postponement of legislation and tho election
of Senators, though untenable in logic and
objectionable in point of convenience, will
have one compensating advantage which was
not in the contemplation of tno Attorney
General when he wrote his opinion. As it
puts off the election of Senators until after
the approval by Congress of the now consti
tution ana its acceptance oi tne htate govern
ment, the Legislature will be quite free to ex
press its real choice in the election; whereas
if the Senators were to be chosen immedi
ately, the Legislature would be restrained by
fears that a choice displeasing to Congress
would imperil the new government. In con
sentience of the postponement, the Senators
will not be chosen by a Legislature which is a
timorous candidate for Congressional ap
proval, but by a Legislature acting with the
f nil confidence of assured authority; free to
elect whom it pleases without endangering
the re-establishment of the State as a member
of the Union.
THE CLOUD IN THE EAST.
front the 1'. Y. Times.
There is a storm brewing in tho East. No
Oriental potentate who did not mean mischief
would have written a letter suoh as that which
we recently published from the Sultan to the
Viceroy of Egypt. It was intended to pro
voke resistance, and as it was received m a
spirit of submission, it is at once followed up
by measures more suggestive of tho how.
Btrinft and the 13osphrous than of a mild
paternal rule. The . Sultan, it w stated,
lias sent a message to the Viceroy graciously
approviug his loyal assurances, but com
manding him to "sell", or "transfer to
the Turkish Government the ironclads and
breech-loaders ordered in' Europe, to
Lr-n bis forces within prescribed limits,
to abstain from negotiations with foreign
Government, and not to contract loans with- I
out his consent. A more arbitrary or exasne
- i
rating ultimatum has never boon received by
any ruler. The words to "sell or transfer" in
relation to the iron-clads and small arms,
mean one and the same thing. If the Viceroy
chose to sell the goods which his lord covots,
a tax would be put upon his own subjects to
raise the money, and aftor all the Sultan
would select his time of payment. Tho hu
miliation to Ismail Tasha consists in his
being compelled to part with materials of war
c.
fare whicn he bought lor the protection
kingdom.
"l
It seems almost impossible for the Viceroy
to resist tho commands which have boon
transmitted to him. Tho complete indepen
dence of Egypt is a dream which may have
flitted through his mind during tho last few
years, and tho manifest decline of Turkey
may have tended to give it shape and sub
stance. Rut is Egypt ready to shake off tho
bond of the Caliphs? Her people scarcely
know what patriotism means, and a very
largo proportion of them would look upon
revolt against tho head of Islam as an act of
sacrilege. Since tho time of Saladin, Egyp
tian indopendenco, on a settled basis, has
been as impossible as tho return of tho Pha
raohs. Tho Caliphs have ruled tho country
with a hand of iron. Tho spasmodic efforts
of the Mamelukes resulted only in greater
miseries for the oppressed people. Egypt
tried to throw off her allegiance to tho Court
of Constantinople less than six and thirty
years ago, but the old bugbear of tho "bal
ance of power" frightened Europe, and tho
greatest Viceroy of modern times was de
prived of the fruits of a long and gallant
struggle. What better hope could Ismail
Pasha have of conquoring now, supposing
that ho meditated resistance?
The province has been impoverished by
heavy and long-continued taxation so far
tho taunts of the Sultan are quite justified.
Rut it did not suit the purpose of Abdulz-Asiz
to admit that these exhausting imposts were
levied partly to maintain the barbaric splendor
of his own court. The Sultan does nothing
for Egypt. He takes part of the money
which is wrung from the people, and deems
that ho has proved his claim to it when ho
has sent a haughty reprimand to the Vice
roy. We do not believe that in the present
age this kind of despotism can be applauded
in Europe. The sympathy of the great
powers is no longer with Turkey. England
is sick of her; Franco would never send an
other soldier to aid a power which has fallen
lower and lower in the estimation of tho
world ever since the Crimean war saved
it from destruction. If Turkey mado war
upon Egypt, it would bo ut great peril to
herself. Rut how is Egypt to make war upon
Turkey? She must do that in order to
throw off the yoke. Tho Viceroy is asked to
give up his iron-clads; and he must do it, or
fight. If ten years more had been allowed
him ho might have mado a struggle. Rut
where is the necessary money to come from
now ? Ismail Pasha has done something
towards restoring the country to a sounder
financial position. Within the last year he
has converted a deficit into a surplus. Rut
he is not in a position to throw off his alle
giance. Abdul-Aziz fears that he may bo
ccttinc ready for the attempt, and this
alone accounts for, if it does not justify, the
warmth of his recent rebuke, and the degra
dation which he is subsequently reported to
have thrust upon the Viceroy. In those
measures he will receive little sympathy
abroad. The claims of the Sultan to
Eevpt are only tenable when they are not
discussed. If pressed to violence, the effects
might be more disastrous at Constantinople
than at Cairo.
