THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA . WEDNESDAY MARCH 9, 1870. srznzT of tub run as. IJaitnrlnl Oplnlona sf tha Lending JsnrnaU I'pon Current Topic fiomplled Bvcrr Day for the Kvmilng ToIprnph. THE DEMORALIZED DEMOCRACY AND THE FKO3PE0T OF PAIiTlES. From th If. r. Herald. Only the other day a future full of power and promise Bnemorl possible for tlio Demo cratio party. Its anooeiw bad oproad from the city over the whole- State; and a it was ad vised with no small nagaoity, and had a gene ral harmony of purpose, it appearod not rofth to forecast ita possible triumph in the next contest for the l'rcsidency. But what a bubble all that promise was! What has be come of the hope that the Democracy might once more act on the nation as a great, united, harmonious, honest, liberal party? As the hope was bnilt on the appearance the party presented in this State, what is left of it even bere? Only four or five snarling factions. We have "the ring," or recognized Tammany leaders; the silk stocking would-be leaders, iindor the general direotion of Mr. Sammy Tilden; "the boys" that Is, the Jimmy OT.ricn and Mike Norton party; the nnion Democratic organization and the country Democracy. The countrymen know and care all about the jobs in the rural and frontier districts. Canal iobs, for instance, are their specialty. Only leave them the manipulation of all the little bits of profit and plunder to le made on the canals, and there will be har mony so far as relates to them, for they re linquish even opinion with regard to the city. But with the city factions it is quite another story. They all want everything, and the simple reason of this is because not one of them sees anything nobler or better in BHcoess than that it will give the spoils to the winner. There is no pure motive, no exalted purpose, no national spirit, and, therefore, no great mind: no organizing, conquering brain, for great Intellect is not produced in a party whose struggles are always the same mean, mercenary scramble. Mr. Sammy Tilden, it is true, in declaring to the contrary, calls our attention to his own elegance; but, alas for Sammy's argu ment, it lias been known that men have worn silk stookings who yet had very empty heads. It is the same with his reference to the "libe rality" of the august Bolmont. Something else is neoessary to consolidate a great people around a party platform beside the habit of tossing cash to the groundlings, though one can hardly expect men of Sammy's calibre to understand this. We even think that Sammy ought not to drag his "liberal" Democrat of the past into the arena again; for we do not doubt that our former Minister to the Hague would now distinctly concede that "shent per shent" has fairly failed in American politics. At a time when a country is standing in the very atmosphere of heroio achievements; when the women still wear crape for the hun dreds of thousands of gallant fellows who died for the flag; when the people have freely made illimitable sacrifices in their persons, in their comforts, in their very liberties all to secure the supremacy of an idea at such a time it seems to us a little less than decent for a party to come forward with a financier a.s its head man and to announce that this gentleman is ready to make the mo3t liberal terms. Cannot they refer ns to anybody but their banker ? . Before a people pulsating with a reinvigorating sentiment of nationality it is scarcely nandsome to present even the silk stockings of Sammy Tilden as the finest things extant. Yet what else does the De mocracy proffer ? Is it the noble disdain of law, order, and honesty that characterizes "the boys" that young Democracy which is sowing its political wild oats in the city by breaking the windows of the temple of Jus tice, and presenting the statue of the poor old goddess standing on her head. Alas for the Democraoy 1 Is this really all there is of it in the country? There were weak points in the Republican party. It presented some signs of decay. It was the instrument through which the nation asserted its purposes in the recent great con test; but its vitality seemed eaten out by the corrupt traders who had abused it to their selfish designs. It is still, however, most in svmnatbv with the popular heart. It has the