THE DAILY EVENING TELEGKAril PHILADELPHIA , THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1870.
onniT or xnn ranss.
Edil-rtal Opinions af the I.eadlng Jaaranfa
L'uou Cnrrfint Taolrte Compiled Kr
Dm tor tli Krealnc Telegraph.
IS GRANT TItYIXO TO FORM A PER
SONAL PARTY V
"row the S. r. Sun.
It La been cnutiomly but significantly
giren ont that General Grant intend in every
event to be a candidate for rc-eloction. This
being bo, it Deems impossible to account for
bis persistent pursuit of a policy which di
rectly tends to the destruction of the Kepnb
lican party, except upon the hypothesis that
be is resorting to the desperate expedient of
trying to form a personal party, and run as
its nominee in 1872 over the ruins of the
organization that in 18GU placed him in the
.White House.
Though the attempt to organize a personal
political party is hostile to the genius of our
institutions, it is not beneath the ambition
f a really great man. The attempt to form
buuu a party iu mis vuuuuj una vwix
in two conspionous instances. De Witt Clin
ton tried it in the State of New York, and
t General Jackson on the wider theatre of the
Union. Each possessed mental and personal
qualities admirably adapted to give the ex
periment the best possible show for suocess,
and both made the endeavor at periods in our
political history when, if ever, the attempt
jnight have ben crowned with triumph.
Clinton was a statesman of the broadest
Views and the highest reaoh of intellect, a
skilful and successful politician, a man of
vigorous will and indomitable courage, who
Idolized the State of New York, to which he
And his family had rendered distinguished
services. lie made the effort to form a per
sonal party during the war with England,
when the Federal party was going to pieces.
But, when he ran for the Presidency in oppo
sition to Madison, a very unpopular candi
date, though he was able to carry his own
Etate by a peculiar combination of circum
stances, he failed to obtain the vote of any
other Republican State, and was ingloriously
beaten.
With political prospects seemingly blasted
forever, Clinton soon promulgated the policy
of constructing our present canals. The war
was over, old issues had passed away, party
lines were partially obliterated, and the public
mind of New York was prepared to appreciate
the bold conception of connecting the western
and nothern lakes with the Hudson river by
means of the Erie and Champlain canals.
There was a strong Clintonian party in exist
ence; but throughout the dozen years that
intervened between the bright day when
Clinton, spade in band, amid the booming of
cannon and the acclamations of thousands of
Spectators, broke ground for the Erie Canal,
down to the wintry night when, in the quiet
of his library, while preparing a message to
the Legislature, the pen dropped from his
band and his heart ceased to beat, it was not
the Clintonian party that gave him victory in
bis memorable contests with Tompkins, Tall
madge, Root, and Van Buren, but it was the
canals that always tided him over all obsta
cles, and bore him in triumph to the State
Capitol.
But Governor Clinton's partially successful
nft'nrt to form a nersonal nartv in New York
deprived him of a political following in the
other portions of the Union, and neither of
the great parties of the country would accept
bim as their leader. Though one of the
Ablest statesmen in the republic, he attained
and kept power in this btate by modes wmcn
rendered his election to the Presidency an
impossibility.
General Jackson's attempt to form a per
sonal party was a more signal failure than
that of Governor Clinton. The victory of
New Orleans had given him a wide popularity,
Amid the dissolution of parties in the Monroe
era. be wrote a series of letters clearly indi
eating that he was in favor of forming a
political combination out of the dissolving
factions, of which he was to be the central
figure. His bold ideas, his military fame, his
lofty courage, his inflexible will, the irresisti
ble magnetism wmcn be sned all around mm,
bis political catholicity, the chaotic condition
of old organizations, and his position as the
representative man of the Mississippi valley,
all seemed to indicate that Jackson's efforts
to found a personal party might be crowned
Vith success. He tried the experiment as a
Presidential candidate in 1824, backed by a
numerous and powerful body of friends, and
be failed. He then fell into wiser hands.
'The Democratic Republican party made him
their candidate against Mr. Adams, and he
was elected. Since that event nobody has
tried to organize a personal party on any con
siderable scale, unless we include in this cate
gory the ridiculous failures of John Tyler
and Andrew Johnson.