LOUIS
NArOLEON ON
AMERICA AND
11USSIA.
From the X. Y. Sun.
The present Emperor of the French ex
pressed, in his famous work entitled "Napo
leonic Ideas," the following opinion on tho
subject of American and ltussian influence:
"I see at the present ilay only two governments
wlilrli fullll well tlielr providential mission; these
are the two Colossi which exist, one at. the ex
tremity of the new, ami the other at the extremity of
the old World. While our old European centre re
sembles a volcano which consumes itself in its cra
ter, tho two nations of the East and the West miircli
without hesitation on the road of Improvement: one
ol them through the will of one, man, tho other
through liberty.
"Providence nas commuted to me l iuiuu oiuif a
of America the charge of peopling and of subduing
to eiv ization all t nit immense territory wnicn ex
tends from the Atlantic to tho Tactile Ocean, and
from the north pole to the equator. Their overa
meiit, which is a simple administration, has hail, up
to the present time, imt to practise tne oia uiuikb:
Laixez aire. laiez imniter (let, thinirs take their
course), in order to favor that Irresistible instinct
winch u wb tne population oi tne miieu oiaies w
wards the est. "
Thus wrote tho Emperor thirty years ago,
His prophecy has been more than fulfilled
America and ltussia are more and more be
coming the arbiters ot the destinies ot the
Lastem and tho Western World.
Hut who was it that attempted to arrest
their progress except the author of the
"Napoleonic Ideas?' "Who sought to do'
stroy ltussia in the Crimean war and America
in tho Mexican invasion '( At this day lioua-
parte is intriguing actively against Ameri
can supremacy on this Continent and
ltussian influence in the Orient. He ad
mits the progress of the United Statos and
of ltussia to be providential, and yet no one
strives more assiduously than ho does to baflle
their development.
During tho thirty years which have elapsed
since the publication of Napoleons work,
America has got rid of slavery and llussia
of serfdom, and both nations have made rapid
strides towards that greatness which ho pre
dicted, and which he now opposes with all
his might. In the Cuban piestion Bona
parte has so far proved to be the most un
relenting enemy of that progress of American
power which only thirty years ago he re
garded as an irresistible instinct, as a manifest
destiny.
The course of events, however, will teach
him in regard to Cuba, as it taught him in
respect to Mexioo, to keep his bauds off from
the American Continent, if he does not wish
again to subject himself to disgrace and hu
miliation. ALL HAIL TO TEUU.
From the K. Y. Suti.
One of tho youngest members of tho Ameri
can family of republics, l'eru. has eclipsed
her older sistors by holding out tho right hand
of fellowship to tho heroic Cubans, and by
formally acknowledging tho national indo
pendenco of Cuba.
This example will no doubt be speedily fol
lowed by tho other South American Repub
lics, excepting perhaps the Argentine Con
federation," w'hose (ruler, Karmiento, acts as
if ho wen- a vassal of tho slave empire of
lrail.
Boon wo may hope to see Pern, Chill,
Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, and
Mexico oo-oporating in Cuban waters against
the Spanish fleet, and proclaiming with united
voices the abolition of slavery and tho free
dom of Cuba. Luckily for them, they have
no Alabama claims, and General Grant iu not
their Trebidout.
THE CRITICAL STATE OF THINGS IN
FRANCE.
From ths K. T. Herald.
Cable telegrams from London mnvpv llw
important intelligence that the Emperor
Napoleon tho Third In decidedly ill, and
that his sickness is of an alarming character
MS regards the probnble result of tho attack.
