spirit or Tina muss. Editorial OpInUna f th lrtlnaT Jonrnnls Upon t'iirrrnTilcii-Cmplled Kry Day for the Brealna Telegraph. NAPOLEON'S HEALTH CIUTICAL l'OSI- 'HON OF FRANCE AND OF EUROPE. from th y. Y. Herald. The reports circulated in Paris and London relative to the actual condition of tke health of Napoleon, and transmitted to uh by the Atlantic cable, are contradictory. His ' Ma jesty presided at the Council of Ministers held at St. Cloud, but postponed his visit to Faris. One denpntch says his health is "improved," another intimates that he was not seriously ill nt any time, whilst a third informs us thai, lie is "much improved" in condition. Thut he is invalided is. however, certain. It is said, in deed, that his system is just now in a state of "atnynr.tion" of the vital force rather than one of convalescence. The Emperor of France is in his sixty second year. Though this is not an age that nuggests the close of n career where there is robust health, or where life has boon passed with temperate regard to the requirements of nature, it is a great ago at which to bear Revere disease. Ago is so important a point in view of disease that many maladies, alwavs curable in the prime of life, are always fatal at sixty. Napoleon was, perhaps, never richly endowed with vital force, and the store he bad has been sadly encroached upon by a life that in many vicissitudes has naturally yielded much to tho temptations of the senses: nerve and brain also have been somewhat over wrought of lute years, and now, with less elasticity than the majority of men have at his age, he finds his sys tei i .torn with the oft-repeated agonies of n disease certainly incurable and now appa rently well nigh beyond all control. His j o ition is very grave. Nelaton apparently ret ses longer to bo responsible for his Ma jesty's condition. Hi cord has been called, and it is reported also that advice has been nought among the great doctors of Germany. Finally, however, there is a limit to the Utmost that science can do in keeping our physical machinery in operation; and we may fairly infer, from this sudden summon ing of all advice that may have a possibility even the least chance in it, that his Majesty iouches that limit. We see also that the Em press is kept within call. There are critical anoments in the history of dynasties when all depends upon presence at the capital: and it js apparently recognized at the Tuileries that one of these maybe near. If Napoleon should tlie with Eugenie at Constantinople some one else might be regont, and in that contingency the chalices of the Prince Imperial ever to come to the throne would be smaller even ihan they are. Napoleon's life is at this moment the most important of any in Europe, for his death, and his alone, may convulse the Continent. "We have seen a Czar pass atyny and his place taken almost without the consciousness of his nubject empire. If Prussia should change xulers it would be only a change of place for the national portraits. Other changes would .be most apparent in the almanac of (iotka. All these nations accept the fact of a reigning dynasty; France docs not: but her eternal protest is that she will tolerate no dynasty; ikat she is not the property of any family: that Bke cannot be degraded to an keirloom, but is forever the mistress of her own destiny. If she accepted the empire, it was with Louis Napo leon as Emperor, and his very reaognition of lier right to choose, while it indicated on his part a true perception of the only basis of a throne in France, will be held as committing even hiui to her right to ckoose again. France cannot lie bound by any law, by any constitu tion or agreement written on paper or cut in Jbrass; neitker can ker own sons ever be for an kour depended upon as an arniy to sustain any system, order, or idea tkat is once repu diated by the national impulse. She is the enfant terrible of nations. She will blurt out Ler thought anywhere, and, whether in word or act, will recognize no conventionality that contravenes her sovereign and absolute will. How can a dynasty be made to stand in the presence of such a people 'i No man can count upon tke life of tke Emperor for a day; jio man can count upon tke permanence of ike present order in France for a day beyond las deatk, and with tkat order cone what hurly-burly may not follow ? Napoleon has just disturbed Germany very greatly by his propositions to give greater freedom to France. How muck more, tken. would Ger many