To compare General Grant as a statesman
of ideas, as a politician capable of drawing
around him and binding to his standard in
congruous elements, as a civil leader in dif
ficult times, whose words and example can
electrify the masses of the people we say,
to attempt to compare him with De Witt
Clinton or Andrew Jackson, borders on the
absurd. And yet, it looks as if he was going
to try the experiment of forming a personal
Sarty to perpetuate his feeble hold upon the
residency. That he will fail in a field where
Clinton and Jackson did not succeed, is a
foregone conclusion. The wonder is that
be should be so foolish as to make the at
tempt. General Grant's attachment to the Republi
can party is very weak. Indeed, he never
belonged to it, nor even claimed to belong to
it until it had become necessary to his eleva
tion. Previous to his inauguration he in
formed Mr. McOlure of Pennsylvania that
be had not been a Republican. His selection
of a Cabinet verifies this declaration. Not a
member of it was the ehoice for that position
of the Republican party of the State whence
be came. With perhaps one exception they
are men or very moderate attainments, sink
tag into dwarfs by the side of the distin.
guished leaders of the party, and therefore
owing their elevation solely to him, and likely
to wield tae great influence of their positions
for the promotion of his ambitious schemes
and the gratification of his personal aspira
lions.
- The many strange appointments he has
made, and, indeed, the goneral distribution
of his patronage, seem to spring from the
same motive as that which controlled the
selection of his Cabinet. He likes to be sur
rounded by small men in the White House
and the departments, wno will owe their ad
vancement solely to him. He desires to be
followed by a train of beneficiaries through
out the country, many of them incompetent
and extremely unpopular, some of them dis
honest, and the great body of them without
any claims upon the Republican party; but
like the Swiss cruardfl of Louis, they will
fight for the chieftain who discovered their
mei its and pays their wages.
1 Upon what other principle than the hypo
thesis we have suggested can we aooount for
General Grant's appointing so many of his
relation ft office?, vt-w wane
explain his readiness to confer high and
lucrative places upon those who have given
him valuable presents, thus suggesting un
favorable comparisons between himsolf and
Andrew Johnson, whom he was so eager to
drive from the White Houso by an impeach
ment ? How else can we acconnt for his
alacrity to accept gifts from anybody, and of
1
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any kind, from houses ana ianos aown 10
horses and dogs, thus sinking his threat office
into contempt before all the poople 't Know
ing that this disgraceful practice will of itself
so bring liim into reproach as to render it
impossible for the Republican party to re
nominate him, that it tends directly to the
destruction of the confiding organization
which made him President, he must look
upon the destruction of the party with cool
iudifferenoe, though determined "to make a
good thing out of it while it lasts," and re
solved, through the agency of a "Grant
party, " to take his chanocs for a re-election
in 1872.
' That General Grant will be utterly disap
pointed in his personal aspirations, it needs
no prophet to predict. That he may succeed
in ruining the party which trusted him is
quite possible. That he will be able to ad
vance even in sight of the point where Clin
ton and Jackson failed, is to the last degree
improbable. That he will be dismissed from
the White llouse on the 4tn or uaron, 11:5,
with the same indifference, not to say con
tempt, that followed the departure of John
Tyler and Andrew Johnson, history will
doubtless reeord.
HOW TO RETRENCH.
From the N: T. Tribune,
How well certain underground premises
are paved with good intentions, most people
have heard. Merely to will, in a vague, luke
warm fashion, that wrongs should be righted.
does not right them. We have had talk
enough about retrenchment, and that policy
would seem to have a superabundance of
friends; yet they served it as a bushel of
snowballs might a oold tea-kettle which they
were expected to raise to the boiling point by
an evolution of their latent heat. We pro
pose to offer a few suggestions to those mem
bers of Congress who are heartily desirous
of reducing the national expenditures:
m I. Our naval service is too costly. We
need not keep so many vessels afloat in a time
of general peace. We have too many officers
on duty, and far too many drawing pay for
whom no duty can be invented. Congress
ought to cut down our naval establishment,
and direct that all superfluous officers be mus
tered out. We cannot afford to pay men for
doing nothing, nor to find or make work for
those who have nothing to do.
II. It is monstrous impolioy to lay up old
vessels in ordinary, and pay men to look on
while they rot. Better sell thorn, if only for
so much scrap-iron and oven-wood. When
we come to want fighting vessels again these
will be found entirely out of date, if not
ruined by corrosion. Sell them, if only to be
broken up.
III. We have too many navy yards. We
believe both the Brooklyn and Philadelphia
should be discontinued and sold out. If our
yard were forty miles up the Hudson, it would
be safer from hostile assault or skulking trea
son, and it ought not to cost half to remove
it that the present site would sell for. So the
Cbarlestown yard should be given up or con
solidated with the Portsmouth. It is tho
roughly imbedded in a dense population, and
should be promptly extricated. We would
suggest Portsmouth, West Point, and some
place just above New Orleans on the Missis
sippi (instead of Ponsacola) as the locations
for our three only navy yards, selliag out all
the others.
