THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PllILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUAUr 10, 1870. Crating lcQ(aiili rUBH8HKD EVKRT AFTERNOON (8CVUAT8 AXCKl'TKD), AT T1IK EVENING TKLEGRAFII BUILDING, NO. 108 8. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Tf Price in tiireecenl per copy (double sheet); lr eighteen cent per week, payable to the carrier by whom $crved. Tlie autocription price by mail in A. ine lkllar$ per annum, or One lollar and Fifty Cent for two nwntlis, invariably in ad vance for the time ordered. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1870. DEMOCRACY IN INDIANA. Thb resolutions adopted by the Demooracy of Indiana, in State Convention assembled, on Saturday lat, abundantly prove that they still submit to the dictatorship of leaders as unfit to direct the destinies of this country as the Bourbon prince who had "the head of a mule and the heart of a tiger." They have bad ample opportunities during the last ton years to imbibe at leaHt a few of the new Ideas with which the world is teeming, and repeated defeats, if nothing else, should have taught them the necessity of making a dis play of deference to the spirit of the age and the repeated decisions of their fellow-oitizens. ut they have learned nothing and forgot ten nothing, and they propose now to reopen and keep open all old Issues until Democratic ideas prevail, and the triumph of th doctrines of Brick romerov is complete. They have substituted for submission to the Will of the people, which in former times con stituted the fundamental creed of the party, dogged determination to cling to exploded dogmas and obsolete notions, in spite of a succession of solemn and irreversible con demnations by immense majorities and by Congressional, executive, and judicial autho rities. In spite of the anxiety of the nation to enjoy the blessings of peace, thoy propose to fight over again the stormy political bat tles of the last five years; to set aside the reconstruction measures; to create new doubts about the sacrednoss of the publio debt; to abolish protection, and go back to free trade; to insist upon the retention of caste distinctions in the regulation of the elective franchise; and to maintain all the old facilities for fraud in the preoipitate natural ization of newly-arrived emigrants. Such a declaration of principles is an insult to the Intelligence of the voters who are invoked to support it, not only because it demands that they shall stultify themselves by approving in 1870 what they have condemned over and over again, but because it seeks the endorse ment of measures as impracticable as they Are unwise and unjust. Its ruling idea is that the whole country must be turned up side down for the purpose of maintaining the consistency of a beaten party, and convert ing stupid leaders into apparent wiseacres. Ail that is practical in it is mischievous, and ail that is abstract is absurd. It displays no comprehension of the live issues of the day, or sympathy with the active and big trorld which exists outride of the foetid circle of Nasby politicians. It proposes to do nothing which will benefit a single human being, while it reeks with anxiety to open a Paadora's box of evils. It promises no more practical relief from any existing trouble or difficulty than could be extracted from the mummery of an Indian medicine-man, and it proves the unfitness of its authors for power by showing their determination to ignore alike the wishes and the interests of those from whom they are vainly seeking a reversal pf patriotic verdicts. CORPORATION TAXES. The yearly revenue of Pennsylvania in round numbers amounts to five million dollars. Of this sum more than throe millions are raised from the various corporations doing busiuoss in the State, principally by the taxes on their capital stock, income, gross receipts, and ton nage. This system, by which the loud of taxation is taken from the backs of the peo ple and put on the broad shoulders of the monopolists of the Commonwealth, is the re sult of the fixed policy of the Republican party in this State. For instance, the Demo cratio State administrations raised nearly one million and a half per J annum by a direct tax . on real estate. In 160(i this was lifted from the people, and a new tax on the gross ro ceipts of transportation companies imposed. The revenue derived from this source, together with that arising from the gradual increase in the amount realized by the State from other corporation taxes, has more than made np what was remitted to the people by the abolition of the tax on roal estate. These . transportation conipauies have "comjtitiv tional scruples" on the subject of the pay went of the taxes on tonnage and gross ra ceipts, and ever since they were respectively imposed 18C1 and 18(!