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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1870.
TI1K GIFT BUSINESS PROSCRIBED
BY CONGRESS.
Tun National House of Representatives yes
terday passed a bill "providing that no officer
or clerk in the employment of tho United
States bhall at any time solicit contributions
of other officials or employes in the Govern
ment service, for a gift or present to those in
a superior official position; that no official or
clorical superior shall receive the contribution
of those in Government employment receiving
a less salary than himsolf, and that no officer
shall make any donation as a gift or present
to any official superior." This bill is aimed
at one of the standing nuisances of the day,
and we hope it will meet the approval of the
Senate. Votive offerings to the vanity or
renality of loading offisials may bo very ac
ceptable to the recipients, but they at
once impose an onerous tax upon
their underpaid assistants and tend to the
demoralization of the publio service. Evory
intrigner who manages to crawl into a com
fortable position is beginning to expect a
gold-beaded cane, a fine watoh, or a splendi d
bilver servioe from his subordinates. Aspi
rants who are anxious to win favor from their
superiors in office are always ready to start
subscriptions and to levy black mail from
parties who can illy afford to part with the
required portion of their scanty inoomes.
And, meanwhile, the head of any im
portant office, bureau, or department
not unfrequently fails to insist upon a
strict discharge of duty by his subordinates
through a fear that he would thereby
diminish his chances of obtaining, at the end
of bis term, the usual testimonial of respeot,
etc, done tip in silver or gold. It would be
well if the example set by Congress were fol
lowed by States, cities, and corporations, for
their employes are also frequently victimized
in the manner which has just been con
demned, and their interests prejudiced in the
mode we have described. "The gift enterprise
business has been carried to a ludicrous and
dangerous excess, and it should be stopped in
every quarter.
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
The Emperor, more than any man in France,
has cause to feel indignant at the rash act
committed,by his oousin, Prince Pierre Bona
parte. Just as he was getting his new liberal
polioy into good working order, and satisfy
ing all but the irreoonoilables with the con
cessions he has made, tho shooting of a rod
republican by a member of the Imperial
family throws everything into confusion, and
creates an excitement among the most dan
gerous classes that promises to precipitate
N the very collision between tho Government
and the people that the Emperor has been so
skilfully endeavoring to avoid. The commo
tion in Paris continues without abatement,
and the immense concourse of workingmen
who attended the funeral of Noir shows
that they considered his cause to be
theirs, and since the funeral Paris has been
disturbed by these outrages against publio
order and incidental conflicts that presage a
Coming outbreak. The Government has con
centrated a force of over one hundred thou
sand soldiers in Paris for the purpose of
overawing the populace, and it is evident
if any hostile demonstration should be
made by the Republicans that a slaughter
uoh as has not been seen sinoe the days oi'
t he Reign of Terror will make one more bl-l
npon French civilization. By the cable des
patch published this morning, a rumor is
given to the effect that the Government will
withdraw its demand for the arraignment of
Bochefort by tho Corps Legialatif, and will
propose a law providing that all political
crimes and offenders be tried by jury.
This is certainly an indication of wisdom
on the part either of the Emperor or
his advisers, for the arraignment of Roche
fort at this time would make a martyr of him,
and only serve to increase the excitement. It
is impossible not to shudder at the idea of
another French revolution; and contemptible
as are somo of tho features of modern Cusar
ism, all sincere lovers of liberty will wish to
see tho Empire tide over the present crisis
without bloodshed. The Empire is bad
enough, certainly, and the Emperor has
proved himsolf, by his whole career, to bo an
unscrupulous charlatan, but the Empire, with
Napoleon III at its head, is preferable at this
time to a republic managed by such dema
gogues as llochefort.
A resolution was referred yesterday by
the Harrisburg House of Representatives to
the Committee on Vice and Immorality, di
recting them to inquire whether, daring the
election of State Treasurer, efforts had been
made to "influence members by thrtatt of in.
etant death to vote for any particular candi
date." This resolution implies that a new
method of influencing the legislative mind
has been invented. Napoleon held that fear
and interest ruled the world, and it seema
that, while our representatives are plied by
seductive promises on the one hand, a rod of
terror is to be held over thorn on the other.
If this thing continues, the capital must
inevitably be removed to Philadelphia to se
cure free deliberations.
