srxniT or Tim tress.
Ony lor the Kvtnliin Tcleirrm.h.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL IN NEW YOHK.
prom the IT. Y. H'rW.
Mr Uoutwell's vinit to this city would have
been one of the niot.t sensible things ho has
done, if he had not conio with an empty
head, and made hia stay so short. If he had
a fertile, inventive mind, he would have
visited this city, after his reHpite from official
cares with a fresh and tolerably matured
policy on the chief questions pertaining to
his department, and would have thought it a
great advantage to submit his views to the
consideration and criticinni of the sagacious,
practical men who daily breathe the atinos-
Shere of commerce in its principal seat on
is continent. Previous to hia vacation,
time enough had elapsed since his induction
into office for a thorough acquaintance with
the dailj routine and ordinary workings of his
department, and with the merits and demerits
of the system he inherited from his prede
cessors, lie had also had time enough to
look into the financial systems of the louding
commercial and debt-burdened countries,
and to have formed a judgment of their ex
cellences and defects. He had the niatorials
needed for an intelligent survey of the situa
tion; and the leisure of his vacation was op
portune for the solution of the problems with
which his official situation requires him to
grapple. If he is to present a definite, com
prehensive policy to Congress in his annual
report, which he must begin to write within
the ensuing two months, his vacation ha3
given him the best opportunity he can have
for giving that policy substance and shape.
If he is floundering in the dark now, if ho
is groping after a policy now, ho will sail his
ship without rudder, compass, or chart during
his whole financial administration. He will
either announce a policy on the meeting of
Congress in December, or his management of
the Treasury will be a succession of make
shifts, and his department will drift at the
niercy of circumstances.
It would be absurd for him to come to New
York to got ideas; but the criticism of our
leading merchants and bankers would be an
invaluable aid in testing the soundness of such
ideas as he had formed by his independent
reliections. It is quite out of the beat of men
engaged in the active pursuits of commerce to
devise a financial policy for a nation; but
their keen sense and practised perception
ftre well fitted to detect the Haws, or judge of
the soundness, of a policy which had been
thought out by a fruitful mind. Vt'e
do not expect the great body of skilled
engineers and machinists to be inventors;
but they are admirably qualified to judge
a new invention and estimate its value
and practical working. The suggestions
made to Mr. Boutwell on Thursday by the
bankers, sugar refiners, and the rest, were of
the most trivial character, relating to the
mere details and frippery of administration,
touching only the bark and never pene
trating near the core of any subject which
they broached. But if the Secretary had
made a speech at the dinner Thursday evening,
and had put forth any great, or even any new
and valuable ideas, he wovtld have set the
faculties of all the able men of the city at
work, and might have spent a week
here very profitably in listening to
the criticisms and answering the ob
jections of practical men in every walk of
commerce. He would then have gone to
Washington with a new stock of materials for
maturing and perfecting the system which
he ought to lay before Congress for its sanc
tion. If the Secretary of the Treasury does
not devise a policy, it is not likely that Con
gress will; for the creat body of the members
are better qualified for emendatory criticism
than ericinal thought, and there is no mem
ber of either house on whom it ' is specially
incumbent, as it is on the Secretary of the
'.treasury, to master that class ol subjects.
We have had no inventiveness in the Trea
sury Department since Mr. Chase was at the
head of it; we are pursuing a system which
has become inapplicable by a change ol cir
cumstances. Whatever may be thought of
the merits of Mr. Chase's policy, it cannot be
disputed that he had a policy; nor that it was
formed early and carried the country success
fully through the colossal expenditures of the
war. There has not been a new idea in the
Treasury Department since he left it, nor
does there seem likely to bo under the admin
istration of a barren, mediocre man like Mr.
Boutwell. Mr. Chase, in spite of
his defects, exhibited a certain
largeness of conception to the like of which
the present Secretary can never ex
pand his small, commonplace mind. In Mr.
Chase's time, the Government was compelled
to raise enormous sums by loans or fail in the
war; and that officer had a quick insight into
the problem that was set him. The chief
thing was to find a sale for the prodigious
amount of bonds with which the Government
Was flooding and glutting the market. Ho,
therefore, undertook to enlarge the market by
creating new demands for public securities.
Objectionable as his policy doubtless was in
dome respects, it was adapted to this object.
