sriziiT or inn rnn3S. Erlllnrlnl Opinion, of .h I,radln Jonrn.il, , t.1PreiitTiilM-Cinilloil Kvrrr Dny lor ihc 1vvmi1ii,i Ti;icrili. MORE REFORM. From th' A'. V. Tribune. If it le tru, as Home of tlio ofl'ioiul Imile tins wonlil havo uh la-Hove, that bin Majesty of France hns bton Hubject of Into to nothing iliysically worse than uvory eiicotinigiug kind of Vhetmiatisni, then wo jrenntiio tho most nerions of the imperial atl'ii'tions are moral and political. The Emporor may not he in deed the abject victim of n disease bitMing to the science of medicine, but it is probable that he is move or less subject to an infirmity well known in politics, and is sick of reform. A robust Emperor would not have an insu perable task in recovering from tho symptoms now displayed in tho body politic of France, always supposing that empire itself is not a disease of such a character as to bo ineurablo by reform. It is possible that his Majesty will survive the latest symptoms of progress, but who and what, finally, are to cure tho malady known as empirei1 "Who shall pre scribe at last for the Emperor, seeing that his disease is France's health, and that so many Frenchmen aro interested in keeping his Majesty under tho weather? 'i'be Emperor is about to take up his bed niid walk to l'aris, if tho gossips say truly; but really his disease is only beginning again. The other day he signed decrees, and received his Senate's exhibit of the passage of the plan of reform which ho marked out several months ago. All this looks like business aud health, and to tho gentlemen of tho bed chamber his Majesty may seem good for ten years yet. Nevertheless, the high priest of Kapoleonism cannot escape the disease, whereof tho Senatus Consultum, tho Councils-General, and Frince Napoleon aro symp toms. It is a right excellent malady, and though it be poison to imperialism it may be meat to France: The consumption of tho empire has begun with reform and conces sion, and it is to be seen whether it must die a speedy or a lingeriug death. The passage of tho Senatns Consultum, almost exactly as tho Emperor sketched it in the first instance, was a foregone conclusion, and adds nothing to our news. We have no trouble in agreeing with the commission charged with its report, that tho initiative in law-making, the right to amend and interpel late, and to propose orders of the day, the publicity of debate, the consideration of tho budget in detail, and tho principle of minis terial responsibility so far as it may go, are considerable changes. Dut France, once taught what it is to be fed with the bread of liberty, is not willing to break its fast upon anything short of a meal. The Emperor's concessions were no doubt generous alms in the eyes of those who conceive that tiie French are more apt to be beggars than choosers. liut here again is unsatisfied France, with a princo at its front, cla moring for more, and now the Councils General add their voices to tho demand which has gone up out of tho late elections. Over and above the Emperor's programme, some of the Councils appear disposed to ask rights for themselves. That of Dijon has entertained a motion for public sittings, for tho right of the Councils to express themselves on every important public topic, for tho election by ballot of local administrative commissions to serve during three years, and for the disquali fication of imperial office-holders to sit as mem bers of Councils. In another Council a mo tion has been made for municipal independ ence, for the reform of the conscriptions, and for the revision of the press laws. Although we see it officially denied that any considerable movement has been made in these department councils in tho way of new reform, the facts recorded are sufficiently in dicative. Prince Napoleon sounded a timely note in his late speech, which, whether it were or not an imperial feeler, has found the great French instrument rather loudly in tune. The illness of the Emperor, equally with the utterance ot the l'rince, makes sharp the significance of the hour to France, aud we may now look for further progress in tho direction of the municipalities and prefectures in the same expectation with which we viewed tne results ot tne late elections. A new Ministry with Frince Napoleon at its head, as tho London lanes suggests, seems not so probable as plausible; but municipal self government is evidently a fixed feature of the ne-fr Reform bill, and the empire liberalized is France becoming republicauized. "THE WORLD" AND NEGRO SUFFRAGE. Frmn the X. Y. World. We are disinclined to give further promi nence to tho negro suffrage issue, and have forborne to make any rejoinder to recent articles in the Tribune and the Time assail ing our position on that subject. In spite of question is forced into' the State canvass this fail. We briefly called attention to this fact in a recent article, expressing tne opinion that the Democrats will unanimously vote against that provision of the new State Con stitution which proposes to confer universal sun rage on our negroes. Vote on this ques- iion we must, one way or tne otner; ana as the Democratic party have never desired negro nun rage, in tins State or