( appeals have been taken by the companies from tho taxation as fixed by the Auditor-General and State Trea surer, and the litigation still continues. Tha companies are afflicted with a desire. to aid in the fulfilment of a great public policy the advancement of iuter-State commerce; and taking a broad, statesman like view of the matter, they have do- cided that these taxes, in part, burden com meroe between the States, and therefore, in the interest of the publio, they decline pay. ing a large proportion of them. The tonnage tax is from two to 'five cents per ton, and that on gro3 receipts is three-fourths of one per centum. The transportation companies Bay that they can only constitutionally be charged with a tonnage tax on freight both taken up and delivered within Pennsylvania, and that none oan be imposed for freight consigned from or to places outside of the State. They also claim that ho much of their gross receipts as is derived from freight charges on this iutcr-Stale commerce is likewise by force of the Constitution exempt from taxation. There is due the State for ene single year (1808) from only three companios l'cnn sylvauia Central, Philadelphia and Reading, aud Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad nearly two hundred tliousanl dol lars of disputed tonnage and grow recoipU tax.' This will give some idoa of the amount due from all the various companies since the tax was first imposed. Tho ground assumed by them is that a tax imposed on tonnage or on the gross receipts derived therefrom is, in effect, a tax on the consignees; and that where these parties are residents of another State the tax is void as a duty on imports or ex ports, or a tonnage duty, and is a regulation of commeroe between the States, which, it is contended by them, oan only be done by Congress. The Commonwealth's officers answerod these objections by saying, in a test case Commonwealth vs. Philadel phia and Reading Railroad Company that the tax in question is neither a regulation of commerce, nor an impost or duty on imports or exports, nor is it a duty on tonnage, within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States, bnt it is simply a tax on the profits of the company arising from their entire freight business, without discriminating between that both received and delivered within the Stato, and that transported without the State by other companies, after this company had both received and delivered the same within the State; and that, even assuming this act to be, in some measure, a regulation of com merce, yet it is local in its operations, and inasmnch as Congress has not exercised its power in the premises, and has enacted no law with which this aot conflict, the same is constitutional. Further, that the company's road was not a highway of nature, but an artificial one, and tho State might have re fused to allow the same to cross its territory. Having permitted it to be built, its power of taxation over it is unlimited, exoept ao far as controlled by the terms of her grant to the company. The court below decided in favor of the corporations and against the State, on the ground assumed, that the tax was really paid by the consignees of the goods transported. It was considered that if a small tax oould be inipoRed, so might a large one; and if the power was conceded to the State at all, no limit could be put upon its exercise, and the State might then support itself at the ex pense of its neighbors by a tax which would in effect discriminate against non-residents. One of the main objects in forming a Federal Government being to prevent the