be disturbed wit.k tke Frenck people suddenly taking totkemselves all the freedom that others covet ? With a tumult in France, how the present organization in Spain would melt away! There is no house in Europe in unch order tkat it might defy tke chances of this possible crisis. Tkere is one peculiar hope for order in France and Europe, and tkat is in Trinco Na poleon. "Wken France last had the oppor tunity to freely express her own will, the re public was set up. Louis Napoleon, acting on the not unreasonable assumption that the re public was tending to a reign of anarchy, gratified his personal ambition by pulling it the other way, and the republic, instead of becoming a chaos and a butchery, as ke pre tended to fear, became the empire. His hope has been that the power thus gained would be passed down to his son. The conflict in France, therefore, ivill be whether tho nation will yield to that one man's idea or insist upon its own. "Will not the nation instinctively revert to the idea of tke republic and repudiate the claims of a pos sible tyrant in his minority i All the indica tions are that France! is eager to try again tke Bolutiou of tkat problem from tke considera tion of which she was rudely thrust away by the ":'d of December." On the other hand, many interests, no doubt, will endeavor their utmost to sustain tho c laim of the Prince Im perial, and in this conflict there is the highest probability that Prince Napoleon may stand forth as the grand compromise candidate, uniting in his own person the best that might Je claimed, etpiallv by those favoring tke re public and tke dynast v. For he is the best Jionaparte of them all. And if such a nation. in this age, accepts the dynastic idea, it will only be in the rare case where the successor may be an intelligent and even able mAn. lie is aiso a republican by education and appa rently by natural tastu, and his recent de clarations in favor of liberalism are so muck in keeping with kis wkole career tkat tkey are not accused of even an electioneering insin cerity. Europe may be congrutnluted upon the hope that the nresence of this man in France ufl'ords her. DOMINION NOT POWER. J'rom tht A', y. Irthune. Another speech by the Canadian Governor Ve'eral, reported to lis frnm Now Brunswick is noteworthy as reaffirming some of tke most interesting of tke positions taken by him at Quebec, and as containing a sagacious and Jrieiully reference to the United States. We Miouia judge by the tone of his several speeches that Governor Sir John Young is by Jemperuuioat and intellect eiuuMed tu wake THE PAIL if EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA , FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 18C9. known to the reonle of tlie Dominion the I slightest shade of that parental Indifference as to the neltisk possession of her colonies which is now becoming constitutional with the mother country. The porent is old, and firosjerous. and comfortable, has happily out ived the fallacy that territorial obesity is main Btrength, and is awake to the need of giving freedom to her members, and suffer ing her children to to have the fair play of their instincts and faculties, Tho colonial children have attained a majority, the mother contemplates their union among themselves, and even hears without great concern a proposition that some of them shall bo married oil' her hands. Wo think Sir John Young kas said something to this effect, and said it with so British an air that we doubt not he has reflected Mr. Gladstone's sentiments in spirit, if not in letter. Gov ernor Sir John again soys that, though eveiry fault in the world, down to the misdirection of a shoal of mackerel, is laid at tho door of confederation, yet is the fact of union in dispensable to the well-being of the American colonies. Tho Dominion has a career before it which it may safely and honorably pursue, not only undisturbed, but, he also believes, "with the complete good-will of the people of the United States." Sir John may securely calculate upon the American disposition to tolerate the largest liborty of choice in such matters as coloninl dominion. We have States enough, to be sure. The continent is wide enough, in all conscience. The Hud son P.ay Territory has ample room and verge enoufeh to permit a free field to adventurous nationalities which seek to build upon tho foundations of their enterprise a history and economy of their own. Canadian Confederation is one thing: Aus tralian Union is