THE PAIL tC EVENING TELEQKAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 18G9. sriniT or ran rztcss. fdltorlnl Opinion of the l.oiidlnar Journals l imn Cnrr-nt Toilr Compiled Every liny lor llo Evening Telegraph. QUESTIONS OF THE IIOUK. Vow the A. 1'. Time. Hcnator Sherman does not mistake the )iuient of popular feeling when, in the Ohio )nnvas8, he lays stress upon the questions of "taxation and currency as those which call for immediate and intelligent attention. I'ho iulluonce of these questions upon the feelings and purposes of the people is not confined to Ohio. They furnish the practical issues for the fall campaign. The fifteenth jimendment is the last remaining feature of Iho reconstruction policy, and the importance of its ratification cannot be easily over-estimated. Until the principle it affirms be in corporated into the Constitution the funda mental feature of reconstruction will wear a tsectional aspect, and its duration will be a lnalter of doubt. The adoption of the amend ment is. therefore, desirable as a means of nationalizing what the country, in its treat ment of the South, has pronounced just, and as a final settlement of an irritating contro versy. With this exception, there is nothing which, in importance or interest, approaches ho financial question. The blunder of the main body of the Democracy in identifying themselves with Ihe programme of Sir. Pendleton in regard to lhe currency and the dobt, interferes with the practical discussion of those topics. Instead uf entering upon them in their practical relations, and with direct reference to measures of which improved credit is an essential element, the parties to the contest are engaged in debating the relative advan tages of repudiation and good faith. As in the war the same class of Democrats ex pended in opposition to the cause of the Government the strength which, rightly used, would have rendered its administration more efficient, so now the relief to the tax payer vhich would follow a successful management of the debt is delayed by an as sault upon the public credit. The reform jnont obviously needed is for the time hin dered, if not made impossible. It would be fdle to propose to the public creditor the ac ceptance of a bond bearing a lower rate of in terest in exchange for that which he now liolds, so long as a determination to disregard ihe original contract is apparent. By wan Jonly reviving Mr. renclleton's greenback theory, then, the Democrats do what they can to narrow the financial discussion within un profitable limits, and to prevent the operation of bond-conversion, which would so greatly reduce the tax-payers' load. The Democratic position with reference to the currency is similarly mischievous. We Lave no confidence in plans for precipitating resumption of specie payments by legisla tion. That must be the result of a gradual change, involving time and the steady, whole some growth of industry and commerce. But the appreciation of the currency may be pro moted by judicious measures, of which fixed ness is an ingredient; while for resumption other preparations are expedient, looking to the specie strength of the Treasury and the national banks. The Democratic programme makes fixedness in the amount of the currency unattainable, and demands the abolition of the banks rather than the acquisition by them of a specie reserve. The programme, in fact, threatens inflation and business disorganiza tion, under circumstances which indicate the repression of disturbing influences as one of tue paramount requirements ot tne country, Upon the subjects of the debt and the cur rency, then. Republicans appeal to the people with decided advantages on their side. They may fairly claim to be fighting the battle of common honesty. They may declare, with truth, that if the saving attendant upon con version of the dobt, and the benefit to trade and industry consequent upon a more healthy condition of the currency, are not at once feasible, it is because the influence of the Democratic party is exerted in the direction of inflation and repudiation. If, however, Republicans are to profit by this superiority of position to the fullest ox tent, we apprehend that they must deal with the general question ot taxation more frankly than Senator Sherman has yet done in his re ported speeches. The Republican record even upon this question is not a weak one. It tells of greatly reduced taxes the moment that peace and retrenchment made reduction pos sible. It tells, moreover, of a systematic cutting down of expenditures under a Repub lican administration, which will render f urther reduction easy. The Ohio Senator is not too sanguine, we trust, when he expresses the belief that within two years the taxes on whisky, tobacco, and incomes will yield a sum adequate to the ordinary wants of the Government. The desirableness of thus re stricting the sources of internal revenue may be open to doubt. And the impolicy of up holding the income tax just as it is, instead of urging modifications that would break the