States legislating to the disadvantage of their neigh bors and harassing oommerce, it was decided that public policy required that the States should be denied a power tho abuse of which would produce this result. In this particular case it was decided that coal mined in Schuylkill county, and thence transported to this city by the Reading Rail road although it was both taken up and de livered within the State was not liable to the tonnage tax, because it was consigned to dealers in New York. The Supreme Court, while paying a merited compliment to the great learning and ability displayed in the opinion delivered in the Court below (Pear son, P. J.), wisoly declined settling a delicate question of public policy by judicial action, and observed that "a cose of simple doubt should be resolved favorably to the State law, leaving the correction of the error, if it be one, to the Federal judiciary." They decided these corporations and their works to be the creatures of the State, and subject to her will Doubtless these cases will finally be disposed of in the Supreme Court ot the United States. They illustrate what might be called the "con. stitntionol complaint" of all great corpora tions and moneyed institutions, that of ob taming their franchises from the Common wealth as an act of grace, a ad then, when become wealthy through the monopoly thus bestowed on them, on the flimsiest pretexts endeavoring to deprive the State of its revenue, which must be collected either from them or from (he people. The idea of a corporation declining to pay a tax because it is against "publio policy" is as dangerous as it is novel, as it puts the company in the light of an agent protecting the consignee in another State. The true Bolution of the question of publio policy as connected with the tonnage tax is this: At present, being small and imposed on all ton nage, and there being no discrimination against our Ohio and New York neighbors, it is in no sense a regulation of oommerce or a tax on imports or exports, but is merely a tax on the companies, regulated by the amount of their business. If, however, the State is ever foolish enough to discriminate in favor of local and against intor-State transportation, and thus show a design to either impede com merce or make our neighbors support our State government, then the proper romody is for Congress to interfere, under its power "to regulate commorce between the States," and prevent such unfair discrimination. It is a very nice point to draw tho lino in a case of this kind between a tax on tonnage which is a fair tax on the business of a company, and one which amounts to an uttempt to ;in terfere with commerce between tha States and to tax New York and Ohio for our benefit, As this is a question of dollars ami cent's, it is impossible for a court of law to fix any arbi trary amount beyond which a State shall not lay a tonnage tax, and obviously the whole question is one of public policy which is en tirely outside the domain of the judiciary Congress, the law-making power, can alono deal with such questions. Last winter, at the tail end of the legislative session, an infamous tax bill passed the lower house at Harris burg, and stuck in the Senate. It only wanted two days of the final ad journmont, and votes were in demand. It is perfectly well kuovn an offer was made by the patrons of tho bill to shift a large amoan of taxation from certain companies and put it on petroleum, etc., to be paid by tho poopl on condition that theso companies should persuade (?) certain of their friend, com monly culled "roosters, to voto for tho bill It failed, but perhaps if there had boon mar time the result would have been different We will keep an eyo on the Legislature this whiter, to see that it does not offsot tho li"k tonnage tax by soma now villainy. TUB ANNEXATION 01" SAN DO MINGO. It is positively assorted that a treaty for the annexation of San Domingo to the United States has recently been negotiated, and that it will probably be sent to the Senate to-day. The stipulated amount of the purchase money is $1,500,000, which is to be used for the liquidation of the debt of the new acqui sition, and our Government is to acquire not only a