THE DAILY EVENING TKLEHKAPh. IM1! LA DELPHI A, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 18G9. TJI E NO VE M II m M A (3 AZ INKS. "THE ATI.ANTIf." From tl)C highly nuggPRtive article c ntitltiil "Tb Kicnll H'wh of Column," we iuote as fllow: Stroller"! nlitmt tho Capitol at Washington fi'0iii'iitly panne toftilinive the ingenuity nrul tLe atntliorw habits of n rcvtnin respectable colored rnou who serves ns doorkeeper to an AngnNt national fonvt. It in an established principle at Washington flint an American citizen visiting the cnpital of his beloved country shall never Vie allowed to open a door for himself; and consequently, wherever Ihere is a door, there must needs be a door terrier. A being more snperrlitous than a loorke per to th room in which this high ourt is held it would be diilieult to imaiue. The door has been provided by a grateful nation with a convenient loop or handle of brass, adapted to tho uieanost eapneily, mid with a spring which causes it gently to close without the interposition of human hands. It cIot.es, too, upon somothiug soft, so that there is no danger of the deliberations of the court being disturbed by a bang. Most of the per sons who enter tho room nra familiar with all its arrangements; and if their hands should chance to be full of papers, they could easily thrust out one little linger, and inserting it in the handle, pull the light and unlatched door wide open. . Nor docs the doorkeeper show to a seat tho awe-slm visitors who are occasionally attracted to Iho apartment by curiosity. Within the room other officers, white iu color or higher in rank, stand ready to prevent ladies from rush ing forward to the bench of tho judges or losing themselves among the lawyers within the bar. The solo business of that respecta ble colored man from 11 A. M. to IS P. M is to open a light door which shuts itself. Heing a man of resources, he has provided himself with a chair and tied a string to the handle of his door. lie goes to his place every morn ing provided with reading-matter, and there he sits, holding his newspaper or book in one hand, and the end of his string with the other. When anyone approaches, he knows it by instinct, and gives the string a mechani cal pull, without looking up or being ment ally aware that he has performed an ofiidal duty. Behold the typical man in him! He re presents a class in Washington. He is one of the small sins which Congress permits and Commits. Tho sins of this kind which Congress com mits nro worse than those which it permits. After satisfying tho curiosity of the ladies with a view of the Supreme Court a work of three: minutes you naturally ascend to the gallery of the Henate. This is the paradise of doorkeepers. I think I counted fourteen doors to this gallery. There are doors which admit only ambassadors, doorkeepers:1 friends, and other privileged persons. There are doors which exclude the public from the reporters1 gallery, writing-room, and telegraph office. There are many doors which admit ladies, and many moro that opou into tho portions of the gallery used chiefly as a warming-place fcy unemployed negroes. Kach of these doors consists of two leaves (hut swing together, and are kept shut by the attraction of gravi tation. What n field for doorkeeping is here! At nearly every leaf of these numerous doors sits or stands a doorkeeper, his hand inserted in his brass loop: one man outside to let in the coming, and another inside to let out tho departing guests. Fro:-.i their keeping such a tight clutch upon their handles, I think there must be more doorkeepers than there are doors. Every man seems afraid that if he should let go his handle another might get hold of it, and thus rob him of hit. slight pretext for being on the pay-roll. Half a dozen locks aud a hundred latch-keys would deprive of all semblance of pretext the gen tlemen who exclude the miscellaneous public from the Ambassadors' Gallery and the He porters1 apartments: and the rest of tho door- keemng could be well done by two men. But that would never do iu Washington. The pretext for jeing on the pay-roll is the very thing wanted. If the visitor is rash enough to hint that two men to each door is rather a lavish ex penditure of human force, considering the scarcity, of labor on this continent, he is silenced by the question, How could two or throe . or half a dozen men "clear the galleries?1' They could not. Nor could forty, if