THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOiiER 30, 1869. srxnxT or Tixa rxtcss. Rdlmrinl Opinion of the lrullna; Journal B rZt, CX.itmu Topics-Compiled Br Oay tor the Kvmln Tclcgrnph. LITIGATION MUSING FROM SUICIDE. From the S. Y. Timet. A suit has just been settled in our Snporior Court of a hind timt always deeply interests a comuiunity. A widow brought an action Against nil insurance company to recover JjTlO.Oon. the amount of n policy upon the life of ber late husband. Tho company set up for defense timt tho policy was rendered void J)V the suicide of the insured. It wan Bhowu thnt ho died suddenly, shortly after an examination of his entangled accounts with another company of which ho was an officer. The defendant contended that the deceased took strychnine; the plaintiff proved by medical testimony and a Iiost mortem examination that he died of ifart disease. Upon the proof, tho dofonso v as withdrawn and tho case scttlod by pay ment of the policy. It is said that a case of ac tual suicide, that of a man named Holdcn, v ho committed tho act in Ludlow street jail, will be brought into our courts, as a bank of this citv holding a policy on his life as col lateral for a debt, purposes bringing an action for recovery against the company that issued the policy. , It is rarely that a company successfully de fends itself in a suit of this character. It appears necessary that the defendant should prove not only the fact of suicide, but tho intention. Even if the act is not at all acci dental, it is probably committed durinq mel ancholy or frenzy, when it is questionable whether the mind of the individual is en tirely under the control of reason. A com pany could scarcely expect to prove that the deceased committed tho, act for the purpose of precipitating the maturity of the policy; yet it must clear up every doubt as to the sanity of the person at the time of the occur rence. For, if the unfortunate man was not a responsible being, the company remains responsible for its obligation. To free tho company his suicide should be as doliberate as though he had considered the advantages and disadvantages of his act, and selected it as a judicious niodo of winding up his affairs. It is currently reported that an insurance was paid to the survivors of a lady who is believed to have taken morphine for tho pur pose of causing death, last year, in Connecti cut, and there was no attempt at litiga tion. An English company, quite recently, where there was no doubt about tho suicide of the deceased, is said to have deposited $1 (,()()(, the amount of the policy, with a trust company in this city, to be paid to the successful claimant. The insurance company does not propose to dispute tho policy, but awaits the decision ot our Supremo Court whether the payment shall be made to the heirs of a deceased wife or a present widow. In addition to the difficulties of defense, the odium that attaches to any dolay in the settlement of an insurance claim is apt to work great injury to a company. If a jury can be persuaded to decide in favor of a soul less corporation and against an interesting widow, the sympathies of the public are also to be considered when the concern intonds to do any further business. The risk of such occurrences is, moreover, not an important element in calculating vital contingencies. There are probably not more suicides in the United States than one per annum to every 15.000 of population. In our cities such acts are proportionally more frfuent, but the ratio can hardly exceed one in 7.100. Among those whose lives are insured, being distinc tively the more prudent class, the actual num ber of suicides must be very small. In fact, the real excuse for retaining the "death by Lis own hand'' clause in life policies, is the fear that its absence may tempt the insured to hanker after felo de se. With many of our companies it is a dead letter; a form, copied from forms in se in England; but almost as much a relic of barbarism as the former English statute under which a person committing suicide had to be buriod by the roadside with a stake driven through his body, while his estate became escheated to the Crown. But whatever may be the system of an insurance company, litigation is, in all respects, its worst policy. In flagrant in stances a compromise can usually be effected