The new banking system had at least the
merit of promoting the funding of the green
Lacks by causing a demand for Govern
ment bonds which would not otherwise
have existed. The revolution in the bank
ing system of the country by which all the
Jbanks were required to secure their cir
culation by a deposit of bonds, enlarged
the market and oporated as a relief to the
glut. " The now banking system may not bo
a good one for supplying the country with a
permanent currency; but it was certainly
adapted to its immediate purpose of enlarging
"the market for bonds and tiding the Govern
ment over the embarrassments caused by the
compulsory strain on its credit. At any rate,
Mr. Chase had a well-marked policy, one
easily and clearly understood, which served its
temporary objects and prevented a collapso
of the public credit when a collapso would
have been fatal. His uninventive successors
have kept the sails set in a calm as ho set
them to save the ship in a tempest, as if
a total change or circumstances required
no change of policy. Mr. MeCulloch merely
ttuv .m uoin u ia8n that was
comparatively easy after the close of the war
when the limit of indebtedness had boon
leached, and capitalists were relieved of nn
cenamty uh o wuoiuer mue urate Ihhugs of
to renaei them all worthless. As soon as the
tyar closed, foreigners thought it safe to buv.
and a steady stream of bonds has since flowed
to Europe. Mr. McCulloch's only suggestion
that of preparing for spocie payments by
reducing the volume of the currency was too
obvious to cain him any credit for originality,
and too ill-timed to meet with success. So
we have gone on till the fifth year after the
Close or the war in servne pursuauco 01
policy demised by Mr. Chase near its begin
tuner, and adapted to temporary exigencies
that have loner since passed away.
There Uaa beeu a universal fueling for the
THE DAILf EVEN1KG TELEGKAPH rHILADELFHI A, SATURDAY,
lust three years that the country needs a now I
financial policy suited to the altered condition 1
of affairs. The numberless crude projects
that have been hatched in Congress, and
utifled, bear witness to the dissatisfaction of
the country and to the incompetency of Con
gress to solve the problem. Its solution is
not the appropriate function of Congress, but
of the head of the Treasury Department, if
the department had a competent head. In
England, the initiative is always taken in such
matters by the proposer of the budget; the
speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
answering, in most respects, to the reports of
our Secretary of the Treasury. In this coun
try, great financial exigencies havo occurred
but seldom, but the way through them has
always been piloted by the head of the Trea
sury Department. At the beginning of the
Government the policy was Hamilton's; at
the beginning of the war it was Chase's; and
we are not likely to havo a sagacious policy
now until wo get a man of broins and bold
ness for Secretary of the Treasury. Neither
Mr. Boutwell nor anybody else is any wiser
for his visit to this city. There is no reason
to supposo that he knows himself what ho will
recommend to Congress in his annual report.
CUBA-
TIIE TIME FOR ACTION BY THE
ADMINISTHATION.
From the iV. 1". Herald.
Our European telegraphic news gives us a
repetition of tho old story of another triparite
arrangement or coalition of the powers of
Europe to secure the possession of Cuba to
Spain. This time, it is said that England,
France, and Austria have taken some action
against the policy and views of tho United
States with regard to Cuba, and that in reply
to a circular sent by Spain to the different
nations, relative to the communication of tho
American Minister at Madrid, these great
powers have answered favorably to "tho
rights of Spain. It has been said even that
they will form a coalition for sustaining Spain
in "her rights." All this comes, too, at the
time when General Trim has been having in
terviews with the ivniperor JNapoloon. Then,
as a supplement to this news, and in a certain
way to give color of truth to it, we are in
formed by a Madrid journal that General
Prim had sent from Puris a telegraphic des
patch to the Spanish Government declaring
that ho would not hesitate at any sacrifice to
subdue tho insurrection in Cuba. Then,
again, a portion of this news has been con
tradicted.
Now, the question arises, what do all these
reports and this agitation signify or portend?
bimply this, that the Cuban question has
assumed an important character in Europe as
well as in America, that Spain is troubled
about it and lookirig round for support, and
that it is fast culminating to a solution. It is
the natural fermentation of ideas and in
terests on the subject on the eve of a crisis.
Some of these reports, doubtless, are canards,
or are manufactured from prejudice to tho
United States or for political purposes. Still
there is at the bottom evident hostility to tho
mediation of the United States in Cuban
affairs and to tho proposed purchase of the
independence of Cuba through our Govern
ment. But this talk about a tripartite coali
tion is nonsense. Neither France nor Eng
land, and, least of all, Austria, will go into
any such Quixotic enterprise. Whatever the
f eoling or wishes of the Emperor Napoleon
and the British Government may be with
regard to the Cuban question, they will not
risk any difficulty with the United States
about it.
