THE DAILr EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 18G9.
BrmiT or Tun muss.
Editorial Opinion- of the, Im tm
Upon trr-nt Toplce-ComnHed Every
Wbt for the Kvenlner Telersph.
TRINCE NAPOLEON.
From, tU X. Y. Tribune.
Since ihe day when the cousin of his Ma
jofity of Fiance went off Bt a tangent to Ajaccio,
and there uttered his warning against the
blunder of subjugating Mexico and offending
the United States, the oracle known as
Trince Napoleon has been seldom heard
aloud. It would be wonderful, however, if a
Bonaparte could do as the Bourbons have
done, and pass through a long silence without
learning a great deal and forgetting nothing.
Frinoe Plon-Hon, though content to seem an
nppondage to the Empire, is not a niere'ap
purtenanoe of its Emperor. As the Boua
partes go, he is the best, and
among Frenchmen eligible for rule and
for public affairs, his position, character,
and talents make him extraordinary. His
sagacity at times has rendered him a very fair
iime-pioce to the empire, only the minute
hand was too fast. He impersonates as much
of conscience as can be entertained in blood
relation to a French dynasty. The Prince is
a thinker, a student, a man of some reveries
and a few deeds. He careors about Fiance
now and then like a lame and lazy eagle.
Seemingly he is a Bonaparte out of work, or
an imperial eadet growing grey, though as
yet but forty-seven years of age, and, as he
timself says, almost the youngest member of
the French Senate. The Prince has eccentri
cities, tastes, and accomplishments; he is an
orator, and, more than that, he is a states
man. Were the Emperor, who may now be
described as seriously recovered, lying at the
point of death, perhaps the royal opportunity
tvould arrive for this unemployed Bonaparte
a task of Regency in connection with a
queen who is attached to her confessor, and
who is supposed not to know how to govern.
We differ with those who treat the Prince's
late speech as inadequate to the sensation it
created. It was made to a body of ctnscript
fogies to whom the Prince had the frankness,
We will not say the boldness, to utter truths
With which all but the Senatorial hirelings of
Lis Majesty are familiar, but stimulating
truths nevertheless. He argued in the face of
sonie of thoir own fears that the Senatus Con
sultum was not an experiment, and announced
that though liberty may be for a while
eclipsed, it is the light to which all civilized
nations tend; and perhaps it was with covert
Sarcasm that he hoped he might class France
with civilized nations. He said that after
Napoleon's return from Elba he was a
thorough convert to constitutional principles,
as, indeed, he should have been if he was not.
'You will ruin pretenders," he said, "by
granting liberty, but give them a chance if you
Withhold it;" and then the Prince uttered a
Bentiment which reminds us of his love of the
fine arts: "Liberty is cosmopolitan, it is
tinman, it is like the beautiful in its unity."
Opposition, he thinks, is the salt which gives
Bavor to political food. A witty statesman
once said that you. may do anything with
Jbayonets but sit down upon them; and the
Frince adds: "You may do anything with
despotism except make it last !" He objects
to a plebiacitum, believing that the Govern
ment has been more effective and expeditious
in a Senatus Gonsultum. He construes the
amnesty as a certain pledge for the future.
He desires to see the Senate stripped of its
excrescence of power and made a proper
legislative body. Not being accustomed
to deal tenderly with what he condemns,
the Prince considers the institution of the
Senatus Consultum as something ridiculous,
and the fact that the Senate may act legisla
tively during a six months' prorogation of the
Corps Legislatif, and even vote the budget,
as simply monstrous. "This power is fright
ful," calmly observes the Prince. He proceeds
to say that the Senate's exclusive privilege to
discuss the Constitution so plainly violated
in the late interpellation of 11G deputies
ought to be abolished. He desires an increase
in the number of deputies, and wants to see
the circumscriptions fixed otherwise than by
imperial docree, to the ruin of gerrymander
ing. Furthermore he thinks the Mayors
Bhould be elected by Municipal Councils, and
quotes from a talk he had with a peasant in
proof. "By and by," he says, "when, as in
evitably must be the case, you come to dis
cuss the repeal of the law of Public Safety, of
Article 75 of the Constitution of the year
VIH, of the administration of the city of
Paris, of the relations between Church and
State, and new laws on primary and gratui
tous instruction, liberty of superior instruc
tion, decentralization, individual liberty, and
real economy, then the great battle will
come." Thus much for the Prince's pros
pectus of reform, to which few Frenchmen
will object on grounds of liberality. The
Prince's best sentence is, we think, directed
at the Emperor, and the phantom of responsi
bility. "The Emperor's responsibility is
Something vague and superior, high up in
clouds ana mists I will not attempt to define
it; abler men than I have renounced the task.
