sriRiT or ran msos. Editorial Opinion of (he I.rndlns; Jonraaf. Upon Current Topic Compiled Kverr Day Tor the Evening Telegraph. FUNCTUS OFFICIO. From t he X. Y. Tribune The lion. Garrett Davis, who was a dele gate to the Capital Convention at St. Louis, end who voted against the removal of the na tional Boat of government "to Homo place in the valley of the Mississippi river," has given his reasons for that vote, in a long letter to the Governor of Kentucky. Mr. Davis takes the ground that, however much we may de sire to carrv our national pods frnm iha ria trict of Columbia, we have no power in the premises. When Virginia and Maryland ceded each a portion of its territory to the nation, they did so forever. When the United States accepted this territory, they took an inaliena ble estate, and were bound to use it for the purpose and upon the conditions of the ces sion for all time to come. Mr. Garrett Davis states this doctrine in two languages the Eng lish and the Latin as follows: "When the States have ceded the necessary territory, they cannot withdraw or abrogate their ces sions; and so when Congress has accepted them, it cannot repeal or abrogate its accept- . ance. No one will deny that the cession of the States and the acceptance by Congress concludes any further action of the States, and their power over the subject then be comes functus officio; and it is equally true that the associated power of acceptance by Congress, when executed, is exhaustive and . functus officio;" and, therefore, there is nothing more to be said or done about the matter. Congress is powerless. Conventions are in vain. Delegates can do nothing. The capital is like an obstinate old woman 'when it is sot, it s sot. It is as immovable as the everlasting hills, and is firmly bedded in the mud of the district by some irrepoala Jble law of constitutional inertia. Mr. Davis might have safely left the dis cussion at this point, but he indulges, after Lis dry logic, in various poetical and histori cal suggestions. "Shall publio buildings," he exclaims, "whose stylo and magnificence command the admiration of every traveller; Bhall halls, made historical by eloquence and statesmanship, surpassing the lloman forum and all the learned seats of Athens in their palmiest days, be abandoned to bats and owls ?'' We fully agree with Mr.' Davis in his answor: "The noblest reason and sentiments of man answor, No!'' As we write, a ruolancholy picture of the ruined Capitol presents itself to our mind's eye, with a special and particular fox looking out of each nnglazed window; with whole colonies of owls trying in vain, by solemn looks, to keep up the reputation of the edifice for wisdom; and with flocks of bats flitting in the twilight of the crumbling corri dors. The foxes bark, the owls complain to the moon, and the rustle of the bats suggests the wandering and uneasy ghosts of departed Congressmen. It may be long before Lord Macaulay's New Zealandor will arrive to in Bpect the ruins; but even the generation nearest to our own may furnish a Volney or a Layard to philosophize or to photograph in Pennsylvania avenue! Meanwhile, the capi tal having been removed to St. Louis, she has (to use Mr. Davis' vigorous words) "taken to nor bosom a moral loper, the Government of the United States;" and her "frenzied popu lace" is continually frightening honorable members out of their senses by the perpetra tion of "the wildest and bloodiest excesses." Mr. Davis' final argument against the pro jected removal is the highly classical one that, if we wait long enough, Washington Will become like the ancient City of Home, which subdued "Italy, Gaul, Germany, Bri tain, Greece, andMacedon;" which "carried ber arms in triumph to Carthage, aud, under is walls, vanquished the great Hannibal;" hich "pushed them victoriously over the ominions of the Ptolemies to the Pyramids nd Thebes;" which "subjugated Syria;" ihich "swept across Mesopotamia;" which 'passed over long-buried Lubylon;" which "built her fortified camps on the bauks of the Indus, where Alexander terminated his conquests" and blubbered like a school-boy because he had reached the nil ultra of ambi tion! All this achievement required, as Mr. uavis coolly observes, only twelve centuries from the time when liomulus "located on the Tiber." Put "W hat was Oooso-creek once Is Tiber now." We have made a fair start in a classical di rection, and in the year of our Lord 30(il), if we will but wait, Washington will (Mr. Davis thinks) "run the parallel of Home in the duration and splendor of metropolitan . his