It will be remembened that a tripartite
treaty of France, England and the United
States to secure the possession of Cuba to
Spain was proposed to this country during
the administration of Mr. Buchanan, and that
it was promptly and properly rejected by the
United States. Times have changed greatly
since that period. This mighty republic has
developed a power and strength little dreamed
of beforo. Napoleon burned his fingers too
painfully in the imperial Mexican experiment
to venture again upon any active interference
in the affairs of America as in hostility to tho
American policy of the United States. Eng
land has too much at stake and is too wise to
interfere, and she knows well enough that
her interference would only arouse the Ame
rican people and Government to more deter
mined action in favor of the independence
of Cuba. As to tho talk of endangering or
weakening our position on the question of
the Alabama claims, that is a mere bug
bear. We are in no hurry to settle
these claims. W o do not and shall not admit
that there is any parallel between the action
of the British Government in recognizing the
belligerency of an integral portion of this
republic; and any action that we may take in
the case of a neighboring American people
fighting to throw off the despotic yoke of a
European power. The time must come when
the opportunity will arise and wo shall havo
the power to settle the Alabama claims in our
own way. This bugbear will not deter the
people and Government of the United States
irom sustaining Cuba and lrom carrying out
a great and cherished American policy on this
hemisphere. But it we may judge trom the
tone ot tho leading press ot England, no
effgrt will be made to frustrate the action of
the American Government or to prevent
Cuba from becoming independent. As to
Austria, it is sheer nonsense to speak about
her interference. Tho rumored tripartite
coalition is a canard and an impossibility.
r-pam may bluster and bo ioolisli enough Id
send out to Cuba iron-elads and fresh troops,
but sho is not so stupid as to think of war with
the United States should tins country recog
nize tho independence ot the Cubans. She
has enough to do at home, and no nation
would lend her a helping hand. Not that we
have much confidence in the wisdom of Spain;
for she foolishly fought to tho bitter end and
ruined herselt to no purpose in her wars wnh
the South American colonies, and it is possi
ble she may do the same in the case of Cuba.
Nor is this country under any obligation to
Spain to forego its policy towards Cuba; for
during our civil war sho proved
herself unfriendly in joining at first
the coalition against Mexico
publican institutions, and in her
and re
attempt as in tho
to subjugate San Domingo, as well
war upon the South American republics. We
have made a most liberal otter to Spain for
tho independence of Cuba, and wish to main
tain friendly relations with her, but wo owe
her nothing no considerations beyond those
and should study only our own interests,
the causo of humanity and the progress
and perpetuation of republican institu
tions on all American territory. Peru has
set us an example ia recognizing tho in
dependence of Cuba, and this great re
publics should not be slow in following it.
Indeed, it is a question if our Government
ouyht not to have been first and to have sot an
example to tho other American republics. But
the time has come and events have so oulmi
nated on this Cuban question that tho admin
istration will prove itself weak and laekinc
foresight if it does not at onoe take decisive
action for the independence of Cuba.'
pnbho mind is iipe f or itthe people expect
it of the Government. Sooner or later tho
independence of Cuba must come, and delay
on the part of the United States will only j
complicate the question and lend to move I
bloodshed and devastation on the island.
Prolonged negotiations and red tape diplo
macy cun accomplish nothing. Prompt and
decisive action by General Grant's adminis
tration is tho only solution of the difficulty. ,
THE FATE OF SIB, JOHN FIIANKLIN.
From the A. i Timet. ,
A waif from tho sea brings once more
tidings of the ill-fated expedition which
started to discover a northwest passage, under
the leadership of Sir John Franklin. But if
the paper which has lately been washed ashore
answers to the description given of it in our
despatches, it contains little if any informa
tion in addition to that which was obtainod
from the record discovered by Captain Mc
Clintock in 18.".:). From that Sir John Frank
lin was known to have died in June, is 1 7.
It takes us back nearly a quarter of a cen
tury to recall the preparat ions which wero
made for Franklin's last expedition. At that
time very few doubted that ho would be suc
cessful. The two vessels chosen for the work,
the Erebus and tho Terror, wore provided
with every appliance which foresight and a
long experience of Arctic voyages could sug
gest. On the l!ith of May, 1S45, the little
party set forth on their adventures, and two
months afterwards a whaler saw tho ships
moored to an iceberg in Baffin's Bay. From
this time tho vessels and every man they con
tained were lost to the world. We havo long
known, and tho paper just cast ashore
confirms the fact, that Sir John Frank
lin had already been dead years and
years when expeditions were sent out
in the hope of rescuing him. But
what become of the crew, 13S in number ?
It is very evident that they did not perish
with the commander. The thought that they
were still wandering about in vast and lonely
regions, watching morning and night for some
loophole of escape from their fearful cap
tivity, induced men of all countries to assist
in fitting out fresh exploring expeditions.
