THE BJMir EYEKUSO TrirGKAPH PHILADELPHIA,. WEDNESDA T, JANUATIT 2C, 1S70. ecih.it or Tiin rnE33. Eilliurtnl Opinion of lh I.Mllti Joiirnnln I'lxm Current TI-( 'miiiv.l.-d Krrv Iny for I he Lvrniiia Ti lt ttriii-ti. AMERICAN llEri'DIATIOX. From the Lonn ti'ittirrfiitt Jleriru; The American lloiiso ol i;eit-t.ciitativea lately nnuiHud Itself with a dcb.tte ia which all the members who npoke miantmonsly re pudiated repudiation. An inont of the speak ers were Doir.ocrat!, their profession. ptuliap imply Mlint, nil pnitioaiu the T'nited States liave for the present convinced theuiMelvea that fraud practised en the public creditor will uot be rewarded by popularity. The report of Mr. Wells on trade and liiiance provcH that no nation ban over had long oxcusa for even discussing n policy of wanton dis LoncHty. The debt has already boen reduced since 18(;r by sixty millions sterling, of which ten millions is due to last year's surplus of income over expenditure. The population has, notwithstanding the interruption caused ly the civil war, increased largely since the laut census, and the proportionate burden of the debt borne by eaoh citizen is every day becoming lighter. If peace is preserved for ten years more, the advance of pros perity will be far mora rapid, and at the end of that time the republic v ill be the wealthiest nation in the world, and one of the most populous. Nevertheless experience has shown that in tho United states a great and sudden domand for money can only be met by the contraction of loans. All the capital in the States is employed in profitable investments, and it is far easier to divert it to the public service by the offer of a high rate of interest than to raise an extra ordinary revenue by taxation. The repudia tion of the whole or of any portion of the debt would deprive the Government of the power of borrowing; and the unprincipled advocacy of such a policy at this moment entails on the taxpayer a penalty of several millions yearly in the form of an excessive rate of interest. A capitalist who lends money to a Government takes into consideration loth tho intrinsic value of the property which is mortgaged as security for his claim, and tho validity of the instrument by which his charge is created or acknowledged. The United States can offer to lenders an estate worth many times the amount of the debt; hut, as the Government cannot be com pelled to pay either principal or interest, its credit depends on the general belief in its integrity and honor. The skepticism which is unfortunately measured by the price of American bonds in the money market will probably not be justifled by the result, but it may be doubted whethor the adoption by Con gretis of General Garfield's resolution will f reatly raise the price of American securities, gnorant Europeans will not fail to ask why it is necessary again and again to aflirm a pro position which in other representative assem blies is taken for granted. Astute critics will further object that General Garfield's protest against repudiation is loss definite than Gene ral Schenck's previous resolution to the effect that the debt should be paid in gold; and thoso who are curious enough to read the de bate which preceded the vote will find that it suggests additional ground of suspicion. It the Tope, with or without the assent of the council, were formally to condemn the doctrines which are indirectly affirmed in the famous Syllabus, both adherents and oppo nents would reasonably assume that a para doxical self-contradiction might be explained by some ambiguity of language. American politicians are neither as pertinacious as the Pope nor as infallible; yet it is strange that doctrines which were loudly proclaimed only a year and a half ago should now be re jected with competitive vehemence by their former advocates. The Democratic orators carefully abstain from any confession of error, and probably they would deny that they had undergone any process of conver sion. If they were accused of inconsistency, they might reply that they had never lite rally defended tho repudiation of the national debt; and if popular opinion were once more to recommend their former policy, they would have as little difficulty in ex plaining away General Garfield's reso lution. At. the Presidential election of 18G8, although the Democratic candidate was not himself a repudiator, a large majority of the party, under the load of Mr. Pendleton, had adopted the policy of paying off the greenbacks, not in specie, but in papor. The calculation on which the managers of the election relied was sufficiently intelligible. It was well known that of the native public creditors a great majority resided in the East ern States, and it was in the hopo of securing their votes that Mr. Horatio Seymour, of New York, was selected as the Demooratio nominee. At the same time it was believed that the taxpayers of the Western States would vote with the party whioh had systematically opposed the payment of the bonds aooording to the spirit of the contract. That tho policy of the Democratic leaders is unchanged was recently proved by the selection of Mr. Pen dleton as candidate for tho office of Governor in