Private advices f rom the French capital repro-
fvu, iiiui, inn iiHjesry experienced a paroxysm
of disease which was attended with verv coil-
nidorable suffering during Saturday, and that
he remained, notwithstauding his naturally
buoyant constitution and almost wouderful
power ol recuperation, exhausted from lU
effects on Sunday. It was not anticipated that
a fatal result would ensue, but tho nvmntomi.
as we are told, were then decidedly calculated
io excue uneasiness in tne public mind. In-
easiness and excitement were consociuently
felt, and the illness of the Emperor is
new a universal topic, not in France
only, but throughout Europe. The daily bul
letins from his physician do not command
tho public confidence. Meantime we have no
doubt tho discussions nnd propositions con
sidered in the councils of state in viow of
possible contingencies arc of tho utmost im
portance. Tho action of the Senate, how
ever, in rejecting, by a vote of one hundred
and thirteen to nine, an amendment to the
ISointiiH Con milt inn proposing liberal reforms
in the constitution of tho Senate, has the ap
pearance of a reactionary movement in favor
ot the Lmpcror h personal government; and
this vote is calculated to create suspicions as
to the sincerity of Napoleon in his promised
liberal programme. Tho one hundred and
thirteen Senators who voted against the
amendment may, however, have been gov
erned more by their personal interests as
Senators than by the wishes of the Emperor;
but, whatever the inspiration, the vote was
for imperialism and against popular conces
sions.
In every point of view the vote is remark
able, and particularly so in tho face of the
Prince Napoleon's earnest appeal in support
ot the amendment, ihe imperialist journals,
it appears, express great discontent at the
Prince's speech, and say that he went too far;
but tho general opinion is that tho Prince dis
played great ability and a liberal spirit which
commands the sympathy of the people. All
this is very significant, and we shall not be
surprised it henceforward tho Prince Napo
leon shall advance from day to day more dis
tinctly into relief as the coming man for
r ranee. He is universally recognized as not
only possessing in his personal appearance a
most wonderful likeness to Napoleon tho
First, but as also possessing the Napoleonic
grasp of mind in a remarkable degree, and in
lull accord with the liberal and progressive
ideas which mark the universal spirit of the
age. The Prince Napoleon is a man of great
intellect, a great thinker, and from the signs
of the times ho is destined to become a great
actcr in tho reconstruction of the affairs of
France and of Europe, should his cousin be
called away.
BAD FOR PENNSYLVANIA.
F'om, the A. I'. World.
One of the suspicious incidents of the
Gettysburg reunion is that certain loil traf
fickers in dead men's bones have bought up
considerable quantities of the land on which
the great battle of Wui was fought. A second
suspicious circumstance is, that it is stated in
the press despatches trom the scene ot the
late humbiiKKerv that a movement was on
foot to secure the purchase ot the battle-held
by the Federal Uovernment, in order to
maintain it as public property forever here
and a thiol
after m terrorrm of all Rebels;
incident, supplementing the other two, is
that, eheek-by-iowl with the openly known
manipulators of the land purchases, we hud
Gearv. Governor of Pennsylvania. It is
Gearv who "marks out" with such detail the
lines upon Culp's Hill that hill which is not
as yet bought up, but upon which the laud
buyers huve their eye; it is ueary,
too, who is master ot ceremonies at
the grand ball where such grave-yard
caoerins was done: and. finally, it is
liearywho departs straightway uuips inn
is looked nt, and rushes lorthwith into tne
Gubernatorial canvass now going on in. his
State. Now, reading all these things, what
conclusion is there to arrive at save that a
determined movement is on foot, first, to buy
up this battle-field at low rates: second, to
sell it out to the is eueral (iovemment at an
enormous advance; third, to still further de
plete tho Treasury, under the ploa of restoring
the held to its appearance at the date ot tne
struggle, and then enclose it and keep it in
expensive order, and, fourth, if tho ettert lail
belore Congress, to renew it before the 1 enn
sylvania Legislature? If the job goes through
Congress, then we are all plundered: if it
goes through at Harrisburg,why, then, let the
tax-payers of Pennsylvania look out. From
some indications, and among them the fact
that the "riuo" iu this matter is necessarily
almost entirely a local ring, we are inclined
to think that at the final assault the State
rather than the Federal Treasury will be the
objective point. How far it would facilitate
the successes of the raid to have Governor
Geary re-elected, is for the people of Penn
sylvania to consider in the liyht of what has
been here said.
TEXAS.
From, the S. Y. Tribune.