The Tknnekhf.k
-.,u v A m aW Wtl V JL. j
tion gives promise of not being so very bad '
after alL A letter from a member of the '
Convention of 18G5, in which the National
Government was referred to in disrespectful
terms, was refused a reading yesterday,
and the convention fnrthor showed its temper
by resolving not to receive either petitions or
communications in which any branch of the
Federal or State Government is spokoa of
inn similar strain. It is possible that the
State has not been thoroughly Johnsonizsd
by the success of the Seater ticket.
THE MAYOR'S YJ1TO.
Thk Mayor yesterday returned to Common
Council with his veto the bill making appro
priations for the Fire Department for the
preient year, giving a number of excellent
reasons for withholding hU assent to it. The
Mayor admits that thore are great deficiencies
in the present system of extinguishing fires,
and, without going into the consideration of
the expediency or proprioty of a Taid Depart
ment, he contends that by withholding tho
acoustomod appropriations from certain hone
companies Councils have not taken tho proper
method for remedying the existing evils. The
Mayor's reasoning on this point is certainly
based upon substantial facts, and it is ontitlod
to the candid consideration of Counoils. Ho
states that by the Act of Consolidation the
city is given fall authority over the Fire De
partment, and that if the firemen indulge in
riotous and disorderly conduct the city gov
ernment has ample power to punish them by
suspension from duty or disband merit, and
it is to a mistaken leniency on this point that
the Mayor attributes most of tho evils
of the present system. He is also of
the opinion that tho present method
of electing the engineers who, though elected
by the firomon, are the city's officers, and
paid by the city is a source of difficulty, and
that a change in this mutter would pro
bably be beneficial to the department; and
he recommends that if the ordinances now in
force are not sufficient to enable the imme
diate suspension or dismissal from sorvioo of
any company attachod to the department, or
its officers, new authority may be obtained by
additional legislation.
The Mayor conours with Councils in the
belief vthat the department is unnecessarily
large, and that the city's expenditures for the
present year should not exceed the gross sum
appropriated, but ho thinks that the hoss
companies have their undoubted usefulness,
and even if they wero usoloss that tho with
holding of tho appropriations is not tho proper
way to abolish them. Tho Mayor says truly
that the withholding an appropriation does
not necessarily lead to the disbandmeat of
the companies omitted, and probably will not
have such an effect, ypt it will have a bad
effect on them if left in tho service, and it
would be far better to put them out of sorvioo
directly than to leave them as inferior to other
companies, without the continuanco and
recognition which the annual appropriation
gavo them.
The withholding of tho appropriation from
the hose companies was a half-way measure,
and like all half-way measures it satisfied
nobody. That there are evils to be cor
rected in the Fire Department every one
knows, and Counoils will merit the thanks of
all classes of our citizens if they will make a
genuine effort to bring about the needed re
forms. ROBBING THE BEAD.
A curious story has come to us by the cable
to the effect that the Crown had seized some
land near Stockwell whioh belonged to
George Peabody, on the plea that Mr. Pea
body, never having been naturalized as a
subject of Great Britain, was unable to hold
land in the kingdom. The Court of Probato,
we are told, sustains the Crown.
We can hardly give credence to this story.
It is a stroke of sharp practice beyond the
capacity of that Yankoe shrewdness of which
wo have heard so much even to oonoeive.
That we Americans are a jostling, rudo, even
greedy type of mankind, wo are willing to
admit. We thrust each other out from the
best places, and brag and strut no little when
we have made ourselves sure of them. But
it is not in Yankee nature to rob the pockets
of a dead man, andhat man our friend.
John Bull has so long taken delight in
giving us his own portrait, with all its bluff,
surly honesty, that we cannot disabuse our
minds of the pleasant illusion we cannot
recognize him in this pilferer from the doad.
Should the rumor be true, however, it
places the long course of coddling and feting
adopted by the English towards Mr. Peabody
while living in a most ludiorous light. The
funeral baked meats will not sjrvo to coldly
fui nihil forth this banquet of spoliation, for
the funeral, be it remembered, is not yet
over. The man is still unbnried for whom
England appears officially as chief mourner,
hilo she is gobbling up this last remnant of
his property. It is the old story of Captain
Murderer over again, who served up his be
loved in tho daintiest pie ; killed, cooked
her, put her in, and when he had well spioed
her, picked her bones.