As I have already said, his responsibility may
fchow itself at a given moment by invoking a
ylebiscitum. But, besides this, the Emperor's
responsibility is generous. I quite under
stand the feeling which leads him to cling to
this responsibility. It is something superb,
but not very palpable, and not very useful."
Here is a fine cynicism, delicate as the blade
of Saladin, and a proof positive that while the
Frince can philosophically amuse himself at
the expense of the empire, he knows how,
while giving support to his dynasty, to retain
the nicest shades of his individuality.
Since 1701, France has had eight Constitu
tions, and the last of them is now invaded by
the promulgation of the Senatus Consultum.
Viewing the failures of the other Consti
tutions, the Senators who shave most the
imperial doubts question whether they will
Jbe more successful this time. Prince Napo
leon, who adds to his interest in his family
something of personal independence and faith
in the future, demands for France such a re-
torni or tne constitution as will place it be
yond tne nsK 01 umiu and tardy tinkerine.
In a word, he would have France liberalized
in her representative system to the level of
England, and the Empire of authority trans
formed into the Empire of liberty. Then we
suppose we shall have to salute the reigning
thief of France, to use the early language of
Frince Louis Napoleon, as the Emperor of
the French Republic" Can such things be?
TIIE AVONDALE DEAD.
From, the JV. Y. World.
The inquest upon the men smothered to
death in the Avondale mine is at last over,
and the jury have returned what everybody
Will regard as a righteous verdict.
It is at least consolatory to find that they
do not give any countenance to the superflu
ous horror of the rumor which has lately been
put afloat, that the fire by which these unfor
tunate men lost their lives was purposely
kindled for their destruction by a jeulous fac
tion of men of the same calling. This story
80 atrocious and repulsive tlint, all thiugs
considered, it would be difficult to find a par- I
allel to the depravity oi" the design it imputed '
to a body of miners to murder iu gross a great
company of their fellows for no other motive
than that their existence was inconsistent
with the interests of their murderers. "The
fire," the jury sny, and no doubt truly, "ori
ginated from the furnace in the mines taking
effert on the wooden brettice" in the shaft.
It is not difficult to trace the hideous rumor
of murder to its proper source. The men
who imagined it to their mterost that such a
story should be believed can have been no
other than the men who were interested to
divert responsibility before public opinion
from thoir own misdeeds. Those men were
the owners of the mine.
Even had the rumor referred to been as
true as it has been authoritatively pronounced
to be false, its truth would not relieve the
owners of their amenability. It was thoir
clenr duty to take order that neither careless
ness nor design could avail to destroy the
men at work in their mine. The precautions
they took against such an event are what we
know. They not only neglected to provide
an outlet for escape in case their single shaft
should be obstructed, but they lined this
single shaft with the most combustible ma
terial. A spark from the furnace or an in
cendiary's match could kindle it at any
moment and at any point of the two hundred
and thirty-seven feet of its length. A separate
shaft would no doubt have been costly, but it
would not have been costly enough to do
more than" diminish temporarily their great
profits. And, while the second shaft was in
abeyance, a small outlay would have sufficed
to make the sole outlet much less dangerous
than it was. One of the witnesses, a mining
engineer, once employed in the Avondale
mine, testified that ho had "planned a con
tinuous brick flue from the furnace to within
about fifty feet of tho surface." "But," he
swears, "when I left it went into other hands,
and they were satisfied with a wooden shaft."
This proposition for a brick flue, which would
have cost but a trifle compared with the total
cost of working the mine, and which would
have been a perfect protection against such a
fire as has actually occurred, was refused on
account of the cost of carrying it out; and
the result is before the country in the case of
the ghastly disaster of last week. If the sin
gle shaft which the parsimony of the company
allowed had been properly protected, it would
have guaranteed the inmates of the mine
against arson or accident.