elsewhere, it is right that their votes (since the question cannot be blinked) should express their real sentiments and preference. If the Republican party had not compelled ns to meet the question, we would gladly have ; , mi. II, f . . . ignoreu it. me noruii allusion to it was not gratuitous, because the issue is forced into the canvass by the Republican majority of the Constitutional Convention who insisted on such a provision, and by. the Republican majority of the last Legislature who submitted it to the vote ol our citizens m the approach ing election. We do not know that we should have given further space to the subject if a Republican journal m the western part of tho State had not aspersed our consistency, and therefore our sincerity, on this vexod question of noro bunrage. uur irauueer is the Ruffulo (W inercua jiaeenuier, iroui which we make this extract: it is naruiy a mourn since the columns of thn World contained mich utterances M th '"above- a a yet in its issue of Tuemluy it Hiidili-uly ilmtlileil l.-f it J own track, and openly announced that tuo uncle .t the fifteenth amendment are to be rougm uvtiiiimf ll revival ttmues. Kvtrn la advance of tin. OLtlLU nu C-T-. iivw BMliaKU 11 I It Nlutu.,.l of its party, the WurU lnnerw those two punka i ! the platform, aud aouinU the old buKlu-cuii ll)r party to rally around. them. 1 hey aiu thy only Usuh whli'll it IlleUllOUH. "The marked contrast which this presents with iu utterances for a year pant, ana up to the nmt. r AniriiHLls noteworthy, especially when we reilloni. ber that Its present expression!! of policy are entirely viiiunta.v and irratuitous. There Is nothing to do. muud so sudden a stultlllcation, not even an Indica tion that any respectable portion or its party In-ti-mled to brimr tin those Issues. The HurUl has made a wanton exhibition or its Insincerity, and has forfeited all claims to the respect or the conscien tious portion or its party. Either It was false In isns, or it is false now. The ilUuunua is ouo from which it cannot escape. " What precedes this extract is a perversion - il.. ijr .i,j : x iiiiu ol tne course 01 mo rrv u iu nuuu, ioup, THE DAILf EVENING TELEGHA PIT FIIIL A when we had a series of earnest articles ad vising thedelegntes to tho Democratic Na tional Convention to say nothing in the plat form about negro sufl'rngo in the Southern Btntes. The reasons for this advice wero pre sented at some lnm;th and fortified by many illustrations: but (he main position of tho World was, that tho platform had beU.er bo silent on the negro hu(V rage then newly for jad upon the South, because, oving to the greiit Kcpublienn majority in the Sena'.o and tho long terms of tho Senators, tho Democratic party was powerless to chimgo it. The whole reoNoning of the World assumed that it was desirable to reverse the odious exporinnmt if I it were possible: that it was inexpedient to attempt it only becauso the endeavor woull bo abortive. Tho chief pivot on which our arguments turned on that occasion was tho cardinal doc trine of the Democratic party, that the regu lation of the suffrage belongs to tho Htatos, and not to the Federal Government. Doforo negro suffrage existed in the Southorn States, adherence to this principle would havo pre vented its introduction; but after it had boon introduced, it equally forbade tho inter ference of the Federal Government for its re moval. In the state of affairs then existing, we could neither ward off the evil nor redress it; it was too late to assert tho doctrine of Federal non-interference for a preventive purpose, and impossible to so change the political complexion of the Senate as to leave the Southern States free to remedy the evil for themselves. "Wo therefore advised acqui escence in an odious and abominable system, on the ground of sheer necessity; thinking that, since the Southern negroes wore certain to vote, it was wiser not to interpose obsta cles to their voting on our side. A public journal must be stupidly obtuse or thoroughly dishonest to charge us with in consistency and insincerity because wo are still willing to prevent negro suffrage when it can be prevented, though we counselled acquiescence in it in the Southern States on the ground that there was no practical re medy. As if a farmer were compelled, in consistency, to sot lire to his house, becauso incendiaries had got ahead of him, and made it impossible to save his burning barn. Negro suffrage cannot be prevented in tho Southern States; and even those States which stood out in tho most persistent opposition to it, have at last concluded to acquiesce in tho inevitable. But negro suffrage in the State of New York is not inevitable, and is certain to be defeated. If, unfortunately, we should prove to be mistaken in this opinion, we shall quietly accept tho result, and forbear further opposition when opposition shall have be come manifestly futile. Our position now is precisely what it was in June, 1SCS, when, in one of our articles on this subject, we said: "Hail our New York Constitutional Convention, last year, completed t tic urait 01 a constitution ami siio- niltted the question or m-irro sun rage to tne people, the Democratic party of this