the auditors were determined to bit fast. But the Speaker s simple order, addressed to people habituated and wholly disposed to obey properly consti tuted authority, clears them with all requisite despatch. If not, there are thirty-three bored, yawning, inexpressibly idle men about the Capitol, in blue uniform and steeple rowned hats, who are ttyled the Capitol po lice. They have a captain and two lieu tenants, to head any onset upon a stubborn public which the Speaker might order, and it would relieve the monotony of their ex istence to be ordered upon any duty what ever. Congress has, indeed, furnished itself most liberally with servants. The Senate, which consists of seventy-four members, is served by at least one hundred oilieers of all grades, from secretary to page. The House, hick numbers two hundred and fifty-three mern bers when the States are fully represented, has not less than a hundred and iif ty officers, although the investigator does not find so many in tho published list. We observe a considerable number of persons employed about the Capitol whose names elude "the search of those who pore over tho Blue Book of Mr. Disturnell, or the useful und excellent Congressional Directory of Major Ben Perley Poore. If we add to the ofiL-ers employed about the two chambers tho printers and binders who do the work of Congress in the public printing office, we shall fiud that Con gress has many more servants than members. it may be that most of these are necase.iry. The Secretary of the Senate may require ths HBbihiuuce 01 iwenty-ono clerks, xne heating apparatus of the Capitol may be of such a complicated and tremendous nature that it is as much as fourteen men can do to manage it. Members may read '.and consult such a prodigious number of books and documents as to need the assistance of more librarians than are employed in the Mercantile Library of New York, which h.m tensor twelve thousand subscribers, as well as an im mense reading-room. Including the libra rians of the library proper ami those of the sub-libraries and document-rooms of tho two houses, there are twenty-lour persons in the Capitol supposed to be chiefly employed iu ministering to the intellectual wants of mem bers of Congress. All these persons may be indispensable, but they do not seem so to the casual observer. Tho casual observer receives the impression that tho servants of Congress, like those of tho Government generally, would be improved if two very simple and easy things were done the salary of the chiefs -. doubled, and tho number of their assistants reduced one half. A stranger to politics and to Washington is astonished to observe how feneral tho feeling in, that a public man is jnstiUed in gratifying an impulse of benevolence, or iu discharging a private obligation, at the cost of tho puMi;. Some time ago, ieneral Grant chanced to bo looking out of a window while a salute was tiring in his honor, aud ho saw a man lose one of his legs by the bursting of a cannon. When the man Lad recovered his health, General Grant was President of tho United States. What more natural thin that the President should a-k Mr. Bout veil to givo tho unfortunate iint if convenient, a watchman's place in the Treasury ? Ho pitied tho man, and he hnd tho power to givo him effectui.l relief at tho public ex pense. Most ii r-n would have yielded to this impulse oi' benevolence, as General Grant did, and nrnt men perhaps approved the act. Keve;:h !. ss, it is just in this way that the Capitol, the departments, the post offices, and 1 : - c.stom-houses get clogged Mith superfluous persons. It is thus that one legged incon.peti u "o pushes from its place two-legged ability. Some one, who rttuiot be rrj'uxtd, asks iht appointment, and then one of two things m list happeneither a man must be summarily find unhandsomely, if not inhumanly, thrust from his post, or two men must bo set to doing one man's work. Gene rally, both these. tLhij-s are d-me. The two men go on for a while, until some new broom sweeps one or both away, to make room for the favorites of another irresistible pcrsomge. An entertaining writer, some weeks nqo, fa vored the public nith reminiscences of former administrations, in order to show that tho people cordially sustain a President who indulges his personal feelings at the people's cost. He told a story of General Jackson, which might have been true, the incident being entirely characteristic. "General," asked an old l'riond of tho ex-President, at his Tennessee Hermitage, "tell me why yon kept yourself and all your friends in trouble, through your first Presidential term, by keep ing Mr. Gwinn Marshal of Mississippi'?" To this General Jackson replied: "When my mother fled witli me and my brother from tho oppression of the British, who held possession of North Carolina, we were very, very poor. My brother had a IoDg sickness (occasioned by a wound roo.i. ci from a British o;u..