the important State of Ohio. Mr. Hoffman, Governor of New York, who may probably be the next Democratic nomi nee for the Presidency, naturally objects to repudiation. The supposed popularity of re pudiation was illustrated by the conduct of the lust Congress, and by the audacious ad vocacy of fraud by Mr. Thaddous Stevens and by Mr. Butler. The outgoing President, who has since failed by a single vote to obtain the Eost of Senator for Tennessee, proposed in ia lust message to Congress, not that paper should be substituted for gold, but that the property of the public creditor should be confiscated as soon as he bad received in the form of intereft a sum equal to the principal which he had advanced. Americans may con tend that Mr. Andrew Johnson had no power to represent the general opinion of the com munity; but his policy had never been con demned by the Democratic party, and he had been elected by a great majority to th Vioe Presidency, with a contingent right of suooes sion to the highest office in the republic. The recommendations of his Message were but a cynical caricature of the policy of Mr. Butler, and of a recent vote of the House of Repre sentatives. It had been resolved by a large majority that the interest of the debt should be subjected to a special tax of ten per oent., or, in other words, that it should be reduced in the same proportion. The proposer of the motion, who also openly advooated the pay ment of the greenbacks in paper, was shortly afterwards returned to the new Congress by one of the most Republican districts in Mas sachusetts; and about the same time the chairman of the Committee of Fiuanoe of the fconate reoommended a reduction of interest from six to five per cent. The apparently repentant Democrats of the present Congress are probably only playing upon words. When a Republican member ahked the pertinent question whether the op posite party still agreed with Mr. Pendleton, he was told that a difference of opinion on the mode of paying the debt had nothing to do with repudiation. It is true that Mr. Andrew Johnson enjoys the distinction of I being the only prominent politician who has nt My time openly proposed a Bcliomo of bnrefneed robbery. Mr. Pendleton and Mr. I'.utler only proposed to redeem a promise to pay by mibMitutiu', on tho expiration of tho temi, u cimiliir obligation. It happened that t).e live-twenty bonds, which form a large por tion of lie debt, boro on their face an under taking to pny the interest in gold, neither debtor Dor vieditor having at that time ima gined liny doubt as to the full dincharge of the principal. Pettifogging apologists of dishonesty, notwithstanding the notorious fnct that the ngents of the Government hnd announced that tho bonds would be paid in gold, nltompted to deduce from the express provision for the payment of interest an im plied waiver on the part of the creditor of his right to receive his principal in spooie. Up to tho present time neither the Democrats, nor the Republican section which agrees with Mr. Butler, have publicly disclaimed their dis honest interpretation; and if the Western States are really hostile to the payment of the debt, any resolution which Congress may have parsed will be easily evaded. After the census of the present year, the electoral power of the Atlantic States will be largely diminished, and the bondholders of New York, of Penn sylvania, and of New England will become more than ever dependent on the good faith or good will of distant taxpayers. It must be remembered that nearly every North ern State took advantage, during the war, of the depreciation of the paper currency to perpetrate, at the expense of its creditors, the very fraud which is now ostensibly de nounced. The debts which had been incurred in gold were discharged by the payment of less than half the value in the paper which had for another purpose become a lawful tender. When the same constituencies in their Federal character return members who make eloquent speeches against repudiation, it is not surprising that capitalists should interpret their pledgos by their practice. At present the balance of probability is in favor of a full discharge of the debt, because the performance of the duty will be not only easy but profitable. The publicity of Federal transactions affords an additional security against acts of dishonesty which the separate States may commit without provoking external criticism. An element of uncertainty is intro duced into the calculation by the national habit of referring to the will of the people ns the ultimate standard of right and wrong. Not long since, competent judges of popu larity thought that tho will of tho people would sanction a scandalous fraud. If their calculation had been right, political leaders would almost with one accord have obeyed tho dictation of the multitude. PARTISAN JOURNALISM THE LATE MR. PRENTICE. From the X. Y. Time. It is not much that we have to say of tho late Mr. Prentice. He was not an old man when ho died, but he had been an editor since the time of the younger Adams. HU work ing days numbered forty-five years. It is said that his latter years were clouded by mis fortune. How goutly his death