Franklin had been ordered to return to Eng
land in 1817. We now know that before aid
could have reached him he was dead. He
must then have been in his sixty-first year at
his death, and was probably little fitted to
survive the hardships and pri
vations which evidently fell upon
the party. Why the ships were deserted
we do not yet fully know, but wo may easily
conjecture the truth. They probably be
came locked in the ice. or were crushed as
the huge Hoes accumulated round thorn. The
crews went out upon tho frozen se.v in the
hope of finding some succor. Year after year
vague traces oi them were neard ot. wow a
settlement of Esquimaux: would relate that
they had seen a company white men travel
ing together, "one of them with a telescope
slung over his shoulders. men the man
with the telescope was no more seen, and the
survivors gradually dwindled down, until the
melancholy band seem to have given up all
heart, and laid themselves down to die.
The American expeditions under Dr. Kane
and Dr. Bae wero those which did most to
clear up the mysteries surrounding the fate of
poor Franklin and his crew. One day they
found the corpses of thirty -five persons and
a quantity of articles belonging to them or
to their friends. What a fate theirs had
been ! They tried to live by shooting wild
towl, but all their enortsseem to have tailed.
and there were signs about which led to the
belief that the unhappy men had been driven
to the dread resort ot cannibalism : When
ever a white man strayed away from his com
panions, or halted, behind trom latiguo or
sickness, he was set upon by the Esquimaux
and despatched. After Dr. Kane s expedi
tion, the idea that any' of Franklin's party
survived was abandoned, and Lady Franklin
herself gave' up the long and hopeless search
in despair.
Of ull tho expeditions which ever sailed for
these gloomy Arctic seas the grave ot so
many gallant hearts the one led by Dr. Kane
resulted in the most useful discoveries, from
a scientific point of ,view. He settled many
undiscovered problems, and, we might have
thought, did away with the necessity for
future undertakings of tho same character.
But both here and in England tho old fever
for Arctic exploration occasionally breaks
forth again. Dr. Hayes on this side,
and Captain Sherard Osborne on the
other, would gladly undertake to make fresh
researches in a region where our race could
never hope to bring the enormous forces
of nature into subjection. Dr. Hayes is,
indeed, actually on his way to the ice
fields at this moment, although not bound
on an enterprise of unusual magnitude.
We should be sorry to discourage any
thing which tended to keep the desire for ad
venture and discovery alive in the minds of
our people. Sailors, especially, ought to have
a tinge of this craving in their nature. But
if we could properly discourage any enter
prise of the kind, it would surely be of an
Arctic expedition that we should ask ail
bono? The northwest passage ! does any
one believe that it could ever be useful to
man 't It would bo almost as reasonable for
us to set to work again trying to discover tho
philosopher's stone, or tho eluir vita: These
are among the memorable "crazes" of man
kind. By all means let us cherish in our
navy a spirit of courage and daring. But
the time has gone by when nations or Gov
ernments will consent to help men to throw
away their lives in the pursuit of phantoms.
A DODGER WHO IS NOT VE11Y AllTFUL.
Front the X. '. Sun.
The Hon. Asa Taeker, candidate of tho
Pennsylvania Democracy for Governor, and
Pennsylvania's candidate for President in
has had an opportunity through one of
the Stiiis omnipresent reporters to spread his
political opinions beforo tho world. The ex
hibition filled three of our ample columns.
This ponderous document is remarkable in
many particulars, but especially in its careful
avoidance of loading measures, and its dreary
non-committal tone. It undertakes to dis
cuss the wholo rango of political topics, but
does not express a decided opinion upon any
question. The contrast which it oilers to
the utterances of Mr. Packer's rival aspirants
Mr. George II. Pendleton, or Mr. John
Quincy Adams, or Chief Justice Chase is
deeply marked, and, wo are bound to soy,
is not creditable to tho Pcnnsylvaniau. In
fact, Mr. Packer's sentences aro moro note
worthy for the concealments they attempt
than for tho declarations they convey. A
poorer show for so big a programme wo never
witnessed.
Judge Packer opens his interview with pur
reporter by pleading ignorance of political
issues in general. If this ignorance is real,
then certainly ho is disqualified for the man
agement of public affairs. If it i assumed,
which is more likoly, the assumption wet'8
a cowardly spirit and a weak mind. On the
yfinna of tli0 tUTlll,
finance, negro suffrage, the fifteenth amend
ment, lecoustrnction, tho Eight-hour law,
and woman's voting, we know just as little
now of Juduo Packer's idoas as we knew be
Uiv. f nd, this, too, from no omission on tho
part of our reporter, who certainly diw not
fail to bring the whole list before him. It is
possible Judjo Tanker Mutter himself that he
dodges these point with adroitness. He
certuinlv has dodged every one of them, and
the public will see the 'fact as dearly a if
they wero looking for It. Indeed, the only
credit he can hope to derive from the inter
view is that of uu artful dodger; but we fear
thnt his art will be thought very bungling
and unsatisfactory.
hen it was Riiet'osieil to the .Tiida that
the records made him out a protectionist and
n statesman of tho name school with tho Hon.