force of objections now pressed against the tax itself, is apparent. Still, the possibility to which Mr. Sherman points is encouraging. It shows that he at least, among the Republi can leaders, understands the popular demand for economy, and for lessened taxation as its immediate result. This demand supplies to the tariff ,not less than to the system of internal taxation, and Mr. Sherman errs when he runs over the schedule of customs duties, and treats it as something to which no serious objection can be taken. On this subiect he underrates popular intelligence as well as popular feel ing. When, for example, after remarking that "the duties complained or are chiefly the duties levied for revenue only, and not in any way for protection," ho adduces the duties on sugar, tea, and coffee as foremost of those that are objected to, and then goes on to con tend that a mass of other duties fall on arti cles which are consumed by the rich, he mis conceives the whole meaning of contemporary discussion. The complaint against the tantl is that it is needlessly cumbrous and compli cated. that it taxes raw materials ot manu facture and therefore oppresses domestic in. dustry, and that some of its most objectiona ble duties are those which are inconsiderable in respect of the revenue they yield. The duties on iron, coal, timber, and sal1; produce, in the acL'iecate. a comparatively small reve nue; they are designed to "protect" inonopo. lies, ana their enecis are wiuespreau uuu uua Yet Mr. Sherman, who professes to discuss tax ation in the spirit of a statesman, utters not a u'nrd concern in c them. The Republican party cannot afford to be inrUtt-Arnt tn the tariff issue as a part of the inKt?nn nf taxation. The time is not propi tinnn fnr thn Advocacy of abstract doctrines, iwi tliA nonnln have no heart for them. The nrPKKiftK of the Government are appreci .I! and there is an honorable readiness to bear the inevitable burdens patiently. Their revision and readjustment are, however, pos sible without embarrassment to the Govern ment, and the performance of this duty is a service which the Republican party should Hot try to evade. AN EXAMFLE IN TENNESSEE. From the If. Y. World. From the less one learns the greater. It seems that in Tennessee they have a state of things somewhat resembling that which afflicts the community at large, to wit; a set of bogus legislators who owe the right to hold their office not to any provision in the Con stitution, but to a legislation "outside of the Constitution." Thus there are eight mem bers of the Tennessee House who are mem bers not by a provision for their election in the State Constitution, but by virtue of a schedule tacked to said Constitution at the time of its institution in 18(!". Now, as is well known, the schedule to a constitution is not a part of the constitu tion, but merely ministerial, like the net of legislation ordering the assemblage of the convention which frames the Constitution, and so soon as the fundamental law is got in working order the schedule becomes, functus officio, null, inoperative, and void. Not to go into detail of cases where it has been em phatically decided that such is the solo force of a constitution schedule, wo need but refer to the latest instance on the subject the declaration, to wit, of Mr. Grant, in his pro clamation of 10th July, lWW, submitting the reconstructed Constitution of Mississippi to the vote, that which is known as the schciule thereto, sections 4 to 15 inclusive, is not to be held or considered as any part of said con stitution. Such being the status of a schedule to a State constitution, it follows that the Ten nessee schedule of 18(J5 is now legally inope rative, and has been since the instrument to which it was temporarily ancillary went into operation. By consequence, the election from 1W5 to 18ii!) of the eight extra members allowed in 1805 by this schedule has been constantly illegal; and against a repetition of this illegality in the future and to meet its present consequences, it is now purposed in Tennessee to provide by simply following out the law as hereinbefore indicated on the sub ject of the validity and obligation of schedules. Of course, any such action will lead to an immense amount of howling and roaring in the radical camp, it so happening that the present eight extra members-elect are all from one locality East Tennessee and trooly loil. To this it is sufficient to answer that ail the members allowed by the constitution of Tennessee, irrespective of locality or politics, will be undisturbed, only those being denied seats who can trace their claim to no better authority than a schedule exhausting its operation in 18(!5. All this, no doubt, seems dry perhaps is; and yet in it one finds a clue to the safe solu tion of that greater difficulty which besets the country at large at the hands of bogus Repre sentatives in the House and surreptitious Senators in the Senate. None of these wor thies owe their seats to the Constitution, but to a legislation outside of the Constitution, and