IV. Our army should be cut down one-half
we mean the officers. Four regiments of
good dragoons, well led, would be worth
twenty regiments of infantry and artillery on
the plains. Railroads are our true peace
makers. Bun one through Arizona and
another through our Northern territories,
appoint honest Quakers for Indian agents,
and subject all who sell "fire-water" to In
dians to drumhead court-martial taking care
first to burn their liquor if it will burn, and
destroy it some other way if it will not and
four regiments of dragoons will better guard
our settlements than our army now does.
Let our regiments be few, and let all super
numerary officers be mustered out forthwith.
V. We have a large assortment of mints.
assay offices, etc., which seem to us not par
ticularly ornamental while not at all useful.
Let us have some of them sold out that at
Denver, for one. It is not earning its salt,
and its prospect is not improving. We have
more mints and assay offices than we had
fifteen to twenty years ago, when we were
producing far more gold and silver than now.
Lu6t every one go ot which the annual cost is
more than one per cent, of the metal coined
or assayed therein. If that rule should con
demn our assay office, abolish it.
I. If we shall be so fortunate as to get rid
of the franking privilege, let the oostof print
ing for Congress be cut down at least half,
and dismiss the army of holders, backers, etc.,
lodged in the vaults of the Capitol. The con
tingent expenses of Congress should surely
be reduced one-half.
VII. As to judioial and other salaries, it
should be borne in mind that, through the ap
preciation of our currency, they are at least
twenty per cent, higher than they were ten
months ago, and will be at least ten per cent.
higher still whenever we shall have returned
to specie payments. Hasten that happy day!
i he above are but points. They might
be largely extended. Republicans in Con
gress! the country expects much of you in
the way of retrenchment. Let her not be
disappointed!
BOUTWELL AS A SEAL FISHER.
From the N. T. World.
The busy brain of Boutwell contains con
volutions which the ordinary mind is quite
incapable to enumerate or to comprehend.
But even all the fertility of resouroes which
he has heretofore displayed is thrown into
dim eclipse by bis recent financial device,
whereby ne purposes to take under his own
immediate oontrol the fisheries of Alaska.
It is lamentable to remark that this propo
sition is reoeived with ridicule by that por
tion of the press which saw nothing prepos
terous in the other expedients which our
"child in finance," as a disrespectful English
print had the hardihood to call him, has con
tributed to the relief of the Treasury and the.
entertainment of mankind. There are really
reasons why the philanthropio mind should
contemplate with equanimity, and even with
gratification, the speotaole of a Boutwell tra
versing the waters of Sitka with a harpoon
in one band and a blubber-spade in the
other, denuding the backs no longer of his
oountrymen, but of the glossy and learned
seal whose acquaintance Mr. Ex-Seoretary
Seward professes himself so proud to have
made, and "trying ont," not the patience of
mankind, but only the blubber of the long
suffering walrus.
The reoent precipitation of Mr. Seward
upon his native soil makes this topio particu
larly timely. Pains post are present plea
flliies, sad it is in accordance with the nature
of man that we shonld forget in the fresh
gonies daily inflicted upon us by a Boutwell
the pangs which we were wont to suffer from
a Seward. By comparison with the adminis
tration of President Grant, the administra
tion of President Lincoln has been liftod into
sublimity; and by the standard of a Boutwell,
the memory of a Seward has come to soom
an amiable and pleasant thing. Neverthe
less, it must be owned he was a nuisance.
Let alone the outrages upon publio justioo
and private freedom which he prostituted his
position to perpetrate, have we forgotten the
dreary oratory which he used to deliver
in solilonnv in the garden of his
sweet retreat at Auburn, and which
he subsequently procured to be printed?
The eenoral publio, too happy, like
Virgil's husbandman, if only it had known
its own happinoss, coniu reiram irora roaa
ing these utterances of the sibylline Soward.
But what journalist whose dismal duty it was
to wade through that weary waste of words,
if haply he could find floating therein some
faint foreshadowing of a coherent notion or
some fragment of exposition of offloial policy,
has forgotten the horrors of the task? The
speech entered into his soul. But Mr. Seward
went to Alaska. In that blest region there
was no telegraph through which he might
promulgate himself. There was no newspaper
to print him. There were no frequent postal
facilities by which he could devastate the
newspapers of his distant homo. There was
even no audience which could writhe undor
hiB voice. Of course, he made speeches. As
with the dogs of the fervid Watts, it was his
nature to. But he could not inflict them
upon other people. He addressed the Oregon,
and heard no sound, save his own dashings.