It is notable that every witness even the
stockholders and officers of tho coal company
swears explicitly thnt "no mine is safe with
a single opening,' and every impartial expert
swears in addition that the lost lives might
have been saved with a second outlet. No
human power can undo the deadly work which
has already been done; but legislation is ade
quate to prevent its recurrence. There ought
to be no delay in providing that no coal mine
which has been worked sufficiently to allow
of the sinking of a second shaft shall be
worked any longer without one. And mines
which have not been worked so far should
be compelled to render their single shaft in
combustible. There need be no hesitation in placing the
blame of this new "Wyoming massacre"
where it belongs upon the shoulders of the
company which owned the Avondale mine.
Corporations have no souls, but they have
pockets, and if they are callous to tho grief of
widows and orphans of their making, and to
the reproaches of an angry people, they are
sensitive to pecuniary amercement for gross
negligence of their officers. It may not be
clear as a legal proposition that this company
is liable in damages to every widow they have
made. But their moral responsibility is clear
enough; and, as a matter ol prudence, it
would be better for them to undertake tho
maintenance of the bereaved of Avondale than
to face the destructive wrath of the men
whose comrades have been done to death in
their service.
ALABAMA CLAIMS AND MR. MOTLEY.
From the N. Y. Times.
The following telegram appeared in the
Evening 1'oxt on Tuesday:
"Washington, Sept. 14. A recent letter from Jlin
later Jlotlcy exp resses dissatisfaction at the policy
which lie is Instructed to pursue in regard to the
Alabama claims. He writes that the temper of the
British Ministry is decidedly favorable towards re
opening the negotiations for the settlement of the
question, and tnat u lie was permitted to open up
tin subject again, tne chances are that a treaty couui
be agreed upon uiiKe satisfactory to uotn
In view of the intimate relations subsist
ing between the Minister at London and Sena
tor Sumner, and the announcement current
in the press that Mr. Sumner was to preside
at the approaching liepublic.au Convention
in Massachusetts, and then and there pro
posed to criticize Secretary i lsli s mode ot
treating the Alabama claims, tins despatch
has naturally attracted some attention.
Before assuming tnat Air. Motley nas writ
ten such a letter, it may be wise to analyze
the statement of the rosta correspondent,
and see what it amounts to:
1. The British Ministry would like to renew
necotiations if Mr. Motlev would take the
initiative. That we knew before.
. That Mr. Motley would like to renew
negotiations. That we knew before ho leit
Washington.
3. That Mr. Motley is dissatisfied with the
restrictions of the State Department on this
subject. That might fairly bo presumed.
4. That if he "were permitted to open up
the subject again, the chancesare that a treaty
could be agreed upon.
To make such a declaration privately or
publicly presumes tho existence ol some un
derstanding with the English Cabinet as to
terms which, if Mr. Motley would propose,
Mr. Gladstone would accept. It also pre
sumes that terms which Mr. Motley thinks
satisfactory the President does not think sat
isfactory, for ho is represented as differing
with tho administration on that subject
Now we can understand that Mr. Motley
may feel impatient to try his hand at nego
tiating a settlement of our ditterences with
England, but we are not prepared to believe
that ho is any less tenacious about the terms
of settlement than the Government he re
presents, and if ho is not, he could not be
now complaining of thoir policy. This is tho
improbability number one.
Again, we believe it is no longer a State
secret that Mr. Motley has been instructed to
notny Lioru Clarendon that whenever it is
thought best to renew nesrotintionn for n. nut.
tleinent of the Alabama claims, it will be done
at Washington. It is not likely that in face of
oucu lUHirucuoua lur. Motlev would enter into
poviym-hrti with the British Government, get
terms ot settlement which he thought well
enough of to recommend to his Government,
and then take an appeal from its decision to
the country, because it would not authorize
mm to accept them, all of which munt be pre
sumed, if the statements of this telegram are
accepieu. auis is improbability number two
Again, it is, we believe, no indisoretion for
ns to say that the subject of the Alabama
claims has been very recently the theme of
an important correspondence between repre
tentative parties in r.ngiana ana tins country.