State would have op posed It with all their might. Hut if, In spite of all we could do against it, it had been adopted, we should probably have regarded the question asset tied, and have made no attempt to reverse the de cision.'' To acquiesce in negro suffrage when we must, and defeat it when we can, has been tho uniform counsel of the World to tho De mocratic party, through all tho stages of this tedious and now nearly obsolete controversy. We expect to defeat it in New York as a State regulation, and if tho fifteenth amendment should fail, as we confidently believe it will, the regulation of tho suffrage will remain with the States, and cease to bo a Federal question. We congratulate tho Democrats of this Slate that the negro question will this fall be presented as an issue in our elections for tho last time. The tears all lie in an onion that will be shed at its burial. THE WELL-SPRING OF MORMONISM. From the A". 1'. Time. Not very long ago Mr. Ilepworth Dixon wrote a book to prove that tho morals of the American people were falling into a sad con dition, and in support of his statement ho referred to tho existence among us of Mor mons and one or two other eccentric sects. His object being to produco a "sensation," without much regard to other considerations, he neglected to inquire where tho Mormons originally enme from. We believe his atten tion has since been called to the fact that England and Wales constitute the great recruiting-ground of Mormondom. Future writers who follow in Mr. Dixon s steps will do well to make a note of facts ignored by tho author of "Spiritual Wives." On Monday, for instance, 42! Mormons arrived at this port. About half of them aro women, and there are also many children. They appeared to be under the impression that it is only a wicked invention which includes the practice of polygamy among tho articles of Mormon faith. This faith is very carefully nurtured 1 y Mormon ngent3 abroad in most of their sermons and public addresses they assort that a man is not uiioweu to take more than one wile. They would never entice bo manv Vw6 wom)n1 to Ut?b L,lt .for tbis pretext, I11 the l'0nt w wish to impress upon Mr. Dixon and his imitators is this: Noarlvall the 4i'! emigrants who came bound for Utah this week, were gathered from various parts of England and Wules. Wales is a Htronir- hold of Mormonism. Tho Mormons emitmite to Utah because hitherto they havo found greater seclusion and cheaper land thero than England could afford them. Why not. then, treat Mormonism as a blot upon English morals 'i Why make America responsible for it '( There are more Mormon meeting-houses in Wales and England than could bo found in all the Lnited States. Rut if Mr. Dixon had written a "spicy" book about his own coun trymen they would have been able to detect his exaggerations. He pitched the scene l.-00 miles or so away from England, and his romance is taken as a sort of new revelation. In the face of facts like that just mentioned, it may be uouuted whether any respectable writer will repeat Mr. Dixon's daring ex periment GOLD GAMBLING. From the X. Y. UaraMu To tho outsido world, unacquainted with the mysteries of gold gambling in Wall street or Rroad street, tho rise in the price of 'old within three weens trom Ul7 to l!57:; must be very puzzling. They naturally look for some cause, some extraordinary drain of gold from the country, some heavy balanco of trade against us, a general failure of crops, or something else, and are astonished to tmd none. Indeed, at the very time when the premium on gold might be expected to full considerably, in consequence of tho small balance of trade against the country and the abundant crops now coming in, it has gone up over six per cent. It was supposed a lew weeks ago that tho premium would be down hy this time to twenty-five, and there is no commercial, financial, nor any oth R00(i reason why it should not have fallen to Hhat or lower. The crops gonerally are abundant, & was Baid, and from the cotton crop alone there will be reolizod a surplus of two hun dred millions or more of gold, j This product for the present year alone is worth nearly four years' ... yield of the i gold mines. Then our mines produce steadily and yearly a large amount of the pre The winter season in the thai' eclous tuotftis. me when we got out of debt to foreign countries for importa tions, and we are now approaching tua happy condition. If the premium goen up it summer, when we are getting in debt. tliri might be some reason for it. but certainly there is none at the preseuf time. O'l tint contrary, It ought to go down to a low figure. The rise and fall of gul l hat nothing I.) d with the condition of the country. All the fluctuations aro tho result of g.uiiblm by a few individual capitalist or stoekjo'r!i!i' linns. Yet the whole amount of gold held by these, and through which they ialluenoe the market, is not more thau a few million". A small margin is all that is used for sales of millions upon millions. Such bogus transac tions would not be tolerated in any o'her business. All are done on paper or by cre dit, with or without tho smallest sort of imr- gin in gold, between a few individuals. Is it not