falls upon the country; how soon ho is forgotten ! Yet the time was when the contemplation of the death of Prentice would havo boen like the going out of some particular star. This man tilled a great place in the journalism of his dny, and had a vast influence in American politics. Probably no man has made so doop nn i . j ession on tho Southwest as tho editor of the Louisville Journal. Wbat was the nature of that influence ? Mr. Prentico was not merely a man of pecu liar and rare gifts; ho was a partisan. He held groat personal and politioal power because he surrendered his influence as an editor. He joined the Whig party and re mained its staunch and loyal supporter. He was omong the followers of Henry Clay, and was in journalism very much what Henry Cloy was in statesmanship. In tho character of the two men there were many elements in common an insoucianoe, an elan, a fire and aggressiveness which was attractive in those easy, rough, generous Western countries. There is much extravagance in such charac ters. How many bitter, cruel words this dead man has written, and yet it was his nature to write such things without malice, or deep grounded anger. Such men took their cue from the times. They became editors just as other men become actors. And if it were set down for them to denounce Whig or Demo crat, they did it just as Mr. Booth declaims against honor in "Iago," and in favor of murder in "Macbeth." We can more correctly define the position of a man like Mr. Prentice by calling him a partisan chief. He fought under Clay just as Colonel Mosby did under General Lee, and did much the same service. While the great statesman remained aloof in the dignity of a 6acred individuality never forgetting social grace and courtesy and the amenities of Sena torial and political life the humbler and less scrupulous writer was busy with defamation, misrepresentation, satire, and invective. This was the editor's function in those days. Every great man had his editor, very much as the old-fahhioncd English country squire had his clergyman to say grace, driuk a glass of alo, and leave the table before the custards came. The editor was a retainer. Ho was the Gregory or Balthazar of the far-removed political Mon tague, and did the biting of the thumbs. He had little voice in greater concerns. The honors, and dignities, and emoluments of po litical victories wore never shared with him. An occasional clerkship or local dignity was his abundant reward. Mr. Prentice did this office in the West, and in his day he was the most powerful and most brilliant of our partisan editors. But in later years the press has grown beyond such par tisanship, and with its growth the influence of Mr. Prentice and men of his class has de clined. The true journal is no longer a per sonal organ. Personal journalism has a limited mission. When a man considers that because he is the editor of a powerful newspaper he must, of necessity, make it the echo of bin anger, his hopes, his ambitions, and his dis appointments, his influence is feeble and purposeless. An editor is to his paper what the Governor is to the Commonwealth. He is its minister, not its master, and must gov ern it with wisdom and prudent considera tion for the rights of others, remembering that there are always higher and nobler aims than any individnal whim or prejudice. We see in England, and the time has come when we are beginning to seo in America, that there can bo no powerful and respected jour nalism that is not impersonal, and that no editor can fully do his work unless he is inde pendent, untrammeled, and above all party influences. The editor sees that his mission is infinitely superior to that of any other pro fession, and instead of being the squire or adjutant of political leaders like Clay, it is his privilege to compel even from them respeot and obedience. Mr. Prentice was the last remaining parti san editor of the West. Mr. Greeley is, per haps, the only one of any prominence in the East; and experience has so tamed and chas tened our Eastern colleague that he is more in sympathy with the progress of nxhliru journalism. Men die; tlio ptess lives; and the editor should so serve hi prats that, whotlier his mere body lives or dies, hi nows paper will remain after him and continue to grow with increasing power. A well-nstab. lished newspaper becomes an integral part of modern civilization. No influence seoms to affect it; and when tho editor drags it down to the level of his own personality, to hhare in his bodily griefs aud .joys and misfortunes, he makes a grievous error. This journalists are beginning to see. Wo have outlived the old limes of clamor, and defamation, and brilliant personal invective. The death of Mr. Prentice marks a dividing line. He did his work well. We could hive wished his work had belonged to the new dis pensation, but it was something he had to do, and it is giving him tho highest praise to say that ho did it with enthusiasm and courage as a man who believed in it, and labored to the end. Sincere work well done is the beauty aud fullness of life, and may this be said of all of us as we say it now of the brilliant, bitter, aggressive champion who has passed