Sweet peaco came upon us, and the land had
rest.
But. though Seward was thus an element
in the sum of human misery, we cheerfully
concede that he was as balm to Boutwell. In
his arrests, indeed, he fell alike upon the evil
and the good. But the much more serious
infliction of his eloquence only embittered
the lives of those who for their sins were con-
deroned, or from their own depravity delibe
rately elected, to undergo it. uut the bitter
ness of Boutwell conies home to the business
and bosom of every man. He is about our
bed and about our path, and spying out, for
purposes of revenue, all our ways. The per
formance of any commercial transaction
whatever involves a certain votive offering to
the inefficiency with which he has managed
the finances of the nation. Lot him by all
means go to Alaska and skii seals. That will
really add to the national wealth, and it will
immeasurably enhance the national happi
ness. He may, indeed, come back. But he
will in the meantime have at least learned
how sublime a thing it is to suffer and
be strong. Ho might be easily borne
with ia a subdued condition. See how much
a sojourn in Sitka has improved Mr. Seward.
He has actually declined a publio reception,
Does anybody suppose that the unregenerate
Seward whom we knew before he had been
purged and chastened by a coarse of frozen
tallow and walrus-blubber would not have
leaped into the embraces of any municipality
which offered hini such an opportunity for
the public utterance of his bland unintelligi-
bilities? Who knows but that Boutwell might
return to us in a similarly frozen frame of
mind? Of course, there is no hope that Mr.
Seward is concealed into permanent silence.
The fruitful southwest gale of April will thaw
him, and he will gush again. But even the
temporary absence of Boutwell would give us
a chance to establish the finances beyond even
his powers of prostration. And even the
temporary absence of Boutwell would, in any
case, be such a boon that we need not inquire,
with too curious a solicitude, into what may
happen alter he comes back.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION
REPUBLICANS STILL IN THE AS
CENDANT.
From the A". 1'. Herald.
The returns indicate that at the election in
JN6W lianipsmre tne nepubiicana suc
ceeded in retaining their ascendancy in the
State, electing their candidate for Governor
and securing a majority in the Legislature.
This will send Mr. Cragin back to the
United States Senate, and as he is an ardent
friend of the administration of General Grant,
his return to the Senate chamber may be re
garded as among the most important results
ot tne election.
The vote was large, but the Republican
majority was considerably reduced, being only
about fifteen hundred against between three
and four thousand last year. The heavy vote
may be acconnted for from tne fact that the
sleighing was good "from the sea to the Coos,
above tne Upper (Joos, giving all parties
fair chance to test their relative strength at
the polls. "Why did not the Democracy carry
tne btate t .Let us see.
But a few days ago the Democraoy of New
Hampshire never had a brighter prospect to
redeem the State from radical thraldom. The
eruptions among the radioels, the throwing
up of such segments as the labor reform fac
tion under bam lint, and tne temperance
faction under the Rev. Mr. Barrows, afforded
them opportunities of conciliating a resect
able portion of the radical party, and winning
tnem permanently to tne Democratic Bide.
Some of the prominent Democratic papers in
the State, and the most prominent Demooratio
organ nearest home favored a recognition of
the radical malcontents. On the other hand
old line Democrats spurned the idea of affilia
tion in any manner with their ancient foea,
come in what garb they might. What fol
lowed? A regular plug ninss between the De
mocratic State Central Committee and the
State central organ, in which words common
to the New York radical press, such as "un
mitigated liars," "you lie, you villain," and
other elegant phrases were bandied between
tnem. lima was a little private arrangement
between the Democratic leaders and a few
leading radical seceders knocked into a cocked
hat, not absolutely by the defection of the
anti-radicals themselves, but by the squabbles
and wrangles, and jobbing railroad collisions
and jobbing railroad collusions among the
Democrats themselves.
Taking advantage of this Demooratio dis
cord, the radicals threw their whole strength
into the canvass. From every seotion radi
cal orators poured into the hills and valleys of
tne uranite Btate. The departments ana ine
halls of Congress in Washington aent their
oratora la arnriRA thnlr nnailinff and Quiver
ing clans. The grandeur of General Grant's
military achievements was again depioted.