absurd that such equations should regu late tho market value of gold, and, as a cou quenco, of other things as well t Hut tho question arises here, llow aro these bulls and bears in gold to be killed off ? llow is their gambling to be stopped V It is diffi cult to reach tho evil, if not impossible, by prescriptive legislation or by taxing their operations, l'erhaps the Government may have to find n romody in some other way. Tho pi est ion may nrise as to the necessity of demonetizing tho precious metals and of making a uniform paper money currency. There is no doubt that our present mixed cur rency, and the demand of the Government for gold duties on importations, are the indi rect cause of gold gambling. If gold were not in demand for the payment of duties, and we wero to have a uniform legal-tender cur rency used as money for all purposes, the gold operations of Wall street would cease. It will be difficult to reach specie payments, however much gold there may be in the coun try, so long as these gamblers have control of the market, and, therefore, it may become a question whether the Government should not, for a time at least, demonetize gold and make a uniform legal-tender currency as the only money of the country. THE IIARITUAL CRIMINALS ACT AT WORK. From the fjimdon Stitnnlay Jirvieii; The Habitual Criminals act is fairly in ope ration. Some of its provisions havo been put in force during tho past week. Several men have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor, for periods exceeding two months, as a punishment for assaulting the police. It is this principle of the now act the enforce ment of which will become known sooner, and make a wider impression, than any other. The "roughs" of the metropolis have so long been accustomed to pummel aud kick the police that the application of the longer sen tences will produce tho same effect which a chiffney bit produces on a vicious three-year-old. Some of their kind it will entirely sub due; others it will irate to madness. Iu some districts the now law will produco profound quiet; in others, angry and vindictive repri sals. Rut the provision for punishing these assaults on the police, though an important, is not the most important, part of tho new net. The distinctive characteristic of the act is that it has swept away one of the most time honored prejudices of English criminal law. How often have not we all heard the effective appeal to tho jury aud the audience which vibrated in the words, ".Every Englishman is innocent until he is proved guilty!" How often has the most practised criminal the prisoner of eight or ten previous convictions been covered by tho shield of this princi ple, not only from every proof of former guilt, but from every hint at it! He might have come out of prison for the tenth time: but the most indirect allusion to his former life would have been denounced, not only ns unfair, but as illegal. And how much of the roaming, roving, aggressive crime of tho day do we not owe to tho liberal spirit iu which this priuciplo was interpreted aud carried out! Now, however, there is an end to the exces sive latitude both of its construction aud of its influence. The man who has been the subject of previous convictions will no longer proiit by the studied reticence of the criminal law in his behalf. Part of his sentence, when he is found guilty, will be that he remain under the observation of tho police for seven years. During these seven years it will not be sufficient for him to escape detection: he must also avoid suspicion. If after a second conviction such a man be suspected by any police officer of getting his livelihood by dis honest means, then the onus will lie upon him of rebutting this suspicion. If he fail to show that he is earning an honest livelihood, he will then be subject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, with or without hard labor. The same punish incut will hang over him if he be found lurking or loitering about premises with the evident in tention of committing, or aiding in tho com mission of, certain crimes. This is so creat a novelty in our criminal procedure that it is not to be wondered at if many people have not yet become reconciled to it. And it is one which requires a very urgent necessity to justify it. Severe as the new law is, we yet believe it to be fully justified by the condition of things which provoked it. When the old principle to which we havo ref sired was first broached, tho crimes of modern culprits were only acci dental, not a trade. For the highwayman and the armed robber thero was speedy and sum mary punishment beyond tho scope of actual law. The class of offenses now brought il,. Uvor eoenizauco of law is the slow growth of wealth, trade, and civilization It was only when commerce and wealth had greatly increased that they ofiered, or seemed to offer, an adequate comp""y" y labors of a life devoted to their plunder. Robbery of various kinds became a pro fession only when its professional gains balanced its dangers and privations I ho profession existed a long tune, while its professors still were regarded only in their individual, nnd not in their corporate capacity. It i only after