-er because he refused to do some menial servi-. o), and finally died. In the midst of our distress and poverty, an '' d Baptist minister called at our log-cabin. i:nd spoke tho first kind words my mother heard iu her new home; aud this good man continued to call, and ho riually made our ho'iso his lodging-place, !ind continued to pre' r it, when better ones in the neighborhood were at his service. Years rolled "U and this good nun died. Well, s:r. when the news was brought me that I was elected PrwsiJen. I put up my kandi xelainied, 'Thank t-'od for that, for it wtl' enable me to give the host cfhee under the Government to the son of the old minister who wr.s the friend of my mo ther, and of me in my yotith:1 and I kept my promise, and, 'if U had been necessary, I would have saeri'n'ed my otlioo before he should have been removed." Tho feeling was natural and noble. The only question is, whether a man should re quite at the exp-rse of his country services done to his mother. The relator of tho an ecdote append-, to it this commentary: "General Jackson was triumphantly re-elected to a second term." It is true; but it was in spite of such errors as this, not in conse quence of them. Members of Congress who can remember that mad period of our political history will not justify personal government by the example 'f General Jackson. Few of us. perhrois, have an ade jnatc souse of the superior pacredness of public property to private, of public trusts to private. Little things betrRy our sluggish public conscience. No man, except a thief, would think of taking a sheet of postage-stamps from tho desk of a banker or merchant; but in Wash ington it seems to lie only men exceptionally honorable who scruple to use, or even to take, franked envelopes, which appear to bo lying about everywhere. Still fewer have a proper sense of how much worse it is to steal from all their fellow-citizens than it is to steal from one of them. In everything re lating to the Government, a citizen of the United States should feci that he is upon his most sacred honor. We are here iu double trust. Our difficult and still doubtful experi ment is for mankind as well as ourselves. I would not magnify a small sin into a great one: still less would I assume to be more virtuous than others; and yet it soems to me that a citi.en of tho United Stales should shrink from m-i opting a proffered frank as he would fiv.iid touching only enough pitch ' to di :'.! the tips of his lingers. ' The reader !ms nrobably often asked him self, while w.m i iir.g about the Capitol, what could possess Congress to throw away the public money upon some of those pictures that disgrace the Western Continent, and human nature generally, in the Botunda. He has, perhaps, u'l-o, after giving up that con undrum, essayed to conjecture why no mem ber has risen superior to tho clamor of econo Baists. and proposed u appropriation of two dollars to whitewash them from the view of mankind. It u us. bad enough to put them there; but to k''i,;hem .visible, year after year, and give n:w commissions to the painters who pr. laced them, are acts almost too j.bomiriaMw to be reckoned among the small M'.-s of tho l ational legisla ture. Congress no '!"ubt interpreted corre ''ly tho wishes of tin v oplo in making tho Cipi tol stately and ..riii-'e: and it was an ex j.ii sile thought to go on decorating and com pleting it whi'.o t)i" hosts of tho Bebellion were entrenched within sight of its rising dome. Bvery b'lil iing that belongs to the nation, every obj' t that bears upon its surf:. ;e the letters "V. S.." should have something in its style and appea -ance that will convey to the mind of the iienoluer a icciing oi tne im perial grandeur of ; ho country's mission and destiny. Those nasty and cheap sub-post offices' in the city of New York, and those conspicuously shabby, rusty, cast-iron lump post letter-boxes, .