W'e oliserve that the administration is oc
casionally importuned to remove revenue offi
cers in Texas on the assumption that they are
Btipportinc "Jack Hamilton'' for Governor of
the State. Said ollicers mav deserve removal;
if ko we trust they moy get it, hut not for the
reason assigned. General Andrew J. Hamil
ton is a Republican, if we ever saw one. He
was in Congress when the Rebellion was in
augurated, aud stayed there to the end of his
term, making a rousing Union speech just
before that Congress dissolved; he went home
to face the Rebels, and stayed there till they
overpowered and limited him from tho State,
Killing Lis next friend; while lie escaped imu
Mexico, and thence came North to do his
utmost for tlin I'nion cause. He attended the
Convention of Southern Unionists at Phila
delphia in lsi;!. then accompanied Brownlow
and other Southerners in their speaking tour
through the Free States. No man lias aone
more foieihln fcnp.Ahur for the Union cause
than General Hamilton; while hia associate
on thfi HchM oa T.iAiitpnnnt-Govemor, Boulds
Baker, was also an inflexible Unionist, having
fought as well as spoken for the cause.
Hamilton and Baker are both born South
rons; they are firm supporters of impartial
Bullrage as well as universal amnesty; and it
looks excne.iirifdv nu fiw.nrrh thev were to be
elected.
We sav rmf iiinrr in rtisnnrasement of Colonel
E. J. Davis, who ia tho rival candidate for
Governor. . He. too, ia for universal amnesty
an well as impartial suffrage was a uoldier of
me union aud w au able, uprign uau, uu,
if elected, will prove au excellent Governor.
We only protest against turning over Hainil
ton and Baker to the Sham Democracy, where
they do not belong.
THE VIRGINIA QUESTION SETTLED.
from the K. Y. Time.
The Attornev-General has decided that the
present Legislature of Virginia will be a com
petent legislative body as soon as the new
State Constitution under which it is elected
and the action of the Legislature thereon has
been approved by Congress, and that its mem
bers w ill not be required to take the test-oath.
as insisted upon by General Canby, except for
such legislative action as they may have occa
sion to take, if any, previous to such ap
proval. Io secure representation m Congress the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment is made
a preliminary condition. This opinion, wo
presume, goes to General Canby with the
loice of nn order. It seems, at first, to settle
the difficulties between the General and the
Virginians, but on closer examination wo dis
cover room for controversy.
t it . . . . . , -
it there is complete legislative power vested
in the Legislature now, as expurgated by tho
test oath, what is to prevent their organizing,
turning out all who cannot take the oath and
proceeding to elect their Senators and trans
act any other legislative business that seeui
cth to them good? And if they can is it not
pretty sure that they will ? And is not that
precisely the bone of contention which the
Washington authorities were asked to re
mover
Since writing tho obove we learn from
our special correspondent in Washington that
the legislation ot which the present legisla
ture is capable prior to the action of Congress
upon the Constitution is purely provisional,
and cannot permanently nft'eet the status or
fortunes of either party in the State. Tho
order appears to have been well received, and
promises a restoration of peace and confi
dence to lrginia.
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lVlCIir.lt.lIAlM JlAIV & CO.'0
WASMINU AND CLEANHINU POWDER ' .
Is nnentulled for scrubbing Paints. Floors, and all house!
hold na.. Ask tor U Md fl. A
4i3a Ho. HMt UASiiOUD UwmL
INSURANOE.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY IN3U
RANCH COMPANY. Incorporated by the LeK'
latureof Pennaylvania, 1836.
Office. 8. E. com or of THIRD aad WALNUT Streets,
Philadelphia.
MARINE INhURANGKS
Oa Vaaaola, Cargo, and Freight to all parte of tha world.
INLAND INSURANCES . ...
On goods by river, canal, lake, and land oarriane u
Darts of tha Union.
.. . FIRE INSURANCES
On Merchandise generally! on Stores, Dwellings, U'joses,
Kto.
ARBcra or the company,
. . , November I, 1HH.