advantage of appearing to the country in the person of a man nobly identified with the Greatest phase of the nation's existence a soldier, a hero, a patriot; simple-minded, pure, without other ambition than to serve the country well. This is better than for a party to appear only in the person of its financial man. Grant does not dazzle the admiring eve with the brilliancy of his state craft: but that is not what the American people want. Who is it that is carrying the nation onward in its straight course of peaoe and nrosneritv ? Who directs the policy that puts money in the people's pockets ? Under whose government is gold coming to par, and the debt growing perceptibly smaller month by month t Such points as tnese are tne ones that are vital to this nation, and they indicate that the truest dory and best safety of the republic are in the continued supremacy of tha party that governs with men like Urant TO LIVE OR DIE ? From the y. Y. Time. The Democrats have at length quite satis fied themselves of one important fact namely, that the mission of the Republican uarty is fully accomplished, and that here after it has neither a cause to excite enthu siasm in its favor, nor principles to give it vitality. This is the way in which some poll tioians are prone to speculate on the chapter of accidents as affecting their rivals. Ihey say of a man who is a stumbling-block in their path: "He is getting old, and cannot last very long. Besides, he has finished the work on which he set his heart, and now there is nothing else left for him to under take." When the rival happens to be a true man, ana not a makeshift, this kind ol pro phecy always ends in the disappointment of those who indulge in it. A man s life is never over until he is dead, and a political party never cues except py its own bands, We are not surprised to find the Domocrats proclaiming that the hour has come for the Republicans to quit the field, but it is stranae to see Republican journals ranging themselves on the same side. When the "reconstruction process is fairly over," one paper gives us to understand, the destiny of the Republicans will be fulfilled. It would be just as reasonable to assert that when we have done with reconstruction it will be a sign that the world is coming to an end. Is it serioualy supposed y our Republican friends tnat no more great problems of government are likely to con front us? that we shall never see vast diffi culties occurring on which a considerable part of the nation will be divided in opinion? A party exists, not as the advooata of one par ticular cause, but as the representative of fixed aad imperishablejideas. These ideas may ue contested airesn to-morrow on some issue which no one has yet foreseen: and the great advantage of a permanent organization is that it alwaj s stands ready to meet any emergency. Ibe good work to be achieved by the Republican party is not bounded by tho reconstruction qnoHtion. It extends far Into 1 the future, and embraces objects and ends I which we may not divine, and whioU we may not live to bco, but which, nevertheless, must eventually occupy all the foreground. The party of progress, as opposed to the party of reaction and obstruction, can never be said to have exhausted its work. The Republicans who say, "Lot us ask a decent burial of our foes, for there is no more for us to do in tho world," can never have truly realized the ex pansive force and the undying vitality which a party acquires when it is based upon tha theory that all men should find equal pro tection tinder the laws, and that we ought not to rost contented with a government until it has redressed every injustice of which great bodies of men may reasonably complain. The Democratio plans for the future fore shadow a policy which nothing but our Re publican organization can effectually frus trate. We are identified with an honorable payment of the debt, and with the cause of good and impartial government all over the country. But, besides the programme whioh could be sketched out to-day, there are all the unknown possibilities of the future to rebuke tho reckless proposal to dissolve the party. In politics, no less than in other affairs of life, no man can tell what the mor row may bring forth. We only know from all past experience