-.re an abomination in iny eyes; not merely because they are stupidly inconvenient, but because they are mean in appearance; bei.ue I desire that whenever American eyes rest upon an object bearing (he stump of the mifinii, thoy should rest upon something which hey can contemplate with ; satisfaction ami p:i le. Hence, it is always a pleasure to gi t round to the front of tho Capi tol, and turn an ay from tho sffanties, the , shops, the sfind-he-ips, the general dilapida tion and shabl in.. ;s of tho region, and gaze for a while upon tho magnificence of that vast range, of M-cbi'octure, with its avalanches of snowy steps, t hut glorious dome floating lightly over the centre, and the small, brilliant flag above each Ming, denoting that Congress is in session, hi this bravo attempt to express in marble the gr .ndour and glory of the , United States, v.e see tho prophecy of those I chaster splendors, that simpler magnificence, : which will enchant and exalt our grandchil , dren when they visit the future and final Oapi tui of the fOtintrv. It vn on prurient thin. r perhaps, f ttr all, to try our 'prentico hand oii Wr.t-hington, and exhaust all Ihe possibilities of error there. The interior of tho Capitol is chaos, of course. That is unavoidable whon a" huge building is erected over a smaller one. Tho visitor forgives and is amused at the labyrinthine intricacies in which ho is continually lost: and when at lust he stunds beneath that beautiful dome, which hovers over him liko an open balloon of silk illuminated by the sun, he experiences a renewal of the joy which the exterior afforded him, Doubtless, we are running too much to domes; we are putting a dome over every building of much magnitude it is such a fruitful source of contracts. But this one justiiios itself, and startles tho coldest spectator into admiration. It was also a fine conception to place under it in that perfect light a series of huge historieal paintings. Nor was it necessary that they should bo of the highest rank as mere works of art; bo cause it is not certain that there are now living upon earth artists rapablo of executing paintings of that magnitude in a truly ex cellent manner. No artist in these times can get the many years of largo practice which is necessary for the attainment of the large manner: aud, I suppose, the best we can hope for, at present, iu pic tures of great size, is correct, refined, excel lent secue-rminting. But some of the paiut ings in the rotunda, besides being hideous as pictures, are historical falsehoods, which any school-boy might be able to detect at a glance. That one, for example, which is supposed to have been suggested by Do Soto and his men discovering the Mississippi Biver what a curiously ridiculous lie it is, with its display of superb costumes, its well-conditioned horses, and its plump cavaliers as frosh aud gay, in their silk and velvet, as if they were careering in the streets of Madrid on a day of festival ! What is better known than that these Spaniards reached the banks of the great river in woful plight after a wearisome march of nianv months through tho wilder ness? It is also particularly recorded that De Soto was sparing in expenditure for gay apparel, and that every rag of clothes, except what his followers wore, was burnt after one of their bloody encounters with the Indians. An hour's research in the library of Congress, under the intelligent guidance of the librarian, would have put tho painter in possession of all the picturesque details of the real scenes, and given him subjects for several pictures of peculiar interest. A picture could have been composed for that panel which would have such fascinating power as a mere exhibition of truth that few would have cared to criti cize it as a work of art. But the question recurs. Why are such artists employed ? Tho shameful answer is, because they lobby for a commission, aud know how to lobby with effect. It is not an honest ignorance of art and history which has thus disfigured the Capitol; for theso paint ings are the constant theme of ridicule among members as they are among private citizens. One artist won his commission, it is said, by assiduous flattery of the wives and daughters of members of Congress. While artists of merit were toiling after excellence in distant studios, this wiser man in his generation was enjoyiug elegant leisure in the drawing-rooms of Washington, where he made sketches in the albums of ladies who could influence