and tho inobt favorable proposals which tho
English Ctovernment is supposed to be pre
pared to make were communicatod, but tlioy
were not such proposals as the Government
of the United States would entertain for a
moment. It is not probable that Mr. Motley,
tin tn thin limo lion liann 1 n
" I wuu du;uitLuuuv iy
pect any more acceptable terms thn those
from Mr. Gladstone. This is improbability
w
that Mr. Motley would linrillv lia ri-i indis
creet as to place himself, at this early stage of
his mission, in tilfi nttitllrlo f l,lilQrarn Intl.
tility to the Government he represents, at
ii-ubi xiuui it Huonia appear that the country
was sufferinw bv tlint nnlirt nf wlifoh. vat.
O I - " ' w
there can be no pretense. We are therefore
consrraineci to doubt tne existenoe of any let
ter from M. Mntlow ndiinVi annt,1 Ivnir tlin
construction put upon it by the correspondent
ui uui evcmuK cumeniDorarv.
TIIE NEW CONSTITUTION THE GOV
ERNMENT OF CITIES A WOitD TO
DEMOCRATS.
'rom the K. Y. 'Sun.
The Democrats have complained very loudly
of the government of the city of New York
through the incessant interference of the
Legislature, and especially by the creation of
various boards of commissioners to adminis
ter its affairs. They now have an opportunity
to remedy all this by adopting the new Con
stitution.
That instrument provides that general laws
shall be passed by the Legislature, at its first
session, for the organization and government
of cities, and that no special act shall be passed
for this purpose except whon the object can
not be attained under general laws. This will
prevent all that species of discriminating
egislation in regard to this city and Brooklyn
to which the Democracy have so long and so
strenuously objected.
Ihe Constitution also provides that not
only Mayors but all city officers shall be
chosen by the electors of cities, or be appoint
ed by such city authorities as the Legislature
snail designate. Ihe authorities, however,
who may be clothed with limited appointing
powers, must themselves bo chosen by the
eleoters of the several cities. This provision,
therefore, will prevent the creation by the
Legislature of any special commissions for the
city of New York. If commissions are created,
it must be done under general laws, equally
applicable to all the laws of tho State;
and even then the commissions must be
chosen by the electors of the several cities,
or i)e appointed by authorities chosen by
those electors.
By the new Constitution, mayors are vested
with much larger powers than the Mayor of
this city now enjoys. According to its provi
sions, mayors are clothed with authority to
see that the duties of all other city officers are
faithfully performed; and for this purpose,
they may investigate their acts, examine all
their books, recoids, and documents, subject
them ana their subordinates to rigid inquiry
under oath, and suspend or remove them from
office for misconduct or neglect of duty.
All this is eminently just and proper; and
we need hardly say that the bestowal of such
authority upon the Mayor of New York, not
to speak of other large cities, would amount
to a revolution in our municipal government,
ana revive those earlier and better times
when the Mayor was in fact, as well as in
form, the Chief Magistrate of the metropolis
of the Union.
The new Constitution, then, will commit
the exclusive control of all the cities of the
State to the electors thereof, to whom it pro
perly belongs, The enect ef this measure
upon the politics of the State is obvious.
The cities are the prolific fountains whence
the Democratic party draws a large share of
its strength, lo place them completely under
the control of Democratic authorities must
operate to enhance the power and influence
of that party, not merely in the cities them
selves, but throughout the State. Viewing
the question Irom the standpoint ot the cities,
therefore, it is clearly for the interest of the
Democrats to see that tho Constitution is
adopted.
BEGINNING OF THE SOUTHERN PA
CIFIC RAILROAD.
From the A". lr. Herald.