another. What was fore shadowed in our correspondence a month ago is verified by the appearance in England of an independent call for a conference in Lon don of duly appointed representatives from all tho Australasian colonies of England. To obtain colonial representation in Parliament, to place the more advanced of the colonies on a diplomatic footing, to administer colonial affairs by a board, are some of the motions for reform which are hintod in advance for the consideration of such an assembly. The general complaint of the colonists is that the mother country recognizes "no res ponsibility lor tneir weltare or satety, nor any obligation to help them, even in circum stances of great danger and pressing need." Though the home side of the question will hardly admit this statement of fact, we conceive that the complaint of tho Australians is in the natural course of events just what it should be. Ilritannia having per formed the matronly oiliee of bringing up all her territorial children by hand, has no longer any anxious care for their destiny. They are big enough to protect themselves; they are very far off. After a large experience of pos sessing and losing, after having spent mil lions of money on unrighteous wars, the his toric dame has reached the generous conclu sion that the greatest ef national richos are to be found in the magnanimity of letting well alone. Without making a vain effort to keep her wonderful possessions in an imperial grasp, she is content to allow them the chance to grow as great as herself. This is not only in tke best taste, but it is a matter of necessity. Australia is too populous and prosperous io bo longer considered a floating appendage of tlie Uritisn empire thousands ot miles away. At the same time it is one of the phenomena of the age that what was formerly a matter of revolution is now only one ot evolution. States are changing their relations by a law of peaceful growth, and governments are almost guilty of Christian renunciation with a view of acquiring suck a thing as moral power over their possessions. For ourselves, we are more interested in seeing other nations well-governed by them selves than by us. It will save these United States a world of trouble if some crying States will comfortably and freely keep their identities, and leave us to ours unmolested. Great nations stand responsible for aid and comfort to their weaker relations, and can scarcely escape the task of turning good Sa maritan, and nursing some infirm nationality; but if a State can keep its feet, and walk and work for itself, by all means let it do so. Our interest is in seeing the world well self -governed. Wo have something at stake in that interest, above and beyond our national aggrandizement, and count no addition of territory a gain that comes with self-seeking on our part. Let our neighbors govern them selves liberally and ably, and tkey will nave gone far to deserve our welcome whenever tkey skall apply for annexation, and our re spect if tkey shall not. We think we discover a reciprocity ot tone in tnis statement 01 tne position of the United States and that uttered by Sir John Young on the part of England. It is a proof tkat botn countries nave grown too great to fear. THE MINING HOllltOH. From tht -V. Y. World. ike A vondale catastrophe exceeds in horror any which we have ever been called upon to record. Nothing more baleful than the doom of the two hundred dead miners found heaped upon each other, with blood upon their lips, their hands elencked in deatk agony, and tkeir glassy eyes unclosed, kas been known among mankind. Greater numbers have perisked by tke stroke of calamity: in earth quake, storm, or battle; but all other forms of death seem alluring when compared with that which finally released the miners trom an extremity of wkick it is impossible to think without a shudder. Tke horrors of tke Black Hole of Calcutta; of tke mountain cave in which tho fugitive Algerians took refuge and were suffocated witn smoKe by order or tne ferocious St. Arnaud; of the burning cathe dral in a South American city, m which nearly the entire concourse of worshippers were destroyed, seem to lose something of their awfulness in the contrast, two hun dred men walled in with night, stifled with slowly gathering vapors, groping through black winding arcades, and falling at length at the closed gate of their mephitic prison house, a writhing mass of terror and despair, constitute a picture from the contemplation