that would be cheaper than a lawsuit. Already, indeed, some companies propose to make the clause inoperative after the policy Las run a certain length of time, and it is probable that before long they will "reform it Altogether." . JAPANESE HOSPITALITY. from the X. Y. Tribune. Considerable surprise is expressed in Eng land at the promptness and cordiality with which the Duke of Edinburgh was received by the Mikado of Japan, and no less per plexity and indignation at the refusal of the Majesty of China to grant his ltoyal Highness an interview. The conduct of the sovereigns is contrasted in a tone that once more shows tho determination of English writers to con sider these two Oriental empires from the same stand-point. The faot is, that there is not the slightest similarity either in the character of the people or the principles of their Government. Tho fcxelusiveness of China is a policy which has existed for hundreds of centuries, while that of Japan is of comparatively recent origin. The natural temper of the Chinese at least of those in authority is suspicious, reserved, and seliish. That of the Japanese is confiding, open, and generous. Fo reigners have only themselves to blame for their rigorous exolusion during a period of more than two hundred years from these flemishing islands. Their first visits were welcomed with delight, and, under the teachings of Francis Xavier and hia fol lowers, the simple inhabitants wore rapidly iV. Ohristian faith, when the politico-religious intrigues of the Dutch and l'ortuguese threatened the security of tho tin on nr1 lRtrovod the tranquillity of the entire nation. So flagrant wore the crimes of the contending colonists that Christianity presently became the synonym, in uie hijiio heusion of tho native rulers, of every spocios of disorder, tvflncherv. and cruelty. Their extmlsion was Kimolv an act of solf-proserva tiou on the part of the Japanese Government. Kubsequent events, iwm iciyu iu reigu, did little to soften the bitterness of this con viction The occasional visits of English. French, and ltnssian ships were almost in variably accompanied by barbarous brutali ties, and it was not until the expedition of Commodore Ferry, whose altitude towards the islanders was as courteous and considerate as it was dignified and firm, that their hos tility to foreigners was in any degree abated. Since that period the Government has con sistently displayed its willingness to enter gradually into communication with the out side world. Japan is'not freo from intorual troubles, and the jealousy of certain powerful cobles is still an obstacle to the accomplish nipnt of the desired result. But at no time L.ns there been, anything in the behavior of the leading officials at variance with the bos- I pitality juat now extended to the English' prince. GEN. GKANT PROMOTING MORALITY. From the X. Y. Svn. Tho Springfield Repvblicnn finds a violent contrast in the appointment of Mr. George II. Butler as Consul-Goneral to British India, nnd General Grant's saying that he might have felt insulted by a proposal to reveal pri vately the financial policy of tho administra tion, "had itcome from any other but a person like Fisk. But coming from a man so desti tute of moral character, I didn't think it worth noticing." Butler having been an inti mate friend and follower of Mr. Fisk, tho lllu!Uctn think tho two must bo on a level in respect of moral character, so that if Fisk could not give an insult, Butler ought not to be made a Coiisul-General. Our Springfield contemporary is apparently not aware that, previous to being appointed n Consul-General Mr. Butler had broken off with Mr. Fisk so far that ho had, on Friday, Oct. given ovidenco very damaging to him in tho suit of Orlando W. Joslyn. If, then, Mr. Butler's moral character has suffered in the estimation of tho moralists of Springfield, from his intimacy with Mr. Fisk, ought they not to regard it as perfectly re stored. by his turning against his bosom friend, and doing him such harm as tho law allows? And is not Mr. Butler's appointment as Consul-General at Calcutta to bo esteemed as the most appropriate means which General (irant could now employ for expressing his condemnation of Mr. Fisk's destitution of moral character, and his approval of Mr. Butler's honest efforts to vindicate his own good reputation by