to bis rest. ABOLITION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. From tht X. Y. Tribune. The celobrated Mr. Sampson Brass, upon pretending to discover the iniquity of a ser vant, exclaimed, with an excess of skepticism: "And this is the world that turns upon its own axis, and has lunar influences, and revo lutions round heavenly bodies, and various games of that sort !" But here comes a cer tain Dr. P. E. Trastour de Varano, late of New Orleans, who has published, or is about to publish, a work in which he has or will "play at bowls with the sun and moon," de molish the Copemican system, repeal the laws of Kepler, and prove the pippin of Sir Isaac Newton to have been as false as Dead Sea fruit or the apple of Eve. We mourn the pippin, becauso the story of Sir Iseao knocked on the head by it was one of the solaces of our infancy; but inasmuch as Dr. do Varano proposes to confute all astronomi cal learning, and oven announces that the sun at Home future day "will rise in tho West and set in the East," it is hardly worth whilo to bo too sorry over any particular part of human learning. For the doctor brings the wholo heavens and the whole earth to a right about face; informs us that "the stars have a general movement that carries thorn from West to East," and that before long "Easter will come in the middle of spring," to which, theologically, wo have no objection, so it does not cease to come at nil. Now it is that we begin to thank our fortune that we are not scientific; that we have not spent the days of our life in figuring and our nights in looking through telescopes. Still, to think that "the sun is not placed in tho centre of the planetary universe!" To think that we "do not annually revolve around that lumi nary 1" That wo have beea uuder a delusion respecting our own "orbit," which is "not a circle. " We are bewildered ! We are intel lectually bedevilled ! We have believed in the almanac, but the almanac is all wrong ! This, however, we are proud to say, does not affect the election returns in the Tribune Almanac (just published); for, except so far as the "Democratic" vote may be influenced by the moon, these do not depend upon the state of astronomical science. We havo very little heavenly learning, and trustfully confess that we are not in a posi tion to confute the teachings of Dr. de Varano. Indeed, we rather admire and enjoy them. This being an era of change, why should we not chango all that 1 We have always thought the conduct of the sun to be extremely whimsical and reprehensible. We have always felt that if ho was "the centre of the system" the head centre, if we may be allowed the expression that there were times and seasons when he deserved to be impeached and removed from office. When he was wanted for turnips he came out for grass, and when he was wanted for fruit he vailed his shining head in a cloud. There are thousands of our readers who have felt that "weather" (so called) was a snare and a delusion; that the (so called) "succession of the seasons" was a dreadful mistake; and this opinion they have mostly entertained when shivering through June or perspiring through December. They will appreciate the discovery of our learned doctor, that "climate is subject to extreme "vicissitudes" and confoundedly disagreea ble vicissitudes some of them are ! It is a sort of comfort to know that hereafter "we need not expect any specifio weather;" and this will be a special satisfaction to those learned persons who prophesy concerning the same, inasmuch as they can now give the reins to their imagination, and prophesy whatover they please. But, after all, we are thinking of that par ticular morning when the sun, having com pleted his arrangements for doing so, will astonish mankind by coming up where he went down the previous evening, and will rise in the west ! We shall not be here to see it, nor will Dr. de. Varano; but we can imagine the frighted population of the world running about in consternation, and whispering with palo lips, "The Dootor was right!" For a time, on earth and in heaven, the confusion will be extreme. Persons having letters to write will know not how to date them, and persons having notes to pay, in the general transmogrification of everything, will suffer them to go to protest. Cocks will fall dead with wonder from their perches, and cooks will be in a quandary between supper and I riakfast; the polite will vary between "Good morning !" and "Good evening!" and those who are of regular habits, and kavo taken their shower-baths at sunrise for years, will glance dubiously at the accustomed string and shiver woefully on the brink. We have to announce, however, that the usual morn ing edition of the Tribune will be printed under any circumstances; und that when the sun rises we shall come out, whether he rise at 12 o'clock in tho day-time or at 12 o'clock in the night. Upon this point we shall niako no concession. Meanwhile, at this momenioua season, when the great physical revolution is consum mated, and the disappointed aud dismayed ghost of Copernicus is losing its way among the disarranged stars, we can fancy the most frightful disorders ' everywhere prevailing throughout