of which we skrink appalled as we do from tke ghastly and hideous images wkick Dante tells us that he saw in Malebolge. It is all over now. Tho dead men rest from their labors, and, like these who perish in bod or battle or by any of tke strokes of fate, their works follow them. No comments of ours can summon them again to life or miti gate tho anguish of the bereaved wives and children who cliibtered about the mouth of the pit. and whose pain must have been only less than that of tho victims who ware slowly suffocating beneath tkeir feet. Nor have wo a very sanguine kope tkat any preacknient from this appalling text will do much to avert future disasters of the sort. The recklessness of human life in this country has grown into a proverb. Hero was a cavern in which hundreds of men daily trusted tkeir lives, which only Lad communication with the outer air through a single shaft surrounded witk buildiugs of tke most inflammable char acter. It was a grave. It ouykt to have been inscribed with the Wend whirk tka Fioren- tine Baw blazoned over the Gate of Hell. It is probable that there are other mines simi larly deficient in means of ventilation. Doubtless there will be for a month or two a fitful paroxvsui of shaft-diecrinur and a fine outburst of executive vigilauce. This will. of course, abate, and in due time we shall have other avoidable tragedios to record. The men who compose corporations are doubtless humane enough, and individ ually disposed to exert all means to protect the safety and lives of their servants. Hut corporations in the aggregate frequently work through clumsy and inetli- cient instruments. Somebody s criminal ne gligence and stupidity have sent hundreds of men into eternity. Inquiry in similar cases cenerally discloses tho surprisiucr fact that no body is to blame. The stockholders are, of course, spotless: the directors have mot regu larly and passed resolutions; tho superinten dent has obeyed orders with tke nicest preci sion so that, of course, the responsibility finally devolves on Providence, which is not amenable to the penalty of the law or tho censure of a coroner's jury. If anything except legal enactment and supervision could arouse the owners and authorities of these perilous caverns to the need of renewed vigilance and ampler means of safety, this unspeakable tragedy would do it. No one can think of it without the ex treniest pain which human calamity can in cite. Incidents of a pathetic sort generally transpire on the recovery of the bodie:s of the victims. Little notes of tenderness and affec tion, written upon old fragments of paper to swee theart, or wife, or child, are frequently found. Sweetheart nnel wife and child may possibly have stood upon tho warm, green earth, a few hundred feet above the writer, weeping in the sunshine, as he wrote in darkness his final message of affection and farewell. A touch of nature makes the world akin, and interest and sympathy brighten around these melancholy tokens of hunvin love and suffering, such as the mere visita tion of death, even in its most grisly and awful aspect, could not evoke. The fieepient recurrence of accidents in this perilous branck of industry suggests tke need of an immediate antl careful revision of tke laws designed for the safety of the laborer. After all that human statutes, diligently en forced, can do for his protection, there re main a host of dangers which are inseparable from his employment, and from which it is impossible to shield him. The safety lamp of Davy guards him from the mest perilous of these subterranean conditions, the dreaded lire-damp: but nothing can protect him from the daubers of flooding, of being crushed by tho falling roof of tho cavern wherein lie delves, er from a hundred kindred perils wh-ch beset kis calling. We owe kim, nt least, whatever protection tho best laws most diligently enforced can secure to him, and it will go hard if the blood of the two hundred dead of Avoudale cry to our law-givers in vain. THE FUTURE OF CUBA. From the A. 1". Timen. The probability that Cuba will become, sooner or later, an independent State, and the clear possibility that she may become, in certain contingencies, a State of our Union, make the problem of her commercial future both to her and to us one of the highest in terest and importance. Before the insurrection, the Custom Houses in Cuba collected annually something like $1 0,(11 !), 10 of import duties and $2,SoO,0()() of export duties on American