The opposition to his statecraft was shown
to be a weak invention of the enemy. The
financial measures of his administration were
presented in a stronir licht. The reduotion of
the national debt, the reduction in the prioe
of gold, the gradual approach to the granite
foundation of all hade, commerce, and na
tionality specie payments ware portrayed in
a light that first dazzled the eyes and then
won the hearts of those radicals who were
wavering in fidelity to the administration of
their choice. Fatriotio as the sons of New
Hampshire are, and warmly sympathizing
they do with people struggling lor freedom,
the lukewarameas of the administration ia
regard to the non-recorrnition of the inde
pendence of Cnha was offset by the notorious
and pregnant fact that a well-known New
Hampshire Democrat, once occurring a high
pofition in the affections of the New Hump-
Kiiiro people, and in the confidence of a New
Hampshire ex-PreMdent. wos and ia now a
paid advocate in the service of Spain to
crush out republican libertv on the island of
Cuba.
Our copious despatches render further com
ment tinon the rpHnltR of thn firt run of the
political campaign unnecessary. We must
say, however, that, in our opinion it was only
the personal popularity of General Grant and
the abominable dissensions and atrocious and
inconceivably stupid conduct of the Demo
cratic managers that plucked from the Demo
cracy of New Hampshire the plume of load
ing me Uemocracy of the nation to certain
success in 1872. Let the discordant Demo
cracy in other States take warning.
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT AND TOLICY.
I'rom the y. r. Timet.
Several Southern journals respond to the
ideas recently advanced in these columns in
regard to the trne reconstruction policy of
the South. It will be remembered that we
deprecated the longer continuance of the
ancient sectional animosities which existed
previous to and during the war, and coun
selled an acceptance by the South of the fun
damental political consequences which have
since been wrought out. We did this upon
the ground that the old political antagonisms
had been submitted to the tribunal of dernier
rcssott, the wager of battle, and had been de
cided adversely to the South: that in the re
sulting adjustments the South had no voice;
that those adjustments being fully agreed
upon ana settled, torbearance and amnesty
to the South became the duty as well as the
true policy of the North; and finally, that
an mis baa developed a corresponding obli
gation on ine pari 01 the Bontn to lorego its
obstruction and accept the result in a spirit
01 restored nationality.
in reply to these ideas, it is urcred that the
South has not been permitted to exercise any
free will in .the reassumntion of its statu in
tne union, and that no obligation, therefore.
. . .... -
resis upon k. in the very nature of things,
such a concession could not have been made.
it would have been ridiculous to have con.
suited an enemy fresh from battle-fields, with
hearts still beating with race and bitter
hatred, as to tho conditions of peace, or thn
political flatus of the future. Of course, the
South would have clung to the issues nnnn
which the war was fought; in fact, we have
seen that from the moment the Rebel armies
laid down their arms, they took up the same
old arguments they had used previous to the
war. ihey have done little else than cry out
against usurpation, and tyranny, and military
despotism, and the iutrusion of Northern
people, ever since.
It was untortunuto for the whole country.
and especially for the Soutn, that the process
01 reconsiruciion was embarrassed and pro
longed. Had it been consummated four
years ago even upon the basis finally
adopted we should have encountered less
opposition, North as well as South. The ex-
Rcbcls certainly had a more submissive tem
per theui than now, and what seems almost
unendurable in lSiiMvouiu nave been ac
cepted by them as uuexpectedly lenient in
18t. They had a chastened spirit then
which held their assertion in check.
We do not want the South to be humiliated
or politically disabled, and we do not expect
that its people will charge its purely social
organization. We do maintain, however, that
it ought, cheerfully and sincerely, to lay
aside its revived sectional prejudice, together
witn ail tne 01a heresies which brought on
the war. It must put away tho idea that a
State is in any respect greater than the nation.
and that there is any one class of men whose
political rights are less than those of another s.
e wouia ireeiy ana luny concede to our
Southern brethren equal freedom with our
selves to regulate their social, industrial, and
political aff airs under the Constitution. We
would place them side by side with us in those
respects, but not one step in advance or to
the one side or the other of us.
With regard to the future but little can be
said. The South holds its political destiny
in 11s own nanas, subject only to the restric
tions of the Constitution as amended, and
the spirit, either, of conformation or resist-
ance, wmcn snail prevail. 11 it shall con
tend against accomplishment, and seek to
revive dead issues, it can only retard its own
material prosperity, and reject that equal
participation in the poli' jal action of the
future which we feel confident the mode
rate sentiment of the North is anxious to
tender.