the universe. Mars and Venus oncountcr each other, the fiery face to the fair one, and laugh at memories of the old merriment. Mercury will make an excuse that ho has a message, and start at once for Herschel. The great J upiter will hold a Con gress of his Moons to consider the state of the planetary republic. The fixed stars will find themselves unfixed with a wrench. The Milky Way will become turbid with horror. There will be a dreadful chattering among the asteroids, and the lost pleiades will suddenly make their appearance. ' As for the state of affairs upon the earth, it will beggar description. The howls in the observatories alone will fill the whole earth with one universal wail. The most devout astronomers will go mad, make wdd assaults upon their most expensive instru ment, or precipitate themselves from their tallest look-outs. Preachers of the Day of Judgment will hold forth upon the corners; Government Boouritins will go down like lead; the President will issue a proclamation al vising a general fast, and then fall upon his own Rword, if he happen to have one. Evtm women'H conventions will adjourn line die, and well they may, since to talk of any pir ticnlar ihiy under such ciroumstaueos would be n point of folly beyond any yet reached by those assemblies. If we have written of those dire events in a style some what dishevelled, it has been out of no disrespect for Dr. de Verano; but be cause we have beea thinking all along what w ould happen to ourselves upon that inomon 0,,s (lny or &'ght, or twilight, or whatevor it will be. We (personally) shall not be here when the sun rises in the west, bnt (unless the Dootor means to abolish the future state) we shall be somewhere. And wherever we may be, we shall certainly bo affected by this troubling of the universe. But we will not lugubriously anticipate. Sufficient for the day if wo may use the word is the evil thereof. While the Copemican system lasts, it is good enough foa us. THE ADMISSION OF VIRGINIA. From tht X. Y. Herald. It will be seen from Monday's proceedings in Congress that the House, after a strag gling, though somewhat lively discussion, receded from its bill for the unconditional readmission of Virginia into Congress, and yens 1"C, nays r" adopted the amendments of the Sonata binding the State Legislature to the terms of the fourteenth amendment and some other condition. The bill, as it passed the House sonte days ago, provided that as the State of Virginia had fully com plied with the terms of reconstruction laid down by Congress, she was entitled to repre sentation therein. On the test vote this pro position of Mr. Bingham, by a close fit, was carried, by the Democratio balance of power, between the Butler, or radical, and the Bing ham, or conservative, Republicans the Democrats voting with the latter en masse. This point having been gained, a good many radicals, on tho question of the passage of the bill, wheeled to the right about, aud so it passed by an overwhelming majority. But tho orthodox Republicans in the Senate did not like that Democratic balance of power and Bingham's snap judgment in the absence of Butler, and so they restored the bill sub stantially to the shape in which it had been rejected by the House. In this shape, being first referred to the Reconstruction Commit tee, it was reported back to the House, with tho recommendation that it be adopted. All this was equivalent to a party caucus on the subject, aud this recommenda tion thus became n test of party fidelity. The misfortunes of Raymond and others ia the House in undertaking an independent course, and of the "unlucky seven" in the Senate on Johnson's impeachment, perhaps, on this ap plication of the party whip, were regarded as warnings against bolting too fearful to be de fied; and so Bingham and his followers wheeled back into line. Bingham had hinged his unconditional bill upon the President's suggestion in his annual message; but ho has no doubt found out that General Grant docs not care to take upon himself tho respon sibilities of Congress. His policy is not the policy of Johnson. He has no notion of a collision with Congress when he can get all that he wonts without it. He has the inside track for the succession and is not disposed to quarrel. But Virginia, though under the conditions of the Senate bill, is restored to a voice in Congress. The bill, as we have said, passed yeas, 136; nays, 57 a strictly party divi sion of the House. Butler and Sumner are thus masters of the field, while Trumbull is still under the shadow of the "unlucky seven," and Bingham occupies a back Beat in tho councils of the faithful. Our squabbling politicians, since the initial twenty thousand dollar proclamation of Andy Johnson, have led the late "Confederate States" through a rough course of treatment; but now that the case of Virginia is settled; now with the re construction of Georgia in the hands of General Terry, who is said to be a first-rate lawyer; now that Mississippi has proved her loyalty in the election of a Republican of African descent to the United States Senate; now that General Reynolds has reported the results of the reconstruction election in Texas as