and all analogy that as one great question is "sottled" another will arise before us. Was the mission of the English Liberal party accomplished when it reformed Parliament in 181(2, or when it abolished the corn laws, or when it decreed the disestablishment of the Irish Church? Is it ever at a loss for a subject on which to fight the Tories or is not rather the press of such subjects so great that no living man can hope to deal with them all ? The case is precisely the same with us. We have set tled the slavery question, and are on the eve of closing the whole subject of reconstruc tion but will no other events ocour in the United States after that ? Are the principles which brought the party into being now all withered and lifeless ? Every man who looks around him will answer, No. The Democrats are for revers ing most of the legislation of the last five years they say in their hearts, "Wait till we get into power, and then see how soon we will undo all that the radicals have done." We are in the position of a man who has built and furnished a noble mansion, and who is advised by his friends to leave it totally unguarded, after being warned that his enemies have completed a plan for seiz ing it. We have to defend the work of our hands. It would be an act of treachery with out parallel in party history if we Republi cans, as a party, now retired from the strife and allowed our foes to remain masters of the national destinies. All the evils of the past would be repeated in a still more disas trous shape. We should have made almost superhuman sacrifices for nothing, and shamefully betrayed that largo section of the people who confided their interests to us. The last state of such a people Would be worse than the fust. But tho .Republicans, notwithstanding the advice of doctrinaires, would never consent to this infatuated piece of perfidy. They will strive rather to ren der their organization more perfect and more worthy of the great issues which will inevi tably present themselves for settlement in the future. A SACRED DEBT PAY THE JUDGES. From the X. T. Sun. Nothing is more essential to the protection of the rights of the people than an indepen dent judiciary; and to have an independent judiciary tne judges must be well paid, so that they have no occasion to look octside of their salaries for the supply of their pecu niary wonts. It is also necessary that their salaries be fixed and certain at least that they be not liable to reduotion; then tho judges know what to calculate upon. Uur 1 amors, wno were wise men, under stood this matter, as they seem to have un derstood almost everything pertaining to the true principles of government. They accord ingly provided, in tne uonsutuuon jai tne United States, that "the Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their omces during good behavior, and snail, at stated times, receive for their services a com pensation which snail not be uiminiBned during their continuance in olnoe. ine Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States have accepted their omces under this pledge; and tne laitn of tne uovernment tne laitn of tne wnole people tnrougn tne Government stands pledged to its mainte nance, lias it been fulfilled t If a man promises to pay a thousand gold dollars, and he pays instead a thousand pewter dollars, does he fulfil his promise? You might as well ask whether if a man promises to pay a thousand dollars and pays a thousand cents instead, he has fulfilled his promise. Whether it be an individual or a Uovernment, it is all the same in point of principle. Now, our Government went into operation on a specie basis, the salaries of the Judges were fixed on a specie basis, and when the older members of the present court accepted their places on the bench, nothing but a specie basis of payment was supposed pos sible ever to be adopted. Yet a depreciated currency has been palmed off on these vener able men in payment of their stinted salaries. and in lien of the gold and silver which they had a right to receive. This is a plain violation of the Constitu tion. It is a principle of law, and of equity too, that a wrong shall not be perpetrated by doing that indirectly which caunot be done directly. The salaries of tho Associate Justices of the Suprorae Court are fixed by law at six thousand dollars, and the (Jonstitu tion. as we hove already shown, provides that these salaries of the Judges "shall not be diminished during their continuanoe in office." When they were fixed, specie was the basis. The Doonle. through tho Uovern rvtartf .Anf rnptArt irk i" f Via AfflnmntA .Tlia. tices of the Supreme Court each sit thousand dollars in specie. 