Should tho Btory prove true, tho Yankee
shrewdness of Mr. Peabody's heirs may per
haps find ground of ' retaliation in the f uct
that if he were incompetent to hold land in
England, the real estate given by him to the
city of London never was his to bestow,
though we hope no such course will be
adopted by then. It is herself alone whoiii
England will degrade aud injure in the pitia
ble xpectacle should
"Hit bullirr firlsre his Inst penny to-day
Whose pull will lie lii'Nl ty her uobies to-morrow."
Tbk rkcent raid of a detachmont of the nth
Cavalry against illicit distilleries in Virginia,
which reunited in the discovery of forty-nine
illicit distilleries, tho destruction of twenty
two stills, and the arrest of twenty-two sys
tematic violators of the Internal Revenue
laws, indicates that rebellion has been re
duced to a comparatively mild form in tho
proud Old Dominion. Ia other portions of
the chivalrous South antagonism to tho
Union ia now seeking vent, chiefly, ia at
tempts to cheat the Government out of the
tax on spirit or tobacco. We have not heard
that the modern crime is defended on any
other constitutional principle than -the in
herent love of the natives for their favorite
stiuiKlants; but it is quit as dufeusible as the
doctrines gravely advocated by the father of
seoossion, Calhoun, when he commenoed his
crusade, forty years ago, against the national
authority, by affirming the right of the States
to nullify the laws enacted by Congross, and
to prevent the collection of impost duties.
, LIGHT 'AHEAD.
A recent number of a weekly "sonsation
story" paper declined a tale beoause it is too
bloody, and assures the anthor that an ave
rage of half a doon viotims killed to the page
is too much, even if the appropriate number
of "yells" could be omitted.
Is this the first glimmering hope that a now
era of literature is approaching? Have we
indeed touched bottom has the very deepest
deep been reached?
In the genuine popular story of the present
day, effect, and not means, seems to be the
principle of construction. The imagination
of Monk Lewis, or even that of Mrs. Rad
cliffe, would be utterly incapable of oonooct
ing such a hodgo-podge of adventure, for even
thoir utmost extravagancies were governed
by at least a semblance of lagio, and they
never reached that speoies of plot into which
everything and anything can be crammod, be
cause the plot itself could never by any pos
sibility have been realized in faot.
Playwrights and talowrights should know
from experience that the feelings are not
really affected by mere events or spectacles.
It is the portrayal of feeling alone that excites
the responsive chord: the cry of a brokon
heart brings the tear, genuine fun produces
tho gonial laugh, whilo an audience well
trained to horrors forgots the man tied on
the railroad track, and criticizes the perfec
tion of tho engine, in the noble confidence
that the victim will be saved either by an old
man, a youHg girl, or a lunatic Wo are all
certain that the man that was hung wasn't,
and that the drowned girl will appoar in a
pretty new frock in the last act; and it is
therefore impossible to bo as touched or
terrified as we ought to be.
There is an additional reason for hope in
the fact that all tho stock incidents se9m to
be pretty well exhausted, and we have re
cently been served only with old viands
cooked up again, with xew spices to suit
modern palates. Victor Hugo, tho very
master of tho craft, mRy, however, have given
a new impetus to tho worn-out school by pro
ducing a new monstrosity in his recent out
rageous invention; but even slashed faces
cannot Inst long, and wo may still hope that
art will rotura to its true channels.
BILL TOPItKVKNT TUN SALE OF
DANGEROUS OILS IN. PHILADEL
PHIA. A hill has been reported by the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate, providing an im
proved method for tho prevention of the
monufacturo and sale of dangerous illuminat
ing oils in Philadelphia. It imposes a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars, and im
prisonment not exceeding five months, or
both, as well as liability for damages caused
by explosions, upon all persons, within tho
limits of this city, who "shall mix for sale
naphtha and illuminating oils, or shall soli or
offer for sal9, except for purposes of remantt
facture, illuminating oils made from coal or
petroleum, which shall evaporate a gas under
one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, or ignite at
a temperature of loss than one hundred and
ton degrees Fahrenheit." Several other sec
tions provide for the storage of crude petro
leum, for the detection of those who continue
to endanger human life for the purpose of
increasing uulawful gains, and for tho pun
ishment of fraudulent and careless inspectors.