votes, or painted their por traits in some Ituliun or Spanish costume from his portfolio. He is thought to have secured votes by pretending that the excel lent but not beautiful wife of a member of Congress reminded him constantly of an ex quisite model he once had at Home one of the loveliest creatures in the world. Ho had, moreover, some little talent in small album sketches and fancy little fancy portraits in costume. This, doubtless, deceived some members, who did not reflect upon the infi nite difference between a grand historical painting and an imitation of the velvet in a cavalier's doublet. If that man's claim to tho highest honor which the nation cau bestow upon an artist had been opivly dismissed in committee, his name would never have reached the House at all. It was private lob bying that brought this dishonor upon art, upon Congress, and upon the national taslo. It has been proposed to introduce the rule that no man shall bo appointed to office who seeks office. Congress may rely with certainty tho most complete upon this, that no artist capable of worthily filling ono of the panels of the rotunda will ever lobby for the commission in the drawing-rooms of Washington. If that artist should ever bo wanted, ho will have to be looked for and solicited. The reader has perhaps wondered also why Cougreps should have selected for the execu tion of tho national statue of Abraham Lin coln, a person of no stunding or experience as an artist. Miss Yinnie Beam is a young lady of perfect respectability, and, no doubt, high ly estimable in her private relations. No oue can blame her for hor good fortune. She has done little moro than open her mou th and let tho plum fall into it. But what has Congress done? Here was a piece of work to be given out tho statue of a man as little statuesque as any we can imagine which required iu the artist a combination of artistic skill and judg ment, love 'of the man, and love of truth. The work was to be seen by hundreds who had been familiar with the subjeet, and by tens of thousands who would take an affectionate in terest in the artist's management of its diffi culties. The Abraham Lincoln of future generations was to be created. In the selec tion of the artist a national fame was either to be conferred or enhanced. Congress assigned this work to a girl who had the rudi ments of her art still to learn, and who had given no proof of her capacity to acquire those rndimcnts. She exhibited a model. It was about to bo overlooked. She burst jnto tears. The results to her were, a ten thousand dollar commission, a universal celebrity, and two years in Europe three iiiimehso boons, either of which had been a lit requital for long-tried excellence. And, as if it were not enough, a room was given her in the Capitol itself in which to execute and exhibit hor work. Congress bestowed upon this unkuowu and untried child honors which it has per sistently withheld from artists who have conferred upon tho country whatever nanio it has in the world of art, but who hardly know what the word 'lobbying'' means. Bocogni tion one-tenth as distinct and emphatic as this, how it would have, cheered tho early years of the excellent sculptors of whom the country is proud! Such caprice Hoes not, harm Ihi-m; 'for when Congress confers distinction thus, it parts with its power to confer honor, and sensibly lessens its own. Pive minutes' conversation with Miss Yin nie Beam explains this ridiculous behavior of Congress. She is oue of those graceful, ani mated, bright-eyed, picturesque, undaunted, twinkling little women, who can make men say Yfx to anything they ask. She also wore a pretty blue, turban-like covering for her hair, which was killing at five paces; and there is that in her man ner which puts men in the humor of uttuirjg bmUniKje, and at the same time. gives them tho idea that she is ahelplosslittle body who would cry if she could not have her own way. The visitor to her room in the Capitol had but to stand apart and see the modest audacity of her demeanor, and ob serve the assured, lively manner in which she held a circle of men in conversation, in order to comprehend why Congress, in its easy, thoughtless good nature, should have granted to her the most signal honors it ever bestowed upon nn artist. Men are naturally susceptible to tho pic turesque in woman. It is natural also to feel liko caressing and protecting whatever re minds us of tender, graceful