general title to the territory conveyed, but absolute ownership of all forts, docks, custom-houses, arsenals, and other publio buildings. A much better bargain has boen made in this case than in the purchase of the Danish West Indian possessions, and if we are to "enlarge the area of freedom any where in the Antilles, perhaps the most availa ble spot they contain has been ohoson. The treaty stipulates that our new eol ored fellow-oitizens are not to gain the great Southern blessing of "State Rights' immediately after annexation, but their coun try is to be held as a territory until such time as Congress shall provide for its formal and complete admission into the Union. Its in habitants will thus enjoy a needed opportu nity for obtaining gradual instruction in the American system of government. They have hitherto been too strongly disposed to adopt the Jeff. Davis style of rebelling when the results of elections were not satisfactory, and of seeking to have their own way generally, without regard to the rights of their neigh bors, but after they got some of this nonsense knecked out of their heads they may become very faithful and usoful citizens. Of the utility of their soil, under proper culture, to the Union, there can be no doubt. Its adap tation to the growth of coffee and sugar would alone render it a desirable acquisition, and if peace and order are established within its boundaries, it will, by diminishing American dependence upon foreign nations for these indispensable articles, prove a valuable addi tion to our industrial and commercial re sources. It bkems to be well understood that a strong combination has been formed to make a ravaging raid upon the State Treasury, under the pretense-of obtaining relief for tho rich farmers of the border counties of Pennsyl vania who, five or six years ago, had a few hogs, sheeps, cows, or fence rails captured by the Rebels. A large portion of any money voted for this purpose will inevitably go into the pookets of tho lobbyists or middlemen who act as agents in pressing these claims, if not into the possession of the members who sanction them. If all the losses of the war are to bo counted up and paid for upon the system on which these bills are mode out,, the treasuries of the world could not defray them, and the American people would bo doomed to hopeless and perpetual poverty in a vain effort to satisfy the insatiable leeches that would be fastened upon them. We hope that every legislator will, in mercy to tho body of the people, resist the threatened new extortion. If they have any money to spare lot them de vote it to the reduction of the State debt, to the increase of the appropriation to common schools, or distribute it among the oounties which are overtaxed for the bounty funds assumed by many other Commonwealths. Thk Spanish ministerial crisis has termi nated by Rivero, President of the Cortes, ac cepting the Ministry of the Interior, Admiral Topete that of Marine, and Sagosta that of State. General Prim, who was the brains of the revolution, is out of office, and the princi pal interest of the Spanish situation is now involved in his next move. It is not likely that he will retire to the background at this time, and it would not be a matter for sur prise to hear that a counter revolution had been started by him. The attempts hitherto made by the republicans against the pro visional government have principally failed through want of organization and an efficient leader, and if Prim should declare for a republic he would probably have but little difficulty in organizing the various disaffec tants ana overturning tne regency, luat a republic could be maintained for any length of time, or carried on with any success, we do not believe now any more than we did a year ago, and the prospects that Spain will become a second Mexico are more apparent with eaoh succeeding move on the political chess-board. Tub WiNNiFEQXits are carrying on their revolution in a style that is a little remarka ble and that presages well for their success. They are so far away from Canada that thoy are relieved from any serious fears of an in vasion, for the present at least, so they have determined to prosecute hostilities in