'I hat was the legal OQtt struction of the contract. Now what differ- ence does it make whether, in the face of this constitutional prohibition, of this positive stipulation, yon compel the Judges to aooept two tnousanu aouurs lusieuu ui mi, or com pel them to accept a depreciated currency, worth only one-third the amount of specie Is it not. in substance and effect, one and the same thing ? And yet the Judges have been paid for years in a currency whioh at one time fell as low as three dollars to one in gold, or only one-third the value of specie. ' Will any one contend, in the face of these facts, that the constitutional provision has not ueen violated r that the salaries of the Judges have not been "diminished during their continuance in offioe ?" And will not Congress make amends for this iniustice Will they not repair the wrong by passing an act providing that the defloienoy shall be made up, and tuat tne arrearages due the Judges in consequence of their having re ceived their salaries in a depreciated currency shall be promptly paid by them ? Congressmen have taken good care to raise their own pay as. indeed, pay in all branohes of labor has boen raised and to make it pro portionate to the depreciation in the currency; but never a thought have they given to the patient, laborious, useful Judges. Yet Con gressmen are not debarred from other lucra tive occupations, as the Judges are. If they are lawyers, they may still practise their pro fession; but this is forbiddon by law, and very properly, to the Judges. At the same timo, tho salaries of the Judges, considering their eminent talents and learning, are very small. Many a lawyer receives, in a single oaso, fees amounting to as muoh as the ag gregate sum of a Judge s salary for live years! Look at the learned, excellent old Oner, as he could be seen one vear ago. when his body was too feeble to walk atone, tottering, sup ported by a man. to and from the court his mind still clear and remomber that he ad hered too long to his laborious duties on the bench because, honest and poor, he had been cheated out of half his honest salary. Look at Nelson we shall not look upon his like again after he has spent half a century o f in defatigable labor in nobly administering jus tice to others, shall this pitiful injustice be done to him ? But it is not alone by paying the judges in a depreciated currency that their salarios have been diminished and the Constitution has been violated. Their salaries have been further diminished by deducting from them the odious income tax. Congress has no power to tax the salaries of the judges. "The power to tax," says Chief Justioe Marshall, "involves the power to destroy. And cer tainly Congress can have no power to destroy that which it has no constitutional power to diminish. We respeotfully invite the attention of the Committee on the Judiciary, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, to the principles whioh we have stated. Mr. jjawrence, of Ohio, is also an able man and a sound lawyer; what has he to say on the sub ject? And we should suppose that the sense of justice whioh habitually prompts Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, would lead him to look into the matter. THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. rron the N. T. World. Certain inspectors of election in Western JSew iork, acting in the spirit of a too eager bridegroom who might regard a betrothal as equivalent to a marriage, and be too impa tient to wait for the ceremony, have been ad mitting negroes to the ballot in the town elections. It is questionable whether these politioal nuptials with the black race are al lowable at all; but there can be no question that the enamored parties are at least bound to await the forms of law. The duties of inspectors of election in re lation to colored voters are defined by the statutes of the otate. J. hey are to require