putting Fisk down? Ve trust that the Springfield philosophers will now study this subject more deeply and comprehensively. They will thus in time come to understand that the interests of mo rality have really gained very much by the appointment of Mr. Butler, and that it has added a new laurel to tho many previously gained by General Grant since ho became President. FATHER IIYACINTHE. From the X. Y. Ucrald. The eloquent ex-Carmelite has at length been allowed to enjoy the quiet which ho de sires, now that the storm of curiosity occa sioned by his arrival has abated. He has already been here long enough to disappoint the expectations of i'rotestants that they might rind in him either a proselyte or an in strument for advertising their peculiar modes of belief, and long enough, we may add, to be disabused of any illusion ivhich ho may himself have had that he might find allies among the Catholic clergy in the United States, on account of tho separation between Church and Stato in this country. In no other country, perhaps, is what is called in r ranee "ultrnmontaniKm so univer sal. Our Catholic clergy out-pope tho Pope himself. There are no Romanists at Rome who are more devoted than they are to Papal supremacy. In France the storm with which the famous letter of Father Hyacinthe threatened the Roman Church was very quickly dispelled. M. Gaillardet writes to the Courvkr den Mutt Unit that not only have the bishops who hod been credited with an intention of defending the ex-Carmelite before the Council protested against such "complicity with apostaey, but his pro gramme has been repudiated by the Bishop of Sura himself, whose last book in favor of the Gallicau Church has been as harshly treated by the Ultromontanist bishops as tho "subversive ideas ot iulher liyaeinthe Meanwhile, in his isolated position, Father Hvacinthe will have ample opportunities, during Lis American tour, for impartially ex amining the practical results of some of his theories. GRANT AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, DENT. From the X. Y. Herald. President Grant is reported to have said, in a conversation with Senator Thayer, of Ne braska, on Wednesday, that "while he was on good personal relations with Judge Dent, he nevertheless felt bound by public duty to oppose Lis election and desire the success of Alcorn." In August last he had addressed Judge Dent a letter advising him not to con nect nimscli with the conservative movemont against the party now supporting Alcorn, the former being, ho said, the enemies of the ad ministration and Uovernment. Moreover, he had seen a published telegram representing Dent as having said that the President sus tained him as a candidate for Governor of Mississippi. This statement Le had enclosed to the Judge, asking it the latter had been correctly reported. No reply had as yet been received; but it is manifest that the President is eettmer tired of brothers-in-law. lie can not let them take Lis name in vain, either in financial or in political speculations. He feels "bound by public duty," not by private relationship. TREKS. From the Saturday Jteview. It has been remarked as curious that flowers form by no means so favorite a subject with painters us trees; and the fact is one which at lirst sight we should not perhaps altogether ex pect. Brilliancy of coloring is a quality which u painter, above all men, must be disposed to appreciate; and while trees are c'.ad in a nearly uniform sober green, Uowers will furnish ex amples ot all kinds ol tenderness and exquisite uess, from the melting hues of tho rose to the pure white ot the lily ot tho valley, or tho deli cate purple 01 the petunia. And indeed most men who take an Interest In vegetation of any kind care more for flowers than for trees; they will get much more pleasure of a direct kind from their omniums and rose-beds than from their shrubberies. Hut the paluter is an excep tion. He will mark every gradation of light and color on tho trunk of a plno far more readily than he will look at the finest garden flower iu the world. The reason for this fact, which at first appears singular, Is in reality very simple. It Is that trees as a whole are much more noble objects, more worthy to bo known, than flowers as a whole; and the painter, who studies the matter more deeply than ordinary men, is perfectly aware of