$200,000 United States Jive Per cent. Loa, . M
111 $3M,6O00O
120,000 United State biz Per Cent. Loan,
ltl 136,fV0'00
60,000 United States His Per Cent. Loan
(for Paoitlo Railroad) 80,000-00
&K11HHI Rtjitn of l'atuivl.nl. kiw t '.nK
l,oan 2U,37o06
126.000 City of Fhilsrielnlila Hi Par f lnt..
Loan (exempt from tax) 128,8!4'00
60.000 State Of New .leranv Si. Par Cant.
Loan 61,500-00
80,000 Penn. Kail. Kirnt Mortgage Six Per
Cent. ltnnds ao,H) 00
85,000 Penn. Kail, Stoond Alort. Six Por
Cent. Honda 84,000-00
HO.UUU western Penn. Hail. Mortgage nix
Per Cent. Honda 1 Penn. Itailroad
guarantee) 30,625 00
80.000 State of Tenneaaea live Par Cent.
loan 81,000000
7,000 State of Tenneaaea Six Per Cent.
loan 6.031'!
15,000 Cerniantown Gas Company, prin
cipal and Interest guaranteed by
Cltv of PhilRilnlnhiA. Hillt aliHrna
Stock 15,000-00
10,000 l'cnnsvlvan la Railroad Coninanv. 200
aliarea Stock 11,300-00
o.wu norm t'ecnnyivania Kailroaa Uo., 100
shares Stock 8,500 00
80X00 Pbikitelnhia nrl Smith, .rn Mull
. Steamship Co., SO aharos Stock. . .. 15,000 00
WttiW IXians on hoard and M nrtiraire. tlrat
Lien oa City Properties 207,900,00
gsLluStftHJ Par. Markot value. $1,13UJ6 28
, Coat. $1.0P3.tio4 d.
Real Estate w.mwiKl
Kills receivable for insurance made &U,4Mtf-r4
policies, accrued interest, and other debta due
tho company -.
look and scrip of sundry corporations, $Hl."io.
" u"t at BKonciea, premiums on marine
40,178-88
Biooa and aenn
Cash in baDk
Cash in drawer....
r.stllnalnrl vn na
1,813-0
.$Uii,irl-08
413U5
116,563-73
$l,ti-l7,3o7HO
Thomas O. Hand,
John O. Davis,
J nines C. ilnnd,
1 beopbilus Paulding,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hukii CraiK,
John R. Penrose.
Jacob P. Jonea,
James Traqttair,
Edward Darlington,
11. Jones Rronke,
J limes U. McFarland,
Edward Iilotircade,
DmEcl.
KlllUnnd A. Snnriar.
I Samuel K. Stokes,
Honry Sloan,
William C. Lndwis.
George G. Leipor,
iienry u. uaiiott, Jr.,
joun u. l ayior,
Gcorite W. Hernadoo,
William O. lluultou,
Jacob Hieirol.
Spencer Mcllvaine,
1). T. Moi-iran. PitLaburS.
John 11. Seinplo, "
A. H. Herder! "
doetiua f. tf.fr e.
THOMAS O. 1 1 AN O. President.
r.,J9,,N u- DAVIS, Vioe Presidont.
HENRY LYLRURN, Secretary.
HENRY BALL, Assistant Secretary. 10 6
1829 0IIAKTEK PERPETUAL.
Fraillifl Fire Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. 169, $2,677,372 1 3
CAPITAL SiOO.rwo -OH
ACC'lU'El) SURPLUS l,os:i,flS-70
PKEiiiuais i,iy:t,tm--;i
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,
.!3,7SS-12.
INCOME FOR 1SC9,
L
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms.
T he Company also issues Policies on Route of.liuildinffs
of all kiuds.Ground Rents, and Alortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Rnker.
Samuel Grant,
Georice W. Richards.
Isaac Lea.
a urea ritier,
Thotnaa Sparks,
Willium S. Grant,
Thoniue S. Ellis.
George Fales,
Gustavus 8. Benson.
ALFRED G. BAKER. Pridnt..
t.o . , .Irij,,1';('l'GK EALES, Vico-Preaidont.
JA8. W. MCALLISTER, Secretary.
THEODORE M. RKGER, Assistant Seoretary. 3
S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 291 BROADWAY, corner READE Street, New York.
CASH CAPITAL........... iloil.otsj
IgUo.UUU deposited witn tne state oi new York as security
uuiiv uuiuora.
LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Secretary.
EMORY McCLlNTOCK, Actuary.
A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medical Examiner.
Thomas T. Tasker,
HKtEHKNClCS BY FEUM1BVION.
John M. Maria.