a colored person offering to vote to take an oath by which he swears (among other things) that he possesses a freehold estate of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars above all debts and incumbrances, and that he has been aotually rated and paid a tax thereon within the preceding vear; and on no other condition can his vote be received. We quite agree with the observations of the Rochester Unim on the conduct of the inspectors who have iolated the law in receiving negro votes, and hope measures may be taken for bringing them to justice. Wo do not, however, feel quite so clear that our respected contemporary is right in the opinion it incidentally expresses or rather implies without formally expressing that after the fifteenth amendment is declared adopted, an act of Congress will be necessary for carrying it into effect. If tho amendment itself is null in consequence of the Southern ratifications being extorted, any act of Con- gresss to enforce it would be equally null, and would deserve no more respect than the naked amendment. If this State decides to obey such a law if it should be enaoted, it thereby decides, in effect, to be bound by the amendment; and as Federal interference with our elections is on all accounts unde sirable, it would be better for the State to adopt that course which would reduce such interference to a minimum. If we are going to aooept the amendment when Congress posses a law . to enforce it, it would be wiser to comply at once and take away any pretext for Congressional intermeddling. J. he chances of successfully resisting the operation of the amendment after it is de clared adopted, are very slender. Forcible resistance is not to be thought of. If the validity of the amendment is contested in the courts, the prospect seems quite hopeloss in view of the faot that when tho vacancies in the Supreme Court are filled the Republicans will have seven of the nine judges. It is better to let the miserable agitation over the negro end here than to supply it with further aliment by a bootless contest in which we are certain to be defeated, and which would not only give the radicals the advan tage of another triumph, but enable them to enlist all the newly-n-ade colored voters in their ranks. If the fifteenth amendmont is valid at all, or is to be practically aoquiesced in as valid under any circumstances, no legislation is necessary either by Congress or the States in order to give it enect. livery amendment which becomes a part of the Constitution repeuls, prinrrio rigore, all State laws and pro- : ' 1 n ( i i i;i; v : l. viMouB in me oiiue constitutions wuicu are mconsittent with it. The Constitution says of itself that it "shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitu tion or laws of any State to tho contrary not withstanding." If the fit teenth amendment, when declared adopted, is to be regarded as a fart of the Constitution, then the Mate udges will be bound by their oaths to disregard all State lawe which make any difference in the rights of voters founded on race or color. A colored man whose vote is refused will have the same remedy as a white man. The courts of justioe cannot decline to hear his com plaint and grant hl.-n redress. The law for protecting the rights of voters in this State is In these words: "If any person shall deter any elector of this State from giving his vote or ballot, of disturb or hinder him in the free exercise of the right of suffrage, at any election in this State, and shall thereof ba convicted: such persorL tta offending and con victed, shall be adjudged guilty of a misde meanor, ana oe nnea or imprisoned, aooora ing to the discretion of the oourt before which such conviction shall be had; such fine in no case to exceed five hundred dollars, nor such imprisonment one year." If a person should be arraigned for preventing a negro iron voting, and should plead the law of the State in justification, the oourt would disre gard the plea if the fifteenth amendment should be held to be a part of tha Consti lutioo. If there is any method of successfully' thwarting the fifteenth amendment, we hope it will be promptly pointed out and well sup ported by arguments; but if no suoh method oan be staled and put in a convincinglight.'it j is not expedient to provoke Congress to pans oppressive and intermeddling election laws by a show or impotent oppomlion which will turn the wholo negro voto against us. THE CnURCII AND STATE MOVE. From the A'. 