this fact. Flowers carry nearly all their splendor on the ouUidc; and this again Is in great numbers of instances mainly the crea "tiou of nun. Few of our garden aud' hot-house flowers do not owe their most obvious beauty to assiduous care ami cultivation. Trees, on the other hand, have un Intrinsic grandeur aud sta bility; they do not lean on us, they are not de pendent on us; ilicy are in a certain sense our rivals, und In some countries successful rivals, that in thuir vigorous growth extrude man from the field. And since a painter, it' ho Is to be anything of a painter, must likewise bo some thing of a poet, aud must discern und shadow forth tho inner life us well as the outer form of things, a good painter will find that tiecs are much more to his purpose than flowers. Not that there Is not a certain charm in seeing a flower llko tho rose put off something of Its ori ginal wilduess and hardiness, in order, by Its Increased color and fragrance, to contribute mote to the delight of man. But this process must not lie carried too fur, or else the flower becomes a monstroMly; and even if this point be not readied, U Is easy to draw out the sen b'.ioiu j'h-'usiirc to such an extent that the poetical und rcilccthe pleasure is annihilated. It Is a fine remark of Mr. Raskin, and Illustrates the distinction we have been laying down, that though he had often neon sninn Alpine (lower, which he names, In great lirllllmicy of coloring, he never felt Its truo otct1Ii'i'0 till ho saw It faded and torn, but still living, on the borders of a desolate glacier. 1 ills excellence oi a stronir independent me. which is tho exception among (lower, is tho rule among trees. There Is no tree which painters delight more iu painting than the lne; nnd wnjv A pine is not a remarkably icautiful tree: it is somewhat still' and prini. especially In Its younger years: for plcluresiuc- ness ol contour it lails lar iielow tiie oaK and the elm. lint the pine, more than any other tree, wages a systematic warfare against ttio advcri-e forces of nature; It contends against them, not singly, but in serried phalanxes: re quiring little nourishment, making little dis play, It live?, and lives by union. This Is what gives (he Norwegian forests their power over t lie imagination: in this they perhaps surpass an Italian landscape as much as the Italian land scape surpasses them iu beauty. Vet whin birches nro mingled with tho pino forests, tlic two together have real beauty, and a charm that belongs to neither separately tho harmony ol strength and grace, ot tlriiinoss and flexibility. Nowhere have wo seen this more perfectly than In the forests that skirt the road I rum t. hrlstianla to licrgen: tno roiling masses of foliage descend continuously from the ridges to the valleys, their outline indiscernible, and fading into a kind of blue ha.e. Tho Inter mixture of trees Is seldom so close as here; but wherever seen it is noticed and remembered in stinrtivcly, especially in the early spring, when the emerald green of the birch stands out against the dark musses behind. Next to the Scandinavian countries, Syria and Tyrol arc the parts of Europe most renowned tor their pine lorcsts. nicy arc, however, rela tively less conspicuous to the traveller in those countries, on account of the greater promi nence ot the other features of the land scape; and we believe, also, their timber is not reckoned so good. Y'et even Norway yields to Canada, whose interminable forests are the great reservoir from which timber is imported to England. Tho pines of Europe are seldom of any great size; bnt it is said that there are, or were lately, some in Thuriugla that attained the marvellous height of three hundred feet, an altitude (if true) almost rivalling the Wellingto nians of California. In England wc have long ceased to have any large forests, whether of rino or other tree's, to boast of. And though Dartmoor Forest, tho Peak Forest, and other such places are popularly supposed to have been onec what the namo nt present indicates, this appears to be a misapprehension; the word forest, like the word wood, meant originally nothing more than a tract of wild untitled coun try. Certainly it is difficult to imagine any large growth of trees of any kind on the barren lime stone upland to which the name of the Peak Forest is given. Yet there can