trade, while the officials and traders secured additional sums, estimated as high as $s,()(Mi,()(M). All tkese annual revenues were drags on tke produc tive energies of tke colonies. It is clear tkat with suck charges and exactions nbolisked ns tkey would be, for example, witk annexa tion tkese energies will be powerfully as sisted. And, again, with tree institutions establisked in tke island, eitker witk or with out annexation, American capital, enterprise, and labor will find a larger field, and Ame rican productions and manufactures a better market. Cuba saved from devastation and properly governed will, whether independent or an nexed, unquestionably add to tke prosperity of our people. But it is impossible not to note witk apprekension tke gradual destruc tion ot property at present in the island. Recklessness and frenzy are now at work to prostrate its productive powers. Soon after the first revolutionary movements, Valmaseda began the destruction of property; the patriots attacked and paralyzed the copper mines: estates were burnt or conhscated; the volunteers seizetl authority regarding in- teinal management from the hands of Spain; executions, murders, and sequestrations be came general. At such a rate, the 4 Pearl has been rapidly diminishing m price What we must do, however, in our present discussion is to take tke normal oondition of Cuba in time of peace. In considering the productive capability of the island, we sup pose that the following might be a fair esti mate of its taxation, official and otherwise: Tlie sum oMclally published In Madrid, marking tlie norilim of Culm la tlie iresiui- lial ImelKCt, 1 sec 07 f:i2.SM,2:iii Amount cuiit'C'tuii iroia liiHoik'B 9,suo,nao Additional paid by lliei community for tlie ku me :uo,(ii)ii Total. I.esa 'ITi per ce-nt, ii(0 included budget f iii,uim),ouo , of the' ?'.,:,. in the pi'iierul 2,U'.'l,aoo 7,;:o,ooo Total Wu.fi&j.ffitf Two per cent, additional on Income tax for corporation service! 2,a7(!,0f4 Private donations paid for Himijrgiinjr arti i'Ihs mliiHi t to iiiinort and export duties, not re ported at I'ustom-liouae 7,W)ii,(kio Total mini In (fold paid by Cuban population before the war J.7J.40LS7 Thero is no more striking proof of the im poitanee of the present wealth of the Queen of the Antilles than the foregoing figures, and nothing can so well justify all effort? made to save Cuba from destruction in in interest of the commercial world, even were there no reasons of humanity to move our better feelings. If, out of the :570,0()0 slaves of that island 'JMi.OOO were to be found able-bodied laborers, their wages, at the rate of .' per month, would amount to $1H,)()0,000 or little over one-third of tho exactions heretofore borne These H wires will show that to abolish slavery is not to curtail tko prosperity of Cuba, provided persecutions, war and iucen diiuism are stopped at once. But there is very little time to lose in stopping tho work oi destruction which has alreaity gone so iar, Tho aggregate exports of the nine more im portant ports for the six months ending on the Moth of last June give the following items. showing a marked decline: Boxes of suear l.ias.iMiO 1.0'.H),r24 llOKtiheaelH of sugar 8(s,21tf 4HM(H HoKHlteaiiH Of IlioluHses U1M,R22 837,110 Tonnage for the above 6as,82a 6K5.1S4 The partial increase in some ports is owing to a precipitancy in bringing produce to mar ket, which will cause a corresponding diminu tion in tho nix montks to come. Tke last news of incursions ut Juguey Grande, which lies in the meridian of Cardenas, sounds tke alarm among the rich plantations of tke West, heretofore unharmed. And, in general, it may be remarked that next year the diminu tion of products will bo much greater, because many of the plantations that contri buted to the present crop have since been ruined or paralyzed. There can be, of course, no doubt about the conclusions to be drawn from these facts and figures. The productive power of Cuba will one day be greatly increased under the healthful stimulus of free institutions. But in tho meantime the island is retrograding fast. Alike on commercial and humanitarian grounds, it is desirable that the friendly offi ces undertaken by our Government regarding Cuba may result in very prompt restoration of peace nnd pros perity to the island. WINES. HER MAJESTY; CHAMPAGNE. DurjTow & Lusson, 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. ryilY. 