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an pnni or t.no union.
PI UK INSURANtlw
On Merchandise BrnenillT; on aujres, Dwelling.
uousea, etc
ASSETS OF TI1K COMPANY .
November 1,
1200,000 United tiutt'8 Five Per Cent.
Loan, ton-forties 11,HMD0
100,000 Un lied BtitU's Hix Percent.
Loan (low rul money) 10T,T3OD0
60,000 United ntntea blx rer Cent.
IOan. lssi 80,000 OO
S00.000 Bute or Pennsylvania Six Ter
Cent, Ixrnn 913,950-00
w,uvu vnj 01 rniiaaetpma mx rer
Cent. Loaa (exempt from
tax) 00,W3-00
100,000 State of New Jersey Blx Per
Cent. Loan 104,0001)0
w,vuu x-ennBT-iviima nauroaa rirst
Mortfffure Blx Per Cent.
Bonds 19,50-00
xo.uuu renrmTivania Kaiiroan se
cond mortjrwre Hix ner Cent.
Bonds 18,8WO0
80,uuu w esTrn i-ennsyivania itau
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) M.OOO'OO
80.000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan IB, 000 DO
i,wu orate or Tennessee six l'er
Cent. Loan
18,900 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, vno Bharea stock
6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, 100 shares
stock
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mail Steamship Com
pany, B0 shares stock
S,V00 Loans on Bond and Mort
Kftire. Orst hens on CUT
4,270-00
14,000 -00
8,900-00
7,900-00
Properties WMOO-OO
$1,231,400 Par, Market value, 1,55,S70'00
Coat. Sl.SlS.822-.
Real Estate M.ooo-oo
Bills Receivable for Insurances made... 'ia,I00-I8
balances aue at Agencies :
Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
Interest, and other debts due the Com
pany 68.09I-93
Stoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora
tions, 84706. Estimated value 8,740-30
casn in isank i6S,3is-ss
Cash la Drawer 8-7S-S6
169,1-14
11,362,100-04
DIRECTORS.
Tnomoa C Band.
.... ... ,
Ham net S. Stokes,
William (4. Boultoo,
Kdward Darlington,
II. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcado,
Jacob Rlegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Spencer Mcllvatn,
J. B. Semple, Pltuborf,
A. B. Bcrger. Plttstmrir.
iuun . ifavis,
Edmund A. Bonder,
Theophllua Paulding,
James Traqualr,
m-urj oiohu,
Henry C. Dallett. Jr..
James C. Hand,
William c. Ludwlg,
Joseph II. Seal.
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor.
George W. HernS'lou,
D. T. Moruau. Plttabtire.
.'1.11.. T 1 . I "
THUMAS v. hand. President
JOHN C. DAVIS. Vloe-frealdenL
ITKNRY LTLBUKN, Secretary.
uivlmi 1 ualaj Assistant secretary. 11
INSURANCE COMPANY
or
WORTH AMERICA.
Jan-cast 1. 1870.
Incorporated 1?M.
Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL 8500,000
ASSETS 8i,7SJ,5Sl
I.osMra pnld el ore organization:... .8:1,000,000
Receipts of Pre nilnma, 1 -.!. . ..8 1,99 1,8374 3
Interest from Investments, '69. 114,60674
S-J.10ti.5:it'ltt
Losses paid, 1HU9 $l033,J86'!-rt
Statement of the Asxet.
First Mortgages on Oily Property $766,450
United States Government and other Loaa
Bonds 1,122,8
Railroad, Bank and Oanal 8 toe Its.
65,708
847.630
32,563
831,944
80,367
85.1S3
I0U.900
30,000
Cash in Bank and Ufflo
Loans an Collateral Security
Notes Receivable, mostly Mai ine Premiums. . .
Acorued lnterett
Premiums in coarse of transmisiiea
Unsettled Marine Premiums
Real Estate, Office of Company, Philadelphia.
84.7S3.3S1
Amcuiuao.
Arthur O. Coffin,
tiamuel W. Jones,
John A. Hrown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
S. Morris Wain,
John Macon,
George L. Harrison,
Francis R. Oope,
Kdward H, Trotter,
Kdward 8. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jesaup,
Inis O. Madeira,
Charles W. Oosbman,
Clement A. Grisoom,
William Brockie.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLATr, VicaPreaideot.
Matthias Mabib, Seoretary.