be no doubt that the trees have been very much thinned all over England in the last two'or three centuries. For example, it is a tradition of the oldttr inhabitants that the valley ol irotitbeck in cFtmorclund. now comparatively bare, was once a continuous forest. It is, however, the samojissidnous cultivation which has prevented us from having in England any woous compuraoio iu size even to those ot (ierniany, that has rendered our individual trees as a rule so much larger in growth than those of the Continent. There are few parts of Eng land that have not some park conspicuous for Hie magnitude oi ltsoaKs, its elms, or its beeches Of oaks we have measured one near Albury, In iMirrey, wnicu ui live leei irom tue ground mea sured' nearly twentv-uiuc feet in circumference. In Windsor Park is a beech of, yet larger di mensions; and wc remember one on the Baric in Somersetshire from whoso massive trunk sorumr four separate branches, each cquul in size to un ordinary tree.' This last, unless wo are mis taken, grew in a larmyaru. it is, however, neither oaks, nor elms, nor beeches, that have the largest girth of any English tree, but yews. lews like tuut at Aueredw in Radnorshire, or that at Darlcy in Derbyshire, when once seen, will never be forgotten, from their huge size, their picturesque, battered, venerable look. There Is no tree that has more attracted the attention of poets. There are few to whom tho description iu Hukeb; of that weird and gloomy grove on tno ureta will not occur; nor arc oras worth's lines less celebrated on "that fraternal four of Borrowdale Joined in one solemn aud capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk tho growth oi inrertwisieu mires serpentine, I "peoilinR and inveterately convolved, Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane." We hear of yews in Scotland upwards of fifty six feet in circumference. Tho yew Is perhaps the only tree that up to extreme old ago grows constantly and tucontestauiy more striking m appearance; for though there is no tree that docs not improve as it grows to maturity, while there are many to which a certain appearance oi antr tmitv is becomiuir, yet a decrepit oak or elm has lost more by tho decay aud fall of Its branches thau It has gained by the venerable ness of its trunk. ' With a yew the reverse is the case. The part of the Continent that, of all within our knowledge, has the most stately deciduous trees, is Holstein. This comes from a circum stance which has no doubt partly caused tho fine growth ol trees in England namely, the per sistout raininess of tho climate, liy the nume rous lakes of Holstein, aud sloping down to the sea, are beech groves superior to asty in the whole of Uermany. it is curious, by the way, whv the beech is so rure a tree in Norway. We cannot call to mind a single specimen of it, though planes and other not hardy trees are by no menus rare near luruiiuuia. . The oak, the elm, and the beech are tho un questioned monurchs of all English vegetation The v in a way stands by itself, as being so much rarer und so much more singular a tree. These trees alone have individual grandeur, and a grandeur which is not antagonistic to. but rather contains, beauty. We have never been able to understand tho dictum of Mr. It us kin. that the oak Is the least graceful of trees. The curves in the boughs of a well-grown oak are no doubt separately less beautilul than those of an ash or beech; but they have a harmony which more thun redeems their individual de fect: thev suit well with one another, the onlv ugly trees In England (and those not by their own fault) are poiiaru winows. i lie sicp iroiu oaks and beeches to the finest of our common lrardeu-trees. such as sycamores and acacias. is a step downwards; it is tho step from the grandeur of nature to the symmetry of art; and yet we may make tho change not without a sense of pleasure. Cor tainly there will bo some to whom t sinirle vew rooted In the rock, a single oak bear iug on its bark the records of teu centuries, will be worth twenty acacias or a hundred planes. Hut vet what an exAuisite tree Is, for instance, Uo sycamore. It is the nioi-t architectural of . . . . , . . i . i trees; the LiOUgllS tpreau 111 Horizontal wjers, the leaves nre like tho fretting on some lofty column of a cathedral, the bark Is like chased silver. There are