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Iv.H $3iie),oe0 LTnltsd States l ive I'er tent. Ixj.m, lii-4s l',0e0 t'nitcU Htstes bix Per Cent. Ixau, jiiw,6eKnw i:,M'iM fci.uuo'oo lV!l 6U,UW United Mato Six Per Cent. loan (inr I'ai'itic Tinilrnad' l; . . ":.t. . . .. 126,'IW City of Philadelphia Six Per Lent. Loan ecxenipt from tuxi 60.1W0 SUte ot New Jersey bix Per Cent. Loo n SO.IKXI Penn. Kail. First Mortgage Six Per Cent. Honds 86,11110 Penn. Kail. Second Mort. Six Per (Jent. Bonds 85.1X10 WeMern Penn. Hail. Mort(ruKO Six Per Cent. Bonds (Peuu. ltmlroud iriiurantee) 80,000 State of Tennessee lire Per Cout. Iian 7,000 Bute of Tennessee Six Per Cent, loan 11,000 Ccrmantown (:as Company, prin cipal and Interest (rnarantood by City of I'hi.adelpuiu, U00 shares Stoi-k 10,000 Pennsylvania Kailroart Company, 200 ahnros Stock 8,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100 . ahnrea Stock SO.ttlO Philadelphia and Sonth-m Mail o, - Q... , Steamship Co., ft shares Ktotik. . .. JfcK.WO Losns on Hoard r.nd Mortgage, Liens on City Properties li-.DlM-W 61,600 M0 3M,KI'00 84,000 00 3U,48i'U0 ai.lKHI'ODO t,0lU'3a 15,000'W) 11,300 00 3,500'OU IB.! WOO 80", W.i 10 ft'l.lOH.WO Par. Mnrket Talue, $l,130;Hd i Cost, Ql.0!3.tiol'&i. Real Kst ate ',omi(i0 Bills receivable for insure noo'niade.'. .' 3'Ji4'Wi Balances due at agencies, premiums on marine policies, accrued interest, and other debts due the company 40,17H"88 Stork and scrip of sundry corporations, i'Mbii. I.Htinintcd valuo 1.81U0 Cash in hunk il,i lfio iis Ciiah in drawer 113 do llrl.o! "T3 $l,M7,SSoTi x nEc101- Kdmund A. Sond er, .Sauiuol K. Stokes, Honry Sloan, William O. Ludwig, i George O. Leipor, , Henry C. Ualleit, Jr., John D. Taylor, 'George W. Hernadon, William ei. Boalton, 'Jacob Riogel. ISpencer Mclivaine, 1. T. Morgan, Pitlabnrg, John K. Komple, " Thomas O. Qand John v. Davis, ' James C. Hand. Theophilus Paulding, Joseph 11. Seal, Hugh Craig, John K. Penrose. Jacob P. Jones, James Traquair, Kdward Darlington, H. Jones Brooke, Jumos H. MoKariand, K.dward Lafourcade, uoanua r. Jtyre, THOMAS C. H AM). President. A. is. i.prger, JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice President. HFNRY LYLHUKN, Secretary. ' HKNKY BALL. Assistant Secretary. 10 6 1829 c 11 A 14 T E 11 PE11PKTUAL. tenia Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Cilice, Kos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. I,'69, $2,677,372" 1 3 CAPITAL g!00,OMfVOr ACCHl'EI) SURPLUS l,tls:i,.V2S-70 PRKMIUA1S l,l!a,S3- UNSETTLED CLAIMS, INCOME FOR 1S09, 'J3,78S-12. 83eiO,U00. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. 'I he Company also issues Policies on Rents oI.Builaiugs of all kiuUs.O round Rents, aud Mortgages. DIRECTORS. Alfred O. Baker, Alfred Fitter, Sumuel eirunt, Thomas Sparks, t. hoi go W. Kichards. I William S. t irant, Isaac Lea, J Thomas S. Kllis, George iales, GusUvus S. Benson. ALtRfcD G. UAKEK. President. TAR W el.l fiWSUlWi' VlolWdent. THEODORE M. KKGKR, Assistant Seorotary. :i S B U R Y LliE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. l BROADWAY, corner RKADK Kf,., N.-tr.-v CASH OA P1TAL. . Sl.i $iau,000 deposited witb the State of New York as security LEMUEL BANGS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice President and Seoretarr EMORY McCLlATOCK, Actuary " A. K. M. PURDY. M. D., Medical Examiner. UVVVTl L'Vl'L'U nV DVUui.ui.tu in n, m , . . - . " Charles Spencer, John A. Wrijrht. juuuins i. issuer, ,iotin M. Maria, J. B. Lippinoott, William Divine, S. Morris Wain. uames ivong, James Hunter. E. U. Worue. Arthur G. Coffin, John B. McOreary, ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN OF DECLARING DIVIDKN68. no restrSt.on in female uvea,, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and no restriction of travel aftr the first yesr, the ASBURY pre. sents a combination of advantages offered by no other oompany. Policiea issued in every form, and a loan of one-third made when desired. . - rnru. AnnnnniVAr msnajB bpeoiai advantages offered to clergymen. For all farther information addreaa JAMES M. LONCJAORK, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. D.7,c;i No. 8ui WALNUT Street. Philadelphia. FORMAN P. UOLL1NSUKAD, Special Ageut. 4 IBS STRICT L Y M U TUAL Provident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STIIEET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCB amona members of the Society of Friends. Uood risks of any class accepted. Policies ifisaed on approved plans, at trie lowest rates. President. SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETH, Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY. The advantages offered by Uils Company ate uu. excelled. 