The necessity of some legislation of tho
character desoribed has been made painfully
apparent by the large number of aooidents
and doaths caused by dangerous oils, and by
the habitual neglect of the measures neces
sary to seoure safety by the dealers in oils,
which was demonstrated by the investiga
tions made under the direction of Tag Even
ino Tkleorapr some months ago. We there
fore trust that the new bill will not meet with
the usual fate of useful moasures in the
Legislature. If it is imperfect in any of its
details, they can easily be amended; but the
general purposes it contemplates are too im
portant to be longer neglectod, unless the
legislators are willing to see hundreds of our
citizens maimed or murderod and millions of
dollars' worth of property destroyed by their
inattention to a grave duty.
CABINET MAKING.
Some patriotio heads of bureaus at Wash
ington, who are anxious to serve the
country to the utmost of their ability, have
devised the scheme of elevating their
bureaus into independent departments,
whereby they hope to enlarge thoir sphores
of usefulness by being translated into the
Cabinet. Some time since, it is understood,
the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
agreed to report a bill constituting the Indian
Bureau a separate department, and this cir
cumstance appears to have enoouraged greatly
the patriotio and ambitious bureau ohiefs in
question. One of the projeots entertained is
the formation of a Department of Home
Affairs out of the Indian Bureau of the Into
rior Department and the Statistical Bureau
of the Treasury Department; another pro
poses to constitute a new department out of
the General Land Office and Census Bureau,
while several other projects of similar char,
acter are discussed, and the scheme for elo
vating the Internal Rovonue Bureau into an
independent department has not yet been
abandonod. In favor of the last-mentioned
change there are certainly many arguments
of great weight; aud, even if it should be
deemed unwise to make the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue independont of the Seore.
tary of the Treasury, the best interests of
the country would certainly be promoted by
admitting him to a seat in the Cabiuet. None
of the other projeots, however, are deserving
of serious consideration except as schemes for
increasing the expenses of the Governmental
machinery. But something should oertainly
be done with tho Indian Bureau, if there H
to be any radical and permanent change in our
management of the Indian business. The
transfer of the bureau back to the War De
partment, to j-hioh it was originally attached,
would tend more than any other aotioa as
yet suggested to bring about this result, and
make peace on the frontiers possiblo and
actual.
A characteristic workingmen's movoment
has been inaugurated in England. London
proposes to hold next yoar an internatioahl
Wnrliman'a vLll.!i ... .. .
uimmuon, ana at tne meeting at
whioh the scheme was devised Trime Minis
ter Gladstone presided, assisted by a number
of vice-presidents, among whom were such
well-known laboring men as the Dukes of
Argyle and Devonshire, Lords Clarendon,
Cowper, Amberly, and Granville, and Messrs.
John Bright, Tom Taylor, and Tom. nughes.
These hard-fisted sons of toil have entered
into the project with all the customary
energy which characterizes the buncombe
labor movements of the present day, and the
affair will doubtless prove a great bucooss.
C'OMn.iMRNTARY. The New York W,U gives the
roiiowing flrst-class notice to the Tribunt phlloso
phefa new work on political economy :-"Horace
Greeley has published his Tribune essays In a book.
With refrejhtugrai-fd he entitles them 'Political
Economy,' though; they advocate pin-hole thrift,
spigot waste, and bung-hole squandering of the
country's resources."
Judge 8. L. Wlthey declined the appoint
ment of Jude of the Sixth United States Circuit
because ho found that its acccptauce would keep
Mm at least ten months in tho year away from
ills lamUy. As tho appointment was for life,
the prospect was not an agreeable, oue for a
"home body."
. Gymnasiums for the use of the students havo
been erected at Yale, Harvard, Bowdoin, Dart
mouth, Princeton, Willlnnis, and Amherst. All
report that accidents and injuries from over
exertion are rare, and that the scholarship, to
say nothing of the health of the students, has
improved bluce their establishment.
That its facilities may be commensurate
with its comprehensive purposes, tho Uuiveree
hns been removed from Chicago to New Vork.
Ihe Univeme is a newspaper which announces
that its design is to afford a wide rango for ex
pression of each writer's peculiar views, how
ever extreme, revolutionary,--or even insane
they may be, or appear to be.
The Hartford rout thinks the Yale crow
would certainly beat the Harvard on a stral"ht
course, aud much more decisively if tho race
should be for four miles, as "In every race of
three miles yet rowed, when tho Harvard crew
had come in victorious, it has been exhausted at
tho end, while the Yale crew, in ench Instance,
had been ablo to row auotlar mile wlta ease."