childhood. Members had done well to givo a private commission to this agreeable young lady by way of encouraging her to attempt acquiring some skill in modelling. But they were false to their trust when they gave her an import ant public work to execute. Men who are charged by their fellow-citizens with the adornment of national edifices and the be stowal of national honors arc much to blame in allowing a blue turban, a pair of speak ing eyes, a trim waist, and a fluent tongue to carry off prizes duo only to tried merit. Members can form lit t lo idea of tho dishonor, nay, tho contempt, which they bring upon Congress by indulging a whim of this kind. Millions witness tho result; only a few indi viduals see the bright excuse; and of those few only ono sex admits that it is any excuse at all. WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETO. ESTABLISHED 1828. WATCHES, .TSWKLny, CL0CE8, fcilLVEKWAllE, and FANCY GOODa. G-.W. RUSSELL, NO. S3 N. BIXTU ' BTK5ET, FHlLADaXPIUA. fglCH JEWELRY. 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Dwellings, U oases. aseTTe or th compart, NoTemher I. I3 (200,000 United Btatee Five Per cent, toaa, lO-4-.-e tJO?,600'0O 180,000 United States Six Per Cent. loan, 111 IS'j.SOO'OO 60,000 United fstatoa Six Per Gent. Loan (for Paoitlo Kailrnadl 80,000 0 S0O.0O0 State of Pennsylvania Hit Per Cent. Loan, ll,375'0e 12o,000 City of Philadelphia S Per Cent. loan (eicmpt from tai) Uf'tXI (0,000 Btate of New Jersey Six Per Cent. . l-oan H.fciOtK) Su,000 Pocn. Kail. First Mortgage Six.Per Gent, lionds 80,0 00 85,000 Penn. Kail. Stcond Mort. Six Pet Cent. Bonds M.O'JO'OO i&.OOO Western Penn. Pail. Mortfrora Six PerCent. Bonds (Penn. ltuiiroad giurnntee).... 1)0,152600 80,0"0 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. loan 9l,tiuyouo 7,000 Bute of Tennes.ee Six Per Ont. Losn a.0318 UsOOlGermantown Gns Company, prin cipal and InterM niaranlet(l by City of Philadelphia, SM shares Stock 15,000-00 10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, J00 . aharrs Stock Il,K)'0U 8,000 North Pernsylvania Kailroad Co., 100 . . , shores Stock S.allO'OO a',000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail , tun ix. 1 1 Kl,'iniship(.'o.,80.r,i,rrsStoi:k.... 15,000 00 rijM ixiana on Board anil Mortgage, brut Ueos on City Prupertiea 80. ,900.00 tl.tllS.SOO Tar. Market value, U30a6'8o , . . Cost, fl.0P3.0u4 -Ho. WealFetate JVOOOHO Fills receivable for in.nranne mnrie a.'a,lW-iH 5alanrea dne at agencies, nreuiinms on marine policies, accrued interest, and other debts due the company. 40,178 88 i. n ami eorm oi annUry corporations, faluo. h.ftiuialod value !.? 1,8180 Cash in bank , IBIIti.lSo ('8 41n5 11H,503 7H 81.l7.3tTgO ThoinaaO. Hand, Kamund A. Bonder, J.ihn V. Pavis, S.tmnel IC Stokes. James C. linnd, illcnry Sloan, '1 beopbilns Puulding, William O. Ludwig, Joseph H. Seel, ticorge O. Leiper, HnKh Craig, JlienryO. Hallett, Jr., John U. Penrose, 'John D. Taylor, Jacob P. Jones, ;.enrre W. Jlernndon, James Traquair, Willinra 11. Boulton. F.dwurd Darlington, 'Jacob Kiegel, H. Jones Brooke. Spencer Alcllvaine, James B. MoFarlund, , It. T. Morgan, Pittsburg, F'.dward Ijitourcado. ijohn Ii. Sutnple. " Joshua P. Kyre, 'A. B. Borgpr, " TUOMAS ). HAND. President JIFNTtT rVrBUKcrVta' IlKfiKY BALL, Assibtant Secretory. 10 6 1829.c 11 A K T E R ' r:ERpTuAL. FranHin Fire taance Company OF PH1LAIJK.LPHIA, Office, Nos. 435 and437 CHISNUT St. Assets Jan. I, '69I$2,677,372'I3 CAPITAL A t'l.TKl) 8UUPLUS... PKKJVULSiS UNSETTLED CLAIMS," f 100,010-flO l,0S3,B!iS-T0 l,li3,S43'43 ixcomb foi mo, Losses paift since 1829,over $5,500,000 Pcrpfitnal and Temporary Policies on Liberal Term.. The Company also innues Policies on Kents ofnttuildings oi all kiuda.Orouud Kents, and Mortgages. PIKECTOPS. Alfred O. Biikor, , Alfred Fit ler, baniuoi rant, I Thomas Sparks, licotKe W. Kichaids, I Willium 8. tirnnt, Ikuuc Ij b, I Thomas H. Kllis, Ueorge Fates, fiusUvua S. Benson. ALFKLD O. UA KF.R, President. JAP. W.rAl.ULt' V---;i ii FOLOIii: M. 1 KG Kit, Assistant SocroUry. 