more than a century's experience of the strength and vitality which numbers, combination, and training give to systematic lawlessness, that we begin to view them in thoir real character. And it was high time that such a change should take place. When men passed three fourths of their lives in undergoing and quali fying for imprisonment, there was a humor ous but mischievous irony in persistently treating them, after every new conviction, as casual backsliders from tho path of virtue. The rogue was equipped by the law with the armor of an honest man to fight against society. He was as much an enemy as a pirate, a freebooter, a levier of black mail. I5ut, though everybody else knew this the judges and the jury were not allowed to know it, except under restrictions which would be unintelligible to continental tribu nals. In recognizing his real character, society only uses the most obvious moans of self-defense. It simply deprives him of . a ' privilege which( he never should have possessed, and DELriTI A , THURSDAY, which le wed to the injury of all about him. He is now to be watched,, as a dangerous In nst is watched, and to bo imprisoned if iniqht attempting mischief. It must be a yy distorted philanthropy, or a very mud iiltd notion of constitutional rights, wlticli tun see in these provisions any danger to tho lil i'1-tv of the subject or any d kiu.ia to the eliiinicter of honest men. i Two other provisions of the ntit are very important, and are essential to it operation. One relates to lodging-houses in which thieves rrc harbored. The other, to the receivers of stolen goods. It is o'nioin tint men wh. lie bv theft must have auxiliaries nnd cotili duiiK Money und jewels aro useless to the most dcxU-rous thief, unless he has some one to whoi... he can entrust his bool.. nnd souio one to whom he can noil it, His lodging-house keeper is (he guardian of his person aud his plunder; the receiver is the capitalist, who furnishes the reward for past, aud tho incen- five for future. nilliiL'e. If there were no one to purchase stolen property, there would be no thieves. The vocation would die of pure inanition. Nothing perhaps so clearly exem plifies tho slowness of tho Uritish intellect ns the length of time it required to master so sim ple an idea. The trade was obviously a most lucrative one. A thief, worried by fears of detection, carrying with him tho evidence of his guilt, was not likely to haggle about the price of Ids booty, even when he knew its value; nnd a man who was ablo to give ready money for it, and would hold his tongue, might easily got it for a sixth or a tenth of what it was worth. It was impossible not to find tradesmen whom prizes of this kixd would tempt to a systematic collusion with larceny and burglary. Accordingly, a trade grew up which numbered in its ranks many persons who passed for respectable in the world's opinion , and whose seeming respecta bility was guaranteed by tho then state of tho law. There was ninny a pawnbroker who had his decent suburban villa, who discharged the duties of citizen, ratepayer, and vestry man to the satisfaction of his neighbors, but who was more than suspected by the police of habitually purchasing stolen goods. The reverence formerly paid to these white d sepulchres is dissipated by tho new Act, which extends tho consequences of a second conviction to receivers no less than to thieves, and enables a police officer to enter any premises iu which he believes stolen goods to bo concealed. It also im poses a penalty of ten pounds on tho lodging house keeper who knowingly harbors thieves, together with a deprivation of license when the landlord also keeps a tavern or beer house. inns, it will be seen, the act cures grave omissions of our criminal procedure, and gives new securities to life and property. At the same time it must be admitted that it confers great powers on tho police powers wnicn. in tne opinion ot some persons, are unconstitutional and dangerous. It is quite possible, as they argue, that a mau may be twice convicted of robbery or violence and yet may not justly come within the definition of nu "habitual criminal." In such a case, they contend, it is unfair to subject hun to the supervision of the police. We cannot see the force of this reasoning. A man who, despite two convictions, determines to be honest and to redeem his character, will be encouraged rather than discouraged by tho consciousness that he has constant witnesses of his desire and efforts to reform. If ho is sincere, he will find, not an enemy, but n friend, in every intelligent and right-miuded oiheer of the lorce. And he will also find in the force a strong protection against the at tempts of his former mates to seduce him back into the paths of crime. Moreover, it must be remembered that the vigilance of the police will be mainly directed to watching, not the subjects of two, but those of five, ten, or twenty previous convictions. Nor should it bo forgotten that a man of generally good character, who has drifted into crime, is not wholly dependent on his treatment by the police for his future career. Such a mau will be aided, not only by tho good opinion of his friends and neighbors, but also