an en lightened manner by establishing a news paper. For this purpose they have extorted from the Hudson Lay Company a loan of X850, by abstracting a safe containing that amount. Of this sum A'.WO was used in purchasing a press and printing materials, and a paper devoted to the interests of the insurgents, and to be called the Independent,-- M tmortly be issued This proceeding gives us reason to expect much of the performances of the Winnipegers in the future; and with a fair chance to put their cause in a proper light before the world, there is good reason to believe that, through the medium of tho Independent, thoy will ulti mately gain their independonee. The son of President Lopez of Paraguay is now in Washington, for the ostensible purpose of inducing our Government to take some action in his father's favor, or at least to renew diplomatic intercourse with him. Lopez junior arrived just a little too late, as he was preceded by the information, from np parently reliable sources, that his father had been finally defeated, and had been forced to fly before the allies without even a shadow of an army to represent his caiuo any longer in the field. Indeed, it is not at all improbable that the son came to the United States to avoid tho certain ruin that ho saw impending, and with but little expectation that the United States would do more than afford him i an asylum. It is impossible not to admire the desperate and horoio resistance of the elder Lopez and his deveted adherents, bnt the despotism that ruled Paraguay was of a most degrading kind, and it is for the bonefit of civilization that it is annihilated. THE A'EWS HOYS' HOME. A meeting will be held this evening at Concert II ill ior the purpose of putting before the public the claims of tho NewHboya' Home. Through the mo alum or such an Institution as this an Immense amount of good can bo done In behalf of a class of children who are particularly deserving. The news boys are generally Intelligent and Industrious, but their mode of life puts them In tho way of many temptations, and a large majority of them know nothing of the comforts and restraints of homo, but are turned out upon the streets at a time of life when they are particularly Impressionable to good or evil Influences. A Newsboys' Home that will pro vide them with substantial food and comfortable lodgings, and encourage them In habits of economy, to soy nothing of the moral and religious Influences that will be thrown around them, cannot but havo a beneficial effect In training them np to be useful and honorablo men, and in re claiming them from the evil effects of the wUd life of the streets. Mr. Charles Glbnona will this evon ing give a history of the efforts that have been made in behalf of the newsboys of this city, and will show what yot remains to be done, Mr. Gibbons will be followed by Mr. Traey, of tho Now York Lodging House for Newsboys, and Mr. Dupuy, of the New York Children's Aid Society, who will describe the workings of their respective Institutions and demon strate their importance to society. Ilev. rhllllps nrooKg, who, during his residence in this city, labored with much success In this particular Held, will deliver an address, and the meeting will un doubtedij be one of unusual Interest. There will be nt charge for admission and no colleetlon, as it Is desired merely, on this oecaston, to impress our philanthropic citizens with an idea ot the Import ance of the Nownboys' Home and tho extent of the beneflts that, are likely to result to society from It. We sincerely hope that there will be a largo attend ance, srd that the meeting will result in some prac tical gooa to the newsboys. SPECIAL NOTIOES. Tor additional Speriil Notirta iet the I,ui.t nn. S&T A T COST AND LESS TnAN COST. FINEST RKADY-MADK CLOTHING AT COST AND LESS THAN COST. I'I'HK BALANC1? OK OUR WINTKR STOCK AT COST AND LESS THAN COST. ALL OUR BOYS' O LOTH ING AND FURNISHING OOODS AT COST AND LESS THAN COST. KLK.UANT riKCK GOODS IN THB CUSTOM DK PARTMKNT, AT CST AND LESS THAN COST. COATS, COATS PANTS, PANTS VK8T8, YK8T8- JOHN WANAMAKER'S t'HEBNFT STltKKT OLOT1IIHO EHTAHI.ISHMHiT. NOB. gig AND 820 OHK0NUT BTUKET, PHitanpxrHiA. J6cT Y O UNO MjENNEROHOR UKAPil) HAL MAStjUK. 