tory." This may be a very good way of mitigating the ardors of Occidental ambition; but wo fear that those who have this movement in band will not care the drippings of a whisky jug for Mr. Garrett's talk about the Tiber, Carthage, Hannibal, the Polemics, Mesopo tamia, and Alexander; for, although they are well-seasoned and respnctable naniun, there is no spell in them to prevent St. Louis from running away with our seat of government, trovided she does not find it an impracticable ack-load. A good, solid, comin.ui-senso argument against the change such, for in Btance, as its enormous expense, the natiou being st ill heavily in debt is worth oil Mr. uavis nno wnuug about Home and Athons, . the bats and tho owls. The single fact that Washington is practically more nearly a centre now than upon tho day tf its foundation, is worth all the fine things which Mr. Davis can find in all the classical dictionaries which Lave ever been printed. THE BURLING AME TREATY AND ANTI CHINESE LAW. From the X. Y. Tint. The ratification of the Burlinganie treaty with China will have an importaut eli'ect upon our commerce with that nation, and upon our own laws aud customs in those parts of onr country into which the Chiuamon have made their way. Thoy have made their en trance in spite of tlie hostility of the whites a hostility which has shown itself not only in a a A s I ? a cruel iroaimoni 01 muiviuuais, uut in oppres Kivfl laws, directed atnhist the wlinl rnon Those laws, however, havo been tho work of fctate legislation. It is to this treaty, made Jby the nation, and to tno natiouul legislature. and to the national courts, that those who are unjusiiy auociou vy wioso biuuicis will look for protection. A matter of this kind was recently brought - , .1 1 .1. . ii ' Lefore a United States District Court, iu tho Territory of Idaho. The Legislature of thut , Territory, following the lead of somo of hor uiuer BiHiers in Iter prejudices against tne Chinese, had passed a law declaring that no Chinaman should work at mining iu the Tor- mory wnuoui a license, which would cost huu $5 a month; and furthunuor. thut "nil Mon golians, whether mule or female, aud of what ever ocenpauon, residing is tho mining dis tricts of this Territory, shall be consiiorod , foreign miners under this act, and bh;ill pnyu license of $3 for each and every month they THE DAILY EVENING reside in this Territory." A Chinaman, boar- I ing the euphonious name of Ah How. there- upon applied to the United States Court for an injunction to restrain a Sheriff from collecting this tax. The Judge, who bore the equally euphonious name of Noggloa, refused the injunction on some technical ground. But he took occasion to express an opinion on the law in question and all laws of a similar character. This circumstance very clearly indicates what their fate must be when brought before the national tribunals. The Judge further traced them to the influence of California legislation, and did not hesitate to declare that they were the product of "hos tility to the Chinese," and he exprossod a de termination to banish them from the country. He also described them as "infamous laws," and due to an effort to "gratify the low pre judice of narrow-minded, illiberal, self-conceited demagogues." He showed that oar Government has in many ways endeavored to maintain friendly relations with China, and that these statutes are inconsistent with such relations, and with all the enactments which invite foreigners to come to this country as "a country of equality, justice, and human ity." And, Epoaking of the ' Burlingamo treaty, he added that "when this treaty has been proclaimed, and has become binding upon this Government, of course the present infamous laws will be superseded thereby." Mr. Justice Noggles talked good law when he declared that the Burlingame treaty must override any State law which is in conflict with it. The Constitution declares that such treaties shall be "the supreme law of the land," and this provision has been expressly decided by the Supreme Court to bo binding upon State Courts and Legislatures. He uttered very good sense also when, having quoted from a speech of one of the highest officials in California the statement that tho Chinese were "the most frugal, industrious, and ingenious people on tho face of the earth," and that they were "an injury to the State, and ho would unite with any party that would use energetio means to keep them out of the country," he characterizes the speech as "the same old fogy argument for merly used to prevent the building of rail