by the season able sympathies of that excellent association which has done so much to dispol despair from the mind of the reformed convict, ond will now. we doubt not, redouble its endea vors to facilitate his return to an honest and respectable life. Of course this act may bo abused by stupid or wicked and malignant policemen. Of course it is possible that a spiteful policeman may worry a repentant criminal back into crime. Rut the possibility is minute; aud it may bo rendered infinitesimal. The remedy for the apprehended evil is to be found in the charac ters of tho inspectors. No man will be sub jected to such cruel persecution who lives in a district which is under the guardianship of an honest and sensible inspector. And if ever the time comes when Colonel Henderson can have his pick of men of character aud intelli gence wherew ith to fill the ranks of the Lon don constabulary, it w ill be his duty to select only sucn as may be presumed to be incapable of meanness and cruelty; as it will now bo his duty to purge the police at once of men proved to have abused their powers for the gratification of cruel, sordid, and vindictive leelings. But the qualifications of a good policeman, and tho training necessary to ensure them, are subjects worthy of separate consideration. WINES. HER MAJESTY CHAMPAGNE. DUX7TOXI & XiUSSOZI, 215 SOUTH FllONT ST11EET. . THE ATTENTION OF THE TKADE 13 X- i solicited to the following very Choice Wines, etc.. for '" U' DUNTON A Ll'fSSON, t16 SOUTH FRONT KTRKET. OHAMPACNKS. Awonla for her Majesty, Ino de Moulebcllo, Carte Bloue, Carte Blanche, and Chiurloa l'arre'a Crand Vin F.UKenie, and Vin Imperial, M. Klee ii.iiu A Co., of Alayenue, (sparkling Moselle and KlilNK AJADI'IHAH. 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K. eorpr of THM'I WALNUT 8treU, rilllmlulldilK. MAHINK IfvMjnANOI'H Is ()i'i. ii1 i.d-l b l w "t th world. lb'l.Ablt IrfblJJiAN' 'i , ,, On V Od good! Iif rtvnr, mI, lbw, U4 lua uarriK w Kfiui lil;HA;lf On MarcbandlM u.imIi , u biUiM, lUnt, llouww, Ht. A t i k on iwi miii n, ri'vtii.l J, IBiiiO.uoO Unltd riliiio l im Hoi tint. !, Iu.a fJiH.rVKrOU li,liOU ljuo I Main bi I ul (.vul. l'Wu, IMMI lltrl.WOU b'.OtV t'nniHl ron( (in i'tir Out. I na (tor I'amlKi Ka.niMi.ll 6,0OO-OO JMI.fKM Htata t r!iiiii.W.ma riia I'or (;mil. Ibh 311,S7S-W liiS.OOO City of i'lillnilililila H.i Par (Jont. Loan (iiiiiit I mm lat) UH,5m00 60,1X1(1 Stnte of ISew Juiauy hit I'ur Cant. Loan 61,8001)0 80,000 Penn. Hall, l imt MortKiinehil 1'er (;nt. Honda an,3tH)D0 i. mi I- ot I l.ti I ij:ou. 116,000 renn. Kim. hicoml Wort, nix I'or Cent. Honda 84,009 00 aB.UOO WeMBrn I'eun. Kail. Mortgage Six 1'erCent. Honda (Penn. Kailroad iriiariinteo) 20,K25'IXI 80,000 Stat 8 of Tennessee l' ive Per (Jout. loan 81, 000000 7,000 State of Tenneasee Six Tor Cent. Loan 6,03135 15,0110 Gerttiantown fiaa Company, prin cipal and Interest fniuruntoed by City of Philadelphia, 'M aliaro Stock Id.OOO'OO 10,000 Pennaylvania, Railroad Company, 300 aharea (Stock 11,300 00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100 phnrca (Stock 8,fiO0'OV SO.tOO Ptlilttdnlnllia nd Rnnlhnrn .... (Steamaliip Co., K0 aharoa Stock. ... 15,000 00 mfii!w ixans on Honrd and Mnrtsni7n. Hrat Lien on City Properties &T.P00.00 81,10!,!J0 Par. Market alue. S1.130.SJ5 26 . . . Cost, fft.0P3.tiol-.lri. Real Fstate 8A,(inni0 Bills receivable for Insurance made &a,4.'xii vi.ui.iB uub at agencies, premiums on marine j......, Dcuruou interest, una otner aobls due the comnnnv Stock and scrip of sundry c'orpuVaVi'o'niii'itiil'Jd. 10,178-a 1,8130 Cosh in bank !'.'..".'..".'..'V'!'.ll6.Vfiir(fl uaan in drawer M6& llt!,5t3-78 $l,t4",3oTHO TbomM o. Band John O. Davis, ' DIRECT0M- Kdmund A. Rondor, lauiea U. Hand, 1 hoophilua Paulding, Joseph H. (Seal. nuiuuui r.. moaes. ,iurj oioan. William U. Lndwiff. C our kb O. Leiper, liuuh Craia. John R. Penrose. iiunry J. uallolt, jr., John D. Taylor, Coorne W. Bernadoa, William U. Boulton, Jacob Rieeel. Jacob P. Jones, James Traquair, K.dnard Dnrlineton, H. Jones Brooke, James B. MuKarland, Kdward I-alourcade, bpenoer Mullvainn, u. T. Moriran. Pittshtlrff. John B. bemple, " A. M. Hnr7r " Joshua r. Km, THOMAS O. H AIM l. President. J OH N O. DAVIS, Vice-President. HKNRT I.YLBURN, bocretary. UK.NRV BALL, Assistant Secretary. Ill 6 1 ft 9 O O II A It T E H l'EHPETUAL lUiil't Mini Fire Iterance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CIIE3NUT St. AssetsJan. I , '69, $2,677,372" 1 3 CAPITAL AC('HVKl) KL'RPLUS.., PREMIUMS UNSETTLED CLAIMS j-Kio.oao-oo l,us;S,f2H-70 , l,lUJ,f43-43 LXCOME FOR 1S09, S;mo, ouo. ')v Perpetunl and Temnnrarv Policies on Liheral Tnrm Tho Company also issues Policies on Rents of.Builuings ui ui aiuua,vrounu items, ana iMoriguu.es. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Alfred Fitler, Suniuel (frunt, I Thomas Sparks, GeoiRe W. Richards. I William S. tyrant, Isaac Lea, I Thomas S. Ellis, George iules, Gustiivus 8. Ilenaon. A LI' RED O. UAKEK, President. ..D ,, .Tv, ..V;:-f',a,K A,-S. Vice-President, JAS. W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. THEODORE Al. REOER, Assistant Secretary. 