11 A L MASUUK, Xi AT. 1U lUlIlTIT AMI Hi BTCAN AOADKMY 6f MUSIO. THURSDAY KVKNING, l&r u a . r zi, isfv. TIUKKT8, ADMITTING A UKNTLKMAN AND ONK LADY. HVK DOLLARS KXTRA LADIK8" 'A'iOKKTS, KAUH ONK DOLLAR. iOK BALK PRINCIPAL Mt?HIO BTORF8, NEWS STANDH. CONTINKNTAL HOTEL, I M 10 14168124 87 TBk'maNAOERS. ngy PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR THKDKAF AND DUMB. The A nnual Meeting of the Oentributors to tbe Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb will be bold at the Institution, owner of PINK and BKOAD Streets, ou WKONKSDAY, the Mh inst., at 4 o'clock P.M. Tbe Annual Report of the Direotors will be submitted, and an eleotioa will bo held for officers to ssrve for the en.uingyear. JAMES J. BARCLAY, 1 1 fwni&tj Hoorotary. g&T NOT EASILY FORGOTTEN. WHEN we hnv a crood ntialitv of fnmitv nnul mm hnt likelj to forget tbe place where it waa purchaeod. Tbia ia our case exactly. Having laid iu our auppliea at the depot oi o. j. iiAnuuuK, . r. corner or mam and MA8TKR Ktroeta, and finding by ita clear burning that it ia of the bent quality, carefully prepared, and free from dust, while our billa are very re&nonnble, we cannot be induced to go anywhere except to "HAN COOK'S." 16 wsmfiw r OFFICE OF THE SECOND AND TniUD BTRKKTH PAK8KNGKR RAILWAY COMPANY, Mo. 2463 t RANKKOKD Road. Philadelphia, January 5, 1870. The Board of Direotora have this day declared a divi dend of TURKU PKK CKNT. on the capital iitook, payable on and after the 10th inat., clear of tax, to which date the transfer booka will be closed. 1 !)t K. MITC1IKLL CORNKLL, Treasurer. rfiy- OFFICEOFTIIE SCTIOMACKEU PUNO- FORTH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, No. 11(13 Ulll'.B.HUl BlHl'.Hl. Philadelphia, .Tan. 7. 1870. The Hoard of Director have this day deolared a d ivl (lend of 'lUUCK PKK CKNT. on tbe capital Ht.m;k, clear ol taxes, payable on auuiuna. 11. w. liKAI, 1 8 (It Treasurer. jggy- THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Contributors to the Hnuxe of Refuge will be hold on WKlJJS'KKDAY, the I'Jtu day of January, at 4 o'oluck I. M.. at No. li N. TK.V1H Htreet. above Arch. The annual report of tbe Hoard of Managers will be fmbmilted, and an election win ne neid tor Oinooraaud Managers to serve for the enxtimg year. JOUN llli)lLK, Secretary. Pbllada., Jan. 7.1H7U. 1 7 4t THE BANK OF NORTH AMERICA. Philadelphia, January . 1870. The Directors have tbie day-deolared a dividend of TKN PKK CKNT. tor the lHt six monllm, free from United Blat: aud State tax, payable oa and alter the uih iotlant. 146t JOHN H. WATT, Cashier. Sy- NATIONAL BANK OF THE RE- PUBLIC, i Philadelphia. Deo. 8'). m. ' The annual tlwtlon for Direotora of this Bank will be bold nt tbe Banking Uou'-e on TUK8DA Y, January 11, ino, nutweeu meuoursoi a. m. anu a r. m. IJSOlct J. P. MUMKOKD, Cashier, Kj- FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' NA- TIONAL BANK. PHrLADKLPHTA. Deo. 10. 1W, The Annual Flection for Direotora of this Bank will he beld at ibe Banking House on W KDNKSDA Y, the 13th day of January next, between the hour ot Uo'olockA. M. and a o'clock i. M. LilUJlJ W. RU8HTON. Jn., Cashier. ner corn exchange national bank vi... ............ r. I l, I.,..., The Annual Klection for thirteen Dimotors of this Bauk win oe neiu ui ine linnHiiiK uouae ou i or.noai, uanu ury 11, 1;0, between the hours of 1U o'olook A. M. and g O dock 1 . N. U. i. UUUI'. l KY, 13 11 fctuibint Coohier, SOUTIIWARK NATIONAL BANK, Philadelphia. December 11. IHdO. Tho Annnal Kleetion for Direotora will be hold at the Bunking House, ou TUKHDAY, January 11, 1H70, between . the Hours or 111 o clock A. M. auu in o ciock nv. U lit uiwilSt 1'. LAMB, Cashier. Bk2T THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK w OF PENNSYLVANIA. I'illLADKI.PHIA. Deo. It. I8t. The Annual Kleetion for Directors of llim Bank will be beld at the Bunking llouxe on WKDNKSDA Y, the l'Jth i1h of January, ltt.0, between the hours, of 11 A. M. and i in. u. v. a,.'" n, UlUmthft. . Ouauinr. . , t ,v . '. SPECIAL NOTICES. QfiiT OFFICE INSURANCE (X)MPANT OF WOMTU AMKRICA, Ne. K8 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. The Hoard of Directors have this day declared a aemi. annual dividend of TP N PKK (J KMT., ont of the nrntit ot the Company for the last six months, payable to Uie stockholders or thoir legal representative, on demand, free of all tax. MATTUIA8 MARIS. 