Generals liosecrans and Sedgwick were ad
vertised in San Francisco to leave that city on
tho lL'th instant for San .Diego, the seaport at
the southern extremity of the State ot Call
fornia, there to inaugurate the work on the
San Diego and Gila Railroad, and Mr. Seward
was also to be present to assist in the cere
monies of breaking ground. Funds sufficient
to ouiiu tne roau to tne etna river nave oeeu
subscribed. This is the beginning of the
Southern continental railway line. A com
pany, headed by General Fremont, has been
organized Jast, to begin at Memphis, Tennes
see, and thence to build a road southwest
waidly, through Arkansas and Texas, to El
raso on the Rio Grande, thence across the
tablelands to the Gila river, and down its val
ley, or near it, to a junction with this San
Diego branch.
r rom the Mississippi river this is a much
shorter route to the Pacific Ocean than that
of the Union Pacific road; and as it flanks the
Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada
hain, it may be built all the way over the
Plains. It is also below the region of inter
rupting snows, and the work of building it
and of running it when completed may be
continued without the stoppage of a day from
wintry storms. With anything like the en
terprise which built tho Union Pacific, this
Southern road ought to be finished within
two years, for there will be comparatively
little to do in building it beyond marking out
the lino and laying the ties and rails, w hen
finished it will be the main line for through
travel; but there will be work enough, not
only for tho two continental roads, which will
then bo m operation, but ior one or two
more. In tho building up of half a dozen
new States tho Union Pacific will soon be an
immensely profitable line, and so with the
Southern Pacific in tapping the undeveloped
resources of Western Texas and of New
Mexico, and Arizona, and of the Northern
States of the Mexican republic, and the vine
and olive lands of Southern California, the
most productive in tho world.
In this connection it will be seen that Gene
ral liosecrans is in better business than he
would be in running as the Democratic candi
date for Governor of Ohio. General Fromout,
we believe, is now in Europe raising money
for the main line from Memphis westward.
He only asks tho right of way and certain
Territorial lands along the lino from Congress;
for with these and the liberal grants ottered
by Texas ho calculates upon building the road
without the further assistance of Government
bonds. We think, too, that on this basis the
road ought to be pushed through without dif
ficulty, considering the advantages of the
route, the lightness of the work, and the
profits sure to follow.
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(for Pacitio Railroad)....
V,m State of Pennsylvania Six For Cent.
1M.800-00
60,000-00
811,376 06
ian,5M-oo
61,600tX)
80,300-00
84,000-00
80,62500
81,000 000
6.031-25
13S.000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent,
-Loan
J-oan (exempt from tax)
60,000 BUto of New Jersey Six Per Cent.
Loan
80,000 Penn. Kail. First Mori a-age Six Per
Cent. Konds
86,000 Penn. Rail. Scond Mart, Six Per
, Cent. Bonds
85.000 Western Penn. Rail. Mortgage hTx
rer cent. Uonds (Penn. Uuilroad
80,000 Btate of Tennessee Fire Per Cent.
. Loan
7,000 State of Tennossee Six Per Cent.
Loan'
15,000 Germantown Gas Company, prin
cipal and Jntorest guaranteed by
City of Philadelphia, 300 shares
, Btock
10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 300
shares btock
8,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Oo.,luU
an ,m m hares Btock
110,600 Philadelphia and Routhern Mall
ontom t Steamship Co., 80 shares Mock. ...
"'u "Jans on Board and Mnrtjriun. flrnt.
15,000-00
11,300 00
8,500 00
15,000'UO
Liens on City Properties 807.SO0.O0
H1.10H.H00 Par. Market Tulue, $1,130,325
mi.-. h.. . "r ,nnce maae BU,WV
Kncies, premiums on marine
policies, acorued interest, and other dolits dua
v r . r'T"' aunury corporations, 3loo.
n . k1J "I11! T'u W13-0
Cash in bank liri.iniitt
Cab la drawer 413 65 116,563-78
Sl.tM7.3tt7 HO
Thomas O. Hand
John U. Davis, '
James O. Hand,
Theonbilus Paulding,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John R. Penrose,
Jaoob P. Jones,
James Traquair,
Kdward Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke.
James B, McFarland,
Kdward Iafourcade,
iMimuoo. . Bonder,
Bamnel K. Stokes,
Henry Sloan,
William II I .,.4
Ueorge (J. Lniper, '
iienry u. JUnllett, Jr.,
uuuu u. layior,
ueorge w. Keruadou,
uacoo Hiegel.
Spencer Mcllvalne,
. T. Morgan, Pittsbarc,
John H K.,nl.
ooanua jr. liyre.