30 fa S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 1 KROADWAY. oorner READE Street tv Vm-v IJASSH CAPITAL.. lnii.twO 4iliu.0U0 deposited witu tne Mate ot IV ew York a security '"1 IJU 1 1 V.J 1111,11,21 . LEMUEL BANGS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice President and Seoretarr. EMORY McOLlNTOCK, Actuary. A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medical Examiner. Thomas T. Tasker, SCI EUKNCKH III PKHMJbHION. John M. Maria. J. B. Lip iDlMtlOOtt. unanes npencer, John A. V right. William Divine, S. Morris Wain. James Long, James Hunter, Arthur G. Uolhn. John B. McCreary, In the character n. it. vvorno. ment. reasonahletiass of rates. PAHINKIInIIIP mi. an or lis llrectora. neonotnv nr ninnaA. OE DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female lives, ana UDsoiute non-toneiture ot all policies, nnd no restriction of travel after the hrat year, the ASI1ITH.V urn. sents a combination of advantages offered by no other company. Policies issued in every form, and a loan of one-third made when desired. hpecial advantages offered to clergymen, lor all farther information address JAMES M. LONQAORK, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office. No. ac2 W'A LNUT Street, Philadelphia. FORMA N P. UOLLINSUKAD, Special Agent. 4 ItrJ TRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OKFICH, No. Ill 8. FOURTH 8TKEET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among nit-rubers of the Society of Friends. Good risks of any class accepted. Policies Issued on approved plans, at tne lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTKETH, Actuary, KOWLAND PAKKY. The advantages offered by tnls Company are un excelled. 1 !27, J N S Penn U K E AT HOME, Df Till Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. No. 921 CHZSNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETS, 82,000,000. CIIAltTEllED BY Ol'It OWN STATE. (UANACiED BV OLIt OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PKO.UPTI.Y PAID. POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PI,ANJ. Applications may be made at tho Home OUlee, and at the Agencies throughout the State, 3 13 JAIHEH TRAOUAIIt PRKSIDKNT SAMUEL E. STOKES JOHN W. IlORMMt A. llOUATIO S. STEPHENS... ..VIOKPRKSIDKNT V. P. and AOTUARY SEORUTARY rpiIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY I Olf PHILADELPHIA. Office S. W. (Jornor r-OL'RTH and WALNUT Streets. 11KK lNhl'RANl'K EXCLUSIVELY. 8e PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED. Cash Capital - ajjuo winm Cash AkhpIs, July 1. IStiy. ki sTtt-aa. DidLOTORS. F. Ratchford Starr. J. LiTtaffStOn Krrlnu. Nulhro iiar.inr, John M. Atwood, Ueujumin T. Tredick, G voi te 11. btuart, John 11. lirown. James L. ClaKborn, William . lSoultoa, Charles Wheeler, Thomas 11. Montgomery, Jainea Aertsen. This Company insures only epeuiuuy uazuraous risu nulla, fate. whaterer, such as taotories nrst-viass risks, ui ni tin V. RATCHFORD KTAHR, President. THOMAS 11. MON Ti.oM KHY, Vice-President. ALFIANDkH W. YVuils.it, becre ai?. 65 pilfENIX INtUKANXE COMPANY; OF -. I'llll.ADKI.I'MIA. INCORPORATED H4 -C II A RYE A PKRPKTITAL, No. li'J4 W ALNUT Street. ii M.;., u,4 KicUaua, This Company insures Innii !' w uaiu-1 Ly r 1 1, i.. nn liliersl terms, on liuihlmr. merc'isni;. fnmlln.. ttc, for limited periods, and peruuueu ' 1 ou buildiuxs by deposit of ptf niiuiiis. Iiih t;oiiilianv iiss lieen In artlor-ratB lor more than U .turllll. l.t,l.'k, all l.v. a k. . fclXTY EARS. during , ww IW,I llMl.n promptly aujusieu "'I'""1, John L. Hodge, Hid Iwis, Al. E. Malliiiiy, John T. Lewis. V illisin S. (irauf. Rnliert W. lamln(, D. Clark VThartou, 1 ru,WU I MIA IM .1 r . Pajjuin t it. og, 1 ti'Uiias II. Pollers, a. t. nruoRn1, EdmunJ ( iMtil;i hsniuel V iloos, l4iwla C. Nnrrls. "0, Jt)UN K. M L'UUEUUl, President. BaMUEL Wacox. bvurttarj. 4M INSURANCE. JAMK INSVKANCK COMPANT. No. Hii" CIIKSNt'T Rtn-nl. tN( ORPORATK.I) m. CH AHTK.K. PfCRPFTUAL CAPITAL, $J0(i,iKi. KIRK INSI KANt K K.XCI.HSI VKLY. luaiirca (Kulnnt lo or Iminagn ly I'ire either 1 Par pptual or Temporary Policies. uinr.croRS: f'lmrlea Ricbnrdmn, i Robert Pearce, V. ihinin II. KIihv n, lulin Ki-Kiler, Jr., I rnocin N. Iluck. ! Kdward H. Orno, llrniy l.i wla, 1 ( 'h.irlo Sloken. Nntltan Hillea. iJohn W. Kvenuan, Oi.-oiKU A. Wext. ' Morriocai llurliy. CHAiil.KS RICIIAROSUN, President WILLIAM H. RIIAWN, Vice-President. Wll.l.tAMK I. ftl. '.M IIAIlli. Secretary. 7 oil) fpi E PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE - COMPANY. -inrorpnt 'ilnH In-'A I h rl Pnmai ,,1 No. Ml) WA LNL-'T Nil Oct, oppo-oto InilniiundiMiee Simara i hii (iiinpnny, fiiv iralily known to the nomtnunitv ti over fort years, orntmues to insure a,-inst loss onUm nuv lij- lire on Pnlil c or Private Kuililiiiits, eitlior perma nently or for a Inn. tod time. Also on riirnitnrn, htouk of (...mis, and Aleu lian liie irenerallv. on lilieml t.