some in the grounds oi ot, John's. Cambridge, with which, in tho spring, before their leaves are euteu away and marred, no single fault could bo found. Aud so hero and there wh may seo an old ucii'da In which the contract between tho small deiicato leaves and tho black rnu-ired bark Is us striking as any thing In vegetation. Then there is ono fruit tree, the pear, In which the graceful curve of the laden boughs Is uot always as mucu uouceu us It 1 1 1 i lit be. It is un amusing cmploymen to detect tho differences between dilloreilt kinds of trees iu winter und ciirlv soring, before tho leares aro out. The contour of the branches Is then most visible, nnd in some trees the ash particularly this is no small advantage. Without its leaves, and at a distance even with Its leaves, a largo ash Is sometimes curiously liko an oak. Again the long black buds of tho beech, the round red ones of the lime, the llowerv roughness of those of the elm, and tho fuzzy balls that bang f ami the plane the tree so ill-used by Jmdon Miioku and logare all characteristic, loicrcsiiug, too, It is to examine the law by which the buds spring out along tho twig of any particular true. In some each oud is precisely at the opposite side of the twig from the last bud; iu mjiiio it goes a third of tho way round, so that every third bud is on the amc side of tho twig; in some each bud goen two-flftbs of the wnv round, b i iiiii, cvory una mm is on tuo same side of tho twig; In some, three-eighths of the wny round; and In some, five-thirteenths. These fractions arc connected by a Curious mathematical rela tion, which will easily be recn: every fraction U formed from the two pre ceding fractions ny adding, separately, their numerators and denominators. As an Illustration of our meaning, if the buds on a twig of the currant tree were connected by a spiral line running round the twig, It would bo tound (hat every cVhth bud would be on pre cisely the tame side of the twig, and that be- m ecu mo such uiuis there would be three coils of the spiral. Japiiy, to the. poet or philosopher there arc In terest mg inquiries suggested hv trees unan swerable, it Is ti ne, nnd therefore poetic or phi losophic. They have what the Germans call -ineuxvhlirhev rhaUviitsp-Wmnn.u relations. They sleep. for unquestionably their lcalbiss state, is asleep : nnd it Is connected with our nightly sleep through tho link of the hibernating animals. They have sexual functions; have thev also feeling ? The pollen that floats through the air may be a means of communication between them. They can discern from a distance, for a tree will push its roots across a ditch when tho soil on tho other side of tho ditch is better for It tbau its own. And. to connect all these facts? it Is known that annuals and vegetables arc at their outset iden tical. There are minute living organisms which at different periods of their existence belong now to the animal, now to the vegetable, order, lhcy arc animalcules with pink cyespots, thrown off by the plant; then again they reunite with themselves, and with tho plant of which they nre u portion. But this would lead us Into provinces m which now wo cannot intrude further. SPECIAL NOTICES. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. " w iv t a ni r,.i n I , Hi l, ni. IF., LoniinxncpH his Pnpulnr Lectures, Illuutrated with tlio OXV UYDKOUKN UdHT, HtKNUH MANIKINS, etc., . 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THE PHILADELPHIA SAVING FUND SOCIETY Commenced business at its NEW OFFICE, KOT1THWK.HT riDRNKR niT WASHINGTON SOUARE AND WALNUT STREET. . mwiiuAi , tixa iDHb iu la lia Sr DR. F. R. THOMAS, THE LATE OPE- , "Ki'ra me uoiion iJentoi Association, la now the only one in Philadelphia who devotee hia entire time and practice to eitraetinn teeth, absolutely without pain, by . . mu wiiniuiwuu qita. umcs. urjt naLPUJi BL. 1 abv Jgjp M O R N I N G GLORY. It is an admitted fact that the MOKNINt GLORYI RARF-ft1TMNINi HKATINII STnVtTQ keep steadily ahead of all competitors. For superiority and economy iu fuel they are unapproschod. Call and o liM-m. BIJB I KKNUW, 10 lui4p Noa. 809 and 811 N. 8KCONU Street BSy- QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. LONDON AND LIVKRPOOL. capital, jca.uou omi. SAB1KK, ALLICN A DULLES, Axenta, 2? Fli)TU and WALNUT hlreeta. WINES. HER MAJESTY CHAMPAGNE. DUNTON Si LUSSOPI, 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. rpiIE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE TP J- solioited to the following very Choice Wines, etc, tor DUNTON LU8HON, IU SOUTH i'.KONT bTRKET. CII A W P AH N Kli. Agents for her Majeetf, lno de Montobello, Carte lileue, Carte lilanche, aud Oliarlae l-arre's Grand Viu Kugenie, and Vln Imperial, !. Klea- f eI bparkling Moselle and BU1NB 1 AliKlRAH.