A II U ' ..
THOMiH ri' II TO -IA 4
HKNRT LTLBUR'h1.8 VPreaidenL
lll'.NRV BALL, Assistant Secretary. 10 6
1529-OHARTER PERPETUAL.
Frauilin Fire tarance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNTJT St.
Assets Jan. I f 69f $2,677,372 13
CAPITAL
ACCKl'ED SURPLUS.
PREMIUMS
8oo,ooo-oo
l,0S3,6!i3-T0
l,193,13-43
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,"
INCOME FOR 1SC9,
i
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms.
ofra?.ftS
AlfredO. Baker. Fifer.
Samuel Grant, Thomas Sparks,
(eorge W. Kiohards. I William 8. Grant,
Isaac Lea, I Thomas 8. Ellis,
George tales, Oustavus 8. Benson.
flRKJD t BAKER, President.
JAR. W.McALLIKy. Vie-l'reiaent.
THKODOR E M. REGER. Assistant Secretary. 3 9
S D U R Y
LIFE INRITRANnn" nHMPllvv
No. 291 BROADWAY, corner READE Street. New York
CASH CAPITAL Slot) OeO
$126,000 deposited with the State of New York as iieouritv
. for policv holders.
LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Seoretarv
EMORY McCLINTOOK. Actuary.
A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medioal Examiner.
Thomas T. Tasker,
.Tnhn Hf alalia
J. B. Llppincott,
James Long,
vuanes openoer.
William Divine.
S. Morris Wain,
T .. V. u II ... I '
J odd A. Wright,
Arthur O. Oottin,
uames itunter.
D 1-, Tir I
in me onarapter of its Directors, economy of manage-
, ; , ivuuud. i.iuwrunry. a. II. vtorne.
a. ju. rt orne.
hies, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and ma
restriction ot travel after the first year, the ASBUKY pre
eenta a combination of advantages offered by no other
company. Policies issued in every form, and a loan of
one-third made when desired. u
Special advantages offered to clergymen.
It or all farther information address
JAMES M. LONQACRR,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
amRPf W-4LNUT Ktreet- Philadelphia.
FORMAN P. aOLUNSHHAD. Bpacial Agent. 4 165
gTRICTLY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OP PHILADELPHIA, '
OFFICE, No. 1H H. FOUItTII STREET.
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE anion
members of the Society of Friends.
Good risks of any class accented.
Policies Issued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President. SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY,
Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONOSTRSTH,
Actuary, ROWLAND PARKY.
The advantages offered by this Company are un.
excelled. j ajj
JN8URE AT
HOME,
Df THB
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
No. 921 CHE8NUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
ASSETS, KM.OOO.OOO.
CHARTERED BY Ol'U OWN STATE.
MANAGED BY OUR OWN CITIZENS.
LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID.
POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Applications may be made at tho Home Office, and
at the Agencies throughout the State. 2 isj
JAOTES TRAQUAIR PRESIDENT
WAAIUEL E. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. IIORNOK A. V. P. and ACTUARY
HORATIO S. STEPHENS BKOUETABY
TIIE ENTERPRISE IN8UKANGE COMPANY
OK PHILADELPHIA. 1
Office S. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
FIRE INhURANCK EXCLUSIVELY. Dtre8ML
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
Cash Capital SJUU.UOO OO
Cash Assets, July 1, lm. w
m.-ii:i27t'l.
DIRECTORS.
F. Ratchford Starr.
J. Livingston Rrringer,
John M. At wood,
Benjamin T. Tredick,
George II. Stuart,
John 11. Brown.
William (i. Boulton.
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas 11. Montgomery,
J&mea Aertscn.
This Com ban i in an res onU
flrst-olaas risks, taking no
specially hazardous risks whatever, such as factories
liutia. vtu.
V. RATOHFORD 8TARR, President.
THOMAS 11. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President
At EIAUDfcB W. WibTEB, Secretary. 8 0
"PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
J PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED Ih04-CHARTER PERPETUAL.
No. iM WALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange.
This Company insures from loss o damage by
F i RE,
en liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture,
etc., for limited periods, and permanently on buildings by
deposit of premiums.