C. H. Reeves, Assistant Seoretary. 8 4
1829 CIIARTER PERPETUAL.
Fraitlin Fire
I
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I , '70, $2,825,73 1 "67
capital
..$400,000 -00
AOOHUKD SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS..
..X, 40,731-07
INCOMK FOR 1840,
LOSSES PAID IN 18S9,
aiu,uuu.
LossEssalttsIncel829 over $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms.
The Comuan also iaoues Dolioies UDon tha RenLaof all
olloiesupon u
Rents, and Moi
Kinds ot Builmnss. Uround Kents. and Mortsaaes,
Tha "1KAKKL1N" has no DISPUTED CLAIM.
DIRECTORS. .
Alfred O. Baker.
tawuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea.
Aitrea ntier,
Thomas Sparks,
William H. Grant,
Thomas 8. Ellis,
fin .4 vti B lUniAl.
George tales,
ALFRED O. BAKER. President.
, . OKORGK FALES, Vice-President
JAMES W. McALI.Ih'l'HK. Hacnttarr.
TliKODUUK M. REUER, Aasistant Seoretary. 1 19
A S B U 1EL Y
LIFE INSURANCE CO , N. Y.
Number of Policies issned br tha fire largest New York
Companies daring the first fears af their exiatonoa:
MUTUAL (2S months).
MW YORK (18 months).
1098
10H1
M A Nil ATT AN f IT monttia) .
. .(it months) sos
KNICKERBOCKER... (SO months) 669
EQUITABLE. (IT mouths) 866
During- the 11 months of Its existence the
ASBURY
HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES,
INSURING NEARLY 10,000,000.
Reliable
eoumrv.
Canvassing Agents
wanted throughout tha
JAMES M. LQNOAORE.
ear for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Office. No. tsu WALNUT btreet. Philadelphia.
. 8AMCEL POWERS, Bpeoial Agent. i 16,
TMPKIUAIi FLUE INSURANCE OO.
LONDON.
ESTABLISHED 1803.
rald-op Capital and Accumulated Fonda,
B 8,000,000 IN GOLD,
FEEV0ST & HEURIITO, Agenti,
lil No. 1OT a THIRD Street, Philadelphia,
CHAS. M. PUS YOST, CHA& P. EXSBIN9
INSURANOfc.
R E ASSOCIATION.
tNOOnPORATF.D MAROH 7, IVJO.
OFFTCJ?.
no. u Noaru Fin it sraKKi .
IN'SURK
BUILDINGS, norSRUOLD rORNmrRK. AMD
MFROIIANDI8K G KM' RALLY.
From l.o,, br Fir (in the Oltf ot Philadslphik only).
JAM AKV 1, lO0. Sl,57-,?:l J"i.V
TRUSTEES.
WM II. HAMILTON.
JOHN CAKKOW,
(.KOKIJK I. VOl) NO.
OH ARLRS P BOWFIR,
IKHSK. l.KillTKiniT.
KlHT. fcUIOKWAKKIt,
Plt'lKK AHMItKU.K'KR.
M II I)I(1W
IOH. K. I.YNDAI.I..
bAMUKL hPaltllAWK, 'PRTI'.R WILLIAMSON.
WM. II. HAMILTON, President.
BAMUKL SPARHAWK, Vloo-Prwident,
WILLIAM T.' BOTLKB,
. Secretary.
3
pAMX INSURANCE COMPANY.
Bo. 909 OTIF8NTJT Street.
INOORFORA.TRD ISM. CHARTER PKRPKTtlAT.
CAPITAL, 2W,W0.
FIRK INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insures acalnst Lose or Damage br lire either by Par.
petuai or Temporary rolioisa.
DIRIMrTOKHi
ObarlaelUohardsoB- , Robert Pearoe.
William H. Khawa, John Kilirjr.,
William M. Seyfart, Kdward H. Ornav
John 1. HmiUi,
Vnarlee Stoke,
John W. KTennaa.
Mordeoal BoEbiT
nsuua tiuiee.
Oeotge A. West,
luutiAJiunun, Preeideaa.
WILLIAM H. BUAWN, Vloe-Presideo.
WnxiAsn L Blakohard. Secretary. f W
TILE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
OmoeS. W corner of FOURTH and WALNUT Street.
PFRPRTUAL AMI TRRM Pllf .Inl ITU iHHTTwn
CASH CapiUl (.aid op la foil) ftaujuriim
Caah Asecta, jM. lt isro
DIRECTOR 8.