-Old Island, South Side Reserve. KUi'.HRlKK. f. Kudolphe, Amontillado, Topai, Vat lette. Pule and Golden bpr. Crown, etc. PORTS.-Viuho VelhoKeal, Vallette, and Orown. CLARKT8 Proiuis Aire & i'ia., Montterrand and Bor doaux. Olitretaantt Sauterne Wioee. GIN. "Medtr Swan." PKANDIEB. Ilenneaaey, OUrd, Dnpoi Uo.'a various c A U STAIRS f MoO A'L L, No. 1M WAI.NITT and SI GRANITIC Slrseta, Importers ol BRANDIES, WINKS, GIN, OLIVE OIL, BIO., AND COMMISSION MKROUANTU for the o&ln of PURE OLD RYE, WUKAT, AND BOURBON WHItJ. : ixiiva, o Wi iVV pAKSTAlRS OLIVE OIL-AN INVOICK m. OAR8TAIRH A MoOAT.L, ( m Noa. 1U0 WALN L'T and ill GRANITE tit. FINANCIAL A RELIABLE HOME' INVESTMENT. TIIE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS or Tn Wilmington and Reading Railroad, BKAIUNU INTEREST At SEVEN PER CENT, ia Currency, PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER, FREB OF STATS AND UNITED STATES TAXES, This road runs throngh a thickly populated and rich agricultural and mnnnfacturtng district For the present, we are offering a limited amount the aoovo Bonds at 85 CENTS AND INTEREST. The connection of this road with the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads Insures It a large and remu nerative trade. Wo recommend the bonds as the cheapest first-class investment in the niarfcet. WIYI. rAITJTEIl CL CO., BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS, No. 30 SOUTH THIRD STREET, t!2 31 . PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES BONDS BOUGHT, SOLD, AND EXCHANGED ON MOST LIBERAL TERMS. O O JU T BOUGHT AND SOLD AT MARKET RATES. COU PONS CASHED. PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD. S T O O IC S BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION ONLY. COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL ACCESSIBLE TOINTS. DE HA YEN & BM, No. 40 South THIRD Street "5 PHILADKLPH IA. ZS. XI. JAMXS023T & CO SUCCESSORS TO P. F. KELLY & CO., Uankers aud Dealers la 'Gold, Silver, ail Govermeiit Bonis, AT CLOSEST Mi. BEET RATES, ' N.W. Corner THIRD and CHESNTJT St. Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS In New York and Philadelphia Stack Boards, eta eto 6 6 1!3 81 ELLIOTT & DUNN, BANKERS, NO. 109 SOUTH THIRD STKEET, PHILADELPHIA, DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON THE UNION BANK OP LONDON. DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD, BILLS, Etc. Receive MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing Interest. Execute orders for Stocks In Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Baltimore. 4 so; QLENDINNING, DAVIS & CO., NO. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GLENDIKNING, DAVIS AMORY, NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK BANKERS AND BROKERS. Direct telographlc communication wtta the New York Stock Boards from the Philadelphia Office. 1325 ivhYhTrandolph a cbT. BANKERS, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK, DEALERS IN UNITED STATES BONDS, and MEM BERS OF STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGE, Receive Aceountt of Bauks and Baukerg on Libera Terms. ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON C. J. HAMBRO A SON, London. B. METZLER, 8. SOHN A CO., Frankfort. JAMES W. TUCKER A CO., Parts. And Other Principal Cities, aud Letters ot Credit 1 8 tf Available Throughout Europe. JOHN 8 . RU8HTON & COT, No. 50 SOUTH THIRD STREET. NOVEMBER COUPONS ANft O I T Y W -(V 11 Tl A. IV T S 10S3m BOUGHT AtCt) SOLD. , QITY W A n R A N'T S BOUGHT AND SOLD. C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.. NO. 20 SOUTH THIRD STREET, FaiLADZLPUIA FINANOIAU. A N K I N O II o U 3 k Or JAY COOKE & CO., Nos. 112 and IU South THIRD Street. PHILADELPHIA, Dealers In all Oovernment Socorttle Old B-aos Wanted in Esohange for New A Liberal Difference allowed. Compound Interest Notes Wanted. Interest Allowed on Deposits. COLLECTIONS MADE. STOf'JT.d on Commission. Special business ,vavigi tur indies. We will receive applications for Policies of Lle Insurance In the National Life Insurance Comoanv f the United States. Full Information given at oar Tl8m QRCXEL & CO. NO. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET, American nntl Foreign S DRA1vFS AND CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CRKDIT available on presentation tn anv part of Europe. . Travellers can make ail their financial arranffe meBta throuoh tin. nri v. nrin frxvt ,h. and dividends without charge. , Dhexil, Winttihop A Ca.,'DRjxKL, Harj3 a 00. New York. I Parts. 3 10 pm 8. PETERSON & CO.. Stock and Exchange Brokers, NO. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET, Membcrs.of the New York and Philadelphia 'stoci and Gold Boards. STOCKS, BONDS, Etc., bought and sold on com mission only at either city 1 WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETC. e? ESTABLISHED 1828. WATCHES, JEWELRY, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, and FANCY GOODS. O. W. RUSSELL, NO. n N. SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. WILLIAM B. WARNE & CO., Vll WAlttnns AAD JKWKKK7, b. K. corner iSRVENTH and CHKSNUT 8,roota, Li. ' J3 ' iiwioruio LcnirTB ia oswj ocwuu uwr, bou aaiq oi no. a. I iliKl? ot. M 1 NERY. NO. 726 CIIESNUT STREET. OPEN THIS DAY, ,10 PIKC'ES ROMAN STRIPF.D SATINS, at f 2, ip-J oO, and 3a per yard; one dollar par yard balaw ioruior prices. 4 PIECES SATINS, Irf-lnch, of all dosirabla shades, $1 SO per yardi reduced from 'J. lti PIECE8 BLACK VELVET, wnrrantod all silk, at $4, $1 So, aud $5 ; out dollar per yard below the real value. Alno, a lull stock of all kinds of RIBBONS. bXLKS, HATS, FRAMES, i'MiWERS,' t'EATHRRl, ETO. ET0 . AT GREATLY REDUOED "PRICES, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. wuik'i.. & uoiLiir,Of, M 191m NO. 728 OHF8NCT STREET. . QENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS. rpiE FOIST OP FASIIIOX. CENTS' FURNISHING STORE. MRS. MINNIE OC M MINGS has opened the ahore named place, at No. 119 South EIGHTH Street, wbere fentlcmen can find everything ia their line. The best fitting SHIRTS la the city, ready nude or mole to order. Purchasers of twelve article receive the thirteenth as a Gift. UMBRELLAS TO HIRE for 25 conte. HanUkerotiefs ht aimed free of charge, Polite Salesladies ia attendance, A call Is reepectiully solicited and satisfaction giar anteed. Jj MINNIE OUMMINOS. p AT EN T SHOULDER-SEAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, , , AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE. PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWEB" made from measurement at very short notice. All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DUES GOODS In full variety. WINCHESTER CO., 11 9 No. 70S CHESNUT Street. F IKE DRESS SHIRTS AND GENTS' NOVELTIES. J. W. SCOTT & CO.. No. SH CHESNTJT 8treet, Philadelphia, j 8 27irp Four doors iielow Continental HotW. jj DRUCS, PAINTS, ETO. j JOBERT SHOEMAKER O O. H. Corner FOURTH and RACE St, PHILADELPHIA. WHOLESALE DRUCCI8T8, Importers and Manafactarers of White Lead and Colored Faint, Patty' Varnishes, Etc. AGENTS FOR TUE CELEBRATED FRENOM ZINO PAINTS. Dealers and cousamers supplied at lowest prtca for cash. Htf DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST. AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PAINTS, OILS. GLASS. AND PATENT MEDICINES, Nos. 1301 and 1303 MARKET St. lu A tustutiiu LOS I . T O&T CERTIFICATES. NOTICE 13 FIBRE A J b given that application has been made to the Oity IVesfaier for the Usiie- oi duplicates of tUe follow i of de acriixxi certiticateo ot the tin per Uent. Loan of tueOity ol Philadelphia (line ot taxes) : No. -I: 5. !')0O, daltd October 6, lH'v. 4! tj, " " 6, 14. 4STKI, 4r0, " " S3, I'M v S.71, VJau, " November B0, 1H. ftSoOO, in name of JOHN If R. f.ATKOBR. ia trust. AUS riN A OHKKUK, H V tliWt No. ala WALNUT Street. y. T. ATOW. y. WMAHON. Ac M C 91 A 11 UlV. li BffirriKa akt coymisxion mkhvmaux No. S OOKNTIKH SLIP, New York. No. 14 KOU I'M W11AUVKH, Philadelphia, No. 46 W. PRATT btreet, lialtiuuire. We are prepared to ship every deaoripuon of Freight to Philadelphia, Near York, Wiluuuun, aud Intermediate Ejints with prornptnetie and despatch. Oauai ligtiiui) luaiu tua taruutued al tue hurUMl aotiue. va X
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