1 10 It Heoretary. RQT- NOTICE. A SPECIAL MEETING OF TPK BtnckholoVrs of THK MAMMOTH VWIN COAL AND IKON CO. will be hold nn TIIUHHDAY.ftHh January, at 13 o'clock, noon, at the OtHce of the Company, No. 4H0 LIBRARY titreet, for tbe ptirpoee of devising means for developing and Improving the Company's pro perty. By order of the Proniilent. January 10. If JOHN HKITZING KR, Secretary. Itgj- THE PARHAM NEW FAMILY 8EW- Ing Machine ia a llrt cln lwk Hlltch Machine, designed forever description of family sewing: elegant In style and finish; perfectly simple In construction, makes perfect work on every description of material. Call and einmlne. or send lor descriptive pamphlet. Agente wanted In every otty and town. Office and Hales room. No. 7uCHKt.NUT Htreet. 14 tit jjigT I M P O R T A NT NOTICE. wTiT. shortly open a branch of tbe NKW YORK MfJ. iwum ur AflAiumi. l st OLOTMINO. SWEEPING OUT! CLEAN SWEEP! CLOSE OUT CHEAP! ritlCKU ALL DOWN! WEATHER'S COLD! MUST IJE SOLD! CHEAPEST GOODS IN TOWN! BIOTR4.DE! WHO'S AFRAID? COME! DON'T HE RASH! ALL PRIME! NOW'S YOUR TIME! BRING ALONG YOUR CASH! We are making a Clean sweep of our Winter Ftockt CI oan sweep of our Winter Stock! I Clean awoep'of our Winter Stock!!! Clean sweep of our Winter Stock! ! And we offer at Prices which are AUolutely unapproachable! All Prices Downl Down!! Down!!! All prioie Downl Down!! Down!!! , A f THB OIIEAT ttHOWN HALL or ROC KH ILL & WILSON, 603 and 605 CHESNTJT Street, PUILADKLPHIA. BARGAINS CLOTHING. I N GOOD BUSINESS SUITS 14, were $19 " " " 16 ?n " " " 13 " 112 OVERCOATS .lt V 16 EVANS & LEACH, No. 623 MARKET STREET, I! 80 Smrp PHILADELPHIA. COPARTNERSHIPS. AJOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT A 1 Limited Partnership baa been formed by the under signed, pursuant to the laws of the State of New York; tbat the name and flrra undor which suoh partnership is to be eondncted U WILBUR, 8 THWART A CO.; that the general nature of the business Intended to be trans acted by said partnership ia the buying and selling ef Dry Goods on commission and otherwise, and snob articles as are usually dealt in by dealers in auuh wares and goods ; that the nanioe of all the general and apseial partners in terested in the said business are LIONKL A. WILBUR, WILLIAM S. STEWART, and WILLIAM P. BROCK; that the said LIONKL A. WILBUR is a General Partner, and his plaoe of residence is at Flatbusb, county of Kings and State of New York, and that the said WILLIAM 8. 8TKWART is also a General Partner, and bin place of residence ia in the city and county of New York; that the said WILLIAM P. BROCK is a Hpeolal Partner, and his plaoe of residence ia In Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania ; tbat the amount of capital con tributed by the said Special Partner is the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars, and that the period at which said part nership is to commence is the third duy of January, 1870, and the period at which it will terminate is the nrat day of January, ltd. , Dated New Yoik, January 8, 185). LIONKL A. WILBUR, W. H. HTKWAKT, WAI. P. BROOK. Witness, Wh. IIfniiT Anthom. N EW YORK, JANUARV 8, W0. WE have taken the Store No. S3 W1I1TK Street, near Church street. It a WILBUR, 8TKWART 4 CO. PATENTS. p A T E N Or KICHS FOR PROOURINU 8. 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I tft4p JOHN BLACK, BLAOK8MITH, No. VI KKTTKR Lane, Fast of Third street, above Arch street, Returns his thanks for his former patronage, and desires a ooniinuanoe of the aame, lilAt, trMBRELLA8 CHEAPEST IN THE CITT DIXON'S, No. HI 8, KIUUTU UUwek 10 Umthi THE FINE ARTS. EARLES' GALLERIES, No. 816 CBESNUT STREET, Now on eihibltlon, the following notable Plot urea: . "AUIImpcc oi'l'o-Kemlte Valley," T. Bill. "l.oter Cntclilna,,' De Maaa. "The Land oriletilali," Samuel T. Gerry 'C'oniliiff Tl.ro' tlie Wood," 8. Anderso. 