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"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
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Emeu, etc.
Sole Agents for N. Uilletis's Snrar Boiling Anpa.
rums. K (.smyth's Patent Steam Hummer, una As'plu.
wall k WoolHu y'B Pateut C'outrU'ugal Sugar Draiu
Ing Machines. 4 aoj
QlfiARD TUDC VVOUKQ.
J0I1N n. MURniY & EROS.
Dlanufurturrra mf Wrought Ii-am pipe, Ht.
PU1LADKLP11IA, PA.
WORKS.
TttLNTV-TIIIIIU and FILBERT Htret.
OFKI0R, 41
f. 4'i North FIFTH fttra.t.
CORN EXCHANGE
BAO MANUFACTORY. .
JOHN T. BA1LEV,
N. R. tornei of IdAKKKT and WATER Btraeta.
Philadelphia,
DKALFR IN BAC.8 AND BAGGING
Of every description, foi
drain, fkmr, Bait, Supar-PhosphaU of linn. Beat
lnst. Kto.
J-rgs and small GUNN V bags constantly on band.
Ui Also, WOOL BA UM. '
INSURANCE..
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY 1N8U
RANdK. fXHWPANY. Inaomorated by the Leaia
lalare. of Pnny Wania, IKA.
Offie. 8. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Street,
UADIM' INHliKANOFJI
On Vanels, Cargo, and Kreieht to all part of tha world.
mi.AND.lNKURANOI'B
Uo goods ky rlTar, canal, lake, and lana carnage to ail
partaui ine union.
Ffua- TKJKKH AN'tJKft
On Merchandise generally 1 on btoree. 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