directly terminable in its very terms. This legislation is reconstruction. Recon struction is in one original act and many supplements. The ground of the original act and, far consequence, of all based thereon is that no legal State Governments or adequate protection for life or property exist in certain States, aud that it is "neces sary that peace and good order be enforced in said btales until loyal and republican State Governments be established therein; therefore, be it enacted," etc. Here the act is expressly limited to a certain date, or, in other words, is not, like a constitution, to remain unchanged except by the authority creating, but to carry within itself the time and date of its ceasing to be of any effect. The moment that Congress admits the South ern States, that moment the reconstruction schedule accomplishes itself, and the members from the Southern States have no right to seate under said schedule, but such right only as they may deduce from the Federal Consti tution itsolf. This, of course, is simply no right at all, and the House may turn them out as legally as the eight provisional members may be excluded in the case of Tennessee. The right in the premises being thus clear, it remains that there be the power sufficient to its exercise. This, as things go, will not be long lacking, and is a matter that can be safely left to itself, our present object being attained in showing how the indubitable legality of the contemplated procedure in Tennessee points the way to a like clearness of law whereby the genuine constituencies of this country may slough off the surreptitious delegations now equally potent with them. SAFETY FOR MINERS. From the N. Y. Tribune. The mining interests of the United States are greater, if measured by the value of actual production, than those ot any other country in the world. The delivery troni our coal mines is about one-fourth that of the British Islands, but twice as much as that of France or Belgium. In the precious metals we have exceeded all rivals; for although Australia has sometimes equalled us in gold, she seems to nave no silver, we are among the foremost in lead, copper, and iron. Yet, with all this, so far as the protection of human life is con cerned, our mining system is the worst in the world. We may say that for the safety of our miners we have no laws whatever. Elsewhere governments give these matters special atten tion, men ot the highest order of intellect for instance, Emanuel Swedenborg have been honored by positions in the mining bureaus of European countries. Here, the construction and management ot mines are left to the cu pidity of owners. Official supervision is un known. Consequently we have mines that are mantraps; houses built underground, each one with only a wooden chimney for a door way, the people are let down into the trap, and the chimney takes fire from the bottom. The miners themselves are always indilfer- eui io tnoir own risKs. a newspaper para- grapn recently uescriuea now a araday, when examining amine, was once provided with a cushioned seat. The philosopher asked some questions about the gunpowder used for blasting, and in reply received the astounding information that the cushion he was sitting on was meroly a bug of the powder. When Sir Humphrey Davy invented the safety lamp ii was uopeu vuai tue any oi colliery nre was past. The explanation of the next creat ex plosion of fire-damp showed that a miner had unscrewed his lamp and exposed the flame, to light his pipe. Thereafter lumps were locked by an inspector as the workmen entered the mines, and an intervul of security followed But it was found that, bv means of Hin Tlnvw cuttings could be worked where the fire-damp was constantly issuing. It may be supposed that the owners of mines favored this extension of" their working terri tory. The gas, entering through the meshes of the wire, took fire within them, and blazed arouad the wick of the lumps. It would have warned, if it did not frighten, anybody but miners. They rather liked the phenomenon; it gave such i splendid light. The wires of the lamps be came red hot; perhaps they were burnt to pieces; the exact particulars are in doubt; but the result was another horrible explosion. Substitutes for the Davy lamp haye not yet I proved successful. Two Fronch savants made I a "cold light;" a sort of aurora boroalis, sealed up in a class tube, worked br an sloctrie bat tery. It weigned 12 pounds per lamp; and besides, the miners said they could not see by it." Two other Frenchmen made a lamp which was air-tight, and burned its own oxygen, condensed by pressure. That was heavier and bulkier than the other. Now lot some ingenious American invent a lamp that can be hermetically sealed up, using oxygon packed in the solid shape of some of its chemical combinations, and producing in combustion no gas that requires an outlet; and ho may bo enrolled among philanthropists. But even that would be no security against wooden chimnevs. Thev must be praventod by legislation. If wood must be used in our mines, let it be rendered absolutely fire-proof. Soak it in soluble silicates, cover it with stone-paint, plaster it over with cement. It was the wood-work, nothing else, that fed the flames in the Nevada silver mines for weeks together. There a miner loft a candle stuck against a post; but the system which fills the mines with wooden supports and framework was the real cause of that catastrophe, as it was of the Avondale disaster. CUBA WHAT ABOUT CUBA ? From the A'. 