Horace Greeley, he dodged by replying that
our reporter was at lihm-tv in infoi-' u-li.it. hn
pleased. On the fifteenth amendment ho
goes off into an elaborate dissertation about
State rights, utterly icnorinw tho mnin mix
tion, and carefully coverincr un his own views
respecting the charucter of that measure. On
neero sutlrace he is emiallv nfraid t
bis sentiments, hitlinrr hrh. nd thn onniA tliin
and well-worn fence. Even in regard to wo
man's suffrage he branches out in an evasion,
huu gives us ooiomon s description of a vir
tuous woman, which is, of course, wholly
iiuuigu iu me suoject.
AS to thO Ji,lffht-honr 1iw. .Tiii1iTn Parser
tells us what ho has always been and always
will bo, pretty much as Andy Johnson used to
rehearse the story of his own rise from the
rank of a village alderman to the highest sta
tion; but he says not a word about the merits
ot the law. On finance also he has no indi
vidual opinion, but dodges bohind somo glit
tering generalities of Jackson and Jefferson,
uttered when wo had a trifling debt and no
greenbacks. He likewise pretends to be en
tirely ignorant of tho celebrated letter of
General ltosecrans; and when our reporter
proposes to road it to him, ho begs off on tho
inetense of a fear of infringing on tho sacred
lours of the Sabbath. We wonder what his
opinion on Sabbath laws would be? But
even on that subject ho carries hia timidity
so far that he is afraid to say whether Gene
ral Grant violated the Pennsylvania statutes
or not in fishing for trout on a Sunday in
August.
But it is useless to trace those evasions
further. It is the same throughout the
whole interview, and on all the important
issues.' Packer dodges systematically, and
should now dodgo out of sight. The Ameri
can people don't want him; and we fancy tho
majority against him in October will not vary
much from 10,000.
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ATTENTION, REPUBLICAN INYIN-
OIBLKS!
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quarters, FIFTH and LIBRARY Streets,
SATURDAY EVENING, 18tu inst,,
at 7 o'o!ock, sharp, for Parade.
Equipments can bo purchased at the Hall on Saturday
Tho Olnb will countermarch in front of the Union League
By order. GEORGE TRUMAN, Jit., Marshal.
JOKEPH K. MrC'AMMON.)
Ualku B. Kimdkb,
Ass't Marshals.
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jnK Pianos. Immense Keduction in Prices and Introduc
tion of the One Price System. Great Success of the
Now Price List in New York and Boston. Strict justice
to all purehiisors by means of the
ASfONlKllINULY LOW PRICES,
and unalterable Now Price List.
WILLIAM H. BUTTON,
3 71m Nos. 11-26 and lm OHEBNUT Stroet.
J. E. GOULD, NO. 023 CI1ESNUT
Street, is selling Steck & Co.'sand Haines Bros'.
Pianos and Mason it Hamlin's Cabinet OrKans nearh as
tttiK u at unt J'ormtr iim. 8 ti
JOSE POEY,
Medico-Cirujano de la Universidad de la Habana,
recibe consultas ds 3 a 11 de la inanana y de '6 a 6 de la
tarde en su t&cina calle Nucve (bud) No. 735. Rosidoncia
cn la calle de Green, No. Ibl7.
DR. JOSEPH POEY,
Graduate of the University of Hubana (Ouba), has re
moved bis office to No. 735 S. Ninth street.' Residence,
No. 1817 Green street.
Office HoMB-flto 11 A. M. 8M totj P.M. 7 23tf
DR. F. It. THOMAS, THE LATE Ol'E-
rator of the Ooiton Dental Association, is now the
only one in Philadelphia who devotes bis entire time and
practice to extracting teeth, absolutely without pain, by
fresh nitrous oxide gas. OtBco. 1LU7 WALNUT St. 130
WINES.
H.E
R MAJESTY
CHAMPAGNE.
BURTON & LUSSOU,
215 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
HTI1E ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS
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DUNTON A LUSSON,
815 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
CHAMPAGNES. Agents for her Majesty, Dno de
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l arre'a Grand Via Eugenie, and Vin imperial, M. 1C lee
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CLARETS Promis Aine & i'ie., Moutierrand and Bor
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HOSIERY QOODS.
J.