Tho San Francisco Bulletin once more as
serts that If the industrious mechanics and labor
In;; men who are unwillingly compelled to remain
idle four months In the year in Chicago and
other Eastern cities will come to California, thev
will, with very few exceptions, either as em
ployers or employes, bo well paid for every day
in the year upon which they are willing to lab r
at farming or iu other mechanical operations for
which they are competent.
The difference between the speed of electlvo
transmissions of pure copper and gutta-percha is
stated on trustworthy authority to bo two hun
dred million million mllliou times. If the reader's
mind can't quite Krusp that difference, he is fur
ther told that it Is about tho same as that between
the velocity of light and that of a body moving
through one foot of space in six thousand seven
hundred years. And If the reader don't bellovo
it he can try tho experiment.
SPECIAL. NOTIOES.
For additional Special Soticn tet th InritU Jtoer.
VS". T u E COST
THE
OF CLOTHING
AT Nod. 818 AND 820
GHESNUr BTHKKT
IB AT PRESENT
LOWES THAN
EVES BEFORR.
OVERCOATS,
DRESS COATS,
STREET 00 ATS,
BUSINESS OOATS,
PANTS, VESTS.
PANTS, VE8TS.
WHOLE SUITS.
AT COST OR
LESS THAN
COST,
AT COST OR
LESS THAN
COST.
AT COST OR
LESS THAN
COST,
AT
JOHN WANAMAKER'S
CHESNUT STREET CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT.
No. 918 AWD SilO CHK8NTJT STREET-
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MMSS EROnOR
BAL MAHeUE,
Hal M-akuuk,
bal masque,
american auadkmy of mu8i0.
1111'KSUAY KVKNINO,
January jw, imo.
TICKETS,
ADMITTING '
A UJtNl'LEMAN
ANU
ONE LADY,
FIVE DOLLARS
FXTRA. LAD1KS' TICKETS,
KACU
ONE DOLLAR.
IOU. SALE
PRINCIPAL Ml"siO STORES.
NEWS STANDS.
CONTINENTAL HOTEL,
I 8 10 14 16 21 24 S7J THE "MANAGERS.
oy ' PHILADELPHIA AND TRENTON
" RAILHOAD COMPANY, Office No. m rJouta
DELAWARE AVENUE.
, , . PHTT.ADFf.PHTA, Jan. II, 1S70. :
The Transfer Books of Una Compaiiy will be closed on
the 1Mb msl , and reopened after February lot proa.
J. PARKKH NORRI8, Treasurer.
Isjf PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD CO., Office, No. 237 S. FOURTH Street.
rnu.4pKWHIA, Doo. 33, 1W9.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
Tho Transfer Bjcke of the Company will bo oloead OO
FRIDAY, Hie Hint iiutaat, aud reopened on TUESDAY
Janoary 11, 1x70.
A dJTidtod of J IVE PER CENT. ha. been declared oa
Uia Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National anl
Mate taiea, payable in CASH, oa and after January 17,
170, to the bolder thereof aa tbaj auaU atand registered
on Uie book of the Company on the 81st Inatant. AU
payable at this omoe. All order for dividend most be
witockMd and (tamped. 8. BRADFORD,
J 81 ft Treaenrer.
AT THE ANNl'AL MEETING OF THE
8tn.ktinlderi of the PHILADELPHIA AMD
ItKADINO RAILROAD COMPANY, hel January 10,
1h?u, the foUutainf gentlomen were unanimously elected
oitweni lor la.u
I'H'HIIIKN i.
FRANKLIN H. OOWKN.
MA.NAUKIIH.
II. Pratt McKesn, J. B Lipninoott,
A. F. Iloi if, John AMiiirt,
K. B. Cabecn, l8tphen CoiwelL
Tltr.AKMikK.
BAatl'KI. BRADFORD.
KK4-MK1'AHT.
WILMAM U. WKBB: 'LAi6
jfny- LOCAL PKOIIIUITION LaV. THE
Timperauee booteties and Churches are requested
to send Delt-Kttos to a Convention to promote the pas.
Mffe of a law allowuis s majority u enforce Ijooal Prohi.
Liuun.Uiuniiia 'ICKnDAY K V KM NO, January ltL at
7, uVlo. k, at Ko. lie boulh bK V K NTH Htreet.