1". UerdUU From all the late news arriving from Spain and Cuba, including the hopeful communi cation of General Sickles, there is evidently a prospect that the island will ere Ions cease to be an appendage of the "mother country," and will take shelter under the wmg of the American eagle. If the Regent Serrano is wise, he will not refuse the munificent offer of a hundred millions which General Sickles has been authorized to offer on the responsible endorsement of the United States lor the tree purchase of the island, and it is said that he is not unwilling to accept it. In the present condition of Spanish finances it would be foolish to refuse the offer now, because the Spanish Government may rely upon it that they will never get such an otter again, it is the last chance, and they had better take it. Indeed, affairs in Cuba are tending in such a direction that her freedom is but a mere ques tion of time, and she will not be worth buy ing very soon. We presume that the Regent sees this very clearly, although some ot the old fogies of his Cabinet may loan more upon the old traditional Castilian prido than upon their knowledge of the logic of events. The threat of sending a reinforcement of Spanish troops to Cuba to put down the revolution is renewed, but tho number is reduced from the original twenty thousand to sixteen thousand. Wo hardly believe that, in the present criti cal state of affairs, pending a negotiation for the purchaso of Cuba, any number of troops will be sent there at all; and even if they are, tins will not change the result. With regard to the valuo of Cuba to this country, supposing th it wo guarantee the price of her independence at the compara tively paltry sum of a hundred millions, there can be no doubt or hesitation, it she is worth forty millions a year to Spain, she can be made worth fifty per cent, more to us by the industry and enterprise brought to bear upon her resources. We expect, therefore, that, in view of the advanced state of affairs, tending towards a solution of this Cuban diffi culty, the administration will no longer hesi tate to take prompt steps in the recognition of the revolutionary government, as won as intimating to the authorities at Madrid that it is advisable to accept the financial solution already officially offered. Wre believe that General Grant lavors such a course, although he is desirous of avoiding complications as far as possible. But some members of his Cabinet are disposed to put a arag upon tne wheel and retard that action which their de parted colleague, Rawlins, urged with his dying breath. THE DIVIDED DUTY. From the -V. 1'. Sun. It is often said that the ago of heroic deeds is past; but on i ndav last one of the noblest acts of which we have ever read was per formed by a poor employe of a railroad company, and within a few miles of New York. Albert G. Drecker is the bridge tender at the Passaic river drawbridge, on the Newark and New York Railroad. JOn Friday after noon, just previous to the time for a passen ger train to reach the bridge, the draw was open. Mr. Drecker know that the train was coming. He began to turn the bridge, so as to close the draw before its arrival. At this moment he saw his little son, who was only ten years old, and who was not far from him, fall from the bridge into the river below. The agonized father lookod down the track. He saw the train coming swiftly to wards the bridge, and knew that to do his utmost there was barely time to close the draw. In the water below him his boy was Btmoolincr for life. A leap into the stream at this moment and he could save his child. But the train came thundering down, and he knew that if he loft his post for even a single instant, a hundred lives might be sacrinced. He stayed. Slowly the bridge was swung into position, and the train passed over; and none of the passencers Knew wDai meir Ntuety uuu cost the poor workman, who sprang into the river only to take thence the lifeless body of his bov. To 4iirA nnv Rtnrv oi neroism 10 suroass . - . . this ? Think, if you can, of the terrible alter natives of duty which were presented to this man. There was no time to deliberate. His son was dviner. Ho could easily rescue him J.O ... V - w J J by leaping into the river beneath. But that leap must have cost many umci- tn-iuun uyoo perhaps hundreds and had he a right to imnpril these ? The aeon of a lifetime of suffering must have been compressed into that moment of doubt. With sublime and beroio fortitude, this noble father resolved to rln hin ViirrhftHt. dntv: and to that