The Company has been in active operation for more than
SIXTY YEARS, during which ail losses have been
promptly adjusted &P,"J;,,Pnpo
John L. Hodge,
...... t i.
AI. K. Muuony,
John T. Lewis,
William H. (irant,
Hubert W. l.eumiug,
Thomas II. Powers,
A. R. Mclleury,
Edmund Caatiflon,
Samuel Wiluox,
U. Clsrk vtuariou.
Lawreuce Lewis, Jr.. , ' i.ewi;j. r.orriH
Lewis u. Noma.
I Saupei, Wilcox. Sucretary.
jinux n, vi tuuenr-u, rresiuenr.
tNSUfiANCfc.
A M K I N 8 U U A N C K COM 1Tn7.
No. Wi CIIF.SNUT Rr.n
INCORPORATED l"W. CHARTER PI.IU'F.TU AI
CAPITAL. iV'-W.OK).
FIP.IT TVSilTn A IfVfil l-ctt-r.-r
Inoures against Loss or Damnge hy Kirn olUr l,y Pe,.
I'viuiii or temporary roilcl04.
DIRECTORS:
Clinrlns Rlchsrdt-oii, . Robert Porca,
J il.lnm II. Rhawn, John KeiMor, Jr .
Francis N. Buck, Edward H. Onie.
If nmy Iwiaj. Cliui lri Stokjs,
Naiui.nHillHi. Join, W. Fv,.rni ,B,
l.eoige A. West, Mordoc.-ii hubr
CHARI.FS RICHARDSON, Pr'niJonf.
WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vice-President.
Y ii i.umh I. Br.AxrHAnn, SoerMnry. 725
PENNSYLVANIA VIRK IN81IHNCE
Nr. nuiWAi k w. " '"-;'-'arier Perpetual.
5 1 . l'S r ! stro'''- PP'to Imlopendonoe Snnr
Tins Company, favorably known to tie cmnnwullt
over tort J j ear, coot mm., to insure naainst losi ,r J,m
Jge 1 by lire , m Public or Private Buil.fi iij. oitirSr innI"
nm t ly or for a bin itod I ime. A Is,, 0,1 lru n it,, e, Sbwk,"
otJl-",:ti;'n'i Meiclinn.liKO coPr;illv. 01, lib -ril frrm.
Their Capital, together with a 1, ,'rgo S ,, J. i 1.
InvpHtml in the most enreful inann.-r wlii.-li iisi.i i . 1 "
to omjc to the ineured an uudonbtU" st-cunty'Tn'"
Dsnli-1 Kmitli .Tr
IHIUL'T HH.
Aloxiinilor Itcn-oii,
If4,hc lialehurst,
John Devornnv,
. iiiruiMS nun, 11,
Koiiit,- Irftwi.
1 nomas Robins,
JVM. O. J3ROWEl!lg0.CVj;,IlJa,V5!i
"OFFICE OF THE INSI RANCR COMPANY
PhVdS,1'11 AMKRI0A' WALffi
Incorporated M .r, Perpetual
Assets
MARINE, INLAND; A N j) FI K K I jf's'C H AN UK,
OVER $2t),U(W,C0O LOS5K8,rJAID SINCE ITS ORGAN.
Arthur n rnIK
DIUECTOHS.
Snniuol W. Junes,
John A. Brown,
Charlos Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Wolsh,
S. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
UnnripA T. U.i.nn
v rnncis R. Cope,
Edward H. Trotter,
Edward Cl.irka.
1 Charlton Homy,
Alfred D. .Ic-ssim,
John P. White,
Louis C. Madeira,
Charles W. Cusliman
Matthiar M.M're?.
Chah. H. Ri.kvk.h. Aht. Se,-retaiy. j j
JMPEUIAL FIRE INSURANCE Oo",
LONDON.
KSTAnMSIlEIaiSo:.
ruid-up Capital and Accumulated FuibH,
$8,000,000 TJX GOLI.
PREV0ST & HERRING, Agent.,
2 45 No. 107 S. TIUHD Street, Philadelphia.'
CIIAS. M. PREVOST. CHAS. .P. HERRING.