.... HORACE J. WMITH,
118 Jf UUairutaa. ,
8PEOIAL, NOTIOE8.
Itay- HEADQUARTERS FIR3T DIVISION
P. M., Jammry 14, 1870.
. NKRAL ORDERS NO. I.
I. The CnmmlKsioned Offlirs of this IXvlnlnn who l.
tnrt t partMnate i the Inaugural Oeremnnine or his
Hir.ellmoy Governor Gsry, on Tuesday, Jannsry IA, In
arcordanoe with tho Invitation issued by the Oommtttne
of the IaiHlsture. will report to Lioutensnt-Oolonel
t',.n;r,.J,,"rT- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
DKPOT, on MONDA Y at II H o'clock P. M.
By order of Msjor Coneral Charles M. Premst.
JAMES HTAUTl.
- T
I I
I.t. -Col, anil Pit. Ins.
fisaT FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' NA
TIONAL BANK.
. . , PHiT.ATmjrnA, Jsn. 14, 1S70.
At an election held on the l'Jth day of January. 1170. the
following-named stockholders were eieeted Directors of
Ih s Rsnk :
Edwin M. Lewis.
J. Edward Farnum.
Ocnnre W. Farr, J r.
William H. Woodward.
Charles H. Hntohinson.
llonry P. Slon.
Thoinse MoKean.
John Ashhurnt.
Anthony J. Antolo.
Kcnismin A. Fsrnham.
Mnilley trorth.
Kiehsrd C. Dale.
bl Joehua B. Liitninoihtt.
S! at n,'t'n t Directors this day EDWIN M .
I.hWIH, Esq., wss unanimously r- elm-tod I'reaident.
. W. RI'BIITON, Jr., Cashier.
flay- THE BANK OF NORTH AMERICA.
.... , Pnn.Anw.PHiA. Jan. I, 1870.
At thesnnnalmcptlnctf the Mockliolders, on the llth
int , the following Rentipmen were poanimoualy elected
irectois of the Bank for the enanine year:
David Hon 1 1
i uumiu. cvniiu, . Jamoe O. Hand,
John II. Brown.
John M. Wuitell,
Iinuel Cothn,
William B. Kempton,
Israel Morris,
I.ewis Andenried,
John H. Irwin,
. u. 1WIS,
William L. Rohn.
At a meetlne- of the Dirartnra mM Mb fnltna..
inff officers were ltnsuiniouxly elected
President-THOMAS MM I 111.
Cssbier JOHN II. WATT.
Solicitor-R. KUNDLK KMITII.
Notary WILLIAM J. DEI.I.KKKR.
, I ' t JOHN H. WATT. Cashier.
fSS" OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
a miI,TX.!iMKNUKR RAILWAY COMPANY, No.
4130 CHKSNLT Street.
, . Pnn.Anyt.pm, January 8, 170.
At a moetlnpt of the Board of Directors held this day, a
Dividond of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per
shaie was declared, free of all tnses, payable to the Stock-
ii
lolders, or thoir liual representative, on and after the
;ith inst. Transfer Books closed until loth mat.
1
I 8 Ut
W. W. COLKKT, Treasurer.
tfaT PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR
THE DEAF AND DUMB.-The Annual Meeting
of the ContnlMitors to the Pennsylvania Institution for
tho Deaf and Dumb will lie held ,at the Institution, oorner
of IINK and BROAD Ntreots, on WEDNESDAY, the
19th int., at 4 o'clock P. M.
The Annual Report of the Directors will he submitted,
and an oleotion will be hold for officers toerrve for the
emning year. JAMES J. BARCLAY,
1 J fwuiSt , Sooretary.
fiiST UNION SERVICES. TnE CONGRE-
cations ol the Calvary, West Spruce Street, and the
Hecond Presbyterian Churches, will hold union serviocs
every evening this week, at 7X o'clock. On TUESDAY
and SATURDAY at WEST SPHUCK ST. CHURCH:
on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY at CALVARY
CHURCH : and on FRIDAY at the SECOND CHURCH.
All are invited. I 11 6t
fay MERCANTILE LIBRARY. THE AN-
nual Meeting of the Stockholders of the MERCAN
TILE LIBRARY COMPANY will be held in the Library
room on lUKSDAY KVKNINO, Jsn. H, at B o'ulock.