duty his son w as sacrificed. How many of us would have done the same ? BLANK BOOKS. BLANK BOOKS. The Largest Stock and Greatest Variety or FULL AND UALr-BOUriD BLANK BOOKS, MEMORANDUM, PASS, COPY-BOOKS, ETC. ETC. To be found, in this city, U at tlio OLD ESTABLISHED Blank Book Manufactory OF JAS. B. SMITH & CO., No. 27 South SEVENTH St., 18 tuatuSm PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE AND SALESROOM, FTRST FLOOR ; WAKK ROOMS, UP STAIRS. SPECIAL NOTICES. tf iT 1' H O C i. A M A T I O N. OfFtiT OF THF. M TOR ) OF THF. OltXOK PB1I.AHKI.PHIA, September , lSSO Whf.i fa, J nmr J. Brook, a detective officer la the errlce of the t'nlted States Oovornmcnt.and a resident of the city, whilst In the discharge of his duly, was this day crwaidly shot, with the Intent to assassinate him, by two tr more wickedly disposed nervous, In a (tore situated In the nctgbborlood of Front and Arch streets, about 2 30 P. M. The ansa'sins hastened to a chaise with tiro hnrss at tached, which was In waiting clone by the scene of out- ruge, and which, after the dastardly deed was done, whs driven furiously, the driver lashing bis horses, up Front street to Collowhill street, thence to St. John street, thence to Buttonwood street, thence to Sixth street. thence to Spring Cardon street, thence to Fairmount Park, where the trace so far has been lost Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vestod In me. I do herebyoffer a reward of jtC00) ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for information which will lead to the arrest and convic tion of the guilty perpetrators of this dreadful act. The attention of all good citizens is called to this out rage, and their assistance is most earnestly Invoked. DANIEL M. FOX, P 7 Mayor of Philadelphia. jjtjT REPUBLICAN MASS MEETINGS. THE UNION REPUBLICAN STATE OKNTHAL COM MITTEE have made arrangcmentsforMASS MEETINGS as follows, viz. : Troy, Bradford county Sept, 4, lfWO. Towanda, " Sopt. 6, 18tJ9. Ilonetdale, Wayne county Sept. 7, Wi. Kittanning, Armstrong county Sept. 7, lSriP. Beaver, Beaver county Sept. 7, 1H6A. Bradford, Bradford county Sept. 7, lii. Somerset, Somerset county Sept. 14, M, The meetings at Troy, Towanda, and Honesdale will be addressed by Governor J. W. Geary, lion. John Soott, and Hon. W. D. Kelley. Governor O. P. Morton of Indiana, Hon. John A. Bing ham of Ohio, and Hon. Wayne MeVoIgh of Pennsylvania, will addreiB the mooting at Pittsburg. JOHN OOVODE, Chairman. Oro. W. Fameiislf.y, W. J. Wftrnt, Secretaries. S. F. G WINN EH, J 8 30 19t gigy- JOSE POEY, Medlco-Olrojano de la Universidad de la Habana, recibe consultaa de 9 a 11 data manana y de 3M a de la turde en su oficina cnlle Nuove (Bud) No. 733. Redideucia en la tulle de Green, No. Ihl7. DR. JOSEPH POF.Y, Gradnate of the University of Hubana (Cuba), has re- moved his office to No.' 733 S. Ninth street. Rusitlum i No. 1H17 Groon stroet. Oflice Hotirs- to 11 A. M. 3Vf to 6 P. M. 7 2 K3 THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSLil- n .1 KAMA. Fwr.AriF.T.rHTA, Sept. 6, 1S. Tho Directors havo this day doclarnd a dividond of SEVEN POLLAKS AND 1IFTY CENTS per share oa the capital stock of tho Company lor tho lust six months, which will bn paid to tho stockholders or their legal repre sentatives, alter the 15th inst. H o !'t vii.i.iA.fti u. miuwi'.LL, -secretary. tfiF QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Ilia rw AJ A IkL I T Wy tit fT LUl'LH-'f nt i j i.i t r,ii uuu CAPITA L, 4-2.0OO.WI0. SABINE 4 ALLEN, Agents, P25 . FIFTH and WALNUT Streots. flJS- FIRST-CLASS PIANOS AT FIXED PRK ICS.-Opcning of HUTTON'S NKW PIANO ROOMS. Nos. 1128 aud 1128 CHKSNfJT Street. Ohicker- ing Pianos. Immense deduction in Prices and Introduc tion of the Une frco hystein. tireat (success of the New Price LiBt in New York and Boston, btriot justice to all purchasers by means of ttie , ., ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICKS. and cnalteruble New Price List. WILLIAM H. DlITrON, 3 71m Nos. 1126 and lliMOHHsNUT Strent. J. E. GOULD, NO. 933 CIIESNUT Strent, is selling Stock A Go.'sand Haines Bros'. Pinnoa and Mason A llamhu's Cabinet Orguns nrury m loir nn ut anyj'ormrr time. 8 26 ELLIS'TrON BITTERS. "HAVING nsed your Iron Bitters in my praotioe, I oan testify to its superior tonic properties for invigorating the appe tite ana promoting digestion. I can unhesitatingly re commend It in cases of general debility and dyspepsia, and in conditions of the system requiring the dae of a ferru ginous tenia. Its agroeable flavor must recommend it to all. Yours, respectfully, C'hab. 8. Gaunt, M. I)., Pro fessor in th. Philadelphia University of Medioine and Surgery. t24tuthfs$ For sale by JOHNSTON, HOLLOW AY A OOWDICN, No. W1 ARCH Street, and by Druggists generally DR. F. R. THOMAS. THE LATE OPE- rator of the Golton Dental Association, is now the only one in Philadlphia who devote, his entire time and practice to extracting teeth, absolutely without pain, by fresh nitrous oiide gas. Office, lu27 WALNUT St. 1 i5 WINES. H E R MAJESTY CHAMPAGNE. DUNTOrJ & X.US30CT, 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS solicited to the following very Choice Wises, etc.. for b vun iuiv. a ijuooun, 816 SOUTH FRONT STREET. CHAMPAGNES. A cents for ber Maisat. Dna Am Montebello, Carte Bleue, Carte Blanche, and Charlea Farre's Grand Vin Eugenie, and Vin Imperial, M. K lee man ft Co., el Uayence, Sparkling Moselle and KHLNK WINKS. MADEIRA 8. Old Island, Sooth Side Reserve. SHERRIES. V. Rndolohe. Amontillado. Tnnas. Val. lette. Pale and Golden Bar, Crown, etc ruKm- vinno veiuo iteai, vallette, ana Drown. CLARETS Promia Aine ft Cie.. Montferrand and Bor. deaux. Clarets sad Sautera. Winea, Gl. Meoer nwan." BRANDLEb. Hennessey, Otard, Dupny A Oo.'s various vimages. 