satisfactory, Governor and Legislature; sow that the fifteenth amendment lacks only the vote of Georgia or Texas to be proclaimed part of the national constitution, may we not hope that we are near the end of this recon struction business, and that tha day is at hand w hen there will be no more intermeddling by military commanders nor by Congress in the local affairs of Georgia, Virginia, or Texas than in the local conoerns of New York, New Jersey, or California ? With the proclamation of the fifteenth amendment, if not before such proclamation, a bill should be passed by Congress removing all the disabilities on account of the rebellion imposed by the fourteenth amendment, and in the manner provided for in his amendment. Thus the great ultimatum of reconstruction, "universal suffrage and universal amnesty," will be an accomplished fact. With universal suffrage secured to the negro, all parties will cultivate him, and if not too much elated by his good fortune, even "the poor white trash" w il cease to persecute him. With universal amnesty to all concerned in the late Rebel lion, the bitterness which has so much pre vailed in the South botween tho disfranchised native whites on the one hand, and the en franchised blacks and noisy "carpet-baggers", on the other hand, will speedily disappear, and the Southern States, "like giants ro frebhed with new wine," will enter upon a new career of prosperity never dreamed of by the projectors of an independent slave holding confederacy. We have said universal suffrage, but the women are still excludod. Woman suffrage, however, will serve as a convenient subject for agitation by our political reformers until something else shall turn up. Having dis posed of the "almighty nigger," the women of the United States, regardless of color, from blondes to blacks, surely may claim equal rights. But with the completion of Southern reconstruction on the basis of negro suffrage, a universal amnesty is the next thing in order. STATE PRISONS AS FREE PUBLIC SUPPLY STORES. From the X. Y. Bun. The very atmosphere of a large prison seems to attract fraud. One of the most serious difficulties in the management of an extensive establishment for the confinement of convicted criminals is to guard against the corruption of the officials in whose charge it is placed. The law, in probably all the States, throws every check which has boen thought needful about the offices of authority upon which rests the greatest responsibility in the case; but to-day, notwithstanding all tho restrictions which legislators can provide, it is probable that there are very few large penal institutions in the whole land where official corruption does not exist. The latest example of this is tho MUaonii Stale Penitentiary; and not long ago an in vestigation into tho condition of the Indiana State Prison revealed tho existence of out rageous abuses there, comprising both frauds and bad treatment of the iumato. In Missouri, however, tho evil is in the form of plundering the Slate; and, im moral as it is, It lacks the element of inhn mnnity which the Indiana disclosures havo brought to light. The Missouri Penitentiary is at Jefferson City, the capital of the Stato. Connected with the prison is a storehouse of supplies for tho consumption of the convicts. Here are kept large quantities of family grooerioa, wood, coal-oil, flour, and horse feod; and lar(e supplies of fresh beef for the prison are received here daily. The legal regulations forbid the officers of tho Penitentiary from obtaining any of their supplies from this source. The investigations of the State Com mission, however, clearly show that during 1808 not only the warden, the deputy warden, ths commissary, and the factor of the prison obtained their family supplies from the pri son, but so also did the Governor of the State; and there is no evidonoe that these supplies were ever weighed or measured, or that they were ever paid for. They conf prised beef, hay, corn, chops, coal-oil, fuel, sugar, coffee, and molasses; all taken from the prison storehouse. But this is not the worst. Tho notorious express robber, Reno, was in 1803 imprisoned in this Penitentiary. A plan was arranged not alone by the keepers, who form in all large prisons the worst paid and most unre liable class of officers, but among the deputy wardens as well to effect the release of this scoundrel. He was to pay $ :i()00 to secure his escape; and the villainous officials proposed to put him in a barrel under some pork chops, and thus get him carried outside the prison walls; and there, having obtained tho money, they had arranged that he should bo either recaptured or killed. The evidence does not show why the plan was not carried out. Of course, men such as these did not scru ple to cheat the State in other ways than merely by directly stealing its property. Convicts, who appeared on the prison rolls as invalids and unfit to work, were taken out to farms belonging to the officers, where they assisted in the cultivation of large crops such as one of thirty thousand cabbages; it being said to be "beneficial to the health of the convicts to take them out sometimes." The crops thus raised were afterwards sold to the State for the use of the Penitentiary. In a somewhat similar way convict labor appears to have been employed on a contract to pave the streets of Jefferson, the contractor paying nothing to the State for the laborers, but de manding from tho city payment for tho per formance of the work. In how many other States is the condition of tho larger prisons similar to that here por trayed ? VVINES AND LIQUORS. HER MAJESTY! CHAMPAGNE. ; DurjTow & lussou. 