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No. l N. EJOIITII Street, riilladclphla,
Dealer In Hosiery Goods,
Offers Tor sale a large assortment of Hosiery, for
Ladles', Gents', an CliUdrenB wear; fcoeks, three
quarter Soaks, and Long Hose, or JEngllsu and Gor
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U II D E H VJ X3 A 23.
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XJ
u ANriK riOMPANY. Incorporated brtuMlH
lature of Pennsylvania, 183.
Office, & K. comer o THIRD, WALNUT Streets.'
Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURANCES tl,.m,M
on vm.1 vrih$$&T of th9 7
On roods by river, canal, lake, and land oarriaire to an
rmrtsof the Union.
FIRE INSURANCES
On Merchandise generally : on Btores, Dwellings, Honser,
, . v. ..... KU. -
Asbfts.op th oompakt, -
NcMimbor 1,
I2U0,000 United States Five Per oent. Loa,
10-4s , JJDww
120,000 Unitod States Six Per Cent. Loan,
50,000 United States St 1 Per Cent, ixwn
(for Pacific Railroad )...v,
000.000 State of PennsylTani Six Per Cent.
Loan
135,000 City of Philadelphia Mix Per Cent.
60,000-00
811,376-06
12S,6M'0O
61,500-00
80,300-00
84,000 00
30,635 00
81,000-000
6,031-25
ixan (exempt trora tax;.
50,000 State of Kew J
'erser Six Per Cent.
j.oan
80,000 Perm. Kail. First Mortae Six Per
Cent. Bonds
45,000 Penn. Rail. Second Mori. Biz Per
Cent. Bonds
86,000 Western Penn. Rail. Mortgage Six
PerCent. Bonds (Penn. iUilroad
guarantee)
80,000 State of Tennessee Fire Per Cent.
Loan
7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Cent.
Loan'
I6.UU0 uerinantown Oas Company, prin
cipal and Interest guaranteed by
City of Philadelphia, 800 shares
Btock 15,000 00
10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, SuO
. , shares Stock 11,300 00
8.000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100
on .,w. hres Stock 8,500 00
8O.CO0 Philadelphia and Southern Mail ,.
o,wo,v, t Steamship Co., 80 shares Stock.... 15,000 00
,tou Loans on Hoard and Mortgage, ilrst ,.vn
Liens on City Properties 807,300.00
81,lOS300 Par. Market Talue. $l,130,825-35
, , Cost, $1.093.liO4 a.
RealFstate .... 9fi,on0-00
Bills receivable for insurance made tHiytoo M
Dimm-eB uue at agencies, premiums on marine
policies, accrued interest, and other debts due
the company
lock and scrip of sundry corporations, $1156.
40,178-89
Estimated value
Cash in bank
Cash In drawer....
DIOCK and snrln
1,8130
.$ 116,1 SO-08
iia'05
116,568-78
81.tt4T.3H7 -80
Thomas O. Hand
John O. Davis, '
James O. Hand,
Theophilus Paulding,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hugh Grain,
John R. Penrose.
Jacob P. Jones,
James Traquair,
Edward Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke,
James B. MoEarland,
Edward Lafourcade,
Edmund A. Bonder,
Samuel E. Stokes,
Uonry Sloan,
William O. Ludwig,
George G. Leiper,
Henry O. Dallett, Jr.,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bornadon,
William G. Boulton,
Jacob Riegel.
Spcnoor Molfvaine,
D. T. Morgan, Pittabnrg,
uonn 11. Nemple,
I A. B. Berger, "
THOMAS O. H All). President.
dosnua kr. Kyre,
JOHN O. DAVIS, Vioe President.
HENRY LTLBURN, Secretary. '
UKNRY BALL, Assistant Secretary. 10 6
1829 CHARTEJft PERPETUAL.
Franklin Fire Insnrance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St
Assets Jan. I ,'69, $2,677,372" 1 3
CAPITAL 8100,000-00
ACCRUED SUKrLUS l,tH3,B2S-T0
PREMIUMS 1,193,843-43
UNSETTLED CLAIMS.
123,789-12.
INCOME FOR 1S69,
8360,000.
Losses paltf since 1829,0Ter $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temnnrarv Policies on T.ihnrnl Tnn.
Tho Company also issues Policies on Rents ofjBuildings
ui nmuAjuruuuu jtemu. uuu mortgages.
DTREflTORS.
Alfred G. Baker, . Alfred Fitler,
Samuel Grant. I Thomas Knarkii.
George W. Richards. I William S. (.runt,
Isaac Lea, I Thomas S. Ellin,
George Fales, . , ' Gustavns 8. Bensnn.
ALFRED G. BAKER, President.
t a s to mATTiUrWJ,1 Vice-President.
JAS. W. McALLLS TER, Secretary.