1'. World. There has been of late a convention iu session at Pittsburg engaged in drawing up an indictment of inhdohty against the Ameri can people, specifying that said people have no recognition of God in their fundamental law. One of the artioles of this indictment, or, to put it as tho convention put it, one of tne resolutions adopted, refers to the neces sity of affording "the fullest eonrity against a corrupt and corrupting church establish ment;" by which, we take it, tho convention means to allude to that Catholio faith pro f eased by so large and respectable a body of our fellow-citizens. Now, we means to com pare divers of the resolutions adopted by this convention with certain of tho canons in the nchcma lately put forth in connection with the (Ectimenioal Council, and desire the care ful attention of the reader to the exhibit thus made: bomb. , rrrrsnrrRO. Canon X VIII. Whoso- Henolvrd. That civil gov. ever nays that the power eminent Is grounded, like necessary for the Ruvern-jthe family, la the priu mentof a civil State does clplcs of tho nature of not emanate from Oort, or man as a social creature; that one Is not bound by and that it has Its Dowers Divine law to submit him- and functions thug doter- self to such power, or th at mined bj the Creator, and such power Is repugnant is, therefore, like the to the natural liberty of family, an ordinance of men, let him be anathe- Ooa. ma. Iietalved. That nations. Canon X. whosoeveras sovereignties wielding says that the church Is moral as wall as physical not a perfect Institution, I power, and having moral but merely a corporation,! as well as material eiraots, or that it is of such a na-'are morally accountable mre, wun regard to civil to uou. society or tne state, as to liesoivea, Tnat tne pro be subject to temporal posed religious amend- powcr, iet him be anathe ma. ment to our national Con stitution, so far from In- Canon XII. whosoever rnngiug any individual s rights of conscience, or says that Christ, our 8a- vlour and Sovereign, hag ; tending in the least de- conferred npon the church gree to a union of Church tne power to direct oniy. ana state, will anord tne by advice and persuasion fullest security against a corrupt and corrupting church establishment, and form the stromrest safe- those wno turn aside, not to compel them by orders, by coercion, and by exter- nai veraicuianu siaiuiary guaraoi Dointne oivuand pnnlshments, let him be religious liberties of all anaineina. citizens. The worthy gentlemen who met at Pitts burg, and drew up, among other resolutions, those above set forth, would doubtless con sider iC a very grievous thing were any to charge them with seeking a union of Church and btate; and yet see how closely the utter ances ot tnese gentlemen wno express an abhorrence of that doctrine agree with the declarations of those other gentlemen at Home who do really believe in Church and Btate, and are, therefore, consistent, at least in tneir opinions as above given, bo re mtrkable a similarity, much as it may griove our 1'ittsburg friends, doos mean Church and State; and that meaning is intensified by the fact that prominent in that convention were such well-known politicians as J. W. MoClurg, Governor of Missouri; General O. O. Howard, of the Bureau; and Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Church. We beg these gentlemen, and tnose otners with whom they are associ ated in this matter, to have a care as to what they do. 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INLAND INSURANCES On goods by river, canal, lake ami land carriage to an pans ri inr union. FIKK INSliKANCKS On MercuandlM generally; on b lores, Dwellings, Houses, etc ASSETS OF TUB COMPANY November 1, 1H9. 