J. B. Lipplncott,
James 1oiik,
James Hunter,
unanee spencer,
John A. Wripht,
Arthur G. Cofiin.
William Divine.
S. Morria Wain.
John B. MoCreary,
In lhA nhkriifiliw
of its Directors, eoonomy of manage-
n. a. vvorne.
- . v.iB.iuio. oiniuunu ui luaug
ln.nl r.n.f.n.lj....... I . II . Il'l' K- I r II. .1 r t. ...
0 DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female
lives, aou auaoiute nou-ioneiture OI all policies, and no
restriction of travel alter the drat trur. th akkiih v nr.
aents a combination of advantages offered br no other
company. Policies issued in every form, and loan of
one-third made when desired.
Special advantages offered to clergymen.
For all farther information address
JAMK8 M. LONQAORR,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Office. No. 802 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
FORM AN P. HOLL1NSUEAD. Special Agent. 4 10
CTRICTLY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OP PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STUEET.
Oraranlced to oromote LIFE INSURANcn nm..n
members of the Society of Friends.
uooa risks or any class accepted.
Policies burned on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY,
Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONUSTRETH,
Actuary, ROWLAND PAKKT.
The advantages offered bv this Comnanv r nn.
excelled. i qtj
T N 8 U K E
AT HOME,
A.
Dt TfDJ
Penn
Mutual Life
Insurance
COMPANY.
NO. 921 CHESNUT 8TREET, PHILADELPHIA.
ASSETH, 84,000,000.
CHAKTERED BY OUH OWN STATE.
MANAGED BY Ol'll OWN CITIZENS.
I.OSSE.S PllO.MPTLY PAIO.
POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Applications may be made at the Home Office, aHd
at the Agencies throughout the State, a 18
JAOTEH TKAQVAIK..:. PRESIDENT
MAiU'EL E. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. IIOKNOIt A. V. P. and ACTUARY
UOKATIO H. STEPHENS SEORETARY
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY
OV PHILADELPHIA.
Office S. ,W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
rinr. mrjunAmjiij r.AKjijuni v r.Liir .
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
Cash Capital v -; v $dUU,UU0'00
casu asscia, uuiy i, loon.
DIRECTORS.
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Livingston ICrringer,
Iaioro w razier,
John M. Atwood,
benjamin T. Tredick,
George 11. Stuart,
John H. Brown.
tiamea i maffnorn,
William O. tioulton,
Charlea Wheeler.
Thomas H. Montgomery,
'This Company insure only
James aartsen.
first-class risks, taking no
specially hazardous risks whatever, sucn aa factories
nulla, eto.
F. RATCHFORD STARR, President
THOMAS II. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
AAEXANUfcB W. WuraKB, Secretary. iltjj
DIIfENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
INCORPORArkD 1KI4 CHARTER PERPETUAL,
No. &!4 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange,
Thia Company insures from loss or damage by
an Ht.A.l lartn.. nn hnildinaa. merchandise, furnltnra.
etc., for limited periods, and yermauuntly on buildings by
deposit of premiums.
T he Cniimanv has been In aotlve operation for mon
SIXTY EARS, duriug which all loaaes have been
promptly adjuated sua pauig
.ini,n T. Undue. i David Lewis,
M. K. Muholiy,
Reujaiuin bitting,
l'hoinaa H. Powers.
A. R. Mollenry,
Edmund Caalillon,
Samuel Wilcox,
Jolin T. Lewie,
William S. Grant.
Robert W. learning,
li. Dlsrk WharUin,
Lawrence Lewis.Jr.
joYlN R. WLCliKUEU. President.
lwis ii. I orris.
BAMDEL WliCOX, Secretary, 4Jj
IN8URANOH.
JAME INSURANCE COMPASr.
No. W ! C'HKSN UT Ktrnot.
INCORrORATFM CHARTER PERPETUAL
CAPITAL, if.'im.oim.
FT R K INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insures ntrainst ).'- j or Daman1 by Eiro nither by Per.
peln..l or Temporary Policios.
DIRECTORS:
nnrips Klcliav mil,
V illmm 11. Ilh.ivin,
I ranris N. Hue,
Ilrnry Lewis,
Nut linn I ill I.k.
Gootge A. Wp.i,
Robert Pcaroe,
John Ke-islor, Jr.,
Kdwiird 1!. Orno,
Oluirlei Stokes,
John V. kvermau,
iMonloo'ii Itll.hy.