THEODORE M. REG ER, Assistant Secretary. 89
S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 291 BROADWAY, corner READE Street, New York
OASH CAPITAL IfiloO 0W0
Oj 1 ').". IUUI riAiinail.A(1 with fhA Rtnt.n tt IVatv v-l. .... ' .
' Y --uZ trA''-" "curiy
LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice President and Seoretan
EMORY MoOLINTOCK. Actuary:
A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medical Ejirniner.
Thomas T. Tanker,
nBTJUir,riL'-lfl HI i'iUl'ulBHlUN.
John M. Maris, J. B. Lippincott,
-wunriun opencer,
John A. Wright,
niiiiain iviviue, jaraes liOng,
8. Morris Wain, James Hunter.
.Iniln K. IVI.tf Ir.tMrv I If V4 U. '
ArLuur i. io in n,
m u vuaiauiur oi i uireotors, economy of manage
ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN
OF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no JestrmUon in fenmle
lives, and absolute non-forleiture of all policies, and no
restriction oi travel alter the first year, the ASUURY pre
ents a combination of advantages offered by no other
oompany. Policies issued in every form, and a loan of
one-third made when desired.
Special ad van tones offered to clergymen.
For all further information address
JAMES M. LONOAORW,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware
Office. No. ri WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
FORMAN P. HOLL1NSHEAD, Special Agent. 4 185
3T RICT LY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. Ill S. FOURTH STREET.
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE amonir
members of tlio Society ol Friends.
Good risks of any class accepted.
Policies Issued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President, SAMUEL R. BHIPLEY.
Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONG8TKKTH,
Actuary, ROWLAND PARKY.
The advantagca oilored by this Company are un.
excelled. 1 97$
J N S U 14 E
AT HOME,
IN TBI
Fenn Mutual Life
COMPANY.
Insurance
NO. 921 CI1ESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
A8SETH, 8:1,000,000.
CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATU.
MANAUEO BY OUR OWN CITIZENS.
LOMMEM PR0.1IFTI.Y PAID.
POLICIES ISSUED ON VAltlOUS I'I,ANM.
Applications may be made at the Homo Offlce, aad
at tho Agencies throughout the State, ia 18
JAITIKM TRAOUAIK PRESIDENT
MADI l l'.i. E. MTOUE4 VIOE PHESIDKNT
JOHN W. JlORNOK A. V. P. and AO l'UABY
ULOUATIO M. STEPHENS) .SEUKKTABY
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY
OE PHILADELPHIA.
Office 8. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Street.
EIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Dl"""
PERPETUAL AND TEHM POLICIES ISSUED.
Cash Capital.. ikw,UU0D0
Cash Assets, July 1, 1H0H.
DIKKCTOKS.
F. Hatchford SUrr.
J. Livingston Erringer,
Nalbro irazier,
John Al. Atwood,
Benjamin T. Tredick,
Ueorge H. Stuurt,
John H. Brown.
William O. lioultoii,
Charloa Wheeler,
Thomas H. Montgomery,
James Aertsen.
firnt-eluus risks, taklna no
This Company insures only
Bimuiaujr uaitaruous riD&a
mills, tito.
whatever, such as fautoriea
V. RATOHKORD STARR, President.
THOMAS II. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALKXANJUER W. WlBlKU, Secretary. a 64
1II0KNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
1 PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED Iwi4-HARTER PERPETUAL.
No. al WALNUT tit rout, opposite the Exchange.
This Company insures irom loss or dumae by
EIRE.
on liberal terms, on huildiuiis, merchandise, furniture,
etc., for limited periods, aud permanently on buildius by
The Company has been in active operation for more than
81XTY VEARS. durinu. which ah lusnes have been
promptly adjusted aud l"i',ToRS '
John L. IIodRe,
Al. it. nianony,
John T. Lewis,
Wiillum 8. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
Reniamin Kttinor.
Thomas H. Powers,
A. K. Mc Henry.
Edmund Castillon,
Hsmuel Wilcoi,
D. Clurk Wharton,
Lawrence LevMs.ur . ... ..
i.cwih ii. fturris.
Bamcel Wilcox. Secretary.
(IN BURANOE..
jAME INSURANCE C O M I' A N Y.
' No. Wfl CIIF.SNUT StrPot.
INCORPORATED 1HM. CHARTErt PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL, $8fl,niiu.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insures against lxt, or Damatn by Kirn oitherby Per
petual or Temporary roucios.
DIRECTORS:
'buries Richardson, Robert Pesrce,
William H. Klmwn, John KoVulnr, Jr.,
Francis N. Buck, Edward H. Oine,
Henry Lewis, Charles Stokes,
Nathan Hilles, John W. Kvenunn,
George A. West, Mordocai Buzby.