4 6 QA KSTAIKS & MoOA LL, NOS. 120 WALNUT ana 91 UKAN1TK street. Importer, of BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETO . AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS For the sale of PURE OLD RYE. WHEAT, AND BOURBON WHI8- B.1H.O. 0 98 3pS .OAKSTAIRS' OLIVE OIL AN INVOICE ' J of the above for sal. by . 6 38 9p Nos. 136 WALNUT and 91 GRANITE Stc QENTi'8 FURNISHING QOODS. A C A It 1 . TI1K FOUNT OF FAHniON, GENTS' FlllMNIIIMi NTOllE, will be opened Saturduy, the Uth instant. No. lit) S. EIGHTH STREET, with a full assortment of Gents' Furnishing Goods, con sisting of tha finest domestio and imported goods only, making a specialty of Kid Gloves, Neckties, Cravats, and Scarfs, in the most superior and varied styles. Introducing the novel features ef presenting to the purchaser of twelve articles, the thirteenth ; hemming all handkerchiefs purchased free of charge. Umbrellas kept to hire tor a trifle for general tocommo dation. The patronage of friends and the public is respectfully invited. ' Polite Salesladies In attendance. K8 MRS. CUMMINGS, He S. K. Ga Harris' Seamless Kid Cloves. EVERY FAIR WARRANTED! ' EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR GENTS' GLOVES. J. W. SCOTT & CO., 6!7rp No. 814 CIIESNUT StreoU p A T E N T S HOULD Ett-S E AM SIHRT MANUFACTORY, , AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, PERFECTLY FITTING SniUTS ANDDRAWERS made from nieaauremuut at very short notice. All other ankles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS lu lull variety. WINCHESTER CO, U 8 No. 70tf C'llEgNUT Street. INSURANOEi DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSU RANOK COMPANY, Incorporated t h Leit latuieof Pennsylvania, 1W&. OO ie, 8. E. corner of THIRD a.d WALNUT BtreeK Philadelphia. MARINK INSURANCES On Vessels, Cargo, snd Freight to all pirU of the world. INLAND INSUHANL1K8 On goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to alt parte of the Union. ITRIC INSURANUKS On Merchandise generally 'on btores, Dwellings, Houses, ASSETS Or THF COMPACT, November I, 1. (Jul.OOO United States Five Per cent. Loan, i.t a.i- dt.-vio Rim-no l-l"tl .......... QdUiMJ IV 130,000 United States Big Per Cent. Loan, lttul 13B.8O0 00 & ,000 United States Sii Per UenU Loan (for Paeilto Railroad) 60,00000 900,l00 State of Pennsylvauia SU Per Cent. . Loan 8ll,876)6 12S.OC0 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. Loan (exempt from tax) 128,5ril,00 60,000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan . 61,500-00 80,000 Penn. Rail. First Mortgage Six Per (Sent. Bonds 90,2XTO0 85,000 Penn. Rail. Koond Mort. Six Per Cent. Bonds 84,000 00 85,000 Western Penn. Rail. Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds (Penn. Railroad . . guarantee) 80,!2500 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. I,oan ai.000'000 7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Loan 6.031 36 lu,000 Oermantown Gas Company, prin cipal and Interest guaranteed by City of Philadelphia, 800 share. . Stock 16,000-00 10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 900 . shares .Stock V. ....... 11,800 00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100 .,, , shares Stock 9.500 09 80,M)0 Philadelphia and Southern Mail . o,q,,i Steamship Co., 80 shares Stock.... 16,000 00 907,100 Loans on Board snd Mortgage, first , Liens on City Properties 9rr7,!00,00 iMuCSM) Par. Market value, $1.130,82a-26 , 4 A Cost, $1.0P3.6O4 Hi. Real Estate Knnn-flO Bills receivable for insnrsnce made 82J,4tjo14 Balances due at agencies, premiums on marine uau interest, ana oiuer ueois au. the company 40,173-88 1,8130 116,K3-73 Stock and scrip of aundrv ooroorat ions. 31M. Caftb in hn.nk Estimated value Cash in drawer. .$llti,lnO'l 113 60 $l,047,:SoT Thomas O. nand John C. Davis, ' James C. Hand, Tbeophilus Paulding, Joseph H. Seal, Hugh Craig, John R. Ponrose. Jacob P. Jones, James Traquair, Kdward Darlington, II. Jones Brooke. James B. McFarland, Edward Laiourcade, r.umnna a . Bonfler, Samuel K. Stokes, Henry Sloan, William U. Lndwiv. George O. Leipor, nonry j. Kullull, j r., unua lp. i ayior, George W. Bernadou, William O. Boulton, Jacob Riogel, hliencer Mcllvaine, D. T. Morcan. l'ituhnr. John B. Semple, " A U II uosnua tr. nyre. THOMAS c! ItAKll. PrnsMnnt. HKNRY LYLBTJr'n Secretary V-Aidant. HENRY BAI L, Assistant Secretary. 