'The AnxiouM Mollier," Oext J ate "Mld-Oceun," W. T. RicfcaNU. The Toilet," Meyer ron Breaaea. And othere, the works of llogtiot. Yea Hcheadet. Oa Jongbe, Carl Uubner, Casiloar, Moran, Bliattncfc. Will cox, eto. etc. I a wfmJt C. F- HA6ELTIN E'3 No. 1125 CHESNTJT STREET. Til 14 AUTOTYPIM AMD LANDSCAPES II lllrp) MAVK ARRIVED. COAL. VKHOIYM. R. BUI, BKWHOtf HKWU!. l'KKtiTAii u. & CO., lrAI.KHS Itf Lehigh and Schuylkill Coil, DKPOT: No. 1326 North NINTH Street. 1 7' West Side, below Master. Branch Office, No. 407 RICHMOND Street. W. H- T A c G A R T, COAL DEALER. GOAL OV THR BEST QUALITY, PREPARED KK PRKS8LY FOR FAMILY UBR. 1208, 1210 and 1212 WASHINGTON AV., 13 1 Sm Between Twelfth and Thirteen tetspote. c O A I . ! COAL! CUiLI The place to buy is at rrllTCIlKMAS COAL DEPOT. Corner of NINTH and GIRARD Avenue. BKST QUALTJY WHITS ASH. Kg and Stove $7 per torn. Ijuae Nut " Ksule Vein Nut I'W " Delivered to any part of the city. It 12 tat pUBE LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKUJ FAMILY, FACTORY, AND BIT UMINOUS OOAXa). 1-arne stock always on band. Southeast corner THIRTKKNTH and WILLOWStreeU, 1J IS 4m W. W. A G. P, HA INKS. KIJ I NKlt .V NTIIG , No. 141S N. FKiHTH 8TRKKT. ARK fciKLLINO COAL LOWKR THAN ANY YARD IN TUB CITY. iOH CASH. liSlltm GKEAT REDUCTION IN COAU Splendid Stove iiuii pot iu. ye WII.r.IaM iikiwrv 151m 8. W. cor- NINTH ana GIKARU Avenue. INSURANO&. rpiIE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. In conformity with an act of Assembly of April f, 1843, this Company publish the following list of their Assets: Mortaaces, being all First Mortgagee ia the city of Philadelphia 9 401,67 Dt Bills Receivable 1,75'9 Philadelphia City Sixes D7,l3S'4t Philadelphia City Fivee 4.(M'7t Pennsylvania 8tate Loan IS.OMtt , ritlsourg Sevens. U,W9tt Pittsburg Sixes ! (.SSSte Cincinnati Sixes U,NtN Schuylkill Navigation Company I .oan U,M4'41 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Loan. .. 4,tT Chesapeake and Delaware danal Company Loan l,C0tn Delaware Division Canal Loan lT.tUitW United States Loan, six per cent., I8H1 SS.OSUtM United States Loan, live-twenties, 1367 K,0OV Pennsylvania Railroad Loan IS,3 S Camden and Aiubey Oomp-ny Loan U.4MM Philadelphia and Krie Railroad Loan 84,;e North Pennsylvania Railroad Loan 37,wa Harriaburg, Portsmouth, etc., Railroad Loan IS.5NM Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Ian MXitl'M KImira and Williamsport Railroad Loan SJ.Ki'j Puiladelphia.Wilmlngton and Baltimore Rail road Company Stock, 6U0 shares Sl.OTISA Philadelphia Bank, 3S1 shares 24,!ll aij Western Bank, 220 shares tt.OOOlW Girard Bask, 126 shares Cdfltt'to Franklin Fire Insuranoe Company, SO sharea.. . l,Wr7'7I Manayunk (ias Company, 20 sharee KIS'M Real Eatate M.Otu- Cash 4,13m 1.0J4.29'U 1 7 St t WILLIAM O. OROWKLL, Secretary. SHIPPER'S CUIDE. 187G. IHrOKTANTTO SIUPPK1W. Al.Ii ISA Hi l 'UHIUIJT tlXTHV. BKTWKKN Philadeplhia and the West, VU Balti more and Ohio Route, Shippers are respectfully notified that arrangement have been perfected between tha Philadelphia, Wilming ton and Baltimore and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads by which freight to aud from the West, Nortbwost and Sooth, west will be transported, ALL R ML. No change of ears between Philadelphia and Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, or St. Louis. Special attention will be given to the prompt and rapid transportation of first and second olaas goods. Bates furnished and Through Bills Lading given at tka Office, ' Wo. 11 South lTl'TIl Street. Freight received daily until 8 o'clock P. M., at tbe Delist of tbe Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, Cor. Waihington At. and Swanson St, JOHN 8. WILSON, Gen. Th. Frt. Agv. P. W. A B. R. R. Oe. JAMKS C. WILSON, Agent Baltimore and Ohio B II. Co. N. B.- On and afer MONDAY, Jauuary I J, tbe rates to all Mints via Baltimore and Ohio route will be the save via Canal to Bultimore as by tbe Rail line. 1 3 !inrp NEW HOTEL TO LET, FURNISHED, 1502, 1504, and 1506 CHES8IUT St., H 8T iti iir. A FIRM' CLASS HOCSK AND LOOATIOM ; Kighty rooms arranged en suite, with Water Cloaets and BalU, Watliat.nd, Fire-grates snd Mantels to each room. Halls. Billiard, Bar, Offlco, aud parlor, heated w.tti Uta. Apply to JOHN CHI I Ml, HiilMi', HjtilJp N. 17'Jl UlUiLVU 1' ott-M'.
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