roads, threshing machines, and reapers." It is clearly advantageous to the whole country that such questions as this be passed upon by courts which, though by no means insensible to local feelings, or even preju dices, are yet lifted up to a higher plane, where they are exposed to better influences, and are by their own constitution called upon to look upon such controversies from a na tional instead of a local point of view. A DEAD MAN'S HEAD. From the X. Y. WarUU Tho ruthless determination of tho law (or, rather, lawyers) to "find a victim" was never, it would seem, more singularly illustrated than during the late trial, in llockland county, of Antoine Maurer, tho Alsatian, for the murder of Joachim Fuerter. The circum stantial evidence adduced against the accused and now condemned Maurer was amply suffi cient to justify the taost searching trial. But it was not strong enough, in tho opinion of the District Attorney, to warrant conviction; otherwise, that legal luminary could scarcely have summoned tho extraordinary witness which he did summon to confront the pri soner. This witness was the murdered man's head ! Without the fairness to bring it into court where the hapless Alsatian's horror at the sight of it would very likely havo been so simulated by the horror expressed on tho visages of the other spectators that an intelli gent jury must havo been puzzled to distin guish between tho conscious gilt of Maurer and the shuddering innocence of Mauror's fellow-beings tho District Attorney, it is said, had the head itself "preserved in a can," in readiness to be popped out, like a hideous toy-ghoul from a box, before tho eyes of tho victim in his prison solitude. When Maurer went to wash his hands, he found the head staring up at him from the bottom of the wash-pail. When he sat in the hall, outside his cell, gazing at vacancy, a theatrical hand lifted the blanket from tho hall table and re vealed the head. The head glared at him in his waking moments at dead of night, and so friehtened and haunted the poor wretch that it is surely no wonder that he was at last driven half insane, inon statements wan dering, contradictory, and improbable which can Hardly be culled contessions, were wrung from him. These evidently helped to procure his conviction and his sentence to death. Should this horrible story be substantiated by an oflicial investigation, public sentiment would justify the Governor in so postponing the execution of the sentence as to enable the friends of Antoino Maurer to prooure for him another trial. Justice cannot have boon conserved by any bucIi device for extracting a confession ot guilt, or guilty participation from a man on his trial for murder. The inquisition, with its appliances of the rack, gouges, and hot irons, was supposed to be, even in theory, an extinct institution; yet here, within an hours ride ot tue city ot Now York, is reported to flourish a limb of the law who has it somehow in his power to establish a death s-head inquisition of his own against a prisoner for the purposo of procuring the latter to be hung. NArOLEON AND HOCIIEFORT. From, the X. Y. Herald. M. Henri Itochofort, editor of a Taris jour nalnamcd Lanterne an excellent specimen of tho Incus a non lucendo in transatlantic journalism has completely failed in his en deavors to rank as a French political martyr. Napoloon has extinguished him, in his own peculiar style, and in a manner just suited to tho caso of Itochofort. Tho pen-aud-ink parodist of revolution, who has been for some time prist in exile in Belgium, set out from Airusscis tno other day for h ranee. Un reach, ing tho frontier he was arrested by the police, This was a perfect "Godsend" to Itochofort, who immediately commenced to sing, in an. ticinntiritl lil.'A A Ounvti aw T nfir. Haa nr)in behold, the Emperor comes out on him with a coup at tat in the shape of a telegram direct ing his release and accompanied by a "safe conduct" paper, endorsed by the imperial sign manual, under which he journeyed to Paris, where he has been nominated for the Legislature and serenaded by his friends without any interference on the port of tho police. People have been accustomed to read and speuk a good deal of the Malakoff and Ma genta and Solferino, the assault pn the tower of the ltussian stronghold demonstrating that no impediment is too high or difiicult for the military genius of France when inspired by a Bonaparte, while the attack for it is an attack when applied to such a man on Roche fort proves that no event can be so trifling or iiibiguificant as to escape the careful