10 6 1829.-CHAltTEIt K5IIPETUAL. iMIiii Fire Iwaiice Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CIIESNUT St. Assets Jan. I, '69. $2,677,37213 CAPITAL 8100,000 -00 AC't 'It I El) SURPLUS 1 ,0-tf.r.2S-70 PREMIUMS 1,193,313-43 UNSETTLED CLAIMS, INCOME FOR 1S09, gisuo.ow tespaiiisiiceffliTer$5,500,0l)0 Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Torma. oi i ue i.outpany also issues Policies on Rents of Build lum all kinds,Ground Rents, and Mortgages. Alfred O. Rnker, . Allrod Fitlor, Samuel Grant, I Thomas Sparks, George W. Richards. William S. Grant, Iaac Lea, I Thomas S. Ellis, George Fates, . , ' Gustavus 8. Benson. ALI'RF.D G. BAKER, President. ... lii'OKOK CALKS, Vioe-Preaidout. JAS. W. McALLISTKH. Nn.t.r. ' THKODORK M. KKGKR, Assistant Seoretary. 8 9 A S B U R Y LIFK INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 291 BROADWAY, corner READK fit root k..vi, CASH OA PITAL. .'. . . .ajiai.OHO $12o,ooo deposited wivn tne Mate ot new York as security LKMUKL BANGS, President GEO RGB KLLIOTT, vToe-Presidont and Seoretary. KMORY McCLLNTOCK, Actuary. A. K. Al. PURDY, M. D., Medioal Examiner. Thomas T. Tasker.i John M Maria. J. B. Lippinoott, James Long, James Hunter, Charles Spencer, William Divine, John A. Wright, 8. Morris Wain, Arthur G. Coffin. John B. Modnun a., vvorne. in ms cnaraoier oi lie JJireotore. economy of manage ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNKRhHIP PLAN Of DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no JeWwtion in feinale lives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and no restriction of travel after the first year, the ASBUR Y pre sent, a combination of advantage, offered by no other oompany. Policies issued in every form, and a loan of one-third made when desired. bpecial advantages ouered to clergymen, lor all farther information address .1 A M U'ji m inNoimis Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. No. m WA LNUT Stroet, Philadelphia. FORM AN P. uvuimoniuui, opeciat Agent. 4 lot QTRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OP PHILADELPHIA, OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET. Ortranleed to nromote LIFE INSURAVmi mnnn members of the Society of Friends. uood risks or any class accepted. Policies ltisued oa approved plans, at tha lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETH, Actuary. ROWLAND parhv. The advantages offered by Uils Company are an. excelled. 1875 T N S D 14 E AT HOME, A. Penn Life Insurance COMPANY. No. 921 CHE8NUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, ASSETS, 92,000,000. CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE. MAINAUUlf UY OUR OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at the Home Offlce, sad ui we Aguuuea lurougnout tne State. 3 18 JAMES TRAQUAIR PRESIDENT fcAlHUEL E. STOKES VIOK PRKSIDKNT JOHN W. IIOHNOR A. V. P. and ACTUARY HORATIO W. STEPHENS BKORETART rpHE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY I. OF PHILADELPHIA. Ottice D. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Strut. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAL AND TERM POLIUIh S lnnnvn Ca sh Capital $3W,000'00 ussu awn a, law, HSIS 27-i3. DIRECTORS. F. Ratohford Starr. U.Ik I." : J. LMngeton Krrin.M flumes L. Clagborn, William O. iioulton. Charles Whaelar. John M. At wood, Renjamin T. Trediok, Ceorge 11. Stuart, .lohn li. Brown. Thomas li. Montgomery, James Aertsen. This Company insures only nrat-olaas risks, taxlnff ha speuiaur uasaraooa rwa. n.,ll. ula. whatever, such a. factories F. RATOHFORD STARR, President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President. AUTtXPEB W. WiBTXB, Secretary. g piKENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OP A PHILADELPHIA.. INCOR PORAT KD 1ho4 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exuhxnge. This Company insures from loss or damage by r IRE. nn liheral terms, on buildinss. tnerohandlae. fnrnltnr etc., for limited periods, and permanently on buildings by di-lioeltof premiums. ... 'lie Company has been In aotire operation for more than SIXTY YEARS, during wuioJi all losses nave been ItlAll 1 rauD. mu.... . promptly adjusted ui)TOR8, John L. Hodge, Darid Lewis. M. K. Maliony, John T. Lewis, William S. tirant. Robert W. Learning, Renjamin Etting, Thomas H. Powers. A. R. Mollenry, Kdinund Caatillon, Samuel Wiloox, I,, uiara t. uai i niuiuvi t. hook, l.awreuue Lewis, Jr., 1 lwif). Noma. JOHN R. WLUUEHUt, P D. Clara V lianon resident. SaMCF-L WlLCOXi beuretary, 4J5 'INSURANOt. JAME INSURANCE CO MP AN?. No. Wo CIIESNUT Street. INCORPORATED Imw. CHARTER PF.RPETL'Af CAT1 TAL, saoo.rtirt. " : FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insures against Lom or Damage by Fire either by Per. pctual or Temporary Polloies. DIRECTORS: , Charlea Rirhardaou, , Robert Poarce, vk ilham 11. Rhawn. John K,sslnr, Jr . rrancia N. liuuk, Edward R. Orne, '!e"jy lfls. Charles Stokes, Nathan Hill,.,, Joiin W. Erorman. l.eoige A. Vet, 1 Mordoiai Hurby. CHAR IKS RICHARDSON, ProaiJent WILLIAM II, RHAWN, Vice-President