8 9 JKSUKE AT H O M U, IN TBI Penn Mutual Life Insurance coairANY. No. 21 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETS, 8:1,000,000. CIIARTEHED BY OlTl OWN 8TATE. MANAGED BY OUR OIVTI CITIZENS. I.OMSES PltO-lITTLY PAID. OI.IC1ES IKSUED ON VAHIOLS PLANS. AppllcatloiiB may be made at tho Home Offloo, and at Uio Agcaciea throughout the State, a 16 J A HIE TUAOl AIR PRK8IDF.NT WAiMLEI. K. KTO K EM VIOE-PKKSIDKNT JOHN V. IIOKXm A. V. Ptiind AOTUART UO K ATIO JK. KTEPH ENK 8KORKTA Ry fa S O U R Y LIFE INSURANOK OOMPAJfT. Vo. m BROADWAY, corner RKADK Street. New York C ABH CAPITA L. . SlAI iiim ti&.uuo deposited with the State of New York as for policy holders. LF.MVKL BANUS, President. JF.ORG K ICLLiO'i f, Vice Presidont and Becretar. KMOltY McCLLNTOCK. Acl u retr E. AI. PURIlY, i aI LIIDIiV tA la ii.'.!. i ... Thomas T. Taaker., John M. AInria. BEIEJIKMCEH BT PKBMISSION. J. B. Iipplncott, James Hunter, Cuarles Spencer, William Divine, John A. Wright, S. Morris Wain, Arthnr G. Collin, John B. MoCreary, ia tne cuaracier oi us iiroctors. Diunt, reasonanleneHS or rates, lives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies andnn restriction of travel alter the first year, the ASUURY i,rI2 eonta a combination of advantages offered by no otti oinnpiiny. Pbiiuiee issued in every form, and a or.e-thudni.ido when desired. a waa oi Special advantages ollered to olergymen. For all tuxther luionuation addnaa JA.VKS M. IX1NOAORR, nanager for Pennsylvania and Uelau.V Office, No. a.3 -ALNUT Street. Philad6lp1, IM UJllijUAtllflll lllVIUr.nUH. nn rMllinn I I. 7 US, no restriction in fumaJe rwii.ni. i. uur.juiAoijii.au, cipiiuuu Agent. 4 It) Cbbll L.pltl anl iLlivin Cash Aascta, July 1, IJHie,' VJUU.U0U 00 F. K&tchford Starr, I J. Livingston Erring lalbrpFrar.ier, I James L. Ohwhorn" ' John AI. Alwood. Will urn i. iiuultoA. Venjamin 1 . 'l'tedick. Charles Whoelur ticMOli. Stuart, I Thomae H. WonUomery. John 11. Brown, Jauies Aertaen. J'hiB-oiPaiiy insnres onl, aretlaas riaas. taking na !'!uM to b16a,u, ' whatever, audi as Uutories ' 'k RATOHFORD STARR, Preaident THOMAS H. WONTl.OMF.RY. vPm-i,,.-. AXailEB W. Wwikii, Secretary. 1lld:NIX INSiriiANCE COMPANY OB1 1 Plill.AUia.l'HIA. w INCORI'OHATFIi 1K(I4--CHARTKR PKRPFTTTAr Ko. -."ii WALNUT Street, opposite tbe fjchania. Tliib Coiupuiiy insuios trmn lfwa or daiuage by I1 1 H It.. on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, fnrnitara etc., fjr limited periods, and perinaueutly on buildjaaa h deposit of piemiunis. mi 'I be Company haa bcon in active operation for mora thaa SIXTY KA1S. during v.bicii all loaaos have bee" ilHI'.CTORS. uoun i.. iiiiUKa, Diivirl Tjlivla. 11 If K.h.n.. Benjamin Kiting, Thomas II. Powers. A. H. Mclieary, Film unci Castilloa, Suiuuel Wilcox, John T. Lenis, William S. (irant, RoliHit W. l.eauuog, 1. Clark Wharton, wwreuca Iwis, Jr.. ' Ifwiso. wnvria. iiuiui n tUii&xvr.A. yreaiuni, Samukl WlTCOX, Secretary. iul QTRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE. Nn. Ill 8. FOURTH HTKEET. OiannIr'rt to promote LIFE INSUltANCB aracrig nienTbcrM of the Socli-ty oi 1' rlimda. Otiod ribka of any tlasa awenujU. polidoa hjgued ou approved pluna, at tho lowest raU Presldeut. S AMI7KL R. BniPLrry-. Ylce-rrcBldtlit, WILLIAM V. IajNOSTKBTTI, Ai tuary. HOW LAND PAHKT. The aUTaot&eoa oiirod by thlH Coirjjjaaj aiu un. eicelltd. 1 K7 milT TTX'TT?!? I T T C TT VOITn A TaTiim I 1 tit K V. C-trnr l,(tl)THf ant VlTuim. . ai -,r- j F1RF. INSURANCE KXCLUK? VKLY I,traet- Jr w inn irii INSURANCE (AFFICE OF THE INSURANCE mil M A Ii IN K, k jj A N 1), A N U FlRK 'im'sUB a, OVKR $2,OW,000 LOSSF8 PAID BINCK IT r Arthnr Ci. Coffin, Ssmnel W. Jones, Jnbn A. Brown, Charles T lor, Ambrr White, William Welsh, S. Morris Wain, Binr.CTom Fdw.,rti?.Y;0,;J Kdwar.1 H. Clarke Alfred I). Jpssuk yiMra r . rvnit Louie O. Madeira, u i r ..... tionn aisson. ..,.., . xiwti tea , Muslim George L. llamron, 1 Alrnti'n n nntrm r 1 haw. II. l:i KM B. AM. S-cretarr. A ME INSURANCE COJIPj No. Kifl niESNUT Street. INCOBTOK A TKI VM. riliRTi. ii rrtr CAPITAL, tlWO.OOO. '1 ' FIPF TNRURANC'K F.XCLtlSIVKLY. j .u,..,i i.osb or Jlamage by Fire either! peumi or 1 empnrary Poll Dies. ulKhCTORSt Charji s Bichnrdron, iiiuiiii ii. i.iiHwn, Willium M. Snjiert, lieniy J.ewiM, nthun liillis, Oeorgo A. West, CHARLIE John Kebftlr, 'i. , rnwnrd II. Drue, c Charles Stoke., J John W. F.vermun. 