atten tion of Napoleon the Third in the pursuance of his vust and peculiar system of rule. Dili ing the legal arrangements for the "State trials" and prosecution of the late great Irish agitator and his asssciates in Dublin, some yours since, a very fussy "conspirator" (Mr. Tom Steele) bored the law olttcers of tho TELEGRAPH PHILADELPIIIA, WEDNESDAY, Crown vastly and almost daily with questions relative to his case. The Attorney-Gonoral (Mr. Cusack Smith) bcooming impatient, one day said to him: "Mr. Steele, I cannot reply to your questions, and ir you ask another one I will omit your name from the indictment and yon won't be tried at all, either as conspi rator or rebol." This threat silonood Tom, just as Napoloon now silences Henri. Such mode of action results from the universal communism of groat minds in contempt for professional politicians. . ROEBUCK ON DEPORTMENT. I'rom the X. Y. World. Our good friend Mr. Roebuck has laid man kind under a fresh obligation by furnishing a very good definition of the meaning of the much-abused word "gentloman." "A gontle man," said Mr. Roobuck, addressing himself to the members of the Dewsbury Mechanics' Institute, "means a man of gentlo manners, a man of enlarged knowledgo, a man who does to his neighbor what he wishes his neighbor to do to himself, who is kind and gentle in all his intercourse with the rest of the world, and who sinks himself when he has to consider the benefit of the community." This being Mr. Roebuck's ideal of a gentle man, he wanted to know whv the working. men of England could not be educated or edu cate themselves into being gentlemen. In his opinion it was not the woalth of the upper ciunHtjB luui maae mem nappy and pleasant among themselves it was their "man ners;' and he could not see why the working-man could not teach themselves equally good "manners." "Why should the man," asked he, "who makes 200 or 300 a year by mechanical labor be a rude, coarse. and brutal fellow?" When Mr. .Roebuck goes nomo, ne nnus, saia no, "a cneenui wile, an educated and an elegant woman." and a daughter who inherited all the charms of her mother; and "why." asked he of his auditors, should not your house bo like my house, and your daughter and wife be like mine?" We are sure we do not know why not, save that it is very difficult to cultivate all the cardinal virtues on .200 a year, and that when poverty pinches sorely, and husband, wife, and daugh ter are compelled to toil all day long in a sweltering mill or a stuffy shop, and meet at night so weaned that they have spirit for nothing but swallowing their scanty meal and hastening to seek in slumber thoir necessary rear, mere is ntue opportunity lor the prac tice of "deportment" or elegant conversation concerning Shakespeare and the musical glasses. As many "gentlemen," in Mr. Roe buck's definition of the word, can be found among the working people as among those who are able to take life easier; but it is rather too much to ask of them to make thoir homos like Mr. Roebuck's. DRY QOODS. FINE BROCHE LONG SHAWLS, FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. EYRE & LAHDELL, FOURTH AND ARCH STREETS, HAVE MADE EXPENSIVE SHAWLS A LEADING ARTICLE THIS SEASON. INDIA CAMEL'S HAIR SCARFS. INDIA STILE SHAWLS. VIENNA, LONG AND SQUARE. PARIS QUALITY BROGUE. SCARLET, LONG AND SQUARE. BLACK, LONG AND SQUARE. STYLISH STRIPE SHAWLS. BREAKFAST SnAWLS. CARRIAGE STRIPE SHAWLS. SHOULDER SHAWLS. 1016smw N. B Best Stock of Good Staple DRY GOODS. HOSIERY, ETC. NOW OPEN AT HOFMAM'S HOSIERY STORE, No. 9 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, GENTS' WHITE WOOL SHIRTS, GENTS' WHITE WOOL DRAWERS, GENTS' SCARLET WOOL SHIRTS. GENTS' SCARLET WOOL DRAWERS, GENTS' MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, LADIES' MEKINO VESTS, LADIES' MERINO DRAWERS, LADIES' CASHMERE VESTS. 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SMITH & CO., No. 27 South SEVENTH St.. 9 23 thstu3m PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE AND SALESROOM, FIRST FLOOR ; WARS. ROOMS, UP STAIRS. ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO. PENN STEAM ENGINE AND 1 VBOILKU WORKS.