CHARLES RICHARDSON, President.
WILLIAM II. R1IAWN, Vice President.
Wrr.r.tAMW I. Blanthabd, Secretary. 7 S
T
HE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Inrorrtornted lHt?fi Charter Pnrnntnnl
No. 61(1 WALNUT Htreet, opposite Independence Square.
'1 his Company, favorably known to the oommunitv fur
over forty years, continues to insure against losa or dam-
bk" y nre ou unuc or i rivaio imuuingH, sillier perma
nent iy or for a limit od time. Also on t urniture, Stocks
of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal tonus.
I neir uapitai, tngctnnr wun a largo Surplus i und, is
invested in the most careful manner, which enulileA f lima
to otter to the insured an undoubted security in the casa
of loss.
MttF.CT ns.
Dnniel Smith. Jr..
John Devereur,
Thomas Smith,
II en iv Lowia,
J. Gillinhaui Fell.
AleKiinder Benson,
Jtuino lin.leiiurst,
i nomas kouiiib.
Danlrl llnddorlr. Jr.
nlJANIELSMITH.Ja., President.
WM. O. CROWELL, Bocrntary. 8 ?
OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA, No. 833 WALNUT Stroet.
Philadelphia.
Incorporated LW. Charter Perpetual
Capital, $600,000.
Assets 2,no0.00
MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRE INSURANCE.
OVER $20,000,000 LOSSES PAID SINCE ITS ORGAN-
uaiium,
Arthur fl. Coffin.
D1RECTOHK.
rranris R. Cope,
Edward II. Trot'er,
Edward S. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. .Iflsiim,
John P. White,
Iiouis O. Madoira,
Charles W. Cushman
biimuoi W. Jones,
John A. Rroivn,
Charles Tavlnr,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh.
H. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
Ueorue L. Harrison.
A,!i1'UiJPD. ROEEIN, President.
Matthias MffiS"' Vlo-P.ld.t.
Chah. H. Rkkvkm, AkM. Secretary. j .
piPEHIAL FIItE INSURANCE CoT,
LONDON.
ESTAIIMSIIEI31S():.
Paid-up Capital aud Accumulated Funds,
88,000,000 1 1ST OOLO.
PREV0ST & HERRING, Agenti,
2 4
No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
CIIAS. M. PliEVOST. CIIAS. P. HERRING.
SABINE, ALLEN & DULLES,
FIFTH AND WALNUT STliEETS,
9 14 tf
PHILADELPHIA.
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KPRUCU JOIST.
II KM LOCK.
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18G9
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SEASONED CLEAR PINE. q.a
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WALNUT PLANK.
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UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER.
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINE.
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1869
SEASONED POPLAR.
SEASONED CHERRY.
18G9
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WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS,
HICKORY.
18G9
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'CIGAR BOX MAKERS' LOOM
SPANISH CKDAK BOX BOARDS,
FOR SALE LOW.
18G9
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CAROLINA SCANTLING.
CAROLINA If. T. SILLS.
18G9
NORWAY SCANTLING.
CEDAR SHINGLES. . jnrtrt
CYPRESS SHINGLES. IO0.7
MAULE, BROTHER & CO.,
No. awl) SOUTH Street.
115
TJNITED STATES BUILDERS' MILL,
FIFTEENTH STREET, BELOW MARKET,
ESLER & BROTHER, Proprietors.
WOOD MOULDINGS,
BRACKETS, ETO.
BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK.
lL?!?? Stock always on hand. 9 11 3ra
pANEL rLAN,"TLLT7r
X 1 COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES
1 COMMON HOARDS,
land 2 SIDE FENCE HOARDS.
WHITE PINK FLOORING BOARDS.
YET T OW AND SAP PINK FLOOR1NUS, I'd and 4U
SPKLLE JOIST, ALL SIZES. ' '
HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES.
PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY.
Together ,iih a general assortment of Building Lum
bey, lfu'sule low for i-ash. T. W. SMALTZ
8 g 11 1'TEENTII and STILES Streets,
LUMBER UNDER CO VElf.
ALWAYS DRY.
Walnut, White rme, Yellow Tine, Sprueo, Hem
lock, Shingles, etc., always ou liana at low rates.
WATSON & CULLING HAM,
8 29 No. 024 RICHMOND Street, ISth ward.
THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMFYToFf ICK 1
No. 820 OHKSNUT Street, forwards Paroele, Pack,
ages. Merohandiae, Bank Notes, aud Speoie, either by its
own lines or in oouneotion with other Express Companies,
to kU Ui principal town uid. cities U the United biatee,
K. OOLKMAN,
BopermteuJettU'