1 lHwfmilt JOHN LA RUN KK, Reoording Secretary.
jCy- ALEXANDER PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, NINETEENTH and GRKKN Htaeets.
Preaching on next Sabbath at Wi o'clock A. M. and at
7j4o'olock P.M., by Rov. N. W. OONKLINU, of New
"vn-. 1 14 Jt
OUOTHINO.
HEALTH INSURANCE!!!
YOUR POLICY IS READY.
Every man's pollcv, wio woo Id secure (rood health,
lor the present winter, Is to conic at once to
Hockhill 4 Wilson's
Great Brown Hall
Health Insurance Office,
And ;make himself anil his family happy for the
season, by getting a seasonable suit of tlioss wintry
garment which are
GOING OFF!
GOING OFF I
GOING OFF I
Faster than ever. Policy good till the clothoi wear
out, when It can be renewed.
THESE POLICIES ARB TRANSFERABLE.
Yob can transfer them to the backs of your boys
when you have done with them. But we sell Boys'
Clothes so cheap that It really costs less to coma and
buy the lads new clothes than te give their dear
mothers the trouble of cutting the old ones down to
fit them.
EYERY MAN'S POLICY ON HIS BACK!
WHEN YOU WEAR THEM OUT, COME BACK
FOR RENEWALS TO THE
GREAT BROWN HALL
OP
ROCKHILL & WILSON,
COG and 605 CHESNUT Street,
; PHILADELPHIA
BARGAINS IN
CLOTHING.
GOOD BUSINESS SUITS . .fl4, were 119
" 18 f W
M " " ....18' " $.2
OVERCOATS fis " fit
EVANS & LEACH,
No. 628 MARKET STREET,
18 30 trorp PHILADELPHIA. :
THE FINE ARTS.
O. F- HA8ELTIN E'fi
GallorioH of the Arts,
No. 1125 CHESNUT STREET.
JIIE AUTOTYPES
aD
LANDSCAPE
n KM Have arrived.
TO RENT.
NEW HOTEL TO LET, FURNISHEO,
1502, 1504, and 1506 CHESNUT St.,
JIXT IU 111.
A FIRST CLASS IlOUBB AND LOCATION: Klhf
rooms am oa-ed ea stilts, with Water Closets and Bath,
Wakbattnd, Fire-grates and Mantels to each room, flail,
Billiard, Bar, Office, and parlors, heated with stes-n.
Apply to
JOIirV OUJ!II, llullder.
1 IQtHp No. 1T8I OHRSNITT 8teot.
K I It V 8,
NINTH AND MANSiJ.M HTUEIiTS.
The undersigned takes pleasure In informing; bis nume
rous friends, and the pulilio goneralljr, that be is onoe
more to be found at bis old establishment, and truals a
continuance of tliair formor putronajre. The past char
acter of the bouse will le eulHoient sTOaramoe for the
luture.
lUwfmlas AJMUH IH. l.BUDV. ,
OROOERIE8, ETO.
I 026.
DOUBLE GXOTJCI.3TZ.rt
AND .
ciiEsnmrs cheese,
IN BTOBE THIS DAT BT STEAMER JAVA
NEW MARYLAND llAMB.
NEW DATI3 HAMS.
W. G. TATZILX rLOUHf
THE FINEST IN THIS COUWTRT.
CRIPPEN & MADDOCK,
Dealers and Importers In Fine Groceries, '
No. 115 South THIRD St.,
1 12 Wf2t4p BELOW CHESNTT.
INSURANOBs
T H E PROVIDENT
LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA,
Wo. Ill SoutU l Ol IlTU Street.
In conformity with an set of A wmblr of April I. ISM.
this Company publish the following list of their assets aaid
statement ot business for the past jear
CAPITAL.
Amonnt authorized, fully pail In ..,
Contingent fond (surplus earned). .
.tm.tmve
Actual capital tilM.raa
ASSETS.
Brnds and Mortgag
$5ft.M0 V.S.tt per cent, bonds, IBM
l-J.-JOO do. do. do. -2u, Imam and n.