-NKAF1K 4 T.KVV, PRACTICAL AND TH KORKTK1A I Ee553Ci7fe KN(; IN FKRS, MACHINISTS, HOlLKR AiAKhKS, BLACKSMITHS, and KOUNDKH.S, havrn for ninny years boon in successful operation, anil been ex clusively engaged in buildiug and repairing Marin, and Pjver Engines, high and low prossure. Iron Hollers, Water Tanks, Propellers, eto. etc, respect fully offer their ser vices to the rjuhlic as being fully prepared to contract for engints of all sizes. Murine, Hiver, and Stationary; having sets of patterns of different Bizos, are prepared to execute orders with quick dosimtcli. Kvory description of pattoru ruaking mude at the shortest notice. High aud Low pres sure l'ino Tubular and Cylinder Hoilers of toe best Penn sylvania Charcoal Iron, l' orgingxof all sizes and kinds, Iron and lirasa Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning (Screw Cutting, and all other work cuniieoted with the above business. Drawings and specifications for all work don. at th. establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock. room for repairs of boats, where thoy can lio in perfect safety, and are pn. vided with shears, blocks, falls, eto. etc., for raising- heavy or light weights. JACOB O. NFAFIE, JOHN P. r.I'VV. 315 BEACH and PALM Kit Streets. COUTIIWARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND PHILADELPHIA. MERRICK A SONS, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS, manufacture High aud Low Pressure Steam Engines for Land, River, and Marine Service. Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, etc. Castings of all kinds, either Iron or Brass. Iron Frame Roofs for Gas Works, Workshops, and Railroad Stations, eto. Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and most Improved construction. Every description of Plantation Machinery, also. Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Oil Steam Trains, Dolecators, Filters, Pumping En gines, eto. Sole Agents for N. Billenx's Sugar Boiling Appa ratus, NeBinyth'a Patent Steam Hammer, and Aspln. wall Woolsey's Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain. Ing Machines. 4 aoj" QIRARD TUBE WORKS. JOHN H. MURPHY & BROS. Manufacturers f Wrought Iroa Pl, Kt, PHILADELPHIA, PA. WORKS, TWENTY-THIRD and FILBERT Stre.U. OFFIOB. Ul fU. 49 North FIFTH BtrooC. OA RR I ACES. GARDNER & FLEMING, OARHIAaU BUILDERS, No. 214 South FIFTH Stroo BELOW WALNUT. A Large Assortment of New and Second-hand CARItlAOES, iuoLUDtna Rockaways, Phaetons, Jenny Linos, Buggta Pi-pot Wagons, Etc. Eta, 3 S3 tath For Sale at Reduced Prices. INSURANOt. -I 1829."HAKTKR PERPETUAL. Franklin Fire taance . Coupy OF PHILADELPHIA. . Office, Nos, 435 and 437 CHESNUT St; Ass6tsJan.l,'69,$2lB77l372,l3 CAPITAL 1400 BfM-Mt pSYijS,8CKPLUS ""rzSsn riUaMIUMS lfl3(W8'43 UNSETTLED CLAIMS. 9 tQ aaia 1 INCOME FOR 13OT, Losses paifl since 1829GYer $5,500,000 SJOU.UW. rerpmaai and Tsmporarr PoliolM an Liberal Term.. To. 'Company also issue. Polloins on Rents ofiBuUUin. f all kuida,Groand Hants, and Mortcacso. w of ... . PIRKOTOkH. Alfrm.Bak.r, , Alfrad nuOT. fcamnnl Orant, I Thomas Huark. IsaaoLes, I Thomas 8. Kllis, ttor(. 1.1m, ' GnsUvus S. Usnsoo. M-FS?.?. O- "AKK.PresKlent JAS. W.McATXnWie ViPid.ot TH rl'ODOU V M UUillfb AIi-.a cv J N 8 U U E AT HOME. in m Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. No. 821 CIIESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETS, 83,000,000. CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE. MANAGED BY OUR OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. OLIL'LES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at tne Home Office, and at the Agencies throughout the State. 8 184 JAMES TRAQUAIR PRESIDENT kJ . III',?. V. L.rv. .k.r . i. r... r.. t-i i unnu VIOK-PRHSIDENT JOHN W. IIOltNOK A, V. P. and ACTUARY llOKATIO M. JSTKPHKM 8KORJBTABT A & B U R Y " LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 291 BROADWAY, oorner READE Btrrot, New York. CASH OA PITAL ftlfW) futii $lj,WU deposited with the State of New York as siouxit for polioy holders. LF.MUK.L BANtiH. President. GEORGK ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Seoretarv KMOHY MoOLlNTOUK, Actuary. A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medi'cal Kxaiiner. . BKFEBKWCKS BY PERMISSION. Thomas T.Tasker, John M. Maris. . J. B. Lippinoott, Charles Spencer, W illiam Divine, James Long. John A. V riBht, 8. Morris Wain. 'james Hunter. Arthur C Oomn, John B. McC'rosry. K. H. W.rne. In the character of its Directors, economy of manars ment, reasonableness of rates, PAK'l NKK.SHIP PLAN Ob DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female lives, and absolute non-torfoituro of all policies, and no restriction of travel after tb. first year, the ASBURY nre senls . combination of advantages offered by no other company. Policies issuod in every form, and a loan of one. third made when desired. Special advantsRos oifered to clergymen. hoc all further information address JAMES M. LONOAORE, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Ottco. No. m WALNUT Street. Philadelphia? FOR MA N P. HOLLI NSH EAD, Hpeoial Agent. 