SABINE, ALLEN & DULLES,
XXISURAKTCX AGENTS,
FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS,
9 14 tr
PHILADELPHIA.
NEW PUB LIQ A T I O N S.
BUREAU VER ITAS
(FRENCH LLOYDS).
INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR
CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS.
THE REGISTER VERITAS.
flcatlon of easels surveyed In the Continental, Bri
tish, and Amerlcan-ports, for tho year 1S69 is POIt
SALE by the Agents lu New York.
ALP. MBRIAN & CO..
426 No. 49 EXCHANGE PLACE. "
PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE.-
v 1 , ew Coa"" ?' Lectures, as delivered at the New
York Museum of Anatomy, embracing the subjects
How to Live, and What to Live for; Youth, Af at'irUy, and
Old Age ; Manhood Oonerally Reviewed i The Cause of
Indigestion ; Flatulence and Nervous Diseases Acoo"mted
For; Marriage Philosophically Considered, 1 eta
Pocket volumes containing these Lectures will be for'
5" LEAfiv' Vo'Vv "eil,t of iaAn,!V.by "ddressing W.
StrtfpLd'epbia: CQrU""0f and WA1ffT
LUMBER,
1869
srnt:cE joist.
SI'KL'CK JOIST.
HEMLOCK.
HEMLOCK.
1869
IQllO SEASONED CLEAR PIXE. YQ.n
IOUJ ISEASONED CLEAR PIR IMlil
'HfllPI I'JTTl'liv nivu'
SPANISH CEDAR, FOH PATTERNS.
ItJilJ CiiDAK.
1869
FLORIDA FLOORIXO.
FLORIDA FLOOHIN(4.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOOR INU.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP HOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
1869
1 )'AVlr,OAUm AN0 PLANK. 1 Q.n
100 J WALNUT IOAKDS AND PLANlclo09
WALNUT BOARDS.
WALNUT PLANK.
J'JsDKRTAKERS' LUMBER. -IQnf
lOUy UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER lHl.II
RED ('KI)Alt
WALNUT AND PINE.
1869
SEASONED POPLAR. 10l'f
SEASONED CHERRY". loOil
ASH.
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
18.il CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1Ql(
!OUt CIGAR BOX MAKEHS' loOi
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
"FOR SALE LOW.
1869
18G9
115
CAROLINA SCANTLING.
CAROLINA II. T. SILLS.
NORWAY SCANTLING.
CEDAR SHINGLES.
1869
I860
CYPRESS SHINGLES.
MA CLE, BROTHER A CO.,
No. 26(H) SOUTH Street.
"JNITED STATES BUILDERS' MILL,
FIFTEENTH STREET, BELOW MARKET,
ESLER & BROTHER, Proprietors.
WOOD MOULDINGS,
BRACKETS, ETC.
BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK.
A Large Stock always on hand. 9 3m
1ANEI PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
A. 1 COMMON PLANK, ALL TH 1CKNF.SSKS
1 COMMON BOARDS.
M and 2 SIDK FK.NCK BOARDS.
WH1TK PINK FLOORING HOARDS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINK FLOOKINUS, 1W and 4's
SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZKS. ' ' M'
H KMU K JOIST, ALL SIZES.
PLASTERING LATH A SPKOIAI.TV
Together with a general gasortuient of linildinjr Lum-
bey, toi ualo low for ciihIi.
T. W. HMAI.TZ,
ii '2b rim
FIFTEENTH and STILICS Streets.
UMBER UNDER
ALWAYS DRY.
COVER,
Wnlimt, White Pine, Yellow pine, Sprnco, Hem
lojr , bUlugles, etc., always on hauil at low rates.
WATSON & G1LLINGIIAM,
8 89? Na 924 RICHMOND Street, lsth ward.
N
OW IS THE TIME TO CLEANSB
your nousa
Wl-MMIl-It, IIAIIT3I Ac 0.'9
'WASHING AND CI.EANSINU POWDEK
Is nneqaalled for aornbbing Paints, Floors, and all houM
hold
auta lor It auo laae no otner.
W. li. BOWMAN, Bole Agent,
INo. lift FUAfiKtViU) HmO.
4 236U