H.WO do. do. do. " Mrnindn,
74.fit do. do do. " lWSmandn.
fl.fiOO do. do. do. " lHii6 I and I
4l,aoO do. do. do. " 18o7 and 1868
1,K do. t per cent. do. 10-49
S.&00 State of Ponnsylrania six per oent.
bonds
9,600 City of Philadelphia sis per oent.
bonds
10,000 Pennsylrauia Kaiiroad six per oent.
bonds
10,000 Philadelphia and Brie Railroad seren
por cent, bonds
10,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad aix per
cent, bonds
13,000 Klmira and Williamaport Railroad
seven per oent. bonds
10,000 Camden and ainboy Kaiiroad aix por
cent, bonds
7,600 Lehigh L'osl and Natation Com
pany six per oent. bonds
800 Salem County, N. J., aix per cent.
benda.
1,000 Elniira and Williamsport live per oent.
bonds
8,000 AlleKheny County, Pa., lire per oent.
bonds
6,000 Junction Kaiiroad aix per oent.
bonds
23B shares Central National Bank
100 shares Furmsrs' and Mechanics' Na-
ticnal Hank
80ftuare National Bank of the Re-
$74.on-Se
84,lil'IM
M,T7((I
81,971-00
10,e4-M
rt.lMT'W
i,7to
I, Kite
,m
,8or
1,600
8,800 OS
U,701M
t,mn
S.262 09
8 woe
I, 500'Oe
S.MOOe
4.50fJ
28,2&01
II. 7M-M
a, (WVOO
KiO shares Ihish Valley Railroad..
puono.
7.M0-0
8,7S)-00
7.UW0U
4S,&ttt'0t
107,125111
45.111314
8,000-00
1,119.S17H
8MS31M
Sunrtiy Securities hold In Trust..
mi snares riaeuiy naro uepoeit uo.
uians on collateral Hecurlty
Fremium Notee secured by Lien on Polioisa..
Cash oa band
Office fixtures.. . . .
Cash in bands of A genu $la.0fll'4T
Deferred Premiums 77,462 M
91308,84-oT
BUSINKSS OK THR COMPANY FOR 186
, , RKOJ4IPT8 IN lo.
Premiums Received $311,43103
Interest cn Premium Fund and Annuity
"" 85,015 98
Qgl iaa-rg
Cash in Hands of Ajrents and Deferred Pre- '
miMim tn.KS'Oe
(424,00eff
Interest on Other Investments 4d'05'0X
RXPRNDITURES IN 1889.
Agents' Commissions (43,0818t
Heinsoranoe 2,ftii3'el
Expenses, printing, advertising, office rent,
salaries.. 81,8971
Losses, numbering fourteen 47,000'Ot
Amount paid annuitants l.tUi'tt -
1 180,059 -OS
P69 Policies issued in 1869, insuring , $a,7i2,5J-oe
8678 Outstanding 12mo. 81, 1869, insnrlng $7,837,65 o!
IS uimitles '. $8,770-06
Total number of deaths from the origin of the
Company, SI , $94,000-08
Amount owing to depositors $899,871-96
Amount o wit g to Trost funds'.... $Tf,863-M
RAMCKIi R. SHIPLEY, President
WM. C. IXNaSTltETU, Vice-President,
ROWLAND PARBY, Actuary. jm
WATOHES, JEWELRY. ETO.
1124 CHESNUT STREET.
American Swiss and English
WATCH ES
AT
CLARK & BIDDLE'S,
Sjwial Agents in Philadelphia for
AMERICAN WATCHES,
Made by E. Eoward A Co,, Boston. ci 11 trim
SEWING MACHINES.
pirROVED ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES
SIMPLEST. CHEAPEST. BttST LOOKJTITOal'
i BKWINU UACUINKS IN USE.
Bold on easy monthly payments. Examine them at
Io. 040 AUCM Htreet.
D. E. RIOB,
l81mrp GENERAL AQKWT.
'piIE BEST HOLIDAY O I FT.
WHEELnn& WILSON'S
LOCK-8TIT01I
Family Sewing Machine.
(OVER mjm NOW IN USK.
EXAMINE IT UKCOKK BUYINU ANY OIHKK.
Sold on Lease Plaa $10 Per Month.
ii:ti::son A: , t'AitPUviiiii,
MKNKKAL AHKMTh,
No. VI4 CIIIWIIIT Mtreet,
SoruiwC PHILADELPHIA.
COPARTNERSHIPS. ,
MR. CiF.OltOK 8. STEWART IS ADMITTED
to so interest ") business from tha date.
UMAItLKti vyi 1.1.1 4M4.
Manufacturer of Uuaters, Itiuies. eta.
Philadelphia, Jsn. L iDrO. IIH