1200,000 United Htates Five Per Cent, Loan, ten-forties 21S,000"00 100,000 United Btates 8ix Percent. Loan (lawful money) lOT.TSWOO 60,000 United fttntes blx for Cent. Loan,lB61 60,000-00 900,000 8Ute of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan SiaSO-OO 100,000 City of Philadelphia Blx Per Cent. Loan (exempt from tax) 100,929-00 100,000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 102,000-00 S0,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds 19,48000 (6,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se cond mortgage Six per Cent. Bonds 13,620-00 80,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail road Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania Railroad guarantee) 10,000-00 0,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan 15,00000 7,000 btate of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Loan 4,270 00 18,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, S60 shares stock 14,000-00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, 100 snares stock I......... 1,900-OC 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Com pany, 80 shares stock 7,600-00 144,000 Loans on Bond and Mort iiire. flrat Uens on Cltv Properties 84,00-00 11,231,400 Par. Market ralue, $1,806,810-00 COBt. 11.216.622 "81. Real Estate 8,ooo-oo Bills Receivable for insurances made. . . 8li3,70O-fB uaiances one at Airenc leg: Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued Interest, and other debts due the Com pany 6S.09T-90 Stock, fck-rlp. etc., of Sundry Corpora, tlons, 14706. Estimated value S,T40-S0 i;aaa in rsaoi iea,3istj CabU la Drawer B7S-S4 183,991-14 11,863,100-04 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, Samuel E. Stokes, William (4. Boulton, Edward Darlington, H. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafouxcade, Jacob Rlegel, Jacob P. Jones, James B. McFarland, juun f. uavia, Edmand A. Bonder, Theophllus Paulding, James Traqualr, iienrj sioun, Ilenry C. Dallett, Jr., James C. Hand, William C. Lndwlg, Joseph II. Seal, Hugh Craig, John D. Taylor, George W. Bernadon, Joshua P. Eyre, Spencer Mcllvaln, J. B. Sample, Pltubnrg, A. If. Berber, Pittsburg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg. iri11l..m J-, TlA.,..lnn TiiuMAo U. hand, president. JOHN C. DAVIS. Vlce-rTealdent. IIKTsRY LYLDURN, Secretary. iinjNtti uaiai Assistant secretary. 11 INSURANCE COMPANY or NORTH AMERICA. Januarx 1, 1870. Incorporated 1901. Charter Perpetual. CAPITAL 8500,000 ASSETS S,783,3Sl Lasses paid since organization . . . .823,000,000 Receipts of Premiums, 1S....81,91,S37,43 Interest from Investment, '69. 114,60674 84.1 06,33410 Losses paid, 1S60 81,033,330-81 Statement of tho Assets. First Mortgage on City Property f766,450 United State Government and otber Loan Bond 1,123,846 Railroad, Bank and Oanal Stock. . . . 65,708 847.KM 83,668 321,944 20,357 85,198 100,900 80,000 Cash In Bank and Offlo Loan en Collateral Security Note Receivable, mostly Maiine Premium. . . Accrued Interest Premium In oourae of transmisaie Unsettled Marine Premium Real Estate, Offloe ot Company, Philadelphia. . DIRECTORS. Arthur O. Coffin, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Chanee Taylor, Ambrose White, William Welsh, S. Horri Wain. John Maun, George L. Harrison, Francis R. Oope, Kdward H. Trotter, Kdward 8. Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jessup, Louis O. Madeira, Chariea W. Ooshmaa, Clement A. Qriecom, William Brockie. ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President. OUARLKS PLAT r. Vio President. Matthias Mabis, Seoretary. C. H. Reeves, Assistant Seoretary. 8 4 1829 CHARTEB PERPETUAL. IgjQ Frantlin Fire tarance Company Ot PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St Assets Jan. 170, $2,825,73 1'67 CAPITAL $400,000 00 ACCRURD SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS... .8,4,7al S7 INCOME FOR ISiO, (JlO,UUO. LOSSF8 PAID IN 1889, jl44,9U8 43. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Term. The Company also isauea policies upon the Rents of all kinds of liuildlnKS, Ground Reuls, and MortsaKes, 'Ike 'IRANKllN" haano DISPUTED CLAIM. DIRKOTORS. . . Alfred G. Baker. A urea ritier, Thomas Spark. William 8. Grant, Thomas 8. Kllia, GuMavn. H. Henann. Saiuuet Grant, George W. Richard, Isaac Lea. George Fales, ALFRED O. BARER. President. GEORGE FALES, V loo-President. ' JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. TURODORK M. RKGKK, Aasutant Seoretary. 8 19 A S B U DEfc Y ; LIFE INSURANCE CO , N. Y. Number ol Policies itsued by the fir largest Nw Tor I Companias during th flrtt jeArtef Uielf existence: MUTUAL. (23 months). Nfcw" "IORK (18 months). 