-rm 1 heir Capital, to.retlinr with a laivn Surpln, n i, Is invested in the most direful manner, whii-li enables tliom to oiler to the insuiod an undoubted security in tliecaso of loss. , , DtltECT 11H. Daniel Smith, Jr., i John Dovereatix, Alexander Henum, Tlmmiis Smith, lsnar Ilii.ellmiM, I Henry Ltivla, 1 Uomaa Robin?. I J. tiilliiiKlm, I--0IL Daniel Unddnrk, Jr. WH:o,,:now,:,!;!S;Jr'""l!j OFFICE OF THE INSURANC E COMPANY i . rl'UR'm AMKRIUA, No. ftfc! WALNUT Street, I hlladeliilua. ' Incorporated V.M. Churler Perpetual. Can tal. fs.Min.niki Assets mui Al AKINK, INLAND, AND II KK INSURANCE." over eaumo.ouo losses paid since its onoAN. l.ATION. ArthnrC. Coffin. rilllKt'TOIlH. S.'iiiiiicl W. Jonm, Jolin A. Rrown, Clinrles Taylor, Alnliroso W hit, V illimn "Wpli.li, S. Morris Wain, John Miipon, Ceorite L. iiarriinn. I- rsncls R. Cope, Edward H. Trotter. KdwHrd H. Cl irke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. .Toshuo. John P. White, Louis O. Mndiiirn, Charles W. Ousliinan A..'i l.l,l.V.R . f'OFITN, President. M.n... i VH A2U'KS 1 ''ATI'. Vice President. fllAITHIAH W.Mtiw, hftcretsr)'. j ij J IMPERIAL riltE INSURANCE CO, LONDON. ESTAHMSI1E1)I1S0:I. rtiM-tip Capital and Accumulated Funds, JS.OOO,000 I IN" G OLD. PHEV0ST & HERRIIJG, Agents, 2 45 No. 107 s. THIRD Street, Philadelphia, CI! AS. M. PREVOST. CHA8. P. HERRINO. NEW PUBLICATIONS. B U " E A U VERITAS (FRENCH LLOYDS). INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS. THE REGISTER VERITAS, containing the Claasl liciition or Vessels surveyed In the Coutinniitiil. Bri Hull, aud American porta, for the year 18C9, Is FOR SALE by the Agtuls In New York. ALF. MERIAN A CO., 4 id No. 49 EXCHANGE PLACE. 1MIILOSOPHY OF JiTITuTaGZ A New Course of Lectures, as delivered at the Now York Mutetim of Anntniny, emhraoing the suhjeots: How to Live, and Whnt, to Live tor; Youth, Maturity, and Old Age; Mmitiood Generally Revinwed; The Ca'useof InriiRi-Htion; Hatuli nce und Nervous Diseases Accounted l or; Miuriiige l'hiloophically Considered, eto. eU. Poi.-KPt VolunioS containing thiiA l.n.ilna u,lll l.A f... warded, jmst paid, on rtoeipt of l!o cents, hv adilromiinir W. A. LEAHY, JH., S. E. corner of TETII and WALNUT Strt't'ts. 1'hiladolphia. LUMBER, 1 Q i 0 sprite joist. -lorn lOUt SI'Itl CE JOIST. loOU HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 18G9 SEASONED CLEAR PINE. -t Ql( SEASONED CLEAR PIN hi lOOtJ CHOICE PATTERN PINE. SPANISH CEIUR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 1800 FLORIDA FLOORING. FLORIDA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. 18GJ) IRGIXIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP HOARDS. RAIL PLANK. I ttl'O WALNUT IIOARHS ANI) PLANK, i Q'pi lOUy WALNUT HOARDS AND PLANK-loOl1 WALNUT HOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1SG9 UNDKKTAK ERS" LFMREIL UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1809 1801) SEASONED POPLAR. -i Q(t SEASONED CHERRY. ISOU AS II. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. OifO CIGAR BOX MAKERS' iQITk lOUJ CHiAR BOX MAKERS' loUii SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, FOR SALE LOW. 1800 1800 CAROLINA SCANTLING. CALOLINA 11. T. SILLS. NORWAY SCANTLING. CEDAR SHINGLES. CYPRESS SHINGLES. 1860 1800 AlAULE, BROTHER A CO., 115 , mi No. 2600 SOUTH Street. PANEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.- A 1 COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. UOMMON liOAKDS. land 2 SIDE FENCE BOARDS. . . WHITE PINE FLOORING HOARDS. YELLOW AND S A P PI NE FLOOtllNGS. I!4'and4's. SI RLCE JOIST, ALL SIZES. ' 4 HE.MLOt K JOIST, ALL SIZES. PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY. To(rethor with a KPimral assortment of Huildinc Lura-bt-y. lortale low for rush. 'P. W. MM ALT, . 8 1 11'TEENTII and STILIOS Streets. L U M B E It UNDER ALWAYS DRY. COVER, Walnut, White Pine, Yellow Pino, Spruce, Hem lock, Shingles, etc., always ou hand at low rates. WATSON & GILLINGIIAM, 8 20$ No. m RICHMOND Street, Wth ward. KOOFINQ. KEADY ROOFI This Rooting L adnpted to all LiuildinKS. N O. H can t ... BTEI P OR FLAT ROOKR at one-half the exm ore of tin. It is rendi'y put on ole Shinle Roots without rcmovinK the shinKles. tliua avoid iuRthedamaKiua oi ceihtiKs and luruitura while under coin ri'imirB. (No pravel used.) PRESERVK YOUl! '1 IN ROOFS WITH WFLTONt EJ.A.VITO PAINT. I am always prepn . ,-d to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Also.PAIf. I" 1 OR hALK by the barrel or gallon the best and oheapent in the market. W A WEI TON" W NoH N. NINTH Street, above Ooate. rPO OWNERS. ARCHITECTS BUILDERS X AND ROOFEltS. Roofs! Yes. yes. Every size and kind, old or now. At No. tA'.i N. Till ltl Street the AM F R1CAN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOF COM PA NY are belling their celolirated paint for TIN ROOFS and lor presrrving all wood unci uietdls. Also, their solid 'com tilei roof covering, t he best ever ottered to the publio, with brushes, cans, buckets, oto., for the work. Auti vermin 1' ire, and W ater-prom ; Liuht, Tight, Durable. No craok ing. pea mg, or shrinking. No paper, gmvel, or heat, tiood for all cliiuutes. Di.eutions given for work, or good work- Agnuis wanted for uilorinr counties. iftf JOSEPH LEFDS P,l..i...i (LD C. RAVEL ROOFS COVERED with Mastic blutu.and WHirnnted for ten years alK(!m HAMILTON ft OOOKFER, J6?ra No. 46 8. TENTH Street. ALEXANDER G. CATTELLACO.. PKODUCK COMMISSION M KRClLlWiU. , No.U' OKI It WUAKVKS No. S7 NORTH WATKK 8TREKT. I'HILADKii'UiA I93i UXZAKDEX U tlATrs-i i, riiHl Ihmi.t,
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