1 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. J TEE ATTENTION OF TOE TRADE 13 solicited to the following vary Ohoioe Wines, etc., for wit) by DUNTON A LU8SON, 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. CHAMPAGNES. Agents for her Majesty. Vna de Montebello, Carte Bleue, Carte Ulanohe, and Charles aire's Grand Vin Eugenie, and Vm Imperial, M. Klee innnf Co., of Mayenoe, buarklin Moselle and RiilNB WIN r.8. MADEIRAS. Old Island, South Side Reserve. bHKRRlKS. F. Rudulpbe, Amontillado, Topaz, Val lotte, Fnleand Golden bar, down, eta. PORTS. Vinho VeUio Real, Valletta, and Grown. CLARETS. Promts Aine A Cie., Montf errand and Bor deaux. Clarets and Kauterne Wines GIN. "Meder Bwan." BRANDIES. Hennessey, Otard, Dupoy ft Oo.'s Tartans Tints es. 4 i QA 11 STAIRS & McOALL, Nos. 126 WALNUT and SI GRANITE Streets. Importers of BRANDIES, WINKS, GIN, OLIVE OIL, ETC., AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS For the sals of PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT. AND BOURBON WHIS. K1ES. i28 2p CAP STAIRS' OLIVE OIL AN INVOICE of the above for sale by OARSTAIR8 ft McOALL, 5 28 2p Nos. 126 WALNUT and 21 GRANITE Hta. INSURANCE. 1829,""nAKTER PERPETUAL. Frantlin Fire Iesnrance Company Off PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nob. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St AssetsJan. f9v69LS2v677va72al3 CAPITAL noo.ooo-eo ACCRUED SURPLUS l!o83 6W70 PREMIUMS l,193,843-8 UNSETTLED CLAIMS. INCOME FOR 1869, -.,788-ia. 1360,000. Losses paid since 1829,over$5,500,000 Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. The Company also isanne Polioies oa Rents ofjbaildings of all kinds,Uroaiid Rents, and Mortgage. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, . Alfred FHlor, Samuel Grant, I Thomas Sparks, George W. Uiohardt, William 87 Grant. ImtaoLea, I Thomas S. rMH Uoome 1 ales. ' GusUtus 8. Beojoo. ALFRED O. UAKJ 11, President GKORGK FALES. Vioa-Preudant. JAS. W.MoAIAl.STKReoretary. vl0rre,i,aanl TH KODO M nlREOERsaistantBeoreUry. a J N S U K E AT DOME, Df TBM Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. NO. 031 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETS, 8;J,000,000. t'HAUTEUKD BY OUR OWN STATK. MANAGED) BY OUH OWN CITIZEN LOSSES PROMPTLY PAXD. . OIJCIES ISSITED ON VARIOUS PUiNS. Applications may be made at trie Homo Office, and at the Agencies throughout the State. 9 131 JAIT1KS THAQUAIR PRESIDENT it AM V 111. E. STORK VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN W. IIOKNOK ..A. V. P. and AOTUART IIOXATIO H. KTh.PHK.NS BKORBTABT JMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. LONDON, ESTABLISHED ISOri. PaUl-np Capital and Accumulated Panda, 8,000,000 I IN QjOLD, PREVOST & BIRRING, Agent, 8 45 No. 10T a THIRD Street, PUllaaelpMa. CHAS. M. PRKVOBT CHAS. P. HERRING PAPER HANGINGS. 1 OOK I LOOK 1 1 LOOK ! ! I WALL PAPERS Xj and l.inen Window Khiiriee Manufactured, tbs cheipokl In Die city, at JOHNbTON'e) Dopnt, No. lu.tl SPUING I4AKUFN fetroet, below Kleveuth. Urauoh, No. (01 1 iOJKliAL btnmt, Uukdoa, Mew Jtm. t INSURANCE. DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE ('OMl'ANY. Incorporated liy tin; IPKUlaUire ol rcnnnylvaiila, 1S.'!. Otlko southeast corner of THIItr and WALNUT 8tr-H, I'liHs'lolphla. MA KINK INNUKANCKH On Vessels, C argo and Freight to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES Ou goods by river, canal, lake nod laud carriage to all part of the Union. K1UK INSIKANCKS On Merchandise generally; on tjtorca, Dwellings, llouaea, etc. ASSETS OK TI1K COM PAN V NovemlxT 1. in. 1200,000 United States Five Per Cent. Loan, ten-forties 100,000 United States Six Pec Cent. Loan (lawful money) 60,000 United btatca Six fvr Cent. Lnnn, IhmI SOO.000 Btate of Pennsylvania 81s Per Cent. Loan 800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. Loan (exempt from tax) 100,000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan SO.OQO Pennsylvania Railroad First Mortgage Six for Cent. Bonds Sft.OOO Pennsylvania Railroad So cond mortgage Six per Cent. Honda 89,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail, road Mortgage Six Per Cent. Honda (Pennsylvania Kallroad guarantee) 80,000 State of Tennessee live Per Cent. Loan 7,000 State of Teuneasee Six Per Cent. Loan 12,800 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 2!H) sharoa stock 6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, 100 Bharea stock 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Com Dftnv. 