CM
RI.KS RICHARDSON. Pr-si lent.
WILLIAM It. RH AWN, Vico -Pro-iidmit.
WlM.IAMH I. Bi.av haiik, Secretary. 7 in
TI
HE PENNSYLVANIA FIKE INSURANCE
CO MP AW
v- m ,-In,.(,"',,,ll 1-iV-Chnrtor Perpetual.
Ji'i V, A,JMJ ' htroet, opposite Ind.M'mid nee S.iusre
I Ins Company, t.iv.irahly known to the oiimiunitv lor
over fort j -years, v utilities to insure against loss or dim.
airo ljy tiro on Pnl 1 c or I'rivato lluddiiws, either permv
r.-nt ly ..r tor a in,, l ed nine. Alio on I ui niture, 'sl.cks
of .oi.da. and Mi-rliandise generally, on lit.pnil t,tr
1 heir Capital, together with a lunrn Surplus I nn j,
invested in the most careful manner, which ontlilmi'i.n,
to nllcr to tho insured an undoubted security in tliocivi
Daniel Smith. .Tr
blltKCT 1IH.
Ltlin DeveremiT
Alexander Henson,
1s:ihc llazellinigt,
'1 Uomas Robins
Thoin.T. Smith,
Henry Levis,
J. t.iiliii-'Uaiii fell.
Dnnlel I7ndilo.-k. .Ir
..... DANIEL SMITH
JVM. O. CnOWKLL, Secretary.
Jn
Presideat. .
:i :to
rI' FK'E OF
THE
INSL'KANCE COMPANY
J Of
NORTH AMERICA, v.. ')m
Philadelphia.
WALNUT Street,
Incorporated 171' I. Charter Porpotual
p( Capital, if 500,(ioo.
8 M ARINhV I'x'LA'NDl'AXbFYRE INSUR'aNe!''1
OVER 42U,(X)U,(XK) LOSSES PA II) SINCE ITS ORGAN
IZATION.
Arthur CI. C'oPin
rilllECTOHH.
Samuel W. Jones,
John A. Itrow n,
Charles Taylnr,
Amlimse While,
William Welsh,
S. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
George L. Harrison.
rrnneis R. Cope,
Edward H. Tmttor,
Edward S Clarke.
T. t'liarlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jetslip.
John P. White.
Louis C. Madeira,
Charles W. Cushnian
ARTHUR f
COIT IN, President.
CHARLES PLATT, Vice V
MATTHTAB Maiiih, Secretary.
osidoiit.
2 If
piFEMAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LONDON.
ESTABLISH KD2IS0:f.
raid-tip Capital ami Acvumulaled Funds,
8KO()0.()()() IN GOLD.
PHEV0ST & HEHRING, Agenti,
2 45 No. io; s. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
CIIAS. L PREVOST.
CTIAS. P. HERRING.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
B u
E A U
(FRENCH
VERITAS
LLOYDS).
INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR
CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS.
TI1E REGISTER VERITAS, containing tho Classi
fication of Vessels surveyed in the Continental, Bri
tish, niid Anieriian ports, for th.e year 1 SOD, Is FOR
SALE by the Agents In New York.
ALF. MERIAN & CO.,
4 26 No. 49 EXCHANGE PLACE.
piIILOSOl'HY OF MARRIA G E.
' A New Course of Lectures, as delivered at the New
J.orlt Museum of Anatomy, embracing the auhiects:
Jlow to Live, and w hat to Live for: Vouth. Maturity, and
warded, post Paid, on receipt of Bo conts, by addressing
A . LEAK Y. J it., ft. K. corner of i lETH and WALN
Streets, Philadelphia. a ,
W.
WALNUT
a;
LUMBER.
18G9
SPRUCE JOIST.
SPRUCE JOIST.
HEMLOCK.
HEMLOCK.
18G9
18G9
SEASONED CLEAR PINK. -t o(
SEAStlNED CLEAR PINE. lOO J
CHOICE PATTERN PINK.
SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS,
RED CEDAR.
1801)
FLORIDA FLOORING.
FLORIDA FLOORING.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP HOARDS.
KAIL PLANK.