WH I.TAMS I. Mt.AM H Aim, Secretary, 7 14 PENNSYJ VANIV FIUE INSURANCE No Mfl WALNt'TMro,. ,-VtV . ndo, nc, P,p,,r, I his Company, favorably known to the c invnuniti fw over tort j years, cont iu., to insure against ln ii. ago by tire on Piil.hc or Private Huihlm " e ith'r norm?' n. ntivorfora Imiitodtimo. Alao on Fiirn.tt " RSJ Vi 4o"V,nrt Merchandise generally, on liberal trrn. Their Capital, together with a large Surpiu, Tun i I. Invested in the mo.t v..f,,l manner, which inibleS H m to otter to the inaureu sn undoubted security In , th. cm Inrnrnnr.tn.l 1 u-t - f i. n . Daniel Smith, Jr , Aletander llenw n, John DevereiiT, Thonia, Smith, llenrv Lewis, ifaao nnzipimrat, T hotnas Robin,, K.nli t,,. "i'V!""""'" roll- ?u,V'..TK A"KRIUA' N-Wj WAI-r Str?.?. ' MARINE" INLA pit), AND FIRR IXSUR'A:,j'c!''),W OVER aW.OOO.OUO LOSSES PAID SINCE ITS ORGAN. ki. A 1 lO , Arthur O. Coffin. niHKcTons. Sauiuol W. Jones, John A. Rrown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, William WeNh, S. Morris Wain, John Macon, Oeoigu L. Harrison rrancis R. Cope, Edward It. Trotter. Edward S Clarke. T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jossup. John P. White, lionis U. Madeira, Charles W. Oushman ARTHUR O f'riFvrv n i.i .. Matthias VtSX' V'e President. t pirERIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO, LONDON. E.ST.IMsniiD2lS0:i. raM-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, JK,000.000 IIV GOLD. PEEV0ST & HERRING, Agent, 8 45 No. 107 P. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CHAS.TREVQST. CJIASIIERRIN-G. NEW PUBLICATIONS. BUREAU V E R I TA8 (FRENCH LLOYDS). INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS. TI1E REGISTER VERITAS, containing the Class!, lieatiou of Vessels surveyed In the Continental. Bri tinh. una American ports, for tho year 1SC9, la FOR SALE by the Ageuts In New York-. ALF. MERIAN & CO., 2fl Ko. 49 EXCHANGE PLACE. PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE . . A New Course of Lectures, as delivered at th .' York Aliiseum of Anatomy, embracing the subiects: How to Live, and V i hat to Live for; Youth, Maturity, and Old Age: Manhood Generally Reviewed; The Cause of Indigestion ; Hatulence and Nervous Diseases Accounted or; Marriage Philosophically Considered, etc. eta Pocket volume, containing these Lectures will be for" T'Tea'Av" ' Pirdto"08iPt of 26 cents, by addressing RiiJ Ph.'ife&i'' ""' FIKTU and WALNUT UT LUMBER, 18G9 SPRUCE JOIST. Kl'IU CE JOIST. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 1869 18G9 SEASONED CLEAR PINE. , O'A SEASONED CLEAR PINE. loO J jnjivr., rni-imtA I'l.NK. SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 18G9 FLORIDA FLOORING. FLORIDA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WAI.NCT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP HOARDS. RAIL PLANK, 18G9 1 X AfM-2 HOARDS AND PLANK. -1 GiCk lOU J WALNUT HOARDS AND PLANK, lot) J WAI.NTT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 18G9 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. RED CEDAR. ' WALNUT AND PINE. 18G9 18G9 SEASONED POPLAR. 1 O ft SEASONED CHERRY. lot):) ASH. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. 18G9 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1 Gt'( CIGAR BOX MAKERS' I hliH SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, FOR SALE LOW. 18G9 CAROLINA SCANTLING. CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. NORWAY SCANTLING. 1869 1869 CEDAR SHINGLES. -nim CYPRESS SHINGLES. lOO J MALLE, BROTHER A CO., No. am SOUTH street. "JJNITED STATES BUILDERS' MILL, FIFTEENTH STREET, BELOW MARKET, ESLER & BROTHER, Proprietors. WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, ETC. BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK. A Large Stock always on hand. 011 8m DANEL PLANK. ALL THICKNESSES X. 1 COMMON PLANK, ALL THIOKNK.SSL'S iuwmniii n"A aua. land2MlKr'tiNCK BOARDS. WHIT ft PINK. FLOORING HOARDS. TFT.LOW AND8APPINK FLOOKINGS, ly and 4V SPKUCK JOIST, ALL SIZKS. t HKMLOCK JOI8T, ALL SIZES. PLA8TKRINO LATH A SPKCIALTY. Together with a general aasortmentof Building Lum bey, for sale low for cai.h. T. W. 8MALTZ. 835 Dm FIFTEENTH and STILES Street UMBER UNDER ALWAYS DRY. COVER, Walnut, White Pine, Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem lock, Shingles, etc., always on hand at low rates. WATSON A GILLINGHAM, 8 89 No. 9U RICHMOND Street, 19th wara.' OROOERIE8 AND PROVISIONS yniTE PRESERVING BRANDY, Pure Cider and White Wine Vinegar, Green Ginger, Mustard Seed, Spices, etc. etc. All the requisites lor Preserving and Pickling purposes. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, Dealer In Fine Groceries, 11 W Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Streets. ICHAEL MEAGHER. & CO. J Ho. 123 South SIXTEENTH Street, Wholesale and Retail Dealers la PROVISIONS. OYBTJEKS, AND SAND CLAMS, FOR FAMILY U8H TffHRAraS Ut PES DOZSN. IH Daniel Haddock, Jr. - f JVM. O. CROWEl'ict11' -sldent. "sFFICE OF TIIF IVsriMvr i;' -,.,.;.".'.:'. "1 V
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