F. KAtohford Starr. . J. UTiBnton Frrioter.
James ll Ola horn.
John M. At wood,
Benj. T. Tredick.
George H. Htoart.
Charles Wheeler,
JohaH. Brown, Ijamee M. Aertaen.
mjuiumi!. raoouromerf.
V.
nn lunrunv clan
R. I
. President.
TilOMAS H. MONTIJOMicnv v. " o :..
ALEX. W. WISTKR. Secretary.
JACOB K. PKTKKBOal. Assistant Secretary
ryjUt PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
JL COMPANY.
Ineomoratad IXQ& (Ih.rtar P.,iri..i
No. MO WALNUT Street, oppoeite Independence llnu.
1 bis Company, favorably known to the oommonit far
over forty years, oontinuee to insnreaaainst loss or dam.
Lire oy ore on rabllo or fruate Bolldinn,either aerma.
ipot ly or for a limited time. Also on Kurnitora, Stocks
f Goeds. and Merchandise generally, en liberal UrmaT
Their Genital, torathar with a Una a.j i. . .
Invested In the moeicarefnl manner, vrhioh enables thaas
to offer to aha Insured an nndouhtad aanaiii. i- tw ZZZ
DIBXvT
Daniel Smith, Jr., John Davwrenx,
Alexander Benson, I Thomas Smith.
Isaae Harlehnrst, I Henry Lewis,
Thomas Bobins, I J. UiUinsham Fell.
Daniel Haddock. Jr.
..VANIKL8M1TH, Ja., Presiden
WM. O. OROWF.LL, Secretary. fc
GREAT WESTERN
Mutual Life Insurance Co.
OF NEW YORK.
EDWIN E. SIMTSON, MANAGER,
No. 519 WALKIT St.. Pliilada.
All the good, equitable and liberal features of tha heat
Life Insurance Companies ar guaranteed to the policy
holders of this Company. 1 82 stuthihn
Liberal arrangements made with competent agents.
8EWINO MACHINES.
BEMO "V A. Hi.
THE PARHAK1
SEWING MACHINE CO.
HAVE
REMOVED
FROM
No. 704 CHESNUT St.
TO THEIR BIBUFACTOHT,
SS4, 226 and 228
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 ou hand and
disposed ol at iti m
Wholesale and Retail,
ON THE MOST FAVORABLE TEEMS.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
PHILOSOPHY OF M A B R I A O K
A New Coarse of Lectures, as delivered at tha Nasj
York Museum of Anatomf, embracing the subjected
Bow to Live, and What to Live fori Youth, Matonls, aad
Old Age i Manhood Gen.rail Reviewed t Tha Caoseot
Indigestion i Flatulence and NerromrDisaases Aeooouted
I marriage t-niioaopnloaliy uonatderad, etc eta.
ket volumes oontainuig these Leo tares will be foe.
waro mi , pow, wa, on receipt of H cents, b, Mdreesing W,
A. LEAR Y. Ja.,8. K. oornsref FleTU and WALNUT
a, iii... i. s , w m.. d. ni.
Street PUUrielDfeia.
I
WANT8.
HHWWHHHHWWWsasese as
TO THE WORKING OLASS.-Wa are now ore.
pared to furnish all olaeaea with constant employ
ment at borne, tha whole of tha time or for the epara
momenta. Buaineee new, light, and profitable. Pareonst
of either sei easily earn from sua. to te per evening, aad a
01 eitner sex eaaujr earn rram tuo. to as per
proportional aum by devoting their wool
buaineee. Boys aad gins earn nearly as
That all who see this notice may sand the!
wnote tune to ins)
as moon asmeo.
as sand tneir addreaa. ami
teat tha basinaes. wa make this unparalleled oHsr-. Tsj
soon aa are not well satisfied, we will aead tl to pay foe
the tronlrte of writing, kull partiaalars, a valuable saaa-
?le, which will do to eonuaeooe work on, and a eopy of
As IVwplc's Literary Companim-fa of tha largest and
best family newspapers published ell aent free by mail.
naaaer.u ot wans pn.ii, vwuuaworc.aaari
JL. U. S I, I, KIM W., JLwrusu auuu
lu at.
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
of ail n ambers and brands. Tent, Awning, Traak,
and Wagoa-ooves- Itaok. Also, Paper MauuTaotanra1
Jrier ielts, tnm thirty to seientrsU laches, antsi
Paulina, belling, sail Twine, ate.
tnm JOHN W. K VERM Alt,
101 CUUkuU Street (Uitf otoce.
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