1809
1 Q 1 1 Q WA LNT'T HOARDS AND PLAN K. i Q n
1 OUiJ WALN IT HOARDS AND PLANK. 1 OOiJ
WALNUT HOARDS.
WALNUT PLANK.
18G9
I'NDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 1 0n
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. I&OU
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINE.
18G9
SEASONED POPLAR. 1 OPf.
SEASONED CHERRY. l&Oii
WHITE OAK PLAN K AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
18G9
CIGAR BOX MAKERS' in,A
CIGAR BOX MAKERS' lolilf
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS.
FOR SALE LOW.
18G9
CAROLINA SCANTLING. -t Qfi
CAROLINA II. T. SILLS. loOU
NORWAY SCANTLING.
18G9
CEDAR 8IMNGLE.S. -t Qi
CYPRESS SHINGLES. loOU
MALLE, BROTHER A CO.,
No. 2500 SOUTH Street
115
PANEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.-
1- 1 COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
1 COMMON HOARDS.
1 and 2 SIDE FENCE HOARDS.
, T WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARDS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS. IV and 4 "a.
SPRUCE JOIST. ALL SIZES. ' na,1-
HEM LOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES.
PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY.
Together with a general assort men t of Building Lum
bey, iorsale low for cash. T. W. SMALTZ,
8 tiin FI KTEENTH and STILES Streets.
L
UMBER UNDER COVER,
ALWAYS DRY.
Walnut, White Pine, Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem
lock, Shingles, etc., always on hand at low rates.
WATSON A GILL1NGIIAM,
a 29 No. P-24 RICHMOND Street, lsth ward!.
ROOFING.
11
EADY ROOIfT
N G.
l Thia Roolim: ia adantad to all htilldini.
aoulied to
It can
STEEP OR FLAT ROOKS
at one-half the emense of tin. It ia readily pnt on ol
Sbinple Roots wilm ut removing the sliinKlea. thus avoid
ing the damaging oi ceilings aud furniture while under
going repairs. (No travel usod.)
PRESERVE YOLK TIN ROOFS WITH WELTON1
ELASTIC PAINT. "r.mujjn
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at ahoH
notice. Alsp,VA I Nt FOR SALE by the barrel or gallon
the beat and chea t est iu the market. awiun.
W A VR11Y1N
3 75 K". TH N. NINTH Street, above Coatee.
Ta
OWNEL'S. ARCHITECTS. RTTTinirpa
AND ROOFl i:S.-Roota! Yes, yea. Every size and"
. old or new. At No. w:i .V. TH I li li ni .?
kind, old or new.
RICAN CONCRI I E PAINT AND ROOF COMPANY
are selling their celebrated paint ior TIN ROOFS and
.... ... ,.,u nuu nium. Also, tlieir solid oow.
plea root covering the best ever ottered to the publio.wittt
Inushea, cans, buckets, e'c.. for the work a..IV"J:.:
1" ire, aim VValor-puxit
J.ignt, J iglit, Durable. No crack-
s , . .... . nuui'TOllll n.
leanng, or
ll climates
tor I
all ClllllMtt4S. I llri.,.1 Kina . . i' "wv
nuiiiinmi. no paper, gravel. or hnsi.
!"e,n lyl'l'ed- .Cere, priiiiiptuoas, certainty!
Call! Exuiuiuel Judge!
, 'ireciiona given tor work, or good work.
Ouo prioel
Ageuta wanted lor interior counties.
J JOSEPH LEEDS, Principal.
(LL URAVr.L ROOFS COVERED
OVER
wim luaauu cute, ana WHrrantod for ten
HAMILTON A iwn
in yei
. "- No. 46 8. TENTH Street,
oOKFER,
ears.
1 T F 8 E "W A M I N O WITH STEAM.-
. "I In m "re PrBl,urd'o rm Dwellinga and Buildings
of all clataea with our Patent-improod
. 1 J.'OW STEAM APPAitATUS.
wnicn, ior einciuiuy and eoouomv. rivals all almila
methods.
6213m
II. BELFIELD AGO.,
No. 4116 N. 13HOAD Street.
, f. ,inuui,u vieueraiiy ixeviewoa ; ine iJause of
Indigesnon ; Flatulence and Nervous Diseases Accounted
f or: Murrnifre Philosophically Considered, eto. eto.
Pocket volumes containing tliftsn I,A,,tupau win i. r...
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