1009 1031 MANHATTAN (it months) 8a3 KNICKERBOCKER... (SiOiiioulliH) M9 EQU1TAULJC. (IT months) 664 Daring- the 81 months of Its existence the ASBURY HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, INSURING NEARLY $0,000,000. Reliabl Canvassing Agents wanted throughout th country. JAMES M. LQNQAORK, i Manar for Pennsylvania nd Delaware, rmnm. Nn ,7 4 A I.NUT Street, PbiUdalnbia. SAMUEL POWERS, Speoial Agent 4 16 FIliE INSUTLANCE OO. LONDON. KSTABUSIIED 1803. Pid-op Cspttsi and Accumulated Funds, 08,000,000 XIV GOLD. PKEV0ST ft HEEKINO, Agents, 1 41 Ho. 10T & THIRD Street, PbilAdolphlA. CHAR. M. PREY08T, CHAS, p. BXRSIKQ INSURANCE.. F RE ASSOCIATIO INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 18). OFFIOK, NO. 84 NORTH FIFTH ST R RET, tf. INSURK BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From loss by Fir (In the City of Philadelphia only). ASSETS, JAM; Alt Y 1, 1S70. 9 1,374,7 33 !l . TRUSTERS. TVM. H. HAMILTON, JOHN CAKKOW, GKOKOK I. YOU NO. CHARLKR P. ROWER, JK8SK LIGHTFOOT, ROUT. 8HOK.WAKKR, PKIKH A It M HIlUhl'RR. JOH. K. LYNDALL, 1 Iff 1 ilil ATU SAMUKL 8FAKH AWK iiij-ivr, k r. i r, w tt 1 JOSEPH R. BCUULL. PETER WILLIAMSON. Bi'llL'f f ' Vf M. H. HAMILTON. President. SAMUEL SPA RH AWK, Vloe President. WILLIAM T. BUTLER. Seoretary. 864 pAMX INSURANCE COMPANY. No, B09 OHK8NTJT Btreet INCORPORATED 1868. CHARTER PERPFTTf A r,; CAPITAL, 300,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insure acainst Los or Damac by Firs sltbar by Par. petnal or Temporary Follows. UlRKnl-U Cbarl Rlobardaon, , Robert Pi Kill William H. KUawn, William M. Seyters. Jobn F. Smith, Nathan Hille. John KaMler, Jr.. Kdward B. Urns, Charles Stokes, Jobn W. F.Termaa, Mordeeai Buabv. treOTS A, West, CHARLE8 RICHARDSON. President. WILLIAM II. RUAWN. Vlos-Prteiden. WnxiAV L Blamobahd. Seoretary. t i THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. 07 PHILADELPHIA. Office S. W. comer of FOURTH and WALNUT BtreeU. i'iin inn i. i n n ' i AAuitUOl vXLjur. PERPETUAL AND TERM POI.lnilCH IMHITft-n CASH Capital (paid np in full) J04UO-00 Cash Asset, Jan. 1, 1870 83:44,363 'IS 1RKCTOKH. V. Ratohford Starr, , J. Livingston Rrrimrac. Nalhro Frazier. James Iu CUghorn, John M. A ( wood, Heni. T. Trediok. . ' w. V.. IX IU 1 KJU, Charles Wbeeler, George H. Stuart, John IL Brown, ' Jaroee M. Aertasn. j nomas ll. juonuromar. r . Miunrunu bi akk, rreetdant. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vies-Prsld sat. ALEX. W. WISTER, Seoretary. JACOB K. PETERSON. Assistant Secretary T hke PENNSYLVANIA FIRS INSURANCE twWlll IMH.lA.1 IWK-ilk.UM wnran x . No. BIO WALNUT Street opposite ludftpendeno S-mara. Thl Company, favorably known to tb oommnniiy foe over fort y years, continues to insure aaainet loa or dam. age oy nrs on rnnuo or ravM noitainyt.IelUler Mrm. of Ooeds. and Merchandise generally, en liberal tnrma. nentiy or lor a limited una Also on turnitnre, Htooan - J 1 I- V v i: ti i.i i 71 "e Their Capital, together with a large Sorpln Fund, Is Invested In the moat oarefnl manner, whioh enable the to oSer to th Insured an undoubted sosrity ia aba aaaa of loss. . . Daniel Smith, Jr.. ATIBZUZ aV. John Dovwreos. l'homa Smith, Henry Iwia. Alexander Benson. Isaac Havlehurat. IT 1J i. i J. GilliuihamF! DAN1KL SMITH. Jb.. Prssiden WM. O. OROWKLL. Seorstary. Mt QREAT WESTERN Mutual Life Insurance Co OF NEW TORE. EDWIN E. SIMTSON, MANAGER, IVo. SIS WAL.MT St., PlUlada. All the good, squltabl and liberal feature of th best Life Insurance Companias ar guaranteed to th policy bolder of this Company. lSSstuthSm Liberal arrangement mad with competent agents. SEWINQ MACHINES. TEt 12 M O "V -A- L. THE PARHAM SEWING MACHINE CO. HAYB XI E JSI O r E O FROM No. 704 CIIESIVUX St. TO THEIR MANUFACTORY, SS4, SSO and SS8 SOUTH FIFTH STREET, Where all orders for their CELEBRATED MA CHINES will hereafter be addressed, and where a large assortment of them will be kept on hand and disposed of at ' 13 83 1st Wholesale and Retail, ON THE MOST FAV0B ABLE TERMS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE. A New Course of Lecture, a delivered at th New York Museum of Anatomy, arubraoing th subject How to Live, and What to Lire for; Youth. Maturity, en Old Acs; Manhood General! 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