1 Mordecal liuiliy. j 'HARDSON, I'rc'i, ' VII.LIAM H. RHAWN, Vi'ce-Prc( Wll.t.lAMB I. Bt.vrHAHTi. Hecret,.ry. 1 -riIE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE IN'SUi A- . COMPANY. -- K MO wiTCTed lrh.rte, Perpetual. T his ( nmnnnv. fariiruli v Ln,,r,i i.. .i.'J . over forty years, continues to inrare against loss J ago bybreonl'MbUc or Private Bud.nmm, either! ... ..., . r ,r iin.uto nine. Also on l urniture. ! of t.oeds, and Jler. hiinliBe eenernllv. i,.i.i V.. J Their Capital, together with a largo Surplus t Invented in the most careful nmnner ,.i,,-..i, to ntler to the insured an undoubted security in a Dnniel Smith. .l EIllIlCT E. A lexanrier Benson, Iwiac llirzlni:m8t, ttohn Devrent, Tbnnias Smith, llenrv T .u i. 1 nomas ixoDius . u. ill (iillillrhj.m ValE UnnieHTaddork.Jr. M. O. CROWFrlLcri,'U'Jj'P'"i 1 MPEIUAL rmiB iNsmtAxcH LONDON. ESTABLISHED 180:1. Pald-np Capltnl and Accnmnlated rmnts! e,000,000 IN GO PEEV0ST & HERRING, Agenj 2 41 No. 107 S. THIRD Street Phj'..,!ii., , - -..i; CHAS. M. THEVOST. ejus. p. Hr onI i Z ...... 7 . '-' v - IMna, via liuiil'a,i'uedav, Oct. 10, at 1 PW I City of Antwerp, 8nturtA'i- 2jat 1 P'7 - t'ltvot BrnsneU s. i .. V .r. ,-TWia ltTmtinniiJMOTPASStB raynblo in Cold. v.r.ki ",,J"" FlKS rtJABIN.T; Mm ht&WW Vana to Paris0" ia ioDr.:::v lo 1 ans j,5 m p..i- H?M r1S W Al viA'iuiSi . payable inCiold. Pav.bu ,Z i UE' 1 hivernool aon r i-,n t'urrend Hahfax. : :rs uvfifir; bt. John's, N. F., I ., st .lohnij iu" Vi by Branch Stelimer.;... SlbD'J ftAi i-uesGiipers forwarded to Havra H.mi.... IJ etc. at reduced rates. Hamburg, Brl ni,nioLrl,V,r,:?L,l,'ra.at "odorate rates or to 4 6 . - t, j, aij..-U01L SsSJte. 0NLr iKECTLINE TO FRaI teMnnTS 5 a SWRKAL TRAJJS ATLA BRICST. .uai4KlUALUiN, The splendid new vesols on this favnrit. ,3 SaTurS'a?' "ai' ''ftM in gold (Includ.nfffi OV PASSAOH TO BKKST OR HAVRR lirat Cabin , Second Cabin. . First (JabiSd.'Dg ralIW,,y &luj.h.e?. board. J :A.erifuintraTP'l,ra?ointoorrefnrnln from thi K me Vnr ....... w.,.NA.BKOAOWAY.Aew V 'V I ,fl Ae" M wuua.i.1..,7.,1i(?F Companyrto "w'Pi"a. apply at Adams' flxi 15 v ouiu . THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST FAST FREIGHT EVERY Tirrmsniv MftM.; Ttio utraninliln Y Us .1. . . .77 .. . AJiVl TfiUItsbAY,Oct WUJ Tlirotllrtl bills (If lnrllnor oMvon In . C. K. K. to nnints in the Knnth mil u,,,i Insurance at lowost rates. Huta of frtittht 3 an by any other ront. For fB(,hf .Vr'B."1 o oat a- soCmfK '& CO.? 2 22tf DOCK RTWKW'P wu. r7 . . z waxiAuARD'a STEAMS LINE FOR MEW VAnif Bailing on Tuesdays, Thnradays. and rUi,,,!.. ? RFDUUTION OF RATES. j Freight by this Una taken at 13 eenta per 100 pons' cents per foot, or 1 cent per gallon, ship's option. ) Times cuarges cauea at omce un Piar. Freight re at all times on covered wharf. J 3 JOHN V. OUT. . . w nuriy TTiiarves B. W. Hytra rates on small packages iron, metal, . PHILADELPHIA, BlCinfOl WAi jvoitrOLK STKAM iilfP I I . i . 'i '"OlHill KKKIOlir AIRUxjir l i'i'Ml f U WFST.B UKK Btwt"000' WHARF above AIAKI rHriOUOH .RATES to all points In North and S Carolina, via buahoard Air Line Kailraail Portsmouth and to Lynchburg V?, SJl "i F We.t, ,v.a Virginia anTonueiSa Stod flioni' and Danville Kailrnod. "w jucca Freight HANULFO BUT ONCK, and taken at IJlV RATI 8 THAN ANY Oi UF.rt LINK MLO 'I be regularity, safety, and oheapnef.s of this ronta wend it to the puhlio as the most desiiidjle modiniJ carrying evtry doicription of freight. , ""an No charge for coxniiiiaiiion. itruvur. or ...... trnKfr ' " VVU Ktcuui.-hips insnred at the lowest rates. v itaii jiu nnu ljr A IV . W I t A L) V El W. P. PORTF.lt. Agent at liiohinond and O, , Pni,, T. P. CROWFLL A CO., Agente at Werfuik. ' 4 fc NOTICE. FOR' NRW YORK 1 7 PKT.AWAKfC AND HA KIT AN CAN i. ... ,7. !. j .,Vii.. 'OAiPAJSV iou between Philadelphia and New York. comu,u"! Steamers leave daily from brat wharf bolow SI.' street, Philailulphia, uiul foot of W all street, New v Oooda forwarded I y all Iho lines ruaniu out ol I York, North, Fast, and Went, free of eoniuiiasiijii. Ireight received and forwarded oil Boouiin.io.ti.' Uima. W1I li4M P. tlLYDK A CO . aSSJI No. 18 S. DJiLAWARK Avenue, PhOJlnfi JMfflfi2$l Ua, NT?y EXPRESS USE i'.Lj. i Zi, . .u":. -","lo"a; Washington vn.iMM.na iieiawsre Canal, i iiriovo Saturdayat noon f1 Freight received daily. w"M p- oivorc A OO.' hvtiw & tvi iri?0'." ." nd ?n,k 'harv viliw lhr.it rrf. V..,....?l"?,t. ""k-towa ; - y. t HV"l Kb AlHUOIIIlIk ft 3 r7tk. , NOTICEFOR NEW YORK. V P.'luwurean.i RarlUn Canal, SWIKTSP '"fi T-.l ANSl'tlHTATHON COMPAY.-U r ...... . 'in i a in ii re uu.nrA Y .lii 11(11 AM) KU II iMuiif r i Mir ' "i T he bufcinewby those lines will be resumed on and a! the Nth ot March, l or freights, which, will be tak., acoomniodaiiag terma. apply to W- M. BAIBD A CO.. Ke. LXlboum YYbatvi sac iaijil
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