1 87 J N S U K E AT HOME, Df TH Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. No. 821 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETH, 2,000,000. (.'IIAKTEIIED BV OIK OWN STATK. IHANAUKD BY OUlt OWN CITIZENS. tiOSSKH PItOJIPTI.Y PAID. foi.h:ii:si ISSUED ON various plans. Applications may be made at the Home Oillce, aHd at the Agencies throughout the State, a 185 JAItlKS TKAOIJAllt PRICS1DKNT WAMUEI. JS. STOKES VIOK-PRKSIUKNT JOHN W. ItOKNOlt A. V. P. and ACTUARY HORATIO . STEPHENS SKUKKTARY ryim ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY i OK P11ILADK1.PHIA. Onice 8. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Street. Pl'P.i'l. I II A I. AN'Il TlruM' Pill Ii II lv 'liiJlTVn Ell 11 K INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Cash Capiiai .'tJou.OOOOO Cash Assets, July 1, lntiH. ;-l:l -2;!) a. F. Katchford Starr DIRECTORS J. Livingston Errinnar. Nalbro r ra.ior, John M. Atwood, benjamin T. Tredick, George H. Stuart, John ii. bnisn. James L. Clugborn, William G. Boultoo, Charles Wheeler, Thomas 11. Montgomery, James Aertsen. first-class risks, taking do This Company insures only rruiftuj uszsraoua riaas mills, eto. whatever, auuh as tectorial V. RATCHKORD STARR, President. THOMAS 11. AiejNTUOMiV.Ry, Vica-Praaident. AuriANUkJI W. WlbTKB, Secretary. Ho TMKKNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF 1 P 11 II. A DELPHI A. INCOU Petit ATKI) 1804-OHARTKR PKRPIC TUAL, No. 1 WALNUT Street, opposite the iOxchauge. This Company insures from loss or damage by i1 IKK, . .. on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture, etc., tor limited periods, aud permanently ou buildings by tit-posit of premiums. .. . a T lie Company has been in activa operation for more than KIX'IY VI A 1(8. during which all losses have been piumptly adjusted and J"!'rtj,iORS .T!,n I, llnd.a. . 1-ewtS, M. E. Alshony, II a In . Le Benjamin Etting, Thomas H. Powers, John J . Lewis William S. Giant, A. It. MctleHry. 1..I...,, W I .,Hlff. I'.dmund Castillon, D. Clark Wharton, Samuel Wilcox, 1 l uu m Jr.. ' lewiaC. noma. " JOHN R. Wt'UUKUEH, President, 6amctl Wilcox, Secretary. 4-, Losses paia siiiGe 1829,over$5J500,QOO INSURANCE. A ME. INS U 11 A NU E C O M T A N r. No. Io? CHESNUT Street. INCORPORATED l-trf. CHARTER PERPETUAL. I A PIT A L, iSJim.iKKt. FIRE INS RANGE EXCLUSIVELY. Insures against I.o or Damage tiy Eire either hy Per. pctuiil or Temporary Policies. DUtl-.CTemS: 'hsrles Richirdson. Robert Pearc", W liliain H. Kliaw 11. John Ke-ler, Jr., Francis N. Buck, I 1'dwnid H. etvne. llenry Lewis, Clmrlp. Stoke,, Nathan Hilles, John W. K.verman, Geoige A. Wet, Mordet-iii Bnhy. CHAtf ES l!ICHARtS.)N, Pp.,i,l.Mit. WILLIA M II. HH AWN, Vi. e Ppmi ..nf . Williams I. Blanc :iaiiO, Secretary. 7 2! 1 "Ii i: PENNSYLVANIA KIKE INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporflt.'d e barter Perpetual. No. fill) WALNl I' Street, opposite Independence Square. This Company, fav i-;,t..y known to the community fir over forty years, continues to insure against loss or dam age by tire on Public or Private Buildings, either perma nent l or for a limited time. Also on I'm intnre, Mocks of Goods, and Mowlum ioe cenor.-illy. on liberal terms. Their Capital, toge(i.r null a luge Sin plus Fund, U invevied In the inosi c.uviul manner, which enibles th -m to otter to the insured fn undoubted security in the cs?oj of loss. MIM't'T uh. Dnnlol Smith, Jr., . Jo'in Derereut, Alexander Benson, 1 Thtmui Smitli, Issue Hiizlehurst, j Henry Lewis, '1 humus Robins, J. 1 1 1 1 nir I10 m Fell, lt.-nlel Ila ldock. Jr. H 'Vli;l. SMITH, JR., President. WM. G. CROWEI.l.. Secretaiy. it:; OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, No. M WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. Incorporated 17!'4. Churter Perpetual. Assets ma i; i s e, Yn l'a n i i a n ii ' vi ii fc' i ns t it a nce. .!-:,sm,i)u OVER Sai,OiHI,t)00 LOSSES PAID SINCE ITS ORGAN IZATION. Arthur ft. Coffin, SuniiK-l W. Jones. John A. lirewn, ( llarloa Tavlor, Ambrose lute, V illiam Welch. S. Morris VValn, miiError.s. r nincis It. f .ope, 1'Muard 11. Trotter, Kduard S Clarke, T. ( 'h.