4 l(j4 g T R I C TLY MUfUAL' Provident Life and Trust Co. OP PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. 11.18. FOURTH STREET. OrprnniZPd to promote LIFE INSURANCE among members of the Society or Friends. Good risks of any class accepted. Policies issued on approved plans, at the lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTIiETH, Actuary, KOYVLAND PARKY. . The advantage, ottered by this Company are un excelled. J OT rpHE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANT A OF PHILADELPHIA, Office b. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Street. FIRF. INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED Cash Capital. .. . ... ........... .. . . ... . : 2tW,OUO-00 Cash Assets, July 1. 1869. 5ii!.'27sa:i. DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr, I : J. Livingston Errlnger, nuiiiiu r rntiur, John M. At wood, Benjamin T. 'iredick, Ueorire H. Stuart, urtiiiOT lm. yinKiiorn, William O. Boultou, Charles Wheeler, Thomas U. Montgomery, iionn ri. Drown, This Com us ny insures onlv first class risks, fnkifcv nn AiaiUVS AUILBUO. specuilly hazardous ribks whatever, such aa faotories, nulls, eto. V. RATCHFORD RTARR. President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vioa-Prosldent. At.exakdku W. Wihiku, Seoretary. 2 tfj fJUCENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF X PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED IXA CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 24 WALNUT Street, opposite the Iixchanga. Thia Gouipany insures from loss or damage bv FIKK. on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture. etc., lor nmitca perioas, and permanently on buildings by deposit of premiums. The Company has been in active operation for more than SIXTY YEARS, during which all losses have been promptly adjusted and paid. RECTORS. John L. Hodge, David Lewis, Renjamin Etting, Thomas H. Powers. A. K. MoHenry Edmund Castillon, Samuel Wilcox, Ixiwi. O. Norris. M. H. JM sunny, John T. Lewis, William S. Grant, Robert W. Learning, D. Clark Wharton, Lawrence Lewis, J'-... duriN it. WUCHERER, President. Samuel Wilcox, becretary. 4 a OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, No. jttj WALNUT Street. . Philadelphia. . . ' Incorporated KM. ,. , 9.llrUr pn)etual. -Capital, $500,000. Assets ?,8IS0,0OO MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRE INSURANCE. OVER tau.O0U.0uO LOSSES PAID BINGE ITS ORGAN. . 1ZATION. PinECTon. Arthur O. Cofiln. Samuel W. Jones, , John A. Brown, Charles 1'ay lor, Ambrose White, Willinm WbI.Ii. S. Morris Wain, John Mason, i ranoii n. uorxi, Edward II. Trotter, Edward S. Clarke T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jesaup, John P. White, Ixuis O. sladeira. Charles W. Us AK1HURO COFFIN. President. ' CHAKLKS PLAIT. VWPresident MATTHTAB Maul, Seoretary. , Cuas. H. Rklvkh, Asst. Secretary. 1 1 F A ME INSURANCE COMPANY. K. Ana rtlKSNIIT RtreeL INCORPORATED liM. CHARTER PERPETUAL, . CAPITAL, taJ,0U0. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. ' x Iusares .gainst Lom or Damag. by Fir. .ithsr bj Par. petual or Temporary PolislMb DIRECTORS: . - ' Charles Riohardson, i rionen rearo. W illiam II. Rhswn, John Eessler, Jr., William M. hoy tort, Henry Iwis, Kutiiun ltlllHS. r ii w.i u ... vim) Charles Stokes, John W. Evermao, , Mordacai buzbv. beorg. A. West, riUART PR KICHARDSON. President WILLIAM 1L RUAWN, Vic Preaident. Wn.LTAMi I. Blanchabp, Seoretary. ltij THE PENNSYLVANIA FIKE INSURANCE COMPANY. 4 , -Incorporated ltsift-Charter PerpeteaL No. 610 WALN CT Street, opposite lndepsmleuoe Bqoaj. This Company, favorably known to the community for over forty years, eoutinuys to insureainst lorn or dans, age by fire on Publio or Private BuilJuiK-s,'either pertna. nentljorfora limited time. Also on l-urnitur btocag of Coeds, and Merchandise generally, on lilwral terms. Their CapiUl. Kwether with Urge Surplus Fund. I. . invested in the most careful manner, which enable th, to oner to th. Insured an undoubted security In U. oaa. 01 1M . DIJUCT Panlel Smith. Jr., , I J"hn D'we". Alexander Benson, 1 hoiuas SmUh. fsaao Harlehunt, "7. .'- ..... ihouia. Robins, ' I A '-' Daniel Handix k, Jr. DANIEL BMITU. J.. -redn; WM. O. OROWKLL, Secretary. piPEUIAL FLUE INSURANCE CO., LONDON. IiHTABUSHEO Tald-np Capital and Accumulated Funds, 8,000,000 IN GOLD, PREY0ST & HEERIKO, Agenti, 8 45 No. 10T & THIRD Street, Philadelphia, CHAS. M. PRBVOST. CHA3. P. nflRRlQ,
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