80 sharps atnrlr I21C.OO0D 10T,TSO-0 0,000O 818,930-01) 800,925 -0 102,000 00 19,450-09 83,625 -O 80,000-00 ItS.OOODO 4,870-00 14,000-00 8,900 -0 7,600-00 846,900 Loana on Rood and Mort gage, first Hens on City Properties 840, 900 -00 11,231,400 Par. Market value, $1,288,870-00 , Cost, $1,816,622-27. Real Estate M.ooo-00 Bills Receivable for Insurances made... 823,700 18 Halnnccs due at Agencies : Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued Interest, and other debts due the Com pany... 65,097-9B Stock, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora tions, $1700. Estimated value 8.740-80 Cash in Hank $108,318-88 Cash in Drawer 972-28 109,891-14 $1,852,10004 DIRECTORS. Thomaa C. Hand. Samuel E. Stokes, Wlillam . Doulton, Kdward Darlington, 11. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafourcade, Jacob Klegel, Jacob P. Jones, James B. MoFarland, Joabua P. Kyre, Spencer Mcllvain, J. K Semple, Pittsburg, A. K Merger, Pittsburg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg. John Davis, Kiimund A. Souder, Theophllus Paulding, James Traqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., James C. Hand, W illiam C. l.udwig, Joseph II. Seal, Hugh Crulg, John D. Taylor, (ieorge W. Hernadou, William C. Houston, THOMAS JOHN C. C. HAND. President. DAVIS, Vlce-jfresldont. HENRY LYLBURN. Secretarv. UKNUV BALL, Assistant Secretary, 1 1 A S B U It Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Wo. 805 BROADWAY, corner of lllerentU Street, Iew York. CASH CAPITAL ....$150,000 $125,000 deposited with the Bute of New York ai soouritT for policy holders. t?MUKfc BANOS, President. GKORGK KLLIOTT, Vice President and Sooretan. KMORY MoOLlATOUK, Actxurr A. E. M. PUROY, M. D., Medioal Kxauinar. PHrUDKLPHlA BJtVBUXMCBS. Thornss T. Tasker, , John M. Maris. , J. B, Llpplnoott. Charles Hpenoer, William Dirine, James Lona. John A. V. rinl.t, 8. Morris Wain. I James Hunter. Arthur O. Collin. John B. McCreary. K. h! WorS, Organised April, lboH. 876 Policies issued first ale month i oer K) in the twelve months following AU lorms of Polioies iesned on most favorable terms. Special advantages o&ored to Clergymen. few good agents wanted in oity or country. A oolr s JAMK8 M. LWNUAORfc JHsnager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. , BAML&M STRICTLY MUTUAL. Prevident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE. No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE amon members of the Society of Friends. Good risks of any class accepted. Policies Issued on approved plans, at the lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETH, Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY. The advantages oilered by UUa Jompanj are un excelled. . ' mi OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY PblladelphSLETH AMKBI0A' No- 838 WALNUT Strfc Incorporated 1" Perpetual ALARLNkV INLAND;' AND FIRB WSURAffoa'000 OVER $20,000,000 LOSSES PAID SINOK ITS OBOAJI. IZATION. Arthur O. Coffin. PIBKOTOB; , Baninol W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, William Welsh, 8. Morris Wain, John Mason, . i r ntnoil n. uopa, Kdward H. Trotter, Kdward S. Clarke, T. Charlton lionry, Alfred D. Jessun. John P. White, LoaiS O. Midair. voartes nr. tin ki ku u UUP FIN, President. CHARLK8 PLATT. V WPreioeni. MATTHIAS Mahih, Secretary. Chas. IL REKvea, Asst. Secretary. y pAME INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 809 CHKSNUT Street INCORPORATED 1366. CHARTKB PERPETUAL. CAPITAL, $300,000. FIRK INSURANCE KXCLUS IVKLY. Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Par. petoal or Temporary Polioies. Hill kMTOkH- Charles Richardson, . Robert Pe Wimn H llbm John KeeslerTjr Kdward H. Orna, Charles Stokes, John W. Kvernum, ftfimlw&l Knlt. William il. Seyfurt. John b Smith, UeorgsA. West, CHARLES RIOUARImON. I'ntiMant. : WILLIAM II. K 11 AWN, Yloe-Preaident, WILLIAMS L UlaNCHAHU, Secretary. T 'Hi ryEX PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE JL COMPANY. Incorporated lbo Charter Perpetttal, No. S10 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square This Company, favorably known to the community fus over forty years, oontinuus to insure against loss or dans, age by tire on Publio or Private Buildingaeither serna nontlyorfora limited time. Also on iurnitore, btooka of Goods, and Merchandise generally, en bberal terms. Their Capital, together with a Urge Surplus Fuod, la invested in the most careful manner, whioh enables thesa to otter to the insured an undoubted securi Lg ia the eee of loam. . SIBXCX &S. Daniel Smith, Jr., i John Devereng, Alexander Benaoo, I Thomas Smith. iKaao riar.ltfburst, I Henry Lewis, Thomas Robins, I J. Uilliiuhiun FeUL , Daniel Haddock. Jr. WM. O. CROWFllLftiry11'"- J" fft rrilE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF A PHILADELPHIA. Ottioe S. W. corner of FOURTH and WALNUT Street. FIRK INSURANCE KXCLURIVKLY. PFRVKTU AL AND TKliM FOLiUlifd I8SUBD. CASH Capital (paid up in full) t'JiXMMO-M ( Hah Asm-la, Jun. 1, ? S,VM,'Jti3'13 D1RIC0TOR8. F. Ratcnford Starr, i J. Livingston Krringer, Nalbro Frazicr, Jtiiuos K olaKhom, Juiin M. Atwood, I Win. O. Kimlton, hen). T. Yredn-k, Chsrles Whiiiilur, l.tx.rfe H. Stuart, I'i human II. Montgomery, Juliu 11 Hniwii, 1 Juiues M. AertMiu. Y. KA VOII FORD STARR. Pra.i.lent. THOMAS H MONTiiOMKKY, Viue-Preeiiout. AI.KX W. WINTKK, Neoroiarv. JACOB K. rtaUU&W, Assiataut SecreUif lit
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