-irlton Henry, Alfred D. Jesaup, John P. White, Louis C. Madeint, Cliurlos W. Cusliman (ieoruo L. Harriffn. lonu Aiasnn ARTHfR C CtMTIN, Preident. CH AH LI'S PLAIT, Vice President. Matthias Mabim, Secretary. a IS Ml'EllIAL rrUE INSURANCE Co", LONDON. ijsta ii i.i sii i: 1)3 1 so:i. Puitl-iip Capital and Accumulated funds, $;m,ooo,om in GOLD. PEEV0ST & HERHING, Agenti, 2 4! No. 10T S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CHAS. M. PREVOST. C1IAS. I. HERRING. NEW PUBLICATIONS. U'R E A U VERITAS (UliKNCH LLOYDS). INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS. THE REGISTER VERITAS, containing the Classt iicietloa of Vessels surveycil In the Continental. Bri tish, and AtniTlean ports, for the year 1SG9, is POU SALE by the Agenis In New York. ALP. M BRIAN & CO.. No. 49EClIAN(iEPLACK 15 II I U) H () PlTV OF MA R lilAO Y.Z !i , A.Kbw Oourse of Lectures, ai delivered at the Now J oik Mufeum of Anatomy, embracing the snbieots: How to Live, and W hat to Live tor; Youth, Maturity, and Oiil Age; Manhood l.tmerally Reviewed; The Cause of Indigestion; Hatulrnoe and Nervous Diseases Accountod for; Marnago Philosophically Considered, eto. etc Pocket volumes cont.iining Hume Lectures will be for warded, post Paid, on rceipt of Ba cents, by addressing W A LI'.Ari V, Jtt.. h i. K. cornorof ITFi'H and WALNUT Wtreets, Philadelphia. a .T5 LUMBER. 1800 JSPRI'CE JOIST. spRrcE joist. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 18G9 180.) SEASONED CLEAR PINK ioiia seasoned til. ear pink lobil vnuir. 1-Aitf,lt 11 N tl. SPANISH t'KDAR, EOR PATTERN'S. RED CEDAR. 1801) FLOIilDA FLOORING. KLOKIIJA FLOOHINU. CAROLINA PLOORINO. VIHCilNIA El.OOKIXtl. DELAWARE I LOOIMNti. ASH KI.OORINO. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP HOARDS. HAIL PLANK. 1801) 1 OO J WALNl'T HOAHDS AND PLANK. I OU J WALN'l'T HOARDS. WALMT PLANK. fQ!(i UNDERTAKERS' LKMIJER. in(m JOOy UNDERTAKERS- LUMBER. IlS(!) RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED CIIERRV. 1801) 1800 ASIl WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS I1ICKORV. 1800 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' Qn CIGAR BOX MAKERS' I niH SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, l'OR SALE LOW. 1800 1800 CAROLINA SCANTLING. nn CAROLINA II. T. SILLS. lobU NORWAY SCANTLING. CEDAR SHINGLES. 0f CYPRESS SHINGLES. OOll MAI LE, BROTHER CO., No. mm SOUTH Street. 115 I)ANK1. PLAN K. ALL THICKNESSES 1 1 COMMON Pi. A XK, A I.L TH ICKNESSKS 1 COMMON Me M RDM. I snd 2 M DE l-'ENOE BOARDS. WHITE PI N K FLOORING HOARDS. ' YELLOW AND SAP PINE I LOOrllNUS, li and 4V. SPhLCK JOIST, ALL KII-.K. m II KM mm 'K JOIST, A l.L SIZES. PLAS'I KK1XO LATH A KPECIA LTV. Together with a gennral assortment of Building f.uin hey. lorsule low forii 'li. T. W. KMAI.TX, y uu KlbTKKNTII and STll.KH Streets. U M B E I! U N I) E R ALWAYS BUY. C O V E R. Walnut. White Pine. Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem lock, Sliiuglcx, etc., iilwuv.s tin hand at low rates. W ATSON A GILLIXGHAM, II W5 No. 921 RICHMOND Street, lsth ward. ROOFING. T E A D Y R O O F I N O. Jt I bis Roofing is adapted to all buildings. It can applied to STEKP OR FLAT ROOKS at one-half the eipeno of tin. It is readi'y pnt on ot Shingle Roots without removing the shingles, thus avoid ing the damaging of ceilings aud iurniturs while under gums roiieirs. (No uiavel used.) PRESERVIC YOUR TIN HeiOKS WITH WELTON-1 ELASTIU PAINT. 1 1 am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Also, PAIN T it'll SALE by the barrel or gallon the beet and cheapatt in the market. W. A. WKLTON, 2 17 No. 711 N. NINTH Street, abova Ooatoa. rPO OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS. 1 AND KOOFKKS. Knots! Yes.yes. Everv size anl kind, old or now. At No. Mil N. TH HID Street, the AM K RICAN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOK CejiWPANV' are selling their celebrated imiut lor TIN ROOFS and lor preserving all wood aud muials. Also, their solid coi ple roof covering, the best ever offered to the public, wild, brushes, cans, buckets, e'e, lor the work. Anti vermin Firo, and Waterprool; Light, Tight, Durable. No crack ing, p ill, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or heat. Good for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work- Call! Wl&.hl,U0Uial 5aa Agrhita wanted for interior counties. tort JOSEPH LEEDS. P,i.,!.i o yLll21 COVERED OVER au.i viarriini ea ior ten yesrs. 816t',m naiiiii.ioB a ooetKKKR, Nu- t 8' TEN TH Street. A LEXANDER G. CATTELLA CO. i. WIODUCK COMMISSION MKRe)HAJ4TS. AND Ko. 07 NORTH WATFR BTREKT. PHILADELPU1A. ' 33S AUXAKDEB O UliltlJU ELUAS QkllLLim
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